“Precautions must be taken not only to protect operations from exposure to enemy forces, but also to conceal these activities from the American public. The knowledge the Agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles.”  Auditor, MKULTRA, CIA 1961 (1)

“At the time, Senator Edward Kennedy basically said, “The intelligence community of this nation, which requires a shroud of secrecy in order to operate, has a very sacred trust from the American people.  The CIA’s program of human experimentation of the ‘50s and ‘60s violated that trust. It was violated again on the day the bulk of the agency’s records were destroyed in 1973. It is violated each time a responsible official refuses to recollect the details of the program. The best safeguard against abuses and abusers is a complete public accounting of the abuses of the past.” Carol Rutz   (2)

“Given the manual's repeated instructions to probe and exploit the individual mind-frame of the subject--to place "a tap on the psychological jugular"--it would not be surprising to find that yet another MKULTRA project, the PAS, was incorporated into CIA interrogation strategies. The CIA was loath to release its manuals to the American public, but the agency has readily shared its expert opinions on interrogation with military and intelligence forces around the world. In numerous cases both the CIA and the Defense Department have been implicated in the international dissemination of torture and other political terror tactics. The tricks of the trade were often exported to governments who turned the brutal methods against their own civilians. U.S. involvement in this terror trade has been so widespread that its effects can accurately be described as global in scope.” Jon Elliston   (3)

“many, including me, would choose a beating. The effects of most beatings heal. The memory of an execution (mock execution) will haunt someone for a very long time and damage his or her psyche in ways that may never heal. In my view, to make someone believe that you are killing him by drowning is no different than holding a pistol to his head and firing a blank. I believe that it is torture, very exquisite torture.”  Senator John McCain  (4)

"Somewhere in the upper reaches of this Administration, a process was set in motion that rolled forward until it produced scandalous results," said Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) yesterday, referring to the shifting government policy on torture. "We may never know the full story, because the Administration has circled the wagons and stonewalled on requests for information. What little we know we owe to leaks, to the initiative of the press, to international human rights organizations, and to a few internal Defense Department investigations, and to Freedom of Information Act litigation." Senator Patrick Leahy   (5)

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called the culture of secrecy "a belief system . . . a way of life" that blurs judgment. By increasing the scope for discretionary judgment, secrecy enhances the rule of man and subverts the rule of law. With the facts hidden, the administration can and does define reality as it sees fit. The White House believes that the president has a "blank check" in the war on terror and is effectively above the law.” Joe Pitts   (6)

"... the 1995 Hearing of the President's Committee on Radiation, and they say "In the 1950's and 60's the CIA engaged in an extensive program of human experimentation using drugs, pychological, and other means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counter intelligence and covert action purposes." In other words, they are training agents, it says here, by using mind control on them... a 1963 CIA Inspector General's report on project MKULTRA which was "a program concerned with research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of deployment in clandestine (secret) operations to control human behavior." John Rappoport  (7)
 
 

          The Radioactive Cereal Principle first appeared in my notes about a year ago as a paper to be written at this time. If unsuccessful, then this is to try to put things now in a better perspective without saying too much now. Enough has been written already in my papers and the notes (now hopefully widely propagated) that many could put the pieces together if I am not allowed to speak for myself or become timely incommunicative.

           The Radioactive Cereal Principle is not about the actual secrets but the effect they have upon society, the covering of them up. Not only does that give societies a dishonest, schizophrenic, and ultimately false view of themselves and what they do, it spreads like a cancer unseen and ultimately kills, corrupts, and destroys people's lives, all in secret, and with a public forever free to smile in ignorance of what is done, supposedly for their benefit, but since they will never know or hear about any of it, for whoever wants to or is in a position from benefiting from secret money, secret programs, and untold methods of coercion inevitably targeted back upon their own representatives and republics, and on the blissfully clueless citizens themselves.

           The title comes from the programs made public by the Clinton Administration (1995 Hearings of the President's Committee on Radiation)(7) on how the government secretly gave doses of radiation to children, pregnant women, and others without their knowledge or consent, knowing of potential dangers but justifying it in the name of medical research and national security. National security is a mantra which can and has covered up far worse things than just putting poison in children's cereal. It is a blanket excuse to do anything you want to anyone you wish if you have the right job, because no one is ever suppose to know about it, and you are told, you are free from having to worry about any consequences from the public because none of them ever will.

           But now I am talking also about the collateral damage, not the ones who suffered because the government did something so reprehensible, it could not tolerate (or survive the public's outrage) people finding out about what they did to them, but what it does to those unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time to put together too many of the pieces, and being questionably too high-minded (read unpredictable) to be bought off or kept silent.

           In doing a search on the Internet for the above quotes (searching radioactive cereal), I came across the story of Carol Rutz.(2) Many of her claims seem too fantastic, too much to believe that it could ever get that far out of control, yet for those willing to put aside their patriotic unthinking cap momentarily, if not having happened to her, there is ample evidence similar things did happen in government sanctioned secrecy to other children.

