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originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
Is it real suicide or "suicide"?
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
There was an unwritten rule in CI and weapons research, "When the job is done, so are the engineers and scientists." Certain people in project development and management can't be compartmentalized. Some researchers manage to put together the big picture and in their excitement blab that they figured it out. Really smart people can be stupid sometimes and most of them don't have the survivalist or military skills to avoid retirement.
Cheers - Dave
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
There was an unwritten rule in CI and weapons research, "When the job is done, so are the engineers and scientists." Certain people in project development and management can't be compartmentalized. Some researchers manage to put together the big picture and in their excitement blab that they figured it out. Really smart people can be stupid sometimes and most of them don't have the survivalist or military skills to avoid retirement.
Cheers - Dave
Yeah, I have a feeling that this might be closer to the truth. I suspect that if they were working on DEW's that much of that might not be able to be compartmentalized down to a point where specific processes can't be duplicated to make much of the weapon or at least reduce the research greatly.
The term military-industrial complex was first used by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address on January 17, 1961. Eisenhower warned that the United States must “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex,” which included members of Congress from districts dependent on military industries, the Department of Defense (along with the military services), and privately owned military contractors (e.g., Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman).
Eisenhower believed that the military-industrial complex tended to promote policies that might not be in the country’s best interest (such as participation in the nuclear arms race), and he feared that its growing influence, if left unchecked, could undermine American democracy.
Evidence of Revision is a 9 hour long documentary series whose purpose is to present the publicly unavailable and even suppressed historical audio, video, and film recordings largely unseen by the American public relating to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, the little known classified Black Ops actually used to intentionally create the massive war in Viet Nam, the CIA "mind control" programs and their involvement in the RFK assassination and the Jonestown massacre and other important truths of our post-modern time.
The U.S. Government's Orwellian Office of Public Diplomacy has been in existence in various forms and under various names since World War ONE.
originally posted by: The GUT
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
Dang, Unca Bob...that is intriguing as heck. I'd ask you to elaborate but it seems it might be better for you not to.
Congress was the money facilitator, and thus an integral part of the MIC.
originally posted by: The GUT
a reply to: MissSmartypants
He missed the boat on that then!! I did not know that. Thanks for the history lesson...unless you were being funny and making a good point at the same time?
It was not only a honorable thing for Eisenhower to bring up on his way out, but he was virtually obligated to if he wanted to retain some sense of self-respect & duty. He got suckered by Allen & Foster Dulles and we ain't been the same since.
originally posted by: Elementalist
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
You've just dropped a BOMB in the middle of a thread, about yourself.
You going to have to put up or shut up uncle Bob. And I mean that sincerely old timer.
A lot of shady s# happened within the USA government and military industrial complex during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
I'm sure lots has happened on the inside that would rattle your average American Citizen, and so they deserve bits of the truth.
@OP Thanks for bringing this up, never heard of it before and seems very interesting. My pass time just got more interesting thx to this thread
originally posted by: infinite8
Bobs_uruncle Dave,
Can you tell us the book you published so we can buy it?