Drugs, steel, and MKULTRA: engineering the super-soldier

Aug23 by Jon Rappoport

Drugs, steel, and MKULTRA: engineering the super-soldier
by Jon Rappoport
August 22, 2013
www.nomorefakenews.com
The reference here is a January 2013 report funded by the Greenwall Foundation titled: “Enhanced Warfighters: Risk, Ethics, and Policy.”
The report utilized military consultants, and reflects what the National Security State is promoting as “the wave of the future.”
Of course, this is a done deal. Enhancement is already an overall experiment.
Here is a key quote from the report: “…cognitive and physical enhancements aim to create a super-soldier from a biomedical direction, such as with drugs and bionics.”
This indicates pharmaceutical attempts to increase endurance, focus, and pain threshold, but also to alter states of mind: mood, emotional range (restricted), attitude (controlled, stepped up aggression).
Whatever mad chemists can fantasize about—for instance, the boosting of leadership traits—they’ll try to induce it in the lab.
Bionics, of course, means the replacement of body parts with machines. This would function as repair, in the case of wounds, but robotic devices would be installed simply because they work better than flesh. In which case, we can look forward to replacement as a general strategy—without the prior need for wounds.
“Listen, soldier, if we give you a new eye, you’ll be able to spot an enemy combatant at five hundred yards…and this miniaturized transmitter can be joined to your brain so you can receive commands directly from headquarters.”
With utter frankness, the Greenwall report continues: “For battle, we want our soft organic bodies to perform more like machines.”
This statement leaves no doubts about intentions. It also suggests that the number of bionic replacements per soldier isn’t limited. The goal is effective performance, come hell or high water, whatever it takes.
There’s more: “Somewhere in between robotics and biomedical research, we might arrive at the perfect future warfighter: one that is part machine and part human, striking a formidable balance between technology and our frailties.”
Why not call these soldiers human drones? Launched from command central, mission orders stored in their brains, operated remotely, their capabilities completely understood as elements of a program, the soldiers would fulfill the military meaning of war: complete victory as a function of underlying algorithms, regardless of the human cost.
This is the eternal wet dream of the war-makers.
It also happens to be the environment of video games. Therefore, volunteers should be plentiful.
“You’re only giving me one new arm and an enhanced ear? I was hoping for more. What about my brain? What can you do for me there?”

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For those who still wonder whether the famed CIA MKULTRA mind control program of the 1950s continued after the announced cut-off date, your question is answered. Coerced brain and behavioral conditioning is at the core of creating the super-soldier.
Think about the money. The military can’t afford to risk trillions of dollars on pharmaceutical enhancement and body-part replacement, without also controlling the thoughts, responses, and actions of its high-priced personnel.
Technocrats are surely lining up, at the Pentagon, to provide this all-important MKULTRA element of warfare.
“Hi Mom. I’m home from the theater of operations. Don’t worry, I may look different with all these new enhancements, but I’m still your son. By the way, the girls love the new parts! And the Army spent $30 million on me! I’m very valuable! Oh…one little thing. If while we’re talking, I suddenly shut down or begin talking to someone who isn’t in the room, it’s okay. It’s business. What’s for supper?”
Finally, consider this. An all-out operation to transhumanize the military could not take place unless there is absolute dedication to fighting wars without end.
You don’t re-build humans for a future of skirmishes or peace treaties.
Jon Rappoport

Mortgage Crisis Hits Again – Round 2

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US Debt Six Times Greater Than Declared – Study

The United States has accumulated over $70 trillion in unreported debt, an amount nearly six times the declared figure, according to a new study by University of California-San Diego economics Professor James Hamilton.

