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Table of Contents The secret structure that steers Defense and Foreign Policy behind the facade of 'Democracy.' SUMMER 2001 - Volume 1, Issue 3 from TrueDemocracy Website Table of Contents EDITORIAL North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT Air Force Office of Space Systems National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 1. The Executive Branch NASA's Ames Research Center Council on Foreign Relations Project Cold Empire Trilateral Commission Project Snowbird The Bilderberg Group Project Aquarius National Security Council Project MILSTAR Joint Chiefs of Staff Project Tacit Rainbow National Program Office Project Timberwind Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Project Code EVA Project Cobra Mist 2. Intelligence Branch Project Cold Witness National Security Agency (NSA) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) 4. Weapons Industry National Reconnaissance Organization Stanford Research Institute, Inc. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) AT&T Federal Bureau of Investigation , Counter Intelligence Division RAND Corporation (FBI) Edgerton, Germhausen & Greer Corporation Department of Energy Intelligence Wackenhut Corporation NSA's Central Security Service and CIA's Special Bechtel Corporation Security Office United Nuclear Corporation U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Walsh Construction Company U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) Aerojet (Genstar Corporation) U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Reynolds Electronics Engineering Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Lear Aircraft Company NASA Intelligence Northrop Corporation Air Force Special Security Service Hughes Aircraft Defense Industry Security Command (DISCO) Lockheed-Maritn Corporation Defense Investigative Service McDonnell-Douglas Corporation Naval Investigative Service (NIS) BDM Corporation Air Force Electronic Security Command General Electric Corporation Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) PSI-TECH Corporation Federal Police Agency Intelligence Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Defense Electronic Security Command Project Deep Water 5. Financial Department Project Paperclip Federal Reserve System CIA self-financing 3. War Department Department of Justice self-financing CIA's Directorate for Science and Technology Special Forces self-financing Strategic Defense Initiative Office (SDIO) Ballistic Missile Defense Org . (BMDO) Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories-West (SNL-W) Regular Features Idaho National Engineering Laboratories (INEL) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Myth Breakers Phillips Air Force Laboratory Did You Know? Tonapah Test Range Part 1- AIFLD in Central America: Agents as Organizers Haystack (Buttes) USAF Laboratory , Edwards AFB, California Part 2- Children, Labor, Fraud, Elite Groups Los Alamos National Laboratories Part 3- Israeli Draft Resister, World Economic Forum Area 51/Groom Lake (USAF/DOE/CIA) Base & S-4 members (Papoose Lake Base) U.S. Special Forces Command America's Concerns Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Part 1- Public School Education The Jason Group Part 2- Stem Cell Research Aquarius Group Part 3- Government Surveillance Defense Science Board Part 4- Who Are the Real Criminals ? Defense Nuclear Agency U.S. Space Command TRUE DEMOCRACY SUMMER 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL This edition of True Democracy (La verdad sobre la democracia) is devoted to everyone who ever suffered from the hegemony of the United States government. In other words, this edition of my unique magazine is devoted to nearly everyone. To disband the CIA wouldn't do much good (see the first edition) because the Defense Intelligence Agency would be given the same responsibilities that the CIA had so it was with gratitude that I obtained the documentation which you will read within these pages because the Defense Intelligence Agency is part of the "Shadow Government" or the government you've most likely never been aware existed. The Shadow Government is composed of five branches of government, not three as the framers fashioned. The documentation is in a Web site which is http://abovetopsecret.com/pages/secgov.html and will be embellished in this edition. If you have read the first edition of my unique empowering magazine you would have read about four of the agencies or organizations because of my immense good fortune had made me aware that either President Kennedy wanted to disband them which resulted in his assassination or I had learned of them because of my being in the right place at the right time so many times that I learned of them. Specifically, I speak of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergs, two elite organizations which need to be exposed to decent people of the world like you. So, enjoy this edition of True Democracy because it is devoted to you. If your family hasn't suffered physically or emotionally because of my government, your taxes have funded the atrocities making you suffer indirectly. In peace and solidarity, Arlene Johnson Editor-in-Chief TRUE DEMOCRACY SUMMER 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE SECRET SHADOW GOVERNMENT A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS By Richard J. Boylan Ph.D. Just as with the official government, the Shadow Government has functional branches. However, unlike the official government, the purpose of the non-executive branches of the Shadow Government is simply to distribute various functions, but not to achieve a system of checks and balances, as was supposed to happen constitutionally between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. Government. That is because the Shadow Government is a creature of a powerful elite, who need not fear being dominated by an instrument of their own creation. In the Shadow Government five branches may be identified. These branches are: the Executive Branch, the Intelligence Branch, the War Department, the Weapons Industry Branch, and the Financial Department. The reporting lines of the Intelligence Branch and the War Department to the Executive Branch are straightforward and obvious. Intelligence exists to provide the Executive Branch with sufficient necessary information to make adequately informed policy decisions. The War Department exists to provide coercive force to carry out Executive policy decisions which could meet with public resistance. The Special Operations units within the Intelligence Branch and War Department exist to carry out policy directives requiring covert action and official deniability. The Weapons Industry Branch reports to the Executive Branch most often indirectly, through the War Department and/or the Intelligence Branch (for Black Budget weapons systems). The Financial Department theoretically reports to the Executive Branch for fiscal policy implementation, but de facto also reports directly to the international power brokers who have created the Shadow Government. The Financial Department serves at times directly as their instrument of fiscal policy implementation. An analysis of the overall purposes of these five branches suggests that the overall purpose of the Shadow Government is to exercise covert control by: * Collecting comprehensive institutional and personal information * By establishing national and international policy independently of the established Government * By developing high-tech arms and equipment, and, with these, establishing small, specialized, highly mobile, elite military units to effect these covert policies, when need arises, without having to rely on the official (and "unreliable") Armed Services, (whose subservience to the Shadow Government is reasonably suspect) * By developing an armed capability to repel any threat to the status quo, (including the uncertain ontological, social, and economic impacts of any revelation of the reality of UFO and extraterrestrial presence) through the development of a Star Wars/BMDO ground and space-based surveillance and SDI weapons network * By denying information compromising to the Shadow Government from all those outside "need-to-know" policy-making levels * By exercising control on the money supply, availability of credit, and the worth of money, through policy decisions made outside of the official Government Executive Branch EXECUTIVE BRANCH Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) includes George Bush, Bill Clinton, all modern CIA Directors, most modern Joint Chiefs of Staff, most modern Cabinet and top Executive Branch appointed officeholders, etc. Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, John D. Rockefeller, Alan Greenspan, Zbignew Brzezinski, Anthony Lake, John Glenn, David Packard, David Gergen, Diane Feinstein, Jimmy Carter, Adm. William Crowe, etc. The Bilderberg Group Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein, Prince Bernhard of Netherlands, Bill Clinton, Lloyd Bentsen, etc. National Security Council (NCS), the military and intelligence policy-making and control group for national and international security, which reports directly to the President, its secret 5412 Committee (which directs black [covert] operations), and its PI-40 Subcommittee (aka MJ-12: which exercises policy direction and control of the UFO Cover-Up). Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)'s Special Operations compartment, the operations directorate which implements the orders of the NSC's 5412 Committee, utilizing the U.S. Special Forces Command. National Program Office (NPO), which operates the Continuity of Government Project (COG), an ongoing secret project to maintain command, control, communication and intelligence executive centers during an extreme National
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