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1974 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies :

Airport 1975; Blazing Saddles; The Godfather, Part 2; UFO Target Earth; Chinatown; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Death Wish; The Parallax View; Butley; That's Entertainment; The Island at the Top of the World; Young Frankenstein; McQ; The Phantom of Liberty; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Daisy Miller; Herbie Rides Again; The Little Prince; The Man with a Golden Gun; Rhinoceros; The California Kid; Black Belt Jones; Death Wish; The Sugarland Express; Mame

General News:

Consumer Price Index: 147.7

Failing USA banks lose $1.571 Billion of depositor's monies.
This total is greater than the accunulated loses of all failing banks between 1967-1973.

1974 - By this year,
The GRAYS begin their Blood Replacement Therapy to recover from a dual plus one combination of lifeform threatening viruses.
Following the introduction of two viruses onto their former planetary home by means of an meteorite impact, they had become infected and noticed a decrease in population. Since the decrease was apparently resulting from a decreased lifespan and a decreased fertility of those infected, it was interpreted to be a "genetic" disease. Unable to bioengineer the required "repair" from the gene pools available on their planet, they decided to go elsewhere. Eventually they arrived at the Earth.

Initially, in 1916, they expected to find the gene they were looking for from amongst the over 6 million Earth-based insect species. Noticing quickly how destructive humans were to the environment and to each other, they determined to set into operation a long-term strategy which would result in the human species annihilating themselves before they destroyed the ecology of the planet entirely - it was hoped. The Insectoids were confident that under almost any circumstance they would be able to regenerate the vitality of the planet and return it to it a more constructive form of management - the insects, under the mentoring of the Insectoid GRAYS. They expected this process to be well advanced by the arrival of their main colony, planned for 1939.

When the main colony arrived, in 1939, and gene transfer and modification experiments could begin, the advance team had been able to skillfully introduce several changes into human history which they believed would enable humans to kill themselves off. They had increased the idolatry and materializm context within the most popular institutionalized religion: Roman Catholicism - it was already high to begin with. They had also initiated a religious war between Roman Catholics, under their deception, and, adherents of Communism, under their deception. They were hopeful that the near future war would rid them of the human menace.

As efforts continued by humans through WWII to develop weapons of greater mass destruction, the GRAY advance force eventually provided several key concepts, telepathically, to American-based researchers - which enabled the completion of the first several designs for practical atomic weapons. It was hoped that these would be produced in massive numbers which could then be used, either directly by choice by humans, or, by way of manipulation, to eradicate humanity. Insects and the GRAYS are largely unaffected by the radiation present from nuclear fallout.

By 1957, humans were still around and the GRAYS began to be thankful for that.
They had surveyed the Earth-based insect gene pool and had not found a genetic bioengineered way to recover from their dual-virus. Various factors, which they now appreciated about humans, encouraged them to investigate the possibility of a gene solution from humans. Unknown to the GRAYS, their dual-virus was passed into the systems of perhaps 3.6 million individuals, whose actions influenced negatively at least another 10 million individuals. The symptoms which most of these humans acquired signified nothing to warrant caution to the GRAYS. They simply interpreted the subtle changes of behaviour in the human subjects as a further confirmation of the destructive quality of humans on most every level of organization and inter-relationship.

Those symptoms were intensifications of human emotional expression.
That is, there was a noted increase in the proportionate expression of pride, hatred, rage, lust, intolerance, addiction, revenge, possessiveness, and despair. A description often applied to such infected people by those they are most often interrelating with is that of "intense." During the period of 1957 to 1974, there was a significant increase in North American society of the following behaviours: medical depression (chronic despair); alcoholism, nicotine addiction and drug abuse; sexual addiction, infidelity, and promiscuity; spousal assault (husband baiting and wife battering); sexual assault including rape, incest and child molestation; mass murders; serial murders; murders of passion; ....

All humans who were abducted by GRAYs for experimentation and accidentally infected would become spiritually challenged to participate in these expressions. Given the opportunity, or searching for the opportunity - those who were sufficiently spiritually weak were driven to act out such intensities. Some would have some spiritual training; many would have almost none. Perhaps 22% of such expressions could be relegated to the influence of the GRAY viruses; the remainder could be explained by already present cultural forces. Unlike the other 88%, the infected persons might experience feelings of confusion and sincere remorse over their acts with a greater likelihood of attempting or considering suicide or of taking on a Jekyl and Hyde behaviour style in which one or more of the above noted behaviours would have its opposite expressed in alternate and specific circumstances. A lust-driven man might go into the priesthood. A depressed person may have become a singer or comedien. A serial murderer may have been regarded by his family as an attentive and loving father and husband. An irritating wife may have been an emotionally smothering mother. Only the very strong-willed and those who were given or otherwise obtained spiritual training and guidance would be able to avoid acting out such biochemically stimulated behaviours. Several of these symptoms will be described in greater detail.

These include emotional depression and an increased sexual drive in addition to a marked tendency for the infected individual to be more alert and capable of clean intellectual activity during the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. than during other times of the day. Following 1957, depression would become and remain the leading patient complaint to doctors in the USA. While other factors would contribute to the presence of this symptom - addictive behaviours, hormonal medications, systemic fungal overgrowth (as a side effect of the use of antibiotics, birth control pills, and some drugs), destructive communication patterns, and gender-based role separation, the GRAY dual virus would possible account for 17% of the incidence of chronic depression symptoms. Chronic depression should not be confused with acute and dramatic expressions of depression.

In chronic depression, the individual may find it so difficult to become aware of the state and so easy to acquire a denial of it, that they may experience it for decades, or the rest of their life, without diagnosis. Possible outward symptoms of such a symptom include numerous job changes (3 or more in 10 years, following infection), numerous marriages or serious dating periods followed by divorces or breakups (1 for every 6 to 12 years, or less, following infection), periods of suicidal or paranoid, or mental confusion (nervous breakdown) with few if any repetitions of the same behaviour or apparent challenge. That is, there is behavioural evidence of an underlying sense of loss, interference, or, external control of one's identity. It is as if the individual has a life goal of breaking out of a non-physical jail which they cannot describe and may not consciously be aware of. If energy blocks associated with the trauma of the incident of infection are released, this destructive behavioural trend will reduce considerably.

Similarly, about 10% of USA teenagers would become sexually obsessive in their needs, compared to the average, and, would be greatly spiritually challenged to act out this need. As individuals become infected they begin to have an obsessive number of sexual fantasies. Those who act them out find themselves marrying mates on the basis of social decorum and personal lust - whom they scantly know. Many would later find that lust was not a good basis for marriage and that frequently the attracted partner would tire of, or become annoyed at, the ego-driven object-worship of their bodies; divorce, or serious relationship difficulties, would frequently occur within 6 years of marriage. Sometimes, the higher libido person would request a divorce on the basis that they believed that their spouse no longer loved them because the spouse did not share, and never had, the sexual addiction they acquired following infection.

Alternatively, the higher libido individual could be weak spirited and would compromise the marriage commitment with affairs, sexual assault, or incest. Divorce would then often follow by their spouse. Other situations would arise in which both parties of the couple acknowledged the presence of irreconcilable "sexual" problems and depart consensually. Regardless of the option followed, a great amount of emotional hurt, confusion, sense of betrayal and trauma would follow - which would not have happened without the virus. That is, without the virus there would not have been a marriage, an unsatisfied period of marriage nor a divorce. Other factors had contributed to the increase in and sustainment of divorce rates, yet, perhaps 20% of the divorces enacted were for such reasons. That still represents "hell" for a lot of people. For the GRAYs, it simply confirmed their perception of humans as grossly inferior and unworthy of serious respect.

Equally outstanding as a symptom, though potentially hidden, was the aparent reversal of biological clock for the infected person. Such a person would suddenly become easily able to effectively work long hours after dark. Without the opportunity or awareness to take advantage of this new character trait, one might experience insomnia. Ways in which different individuals could cope with this have included sexual addiction (orgasm encourages relaxation and sleep); becoming a "party hound" - staying out late at night; working overtime constantly; prefering to work a "midnight" shift; writing reports, books, and analyses at overnight.

Those infected individuals who intellectually opposed these trends could have found themselves more sexually coercive and demanding; tending towards expressions of anxiety and distraction during the day; tending to be argumentative. In many situations, communication problems could develop between the infected spouse and one that was not. This "clock" change complicated GRAY follow-up monitoring strategies. With most abductions and re-abductions occuring during the night, a consciously aware individual would have the opportunity to become more aware of lapses of time in their nightly activities. Usually, these would go unnoticed and they would be infrequent. But why the change?

One of the two viruses is quite susceptible to the influence of cosmic rays.
Exposed to even the minute presence of cosmic rays at the surface of the Earth, relative to that in outer space, this virus is influenced to grow!. Whenever the surface of the Earth is in the Earth's shadow relative to the Sun, the solar wind and cosmic ray presence cease to flow toward that part of the Earth's surface. In that absence, this virus hybernates and removes the energy-robbing and nerve relaxing influence which it exerts at other times. Now, in the human body, the organs and endocrine systems come alive as one would ordinarily expect during the day. Once the cycle begins, it tends to intensify to a higher than normal (uninfluenced) level.

Greater sexual, emotional, spiritual and intellectual activity becomes possible AFTER DARK, and, if utilized, will tend to result in a greater "relaxation" of all these capabilities during the day due to partial exhaustion and viral influence. Placing the infected person deep underwater (submarines, SCUBA, or deep diving), deep underground (deep mining), or within a 3/4" lead shielded room, will encourage will encourage a harmonization of constructive activities. Unfortunately, none of these environments are currently multi-gender shared by humans - so constructive relationship development is hindered.

Now, in 1974, the GRAYS had discovered that their illness was not genetic; it was the result of a dual-virus, which had now been supplemented by a third. They had tried gene transfers from Earth-based insects (1939-1957) and gene transfers from humans (1957-1974) without success. They have now, humbly, learned from human research about viruses. Remember, the GRAYS come from a planet which had no viruses except those they acquired following a meteor impact and virus-seeding incident. In the interim (1939-1974) their "genetic" experimentation has been both crude in safety precautions and sophisticated in technical procedure: gene introduction and either replacement or exchange into their own reproductive cells. This experimentation has spawned a new virus, transferred by blood (not HIV!): the result of a bioengineering accident.

Symptoms have now been extended beyond those of the original dual-virus (transmitted reproductively and through bioengineering sampling) to include an accelerated deterioration of the life system of the infected. This is subtely different from the shortened lifespan associated with the dual-virus. This progressive deterioration, once triggered, spreads rapidly, and, without an antidote, can result in the death of an infected GRAY within 10 days. No infected humans have yet died from the GRAY-Three virus (G3V). At this point, the triggering mechanism is unknown - without which the virus appears to remain dormant in the GRAYs. It is not known if there is a triggering mechanism in humans.

With almost a sense of panic, the GRAYS have resorted to dramatic, yet effective measures in coping with such an infection. They have quickly developed the technical capability to completely replace the blood (which is not identical to that of humans) from the body of an infected GRAY with that from a healthy GRAY. Necessarily, at this stage, the process effectively results in a form of eugenic cannibalism. A member of an elite becomes privy to the benefits and source individuals are chosen for "state experimentation" - with the result being their death. That is, the sick are revitalized by a total replacement of their blood with the healthy life-sustaining fluid from a healthy donor. Soon the technology will be utilized to as effectively drain blood from Earth-based mammals which have blood which is similar to that of humans (cattle).

Humans are quickly discounted from such use at this point because the finding of such corpses is expected to raise an unwanted alarm from human governments. While only a small amount of such blood is required for each antibody producing experiment, the effort in extracting small amounts from cattle at this time is considered impractical in the awareness of the technology available. If 1000 litres of blood will be required to complete the experimentaion successfully and produce the required amount of vaccine, why extend the process of gathering and risk sightings by only gathering 40 ml from each animal. Survival of the animal is not a concern. It is time which is of the essence. It is only a matter of time, to the GRAYs.

Further contact with and experimentation with human subjects will eventually lead to a greater transfer of the third virus (G3V) to humans also. After all, blood removal from humans, in small amounts, for the purpose of growing cultures - by the nature of the procedures followed - will present the danger of blood transfer of the virus. Meanwhile, the destructive cultural influence of contact with the GRAYs, though largely unintentional, is evident.

1974 - During the year,
50 Kilograms of Plutonium disappear in Argentina.
The supercritical mass for Plutonium, required to build a 20-megaton nuclear weapon, is defined as 35.2 pounds (16 kgs). This quantity can be reduced to 22 pounds (10 kg) by combining it with the more common U-235 refined uranium ore metal. If used efficiently, this stolen quantity could be used to build five 20-megaton nuclear weapons which represent at least 5 times as much explosive power as was used during all of WWII. Four similar yet not as public disappearances have occurred before this date.

1974 - Between January 22 - 28,
The U.S.A. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy held hearings into the safety of nuclear power reactors in the U.S.A.

The representative of "Westinghouse Electric Corporation", whose product is the pressurized water reactor, a descendent of the submarine reactor, testified that their nuclear plants had performed better than their fossil-fueled plants for the years 1960 - 1970. Westinghouse built 16 reactors between 1960 and 1974. At the time of the hearing, Westinghouse reported that it had orders for 115 pressurized-water plants to supply more than 100,000 megawatts of electric power.

The rules of the AEC permit a per reactor release of up to 5 curie per year.

In 33 years of operation of 8 reactors, Westinghouse reported a release average of 0.09 curies per year.

General Electric which makes the boiling water nuclear reactor, stated that it would be starting up 10 more reactors in 1974; its then 29 operating plants had an accumulated experience of 140 years.

1974 -
American military aid to South Vietnam this year will decrease to $1.1 billion.

1974 -
Monsieur Robert Galley, Minister of Defense for France, grants a broadcasted interview to M. Bourret (the Turin incident), during which M. Galley acknowledges the existence of UFO's and that in 1954 France had set up a secret section devoted to their study within the Department of Defense. Since 1970, UFO research in France has been in the jurisdiction of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. The interview was not mentioned in the British media, although coverage was given almost everywhere else.

1974 -
Pickering Nuclear Energy Generating Plant, Pickering, Ontario, Canada, one of three nuclear fuelled stations operated by Ontario Hydro at that time, and one of the world's largest nuclear power stations at the time, on February 04, was the focus of a UFO flight. A half dozen spheres, described as "balls of light" varying in colour from bright red to almost white, remained in the area for almost 2 hours. They were seen hovering over nearby Lake Ontario. Two of the spheres moved inland to a position over the service centre of the plant. After remaining there motionless for about 30 minutes, they abruptly took off straight up at rocket-like speed.

1974 - On February 8,
Pickering Nuclear Energy Generating Plant, Pickering, Ontario, Canada,one of three nuclear fuelled stations operated by Ontario Hydro at that time, and one of the world's largest nuclear power stations at the time, was the focus of a UFO flight. A dozen spheres, "besieged" the plant for nearly 8 hours! They were described as red, green, yellow and pink, and their movements were described as "floating around, zipping this way and that". Five persons testified to the display.

1974 - During February,
6 NISA (Philippine National Bureau of Intelligence) agents were discovered by the USA FBI to have been sent to Los Angeles, California to watch former political prisoner, Sergio Osmena, Jr., who had run against Ferdinand Marcos in the 1969 Presidential election. The 6 were part of 19 NISA agents sent to the USA in May, 1973, as bodyguards for Imee Marcos, when she attended Princeton University. General Ver also had an NISA agent in Chicago to maintain liaison with Tony Accardo, underworld godfather in America. General Ver himself once travelled to Chicago to arrange for the hiring of a hitman to assassinate Paul Manglapus, an exiled opposition leader. The United States took a "friendly" attitude towards agents from any "white-hat" country. If you were Communist or highly socialist, you were "black-hat" and enemy; anyone else was a white-hat: that included Chile, Philippines, Iran. In the USA, some people were more free than others.

1974 - On February 13,
An Almas (Wild Man) is encountered by a shepherd named Musai in the mountains of Ulegei province in southwest Mongolia. His description matches that of other eye-witnesses:

"... half men and half beasts with reddish-black hair. No one has ever heard them speak. Almas are usually seen at dawn or dusk and are believed to live on roots, leaves, grass and other vegetation. They prefer to stay in places far away from man, in mountains, for instance."

1974 - By April,
The potential for marketing to children in America had been quoted of an adman in "Advertising Age" as follows:

"If you truly want big sales, you will use the child as your assistant salesman.
He sells, he nags, until he breaks down the sales resistance of his mother or father."

The average youngster saw more than 20,000 commercials a year.
Corporations spent nearly a half-billion dollars on those commercials.
Billions in profits were at stake. And most marketers thought they were now learning how to get their money's worth. An economist for the Federal Communications Commission said: "Children's programming is the most profitable area of television programming."

Advertisers were focusing in particular on one group: Children, from the age of three up. Children were consuming $75 billion worth of goods and services in the USA alone. In a book called The Youth Market two advertising executives reported a survey of mothers. How much more did the mothers buy in the supermarket as a result of urgings from their children to buy specific products or brands? The responses indicated that for USA mothers as a whole, the cost would come close to $4 billion a year, in addition to their grocery bills.

1974 - By May,
World consumption of Titanium was proportionately increasing for non-military applications over that of military uses.
Reductions in missile and nuclear weapons programs were minor, as were those of the space programs. Commercial applications including the use of titanium dioxide as a substitute for toxic lead as a white pigment in paints and other materials as well as an increasing use of titanium in chemical production processes and nuclear reactor components were on the rise.

Consideration of electrical and electronic positive characteristics of the metal encouraged the experimental and successful use of titanium and its alloys in transistors and integrated circuits (IC's).

1974 - By May,
"Silencers, An exact reproduction of the Frankford Arsenal Report, R-1896" had been published by Paladin Press, of Boulder, Colorado, and was freely available for any member of the public to purchase. The following was noted in the Introduction to the 207-page+ book:

"Throughout the history of firearms, gun noise has been of considerable concern to the military. Prior to firing, anticipation of the ear shattering effects tends to make the gunner flinch, resulting in a consequent deterioration of his aim. After firing, the gunner is usually in a state of temporary deafness. To the enemy, gun noise reveals the presence and, often, the location of the firer, thus inviting defensive or offensive reaction. From the above alone it becomes evident that a "silent" weapon is to be found indispensable in covert operations.

