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Nuclear

Weapons Stealth Takeover

5 Admirals, U.C. Regents,

Carlyle Group, and Rand

LEUREN MORET / San Francisco Bay View 16sep04

 

 

"I think some of these folks would put

nuclear tips on ice cream cones if they could."

 

 

 

U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher

(D-Calif.) on efforts by Bush Administration officials to repeal a

research ban on low-yield nuclear weapons.

 

Global Security

Newswire ‘Quote of the Day’ May 19, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

UC AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS: THE KISS OF DEATH

 

The top-secret Manhattan Project was laid out

by Robert Oppenheimer the night Ernest Lawrence took him to the

Bohemian Club during WW II. It was a part of California’s brutal rise

to economic and political power, described in IMPERIAL SAN

FRANCISCO: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. In 1939, Nobel Prize-winning

physicist Niels Bohr had argued that building an atomic bomb "can never

be done unless you turn the United States into one huge factory." Years

later, he told his colleague Edward Teller, "I told you it couldn’t be

done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done

just that." That was after Edward Teller had stuck the knife in

Oppenheimer’s back, and pulled his clearance. Teller (also known as

‘Dr. Strangelove’), went on to promote a grandiose US nuclear weapons

program for decades at the nuclear weapons labs: Berkeley, Livermore

and Los Alamos. The program remained under a no-bid University of

California management contract for 61 years. In a stealth takeover by

the Carlyle Group, facilitated by 5 Admirals, the management contract

will be transferred next year to the University of Texas where the

military and the Carlyle Group will have control. A new ‘ramping up’ of

the nuclear weapons program is underway, with program funding at the

highest level ever - even higher than during the Cold War – extending

nuclear weapons into outer space, into the very atmosphere that makes

life on earth possible, and with no "real" enemy in site.

 

ESTIMATING THE COLD WAR MORTGAGE

 

In 1995 dollars, according to the Department of

Energy (DOE) the US spent approximately 300 billion dollars on nuclear

weapons research, production, and testing. Today in the nuclear weapons

complex there are 10,500 contaminated sites, 2.3 million acres under

DOE ownership, and 120 million square feet of buildings. The 1995 high

base cost, estimated by the DOE Environmental Management program, to

clean up the environmental legacy is $350 billion. That excludes the

Nevada Test Site, Hanford, the Savannah and Clinch rivers, and the

Columbia river which are considered to be "national sacrifice zones"

because the technology does not exist to clean them up.

That was the cost for cleaning up the

environment. The damage to the human health not only of Americans, but

also to the global population, was predicted by the European Committee

on Radiation Risk (ECRR), in a 2003 independent report on low level

radiation for the European Parliament, to be 61,600,000 deaths by

cancer, 1,600,000 infant deaths, and 1,900,000 foetal deaths. "In

addition the ECRR committee predicts a 10% loss of life quality

integrated over all diseases and conditions in those who were exposed

over the period of global weapons fallout."

The cost to the predominantly black community

at Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco is much greater. Navy

ships brought back to Hunter’s Point shipyard for decontamination by

the Navy, after the first atmospheric tests in the Pacific, led to the

establishment of the secret Naval Radiological Defense Lab (NRDL) which

operated at the shipyard into the 1970’s. Secret experiments exposing

animals, plants, soldiers, prisoners, and local residents to radiation

were conducted at the NRDL, where 550 civilian scientists worked with

65 Naval officers to study the biological effects of ionizing

radiation. The radioactive waste and dead animals from the lab were

dumped at the shipyard, filled a back bay, and sunk off the Golden Gate

bridge in a battleship and 55 gallon drums, contaminating one of the

richest fisheries in the world. The community today has the highest

rates of breast cancer in women under 40 in the US, as well as high

rates of other radiation related diseases. A former City of San

Francisco coroner found that every Hunters Point resident he had done

an autopsy on, had cancer no matter what the cause of death.

