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A little-known spy agency that analyzes imagery taken from the skies has been spending significantly more time watching U.S. soil.

In an era when other intelligence agencies try to hide those operations, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, is proud of that domestic mission.

He said the work the agency did after hurricanes Rita and Katrina was the best he had seen an intelligence agency do in his 42 years in the spy business.

"This was kind of a direct payback to the taxpayers for the investment made in this agency over the years, even though in its original design it was intended for foreign intelligence purposes," Clapper said in a Thursday interview with The Associated Press.

Geospatial intelligence is the science of combining imagery, such as satellite pictures, to physically depict features or activities happening anywhere on the planet. A part of the U.S. Defense Department, the NGA usually operates unnoticed to provide information on nuclear sites, terror camps, troop movements or natural disasters.

After last year's hurricanes, the agency had an unusually public face. It set up mobile command centers that sprung out of the backs of Humvees and provided imagery for rescuers and hurricane victims who wanted to know the condition of their homes. Victims would provide their street address and the NGA would provide a satellite photo of their property. In one way or another, some 900 agency officials were involved.

Spy agencies historically avoided domestic operations out of concern for Pentagon regulations and Reagan-era executive order, known as 12333 that restricted intelligence collection on American citizens and companies. Its budget, like all intelligence agencies, is classified.

On Clapper's watch of the last five years, his agency has found ways to expand its mission to help prepare security at Super Bowls and political conventions or deal with natural disasters, such as hurricanes and forest fires.

With help, the agency can also zoom in. Its officials cooperate with private groups, such as hotel security, to get access to footage of a lobby or ballroom. That video can then be linked with mapping and graphical data to help secure events or take action, if a hostage situation or other catastrophe happens.

Privacy advocates wonder how much the agency picks up—and stores. Many are increasingly skeptical of intelligence agencies with recent revelations about the Bush administration's surveillance on phone calls and e-mails.

Among the government's most closely guarded secrets, the quality of pictures NGA receives from classified satellites is believed to far exceed the one-meter resolution available commercially. That means they can take a satellite "snapshot" from high above the atmosphere that is crisply detailed down to a one-meter level.

Clapper says his agency only does big pictures, so concerns about using the NGA's foreign intelligence apparatus at home doesn't apply.

"We are not trying to examine an individual dwelling, for example, because what our mission is normally going to be is looking at large areas," he said. ``It doesn't really affect or threaten anyone's privacy or civil liberties when you are looking at a large collective area."

When asked what additional powers he would ask Congress for, he said, "I wouldn't."

His agency also handles its historic mission: regional threats, such as Iran and North Korea; terrorist hideouts; and tracking drug trade. "Everything and everybody has to be some place," he said.

He considers his brand of intelligence a "chess match". "There are sophisticated nation states that have a good understanding of our surveillance capabilities," including Iran, he said. "What we have to do is counter that'' by taking advantage of anomalies or sending spy planes and satellites over more frequently.

Adversaries who hide their most important facilities underground is a trend the agency has to work at, he said.

NGA was once a stepchild of the intelligence community. But Clapper said it has come into its own and become an equal partner with the other spy agencies, such as the CIA.

Experience-wise, the agency is among the youngest of the spy agencies. About 40 percent of the agency's analyst have been hired in the last five years.

"They are very inexperienced, and that's just fine. They don't have any baggage," said Clapper, who retires next month as the longest serving agency director. "The people that we are getting now are bright, computer literate. ... That is not something I lie awake and worry about."

Source: Space.com
http://www.space.com/news/ap_060514_space_surveillance.html

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It's finally here! The 7th Annual UFO Festival kicks off this Wednesday and Thursday with two Portland-based preview events before we head south to Hotel Oregon in McMinnville for the real deal over the weekend. See our updated and out-of-this-world itinerary below, including recently added screenings of the 1982 alien classic “E.T.”!

