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		<title>Shag Harbour Incident</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 22:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the night of October 4, 1967, at about 11:20 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, many witnesses saw something crash into the waters of Shag Harbour, a tiny fishing village in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the night of October 4, 1967, at about 11:20 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, many witnesses saw something crash into the waters of Shag Harbour, a tiny fishing village in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.</p>
<p>At least eleven people saw a low-flying lit object head towards the harbour. Multiple witnesses reported hearing a whistling sound &#8220;like a bomb,&#8221; then a &#8220;whoosh,&#8221; and finally a loud bang, as it plunged into the Gulf of Maine.</p>
<p>Assuming an airplane crash, RCMP officers arrived at the scene within minutes, and watched the object sink and disappear from view. Within half an hour of the crash, local fishing boats and Canadian Coast Guard were searching the site  for survivors. None were found. There was no debris. No airplanes were missing.</p>
<p>Two days after the incident, a detachment of Royal Canadian Navy divers spent three days searching the seafloor of the Gulf of Maine off Shag Harbor. No trace was found.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/chronicle_herald-1967_oct_07.jpg?resize=771%2C604&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="771" height="604" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4227" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/chronicle_herald-1967_oct_07.jpg?w=771&amp;ssl=1 771w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/chronicle_herald-1967_oct_07.jpg?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/chronicle_herald-1967_oct_07.jpg?resize=768%2C602&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/chronicle_herald-1967_oct_07.jpg?resize=150%2C118&amp;ssl=1 150w" sizes="(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px" /></p>
<p>The incident was considered by the Condon Committee as &#8220;Case 34, North Atlantic, Fall 1967&#8221; which was included in their final report as an unsolved case. They concluded that &#8220;No further investigation by the project was considered justifiable, particularly in view of the immediate and thorough search that had been carried out by the RCMP and the Maritime Command.&#8221; </p>
<p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/ufo_encounters_v1-1978_jan.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/ufo_encounters_v1-1978_jan.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4225" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/ufo_encounters_v1-1978_jan.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/ufo_encounters_v1-1978_jan.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/ufo_encounters_v1-1978_jan.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a><br />
A comic book depiction of the Shag Harbour UFO incident appeared in Issue 1 of &#8220;UFO Encounters&#8221; comic, 1978, Golden Press, Western Publishing Co., ISBN 0-307-11192-X. </p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour_UFO_incident">wiki: Shag Harbour UFO incident</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2013/01/16/the-shag-harbour-incident-of-1967/">stranger dimensions: the shag harbour incident of 1967</a>Canada&#8217;s UFOs: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia</li>
<li><a href="http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1500.01-e.html">stranger dimensions: the shag harbour incident of 1967</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thelivingmoon.com/46jkrog08/02files/UFO_Crash_Event_Shag_Harbor_1967.html">Archived AboveTopSecret thread at thelivingmoon.com</a>Canada&#8217;s UFOs: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia</li>
<li><a href="http://www.novascotia.com/see-do/attractions/shag-harbour-ufo-centre/1640">Shag Harbour UFO Centre</a></li>
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		<title>Twinkle Twinkle Little Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2017 23:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Texts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aliens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[watchers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[An extremely creepy account of an unknown entity staring unblinkingly through bedroom curtains.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An extremely creepy account of an unknown entity staring unblinkingly through bedroom curtains. Like other grim or terrifying nursery songs, it&#8217;s traditionally sung to children in a light-hearted tone to better mask the underlying horror, making it all the more terrifying when finally revealed.</p>
<blockquote><p>Twinkle, twinkle, little star,<br />
How I wonder what you are!<br />
Up above the world so high,<br />
Like a diamond in the sky.</p>
<p>When the blazing sun is gone,<br />
