Act I: 1945 – 1972
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 1945 (Unpublished) – “Then it’s true?” President Harry Truman asked incredulously.
“It is sir, without a doubt,” responded Deputy Director William Allen.
“How much of it?” Truman said as he rubbed his brows repeatedly.
“All of it,” came the short reply.
“The Bible?”
“Yes.”
“The Hindu scriptures?”
“Yes.”
“The Hopi Indian prophecies?” he asked.
“It appears so,” said the Deputy Director.
“Not Edgar Cayce, surely?” Truman said with distain. “For Heaven’s sake, tell me that nut case was not right as well? I remember my mother listening to him in the 1920’s and ranting and raving that he had some kind of prophetic gift. She cooked all our food with garlic for years afterwards. I still hate the taste of garlic.”
“Particularly Cayce, sir,” came the quiet reply. “His prophecy on the earth’s crust shift appears to be right on the money. The Atlantean dig will tell us what we need to know within the year. We expect it will line up with information found in The Labyrinth at Hawara and the Mayan sites.
“My God, this is all unbelievable,” he said. “So the flood story is more than a myth?”
“Sir, the flood ‘myth’ is found in every major historical text throughout the world. The flood story – along with the creation story – are the driving doxologies for the human race. We are coming face-to-face with the reality that the flood actually happened. It may have happened many times before. And it will happen again, sir. This is a certainty.”
“Then what is the damn purpose for all this?” Truman waved expansively, as if his arms encompassed the whole world. “What is the point of creation if it results in nothing but cycles of destruction?”
“I don’t know sir,” said the Deputy Director thoughtfully. “You know I am not a man of faith. I have never been able to believe in things I can’t see. That is a question you will have to take up with your God.”
“Believe me Will, that’s my agenda tonight when I speak with the man upstairs. Let’s meet tomorrow morning after I have a chance to review your report. God bless you son,” said Truman. He meant it more sincerely than the deputy director could ever know.
William Allen walked out of the executive office, exhaling deeply. He planned on taking a short walk down Constitution Avenue before heading over to the watering hole. The Reflecting Pool had always brought him a sense of peace, and tonight he was in serious need of reflection.
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Truman took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes repeatedly. His head hurt, his eyes burned and his stomach was churning. The report in front of him was a marvel of research, and he had dog-eared many pages with questions in the margin for tomorrow’s meeting of the kitchen cabinet. The paper was well footnoted, but Truman would check the Biblical references himself.
He found it a puzzlement that William Allen, a man of professed non-faith, could so faithfully represent the views of religions. He knew that Allen had studied under Joseph Campbell, and that Campbell’s seminal work “The Mask of Eternity” had underpinned much of Allen’s philosophy. Campbell had spent his life studying comparative religions, and discovered the common stories that tied humanity together across continents, peoples and centuries. Campbell had viewed all these stories as myth and allegory, and Allen had adopted the same perspective. At least until now.
When the initial round of discoveries were made, Allen sought to peel back the layers of the onion and get to the truth. In his mind, truth would show the illogic of all belief systems. Like Campbell, Allen believed religion was a mask or filter that man used to peer into eternity. When man became strong enough, Campbell believed the notion of God would be reflected back inward where it properly belonged.
But the more Allen sought to disprove the notion of an external power (God, if you prefer), the more it kept showing up in the archeological digs. These ancient peoples seemed to believe in the reality of heaven, and their astrology charts were the basis of the math that Allen had discovered. The charts were accurate beyond rational belief, and their conclusions on sunspot activity backed up the notion that the stars were speaking to man.
Truman thought about a scripture from Psalms 19, where it was said that the heavens uttered God’s speech day after day, and showed his knowledge ‘night after night’. Could it be literally true that God’s knowledge and wisdom was found in the stars, and that he spoke to man thru them? Was this really his warning he was shouting to them?
He thought about Allen, who had found connections between scripture, movement of the astrological charts and placement of the Giza pyramids in relationship to the Orion constellation. In fact, it was Allen who postulated the exact coordinates of The Labyrinth at Hawara. The team had been quick to find the site, but slow to digest its content and meaning. It took Allen, connecting the dots in his own peculiar way, to figure out the connection between The Labyrinth, Michael Tsarion’s work on Egyptian migration and the Edgar Cayce prophecies on Atlantis.
Allen’s conclusions were initially met with bemusement. When the Egyptologists in Cairo were able to provide further clarification on text from the Rosetta Stone and the Zodiac of Dendera, the outright laughing stopped. When the team actually discovered The Labyrinth, they were speechless. It turned out that Herodotus’ description was accurate. The largest man-made structure ever created did exist. It did contain over 3,000 chambers, mostly buried under sand and water. But it was the hieroglyphics on the walls and the Circle of Gold that left the team stunned.
There was no doubt that civilizations existed long before Egyptians showed up. This race was highly advanced, and the text on their walls was clearly pointing to more than a creation story. It was almost as if the walls contained blueprints and technical specifications. It might take the “experts” a lifetime to unravel the message, but no doubt it could be done as the language was clearly related to cuneiform.
Allen had been first to discover the Circle of God, which Herodotus had mistakenly recorded as the Circle of “Gold”. He had quickly understood the implications of the Sacred Chamber, and found references to the ancient civilization’s ‘home’. He deduced this location from star charts on the walls, and boldly claimed Atlantis could be found under the South Pole. Truman’s White House quietly funded the effort, codenamed Project High Jump, confident that Allen had discerned what no one else could.
The discovery of Atlantis two months ago had put an exclamation point on Allen’s hypothesis. The dig was expected to confirm the few remaining pieces of the puzzle. No one was laughing. No one was bemused. Allen’s report was circulating among the kitchen cabinet that night. No one was sleeping. Many were crying. A few were praying.
Allen spent the night drinking alone.
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ROSWELL, N.M., July 13, 1947 (AP) – The United States Army has clarified earlier media reports from its office, refuting the idea that a ‘flying saucer with space aliens’ crashed in the desert near Roswell.
Army Spokesman Pat Small said the July 7 press release from his office at Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) was incorrect. On that date, his office issued a press release stating that “personnel from the field’s 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed flying disc from a ranch near Roswell.” Later that same day, the Commanding General from the 8th Air Force refuted the report, stating that the crashed object was a high-altitude weather balloon from a classified program known as “Mogul”.
“We regret our initial mis-information,” said Small. “In our haste to release the story to the public, we just got the details wrong. It is regrettable that we prematurely released the information to The (Roswell Daily) Record. Correct information was supplied later that day, but the story has picked up a life of its own. This is just a weather balloon that crashed, nothing more.”
REPORT OUT: Blueprints from the Circle of God have resulted in a working prototype being test-flown by the Army Air Corp. Extreme high altitude capability has been tempered by lack of a reliable power plant. Small nuclear reactor has worked well, but need to pursue alternative energy source. Wilhelm Reich’s research team seems to be on to something with Orgone power. May prove to be the free energy source that blueprints alluded to.
In light of Roswell incident, it is apparent that a systemic plausible deniability strategy needs to be developed for media. Recommend first step to confine flights to restricted areas within desert. R&D flights outside the corridor should be confined to nighttime activity.
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LONDON, England, January 1, 1949 (BBC) – George Orwell’s latest book has just been released, and it paints a bleak picture of the world’s future. Nineteen Eighty Four follows up the theme from Animal Farm and shows totalitarianism run amok in the world of 1984.
In Orwell’s anti-utopia, the State is all-powerful. It exercises psychological control over its citizens (subjects) by over-stimulation, thought control and fear. Emotions, reactions and speech are controlled and monitored by ever-present surveillance using two-way televisions and hidden microphones. Even a muscle twitch is enough to get you tortured, and slogans continually remind that “Big Brother Is Watching.”
Set in London, the world has been reduced to three super powers (Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia) that are continuously at war with each other. Subjects are required to attend Hate Sessions in which they are whipped into an emotional frenzy. Their hatred is then directed toward a shadowy terrorist organization that may (or may not) exist. The state’s motto is “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength”.