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August 6, 2013
The unique aspect of Hamilton’s study  is that he examines federal debt that has not been publicly released, specifically the government’s support for “housing, other loan guarantees, deposit insurance, actions taken by the Federal Reserve, and government trust funds.”
Since the global economy hit rock bottom in 2008, US federal debt has gone through the roof, increasing from $5 trillion to an estimated $12 trillion in 2013. Meeting the interest payments alone on that debt burden presents a formidable challenge for US taxpayers: In addition to the debt, Americans must pay back around $220 billion annually just in interest.
And with interest rates set to rise from their historic lows, Americans will be confronted with a significantly higher bill in the future. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office anticipates that net interest expense on US federal debt will exceed the entire defense budget by 2021.
This fiscal horror story playing out across America, however, is actually much worse than publicly recognized.
Much of the current debt load is a direct result of the Great Recession of 2008, which saw an unprecedented effort on the part of Washington to rescue the US economy from financial ruin.
This led to a series of controversial operations on the part of the US Federal Reserve known as “quantitative easing” or “large-scale asset purchases.” The aim of these programs was that by buying long-term securities, the Fed would be able to lower the long-term interest rate, encourage investment and get the economy rolling again.
According to Hamilton, “the net effect of the Fed’s emergency lending between 2006 and 2008 was to increase the net indebtedness of the federal government by over a trillion dollars, balanced by acquisition of corresponding assets (the emergency loans).”



The real shocker in the report, however, came with the cost of Medicare and Social Security, which ran at $27.6 trillion and $26.5 trillion respectively. 
Hamilton could not conceal his surprise at the findings.
“These numbers are so huge it is hard even to discuss them in a coherent way,” he said before providing a caveat on the US demographic situation. “The US population is aging, and an aging population means fewer people paying in and more people expecting benefits. This reality is unambiguously going to be a key constraint on the sustainability of fiscal policy for the United States.
“One would think we should be saving as a nation today as preparation for retirement, and if in fact we are not, the current enormous on-balance-sheet federal debt is all the more of a concern.”
It is not just the sick and elderly, however, who are adding to the US debt burden. Government loans for students also featured high in the report.
The US Department of Education approved $714 billion at the end of 2012, which is a significant jump from the $104 billion issued at the end of 2007.  But with the US economy failing to generate new jobs, many of these now college graduates lack the financial means to return their debt.
Although the report paints an extremely worrisome picture of America’s fiscal situation, some say it may actually be overly optimistic.
The US debt burden is much greater says Boston University economics professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff, who served on President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers.
“If you add up all the promises that have been made for spending obligations, including defense expenditures, and you subtract all the taxes that we expect to collect, the difference is $211 trillion. That’s the fiscal gap,” Kotlikoff said in an interview with National Public Radio. “That’s our true indebtedness.”
According to the US National Debt Clock, the US government has a $16.8 trillion debt, which comes out to be over $53,000 for each US citizen. Looking at those steadily accumulating numbers, it is difficult to see how the US will square the circle of a steadily-aging population together with the harsh reality of the modern economy.
Robert Bridge is the author of the book, Midnight in the American Empire, which examines the dangerous consequences of excessive corporate power in the United States.

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Anthony Weiner’s Sexting Partner Makes Porno: “Weiner And Me”

• http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/08/23189-anthony-weiners-sexting-partner-makes-porno-weiner-and-me/

Kristin Tate

August 21, 2013 11:27am PST

As if it couldn’t get any worse for democrat Anthony Weiner, his sexting partner Sydney Leathers released a porno called “Weiner And Me.”

The video is released when Weiner’s ratings are at an all-time low. The NYC mayor candidate is married with kids.
The adult video will be released today, and was produced by Vivid Entertainment. The new porno is separate from the other racy shoot she previously did with Vivid. There was no sex in that first video.

The new video is described in a report by the Daily Mail:

In one scene, Leathers is walking down the street wearing a fake campaign T-shirt that reads ‘Erect Carlos Danger For Mayor’, poking fun at the infamous screen name he used during their online affair.
The movie also features an actor playing the mayoral candidate himself.

In one still from the video, 23-year-old Leathers is seen with a stripey tie around her neck with a look of ecstasy etched on her face. In another, she can be seen unbuckling his pants.

Leathers admitted there is sex in the video and said she thought to herself, “might as well.” She said, “There is sex, but it has some really funny bits too. That’s part of the reason I agreed to do it.”

She explained, “My whole thing is, even if I’m cashing in my body, it’s my body to cash in on. It was my choice. No one knows what’s best for me better than I do. And obviously I wouldn’t have done it if I thought it was going to ruin my life.”
Leathers is also releasing a song called “Weinerizer” (a play on Britney Spears’s “Womanizer). She broke the news about the parody song to Howard Stern last month. 
Weiner was caught sending extremely explicit messages back and forth with Leathers on the internet. The news broke as he was leading in the polls for NYC mayor. Leathers seems to love the spotlight, and doesn’t seem to mind that the scandal broke. 

