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"This debriefing is done in such a way, in many cases, as to cause actual memory damage. As things have gone along and pro- gressed, the techniques have been smoothed out, but memory damage still occurs. In certain cases memory recall is so critical that they bend over backwards to be damned sure that you can't remember." "Many of the things that occur are not as pretty as you'd like the public to think," he said. "So you've witnessed many atrocities of war?" I asked. "T don't call theth atrocities,” he countered. “I call them military actions. There's a lot of conflict of interest there—the politicians against the military..." I Jet him rail a while about the evils of the government and then brought him back to my point of interest. "Okay, who killed JFK, RFK, King, and who was behind Bremer?" I asked. He didn't remember who Bremer was, so I explained that he was the man who'd shot Wallace. “Oh, yeah," he said. "Bremer was just a kook. Wallace was shot just by a kook. But whoever got the Kennedys and King probably got a gold medal. “We were set up to wipe Castro out. Kennedy interfered at the last minute. You want to take a guess at who killed him? Oswald was just a patsy. I've fired the same kind of rifle Oswald was sup- posed to have used. You can't rapid-fire that thing like he was supposed to have done. Now who do you suppose killed Kennedy? "Don't kid yourself. This country is controlled by the Pentagon. All the major decisions in this country are made by the military, from my observations on the clandestine side of things. "The CIA's just the whipping boy. NSA [the National Security Agency] are the ones who have the hit tears. Look into their records—you won't find a thing. Look into their budget—you can't. For the life of you, you can't find any way they could spend the kind of money they've got on the number of people who're supposed to be on their payroll. Even if they had immense research and development programs, they couldn't spend that kind of money. “The CIA's just a figurehead. They are more worldwide—like the FBI is. They're accountants, lawyers, file clerks, schoolboys. They are information-gatherers. They've pulled a lot of god- damned shenanigans—I'm not going to deny that—but as far as intelligence goes, the NSA’s far, far superior to them—far in advance in the ‘black arts’. "The CIA gets blamed for what NSA does. NSA is far more vicious and far more accomplished in their operations. The American people are kept in ignorance about this—they should be, too." "In other words," I responded, "what you're saying is that the military is more dangerous to our democracy than the CIA or other intelligence groups?” “The CIA gathers information, but the military heads the show. Look at how many former military officers work for the CIA. Look at how many former high-ranking military officers work for the multinational corporations. Can't you figure it out?” "What are you suggesting, that there is an invisible coup d'état which has occurred in the United States?" I asked. "Okay. There is a group of about eighteen or twenty people running this country. They have not been elected. The elected people are only figureheads for these guys who have a lot more power than even the President of the United States.” "You mean that the President is powerless?" I asked. "Not exactly powerless. He has the power to make decisions on what is presented to him. The intelligence agencies tell him only what they want to tell him, however. They don't tell him any more than they have to or want to. "You have to wonder at American stupidity. How much does it take to get people to wake up to what has happened? It's public knowledge that the CIA has falsified documents and given Presidents fake intelligence reports so that they can only arrive at one conclusion—the conclusion they want them to arrive at. The "Pentagon Papers” revealed that fact. “What people don't know is that the global corporations have their own version of the CIA. Where they don't interface with the CIA, they have their own organisations—all CIA-trained. They also have double-agents inside CIA and other intelligence organi- sations who are loyal to those corporations—I mean where's the bread buttered? Would you rather take the government pensions, or would you rather work a little for the corporation on the side and get both government pensions and corporate benefits after you retire? Most men retire after twenty years, and they're only in their mid-forties, then they go to work for «the corporation they've been working for while they were in government service. They get both the pension and the corporate paycheck that way! "Together with what the corporations do on their own, they have a worldwide espionage system far better than the CIA's. There is a network of what amounts to double- agents—they do work for the government, and may appear to be government agents, but they are first loyal to the cor- porations. They report to those corporations on the govern- ment and on what foreign governments might be planning which would interfere with those corporations’ foreign investments. These guys are strictly free enterprise agents." "You call these guys contract agents?" I wondered. “Oh, no, no, no. Take, for example: we develop a new death ray. We've got all the security the government can think of on it. We've got the best security in the United States on it, which is tied for second place for the best secu- rity in the world. Tied for first place are the Russian and Chinese security systems. "Now even with all this security, before FACI [First Article Configuration Inspection, the government's check- 40 © NEXUS APRIL - MAY 1995