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Introduction.

ALTERNATIVE 3 is the name of a concept and a book.
The book, see bibliography, was written by Leslie Watkins during the late 1970s in Britain (UK). It was to demonstrate a degree of investigative journalism utilized for the purposes of alerting-informing-entertaining the public to the possible dangers of continuing with a secretive space program.

THE FOLLOWING are quotes from the book with comments added.
In addition, other REAL supporting information has been added to demonstrate the foundation from which the fantasy of the story could develop.

A RESURGENCE of public support for the author began in the late 1990s as an extension of the continuing revelations of long-term public deception by the scientific and military communities aided by the mass entertainment industry. Each, for different motivations, either allowed, or encouraged the dumbing down and hyping up of the public.

FANTASY & DISTRUST have become the hallmarks of superpower cultures in the early 21st century. Conspiracies are more acceptable explanations than reality. What happens when the masses disbelieve the TRUTH because it doesn't sound dramatic and isn't technically sophisticated?

1973 - By May, James McConnell, a broad-ranging behaviourist and friend of B.F. Skinner addresses a group of lawyers with the intent of conveying to them that prisoners could be reshaped into model citizens by methods other than punishment:

"I believe that the day has come when we can combine sensory deprivation with drugs, hypnosis and astute manipulation of reward and punishment to gain absolute control over an individual's behaviour."

1973 - Beginning in November, the 4th Phase of the Destabilization of destabilization sources under an FBI - NSA strategy began. Batch component modification was carried out on 5 separately abducted groups of persons, each group averaging 10 persons in size. "New life" modifications to fit the individual for "replicant" duty at a space station were carried out with the intention of supplying efficient task performers.

It was believed necessary, that to have stable workers in a high-tech hostile environment, the volatile and often destructive human emotions of sexuality and curiosity had to be removed. At the time of the decision, the planners believed that a substantial degree of space station daily tasks would necessarily be carried out by males thereby resulting in predominantly male work crews. By the nature of Alternative 3, contact beyond the team/station in space would be minimal and the only women present would be Designated Movers: leadership with high degrees of expertise in specialized areas.

In a human environment of heterosexuals in which the female to male ratio might be as disparate as 20:1 and monogamy the acceptable relationship pattern, many males could become sexually envious and much anxiety, lust, fear and pride occupy and fragment efficient and safe task fulfilment. In 1973, and within the scope of the intent of the program, toleration of homosexuality as an integral part of a program to sustain the human race was considered worse than the option of creating eunuchs - physical and emotional.

What was needed in less refined terms, was an intelligent robot.
To produce this result, based on the psychiatric and biological researches of the 1950s and 1960s, a basic approach was utilized with the expectation of improvements with sophistication based on research results. Remember, Alternative 3 is considered to be a project of the most urgent and most important status. The end, survival of the human race, is considered all important.

Biological modifications to abducted individuals selected for Batch Component experimentation typically had their testes and scrotum removed, their intestine was shortened, they were subjected to a controlled LSD experience and they were brainwashed into the mindset of the comfortable space technician. These steps were taken by individuals who disliked the process, yet in their practical intellectualization of the situation and the consequences, believed it to be the most likely to succeed.

Removal of the source of primary sexual hormones removed with it sexual need and desire; sexual frustration and aspects of fear, anger, impatience and some forms of compulsion were removed; unsafe macho competitiveness was eliminated; a tendency toward individualism and rebellion was diminished. Patriotism, pattern recognition and obeyance were increased.

Shortening the intestine tended to increase the dominance of rational thinking over emotional states and diminish spiritual capability and self-reflection. This would contribute to less self-awareness and a greater capability to justify and accept the state and position they now found themselves in as necessary for whatever.

Psychoactive drug experiences could be used to accentuate behaviour modification in the direction of the contented, steady working, intelligent, obedient worker. Suggestive of ant workers, batch component humans were to be "engineered" to be pattern-dependent, task-oriented, work-sleep-work "components" of the space station environment. Approximately 50 persons were experimented on before the procedures used were considered perfected enough for more routine application.

This phase fit into the Destabilization Plan in that it utilized the drug addiction research, carried out by the C.I.A. and university research staff in the 1950s and 1960s, which prompted the definition of the entire plan. In this phase, the use of psychoactive drugs to either addict the individual into a dependent state, or, to reduce the mental capacity of the person to one of intelligent robot provided the connection.

The second result was the one sought here.
In the previous phase, major event covert action, the intent was to use the suggestions of the same research to induce large masses of people to "experiment" with psychoactive substances, with the intended result being one of addictive dependency thereby frustrating attempts by rebellious elements of society to organize effectively. The steam produced could be harnessed by manipulation to maintain the desired political direction.

Results here were, albeit not as dramatic (and, therefore, more subtle and deceptive) because the other "modification" factors were not being employed: dependent personalities, pattern bound, and easily manipulated. By August, 1977, the Batch Component experimentation phase would be complete.

It is important to point out here that a number of the "abductees" were "drug culture" participants who had severed family ties, were often transient in nature as workers and dwellers, and who "volunteered" to be part of an LSD experiment. No one missed their absence. The program operators could, with varying degrees of personal difficulty, justify the "loss" of these "substandard specimens". In the eyes of the program directors, these individuals had already chosen to lead worthless ambivalent lives; this program added worth to their existence.

What if you had been "chosen" to participate?

1973 - HIGHLIGHTS:
Movies: Airport 1975; Blazing Saddles; The Godfather, Part 2; UFO target Earth; Chinatown; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Death Wish; The Parallax View; That's Entertainment.

1974 - During July, Brian D. Pendlebury, a former British RAF officer and electronic expert, at the age of 33, emigrated to Australia to take a new job. He liked to travel, preferred sunny climates, and, as an only son with blue collar parents in Manchester, England, who had sent him through university, neighbours considered him selfish.

For five months the parents received letters and photos from the address he had given them, including replies to their letters. Then communication ceased. When a neighbourhood friend of the parents went to see some relatives in Australia, they stopped by to say hello to Brian and see if all was OK. They were told that Pendlebury had never lived at the address on his letters, by an American, whom some people latter remarked was quiet and secretive and they thought he knew people with the CIA.

On further investigation, it was discovered that there was no evidence to suggest that he had ever reached Australia. The company he had gone to work for, said they had never heard of him and had nothing on file regarding his name in the previous 5 years. The "Australian" photos which the parents had received were found to be studio compositions using scenic backdrops. All of the outdoor scenes showed 3 birds in identical formation and clouds of the same type, size, and formation in each sky background. Pendlebury has not been heard from since. Could he have been part of an Alternative 3 Batch Consignment?

Of 400 Britons who emigrated for jobs, from then until several years later, 12 plus the Pattersons (February, 1976), Ann Clark (February, 1976) and Pendlebury had vanished! Relatives of Dr. Penelope Mortimer and Professor Michael Parsons had also presumably emigrated to Australia for jobs about the same time as Pendlebury. They, also, had sent home photos and letters for 5 months before communication was lost. The address on their letters - was the same as Pendlebury's!

When reporters first approached Mortimer and Parsons, they were considering an interview; shortly afterwards, they refused an interview. That was May, 1976. When reporters went to contact them with more information and a new request, both had gone abroad without a forwarding address?

1974 - By November, routine production of specialized human mutants was the topic of discussion by a panel of scientist convened by the Rand Corporation, a research organization which knowingly or not, ran Alternative 3 scenarios for the human representatives of the Tri-Galaxy Government.

The panel guessed that by the year 2025, "parahumans" might be designed to serve a variety of functions. They might be trained to be sewer workers and stoop labourers, occupations increasingly hard to fill in the Western nations. They might be kept in "enclosed areas" as a source of supply of organs for transplants. If we came to using these hybrids as surrogate mothers during pregnancy, they might be modified such that their body chemistry was more congenial to the normal gestation in a human womb.