As reported by the Daily Mail:

First she announced she was doing the porn movie, then she cashed in on her name by modelling a line of leather-based clothing after becoming the face of ApparalNY’s latest collection
After that, the once-political blogger decided to turn things in a more literary direction by releasing a guide to having a sexual relationship with a politician – a ten-point plan for others who might want to follow in her footsteps.

This woman is a mess. But her train wreck sure is fun to watch — and so is Anthony Weiner’s! So I suggest we all get a bowl of popcorn, sit back, and wait for the next Weiner/Leathers scandal to break.

Porn Industry Shut Down After Porn Star Tests Positive For HIV

http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/08/23221-porn-industry-shut-down-after-porn-star-tests-positive-for-hiv/

Kristin Tate

August 22, 2013 12:29am PST

The porn industry in San Fernando Valley, California has been completely shut down after a lead actor tested positive for HIV on Wednesday.
As you can imagine, the “actress” had many sex partners. All of them are currently being tested for HIV. The tests are being administered by Adult Production Health and Safety Services.
Thankfully, the HIV-positive female was relatively new on the porn scene, so she might not have racked up as many sexual partners as a more seasoned actor.
The woman has not been named at this time.
Most professionals in the porn business are in shock and fear risk of disease in light of the positive HIV test. However, once that risk is gone the industry will be back up and running.
Diane Duke, executive director of the industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition, said she thinks the HIV-positive female did not receive HIV from a fellow porn actor. Duke said, “In fact, since 2004 there have only been two cases of performers testing positive for HIV and neither of those situations involved on-set transmission.”

As reported by the Daily Mail:

The industry briefly put a similar moratorium in place last year after nearly a dozen performers were infected during a syphilis outbreak.
Word of the latest moratorium quickly drew critical responses from porn industry opponents. Among them was Michael Weinstein, whose group the AIDS Healthcare Foundation successfully lobbied voters last year to adopt an ordinance requiring actors use condoms in the making of most porn films.
‘How many adult film performers have to become infected with an array of preventable sexually transmitted diseases — including HIV, which is not curable — before the porn industry actually complies with the law requiring condom use,’ he said in a statement.
Since the ordinance’s adoption, county officials have said they are investigating one violation.
Assemblyman Isadore Hall III, who is pushing for the state to adopt a similar law, called Wednesday’s news ‘devastating and preventable.’
‘Exposing workers to this type of harm would not be accepted in any other industry in this nation,’ the Los Angeles Democrat said.
The industry, which says its audience does not want to see condoms, is fighting the Los Angeles County measure in court.

Last week, a judge decided that it is unconstitutional to require porn stars to wear condoms.
The porn industry wants to continue to self regulate, despite incidents like the HIV-positive test.
What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments section below.

Self-driving cars right around the corner thanks to Google partnership

• By Graham Templeton on August 23, 2013
• http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164674-self-driving-cars-right-around-the-corner-thanks-to-google-partnership

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The automotive business is conservative. Outside of a few visionary companies, most motor-vehicle corporations need to be dragged into the future kicking and screaming. Even something as simple as adding stereo systems to cars was resisted by many, and it took overwhelming consumer preference to drive the change on a large scale. Whether it’s seat-belts or crumple zones, LED headlights or ABS breaks, car companies have long proved they will resist changes out of fear of disturbing their delicately balanced business ecosystem. This tendency is probably one of the biggest impediments to self-driving cars; Google is hardly a known and trusted quantity in the automotive business, and their radical new approach to driving is sure to alienate some of the companies it most needs to charm.
This week Google made some progress toward heading off this problem, with a deal forthcoming between the Internet giant and German autoparts manufacturer Continental AG. A similar deal may also be in the works between IBM and the auto company. Continental brought in upwards of $40 billion in revenue last year, and maintained relationships with virtually every major car company in North America, Germany, and Japan. If Google wants a partner in bringing their technology to the automotive establishment, Continental is a strong choice.
The German company is best known for their hugely successful line of tires, which rank fourth in the world, but they are just as ubiquitous in less visible areas of the automobile, producing brakes and transmission parts that make them an important part of the industry as a whole. Continental recently signed a deal with Cisco Systems to create a “connected car” with better internet functionality than ever, and has tried to build a specialization in lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. While this latter push hasn’t come to much, it’s clear that they have an eye on the future. Continental is interested in becoming a bigger player, and cornering new markets as they emerge.