Even worse, the Radiation and Public Health

Project (RPHP), while conducting studies on infant mortality and cancer

around nuclear power plants, discovered that milk contaminated with

radiation has been shipped into black inner city communities – a

genocidal plan which explains why blacks have the highest cancer rates,

infant mortality, and asmtha (Gotham Gaz.May 2003) in the US,

which has been blamed on poverty. The studies using US govt. data on

radiation in milk revealed that at the time of Chernobyl the

Pennsylvania Milk Board had been selectively shipping radioactive

contaminated milk from dairies around the Three Mile Island and

Peachbottom reactors into eastern black inner city communities (see Jay

Gould, Deadly Deceit: Low Level Radiation, High Level Coverup).

In an RPHP study on health improvements by race in San Francisco

County, after the shutdown of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant in

1989, health improved for all ages, diseases and races except for

blacks. Black infant mortality also increased after startups and

accidents, but unlike improvements for whites and Asians which

decreased after the 1989 shutdown, black infant mortality reflected

startups and shutdowns at other nuclear power plants in California.

 

UC REGENTS MEETING - MAY 15, 2003: THE POINT MAN

 

One year ago Admiral Linton Brooks,

Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

under DOE, informed Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante and the UC Regents

that the management contract for the nuclear weapons labs would be put

up for competitive bid for the first time, with the award made in 2005.

When a Regent asked if it would be for all the labs or just Los Alamos,

he replied that "it would be for Los Alamos". Later another Regent

questioned him again, and this time he said "it would be inconceivable

for just one lab". He requested a competitive bid from UC, but the

Regents were now leery of the politics involved, and Brooks was

challenged by a fiery Bustamante. The Lt. Governor demanded to know why

UC should waste millions of dollars preparing a bid when the University

of Texas was the most favored institution to get the award, and had a

member of the University of Texas on the blue ribbon panel making the

award decision.

Admiral Brooks also informed the Board of

Regents that "we’re back in the bomb business" because Los Alamos had

just produced the first plutonium "pit" since Rocky Flats closed down.

He indicated that they would be making "mini-nukes" only, and nuclear

weapons testing would start at the Nevada Test Site in 2005. An hour

later, and 45 miles away, he announced to Livermore employees that

"we’re back in the bomb business" and they would be making big ones,

little ones, and more. By this time it seemed to me that Admiral Brooks

was a slippery character and I began to wonder why an Admiral was

involved.

 

UC REGENTS MEETING - AUGUST 17, 2004: TWO

ADMIRALS STAGE "THE SETUP"

 

On August 4, 2004, UC President Dynes, a

physicist and consultant to Los Alamos and former Chancellor of UC San

Diego, and Gerald Parsky, Chair of the UC Regents, visited Los Alamos

and met with employees over recent security and safety lapses repeated

at the lab. Parsky told them:

 

 

"The regents will be left with no choice

about the contract competition if we do not feel confident that you

understand the importance of security, procedures and safety at the

lab. If we feel that you understand this and that steps are being taken

to address these issues, the regents will not only endorse competing

for this contract – we will compete to win."

 

 

During three minutes of public comment before

the Regents on August 17, I informed them that the lab contract was

going to the University of Texas, it was a ‘done deal’. I told them

that the management contract change was a chess move the Carlyle Group

was making to privatize the nuclear weapons program, and owned 70% of

Lockheed Martin Marietta, and that Lockheed a year ago had bought

Sandia Labs (they make the trigger for nuclear weapons). When "Carlyle"

was mentioned I noticed that the Chair, Gerald Parsky and Vice Chair

Richard Blum (married to Senator Diane Feinstein) started shifting

around in their chairs. Body language can say a lot. They began a

disruptive and loud conversation carried on through the rest of my

comments. As a Livermore whistleblower, I commented that the loss of

computer discs with classified information and missing keys had

happened practically every day for 61 years under sloppy UC management,

and that science fraud as well as health and safety violations had been

just as bad. [During my week of security briefing at Livermore in 1989

we were told that a scientist taking classified material home in his

briefcase did not notice it had fallen off the back of his bike. A

merchant found the battered briefcase in an intersection, and several

days later a horrified lab security employee found that every page of a

lengthy report with "CLASSIFIED" stamped on each page had been taped in

the window of the merchant’s shop hoping the owner would claim his lost

secret documents.] What was even more egregious I pointed out, was an

article in the July 10, 2004, issue of the Daily Mirror about

the murder by the Mossad of Robert Maxwell, a British publisher. It

revealed that Maxwell, who was the former owner of the Daily Mirror,

was a high level Mossad agent, and had sold PROMIS software to Los

Alamos with a back door for the Mossad to spy on the lab. In closing, I

told the Regents that no matter who got the contract award, "the

University of California would forever be known as the University that

poisoned the world…"