Throughout the novel, main character Winston Smith (who works at the Ministry of Truth rewriting history) attempts to find and join the resistance movement. In the end, his disloyalty is discovered, and he is tortured in the Ministry of Love until his resistance is broken and he learns to love “Big Brother”.
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NEW YORK CITY, April 4, 1949 (Unpublished) – “Alright,” said Nikita Khrushchev, “It’s settled. The (Tavistock) Institute will handle the program on our end, and The Rand Institute will handle details from your side. Premier Stalin has approved the plan, provided we get full access to the technology.”
Truman stared at the floor. He found it ironic that this World War II foe was now going to be an ally in the greatest bait-and-switch ploy of history. The next 50 years would determine the fate of mankind. Truman was unsure if their plan was the correct course of action, but it had already been set in motion.
“So here are the particulars for Operation Deep Sleep as I see them,” Truman said to Khrushchev.
“One: The general population must never know the truth. We will use Rand and Tavistock to coordinate the disinformation.
Two: China will be brought in during the 1970’s after technology has been deployed. We will begin transferring technology and manufacturing capability from the U.S. to China starting in 1995 in anticipation of the coastal flooding event.
Three: Over the next 50 years, we will conduct a series of wars to diffuse the energy of the population, keep the industrial base intact, and provide a cover for significant Black Ops Initiatives.
Four: Despite our best efforts, we know leaks will occur. We will use the 3D methodology (Denial, Diffusion then Disinformation). Near the end, we expect the leaks to be unstoppable. That is where Operation Deep Sleep comes in.
Five: Deep Sleep will commence in 1960. It will be a multi-tier effort to begin inducing Soma (or its equivalent) into general use.
Six: Beginning in 2007, we will accelerate global debt with the intent to crash the economy in 2011. Funding to complete contractor work will be paid in gold thru 2011.
Seven: Plans will be updated every five years until 2005. After that, yearly meetings to coordinate final details.
Eight: Plan B will involve 144,000 people.
“Questions, anyone?” Truman asked.
With quiet affirmation and nods, the plan was accepted. In some respects, this was a different approach than the last time around. It could be argued this plan was elitist and secretive, where the Atlantean plan was viewed as more egalitarian and open. The Atlantean plan had also been viewed as an unmitigated disaster, so the bar was rather low. In the end, time would prove the wisdom, or lack thereof, of the plan.
William Allen had become a man of faith and hope. Faith that the plan would work, and hope that mankind would survive. He had come to believe in God, or at least in the notion that someone beyond human creation had a hand in this. Over the next 50 years, he would learn to pray.
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KOREAN DMZ, July 17, 1953 (AP) – After three years of bloody fighting, the United Nations today announced an armistice between South and North Korea, and has proposed a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the 38th Parallel to serve as a buffer while formal peace talks are held. China, the United States and the USSR have all agreed to abide by the armistice while peace talks are organized. The conflict started on June 25, 1950 near the 38th Parallel and is widely viewed as fallout from Japanese invasion of the country during the early 1900’s.
REPORT OUT: The Korean Peninsula experiment has worked as planned. Cueing off the idea of an Iron Curtain (Churchill’s 1946 phrase), these East-West regionally sponsored conflicts will generate cover over the next 20-30 years. Next opportunity for sustainable conflict could be Indochina. Similar North/South strategy will be employed.
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PARIS, France, September 29, 1954 – Europe is jumping feet-first into the race for atomic knowledge with the creation of C.E.R.N. (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or European Council for Nuclear Research in English). The purpose of CERN will be to research atomic nucleus and ‘higher-energy physics’. The facilities will be built on the Swiss-French border. Founding members include France, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Nederland, United Kingdom, West Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Yugoslavia.
REPORT OUT: CERN will be responsible for creation of the hybrid power source needed per the blueprints. Funding for the effort will come from the respective member’s defense allocation. U.S. funding will be 50% of the total budget, and will not have line-item visibility on any congressional budget.