Secret News Articles
I received a very interesting email from one of you guys last week. The title of the email was Why is the Media Avoiding an Associated Press Article?
The email included an Associated Press article which I provide below. The sender asked me to put it on my site because every time he posted it on any message board it was deleted.
I’m not much for conspiracies, but I was intrigued. So, I posted a link to the article on numerous blogs and news paper sites online. Sure enough it was deleted everytime.
Why is the Article Interesting
The most important fact about the article is that it was written by an Associated Press reporter John J. Lumpkin. So I’m talking about a respected journalist and not a conspiracy nut. I also found the article at the Boston Globe.
My emailer states that here is proof that:
- Agents in the US CIA simulated a fake drill on Sept. 11, 2001 to confuse emergency response personnel
- This drill was to simulate what would occur if a plane where to strike a building
- A drill such as this had never been performed prior to Sept 11, 2001
- Air traffic, pilots, and emergency response personnel where lead to believe the 9-11 attacks where a drill
- The simulated plane was to have taken off at Dulles airport. The real plane that crashed into the Pentagon took off from Dulles airport.
Agency planned exercise on Sept. 11 built around a plane crashing into a building
By John J. Lumpkin, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn’t terrorism — it was to be a simulated accident.
Officials at the Chantilly, Va.-based National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled an exercise that morning in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency’s headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure.
The agency is about four miles from the runways of Washington Dulles International Airport.
Agency chiefs came up with the scenario to test employees’ ability to respond to a disaster, said spokesman Art Haubold. No actual plane was to be involved — to simulate the damage from the crash, some stairwells and exits were to be closed off, forcing employees to find other ways to evacuate the building.
“It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility,” Haubold said. “As soon as the real world events began, we canceled the exercise.”
Terrorism was to play no role in the exercise, which had been planned for several months, he said.
Adding to the coincidence, American Airlines Flight 77 — the Boeing 767 that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon — took off from Dulles at 8:10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 50 minutes before the exercise was to begin. It struck the Pentagon around 9:40 a.m., killing 64 aboard the plane and 125 on the ground.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates many of the nation’s spy satellites. It draws its personnel from the military and the CIA.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, most of the 3,000 people who work at agency headquarters were sent home, save for some essential personnel, Haubold said.
An announcement for an upcoming homeland security conference in Chicago first noted the exercise.
In a promotion for speaker John Fulton, a CIA officer assigned as chief of NRO’s strategic gaming division, the announcement says, “On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton and his team … were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know that the scenario would come true in a dramatic way that day.”
The conference is being run by the National Law Enforcement and Security Institute.
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I wanted to know if you have more illustrator tutorials. I kind of like the way you explain and the simplicity of your videos.
Thank you. I cover most everything in these tutrials
Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial Pt 1 – 3
Photoshop CS5 Review & Tutorial
Illustrator CS5 Tutorial Pt 4
Illustrator CS5 Tutorial Pt 5
Illustrator CS5 Tutorial Pt 6
I hope you like them
Derek