JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:39 PM Pacific Time USA Monday 14 July 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/07/and-it-was-called-yellow.html
And I still have the ribbons to prove it, I wrote in that email I sent to the White House from where I was living at the Crossland on Sprague back in the summer of the year 2004.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 27, 2006
That must be why I declared in protest that time that I, thinking of myself still as Kerry Burgess, had been out fighting against terroristic actions when George W. was still driving around drunk here in the U.S.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Captain, have you ever seen|this gentleman before?
No, sir.
Met the general or myself?
No, sir.
Not personally.
You've worked a lot|on your own?
Yes, sir, I have.
Your report specifies|intelligence with Com-Sec.
I'm not disposed to|discuss those operations.
Did you not work|for the CIA and I Corps?
No, sir.
Did you not assassinate
a government|tax collector,
Quang Tri province,|June 18, 1968?
Captain?
Sir, I'm unaware of
any such activity|or operation...
nor would I be disposed
to discuss|such an operation
if it did|in fact exist, sir.
I thought we'd have lunch|while we talk.
I hope you brought|a good appetite, Captain.
I noticed that you|have a bad hand there.
Are you wounded?
A little|fishing accident
on R and R, sir.
Fishing on R and R?
Yes, sir.
But you're|ready for duty?
Yes, General.
Very much so, sir.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/14/obituaries/col-charlie-beckwith-65-dies-led-failed-rescue-effort-in-iran.html
The New York Times
Col. Charlie Beckwith, 65, Dies; Led Failed Rescue Effort in Iran
During his time in Vietnam, he impressed his colleagues with his aggressiveness, single-mindedness and his greater interest in duty than in obtaining promotion. They nicknamed him "Chargin' Charlie."
"A lot of guys went to Vietnam just to get their ticket punched, but I only knew 10 or 12 who were 'certified' -- who were really going after it,"
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/24/08 11:21 PM
The Microsoft-Corbis-Al Qaeda continue to plot to disrupt my life and to destroy everything I have worked for and sacrificed for.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/23/08 11:26 PM
I think it was last night that I had a clear dream where I was looking at a wound on my skin that I think is related to what I was writing about cover story for bullet wounds. It was as though I heard someone saying something to me about what the wound was, or at least, what I had said the wound was. As in other dreams, I never know where is that person that is saying something to me in the dream and I don't think it is always the same person.
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The Walking Dead
Days Gone Bye
Episode 101 [ Sunday 31 October 2010 ]
Duane: Daddy, I got this sumbitch. I'm gonna smack him dead.
Morgan, Duane's father, runs over and shoots the other man in the street in the head.
Morgan: He say something? I thought I heard him say something.
Duane: He called me Carl.
Morgan: Son, you know they don't talk.
Morgan notices the bandage.
Morgan: Hey, mister! What's that bandage for?
Rick: What?
Morgan: What kind of wound? You answer me, damn you! What's your wound?
Rick doesn't respond.
Morgan: You tell me! Or I will kill you.
Rick passes out.
Bedroom - House
Rick wakes up in a house and sees Duane with a baseball bat.
Morgan: Got that bandage changed out. It was pretty rank. What was? The wound?
Rick: Gun shot.
Morgan: Gun shot? What else? Anything?
Rick: Gun shot ain't enough?
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George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Statement on Congressional Action on Intelligence Reform Legislation
January 24, 2008
Last August, Congress passed the Protect America Act, which updated our foreign intelligence surveillance law to adapt to today's technology and to meet today's threats. This bipartisan legislation has aided our efforts to monitor the communications of terrorists and other foreign intelligence targets.
Unfortunately, Congress set this legislation to expire on February 1st. That is just 8 days from today, yet the threat from Al Qaida will not expire in 8 days.
If Congress does not act quickly, our national security professionals will not be able to count on critical tools they need to protect our Nation, and our ability to respond quickly to new threats and circumstances will be weakened. That means it will become harder to figure out what our enemies are doing to recruit terrorists and infiltrate them into our country.
Last fall, the Senate Intelligence Committee completed its work on a bipartisan bill to modernize our foreign intelligence surveillance law. I commend Senators Rockefeller and Bond, the committee's chairman and vice chairman, for leading the effort to complete work on this bill.
The Senate Intelligence Committee's bill contains many provisions that our intelligence officials say they need to protect our country. The bill would maintain the vital flow of intelligence on terrorist threats. It would protect the freedoms of Americans while making sure we do not extend those same protections to terrorists overseas. And it would provide liability protection to companies now facing billion-dollar lawsuits only because they are believed to have assisted in efforts to defend our Nation following the 9/11 attacks.