Of the various noises associated with firing a conventional small arms weapon, the most significant is the muzzle blast caused by the escape of propellent gases after the projectile exits from the barrel. Hundreds of patents, war and police records, and other literature are witness to the efforts, for nearly a century, to eliminate small arms muzzle blast. Notwithstanding time, effort, and interest, no completely satisfactory silenced weapon has yet been produced."

The remainder of the book outlines the design principles on which silencer construction is based and describes and evaluates 16 types of silencers for a range of calibers of weapons manufactured in a range of weapons exporting countries. The 1966 report concluded that the muzzle blast of all of the silencer-equipped weapons tested was 90 db or higher at 5 metres; the mechanical noise in some of the quieter weapons was in the vicinity of 90 db; "a silenced system ... quieter ... is feasible ... will likely evolve gradually." An extensive technical section of 5 appendices including sample patents to which was added a list of patents and a bibliography completed the book. All of the silencing designs were of a mechanical nature demonstrating the degree of technical awareness of humanity at this point as well as a single-mindedness of approach. Other much more effective non-mechanical methods could have been developed by 1966 and would be eventually.

The question remains: Why would a government concerned for the welfare of its citizens allow the unrestricted circulation and promotion of such a book, the purpose of which is clearly to construct a weapon for murder? In the hands of organized crime or a mentally disoriented individual who had become a psychopath, innocent members of the population could be harmed. American movies and television serials would frequently show organized crime characters using silenced guns which were inaccurate and dramatic in the nature of their construction and their effectiveness. Indeed as the book pointed out, the sounds involved were often muffled, but certainly not silenced. As was also stated regarding a "typical silenced system", the silencer volume was of the order of 20 times that of the gun barrel. This makes the construction of such a device unthinkable for the purpose of target practice or hunting, for the silencer volume greatly obstructs the accurate aim at the target.

1974 - During the year,
The Special Group, an American interagency government committee charged with advising the President was chaired by the President's Special Advisor, Dr. Henry Kissinger. His position and the existence of the group remained unknown to the American legislature until after the resignation of President Nixon and until witnesses were pressed for the specific information while testifying under oath in front of a Senate investigating committee. Other members of the Group at this point included:

    Deputy Secretary of Defense,
    Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs,
    Director of the CIA,
    Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
    Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs,
    and others.

These persons approved most of the covert intelligence (espionage) activities undertaken by CIA, NSA, and DIA personnel. During the Eisenhower period, it had been known as the 54/12 Group. After Lyndon B. Johnson took the Presidency, the name was changed to the 303 Committee, after the number of the room in which they met at the White House. During Nixon's stay in the White House, the name again changed to the 40 Committee. They often made their decisions on the basis that the closest advisors to the President believed that they knew what the President wanted done - and, that carrying out such activities, illegal and immoral as they might be, without the knowledge of the President - would keep the President from any future legal responsibility. At the same time, members of the committee could use as their legal defense the rationale that they were carrying out what they believed were the wishes of the President. This state of deceptive and illegal activity demonstrates a total lack of confidence of the senior political and military decisionmakers of America in their own form of government. It also risks the surfacing of crucial human weaknesses.

As would be set out by Allen F. Harrison and Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D. in their "Styles of Thinking" in 1982, North American humans tend to rely upon the use of one of 5 decisionmaking and perception ways of reasoning: Analytical, Idealistic, Pragmatic, Realist, and Synthesist. While each "pattern" has relevant occasions for constructive use, and is generally destructive or ineffectual at most other times, most humans tend to rely upon the use of a single style. Since each style has its own context of motivation, predispositions, and concerns - a lack of awareness of such patterns and a lack of understanding and appreciation for them frequently results in misinterpretations and disagreements between persons. One of the most disastrous misinterpretations is that which occurs when a Synthesist thought style individual, who may flippantly say whatever comes to their awareness or whatever they are thinking at the time - states an observation or complaint in a manner understood by a dependent as a command or a wish.

A Synthesist-thinking political leader may, in a time of frustration, blurt out that he or she wishes another person were dead. The non-Synthesist thinking subordinate in a demonstration of allegiance to, reverence for and desire for acceptance from the leader may carry out the murder in complete expectation of a reward. When the Synthesist-thinking leader finds out what has happened he or she is dismayed that anyone would have believed that they sincerely meant what they uttered and horrified that someone would actually carry out the murder for any reason. The reality is that a person is dead.

The foundation of that death lies in the poor communication skills and the authority structure of the individuals and in which the individuals live out their lives. The responsibility lies with the human civilization, the purpose for which is to better prepare and equip individuals within the culture so that mistakes of this nature do not occur. In either a spiritually or a reptilian reaction-habit society such errors are NEVER made. These two are Neither opposites or the same: they are simply different from emotional need-based and rational social norm-based civilizations.

1974 - On May 11,
An article on suicides appeared in a Canadian national newspaper, "The Toronto Star".
It was written by Sidney Katz, a Star staff writer. In it the following was set out:

"... psychologist Michael Jacobs (head of the "Crisis Intervention Unit" of the Toronto East General Hospital), says confidently, 'Most suicides can be prevented.' He bases his opinion on the treatment of some 3,000 would-be suicides, most of them young, during the past 2-1/2 years. 'To my knowledge, only one of them is now dead.' ...

Self-destruction has escalated to the position of number two killer in Canada - after traffic accidents - of persons between 15 and 30. In Metro (Toronto), the suicide rate has increased by 300 per cent in 10 years. ... says Jacobs, 'The majority are young people who are temporarily defeated by life. They feel like losers. They see themselves as permanently trapped in a desperate situation. They see no solution to their personal dilemma except death.'

... She had felt a great deal of anger towards her parents and boyfriend but had never been able to say anything 'nasty' to anyone. ... About 70 percent of (reported) would-be suicides are female. 'The community is full of depressed women. Many of them are housewives, slaving away at home without a break. They grow discouraged because of their lack of independence. The feeling of entrapment grows. The doctors and therapist they seek out for help don't seem to understand their desperate plight'.

A significant number of suicide attempts are made by teenage daughters of recent immigrants to Canada. They find themselves at (an impasse) with their parents on many issues .... 'The most frequent underlying cause of suicide is family and interpersonal stresses.' Some of the family stresses which pre-date the suicide attempt (include) ... incest. ...

The warning signs ... high school drop-outs ... who leave school without good reason ... Young people committed to jail ... 'smiling depressions' - these are patients who mask their deep and chronic misery by excessive smiling, joking and laughter. ... revealing phrases used by the potential suicide are: 'I'm tired of living. What's the point of going on? I'd be better off dead, I'm always a loser, What use am I to anyone?' ...

- Pills that can kill - tranquilizers and various types of sedatives, pain killers and sleeping potions - ... 'Doctors prescribe them too freely and drug companies promote them too vigorously. In many homes there are large quantities of pills around which makes it too easy and convenient for the person who wants to poison himself.'"

The reporting of suicide varies from human culture to human culture.

In North America, reports of suicides may be disguised as "accidents" in police reports and statistics in order to safeguard the relatives from shame and embarrassment, particularly if the family is socially prominent and/or is of moderate or better income. As many as 50% of North American serious traffic accidents involve drivers who have been drinking alcohol. Knowingly drinking and driving is similar to having a death wish. The reality, however, is that the drinking driver often receives less fatal injuries than the other persons involved due to his or her drug-induced relaxed state at the time of the accident.

Difficulties in both acknowledging and coping constructively with negative emotions is also a problem in many human cultures which leads to traumatic block accumulation, addictions, abusive behaviours, guilt accumulations, depression. All of these promote the above described form of suicide. A human culture follows norms, that is, specified patterns of attitude, belief, communication, and activity as a matter of training and imprinting. Present at the habit-non-conscious state, such "norms" are inaccessible to acknowledgement and change unless confronted.

Other motivations used by humans include revenge, pride, and concern for others.
The motivation of revenge is frequently expressed as an egotistical reaction to the authoritarian decisions of others or as an egoic reinforcement of a personal obsession. Taking one's life because of rejection by the object of one's love is an expression of the individual's inability to acknowledge the individuality and choices of another person, and, the inability to acknowledge or control the obsessiveness of one's own feelings and actions. In these situations, notes are sometimes left by the suicidal persons complaining of their lack of self-worth, their dependence upon the lost object of their desire, or, victimizing the lost object of their desire as responsible for their suicidal decision. It is a spiritual sickness in those human societies which romanticize such actions as the act of passionate lovers and revere such situations while hypocritically shying away from or denying real examples of it.

Pride, as a cultural obsession, is part of the Japanese culture and numerous subcultures including naval officers and gang leaders. Suicide, in these situations becomes a way of "saving face", of proving one's honour, of demonstrating one's commitment. In Japanese culture there is an acceptance that the demands of the state, in terms of correctness and moral right, will sometimes be at odds with those of the human individual. It may be right for the state to demand that you surrender your brother for crimes he has committed against the state. Still, you may see your brother as having enacted an individual religious moral right in his refusing to follow the demands of the state to execute innocent people. The culture allows you to maintain a stand of "honour" in which you do neither turn in your brother nor refuse the demands of the state. It is ritual suicide - in which you simply extract yourself from the equation.

In a similar way, as a Captain of a sinking ship, your employer and the owner of the ship hold you personally responsible for the safety of their ship and its cargo. Loss of same will be lodged against you as shame for incompetence and guilt for loss. Your survival and its loss condemns you to this lifelong penalty by the norms of marine activities. If, however, you die with the ship, no one can contest that you did the most any person could do to save the ship and its cargo. You are excused and your "honour" is maintained.

Concern for others is also a form of suicide regularly encouraged by human societies.
Sacrifice of one's self for the survival of many is applauded in many cultures as heroism and past examples are regularly displayed as models to new entries to the society. Such "heroes" take many forms: war survivors, competition winners, game professionals, business magnates, accident victims, emergency personnel. Often these "suicide" prone persons may survive, yet they bear scars - physical, emotional, or trauma based. They have been assessed as having taken the supreme life risk in order to save the lives of many others. Whether the action was truly taken out of desperation, out of concern for others, or, out of terror and fear and the desire to escape through death - is seldom explored. Usually the political system involved is only concerned in furthering its own power by "interpreting" the actions of this individual as a demonstration of support for their leadership.

Another, and more direct and true expression of concern for others expressed through surrender of one's own life is that of the death of elderly or sick individuals in primitive structured societies living in challenging environments. It has been a practice, amongst some tribes and bands, for the sick and elderly to voluntarily withdraw themselves from the rest of the group and die at the mercy of freezing weather or lack of food and care. Those doing so have acknowledged that under the fragile relationship which the group holds with survival, the added strain of a sick or non-contributing member could endanger the lives of all. They also acknowledge that the band would never send them away nor hold them responsible for any added burden. The accepted choice, under such circumstances, like in most of the above situations, is for the person in question to do the "right thing". The only right rational alternative may be judged to be removal of one's own burden from the struggles which friends and relatives must endure. This rationale is also used in situations in which the person's self-esteem is very low. The difference is that in the latter the person is using such a rationale as an excuse for their own mental confusion; in the former, the older person is using the rationale as a constructive solution to a real challenge, made with the full awareness of the consequences.

Suicide, in ALL of its forms, is an expression of separation of the human from the spiritual aspects of life. It may be imprinted by cultural example by a materialistic and authoritarian political entity, or, by environmental conditions enhanced by long-term human inabilities to maintain harmony with the world they have been placed in. Such disharmony has led to a size and density of population which both squanders and fights over available resources, while destroying others.

1974 - During the year,
The influence of Vitamin E on health was demonstrated when Lester Packer of the University of California, Berkeley, and James R. Smith of the USA Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez released a report of their findings. Extending the work of Hayflick on cell division, the two physiologists found that by adding Vitamin E to a culture of human embryonic cells, 120 divisions were attained. Normal divisions had stopped after about 50 doublings. Vitamin E protected the living cells against damage from chemicals known as oxidants, such as air pollution.

This research developed a focus on the study of free-radical reactions and the use of Vitamin E and other inhibitors in preserving good health and prolonging longevity. Average male mice fed a single inhibitor, experienced an increase of 40% in their average life expectancy.

1974 - On June 25,
Near St. Cyrille, Que. - a domed, disc-shaped object with a red-and-white light atop the dome and an orange rim with white lights that circle the perimeter is observed landing with the occupants attempting to communicate before leaving.

1974 - During the year,
The first "crop circles" in Canada were reported in Langenburg, Saskatchewan.
Over the next 16 years 20 more circles would be reported in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Frequently, a pattern of flattened grain would be found consisting of exact circle connected by straight pathways in the middle of a field. There would be no evidence of tracks to the sites and the circles might range in size from 70 feet in diameter to 2 feet wide. By 1991, thousands of examples would have been found in North America, Britain and Australia. No scientific explanation would have been found.

1974 -
A grasshopper plague in the Sahel region of Africa (Mali, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Chad, Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Cape Verde) becomes the worst ever recorded. 20 to 30% of the crops, representing millions of tons of food grains are lost. Farmers have to replant three or four times to get a crop and others give up altogether either from despair or lack of seed grain.

1974 -
The "Commodities Futures Trading Commission" (CFTC) is created by the USA Congress as an independent federal agency to regulate the commodities futures market. Traders engaged in the commodities markets are required to register with the CFTC. The CFTC has the authority to set margin requirements, regulate options contracts in commodities, and supervise registered futures commission merchants. A considerable amount of insider trading, excessive margin losses and bankruptcies and a generally inadequate capitalization of futures had led to the increased regulation. Too many people were trying to get rich quick with too little money and too much manipulation and exploitation of the market.

1974 - By August,
The largest undersea craft humanly constructed became the newly commissioned "Delta I Class" Soviet Submarine.
At 11,750 tons, the Delta I introduced intercontinental missile ranges to Soviet submariners, permitting them to operate in broad ocean areas while targeting USA cities. It carried 12 missiles with a range of 4,200 nautical miles (7,800 km). It would be the last SSBN constructed at the Komsomol'sk shipyards, as subsequent submarines were too large for launching from there. 18 would be constructed by 1977. Then, 4 still larger Delta II Class submarines, carrying 16 missiles each would be built.

The initial armament was an RSM-50 (SS-N-18 Stingray) intercontinental ballistic missile with a MIRV (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles) warhead. The nuclear warhead explosive force was equal to 450 kilotons, usually divided into two 200 KT+ warhead. Remember that the nuclear weapons which were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were about 18 KT. They had totally destroyed moderately sized cities. These were 10 times larger! - each. These were quickly upgraded to three "bomblets" with ever longer ranges. Now, missiles launched from submarines in both Arctic and North Pacific waters could strike Washington, D.C., and all major population centres as well as all USA ICBM silos. This provided a superior strategy against the USA for these submarines could remain in a port of in the protection of Arctic waters.

1974 - On August 8,
Richard Nixon became the first U.S.A. President to resign.
He admitted mistakes in judgement but denied any wrongdoing.
Gerald Ford became the new president, and pardoned Nixon for any illegal acts he might have committed while in office. After it was discovered in 1973 that the White House conversations had been recorded, a Senate committee had requested that the president turn over his tapes to the committee. Under continued pressure from public opinion, the Senate Watergate Committee, and the Watergate grand jury, Nixon finally released edited transcripts of his taped conversation with aides about the Watergate break-in. Although there was no direct evidence to show that the president shared in the cover-up of the involvement of Erhlichman, Haldeman, and Attorney General John Mitchell in the plan carried out by McCord and the others, the transcripts did suggest that the president was involved.

The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives then began to consider the impeachment of the president. And the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to release all tapes that might relate to the Watergate affair. On August 5, 1974, Nixon released tapes showing that he had participated in the cover-up in the summer of 1972. His remaining White House advisers and the Republican leaders of the House and Senate told him that he must resign. He did so on August 8.

1974 - During August,
Eduard Meier, experienced his first exposure to the landing of a Pleiadian beamship, not far from Hinwil, Switzerland.
It remained for an hour and a quarter. Almost 5 years later, Lee Elders and Tom Welch, UFO investigators, would test the site for gamma radiation from the presence of a high electromagnetic field. They would find readings in the grass of the surrounding area which measured a low .00 to .05. Each time a stronger reading appeared on the dial, they marked the spot on the ground. But before they had finished taking readings in all the areas, they noticed that the spots marked on the ground were beginning to form roughly the shape of a circle. Inside the circle the radiation level consistently measured .2, roughly 400% higher than the background measurements. And the readings inside the circle pulsated.

"It didn't go up and hang. It went up like this and then down a bit, and then back up, back down a bit. We didn't expect this." In diameter, the circle measured roughly 21 feet. The physicist who had provided the equipment was surprised when he heard of the readings. The physicist told Welch that he and others had been using the equipment for about 10 years and it had always read accurately. He noted that the readings were significant because they were more than 100% above the background. The physicist explained that "what would be required to cause such gamma radiation detection - an unnatural source strong enough to change the electromagnetic nature of every molecule where the readings were obtained". Like a paper clip that has been magnetized, articles near a strong electromagnetic field would acquire a "memory" of that force.

1974 - During the year,
"The Bermuda Triangle", a bestseller book by Charles Berlitz was published.
Both this book and a 1979 edition of The Philadelphia Experiment, by William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz, popularized the letters and story of Carlos Miguel Allende (Carl Allen) which had first been sent to author Morris K. Jessup, in 1955. They built on the sensationalistic cover story published in 1968 in New UFO Breakthrough , which had declared that "Our concept and understanding of flying saucers are totally wrong! So say the bizarre and terrifying ALLENDE LETTERS." Reference had also been made to the letters in a magazine format anthology.

What was largely unknown and unavailable at the time, was the fact that "Allen" had telephoned Jim and Carol Lorenzen, in 1969, and admitted to them that his letters were a hoax. There were valid reasons for Allende doing this in an effort to ease his troubled mind and try and leave the incident behind. The possibility of actually finally being taken seriously also expanded the feelings of paranoia which were a normal response from the degree of horror and trauma experienced at the time of the incident. He was now believing that full media disclosure could lead to his being targeted for assassination by either the US Navy or by some extraterrestrial race.

Sceptics from their detached scientific attitude and from the many hoaxes and misunderstood sightings which they knew of, together with the fact that the USAF investigators had consistently conveyed to them disinformation and an attitude of disbelief, and that the CIA had recruited members into the Lorenzen's APRO for the purpose of discreditation and sabotage of UFO reports - the Lorenzens had already made a judgement on the "Philadelphia Experiment" and expressed little interest in Allen. While Allen called the letters "false ... the craziest pack of lies I ever wrote," he would later, after seeing a rise in apparently sincere interest in the media, say that his confession was a crazy pack of lies.

1974 - By September,
Commentary advocating a military takeover of the Persian Gulf had appeared in "Harper's magazine" and other American mass media in reaction to the oil shock of 1973-74. James Atkins was USA ambassador in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at the time, and expressed his disapproval officially over the cynicism and immorality of the suggestion - further stating that anyone who would consider such an alternative seriously "was a madman, a criminal, or a Soviet agent." Henry Kissinger, then USA Secretary of State, thought otherwise and Atkin's career in the foreign service was shortly thereafter terminated. The potential payback for USA oil interests were enormous; Atkins wrote:

"Only the Spanish conquest of the New World was so richly rewarded."

1974 -
A popular movie for the year was "Death Wish".
The story portrays the reactions of a middle-aged businessman in New York whose family is attacked by a group of young adult males who rape his wife and daughter and kill his wife. While visiting another state, the hero, an architect named Paul Kersey, views a wild west entertainment re-enactment of an attempted robbery in which all of the perpetrators are cleanly disposed of by the guns of the righteous. Encouraged further by a local, Kersey allows his rage to turn his actions into vigilantism against the perpetrators of the crime against his family. In the process, Kersey magnifies his expression of rage to that of a killer hunting for prey in which the prey are attracted by entrapment, or may be petty criminals. At risk to his own life, Kersey seeks out and kills anyone who is foolish enough to try and commit any crime. His successes are praised in the media, the regional crime rate decreases, the police become concerned, and, on the point of being charged by the police - Kersey cools his rage.

The writer of the story originally intended for his audience to understand the rage of the hero as potentially as destructive as the original crime against his family. Entrapment may push a challenged individual over the line into the role of criminal; thus, an otherwise innocent person may be shot and killed after being given the confidence to try and commit the crime. In addition, is death a relevant sentence for attempted theft or for threatening or harassment? Spiritually, it is not. The American public voted otherwise with their attendance. Four more "Death Wish" movies would be made (1982, 1985, 1987, 1994) to promote this form of revenge killing and acting out of frustration. The result would become increased public paranoia about their personal security, an increasing dependency of the public on armed self-protection, and an increasing lack of confidence in the American justice system. The producers were only concerned with satisfying the public for a profit. The government was uninterested in regulating a billion dollar industry. Few civic leaders, educators or religious groups offered either criticism of the strategy or more spiritual means for coping with it.

1974 - By late September,
"A Book of Five Rings", by Miyamoto Musashi of Japan was published for the first time in North America.
American business was clearly losing its customers and profits to Japanese entrepreneurs and, in desperation, American business leaders were ready to consider whatever might be a rationale behind the Japanese success. Musashi had written Rings in 1645 as a Japanese business equivalent to the Chinese military strategy, "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, written many centuries earlier.

The "Rings" are actually 5 "Ways" or strategies which are partial borrowings from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shintoism. A renown warrior, Musashi is considered to have written the advice for any situation in which planning and tactics are desirable. In brief, these are some of its points:

In "The Water Book", methods of victory are explained in the manner of single-opponent combat.
The reader is cautioned that the words of strategy must be understood entirely for any deviation will lead one to fall into bad ways. Maintain a spiritual bearing of determination though calm ... not recklessly, ... unbiased. ... An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit. ... With your spirit open and unrestricted, look at things from a high point of view. You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy. The remainder of the book describes a variety of stances and sword movements. Diligent practice of each until they are automatic responses is mandated.

In "The Fire Book", strategy is portrayed as fighting as fire.

1974 - By the fall, ???
The "Glomar Explorer" had found the submerged hull of a USSR Golf II class nuclear missile submarine intact, and had tried to lift it to the surface. At about 5000 feet of depth (the submarine had been at a resting depth of 16,000 feet), the submarine broke in half, with the rear section sinking again. The forward section was recovered and taken to California. Two nuclear torpedoes were recovered and reverse engineered. The bodies of 6 crew were found in the hull, including the nuclear-weapons officer. He had kept a detailed journal of his training and assignments, and this was salvaged also. It gave defense analyst a wealth of information about Soviet naval nuclear-systems operations and procedures. The cost of the operation was $70 million.

The operation was called "Project Jennifer".
Under the direction of the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, "Hughes Tool Company", in association with another Hughes company, Summa Corporation, was commissioned to design a recovery ship that could be operated as part of the well-established Glomar Marine Corporation's fleet. Howard Hughes took a personal interest in the commission, it has been said. His companies had been used in the past by the CIA for contract work. The design completed, a proposal was submitted for a $30 million construction of the "Glomar Explorer", a 36,000-ton, self-stabilizing, deep-sea drilling ship which would also be the mother ship for a deep-sea exploration vehicle called the "Hughes Mining Barge" 1 (HMB 1). The plans were accepted, and the ship was constructed, eventually reaching a total price of $70 million. Glomar Marine and Summa Corporation publicized the "Glomar Explorer" as a deep-sea mining/drilling/exploration ship intended to search the Pacific Ocean bed for minerals, oil, and precious metals. It completed its successful sea trials in the spring of 1974.

Just off the coast of Santa Catalina island in southern California, the HMB was taken aboard through the open-and-close hull of the ship. From there, the Glomar Explorer sailed directly to the area where the Golf II submarine had sunk. The HMB went down and its television cameras soon revealed the submarine intact. It was suspected that a hydrogen gas leak had been ignited by heat from the engine exhaust system and the resulting explosion had caused the sinking. The first press story leaked out to the public through the "Los Angeles Times" on February 7, 1975. Much of their information had come from the Los Angeles Police Department, some of whose members had been briefed following a burglary of "Summa Corporation's" Los Angeles headquarters in which documents about Project Jennifer had been stolen.

1974 - By October,
Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq, had met with Idriss, the son of Mullah Mustafa Barzani (the Kurdish leader).
Barzani had come to ask Hussein to postpone implementation of autonomy in Iraqi Kurdistan, which had been agreed on March 11, 1970.

Hussein replied: "We are determined to fulfil our obligation.
You also have to stick to your agreement."

1974 - Between 1974 and 1979, ???
Panagiotis Takis (Taki) Veliotis and James Gilliland would receive $2.55 million in bribes from Gerald Lee, chairman of Frigitemp Corp., New York City, and George Davis, Vice-President of Frigitemp. In return, Frigitemp received subcontracts from General Dynamics Corp. (the Earth's largest contractor) for insulation and other work on 10 liquid natural gas tankers built at the General Dynamic's Quincy shipbuilding division near Boston, Massachusetts.

During 1973, Davis, who had extensive business dealings in Canada's shipbuilding industry, told Frigitemp's directors that the firm would win subcontracts worth many millions if it made "sizable, undisclosed commission payments, or kickbacks." The payments allegedly amounted to 10% of the contracts' value, more than $50 million. Frigitemp was allowed to recover the kickbacks by overcharging General Dynamics for work. General Dynamics passed the increased costs on to the American taxpayer in the manner which defense industries do - by including the costs in either "black" or confidential programs not open to audit for reasons of "national security."

Davis and Lee set up and used more than 10 companies, including 5 with Quebec Province addresses

- Fintracon International Ltd.,
- Brading Equipment Sales Ltd.,
- Crygenic Insulation Co. Ltd.,
- Mamoni Shipping Ltd.,
- Joiner Systems of Canada Ltd.

Frigitemp Corp, managed by Davis and Lee, allegedly retained these companies to provide consulting services on the contracts Veliotis awarded to Frigitemp. No such services were ever provided, yet Frigitemp sent purchase orders and paid invoices, creating a cash fund from which payments to Veliotis and Gilliland were then transferred, often via the Bank of Nova Scotia in Grand Cayman Island. The cash transactions were confirmed by credit memos sent by mail; in some instances, cash was delivered by courier.

Lee and Davis, using dummy companies, fraudulent purchase orders and invoices, Grand Cayman Island bank accounts and satchels of cash - they paid $1.35 million to Veliotis, president and general manager of Davie Shipbuilding Ltd. of Levis, Quebec, Canada, and $1.2 million to Gilliland, an associate. Most of the money was routed through Canada, using Canadian banks, Canadian companies and Canadian couriers. The cash ended up in accounts opened by Veliotis and his second wife, Paulette, and Gilliland and his wife, Betty, at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Lausanne. Davis and Lee kept Swiss accounts also. A charge of extortion of US $2.7 million from the General Dynamics subcontractor, against the self-assured Veliotis and his associate Gilliland, would be brought by a USA Federal grand jury in September, 1983.

Gerald Lee would admit in an April 1983 courtroom hearing that he and another Frigitemp executive discussed hiring "hit men" to murder other corporate officials who they feared would expose the payoffs to government authorities. Lee would admit that considered eliminating the chief financial officer and another division vice-president of Frigitemp Corp. by using a sausage machine or car compactor.

In February, 1979, a month before Frigitemp went bankrupt, Davis set up a new Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based company, IDT Corp. and arranged with Veliotis and Gilliland to have all of Frigitemp's remaining General Dynamics subcontracts transferred to the new firm. Another $1.2 million was transferred to the Swiss accounts of Gilliland and Veliotis after IDT Corp. was formed.

In 1980, General Dynamics Corp. would be under intense pressure in Washington because of cost overruns on the submarine program. After 3 years, the justice department probe would be abandoned: political ramifications from the indictment of General Dynamics, while potentially returning $1.5 billion to the American taxpayer, could see tens of thousands of jobs and the sales volume and profits of America's primary defense contractor slashed.

General Dynamics would be charged with grossly inflating invoices for the construction of more than 18 attack submarines for the USA Navy during the 1970s. Frigitemp's attorneys would also charge, in a USA district court in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1984, that the highest officials of General Dynamics were aware of the fraudulent activities and attempted to cover them up - in part by giving Veliotis a seat on the board of directors in 1980 and by promoting him in 1981 from his position as head of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics to executive vice-president.

David Berger, counsel to Frigitemp's bankruptcy trustee, Lawson Bernstein, would charge in court during 1984 that:

"General Dynamics was in on the conspiracy from the beginning. ... General Dynamics either acquiesced in or encouraged the Veliotis/Gilliland extortion scheme."

Few people who knew Veliotis would be surprised when he was charged with receiving bribes: they believed that bribes and kickbacks were standard procedure in the defence-contract industry.

1974 - By October 25,
Ernest Conine, a noted economist, had been quoted as saying:

"Within 10 years, according to a confidential study by the World Bank, this band of small countries (the Middle East OPEC) could have more than $1 trillion on hand - more than enough to buy all of the shares outstanding on the New York Stock Exchange."

Over the next 20 years, Opec members would purchase major shareholdings in some of the largest companies in Europe and take over ownership of North American banks, farmland, real estate and businesses. The capital they used came from the North American participation in the Vietnam War, the Space (military and communications) Race, and, the continued development and expansion of nuclear arsenals. If OPEC wanted to collapse the North American and European economies, could it? - When?

1974 - During late 1974,
In Puerto Rico, phenomena were reported including UFO sightings, animal mutilations and apparitions of the "Blessed Virgin". Statues shed tears and drops of blood, there were mysterious disappearances of people, strange noises and explosions. Large unknown birds, something which looked like a ball of fur or hair that rolled along the ground, humanoids, zombie-like, and ape-like dwarves were all reported in multiples.

1974 - During November,
The reality of the Tayfun (Typhoon) Ballistic Missile Submarine (Project 941) was revealed by Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev to USA President Gerald Ford, at their summit meeting in Vladivostok. Brezhnev stated that the new SSBN was a response to the USA Trident submarine program. The first Trident submarine, officially the "Ohio (SSBN 726) class", was completed in late 1981. The first Typhoon would be completed in 1983. It was built at the Severodvinsk complex in the Arctic, which Admiral Rickover declared had "several times the area and facilities of all the U.S. submarine yards combined." Lead-time for both was at least 5 years.

The Typhoon would become the world's largest submarine.
Six were built out of a planned total of 7. The dimensions are 560 feet (171 m.) long, 78 ft 9 in (24 m.) wide, with a draft of 41 ft (12.5 m.). Two nuclear-powered steam turbines produce 45,000 to 80,000 horsepower directed through 2 shafts to 7-bladed propellers to produce a submerged speed of 27 knots. It is seldom intended to surface. It has a crew of 150 persons: the size of a town. Unlike other SSBNs, it has two parallel hulls encased in an outer shell. All units have Surface-to-Air (SAM) missiles for protection against air attack. All are assigned to the Northern Fleet.

The ballistic missiles are fitted between the two hulls, forward of a separate control compartment which is above the parallel hulls. Missiles have been test launched at intervals of 15 seconds. Twenty 3-stage SS-N-20 Sturgeon missiles are the armament. Each missile has 10 independently targeted 100 KT warheads - for a total of a 1,000 KT of nuclear explosive force per missile; 2 megatons per submarine. In general terms that is enough explosive power to completely incinerate 120 cities with populations of over 200,000 people: perhaps 2.5 million dead. And then there would be injured, homeless and sick. And there are 6 Typhoons.

Since each adversary has huge submarines with intercontinental ballistic missiles having multiple warheads, any pre-emptive attack will find the submarines of the adversary surviving, and ready to launch a retaliation. USA Trident submarines carry 24 missiles with 8-100 KT warheads in each: 192 warheads; almost the same degree of destruction. The American Trident Class is considerably smaller, by 1/3rd: designed to be functional rather than as support for a possible colony of human survivors.

1974 - On November 13,
The Amityville Horror began to form when Ronald DeFeo killed 6 members of his family.
It happened at a Dutch colonial style house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. DeFeo, who had used as his defense that voices within the house had ordered him to carry out the killings, was tried for the murders and convicted and sentenced to serve 6 consecutive life terms in jail.

1974 - On November 21,
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, of the Roman Catholic Church, publishes a manifesto castigating the Vatican Council as a "fake"; the Pauline mass as "illegal"; the teachings of the bishops as "in error". With mass media attention, he becomes an international figure. Canonical approval is withdrawn from his seminaries when discussion over a lengthy period with the Pope are unproductive in resolving the differences. Lefebvre eventually will take his mission to the USA, where he will speak widely against the teachings of Vatican II.

1974 - By December,
The site of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Conference of October, 1976, was chosen to be Manila, Philippines.
President Marcos used the opportunity to his best interests.
He offered incentives to anyone building a hotel for the Conference: duty-free imports of equipment; tax credits on locally purchased materials; the financing services of the government: the Development Bank of the Philippines, the Government Services Insurance System; the Philippine National Bank - all directed to lend up to 75% of building costs - ultimately they had to lend 90 - 100% By early 1975, 14 hotel projects were approved by Tourism Minister Jose Aspiras, Imelda's favorite aide. The other institutions were headed by close associates of either Ferdinand or Imelda.

The loan money was cheap - a 2 year grace period on the principal and an interest rate of 12-14%. Typically, a Marcos associate would borrow $100 million, with government guarantees to build a hotel. He spend, perhaps, $40 million on building the hotel; the remaining $60 million would be put in a Swiss bank account. Of course the hotel was undercapitalized and would go bankrupt, so the government would have to, by its guarantee, assume the obligations. This process happened so often during the Marcos era that the Philippine government ended up controlling nearly 400 corporations, most of which were losing money. Losses by these companies would rise to $3 billion a year, roughly what it cost to operate the entire government.

The cost of the hotels came to half a billion dollars.
The short-term construction projects employed 50,000 workers on rotating shifts.
Imelda's International Convention Centre was ready ahead of time at an inflated cost of $150 million. Only two of the hotels were completed on time. Several of the contractors made so much money from skimming that they packed up their families and emigrated. A few left because of the distaste of the bureaucrat-centred kickback system and their intermediary position of having to persevere quietly while being blamed for slowly progressing work and high costs. When the Conference opened, the delegates were wined and dined and chauffeured around Manila in a fleet of 300 new Mercedes-Benz automobiles. Having their egos flattered with the royal treatment, only one of the bankers wondered as to just how solid the whole enterprise was. The Marcos media machine had mesmerized the others into reverent and proud docility - reverence at the apparent ability for bankers and money to buy a materially progressive society; pride that they were the backbone which allowed it to happen.

Gregorio Votaw, the World Bank's program director for East Asia, saw through Imelda's schemes. He tried to explain that the Bank's concept of urban development was development in place - renovation of existing areas, NOT new construction in new locations with the historical left to continue rotting. Imelda and Ferdinand convinced McNamara for fire him. McNamara, a statistics and theory-on-paper idealist was easily deceived. Like other decisions he had made, his inability to emotionally and spiritually connect with the reality around him made him a part, if not the facilitator, of the abuse of power which, in the reverse of constructive idealism crushed the peasant lower and exalted the master higher.

1974 - Before the end of the year,
Control of the Philippine sugar industry had fallen to the Marcoses and their associates.
Sugar amounted to 25% of all Philippine exports. In their last 10 years in power, the Marcoses diverted more than $1.15 billion from Filipino sugar producers.

Bobby Benedicto had grown up in Negros, the country's sugar center.
Teodoro Benedicto had founded the family fortune there in the late 1800s.
With a small personal army, Teodoro burned out peasant villages, bribed local officials, and amassed an enormous property of 11,200 hectares, the largest in Negros. The Spanish Lands Department ruled that the methods Don Teodoro Benedicto used were criminal and recommended that he be tried in court: he bought off the court. Bobby inherited the fortune and the authoritarian attitude. Studying law at the University of the Philippines, he became a fraternity brother of Ferdinand Marcos. During WWII, when a submarine landed secret agent Jesus Villamor on Negros to organize and intelligence net, Villamor chose Benedicto as his local commander. Villamor was impressed with Benedicto's authoritarian characteristics: emotional detachment, obsessive rationalist, intellectual and analytical, compulsively energetic - all traits of preference in a spy.

After the War, Benedicto was one of Ferdinand's earliest political supporters and his chief fund-raiser of his presidential campaign in 1965. With success, Ferdinand rewarded Benedicto by appointing him president of the Philippine National Bank. Under martial law, only one newspaper, the Daily Express and one radio station - both belonging to Benedicto, were allowed to continue in operation. As Ferdinand's regime seized the assets of rivals, Benedicto was given the Lopez media chain of print, TV, and radio. The Lopez clan was one of the old established sugar barons.

