Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

The public arrival of the Rockefellers and other large-money types into
the UFO arena has opened a new and fascinating chapter in the saga of the
unidentified flying object, whatever that is.  For too long the importance
of money, and those who have it, has been overlooked in considering the
UFO.  But I think it is safe to say that that era is now ending. 

Behind all of our instutions, behind even the government itself, are those
who possess immense wealth.  It has always been so, from the days of Rome
to the British Crown to the 1770s when fifty-five men of wealth created
this government.  The foundation of American power is inheritance,
mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and thus above the law.  The family
is the American vehicle for the acquisition, conservation and transferance
of power -- from this generation to the next, theoretically forever. 

This was the vision of the men who wrote the Constitution, as I will show
later in this series.  It is still the vision today. 

The arrival of "others" from off-planet, another dimension or wherever it
might be would be of tremendous importance to the immensely wealthy.  You
see, these people and those who work directly for them are "humanity" for
all practical purposes.  That is, it is they, and only they in the long
run, who have the resources to actually DO something about whatever it is
that the UFO represents.  The rest of us have to make a living, go on
about our business, and that goes for scientists, military officers and
even Directors Of Central Intelligence.  All of these are in the final
analysis employees.  But who can fire the recipients of the interest from
enormous family trust funds?  No one.  No one at all.  This is so because
the rest of us, all of us, work for them -- whether we like it or not. 

Now, this is a tough thing to say, I know, and a much tougher one to
believe.  So, let me present some evidence, from a source above reproach,
Princeton University.  The following is from the book Foundations Of
National Power by Harold and Margaret Sprout of Princeton, 1945, revised
in 1951.  Later on I will be using sources that some may feel are less
reliable than two Princeton professors but I think that my readers will
see that the tone and content have a certain continuity that, when taken
together, create an almmost seamless whole and lead but to one conclusion. 
But more on that later. 

Foundations Of National Power is about the world created by our victory in
World War II.  It was written and revised when the United States was at
the very height of its power, unchallenged by any other nation on Earth. 
As such it has a certain candid nature that is missing from many political
science treatises today, as I think all of my readers will soon
appreciate. 

When political scientists talk about the United States today there are
certain taboos that are always in force.  For example, the relationship of
the Harriamn family to Bill Clinton is just off-limits for the academics. 
They just are not going to get into how the immensely wealthy Harrimans
might have lifted Moscow Bill from obscurity in Arkansas to the highest
office in the land.  This is just not going to be mentioned in semi-
official information carried in the academic realm. 

But, when these same folks talk about another country all bets are off. 
The sleazy relationship between big money and the running of the nation
(another nation) are fair game.  So, let us quote the Sprouts at length on
Japan, circa 1950, and see what kind of economy they have, who is in
charge and what it means for the average Japanese.  It is most
enlightening: 

"The all-pervasive industrial combines called Zaibatsu illustrate the
process.  Zaibatsu is a slang term that means "the money crowd"; and in
Occidental context it acquires unwonted dignity.  Briefly, a Zaibatsu is a
feudal duchy based on factories, mines, communications, finance, and
commerce instead of on land.  The peasant-serfs are replaced by factory
hands who sometimes work behind barbed-wire fences or concrete walls
topped by broken glass.  The samurai warriors have been transmuted into
financial and sales agents.  The executive group retains the old name of
banto which denoted those who performed administrative functions. 

A family-clan owns the industrial empire as their feudal counterpart owned
a landed duchy.  Each family-clan binds its members to obey a secret or
partly secret code of family law.  These codes concede the supremacy of
the emperor by stating that the national law shall prevail over any
conflicting provision of the house law -- but state also that the basic
spirit and purpose of the house law shall not be superseded. 

"Of the zaibatsu perhaps the greatest is the Imperial Household.  Japanese
reverence for that sacred institution has protected the emperor's family
from being dubbed a Zaibatsu.  Next comes the house of Mitsui; that that
of Iwasaki, whose far-flung enterprises are known byt he trademark
Mitsubishi; then the lesser duchies of Sumitomo, Yasuda, et. al.  The
companies controlled by Mitsui, for example, require several pages for a
full listing; they cover the range of heavy industry, banking, insurance,
colonial exploitation, paper, textiles, chemicals, mining, food
warehousing and merchandising, shipping, and foreign trade.  Viewed
through Western eyes, the picture calls to mind a European or AMERICAN
FAMILY-OWNED TRUST. 

"The secret conclaves of the Mitsui family -- and of other Zaibatsu
family-clans -- determine the destiny of millions of big and little people
in all walks of life.  They initiate and revoke the policies of the
political parties and even of the proud bureaucrats of the civil service. 
Nor are they as innocent of army and navy influence as they sometimes
assert.  Always there are sons, sons-in-law, and cousins in both groups,
while the bureaucracy also includes its quota of Zaibatsu perosnnel and
their henchmen.  All of this motivates many an internal struggle in the
army, navy or bureaucracy which passes the understanding of the foreigner. 

"Zaibatsu policies, determined in secret family councils, are effected as
circumstances dictate -- now openly, again subtly and invisibly. 
Individuals die but the councils of the great family- clans continue. 
Should the times require a "liberal" front, a suave graduate of Harvard,
Yale or Princeton is available as window dressing.  When a militaristic or
even a religious "front" suits the clan purposes, that also is
forthcoming. 

"These dominant family-clans and their dependents in a thousand public and
private positions exercise power far beyond that wielded by their feudal
prototypes.  This continues true despite the relative independence of many
of the corporations that are controlled indirectly.  The patterns of
organization, however, from the humblest factory hand to the family
council, remain closely akin to those that maintained the old feudal
estates." 

It is of interest to this writer that John Foster Dulles, Ike's Secretary
of State, had been the chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation in the
1940s.  His brother Allen was, with Wild Bill Donovan, a founder of OSS. 
Donovan, the Dulleses and (Gen.) Hoyt Vandenberg, were all boyhood friends
in New York.  The man who ordered a full-scale Air Force investigation of
UFOs after the Fort Monmouth incident in 1951, Gen. Cabell, was later to
be Dulles' deputy at CIA until fired by John Kennedy after the Bay of
Pigs.  This Air Force general had a brother who happened to be the mayor
of Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.  There are all kinds of
associations like this in and around any investigation of our government
and the UFO.  We'll look at some more later. 

UFO Investigation -- Financial Considerations -- 2

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

Those of us interested in what is going on in the UFO arena are constantly
treated to statements about what "the government" knows or doesn't know
about UFOs.  But what IS this "government," who has power within in it and
how did they get that power?  We all suspect that the our elected leaders
are only very marginally powerful -- and this should be obvious since they
serve at the pleasure of a fickle and media-influenced electorate and can
be turned out, as they are being turned out now, at very high rates. 

No, the interesting people are those like Averell Harriman, who "served"
in five different administrations, and Clark Clifford, who was in the
Truman administration and still figures in the councils of the great
today.  And we can't forget the minions of the Rockefellers -- and Nelson
himself, who wielded enormous power throughout the heart of the Cold War
years.  So, how does all of this work?  Well, we have to look back to get
the picture. 

To understand the true nature of our government and the ideology of those
who created it and maintain it we have to go back to 1787 and the
Constitutional Convention.  Our tour guide for this trip back in time will
be chapter 2 of The Irony Of Democracy, based on The Economic History Of
The Constitution by Charles Beard (1912).  The fifty-five men (all men)
who met in Philadelphia shared one or more of the following
characteristics: owner of a large estate; big-time merchant; real
estate/land speculator or large-scale owner of public bonds or securities. 
To see how narrow this class was consider this quote: "Jefferson and Adams
were among the very few of the nation's notables who were not at the
Convention." What was the population of the United States in 1787?  Well,
it was just about 4 million people! 

Let us continue in this vein, "At the top of the social structure there
was a tiny elite, most of them well-born, though some of them were
self-made.  This elite group dominated the social, cultural, economic and
political life of the new nation." 

Thus we can see that from the very beginning the USA was founded of, by
and for The Inheritors--the "well-born."  Here is the absolute key to
understanding American politics and economics.  Until you get this, that
the entire purpose of government in this country is the protection,
creation and conveyance to the next generation of inherited wealth, you do
not understand anything about American politics and economics.  And the
source of this inherited wealth was the power of the British Empire in
creating, protecting and financing the Thirteen Colonies.  For you see,
"The Founding Fathers" were creatures and retainers of empire, from the
very beginning.  The United States was set on an Imperial course right
from the very start, when Alexander Hamilton realized he that could begin
to retire the massive national debt by selling land that belonged to the
American Indians, who quickly became expendable.  But I digress. 

In 1787 America was de-facto ruled by a few elite families, among them the
Pinckneys and Rutledges in Charleston; the Adamses, Lowells and Gerrys in
Boston; the Schuylers, Clintons and Jays of New York; the Morrises,
Mifflins and Ingersolls of Philadelphia; the Jenifers and Carrolls of
Maryland; and the Blairs and Randolphs of Virginia.  The members of these
families and their employees ran the place, or were trying to run it, at
the time of the Revolution.  But they were having some problems and that's
why they needed something new and more powerful than the Articles Of
Confederation. 

Under the Articles a war had been fought and eventually won.  But each
state was more or less free to ignore the Continental Congress' call for
funds and thus a whole lot of borrowing had been done and an enormous debt
created.  The old Congress and various states owned investors (both
foreign and domestic) about $70 million.  This doesn't sound like much
today but in 1787 that was equal to half of the total evaluation of the
entire property of the nation!  And after the war the place was in ruins,
one- third of the population (Tories) having been run off or killed (but
their property expropriated!) and foreign trade wrecked.  There was little
money to pay anyone and the credit of the USA had fallen so low that "not
worth a Continental" was a common epithet, on both sides of the Atlantic. 

The core of this problem lay with the Articles themselves, which did not
give the central government the power to tax the states and make it stick. 
Also, with each state able to impose tariffs on interstate trade business
between the colonies was a maze of small duties and tolls.  Finally,
without the power to tax, a decent military was impossible to maintain
over time and the overseas trade of the colonies was vulnerable to piracy
from individual thieves and military pressure from other powers.  The new
nation was in great trouble and so were its elites.  As Franklin had said,
"We must hang together or we will hang separately."  At the time Franklin
made this statement he was worried about the British army but with the war
ended there was a new and equally serious threat--the rank and file
population of the USA itself(!), now made destitute by war and wondering
what had gone wrong. 

In the summer of the year before a full-scale revolt of farmers, small
merchants, craftsmen and laborers (led by Daniel Shays, a Bunker Hill
veteran) had for a while held the capital city of Massachusetts and this
had to be put down with a mercenary army (paid for by the state's rich
men) led by George Washington.  Shay and dozens of others, who were
protesting the foreclosure of veteran's small farms by the big landowners,
were put to death, and the mood of the country was ugly.  It was this
event that was the referent for "insure the domestic tranquilty" in the
preamble of the Constitution!  Shay had said that if debts to British
merchants could be legislated out of existence then so could outrageous
debts owed by U.S. little people to the American rich.  This, shall we
say, was unacceptable, just as much now as it was then. 

Thus in February, 1787, fifty-five men of property and wealth met, in
secret, to decide what to do about the serious condition of the country. 
Yes, folks, this was about the closest thing to a conspiracy you are ever
going to see.  Quote: "The founding fathers quickly chose George
Washington (owned 30,000 acres on the Potomac, including the swamp that
would later become the nation's capital) to preside over the assembly. 
Just as quickly the convention decided that its sessions would be held
behind closed doors and that all proceedings would be a closely guarded
secret." 

The author's next line is choice, "The founding fathers apparently
realized that elites are most effective in negotiating, compromise and
decision making when operating in secret."  Yes, you could say that. .
.although most of us might put a different "spin" on it.  Let us consider
that "The convention was said by many to be a happy reunion of old friends
and comrades.  They had shared many activites in their elite experiences." 
This was a cabal. 

Viz: "Washington could look around the room and see a half a dozen men who
had voted him into command in 1775, a dozen who had been with him at
Trenton, and another dozen who had supported him in Congress or had fished
with him in the Potomac.  Livingston had studied law with Yates and had
been a patron of Hamilton.  Hamilton was a friend of Madison and had
shared books with Williamson, who had done experiments with Franklin, who
was a close friend of Sherman, who had sold books to Baldwin, who was an
old friend of the Morrises.  And so on." 

"These same men had made all the key decisions in American history from
the Stamp Act to the Declaration of Independence to the Articles of
Confederation.  They controlled the Congress of the United States and had
conducted the Revolutionary War.  Forty-two of these fifty-five men had
already served in Congress and forty of them held high offices in the
various states-- Franklin, Livingston and Randolph were governors.  At a
time when college educations were almost non-existent in America over half
of these men had been educated at Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia,
Penn, William & Mary or in England.  Thirty-six of them were trained in
the law or were lawyers." 

Now we get to the skinny, "At least forty of the fifty-five delegates were
known as holders of public securities, twenty-four were moneylenders,
fourteen were real estate speculators, fifteen were large-scale slave
owners and eleven were in commerce or manufacturing."  Because of their
economic positions these men had their differences.  But their primary
political attitudes were most uniform, even as they acknowledged
differences over the methods by which those attitudes would be actuated. 
Government existed to do the following: 

Ensure the protection of life, liberty and property.  By which they meant
their lives, their liberty and their property.  The new government was to
do nothing which might modify the then- current distribution of wealth
(existing, to them, by natural law) in the United States.  This the
founding fathers considered "dangerous leveling" and a serious violation
of the "right to property."  Though they made a show out of eschewing
"heridtary monarchy" they did nothing to alter the ability of their heirs
to inherit their property.  In fact, they much strengthened it, thus
insuring that the government, by and for propertied men, would remain in
their and their families' control for as long as possible--forever in
theory!  You might note that many of the names seen above still figure in
the elite life of the country, see Birmingham, The Right People and
Lundberg, America's Sixty Families. 

Finally, government was to "protect and nourish private property, foster
trade and commerce, protect manufacturing, assist in land development,
enforce contracts, maintain a stable money supply, punish thievry, assist
in the collection of debts, record the ownership of property and deeds,
punish counterfeiting and piracy, protect copyrights and patents, regulate
the value of the coinage, establish courts and regulate banking."  And
they would control it! 

In the end then, government would "establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity." 
That about sums it up.  The new government would have an army and the
power to tax everybody, through the various states, and thus pay off the
bondholders of the revolution--themselves and their foreign allies.  It's
pretty good work, if you can get it.  And they still get it today since
their captive government has tripled the national debt since the early
1980s and THEY own most of it, the best parts of it, and we will be paying
them and their heirs for decades to come, which was the whole and complete
idea. 


Part 3

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

In Part 2 of this series I showed how our current government was founded
by a tiny elite in a conspiratorial manner.  I know full well that many
will say, "But that was then, this is now and the USA is a huge country
that cannot be ruled by a tiny group of people, no matter how powerful or
well placed."  Well, I wish.  Back in 1787 an opponent of the House Of
Representatives grilled Madison on the terror it could be in the future
when the nation would have expanded and the House made up of several
hundred men, some by then of dubious (i.e., Democratic) character. 
Madison's answer?  "No matter how large the group there is an iron law of
oligarcy and only a few will seek to manipulate."  We will soon see how
prescient Madison was and how even today there is well and true an iron
law. 

The numbers below refer to notes I have made in a book, The Rockefellers,
A Family Dynasty, 1978. 

(1) We are concerned here with David Rockefeller, son of John D.
Rockefeller II and grandson of the original John D. Rockefeller.  Those
who have read Lundberg's America's Sixty Families (1941) and The Rich And
The Super Rich (1967) know that the Rockefellers and their relations (see
Stephen Birmingham's Our Crowd and The Right People) are the leading
faction of the real power elite in the United States at this time.  As you
will soon see, this statement is not an exaggeration. 

(2) David Rockefeller in 1974 was chairman of the Chase Bank, one of the
three greatest and most important banks in the world.  The quote from
Finance magazine is telling as is the following sentence about "systems of
power guiding the nation."  What can the source of this power be?  Well,
the next two paragraphs outline the facts: ". . .insofar as the private
sector had a general interest, bankers expressed it; their very boards
were the gathering places for corporate collectivities of power."  Then
just below we read, "It was the growing dominance of financial over
industrial institutions, and of the large institutional investors over
shareholding individuals as the legal owners of the country's leading
corporations.  These trends intersected in the emergence of banks as the
epicenter of the economy.  Controlling huge trusts and even larger pension
funds, they had become the great powers of the economic order."  You see,
it is not the legal owners who necessarily control. . .it is the trust
officers and directors of the banks who do, because they vote the stock! 
David Rockefeller "chaired a board of directors interlocked with the
boards of Allied Chemical, Exxon, Standard of Indiana, Shell Oil, AT&T,
Honeywell, General Foods and dozens of other corporate giants.  The Chase
was a leading stockholder in CBS, Jersey Standard, Atlantic Richfield,
United Airlines, and a galaxy of other corporations--from AT&T and IBM to
Motorola and Safeway.  The power this stockholding position conferred was
immense."  Just a a few months ago the Clinton administration guided a new
banking bill through Congress, a bill that received almost no attention in
the media, obsessed as it was with OJ and abortion and school prayer. This
bill gives banks like the Chase carte blanche to expand throughout the
nation and to eventually underwrite stocks, something forbidden since the
mid-1930s and the Glass-Stegall act. 

(3) In January of 1992 David Rockefeller II took over as chairman of the
Chase Bank, his father having just retired.  How is this possible?  It is
possible because at the very top of the U.S. power pyramid we see an
intermarried, hereditary, plutocracy, the current version in place since
the 1890's (see Lundberg) and still in the saddle today.  The heirs,
assigns, cousins, nephews, friends and employees of this group run the
country, period.  For instance, note that David took over in part for John
McCloy, a man who had been a Rockefeller lawyer for decades and who was
Allied administrator for the occupation of Germany in the late 1940s and
the Undersecretary of War who signed (in 1942) the order creating Los
Alamos.  Later he was to be made DCl and chairman of the board of IT&T. 

(4) What a shock it was to see that the odious George Gilder, relentless
promoter of Reaganomics in academia in the early 1980s, is a godson of
David Rockefeller.  But, of course, something like this had to be true
because Gilder has only a BA in English!  Over and over again one sees
this, unknown people suddenly appearing on national television as
"experts" and debating with real people like Walter Heller.  Now we know
how and why!  Today, Gilder has resurfaced as an "expert" on futurism and
the New World Order.  Reading George is to get the offical view of power
concerning the shape of the world you and your children will be living in
for the next generation or so. 

(5) David and JFK were contemporaries, born in 1915 and 1917 respectively. 
The strange relationship of the families goes back to the 1930s when
Joseph Kennedy was made the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission by Franklin Roosevelt.  Rockefeller II, David's father, used
the New Deal and Kennedy to break the absolute power of the Morgan and
Mellon Banks and give his three family banks, Chase, First National of New
York (now CitiCorp), and Chemical Bank, a leg up to take Morgan's place. 
Part of this campaign involved the Glass-Stegall Act, which forbade banks
from underwriting stock.  Now that the Rockefeller banks truly rule the
roost this act can be done away with, and it HAS BEEN, under Democrat
Clinton, man of the people and flaming liberal (so-called).  The point is
the that the Kennedys were employees, flunkies, of the Rockefellers and
their ilk.  That's why they could be shot.  Ditto for Clinton, former
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Rhodes Scholar, who
can (and will) be removed (hopefully without gunfire) when his task is
finished. 

(6) The Rockefeller Brothers Study of the late 1950s (Chair: Henry
Kissinger, member of the staff of Nelson Rockefeller) was an outline for
the massive military build-up of the Cold War and was implemented in its
entirety by Kennedy and Johnson.  You have to understand that the real
profit on guns and bombs approaches 50% on invested capital and if
Quayle's trust fund ($100 million) is to keep paying that 8 per cent
interest the money has to come from somewhere.  Weapons really pay and
Uncle Sam is not going out of that business for a long, long time--ask
those who count. 

(7) As ruinous as these tax cuts and war-fighting budgets were for the
country in the 1960s it was re-played in the 1980s under Reagan and Bush. 
How can this walk?  Who benefits? 
 Well, in the last election something like 37% of the eligible voters went
to the polls, which means that something like 19% of the eligible voters
put in the Newt-Man.  The fact is that this economy can fall a long way
and still keep the loyalty of about one-sixth of the population.  See
Lundberg for the means and methods that keep voter participation low
enough for the plutocrats to call all the shots. 

(8) It seems that Rockefeller interests in Cuba were large and that
Professor A.A. Berle, University of Chicago, author of the academically
accepted account of the history of The Standard Oil, was a Rockefeller
family advisor!  How quaint!  Note, too, that Rockefeller employees seem
to wind up on the National Security Council in large numbers.  Dean Rusk
was chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, as were other Secretaries of
State John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter.  Henry Kissinger also was,
for a time, chairman of the fund. 

(9) The interests of the Rockefellers in Latin America are immense.  They
own vast oil fields in Venezuela, as do minor- leaguers like the Bush
family and William F. Buckley.  Their planning horizons are suitably long
and the recent NAFTA treaty is simply the endstage of a generation of
effort on the part of these people.  Kennedy's interest in improving the
lot of the average peasant in Latin American didn't get very far when
faced with opposition from the Rockefellers at home and the brutal elite
families of the countries in question.  One of the first results of the
counterattack was the 1964 coup in Brazil, engineered by CIA and hailed by
Rusk at the bottom of page 416.  The late 1960s saw one coup after another
and together they put paid to any spread of Cuban-style reorganizations. 
See Sampson's The Sovereign State of IT&T for more on how CIA and
corporate America arranges the assassinations of inconvenient foreign
leaders who will not play ball with Rockefellers and Mellons. 

(10) In the last days of the Roman Republic, after the Punic Wars, the
Gracci Brothers tried to reform Rome and forestall the emergence of
out-and-out Empire.  For their trouble they were both assassinated.  You
could look it up.  America today is the New Rome, with its legions
stationed around the world and its money accepted everywhere, just as was
the case under Augustus and his successors.  Rome was ruled by a few dozen
families, you could look that up, too, and there was literally nothing
they would not do to retain their power, up to and including assassinating
inconvenient members of their own cadre.  Is Richard Condon right and did
old Joe Kennedy have to sign off on the killing of his own son once it
became the desired end of those who truly rule?  Such is more than
possible in the New Rome, much as it was in the Old One.  We'll have some
information on Old Rome in a later number of this series. 

Is not the above very interesting?  And now we know that these are the
kinds of people financing UFO research in the USA.  What should our take
on this be?  Are they doing this for the benefit of all the little people
in the world or for their own long-run interest?  To ask such a question
is to answer it. 

UFO Investigation - Financial Considerations -- 4

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

Lurking beneath the surface of the UFO Phenomenon is a kind of
millenialism, a belief that the "world" is going to end soon.  Strieber
now says that this refers not to a physical but to a mental "ending,"
though he was not always of this opinion.  I also subscribe to a "mental"
ending scenario BUT, behind this will come a huge physical change,
worldwide, caused by the fact that the piper will eventually have to be
paid for the billions of human beings who are now living on the Earth.  In
spite of what Rush Limbaugh would have us believe, there is no free lunch
and what the economists call "cost externalization" cannot go on forever:
for a very long time, yes -- but not forever. 

Thus the UFO has appeared amid the intellectual and moral swamp of the
second-half-of-the-twentieth-century, to a world shocked by the trenches
and gas of World War I; the mass bombing, Death Camps and nuclear fire of
World War II and finally by the slow, steady decline of civilization and
civility nearly everywhere. Our perception of the UFO is colored by these
things, as it must be, especially here in the United States, where a
polluted and worthless mass media cannot even get local city hall
activities right.  The appearance of Others is thus mixed and matched with
the other "news" and we have to try to deal with it while we are confused,
baffled and most of all angry, usually at those we are told to be angry
with by that same mass media.  One of the results of this is to be seen in
this newsgroup where the hot air and bad faith outguns actual content by a
ratio of 25 to 1 or so. 

This is as it should be, as it is desired to be, by those who in the end
rule.  That is, they do nothing to truly disturb the inherent tendencies
in their citizens to loath and distrust each other.  The polyglot empire
they are trying to run, made up as it is of immigrants from around the
world, is probably inherently un-runnable, but they don't care -- as long
as the checks clear. But in our time the checks are getting closer and
closer to not clearing as our economy slowly crumbles.  Thus you see the
spectacle of entire American family-clans leaving the country for the tax
advantages.  The same thing happened to Rome. 

When Ufology appeals to the U.S. government for access to "UFO secrets" it
is appealing to functionaries, low-level employees, of the current
world-wide empire, run (badly) from the top by a few dozen powerful
families.  The original Constitution is just a scrap of paper, a useful
fiction, as Black agencies spy on the entire world with secret budgets
equal to the GNP of Belgium.  The Roman Emperor had the Privy Purse, the
Black Budget of his time, and with it he could do ANYTHING.  So it is
today except there is no Emperor since modern public relations do not
allow one.  No, we have layers and layers of cut-outs today, but the job
gets done just the same. 

So, how does the Big Money crowd rule?  Well, in part they rule through
the so-called political parties, which they fund.  Let us take a look at
one of these parties and how it works, and then follow that up with a look
at what all of it means. 

The Republican Party in the 1990s is an amazingly constructed tool of
elite design that commands the fanatical loyalty of millions of Americans
who should be its hated enemies.  At the top of the stack are the members
of Lundberg's Super Rich, part of the international, intermarried,
plutocratic group trying to cement a hold on the economies of the whole
world through things like the U.N., GATT and NAFTA.  Next on the list are
the big corporate lawyers and executives, second-level inheritors (like
Dan Quayle and George Bush) and the truly high-powered government
officials and academics that make up the line management of the United
States.  Below them come mid-level inheritors and businessmen and the
up-and-coming statewide elites and other public officials.  Below them
come a few hundred thousand small businessmen and salaried employees of
both large corporations and government.  Then, at the bottom, come
millions of hourly workers (victims of the policies of the leaders of
their own party) who vote Republican because the Democrats are the party
of Godless liberals, nigger bitches, baby-killing abortion doctors,
lesbian feminists and AIDS-riddled homosexuals.  That should put things
into their proper, Limbaugh-like, perspective. 

When I was a kid, my home town of Carrollton was a little city with a
local elite who were solidly Republican and convinced that they were on
their way to becoming little Rockefellers and Carnegies through the
newspapers, banks and other businesses they were then running.  Today the
businesses are all closed, the banks are owned by out-of-staters and the
local WalMart has wiped out our local inheritors.  What happened?  Well,
as Lundberg shows so well in The Rich And The Super Rich, the real battle
in the United States has always been Big Money against Some Money against
Small Money, a conflict Small Money may win for a while but in the end
must certainly lose. 

Everything we see in government and the mass media has a referent to this
world, a world of dog-eat-dog conflict and vicious infighting, vicious
because the participants know the real stakes--the continuation, for the
next several generations, of their families above the degradation that
most Americans have to live with every day.  Most rank and file Americanos
in the end care little or nothing for their progeny and do not provide for
them, sending them out into the world on their own, with nothing, yet with
the expectation that they will somehow "get along."  This is madness, yet
it is the mental state of more than 90% of our people.  And it is no
accident, for if the worthless products produced by Big Money are to be
bought, the buyers must have nearly zero concern for the future.  Cui
Bono? 

In a nutshell, since World War II the old-line Taft Republicans (Small and
medium-town "Main Street" people and the farmers) have been wiped out. 
Their place has been taken by a sludge of semi- educated, new-urban,
salaried and hourly workers (Dittoheads) frightened by what has happened
to the country but not knowing one damn thing about how it got that way. 
They are herded down the chutes of oblivion by half-wit television
preachers (themselves making millions off their insipid flocks), radio
flacks (ditto) and glad-handing, traitorous politicans who make noise
about doing what "America" wants while their palms are out to the Big
Money crowd.  Since our politics are so debased that only about 35% turn
out for non-Presidential elections this sludge is sufficient to vote in
anyone if conditions are right. 

And conditions can be made right at any time.  Our American sludge is
continuously whipped to a frenzy by the Mass Media, this institution owned
or controlled by Big Money and now the active tool of a psychological
warfare campaign aimed straight at the mystified members of the "New
Majority."  Helpless they are in its demonizing grip and they now believe,
in their millions, that the problems of the country are all caused by
nigger mothers and diseased queers, the niggers degraded by their inferior
genes and the queers condemned by deviant desires beyond the imaginations
of God-fearing, kitchen-drinking, child-molesting Fundamentalist
Americanos, sexually obsessed (with young children and big tits) though
they may be.  Topping it all off is the presence of 300 million guns, most
of them owned by this sludge, which every year becomes more inclined to
open fire--on nearly anyone, the victim being a family member or fellow
employee much more often than it is someone who really deserves to die,
like a baby-killing doctor or a pinko-fag-liberal. 

This is a harsh indictment and many will disagree.  But does it not fit
the tenor of the times, a time when half-smart farmers from the Midwest
blow up whole buildings with fertilizer, just like any banana republic? 
This writer grew up in the Midwest and an organization called the
Minutemen was headquartered just a few miles down the road.  I played
baseball with the sons of Robert DePugh, a name some may remember, the
leader of the Minutemen who was framed by the FBI in 1968 and sent to
Federal Prison.  These modern "militias" are not new, they are merely the
continuation of what was going on the 1950s among mass-media-educated,
rural, white Americans threatened and confused by the New World Order, a
term coined a long time ago: Novus Ordo Seclorum. 

Is it possible for a public and a society in such a state to make a
correct response to the advent of "Visitors?"  No.  The level of distrust
and bad faith prevalent in the USA today is high, very high, and the
immediate reaction of Americans today is to strike out viciously at what
is feared, what is not known, what is different.  A certain amount of this
is always present but in our time this reaction has been raised to public
policy status.  In this sense our elites have degraded us to levels rarely
seen in history, atomized and isolated us, made many of us less than
human.  Millions of Americans are cut off from their families, from their
history, from any history, and thus are barbarians as wild and dangerous
as those who swept down on Europe from the steppes over a thousand years
ago.  The current fashion in the United States is to put the minority male
in this particular box but, let me tell you, as one born and raised in
rural Missouri, they ain't got nothing on some of the guys I know.  It's
just who gets the ink and for a while we got some of our own back. 

Until this deeply seated inhumanity, inculcated in many of us by a culture
and society geared in the end ONLY to making money for the very few, is
faced for what it is, we are going nowhere, not just in the UFO arena but
in the larger arena of civilization itself.  And that will lead us to Part
5 in this series. 

Big Money And UFOs -- 5: Laurance Rockefeller

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

As a UFO analyst I live in the past almost all of the time.  That is, I
depend on the hard work of others for the vast majority of my information
and it takes time for that information to see the light of day.  Nowhere
is this more true than where someone like Laurance Rockefeller is
concerned.  When it comes to what the Rockefellers are doing right NOW I
know about what everyone else does: not much.  But I have informed myself
as to what they have done in the past and how they have done it.  This
information sheds considerable light on what they might be doing now since
consistency is one of the Rockefeller hallmarks. 

This message will concern the Laurance Rockefeller who is/was a brother to
Nelson, Winthrop, David and JDR3.  The Laurance Rockefeller who is helping
bankroll John Mack could well be the same person you will read about
below. 

Laurance Rockefeller (b. 1910) became interested in high tech firms in
1938 with the foundation of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.  During World
War II Laurance was in the Navy overseeing the production of patrol
bombers before being shifted to the fighter desk by his good friend James
V. Forrestal.  At this time Laurance owned 20 per cent of McDonnell
aircraft which had been founded by Laurance's college friend James S.
McDonnell, with some help from Laurance.  It seems that both were at
Princeton. 

In 1947 there was talk of a Congressional investigation of Navy contracts
vis-a-vis McDonnell during the period that Laurance was in the Navy.  But,
that investigation never seemed to get off the ground, no pun intended. 
Thus Laurance sailed on, later forming a consortium with family friends C.
Douglas Dillon and Felix DuPont to make a fortune out of helicopter
production during the Korean War.  This consortium also owned Nuclear
Development Associates, the original power behind civilian nuclear
reactors, and a little company called ITEK, which would make the spy
cameras for the U-2 and America's spy satellites.  The capital for these
ventures would come from brother David's Chase Bank, the very center of
Rockefeller power and the prime force behind the great war scare of 1948,
which I have documented earlier. 

In 1950 Laurance hired Lewis Strauss, former Kuhn, Loeb banker who had
been an assistant to Herbert Hoover in World War I, an offical in the
1930s of the company that later became UniRoyal, and the lawyer/banker who
had helped Kodak market Kodachrome and later aided Dr. Land and his
Polaroid.  Strauss spent World War Two in the Navy and had been made an
Admiral by his good friend James V. Forrestal.  Funny how things like this
worked out. 

In any event, in 1950 Strauss was overseeing the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
and was heavily connected into the high-tech yscience world.  He left
Rockefeller employ to become the chairman of the AEC under Eisenhower,
just as Laurance put together a company called United Nuclear which had
the inside track on the development of civilian atomic power.  Also at
this time ITEK was created, begun when a Boston University scientist
advised his good friend Laurance Rockefeller that Ike's Administration was
going to liquidate Boston University's Physics Research Lab. 

I wonder how they knew of this in advance?  Probably just luck.  Anyway,
Laurance bought the thing and put his good scientific friend in charge of
it.  It made millions out of the U-2 and the Discovery satellites, both of
which were promoted relentlessly by Rockefeller operatives, including
Nelson (!), inside the former Council On Foreign Relations member's (Ike)
administration. 

Later on, Laurance would be a power behind LBJ's administration and his
wife would give Lady Bird the idea for her beautification of America
scheme.  In 1969 Laurance would use his connections into the world of
"conservation" to help push through SLAC, the Stanford Linear Acclerator,
over the objections of the people who actually lived there.  By that time
he would have been president of the Jackson Hole (WY) Preserve society for
decades and his family would own large tracts in the West. 

Also by the middle 1970s Laurance and his brother Nelson would have
created several "conservation" societies revolving around the family's
Pocantico estate (47,000-plus acres) on the Hudson River.  How many folks
investigating UFOs know that the so-called Hudson Valley Object has been
flying for years over an area that is more or less a Rockefeller private
preserve?  Do you think the family might be interested in that, or MORE
than interested? 

______

Big Money And UFOs -- 6: The Hudson Valley Object

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

This writer spent the night of November 19/20, 1980 on a friend's farm
near Ashland, Missouri, trying to find the planet Pluto through an 8-inch
telescope.  This was unfortunate because around midnight a huge flying
triangle, blasting along at about 40 mph, passed almost directly over my
house.  If I had been observing from my backyard that night/morning I
could hardly have missed it.  As it was, hundreds of people did NOT miss
it and I have talked to many of them over the 15 years since. 

At around 7 pm that evening two college students in Kirksville, Missouri,
about 90 miles north of Columbia in the northeastern part of the state,
were sitting in a parking lot on campus discussing the day's football
game.  They noticed a bright light to the east but did not think much of
it, believing it to be an aircraft with its landing lights on.  They
observed the light for about half an hour as it slowly came closer.  By
about 7:40 pm the light was getting quite close and very, very bright.  It
dominated the sky even in the presence of a first quarter moon. 

About 7:45 the lights (there were now two of them) and the object to which
they were attached passed very near the Moon.  The two students were
shocked to see that the brilliant lamps high in the south were on the
leading edge of a huge triangular shaped object moving slowly, oh so
slowly, from east to west.  They jumped into their cars and followed it
across town, at no time going faster than about 40 mph.  They easily kept
up.  When they reached their fraternity house they roused everyone inside
and they all watched the object, now with two red lights visible on its
trailing edge, fly majestically away to the west, at about 40-50 mph. 

It seems that this object flew over 100 miles straight west to the
vicinity of Princeton, Missouri, where it turned south and headed down
highway 65 (passing over my home town of Carrollton) to Interstate 70. 
Then it turned east at an altitude of a few hundred feet and headed down
the four lane highway, occasionally slowing traffic.  Sometime between
midnight and 1 a.m. it arrived at Columbia where it was witnessed by many,
many people, including law enforcement officers, some of whom chased it to
the east, all the way to Fulton, Missouri.  Two policemen attempted to
break into the University of Missouri observatory in order to get a better
look at the object through the 16-inch telescope.  But no one in the
building at that time had a key or knew how to operate the telescope. 
This incident is mentioned briefly in Imbrogno's book on the Hudson Valley
flap of 1983-85. 

Now, let's think about this.  A large, strange flying object is seen by
the public over the northeastern quadrant of Missouri.  For more than
seven hours it flies, unmolested, at low altitude, over heavily populated
areas and major interstate highways.  The Air Force has a base near
Warrensburg, Missouri, 50 miles south of Carrollton, and they were called. 
No interception was made, at least none that I have ever heard of or been
able to find.  The FAA radar at Kirksvile had it on their screens early in
the evening and the operator saw it visually at the same time.  The
witnesses I have talked to who kept the object in view for many minutes
report that commercial airliners flew above the object on more than one
occasion.  It sailed serenely on its way. 

Now this is amazingly similiar to what has been reported, on a much
grander scale, just about 50 miles north of Manhatten in Westchester
County, New York, along the Hudson River Valley and in the vicinity of the
family homes of the wealthiest and most influential people in the United
States and by extension the world. I have a friend who three years ago had
reason to be in the corporate offices of a huge international firm whose
U.S. headquarters were in Westchester County.  He was there in an
adversarial way and two of the firm's lawyers were there, too, making sure
the files that were examined were the correct ones.  Hour after hour this
went on and the people involved struck up a casual acquaintanceship.  What
were these two lawyers talking about?  UFOs.  It seems that the mother of
one of them had called her son to her home the night before because of the
overflight, at very low altitude, of the Westchester Wing. 

Get a map and look at the area involved.  The Rockefeller family estate of
Pocantico is right there, smack in the middle of it.  Nearby, too, is West
Point, as is the former Stuart Air Force Base.  Interesting, isn't it? 
And interesting, too, is the fact that the most important economic
development in recent years has been the development of the E.E.C. and its
headquarters in, er, well, er, Belgium. . .where the Westchester Wing has
been flying, too, for several years, just as the Green Fireballs flew over
Los Alamos back in the late 1940s. 

Is it just coincidence that big money began to flow into UFO research,
surreptitiously, in the late 1980s?  I don't think so.  The Wing flew over
my house but, so what, what can I do about it? 

Not very much. . .write a few articles.  But when the Wing flies over the
Rockefellers' houses, well, that's different.  That's going to get some
action -- of some kind. 

***

A Little More Background On The Rockefellers,
Funding Source For Abduction Research,
And Pocantico, New York -- Plus a few notes.

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

We turn to Ferdinand Lundberg and his blockbuster 1937 book America's
Sixty Families, page 423: 

"In surveying the residential seats of the Rockefeller family it is also
difficult to know to which family one should assign each mansion and
estate, as the Rockefellers are intermarried, as we have seen, with the
Stillmans (CitiCorp), Carnegies (U.S. Steel), McCormicks (Chicago
Tribune), Aldriches (old Colonial Connecticut family), Davisons (J.P.
Morgan partner), Dodges (Phelps-Dodge Mines), and others.  We will,
however, concentrate on the two main Rockefeller lines of descent,
observing first, however, that the Rockefeller publicity men, geniuses of
a sort, have admirably suggested that this imperial family lives rather
ascetically; seldom are descriptions of the Rockefeller residential
interiors permitted to leak out, so that one must reconstruct them
mentally from fragmentary suggestions just as a paleontologist
reconstructs the framework of a dinosaur from a few scraps of bone. 

"There is, first, the great family duchy of thirty-five hundred acres at
Pocantico Hills, near Tarrytown, New York.  (Now much enlarged and
extended, VG) On this estate stand five separate family mansions, for as
each child marries a house is constructed for separate occupancy.  Like
the Standard Oil Company, the estate has been assembled with guile and
force against the will of neighbors.  In Cleveland the Rockefellers had a
town house on Euclid Avenue and a regal estate at Forest Hill, now turned
into an expensive real-estate development; but in the 1890s the family
moved to Pocantico Hills. 

"This estate at the turn of the century comprised only about
sixteen-hundred acres, which have since been added to by purchase and by
persuasion.  The first brush the elder Rockefeller had with the local
authorities, who are now the family's most loyal servitors, was occasioned
by his desire to have Tarrytown construct a road around the Croton
reservoir, the property of New York City. This road would connect his home
with that of his brother William, on the other side of the reservoir. 
Rockefeller proceeded in violation of the law to have the road built, even
using hired roughnecks to drive local officials from the area. 

"In 1929, Rockefeller, Jr., paid the town of Eastview $700,000 for the
priviledge of ousting forty-six families so that the main line of the
Putnam division of the New York Central Railroad might run along what was
Eastview's main street instead of through the gradually swelling Pocantico
Estate. 

"The assessed evaluation of the Rockefeller demesne in 1928 was
$5,588,050, calling for a tax of $137,000.  According to the New York
Times (May 24, 1937) the elder Rockefeller's fifty-room mansion at
Pocantico, surrounded by fully nurtured gardens, alone cost $2,000,000 to
build and $500,000 per year to maintain, while the estate requires the
services of three hundred and fifty employees and thirty teams of horses
the year round, making a monthly payroll of $18,000. 

"From the New York Herald Tribune, also May 24, 1937: 

"From the village of East View the estate extends northward three miles
over soft, pleasant countryside to the boundaries of Ossining, where it
joins the estate of the elder James Stillman, former president of the
National City Bank (CitiCorp today, VG).  At the southern tip of Pocantico
on a high knoll stands the massive Georgian house of Mr. Rockefeller.  It
lies in the center of the estate's only enclosure area, 350 acres
surrounded by a high fence with two gates.  Thirty watchmen, twenty in the
winter when the families are living in town, patrol the enclosure in eight
hour shifts to keep out unwelcome visitors. 