When he nothing shines upon,<br />
Then you show your little light,<br />
Twinkle, twinkle, through the night.</p>
<p>Then the traveller in the dark<br />
Thanks you for your tiny spark;<br />
He could not see where to go,<br />
If you did not twinkle so.</p>
<p>In the dark blue sky you keep,<br />
And often through my curtains peep,<br />
For you never shut your eye<br />
Till the sun is in the sky.</p>
<p>As your bright and tiny spark<br />
Lights the traveller in the dark,<br />
Though I know not what you are,<br />
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.</p></blockquote>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/alien_window.jpg?resize=600%2C489&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="600" height="489" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4101" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/alien_window.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/alien_window.jpg?resize=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/alien_window.jpg?resize=150%2C122&amp;ssl=1 150w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Star">wiki: Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Star</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOUyqj9AFvM">Mr Spock: <em>Twinkle, Twinkle Little Earth</em></a></li>
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		<title>Jābir ibn Hayyān</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 22:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The term "gibberish" may come from his latinized name]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān<br />
Arabic: جابر بن حیان‎<br />
Latinized: Geber </p>
<p>born c. 721 in Tus, Persia; died c. 815 in Kufa, Iraq</p>
<p>Chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. Sometimes referred to as the father of early chemistry</p>
<p>In 13th-century Europe an anonymous writer, usually referred to as Pseudo-Geber, produced alchemical and metallurgical writings under the pen-name Geber.</p>
<p>The Geber / Pseudo-Geber corpus includes hundreds of books including the Arabic original of the Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina) </p>
<p>The term &#8220;gibberish&#8221; may come from his latinized name, since his texts were written in deliberately obscure code. </p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
<ul>
<li>wiki: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan">Jabir_ibn_Hayyan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://historyofalchemy.com/list-of-alchemists/jabir-ibn-hayyan-geber/">History of Alchemy: Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Abu_Mūsā_Jābir_ibn_Hayyān_al-Azdi_(Earth-616)">Marvel Database: Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān al-Azdi (Earth-616)</a></li>
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		<title>Charles Parker Morgan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 18:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OSS Special Investigator. One of the founders of Dianetics]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/charles_parker_morgan_in_1931_-_lafayette_college.png?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/charles_parker_morgan_in_1931_-_lafayette_college.png?resize=210%2C300&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="210" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3986" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/charles_parker_morgan_in_1931_-_lafayette_college.png?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/charles_parker_morgan_in_1931_-_lafayette_college.png?resize=105%2C150&amp;ssl=1 105w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/charles_parker_morgan_in_1931_-_lafayette_college.png?w=371&amp;ssl=1 371w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px" /></a></p>
<p><strong>C. Parker &#8220;Bumps&#8221; Morgan</strong></p>
<p>OSS Special Investigator.</p>
<p>First approached Hubbard to form the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, together with John Campbell Jr.</p>
<p>One of his first moves as Secretary and General Counsel of Dianetics was to contact the FBI to report Communists which the organization had sussed out.</p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mikemcclaughry.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/from-the-fda-files-l-ron-hubbards-osscia-connection-charles-parker-morgan/">From The FDA Files – L. Ron Hubbard’s OSS/CIA Connection: Charles Parker Morgan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/fbi-100.html">Office Memorandum TO: DIRECTOR, FBI &#8211; DATE: March 21, 1951 &#8211; SUBJECT: HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED INTERNAL SECURITY</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/fbi-110.html">Personal letter from L. Ron Hubbard &#8211; May 14, 1951 &#8211; TO: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL </a></li>
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		<title>Pizzagate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 22:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Test: How hard is it to disseminate blatantly insane ideas within specific political subcultures? 