This bill still needs some changes, but I am optimistic that with good will on both sides, we can make those changes quickly. So I ask congressional leaders to follow the course set by their colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee, bring this legislation to a prompt vote in both houses, and send me a bill that I can sign before the Protect America Act expires on February 1st.
Congress's action—or lack of action—on this important issue will directly affect our ability to keep Americans safe.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/18/rumsfeld/
CNN
Bush: 'I'm the decider' on Rumsfeld
Defense secretary: Changes in military meet resistance
Tuesday, April 18, 2006; Posted: 10:30 p.m. EDT (02:30 GMT)
From 1/22/1929 ( Charles Alvin Beckwith ) To 1/24/2008 is 28856 days
28856 = 14428 + 14428
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) is 14428 days
From 10/3/1993 ( the Battle of Mogadishu Somalia begins with my personal participation United States of America Delta Force operation and as Kerry Burgess the US Marine Corps captain this day is my US Silver Star date of record ) To 1/24/2008 is 5226 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/23/1980 ( Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages ) is 5226 days
From 9/4/1976 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States arrested again by police in the United States ) To 1/24/2008 is 11464 days
11464 = 5732 + 5732
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/13/1981 ( Ronald Reagan - Executive Order 12313—Specification of Hostage Return Date Under Hostage Relief Act of 1980 ) is 5732 days
From 9/4/1976 ( the unpublished true birthdate of Beyonce Knowles ) To 1/24/2008 is 11464 days
11464 = 5732 + 5732
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/13/1981 ( Ronald Reagan - Executive Order 12313—Specification of Hostage Return Date Under Hostage Relief Act of 1980 ) is 5732 days
From 8/28/1954 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Proclamation 3065—First International Instrument Congress and Exposition ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 15423 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/24/2008 is 15423 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 1/24/2008 is 6158 days
6158 = 3079 + 3079
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/8/1974 ( premiere US film "Lost in the Stars" ) is 3079 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 1/24/2008 is 6216 days
6216 = 3108 + 3108
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/7/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks on Signing the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 ) is 3108 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 1/24/2008 is 6216 days
6216 = 3108 + 3108
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/7/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks on Signing the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 ) is 3108 days
From 8/25/1957 ( premiere US film "From Hell It Came" ) To 1/24/2008 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 8/25/1957 ( premiere US film "From Hell It Came" ) To 1/24/2008 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 10/20/1949 ( premiere US film "Prison Warden" ) To 1/24/2008 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 1/24/2008 is 5874 days
5874 = 2937 + 2937
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/17/1973 ( Richard Nixon - Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Orlando, Florida ) is 2937 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 1/24/2008 is 5874 days
5874 = 2937 + 2937
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/17/1973 ( premiere US TV movie "The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping" ) is 2937 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 1/24/2008 is 5874 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/2/1981 ( Britney Spears ) is 5874 days
From 12/27/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Ring-A-Ding Girl" ) To 3/19/2006 is 15423 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/24/2008 is 15423 days
From 3/19/2006 To 1/24/2008 is 676 days
676 = 338 + 338
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/6/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Enemy Within" ) is 338 days
From 3/23/1963 ( John Kennedy - Remarks in Chicago at the Dedication of O'Hare International Airport ) To 6/13/2005 ( in the dark of night the sudden expiration of Kerry Burgess 1994-B ) is 15423 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/24/2008 is 15423 days
From 8/23/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Proclamation 3365—Modification of Trade Agreement Concessions on Cotton Typewriter-Ribbon Cloth ) To 1/24/2008 is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 8660 days
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) To 1/24/2008 is 5740 days
5740 = 2870 + 2870
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/11/1973 ( Henry Smolinski killed during test flight of his AVE Miza flying car ) is 2870 days
From 10/3/1948 ( premiere US TV series "Welcome Aboard" ) To 1/24/2008 is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 10831 days
From 7/26/1947 ( the United States National Security Act of 1947 ) To 10/16/1989 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"Who Watches the Watchers" ) is 15423 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/24/2008 is 15423 days
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 1/24/2008 is 12577 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/9/2000 ( premiere US TV movie "Fail Safe" ) is 12577 days
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George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks Following a Meeting With Elsa Morejon
January 24, 2008
The President. A while ago I had the honor of presenting the National Medal of Freedom to a patriot of Cuba and a lover of liberty, Oscar Biscet. He was not able to receive the award because he's in a Cuban prison for speaking out on behalf of human rights and human dignity. Today his wife Elsa Morejon is here. She has taken some time from Cuba to come to the United States to visit her son. She came up to the Oval Office to see me, and I'm most honored and most grateful.