Once the entire sugar industry was under control, sugar exported from the Philippines was stored in Benedicto warehouses, shipped by his tankers, insured by a company he controlled, and financed by California Overseas Bank, a Beverley Hills bank which Ferdinand and Bobby owned jointly. Benedicto awarded the construction contracts on new sugar mills, to receive additional kickbacks estimated at $250 million, which he shared with Ferdinand.

Other friends of Marcos were given contracts to buy and sell sugar.
These commodity traders simply sold the rights to actual traders at a markup, in effect taking a commission from each transaction. This practice cost the industry an additional $205 million from 1975 to 1984 in bureaucratic fees.

Two U.S.-based refineries, Sucrest and Revere, were bought by Imelda Marcos and her family.
Revere was purchased for $11.8 million with Antonio Floirendo fronting for Imelda. Thereafter, the Marcoses could buy raw sugar from Filipino planters at whatever price they chose, have it refined by Revere and Sucrest in the USA, warehouse it until the price was good, then capture the overseas profits. Imelda made millions by underpaying for Philippine sugar. During 1975-1980, Revere refined and sold Philippine sugar paying 2 cents per pound below world market prices. When other USA refiners complained a USA Congressional investigation followed. A special arrangement between Benedicto and Revere cost the Philippine sugar industry $110 million by 1980.

Task Force Kanlaon, a Constabulary unit, was responsible for crushing wage and labour disputes in Benedicto's Negro district. Benedicto saw to it that sugar profits purchased the trucks of the Task Force and paid for their fuel and expenses. In the alter on the dashboard of each truck, there was a photo of Mr. & Mrs. Benedicto, the benefactor of the officers. The 431,000 sugar workers in the Philippines were destitute before Marcos and Benedicto took control of the sugar industry; afterwards cane workers were paid less than a dollar a day wage for a longer than 10 hour day. Planters, part of the old Catholic colonial paternalistic co-dependent hierarchy, abolished social services, cut payrolls, and forced labourers to pay old debts undertaken during periods of illness. By 1986, after 20 years of Marcos domination, most Filipino sugar workers would receive less than 80 cents a day, in pesos that had lost 50% of its buying power; that is, they earned 1/3 of what they had in 1940. While the Marcoses and their associates were living in gaudy luxury with millions of dollars - individually - in tax-free havens, 750,000 children were suffering from malnutrition, existing on meagre rations of sweet potato and cassava, with hundreds of them going blind and tens of thousands more becoming brain damaged.

Wealthy Eduardo Cojuangco, a civilian member of the Rolex-12, also managed to increase his sugarcane holdings with 2,000 more hectares in Negros and 5,000 in Mindaneo. As a condition of purchase, he required the eviction of all workers living on the land. Not about to leave such actions to a slow government bureaucracy, or enter into a circus of bribes, Cojuangco built a private army of 5,000 mercenaries armed with M-16 assault rifles, Uzis machine guns, and Galil assault rifles, which can only be purchased in bulk with Israeli government approval. Cojuangco's army was trained on Palawan by Israeli commandos, also with the approval of Israel. The American White House and CIA had negotiated a barter: in return for training Cojuangco's army, the Israelis would receive the newest military technology. With new (military) employment opportunities and a new military attitude in-group, Cojuangco built a behind-the-scenes association with Filipino military officers, providing them discretely with financial favours.

While all this was happening, the American public, who were responsible for the Marcos regime through their interference, model of political deception, and lack of self-responsibility - were enjoying an economic boom contributed to by massive military investment in Southeast Asia assisted by the sanction of a brutal and greedy dictatorship which American politicians and businessmen were in turn willing to sanction. The American public, and humans in most industrialized countries - were doing what they had been imprinted and taught to do: do as your told; respect your self-appointed human authorities; resolve your anxieties in self-obsession; resolve your conflicts in denial; worship material wealth and social acceptance. What would you think-feel-expect of humans, if you were a visiting spaceperson from a highly spiritual culture in which there was total peace; lack of physical need; stimulating self-actualization; trusting and empathic "mental" communication; a reverence for God, the universe, all life?

1974 - During the year,
"Ground Saucer Watch" (GSW), of Phoenix, Arizona, began analyzing photographs of alleged UFO sightings.
Over the next 5 years they would receive about 500 photographs from around the world for analysis.
GSW performed none of the alleged computer work involved in their analysis.
They sent all photographs to a company in California. There, technicians entered them into a computer by taking another picture with an inexpensive video camera, and applied basic software programs to enhance the photographs with bright colours. Then they took another picture, off the computer video display and sent these pictures back to GSW to be studied with the naked eye. By then the information in the original photograph had been, potentially, greatly distorted. There had been no structured approach. There could have been dirt on any of the camera lenses. The angle of light on the photo might have provided surface reflection from the gloss on the picture. Such an unprofessional approach resulted in haphazard conclusions, usually and predictedly, in the negative.

In just one case, involving 2 photos from a Calgary, Alberta observer, taken on the same roll of film, sent separately - one by himself and one through an intermediary - GSW declared one photo "genuine" publicly, and, concluded that the second "depicts the crudest attempt at a hoax that we have ever seen." GSW effectively deceived the public for this 5 year period resulting in the defamation of accurate sightings and the likely support of some frauds. Until 1979, no one, with any degree of photographic knowledge, took the time to determine the degree of expertise and professionalism behind the claims of GSW. Unfortunately, this has often been true of many UFO interest group activities.

Those with expertise have usually been dissuaded by the opinions of their peers from approaching the subject with an open mind for fear of ridicule and demotion. Because of rising concerns in the community, frustrated by government policies of secrecy and disinformation, poorly prepared groups of concerned citizens have mounted what has been little more than lynch mobs, cults and vigilante style emotional approaches to coping with feelings of fear, abuse, betrayal. Truth denied has become truth twisted and confused. In such a society, those who take the power of leadership are fully responsible whether in the field of politics, religions, education or science

1974 - During December,
Olaf Jonsson, a Swedish psychic living in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was invited to visit the Marcoses at Malacanang Palace in the Philippines.
Several books had been written about Jonsson and his feats and the Marcoses had a fascination with psychics, even believing they had such skills on occasion. For his part, and like most genuine psychics - and an attribute associated with their talent - Olaf was a modest man whose talents often earned his clients much more than he benefited.

Ferdinand was frustrated at the length of time and degree of effort that retrieving each cache of Yamashita's Gold was taking. A large value of gold bullion could occupy a very small space. Digging in a general location could continue for months, even years, without success - partly because the Japanese had both hidden the gold deep and had left bombs primed to explode for those who dug straight down. For the Marcoses, Olaf could resolve some frustrations.

Olaf was invited to the Malacanang Palace to read for the Marcoses and while there discussions led into the potential problems associated with the disposal of thousands of tons of bullion. If it were placed on the market too rapidly, the market price would plummet. If it were placed on the market without a verification of its origin, international legal challenges would be invited. During his visit to the Palace, the Marcoses showed him some of the tons of gold bullion in the basement, retrieved from Yamashita's hiding places. Large numbers of the ingots had Chinese markings; others displayed Japanese markings. They were in a variety of shapes and sizes characteristic of both countries.

The Japanese gold had been jewelry and coins, confiscated from all over Southeast Asia and melted down in Manila in preparation for transfer to Japan before and during WWII. Unknown to Olaf, the gold bars stacked in one of the rooms was worth, at that time, more than $60 million; there were multiple rooms; this only represented PART of the bullion recovered from ONE site. Other bullion was stored nearby. Obviously, the Marcoses would need the assistance of someone who knew international capital markets, was an entrepreneur, and was a salesman by trade. Jonsson introduced the Marcoses to Norman Kirst, of Wisconsin, USA.

1974 - During December,
Seymour Hersh, a New York Times reporter, makes public that the CIA had been investigating American citizens inside the USA and that it had opened first-class mail: the former unauthorized; the latter illegal. President Gerald Ford appoints a commission headed by Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller to investigate. Intending to whitewash the issue, the Commission has copious documents forwarded to it. Hoping to end scandal, James Schlesinger, then Director of the CIA, ordered all CIA employees to tell the Agency's inspector general about any illegal or "improper" activities that had been undertaken.

1974 -
Pickering Nuclear Energy Generating Plant, Pickering, Ontario, one of three nuclear fuelled stations operated by Ontario Hydro at that time, and one of the world's largest nuclear power stations at the time, on December 31, was the focus of a UFO flight. A cluster of brilliant red spheres, which seemed to pulsate, were seen hovering over nearby Lake Ontario. One of the spheres moved inland to position itself over Number 3 and 4 reactor buildings. Its size was estimated at 30 feet in diameter. It remained there for 6 or 7 minutes and then with an explosion-like flash, took off. Reactor 3, at that time, had been shut down for 5 months following the discovery of heavy water leaks in 19 of the 390 pressure tubes in the reactor.

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1975 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

The Eiger Sanction; White Line Fever; Death Race 2000; The Last Day; Day of the Locust; The Four Musketeers; Dog Day Afternoon, Love and Death; Farewell My Lovely; It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time; The Killer Elite; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Return to Macon County; Rooster Cogburn; Jaws; The Magic Flute; The Apple Dumpling Gang; The Legend of Lizzie Borden; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Forever Young, Forever Free; The Hindenberg; The Killer Inside Me; The Man in the Glass Booth

General News:

Consumer Price Index: 161.2

1975 - By January,
Eduard (Billy) Meier meets his next spaceperson mentor, a Pleiadian woman named Semjase.
She would telepathically guide him to a meadow where her spacecraft would appear. It would have nearly translucent, golden-silver skin which glinted in the sun and except for the portholes around the dome, the smooth, contoured surface would be devoid of projections or seams and unmarked by symbols. He could only approach the craft a certain distance before encountering some form of force field which prevented his progress.

Semjase walked out from behind the craft to meet him.
She appeared to be human in form, clothed in a tight, thin, one-piece suit, dull gray in colour and rough - almost like the hide of an elephant, Meier thought. The suit covered her up to the neck where there was a hard ring collar; below, the suit ended in ankle-high darker boots. She had pale blue eyes and her amber hair was parted in the middle and fell to her waist, framing her small nose, delicate mouth, and exceedingly high cheekbones. Her ears appeared smaller than those of a human; they joined her head in a straight line rather than in a curve. Her white skin was so pale and so perfect that it approached luminescence. She walked over to him, touched him on the arm and walked with him to a tree near where Meier had left his motorbike. There, in the grass, for 75 minutes, they talked, with Semjase speaking German so that Meier could understand.

Meier wrote in his notes that for a long time the Pleiadians had desired contact with an earth human who was sincere in assisting them with their mission. They had nurtured and observed him since he was 5 years old, and since he responded adequately to each of several levels of communication he had continued to be contacted.

Semjase explained that the Pleiadian civilization had originated thousands of years before, not in the Pleiades, a star system much younger than our own, but in the Constellation Lyra. When war ensued, before the planet was destroyed, much of the population migrated to other star systems, in the Pleiades, the Hyades, and to a planet orbiting a nearby star known as "Vega". On one interstellar journey, the new Pleiadians discovered the Earth and its early life evolving in an atmosphere hospitable to their own. Since that time, according to Semjase, Earth had been destroyed twice by its own inhabitants: first by a civilization evolved from early Pleiadians who remained behind and mated with primitive earth humans; and second when a later generation of Pleiadians colonized Earth and produced advanced technology until war again destroyed the planet. Semjase and the Pleiadians who had chosen to return again to Earth were descendants of a peaceful Lyrian faction that now felt responsible for guiding Earth in its spiritual evolution, so the earth humans could avoid the setbacks long ago experienced by their Pleiadian ancestors.

To help them in their mission, the Pleiadians contacted many earth humans telepathically, but the chosen ones eventually proved to lack knowledge, willingness, or loyalty. The few who possessed these qualities feared exposure, and so remained silent about the contacts.

"In the past we have witnessed those who were unable to determine the truth and were frightened by it. They claimed they would be accused of insanity, and that others would plan conspiracies to prove they were lying. This serves no purpose for the earth human or ourselves. If such humans had been sincere, we would have offered them the chance to take clear photo proofs of our beamships. We have allowed you this already, and in the future will come even greater opportunities.

The earth human calls us extraterrestrials or star people, or however he wants.
He attributes to us supernatural abilities, yet knows nothing about us. In truth, we are human beings like the earth human being, but our knowledge and our wisdom and our technical abilities are much superior to his.

One of our concerns is aimed at your religions and the detrimental effect they have had on the development of the human spirit. One thing above all has power over the life and death of each creature. This is the Creation, laws which are irrefutable and eternally valid. The human being will recognize them in nature, if he troubles himself to look, for they show him the way to spiritual greatness. While the earth human indulges in religion, the real spirit dwindles.

On Earth, charlatans have spread the lie that we come by order of the Creation as angels, to bring to earth humans the long-hoped-for peace, the truth, the protection, and the order of your God. This is a lie, for we never have received such orders and never will. The Creation never gives commands. It is a law unto itself, and every form of life must conform to it and become a part of it. Bring this truth to the light of the world."

Semjase promised Meier that many contacts would follow, and that she would transmit thoughts to him telepathically:

"Do not worry that I will do this at an unsuitable time. I know to regard your character and your will for independence; thus I will always take my directions from you. The time will come when we will meet together in my beamship, and you will be able to fly to space with me. I will inform you later about this."

Semjase returned to her beamship and once inside, waves emanated from the craft which distorted the shapes and colours of everything around it. A blue-red corona radiated outward. Meier took several more pictures as the beamship rose slowly above the pine trees and drifted to the north. An instant later the beamship shot straight up into the clouds and disappeared from Meier's view.

At different parts of the Earth, many times simultaneously, many times a thousand years apart, human histories and mythologies mention the Pleiades and their importance. They're noted as being the source of knowledge in the rice culture of Asia (China, Japan), and in the potato culture in Europe (Greece) and South America (Inca). These societies attributed their knowledge to a series of events in mythological form involving messengers from the Pleiades. They're revered, they're looked at as the centre of heaven, and they're looked at as a source of ancestry and wisdom and guidance. Though other star systems are mentioned in history, the closest rival, Orion, is mentioned 1/10th as often.

The Jewish-Christian Bible:
Job 9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Job 39:31-33 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

A tight cluster of several thousand stars, the Pleiades lie in the constellation Taurus, nearly 500 light years from Earth. The principal stars shine bluish-white and radiate intensely, illuminating surrounding clouds of gas. From an astronomical point of view, these stars are young. Early civilizations recorded that the 7 brightest stars were once visible to the naked eye, though today only 6 can be seen. The Pleiades are often mistaken for the Little Dipper, but their configuration is far more compact. Tennyson described them as "like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid."

1975 -
American budgeted military aid to South Vietnam for the year is $1.0 billion.

1975 - By January 21,
The Rockefeller Commission had been created by President Ford to investigate the CIA and determine whether it had become an expendable and negative bureaucracy. Ford had succeeded Nixon's Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, who resigned on October 10, 1973, after he was implicated in income-tax evasion and payoffs from construction companies while governor of Maryland state. Nixon had chosen Ford, the minority House leader, because he "was the first choice among members of Congress, and they were the ones who would have to approve the man I nominated." Gerald Ford had replaced Richard Nixon as President on August 9, 1974, when Congressional pressure and public support had supported Nixon's possible impeachment. Ford was more representative of the average American and desired a cleanup of government corruption. On January 3, 1975, Ford learned of the "Skeletons" of the CIA, including the assassination plots of the early 1960s, a period during which he had been a congressional overseer.

On January 21, a "Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities" was voted to be created by the U.S.A. Senate; a month later, the House of Representatives would establish the Committee. President Ford's Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, would be appointed head of the 2 year Rockefeller Commission. It was a case of revealing some of the bad news and clearing house, or, having the evils revealed without the benefit of control of interpretation. As a Pragmatist thinker, Rockefeller was not surprised by the lengths to which the intelligence agency had gone - in support of economic, trade and political principles which he had been a major contributor to. His concern was more heightened by the possible Communist infiltration of America which his report outlined. The first report was that given by the Rockefeller Commission on June 6, 1975.

1975 - In January,
The U.S.A. AEC is split into two agencies: the "Nuclear Regulatory Commission" (NRC), headed by astronaut William A. Anders, to oversee safeguards for the nuclear industry, and the Energy Research and Development Agency (ERDA) which inherited the remaining duties of the AEC.

1975 - On January 28,
Eduard "Billy" Meier, an out-of-work nightwatchman was contacted by a spaceperson near the village of Hinwil, Switzerland, 30 miles southeast of Zurich. Meier lived in a farmhouse a short distance from the village centre, along the street Wihaldenstrasse, with his Greek wife, Kaliope, nicknamed Popi, and their 3 children. He had met his wife in Greece, they were married in 1966, and then, for 4 years, travelled from Switzerland to India and back, working and living in Pakistan, on the Isle of Crete, in the mountains of the Middle East, and in India. They had lived at Hinwal since December, 1973.

Meier was in his late 30s, of 5' 7" tall, thick chested, strong, had greenish-hazel eyes, and a sixth-grade education. He had a permit to carry a gun because of his security profession when he worked as night security at a factory. When out of work, he received a disability pension for the loss of one of his forearms (a 1965 bus accident) and the family raised chickens in the attic and sold the eggs to the neighbours. He was known to speak of Moses a great deal and some believed that he had a terrific fantasy while others said that he had his own ideas and way of life and did not adapt to those of others. On many occasions, Meier would later demonstrate a low level of knowledge about subjects which was at odds with the notes in his journal. Although all of the photographs he took were excellent, he summed up his knowledge: "I push the button ... and it works."

On this afternoon, he received the thought that he should leave the house and take with him a device for recording pictures. He left the farmhouse with his moped, towing a tiny wagon with him, and rode out to one of the islands of forest around the town. After several days he repeated his journey; within weeks he was traveling regularly into the forest. Each trip seemed to take him along a different path to a new destination and would last an hour or several, occurring at different times of the day. If during the night, he would tell his wife that he was going to work. Sometimes he would look up at the sky in the evening with binoculars for hours. After some weeks, Meier showed his wife and then a good friend some pictures he had taken. His friend, Jakobus Bertschinger, lent him some money to run an add in the German publication Esotera, to attract others interested in things "metaphysical". Then people increasingly began to come to the Meier's residence in groups to hear him speak for hours at a time. The people in the village did not like the disturbance he brought to the order of the village with his erratic travels and his idiosyncratic behaviour and would all be critical and disbelieving of him for some time. Gossip spread widely both before and after the arrival of his visitors and resulted in ostracism of his wife and children by some of the village folk, including teachers, neighbours, city officials, and students.