Result: Very not hard.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A media manipulation and social control experiment tied to the release of hacked emails. As far as researchers can tell, the goal was to study how difficult it would be to disseminate an blatantly insane theory within certain political subcultures. In this case, the test signal was that a global child abduction sex cult was operating out of the basement of a pizza parlor, taking &#8220;orders&#8221; for things like  in open communication by using code-words like &#8220;cheese pizza&#8221; for child pornography.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-eye-258x300.jpg?resize=258%2C300&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="258" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4055" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-eye.jpg?resize=258%2C300&amp;ssl=1 258w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-eye.jpg?resize=129%2C150&amp;ssl=1 129w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-eye.jpg?w=361&amp;ssl=1 361w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px" /></p>
<p>The Pizzagate signal was primarily spread through Twitter, and a disproportionate number of tweets about it came from the Czech Republic, Cyprus, and Vietnam, mostly through bot accounts.</p>
<p>The experiment was unexpectedly successful, as most dramatically evidenced by a gunman who stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, searching for a basement which does not exist. A December 2016 poll found that 9% of voters &#8212; and 5% of self-identified Clinton voters &#8212; believed that &#8220;Hillary Clinton is connected to a child sex ring run from a Pizzeria in DC.&#8221;</p>
<p>The subjects of the study have taken the ludicrous signal and turned it into a group identity, an experiment now free in the wild, mutating wildly. And while the number of affected subjects is <em>relatively</em> small, they do number in the millions and tend towards extreme paranoia and violence.</p>
<p>One optimistic hypothesis is that the &#8220;pizzagate&#8221; signal was also used to encourage the affected subjects to publicly tag themselves as unstable extremists, thus allowing easier tracking of their beliefs and activities. A less optimistic hypothesis is that they have been gathered into a credulous militia, willing to obey any order, no matter how insane.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-anon.jpg?resize=705%2C494&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="705" height="494" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4054" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-anon.jpg?w=705&amp;ssl=1 705w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-anon.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/pizzagate-anon.jpg?resize=150%2C105&amp;ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px" /></p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
<ul>
<li>wiki: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory">Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html">Pizzagate: From rumor, to hashtag, to gunfire in D.C.</a></li>
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		<title>red pill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 20:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The "red pill" is the final, most horrifying imprisoning illusion -- believing you've escaped from the world itself. 
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix-neo-red-pill.jpg?resize=720%2C449&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="720" height="449" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix-neo-red-pill.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix-neo-red-pill.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix-neo-red-pill.jpg?resize=150%2C94&amp;ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /></p>
<p>In the parlance of our times, to &#8220;red pill&#8221; is to become aware of the lies that undergird modern civilization, thereby giving you license to act like a douche online. Since most of the people who believe they have &#8220;red pilled&#8221; were already acting like  douches online, the effect of this concept boils down to a slightly greater sense of entitlement among insular communities of already-entitled douches. All of this is well known, and not very interesting.</p>
<p>The <em>interesting</em> thing about the red pill concept is that it is actually the exact inverse of what its proponents claim. The reference is to the 1999 movie <em>The Matrix</em>, in which a hacker bro is offered a choice between a blue pill, to &#8220;believe whatever you want.&#8221; Or a red pill, to &#8220;see how deep the rabbit hole goes.&#8221;</p>