We have a comfortable life here in America by and large, and it's hard for us to imagine what it would be like for— to live in a society as repressive as the society of Fidel and Raul Castro. This good woman has had to suffer through days and weeks of deprivation and worry because the love of her life is in a Cuban prison simply because of his beliefs. It's my honor to welcome you here.
My call is for the world to help women such as Elsa. My call is for those who believe that the Cuba of today is a hopeful place to recognize the realities. This is a country that has got political prisoners who are languishing in the jails, who are mistreated in the jails. Our message is, is that political prisoners ought to be free and so should the Cuban people, free to express themselves and free to realize their God-given talents. So I want to welcome you. Que Dios le bendiga.
Ms. Morejon. My name is Elsa Morejon. I'm a Cuban woman. I've come here to the United States to visit my son. My husband has spent most of his youth and is now sentenced to 25 more years in jail for defending human rights and for defending civil liberties. He has devoted his life to the cause of defending human rights in Cuba and throughout the world. We do not live in a free country, and I must now return to Cuba.
I want to thank President Bush for inviting me to this meeting today. And I would like to speak to the international community and exhort them to work for the release of all political prisoners, along with my husband, to obtain their immediate and unconditional release from Cuban prisons.
The President. Thank you.
Ms. Morejon. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 3 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Yan Valdes Morejon, son of Elsa Morejon; and President Fidel Castro Ruz and Vice President Raul Castro Ruz of Cuba. Ms. Morejon spoke in Spanish, and her remarks were translated by an interpreter.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
COCHRANE: Go home.
LILY: You're gonna regret this tomorrow.
COCHRANE: Well, what I think you should have learned about me by now is that I don't have regrets. ...Come on, Lily, one more round.
LILY: Z, you've had enough. I'm not going up in that thing with a drunken pilot.
COCHRANE: But I sure as hell's not going up there sober.
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DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF THE SPECIAL FORCES REGIMENT
COLONEL CHARLES A. BECKWITH
Inducted 9 August 2012
Col. Charles A. Beckwith, known as “Chargin’ Charlie,” was born Jan. 22, 1929 in Atlanta, Ga. He played football for the University of Georgia and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers; however, he turned down their offer to serve in the U.S. Army, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1952.
In 1958, Beckwith volunteered for Special Forces and was assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, N.C. In 1960, then-Capt. Beckwith deployed to Laos for two years on Operation Hotfoot, with the White Star organization. The covert White Star teams operated against the Pathet Lao and harassed the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
In 1962, Beckwith was sent from 7th SFG(A) as the exchange officer to the British 22nd Special Air Service, where he commanded 3 Troop, A Squadron. It was during this tour, which included the conduct of counterinsurgency operations in Malaya with the British SAS, that Beckwith conceived, forged and developed his concept for an SAS-type unit in the United States.
Returning to 7th SFG(A) in 1963, Capt. Beckwith was selected to serve as a battalion and then the group operations officer. In 1965, Beckwith volunteered to return to Vietnam, where he was hand-picked to command the high-priority Special Forces unit code-named Project Delta (Operational Detachment B-52). He used his experience with the 22 SAS to test and select the right men to conduct long-range reconnaissance in South Vietnam. Following his promotion to major, Beckwith led B-52 in the rescue of the besieged Special Forces camp at Plei Me, under the most arduous combat conditions.
He was critically wounded in early 1966 (shot through his abdomen with a .50 caliber bullet). His wounds were so bad that medical personnel initially triaged him as beyond help. Recovering completely, he took over the Florida Phase of the U.S. Army’s Ranger School, transforming it from a scripted exercise based upon the Army’s World War II experience into a Vietnam-oriented training regimen.
In 1968, following the Tet Offensive, then-Lt. Col. Beckwith returned to Vietnam, taking command of the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry (Airborne), 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. For the nine months that he commanded 2-327 (“No Slack”), they saw many successes in combat operations, including: Hu, Operation Mingo, Operation Jeb Stuart, Operation Nevada Eagle and Somerset Plain (sweeping the southern portion of the A Shau Valley).
From 1973 to 1974, Lt. Col. Beckwith served as commander, Control Team “B” with the Joint Casualty Resolution Center located in Thailand. JCRC’s sole mission was to assist the Secretaries of the Armed Services to resolve the fate of servicemen still missing and unaccounted for as a result of the hostilities throughout Indochina. He was promoted to colonel, and in 1975 returned to Fort Bragg as the Commandant of the U.S. Army Special Warfare School.