There was obviously no discussion of the "spiritual" aspects of such plans to manipulate the lives and existence of other living beings. Of course, many thousands of other living beings (from insects to primates) were being dissected in university and commercial laboratories by humans yearly without any consideration of their right to dignity and freedom or the consideration that the proposed benefits of such activities could be obtained in less destructive and cruel ways.

1975 - HIGHLIGHTS:
Movies: The Eiger Sanction; White Line Fever; 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 Prisoner of Second Avenue.

1975 - Beginning in March, 5th Phase of the Destabilization of destabilization sources program conducted by Alternative 3 participants began. This phase involved the covert importation of hard (addictive) drugs into the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. for widespread distribution.

In the U.S.S.R. the drugs involved were largely alcohol and cigarettes made relatively easily available. The intent of the operation was to destabilize political reform and activity within the countries involved thereby maintaining the status quo, similar government massive expenditures, and, the continued capacity for the skimming of funds to support Alternative 3.

Drugs were imported into the U.S.A. from the Near East, the Far East and South America by way of oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas and other states. By ship it arrived at the platforms, where the shipment was divided into smaller units and transferred to the mainland by a C.I.A. special forces helicopter. Other points of entry and methods were developed and as the industry grew, independent suppliers and organizations started up.

The recruitment of street pushers was relatively easy as displays of wealth and power to persons of envy, greed, lust, vice, and sloth was frequently effective. Persons of lower social standing, with poor education, a past of despair and abuse, and small prospect for status quo success could now picture themselves as independent businessmen with the potential for material comfort, if not outright wealth.

Use of weapons was minor in the beginning as competition was non-existent between suppliers, the media avoided the unsavoury reality, the police were concerned about more "respectable" crimes, and the politicians were either in denial, confusion or shame. There was no co-ordination of police or political efforts to curtail the psychoactive drug industries, including cigarette and alcohol promotion budgets in the billions of dollars.

No level of bureaucracy would accept the responsibility.
From state to state there was an inconsistency of laws. Both accidental and intentional (suicide or sanctioned) overdoses were typically NOT reported to the mass media and often not acknowledged in the official reports to save the family from embarrassment and the culture from the trauma of awareness of the seriousness of the problem.

This phase continued until October, 1986.
Profits from the Alternative 3 sponsored activities were utilized to finance other phases of Operation Humpty Dumpty (the Destabilization Plan) as well as Mars bases and alien spaceperson earth bases. By 1986, private independent drug cartels and gangs proliferated the industry, the C.I.A. special unit for this operation (which was never needed on a continuous basis thereby not necessitating any formal organization) had ceased to be called into action, drug use in elementary and high schools was rampant throughout North America - in addition to colleges, universities, bars and street availability.

The public were beginning to ask for control of the problem and were being forced to be more aware of it, incidence of dysfunctional family illnesses and admission of children and teenagers to mental illness facilities was dramatically increasing, cultural focus on material wealth led to little sustained effective political effort toward more spiritual goals of self-esteem, self-assertiveness, self-directedness, balanced economic growth, tolerance and leadership, global political peace, reduction of armaments, community support, reverence.

This phase would be successful: the population would be destabilized; it would call for order and the demonstration of authority while expressing its dependency personality to be taken care of with a multiplicity of social and status quo support programs which fragmented the budget and the effort to effectively accomplish anything at the political level. Laws would be passed in the U.S.A. which could result in "concentration camps" at some future selected time. Phase 6 would begin in May, 1984, before this phase ended.

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 - 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 ..."

Probably 10,000 prospects could be chosen for consideration as Alternative 3 "designated movers". A further 55,000 possible prospects could be targeted for modification into Alternative 3 "components". Comparable technical abilities and resources exist in Japan, Canada, U.S.S.R., Germany, Poland, and America beyond that of Britain. These numbers certainly provide much leeway for further selection.

1976 - HIGHLIGHTS:
Movies: Rocky, Taxi Driver; All the President's Men; Bad News Bears; Network; Bound for Glory; Marathon Man; Two Minute Warning; The Last Tycoon.

Television: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Charlie's Angels; Wonder Woman; The Bionic Woman; Serpico; Gemini Man; Spencer's Pilots.

1976 - In the February 28th issue of Science, "Man-animal hybrids" were of high interest to the scientific community. An article entitled "A Computer Under Your Hat", in this journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, contained a quote by Joshua Lederberg that "there is enormous scientific interest in organisms augmented by fragments of the human chromosome set."

A hybrid of human and other animal species is often called a chimera. In Greek mythology, a chimera was a being with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. It spat fire. In biology now, a chimera was the name applied to any living structure in which chromosomes of different species are combined. Often there is a human component.

Human intellectualism, scientific emotional immaturity, denial, greed and paranoia about survival made the malleability of humanity a perceived necessity. Perhaps we could be more "perfect" physically, if we took the advantages which other species carried into our own genetic future. The emphasis was on improving organ function and longevity. Humans still had not learned that changing organ function can change hormone availability which can change emotional expression and immune function which can change disease frequency which can influence longevity.

The equation is highly complex; the result can be a benefit or a liability and that may depend upon whether your assessment is long-term or short-term. There is less than a 2% genetic difference between chimpanzees and humans - and the standardized behaviours of each is quite different one from the other.

1976 - On June 28th, Mayor Alfred Vellucci, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, convened a conference to discuss the safety of allowing biotechnology- bioengineering to be continued at nearby Harvard University. There was concern that the gene splicing of human genes and bacteria, chimera, or other similar combinations, could result in the creation of a killer lifeform potentially capable of annihilating human and/or other life on the Earth.

Concern also existed about the same results happening from an accident such as a spill of genetic material into a sink and its influence upon microbes or insects in the drain such that a mutation might be produced. The recent introduction of The Andromeda Strain movie added to these concerns. It was decided that continued experimentation with gene splicing would be banned for 6 months.

This marked the first major instance of a formal questioning of the right of the scientist, according to their level of status quo credentials, to act as the authority in making decisions which were capable of altering human history, constructively or destructively. No longer would academic and technical credentials automatically be assumed to be sufficient for social and capital support.

Some biotechnology scientists, obsessive by the nature of the scientific field and its competition for capital support left the USA immediately to work in other countries which had not imposed such restrictions. The attraction of the power, recognition and field dependency of some scientists placed ethical and safety concerns as distant considerations.

1977 - HIGHLIGHTS:
Movies: Black Sunday; Star Wars; Red Alert; Annie Hall; An Enemy of the People; Semi-Tough, Telefon; A Bridge Too Far; The Deep; New York, New York; The Pink Panther Strikes Again; A Star is Born; Exorcist II.

1977 - On Saturday, January 15, James Arthur Carmichael, 35, aerospace technician, hurtled inexplicably to his death at 4.35 a.m. from a 16th floor hotel bedroom window in Washington. Friends said that he had seemed happy and in normal spirits the previous evening and had gone to bed alone at about midnight. He was wearing pyjamas.

Was he another "telepathic sleep expediency" sanctioned by the Policy Group of Alternative-3 ? (see September, 1977)

1977 - On February 3, minutes of an Alternative-3 Policy Meeting were partially retrieved. The meeting had taken place in a submarine link-up below the North Pole involving an American modified Permit nuclear submarine and a U.S.S.R. counterpart. During the meeting, the following was discussed:

- from the beginning, expediencies would be kept to a minimum;
- someone was hinting about a "big bang - earth-air crack" secret;
- Harry Carmell had stolen a circuit from NASA & must die;
- Ballantine was also to be a "hot job";
- Peterson was talking about the "scientific adjustments" and had to die.

The rational for Alternative 3 was restated:

Ethics! What the hell do some of these guys think we're all at? Jesus! We're smack in the middle of the most vital exercise ever mounted ... with the survival of the whole human race swinging on it ... and they bleat about ethics ..."