<p>In spite of the reference to the drug-induced hallucinations of Alice in Wonderland, he takes the red pill. He then experiences the physical death of his body, leaves the confines of the apparent world, and comes to the realization that he is no mere hacker bro &#8212; he is in fact the One True Hacker Jesus, Webmaster of the Universe.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix_hacker_jesus.jpg?resize=860%2C463&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="860" height="463" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-4042" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix_hacker_jesus.jpg?resize=1024%2C551&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix_hacker_jesus.jpg?resize=300%2C161&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix_hacker_jesus.jpg?resize=768%2C413&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix_hacker_jesus.jpg?resize=150%2C81&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/matrix_hacker_jesus.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px" /></p>
<p>The ludicrousness of this savior scenario is painfully emphasized in the <em>Matrix</em> sequels, in which Hacker Jesus engages in utterly pointless fake fights in a fake world, and confronts the Father God instantiated as Colonel Sanders. To raise the stakes, the Hacker Jesus Powers eventually bleed over into the &#8220;real&#8221; world, revealing the entire scenario for what it is &#8212; a delusion.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-savior.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4045" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-savior.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-savior.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-savior.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>The red pill was in fact a trap. And what better trap for someone who thinks they&#8217;re special than to make them think they&#8217;ve escaped the world and become its savior?</p>
<p>What is eventually revealed by the <em>Matrix</em> sequels &#8212; the way they&#8217;re irrational-yet-boring like listening to someone narrate their dreams &#8212; is that from the point of swallowing the &#8220;red pill,&#8221; we are actually watching the extended hallucination at the end of the movie <em>Brazil</em>. With no hope for escape, the prisoner fever-dreams themselves as a heroic savior, free of all constraints.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-insanity.jpg?resize=512%2C282&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="512" height="282" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4046" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-insanity.jpg?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-insanity.jpg?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-insanity.jpg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" /></p>
<p>The red pill is the final, most horrifying imprisoning illusion &#8212; escape from the world itself.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-torture-cage.jpg?resize=860%2C465&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="860" height="465" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-4044" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-torture-cage.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-torture-cage.jpg?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-torture-cage.jpg?resize=768%2C416&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/obscurantist.com/wp-content/uploads/brazil-torture-cage.jpg?resize=150%2C81&amp;ssl=1 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px" /></p>
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		<title>CIA Operations and Projects</title>
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<p>APPLE: Agent team seen in 1952 by CIA/OPC as best bet to successfully continue BGFIEND Project aimed to harass/overthrow Albanian communist regime. Team was arrested, communists controlled radio ops for 16 months, luring more agents into Albania in 1953, and trying and executing original agents in 1954 to suddenly end BGFIEND.</p>
<p>ARTICHOKE: Anti-interrogation project. Precursor to MKULTRA.</p>
<p>AZORIAN: Project to raise the Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean.</p>
<p>BGGYPSY: Communist.</p>
<p>BIRCH</p>
<p>BLACKSHIELD: A-12 aircraft reconnaissance missions off Okinawa.</p>
<p>BLUEBIRD: mind control program</p>
<p>BOND: Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.</p>
<p>CATIDE: Bundesnachrichtendienst</p>
<p>CHARITY: Joint CIA/OSO-Italian Naval Intelligence information gathering operation against Albania (1948–1951).</p>
<p>CHERRY: Covert assassination / destabilization operation during Vietnam war, targeting Prince (later King) Norodom Sihanouk and the government of Cambodia. Disbanded.</p>
<p>DTFROGS: El Salvador</p>
<p>ESCOBILLA: Guatemalan national.</p>
<p>ESMERALDITE: Labor informant affiliated with AFL-sponsored labor movement.</p>
<p>ESQUIRE: James Bamford, author of &#8220;The Puzzle Palace&#8221;.</p>
<p>ESSENCE: Guatemalan anti-communist leader.</p>
<p>FDTRODPINT : Afghan tribal agents, formerly known as GESENIOR, reactivated in the 1990s by the CIA to hunt Mir Aimal Kasi and later Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>FIR</p>
<p>FUBELT: operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile</p>
<p>FJGROUND: Grafenwöhr, West Germany paramilitary training ground.</p>
<p>FJHOPEFUL: Military base.</p>
<p>FPBERM: Yugoslavia</p>
