On September
7th, in a speech
given at the
Council of
Foreign
Relations,
Director of
Central
Intelligence
Michael Hayden
warned
"This war is
different. In a
very real sense,
anybody who
lives or works
in a major city
is just as much
a potential
target as the
victims of 9/11,
or the London
subway bombings,
or the strikes
in Madrid, or
any of the other
operations we’ve
seen in Morocco,
Jordan,
Indonesia,
Algeria,
Pakistan, Kenya,
and elsewhere."
Hayden added,
"our analysts
assess with high
confidence that
al-Qa’ida’s
central
leadership is
planning
high-impact
plots against
the US
homeland," and
"we
assess—again,
with high
confidence—that
al-Qa’ida is
focusing on
targets that
would produce
mass casualties,
dramatic
destruction, and
significant
economic
aftershocks."
"It’s an
intelligence war
as much as a
military one --
maybe even more
so. In the
post-9/11 era,
intelligence is
more crucial to
the security of
our nation than
ever before."
Hayden's
remarks
addressed his
concerns over
leaks of
information in
the media.
"Each
revelation of
our methods --
in tracking
terrorists, WMD,
or other threats
-- allows our
enemies to cover
their tracks and
change their
practices. And
it takes us
valuable time to
readjust in
kind."
Is there a
kind of
intelligence
invulnerable to
countermeasures?
One possibility
previously
explored by the
United States
Government was
the use of
Anomalous Mental
Phenomena for
intelligence
collection
activities.
Anomalous Mental
Phenomena, or
AMP, refers to
information
transfered to
conscious
awareness
through unknown
channels. In
1995, the
government
revealed the
operational use
of AMP to
collect
intelligence,
beginning in the
1970's. In
addition to
operational
collection of
AMP-based
intelligence,
numerous
research
programs were
funded at USAF,
Navy, Army, and
the Defense
Intelligence
Agency,
following early
investigations
by the CIA.
Although various
code nick-names
were given over
the twenty-plus
years of
research and
operations, with
the release by
the CIA of the
previously
SECRET DIA
documents, the
program came to
be known
publicly as STAR
GATE.
One problem
for AMP-based
research and
collection was
the association
with psychic and
paranormal
phenomena.
Labels of
so-called
psychic spying
branded
researchers with
a stigma that
cursed serious
efforts over the
years.
Collection
efforts were
based on the
idea that a
phenomena that
is not
understood may
still offer
operational
intelligence
that should not
be ignored. It
has always been
a possibility
that the
AMP-based
information is
transferred over
subtle
conventional
channels and
imprinted in the
subconscious
mind, where it
may later be
accessed using
certain methods
of recovery.
Even if
AMP-based
intelligence
proves to be the
product of
intense
imaginary
simulations in
the minds of
AMP-sources,
there may still
be a place for
the results in
the world of
intelligence. A
creative
solution for a
threat scenario
does have
practical
consequences
when the
scenario
prepares the
intelligence
community for
previously
unsuspected
events in the
real world.
A good
example can be
found in the
9/11 events of
2001. Reviews of
the intelligence
community
concluded there
was "No
examination of
the potential
for terrorists
to use aircraft
as weapons, as
distinguished
from traditional
hijackings."
However, this is
not entirely
true. AMP-based
sources repeated
warned of
aircraft used as
weapons, as
early as
December of
1983. One DIA
AMP-source
warned of air
attacks against
buildings,
involving the
collapse of a
building and
great
destruction, in
New York City
and Washington,
D.C. Plots were
described
involving failed
attacks against
the White House
and the U.S.
Capital
Building, as
occurred when
9/11 Flight 93
failed to reach
the intended
target. An even
more interesting
prediction names
the pilot of a
flight aimed at
the Capital
Building: a man
who "speaks
English and
perhaps
French...name
may be or sound
like Jerry,
Gerard, or
Geraldo." The
pilot of Flight
93, aimed at the
U.S. Capital
Building, was
Ziah Jarrah.
All of these
items can be
found in the
89,000 pages of
STAR GATE files
already released
by the CIA.
Another 50,000
pages remain
unreleased.
One report
taken from the
STAR GATE files
warns of
imminent danger
following the
appearance of a
dark, bearded
man associated
with a
beleaguered
figure. Drawings
from the 1987
report offer a
striking
impression of
media
comparisons of
the old and new
look of Osama
bin Laden now
being
distributed by
various media
outlets on the
Internet. Given
the utility of
past AMP to
anticipate
terrorist
activities, it
is advisable to
be aware of the
AMP-sourced
information in
the light of
current events.
Failure to do
so means we have
ignored a
warning notice.
Samples and
analysis of the
CIA released DIA
STAR GATE
documents are
available for
viewing at the
Starstream
Research and
STARpod.org
websites.
by
Gary S. Bekkum