           It was either President Ford or Carter who publicly announced in the mid-1970's that the government would from that day forward no longer be prostituting children to foreign diplomats or businessmen they wanted to impress or buy strategic influence with them or their countries, all in the name of national security, thus admitting that the CIA had been prostituting someone's children, and the MKULTRA program by its later names would make sense to have been involved. Again, they had to come from somewhere. TIME Magazine ran a good article mentioning the implications, but that the US government itself could be the beneficiary, promoter, instigator, and sole operator of what could only be called a network of child sexual slavery as recently as less than 30 years ago never really seeped into the public's awareness, nor was it suppose to. Oh yeah, we did that, talk about something else now.

           There were allegations made that it came undone because local law enforcement investigating that a child prostitution ring operating out of the D.C. area, with links to other cities, did not like being told that this was off limits for them to look into. Those who ignored the warnings not to pursue it, finding out it was in fact the US government itself running the operations, they were not in a good position. People were fired, set up to be arrested, drugged and sent to mental hospitals, possibly even killed, just for doing what they were supposed to be doing, just not supposedly, in this instance, succeed at. At a certain point, it must have reached a critical mass where it could no longer be covered up, or the cost of all those counter-operations to ensure the main operation succeeded in running with impunity and under total secrecy would continue.

           The risk for knowing something like this, that your government intentionally poisoned kids, pimped kids to rich foreign diplomats, businessmen, or kings, or other similar things, and might not wish to forever hold your peace about it, you would automatically be considered an enemy of the state, no matter how law-abiding, God-fearing, flag-worshipping true patriot you otherwise might have been considered up until that point. From that moment on, you would simply forever, and not for long, from that point on simply be in the way, an error about to be corrected.

           The Radioactive Cereal Principle does not involve me. I am smart enough to generally steer clear of not coming across what I am not suppose to know about and try to stay in the dark about my government's doings as much as most people. However, some are unfortunately not able to avoid the potential effects because you can never tell exactly how they will break. Theoretically for every new action (crime) taken to cover up one crime which the government should never have committed, that new action itself needs to be covered up. Eventually like in the D.C. case, one would think the cost of keeping things covered up would some day finally get too high, potentially thousands of new instances (crimes) to cover up all related to keeping one thing quiet which should never have occurred, and all those new cases being covered up solely because of how easily avoidable and far less damaging it would have been to have come clean about it in the first place, not that any involved would ever have to worry about jail, they are above that, though they might lose the promotions they covet.

           Though I may be on the outside as far as any specific cases needing to be currently covered-up, potentially no one is outside the scope of the criss-crossing webs and cover-ups which are both new and old. The United States has one again sunk as low as it is possible to go, what US Vice-President Dick Cheney called going to the dark side. The new skeletons they are exponentially adding to the already overflowing closet is causing the old ones to have to move out.

           The abuses of authority due to what the administration now regards it can keep secret in perpetuity has led to an arrogance greater than that which destroyed Rome. President Bush has by executive order tried to give ex- and future ex-Presidents, namely himself, the power to keep things secret indefinitely as long as he is alive and so chooses, to the degree that a sitting President now has, so he will never have to face up to revelations about his own mistakes or horrific abuses equally as bad or worse than those under MKULTRA while on his watch. Even Putin is still working out how to give himself THAT much power after leaving office. Though I cannot name any specific cases, and given the abuses already made public thus far, the public has become immune to hearing them anyway in those becoming rarer instances the US media acknowledges by reporting on them (omitted from US news: (8) The recent charges by the Pro-American Pro-occupation Iraq government that the US used chemical weapons with heavy causalities and women and children dying horrifically as the their bodies were dissolved away spreading of the chemicals eating into their flesh under their clothes and turning them into leather like corpses wearing clothes, burned alive and watching it spread on them unable to stop it. And these charges were not made by biased against us enemies but by those who want us there, but to stop doing that sort of thing. This was not deemed newsworthy for Americans to hear (8) that our government was caught doing the same kind of things we call War Crimes or Crimes Against Humanity when other countries do them or Saddam Hussain did it. Without our public's hearing about it, our hands are thought to remain clean.) If not for the shroud of protection from the Radioactive Cereal Principle, there is little doubt now Bush would have gone out of the history books the same way as Hitler, by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

           While claiming the US does not stand for torture, Bush has just now openly said anyone who would speak out in favor of limiting his ability to order the torture of others as "unpatriotic". He has also recently warned others not to try to "revise history" on the reasons we went to war with Iraq when it has been proven that he was lying. Don't try to effect an established lie by trying to bring in, let out, or try to find the truth, he says. He thinks he has the power to create reality, and the power given to him by the media fondling and dependable as clockwork cover-ups gives him due reason to be delusional.