<p>GESENIOR: Afghan tribal agents working with the CIA during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Later called FDTRODPINT.</p>
<p>GOLD: covert American and British (Operation Stopwatch) tunnel under the Berlin Wall to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin. Soviet authorities were informed about Operation Gold from the very beginning by their mole George Blake and &#8220;discovered&#8221; the tunnel in 1956.</p>
<p>GPFLOOR: Lee Harvey Oswald</p>
<p>GPIDEAL: John F. Kennedy, US president.</p>
<p>GRALLSPICE: Pyotr Popov, CIA Soviet agent</p>
<p>GUSTO: Project to design a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Succeeded RAINBOW. Succeeded by OXCART.</p>
<p>HBFAIRY: France</p>
<p>HTCURIO: American or U.S.</p>
<p>IAFEATURE: Operation to support the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) during the Angolan civil war.</p>
<p>IDIOM: Initial work by Convair on a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Later moved into GUSTO.</p>
<p>Project JBEDICT: Tripartite Stay-Behind project.</p>
<p>JENNIFER: Document control system for Project AZORIAN.</p>
<p>KEMPSTER: Project to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the inlets of the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft.</p>
<p>KMHYMNAL: Maine-built motor sailer JUANITA purchased by CIA to use as floating, clandestine, propaganda broadcast facility in Mediterranean/Adriatic (1950–53).</p>
<p>LEMON</p>
<p>LNWILT: US Counterintelligence Corps (CIC)</p>
<p>LPMEDLEY: Surveillance of telegraphic information exiting or entering the United States.</p>
<p>MAGPIE: US Army Labor Service Organization</p>
<p>MATADOR: Project to recover section of Soviet submarine K-129 dropped during Project AZORIAN. Cancelled after Soviet protest.</p>
<p>MIDNIGHT CLIMAX: Prostitutes lured young men to safehouses where they were surreptitiously dosed with LSD and observed through a two-way mirror</p>
<p>MKULTRA: mind control experiments, among other things</p>
<p>MOCKINGBIRD: Recruitment of American journalists for CIA work.</p>
<p>MONGOOSE: &#8220;Primarily a relentless and escalating campaign of sabotage and small Cuban exile raids that would somehow cause the overthrow of Castro,&#8221; which &#8220;also included plans for an invasion of Cuba in the fall of 1962&#8221;.</p>
<p>NORTHWOODS: plan for U.S. government to perform a series of violent terrorist acts in U.S. cities &#8212; bombings, hijackings,  riots, sabotage &#8212; which would be blamed on Cuba to build support for war.</p>
<p>OAK: Operation to assassinate suspected South Vietnamese collaborators during Vietnam war.</p>
<p>PANCHO: Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala, also RUFUS.</p>
<p>PAPERCLIP: US recruiting of German scientists after World War II.</p>
<p>PBFORTUNE: Attempt to overthrow democratically elected government of Guatemala. Precursor to PBSUCCESS</p>
<p>PBHISTORY: a failed effort to justify the overthrow of the elected government of Guatemala</p>
<p>PBSUCCESS: 1954 Guatemalan coup d&#8217;état, which installed the dictator Castillo Armas and led to four decades of brutal civil war.</p>
<p>PHOENIX: Vietnam covert intelligence/assassination operation.</p>
<p>PINE</p>
<p>RAINBOW: Project to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Succeeded by GUSTO.</p>
<p>QKWAVER: Egypt</p>
<p>RUFUS: Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala, also PANCHO.</p>
<p>RYBAT: Secret</p>
<p>SARANAC: Training site in Nicaragua.</p>
<p>SCRANTON: Training base for radio operators near Nicaragua.</p>
<p>SGCIDER: Germany</p>
<p>SGUAT: CIA Station in Guatemala</p>
<p>SHERWOOD: CIA radio broadcast program in Nicaragua begun on May 1, 1954.</p>
<p>SKILLET: Whiting Willauer, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras.</p>
<p>SKIMMER: The &#8220;Group&#8221; CIA cover organization supporting Castillo Armas.</p>
<p>SLINC: Telegram indicator for PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida.</p>
<p>STANDEL: Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala.</p>
<p>STARGATE: Investigation of psychic phenomena, especially &#8220;remote viewing&#8221;</p>
<p>STBAILEY: political action and propaganda part of STBARNUM</p>
<p>STBARNUM: CIA Tibetan program (covert action in Tibet, 1950s onwards)</p>
<p>STCIRCUS: aerial part of STBARNUM</p>
<p>STSPIN: Three P-3A Orion aircraft operated from Taiwan in 1966.</p>
<p>SYNCARP: The &#8220;Junta,&#8221; Castillo Armas&#8217; political organization headed by Cordova Cerna.</p>
<p>THERMOS: Unclassified codeword used in lieu of RAINBOW</p>
<p>THROWOFF/2: Albanian ethnic agent/radio operator employed by Italian Navy Intelligence/CIA in several early Cold War covert operations against Albania. Was captured, operated radio under communist control to lure CIA agents to capture/death, tried in 1954, death sentence commuted, freed after 25 years. CIA paid his son $40,000 in 1996.</p>
<p>OPERATION TILT: The CIA&#8217;s name for &#8220;an operation put together by John Martino, who was fronting for his boss Santo Trafficante and his roommate Johnny Roselli&#8221;. OPERATION TILT used &#8220;some of the same people working on the CIA-Mafia plots in the spring of 1963 &#8230;  involved sending a Cuban exile team into Cuba to retrieve Soviet technicians supposedly ready to defect and reveal the existence of Soviet missiles still on the island&#8221;.</p>
