The gangster nature of the state — from the JFK assassination through Watergate, Iran-Contra, and up to 9/11. The Doomsday Project: a secret government, the deep state.

I wanted to write this post because Alexander often says there couldn’t be a bigger plan or plot, and that Europe is panicking. He claims there is no larger scheme behind what’s happening, and dismisses the division of labor theory. This dismissal is similar to what Michael Parenti describes in his main video, in reference to a dismissal of Alexander Cockburn and Noam Chomsky about the JFK assassination being labeled a conspiracy theory. Here is a fragment mentioning it:

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Oiver Stone for playing on the gullibility of the American people. See, he’s not gullible, he’s cool, he doesn’t fall for this. He’s so cool he didn’t even go see the movie. You see, the U.S. public has not bought the official explanation. 78% say they believe there was a conspiracy, and both Chomsky and Cockburn—Cockburn in The Nation, Chomsky in Z Magazine, and again in the letter exchange with me—both of them dismissed that fact and point out the same identical analogy. They point out that in fact, over 70% of the people also believe in miracles, so what does that prove? And what does that have to do with the question at hand? That people can have a stupid opinion about one thing doesn’t mean they’re stupid about everything. In fact, Chomsky and Cockburn are themselves evidence of that.

In any case, the comparison is between two different things. They’re comparing the public’s gullibility about miracles with the public’s unwillingness to be gullible about the official line that’s being fed and shoved in their faces for 30 years. That’s not gullibility at all. Alexander Cockburn and Noam Chomsky have told us that we must not reduce great developments in history to conspiracy, for then we lose sight of institution, class, and other systemic factors of American capitalism. I don’t need them to tell me about systemic factors in American capitalism; I use a structural analysis in all my writings. But investigating the JFK conspiracy, we are not looking for an escape from something unpleasant and difficult—that’s psychiatrist Noam Chomsky speaking—but we’re hitting upon the nature of state power and what is supposedly to be a democracy. Conspiracy is not something that’s in contradistinction to structural analysis; it is part of it. These guys will use conspiracy, they will use legitimacy, they will finance elections, they will use public campaigns, they will set up liberalist organizations, they will set up alternative trade union movements, they will use assassins and death squads. They will use every single conceivable thing there is, and this was one of the things they used when they had someone who was giving them them trouble, when they had someone who was standing in their path because he was a little too bright and too shiny, when they had an agenda to save Southeast Asia from communism. They would kill one of their own, and that is a tremendous revelation. It was a startling revelation to the American public to make them realize what kind of a gangster government and National Security State we really have in this country and what it does around the world.

While Alexander never explicitly called the division of labor theory a conspiracy theory, his claim that there couldn’t be a bigger picture, plan, or plot behind the narrative we are being fed is essentially the same kind of dismissal. I wanted to reference the JFK assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11 as examples to show that a deeper picture — or a larger plan — behind these events is indeed possible, as history has shown that such things have happened before.

Here is a lecture by Peter Dale Scott discussing the JFK assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, 9/11, and the Doomsday Project.

The Doomsday Project was a contingency plan for an unelected government to ensure the continuity of the state. Here is a related fragment:

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Talking about a dark force behind these events, a force which, for want of a better term, I have clumsily called a deep state, operating both within and outside the public state. Today, and for the first time, I want to identify part of that dark force—a part which has operated for five decades or more at the edge of the public state. This part of the dark force has a name not invented by me: the Doomsday Project, the Pentagon’s name for the emergency planning to keep the White House and Pentagon running during and after a nuclear war or some other major crisis.

The talk I’m about to give will be full of details and at times hard to follow, and some of the most important points are in footnotes which I won’t have time to read to you today. But the point of my time is a simple and important one: to show that the Doomsday Project of the 1980s and the earlier emergency planning that developed into it have been a factor in the background of all the deep events I shall discuss. More significantly, it has been a factor behind all three of the disturbing developments that now threaten American democracy.

The first of these three developments is what has been called the conversion of our economy into a plutonomy, with the increasing separation of America into two classes: into the haves and have-nots, the 1% and the 99%. The second is America’s increasing militarization, and above all, its incarnation, which has become more and more routine and predictable, to wage or provoke wars in remote regions of the globe. It is clear that the operations of this American war machine have served the 1%. The third, my subject today, is the important and increasingly ubiquitous impact on American history of structural deep events—mysterious events like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11—which violate the American social structure, have a major impact on American society, repeatedly involved law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceeded from an unknown dark force.

Although the Doomsday Project was officially revealed in the 1980s, similar operations existed long before that.

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The Oliver North hearings of 1987 revealed plans for “the suspension of the American Constitution.” These Continuity of Government (COG) plans, building on earlier COG planning, had all been carefully developed since 1982 in the so-called Doomsday Project by a secret group appointed by Reagan. The group was composed of both public and private figures, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

I shall try to show today that in this respect, 9/11 was only the culmination of a sequence of deep events reaching back to the Kennedy assassination, if not earlier, and that the germs of the Doomsday Project can be detected behind all of them. More specifically, I shall try to demonstrate about these deep events that:

1. Prior bureaucratic misbehavior by the CIA and similar agencies helped to make both the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 happen.
2. The consequences of each deep event included an increase in top-down repressive power for these same agencies at the expense of persuasive democratic power.
3. There are symptomatic overlaps in personnel between the perpetrators of each deep event and the next.
4. One sees in each of these events the involvement of elements of the international drug traffic, suggesting that our current plutonomy is also to some degree a narco-economy.
5. In the background of each event and playing an increasingly important role, one sees the Doomsday Project—their alternative emergency planning structure with its own communications network operating as a shadow network outside of regular government channels.

This is the gangster nature of the state that Michael Parenti talks about — this is the secret government, the deep state. It goes back a very long time. If anyone is interested in the origins of this gangster state, this deep state, I highly recommend my recent post about Sullivan & Cromwell and Allen Dulles:

MUST WATCH!!! How the world really works and who controls it: Sullivan & Cromwell, Allen Dulles, the origin of the world order, and the neocons.

For anyone who thinks Trump is going against the deep state, there is a part at the end of the main lecture attached to this post that I hadn’t highlighted before.

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“The last part of your article talks a little bit about Peter Thiel and some of what's going on now. Yes, Peter Thiel, who works closely with this CIA venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, and was one of the primary funders of Facebook, started at Sullivan & Cromwell. So they're still apparently involved in both corporate power, and apparently, people that go on to be involved with the CIA still come out of Sullivan & Cromwell. But my book only went up to the 1980s. If people have seen Everybody Wants Some!!, the problem that era was would fit perfectly into that movie. Yeah, they're all about defending and launching hostile takeovers basically.“

Everyone who has been following my posts should already know who Peter Thiel is, as I’ve mentioned him multiple times, referencing the work of many researchers. The best work on Thiel and what's really happening is, in my view, by one of the people I admire most — Whitney Webb. For example, see my post here:

“The PayPal Presidency” by Whitney Webb + My views on Trump as a stupid, narcissistic, toddler-like Roman emperor.

Peter Thiel was a founder of PayPal, and Whitney Webb’s video titled “The PayPal Presidency Part II: Building the ‘Dark’ Technate” (with Iain Davis) explores this further. Thiel is also a strong supporter and ally of Donald Trump. In fact, he was instrumental in launching the career of J.D. Vance, Trump’s pick for vice president.

Now, guess where our lovely Peter Thiel started his career?

After graduating from Stanford, Thiel began his career as a clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, worked as a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett, and a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse.

Sullivan & Cromwell — yes, the same law firm I discussed in my previous post: “How the World Really Works and Who Controls It: Sullivan & Cromwell, Allen Dulles, the Origin of the World Order, and the Neocons.” Some things never change. Sullivan & Cromwell is still nurturing figures tied to deep state operations, just as it did in the past.

So, please explain: how is Trump fighting the deep state when one of his biggest backers — and the person who launched his vice president’s career — is someone who started at Sullivan & Cromwell, is connected to In-Q-Tel (the CIA’s private investment arm), founded PayPal (which had support from various three-letter agencies), and runs Palantir Technologies, another key component of the intelligence-industrial complex?

Thanks to everyone who stuck with me until the end of my post. And, as always…

“Knowledge will make you be free.”

― Socrates

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“Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.”

― Richard P. Feynman

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“Freedom is not free, you need to pay attention.”

― Grzegorz Ochman

Please pay enough attention, or we will all be screwed. God bless you all.

“Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.”

― Frank Zappa

“Power is always more secure when cooptive, covert, and manipulative than when nakedly brutish. The support elicited through the control of minds is more durable than the support extracted at the point of a bayonet. The essentially undemocratic nature of the mainstream media, like the other business-dominated institutions of society, must be hidden behind a neutralistic, voluntaristic, pluralistic facade.

"For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent.... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions," writes Herbert Schiller.”

― Michael Parenti

“In my childhood, I was constantly whispered so-called wise proverbs: "Don't blow against the wind!" "You can't break a wall with your head!" "Don't bite off more than you can chew!" I later came to the conclusion that strong will, energy, and enthusiasm can break these very rules. And now, as we face the great tasks of further building the Polish state(a better world), we precisely need people who can oppose the old wisdom of these proverbs.”

― Józef Piłsudski

God gives us strong will, energy, and enthusiasm so we can break these very rules!