This BMW car test car was recently spotted driving itself through the streets of Silicon Valley.

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As early as 2011, the CEOs from GM, Nissan, Audi, BMW, and other major automotive companies were calling 2020 the threshold year for self driving cars. They all seem to agree that the revolution is coming — they just don’t necessarily seem too happy about it. Perhaps that’s because self driving cars are projected to put large portions of the industry out of work by reducing the need for repairs and maintenance through better, more precise driving.
Even partial automation could make use of Google and IBM’s technology though, especially when provided through an existing partner like Continental. Many companies will be bringing cars capable of limited automation, often limited by top speed and designed for the most tedious sorts of stop-and-go traffic. The cars are legal for testing in 3 states (Nevada, Florida, and the all-important California), but there are moves to stop such legalization. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants states to start banning the vehicles until the technology is more fully tested. They have proposed a five-point classification system, from 0 (no automation) to 4 (full automation).
At present it’s the luxury vehicle manufacturers that are making the most progress toward commercial self-driving cars. Technology from rival supplier Bosch was recently spotted on a BMW test vehicle in California. Google has a major leg up in terms of both test-miles driven and name recognition with the public. They need to capitalize on that lead by partnering with a company with experience in the market — and it seems like they’re on their way.
[UPDATE] – A former Wall Street Journal technology reporter is claiming sources have indicated Google will develop their own full-fledged car. If true, this makes a strategic partnership with experienced international manufacturers all the more important. Indeed, Continental is rumored to be one of the main forces making this as-yet-unconfirmed project possible.

Official China News Website has section/website dedicated to Snowden and Blasting U.S. - Calls U.S. "Wolf/Tyrant doing Evil" and Obama Lying

Official China News Website has section/website dedicated to Snowden and Blasting U.S. - Calls U.S. "Wolf/Tyrant doing Evil" and Obama Lying

The People's Daily Website in China for news is the "official" government controlled website of news.

I have been amazed at what they have been putting on the site.  They now have an icon with a picture of Snowden and Prism that you can click on for their coverage of the U.S. spying and hacking around the world.   

Needless to say they blast the U.S. over and over again and imply that Obama lies along with Hillary Clinton.   They even use the words "Tyrant intent on Evil" for the U.S.

This is a picture they have up on the 2nd page of their story of "Wolf and the Lamb" which is about the U.S. being a wolf around the world.    The picture says a thousand words... the U.S. lies  as does Obama, in their opinion.

I did a video with all the information about their website and articles dedicated to Snowden.  They have come out with the gloves off and they imply they will release information about what the U.S. has done if the U.S. continues to accuse China of spying through the internet and hacking.   

Notice that the U.S. has been silent about China and spying since the Snowden revelations?   I guess the U.S. is taking the threat from China seriously.  China also had an article about how great their relationship is with Russia now.   So, is it any wonder the two countries worked together and got Snowden first out of Hong Kong/China and now he has asylum in Russia?

For China to write this and have a site dedicated to Snowden shows they are very upset and will not take anymore from the U.S.

All of it is in the video              

Preview–History Needs a Reset Button

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Beyond Data Wars, Boeing “Champ”

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Go Time: “Pentagon is Making the Initial Preparations for a Cruise Missile Attack”

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They Actually Expect Us To Have Faith In These Financial Markets After This Week?

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Student Attacks Publishing Cartels to Make Textbooks Open Source