As Admiral George P. Nanos, Director of the Los

Alamos lab (appointed Jan. 2003), and Admiral S. Robert Foley Jr., UC

vice president for laboratory management (appointed Nov. 2003), sat

down at the table where the Regents waited, I began to wonder how many

more Admirals were involved and why. It did not take long to find out.

Admiral Foley informed the Regents about the missing CREM, computer

storage devices with classified data, and acknowledged that the

security lapse damaged the university's chances of retaining its Los

Alamos contract. "This erodes your position, without any question at

all. It's about as bad as it could be when you're trying to prepare for

a re-competition". He announced that Jack Killeen had been appointed to

the UC Presidents Office as special assistant for Los Alamos security:

"Jack’s our guy, he was with Wackenhut and he’s our guy…". Among lab

employees Wackenhut was better known for ‘wacking’ lab whistleblowers

like Karen Silkwood, attempting to run people like Dr. Rosalie Bertell

off the road, and has a well-deserved reputation for being a nasty

outfit. President Bush and his brother, Governor Jeb Bush, are known to

spend time together hanging out with cronies at the Wackenhut "country

club" in Florida. Admiral Nanos continued and complained that employees

would not follow the security and safety rules. When Foley chimed in

that there were going to be more security incidents and lapses at the

lab in the future before they got it straightened out, it began to look

like a setup. Regents Blum, Parsky, Connerly and a few more leaned

forward and demanded to know how it was possible, and stated it was

unacceptable, that there would be more security lapses. Foley should

have been fired on the spot for falling down on the job. It was obvious

that Nanos and Foley were there to blame the employees, justify the

management change, and discourage the Regents from competing for the

contract. And justification for "cleaning house" and removing the "old

guard" who would stand in the way of a takeover and for what is planned

for ramping up the program.

An Editorial in the Oakland Tribune the

day before remarked that the NNSA was established in 1991 after the Wen

Ho Lee scandal, but had failed to address real security lapses since.

NNSA is in bed with the lab administrators which it supposedly is

overseeing. This had been exactly my experience at Livermore in 1991

when I reported graft, fraud, corruption, contractor overcharges, and

health and safety violations on the Yucca Mountain Project and

Superfund Project to Richard Berta, the Western Regional Inspector in

the DOE Inspector General’s office for the nuclear weapons labs, Site

51, and the Nevada Test Site. After bringing two inspectors to my house

and taking my testimony, he reported to Duane Sewell, the "secrets

keeper" at the lab, and Bert Hefner, lab PR person. When I called a

month later to talk to Berta about the outcome, he said "we found no

basis to your allegations… and I got a new office with a view and new

oak furniture from Sewell…". My allegations had been reported many

times to the FBI by other more senior lab staff… and they were ignored

as well. The Editorial concludes:

 

 

"NNSA failed miserably in its policing

responsibilities. It should be reorganized or axed, and Brooks and

other top officials should be replaced with more independent,

less-compromised leadership."

 

 

The meeting ended before Dr. Walter Kohn, a

physicist representing the UC Faculty opposed to UC management of

nuclear weapons labs, was able to speak before the Regents. Regent

Sherry Lansing, CEO of Paramount Pictures, stood up and announced in a

loud voice "…oh Walter, I want to hear your presentation [at a future

meeting]… but I have a plane to catch…", and crossed the room to give

him a big kiss. By this time I had decided to investigate the UC

Regents and their ties to the defense industry. Later that evening, a

friend told me "…they ARE the Carlyle Group…".

 

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS STUDENTS – The FIAT PAX

Website

 

Right after the Regents meeting I contacted a

group of students and a Texas State Representative Lon Burnam, opposed

to the Univ. of Texas bid for the nuclear weapons management contract.

A student told me about FIAT PAX, a website put together by UC Santa

Cruz students listing the top 50 University recipients of defense

funding for research (see below), and their ties to corporations (see

below). The UC Regents with ties to the defense industry were listed

with detailed bios. Parsky, the Chair, was the top fundraiser for Bush

(after Ken Lay) in both Presidential election bids, and a member of the

Council on Foreign Relations. Vice Chair Blum was tied to the Carlyle

Group, invested in URS Corporation (leading contractor with DOD), Korea

First Bank [Carlyle is moving into Korea and taking over banks], and

sits on the Board of Northwest Airlines. [A FOIA document revealed in

2001 that Northwest was the first airline to collaborate with NASA to

install mind-reading technology in US airports to catch "terrorists".]

Regent Lansing was a trustee of the RAND Graduate School, a branch of

the RAND Corporation which had been involved in war-gaming nuclear wars

between the US and the USSR, and acts as a bridge between US

universities and the military. I also learned that the Carlyle Group

managed large amounts of endowment funds for the University of Texas,

and that CALPers, the State of California workers pension fund which is

the largest in the nation owns 5.2% of Carlyle. FIAT PAX sums it up:

 

 

"The University of California's system wide

finances are incredibly entangled with weapons manufacturers. The UC's

retirement plan portfolio is invested in dozens of military-industrial

contractors through stock purchases. At least five corporations within

the UC retirement portfolio conduct virtually no business other than

weapons manufacturing and military subcontracting, these are: General

Dynamics with a UC investment of $21,471,120, Northrop Grumman for

$16,125,200, Raytheon for $16,818,200, TRW for $8,327,650, and Lockheed

Martin for a staggering $33,046,370."

"It is through these informal personal,

formal institutional, and financial exchanges that universities serve

the warfare state and its corporate allies. Personal relationships

connect military, corporate, and university personnel while bridging

the divide between these institutions. Formal institutional links

establish cooperation and coordination across the

military-industrial-academic complex. Be they research institutes,

labs, and centers, or personal relationships spanning

industry-university-military, the web of connections far exceeds any

attempts to quantify."

 

 

 

And then I knew that the Admirals, and vested

Regents, were the kiss of death to the UC bid.

ADMIRAL VISHNU BAGHWAT, FORMER CHIEF OF THE

INDIAN NAVY

 

On July 17, 2004, Admiral Vishnu Baghwat

replied to my question "Why are so many Admirals involved with the

nuclear weapons contract bid?":

 

 

"The reason why the Navy and the Admirals

are predominantly involved in the weapons is that until the Space

military launch posts are ready and positioned with the minimum degree

of reliability, the US Navy has more than 70 % of the first and second

strike capability on its boats and hence an equivalent amount of the

budget earmarked for strategic systems."

 

 

His comments made the link for me between the

nuclear weapons program, the Navy, NASA, and other types of directed

energy weapons developed in nuclear weapons labs intended for space.

Marion Fulk, a former Manhattan Project scientist and retired Livermore

nuclear physical chemist told me that nuclear weapons cannot be used in

space without contaminating the atmosphere, and laser weapons will not

work because there is too much space trash already up there which will

impede the effectiveness of the lasers. Wars in space will create more

space trash until it is impossible to leave the earth, which already

according to Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, is very dangerous now since a

paint chip nearly took out the windshield of the space shuttle. The US

plans to weaponize space are a violation of the United Nations 1967

Outer Space Treaty: Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities

of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon

and Other Celestial Bodies. The intent was "to promote

international co-operation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer

space" and specifically prohibited the weaponization of space with ANY

weapons, including nuclear weapons.

The 2001 Space Preservation Act, HR 2977 which

was introduced by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, let the cat out of the

bag and revealed under the "Definitions" in the bill, that directed

energy weapons which can target individuals and populations from space

for the purposes of psychotronics, mind control, and mood control, are

clearly the new space weapons intended to establish global dominance by

the New World Order. Directed energy weapons developed in the nuclear

weapons labs have been used on nuclear weapons lab whistleblowers, UC

students, handed over to the EPA to use on environmentalists, and to

the FBI to turn over to local law enforcement. These weapons are now

land, air, and sea based. Space is the last frontier.

 

ADMIRAL BOBBY RAY INMAN – SPOOKS-R-US

 

 

Tipped off by a journalist in Washington DC, my

investigation of Admiral Bobby Ray Inman revealed that he was THE

Admiral at the center of the spider web. A look at his social network

(see Namebase.org - opens in new window) helped

put the ‘puzzle palace’ together, and I discovered he was National

Security Advisor to five Presidents, Director of the NSA, Deputy of the CIA under William Casey, Vice Director of the DIA, of Naval Intelligence, President of SAIC, Chair of the 1985

Congressional ‘Inman Commission' on Terrorism, affiliated with the

Carlyle Group, on the advisory boards of Tufts and the University of

Texas, represents SBC Communications Corporation at Cal Tech, Chairman

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, and a member of both the Council on

Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. And, Admiral Bobby Ray

Inman is a member of the University of Texas faculty. One could say he

is a dangerous man.

One job he didn’t get was Secretary of Defense

under Clinton:

 

 

"1994: Former admiral Bobby Ray

Inman, stung by press and Senate criticisms of his record, asked

President Clinton to withdraw his nomination as secretary of Defense. A

Clinton aide, George Stephanopoulos, later wrote that Inman had held

back information during his White House background check."

 

 

A look at Science Applications International

Corporation (SAIC) reveals just exactly what kind of activities are

undertaken in a spook shop where there is no accountability, and what

business Inman was conducting at SAIC under his leadership. SAIC is one

of the largest private employee-owned corporations, and like the

Carlyle Group, escapes scrutiny (because it is privately owned) despite

annual revenues of more than $5.9 billion. In 1990 it was indicted and

pled guilty to ten felony counts of fraud on a Superfund site, called

"one of the largest [cases] of environmental fraud…" in Los Angeles

history. DOE contracted SAIC to manage and operate the Yucca Mountain

Program, which I worked on as a scientist at the Livermore Lab. I

became a whistleblower at Livermore in 1991 because of my knowledge of

the extent of science fraud on the most important public works project

in US history. SAIC’s control over internet domain names, gained when

they purchased Network Solutions Inc., caused a furor and identified

the ties in SAIC to "the shadow ruling-class within the Pentagon".

Basically SAIC is a private spook corporation, involved in voting

machines (SEQUOIA etc.), controlling the internet (Network Solutions),

training foreign militaries, and the contractor that set up global

communications for the US military. The internet is being changed from

a public resource to a lucrative operation influenced by spooks and

former Pentagon officials. The internet was a Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency (DARPA) project to begin with.

One of SAIC’s prime clients is DARPA (DOD),

which recently employed 5-time convicted felon Admiral Poindexter, an

associate of Inman’s going back to Iran-Contra. Poindexter was forced

to resign over his involvement with PAM, a "terrorism futures market"

DARPA project which predicted assassinations, terrorism and other

events in the Middle East. His earlier controversial program TIPS – the

Total Information Awareness Program – was set up to spy on Americans.

He was also involved in creating large information databases on

Americans which are now being used to track citizens. SAIC also had

contracts to develop information systems for the Pentagon, FBI and IRS.

Police can now legally stop a person on the street, ask their name,

type it into a palm pilot and come up with detailed personal

information in a few seconds. An Associated Press story on Sept. 9,

2004, "Conn. City Uses Scanners to Nab Criminals" revealed that police

in New Haven, Connecticut, are now driving around in police cars with

infrared scanners connected to databases which they are using on

license plates to hunt for "criminals", tax delinquents, and parking

ticket violators. Some of the $25,000 scanners were paid for in one

month from collected revenues. A military project, the real purpose of

the internet is revealing itself: