Kingdom Come

Would a military-run government agency like NASA cover up what they’re really doing by deliberately leaking false information to the media?

Surely red-blooded patriotic Americans wouldn’t participate in a coverup!

Using our common sense, the exact opposite argument is more credible. Spreading misinformation to gain a military advantage is a common strategy.

On 6 June 1944, 168,000 Allied troops stormed ashore on the beaches of Normandy to begin the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe, supported by 12,000 aircraft and nearly 7,000 ships. The invasion plan, initially codenamed Overlord and then designated Neptune and a dozen other subordinate components, was the largest amphibious assault ever contemplated, and was an extraordinarily high-risk enterprise.

The key to success would be the element of surprise…the enemy was fully aware that an invasion attempt was probable sometime during the summer of 1944.

The Allies’ masterplan was devilishly complex…the deception planners exercised control over the enemy’s network of spies, had access to his most confidential communications, enjoyed air superiority and could impose the very strictest security conditions on the British Isles that could…be exploited by an intelligence community that had experimented with deception schemes in the Mediterranean and Middle East to gain unprecedented experience of the art of misdirecting the Axis…skilful, co-ordinated manipulation of wireless traffic, double agents and camouflage could accomplish much by exaggerating strengths, disguising weaknesses and confusing the adversary.

It was their patriotism during the Red Scare that drove many Americans to conspire with American government agents in the Cold War’s Space Race.

The general public was thoroughly indoctrinated to be fearful of subversive Communist influence in their lives…lurking anywhere, subversively. Between 1950 and 1954 Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of the State Department, the White House, the Treasury, and even the US Army…No one dared tangle with McCarthy for fear of being labeled disloyal.

Then there was the American Espionage Act signed into law in 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson. Officially titled “An act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,“… 

In the century after it became law— which remains on the books to this day, as Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 37 of the U.S. Code – its vague language doesn’t just apply to government employees who violate their security clearances, it has been re-interpreted as a broad prohibition against the activities of anti-war activists, whistleblowers and journalists. 

The argument is made that too many people were involved in the space program to keep the space-program-is-really-a-military-program a secret. How can the American government keep all this secret when so many people are involved in working it out?!

To answer that question, let’s review an actual, true, real-life occasion of just exactly this kind of governmental top-secret militaristic research and development program.

German physicists were the first to split the atom in 1938 and begin developing the atomic bomb. Despite desperate efforts by the British, American and Russians who sent covert teams of commandoes deep into German territory, the German weaponry remained secret until the end of the war.

From nerve and disease agents to the feared and coveted V-1 and V-2 rockets, Nazi scientists worked on an impressive arsenal... 

American and British organizations teamed up to scour occupied Germany for as much military, scientific and technological development research as they could uncover…

In the days and weeks after Germany’s surrender, American troops combed the European countryside in search of hidden caches of weaponry to collect. They came across facets of the Nazi war machine that the top brass were shocked to see…

“They had no idea that Hitler was working on…suddenly the Pentagon realized, ‘Wait a minute, we need these weapons for ourselves.”

Here’s a look at are some of the secret, lethal weapons the Nazis created during World War II:

The Horten Ho 229 bomber was…the world’s first stealth aircraft and took its first flight in 1944…the bomber’s engineering did inspire today’s modern stealth aircraft — like the Northrop Gruman B-2 bomber.

The Fritz X, considered the “grandfather of smart bombs,” was a 3,450-pound explosive equipped with a radio receiver and sophisticated tail controls that helped guide the bomb to its target. According to the US Air Force, the Fritz X could penetrate 28 inches of armor and could be deployed from 20,000 feet, an altitude out of reach for antiaircraft equipment at the time. Less than a month after it was developed, in 1943 the Nazis sank Italian battleship Roma.

Known as the “Doodlebug” by US troops, the mini-tank was controlled with a joystick…designed to carry between 133 and 220 pounds of high explosives…used to navigate minefields and deliver its explosive payload to defensive positions. The Nazis built more than 7,000 Goliaths during the war and paved the way for radio-controlled weapons.