As the threat of international terrorism increased, Beckwith was chosen to form the SAS- type unit he had promoted for several years. 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta was founded in November 1977 as a counterterrorist unit whose main missions were hostage rescue and specialized reconnaissance. As the ground force commander, Col. Beckwith led Delta on its first mission to Iran to rescue 54 American hostages. Later, the Joint Special Operations Command was formed, directly based on Beckwith’s recommendations during Senate investigations on the failed Iran mission to rescue hostages. Col. Beckwith retired in 1981 and formed a consulting agency based in Austin, Texas.
His awards and decorations include: the Distinguished Service Cross; Silver Star Medal (2 awards); Legion of Merit; Bronze Star Medal; Purple Heart Medal; Combat Infantryman Badge; Special Forces Tab; and Ranger Tab.
He died of natural causes on June 13, 1994, and his remains are interred in the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas. Beckwith was married to Katherine Beckwith, and they had three daughters. Col. Beckwith’s contributions and leadership remain legendary as part of our Special Forces history and lore, including his conceptualization of the current selection and qualification courses and standards used by U.S. Special Forces today.
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1980
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the year 1980.
February 23 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
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Iran: Country Study Guide
By International Business Publications, USA.
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Iran Chamber Society
History of Iran
Iran after the victory of 1979's Revolution
The crisis was exacerbating relations with the United States and West European countries. President Carter had ordered several billion dollars of Iranian assets held by American banks in the United States and abroad to be frozen. Bani Sadr's various attempts to resolve the crisis proved abortive. He arranged for the UN secretary general to appoint a commission to investigate Iranian grievances against the United States, with the understanding that the hostages would be turned over to the Revolutionary Council as a preliminary step to their final release. The plan broke down when, on February 23, 1980, the eve of the commission's arrival in Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini declared that only the Majlis, whose election was still several months away, could decide the fate of the hostages.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953 - 1961
Proclamation 3065—First International Instrument Congress and Exposition
August 28, 1954
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition is to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to 25, 1954, inclusive, for the purpose of exhibiting various kinds of scientific instruments and devices and the promotion of foreign and domestic trade and commerce in such products; and
Whereas the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 28, 1954, authorized the President of the United States of America, by proclamation or in such other manner as he may deem proper, to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in such International Congress and Exposition; and
Whereas the participation by the States of the Union and foreign countries in the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition will advance the arts and sciences connected with the theory, design, manufacture, and use of instruments in the various sciences and technologies, and further foreign and domestic commerce in these articles:
Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite the States of the Union and all countries of the free world to participate in the First International Instrument Congress to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to September 25, 1954, inclusive.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
By the President:
WALTER B. SMITH,
Acting Secretary of State
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/11/star-trek-first-contact-1996.html ]
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HISTORY
APRIL 08, 1974 : AARON SETS NEW HOME RUN RECORD
On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to cheer when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Al Downing. However, as Aaron was an African American who had received death threats and racist hate mail during his pursuit of one of baseball’s most distinguished records, the achievement was bittersweet.
Henry Louis Aaron Jr., born in Mobile, Alabama, on February 5, 1934, made his Major League debut in 1954 with the Milwaukee Braves, just eight years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier and became the first African American to play in the majors. Aaron, known as hard working and quiet, was the last Negro league player to also compete in the Major Leagues. In 1957, with characteristically little fanfare, Aaron, who primarily played right field, was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player as the Milwaukee Braves won the pennant. A few weeks later, his three home runs in the World Series helped his team triumph over the heavily favored New York Yankees. Although “Hammerin’ Hank” specialized in home runs, he was also an extremely dependable batter, and by the end of his career he held baseball’s career record for most runs batted in: 2,297.
Aaron’s playing career spanned three teams and 23 years. He was with the Milwaukee Braves from 1954 to 1965, the Atlanta Braves from 1966 to 1974 and the Milwaukee Brewers from 1975 to 1976. He hung up his cleats in 1976 with 755 career home runs and went on to become one of baseball’s first African-American executives, with the Atlanta Braves, and a leading spokesperson for minority hiring. Hank Aaron was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
334 - Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Orlando, Florida
November 17, 1973
THE PRESIDENT.
And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.
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The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping (TV 1973)
Lee Majors ... Col. Steve Austin
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of their kidnappings, he is unable to stop them from grabbing William Henry Cameron right from under OSI's nose. OSO demands one million dollars in gold and Oscar Goldman takes the opportunity to try and lure them out into the open. Meanwhile, Steve accompanies Dr. Erica Bergner, who is testing a new method of brain transferal in order to find out where Cameron is being kept.