• Andy
• August 23, 2013
• Textbooks

With a new college year looming, students will soon be expected to empty their bank accounts to buy textbooks to accompany their chosen course. These expensive books are controlled and published by large companies and their approach has been likened to that of a cartel. For one student it’s all become too much and he’s now on a mission to dismantle the cartel by informing students everywhere where to download textbooks for free. The EFF are a little worried but other lawyers are offering encouragement.
Almost every year in August, just before the start of the new school year, TorrentFreak is contacted by individuals and groups determined to do something about a long-standing annoyance.
That problem is school textbooks, their astonishing cost, and the fact that they constitute a compulsory purchase. Students must spend anything north of around $1000 per year on textbooks and unnecessary annual updates often render last year’s product obsolete, meaning that getting a used bargain is not really an option.
This unrealistic situation, every complainant notes, is down to the monopolistic practices of the major textbook publishers. In the past torrents sites have tried to do something about the problem, but this year student Tristan Lear is on a one-man mission to seriously disrupt the market.
Speaking with TorrentFreak, Lear says that his mission is to take down the publishing industry and replace it with an alternative open source system.
“Textbooks and pharmaceutical meds have one thing in common: their manufacturers market their products to someone other than the person who actually has to pay for it,” Lear says.
“The publishing industry no longer has a product to sell, because modern technology (the Internet, wiki structures, etc) can better facilitate the relationship between content authors, editors, professors and students. According to the capitalist narrative, a better system or product should compete and win against an incumbent piece of crap. This hasn’t happened though, due to the position of the textbook publishers in what we now call the academic-industrial complex.”
Lear says the solution is to overthrow those in control by emulating the “hacker ethos” previously used against the recording industry. He believes that if all students get access to free books then the landscape which shift dramatically.
Lear’s baby, “The Textbook Liberation Project”, certainly has lofty aims but it had modest beginnings. When he learned in class that students couldn’t afford books and also found them regularly out of stock, Lear began offering them free PDF copies. Soon the whole class was lining up to save hundreds of dollars.
Reaction from teachers and professors has been mixed. Some were unsure of the ethics of handing out copies but also recognized the unethical business model operated by the publishers. But while some chose to turn a blind eye, others warned Lear he should expect to get in trouble. So far there have been no repercussions.
As a result things are now stepping up a gear. Lear is holding teach-ins in front of the USF campus for-profit bookstore in order to educate passing students on where they can get books for free. But in order to make himself less of a target (linking to material online could be problematic), Lear has taken his ‘pirate links’ into the physical domain.
By handing out flyers like the one shown below, he gives students the ability to scan the codes and go directly to book downloads via their cellphones and tablets.

Not surprisingly, Lear is facing opposition. A representative from USF told Lear that his work could cause issues due to the contractual obligations between the University and Barnes and Noble, the on-campus book supplier. This, however, seems to be part of the plan.
“We aim for maximum financial impact against the publishing industry and maximum political impact among the University administration and faculty. This will force the complicit parties to declare which side they want to stand on,” Lear says.
While there are certainly pricing issues, the undergraduate says that people shouldn’t presume this is only about getting stuff for free. Lear says the issue is a moral one, and his project has a firm eye on what Aaron Swartz believed.
But moral issues and open source textbook dreams aside, is what Lear is doing illegal?
“Some lawyers have cautioned me, others have encouraged me. The EFF worries that the case law surrounding my case has to do with ‘inducement’ or the degree to which I encourage infringement,” he explains.
On the other hand, Lear showed us an email from another lawyer who described the effort as “noble” and went on to ask an interesting question.
“This raises a fascinating First Amendment issue; can the DMCA — as a government enactment — be used to infringe upon the rights of individuals to simply talk about locations of open source materials? I do not know whether or not such an issue has ever been addressed by the federal courts,” he wrote.
So another year, another initiative against what is clearly an incredibly unpopular business model. So far, no one – including dedicated torrent sites – have been able to do much about it, but if Lear has his way his movement will spread and eventually the cartels and monopoly will collapse. No doubt, it’s a hot topic right now. (1) (2)

Secret Soviet death rays. Yetis. Aliens. Just what did slaughter nine hikers on Siberia's Death Mountain in 1959?

• Dyatlov Pass Indicent is one of the eeriest mysteries in Russian history
• Nine experienced Russian skiers died of inexplicable causes

By Tony Rennell
PUBLISHED: 17:39 EST, 23 August 2013 | UPDATED: 05:32 EST, 24 August 2013

Peering through the windswept snow on a dark February day, the rescue party finally came on the first sign of life — the flapping remains of a tent pitched on ski poles on an uppermost slope of Kholat Syakhl, ‘Mountain of the Dead’ in the native language of northern Siberia.
But where were the nine young Russian students who should have been sheltering beneath the canvas?
Curiosity turned to mystery as human tracks were seen in the snow heading downhill away from the tent in single file for a third of a mile... barefoot human tracks.