Meier described how he had been contacted telepathically by spacepersons from the Pleiadians and frequently directed to remote locations near Hinwil, where they landed a 7-meter silvery beamship, disembarked, and met with him. Most of these contacts were with a female named "Semjase", for the Pleiadians had found that humans were less intimidated by females. She allowed him to photograph her beamship as it approached and as it ascended away. He now showed scores of clear colour photographs and he had kept a detailed diary of his meetings including detailed conversations. He took some of the interested persons to a site where he had recently spoken to Semjase; they found 3 six-foot diameter perfectly round swirls in the grass. Always the swirls would be counter-clockwise, precisely pressed into the grass in such a way that the blades were not broken nor crushed; yet it remained flattened for weeks, continuing to grow and remaining healthy in colour. Those who read excerpts from his journal found them to be much more complex and sophisticated than would be expected of a man of his education and station in life.

He referred to the telepathic signals he received as "happens like a shot", "On the one hand it is like pictures which appear, and on the other hand, it is like a voice. There are no words for it ... it is as if you heard a voice in the symbols." Meier could be in a room full of people and suddenly his eyes would close, his skin would go pale, and he would begin to perspire faintly. Within 5 minutes he would dress for the weather and be off on his moped for an half an hour or half a day.

One afternoon, Meier invited his family and two other persons, one was Hans Schutzbach, a sceptic, to accompany them. At the site in question they saw what appeared to be a spaceship a thousand meters away, big and circular, rise, and speed away. Later, Schutzbach accompanied Meier one other afternoon when the latter tape recorded the sound of the spaceship: a cross between a jet engine and a chain saw: a high-pitched grating sound. Schutzbach, sceptical of the sounds, searched the surroundings for hidden speakers or wires only to find nothing. He returned days later and tried to recreate the sounds by replaying the tape through loudspeakers placed in various locations but such an attempt sounded obviously fake. Schutzbach also helped Billy measure and photograph the beamship landing tracks only to remark later that the ones which Billy took him to were always perfect while those made by people who declared him a fake, were always obviously a bad copy.

On the night of June 13, 1976, Guido Moosbrugger, an interested principal from a small school in Austria, accompanied Billy and Hans to a remote site where Semjase had agreed to demonstrate the existence of the Pleiadians by having the beamships take on colour and fly in erratic patterns. While waiting, the two men saw a fire-red disk rise high above the tree line 2 miles away "as big as the headlights from a distance of 100 meters", move back and forth and then disappear. After a few seconds a rotating silver ball spun into view, then two smaller silver-coloured spheres appeared below the first, also spinning. At the base of the central and largest of the spinning spheres, a large drop formed and hung lower and lower until it broke free and fell. Suddenly, all of the lights disappeared. After pause, the very same disk appeared again, became bigger and bigger, they thought it flew toward them; it shrank and disappeared. When Billy returned to the spot where he had left the two to wait for him, he repeated back to Moosbrugger what he had been thinking in Meier's absence: Semjase had read Moosbrugger's mind and relayed it to Billy.

Three weeks later, Moosbrugger returned to Hinwil, and, with Schutzbach and several of his friends, all armed with cameras, they followed Billy out to his 55th contact to witness and photograph more astounding displays of light in the night sky. Individuals would stay with him for days, scrutinizing every movement and taking advantage of the freedom he gave them to search everywhere for scientific journals or papers, or objects and materials from which something had or could be made: all without success. Repeatedly, witnesses who accompanied him to a contact location would find him returning warm and dry after hours while they were cold and damp throughout. Always he returned happy and peaceful; at other times, like an average person he would display a full variety of emotions.

Some of the information imparted by Semjase included:

"Order exists in the universe with more advanced civilizations teaching the less advanced, and spiritual evolution necessarily paralleling technological progress."

She explained that the Pleiadians were "not missionaries or teachers, but we endeavour to keep order throughout all areas of space. Now and again we begin contacts with inhabitants of different worlds by searching out individuals whom we feel can accept our existence. We then impart information to these contacts, but only when their race has developed and begins to think. Then slowly, we and others prepare them for the truth, that they are not the only thinking beings in the universe."

She informed Meier that the Pleiadians lived to be 1,000 years old, her home planet was Erra, slightly smaller than the Earth; populated by many fewer persons: 500 million. Upon discovering Erra's hospitable but young environment, the Pleiadians had engineered the planet to support life and today, it looked much like the Earth. They located their production and processing facilities in remote areas, away from population, and utilized nearby uninhabited planets for mining. The vehicles had no wheels, they hover.

Similar species to horses, cows, rabbits, and fish were there.
Robots and androids looked and acted so human that the only way to distinguish them from humans was by their attire. Each wore a uniform, the colour of which related to the job it was assigned to perform. The skin of such androids was made of living protoplasm and their brain, also, was capable of natural response and conversation.

Semjase revealed that families existed on Erra and were close and caring.
Individuals were educated from an age of 4 years until they reached 70 and marriage was delayed until they finished that stage even though sexual maturity occurred in their early teens. It was average to learn 15 or 16 disciplines; Semjase knew over 30; she was still young, at an age of 330. Each family is not more than 5 persons, the parents and a maximum of 3 children. About 3000 ships from other star systems visit the Earth each year.

There are 8 different human races that have stations on earth.
They are here exploring, they are studying, they are watching.
None have come to destroy humanity whereas the whole life of a human is based on fighting.
If they so desired, the Pleiadians could destroy the Earth in a matter of minutes and they could have enslaved humanity thousands of years ago. Some of the visiting spaceships had picked up humans against their will, comparable to scientists and anthropologists who, upon discovering a primitive people still on earth, dispatch teams to study them and return them to the lab. Occasionally a mistake might be made and an abducted human would die, much as earth doctors made mistakes causing people to die. Human life was never taken purposely.

Government on Erra was by spiritual leaders, the highest form of which she called the "Horralft", a form of life midway between the physical human form and the total spiritual ethereal form. The Horralft emanated suggestions which the other beings on Erra, by their own wisdom in evolution, tried to do their best to follow.

The Pleiadians are not allowed to interfere with the development of the Earth.
World War III was prophesied 2000 years ago, yet no one listened and now it is too late.
Such a holocaust could be prevented only by change and change could b e effected in only two ways:
One was by teaching, by showing earth humans how to advance spiritually from within; the other was to use force, which the Pleiadians forbid. They would not step in to prevent an earth war unless such a war threatened civilizations elsewhere. The Pleiadians attempted only to effect small changes in people of clear head and heart, by teaching and allowing the person to grow from inside.

Meier is believed by some to be the man referred to by the pseudonym Edward Albert in the September 30, 1964 "New Delhi Statesman" article "The Flying Saucer Man leaves Delhi - Swiss Claims He Has Visited Three Planets." Meier believes that his photographs are only to encourage humans to think, to study the teachings, and to come to know.

1975 - On February 4,
A 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake struck the Chinese City of Haicheng.
In memory of the 1920 Kansu Province earthquake, a Chinese Seismological Bureau had been set up and intensive research had been conducted into this area of study. This quake was correctly predicted and a mass evacuation of 3,000,000 people to the surrounding fields and parks resulted in a death toll of 1,300. 90% of the buildings were destroyed. This prediction was possible largely because of a number of pre-shocks in this geological area. Pre-shock earthquakes which can enable prediction occur at least 22% of the time; however, relatively little in resources has been devoted to such research, planning and warnings relative to that spent on armaments development and covert political operations by the major human governments.

1975 - On February 4,
A 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake struck the area of Liaoning province in Manchuria.
The area had not had a major quake for 100 years.
Shortly before the earthquake, animals in the region began to behave strangely.
Snakes awoke from hibernation prematurely and lay frozen in the snow; rats appeared in groups and were so agitated that they did not fear human beings; small pigs chewed off their tails and ate them.

When the earthquake struck, sheets of light flashed across the sky, jets of water and sand shot into the air, bridges buckled, and the majority of the buildings in the main towns of the province were wrecked. Only 300 people died because the populace received plenty of warning and took action.

1975 - On February 20,
Luis Mihares issued a statement declaring his severance of relationship with the Malacanang Palace, morally and as an employee. Ferdinand first tried to discredit Mijares by circulating many rumours implying that Mijares had been incompetent, a thief, a traitor, and that he had left his wife and son in the Philippines for a woman in the USA.

Late in 1974, Mijares had rashly accused Kokoy Romualdez of cheating the Lopez family in a business arrangement involving the Manila Electric Company. Kokoy was considered to be wildly irrational, vengeful, and unstable - but Imelda protected him. When Mijares wrote about Romualdez, the latter warned him childishly, "You will see what will happen to you. I will tell this to my sister."

The U.S. Congress was pressuring Ferdinand to release some of his celebrity political prisoners; some were. Mijares and other propagandists were sent to the USA to invite Filipino exiles to return home with "full amnesty". Imelda was to follow and make a personal appeal. Mijares planned Imelda's press campaign. To raise her image of acceptability, a full-page newspaper advertisement was placed in Honolulu newspapers headlined "Imelda, We Love You," with her picture. Below were the names of 83 apparent individuals and organizations which had sponsored the ad. Instead, the Philippine government had paid for it. Mijares began to fear that Kokoy might prove persuasive against his Imelda and that intolerant and vengeful Imelda would have him hunted down. In San Francisco, Mijares secretly contacted "Philippine News" editor Alex Esclamado and implied that he was preparing to defect. The news was relayed to Steve Psinakis and the defection was planned.

For awhile, Mijares catered to both sides, feeding information to both about the other.
In May, 1975, a colonel in the Presidential Guard who was one of Imelda's personal favourites, Romeo Ochoco, found Mijares in San Francisco and tried to persuade him to go home where Ferdinand would work out their differences. Next, Trinidad Alconcel, Philippine Consul General in San Francisco tried to persuade Mijares from testifying before the USA House "International Relations Subcommittee" hearings on USA-Philippine problems. The USA had almost cut off aid in December 1974; it recanted only because 1200 political detainees were set free. Mijares knew that there were 6000 more still in prisons. Under close surveillance by Fabian Ver's agents, Mijares received a phone call on June 16, 1975, at a motel in Washington D.C., from Ferdinand. He was offered a bribe of $50,000 not to testify. It would be war if he refused.

Mijares testified and requested political asylum.
Ferdinand then offered Mijares $100,000 to recant his testimony and retire to Australia.
Mijares had a California lawyer listen in to overhear the bribes while he asked if Marcos would go as high as $250,000. This was enough to justify an official U.S. Justice Department investigation that President Marcos had tried to bribe a congressional witness. Before anything further could come from it, Guillermo de Vega, the intermediary at the Malacanang Palace, was murdered, by Paulino Arceo, apparently on the orders of Kokoy. Arceo was arrested, tried, sentenced to death by a firing squad - and nothing more happened.

1975 - On March 3,
Eduard Meier, of Switzerland, takes a sequence of photographs of a beamship and an accompanying remote-controlled craft; one of the photos in this series appeared on the cover of Europe's newsweekly "Der Spiegel", November 17, 1978 edition.

1975 -
A strange piece of metal was found near the Varta River, in Siberia.
It was analyzed 10 years later and found to be composed of 67% cesium with 10% lanthanum and some neodymium. It was shaped like a tube or collar. The magnetic field on one side of the object was different in strength from that on the opposite side by a factor of 14 to 1.

1975 - On March 19,
The FBI conspiracy to destroy the Socialist Workers party reached most of the public with the morning broadcast of the "Today" television show. Peter Camejo and Syd Stapleton revealed their findings about Cointelpro, the FBI plot against its own citizens. Readers of the "New York Times" had been exposed to some details of the conspiracy in the evening edition of the day previous. A Washington news conference followed at which copies of the Cointelpro papers and individual FBI files on several SWP members were released by the PRDF.

1975 - On Mar 18,
Near Waterdown, Ont. - a series of photographs show a sombrero-shaped object.

1975 - In March and July
Robert Curtis, a mining engineer and metallurgist from Nevada state, USA made trips to the Philippines to meet with Ferdinand Marcos and his associates. In March, he, Olaf Jonsson and Norman Kirst arrived together and were met by members of the Leber Group, which was headed by Amelito Mutuc, who had become a conspirator of Marcos.

Curtis had developed two metallurgical processes of interest to Marcos.
One enabled him to extract a slightly higher percentage of gold from any given ore.
The other process enabled him to melt down gold bars and alter the composition so the bars could be recast with any metallurgical fingerprint desired. Yamashita's Gold, like other caches of gold, had a distinctive minor combination of mineral impurities which would allow it to be identified on the open market. Marcos and his associates were stuck holding tons of bullion, which was essentially originally stolen, and, selling it on the open market as is, would implicate them as holders of part of that loot. By international law whatever gold of Yamashita's "fingerprint" that found itself to the market - could be confiscated - without payment to the holder. It was thought that with the assistance of Curtis, Yamashita's Gold could be poured into new bars recast with a new fingerprint, thus legitimizing it to look as if it had come from the Benguet Consolidated or other mines in the Philippines. Benguet was extracting about 100,000 ounces of gold per year, but the figure could be increased to cover the gradual introduction of a lot of Japanese war gold into the market. The Marcoses had been buying into Benguet for years and by now they had gained a majority ownership of the company through front men - whose names were on the stock ownership, but whose decisions came from Marcos.

Norman Kirst, a deceptive marketing and sales promoter from Wisconsin, USA, presented himself to Marcos as a financier. Marcos confided to Kirst and Jonsson that one of his friends, Jose Figueroa, president of Costa Rica, had told him about Curtis and his skills. Kirst volunteered to get in touch with Curtis and did so immediately and followed up with several trips to Reno, Nevada. Curtis was presented with the prospect of covering the expenses of Kirst and Jonsson (several thousand dollars per month) in return for a share of the profits from the sale of the remanufactured gold. Marcos, in the Hollywood fashion he loved, had designated the front company, The Leber Group ("rebel" spelled backwards). He would be "Charlie" and General Ver would be "Jimmy". The General would coordinate the operations. Kirst would keep Imelda and Kokoy informed, presumably on the belief that he was protecting himself by doing so, believing that they were not involved.

Curtis was sceptical of the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bullion which Marcos had allegedly retrieved. He was also morally concerned about the origin of the gold, the brutal circumstances under which it had been seized by the Japanese and the horrors involved in its burial. His challenge was that his company, "U.S. Platinum", was deeply in debt because of the cost of the equipment it had purchased to utilize his concepts. Curtis had borrowed $250,000 from wealthy members of the John Birch Society and was having difficulty repaying them. Curtis was sincere in his efforts and hard working and practical in his work. He was also naive about politics and business. Since Ferdinand was president of the Philippines, a right-wing ally of the USA, he made an ethical compromise, encouraged by his immense debt and the pride involved in actually seeing his process become successful. Curtis was also a perfectionist for detail and he kept accurate records and tape recorded every conversation and face-to-face meeting - having learned earlier about the inaccuracies of human memory from associates who had convenient forgotten or changed details involving responsibilities or money.

Curtis and Jonsson were taken to more than 24 sites identified on the Yamashita maps which had come into the hands of the Marcoses. These included Fort Santiago and Fort Bonifacio in Manila, the Teresa barrio 30 miles away from Manila, the San Augustin Church in Intramuros; at a property belonging to the wealthy Don Paco Ortigas; at San Sebastian Church, Christ the King Church, a railroad site, and others. Frequently they met with General Ver, a half-brother of Ferdinand, and a Colonel Lachica, a member of Ver's constabulary staff who was in charge of Imelda Marcos' protection. They also met Paul Jiga and Ben Balmores who had each witnessed the burial of parts of Yamashita's Gold. They had also supplied the maps which detailed 138 land locations and 34 water locations - 172 sites.

For their own safety, Jiga and Balmores, who had actually been Japanese naval commanders working for Rear Admiral Iwabuchi Sanji, under the direction of Rear Admiral Kodama Yoshio. The latter had been responsible for the collection of the gold and the former had been responsible for its concealment during 1943 and 1944. Jiga and Balmores had assisted Admiral Iwabuchi Sanji who had been given full authority for the concealment operations including unlimited POW labour, all the marines he needed for brute force and security. It was he, with the assistance of Jiga and Balmores, who had been responsible for many of the thousands of POWs who had been worked to death, hacked to death, tortured to death and buried alive. Kodama was safely back in Japan when MacArthur's forces landed; Balmores and Jiga were not. At the end of the war, Jiga and Balmores had taken the maps, new identities, and passed themselves off as Filipinos who had gone to work for the Japanese when the Japanese arrived, and, were now willing to share their secret with Marcos and his associates - to avoid torture and death. They never confided the real story to anyone except Robert Curtis.

In addition to the maps, there were Japanese engineering drawings of each site indicating how the treasure had been buried. Curtis talked at length to Ferdinand in private. Ferdinand spoke at length about getting the correct papers for the gold and marketing it to the gold pools in London and Zurich. Curtis agreed to have 2 small furnaces dismantled from his plant in Reno and shipped to Manila, along with other equipment. He would have to look after the expense himself and the transaction would appear that he had sold them to the Benguet mines. A location would be made available for them.

They decided to target first the site of the wreck of the Japanese carrier, "Nachi" and two land sites, the property of Don Paco Ortigas and "Teresa II". Ferdinand had been careful to promise that navy PT boats and divers would assist Jonsson, once he pinpointed the exact location of the wreck; then issued a presidential decree that resulted in his personal approval being required for any future salvage operations in Philippine waters. After Ver's divers spent hours searching fruitlessly in the location indicated by the maps, Jonsson insisted that they drop anchor several hundred yards away; they did, and the exact location was discovered and buoyed for future use. When they returned the next day, the buoys were gone. On the third day, Jonsson again found the cruiser and new buoys were attached. These also went missing, aggravating Curtis because Ver had been in charge of security. Ver denied any conspiracy, saying that his officers had been withdrawn to escort the presidential yacht on a cruise. It was obvious that Marcos and his men were doing something suspicious but there was no proof, time was advancing, and expenses were mounting. Attention was changed to a land site designated "Teresa II".

"Teresa II" was described as containing 777 billion yen (1944 value) in treasure and Ferdinand believed that the number 777 was his lucky number. It was to be excavated by the "Age Construction Company", headed by Dr. Eduardo Escobar, Ver's personal choice for the job. Security on the site would be provide by Ver's officers. Curtis and Jonsson located the exact site and digging began in mid-May. Curtis returned to the USA.

