SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (13 page)

Moreover, the positioning of these Paperclip Project Nazis in key American defense industries may be an indicator of something far different taking place:
the extension of influence by means of interlocking personnel in many management positions.
This may easily be understood by recalling a method noted by many other writers on conspiracy, namely, that the method whereby power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands by such financial dynasties as Rockefeller, Morgan, Warburg, or Rothschild, was simply to insist, as part of a condition of receiving a loan or grant from their institutions, that those institutions themselves were allowed to seat a representative on the loan recipient’s governing board. This was usually done by collateralizing the loan with stock in the company receiving the loan.

Here, a similar pattern is at least implied: these Nazi scientists may have been acting to extend their own independent network of power and influence throughout the American military-industrial complex by being seated in senior management positions in return for their expertise. We shall present evidence later that will corroborate this. In any case, viewed against the backdrop of General Gehlen’s effective preservation of his spy network and its grafting and penetration into postwar American intelligence, the picture that now emerges from the Torbitt document is chilling in its potentialities.

Each of the Nazi connections alluded to in the Torbitt document indicate influential Nazi presence not only in America’s space program, but moreover, strongly hint of Nazi influence
in the awarding of contracts
for the space program, Nazi influence in control of the
security
of the space program, Nazi influence in the
intelligence organs
of America and the West, Nazi influence in the
defense and aerospace industries
, and Nazi influence lurking in the background of Permindex, “Murder Incorporated.” Indeed, Von Braun himself may be viewed as the best exemplar of the type of smiling, glad-handing “networking” that make such influence possible, for shortly after arriving in the United States, he made a point of befriending none other than J. Edgar Hoover, and the then Senator Lyndon Johnson.
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And who was one of the individuals who helped expedite Von Braun’s and Dornberger’s repatriation to the United States? None other than Clay Shaw, the man Garrison would ultimately indict for conspiracy to murder President Kennedy.
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The transfer of the Nazi Project Paperclip scientists was also aided by none other than General Gehlen.
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All we know about the pseudonymous William Torbitt was that he was a prominent attorney in South Texas politics in the 1960s and 1970s.
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This makes the Torbitt Document’s revelations all the more sensational. While some might be inclined to dismiss its many claims out of hand, a picture does emerge of quietly exercised Nazi influence behind the scenes, an influence working in conjunction with other interests – big oil, technology suppression, Mafia, gambling and money laundering, aerospace and defense – and working effectively at that.

Moreover, the Torbitt Document suggests, albeit only slightly and only on very careful reading, that there is some
hidden
aspect to America’s space program, a hidden aspect represented by the mysterious Defense Industrial Security Command and its head, Werner Von Braun. It suggests that this was one of the many motivations represented by the various groups that whose interests coalesced in the murder of the President. But beyond that, it does not go. And this leaves a very disturbing question hovering in the air:

If there
was
some hidden aspect to the space program, and if its principals had some motivation for participating in the murder of the President, what was it? What did this hidden aspect of the space program have to gain? Or, alternatively, what about President Kennedy threatened it; what did it have to protect? Or was it some combination of both? To answer these questions requires an examination of some of the other versions of the Two Space Programs Hypothesis, even, as we shall see, the absurd ones.

2. The False Planetary Geology, Climate, and Archaeology
Versions:

a. The Absurdist Versions

One may summarize the “absurdist” versions of the Two Space Programs very easily:

The Moon has an atmosphere and water, and even vegetation.

Venus, beneath its canopy of clouds, is not the carbon dioxide pressure-cooker and barren desert greenhouse we’ve been told, but rather, a temperate planet of rich vegetation, a veritable paradise.And, if one believes Adamski – and this author most decidedly does
not
– it is home to a wonderful race of peaceful, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, human space brothers who come in peace to bring earthbound humanity a message of hope.

And Mars really
does
have canals, and, thankfully, isn’t planning an invasion of Earth anytime soon.

But what has this to do with a hidden and public space program?

Very simple: according to the absurdist version the governments of the world that
have
space programs have hidden the truth about the planets of our solar system, carefully doctoring pictures to edit out any evidence that shows any of the above!

b. A Scientifically and Politically Plausible Version:

The Hoagland Model

A much more serious model, and much more plausible one, has been argued in various ways over the years by Richard C Hoagland, best known for his association with the ongoing investigations of the anomalous Martian surface features in the Cydonia region of Mars, features he believes strongly suggest an artificial origin.

While an extended presentation of Hoagland’s views is not possible here – after all they have evolved over many years of continual research, requiring a scholarly study in their own right – there are certain stable features that one may point to as summarizing some aspects of his version:

1.
The Brookings Report
: Immediately after its formation, NASA commissioned a study of the possible impact of human contact with an extraterrestrial civilization in its explorations of the solar system, or alternatively, with human discovery of any
artifacts
of such a civilization. As Hoagland has pointed out on more than one occasion, the Brookings report indicated that there might be severe cultural implications and repercussions of such discoveries or events. Thus, Hoagland argues, the government may have adopted the policy, based on the Brookings recommendations, of
concealing
such discoveries.

2. In this context, one way of concealment is the alteration of photographic or other scientific data that indicates the presence of such contact or civilization artifact. Another method is the outright dismissal of evidence after-the-fact, such as NASA’s post-Viking dismissal of the Face on Mars as nothing but a “trick of light and shadow.” These and other tactics were subsequently employed by NASA down to the present whenever anomalous findings are returned by space probes.