<p>TROPIC: Air operations flown over North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union by CAT pilots during the 1950s.</p>
<p>VALUABLE: British MI-run Albanian operations 1949 to 1953.</p>
<p>WASHTUB: Operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua.</p>
<p>WBFISHY: British Foreign Office</p>
<p>WSBURNT: Guatemala</p>
<p>WSHOOFS: Honduras</p>
<p>ZAPATA: Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961.</p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
<ul>
<li>wiki: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym#Operations_and_projects">CIA_cryptonym#Operations_and_projects</a></li>
<li><a href="https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54Guat/terms">state.gov: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Guatemala &#8211; Abbreviations and Cryptonyms</a></li>
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		<title>Nevada Desert Triangle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 20:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An alleged bombing test site near Groom Lake/Are 51, which <em>just happens</em> to be an eye in a pyramid, visible from space.]]></description>
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<p>An alleged bombing test site near Groom Lake/Are 51, which <em>just happens</em> to be an eye in a pyramid, visible from space.</p>
<p>Google reviewers give the site 4.5 stars</p>
<p>37 37&#8217;41.54&#8243;N 116 50&#8217;52.57&#8243;W</p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
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<li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Nevada+Desert+Triangle/@37.6281944,-116.8501254,752m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xc4afce0b38b40f4!8m2!3d37.6280958!4d-116.8484529">Google Maps: The+Nevada+Desert+Triangle</a></li>
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		<title>Lamanites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 03:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Book of Mormon, they were the dark-skinned, wicked rivals to the lighter-skinned, righteous Nephites.]]></description>
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<p>The Lamanites are one of the people described in the Book of Mormon, usually portrayed as dark-skinned, wicked rivals to the lighter-skinned, righteous Nephites. Both of are said to be descendants of Israelites who traveled to the New World by in coffin-like barges circa 600 BC, none of which has any basis in historical or archeological fact.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://obscurantist.com/oma/lds/">Church of Latter-Day Saints</a> used to suggest that the indigenous peoples of the Americas were decendents of the Lamanites. In and effort to sidestep the terrible racism and glaring impossibility of this narrative, Mormon scholars turned to a &#8220;limited geography&#8221; model, which conveniently erases all genetic and cultural connection between Lamanites and modern people. This tactic — suggesting that the Lamanites were <em>totally real</em> but left absolutely no trace whatsoever — has issues. Issues which are shared by many other faith communities.</p>
<h3 class="refs">References</h3>
<ul>
<li>wiki: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamanite">Lamanite</a></li>
<li><a href="https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/why-did-book-of-mormon-prophets-discourage-nephite-lamanite-intermarriage">Why Did Book Of Mormon Prophets Discourage Nephite-Lamanite Intermarriage?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/images/nephites-conquor-lamanites-thompson-1137459?lang=eng">Captain Moroni’s Soldiers Fight the Lamanites</a></li>
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		<title>Zetan Bio-Robots</title>
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					<description><![CDATA["under Nellis air force base there are at least 180,000 grey Zetan bio-robots that are being bred for an army as we speak"]]></description>
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<p>According to <a href="http://www.jamescasbolt.com/page7.htm">James Casbolt</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>One of my CIA contacts claims that in the underground facility under Nellis air force base there are at least 180,000 grey Zetan bio-robots that are being bred for an army as we speak. There is much  information to suggest that the lowest levels of some bases are just for Zetan grey, Nordic Annunaki and Draconian reptilian collaboration forces and humans are not permitted to enter. According to a NSA contact, the Nordic anunnaki from the Sirius star system are at the top of the chain of command at the Dulce base and have a loose strategic alliance with the Draconian reptilans. The Dracos provide the Annunaki with Zetan bio-robots for abductions and to collect embryos from human females.</p></blockquote>
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