 
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2006 (McMinnville)

SPEAKER’S FORUM & RECEPTION WITH DR. JESSE MARCEL, JR.
Hear first-hand about the Marcel family’s involvement in the Roswell UFO controversy that still continues to this day. Dr. Marcel is the only person acknowledged by the U.S. government to have actually analyzed the UFO wreckage. He is the author of Roswell: It Really Happened, which will finally set his family’s unbelievable story straight.

7 p.m. • Mack Theater • $7 per person; tickets available online or at the door (based on available seating)

Purchase a combination ticket for the forum and Saturday workshop for just $12
 
LIVE MUSIC BY JACKSTRAW
Hear beautiful lyrics along with some ferocious pickin’ and pluckin’ from this McMenamins bluegrass favorite. - 7 p.m. • Mattie’s Room at Hotel Oregon
 
PERFORMANCE BY KIRBY SWATOSH & THE MOON ROCK PATROL
Called “peculiar and emotional, raw and goofy,” Kirby is an annual featured performer at the UFO Festival. - 7 p.m • Cellar Bar at Hotel Oregon • 21 & over
 
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2006 (McMinnville)

OUTDOOR TENT & BEER GARDEN
Shop for McMenamins stuff and UFO souvenirs before enjoying a handcrafted ale or a burger in the beer garden.

9 a.m. ‘til 6 p.m. • Evans Street • All ages welcome; 21 & over in the beer garden
 
WORKSHOP ON THE EVOLUTION OF UFOLOGY
Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, WA, will moderate this workshop on the history and evolution of ufology, featuring guests Royce J. Myers III, editor of ufowatchdog.com, and Marius Dekker, career scientist and teacher who believes he was a victim of an alien abduction.

10 a.m. • Mack Theater • $7 per person; tickets available online or at the door (based on available seating)

Purchase a combination ticket for the workshop and Friday night forum for just $12)
 
UFO COSTUME PARADE
It gets weirder and wackier every year – floats, bands, candy, music and more!

1 p.m. • Third Street
 
ALIEN PET COSTUME CONTEST
Give Spike, Rex and Fluffy their moment in the UFO spotlight – prizes awarded for best pet costumes in this event sponsored by Critter Cabana. - 2 p.m. • U.S. Bank Plaza on Third Street
 
SCREENINGS OF McMINNVILLE’S TRENT CASE DOCUMENTARY
This 30-minute film tells the story of the 1950 McMinnville UFO sighting at the local Trent farm. Stay for a Q&A with director Terry Halstead.

2 p.m. & 3:30 p.m. • Mattie’s Room at Hotel Oregon
 
PERFORMANCE OF “THE WAR OF THE WORLDS” (1938)
BY WILLAMETTE RADIO WORKSHOP
Hear just why this Depression-era radio broadcast sent alien-fearing Americans into a mass panic.  -  2:30 p.m. • Mack Theater

SCREENINGS OF “E.T.” (1982)
Bring the whole family to see Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming, Oscar-winning tale of a group of kids who help a stranded extraterrestrial return home.

5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. • Mack Theater • $6 adults; $4.50 children/seniors
 
PERFORMANCE BY KIRBY SWATOSH & THE MOON ROCK PATROL
Kirby and company will play such hits as “Spaceship,” encouraging sing-alongs and audience participation.

7 p.m • Cellar Bar at Hotel Oregon • 21 & over
 
ALIEN COSTUME BALL WITH MUSIC BY THE STRANGE TONES
Win a prize for best outfit – use of tin foil, antennae headgear and facepaint is highly encouraged! Dance to blues, rockabilly, surf and R&B from The Strange Tones.

8 p.m. • Mattie’s Room at Hotel Oregon • 21 & over

For more info visit: www.UFOfest.com

The X-Files spinoff series, 'The Lone Gunmen,' had its pilot episode concerned with a federally-sanctioned/terrorist plot to fly an airplane by remote-control into the World Trade Center!  The pilot was written by Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz.

Despite the concerns of some fans, the plot of TLG is indeed part of the boxed set.  This would seem like a no-brainer - until you realize that the central conspiracy in the episode involved high-tech electronic hijacking of a commercial airliner with the intent of crashing it into the WTC.  Although the episode was conceived and shot in 2000 and aired 6 months before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the eerie coincidence sent shockwaves through cast and producers.'

The following is a quote from Propaganda Matrix: 

'The X-Files spinoff shows a government plan to remote-control a plane to crash into the WTC and trigger war just like Pentagon's Operation Northwoods.  The only difference is that the airliner crew got help to unlock their flight controls and save all lives.  Hollywood always lies about reality.  The show premiered in March 2001...Ladies and gentlemen, this is either someone somewhere within the establishment trying to desperately get out a warning or it is more likely an evil government operation.  The show has been used to subconsciously manipulate people to believe that if these events did actually happen, it would be like a film, not a part of reality, therefore we should not worry too much.  Anyone who would dare say that the government were responsible for such terrorist attacks would immediately be branded a 'lunatic conspiracy theorist, like those guys from the X-Files.'  This is one of the sickest depraved operations that could possibly be devised, it is conditioning on a mass scale.'

'In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.  Code name Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban emigres, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.'

-ABC 5/1/01

These were real terrorist acts planned by the American Joint Chief of Staff against its own population.

'In the two years before the September 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacking airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties...one of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center.  In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon...'

- USA Today  4/18/04

Christopher Bollyn of the American Free Press reported the following in an article called '9/11 - What Did Rupert Murdoch Know?'  More than a year before 9/11, media mogul and owner of Fox-TV, Rupert Murdoch produced a television program that depicted a passenger aircraft being remote-controlled and flown into the World Trade Center.  Did he have prior knowledge of 9/11?

Murdoch is said to be television's most powerful man in the world with the capacity to reach more than 110 million viewers across four continents.  Murdoch is a close friend of 'accused Israeli war criminal' and PM Ariel Sharon.  An estimated 13.2 million Fox TV viewers watched the pilot episode of TLG broadcast on 3/4/01.  When life imitated art just six months later on 9/11, no one in the media seemed to recall the program.  Why was it so forgotten?

For those of you who missed TLG episode with the strange WTC prognostacation, here are some important lines from the show and the story:

The Lone Gunmen (Frohike, Langly and Byers) attend the funeral for John Byer's father.  The report was that he died in a car crash.  TLG are lead to believe he was murdered for what he knew.  The wreck was staged to appear as an accident.

AGENT: 'He (Mr. Byers) had a conscience. Sometimes that's a problem in our line of work...He was upset about something he had found out.'

FROHIKE: 'Something's funky here. You're telling us the government is behind this?'

LANGLY (to agent):  'YOU'RE the government.'

BYERS: 'Dead man driving a car?'

They search for clues in Byer's father's apartment and find information on computer files.  Later, Langly speaks to a fellow hacker to help him break through a D.O.D. encryption.

LANGLY: 'I'm talking about government-sanctioned murder here.'

HACKER: 'Like who shot J.R.?'

LANGLY: 'JFK!'

The Lone Gunmen meet Yves Adele Harlow who becomes a regular on the show.  Her name is an anagram for Lee Harvey Oswald.  The episode refers to JFK or there is an implication of that era three different times.

FROHIKE: 'You find out that your father was going to blow the whistle on the government.  You find out they killed him for it.'

JOHN FITZGERALD BYERS: 'My father used to talk about JFK when I was a kid; Camelot, government as good as its people, the American Dream.  I don't know when or why he stopped believing in it.  But those stories made me who I am.  They made me believe in the promise of our country.'

FROHIKE: 'Truth, justice, the American Way?'

BYERS: 'Someone has to expose those that would destroy that dream.  Someone has to write the stories they don't want you to read...'

TLG find a computer chip in Byer's father's crashed car.  It is an 'integrated antenna' that can remote-control the car.

FROHIKE:  'All you'd need is a handheld radio-controller to operate the car.'

LANGLY: 'And make it look like a dead man was driving.'

Later, the Gunmen put the clues together and hack through the encrypted files.

FROHIKE: 'What's Scenario 12D?'

LANGLY:  'Airline terrorism?  That doesn't make sense.'

