-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- -----Original Message----- From: Timmy Swartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: recipient list not shown: ; <recipient list not shown: ;> Date: Saturday, 15 January 2000 08:50 Subject: Conspiracy Journal 1 ======================= * Conspiracy Journal * ======================= http://www.webufo.net The Conspiracy Journal Bookshop http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/contents.html To Subscribe - Go to our Listbot site and enter your email. It's That Easy! http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=subscribe_list&list_id=conspir acyjournal In this weeks exciting edition of Conspiracy Journal we look at the secret FBI files of the late author Philip K. Dick. We'll also report on the real millennium bug that is sweeping across the planet, as well as accusations that the army has been hiding improper handling of chemical and biological weapons stored in the United States. ~And Now - On With The Show!~ ===================================================================== Philip K. Dick has turned out to be among a handful of truly inspired writers of the century...his tales of the future -- BLADE RUNNER and TOTAL RECALL remain top box office on video and are repeated on cable television it would seem just about every few days. Few realize, however, that Dick believed in the ability of alien intelligence to communicate with earth...and actually felt that he had some sort of contact. 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The letters show that in 1972 Dick wrote to the bureau for help with what he believed was a plot to use his writing to relay messages on "paresis, an alleged new strain of syphilis sweeping the United States, which caused quick death." The episode was triggered by a break-in to the author's apartment in 1971. Dick wrote to the FBI that "at least one entire room of stuff is missing," listing a .22-caliber pistol and some of his canceled checks among the items at large. Although it is not clear from Dick's letters how he thought the burglary and the alleged syphilis plot were related, it appears that the writer took it seriously enough to flee for his life. "Sergeant Keaton also advised me informally that I 'ought to get out of Marin County [Calif.] for good, or I'd very likely get a bullet in my back some night. Or worse,'" Dick wrote to the bureau. "I took his advice and left for Canada, as I say in the enclosed letter." It appears that Dick thought the burglar might be a man named Harold Kinchen who, the author writes, knew how to bypass his security system and had been under investigation by the Air Force in relation to an "attempt on the arsenal of the Air Force Intelligence people." Dick said he had been asked by Air Force officials to testify. Dick also believed that Kinchen was "an ardent Nazi trained in such skills as weapons-use, explosives, wire-tapping, chemistry, psychology, toxins and poisons, electronics, auto repair, sabotage, the manufacture of narcotics." Anne Dick, one of the author's five ex-wives, dismissed the conspiracy and questioned the reality of any break-in. "He was a little paranoid," she told APBnews.com. Anne Dick is the author of Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer. "At that period he was taking enormous amounts of methamphetamine's," she said. Dick's drug use has been documented by several of his biographers, but others are less direct in their assessment of the author's mental state at the time. She added that Dick did think his phone was tapped but he felt that wasn't unusual during that era. "Back in the '60s and '70s, everybody who was anybody thought they were being bugged," she said. "I think that Phil had some disturbing things happen," she said. "He never knew who broke into his house, and this was his attempt to explain it." ===================================================================== - INFLUENZA, THE REAL MILLENNIUM BUG DEPARTMENT - Flu Strikes Millions Worldwide For millions of people around the world, the worst millennium bug in the year 2000 has turned out to be influenza. In the United States, newly approved flu drugs have become instant bestsellers, but has done little to stem the spread of the potentially deadly virus. In China, authorities have launched a massive vaccination program to combat the virus. Across Europe, millions have taken to their beds. Britain is facing its worst epidemic in a decade. France could have up to five million cases. One Norwegian hospital is even hiring extra nurses from its neighbor Denmark. The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva is the first to admit "This is a smart virus." "The virus is always ahead of us and whatever we do it will always be around," said Dr Daniel Lavanchy, WHO's coordinator of epidemic disease response. The crisis has been caused by a virulent strain of the bug known as Australian flu or Sydney h3n2. WHO experts correctly predicted the Sydney strain was the one to fear this year. But Lavanchy complained: "Immunization campaigns have not achieved their targets in many, many countries. The target groups are not well covered with a few exceptions like France. Europe and North America are in the grip of an epidemic." Mortality rates cannot be accurately calculated for up to two years after an epidemic. But officials stress the latest wave of flu is still a far cry from the 1918, 1957 and 1968 pandemics that killed millions around the globe. America's Center for Disease Control and Prevention said flu usually kills about 20,000 people a year in the United States. But, ironically, two newly approved flu drugs could be helping to spread influenza by inadvertently discouraging people from getting the flu vaccine. Tamiflu is a pill made by Swiss drug company Roche Holdings AG, while Relenza, made by Glaxo is inhaled. Both reduce flu symptoms by one day on average. Two million Italians are reportedly suffering from flu with 250,000 new cases each week. This is the third consecutive week in which the number of flu sufferers in Italian hospitals has increased. Georg Amstutz, a spokesman at the Swiss federal department of health, said the number of influenza cases in the Alpine state could be classified as an epidemic and was approaching record numbers. Antoine Flahault, research doctor at France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research, INSERM, said: "At this stage the epidemic most resembles 1989 that involved five million people in 13 weeks. It could go to five million, but I cannot be sure that it will." In Britain, Health Secretary Alan Milburn told parliament ''There can hardly be a family in the land that has not been affected by the flu.'' One in five people are gripped by the virus and worse is to come. But China, the world's most populous nations, is reaping rich rewards from an ambitious vaccination program. A Ministry of Public Health spokeswoman said the campaign had produced "good results." Many people, especially the old, lined up at Beijing hospitals for the flu shot ===================================================================== - IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD DEPARTMENT - Epidemic at Tennessee High School Blamed on Mass Hysteria It started with just a funny smell. A teacher noticed it first in a school kitchen. She felt sick to her stomach. Several of her students felt strange. Soon, by the dozens, students throughout the school complained of nausea, dizziness, headaches and drowsiness. Before it was over, more than 170 students, teachers and others sought emergency treatment during the November 1998 outbreak at Warren County High School in McMinnville, Tenn. The school of 2,000 students was closed for more than two weeks. Nearly $100,000 was spent on emergency care alone. A raft of government investigators studied the school grounds and analyzed blood samples. They examined puddles and grease traps and even checked an air space above the foundation. They looked for viruses, germs, pesticides, herbicides, poisons - anything that could conceivably make so many people ill so quickly. In an article published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, they blame the outbreak on mass hysteria - real symptoms set off by spreading anxiety. The investigators say such outbreaks are much more common than recognized at schools and in other close-knit communities. And they say cases of mass hysteria - now called "psychogenic illness" - will probably become more frequent and more severe with rising public worry over biological terrorism. The phenomenon, though, has long historical roots. Hundreds of outbreaks of mass hysteria have been documented over the past century, often among schoolchildren, soldiers and factory workers. Some historians attribute a feverish medieval mania of jerky movements, known as Saint Vitus' Dance and once blamed on demons, largely to mass hysteria. "In a previous era, spirits and demons oppressed us. Although they have been replaced by contemporary concerns about invisible viruses, chemicals and toxins, the mechanisms of contagious fear remain the same," said Simon Wessely of Guy's School of Medicine in London. The Tennessee investigators are emphatic in saying that no virus, chemical or toxin spread the illness through the school. "We did the most thorough environmental and epidemiological study that was humanly possible," said Timothy Jones, a federal epidemiologist now at the Tennessee Department of Health and lead author of the report. He said it is still possible the outbreak was touched off by a real chemical smell, though such a chemical was never discovered. But he said mass hysteria soon took over and brought on the vast share of illness. In fact, the investigators found some classic hallmarks of contagious anxiety: Victims were about three more times more likely than others to have seen another sick person or to know that a classmate was ill. Sixty-nine percent were women, compared with 52 percent of the school population. The impact was so profound at the Tennessee school that it remains a sensitive topic for Principal George Bolding. He said he smelled an odor himself and came down with a headache. But he agrees that the outbreak later did turn into hysteria. "Kids are unreal about copying," he said. "They see someone get sick, and they get sick." Researchers say outbreaks can sometimes be stemmed with fast reassurances. But people often resist the mass-hysteria explanation, because they find it embarrassing. Also, there are real environmental and biological threats that often can't be ruled out without time-consuming tests. ===================================================================== - BLOWING THE WHISTLE DEPARTMENT - Former Worker Accuses Army Chemical Weapons Plant of Violations Officials at the Army's chemical weapons incinerator in Utah rigged tests and misled state regulators to conceal the plant's inability to safely destroy nerve agents, says the plant's former permit manager. Gary Harris also said Tuesday that officials at Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility knew residue from sarin - a nerve agent also known as GB that kills by constricting the lungs and halting breathing - remained on weapons parts sent to Du-Wald Steel Corp., a Denver scrap metal business, between 1996 and 1998. "The incineration process itself should not be going on," Harris said. "It is inherently dangerous. It does not destroy the (nerve) agent." Harris said officials with the Army and the private contractor running the incinerator threatened to fire him if he told state regulators or the public about the safety problems, which he said could allow sarin to escape into the environment. Officials with the Army and EG&G Defense Systems Inc., the contractor that runs the plant, say the incinerator is safe. The Army is investigating and "is confident (Harris') allegations will be proven untrue," said Greg Mahall, a spokesman for the Army's chemical weapons destruction command in Aberdeen, Md. "We take the allegations seriously, of course," Mahall said. "It doesn't do us any good to let those go unchallenged." Harris, who resigned from EG&G at the end of 1996, is the fifth former official at the incinerator to allege environmental and safety problems. One of them, Steve Jones, regained his post as the incinerator's chief safety officer last year after federal courts ruled he had been illegally fired for criticizing safety at the plant in 1994, when it still was under construction. The $600 million Tooele incinerator, about 50 miles west of Salt Lake City, has been operating since 1996. It is the only chemical weapons incinerator in the continental United States and was built to destroy nerve and blistering agents stockpiled at the Army's Deseret Chemical Depot since World War II. ===================================================================== - WEIRD THINGS IN THE SKY DEPARTMENT - Police Officers in St. Clair County Report Seeing Early-Morning UFO In the past few days, Millstadt police Officer Craig Stevens has slept little, taken countless phone messages from national experts and heard all of the little green men jokes his fellow officers can muster. It's amusing -- to a point, he said. "It's not like I'm the only one who saw it and I'm Joe Blow from the local bar who just stepped out drunk, you know?" Stevens, of Highland, and at least three other officers from the Lebanon, Shiloh and Dupo police departments said they saw something in the sky early Wednesday -- something that looked like a UFO. Shaped like an arrowhead, sprinkled with dimmer lights all over its surface and three brighter lights on its tail, the thing made its northeast-to-southwest flight across the Metro East area about 4 a.m. The first report came in to Highland police from the owner of a miniature golf course. He was driving into Lebanon, so the police contacted Lebanon authorities. The officer there guffawed at the dispatcher. But he spotted the thing heading toward Shiloh, and he sped through traffic lights to try to catch up with it. It reached Shiloh, where an officer there spotted it. Stevens, sitting in his patrol car in Millstadt on his overnight shift, heard the radio chatter and drove to the north end of town. He scanned the sky but saw only airplane lights. Then he looked west. "Wow," he thought, jumping out of the car. "This thing's huge!" He said it moved slowly, like a blimp, about 1,000 feet off the ground. It was about two stories high and about three times as long. In addition to the three lights in the back, dimmer lights sprinkled the entire surface, almost, as he described it, like a "starfield camouflage." He grabbed his Polaroid camera and snapped a shot. The object headed toward Dupo, and Stevens radioed dispatch. The dispatcher radioed back, reporting an officer there spotted it too. The Polaroid didn't develop well in the cold, and the image only shows the three bright lights. At the station, Stevens made an unofficial police report and sketched a likeness of what he saw. He's searched the Internet for a likeness of the object but can only find a picture of a "Stealth Blimp" on the Popular Mechanics Web site. It looked like an experimental military ship, he said. Stevens has also fielded calls from the media, science institutes, UFO experts, and a former FBI man who had "a hundred questions." One expert was adamant that people spotted a similar ship in California the day after Christmas. He and the Lebanon officer went on Art Bell's nationally broadcast radio show. Stevens said he is taking the attention, and his sighting, in stride. "It didn't scare me; it was cool. I'll never forget it," he said. ===================================================================== - LETTERS FROM OUR READERS DEPARTMENT TRUE POWER~ To Patrick Flaherty: (author of last weeks "My Manual For Survival" ) The DIAMOND BODY forms in the exact center of the HEART CHAKRA! (using your metaphor: the descending and ascending spirals meet in the HEART~the chakras above and three below). The result: a profound and IMMOVABLE commitment to the living and impeccably INTELLIGENT power of LOVE. It is evident in your message that there is a considerable amount of hostility and even hatred toward a whole range of beat up and confused Human Beings! Those you consider a part of the "New World Order" are TERRIFIED with their backs against the wall! My heart bleeds for them. Whether we like it or not, they are our BROTHERS and SISTERS! I certainly don't agree with their actions, but I have to constantly monitor my tendency to seek an "enemy" out there to avoid having to do the hard work of self examination~removing the "mote" from own eye. Mind Control is boring and childish once the true DIAMOND BODY begins to form! 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