From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 19:49:40 MST
--- William <williamweb@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 21:53:06 EST
> > From: Dehede011@aol.com
> > Subject: Re: Another Hypothesis
> >
> > In a message dated 1/1/2003 7:45:04 PM Central Standard Time,
> > samantha@objectent.com writes: This is a truly disgusting response
> >
> > Samantha,
> > Look at what is being said. "I served my country as a security
> > intelligence reconnaissance expert for black agencies that don't
> officially exist."
> >
> > Now that says that congress didn't approve of the "black
> agency" nor did they authorize money to be spent on it.
> > They do not know of its existance and cannot exercise their
> > constitutional duty of oversight.
THis is inaccurate. There have been a number of agencies and projects
which did not officially exist with respect to the public but were
under the oversight of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees
from their inception. The CIA, NSA, NRO all at one time 'didn't exist'
as far as the public was concerned. The B-2 and F-117, the U-2 and
SR-71, the Corona, Lacrosse, and other weapons systems programs 'didn't
exist' long after they were operational projects.
Why is this allowed? Because when an open society has totalitarian
enemies, their best sources of intelligence on open societies' defenses
is those societies own free press and other open media sources. During
the Cold War, a large fraction of the USSR's intelligence budget was
comprised of subscriptions to western publications, everything from the
NY Times to Aviation Week & Space Technology (known in our own Defense
establishment as "Aviation Leak").
The whole Roswell/UFO/Area 51 deal was a disinformation campaign to
distract Soviet agents from gaining intelligence on our various
development programs based in Nevada.
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