"Free your mind
and your ass will follow."
- popular bumpersnicker in the late '60s
"To live the life of your dreams
is the only life worth living." - Oprah Winfrey
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
Is the U.S. Infrastructure Boobie-trapped?
Former Spy Says Russia Buried Explosives In U.S. Sept 11, 1999
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Soviet spies buried explosives
across the United States and Europe as part of a Cold War sabotage campaign that identified power stations, fuel
pipelines and other infrastructure sites, a former KGB official says.
The revelations are included in a new book co-authored by ex-Soviet spymaster Vasili Mitrokhin and discussed in
an interview he gave to the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), excerpts of which will be broadcast Sunday by the
CBS News program "60 Minutes."
Mitrokhin, whose disclosure about Briton Melita Norwood's nuclear espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union made
headlines Saturday, says that for years he copied top-secret documents by hand and smuggled them from Russian intelligence
headquarters, sometimes in his shoes, and hid some of them in a mattress.
He wrote "Sword and the Shield: Secret History of the KGB" with British academic
Christopher Andrew, who spoke with "60 Minutes" about Mitrokhin's note-taking and smuggling activities
over a 12-year period that began in the early 1970s when he was put in charge of moving the KGB archives to a new
site.
Mitrokhin, now 77 and living as a British citizen under an assumed name, was motivated by apparent disillusionment
over Soviet crackdowns on dissidents.
"I wanted to show the efforts, the tremendous efforts of this machine of evil,"
Mitrokhin told the BBC. "And I wanted to demonstrate what happens when the foundations of conscience are trampled
over and when other moral principles are forgotten. I regarded this as my duty as a Russian patriot."
Mitrokhin divulges a trove of information about KGB efforts in the United States, including
an aggressive disinformation attempt to pin the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the Central Intelligence
Agency.
But a major disclosure involves Mitrokhin's claim that Soviet spies surveyed hundreds of potential sabotage sites
in the United States and Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. "As part of that," according to "60
Minutes" "they buried booby trapped arms caches near some of the targets." The explosives presumably
are still there.
In the United States, the KGB sabotage plan covered areas across the country. One of the
first targets identified by the KGB was an oil pipeline running from El Paso, Texas, to Costa Mesa, California.
The Hungry Horse Dam in Montana also was on the list as was a "tremendously elaborate system" for knocking
out electrical power to New York state, "60 Minutes" reports.
Mitrokhin's files, said "60 Minutes," did not "spell out" how many explosives were buried in
the United States or their exact locations, but Andrew says in his U.S. TV interview that the Kremlin knows where
they are.
In Europe, Andrew said one of the sabotage sites was "checked out" in Switzerland. Mitrokhin's directions
were followed "precisely" and when investigators began to dig, they uncovered something dangerous. "They
turned a fire hose (on the site) and it exploded," he said.
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Reverse Speech
People on a spiritual path focus on self-mastery.
But "the wise are often led by fools." Low brow power-trippers focus on trying to manipulate
and control others. They become the movers and shakers in politics or business.
So, we need to learn John David Oates' REVERSE SPEECH so that we can ferret out the mean-spirited
self-serving schemes of the petty power mongers.
The spiritual know that being truthful is a prerequisite to even getting onto a spritual path.
But people who are abusive lie. And liars always want the facts to be hidden. Political and economic power is rarely
benign. Though we often are presented with a facade of civility.
An example of how cold-blooded and ruthless those in power are, is the fact that John David Oates' home, in San
Diego, was torched when he was INSIDE.
See John David Oates' web site at Reverse Speech.
Great Quotes
"If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention." - Anon
"Keep your eyes on the prize." - Jesse Jackson
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only
thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." - Benjamin Franklin
"If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a
new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets.
Imagination without skill gives us modern art." - Tom Stoppard
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
"If your rich, I'm single." - Anon
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." - Anon
Transforming Reads
Dick Sutphen: The Oracle Within.
Shakti Gawain: Reflections in the Light - Daily Thoughts
and Affirmations.
Mark Satin: New Age Politics - Healing Self and Society.
Did I mention heavy web links? Would you like to see two galaxies collide? Visit NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory & NASA Observatorium. I suggest you ask the Curator, Dr. Brown, a few questions
when you sign their guessbook. Why does the Vatican have a link-up to the Hubble camera? Why
are there no photos in their gallery of the UFOs seen from the space shuttle? Why have they chosen not to send
a probe into the water on Europa?
Structures on Mars??
See photos of the structures on Mars that NASA yanked off of their Pathfinder web site after just a few hours.
See Richard Hoagland's The Enterprise Mission.
1 - Be a Fundamentalist--make sure the Fun always comes before the mental. Realize that life is a situation comedy
that will never be canceled. A laugh track has been provided, and the reason why we are put in the material world
is to get more material. Have a good laughsitive twice a day, and that will ensure regular hilarity.
2 - Remember that each of us has been given a special gift, just for entering - so you are already a winner!
3 - The most powerful tool on the planet today is
Tell-A-Vision. That is where I tell a vision to you, and you tell a vision to me. That way, if we don't like the
programming we're getting, we can simply change the channel.
4 - Life is like photography. You use the negative to develop.
5 - It is true. As we go through life thinking heavy thoughts, thought particles tend to get caught between the
ears, causing a condition called truth decay. So be sure to use mental floss twice a day. And when you're tempted
to practice tantrum yoga, remember what we teach in Swami's Absurdiveness Training class: *Don't get even, get
odd.*
6 - If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads. That's where I no mad
at you, you no mad at me. That way, there'll surely be nomadness on the planet. And peace begins with each of us.
A little peace here, a little peace there, pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere.
7 - I know great earth changes have been predicted for the future, so if you're looking to avoid earthquakes, my
advice is simple. When you find a fault, just don't dwell on it.
8 - There's no need to change the world. All we have to do is toilet train the world, and we'll never have to change
it again.
9 - If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is:
there is no key to the Universe. The good news is: it has been left unlocked.
10 - Finally, everything I have told you is channeled. That way, if you don't like it, it's not my fault. And remember,
enlightenment is not a bureaucracy. So we don't have to go through channels.