Release Date: 17 November 1973 (USA)
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Britney Spears
Biography
Date of Birth 2 December 1981, McComb, Mississippi, USA
Birth Name Britney Jean Spears
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 2:28 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Sleep journal 3/19/06
Yesterday was some kind of foreign dream that was more of an emotion than a visualization. I couldn't remember any of the details although I felt like I had been seeing details. All I remembered was feeling like it was something intense, there was some intensity to the communication, almost overwhelming like a very strong and clear signal on a radio. After I woke up, I could only characterize the message as positive.
Today the first foreign dream wasn't too clear either. It had something to do with me, someother characters, and something about the stars. We were under the stars, or we were talking to the stars. I can visualize the sky with the stars but they may have also been a metaphor for people. Then I left somewhere and there was something about a goose, not sure what that meant, maybe something to do with staying meant something about a cooked goose.
The second foreign dream had a lot of detail. I was sitting on a bus with someone that I knew but I don't know who it was. It may have been Britney Spears but that makes no sense. I was sitting next to her and she was someone that I had lived with before, someone I had a relationship with, like a girlfriend. I was getting off the bus to a place I was staying that I don't recognize from anyplace I've been in real life. She asked me if I was really staying there, she may have commented that it was amazing I was staying there, or someone else said that. Apparently, it was the same place she and I had lived during our relationship. It was some kind of little travel trailer. A young woman was letting me stay there. I was taking up a little open seat or bench in a hallway of the trailer. I had a little storage bin to put my stuff in.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 March 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/ring-a-ding-girl-12718/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 13
Ring-A-Ding Girl
Aired Unknown Dec 27, 1963 on CBS
AIRED: 12/27/63
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The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 13
Ring-A-Ding Girl
Aired Unknown Dec 27, 1963 on CBS
QUOTES
(Opening Narration)
Narrator: Introduction to Bunny Blake. Occupation: film actress. Residence: Hollywood, California, or anywhere in the world that cameras happen to be grinding. Bunny Blake is a public figure; what she wears, eats, thinks, says is news. But underneath the glamor, the makeup, the publicity, the build-up, the costuming, is a flesh-and-blood person, a beautiful girl about to take a long and bizarre journey into the Twilight Zone.
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Star Trek Season 1 Episode 5
The Enemy Within
Aired Unknown Oct 06, 1966 on NBC
AIRED: 10/6/66
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/5.htm
The Enemy WIthin [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 1672.1
Original Airdate: Oct 6, 1966
MCCOY: You have your intellect, Jim. You can fight with that!
KIRK: For how long?
SPOCK: If I seem insensitive to what you're going through, Captain, understand it's the way I am.
SCOTT [OC]: Captain Kirk.
KIRK: Kirk here.
SCOTT [OC]: Mister Scott, sir, on the lower level of the Engineering deck.
[Engineering]
SCOTT: I've found a new trouble with the transporter. The casing has a wide gap ripped in it. (the phaser damage) The main circuits
[Sickbay]
SCOTT [OC]: have been burned through. The abort control circuit is gone altogether.
[Planet surface]
SULU: Can you give us a status report, Captain? Temperature's still dropping. Now forty one degrees below zero.
KIRK [OC]: We've located the trouble. It shouldn't be much longer.
SULU: Do you think you might be able to find a long rope somewhere and lower us down a pot of hot coffee?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a10478/the-final-flight-of-united-232-16755928/
Popular Mechanics
By Laurence Gonzales May 5, 2014
There was a festive atmosphere in first class that day, July 19, 1989, on United Flight 232.
THE WAY DOWN
On July 19, 1989, United Flight 232 was about an hour out of Denver en route to Chicago when the engine in the tail of the DC-10 blew, destroying the three hydraulic systems pilots use to move flight control surfaces and steer the plane. As the airliner descended in looping circles, the crew tried heroically to make an emergency landing at the Sioux City, Iowa, airport by using only the thrust of the remaining two engines to control the aircraft.
3:14 pm At an altitude of 37,000 feet, the plane begins a right turn over Iowa, on a heading for Chicago.
3:16 Engine No. 2 explodes
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=107353
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953 - 1961
Proclamation 3365—Modification of Trade Agreement Concessions on Cotton Typewriter-Ribbon Cloth
August 23, 1960
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), the President on October 30, 1947, entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including a schedule of United States concessions (hereinafter referred to as Schedule XX-1947) and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with a Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6) A7, All, and A2051), and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out such trade agreement, and that proclamation was amended by Proclamation No. 2790 of June 11, 1948 (62 Stat. (pt. 2) 1515);
2. Whereas such General Agreement has been supplemented by an agreement consisting of the Protocol of Terms of Accession of Japan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade dated June 7, 1955 (6 UST (pt. 5) 5833), which includes a supplementary schedule of United States concessions (hereinafter referred to as Schedule XX1955), and the President, by Proclamation No. 3105 of July 22, 1955 (69 Stat. c44), proclaimed such modifications of existing duties as would be required or appropriate to carry out such supplemental agreement, and that proclamation was supplemented by a notification by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury dated August 22, 1955 (20 P.R. 6211);
3. Whereas United States tariff concessions on cotton cloth provided for in subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of Paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930 were granted in the trade agreements referred to in the first and second recitals of this proclamation, as set forth in items 904(a) (first and second], 904 (b), and 904(c) in Part I of the said Schedule Iii-1947 and in Part I of the said Schedule Iii-1955;
4. Whereas the current United States duties applicable to "cotton cloth suitable for making typewriter ribbon, classifiable under subparagraph (a), (b), or (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds No. 50 but not No. 140, the total thread count of which per square inch (counting warp and Ailing), is not lees than 240 and not more than 840, and in which the thread count of either the warp or filling does not exceed 60 percent of the total thread count of the warp and filling" (hereinafter sometimes referred to as cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth) reflect the tariff concessions granted in items 904(a) [first and second], 904(b), and 904(c) referred to in the third recital of this proclamation;
5. Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, the President on January 9, 1936, entered into a trade agreement with the Swiss Federal Council (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3918), and by proclamation of January 9, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3917), proclaimed such agreement, and that proclamation has been supplemented by a proclamation of May 7, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3959), and a proclamation of November 28, 1940 (54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2461);
6. Whereas item 904(b) (c) in the United States schedule of tariff concessions included in the trade agreement referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation includes a tariff concession on certain cotton cloth provided for in subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930;
7. Whereas the United States has accepted the Declaration for Provisional Accession of the Swiss Confederation to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, done at Geneva November 22, 1958 (TIAS 4481), and the Government of the United States and the Government of the Swiss Confederation, by an Exchange of Notes signed March 29, 1960, relating to the said Declaration, entered into certain understandings with regard to the actions that may be taken pursuant to Article = of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the case of a product subject to a concession under the trade agreement referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation and also to a concession under such General Agreement (TIAS 4447);
8. Whereas the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me a report of its Investigation No. 7-85 under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1384), on the basis of which investigation, and a hearing held in connection therewith, the Commission has found that, as a result in part of the duties reflecting the concessions granted thereon in the trade agreements referred to in the first and second recitals of this proclamation, cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like products, and that in order to remedy such serious injury it is necessary to increase the duties on cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth to the rates originally established in subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930;
9. Whereas upon the modification of various items in Part I of Schedule XX-1947 and Part I of Schedule XX1955 as hereinafter proclaimed, the rates of duty on cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth originally established in subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930 will apply to such cloth:
Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, and in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, do proclaim that, effective after the close of business on September 22, 1980, and until the President otherwise proclaims'
A. Items 904(a) [first and second], 904 (b), and 904(c) in Part I of the said Schedule XX-1947 and item 904(a) [second] in Part I of the said Schedule XX1955, are modified by inserting in each such item, immediately after the matter in the column headed "Description of Products," the following:
"Provided, that this item shall not apply to cotton cloth suitable for making typewriter ribbon, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds No. 50 but not No. 140, the total thread count (treating ply yarns as single threads) of which per square inch, counting warp and filling, is not less than 240 and not more than 840, and in which the thread count of either the warp or filling does not exceed 60 per centum of the total thread count of the warp and filling."
B. Items 904(a) [first], 904(b), and 904(c) in Part I of Schedule XX-1955 are modified by inserting in each such item, immediately after the matter in the column headed "Description of Products", the following:
"Provided, that this item shall not apply to cotton cloth suitable for making typewriter ribbon, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds No. 50, the total thread count (treating ply yarns as single threads) of which per square inch, counting warp and filling, is not less than 240 and not more than 840, and in which the thread count of either the warp or filling does not exceed SO per centum of the total thread count of the warp and filling."
C. The proclamations referred to in the first and second recitals of this proclamation shall be applied to items 904(a) [first and second], 904(b), and 904(c) in Part I of Schedule XX-1947 and in Part I of Schedule XX-1955 as modified by paragraphs (A) and (B) of this proclamation.
D. The proclamations referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation shall be suspended insofar as they apply to cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth included in item 904(b) (c) of Schedule II of the trade agreement referred to in such recital.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-third day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fifth.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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AIR & SPACE Smithsonian
Oldies and Oddities: A Different Kind of Hybrid
By Peter Garrison
AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE
JULY 2010
In the early 1970s, Henry Smolinski, a California engineer formerly employed by North American Aviation and Rocketdyne, believed he had the solution to the intractable problem of how to combine an airplane and a car in a single vehicle.