By the late 1930s, the Germans were developing the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, a rocket-powered jet with speeds of up to 700 mph…the vaunted American P-51 Mustang fighter, in comparison, topped out at less than 440 mph…More than 300 Komets were built and equipped with twin 30 mm cannons.

The German V-2 rocket was the world’s first large-scale liquid-propellant rocket vehicle,the first long-range ballistic missile, and the ancestor of today’s large rockets and launch vehicles. Over 10,000 concentration camp prisoners died in their creation. The rockets were 76 feet tall, streaked through the skies faster than the speed of sound to targets over 200 miles away carrying over a ton of explosives. More than 3,000 V-2 rockets delivered explosives that demolished European cities in the months before the end of the war.

In a covert affair…named Operation Paperclip, roughly 1,600 of these German scientists (along with their families) were brought to the United States to work on America’s behalf. The program was run by the newly-formed Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), whose goal was to harness German intellectual resources to help develop America’s arsenal of rockets and other biological and chemical weapons.

Operation Paperclip was top secret at the time…Even agents with the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which the U.S. government tasked with hunting down top Nazi officers who went on the lam after the war, were unaware for decades of the extent to which government officials were collaborating with their quarry.

The Cold War birthed a number of revolutionary technologies, themselves conceived during or prior to the Second World War, such as satellite imaging and satellite communications- wonders of an age used almost exclusively by competing military forces across the divide of the Iron Curtain. Imagery of our planet taken by such intelligence satellites was then highly classified, and relatively few people had access. 

The Yom Kippur War [1973] saw the first extensive use of satellite precision-guided munitions in combat between conventional armies. The results were devastating. We’ve seen the use of these munitions up close and personal on the media’s reporting of battles in the Middle East.

In due course the US government launched the ERTS-1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite)- later renamed Landsat, the first of a long series of successful earth observation satellites.

According to government statistics, about a fifth of all satellites belong to the military. Space is a battleground for dominance among major powers.

Russia is reported to have 71 military satellites, and China 63. How many in reality, who knows. 

The Union of Concerned Scientists which monitors satellite activity reports that America has 154 military satellites, as well as others listed as “military / civil” or “military / government,” which adds up to between 339 and 485 military use satellites in total.

“The space environment has become increasingly congested, competitive and contested,” Frank Rose, a senior fellow for security and strategy at the Brookings Institution and former assistant secretary of state for arms control, explained to Congress in March 2019.

For decades, the nuclear balance between the U.S. and Russia has depended on neither side having the capability to launch a successful first strike…

Last summer’s [2021] Chinese hypersonic weapons test…sent a missile around the world at more than five times the speed of sound, i.e. ~4,500 mph [`800 mph x 5]” They launched a long-range missile,” Hyten told CBS News.  “It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted a target in China.”

China’s round-the-world hypersonic test on July 27, 2021 has been compared to the moment in 1957 when Moscow launched the Sputnik satellite, catching the U.S. by surprise.  Or at least the U.S. public. Once again establishing a war cry, no questions asked.

The United States Intelligence Community (IC)is a group of separate United States government  intelligence  agencies and subordinate organizations that work both separately and collectively to conduct intelligence activities which support the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.

Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments.

The IC is overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),

which is headed by the director of national intelligence (DNI)

who reports directly to the president of the United States.^[1][2]

The IC was established by Executive Order 12333 (“United States Intelligence Activities”), signed on December 4, 1981, by President Ronald Reagan.^[3] The statutory definition of the IC, including its roster of agencies, was codified as the Intelligence Organization Act of 1992 (Pub. L.102–496, H.R. 5095, 106 Stat.3188).^[4]

The Washington Post reported in 2010 that there were 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States…and that the intelligence community as a whole would include 854,000 people holding top-secret clearances.^[5]