The foregoing was a composite of ideas and feedback from a variety of sources of the era taken by a small group of British reporters and assembled into an "Alternative Three" conspiracy for the media. Unaware of the technical requirements of modifying and concealing the modifications to huge USA and USSR submarines, they either in ignorance, or in expectation of the ignorance of the masses - suggested that such modifications had been done.

While a small group of executive officers were positive to such an arrangement, and while such modifications were technically possible - the bureaucracies within each Navy could never have kept such changes "hidden." It occurred to individuals on both sides of the political ideology line to make such communications - but they never happened in reality.

1977 - On February 6, Sir William Ballantine, died in his car while on his way to meet with John Hendry, the London office managing editor of an international news agency and a friend. Ballantine was a radio astronomer of high international standing posted at the Jodrell Bank radio telescope installation in England. According to taped telephone conversations, which he made because of the technical conversations he often had with others, Ballantine was awaiting the arrival of Harry Carmell who was to arrive no later than 4.00 p.m. that day.

Carmell, an American who had left NASA in horror of what he believed they were doing, was bringing a decoding box which would allow Ballantine to share the "Martian landing" tape he had given to Ballantine earlier. He had contacted Ballantine on January 26 and told him he was on his way to England and if he was later than late afternoon, February 6, consider him murdered!

It was after the designated time by 1-1/2 hours so Ballantine called Hendry, told him he was sending on a package to him (he had his wife post the tape to Hendry) and that he would drive down to see Hendry immediately that evening. On his way to London, for no apparent reason, Ballantine, a careful driver, ran through a curve in the road and over a steep embankment.

The only photo released to the press of the crash showed Ballantine on a stretcher covered with a blanket being taken from the scene. Carmell awoke on the morning of February 7, near London, in a panic because his contact was late because of a 3 day binge on hard drugs. He saw the news in the morning paper of Ballantine and started running with his girlfriend.

The pathologist, Professor Hubert Radwell reported that the body had been "extensively burned" although their had been no fire! Later under more persistent interviewing he conceded:

"It was technically accurate to describe Ballantine's body as having been extensively burned although those words embrace only part of the truth. They represent an understatement. I was requested to make that understatement in order not to promote any unnecessary public alarm.

I was conscious of course, that there had been some degree of public hysteria following earlier reported instances of spontaneous combustion and I agreed that it would be of no benefit for all the details to be described at that hearing. I now regret having made that decision and I welcome this opportunity to correct the record.

Ballantine's body was not merely burned.
It was reduced to little more than cinders and scorched bones.
His skull had shrunk because of the intense heat to which he had been subjected and yet his clothing was hardly damaged.

There were small scorch marks on the leather cover of the steering wheel, obviously where Ballantine's hands had been gripping it at the time of the incident, but the rest of the vehicle showed no evidence of burning.

However, extensive damage was suffered by the vehicle, as the police stated at the inquest, and Ballantine's spine was severed by the engine which had been hurled backwards after breaking free.

This is the first occasion on which I have personally encountered spontaneous combustion in a human being but I have studied papers relating to 23 similar occurrences. The effect can be likened to that seen during the microwave cooking of a chicken, except, of course, that it is far more severe. The chicken flesh is roasted within seconds although the covering skin is not charred and any receptacle containing the chicken remains cold enough to be handled. There is no known explanation for this phenomenon. ... "
The Americans and the Russians have certainly been experimenting ... with a view to developing spontaneous combustion as a remote-controlled weapon, but the results of those experiments have been kept secret. ...."

The ZIP (High Energy Boron) combined U.S.A. Navy/U.S.A.F. project of 1952 to 1959 "Black project" costing almost $258 million (1950s dollars) could have produced such weapon. Had it been "tested" in Brazil in the 1960's on unsuspecting aboriginal civilians from equally "advanced" hovering aircraft?

There has never been any evidence that non-humans in UFOs ever killed humans in the 20th century unless they were first endangered by the humans, or, the human craft became disabled by the influence of the UFO propulsion system.

On April 12, 1994, Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky threatens to use his "atomic pistol" against Jewish student demonstrators who taunted him. Would these also represent "hot" kills?

1977 - On February 10, Harry Carmell, an American who had worked at NASA and had met Sir William Ballantine at the Houston offices, contacted Colin Benson, a reporter with Britain's ITV regarding a possible news story. They met briefly and agreed to have a formal interview on camera and tape the next morning at an address in Lambeth. Carmell mentioned that Benson should talk to Carl Gerstein at Cambridge University about "Alternative-3".

The next morning, Benson and the TV crew went to the specified address; Carmell was strung out on hard drugs and became violent; the crew left and called the police to give Carmell medical treatment; Carmell's girlfriend left to get first aid supplies; Carmell disappeared. When his girlfriend returned he was gone. He was never found. The day before he had spoken in fear of ending up like Ballantine. On the morning of the 11th, he was totally paranoid believed that Benson and the crew had come to kill him.

1977 - On March 3, an Alternative-3 Policy meeting was held beneath the North Pole after a transfer was made between an American submarine docked with a Russian submarine. The customary 8 American and 8 Russian officials were in attendance. Part of the transcript read:

A-2 Sure, Ballantine was neat enough ... but what about Carmell?

A-8 We'll find him ...
.......

A-8 Listen ... there's no need to turn this into a Federal case. He hasn't got the tape and, as long as he hasn't got it, there's no great panic ...

R-8 And it was not with him in the car when he died?

A-8 No ... definitely not. Our man was right there with him ...
.......

R-8 Time is important ... particularly with that tape missing ... perhaps we should put more operators into London ...

A-2 The guy's right ... we ought to saturate the town ... Jeez! With a character like Carmell at large .....

A-8 I said we'll step it up - all right? ... so just let me handle the details ... we'll get Carmell and that damned tape.

R-8 I look forward to hearing of both achievements at our next meeting ...

Now, have you seen the expediency report on Peterson?

R-2 Entirely satisfactory ...

A-5 I'm not sure he deserved a hot job ...

R-4 Very few men deserve to die but for some it is necessary ... and Peterson was one of them ...

A-1 That's right ... and, remember, people don't suffer long with a hot job ... it's instantaneous ...

R-8 Dr. Carl Gerstein ... the old man ... it was agreed at the last meeting that he would be kept under surveillance ... what's the news on him?

A-8 No news ...

R-8 .... Now we have a request from Geneva for more Batch Consignments of animals ...

A-7 Yeah ... I've already got things shifting on that one ... we'll be taking cattle from Kansas and Texas and ponies from Dartmoor ... had a bit of a snarl-up over transportation but lifts are now being scheduled for the second week in July ...."

Complaints of increased cattle rustling rose in Kansas and Texas during that period; see July 15, Dartmoor pony lift disaster.

1977 - On March 4, Carl Gerstein was interviewed by British ITV Anglia Film/Scepter Television reporter and anchor man Simon Butler. Because much of it referred to details from 1957, you will find them noted during that year in this report. It had taken 20 years for them to be made public. Overall, he was pessimistic that humans could survive long-term on the Earth which they had and continued to pollute to the degradation of the environment. He despaired that cultural mores, commercial profit and political weakness deterred constructive solutions.

Yet people go on using these things (chlorofluorocarbon aerosol sprays) ... to clean their ovens and spray their hair ... to kill flies and smells and pains in the back. Good God, we've even got spray-on instant snack food! We're conveniencing ourselves to death, Mr. Butler, that's what we're doing - and now its all become irretrievably lethal.

Some belated attempts have been made ... Last year, for example, the United States Food and Drug Administration banned fluorocarbons ... and that, I can tell you, was a devil of a jolt for an industry with a $9,000 million turnover in America alone.

But other countries, including Britain ... decided not to follow the American initiative. Close your eyes to the dangers and pretend they don't exist - that seems to be the line. You see ... there are jobs at stake ... about 10,000 in Britain alone ... and there's also big money. Still, not that it makes any difference any longer. It's so late now that it's all become completely academic."

Gerstein went on to outline what Alternatives One and Two were, nut declined on describing Alternative Three.