           Whereas the United States used to have a representative list of which countries respected human rights and which were abusers, we now have a hypocritical list that many to most nations would say we belong at the top of as the worst abuser. Bush has almost openly yet coyly bragged about how will stop at nothing, even torture, and the press has been complicit by hardly raising an objection to the official state-line insanity. Overseas, we have pressured other countries to curtail civil rights, even encouraged martial law and the suspension of legal processes, almost worldwide, in the name of the War on Terror.

           Even while fostering an anything goes policy within the CIA, the administration has shown itself willing to try to force reports to be doctored to its political objectives, ignored anything they do not wish to hear, been arrested for divulging state secrets to score political points, and creates fall guys (to be well-rewarded later) to tell them the lies they want to hear to justify wars of aggression and profiteering. Anyone who has studied the fall of the USSR like I have can tell you, it was the same atmosphere of invulnerability and willingness to ignore legitimate intelligence over what it only wished to hear and be told which caused it to collapse.

           America has in less than 4 years gone from being a country respected and admired all over the world, even among Islamic nations and peoples, to a country reviled and thought to be the greatest enemy or threat to peace and stability in the World, and that is just among our friends and allies publics! The rest REALLY hate us now. Bush has purposely played the part of a firebug to start incendiary policies bound to exacerbate tensions and problems around the World so he can portray himself as a hero for standing up to them. Milosovich comes to mind as having played the same game, much to his country's detriment.

           Believe it or not, I saw and still see getting out as my best chance to help. The shit is about to hit the fan bigtime as far as world peace goes, if not this year, then the next, or within the next few years. A void is growing and a polarization against both the US and World institutions has never greater threatened America and its interests, and it is all being self-inflicted. The world needs America more than it realizes, but the America it needs needs to get its shit together, and soon, or both America and the world will have lost the best chance at long-term stability in exchange for a few hundred extra billions of dollars of short-term profits.

           If I am wrong, if I am not so far removed from the Radioactive Cereal Principle as I thought, then I shall soon find that out. Chances are good from my perspective then it might be that I was borne too close to the center and may have been in a hopeless position from the start. Still, I am what my country made me and luck willing and with a little foresight, our courses will converge again on safer and higher ground.
 
 

1) 2005 Whitehead John W.  2005/05/18  A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People: An interview with Carol Rutz :
http://www.rutherford.org/oldspeak/articles/interview/Rutz.html

2) 2005 Whitehead John W.  2005/05/18  A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People: An interview with Carol Rutz : 
http://www.rutherford.org/oldspeak/articles/interview/Rutz.html

3) 1999 Elliston Jon  1999/ 03  THE CIA AND TORTURE ON THE RECORD, PART 2 : 
http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/99-03%20SPR/thecia.html

4) 2005 McCain, John 2005/11/13 Torture's Terrible Toll : 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10019179/site/newsweek/

5) 2005  SECRECY NEWS 2005/02/03 SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on 
Government Secrecy Volume 2005, Issue No. 13
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2005/02/020305.html

6) 2005 Pitts, Joe W.  2005/10/01  SECRETS, LIES & TORTURE : President Bush's Penchant for Secrecy Is Moving Us Toward a Closed Society 
http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20051001secrets_2.cfm

7) 200? Rappoport, John, The CIA, Mind Control, & Children, CKLN-FM Mind Control Series -- Part 10, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, CA

8) The day after I first wrote this, the Pentagon came clean about it and admitted to using White Phospherous in battle against combatents in Iraq despite earlier denials by the State Department. While still claiming it is not illegal to do so, and technically not a chemical weapon (unless intentionally used against people as a weapon) because the US does not consider it a chemical weapon as many other nations do. While I applaud any admittance of past mistakes, which is after all the whole point of this paper, that the lies and cover-ups do far more damage in the long run, the US continues to state the obvious and not have it challenged or followed up by the press. We do not intentionally target civilians. No shit, but that does not mean they are not using it on civilians inadvertantly. Chemical weapons are killer clouds. They are not responsible for which way the wind blows, except politically speaking, which is all politicians seem to care about. Still, my hat is off to the Pentagon in this instance, and I am hopeful the Bush/Press disinformation wall is cracking, but not because of the American Press, which did not even consider it a valid story despite overwhelming evidence until the Pentagon itself admitted to doing it. Maybe since Brian Williams (9) does not think the government secretly bribing the press to run favorable stories is not against the rules, maybe paying them not to run stories they don't like will be fair game also one day, if not already.

9) 2005, Media Matters, 2005/12/05   NBC anchor Williams: Bush administration has "right" to buy media coverage    http://mediamatters.org/items/200512050010 
 

Lots of little references in this were to things that would come later in Part 2. I actually was able to get further than I thought I might when I first wrote this. It was the most I could say at that time, but knew what I wanted to write later if I did get the chance and still had the courage. I do know the American spelling of Birth.;-)