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UQ Wire: What's Up With the Black Budget?
Monday, 23 September 2002, 3:02 pm
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The $64 Question: What's Up With the Black
Budget?
The Real Deal with
Catherine Austin
Fitts
"Engrave this upon
my heart: ~ There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've
heard their story."
--- Mary Lou
Kownacki"What is relevant is what solves the problem.
If we had thought through real relevancies, we would be on
Sirius by now."
---- Peter
Medewar
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It
is time to deal with the 64 dollar question --- the biggest
crazy aunt in the living room.
The questions that need to
be raised in any effort to find the truth about a
significant event related to power and money in the US ---
and answered if we are to ever find the truth of how our
world works --- are:
1. WHAT HAS BEEN THE SIZE OF THE U.
S. BLACK BUDGET OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS?
2. WHAT ARE THE
SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS IN THE BLACK BUDGET?
3. WHO
GOVERNS AND MANAGES THE BLACK BUDGET AND OPERATIONS?
4.
WHY HAVE SO MANY DECENT PEOPLE SUPPORTED AN ILLEGAL BLACK
BUDGET OPERATION OF SUCH MAGNITUDE FOR SO LONG?
5. IS THE
WAR ON TERRORISM MOVING THE BLACK BUDGET ON BUDGET?
I do
not know the answer to these questions. What I do know is
that asking these questions brings up a whole pile of
challenging uncertainty. (For background on my experience
dealing with black budget/slush fund operations at FHA and
Ginnie Mae at the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), Justice, Treasury and the New York
Federal Reserve Bank, see my article, "The Myth of the Rule
of Law,"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00055.htm)
When
dealing with challenging uncertainty, I find that many
researchers simply delete the existence of such uncertainty
from their reality. That is a big mistake --- again
pretending that we do not have a very big crazy aunt sitting
in the living room. George Orwell once said that "Omission
is the greatest lie." Hence, our crazy aunt has to be dealt
with.
If you listen to the Ferdinand video/audio
depositions in the Carone/Tyree lawsuit (
http://www.blackopradio.com/inc_archives2002.html), what
you will hear is something I have heard many times. Carone
gives his family the sense of all of the organized crime
operations by CIA, Army and Mafia through the 1970's as
legitimate for national security purposes that then got out
of hand and turned bad in the 1980's. That is, what started
out as
justifiable got out of hand. This begs the
question ----
Why Were Such Activities Considered
Justifiable?
The way to deal with uncertainty is with
scenario design and probability -- ie to create a framework
of the possible explanations with your best estimate of the
plausible scenarios and the probability (all adding up to
100%) of each one being true based on intuition. Maintaining
such a framework allows data collection on key variables and
assumptions and an evolution to occur that can enlighten ---
even determine --- concrete questions and answers over
time.
So, let me tell a story, give you my framework that
I use to handle the fact that I do not have the answers and
invite your framework. I am not looking to hear only what is
wrong with my framework. I am looking to improve mine or
find a better one. Or better inform my estimate of the
probabilities that this one or that one is true. Hence, I
invite you to put forward your framework for managing this
uncertainty. If we had the truth of the issue I am going to
introduce, I dare say we could get to the bottom of 9-11
faster.
In 1998, I was approached by John Peterson, head
of the Arlington Institute, a small high quality military
think tank in Washington, DC. I had gotten to know John
through Global Business Network and had been impressed by
his intelligence, effectiveness and compassion. John asked
me to help him with a high level strategic plan Arlington
was planning to undertake for the Undersecretary of the
Navy.
At the time I was the target of an intense smear
campaign that would lead the normal person to assume that I
would be in jail shortly or worse. John explained that the
Navy understood that it was all politics ---- they did not
care.
I met with a group of high level people in the
military in the process --- including the Undersecretary.
According to John, the purpose of the plan --- discussed in
front of several military or retired military officers and
former government officials--- was to help the Navy adjust
their operations for a world in which it was commonly known
that aliens exist and live among us.
When John explained
this purpose to me, I explained that I did not know that
aliens existed and lived among us. John asked me if I would
like to meet some aliens. For the only time in my life, I
declined an opportunity to learn about something important.
I was concerned that my efforts with Arlington could
boomerang and be connected with the smear campaign and the
effects that I was managing. I regret that decision. At
John's suggestion I started to read books on the topic and
read about 25 books over the next year on the alien
question, the black budget, and alien technology.
I had to
drop from the project due to the need to attend to
litigation and the physical harassment and surveillance of
me and some of the people helping me. This process ---which
turned out to be incredibly time consuming --- I now believe
was connected with the black budget/slush fund activities
connected with FHA and Ginnie Mae at HUD. (See, "The Myth of
the Rule of Law") John then asked me if I would join the
board of the Arlington Institute.