"There is also the William Rockefeller line of more than one hundred
persons.  More then fifty of his great-grandchildren will be millionaires
by 1950.  In all it can be estimated that the existing Rockefeller
establishments, including the thirty-two thousand acre Adirondak estate of
William, have a total valuation of $50,000,000 to $75,000,000." 

And this was in 1937!!!  Multiply that by at least fifteen today, and that
doesn't count the pure additions made since then! 

Now, beginning on page 375 of the same book is Lundberg's analysis of who
controls the agenda at a few of America's better colleges and
univeristies, sites of Internet nodes today: 

1) Harvard:  J.P. Morgan management; Standard Oil largest donor.
2) Yale:     Morgan-Rockefeller; Standard Oil largest donor.
3) Columbia: National City Bank management (William Rockefeller)
4) Chicago:  Rockefeller management, Standard Oil largest donor.
5) M.I.T.:   Du Pont management, George Eastman largest donor.
6) Standord: Southern Pacific management, Leland Stanford donor.
7) Duke:     Duke (Sun Oil) family management and donation.
8) Cornell:  Rockefeller management.
9) Princeton: National City Bank management (Wm. Rockefeller).
10) Johns Hopkins: Morgan influence on Board of Trustees.
11) Northwestern: Deering Family, McCormick largest donors.
12) Cal Tech: Crocker, (Union Pacific) Hearst, Bank of America.
13) Penn: J.P. Morgan management, Drexel, Morgan donors.
14) Carnegie Inst.: Mellon & Carnegie (Steel, Aluminum) donors.

"All of these schools are adjuncts, or departments, of the big
corporations and banks, and are most or less openly operated as such. 
This is evidenced in many ways, but mainly (a) by the identities of the
trustees, most of whom are men engaged in pecuriary pursuits as deputies
of the great fortunes or in person the ruling heads of the great
forturnes; (b) by the composition of the investment portfolios of the
institutions themselves; (c) by the curricular emphasis upon studies of
direct pecuniary value to the wealthiest estates, studies embracing, in
the main, the physical sciences and problems of business administration as
well as the professional pursuits; and (d) by the recurrent offical
pronouncements of the presidents of the institutions on behalf of the
political, economic and social status quo. 

"Of the trustees of the top 27 institutions of higher learning in 1937
(659 people), 254 are bankers, 141 are merchants, 111 are utility
operators, 63 are railroad executives, 153 are professional men, 22 are
judges, 7 are miscellaneous.  These top 27 schools possess about one-half
of the total endowment of all scholls and colleges in the United States. 

"Among the trustees of Harvard are: Henry Sturgis Morgan, son of J.P.
Morgan; George Whitney, Morgan partner; Charles Francis- Adams, Boston
banker and father-in-law of Henry Sturgis Morgan; Walter S. Gifford,
president of AT&T (Morgan); George R. Agassiz (copper magnate); Gaspar G.
Bacon, son of a Morgan partner." 

"On the one hundred percent reactionary board of M.I.T. are Gerald Swope,
president of General Electric (Morgan); W. Cameron Forbes, director of
AT&T (Morgan); Pierre S. Du Pont; Lammont Du Pont; Albert Wiggin, former
chairman of Chase Bank (Rockefeller); Alfred Sloan, president of General
Motors (Du Pont) and director of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (Du
Pont). 

"Similiar personalities dominate all the private university and college
boards, and select the academic presidents who dragoon the faculties and
give utterance as well to reactionary pronouncements under the ostensible
sanction of science and learning, enlightenment and progress.  Without
readily perceptible exception, the university presidents are the drudges
of the money lords that lurk behind the boards of trustees. 

"One of the prime purposes of university endowments is to avoid taxes. 
Another is to mass stock voting power through interlocked boards of
university trustees and boards of corporation directors.  This goes along
with the rise of universities as great financial institutions, due to the
appearance of income, estate, and gift-tax laws.  The wealthy, in making
"gifts" to education have attained triple value for their money, since
their gifts have enabled them to get control of a large pool of money most
of which has actually been given by others.  Meerly to be able to
designate depositary banks and investment vehicles is very profitable,
even though the directors of a fund do not actually own it.  To be able to
purchase materials from companies of one's own choice is also very
profitable." 

Now, how many of my readers know that the Internet backbone was sold to
"private" concerns (AT&T, Morgan) a few months ago?  So, if any of you
were looking for any long-range change in our society due to the
"information superhighway," well, better think again. 

Big Money & UFOs -- Update -- December, 1995
The Rockefellers, Laurance & David

Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri

There is no doubt that the original Laurance Rockefeller, now 85 years
old, is the power behind much UFO research in the United States.  This
man, one of two surviving grandsons of the first John D. Rockefeller, has
been a true major league player in the affairs of the United States since
the 1930s!  If he is interested in UFOs then they are indeed very, very
important. 

Some of my readers may know that the Rockefeller family is about to make a
big killing in the re-aquisition of Rockefeller Center, which they sold to
the Japanese (and others) in the mid-1980s.  It looks like the total
profit the family will realize on this deal will be in the $1.5 Billion
area since they are buying back a $2.2 Billion property (current value)
for about 40 per cent of the $1.5 Billion they sold it for ten years ago. 
In the process they have handed the Mitusbishi Estate Company (brought you
the Japanese "Zero" in World War II!) their financial head on a plate and
restablished the family reputation at the head of the world class of very
large sharks. 

Now, whose idea do you think it was to sell 30 Rock to the Japs?  Well, it
was Laurance's idea, and he pushed it through the family meeting at
Pocantico over the objections of David and others.  Oh, how various people
howled at first.  But, now, a decade later, the far-sighted Laurance has
been vindicated, and the family has their centerpiece back, along with a
tidy premium. 

Let me tell you something, if the human race has a planetary royalty, this
guy is a member.  Bill Clinton is a pimple on Laurance's butt, as is any
politician, bureaucrat or military officer in the United States.  If
Laurance Rockefeller has hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on
UFOs. . .don't you think it behooves YOU to find out something about them
too? 

I think so.