A window appears on the Lone Gunmen's computer that reads:
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file info: Scenario_12D.txt
Domestic Airline In-Flight Terrorist Act
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Their hacking is suddenly discovered and traced by the feds.

AGENT: 'I know who they are.'

Later, the agent again meets with the Lone Gunmen.

AGENT: 'But what reason did they have to kill your father?  What were they trying to hide?'

BYERS: 'Something called Scenario 12D.'

LANGLY: 'We have to find out what Scenario 12D is.'

John Byers discovers that his father is alive!  They encounter each other in his apartment.  It was his father who faked his own death.  This was so the feds (something called OVERLORD) would not be after him any more because of the big secret he had found.

BYERS (to his father): 'We know it's a wargame scenario, that it has to do with airline counter-terrorism.  Why is it important enough to kill for?'

MR. BYERS: 'Because it is no longer a game.'

BYERS: 'If some terrorist group wants to act out this scenario, why target you for assassination?'

MR. BYERS: 'Depends on who your terrorists are.'

BYERS:  '...The men who conceived of it in the first place.  You're saying OUR GOVERNMENT PLANS TO COMMIT A TERRORIST ACT AGAINST A DOMESTIC AIRLINE...'

MR. BYERS:  'There you go...indicting the entire government as usual.  It's a faction, a small faction.'

BYERS:  'For what possible gain?'

MR. BYERS: 'The Cold War is over, John.  But with no clear enemy to stockpile against, the arm's market's flat.  But, bring down a fully-loaded 727 into the middle of New York City and you'll find a dozen tin-pot dictators all over the world just clammering to take responsibility and begging to be smart-bombed.'

BYERS:  'I can't believe it.  This is about increasing arms sales?...Why didn't you tell the world this?  Go to the press?'

MR. BYERS: 'You think I'd still be drawing breath 30 minutes after I made that call?  The Press?  Who's gonna run the story?'

BYERS: 'We would.'  (The Lone Gunmen).

MR. BYERS: 'This?  This is birdcage liner...right up there with 'Elvis is an alien' and '2-headed babies'...You stay out of it!  I don't want OVERLORD gunning for you too.'

In the story, father and son board the very plane that they believe will be federally taken over by remote-control.

MR. BYERS: 'I still think we should call in a bomb threat, let the FBI deal with this.'

BYERS: 'Until we know the full extent of this conspiracy, we can't trust any government official.'

OVERLORD agents monitor both Byers on the plane.

AGENT: 'They're boarding...then that's two problems solved...'

BYERS: 'You absolutely sure that this is the targeted flight?'

MR. BYERS: 'This flight was chosen primarily for its visibility.  It's scheduled to pass over Manhattan on its way to Boston.'

BYERS: 'You said they intend to bring this down in the middle of New York City.  What if there isn't a bomb?'

MR. BYERS:  'Then, how are they going to bring it down?'

BYERS:  'The same way a dead man can drive a car.'

FROHIKE and LANGLY:  'What do you mean there's no bomb?'

Langly hacks into the flight control system output and communicates with Byers.

LANGLY: 'Remote access.  Somebody on the ground is flying your plane...Your flight is going to make an unscheduled stop.'

FROHIKE: 'Corner of Liberty and Washington.  Lower Manhattan.'

BYERS: 'World Trade Center.  They're going to crash the plane into the World Trade Center!'

The pilots eventually listen to Mr. Byers and turn off the Auto-Pilot.  They find that they do not have control of the airplane. 

[There are scenes, amazing aerial-camera-shots, of New York at night.  The camera is mounted on front of the plane and we viewers see the large 727 heading for the Twin Towers!  From the viewer's P.O.V., we are flying directly into the WTC at night.  Eerie, shocking, bizarre and other adjectives can describe the FEELING we have seeing this and KNOWING what is going to happen 6 months and a week after the episode's airdate].

The Lone Gunmen hack through the remote-control and regain manual override just in time.  The disaster of a domestic airlines crashing into the World Trade Center has been averted.  Father and son talk after the near tragedy.