Oblivious to what fate had in store: Four of the victims - Nicolai Thibeaux-Brignolle, Luda Dubinina, Semyon Zolotarev and Zina Kolmogorova

In temperatures of minus 24! And mystery became horror when an inspection of the tent showed its front flaps still buttoned tightly together but huge knife slashes down the sides — through which the occupants apparently fled.
Inside was like the Mary Celeste, with everything intact — warm clothes, waterproof jackets, blankets and sweaters that would have been essential to survive in the Siberian weather; plus cameras, diaries and cooking utensils, all apparently abandoned in a moment of madness.

 

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So began the story of what became known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident, one that has baffled the world for more than half a century since whatever horrific tragedy overtook the nine in February 1959.
They had been missing for almost a month after trekking out into the bleak wildness of the Ural mountains — seven men and two women, all of them fit, hardy and experienced hikers on what was supposed to be a short and invigorating break from their graduate studies.

Eerie: The tent as the rescuers found it on February 26, 1959, which had been cut open from inside

Haunting photographs from the film in their cameras show the happy and relaxed faces of good friends on an exhilarating adventure, capturing their journey by train, road and on foot to this desolate area.
They smile out fresh-faced and jolly from black-and-white snaps, rugged, healthy young people in the anoraks, plus-fours, waterproof galoshes and gaiters of the day, oblivious to what fate has in store for them.
When they failed to return, search parties went out, with every expectation of finding at least some survivors — hopes that were soon dashed.
The first bodies — frostbitten and frozen stiff — were discovered lying in the snow on flat land near a river, a mile from the tent, next to the remains of a long burnt-out fire.
Around 350 yards away lay the corpse of Igor Dyatlov, the 23-year-old engineering student from Ural Polyetchnic who had put the expedition together and was its leader. (His name would later be given to the area where the tragedy took place.)
Nearby, a search dog sniffed out the remains of Zina Kolmogorova, 22, under four inches of snow, and then that of Rustem Slobodin. The bodies were in a line 200 yards apart, as if they had been trying to crawl behind each other back up to the shelter of the tent, but never made it.
Another two months went by before the rest of the group were found, under 15ft of snow in a den they had desperately hollowed out for themselves before succumbing to the cold.
Some of this group had broken bones and terrible internal injuries but, strangely, no external wounds, not even scratches on the skin.
Stranger still, odd bits of their clothing contained higher than normal levels of radiation.
Indeed, post-mortem examinations of all nine bodies threw up a string of bewildering anomalies. Why were some fully clothed, but others nearly naked? Most disconcerting of all was Lyudmilla Dubinina’s body, which was missing her tongue and eyes.

Unsolved mystery: The skiers setting up camp on February 2, 1959 in a photo taken from a roll of film found at the camp of the Dyatlov Pass

What had gone on in those dark and dreadful hours on the Mountain of the Dead? What had caused nine highly educated, young adults to plunge panic-stricken into the sub-zero night to their deaths?
The official Soviet investigator into the tragedy, Lev Ivanov, could find no answers. He concluded in his hastily composed report that all nine deaths had been caused by what he described as ‘an unknown elemental force which they were unable to overcome’.
Privately, he told people he thought they’d been killed by aliens in a UFO.
And that was where official investigations ended. Case closed. Access to the entire area was sealed off from prying eyes for the next four years, by which time the authorities believed this incident would have disappeared off the radar, as many strange happenings did in the old Soviet empire.
But the mystery would not go away. The ingredients were too potent.
Now the riddle has been revisited in a new book by British writer and researcher Keith McCloskey. It is also the subject of a gripping new film — released this weekend — by Hollywood director Renny Harlin, a veteran of mystery, thriller and horror movies.
‘There is no theory that makes sense,’ says Harlin, ‘only guesses.’ And he’s right. The explanations put forward over the years for what made the Dyatlov Nine flee mindlessly from the relative haven of their tent to die in the snow range from the obvious to the bizarre and then to the insane, with large doses of conspiracy theory along the way.
There is the sexual explanation, for example — did a massive drunken punch-up break out among the men, possibly over advances made to the alluring Zina Kolmogorova? But while human nature is always suspect in the claustrophobic conditions of a tent on a blizzard-swept mountainside, that doesn’t explain why they fled en masse into the night.
Wild bears on the prowl for prey are another proposition — but no animal tracks were found.
An avalanche might have been enough for them to lose their nerve and run. Perhaps, in confusion, they raced away from the immediate danger but then could not find their way back in the pitch black of the night and against Arctic winds.
Yet there was no sign of snow pouring over the tent, which was still largely upright when found. And these were experienced adult hikers, not likely to be easily scared. At least one of them surely would have kept calm enough not to join the lemming rush to their doom?
Were they, perhaps, caught up in some bizarre military accident in the lonely (and top secret) vastness of the Russian interior — a missile misfiring or a low-flying jet sending out shock waves and noise that frightened them out of their wits?
This was the height of the Cold War with both sides of the East-West divide searching for the ultimate weapon to knock the other out. But there is no evidence of experimental weapons sites within hundreds of miles. 
There has been speculation about the development of ultra-sonic weapons that destroy with sound alone, but no proof that such arms even exist.
What is known is that nearby the Mountain of the Dead were gulag camps for those unfortunates who crossed the Communist leadership in Moscow. Could a bunch of desperate escapees have pounced on the unsuspecting hikers and slaughtered them?