When I attended one of
my first meetings, I joined in discussion with about 10
people which included James Woolsey, former head of the CIA
in the Clinton Administration, Napier Collyns, founder of
Global Business Network and former senior Shell executive,
Joe Firmage, John, and other members of the Arlington board.
The main topic of discussion was whether or not the major
project for the coming year should be a white paper on how
to help the American people adjust to aliens existing and
living among us. I said nothing -- just listened. Not that
long after, I dropped from the board due to the continued
demands related to litigation with the Department of Justice
and their informant.
To cut a series of additional long
stories short, when I talk with my few sources from the
military and intelligence community, I hear the same
themes:
1. Aliens exist and live among us;
2. In part
for this reason as well the accumulated investment over the
last 50 years, the technology we have access to through
the black budget is far more advanced than is commonly
understood;
3. The black budget/slush fund construct was
created to deal with this issue, which is why reasonable
people thought selling drugs to the children who were US
citizens was the better of several options ---
including the option of telling the American public the
truth and funding the expenses on budget.
As a result of
these experiences, here is my framework for dealing with
this very large pile of uncertainty.
ONE OF THE THREE
FOLLOWING POSSIBLE SCENARIOS MUST BE TRUE
SCENARIO #1.
ENTRE NOUS: The alien question is the single largest and
most expensive disinformation campaign in the history of our
race. A portion of the human race has advanced
technologically so far beyond the rest of us --- and is
attributing various things to aliens as a way of managing
their resulting risk---that we have become as aliens to each
other. To fully understand this scenario, we need to try to
understand the use of individual mind control such as
criminal hypnosis to effect financial and government fraud
and corruption and the truth, whatever it is, of wider
subliminal programming and brainwashing. These are slippery
subjects for most people to deal with unless they have the
training and ability to do so.
% PROBABILITY SCENARIO #1
IS TRUE ______ (You fill in)
SCENARIO #2 --- HOLY COW!:
Aliens exist and live among us. Planet earth is subject to
the politics, economics and laws and/or lawlessness of a
larger system or systems. The transfer of advanced
technology into a society that has not evolved governance
and legal systems to manage a world with the presence of
such technology and the influence of such other system(s)
helps to explain current events. To fully understand this
scenario, we must also try to understand the use of
individual mind control such as criminal hypnosis to effect
financial and government fraud and corruption and the truth,
whatever it is, of wide subliminal programming and
brainwashing. Again, these are slippery subjects for most
people to deal with unless they have the training and
ability to do so.
% PROBABILITY SCENARIO #2 IS TRUE
______ (You fill in)
3. SCENARIO #3 --- MUDDLED: Some
combination of (1) and (2) above.
% PROBABILITY SCENARIO
#3 IS TRUE ______ (You fill in)
TOTAL % PROBABILITY OF
SCENARIOS #1,2 & 3 BEING TRUE 100%
Could my experiences
with Arlington and the Navy or any subsequent contacts fit with a
disinformation scenario? Absolutely. I have no evidence to support any
scenario. The only evidence I believe I have is my experience dealing
with tremendous amounts of money siphoned off over the years, whether
through Iran-Contra S&L, HUD and BCCI fraud, or the latest round of
money missing from the federal government in the last five years. This
is all documented in the articles below. This cash flow and the
operations and syndicates it appears to fund are important to what
drives the governance and allocation of resources in this country and
around the globe. There is a reason that power and money are
centralizing and the rich are getting richer. I want to know what it is.
Whichever scenario is true ---and I do not know which one is ---- if we
had the truth it will help us grapple with 9-11 and the War on
Terrorism. It would also help us better understand all the efforts to
press for centralization of economic and political power that have grown
as the black budget has grown since WWII. The reality is the
possibilities of why 9-11 occurred and how it was operationalized are
impacted by the facts of the US black budget and the advanced technology
it has developed. Why would sane and even decent people think it was
the best option for the good of the whole?
We must sit in the shoes of
the person or people who gave the order ---whoever they may
be and wherever they may be ---- and understand how their
power and money worked. Why would a group with the
operational and financial capacity to effect a 9-11
operation give the green light to plan 9-11, finance 9-11,
do 9-11, stand down so 9-11 could happen, take advantage of
9-11 or to make sure the truth was not illuminated?
My
experience in Washington and Wall Street would indicate that
there is a reasonable chance that all these various people
and many in the food chain
Are Not Bad Or Irrational
People. That is, we have a better chance of finding the
truth if for purposes of our explorations we assume that the
people involved in all these roles were people like you and
me --- just with a different map of certain parts of the
world and dealing with a variety of stress and pressures
trying to build cooperation or achieve goals that we do not
understand.
Watching the federal government contract
announcements and without benefit of seeing the full budget
and assuming The Disclosure Project allegations regarding
the estimates of the black budget size, if I had to guess
today my guess would be that 9-11 has been highly successful
in permitting the black budget to be moved on budget, partly
in the normal budget and partly in the budget that is only
disclosed to the Congressional intelligence
committees.