Twenty men worked round the clock clearing 3 feet of fill per day.
As the digging progressed, arm and hand bones were uncovered in strange patterns at different levels, as had been the custom in the design of the site. These had obviously been hacked off of POWs either while alive or from their corpses. On June 8th, the workmen reached the top of a concrete tunnel. When the concrete was pierced, the workers experienced headaches and nausea so severe that some were hospitalized. It was the gas from the decomposed bodies of the POWs buried alive in the tunnel and it would have supplanted the oxygen in the hole. As indicated on the maps, they found a level of burned charcoal, a layer of bamboo, then a layer of crisscrossed wooden boards. Then more human bones, the fender of a truck, and another piece of metal. Then the chief security officer, who had quietly disappeared, returned with a truck full of heavily armed soldiers loyal to Imelda Marcos. Word reached Ver and his troops moved in and took possession of the site. Digging resumed.

1975 - On March 26,
A Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons is signed by the USA, the USSR, and over 100 other countries. Before 1977, the USSR and the USA would argue that "genetic weapons are new and outside the scope of the bacteriological treaty." The USA Army reported more than 88 institutions conducted research into biological warfare under more than 300 defense contracts during 1942-1971. Why would countries argue about the interpretation of "toxic weapons" unless they were actively in the process of developing them?

1975 - On March 28,
USA Senator Barry Goldwater, wrote in a letter that "Ten or 12 years ago I tried to get access to the building at Wright-Patterson where UFO artifacts were stored and I was understandably denied access. It is still classified ABOVE TOP SECRET. I've heard they plan to release some of the information in the near future and hope not to have to wait too much longer."

1975 - During April,
The "OSS Special Weapons, Devices and Equipment" catalogue enters its first private printing through "Normount Technical Publications" in Wickenburg, Arizona. The only practical use of such a catalogue is to educate others of the types of tools and a simple representation of the methods used to exert a disabling influence on the economy of a country.

In a balanced and happy society, there is no public market for such a publication.
Only if a society encourages violence as a mediator of conflict, encourages distrust and fear of other nations, and preparation for lethal self-defense, do such publications have a market. In a truly free and democratic society in which the leaders are honest with and respectful of its citizens will you find uniform public support of the government. As the government allows and encourages itself to become alienated from its people - by deceit, lies, manipulation, secrecy, unexplained restrictions on personal freedoms, ineffective legal systems, unproductive bureaucracies ... the allowance of the weapons and knowledge for violent dissent encourages the destruction of the nation.

In other words, humans are not by original nature predisposed to respond with behaviour which intends to kill or maim others vindictively, UNLESS, their society provides them with sanctioned examples of such force for coping with conflict (as opposed to other avenues) and/or encourages feelings and attitude of distrust and anger through lack of respect for the citizen. Ultimately, ANY state only has legitimacy for its existence for as long as it provides a safe and positive environment. Safety includes safety from foreign oppression, from preventable ecological and economic disasters, and an awareness of what the individual can do to assist the government and others in fulfilling these goals. A positive environment includes adequate organization and control of economic factors so as to provide a standard of acceptable and minimal resources for the individual as well as the encouragement of a set of cultural values which have demonstrated spiritual benefits.

Few human nations appear to be capable of sustaining these factors for more than 20 years.
When a nation fails to maintain the respect of its citizens, and, if it is perceived to further fail to listen and respond to their concerns, and, if it further appears that those persons in authority have conspired against the will of the people - the people will feel encouraged to revolt. If the means have been placed in the hands of a significant minority of the citizens to allow them to devise and carry out activities which further weaken the government, it is now that they will begin to use those means of "protest." Beware the state which provides such freedoms to the individual, encourages the individual to respond to challenge with action and violence, and allows itself to lose the confidence of the people.

The information required to facilitate the formation, training and equipping of a civilian guerrilla reactionary force, if made available for use by any human government for the overthrow of another and presumed adversarial government - may also be used against one's own government. As William Shakespeare wrote in one of his plays, the initiator of discord may be "hoist by one's own petard (bomb)". Entries in the "OSS Special Weapons, Devices and Equipment" manual include methods for silencing the barrel blast sound of a submachine gun (to make it more user friendly); use of heavy fighting knives for fatal wounding; internal delayed destruction of vehicle engines; placement of thermite incendiaries; use of delayed-action chemical incendiaries; location of explosive charges to destroy vehicles or small boats; maximum damage methods for trains; placement of pressure activation, odometer activation and trip activation detonators; methods of attaching explosives to targets; a description and visual representation of a wide range of "devices". Anyone so inclined could fashion and utilize a number of the methods described, with easily available materials, to result in destruction of property and endangerment of lives. In 1975, this information became readily available to any individual with no registration of ownership or qualification of need.

1975 - April 17:
Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge.

1975 - April 30:
The Vietnam War ends.
Troops of the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) capture Saigon.
One half of the population of Vietnam is homeless; over 92,000 American troops dead; more than 2 million Vietnamese dead; more than 3 million Vietnamese wounded; 18 billion gallons of herbicides were sprayed across South Vietnam; more than 200 million acres of forest and farmland destroyed. Economic commitment of the U.S.A. has been almost $170 billion.

As they abandon Vietnam, American forces took with them 100,000 South Vietnamese who eventually settle in the U.S.A.

1975 - On May 1,
Fixed brokerage commissions are abolished in the USA.
This led to discount brokerage trading firms that executed orders but gave no investment advice.
This accelerated the diversification by securities firms into financial services, in which they began competing directly with banks and Savings and Loan institutions. Demonstrating concern for the tightening economy, investors are attempting to make their investments with less overhead costs. More investors are believing themselves capable of making good market decisions based on increasingly widespread and thorough economic reporting. Confidence in stockbrokers has continued to dwindle over the past 30 years as an increasing number of investors have experienced losses after following the advice of brokers.

1975 - During May,
The Kurdish rebels in Iraq receive a secret supply of arms from the USA CIA.
Help for the Kurdish rebels from the CIA dated from 1972,when the Shah of Iran secured President Nixon's agreement to joint USA-Iranian support for the Kurds in their struggle to secure independence. Iran had a long-standing dispute with Iraq over the border between them and saw the Kurds in their struggle to secure independence from Iraq as a useful ally, keeping Iraq occupied. Weapons, food and medical supplies were channelled to the Kurds through Iran. In March, 1975, the shah decided to withdraw his support from the rebels because the Kurds were losing their fight with the Iraqi army and he thought it wiser to settle his differences with Iraq. Richard Helms, a former US Navy man and Director of the CIA between June 30, 1966 and February 2, 1973, had since served as ambassador in Teheran, Iran.

1975 - During the year,
Atmospheric meteorite explosions the size of the Hiroshima nuclear explosion of 15 kilotons were found by secret USA military satellites designed to ascertain nuclear attacks. Almost every month, on a continuing basis, somewhere above the Earth, meteorites would be found exploding as they entered the atmosphere and proceeded towards burnup. In most cases, the explosions would occur at an altitude of about 32 kilometers. The first few were suspected of being atmospheric nuclear tests carried out by the Soviet Union. As the number of recorded events increased, and the locations were increasingly believed not to be accessible to the USSR, secondary causes had to be considered. Since more than 70% of the Earth is covered by ocean, many of the explosions occur in remote areas. Even so, the potential for the destruction of an orbiting satellite, a space vehicle or a space station is real. The public would not be told of these regular occurrences. Was the reason to prevent panic and paranoia in an unprepared population with few coping skills, or, was it believed that such a revelation could result in the termination of the manned space program ?

1975 - In May,
Herbert F. York, who had participated in "Operation Greenhouse", was the first director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (1952-1958), the first scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (1958), first director of the Defense Research and Engineering (1958-1961), had acted on many disarmament committees and had several times served on the USA President's Science Advisory Committee, wrote:

"In some cases, to be sure (the USSR) started development work ahead of us and arrived first at the stage where they were able to commence deployment. But we usually reacted so strongly that our deployments and capabilities soon ran far ahead of theirs, and we, in effect, even here, determined the final size of the operation. ... It seems clear that if humanity is to survive, those who seek first to slow and stop the arms race and then to reverse it must succeed before there is too much more technological "progress" ... ."

1975 - On June 6,
"The Rockefeller Commission" gave its first report on the activities of the CIA.
The report gave emphasis to the dangers the U.S.A. faced from an estimated 500,000 or more communist-bloc intelligence officers, nearly 2,000 communist-bloc diplomats in the United States, and the technical intelligence of the Soviet Union and its allies.

"We believe that these countries can monitor and record thousands of private telephone conversations .... This raises the real spectre that selected American users of telephones are potentially subject to blackmail that can seriously affect their actions, or even lead in some cases to recruitment as espionage agents. ... A detailed analysis of the facts has convinced the Commission that the great majority of the CIA's domestic activities comply with its statutory authority."

Acknowledgement that "plainly unlawful and constituted improper invasions upon the rights of Americans" actions had taken place was made and excused on the basis that "The agency's own recent actions ... have gone far to terminate the activities upon which the investigation has focused." The Commission cover up was further excused by the statement that "time did not permit a full investigation before this report was due ... the materials ... which bear on these allegations (had been turned over to the President)". The extent of the CIA archives as of October 31, 1980, amounted to 470 million pages of documents. One result of the Commission was that the regulations not in place to allow the CIA to legally carry out some of its past activities, were put in place for the future!

Members of the Commission included:

    Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller, 
                                   long-term proponent of U.S.A. global rule.
    John T. Connor, 
                   CEO of Allied Chemical Corporation, a major defence contractor.
    C. Douglas Dillon, 
                managing director of an investment banking firm and close advisor to
                                           Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.
    Erwin N. Giswold, 
     former dean of Harvard Law School; solicitor general under Presidents Johnson and Nixon.

    Lane Kirkland,       secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO unions.
    Lyman L. Lemnitzer,     former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
    Ronald Reagan, former governor of California; future President of the U.S.A.
    Edgar F. Shannon Jr., former president of the University of Virginia - a defence contractor.

All of these persons represented the forces which engineered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and others, or, who would benefit greatly by their silence, in the future. Why would they wish to see the true history of the CIA revealed?

Those select individuals who had been privy to informal and formal meetings of Majority 12, the 5410 Committee, the Tri-Galaxy Government and the Trilateral Commission would be safeguarded by either non-documentation, destruction of documentation or ex-nation documentation. Documentation supporting unpopular-to-civilian attitudes programs was destroyed on a "latest-on-file" procedure in which earlier documentation was destroyed as more recent instructions, agreements and procedures evolved. For both security, limitation of bureaucracy and imposition of trust - documents were destroyed. Historical referencing would only be beneficial to those who wanted to be able to distance themselves from the decisions made, to manipulate or lobby for a promotion, or to justify a current position of question on the basis of long-term achievements.

The spaceperson-human meetings were treated in a similar fashion for the spacepersons could see no benefit in allowing the recording of any particulars. For some spacepersons who could communicate by thought transfer - mind reading: justification to others by such a primitive form of communication as writing or recording was inefficient, cumbersome and suggested a lack of trust among the participants or between the attendees and those represented by them. If the attendees needed documentation or recordings, it meant that the "leader" supposedly representing others were not trusted by those they represented. If they were not, they were not "leaders". Further, it was believed by many of the spacepersons attending that any photographic, recording device or written record of the proceedings would only lend itself to the negative human tendency to manipulate the masses which leaders represented, through patriotic, ethnocentric, or other inequitous disinformation which would frustrate all of the diverse aims of the various spaceperson cultures. Thus, none of the participants, for widely different rationales provided for historical reference.

1975 - Between June 22 - 26,
The strongest bombardment of Meteorites ever recorded by human to strike the Moon occurred.

1975 - By July,
Robert Curtis had returned to the Philippines.
He determined that the metal at the bottom of the pit at the Teresa II site was a piece of a 1000 lb bomb.
On July 6, work was halted by order of Ferdinand. Primitivo Mijares, a palace insider, had witnessed the change in Imelda from innocent to corrupt co-conspirator, the orders for assassinations given by the Marcoses, the communication between Ferdinand and USA President Nixon, the growing ambition of Imelda and its attendant physical conflict between her and Ferdinand. He knew of the assassination attempt against Imelda 5 weeks later, and had received bribes from Ferdinand.

On July 6, he had just testified before the U.S. Congress and several Washington columnists had repeated his allegations that Marcos was searching for Yamashita's Gold. Ferdinand panicked. Members of the Leber Group had been forewarned that any "leaks" of information would be fatal. That night Olof Jonsson told Curtis he was leaving Manila immediately and advised him to do so also, having sensed that they were all in great danger. The next morning, Jonsson took the first flight out. Curtis made arrangements for his equipment to be returned to the USA, declared that he had urgent business in Reno, and boarded a flight home on July 10. He had the treasure maps of Jiga and Balmores with him. Norman Kirst stayed a further 10 days in the hope of manipulating Ferdinand only to end up saving his own life by concocting letters and documents which made Curtis appear incompetent should Curtis ever decide to speak.

Marcos attempted to reassure Curtis, after finding out that the maps were gone, and prevented Curtis' equipment from leaving the Philippines. Now Curtis, who had carried everyone's expenses for the project and still owed all the money for the equipment, owed multi-millionaire, Jay Agnew, a member of the national council of the John Birch Society, $375,000. Agnew and other members of the John Birch Society volunteered to launder his future share of the gold, which they expected to be $2 billion. Involved besides the Agnews, were Georgia Congressman Larry P. McDonald; former California Congressman and presidential nominee, John Schmitz; head of the Great American Silver Corporation, Jerry Adams; Robert Welch, the millionaire candy manufacture and founder of the Birch Society; Floyd Paxton, who had run for Congress three times and his son Jerry, millionaire owner of Kwik Lok Corporation.

The money transfer was to be done through a Bahamian firm, "Commonwealth Packaging Ltd." The money would be deposited in a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada, in Nassau, Bahamas. Then, using various numbered accounts controlled by senior members of the Birch Society, the money would be transferred, in parts, to the Royal Bank of Canada branch in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. There, it would be credited to an account controlled by Floyd Paxton, one of the key financial consultants of the John Birch Society, who would retrieve it and carry it over the border to the USA. The Birchers had apparently done this often. In addition, they offered, through General Ver, to launder the first $20 billion in gold recovered from the sites, for President Marcos. It would be secretly offered to Arab oil states in exchange for oil; Ferdinand could sell the oil to Japan, for "clean" money.

The spiritual depravity of ALL of the individuals connected with the gold at his point, save Jonsson, is demonstrated thus: the gold had originally been stolen from the Incas and Mexicans, who had considered it ornamental, by the Spaniards for their churches, kings, and individual greed; it had been dispersed throughout Southeast Asia to purchase luxuries and permit sloth; the tax profits of Imperial China and Japan had been added, resulting in the starvation of millions; thievery and extortion by the Mongol-Tartars had increased mass human misery; the profits of the underworld Southeast Asian black marketeers, drug organizations and pirates - responsible for the drug addiction of millions and the abuse of many more, had been added; it had then been stolen from banks, governments, religious institutions, and private individuals; POWs had been used as forced labour, until they died of malnutrition, torture or burial alive, to conceal it; tax monies were being swindled away from the USA and Philippines governments; and Filipinos had been either beaten, tortured, or assassinated.

When Curtis faced a USA Federal indictment for being unable to pay monies borrowed from the Birch Society, he turned his evidence over to Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, then head of the "Senate Intelligence Committee". The Committee reviewed it and passed word back that nothing could be done. Copies were quietly passed to right-wing activists. In desperation, Curtis went to Las Vegas "Sun" editor, Brian Greenspun, columnist Jack Anderson, and writers for the San Franciscan "Philippine News". The story was published in detail in 1978. Ferdinand responded to all publicity by ridiculing the legend of Yamashita's Gold as a hoax, while sending Fabian Ver to the USA to set up murder contracts on Curtis through the Chicago underworld. Norman Kirst learned of the plot from Filipino friends, warned Olof Jonsson, who in turn alerted Robert Curtis. Curtis immediately adopted a new identity, new career, new location, and remained in secret until he died.

By 1981, the Marcoses and their associates had cleared the Teresa II site.
Standard sized gold bars marked AAA filled a tunnel at the Bataan beach palace in Mariveles, an area 80 feet wide by 240 feet long and stacked at least 8 feet high. It had been recovered, remanufactured with the equipment of Robert Curtis, and a market was being sought for it.

1975 -
J. Grissom, B. Weiner, and E. Weiner publish their "Psychological correlates of cancer" in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. They find that in comparing patients with bronchial cancer with health patients, the former score significantly lower "Personal Integration" scores. Individuals with this coping style frequently direct their frustration, anger and failure inward, and are vulnerable to the loss of an important relationship (co-dependent). Typical of the wastefulness of North American research, which is obsessed with the simplistic, mechanistic and authoritarian qualities of laboratory research and impersonal technology, very little is changed in institutional treatment of carcinomas - and the annual number of deaths continue to rise. There are options; no one seems able to control or release their cultural obsessions long enough to see the obvious and try effective, though not expensive nor authority-dependent methods of therapy.

1975 - On July 6,
William A. Sullivan, former assistant director of the FBI, endorsed the Cointelpro conspiracy on the CBS-TV's "Face the Nation". Sullivan admitted that "We have no evidence to this date that I know of that (the SWP) ever been involved in any violent activities." He went on to justify the anti-public activities on the basis that "This group advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence." This allegation was never confirmed or verified by any evidence, from FBI sources or others. Sullivan went on to endorse the FBI actions of sending letters to employers of SWP members for the purpose of instigating their dismissal as: "The only mistake that I think we make in an instance like that was sending anonymous letter and not signing J. Edgar Hoover's name to it. I think we owe the American people this type of information."

In an earlier interview with the campus UCLA newspaper, Sullivan had admitted that there was no law allowing the FBI to expose Communists, nor, none that said that they should not. Sullivan went on to say that Communists were not entiltled to equal protection under the law and not entitled under the First Amendment to have private political associations.

1975 - During July,
A major covert-action program is launched in Angola by the USA CIA.
"CZX Productions", a civilian front operation for CIA black operation, uses a C130 aircraft to fly weapons into Angola.