3. A third component of Hoagland’s view is that there is a “hidden space program”, or better, group within NASA, exercising influence in an esoteric or occult direction over the scheduling, naming, and symbolism attached to missions. In support of this allegation, Hoagland has noted the high predominance of Masons in the astronaut corps, particularly in the formative days of NASA during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Additionally, Hoagland has also maintained that many missions are designed to align with significant celestial (astrological) correlations, as if space missions were deliberate acts in a vast system of ritual magic being done on a planetary scale via the space program itself.

4. The final and most important component in Hoagland’s model is that the surface features of Cydonia on Mars encode a lost “hyperdimensional physics,” a physics Hoagland sees in evidence in the planetary upwellings of energy at the “tetrahedral latitude” of 19.5 north or south degrees on every celestial body in the solar system.

While such assertions may sound fantastic, the fact that they are made by someone of Hoagland’s stature is significant, and, as we shall see below, the more one digs beneath the surface of various versions of the Two Space Programs Hypothesis, and the more details one uncovers, Hoagland’s version seems to pale into mundane normalcy by comparison.

3. The “Alternative Three” Version

Among the many versions of the Two Space Programs Hypothesis, none is more bizarre nor more famous than the
Alternative 3
version.

Alternative 3
was a “documentary” produced for the British science series
Science Report
, which aired on Anglia television in the 1970s. Originally scheduled to air on April 1, 1977, the broadcast was delayed and did not air until June, though in the production credits April 1 is listed as the date. The “documentary” was one hour long, and makes interesting viewing.
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Ostensibly the “documentary” begins by investigating the so-called “brain drain” that was affecting Great Britain during the 1970s, as many of her top scientists and engineers left the country for more prosperous and promising positions overseas, most notably in Canada and the United States, and to a lesser extent Australia and New Zealand. Moving quickly, the documentary “uncovers” the cases of three scientists who simply were never heard from again, despite attempts of their “families” to contact them. Finally, one scientist died in a mysterious automobile accident, allegedly after placing a telephone call from a remote country phone booth to a journalist friend of his, to whom he had sent a computer memory tape.

On the tape, when it was finally “decoded” by the indefatigable investigative journalists of Anglia Television, was a video recording of an alleged joint Russian-American Mars landing in 1962, complete with video recording of sub-surface life burrowing a furrow on the ground to the wild and thrilled cheers of the Russian and American ground control crews in the background!

With missing scientists and engineers, a mysteriously dead scientist, and a computer tape of an alleged Mars landing, the journalists learn of a hidden, secret joint space program being conducted by the Americans and Russians, a component of which was to persuade the best and brightest of the world’s scientists to participate in the gradual, and very secret, colonization of the Moon and Mars. The purpose of this colonization? The world’s elite had concluded that the planet was being destroyed by humanity, and that overpopulation had passed the point of no return, and that life on Earth was doomed. Three alternatives were discussed to save the situation. The first was to explode nuclear warheads in the atmosphere, in an attempt to create a “hole” which would bleed off the pollution. The second was to build vast underground installations in which humanity could survive when the surface became unviable. And the third,
Alternative 3,
was to seek new planetary homes on the Moon and Mars.

The secret space program was thus a modern-day Noah’s Ark, and the most heinous crimes were being perpetrated to ensure the success of
Alternative 3.
There, more or less, is where the “documentary” ended.

But the
story
did not end. In fact, the network was flooded with calls from thousands of people who professed their belief in the whole wild scenario, and who in some cases added their own stories of encounters with the “hidden masters” of the project.

The problem was, the whole program was a complete hoax, an elaborate April Fools’ Day joke, intended as such by the producers and authors of the teleplay, David Ambrose and Christopher Miles,
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a fact that would have been evident from careful examination of the closing credits, with its very clearly stated date, and long list of cast which included professional actors.
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The story would not die, however, and was soon followed by a badly-written book of the same title, about which more in a moment.

To one Canadian inquiring about the truth of the “documentary,” co-author and producer Christopher Miles stated:

“The idea for the film and subsequently the book, was something that David (Ambrose) and I dreamed up over a lunch together in London, as I was getting rather tired of the docu-drama on television and wanted to prove how easy it is to lead the general public up the proverbial garden path! I am sorry that you were one of them and if you look at the film or read the book, you will realize that there are hints of its unauthenticity all the way down the line.

Of course it has a sprinkling of fact in it, but the basic show is a complete hoax and if you think a bit more yourself, you would realize this was the case.”

In an interview, however, Miles commented in a somewhat more mysterious fashion, saying, “Let’s say that all the facts in the show were true and all the lies untrue.”
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The documentary’s inconsistent acting is mirrored in the book’s incongruous slurry of wildly unconnected “data” all served up as “corroboration” of the secret space program and its nefarious activities:

The death of fifteen wild ponies in Dartmoor, England, is mentioned, an episode reminiscent of the cattle mutilations prevalent in the U.S. beginning in the mid-60s. Factual CIA MKULTRA mind control atrocities are also mulled over, but not in particular detail, and with no credible link to
Alternative 3
. Along the way instances of Russian-American cooperation in space are described, and we are offered accounts of the plights of several amnesia victims, but none of this has much to do with the core of the
Alternative 3
thesis.
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