The solution to continued growth and funding
of the black budget may have been to steal as much money and
assets as possible from the federal budget and then to move
the black budget on budget when control of media, Congress,
Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission ensured that
the legal budget was non-transparent, controlled by private
government contractors and could not be harmed or fiddled
with by Congress. (See various stories on the disappearance
of over $3.3 trillion from the federal government from
fiscal 1998-2001
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00031.htm#a
) Grossly oversimplified, by the end of the 2004 fiscal
year, covert operations and the black budget may be fully
legal, run and controlled by corporations and banks without
interference from knowledgable career civil service,
taxpayer funded, and non-transparent.
Why do I say all of
this? We do not have time to pay attention to people who use
smears like "conspiracy theorist" to waste our time. Money,
budgets, finance...these are all facts. If something does
not work, and it continues to not work, there is a reason.
Systems have a logic. They have a rationale. Money helps
explain and illuminate that rationale. Anyone who would
smear a serious researcher or writer for trying to
understand where a great deal of money is disappearing to as
a "conspiracy theorist" is someone who would never be taken
seriously or associated with in the circles in which I
travel. The exception is if the person doing the smearing is
a professional being paid to smear those who have the scent
of "the real deal" --- Cointelpro or related public
relations. The number of people paid to do such things are
many and growing.
9-11 was an operation that was
implemented by a conspiracy. To get to the bottom of what
happened and why one must develop and use conspiracy
theories to research in what can only be described as a
conspiracy reality. We know in regards to 9-11 one of two
scenarios must be true ---- some portion of the US military
and intelligence are (i) complicit and/or (ii) guilty of
criminal gross negligence. We also know that the official
story is not truthful. Either scenario and the reality of
the official story beg the question, "why?" This course
always leads us to consider the fact that US military and
intelligence have enjoyed significant expansion of their
budgets and powers as a result of 9-11. We are rewarding
failure. 9-11 was great for business. Lockheed Martin's
stock is up over 50% in a falling stock market. The oil
companies have their pipeline.
When a system does not work
and continues to not work, there is something that prevents
its learning. Ultimately what we must understand that the
problem is not that the system does not work and that it is
not learning. The problem is that the system is controlled
and operated by the most powerful forces in that system and
that the system is indeed working and learning in the
general direction they want it to go. This happens in a
manner that is highly organic and requires lots of planning,
trial and error and factionalism that involves competition
and cooperation over time in the pursuit of the system's
real goals. Hence, the system is working and is learning. It
is our construct that is wrong. We do not understand the
system and the goals of the system. Once we are clear that
the system is working and is learning, once we stop falling
back on scapegoating as a technique to explain events, we
can start to understand the real system that we are a part
of. This is how power and money work in reality.
The
amount of money and power spent to keep the general
population from understanding this --- and focused on things
like scapegoating which keep us from building a good map of
"the real deal" or gaining the power to impact events by
using our money and time as a vote in the marketplace in
which the banks and corporations must thrive ----is immense.
That is why I strongly encourage reading Jon Rappoport's
back interviews on his Infomonster and becoming a subscriber
for his ongoing interviews.
For those would like to know
more, I would refer you to articles on all the money missing
from the US Treasury and the manipulation of the gold
markets as well as the Disclosure Project video of their
event at the National Press Club. You can find them on the
web. As for me, I do not have the answers. I wish I did.
That is why I am so appreciative of efforts like UnAnswered
Questions (http://www.unansweredquestions.org) and the
effort of researchers networking and collaborating globally
to illuminate, research and answer the right
questions.
Let me close with the unanswered questions with
which I began and which I believe are critical to our
ongoing collaboration:
1. WHAT HAS BEEN THE SIZE OF THE
U. S. BLACK BUDGET OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS?
2. WHAT ARE
THE SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS IN THE BLACK BUDGET?
3. WHO
GOVERNS AND MANAGES THE BLACK BUDGET BUDGET AND
OPERATIONS?
4. WHY HAVE SO MANY DECENT PEOPLE SUPPORTED
AN ILLEGAL BLACK BUDGET OPERATION OF SUCH MAGNITUDE
FOR SO LONG?
5. IS THE WAR ON TERRORISM MOVING THE BLACK
BUDGET ON
BUDGET?
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Anti©opyright 2002, Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari PO Box 157 Hickory Valley, TN 38042 www.solari.com
catherine@solari.com
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Catherine
Austin Fitts is the President of Solari, Inc., a former
Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing
Commissioner in the first Bush Administration and a former
partner and member of the board of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc
and President of Hamilton Securities. She is a member of the
advisory board of Sanders Research Associates
http://www.sandersresearch.com/ in London and publishes
a column in Scoop Media in New Zealand
http://www.scoop.co.nz/ called
The Real Deal. Links to all her articles can be found at:
http://www.solari.com/gideon/articles%20by%20caf.htm
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