by Steve Peek
US intelligence agencies spent years trying to learn how to create and use savants. Imagine a person who is able to glimpse a room for five seconds then later recall and draw every detail down to the specific books on the shelves.
Or someone like Kim Peek who read a book’s left page with his left eye and the other page with his right. Every five seconds, he turned the page and read the next two pages. That’s a hundred pages in about four minutes. Kim could recite word-for-word what he read with 98 percent accuracy. During his life he read more than 10,000 books, and could recall the words of all of them. He could not button his shirt, tie his shoes, or tell you what any of the words he read meant, but he was the world’s greatest human database.
After the Korean War, the US began experimenting with various forms of mind-control using US military personnel. It sounds cruel, but the same people who called this shot also stationed thousands of GIs in trenches and foxholes a mile or two from ground zero at test sites and told them not to look at the flash when the nuclear device exploded. (How many of those guys died from related diseases?)
We knew the bomb was bad for people. We had only inconvenient suspicions that dozens of mind-altering hallucinogens, shock treatments, chemically induced hypnosis, and various forms of deprivation would really harm someone.
The 1947 medical trials at Nuremberg made it clear to the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable. The United States Military Tribunal established the Nuremberg Code as a standard against which to judge German scientists who experimented with human subjects.
As the trials proceeded and we understood the true horror of what these Nazi doctors had done, we sorted out the worst. Found guilty, they were hanged, incinerated, then flown to secret locations where they were given new identities and sent to America to work for the US government. They were able to keep up the good work.
What began as Operation Paperclip in 1947 evolved into and birthed a myriad of nightmare experiments including Project Chatter, Project Bluebird, and Project Artichoke in the early 1950s.
Between 1953 and 1964, under the guise of 149 different projects, the Department of Defense, working with the CIA, gave drugs to thousands of ‘volunteers’, who were clueless as to what was really going into their bodies.
In 1973, CIA Director Robert Helms ordered the destruction of all documents related to these experiments. It was a massive cover-up. On one hand his order destroyed virtually all damning evidence that the US had participated in and led an activity we condemned during the war crimes. On the other hand, it prevented anyone from ever discovering that, after twenty years of turning young soldiers into pot-smoking vegetables with multiple flashbacks, we found what we wanted.
Before the program officially ended (we don’t know if it is really over or just rolled over into some new bundle of experiments), the good doctors were trying manually to create savants.
The vast majority of autistics are not savants. The vast majority of savants are autistic. The few that are not autistic have suffered head trauma.
By studying the brains of savants, one of the things we see is that the blood flow in the left frontal cortex is restricted.
It would not be surprising to discover that, before the CIA bailed and burned all the evidence, autistic people were subjected to brain surgery in attempts to create savants.
It would not be surprising because that has been the alien’s goals all along—breeding savants. Their approach of genetic alteration is more patient than ours.
Our make-your-own-savant lab set includes two or three doctors who alter blood flow in the brains of one or two hundred autistics. They don’t know how it needs to be altered, only that it does—pretty low odds of success.
The alien team prefers Mendelian genetics. Their doctors, hundreds of them, alter the allele in tens of thousands of people every year. They throw genetic switches that produce autism generally. They know most savants are autistic. They also throw more switches along the track of the double helix so autism is changed from recessive to dominant. Pretty soon the autism rate goes from 1:10,000 to 1:150 and continues to grow.
The aliens are playing blackjack at the Genetic Casino and, like Rainman, they are counting cards.
In 1950 the Earth’s population was estimated to be 2.5 billion people. The autism rate of 1:10,000 produced 680,000 cases. The current crop of 50 savants is harvested from this autistic population, rendering 1 savant for every 13,600 autistics.
In 2010 the world population is calculated at 6.8 billion people. An autism rate of 1:150 generates 45,333,000 cases. At the previous rate of one savant for every 13,600 cases, this base produces 3,333 savants.
If the HCU were to stop poking our peapods now, the number of people with both dominant and recessive genes that produce autism would continue to increase the occurrence rate to 1:100 by 2050. If the HCU continue to plow our peas, the ratio could easily hit 1:75. Think about it: one out of every seventy-five people on the planet could be autistic, requiring special care and education.
Why on Earth would aliens so badly need savants who can, just by looking, say how many matches fell out of a box, that you were born on a Wednesday and, two years from now, your birthday will fall on a Wednesday again?
There is no reason. Not on Earth anyway. The aliens are breeding riverboat pilots, navigators who can move vehicles safely from one port to the next on an ever-changing river of universes.
Mark Twain told of riverboat pilots on the Mississippi River in America’s early days when barges, steamships, and pole boats moved continuous streams of cargo up and down the river. At places the river’s current, affected by rainfall, snowmelt, and drought, drastically changed the sandbars on the river bottom in days, sometimes hours.
