Scorcese’s The Aviator – Howard Hughes, Hollywood & the CIA

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Film poster for The Aviator. Image: Wikipedia.com

By: Jay
I thought we’d take a rest from the usual sci fi/transhumanist series of films I generally focus on and do something a bit different – Martin Scorcese’s 2004 The Aviator.  While most viewers probably found the Howard Hughes story a captivating dramatic portrayal, reviewing this film I was reminded of a lot of background dot connecting I had done in the ten years since it premiered related to Hughes.  As readers can probably imagine, the rabbit holes around Hughes that Scorcese only hints at are in fact much deeper and darker than Martin’s meta-narrative production revealed.
The Aviator was nominated for 11 academy awards, won five, and is undeniably a well-made film, yet in my estimation leaves out many key details in relation to the real story of Hughes.  Thus, in considering the nexus of intelligence, Hollywood and the occult, The Aviator and Hughes are key intersects for JaysAnalysis style material.  With that in mind, this analysis will not solely focus on the film, but aspects of Scorcese’s film and Hughes’ secrets in relation to the deep state shadow government.
In this regard, we can posit that Scorcese, being a longtime Hollywood insider, may have even chosen the meta aspects of The Aviator with Hughes’ film directing period to mirror the control of Hollywood by the establishment.  In other words, directors themselves are “directed,” as I’ve highlighted many times.  If that sounds outlandish, consider that Scorcese’s 2011 Hugo contains the theme of old Hollywood and the freedom and creativity director’s had in the silent era contrasted with the elite controlled, cookie-cutter simulacra that would come to characterize modern Hollywood.
Hugo is, in part, about the loss of creativity and the demise of Hollywood, so we can speculate that Scorcese is conveying that message earlier in The Aviator, as the film opens with Hughes filming his 1930 war (propaganda) epic, Hell’s Angles (the most expensive film of its day).  Hughes was a Hollywood outsider who filmed his work largely form his own pockets, and as a result, the military picked up on his skills for propaganda much like the establishment did with Kubrick and his collaboration with NASA.  The dark marriage comes to the fore once again!
Hughes’ engineering work also contributed to his contracts with the Air Force, as well as deals with Lockheed-Martin, leading to his rise in the formation of TWA.  Hughes would prove instrumental in the airline companies becoming global, but his rise also makes more sense given his intelligence connections he acquired, as we shall see.   Buddying up with the military industrial complex and working on a number of covert engineering and spy plane projects, Hughes became a source of danger for the establishment, given his knowledge.

Hughes’ 1930 war propaganda film, Hell’s Angels.

His eccentric behavior and extreme obsessive-compulsive tendencies combined with extreme paranoia didn’t help, either, with the CIA encircling Hughes in the form of Mormon bodyguards.  The Mormon mafia connections with Hughes would become evident in his death, bequeathing a billion and a half dollars to Mormon institutions.  Consider as well that the Mormon Church has a large CIA contingent, deriving many of its rituals from Freemasonry.
While all of this can be teased out from Wikipedia links, still deeper connections remain.  The CIA’s Robert Bennett had lucrative ties to Hughes through his front company (for the Agency), The Mullen Company, which included many connections to later Watergate figures, such as Chuck Colson.  Another crucial player was a former Mullen Company man and former boss of Bennett, the infamous E. Howard Hunt, who confessed on his death to a role in plotting the JFK assassination.
Thus with Bennett and Hunt, the Hughes circles were peopled by major elements of the deep state apparatus, and to make things even creepier, the Mullen Company was intimately connected to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, which would be instrumental in utilizing Bernay’s Pentagon psychological warfare tactics in their ad strategies.  We can also see a window into the hidden history of the CIA’s connections and relations to the airlines, which I have written about here, as well as when we consider Air America or Evergreen.

Hughes and Hepburn

Scorcese’s film also highlights Hughes’ intimate period with Hollywood starlet Katherine Hepburn.  While Hepburn was known for her outspoken feminism and decision to don masculine clothing, it is not widely known that Hepburn’s mother, Mrs. Thomas Hepburn, was a crusader for Margaret Sanger.  To this day, Planned Parenthood honors Hepburn for her promotion of women’s “rights” and abortion.  The reason I highlight this is the fact that The Aviator and Hughes’ circles of establishment figures give the impression of an outsider who was not fully aware of what he stumbled into.  Being brought on board with the establishment’s grand goals includes preeminently the implementation of mass dysgenics/eugenics strategies, and his pairing with Hepburn was yet another sign of his collusion with the military industrial complex’s plans.  The crucial point to grasp here is that the WW2 and Cold War buildup of “national defense,” of which Hughes was a central part, was much, much more.
The military industrial complex’s Cold War defense apparatus was the means by which the transition to the future technocracy would come about.  In this regard, the Atlanticist establishment’s goals of mass depopulation, mouthed through operations like Planned Parenthood, are part of the same agenda as the Cold War tech and arms race.  Thus, with families like the Rockefellers, entities like Hollywood, the CIA, Hughes Corporation and Planned Parenthood all find common ground and interconnect.
This is why at the end of the film, a paranoid Hughes fears intelligence agents have infiltrated his company, and Scorcese leaves us with the open interpretation of whether these agents were real or a figment of Hughes’ imagination.  Given Hughes’ mysterious 1970 “disappearance,” some have concluded he was kidnapped by the Agency due to fears of his psychological issues resulting in leaks.
I was reminded of A Beautiful Mind, where the figure of John Nash is portrayed as a paranoid schizophrenic working in some capacity for this same establishment.  However, in Nash’s case, he too had deep state connections that may have justified his paranoia.  Perhaps Hughes was justified in his paranoia, given the intimately details of secret plans he had, but the curiosities do not end there.  The occult comes into play with the figure of Crowleyan figure Jack Parsons, who worked for Hughes.  Parsons is famous for inventing the jet-propulsion engine, which Scorcese has Hughes reference towards the close of the film, deeming rockets the “future.”  Hughes was thus intimately aware of the esoteric and occultic principles Parsons based his rockets on, including a desert ritual attempting to invoke the Antichrist known as the Babalon Working.
Another neat tidbit worth considering is that Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane was originally intended to center around Hughes, and not William Randolph Hearst.  Welles, however, did include a section of his masterful F for Fake on the hoaxed biography of Hughes by Clifford Irving, adding more mystery to the mix.  For readers interested in more details about Hughes and his deep state connections, my primary source was Levenda’s Sinister Forces, Volume II, pages 74-80, but I’m sure much more could be dug up.
Regardless, Hughes is emblematic of the intelligent, hard-working driven country guy who fell into the ranks of the establishment, only to find his life ruined.  This is not to say he was a pure victim, but the contradictions and paradoxes around Howard Hughes are like the contradictions and paradoxes of America itself – like a sincere child that signs onto a dark establishment with nefarious ends, and signing on to evil always results in self-destruction.  Scorcese’s film is an accurate depiction of that paradox, and hints at all the connections I’ve outlined above.

ONE YEAR LATER: THE MYSTERY OF MALAYSIA AIR 370 CONTINUES: PART TWO: THE PUTIN DID IT THEORY

March 4, 2015 by Joseph P. Farrell in News • http://gizadeathstar.com/2015/03/one-year-later-the-mystery-of-malaysia-air-370-continues-part-two-the-putin-did-it-theory/

Yesterday, you'll recall, I began this two part blog by reviewing the following excellent article, shared with us by Mr. E.G., and by also referring to my interview with Ms. George Anne Hughes of The Byte Show which I gave within a week of Malaysia Air Flight 370's initial disappearance:

Joseph P Farrell, MH370 and Breakaway Civilizations, The Byte Show

How Crazy Am I to Think I Acually Know where that Malaysia Airline Plane is?

As the article notes, Mr. Weiss began to be suspicious of the satellite tracking data for MH 370, and, upon finding a glitch, began to entertain somewhat the opposite of what the public story - never a fully agreed upon story - was maintaining. He began by pointing out that the "black box" evidence for an Indian Ocean crash was anything but conclusive:

"Guided by Inmarsat’s calculations, Australia, which was coordinating the investigation, moved the search area 685 miles to the northeast, to a 123,000-square-mile patch of ocean west of Perth. Ships and planes found much debris on the surface, provoking a frenzy of BREAKING NEWS banners, but all turned out to be junk. Adding to the drama was a ticking clock. The plane’s two black boxes had an ultrasonic sound beacon that sent out acoustic signals through the water. (Confusingly, these also were referred to as “pings,” though of a completely different nature. These new pings suddenly became the important ones.) If searchers could spot plane debris, they’d be able to figure out where the plane had most likely gone down, then trawl with underwater microphones to listen for the pings. The problem was that the pingers  had a battery life of only 30 days.
"On April 4, with only a few days’ pinger life remaining, an Australian ship lowered a special microphone called a towed pinger locator into the water.Fig. 8 Miraculously, the ship detected four pings. Search officials were jubilant, as was the CNN greenroom. Everyone was ready for an upbeat ending.
"The only Debbie Downer was me. I pointed out that the pings were at the wrong frequency and too far apart to have been generated by stationary black boxes. For the next two weeks, I was the odd man out on Don Lemon’s six-guest panel blocks, gleefully savaged on-air by my co-experts.
"The Australians lowered an underwater robotFig. 9 to scan the seabed for the source of the pings. There was nothing. Of course, by the rules of TV news, the game wasn’t over until an official said so. But things were stretching thin. One night, an underwater-search veteran taking part in a Don Lemon panel agreed with me that the so-called acoustic-ping detections had to be false. Backstage after the show, he and another aviation analyst nearly came to blows. “You don’t know what you’re talking about! I’ve done extensive research!” the analyst shouted. “There’s nothing else those pings could be!”

Thus, Mr. Weiss began to suspect that the satellite data had been doctored:

"By combining the data with other reliable information, we were able to put together a time line of the plane’s final hours: Forty minutes after the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur, MH370 went electronically dark. For about an hour after that, the plane was tracked on radar following a zigzag course and traveling fast. Then it disappeared from military radar. Three minutes later, the communications system logged back onto the satellite. This was a major revelation. It hadn’t stayed connected, as we’d always assumed. This event corresponded with the first satellite ping. Over the course of the next six hours, the plane generated six more handshakes as it moved away from the satellite."

And so he came to a reasonable conclusion:

"For one, I was bothered by the lack of plane debris. And then there was the data. To fit both the BTO and BFO data well, the plane would need to have flown slowly, likely in a curving path. But the more plausible autopilot settings and known performance constraints would have kept the plane flying faster and more nearly straight south. I began to suspect that the problem was with the BFO numbers—that they hadn’t been generated in the way we believed.14 If that were the case, perhaps the flight had gone north after all.
"For a long time, I resisted even considering the possibility that someone might have tampered with the data. That would require an almost inconceivably sophisticated hijack operation, one so complicated and technically demanding that it would almost certainly need state-level backing. This was true conspiracy-theory material.
"And yet, once I started looking for evidence, I found it. One of the commenters on my blog had learned that the compartment on 777s called the electronics-and-equipment bay, or E/E bay, can be accessed via a hatch in the front of the first-class cabin.15 If perpetrators got in there, a long shot, they would have access to equipment that could be used to change the BFO value of its satellite transmissions. They could even take over the flight controls."

And thus we have arrived at Mr. Weiss' theory, which we may call the "Putin did it" theory, which it would seem even Mr. Weiss himself is a bit uncomfortable with:

Why, exactly, would Putin want to steal a Malaysian passenger plane? I had no idea. Maybe he wanted to demonstrate to the United States, which had imposed the first punitive sanctions on Russia the day before, that he could hurt the West and its allies anywhere in the world. Maybe what he was really after were the secrets of one of the plane’s passengers.25 Maybe there was something strategically crucial in the hold. Or maybe he wanted the plane to show up unexpectedly somewhere someday, packed with explosives. There’s no way to know. That’s the thing about MH370 theory-making: It’s hard to come up with a plausible motive for an act that has no apparent beneficiaries.(Italicized emphasis added)

