From: Henny van der Pluijm <hvdp@worldonline.nl>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:50:15 +0100 (MET)
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 06:56:10 -0500
Subject: UFO News International 35
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* NSA spies on the world
- Echelon collects electronic data, also for economic purposes
* Jack's jackpot
- ACC offers $ 1 million reward for wherabouts Roswell UFO
* ACC's Grand Strategy
- Jack Shulman: 'One bomb shell per month'
* Light stuff
* About this newsletter
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NSA spies on the world
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- Echelon collects electronic data, also for economic
purposes
Japanese trade delegations, Amsterdam bank offices
and airport terminals in Palermo have one thing
in common: they are electronically monitored by
the American spy network Echelon. By routinely tapping
into Intelsat satellite traffic the Echelon system,
owned and operated by the US National Security Agency
(NSA), is capable of intercepting millions of telephone,
fax and Internet messages.
These are the conclusions of a report published
by an investigative committee of the European Union.
With advanced search software and speech recognition
technology, the NSA scans telephone conversations
and written messages for key words. The data collected
in Europe are transmitted via British NSA bases,
such as Menwith Hill, to NSA headquarters in Fort
Mead, Maryland.
The report 'An appraisal of technologies of political
control', assembled by the British research bureau
Omega, was written for the European Directorate
General Research. The report estimates the current
annual NSA budget at eight billion dollar, more
than the CIA budget.
The NSA prides itself of employing the best cryptographers
in the world to decipher all kinds of encrypted
electronic messages. They use techniques like statistical
methods, neural networks and genetic algorithms.
The data collected are not exclusively used in the
interest of national security, but also for economic
purposes. British, Canadian, Australian and New
Zealand intelligence agencies cooperate with the
NSA on a regular basis. NSA bases are located near
Alice Springs (Australia), Bad Aibling (Germany),
Misawa (Japan) and Menwith Hill (UK). Last autumn
the USA launched the spy satellite Trumpet that
had a size larger than a football field. The capabilities
of this satellite are classified, but its builder
Hughes also produces a commercial satellite one
tenth the size of the Trumpet that can relay 16,000
telephone conversations simultaneously.
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Jack's jackpot
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- ACC offers $ 1 million reward for wherabouts Roswell
UFO
An open letter to the president of the United States
American Computer Company
6 Commerce Drive, 2nd Floor, Cranford, N.J. 07016
February 23rd, 1998
DELIVERED BY PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
HON. PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE
1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 20500-0001
Dear Mr. President:
In a recent appearance, you told a citizen of the
Russian Republic, a youngperson, that there was
no "UFO" that landed near Roswell, N.M. in 1947. Then,
speaking more frankly, you admitted that you tried
to find out, andthat the Defense Department either
didn't or wouldn't tell you. I think my point to
you that this issue is one of those issues that
couldpotentially unite our fragmented world together,
is well taken by the younglady's question in that
far off land.
For the Record: all of us, at ACC (and I think a
very large number of Americans) who believe this
entire issue is still an open question, STRONGLY
RECOMMEND YOU CHANGE YOUR OFFICIAL PUBLIC POSITION
ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHERTHE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT,
THE PENTAGON AND THE AIR FORCE, HAVE A SPACE CRAFTOF
EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ORIGIN. SEVERAL NOTED PERSONS
FORMERLY EMPLOYED BY THE US GOVERNMENT WOULD DISAGREE
WITH WHAT YOU SAID TO THAT LITTLE RUSSI ANGIRL!
In support of this end, the American Computer Company
is offering a reward to the Public as set forth
here.
The American Computer Company hereby offers a $1,000,000
REWARD to the first person who provides us confidential
information which leads to the exposure of the whereabouts
and leads to the public viewing of an Extra-Terrestrial
Space Craft, that is: a Space Craft or other Flying
Object designed and built by other than Humans or Human
employed robotic devices, such as may be in the possession
of the United States Department of Defense, the United
States Army, United States Air Force, The Pentagon, or
any other Agency or Organization of the United States
Government.
Said reward is to be paid upon formal verification
by Public Auditors employed by the American Computer
Company, and General Public viewing of the Craft.
Excluded from the right to collect this reward are
all employees of the American Computer Company and
their families, and any person for whom such a reward
would be prohibited by law.
Mr. Clinton, we politely remind you of your OATH
OF OFFICE, in which youagreed to uphold the Laws
of the United States of America, one of which laws
PROHIBITS YOU FROM LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Sincerely,
Jack A. Shulman
President
American Computer Company
http://american-computer.com:
(c)Copyright 1998 American Computer Company.
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ACC's Grand Strategy
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- Jack Shulman: 'One bomb shell per month'
Journalist Pat McCartney of the Lake Tahoe Tribune
interviewed Jack Shulman of American Computer Co.
last January.
'Personally, I find their story, and Philip Corso's,
pointing to an unexpected direction of UFO research,
namely the private sector. I think you will find
Shulman's goals as interesting as I did. Unfortunately,
there doesn't seem to be much of a way to speed
the process up, unless you can help with their research.
I will be writing about ACC and Corso spoiling Bell
Labs' 50th anniversary of the transistor for my
paper, so if anyone has an informed and opinionated
comment they'd like to share, you can e-mail me
or call me at the Trib (530-542-8012).
As others have described, interviewing Shulman is
quite an experience. He's extremely voluble, and
you really have to work to break in and ask a question
or redirect his monologue.
Having said that, he's also quite friendly, very
open to a point, and fluent about computers in a
way I can only envy. We spoke for more than 90 minutes,
when he returned a call I left in the morning asking
to talk to someone about the company's Roswell
page.
My main interest was to see what kind of care and
research they are exercising with regards to the
"lab shopkeeper's notebook" they acquired that kicked
off their current "investigation."
If their claim -- that the notebook is evidence
that Bell Lab's 1947 "discovery" of the transistor
was based on their receiving debris from a crashed
saucer -- proves to be true, than this document
may come as close to being the smoking gun as anything
we could wish.
When you think about it, it only makes sense that
such documents would surface in the private sector,
which by definition is not under the direct control
of the federal government. And, as much evidence
suggests, unacknowledged programs have been privatized
to a large degree over the years.
Following are points he made about the documents,
in answer to my questions.
1) The notebook bears the "eyes only" security
stamp of the then-War Department, along with the
printed names of Bell Labs and General Electric.
2) Shulman said the notebook wasn't a hardbound
diary, but rather a ring binder with individual
pages and reports. Some of the reports are typed,
others are mimeographed or handwritten.
3) If I followed him correctly, the consultant's
initial acquisition of a journal came from the "estate
of the deceased shopkeeper."
4) The unnamed consultant then somehow acquired
28 boxes of supporting material, perhaps from inside
Bell Labs was the implication, but he did not specify
how. Shulman first said each box contained 300 pages
-- which would be under 10,000 in all -- but described
the complete collection as 20,000 pages!
5) The old cardboard boxes are rotting and some
of the papers in terrible condition. They smell
to high heaven, Shulman said. His staff wear masks
and gloves while working with the documents, and
are using sealants and plastics to restore and protect
the pages.
6) Because of the instability of the decaying pages,
the investigators have photographed, rather than
photocopied them.
7) Age analysis (unspecified) has confirmed the
age of the paper as being from early 1940s to 1947,
indicating it was written on different stores of
paper.
8) A university forensics expert (unnamed) is analyzing
the style of the reports for inconsistencies and
other information.
Shulman told me the company is planning some kind
of public event within 90 days, publicizing what
it has learned about the shopkeeper's notebook,
and the revolutionary ideas that it may contain.
He was very vague about what he planned to disclose,
and I simply advised him to go with a hired gun
public relations firm that could get the attention
of the mainstream media.
During our dialogue, Shulman said his Grand Strategy
is to force the government to make its own disclosure
by releasing top secret information from the notebook
and supporting documents at a rate of one bombshell
a month.
"Let's say there are 600 such details in all," Shulman
said. "We can release one a month for 50 years,
devastating military secrecy, until they realize
the public losses are so great that they will have
to throw in the towel."
He identified the transcapacitor, announced Dec.
5, and the photonitron, announced Jan. 4, as the
first two exposes. I did not ask about future announcements.
He said he has given representatives of the major
players, including the Air Force, National Security
Agency, Army Intelligence and Office of Special
Investigations a certain (unspecified) deadline
to come forth, or he will upload the entire collection
of 20,000 pages of documents onto the Internet.
"If they don't prove the case of Roswell, we'll
go public," Shulman said. Shulman describes himself
as a patriot who isoutraged by the action of his
government (and its contractors). Today's political
leaders, and other keepers-of-the-secret, "have
inherited a responsibility that is outside Constitutional
authority," he said.
In other words, no matter what the original need
was to hide information about the Roswell crash,
the government now has an obligation to reveal it.
"I think the answer to Roswell is apparent," Shulman
said. "I think the answer needs to be disclosed,
and the government needs to own up to it." Shulman
said he has made certain his plan to release the
material will not be affected if he is harmed or
thwarted in some other way. "We set up a mechanism,
a process that will outlast me," he said.
He was not so helpful in steering me to people knowledgable
about the notebook or the transcapacitor who are
independent of the American Computer Co., or who
have not signed non-disclosure agreements. I will
have to scrape to get comments from other insiders.
That's the gist of Shulman's remarks. He is a meteoric
speaker, much given to sprinting away on a tangent
until reined in. Someone who knows more about computers,
or the companies and agencies he talked about, might
have gleaned more than I from the conversation,
but, as I say, interviewing Jack Shulman is a challenge.
You'd need at least a weekend to debrief him. At
the end, he was even trying to give me computer
advise when I mentioned my love/hate relationship
with computers.
I plan to do more interviews before writing a piece
for my paper within the next two weeks.
I can hardly wait for the ACC story to unfold. The
proof, of course, will be in the successfull operation
of the devices the notebook, but at least we won't
have to wait until the transcapacitor to go into
production to learn more.'
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Light stuff
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Via Skye Turrell
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet,
and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap
buttered toast to the back of a cat; the two will
hover, spinning inches above the ground. With a
giant buttered cat array, a high--speed monorail could
easily link New York with Chicago.
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