1977 - On April 14, Professor G. Gordon Broadbent, head of the Institute of International Political Studies in St. Jame's, England, was interviewed by Katherine White of Britain's ITV:

On the broader issue of Soviet-U.S. relations I must admit there is an element of mystery which troubles many people in my field. To put it at its simplest, none of us can understand how it is that the peace has been kept over these past 25 years. ... The popular myth that it's been proof of the balance of nuclear power frankly doesn't entirely stand up. And the more you look at it, the less sense it makes. There are too many imbalances - especially when you put it in the perspective of history. Essentially what we're suggesting is that, at the very highest levels of East-West diplomacy, there has been operating a factor of which we know nothing. Now it could just be - and I stress the word 'could' - that this unknown factor is some kind of massive but covert operation in space."

1977 - In the later half of April, Bob Gordon, former U.S.A. astronaut, was interviewed by Colin Benson, ITV reporter.

The bastard was trying to screw me. Did I see more than I've been allowed to admit publicly! Jesus ... what sort of fool question was that? ... All I know about Ballantine is that he showed up at NASA with some tape he'd made, and got pretty damn excited when he played it back on their juke box. De-coder. You pick up a signal if you have the equipment, but you can't unscramble it (without NASA's equipment). Some guy helped him do it. Say, now he should've known better. ... Yeah, that (picture of Harry Carmell) looks like him."

After drinking quite a bit, Gordon lowered his defences:

Benson: Bob ... what did happen out there ... the moon landing?

Gordon: Well ... I don't know how best to put this ... but we had kind of a disappointment ... the truth is we didn't get there first.

Benson: What do you mean?

Gordon: The later Apollos were a smoke-screen ... to cover up what's really going on out there ...and the bastards didn't even tell us ... not a damned thing!

Benson: What is going on?

Gordon: Man, how the hell do I know? Ask the Pentagon! Call the Kremlin - after all, they were in space first. You don't think they just gave up, do you ...

Later:

Gordon: We came down in the wrong place ... it was crawling ... made what we were on look like a milk run ...

Benson: Are you talking about men ... from Earth?

Gordon: You think they need all that crap down in Florida just to put two guys up there on a ... on a bicycle? The hell they do! ... You know why they need us? So they've got a PR story for all that hardware they've been firing into space ... We're nothing, man! Nothing! We're just there to keep you (reporters) happy ... to keep you from asking dumbquestions about what's really going on! ..."

The broadcast was on June 20; before September Gordon was in a Philadelphia mental hospital with no visitors allowed. His condition was reported by hospital staff as so serious that "he couldn't string two words together". In January, 1978, Gordon apparently knotted his pyjama trousers around his neck and hanged himself from a hot-water pipe high on the wall of his room. Another "expediency"?

1977 - On Monday, June 13, evidence of a probable Alternative-3 batch consignment was discovered by Miles Thornton, his wife and two young sons. At 10.30 a.m., they drove into a caravan-trailer park near Tauranga in the North Island's Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. They found no one on duty at the reception office. There was no sign of anyone in the park. There were plenty of cars but only one living thing, a dog. More than 200 people should have been there that morning including 12 employees. There was no sign of violence, no sign of a struggle. Not one of the people has been seen since.

1977 - On Tuesday, June 14, evidence of a probable Alternative-3 batch consignment was found near

Casper, Wyoming, U.S.A. At 3.00 p.m., two bus loads of teenagers, average age 19 - set off on a sightseeing trip leaving Casper and heading in the direction of Cheyenne. Seven hours later, the vehicles were found empty by the side of a lonely road.

In the sand around the buses, there was a confusion of footprints.
But they seemed to lead nowhere. A camera, a pair of binoculars and a girl's handkerchief were found. The 76 teenagers were never seen again.

1977 - On Tuesday, June 14, at 4.30 p.m., a possible Alternative-3 batch consignment may have taken place between Barcelona, Spain and Tunis. A small passenger-cargo vessel, the Amelio , left Barcelona with 165 people destined for Tunis. It was last seen steaming into a light sea mist south of the Balearic Islands. There was virtually no wind and the water was calm. The mist was a comparatively small patch covering little more than about 2 square miles: the Amelio has never been seen since. No wreckage was ever found, nor bodies, despite an intensive air and sea search. No explanation has ever been provided.

1977 - On Wednesday, June 15, torrential rain was the subject of an article by Leslie Watkins in the London, England Daily Mail:

This has been a bad year for (underwriters of rain insurance). Jubilee celebrations, with street parties and other festivities almost drowned by deluges, were particularly disastrous ...

We have, in fact, been experiencing the second heaviest spell of sustained wet weather since records were first kept in 1727. And the outlook for the rest of the week is 'showery' ..."

1977 - On June 20, Professor G. Gordon Broadbent, director of the independently-financed Institute of Political Studies in London, England and author of a major study of U.S.-Soviet diplomacy since the 1950s, was interviewed on Scepter Television:

On the broader issue of Soviet-U.S. relations, I must admit there is an element of mystery which troubles many people in my field. What we're suggesting is that, at the very highest levels of East-West diplomacy, there has been operating a factor of which we know nothing. Now it could just be - and I stress the word "could" - that this unknown factor is some kind of massive but covert operation in space. But as for the reasons behind it ... we are not in the business of speculation."

1977 - On June 20, the Alternative-3 segment of the British ITV Science Report was aired. It included interviews and short sequences with Carl Gerstein, Ann Clark, Harry Carmell, NASA astronaut Gordon, and referred to the Ballantine scenario.

Immediately following, Harman did everything possible to discredit and downplay the story. A formal statement was released by the TV station, drafted by Harman, declaring the show a hoax. Unfortunately, but predictably, most newspapers accepted the denial without any attempt to verify or disclaim the curious background stories presented.

The London, England Daily Express newspaper headlined the story as a "Spoof" noting that "Thousands of viewers all over the country protested in shock and anger over a science fiction 'documentary' put out by ITV last night." The story made no mention of the evidence which had been presented by Dr. Carl Gerstein, Professor G. Gordon Broadbent or Gordon, the astronaut. Much attention was devoted to the comments of the few who criticized the programme while little was done to answer the concerns of the many as to whether the statements that had been made were from parties who were sincere and who had the experience and contacts to be able to make the statements in a plausible manner.

Because the revelation of this possibility was so traumatic to an unsuspecting public, the lie of its non-existence was preferred. What could not be controlled by Harman at ITV was controlled elsewhere. To add to the disbelief, officials at the University of Saint Andrews either refused to make any comment about their "missing" professor, or they were mysteriously on protracted leave somewhere outside the country!

One of the first letters received by ITV after the airing of the report was from the President of the European Space Association who wrote "I must congratulate you and Colin Benson on your assiduous research."

Another and typical response was that of E.M., Filton, Bristol, England:

I am a recently-retired aerospace technician and your investigation explained certain factors which I discovered in the course of my duties and which have been puzzling me for years. Thank God someone has at last had the initiative and the tenacity to present the unpalatable truth."

The program was never shown in the U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Canada, or Australia.

1977 - During the last week of June, William S. English, a Data Analyst for the USAF Security Services Command stationed in England at RAF Chicksands, viewed what would become termed the Grudge/Blue Book Report #13.

It detailed abduction and mutilation of humans by spacebeings, observation of UFOs, military encounters, and a variety of technical and engineering concepts tremendously advanced beyond the sophistication of modern humans. By the second week of July, English was met on check-in by an Air Security policeman and instructed to see the base Commander immediately. He was escorted by 2 officers to the Headquarters's Building where a Colonel Robert Black informed him that he was being discharged and sent back to the USA.

Although a civilian employee, English was given no further explanation and was not allowed to contact his wife or family to notify them of the changes. He was immediately escorted to RAF Lakenheath under armed guard and flown to the USA.