Experienced skiers: Yuri Yudin hugging Lyudmila Dubinina as he prepares to leave the group due to illness, which saved his life as he left the expedition before the deaths

Or were the campers — as another unprovable theory suggests — collateral damage after a mass escape of criminal thugs from one camp in the area?
This was supposedly foiled by the KGB using missiles loaded with nerve gas or vacuum bombs that sucked the oxygen from the air — perhaps explaining the internal injuries some of the hikers suffered.
But there were no other footprints in the snow around the site suggesting more people were involved — which also rules out suggestions that the Nine stumbled on Soviet Spetznaz special forces testing secret weapons and were eliminated on the spot to shut them up.
Conspiracy theories are two-a-kopek. While sceptics might dismiss the Soviet investigator’s talk of aliens, believers are encouraged by reports of strange lights and ‘bright orbs’ hovering in the night sky at around this time.
The last photograph on the film in one of the cameras found in the tent appears to capture a giant flash against the night sky — but it could equally be the result of an accidental over-exposure.
Then we must consider (but quickly pass over) the possibility of wandering yetis or abominable snowmen pouncing on the hapless hikers and squeezing the life out of the victims with those massive internal injuries.
A centuries-old horror legend in the Urals speaks of a fearsome zolotaya baba — a ‘golden woman’ — lurking in the area.

But the simple fact is no theory holds up to scrutiny. As Keith McCloskey concludes, we will probably never know for sure what actually happened on that remote mountainside.
The one thing he feels sure about is that there was some sort of an official cover-up, which has served only to add to the mystery. But the Soviet Union was a place where concealing the truth was second nature to officials, high and low.
Accidents were routinely airbrushed from the record. Twenty years after the Dyatlov incident, a fatal release of anthrax from a germ warfare research establishment in the Urals was hushed up. The KGB seized all hospital records and, to this day, the site is off-limits.
McCloskey blames the deaths of the Dyatlov Nine on some unspecified accident caused by the Soviet military, but precisely what and where and how eludes him and us.
Harlin’s provocative film, on the other hand, provides an answer.
With impressive starring roles for young British actresses Holly Goss and Gemma Atkinson, it follows five modern-day American students as they trek to the Urals to make a documentary about the Dyatlov disaster, then succumb to . . .
To what? It would be wrong for me to spoil the surprise for those who want to see this taut film drama for themselves. Let’s just say they stumble on a secret that builds slowly and atmospherically to a climax of horror that’s great on screen — but a time warp or two away from reality.
The mystery of the Mountain of the Dead goes on, as intriguing and unresolved as ever.

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The only certainty in the whole mind-bending story is the luck of the tenth member of the group, 21-year-old Yuri Yudin.
A fellow student, he set out on the expedition with the rest, but was in such pain from lumbago, exacerbated by the cold, that he reluctantly had to drop out three days before his friends reached the mountain and encountered whatever horror killed them.
That ‘unknown elemental force’ identified by the original Soviet investigator more than half a century ago still lacks a convincing name. There will undoubtedly be more theories in this story. Watch this space.
Adapted from Mountain Of The Dead by Keith McCloskey (History Press, £9.99). © Keith McCloskey 2013. To buy this book for £8.99 (p&p free), tel: 0844 472 4157.

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