Shadow
government: Keeping perps safe underground
By Carol Rutz
I have to believe there is some purpose to this revelation now,
as little is published without the blessings of those in power to use for their
own personal agendas.
There are many underground facilities throughout the United
States which are set up to house those people that are considered ‘essential.’
It would be interesting to view the master list, wouldn’t it?
What secrets might truly be uncovered if we were to find out who
in this nation is truly worthy of surviving a catastrophic incident?
When I saw the news article published by the Federation of
American Scientists (from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Volume 2002,
Issue No. 17, March 4, 2002) in which they cited the Washington Post and the
Cleveland Plain Dealer and their claims of breaking the news on the “Shadow
Government, I became so intrigued that I had to read these stories.
One of the sites mentioned was
One more piece of the amazing puzzle of my own experiences of
being experimented on as a child during the Cold War as told in my book “A
Nation Betrayed,” suddenly came together.
Sidney Gottlieb who retired from the CIA in 1973 after two decades
with the CIA, owned a small farm near
The location of his farm seems to be well planned when you
understand its proximity to
Until July 1992 the bunker served as a Continuity of Government
facility. The facility was designed to support an emergency staff of 540 for 30
days. Some features of the facility were a cold storage area for maintaining
bodies unable to be promptly buried (due to high radiation levels outside), an
incinerator, indoor pistol range, and a helicopter landing pad.
Until 1988 the facility stored a $1 billion stock of currency to
be used to reactivate the American economy following a nuclear attack.
Gottlieb’s choice of a home seemed to be no coincidence. Such a
highly placed, valuable asset would be privy to many secrets other than those
having to do with “Mind Control.”
As Ted Gup reports in the Washington
Post, “Gottlieb had emerged as a kind of Dr. Strangelove. He had overseen a
vast network of psychological and medical experiments conducted in hospitals,
universities, research labs, prisons and safe houses, many of them carried out
on unsuspecting subjects-mental patients, prostitutes and their johns, drug
addicts, and anyone else who stumbled into the CIA’s web. Some had been
subjected to electroshock therapy in an effort to alter their behavior. Some
endured prolonged sensory deprivation. Some were doped and made to sleep for
weeks in an attempt to induce an amnesia-like state. Others suffered a
relentless loop of audiotape playing the same message hundreds of thousands of
times.”
Gottlieb’s obituary in the Times of London began, “When
Churchill spoke of a world ‘made darker by the dark lights of perverted
science’ he was referring to the revolting experiments conducted on human
beings by Nazi doctors in the concentration camps. But his remarks might with
equal justice have been applied to the activities of the CIA’s Sidney Gottlieb.”
Along with Gottlieb’s close proximity to
Intimately involved in MKULTRA intrigue and the immigration of
former Nazis into the
In 1946 Offie was putting together
reports on the movement of German scientists from the American Zone into
In the spring of 1948
According to Hersh, Carmel Offie was “doubling as a kind of booking agent for many of
the refugee scholars” that the
Offie was Wisner’s special
assistant for labor and migratory affairs. He personally oversaw the National
Committee for Free Europe, which passed OPC money to anti-Communist unions in
John Loftus reports that Offie worked
for the DDU (Document Disposal Unit), which took orders from Dulles. He calls
the DDU the OSS Political Intelligence experts who wore Army uniforms but were
paid through the State Department.
In 1949 Offie became responsible for
the care of a number of Bloodstone émigrés. “Bloodstone” was the codename for
the operation, which proposed that 250 Nazi collaborators be brought into the
Simpson also reports that a special Bloodstone subcommittee had
been created to supply false identities, government cover jobs, and secret
police protection to selected Bloodstone immigrants.
Carmel Offie was also handling another
project employing Nazi collaborators through a U.S.-financed “think tank” named
the Eurasian Institute. The Institute was enlisting men who were important
members of the German espionage network in
These people were truly spineless cowards who made sure they
would have a safe place to run if there were threats to their survival.
Many “Continuity of Government Facilities” were built during the
cold war. As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, (http://eyesonamerica.org/200110/10190107.html)
“One such facility built into a mountain in
Another report in Taking a Tour of Cold War Baltimore,
(http://www.citypaper.com/2001-07-18/feature.html), “Gimme
Shelter Or, Last One Underground Is a Rotten Egg,” “Greenbrier opened in 1962
under a posh resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.,
this capacious bunker—code name ‘Project Greek Island’—was where Congress was
to duck and cover when all the big, bad buttons were pushed. The vast complex
includes chambers large enough for both House and Senate to meet.
The article goes on to say that
The Federal Emergency Management Agency runs a multitude of
disaster-response operations from under the mountain today.
Two more sites described in this article are Olney in
Raven Rock also known as “Site R” and colloquially referred to
as “the Underground Pentagon,” is a 48-year-old megabunker
which lies under a mountain just north of the
For those of us who have endured the silence of those years
following the secret experiments carried out on an unwitting public in the name
of “National Security,” such revelations come as just another footnote in our
untold stories.
In the epilogue to a congressional committee report headed by
Sen. Frank Church, the committee concluded:
“The
Let us remember this when we start giving up our freedoms under
the pretense that it is necessary for this brave country of ours to survive. It
appears that those who really are important already have a place to escape to.
Will we?
Carol Rutz is author of
A
Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and
Other Innocent People, available
from
Fidelity Publishing LLC
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