Rather than start from scratch, he thought, why not take the wings, rear engine, and tail from a Cessna Skymaster and attach them to an existing car in such a way that they could be conveniently disconnected? The Skymaster, Cessna’s attempt at a twin that would be easy to control after an engine failure, had a high wing, engines at both ends of the fuselage, and tail surfaces supported on booms projecting aft from the wings. It seemed tailor-made for Smolinski’s scheme, as did the Ford Pinto, an inexpensive, low-slung compact that was lighter than most American cars.
With the irrational optimism that often afflicts great dreamers, Smolinski announced that his auto-plane hybrid, dubbed Mizar after a binary star in the Big Dipper, would be available in 1974 for under $30,000—less than the price of the airplane that had to be cut in two to make it. He arranged for the Mizar to be sold by a Sepulveda, California Ford dealership.
I was building an airplane at the time, and Smolinski sold me the Skymaster’s front engine to use in it, so I followed his progress, though with considerable skepticism. I heard he had obtained a larger, three-blade propeller for the remaining engine, which was having a hard time dealing with the weight of a complete car and three-quarters of an airplane. After some taxi tests at Van Nuys Airport, Smolinski and Harold Blake, his partner on the project, moved the Mizar to Ventura County Airport in Oxnard.
On September 6, 1973, I flew my airplane for the first time. The ex-front engine of Smolinski’s ex-Skymaster worked nicely.
Five days later, I learned that things had not gone so well for its sibling. As the Mizar climbed through 400 feet on a test flight, the strut securing the right wing had broken free from the Pinto. The wing went up and the rest went down, killing Smolinski and Blake. I heard a report that the strut had been attached to the sheet metal sill below the car’s door with cheap commercial blind rivets or sheet-metal screws, but it seems hard to believe that a professional engineer like Smolinski would use such inadequate fasteners. The National Transportation Safety Board’s report mentioned a bad weld, which is a little more plausible. Although the Mizar project, like most flying cars, seemed just a bit ridiculous, there was a grain of sense in it. The regulatory obstacles to an airplane-car hybrid are as formidable as the technical ones, and obtaining government approval for even conventional airplanes and cars is a long, costly process. It was logical to use already-approved components. Whether the hybrid could ever have obtained Federal Aviation Administration certification, however, is doubtful. Neither the car nor the airplane could have been used in their original configurations; the Cessna’s wing was not designed to support something as heavy as a Pinto, and the Pinto’s structure and controls did not lend themselves to convenient integration with an airplane. Smolinski must have hoped that a few successful flights would whip up additional investment so he could work out a happy marriage between two machines that were, in engineering terms, natural enemies.
Thirty years later, Smolinski might have found in a Smart Fortwo or in the original two-seat Honda Insight a more suitable mate for that cruelly amputated Skymaster.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991767,00.html
TIME
The 50 Worst Inventions
From the zany to the dangerous to the just plain dumb, here is TIME's list (in no particular order) of some of the world's bright ideas that just didn't work out
WORST INVENTIONS
Mizar Flying Car
By Dan Fletcher Thursday, May 27, 2010
The flying car isn't purely science fiction. In the 1940s, inventors managed to fly a car from California to Ohio, although the model never took off because of cost and technical limitations. But in 1973, an inventor named Henry Smolinski tried to succeed where others failed by strapping the wings and tail from a Cessna aircraft to, of all cars, a Ford Pinto. During a test flight in California, the Pinto broke free, plummeting to earth and killing Smolinski and his passenger. Some things are better left to the movies.
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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
NTSB Identification: LAX74FUQ18
14 CFR Part 91 General Aviation
Aircraft: A.V.E.MIZAR 210, registration: N68X
FILE 3-3128
DATE 73/9/11
LOCATION OXNARD,CALIF
AIRCRAFT A.V.E.MIZAR
DAMAGE-DESTROYED
TYPE OF ACCIDENT AIRFRAME FAILURE: IN FLIGHT
REMARKS- ACFT/PINTO CAR COMB.R WG STRUT ATTACH FITTING FAILED AT AUTO BODY PANEL.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
STS-49 Roll Out
Abstract: One step closer to its maiden voyage, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building, headed to Launch Pad 39B. Launched on May 7th 1992, the STS-49 mission was the first U.S. orbital flight to feature 4 extravehicular activities (EVAs), and the first flight to involve 3 crew members working simultaneously outside of the spacecraft. The primary objective was the capture and redeployment of the INTELSAT VI (F-3) which was stranded in an unusable orbit since its launch aboard the Titan rocket in March 1990.