After arriving in the USA, English tried repeatedly to contact his wife and family yet on each occasion he found that his wife's phone was answered by a man who promptly hung up. Neither could he send messages by way of friends. After several months of trying to make contact by phone and through the services of friends, English found out what the military whom he had worked for had effected. She and his family had been transferred to another base shortly after his forced departure. She had been told that he had quit his job and deserted her and his family. For the next while Bill English would find his movements closely watched by USA Intelligence.

Several months later, while working as a security guard at a college he took the opportunity to attend a speech by Stanton Friedman with whom he conversed afterward about Grudge/Blue Book #13. Friedman, Allen Benz and Jim Lorenzen then took him back to the offices of the Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization (APRO) - a largely UFO debunking organization - where they recorded his statement.

1977 - On July 11, Dr. Gerard O'Neill, a Princeton University professor who served during a 1976 sabbatical, as Professor of Aerospace at M.I.T. and who gets nearly $500,000 each year in research grants from NASA was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times:

The United Nations, he says, has conservatively estimated that the world's population, now more than 4 billion people, will grow to about 6.5 billion by the year 2000. Today, he adds, about 30% of the world's population is in developed nations. But, because most of the projected population growth will occur in underdeveloped countries, that will drop to 22% by the end of the century. The world of 2000 will be poorer and hungrier than the world today, he says.

... the earth's 4,000-mile atmospheric layer ... greenhouse syndrome ....
His solution? He called it Island 3. There's really no debate about the technology involved in doing it. That's been confirmed by NASA's top people."

What O'Neill didn't know was that NASA was feeding his research to the combined USA-USSR Alternative-3 project.

1977 - On July 13, another Alternative-3 Police Meeting was held, as usual under the Arctic waters in a nuclear submarine, of which an American and a Russian had docked and transferred officers. As customary, 8 Americans and 8 Russians discussed current concerns:

R-2 This Princeton man ... Dr. Gerard O'Neill ... appears to have a disturbing lack of discretion ...

A-4 Sure ... he shouldn't have shot his mouth off in that way ... but I don't see there's any real harm done ... people will assume he's just talking theory ...

A-8 It is just theory, for Chrissakes, as far as he is concerned. He knows the technology but beyond that he knows nothing ...

R-5 He is a respected man ... a man whose words mould public opinion ... and he should be discouraged from making such stupid statements ....

A-8 ... Something is being done but it's being done as a blanket operation ... Right now there's a secrecy Bill being scrambled on to the Statute Book and I promise you that'll close every worrying mouth ..."

R-7 That may well be but I have to tell you that our people in Moscow are becoming increasingly worried about the level of security in America ... there was that bad business of Carmell ...

A-8 Oh no! ... not Carmell again! Carmell's settled ... that's all over, okay?

1977 - On Thursday July 14, Pavel Garmanas, 42, physicist, born in Usachevka, U.S.S.R. disappears from his new home in Jerusalem, Israel.

1977 - Near the middle of July, Archimedes Base, on Earth's moon was destroyed, killing over 150 "component"slaves and most of the "permanent" staff. All but one "designated movers' had been shipped out to Mars a short time previous.

Archimedes is a walled crater-plain on the western border of the Mare Imbrium, the Moon's "Sea of Shadows". It has a diameter of about 50 miles and has a relatively smooth ground surface. For this reason it was developed as the principal transit camp on the Moon. In photos of the crater, Fred Steckling and son, as well as others, have detected 3 domes in a cluster in one corner of the crater and have seen large cigar-shaped forms in the crater which each would measure over 20 miles in length. These space transports are provided by the GRAYS to take Batch Consignments of Components and Designated Movers separately to Mars. Their technology under human command takes people from the Earth to the Moon.

The Cassini Base, begun in 1953, was set up for observation, familiarization with living in space and a transit point for Mars. Much of Cassini was moved to Archimedes after changes in the Mars atmosphere made the project a GO for Mars colonization. Archimedes was set up as a command post for Mars as signals sent direct could never be heard on Earth monitors.

Also, the more harsh atmosphere of the Moon than Mars conditioned the new Components and Designated Movers to develop a great respect for the technology and the Administrators which and who kept them alive. Lastly, any "recruit" not fully "brainwashed" to the necessity of Alternative-3 and the means employed could easily be terminated here. By late 1963, Archimedes was in operation.

Archimedes Base was hermetically sealed under transparent linked bubbles inside which air and temperature was controlled to the levels usual on Earth. A gigantic greenhouse occupied one dome. It was designed for comfortable long-term habitation by men and women. It was first fabricated on Earth and then moved to the Moon and reconstructed.

There were 2 huge airlocks in the southern bubble into which shuttle craft arriving from the Earth and Mars entered and taxied to the central Arrival Terminal. Living quarters were spread between 3 separate domes reserved individually for Administration personnel, Designated Movers and Batch Consignment Components. After some photographic detection, camouflage was spread over the development.

In January, 1977, attempts were made to recruit a leading bacteriologist to combat the bacteria problem which was out of control on Mars. As a RED Walk-in, his only concern was in assisting in benefiting the human situation on the Earth; he refused.

Alternative-3 officers concentrated their efforts on his assistant, referred to as "The Instigator", and he accepted. He travelled to Mars in February, 1977, but it became apparent that while competent and experienced, he lacked the intuitive skill of his mentor. A-3 officers decided to send the Instigator back to the Earth to persuade his German mentor to go; they had never returned a designated mover before.

During his stay on Mars and in transit, the Instigator had learned of the "treatment" of the Components and had not been at the base in contact with them for the many months that it took some Movers before becoming detached and indifferent to their position. On his stopover at Archimedes on his return to the Earth, the Instigator was temporarily housed with a new group of Designated Movers who were on their way to Mars.

He told them about the Components being kidnapped and mutilated - information which seemed horrifying and impossible to them. The Instigator then continued on his way to the Earth where he avoided contacting the German and instead set up an Anti-Alternative-3 action group intent on disrupting aerospace activities on Earth, until Alternative 3 could be stopped. They caused an estimated $91.4 million in project losses between September 13 and October 14.

A small group of the new Designated Movers decided to investigate the claims of the Instigator by secretly visiting the segregated Component's Village. Matt Anderson, a marine biologist, 33, from Miami, Florida, became the leader. They found out enough to confirm the statements made by the Instigator. Anderson was more idealistic and compassionate that the others and he faked an injury to allow him to stay behind at Archimedes.

Ten days later, he again visited the Component's dome and saw a man who he had known years earlier at school. He was fluent and intelligent but had become a psychological slave with no will of his own left. Later, Anderson returned with a plan for evacuation of the components to the Earth. By doing so, he hoped to expose the program and end it, in its current form. The next group of Designated Movers arrived and Gowers, a highly qualified aerospace technician was among them.

Anderson spoke to Gowers and got his support.
Gowers briefed another sympathetic Designated Mover on how to operate the airlocks to allow them access to the main depot for craft on the Earth-run, south of the Archimedes Base on the far side of the mountain range known as Spitzbergen. Gowers found a suitable craft, pre-flight checked it, and Anderson organized and chose 84 of the 150 components in the village (the maximum load for the craft) for removal.

On the route to the craft, 6 resident personnel were killed by trampling or being kicked to death by the Components who Anderson had instructed to kill anyone who opposed them. The Components boarded the craft, smaller than those used for flights to Mars.

Gowers started the craft, the opening lights blinked around the airlock signalling that it was about to open, the craft hovered up to 30 or 40 feet, the airlock opened and Gowers started the craft forward. A senior resident technician at Archimedes Central Control, one of the permanent staff who survived, was alerted by shouting and screaming from the direction of the Terminal. Unable to see what was happening except that the airlock was opening, he suspected an equipment malfunction and pressed a master control override instantly closing the door. The craft, with Gowers, Anderson and the Components was almost at the door.

