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and neophyte journalists who take all of the threads of Vreeland's FTW: Why were you in Moscow and Russia in the latter part stories and run with them into a wilderness from which no profes- of 2000? sional journalist could credibly emerge. MV: I was sent there by the US government and the ONI Yes, I have listened to him talk about so-called "red mercury", [Office of Naval Intelligence]. I got my orders between aseball-sized atom bombs and Star Wars weapons systems. Yes, September 4 and September 7, 2000. Marc Bastien [an intelli- I have heard him talk about a great many things, and I believe that gence asset working under the cover of being a systems analyst] what he told me was truthful according to his knowledge of — departed for Russia on September 7, 2000. I had orders to meet events and the documents he brought back from Moscow in early him. Bastien was going to work at the Canadian embassy regard- December 2000. ing diagrams and blueprints of a weapons defence system. The Even by his own statements, Vreeland, now 35, was a relatively US government had a direct influence on his mission. The name low-ranking officer and intelligence field operative. Never inthe of the defence system is SSST [Stealth Satellite System istory of covert operations has any government entrusted field | Terminator]. There are five different individual and unique operatives with total strategic knowledge, because the knowledge defensive and strike capabilities of the system. eld by those who make the plans is com- The only portion that I have publicly artmentalised and locked away. Perhaps 80 spoken on is one frame regarding actual er cent of all intelligence work is disinfor- current orbiting satellites which are not at mation, and governments know that their this time owned by the US government. On field operatives risk capture, interrogation advice of counsel, I cannot discuss the other and torture. Quite often, field operatives are se . components. themselves fed disinformation so that if they "Within the confines This one component is a satellite system. talk, they will still spread lies that serve a Within the confines of the system there are larger strategic purpose. Quite often, they of the system there are multiple, deployable, space/orbital EMP carry documents that are deliberately inaccu- multiple, deployable, [electromagnetic pulse] missiles that are not rate and their capture is engineered to give bi | EMP aimed at the ground. They are targeted at those documents credibility. space/or ita everyone else's satellites. These would kill _claite US govenmen. Veend iswlly | Felectromagnetic pulse] | voewide communication The sate iece of information ‘he has disclosed : missiles that are not nium are protected from these wil themselves be proved fools 2 TMM aimed at the ground. MM pom. he powcr comics a remains and it isa question that now They are targeted at vulnerable and Putin has told Bush that everyone else's satellites." stands vindicated by time and events. the US Missile Defense System doesn't He knew something chillingly accurate work, and that Bush knows it. about the 9-11 attacks before they The reason why I went to Russia was appened. because I needed to meet with Bastien And if he knew something, based and another individual from the upon documents given to him by Russian Ministry of Defence, named Russian officials indicating US knowl- Oleg. The purpose was to get the edge, and if the US government went to Canadian diplomat who had made con- great lengths to discredit him rather tact with Oleg to get the book of than bring him in from the cold, then designs out of the Ministry's R&D. there is real meat on the plate for jour- That was done. We copied the entire nalists, the American government and all of mankind. book. Then we took certain documents and we changed serious I asked him 35 questions, and now you can read Mike __ portions of the defence design so the program wouldn't work. Vreeland's answers as he speaks for himself. The first 32 ques- They know this now. Additionally, I was to pick up docs from tions were submitted via email to both Vreeland and his attorney, other agents and bring them back. Paul Slansky, for review and were replied to by telephone. The FTW: You told Canadian authorities that Bastien was mur- remaining three questions were asked after the most recent hack- dered when? ing of FTW's website, which we believe was perpetrated by the MV: I never told them he was murdered. I wrote a letter to CIA. This made publication of this story an emergency, and also —- Bastien around June of 2001 from jail. I sent it to CSIS made a statement about the survival of a free press in America. [Canadian Security and Intelligence Service] in Ottawa, to the [The final three questions are deleted here, but can be seen on _ director, for his eyes only. I had restructured the diagram to put it FTW's website. Ed.] back in its original state. But I never told anyone exactly how to turn it on and how to build it. CSIS already knew that Bastien From The Wilderness (FTW): What part of the US govern- was dead. He died six days after I was arrested on December 6 ment did you work for? Was it the CIA? [2000]... He was killed on December 12. Mike Vreeland (MV): I worked for US Naval Intelligence. CSIS sent RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] (Sgt Mabe, What the CIA directs us to do is their business, so we have no —- Corporal Kispol) to visit me in jail on August 8, 2001, and they way of knowing whether we're working for them or not. advised me that he was dead. They didn't say he was murdered. FTW: Was your assignment primarily connected to They told me he was dead. I told them that if Bastien was dead, it terrorism/oil? was murder and that they should get a toxicology report. And I MV: Yes, on both issues, in part. would tell you how it was done and who did it. of the system there are multiple, deployable, space/orbital EMP [electromagnetic pulse] missiles that are not aimed at the ground. They are targeted at everyone else's satellites." From The Wilderness (FTW): What part of the US govern- ment did you work for? Was it the CIA? Mike Vreeland (MV): I worked for US Naval Intelligence. What the CIA directs us to do is their business, so we have no way of knowing whether we're working for them or not. FTW: Was your assignment primarily connected to terrorism/oil? MV: Yes, on both issues, in part. 14 ¢ NEXUS JUNE - JULY 2002 "Within the confines www.nexusmagazine.com