BYERS: 'With your testimony we can break this conspiracy down, the whole operation...'

MR. BYERS: 'I didn't want you wasting your life tilting at windmills.'

BYERS: 'You're not going to testify?  You're going to let them cover this up?'

MR. BYERS:  'My silence will keep me alive.  I know, you and your friends are fighting for the American Dream.  Just don't expect to win.'

Does this writer believe TLG pilot episode was prophecy?  No, that was to get your attention.  Was this a sheer coincidence?  Most people, when made aware of the foreshadowing episode, would think it was just a quirk of fate.  How odd...  But, what if it was not a coincidence?  What if everything is connected and conspiracies are truly everywhere?  Then:  Why did they air to the masses, to millions of the viewing public, their real life intentions of bringing down the Towers?  Knowing Murdoch's connections, knowing how secret societies control the world, this writer does not put anything passed the rulers who operate from the darkness.

The film 'Pearl Harbor' was playing in theaters when the WTC fell and that was not a coincidence.  they move us to war by subtle manipulation.  The weak-minded march to war and the strong fight against the brainwashing.  Read my article called 'The Great 9/11 Magick Trick.'  There are underground documentaries such as 'In Plane Site,' '9/11 The Great Illusion' and 'Painful Deceptions' to only mention a few.  These controversial sources provide evidence that our dear authorities, the ones we pay our taxes to, did indeed crash two unmanned (radio-controlled) planes into the World Trade Center on 9/11.  The guilty parties were not Middle-East terrorists.  The true monsters behind it were far closer to home. 

My view is that The Lone Gunmen's glimpse into what will happen to the Towers was not a coincidence.  That is what they do.  They shove their fascism, their power over us, in our face and expect us to take it with a smile.  Just the fact that the show involved the WTC...the weapon of destruction was the airlines...and that the story involved remote-control is simply amazing!  Few people understand that the media's purpose is lies and deception.

Remote-control, computer-guidance systems brought a grey/windowless and empty plane crashing into the second Tower.  The real 9/11 plane, filled with passengers, was rerouted and landed in Ohio stated one news report.  We can only imagine the dark fate of those 9/11 passengers who safely landed.  No plane struck the Pentagon, that Tuesday morning, and the plane in Pennsylvania was shot down like Flight 800.  There is only one terrorist in town.  At least, The Lone Gunmen's pilot episode pointed the finger at the real terrorists: US.  Who profits from arming the world and spreading chaos?  We do.  Who are the only ones with Weapons of Mass Destruction?  We are.  Other countries have the Bomb because WE gave it to them.

Another oddity that should not be ignored is the numerous references to the Kennedy assassination in this particular pilot episode.  Why?  Could it be, back in 1963, that was another terrorist act perpetrated by our Shadow Government and not some bogus patsy or scapegoat?

The Lone Gunmen pilot episode aired in Australia less than two weeks before 9/11.  The cancellation of TLG is considered to be somewhat mysterious, as its ratings were in fact higher than the first season of the X-Files.  DVD sales of The Lone Gunmen are high because of the prophetic pilot.  The actor who played John Byers' father is George Coe. 

Coincidently, he also played the character of Ben Cheviot, the head of Network 23 on the series Max Headroom.  'Max...' was another short-lived series that may have gotten the axe because of its controversial subjects.

My memory of the pilot Lone Gunmen episode, I thought, had to do with a water-engine automobile.  This was one of their episodes entitled 'Like Water For Octane.'  Was the episode substituted for the real pilot, not aired in my area?  Who knows?  We, the audience, are naive and believe that these expose shows are really uncovering some truths in primetime.  Do not believe that for a second.  The X-Files, Lone Gunmen, Discovery Channel, History Channel, etc., reveal nothing that they do not want you to know.  Television, movies, the news, the newspapers are not going expose the truth or any real secrets.  Instead, they are part of a much larger problem.  There is an overlord and they ruthlessly rule the world.

Source: Farshores/Doug Yurchey
http://www.farshores.org/dy21.htm