A technician, not a pilot, Gowers could only swerve the craft hard upward, to the left, and then overcompensating, zigzagged towards the room of the dome. The craft went out of control, went into a dive and crashed through the wall of the dome, exploding. The entire base immediately decompressed dragging even heavy objects against the dome creating more holes. The buildings groaned, broke and shot upwards into space, propelled by the air within. All 29 of the present Designated Movers died. All but 2 of the 150 Components died and all of the resident staff except for 5 drifted out to space. The seven survivors were in independent atmosphere rooms at the time. Somewhere in the region of 300 people perished. No public report was ever issued.

1977 - On July 15, the mass death of animals was reported in the London Daily Mail :

Men in face masks, using metal detectors and a geiger counter, yesterday scoured a remote Dartmoor valley in a bid to solve a macabre mystery. Their search centred on marshy grassland where 15 ponies were found dead, their bodies mangled and torn. All appeared to have died at about the same time, and many of the bones have been inexplicably shattered. To add to the riddle, their bodies decomposed to virtual skeletons within only 48 hours. Animal experts confess they are baffled by the deaths at Cherry Brook Valley near Postbridge."

1977 - During July, Meteorologist Adrian Lerman was quoted as saying:

There is more evaporation during periods of intense heat, with water vapour being drawn in great quantities from oceans, lakes, reservoirs and rivers, because warm air absorbs that vapour more efficiently than cold air.

This inevitably results in an eventual increase in precipitation.
Gerstein is undeniably right in anticipating that the greenhouse syndrome will continue to produce a great increase in global temperatures but I consider he has not laid sufficient stress on the most immediate threat to humanity - the threat of world-wide flooding. I am certain that Gerstein is wrong when he predicts that countries like England and America will become scorched wildernesses. They'll be destroyed all right ... and they won't support life ... but they'll be drowned rather than be burned. Extreme heat, such as that which will melt land glaciers. That will result in a marked rise in sea level and then there'll be the start of the extensive flooding - with London and New York among the first cities to be affected."

1977 - On July 26, the 1977 World Population Report, published by Population Concern was summarized in the London Times:

The report points out that if the present rate of population growth had existed since the birth of Christ there would now be 900 people for every square yard of the Earth. Half the fuel ever used by man has been burnt in the past 50 years. The world's population is now more than 4.000 million and increasing by 200,000 every day.

Two hundred thousand extra people on this crowded planet every single day! That is 73,000,000 a year. And that will result, in only 3 years, in more additional people than the entire present population of America!"

1977 - On July 27, report of a "Suppression" Bill being rushed through the U.S.A. legislature to become law by September, was published in the London Evening Standard:

It prohibits the publishing of an official report without permission, arguing that this obstructs the Government's control of its own information. That was precisely the charge brought against Daniel Ellsberg for giving the Pentagon papers to the New York Times.

Most ominous of all, the Bill would make it a crime for any present or former civil servant to tell the Press or Government of wrong-doing or pass on any news based on information "submitted to the Government in private".

The suggestion is that government seeks to maintain the status quo, not change it for the better. There were expectations that "leaks" of information like that of the "O'Neill interview", on July 11, 1977, would be plugged. How free is a society when the public fear that the very information which their taxes pay for, the scientific development programs they sponsor, and the policies which determine their possibilities for long-term survival are withheld from them BY LAW?

How spiritual can the actions of government employees and scientists be when they know they must do their work in secret because if the world discovered how their efforts were being used, they would be sanctioned as harshly as the German officers who operated the death camps during WWII?

1977 - On August 4, the Policy Committee of Alternative-3 rejoined in their arctic submarine conference room.

This is the first of two parts presented here. From a copy of some of the transcripts of that meeting between 8 American and 8 Russian officers came the following:

A-2 But losing a whole Batch Consignment just like that! ... I mean, hell, surely we take precautions against that sort of thing?

A-8 We had bum luck ... that's all there is to it ...

A-2 Three hundred bodies smashed to bits ... a complete write-off and that's all you can say! We had bum luck! Look, I'm not a technical man and I tend to get lost with some of this technical talk ... so will someone please explain just how a thing like this can happen ... because, I tell you, I've got a gut feeling there's been carelessness.

R-5 It is not possible to legislate against accidents of this nature ... they are part of the hazards of transportation to the new territory ...

A-2 Yes, but ...

R-5 Please ... I will explain. Meteors are very common, far more common than people realise, and about a million of them enter the earth's atmosphere so they land as solid lumps. We reckon that about 500 killogrammes arrive this way from outer space every year ...
.....

R-8 This discussion, I feel, is leading us nowhere. Our scientific people at Archimedes Base have assured us that this disaster - our first, I must emphasize -could not be avoided. And that has been confirmed by the Committee in Residence. It is hardly our function to hold another post-mortem.

A-1 That's right. We ought to be thankful there were no designated movers on board. So we lost 300 components ... is that so desperately serious? All we've got to do is fix for another collection.
.....

R-8 The legacy of that unfortunate television programme is of far more immediate importance ...

A-5 Listen ... that programme has been completely discredited. People have accepted it wasn't meant to be taken seriously, that it was no more than an elaborate joke ... we don't need to sweat blood over it ...

R-8 Most people have accepted the official statements but there are those who cannot be so easily convinced. We must not under-estimate the damage that has been done by that programme. It has made certain people think and wonder and that can be dangerous. We must make certain that its credibility is completely eradicated.

A-2 I told you we should have killed that guy Gerstein ... way back in February ... I said then he was dangerous ...

R-4 My friend is right ... he did say that. And I pointed out then that Gerstein's talk could start a panic among the masses ...

A-5 So what are you saying? An Expediency?

R-1 What value would that be now? He has said all he can possibly say. There is nothing he can add ... and now people are laughing at him. They say he is a crank. So what would be gained by an Expediency?

A-2 He should never have co-operated with those television guys ... he deserves to die and ...

A-8 I told you all before ... we don't use Expediencies for punishment purposes ... we use them only in the furtherance of the operation. So maybe we were wrong before ... maybe we should have had Gerstein killed ... but, now, I see no point ..."

1977 - On August 4, the Policy Committee of Alternative-3 rejoined in their arctic submarine conference room.

This was a continuation of the above mentioned meeting. From a copy of some of the transcripts of that meeting between 8 American and 8 Russian officers came the following:

A-2 But what about the regional officer concerned?

A-8 You're right there. He should have stopped that television crap. He's proved himself to be utterly unreliable. He failed and failed badly and what's worse, he could let us down again. The man, without any question, is a liability and I propose an Expediency.

R-2 Seconded.

R-8 Those in favour? ... Then that is unanimous. The method?

A-3 How about a telepathic sleep-job ... maybe with a gun ...

R-8 That seems sensible ... it's too soon after Ballantine for another hot-job ..."

Leonard Harman , Assistant Controller of Programmes (admin.) was the principal censor at ITV, a British television broadcasting corporation. A Science Report program on Alternative 3 had been televised a short time earlier and a book was in preparation.

On April 12, Chris Clements, an American reporter, had written a memo to Fergus Godwin, Controller of Programs at ITV, with copies to Harman, Colin Benson (ITV reporter) and Terry Dickson (ITV researcher) noting that he had relocated astronaut Bob Gordon (who had disappeared after losing his composure on a live televised interview) and asking that Benson be sent to America to do the interview.

The same day, Harman sent a Confidential memo to Godwin recommending that Clements be replaced immediately and stating "I have formed an impression from newspaper accounts that Gordon is unstable and probably unbalanced and it is no part of our function ... to hound such a man - particulary for such a ridiculous reason. We should, I suggest, instruct Clements to abandon this fool-hardy exercise and we should give priority consideration to replacing him. "

The next day, Godwin wrote a Confidential reply back to Harman:

Let us not forget that Science Report is a Network success purely because of Clements. ..."

Later that day, April 13, Godwin discussed the situation with Clements, thought it over and replied to Harman and Clements on the 14 ^th:

... I feel we would not be justified in sending Benson to America ... (unless more information is found to support the storyline)."