Now, if you've been paying attention to all of this, and to the interaction of Mr. Weiss' article written last moth of this year, and my interview of almost a year ago to the day with Ms. George Anne Hughes on The Byte Show last year, you'll notice that Mr. Weiss, in effect, is saying very much the same thing in a very general sort of way, though for different reasons, as I stated on Ms. Hughes' show last year: namely (1) satellite and radar tracking data can be faked, and, the longer the delay in releasing such data after the initial disappearance, the more skeptical one should be. Now one point separates Mr. Weiss and I, namely, (2) that he thinks only the direction of the flight satellite data was obfuscated and falsified, from a northward flight, to the south, whereas I think one has to entertain that all of it may be concocted. Which brings us to Mr. Weiss's "Putin did it" theory.
Of course, Putin is blamed for everything now, from financial corruption at the Federal Reserve to vitamin deficiencies in the American diet to falling tests scores in American schools. If there's a problem, it's Mr. Putin's fault. Mr. Weiss, again to his credit and for maintaining the reasonable and rational argument of his case, points out that he has difficulty assigning a motive to Mr. Putin hijacking such a scenario.
And that was my problem precisely one year ago, scarcely a week after the flight's disappearance, on Ms. Hughes' show: not only was there no credible geopolitical motivation for him to have done so, there was really no motivation for anyone else to have done so either: not the USA, not China, not even the always-blameable Israelis. As I pointed out then, in the highly charged geopolitical atmosphere following the US-sponsored Ukrainian coup, if the US had even suspected the tiniest whiff of such a stunt on Putin's part, for which he had little to gain, everything to lose in the court of world opinion, and a highly risky operation, the USA and various Western media organs would have been pouring out a stream of invective, while their intelligence agencies busily concocted the "evidence" to give the story some sort of life. The same thing holds true in reverse: if Russia or China suspected US or Israeli involvement, their media organs would be pouring out a stream of accusations and concocting the evidence to support it. Mr Weiss' scenario involves obviously complex planning to arrange the flight data obfuscation on board the plane itself, but I contend that this can be done anywhere, from the plane to the "receiving end" or, to put it more bluntly, by simply concocting it anywhere and "releasing it". In the Internet age of massive electronic surveillance, one cannot rule out the possibility that the information can be injected by those with access and ability to do so at any point in the data stream.
Which brings us back to my initial "wackadoodle" hypotheses that I advanced on Ms. Hughes' show, and time, and a year's distance from the event, has not caused me to back away from those hypotheses one iota. Indeed, it is the continuing silence of Russia, China, India, and the USA on the event that continues to tell me that something very big may have happened to MH 370, something big, and perhaps exotic, and that these nations would simply rather not talk about it, though they may, and probably do, have a suspicion on what it might be. For my own part, those wild and crazy hypotheses are (1) either a "hidden player", human, or otherwise, with some exotic technology made the plane go "poof" in the sense of disintegration(again, demanding a motive), or (2) made it go "poof" in the sense of an "instantaneous" teleportation to "elsewhere",and both with the ostensible purpose of sending a "message" (but again, if so, from whom to whom, and what's the message?) or, the most wackadoodle of them all, (3) the plane simply went poof for deeper cosmological and physical reasons, such as a fundamental breakdown in the physical constraints of this corner of the universe. And even that most "high octane speculation" of them all, might point to an exotic technology, perhaps one whose full implications are not fully understood. Which brings us to the matter at hand... perhaps the silliest, most bizarre, most wackadoodle high octane speculation of them all, to such nonsense I dare not mention it, but also to such potential mischief I dare not not mention it: we've seen the dire warnings of Mr. Hawking, and lately, concerning CERN's large hadron collider and the dangers that they - I sense - intuit in turning the machine back on. One gets the sense that this gentleman is not saying everything that he's thinking nor why he's thinking it. We've seen the physicists in Italy proposing, in the wake of LHC experiments, the notion of getting rid of the idea of dimensionality in their equations altogether, a notion that still leaves me somewhat breathless. It wouldn't be the first time in history that we've heard stories of powerful rotating magnetic fields and things that simply disappeared, or, in some versions of the story, disappeared and reappeared hundreds of miles distant in a matter of seconds, only to disappear again, and reappear...
One does wonder...

ONE YEAR LATER: THE MYSTERY OF MALAYSIA AIR 370 CONTINUES: PART ONE: THE SUMMARY

March 3, 2015 by Joseph P. Farrell in News • http://gizadeathstar.com/2015/03/one-year-later-the-mystery-of-malaysia-air-370-continues-part-one-the-summary/

It is almost a year to the day(Mar 8, 2014) that Malaysia Air flight 370 disappeared in circumstances that remain for the most part mysterious. This subject has fascinated me, as most of your know, since the flight first disappeared. And one year later, nothing really has changed to lessen the mystery. If anything, the mystery has only been heightened with time. It has intrinsic worth to some of our regular readers here on this site as well, since many of them live in Australia, Indonesia, Malasia, and other countries in that part of the world. Mr. E.G. shared this article with us, and I think, once you read it, you'll agree that the mystery has only grown, not lessened, with time. This article, far from dissuading me from my initial "it just went 'poof'" high octane speculation, (or perhaps, conversely, dangerously low octane speculation), does precisely the reverse. And in any case, it contains one of the most useful summaries of the MH 370 story and the history of its "emergent explanations" to date:
How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia airlines plane is?
Let's look at the Summary, before looking at his theory, for I spoke directly to various aspects of his theory almost a year before this article appeared, on Ms. George Anne Hughes' The Byte Show (See here:

Joseph P Farrell, MH370 and Breakaway Civilizations, The Byte Show

.1. The Summary:
The summary in the article is perhaps worth its own weight in gold:

"What made MH370 challenging to cover was, first, that the event was unprecedented and technically complex and, second, that the officials  were remarkably untrustworthy. For instance, the search started over the South China Sea, naturally enough, but soon after, Malaysia opened up a new search area in the Andaman Sea, 400 miles away. Why? Rumors swirled that military radar had seen the plane pull a 180. The Malaysian government explicitly denied it, but after a week of letting other countries search the South China Sea, the officials admitted that they’d known about the U-turn from day one.
"Of course, nothing turned up in the Andaman Sea, either. But in London, scientists for a British company called Inmarsat that provides telecommunications between ships and aircraft realized its database contained records of transmissions between MH370 and one of its satellites for the seven hours after the plane’s main communication system shut down. Seven hours! Maybe it wasn’t a crash after all—if it were, it would have been the slowest in history.
"These electronic “handshakes” or “pings” contained no actual information, but by analyzing the delay between the transmission and reception of the signal— called the burst timing offset, or BTO—Inmarsat could tell how far the plane had been from the satellite and thereby plot an arc along which the plane must have been at the moment of the final ping.Fig. 3 That arc stretched some 6,000 miles, but if the plane was traveling at normal airliner speeds, it would most likely have wound up around the ends of the arc—either in Kazakhstan and China in the north or the Indian Ocean in the south. My money was on Central Asia. But CNN quoted unnamed U.S.-government sources saying that the plane had probably gone south, so that became the dominant view."

This is, of course, a very adequate summary, but it leaves out of view all the detailed twists and turns of the story as it evolved at the time. Recall only that some time after the initial disappearance, we then heard stories of alleged eyewitnesses who had seen the aircraft flying low, and at night, westward across the Malaysian Peninsula, where, for a brief moment, the idea was floated that the aircraft crashed. Until, that is, once again, no debris could be found. Then we had the stories of US Generals on Sean Hannity's television show on Faux News, maintaining the ridiculous story (straightfaced, no less, with a worried and so-concerned Hannity looking on), that the aircraft and flown close behind another aircraft at the same altitude over Indian airspace, to be used in some Iranian false flag terrorist operation. All this, of course, from the general's "inside sources" in the intelligence "community." There was just one teensy problem: they forgot to vet that story with New Delhi, and the Indian defense ministry promptly announced that such a scenario was impossible as they would have seen and tracked the event on their radars. Then we had the inevitable conspiracy stories, which included computer hardware experts from a Texas company flying to Beijing to sell out precious secrets and that's why the plane had to be "brought down," to this one, mentioned in the artcle itself:

"One, by French writer Marc Dugain, states that the plane was shot down by the U.S. because it was headed toward the military bases on the islands of Diego Garcia as a flying bomb."

This was, of course, but one version of the "Diego Garcia" theory, the other being that the plane had landed there, was quickly hangared to avoid detection by spy satellites, and was to be used in a terrorist false flag operation by (you guessed it) Israel, to put the blame on Iran.
But as I pointed out in my interview with George Ann over a year ago, any move to the south, i.e., toward the Indian Ocean, was a clue to me that the flight, and the complete lack of any detectable debrix field, had to be spun, since the story itself was inexplicable. Thus, the flight had to "get" to the Indian Ocean by whatever pre-fabricated story-method precisely because a debris field there could be easily covered up, as well as manufactured, for the simple reason that the depth of the Indian Ocean would allow only certain nations with the technology to access such ocean depths to do so. And that meant in turn that those nations had to be taken at their word for whatever "debris" was turned up or recovered. In other words, diversion to the Indian Ocean was necessary in order to coverup whatever else may have been really going on.
Here, finally, we get to the article's main theory, central to which is the questioning of the "data" that points to the Indian Ocean... but for that, we'll have to wait until tomorrow...