Act V: 2001-2009
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 1, 2001 (AP) – William Allen, advisor to presidents since the Truman era, died yesterday at the age of 83 in his Reston home. He had been in declining health for the past five years, but remained a regular visitor to the Clinton White House.
Allen wore many different titles during his life: Deputy Director under Truman, Special Advisor to Eisenhower and Special Council under Nixon. He was well regarded on Capital Hill as well, and seemed equally at ease with appropriations committees and the Government Accounting Office.
Allen was born in Boston and attended Harvard University. He taught under philosopher Joseph Campbell at Sarah Lawrence College, and came to Washington with credentials in Politics and Comparative Religion. His early years of agnosticism gradually gave way to Buddhism, and finally Eastern Orthodoxy.
Allen’s singular passion during the preceding decades was flying in his open-cockpit airplane, which he built by hand. He often commented that the world “looked its best, its brightest, its purest” from the seat of his airplane.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., January 29, 2001, (Unpublished) – “Sir, we are missing two Star Gates,” said Donald Rumsfeld.
“What the fuck do you mean, missing two Star Gates?” said Vice President Cheney. “How do you lose two Star Gates? Do we need to put a fucking alert on the milk cartons and ask the public for help locating them?”
“Do we really need all of them?” President Bush asked innocently. “Didn’t you guys make a bunch of them at Adam-a-Gordon?”
“Alamogordo, sir” said Rumsfeld. “The answer to your question is ‘yes’, we were able to create slave units from the plans, but there are two masters we do not have in our possession. And technically, we are only missing one. We know the exact location of one Star Gate is in the ancient ruins of Babylon. The other Star Gate is located somewhere in the Pakistan/Afghanistan border region.”
“I hate Hussein,” said Bush. “Pappy should have finished him off when he had a chance last time. After all my family has done for him, he goes and invades Kuwait. You know, from my days at Midland I know there is enough oil under Iraq to last for another 50 years of drilling. Saddam didn’t need Kuwait’s oil.”
“Fucking Iraqis,” said Cheney. “We have been asking for the artifact back over the past seven years, increasing sanctions, and looking for just the smallest indication of cooperation. It has been nothing but stall, stall, stall. Mr. President, the time for action has come, and Secretary Rumsfeld has a plan.”
“Mr. President,” Rumsfeld said, “We must have the two Star Gates to fully inflate the Shield. We know where the first one is, and can get it back in short order. The second one may take a few years to find, but we will get it.”
“Okay Rummy, I’ll let you lead on this one. I know you and my dad had your disagreements, but I trust you. You are part of my team, and I have never doubted your loyalty. Run with it and keep me in the loop. You know I am not a detail guy, though. Now get out of here, I think I have another appointment in 15 minutes.”
“Yes sir,” said Cheney as he and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld walked out of the Oval Office. It was a short walk down the hall to map out strategy.
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Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld walked down the hall and entered Cheney’s office.
“Who’s Allen’s replacement?” asked Cheney.
“Some kid named Anderson,” replied Rumsfeld.
“God I miss him,” said Cheney. “I miss his wisdom, and wish like hell he was around now.”
“So do I, Dick,” Rumsfeld said breathing heavily. “Well, bring him in and let’s get started,” Cheney said.
Rumsfeld made a call to Anderson and asked him to come over to Vice President Cheney’s office. He looked out the window towards the White House front lawn. Tourists were standing in line, waiting to get a glimpse of the world’s most powerful leader. If only they knew how little power Bush had. Or any of them had, for that matter.
They were all just bit actors in a grotesque play written 50 years ago. The lights dim, on comes Reagan. The curtain falls, and after intermission it’s Bush. Exit stage left, the orchestra plays the strings, and here comes Clinton. Now it’s coming to the next act, and George W. Bush – who could never succeed at anything – is showing up as the savior. Or maybe the idiot savant. Or maybe just a good ol’ boy from Texas who wanted to be the life of the party. After Bush, thought Rumsfeld, the Final Act. Lights fade, curtain falls and show is over.
It didn’t matter, thought Rumsfeld, because none of them had a choice. The Chrono-Visor had shown him the future in 1971. This was all going to happen. The Report Out, named Project 9-1-1, had predicted the Twin Towers would be bombed on September 11 of this year. It would be called the ‘New Pearl Harbor’, and 40,000 Americans would die. The North tower would come crashing into the South Tower. They would both fall onto WTC Building 7. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers would plunge to their death as the steel structures fell like dominos into each other.
The Chrono-Visor didn’t say who was responsible for the attack, but it strongly pointed to Mossad. Rumsfeld shuttered. “Fucking Israelis,” he thought to himself.
Special Science Advisor Britt Anderson entered, and forced Rumsfeld back to the present.
“Good morning, sir,” said the impeccably dressed Anderson. “Are you ready for the debrief?”
Both Cheney and Rumsfeld disliked Anderson. Maybe it was because he was not William Allen; their friend, colleague and father confessor. Perhaps it was something more. Rumsfeld wondered if Anderson had an ounce of compassion in him.
“Please proceed,” said Vice President Cheney.
“As you have seen from the preview tapes,” Anderson began, “we know what 9/11 will look like. We know the casualty figures and the financial chaos that will ensue. With all due respect to Secretary Rumsfeld’s concern about the Butterfly Effect, I have devised an alternative plan that will minimize loss of life, property and disruption to the financial world.”
Cheney looked over at Rumsfeld to study his reaction. There was nothing to read behind those steely eyes.
“We don’t fuck with history, Britt”, said Rumsfeld. “You know the rules. You tweak one semingly minor thing from the past, and you get a wildly different future thirty years from now. We have run this scenario over and over. These towers have to fall. Americans have to die. We end up at war in the Middle East.”
“I agree with everything you have said sir, but I think I have a plan to minimize the deaths. What if we could limit the casualties from 40,000 to 3,000 and still keep the conceptual framework intact?”
“Do what?” asked Rumsfeld.
“Reduce the Twin Tower deaths from 40,000 to 3, 000,” repeated Anderson.
“That has my interest, son” said a suddenly alert Rumsfeld. “Let’s hear your plan.”
REPORT OUT: The implementation of Operation Shock and Awe will begin in September of 2001. It will run thru 2011, and will involve a series of interconnected wars, massive economic disruption and psychological shock. It will be the culmination of 40 years worth of R&D, piloted programs and small-scale field trails. It will be un-paralleled in the scope of world events, and will invoke deep and systemic shock at almost every level of society.
The overall plan for Middle East war was laid out in 1992 during Cheney’s last year as Defense Secretary under Bush the Father. The Defense Planning Guide (Cheney-Wolfowitz) spells out overall goals of worldwide U.S. military domination, and was further elaborated in PNAC’s release last fall of the Rebuilding America’s Defense report.
Most relevant point from PNAC’s report is that ‘Process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.’
A new Pearl Harbor is coming. It has been in planning for many years.
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THE PENTAGON, September 10, 2001 (AP) – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld blasted the Pentagon bureaucracy today, telling his audience that the enemy may well be internal.
“The topic today is an adversary that poses a threat, a serious threat, to the security of the United States of America. This adversary is one of the world’s last bastions of central planning. With brutal consistency, it stifles free thought and crushes new ideas. It disrupts the defense of the United States and places the lives of men and women in uniform at risk.
“The adversary [is] Pentagon bureaucracy. Not the people, but the processes . . . In this building, despite the era of scarce resources taxed by mounting threats, money disappears into duplicate duties and bloated bureaucracy— not because of greed, but gridlock. Innovation is stifled— not by ill intent, but by institutional inertia.”
Rumsfeld also announced in the speech that the U.S. military is missing over $2 Trillion. Former Government Accounting Office whistle-blowers have said for years that the military budget is full of secret budgets that fund black operations. They have called for greater transparency in accounting for public money.
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NEW YORK CITY, September 11, 2001 (AP) – The world watched in stunned disbelief today as jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a possible related crash in Pennsylvania.
Hours after being hit, both towers collapsed straight down into their foundations in a manner similar to a controlled demolition. Thousands perished, and a third building (WTC 7) also fell to ruins in a similar manner later in the day. It was unclear if the third building was also struck by a jetliner.
President Bush was speaking to elementary students when the first attack occurred. After the second attack he was rushed aboard Air Force One. Vice President Cheney is also reported safe. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was reportedly working at the Pentagon during the attack, and is also safe.
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NEW YORK CITY, September 13, 2001, (AP) – Amidst the still-burning fires and rivers of melting metal that were once the Twin Towers, investigators have caught a lucky break in the race to solve who may have been responsible for the terrorist acts in New York.
FBI authorities have found the passport of Satam Al Suqami, and are considering him a key suspect in the hijacking.
Investigators at the Pentagon have also caught a lucky break. First responders have found a California ID card reportedly belonging to a Saudi Arabian who has suspected terrorist ties. Authorities at both sites are still searching desperately for the airplane Black Box flight recorders, but fear they were consumed in the inferno.
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NEW YORK CITY, September 14, 2001 (AP) – The FBI has been working around the clock to determine who is responsible for the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, and today announced that a terror group named Al-Qaeda is responsible for the carnage.
The FBI has reportedly obtained names and photos of the 19 terrorists suspects, most of whom died in the infernos. President Bush has vowed that those responsible will pay a terrible price in retribution.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2001 (AP) – Less than one month after the world terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the Congress has introduced wide-ranging and sweeping changes to allow law enforcement officials greater latitude in keeping the country safe from another attack.
The 500-page document was produced within days of the attack and has been circulating among various sub committees over the past month. Both sides of the isle reportedly back the changes. The legislation is being referred to as “The Patriot Act” and is expected to be passed in the coming weeks.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2001 (AP) – Capital Hill was evacuated today as postal workers found more anthrax in the mailroom of Congress.
The attack follows on the heels of anthrax mailed to various news organizations on September 18, 2001. The deadly spore can easily spread by airborne contact.
FBI sources believe the anthrax is being used as a bio- weapon and points to Al-Qaeda as the most likely suspect in the attacks. The letters have contained statements “Death to America” and “Allah is Great” in English block letters.
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NEW YORK CITY, October 19, 2001 (AP) – New York City developer Larry Silverstein is haggling with his insurance company over settlement terms of the World Trade Center disaster. Silverstein claims each tower should be worth $3.55 Billion for a total of $7.1 Billion. The insurance company contends the twin towers were a single disaster and only want to pay out $3.55 Billion.
On July 24, Silverstein entered into a 99-year lease agreement with the Port Authority for the towers. It was the first time in the history of the complex that management was put up for bid.
Silverstein put up $14 Million of his own money and was awarded the bid. Six weeks later, that lucky investment may be worth 500 times his initial outlay.
REPORT OUT: As predicted, 9/11 is being perceived as the new Pearl Harbor, and will serve as catalyst for Iraq invasion. Will begin building up budget and manpower requirements for multi-year occupation. Strategic goals will be to establish and maintain presence in entire region. Afghan recon efforts will be folded into small-scale operations, and expanded as required. Expect retrieval of both Star Gates by 2005.
Tavistock and Rand have done stellar job in managing 9/11 event. We expect certain segments of population (fringe right-wing ‘patriot’ groups) to challenge story line. These groups will be closely monitored using DARPA technology to discover their network connectivity. Some questions have arisen concerning the ‘coincidence’ of the attack date with the long-established 9-1-1 emergency phone number. There are no coincidences.
Anthrax is difficult to produce, and carries its own unique signature. It will be easy to trace and identify where weapons-grade spores were manufactured (our own Army Bio-weapons lab in Maryland). Recommend not disclosing source of anthrax until 2008.
Underground facility in Colorado has been completed, and will be occupied by U.S. government agencies within next eight years. As anticipated, Bush is enjoying widespread approval ratings and will be known as the “war president”.
Anderson’s plan appears to have worked, minimizing loss of life while remaining true to 7 Chrono-Vision future. Like William Allen before him, he will receive a CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal.