Over the last three decades Americans have been hearing news reports of large numbers of satellite launches into outer space meant to protect and serve our homelands and citizens from potential terrorists and other threats. These truck-sized satellites hover overhead, many in low earth orbit (LEO) and deploy large, dome-shaped antennae that are up 350 feet in diameter pointed towards earth. Magnum, Orion, Lacrosse (aka Onyx), Trumpet and Vortex are some of the names given out for these satellite “constellations” that have been being sent up at great expense to tax payers. Yet, capabilities as well as details of these orbiting devices remain “classified” and kept secret even from legislators who continue to sign blank checks to fund defense contractors and government agencies.
Many Americans are beginning to question the legitimacy of such defense programs as “home grown terrorist”, government grown terrorists and real terrorists from far off lands seem to be in short supply.
So, why all the expensive, high tech spy gear pointed at our homelands?
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is the agency responsible for designing, building, and operating these spy satellites for the United States government. The director of the NRO is Bruce A. Carlson and this agency is based in Chantilly, West Virginia. The annual budget is classified, however, the NRO employs approximately 3,000 people and is estimated to consume approximately $15 billion per year. This agency is part of the Department of Defense (DOD).
It has been reported that the NRO hoards money and had accumulated a slush fund in excess of $3 billion. The reports of an NRO slush fund were confirmed according to former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith, who led an investigation into NRO accounting: “Our inquiry revealed that the NRO had for years accumulated very substantial amounts …” (Get Smarter: Demystifying the NRO, Federation of American Scientists)
The NRO is extremely secretive and cagey in its governance and activities. According to NRO agency directive NROD 10-4, “Sensitive Activities Management Group”, states the following (directive obtained under FOIA request): “This Directive provides a structure to manage Sensitive Activities in the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)… The NRO has engaged its mission partners and customers to improve integration of missions and special support requirements and activities. These partners and customers must address a dynamic and uncertain security environment … the NRO must ensure that corporate management is postured to respond to these unique needs. … and to assess whether there is a requirement for further review, approval, and/or congressional notification.”
At the National Space Symposium in April 2010 NRO director Carlson announced that until the end of 2011 NRO is embarking on “the most aggressive launch schedule that this organization has undertaken in the last twenty-five years. There are a number of very large and very critical reconnaissance satellites that will go into orbit in the next year to a year and a half.”
Electronic Attack (EA) involves the use of Electromagnetic Energy (EM), directed energy, or antiradiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying enemy combat capability (Joint Publication 3-13.1 Electronic Warfare, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff).
Indeed many of the remote sensing instruments used on a satellites can just as easily be used to attack an enemy as to sense their activities (IEE, 2009). It has been reported that satellites have been used to cause earth quakes, allow for direct mind-to-mind microwave based communications, disrupt or jam enemy communication systems and even directly attack humans in different capacities.
Verification of these system and capabilities has yet to be disclosed by our governments. However, to assume that the US has not yet developed offensive satellite systems is silly. The military has already acknowledged the presence of air based offensive systems that utilize microwave transmissions to harass and disrupt the “enemy” by placing “voices in the head”.
The U.S. Senate discussed the issue on January 22, 1997. The U.S. Air Force’s “Commando Solo” aircraft have been used to send subliminal radio frequency messages to manipulate even the minds of foreign nations in their elections. Haiti and Bosnia are a couple of recent examples (Rinse, 2001 and Bibliotecha Pleyades, 1998).
To be continued…
References
“Get Smarter: Demystifying the NRO. SECRECY & GOVERNMENT BULLETIN, Issue Number 39. Federation of American Scientists. August–September 1994. http://www.fas.org/sgp/bulletin/sec39.html. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
“Joint Publication 3-13.1 Electronic Warfare” (Online PDF available for download). Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) – Armed Forces of the United States of America. January 25, 2007. pp. i, v – x. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp3-13-1.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-01. “This publication provides…doctrine for electronic warfare planning, preparation, execution, and assessment in support of joint operations across the range of military operations.”
Rense.com, Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics. Downloaded on October 6, 2011 from http://www.rense.com/general17/imp.htm
Bibliotecha Pleyades, APPENDIX US1 – SILENT SOUND, 1998. Downloaded on October 6, 2011 from http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon30c.htm
satelliteskill 