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No longer is there a separation between Earthly technology, other worldly technology, science fiction stories of our past, hopes and aspirations of the future, our dimension and dimensions that were once inaccessible, dreams and nightmares… for it is now all the same! By Gil Carlson (C) Copyright 2016 Gil Carlson Wicked Wolf Press Email: [email protected] To discover the rest of the books in this Blue Planet Project Series: www.blue-planet-project.com/ -1- Air Hopper Robot Grasshopper…7 Aqua Sciences Water from Atmospheric Moisture…8 Avatar Program…9 Biometrics-At-A-Distance…9 Chembot Squishy SquishBot Robots…10 Cormorant Submarine/Sea Launched MPUAV…11 Cortical Modem…12 Cyborg Insect Comm System Planned by DARPA…13 Cyborg Insects with Nuclear-Powered Transponders…14 EATR - Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot…15 EXACTO Smart Bullet from DARPA…16 Excalibur Program…17 Force Application and Launch (FALCON)…17 Fast Lightweight Autonomy Drones…18 Fast Lightweight Autonomous (FLA) indoor drone…19 Gandalf Project…20 Gremlin Swarm Bots…21 Handheld Fusion Reactors…22 Harnessing Infrastructure for Building Reconnaissance (HIBR) project…24 HELLADS: Lightweight Laser Cannon…25 ICARUS Project…26 InfoChemistry and Self-Folding Origami…27 Iron Curtain Active Protection System…28 ISIS Integrated Is Structure…29 Katana Mono-Wing Rotorcraft Nano Air Vehicle…30 LANdroid WiFi Robots…31 Lava Missiles…32 Legged Squad Support System Monster BigDog Robot…32 LS3 Robot Pack Animal…34 Luke’s Binoculars - A Cognitive Technology Threat Warning…34 Materials with Controlled Microstructural Architecture (MCMA) program…35 M3 Soft Camo Robots…37 MAHEM Metal Jets…38 Micro Air Vehicles…39 Micro Imagers for Sensing On Nano Air Vehicles…40 Neural Engineering System Design NESD…41 Neural Implant to Treat Memory Loss…42 Neuromorphic Brain-Chip…42 One Shot XG Self-calculating gun scopes…45 Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS)…46 Pet-Proto Robot…47 Precision Urban Hopper Robot…47 Project Reymand…49 -2- Radar Scope Can Sense Thru Walls…50 Remote Control of Brain Activity…51 RESURRECT High-Fidelity Computer Battlefield Simulations…52 RISE Robot: Six-Legged BIODYNOTICS…53 Self-Repairing Hunter-Killers…54 Shark Cyborgs On DARPA Remote Control…54 Shredder Challenge…56 Silent Talk 'Telepathy' For Soldiers…56 Smart Video Cams - DARPA's Mind's Eye…58 SMITE Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination…59 Soldier Scentric Imaging via Computational Cameras (SCENICC)…60 Springtail EFV-4B Personal Air Vehicle from Trek Aerospace…61 Stealthy, Persistent Perch and Stare UAVs…62 Submersible Aircraft - DARPA's Flying Sub…63 TASC - DARPA's Psychohistory…64 Toward Narrative Disruptors and Inductors…65 Upward Falling Payload…66 Vulture Five Year Flying Wing…67 Walrus and Griffith's War-Balloons…68 Warrior Web from DARPA…69 Warrior Web: Superman Underwear from DARPA…70 Acoustic Kitty…72 Area 51…73 CIA and Google at it Again…74 CIA hired private contractors…77 CIA Mind-Control Experiments…79 CIA Project to break security of Apple’s…80 Did Google fall into the hands of CIA and NSA?...81 Listening in on Lennon…83 MKULTRA…84 Operation Mockingbird…89 Operation Northwoods…90 Project 1794…90 Project Iceworm…92 Stargate Project…93 -3- Angry Birds…102 ANT Division of NSA…102 BLARNEY…106 Boundless Informant…106 Dishfire…108 EgotisticalGoat…110 FAIRVIEW…111 FASCIA…112 Gilgamesh…114 HappyFoot…115 NoseySmurf…116 Operation UFO…117 Optic Nerve…117 PRISM…119 Squeaky Dolphin…121 STORMBREW & OAKSTAR…122 TOR Users Attacked…122 XKeyscore…125 Europa Drill…128 OSIRIS-Rex…129 Super Ball Bot…130 Supersonic Bidirectional Flying Wing…131 Tiny Satellites…132 Traveling Without Fuel…133 Black Project Aircraft…134 GuardBot…141 Invisibility Cloak…142 NOTE: The material in this book has not been submitted to or approved by any U.S. intelligence agency. If anything is discovered that is considered by your agency to be classified, notify the publisher. -4- DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was established 1958 in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik. DARPA reports directly to the Secretary of Defense; however, it operates independently of the rest of military research and development. They have an unlimited black budget and they aren’t accountable to anyone. While a lot of what they create does have benefits to the military and saves lives, we need to look a little deeper at some of these projects and think about what these projects could do to our privacy and even our survival when they end up in other government hands. Also, as you consider that some of these projects seem benign, we might just be seeing the tip of the iceberg and the very dark uses have been kept secret from our prying, inquisitive eyes! It’s interesting to note how many of these projects can be traced back to science fiction books of years ago. Are the folks at DARPA science fiction fans? Or is it possible that our science fiction of years ago was actually based on facts? Were these writers picking up or being fed ideas from aliens? Or was our government leaking their alien knowledge to the book and film writers as a form of disclosure? They say nothing is new, ideas just keep repeating themselves over the centuries. Advanced civilizations come and go. What we vainly claim to be great scientific achievements could be similar or inferior to what civilizations possessed many thousands of years ago! Also consider how many of these projects seem to have a relationship to alien technology. Are they back-engineered alien science? If you’ve read “The Day After Roswell” you will notice the similarities in the whole DARPA process. OK, that’s enough. I don’t want to get water-boarded, let’s get on with the projects… -5- Important Note: Kinesis KL02 Micro Controller Chip Since this powerful chip is so important to many of the military projects in use by DARPA and other branches of the government, I am bringing up this story again as many of us may have overlooked the value of this chip as it was overshadowed by the loss of the plane and so many lives: After Flight MH370 Vanished, it was claimed that Sir Jacob Rothschild was left as sole owner of the patent for the World’s Smallest Micro-Controller Electronic Warfare Chip, developed by Freescale Semiconductor: 70 Freescale Engineers (and 4 Patent Holders) Were on Flight MH370. When this story first broke it was originally reported that 70 engineers who worked for Freescale Semiconductor out of Austin Texas were flying on flight MH370 when it disappeared. Later it was altered to only 20 engineers from Freescale Semiconductors being on that plane. And some of the financial information I have seen shows that while Sir Jacob Rothschild, through Blackstone, was one of several major stockholders, he was not the sole owner. In a detailed report from Malaysia Chronicle dated April 8, 2014, said that Freescale launched what could be the world's smallest microcontroller in Feb 2013 called the Kinesis KL02. KL02 measures 1.9 mm by 2mm and contains RAM, ROM and a clock. Even with its minute size, KL02 might be the most potent next-generation war weaponry. Whether remotely controlled or automatically programmed, KLO2 can be utilized to employ drones smaller than flies. Such small-sized drones were allegedly being used to deliver lab-cloned viruses or toxic drugs instrumental for spreading plague, virus and disease; track spy satellites or large scale and hidden weaponries. KL02 could also be injected into devices like Google glass to render the device obsolete or have the device controlled from 'someone' aside from its owner. The chip is also significant in making plausible Pentagon's ultimate dream of the human-controlled robotic warrior. It can be injected into bionic prosthetics to control robotic nerves and limbs. 'Killing' the creators of this chip will prevent any leakage or selling of the technology to the Chinese and outside the Malaysian government. It is widely known that China is in its way of advancing its military-applications technology for warfare. The Malaysian government, on the other hand, is rumored to -6- have acquired rights to a powerful chip which can alter barcode tags in retail goods and can be inserted into human body to by-pass identity verifications. The Rothschild family reportedly owns the Malaysian Central Bank which has significant investments in the Malaysian government and Malaysian Airlines. Air Hopper Robot Grasshopper This Air Hopper Robot is a prototype created at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The intent is to create a robot that is able to handle difficult, uneven terrain with some measure of robotic aplomb. The Air Hopper uses an air cylinder to achieve some height; it can apparently jump as much as 70 centimeters forward and 40 centimeters high. The Air Hopper is 129cm long, stands 52.2cm tall and weighs 32.4kg. DARPA is also working on a hopping robot - the Precision Urban Hopper. The only hopping robot that I can recall in science fiction is quite different in structure. I'm thinking of 1994 novel Heavy Weather; Bruce Sterling wrote about a device called a "dope mule robot." -7- Aqua Sciences Water from Atmospheric Moisture Aqua Sciences has developed a fully self- contained mobile freshwater generation system that can produce up to 1,200 gallons of fresh water per day by pulling it from atmospheric moisture. Aqua Sciences was under contract to the Pentagon to provide fresh water to US troops in Iraq. The company's secret technology was developed from original ideas from DARPA. (And possibly the aliens?) This program creates water from the atmosphere using low-energy systems, reducing the overall logistics burden for deployed forces and provides potable water within the reach of the warfighter any place, any time.
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    9 August 2013 National Security Agency The National Security Agency: Missions, Authorities, Oversight and Partnerships ³7KDW¶VZK\LQWKH\HDUVWRFRPHZHZLOOKDYHWRNHHSZRUNLQJKDUGWRVWULNHWKHDSSURSULDWH balance between our need for security and preserving those freedoms that make us who we are. That means reviewing the authorities of law enforcement, so we can intercept new types of communication, but also build in privacy protections to prevent abuse´ --President Obama, May 23, 2013 In his May 2013 address at the National Defense University, the President made clear that we, as a Government, need to review the surveillance authorities used by our law enforcement and intelligence community professionals so that we can collect information needed to keep us safe and ensure that we are undertaking the right kinds of privacy protections to prevent abuse. In the wake of recent unauthorized disclosures about some of our key intelligence collection programs, President Obama has directed that as much information as possible be made public, while mindful of the need to protect sources, methods and national security. Acting under that guidance, the Administration has provided enhanced transparency on, and engaged in robust public discussion about, key intelligence collection programs undertaken by the National Security Agency (NSA). This is important not only to foster the kind of debate the President has called for, but to correct inaccuracies that have appeared in the media and elsewhere. This document is a step in that process, and is aimed at providing a VXFFLQFWGHVFULSWLRQRI16$¶V mission, authorities, oversight and partnerships. Prologue After the al-4D¶LGDDWWDFNVRQWKH:RUOG7UDGH&HQWHUDQGWKH3HQWDJRQWKH&RPPLVVLRQ found that the U.S. Government had failed to identify and connect the many ³dots´ of information that would have uncovered the planning and preparation for those attacks.