People did not want their cargo or ships running aground and being lost, so they employed pilots for specific points along the river. The pilot would board, make the captain and crew aware of any changes, then guide the boat toward or away from a swirling eddy or the opposite shore of a muddy river emptying into the Mississippi. In his section of the river, the riverboat pilot was king. He could take boats safely through in the dead of night or in lashing storm. Take him fifty miles up river and he was useless.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
To understand why a president of the United States would sell out his own people, you have to understand what the world was like at the time. After World War II, the political landscape was not at all like it is today. What we now see as empty shadows of Soviet boogeyman were real monsters in those days.
The Soviets had won World War II. If you don’t believe this, look at the casualties suffered by the Soviets and Germans on the Eastern Front. Sure Bradley lateraled the ball to Patton and let him make a couple of end-runs. Montgomery tediously nipped along the Western Front, and the 8th Air Force bombed the German war machine relentlessly and without mercy. All of that contributed to the fall of the Third Reich, but the Russians, with their millions of vengeful, battle-hardened soldiers, and their thousands of nonstop, thundering cannons, beat the hell out of the Germans. The Russians didn’t stop coming. Kill twenty, thirty, a hundred thousand, not a problem as long as they pushed the red ribbon forward on the map. There were plenty of men, tanks, and artillery. It would be only a matter of time before the Soviet army crashed into Berlin and turned the goose-stepping Wehrmacht into goose-shitting comrades.
The Russians had the biggest army in the world. Just as important, every one of them was on the European continent, their supply lines following railroad tracks back to the second-most-impressive war machine in mankind’s history of murdering one another for greed or love. When the war ended, there they sat, this giant Russian bear bristling with cannons, tanks, and bayonets, looking hungrily at the rest of Europe.
Only one thing kept them from rolling through all of Europe: they did not have an atomic bomb and we did. They knew the British and American navies and air forces would prevent them taking England. If they cr
ushed forward and claimed everything from France to Spain to Greece, it would be short lived. The US would radiate their victorious armies with nuclear bombs, and they would be back where they started. Stalin felt sure he would have an atomic bomb soon with which he could level the playing field. Then he could unleash his brutal bear again and keep what would be easily won.
If you don’t believe that during the 1950s and 60s the Soviets were intent on dominating all of Europe, then you either didn’t live then, can’t read, or had one of those all-too-common college professors who see the world as seen by the intellectual progressives in the early 1900s. All for one and one for all. Tell all the dead Soviet leaders how wonderfully that system worked.
So, the lines were drawn, the Russian bear was given Poland and Hungary and the Balkans to say, “Nice bear, good bear. Thank you for killing all those horrid Nazis.”
But the bear kept looking at all that land, people, and industry, and the Cold War was born.
The problem with the Soviet Union was it had no real industrial economy. It was a vast machine for making war. Almost all non-agriculture employees in Russia worked in some weapons-related factory. The Soviets came up with their infamous Five Year Plan. The idea was to gradually shift factories from making tanks and bombs to making clothes, diapers, furniture, shoes, and all manner of goods that they could sell to Europeans and make a profit. Since they controlled the wages, they could easily undersell European competitors.
It was a great plan. After five years it did not work, so they made some minor changes and extended it another five, and then another and another until it was obvious even to the Politburo it would never work. The reason it would never work is summed up in this famous quote from a Russian janitor who was interviewed by a French journalist in the 60s.
The journalist, who wrote for a French Communist newspaper, noticed the janitor going into a supply room for half an hour at a time. When the janitor came out with broom in hand, he smelled of vodka. He would push his broom for a half hour, put the trash in a large steel drum, then go back into the storage room. Finally the journalist asked the janitor if he felt it was right to work only half the time. The janitor said, “Why not. They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.”
Taken aback and offended by this uncomrade-like attitude, he demanded to see the janitor’s boss. The janitor said, “He’s in there,” pointing to the supply room.
So, like it or not, the Soviets were stuck with a wartime economy that would eventually fail, but it was what they had, so they became the world’s greatest rattler of sabers with the philosophy that if we threaten to take over three countries next year but back away from two, then we have a new country and a new year.
Since the Soviets could not do much other than make more weapons and maintain their enormous armies, America, and particularly James Forrestal, was faced with an enormous challenge. How to keep the Russian bear in check while at the same time reducing our military spending? Fortunately, we had the atom bomb and they didn’t: for a while.
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb and things became very serious in the US.
America is a republic. Other than judges, we don’t have leaders for life. Elected officials had to keep voters at home happy. All the soldiers and sailors returned from World War II and needed jobs. The America of those days, flush with manufacturing capacity, new techniques, new generations of machines, answered the call, and “Made in America” became a tag seen in every corner of the world. We, not the Russians, made the socks, cars, record players, TVs, and bottled soda drinks that the world clamored for. The economy was busting at the seams, but the government’s tax revenue in those days was nowhere near what it was today. The Revenue Act of 1948 set the average income tax rate at a whopping 5 percent.
So somehow, while reducing the defense budget, we had to stay enough ahead of the Soviets to keep them from bullying their way through Europe.
Enter the Truman Treaty.
The beads and mirrors the HUC offered us were just the ticket. In a year we went from being two or three years ahead of the Soviets in new weapon development to a decade ahead. It wasn’t like the HUC handed us a laser that would knock an aircraft out of the sky. Instead they provided us key pieces of information that allowed leaps to occur.
We disguised the information as research originating within secret government labs, and invited trusted universities to participate in sure-bet scientific breakthroughs. But even with pieces of the puzzle given to us, it still took time to assemble the information and formulae into theories, data, and tests. The HUC fulfilled their promise, and we stayed a decade or more ahead of the Soviets in everything except rocketry, which allowed the Soviets to win the first leg of the space race with their seventeen-pound beeping satellite, Sputnik. It was a tragic day for American pride in 1957 when we had to admit this beeping basketball orbiting Earth meant we had lost something to the red-devil Russians, who everyone knew were just waiting to push the button and make America’s children file into the school halls or curl up under their desk where they would be safe from the violent nuclear explosion that surely followed the next shrill civil-defense siren.
But the US powers weren’t that concerned with rocketry. We had Werner von Braun and the top Nazi scientists, who hurled V-1 buzz bombs and V-2 rockets across the English Channel and pissed of the Brits who, by that time of the war, thought they were through being bombed. The Royal Air force displayed their annoyance by stepping up their nighttime raids of civilian German cities, and firebombed Dresden and a few others virtually out of existence.
The problem was Congress and the American people didn’t know about all those alien beads and mirrors. It was as if a single voice of patriotism cried out demanding we win the space race. We were, after all by God, America, and it was fundamentally wrong this great nation should lose anything. So Congress, aroused from their usual stupor, went on a spending spree and funded numerous programs that would put us back into first place. And in their usual lack of oversight or follow-up, they never noticed a great deal of that money went to fund projects they had no idea existed. With the extra money, the HUC research took another great step forward.
The information that came out while trying to catch up to the Russians, who also beat us putting a man in space? Don’t worry, your astronaut heroes are safe, the moon landings were real, and most of the technology that put them there was from the Germans and our own scientists. Teflon, Velcro, and the computer technology were spin-offs of NASA.
The list of things we have today as a result of the Truman Treaty is long, and many items on it are not so benevolent as Velcro and Teflon.
Lasers, masers, and plasma torches leap to mind. The equivalent of the wheel in antigravity propulsion. (It turns out it’s not antigravity at all, but manipulation of electromagnetic fields. Einstein loved the simplicity of the theory and died a happy camper.)
Then there is stealth technology. We all saw that secret unveiled in the Gulf War. The next generation is even stealthier. In addition to being almost completely invisible to most types of radar and infrared detection systems, they are also about 90 percent invisible to cameras and eyes.
The new stealth aircraft are powered by one of two types of new propulsion systems, one of which allows the plane to cruise at mach 12 and accelerate to mach 20 in a heartbeat. The other is a tad slower, but makes up for it by allowing the craft to operate as far out as any satellites orbit. Wonder what they have in mind for that one?
Books will eventually be written about each of the technologies born from the Truman Treaty, but this isn’t one of them. But there is one technology that has become so vile I bring it to attention for two reasons.
It is perhaps the most despicable weapon ever created. I also threatened to tell what I know about it after the episode where I was nearly roadkill in Lisbon. An e-mail found its way to George Tenet, who was then head of the CIA. The information was about this not-so-secret project with a very secret
purpose. It hinted I knew everything about it, and it should be considered a shot across the bow. The more pressure the SUV drivers put on me, the more information I would release.
The result was another scene of me fleeing from Montevideo because someone was able to trace my untraceable e-mail. So here goes.
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) operates a major ionospheric research facility at Gakona, Alaska, and is based on a US Patent issued to Dr. Bernard J. Eastlund of Spring, Texas, patent application number 06/690,354 filed on January 10, 1985.
Conspiracy theorists can’t seem to contain themselves on this one. The latest is that the firing of HAARP was the cause of the 2011 earthquake in Japan that brought about the destruction and meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The official HAARP website says that it is a facility for conducting research of communications systems in the Earth’s Ionosphere. They are not lying. They do this, but they also do a growing number of other, less innocent things. HAARP was originally based on Eastman’s patent, and over the years has become a very scary thing. So scary the Russians and a number of other countries have entered the business of conducting research to improve communications systems in the ionosphere above their nations. The project is shrouded in secrecy and misinformation that encourages conspiracy theorists.
Now hear this.
HAARP was started under the aegis of Ronald Reagan as part of the Star Wars Defense Initiative. Please get online and read Dr. Eastman’s patent. It clearly states that by sending high-energy radio-frequency signals into the ionosphere we can manipulate the ions to form a plasma shield that can burn out all electronics in an incoming missile. The area of the shield theorized in the patent is approximately thirty miles in diameter. By placing three different arrays of HAARP-like antennae at specific locations relative to each other and the electromagnetic field’s jet stream over the arctic, the plasma can be manipulated to present a shield anywhere within five hundred miles of the facilities.