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GLOBAL NEWS WAS JFK KILLED BECAUSE OF HIS INTEREST IN UFOs? n uncovered memorandum writ- ten by US President John F. Kennedy to the head of the Central Intelligence Agency shows that he demanded to be shown highly confi- dential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination. The secret memorandum is one o wo letters written by JFK on 12 November 1963, asking for informa- ion about the paranormal. Author William Lester, Jr, PhD, said hat the CIA released the documents o him under the Freedom o nformation Act (FOIA) after he made a request while doing research for is new book, A Celebration of Freedom: FK and the New Frontier. He said tha FK's interest in UFOs could have been fuelled by concerns about rela- ions with the former USSR. n one of the documents, Presiden ennedy writes to the Director, CIA, asking for the UFO files. In the sec- ond memo, sent to the NASA Administrator, the Presiden expresses a desire for co-operation with the (former) Soviet Union on mutual outer-space activities. Conspiracy theorists have said tha the documents add interest to a dis- puted file, nicknamed the "burned memo". This document, which has scorch marks, is claimed to have been posted to UFO-hunter Timothy Cooper in 1999 by an unknown CIA eak, but it has never been verified. [he undated memo to MJ-12 mem- bers makes a reference to "LANCER', FK's Secret Service code name. On he first page, the Director of Central ntelligence wrote: "As you must know LANCER has made some inquiries regarding our activities which we cannot allow. Please submit your views no later han October. Your action to this matter is critical to the continuance of the group.” (Source: The Daily Mail, UK, 19 April zon, Attp://tinyurl.com/3rfpsp2; also see Dr Michael E. Salla's article "JFK and the UFO Connection" in NEXUS 16/06-17/o1.) THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER IN PERSPECTIVE by Dr Helen Caldicott Tr Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan is by orders of magnitude many times worse than the Chernobyl disaster. Never in my life did I think that six nuclear reactors would be at risk. The reactors partially withstood the earthquake, but the external electricity supply was cut off, and the electricity supplies the cooling water, a million gallons a minute, to each of those six reactors. Without the cooling water, the water [level] falls, and the rods become so hot they melt, like at Three Mile Island and at Chernobyl. The emergency diesel generators, each as large as a house, got destroyed by the tsunami, so there is no way to keep the water circulating in the reactors. On the roofs of the reactors are cooling pools. Every year they remove about 30 tons of the most radioactive rods that you can possibly imagine. Each rod is 12 feet long and half an inch thick. It gives out so much radiation that if you stand next to it for a couple of minutes, you'll die. And [the spent fuel rods] are so thermally hot, they have to be put ina big pool and continually cooled. There have been three hydrogen explosions, blowing off the roof of the building...and exposing the cooling pool. Two of the cooling pools are dry. The nuclear fuel rods are covered with zirconium. When zirconium is exposed to air, it burns, it ignites. Two of the cooling pools at this momen are burning. In the cooling pools are 10 to 20 times more radiation than in each reactor core. In each reactor core is as much long-lived radiation as would be produced by a thousand Hiroshima-sized bombs. Einstein said nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water—because tha is all nuclear power is used for: to boil water through the massive heat, turn it into steam, and turn a turbine which generates electricity. Now when you fission uranium, 200 new elements are formed, all of which are much more poisonous to the body than the original uranium. Some last seconds, some last millions of years. Radioactive iodine lasts six weeks; it causes thyroid cancer. Strontium-90 will get out; it lasts for 600 years, and causes bone cancer or leukaemia. Caesium lasts for 600 years—it's all over Europe. But that's nothing compared to what's happening now. One of the mos deadly [nuclear by-products] is plutonium. One millionth of a gram, if you inhale it, would give you cancer. Each reactor has 250 kilograms o plutonium in it. Plutonium is going to get out and spread all over the northern hemisphere. It's already heading towards North America now. Radioactive iodine, plus strontium, plus caesium, plus tritium...I could go on and on and on. When it rains, down comes fallout and it concentrates in food. If it gets into the sea, the algae concentrate it, hundreds of times. And the crustaceans concentrate it, hundreds of times. And then the little fish, then the big fish, then us. You can't taste these radioactive food elements; you can't see them, you can't smell them. They're silent. When you get them inside your body, you don't suddenly drop dead of cancer. It takes five to 60 years to get your cancer, and when you feel a lump in your breast it doesn't say, "I was made by some strontium-90 in a piece of fish you ate 20 years ago". All radiation is damaging. It's cumulative: each dose you get adds to your| tisk of getting cancer. Americium is more dangerous than plutonium...1 could go on and on. We are in a situation where we have harnessed the energy of the Sun. It is totally out of control. And there's simply nothing we can do about it. (Source: From Dr Helen Caldicott's public lecture in Montreal, Canada, 18 March 2on, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index. php?context=va&aid=24730) JUNE - JULY 2011 NEXUS ¢ 9 www.nexusmagazine.com