Under a program which appeared to aid the "USA Fire Service" to put out forest fires, at least 20 C130 transport aircraft were taken out of military service and turned over to the Fire Service: a package worth over $80 million dollars. In turn, the Forestry Fire Service did not require more than about 5 of the aircraft, so they leased, gave or sold the aircraft to private companies. In arrangements where the planes were given to the private concerns, there was supposed to be an exchange of the C130 for an "antique" aircraft which might be reconditioned for inclusion in a national aircraft museum. The aircraft exchanged were actually inoperable "junk" aircraft of non-antique vintage which were never retrieved. One private company whose owner mentioned the scheme to his senator and applied for an aircraft, received three, and no further feedback until 1994 - when more senators and a TV-newsmagazine were investigating the story.

Other C130s in the lot were used to exchange weapons for narcotics (opium base) in Laos and Cambodia, for the CIA.

1975 - On July 21,
Near Solnechnogorsk - a disk, 40 feet in diameter, 3 antennae ....

1975 - During July,
The first publicized International Space Transfer between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. took place.
Television cameras showed the docking of a Soyuz spacecraft with an Apollo - and the crews jubilantly exchanging food and symbolic halves of metals. Leonid Brezhnev stated:

"Your successful docking confirms the correctness of technical solutions that were worked out and realised in co-operation by Soviet and American scientists, designers and cosmonauts. One can say that Soyuz-Apollo is a prototype of future international orbital stations."

American President Gerald Ford replied:

"This tremendous demonstration of co-operation (would set a pattern) for what we have to do in the future to make it a better world".

1975 - During the summer, ???
Plans are drawn up for a new British computerized, centralized intelligence databanks.
On September 9, 1977, National Security files on British citizens became a topic in British media.
"The Times" published a story by reporter Stewart Tendler:

"The names and personal details of tens of thousands of people scrutinized by the Special Branch for reasons of national security are to be fed into a new criminal intelligence computer bought by Scotland Yard and shrouded in mystery. When plans for the computer were drawn up two years ago (1975) it is understood that the Special Branch was allocated space on it for up to 600,000 names out of the system's total capacity of 1,300,000 names by 1985 ..."

1975 -
The Basel Concordat Agreement is reached by a committee of central bankers, representing the Group 10 countries (Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Britain, USA, West Germany) affiliated with the Bank for International Settlements, that set guidelines for international bank supervision. The guidelines, initiated by the Committee on Banking and Regulation, also known as the Cooke Committee called on central banks to support branches, agencies, and bank subsidiaries in foreign countries as a morale obligation. The Concordat would be revised and published in 1983 after the failure of the Banco Ambrosiano, a major Italian bank, shook up the international financial markets.

At this point, the following considerations are mandating a change of perception as to the future norm of banking:

    1. Bank assets are falling as depositors withdraw their monies;
    2. Competition between banks for profits is resulting in overlending;
    3. Overlending increases risk of failure from inadequate reserve levels;
    4. Regional banks in the USA and elsewhere continue to go bankrupt;
    5. If major banks enter a crisis publicly, the whole industry will suffer;
    6. The banking community must work together to prevent crisis;
    7. Central banks must encourage the banks they regulate to operate better;
    8. Stability must replace growth as the major concern;
    9. Continued capitalistic expansion expectations will destroy banking.

1975 - On August 10 through 13, In the evening,
There was a series of sightings and abductions in an area extending from Gilroy to the San Jose foothills in California, U.S.A. There were a total of 20 known witnesses to these sightings.

Shortly after 11.00 P.M. on Sunday August 10, Mrs. Smith was driving 12-year-old Imelda Victor to her home.
They saw a lighted object quite a distance up which descended rapidly, close to their panel truck. Reaching home, they pulled into the driveway and ran into the house. Imelda's mother, Frances Victor, was alerted by their cries. "I was in bed but not asleep when I heard them screaming. They were shaking. I had never seen such fright in my life. I ran outside in my nightgown thinking maybe there were hoodlums after them."

Mrs. Smith stated "The thing I saw was round, had four large landing gear-like arms coming out of it, evenly spaced all around. The round centre section was larger than a car but smaller than a house. Between the four arms were four small antennae-like protrusions from the centre circle and each of these protrusions had a beacon mount on it, like a beacon on top of a police car except the lights were green and red and they rotated.

Mrs. Victor's description varied such: "I ran to the street and saw this gigantic round flying machine with four large antennae-like landing gear coming out of it and all those white and red flashing lights ... It was gray metal looking and it was huge. It just sat there in the sky ... It was much bigger than the trees."

The family underwent deep crisis for a period of three years after the sighting as a result of questioning by amateur but so-called investigators and the media. Cults gathered to hold prayer meetings on their lawn; several designated ufologists pestered them; one man, with a strong and peculiar "stink" took the children out alone to see if the UFO would come again; an amateur hypnotist placed Mrs. Victor into a trance and when she reached a point where her experience was endangering her health, they didn't know how to bring her out of the trance. When she did leave the trance, the investigators quickly departed leaving her in a crisis! Mrs. Victor and her husband separated for a time after that. They had been hysterical at the time of the experience because they feared that all of them would be abducted. See September 15, 1975.

1975 - On August 13,
Staff Sgt. Charles L. Moody, USAF drove to the outskirts of Alamogordo, New Mexico to watch for meteors.BR> As a disc-shaped UFO descended towards him, he tried to start his car to get away but it wouldn't start.
He heard a high pitched whining sound from the UFO and saw shadowy figures in it, then felt numbness, after which the UFO departed.

After driving home he found that he could not account for 1.5 hours.
The next day he found his back was inflamed and he discovered a small puncture wound over his spine.
A few days later he developed a body rash. As months passed, he regained memory of the missing 1.5 hours.
He remembered that he had been in the UFO and in telepathic communication with small 4'8" humanoids.
They had whitish-gray skin, large heads, large eyes, small slit-like mouths and mask-like features.
He had been in a drug-like state on a table and they had poked a rod-like device into his back.
Afterwards they escorted him about the ship and later dropped hum off at his car.

1975 - On August 21,
Sheriff Graves, of Logan County, Colorado, and his deputies, answered a report of an unidentified helicopter entering the County. The area had been plagued by mutilation incidents in which unmarked helicopters where witnessed nearby. During the search, involving 17 ground units and a private plane rented by the sheriff, messages from individuals claiming to be Air Force officers relaying radar information from Warren Air Base, were later found to be fraudulent. At about 4.30 a.m., in southwestern Nebraska, the occupants of the sheriff's plane saw the lights of the unidentified helicopter beneath them clearly, then the lights went out. When the pilot brought the plane down to an altitude of slightly over 100 feet for a closer look, the only thing visible was a missile silo.

Since many mutilations have occurred near air bases and sensitive military installations thoroughly covered by long-range radar, where an intruding civilian helicopter would be immediately challenged by jet fighters, it is difficult to believe that the military does not what is going on. It is also well known that the mutilations occur in waves, that is, grouped frequencies, when detection would be even easier by the military.

1975 -
Malichev near Solnechnogorsk, USSR, alleges he was taken to a planet with 3 moons by aliens; he was shown

1975 -
David Stephens, near West Poland, Maine, suddenly found himself in an object with 5 beings which had hands and feet, a mushroom-shaped head with large slanted, white eyes, a small nose, no visible mouth, 3 webbed fingers and a thumb on each hand, wearing flowing black sheet-like garments and communicating by "brain-waves". Two syringes of blood were taken from him, he was stripped and fully examined and returned to his car. His friend was unaware that he had been away.

1975 - By September,
Support for the Angolan Civil War by the 40 Committee had been approved to $24.7 million.
This was for a CIA covert operation to support the FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola) and the UNITA (National Union for the Independence of Angola) against the Soviet-backed MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) in the civil war between the groups following Portugal's agreement to Angola's independence. The decision was made on the basis of satellite surveillance and intelligence reports which had confirmed that the Soviet Union was secretly arming the MPLA. By 1976, 83 CIA officers were in the Angolan Task Force in the field attached to stations in Pretoria (South Africa), Luanda (Angola), Lusaka (Zambia) and Kinshasa (Congo).

Close cooperation was effected with the South African Security services.
The Portuguese left Angola in November, 1975, and the war intensified.
The Soviets organized the dispatch of 12 to 15,000 Cuban soldiers with tanks and aircraft to support the MPLA. The Vietnam war had ended shortly before this, William Colby, Director of the CIA from September, 1973 to January 30, 1976 - was testifying before Congress about the secrets of the CIA, and, the USA public press seized on the opportunity to sensationalize, as usual, the involvement risks of the USA in Angola. The press discouraged continued involvement in Angola on the basis that it could lead to another Vietnam, which had cost American lives and had been lost. Congress refused to provide more funds and the MPLA won the war.

Of note should be the fact that outside nations (the USSR, the USA, and South Africa, plus Cuba) interfered in the politics of another nation (Angola) largely AFTER the internal politics of the country had fallen into anarchy, and, largely for the purpose of prestige, influence, and domination in the global arena. There was little support, from anyone, for the constructive, pro-active preparation of the Angolans to consider their political options and negotiate a structure of confidence to them BEFORE they received independence. These actions are typical of the aggressive, deceptive, manipulative, power-greedy contributions usually offered by powerful human organizations to weaker ones and demonstrate a total avoidance of a spiritually guided approach. In the end, much enmity is aroused between the participants, many people are disabled, wounded or killed, and the prospects for a positive political process after peace is minimized.

1975 - By September,
"Coral reef Exploration Rights" were issued to a South Korean syndicate owned by Japanese Yakuza underworld leader Machii Hisayuki who controlled the ferry line between Pusan, South Korea, and Shimonaseki, Japan - the shortest route between the two countries. Machii was a close friend of South Korean President Park Chung Lee. Machii enjoyed government protection in both South Korea and the Philippines. The Nachi was completely unloaded of its gold bullion by the Yakuza company, Machii became a billionaire, and no-one expressed any more interest in the Nachi.

Marcos had made an exception to his earlier presidential decree preventing anyone salvage rights in the Philippines. Machii looked after the salvage of the Nachi gold, its dispersal through the Japanese banking system, and, in return, shared Yakuza profits with Ferdinand and lavishly contributed millions to Imelda Marcos' projects. The capital infusion from the Nachi to the Yakuza stabilized and strengthened its control over and pervasiveness of the Far East prostitution, heroin, opium, child slavery, gambling and money-laundering businesses.

1975 - By September,
The Shah of Iran and Saddam Hussein (then the Iraqi Baathist's Number 2 leader) had met and signed a treaty to end their border dispute. Saddam had been informed by the USA that its aid to the Kurds would continue until balance could be restored to the region by peace being declared between Iran and Iraq. On the same day that Hussein signed the treaty, ALL USA aid to the Kurds was terminated. On the following day Hussein initiated a search-and-destroy operation in Kurdistan with the continued sanction of the USA.

1975 - On September 15,
Mrs. Smith (see August 10, 1975), was staying with a distant relative near Industrial City, California.
She was sleeping in the front room after watching television when she suddenly woke up to find two beings standing near her. They were wearing silvery suits; they had slits for eyes, nose, mouth. The suit covered the entire body as if it were made of form-fitting painted latex. The surface was very smooth, free from wrinkles.

She felt calm when she saw them.
They communicated with her "telepathically", asking her to "go up with them."
They were "seeking information". The beings lifted her by her elbows and together they went out the front door. She felt that she was flying. She distinctly saw the flat top of the house, the garage. She saw the stars above her, and a hovering UFO. It was identical to the one she had seen in Gilroy a month earlier.

They floated inside the object through its "core" and followed a ramp that ascended through at least three levels. One of the beings stayed with her, leading her to a circular room with emerald-green floor, illuminated with a milky white light. The walls were soft silver, with large round instruments. She had a sensation of intense beauty.

To her left was a door. Something traumatic happened suddenly: she was blinded by a white light and she remembered nothing more up to 1990. She woke up in her bed and saw that it was daylight. When she spoke with her friend, who had been in an adjoining room, her friend had slept peacefully through the night to her considerable surprise, as the friend is an insomniac. They found the front door unlocked and open. (see May 15, 1978)

1975 - In October,
Venera 9 and 10, USSR interplanetary satellites, transmit the first acknowledged pictures from Venus.
Venera designations were allocated to craft only when they were safely on course; failures received a Cosmos designation. The Soviets preferred to operate planetary probes in pairs for redundancy. Following V4-6, the capsule was redesigned to withstand up to 180 atmospheres of pressure and 530 degrees Centigrade of heat. Protection against the expected 2000 degree Centigrade entry temperature was provided by encapsulation in a jettisonable sphere, with the interior chilled to -10 degrees Centigrade. A combination of aerodynamic disc form, parachutes, and a crushable base assisted the possibility of a safe landing.

    Venera 1 - Feb 12, 1961 launch, lost at 23 million km., 99800 km from Venus.

    Venera 2 - Nov 12, 1965 launch, passed 24,000 km from Venus; no transmission.

    Venera 3 - Nov 16, 1965, impacted Venus March, 1966, after losing contact.

    Venera 4 - Jun 12, 1967, highest temperature recorded was 320 degrees Cent.

    Venera 5 - Jan 05, 1969, crushed by 27 atm pressure at 24 km altitude.

    Venera 6 - Jan 10, 1969, crushed by 27 atm pressure at 12 km altitude.

    Venera 7 - Aug 17, 1970, survived to surface 90 atm and 475 degrees C.

    Venera 8 - Mar 27, 1972, after 117 days and 300 million Km, as Venera 7.

Venera 9 is recorded as the 1st orbiter from the Earth.
After 20 days of surface imaging, it began descent and landed safely.
The single image transmitted, showed that the V9 was surrounded by 30-40 cm sharp stones with soil between on a hillside. Gamma-ray analysis indicated a basaltic terrain. It ceased operations on March 22, 1976; it landed October 22, 1975.

Venera 10 landed 2200 km from V9 and showed an older landscape with a weathered plateau with flat slabs of rock. Temperature of 465 degrees C., pressure of 92 atm, and a wind speed of 3.5 metres/sec.

By early 1986, the Soviets would publicly announce that Mars would be their future focus rather than Venus.

Venera 11 and 12 recorded lightning in the atmosphere and light levels at the surface as comparable to an overcast day on the Earth. Venera 13 also distinguished a cloud structure in the atmosphere. A field of orange-brown rocks and loose soil and an orange sky were also recorded. Soil sampling indicated a leucitic basalt with high potassium content, occurring on the Earth only in volcanic areas. Venera 14, landed 1000 km from V-13 and revealed a light brown sandstone, with some potholes. Seismic activity indications were also recorded. From other data, scientists concluded that the planet had held a volume of water 1/3rd that of the Earth and that it had been lost in the first 500 million years because of the influence of the Sun. Venera 15 & 16 carried out mapping of the surface between 30 degrees north to the North Pole and produced 20 maps.

1975 - During October,
Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, succeeded in having her husband President Ferdinand Marcos, legalize gambling.
A floating casino, fronted for Imelda, valued at $4 million, had been launched, shortly before by the Peninsula Tourist and Shipping Company, of which brothers Alfredo and Benjamin Romualdez were part owners. Ferdinand could either accept his wife's determination to build her own income and business skill, or, arrest her. He legalized the activity.

Stanley Ho, a British citizen, resident of Hong Kong and acknowledged master of gambling operations in the Far East was on hand. When gambling was legalized in the Philippines, Ho got the franchise. Imelda's gambling ship was crewed by Roberto Benedicto's company, Northern Lines, but Ho's men ran the tables. The Marcoses were guaranteed, 2/3rds of the net profit: Ferdinand took 2/3rds of that and Imelda and the brothers one third. Ho received a large fee for operating costs. Ho and his mother had been abandoned by his father just before WWII and socially outcast and poor, yet with a good heritage in business facilitation, he and his mother went to Macao to sit out the war with other Hong Kong citizens who were wealthy. There, Stanley Ho had become a junior secretary in a company set up to barter business between the Macao government and the Japanese. He learned Japanese. By the end of the War he was almost a millionaire from his part in the black market arrangements. He put his profits into Hong Kong real estate, and by the late 1950s was one of the wealthiest men in the colony. One of his close associates, Yip Hon, was known to be a member of the Luen Kung Lok Triad . Ho later won the gambling concession for Macao, completely commercialized the island and became one of the Orient's wealthiest men.

1975 - On October 25,
Stan Gayer and Steve Harris, two lumber mill electricians, were in their truck in the area of Shivar Saddle, near Happy Camp, a small lumber town at the northern border of California, about 40 miles from Oregon, U.S.A. They were testing their CB radios when they saw two starlike objects of unusual brightness. One of the objects suddenly moved over the ridge and oscillated in a surging motion "as if fighting the wind". It came down towards them "like the lit end of a cigar", glowing red. They drove away and later saw a large, red, glowing object on the ground on the side of Cade Mountain.

1975 - On October 27,
Stan Gayer and Steve Harris, two lumber mill electricians, and a third man who considered himself an interested sceptic, returned to the site of the October 25th sightings, in the area of Shivar Saddle, near Happy Camp. They brought a metal detector and a spotlight. In exploring the area, they found a pile of strange mica-like material at the site of the first sighting, which they found later to be nothing more than isinglass of the type used in old woodstoves.

What they did not expect was a set of glowing eyes in the bushes and a sirenlike sound.
Turning the spotlight on the area they could see nothing at all, only darkness where trees and bushes should have been. At that point, they felt it best to get back into their pickup truck and return to town, where they told their story to Helen White, who was sixty-two, and to a 17-year-old student.

The group of five now drove back to the site in the mountains.
Steve Harris became somewhat agitated and began firing into the underbrush at random.
Two silhouettes appeared wearing helmets like a welder and surrounded by a peculiar light.
The sirenlike sound was heard again. Helen White who had brought her camera was stunned and unable to take a picture. The luminescent beings approached within 50 feet of the group, which then felt a strange warmth in the air. Steve recalls choking as if the air were too heavy to breathe, "like in a sauna or steam bath where the air is heated up, only much worse." Helen White compared the experience to having pressure on the chest. Steve thought they had been gassed. The group got back in the truck and were "chased" down the mountain by a glowing red object.