Clements and Dickson were committed:
They contacted Professor Gordon Broadbent who reinforced the suggestion that something covert was happening between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. It wasn't the additional transcripts which swayed Godwin. Clements could arrange for the trip cost to be covered by Benson doing a side story while in the U.S.A. Clements got the GO for Benson to travel. Benson interviewed Gordon. Then others were added: Otto Binder, Charles Welbourne, Adrian Lerman and copies of Confidential transcripts were supplied by a contact mentioned by Harry Carmell.

On May 18, 1976, Harman had written a letter to Chris Clements, the Science Report staff researcher. In it he chastised Clements for not getting authorization before doing the follow-up on the disappearance of British professionals who had ostensibly taken jobs in Australia. Seeming somewhat alarmed at the progress made, he warned that such research was a waste of money, and could not lead to the "serious programme" content previously presented. He suggested, defensively, that the sources might not be credible, that the interviewees might not be dependable, that the persons in question might have chosen to disappear for personal reasons, and that Clements discontinue using his initiative and "resume the duties prescribed in your contract".

On June 13, before the broadcast, Harman sent a memo to Fergus Godwin, Controller of Programmes at ITV which read, in part:

The whole of this particular Science Report programme, as I have told you on numerous occasions, is a blatant example of irresponsible sensationalism which will reflect adversely on the company's image. Are companies in the rest of the ITV network and those abroad aware of the troublesome and, indeed, unsavoury background to this production? I can only assume not for, otherwise, I am certain they would not be prepared to buy it. Once again, I urge you most strongly to withdraw this programme from the schedules.

On June 14, Godwin replied to Harmen:

I can no longer agree with you over the remarkable "brain-drain" investigation which has been mounted by Clements and his team. I grant that it is highly controversial and even frightening. It will also cause embarrassment in certain high places. However, I have assessed the evidence which is now in the programme - the product, I might add, of diligent research and impressive dedication - and I feel we would be failing in our public duty if we were to suppress what appears to be the unpalatable truth. ... Clements has my unqualified support."

On June 15, Harmen, more desperate, wrote a memo to Anthony Derwent-Smith, Managing Director of ITV:

... I am taking the unusual step of enclosing herewith copies of all correspondence between the Controller of Programmes and myself on the subject for I feel that, in view of the damage this production could do the reputation of the company, this is a matter in which you might see fit to intervene. I cannot urge too strongly that under no circumstances should this programme be screened."

Following, on June 15, Anthony Derwent-Smith's memo to Fergus Godwin:

It is not my practice to become entangled in differences of opinion between my Controller of Programmes and any of his subordinates - particularly when I am approached in what I consider to be an underhand manner, with no copy of the note having apparently been sent to you. ... Please deal."

On June 20, the programme Alternative 3 was screened.

1977 - On August 9, Harman wrote a letter to David Ambrose and Leslie Watkins who had proposed to write the book. He advised them that ITC had formally denied the authenticity of the program, that he wished them to not proceed with the project, and that he wanted a written undertaking that he or the memoranda would not be mentioned.

1977 - On August 15, sent a letter to the lawyer representing the authors of the book Alternative 3 insisting that his name not be mentioned in the book. He also reiterates that Sceptre Television has admitted that the program was a hoax.
It continued:

"There is absolutely no truth in the suggestion of any East-West covert action such as that described in the programme of your clients apparently intent to compound what has already been admitted as a serious error of judgement."

... The lawyer replied back to Harman that the authors were conducting there own investigation and that such was continuing, following which, in discussion with the publishers, a printing decision would be made.

Six days later, a prominent member of the British Parliament, who Harman had lobbied, sent a letter to the author's lawyer. In it he said he deplored the "misguided motives" of the author's which he felt were to capitalize on the

"alarm of my constituents ... despite the subsequent statement by the television company (that the program was a hoax).

This and another Member of Parliament tried to obtain an injunction against the printing, but were only successful in obtaining a compromise: that the back cover of the book refer to the findings as "speculation".

By August 4, too much damage had already been done by Dickson and Benson with the backing of Clements: they had uncovered too much, whether Harman could have stopped them or not. The Policy Committee held Harman responsible: he would be a "telepathic sleep job".

1977 - Beginning early in August, persons with memory blanks began appearing worldwide for a matter of weeks. A man in his mid-thirties was found wandering on a golf-course near Harpenden, England by Hertfordshire Police. He had no memory of who he was or where he had been. At the same time, Manchester, England police had a similar case with a man aged about 20.

A week later, a girl, aged between 16 and 20, was admitted to Whittington Hospital, Holloway, Britain, after wandering into the hospital building late one night. She appeared to have lost her memory of who she was and where she had been. Despite intensive efforts by doctors and detectives, her background could not be traced. Other similar cases showed up in Germany, France, Italy and Canada. All were physically fit and apparently normal apart from their memory loss. 23 other "amnesia" victims were noted at the same time. None were identified!

Were they part of a "pre-transportation" Alternative-3 consignment of labour "components"? Consider that the British movie, The IPCRESS File had been made ten years earlier in 1965. It described a process of "blanking" parts of a person's memory.

1977 - On August 28, the British Sunday Telegraph printed the article Weather Men At A Loss: it was written by the newspaper's 'Close Up' investigative team. Some of it read:

Even the meteorologists are cautiously echoing the man in the street's opinion that something distinctly odd has been affecting our climate to give us the extremes in the past two years ... Many countries have experienced strange weather phenomena over the same period. Mr. Edwin P. Weigel of the United States Bureau in Washington told me:

'We don't know what hit us.
California and other western states have had two years of drought which have smashed all-time records. Water is being rationed in some parts ...'

1977 - During September, William S. English becomes the subject of an assassination attempt while riding his motorcycle between Tucson and Sierra Vista, Arizona. Currently starting a small custom leather shop in Tucson and going to visit his father who had a Real Estate office in Sierra Vista, English was followed by a black, 1978 Lincoln Continental car.

Eventually, it tried intentionally to run over or run English off the road. Having missed him, it screeched to a stop, swung around and headed back at him again. English escaped by taking his own path over the desert on his motorcycle. This was the first of over 14 attempts that would be made against his life. A short time earlier he had relayed what he knew about the Grudge/Blue Book #13 to Stanton Friedman and representatives of APRO.

1977 - On Thursday, September 29, Dr. Gerard O'Neill, a professor at Princeton, gave an interview to Angus Macpherson, space correspondent of the London Daily Mail:

Tell humanity there's no hope and everyone applauds you.
But tell them there is a way out and they get furious."

Macpherson summarized -
Dr. O'Neill has worked for seven years on a mind-stretching scheme for the emigration of most of us into artificial colonies in outer space. ... He thinks we ought to be doing more about it. So do I. Environmentalists are really negative. They're so obsessed with Earth's problems they don't want to hear about answers. O'Neill's own answers are that we not only can colonise the solar system - but must, if human life a few generations from now is to remain civilised or even bearable. O'Neill's colonists would get away from the start from the space suits and cell-like space stations of science fiction ...

O'Neill is coming to London to present his prediction of space colonization to the British Interplanetary Society ... a legendary forum for glimpses of the future. Its members have seen a Moon-landing ship unveiled, looking eerily like the Apollo LEM, but some thirty years before it.

O'Neill continued:

"In fact, we found in space precisely the things we are most in need of - unlimited solar energy, rocks containing high concentrations of metals and, above all, room for Man to continue his growth and expansion .... A static society, which is what the Earth would have to become, would need to regulate not only the bodies and the minds of its people. I refuse to believe Man has come to the end of change and experiment and I want to preserve his freedom to live in different ways. I see no hope of saving it if we remain imprisoned on the Earth."

Macpherson's summary continued:
His colonies are planned as vast cylindrical metal islands drifting in orbit, holding inside a natural atmosphere, trees, grass, rivers and animals - a capsule of a warm Earthlike environment. He sees them reaching half the size of Switzerland, ultimately, housing 20 to 30 million people and sustained by the inexhaustible energy of space sunshine. Yet their construction, he insists, would need only the technology we already have ...