1975 - By November,
The U.S.A. revised "Freedom of Information Act" was acted upon by UFO interest organization "Ground Saucer Watch" to request one copy of the 1953 "Robertson Panel Report". The CIA responded that its only involvement with UFOs had been the Robertson Panel. Almost 4 years later, after extended litigation to release the documents, the CIA would release another 900 pages of information on UFO sightings and internal policy on UFOs. Another request was filed with the National Security Agency. They replied that they did not have any interest in UFOs in any manner, yet during its suit against the CIA, GSW learned that some of the CIA documents had originated with the NSA. After more years, the NSA finally released 2 of its admitted 239 documents relating to UFOs.

1975 - By November,
The "Waste Isolation Pilot Plant" (WIPP), located near Carlsbad, New Mexico, would have the first of many holes dug in preparation for a consolidation of plutonium waste currently scattered in 10 holding sites across the USA. The government had decided that this location was suitable for the burial of 480,000 45-gallon Barrels of nuclear waste within newly constructed salt mines. Located in the middle of an oil field and subject to tectonic earth movements, 2 rooms would collapse after more than 15 years: they had no roof supports. 56 rooms would have been excavated after 10 years - each with a capacity for 6500 drums, and measuring 33 feet wide, 300 feet long and 10 feet high. Everything was to be located 2000 feet underground, accessible by 10 miles of tunnels. Operated by "Southwest Research", it would employ a staff of 700.

Over the next 20 years, 100 public demonstrations against the project, 200 days of public hearings, 3 massive legal suits, and technical complications - would result in NONE of the 240,000-year harmful substances being buried. At that point, the Department of Energy would be spending over $495,000 per day (180 million per year) to maintain the project.

1975 - On November 2,
Stan Gayer and Steve Harris, two lumber mill electricians, Helen White, and two other people drove down the dirt trail into the canyon at the base of Cade Mountain near Happy Camp, northern California. They were following up on previous sightings made by them beginning on October 25th.

Exploring the area systematically, to try and explain the occurrences, they found a heavy fog in the canyon which forced them back, and they became confused about subsequent events. They remember heavy boulders falling off the cliffs and bouncing around the truck. They remember the door locks being opened and a strange being telling Steve "you won't need that" when he reached for his gun. They believe they saw a hovering object. Helen recalls being lifted inside a room, but she is confused about the time sequence. One occupant of the craft had a conversation with her, in the course of which he described a transparent object as being made of gold. Helen answered the being that she knew what gold was like, and it surely was not transparent. The being answered simply, "There is such a thing as gold that you can look through. It's in your Bible." Steve thinks he was in a craft with a transparent window on top and bottom, through which he was able to see China Mountain.

Helen stressed that "everything seemed to happen in slow motion."
Also, she spoke to a man wearing a long, flowing coat. An avalanche of rocks was falling.
"Watch out for those boulders!" she cautioned him, only to be told, "Don't worry, they won't hurt me."
She felt herself bathed in light as she rose into the object. She wanted to take something away as proof and was given permission; yet later the beings forbade her to keep anything, and she cried in frustration: "You lied to me." The craft also appeared to be much larger inside than outside.

Their next conscious memory is driving down the mountain singing a chorus of an old church song titled "There is Power in the Blood of the Lamb." After this major incident, sightings were reported by various witnesses; some included other episodes of strange fog with a humanoid shape inside, high-pitched sounds, and various kinds of spherical or oblong flying objects, sometimes with a U.S.A.F. interceptor in pursuit.

God that made the world and all things therein, ... dwelleth not in temples made with hands; ... giveth to all life, and breath and all things; ... That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; ... Forasmuch as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness ...

Revelations:21:1-18
And I saw anew heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away ... saw the holy city ... coming down from God out of heaven, ... Behold the tabernacle of God is with men ... He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. ... showed me the great city, ... descended out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; ... And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

BLOOD OF THE LAMB: The Book of Mormon: another Testament of Jesus Christ.
Esther: 13:8-10

... until the end come when the earth shall pass away. And there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and they shall be like unto the old save the old have passed away, and all things become new. And then cometh the new Jerusalem; and blessed are they who dwell therein, for it is they whose garments are white through the blood of the Lamb; ....

The Christian Bible. Revelation 7:14-17 ... These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, ....

1975 - During the year,
The New York Times describes Iraq as "pragmatic, co-operative" and credits the shift to Saddam Hussein's "personal strength".

1975 - During November,
George and Kathy Lutz were shown a Dutch colonial style house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, by a realtor.
They were informed that the previous owner, Ronald DeFeo had been found guilty of murdering 6 family members in the house and that was why the price was set at only $80,000. George's business was not doing well, yet the Lutzes were able to arrange financing and they moved in on December 18. The Lutzes would soon realize that with closing and maintenance costs and a business which was doing worse by the day, they could not afford the house.

About the same time, William Weber, the lawyer for murderer Ronald DeFeo, was trying to have his client cleared of murder charges by reason of insanity. When that was unsuccessful, he suggested that DeFeo declare that "The devil made me do it."

Together, the Lutzes, Weber, and writer Paul Hoffman decided to concoct a story of horror about the house for their mutual gain. Weber would win the freedom of his client, the Lutzes would be excused to leave the house by their creditors and Hoffman would have a story, or, a part in it. The Lutzes remembered that they had retained the services of a priest when they moved in to bless the house. The priest was said to have heard a loud voice say, "get out!" Less than one month after moving into the house, the Lutzes moved out, leaving their possessions behind.

The Lutzes complained that they had been tormented during their brief stay by numerous supernatural events: an infestation by hundreds of flies in the middle of winter; moving statues; green slime oozing from the ceiling; a telephone that didn't work correctly; a constant chill; ghostly images; mysterious music. They recounted their story onto tape recordings and professed to be too disturbed by the experience to allow interviews. This also would provide a consistency to the story of what happened with no chance for conflicts to arise between interviews provided by different family members or by the same person on different days.

Jay Anson, a writer who had worked on the screenplay of the American movie, "the Exorcist", was brought in to write the story about the Amityville incident. He was not allowed to visit the house; he never interviewed the Lutzes; he used a series of tape recordings as an outline of the account of their horrifying experience on Ocean Avenue. Anson borrowed heavily from the screenplay of "The Exorcist" and used a great deal of imagination to compose the horror of the century.

Lutz would later admit, under oath in a trial (Lutz vs. Hoffman) that almost everything in the book written by Jay Anson was a lie. In fact, whenever the Lutzes, Anson, and Weber had to swear under oath about the so-called facts in the Anson book, no one could confirm any of the strange happenings as they would be portrayed in the movie, "The Amityville Horror". Specifically, no one in the family ever saw a face of a pig; no marching band ever paraded through the house; no heavy door was torn off its hinges; no levitation occurred while Lutz' was awake - although he might have dreamt of it; the house was not built on any graveyard, Indian or otherwise; no windstorm or heavy snowstorm occurred on the nights that the book says they did; no policeman was ever called to witness the cloven-tracks in the snow; there was no snow. In addition, the floor plan of the house changed several times in later printings of the Anson book.

The Cromartys moved into the house after the Lutzes abandoned it.
They never experienced anything out of the ordinary with the house save one frustration.
They were plagued by an onslaught of sightseers who stopped to check out the infamous address.
The Cromartys sued the Lutzes for the nuisance. The Lutzes settled out of court.

In spite of the trials, the testimonies, and the obvious massive distortion of fact, North American newspapers particularly printed the dramatic and sensationalistic story of the horrors. The media editors, almost uniformly, decided that the truth of the fraud was not "catchy enough" to sell their newspapers. Fraud was just an everyday event; supernatural horror was special. The book became a bestseller. Movie producers followed the same line of reasoning as the media editors and a popular movie was produced. Few people to this day realize that they have been manipulated into believing that "The Amityville Horror" was real and that it was simply constructed to take the monies from their pocket which paid for their copy of the book or their admission to the theatre. The only haunting on Ocean Avenue was the financial woe of the Lutzes on which a desperate lawyer played and a greedy author wrote.

1975 - During November,
The Probability of a Nuclear War occurring before the year 2000 was affirmed by nuclear and political scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University whom had met to discuss the question. Several resulting strategies would be developed with this end expected. Some of these were:

1. Progression towards a world government with global autonomy;

2. A continued race in technological development towards an unbeatable weapon;

3. Covert construction of huge bomb shelters for the protection of government and military officials.

Plan for war and you will war to happen; plan for peace and you will peace to happen.
Be careful what you plan for, you may get what you have faith in.

1975 - Late in November 1974 and through to 1976,
Mutilated Animals, began to be associated with sightings of UFO's.
These included thousands (up to 10,000) of cattle, sheep, dogs, cats, buffalo and horses.
After long and thorough investigation by many people, all of the incidents could be explained by one of several findings:

• Burned circles on a hillside were actually silage piles where the heat from the decaying vegetable matter had created the circles in the snow, not heat-producing engines.

• Cattle and other animals missing lips, tongue, ears, udders and reproductive organs exhibited attacks by small scavenging animals on those areas easiest to tear away from the carcass of an animal dead from disease, malnutrition, or age.

• A group of Satanists would approach the animal at night, walking on large sheets of pasteboard, shoot it with a tranquillizer dart, inject it with a heart stimulant, puncture a neck artery and collect the blood in a bag, then remove various organs with a minimum of bleeding. Both the blood and the organs were used in ceremonies later. They were apprehended.

• Farmers mutilated their own sick cattle to collect on insurance.

• The media dramatized the findings and encouraged suggested associations between mutilation findings and UFO sightings. Autopsies sometimes revealed that the animals had died 3 or more months before the UFO sighting.

• Cattle killed by a spore disease, blackleg, were originally written of as having been killed by a gas grenade ...

• Several butchers mutilated some already dead cows as a joke.

• Ten years before when a cow died, no one cared. Now, with the ominous secrecy and sensationalist media dramatization of UFO sightings and incidents, public distrust of government agencies was growing and world events were encouraging fear and paranoia at home.

Other FACTORS include these:

A. The animals frequently have 2 puncture wounds in the throat and are drained of blood without their vascular systems collapsing. No one knows how this could be done.

B. Only reproductive or digestive organs and, sometimes, an eye or tongue are removed.
Coyotes and other wild animals will neither eat the carcass or go within 10 feet of it.
Reproductive and mucous tissues would determine the amount of plutonium leakage into the environment locally.
(AEC & CIA ?)

C. Tissue samples revealed the presence of Chlorpromazine, a tranquillizer, in some corpses.

D. Cuts made on the animals may include 4 inch round circles, which when inspected under a microscope show that the incision was made between the cells, cell by cell. These cuts show no signs of bleeding nor decay or decomposition over long periods.

1975 - By the end of the year,
Pornography had become a commodity in the USA.
After an increasing discussion of what pornography was over the past years in the newspapers, magazines and legislatures of the USA, the definition and restrictions applied have become more and more narrow. Zones within major cities carry books, magazines, movies, articles, and entertainment which is X-rated. Some 780 theatres, including many elegant first-run houses routinely show X-rated movies 52 weeks of the year. The profit motive supports much of the risk taken in making it available with mark-ups running between 100% and 600%. Pornography seems to have a new social acceptability; for some, a fascination.

For some, it is a reaction to the old narrow Puritanism which buried sexuality in the dark, under the covers and behind ignorance and intolerance. An increasing desire for personal freedom of standards in a society that harbours many hypocritical social standards is like a teenager acting out on some level of idealism and rebellion. Changes in sexual attitudes, encouraged by low standards of popular music lyrics and sexual materialism and manipulation through advertising, is assisted by an increasing dependence on alcohol, cigarettes, prescription drugs and illegal substances. American society has increasingly become disoriented by a lack of fundamental standards being set by authoritarian leaders who, embarrassed by past weaknesses, have opted out of their role.

The increasing popularity of pornography signals the increasing weakness growing in inter-gender relationships.
Confused and often confining gender roles produce both intolerance, abuse and misunderstandings between the genders. Increasing emphasis on sexuality as a marketing tool, from the earliest age, stimulates children into developing and expressing such needs at an earlier age. Promotion of the ecstasy of the moment, conquest and presumed demonstration of maturity which supposedly attends the experience of intercourse have only served to advance the cause of physical sexual experience, a quite immature human response. Parental controls are largely absent because the parents recognize their own ignorance of the subject and feel incapable of setting standards. Those who do set standards do so authoritarian-style, without informing, preparing, or empathy.

The culture itself and those responsible for leading it, avoid including basic constructive interpersonal communication skills in the educational curriculum, such as empathy, listening, trust, tolerance, and honesty - because they themselves have little awareness of such skills. Basic ignorance of sexuality, lack of awareness of one's own sexuality, lack of interpersonal skills, an increasingly drab urban reality, and a growing need for a feeling of acceptance and sensuality have led to an increasing distrust of old standards and a juvenile try-everything-before-you-buy approach which defines this human society as starting at a point before hunting and gathering bands in its approach to cultural norms. Pornography followed compulsively does neither relieve the despair of low self-esteem nor the frustration of wanting to be cared for, and about, in a society of alienated persons.

1975 - on November 5th,
Travis Walton, was abducted near Heber, in the mountain forests of eastern Arizona, just north of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, was missing for a full 5 days.

Returning home along an old logging road, a 7-man timber cutting crew encountered a saucer-shaped yellowish glow less than 100 feet from them. Travis Walton, 22 at the time, jumped out of the truck they were in and ran up to the object. A blue-green light beam shot out of the object and on striking Walton he was knocked into the air and backwards 10 feet. In terror, Mike Rogers, the crew foreman and driver of the truck, quickly accelerated the truck away from the scene. About 20 minutes later, the crew returned but could not find Walton.

When Rogers and the crew reported the incident to the county sheriff's office, they found themselves suspected of murder. The sheriff had each of them examined by a polygraph expert flown in from Phoenix who concluded with certainty that 5 of the 6 were telling the truth. The 6th had a prison record and was considered later to have demonstrated added anxiety in his answers due to fear of arrest and, this time, detention for an extended period if he did confer with the others.

Five days after the disappearance, Walton reappeared collapsed in a telephone booth at a small town filling station. He said he remembered crouching behind a log to get a look at the glowing object, and that when he stood up he was hit by a "physical blow" that knocked him unconscious. He regained consciousness on a table within the spacecraft, surrounded by humanoids dressed in brownish-orange from whom he pulled away, escaping to the interior of the craft. There, an entity appearing to be human found him and escorted him to a room in a much larger spacecraft in which there were two other humans, a man and a woman. They laid him on a table and placed a mask over his face after which he lost consciousness again. When he regained consciousness, he was lying on the pavement at the side of the road, watching the lighted bottom of the craft rise back into the sky. Walton flunked one polygraph test and passed another. Gradually, he later appeared to regain a more complete memory of his presence on board the craft.

Many suspicions of a hoax seemed to be present in this "abduction".

First, the crew foreman, Mike Rogers, was behind in the completion of a government contract which was in danger of his forfeiture of monies due him as a penalty for non-completion. His defence of the complications arising out of the incident allowed him to be let out of the contract without penalty. Poor management, low incomes and high unemployment were indicative of the region.

Secondly, members of the crew had demonstrated an earlier interest in UFOs and abductions at regional conferences concerning the topic.

Thirdly, in most abduction reports, the subjects involved are rarely abducted in the full awareness of bystanders: either the bystanders are placed into a form of suspended animation or they are co-abducted.

Fourthly, Walton was found harshly discarded after an extended absence of 5 days, naked and in a state of true or suggestive trauma; most abduction reports cover periods of hours and the subject is returned to their car, bed or other protected environment with a minimum of obvious trauma.

If the incident was a hoax intended to raise the popularity of the group, get Rogers out of a financial bind and, through publicity, raise the incomes of each - the intent backfired. The community largely ostracised them, an expert detective brought in disbelieved them from the beginning, family life for some of the participants was placed under extreme stress. These outcomes do also happen with the subjects of real abductions and statistical factors regarding "most" such experiences do not apply to all.

1975 - During the mid-1970s,
Transcendental Meditation was introduced to the world on a large scale by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, of India.
By trimming away some of the more mystical aspects of Oriental meditation, he introduced an activity to North Americans which was simple enough and exotic enough to attract their attention. By the late 1970s, some 8,000 teachers would be charging a fee to share their skills.

Scientific tests with groups of well-trained Transcendental Meditators would soon show that significant physical changes do occur through the practice of TM. The heart beat slows, hypertension decreases, body temperature may decrease slightly, oxygen consumption may fall by 15% or more, alpha brain waves are significantly increased in density, constructive coping skills increase: ALL of these increase longevity.

1975 - On December 24, at 10.00 A.M.
The Forced Disappearance of a number of young women and men in Argentina was carried out.
One was a 24-year-old female student of mathematics and a literacy worker in the slums of Plaza del Mayo.
An entire block of the shanty town was aerial bombed by the government forces.
The woman mentioned above and numerous other women were never heard from again.
Much later, it would be revealed that many people had been detained, tortured, drugged, and murdered.

1975 - By the end of this year,
"E Systems", a private American company, was set up in Greenville, Texas, 50 miles NE of Dallas.
Initially it would become a front for CIA secret programs (special operations) which were usually financed from unvouchered non-traceable government funds. During the period 1975 to 1981, special missions to southeast Asia and the Philippines, would be conducted under the auspices of "Air Asia", a subsidiary of "Air America", another CIA front. "Air-Sea Forwarders", an American freight forwarding company would be retained for the transport of military supplies to southeast Asia and hard drugs back to the USA. Air-Sea was usually unaware of the true nature of its cargo for the shipping documents would be incorrect and the crates carried a government seal.

Throughout the 1970s, American CIA agents induced southeast Asian mountain tribes to become arms carrying guerilla fighters by purchasing unlimited quantities of heroin from the semi-agricultural tribes. The tribes became dependent on the cropping and sale of their poppy harvest and, in servitude and material greed, took up weapons to fight against southeast Asians believed to be Communists. Too often the brutal and ruthless killing methods they were taught were used against rival tribes and any non-local group which fell out of favour with these mercenary armies. At least 40,000 men were known to have been "trained" in this fashion. They contributed to the outright slaughter of 2 million Laotian and Cambodian civilians. Their drugs entered the civilian American streets and financed the continuance of the shipments of arms and other supplies back to southeast Asia. Gradually, American civil drug dependency rose, along with drug-related crime.

1975 - From 1975 to 1979,
International Arms Sales would bring $66.7 Billion to the international balance of payments of the USA, the USSR, France, the United Kingdom, and West Germany; clients around the world would receive the weapons they would be encouraged to stockpile in hopes of allaying fears of political unrest. Force is easier than understanding, communication and mutual respect, for humans, as demonstrated.