For most people of the pre-space generation, probably, the moment when the magic finally went out of the adventure came a year ago when the dream of life on Mars was dispelled by the Viking spacecraft. But for O'Neill that was another plus for space. The best thing we could have found was nobody there. The colonization of the new frontier can take place without repeating the shaming history of the Indian nation - or even the bison.

Michael Harrington-Brice, a British member of Parliament commented:

Obviously it would be far easier and cheaper to colonise a suitable and empty planet, to which we have got comparatively ready access, than to build gigantic, artificial islands in the sky."

1977 - During the year, the degree of computerization of information about individuals was criticized in the British press. Teachers in public and other schools protested the "intrusive details" they were required to supply on their pupils' "confidential record cards" - details about the children's home-life, about the behaviour and personalities of the parents.

At many schools for very young children, the students were being encouraged to keep weekly diaries about their home-life and had to write essays entitled "My Mother" or "My Father". Teachers were told that it was imperative that all possible details be supplied regularly to the local authorities.

Many other forms are required by law to be completed for reasons of taxation, banking, investment, import/export, charges under the law, medical history including strength and dose of medications, credit sources used together with the frequency of use, the timeliness of the payments, the size of the balance and an itemization of the purchases. A large minority of the work force in larger technically advanced nations resides in the civil service. Job applications, resumes, interview notes, personnel evaluation, test results, and personal habits are likely to be entered into some computer on them.

The amalgamation of all pertinent systems into one, or several, "Big Brothers" in the modern age is entirely possible. Reports on millions of people in the U.S.A. were gathered on individuals, innocent or guilty, by the FBI. In more recent times masses of those files have been computerized.

The disturbing fact about a quantity of this "personalized" information is that it promotes spurious analysis from subjectively prejudiced descriptions of what and who individuals are and what their actions and affiliations mean.

1977 - During early October, Charles Welbourne, technical journalist, was interviewed by Colin Benson of ITV Broadcasting, London, England. He stated:

That picture there (a released NASA picture of the surface of Mars) says it for me. We're told that they spent all that money putting the probe on Mars and then what do they do? They equip it, if you please, with a camera which can focus only up to one hundred metres. And that, as somebody observed, is about the size of a large film studio.

It just doesn't add up. If they'd really wanted good pictures of Mars they would have fitted a vastly superior camera system. Better cameras are available - make no mistake about that - but the one they used ... well, it was almost as if they'd deliberately fitted blinkers to the whole mission.

... You've got to remember that all these pictures we get come in through NASA - they're simply passed on to the rest of us. So if they tell us it's Mars ... well, we have to believe them. It's exactly the same soundwise, of course. I mean, we don't hear everything that's said between Mission Control and the spacecraft. There's a second channel. They call it the biological channel ... is officially just for the reporting of medical details. In fact, they switch to it whenever they have something to say they don't want the whole world listening in on ...

I've just had a crazy thought (looking at the picture of Mars). How about if that picture wasn't taken on Mars? Look at it closely ... don't you agree that could have been shot in a some studio in Burbank?"

1977 - On October 27, a paper The colonization of Mars is delivered by Benton C. Clark at the Ninth Annual Meeting, Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A. Clark will take the position that

"however bleak things look, there was at least one species which definitely could survive under martian surface conditions. That species was "homo technologicus" - us."

1977 - On Wednesday, November 16, , Marcel Rouffanche, 35, nutritionist, born in the suburb of Saint-Ruff near Avignon, France, disappeared from his apartment in Paris, France.

Was Rouffanche an Alternative-3 Batch Consignment "designated mover" prospect?

1977 - On Wednesday, November 16, at 2.10 a.m., Leonard Harman died. He was the Assistant Controller of Programmes (admin.) at ITV where the film Alternative-3 had been researched and broadcast. He had resisted its progress continually but unsuccessfully. At a policy meeting of the Alternative-3 officers, on August 4, it had been decided to eliminate him by a "telepathic sleep job ... possibly with a gun".

At his inquest, his widow gave the following information:

My husband had been depressed and rather withdrawn for some time, possibly for six months or more, but he never confided any reason to me. I knew that had been some friction ... at the studios ... but the trouble at the studios ... seemed to pass over and still my husband was no better. I urged him on several occasions to see a doctor but he told me that it was nothing serious and that I was not to fuss. ... On the .. evening of the 15th ... I didn't notice anything particularly unusual about him. ... it must have been nearly one o'clock before we settled down to sleep. Just before 2 o'clock I was disturbed by him getting out of bed. ... when he seemed to be gone for a long time ... I began to get rather worried. I had a feeling that something wasn't quite right.

I called out to him but there was no reply so I got out of bed. ... I heard a movement downstairs. I called out again but still there was no reply. ... I decided then to go down and make the drink for him. But he wasn't in the kitchen. The house was completely silent. I called out to him again but there was no reply. I was a bit frightened by this time because I couldn't possibly imagine what he could be doing.

There weren't any lights on, not until I switched on the one in the hall, ... He'd never walked in his sleep or anything. Then there was a sort of scuffling noise from the dining-room. I went in and he was standing there in the darkness in the middle of the room. I switched the light on and spoke to him but he didn't seem to hear. His eyes were open - they were staring straight at me - but he didn't seem to be aware of me or anything else. It was as if he were in a trance. He had a gun in his hand, a little pistol, and he put the barrel to his head and pulled the trigger. ... The next second he was dead." Mr. Harman had not owned a gun, and he'd never had one in the house. ... The verdict was "suicide".

Experiments proved that children ... and people in primitive tribes are usually more receptive to telepathic messages than most adults in a civilized society ... because once the intelligence has been fully developed, and once a tremendous amount of education has been absorbed, information received on a major scale directly from other minds could easily result in mental confusion.

... The barrier (of the more highly intellectualized person) can be penetrated more easily when the defences of the mind are down - such as when a person is extremely fatigued or is going through a period of great emotional stress. And the defences of the mind are never more relaxed than during sleep. That is when a person is most vulnerable to telepathic invasion.

For any action as dramatic as self-destruction there would almost have to be a synchronization of many factors. For example, it would be easier if the intended victim were at precisely the right period of his biorhythmic psi sensitivity cycle ... if the telepathic instructions were cleverly presented. ... what you do is feed him false information. You tell him telepathically (to do something which will result in his death ... in a way in which he believes he must do it to save his life). ... the variations are almost limitless. ... I'm merely telling you what is possible. Men in my field have the knowledge to make those things happen ..."

1977 - On Thursday, December 29, Eric Hillier, 27, a construction engineer, born in Melbourne, Australia, disappeared.

LET'S TRY THE TRUTH !

These are some of the realities:
It has been known / done since (2006) that ---

1. Start ---- Bob English is a real person whose history is real;
2. 1935 ---- Chimera bioengineering for cross species hybriding begins;
3. 1947 ---- Acknowledgement of UFOs by USA Executive Service advisors;
4. 1950 ---- Testing, development and use of spaceships by the USSR;
5. 1952 ---- Acknowledgement of Extraterrestrials by USA military;
6. 1968 ---- First attempted Moon landing by the Soviet Union;
7. 1970 ---- Scientific confirmation of the deadliness of Cosmic Radiation;
8. 1971 ---- Scientific decision to end any future true space exploration;
9. 1972 ---- Research in both USSR and USA on "telepathic manipulation";
10. 2000 ---- Continued inability of all governments to co-ordinate reports of and investigations into the disappearance of individuals and groups of individuals.

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Humanity has been increasingly "terraforming" the Earth for the past 4600 years with most of the change taking place in the past 500 years, and, 75% of the change being imposed since 1950. We have polluted most of the water, degraded the climate, overpopulated the land, murdered and abused countless numbers of our species, eliminated hundreds of thousands of other species --- and we think we can "improve" another planet, Mars, with the same "intelligence" ?!?!