Publication Date: May 07, 1992
NIX (Document) ID: MSFC-9255001 (Acquired Oct 12, 2007)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force
Delta Force
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), popularly known as Delta Force, is an elite special operations unit of the United States Army. It is used for hostage rescue and counterterrorism, as well as direct action and reconnaissance against high-value targets. Delta Force and its U.S. Navy counterpart, DEVGRU, (popularly referred to as 'SEAL Team Six'), are the United States military's primary counter-terrorism units and fall under the operational control of the Joint Special Operations Command.
Primarily recruiting from other U.S. Army special operations forces and military units, Delta Force, along with DEVGRU, perform many of the most highly complex and dangerous missions in the U.S. military, often highly classified as well. These units are also often referred to as special mission units by the U.S. government. The Central Intelligence Agency's highly secretive Special Activities Division (SAD) and more specifically its elite Special Operations Group (SOG), often works with – and recruits – operators from Delta Force.
Recruitment
Since the 1990s, the Army has posted recruitment notices for the 1st SFOD-D. The Army, however, has never released an official fact sheet for the elite force.
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NASA
STS-135
July 9, 2011
Ready for Launch
The STS-135 crew ride in the Astrovan to Launch Pad 39A to board space shuttle Atlantis on the morning of Friday, July 8. The launch of Atlantis on the STS-135 mission is the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program. Clockwise from the left are: Sandra Magnus, Rex Walheim, commander Chris Ferguson and pilot Doug Hurley. In the back of the van in white is a member of the closeout crew, whose members assist the astronauts with final preparations for launch.
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Welcome Aboard (TV Series)
Episode dated 3 October 1948 (1948)
Release Info
USA 3 October 1948
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2014/histint-the-national-security-act-of-1947.html
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Posted: Jul 24, 2014 11:10 AM
Last Updated: Jul 24, 2014 11:52 AM
#HISTINT: The National Security Act of 1947
On July 26, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 (P.L. 80-235, 61 Stat 496), which later became the charter of the U.S. national security establishment. The National Security Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of December 2004 significantly altered the National Security Act, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
This landmark legislation of 1947 reorganized and modernized the U.S. armed forces, foreign policy, and the Intelligence Community apparatus. It directed a major reorganization of the foreign policy and military establishments of the US government. It also created many of the institutions that U.S. presidents would find useful when formulating and implementing foreign policy, such as the National Security Council (NSC), the US Air Force, and the National Military Establishment(renamed the Department of Defense in 1949). In the intelligence field, the act ratified President Truman's creation (in 1946) of the post of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and transformed the Central Intelligence Group into the statutory Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the nation’s first peacetime intelligence agency.
The proposed act generated sharp debates in the Executive Branch and Congress. Several compromises were struck in order for it to win passage. These compromises would have far-reaching implications for the Intelligence Community.
Once passed, the National Security Act established:
that CIA would be an independent agency under the supervision of the NSC;
that CIA would conduct both analysis and clandestine activities, but would have no policymaking role and no law enforcement powers;
a line between foreign and domestic intelligence and assigned these realms, in effect, to the CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, respectively;
that the DCI would be confirmed by the Senate and could be either a civilian or an officer on detail from his home service.
The National Security Act of 1947 went into effect on September 18, 1947.
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-the-next-generation/who-watches-the-watchers-19038/
tv.com
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 Episode 4
Who Watches The Watchers
Aired Unknown Oct 16, 1989 on CBS
Stardate: 43173.5
An away team inadvertently breaks the Prime Directive and reveals themselves to a primitive culture on Mintaka III, leading the inhabitants to believe that Captain Picard is a god.
AIRED: 10/16/89
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Truth (2015)
Quotes
Mary Mapes: Do you know what it would take to fake these memos?
Dick Hibey: Mary...
Mary Mapes: No, this is important.
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IMDb
Fail Safe (2000 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 9 April 2000
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235376/quotes
IMDb
Fail Safe (2000 TV Movie)
Quotes
Prof. Groeteschele: In every war, even a thermonuclear war, you must have a victor and you must have a vanquished. History tells us that the culture which is best prepared, has the best retaliatory policy, and the best defense, will have an ancient and classical advantage.
Brig. Gen. Warren Black: To be victorious...
Prof. Groeteschele: Yes, General. It would be the victor, in that it would be less damaged than its enemy.
Gen. Stark: *We* would be the victor.
Prof. Groeteschele: That would be our hope, General.
Brig. Gen. Warren Black: Groeteschele, your argument doesn't recognize that thermonuclear war is not the extension of policy, it is the end of everything: People, policy, institutions...
Prof. Groeteschele: My argument, General Black, is that if only one of us is to survive a nuclear exchange, I prefer that it be our culture and not the Soviets'. Wouldn't you?
Brig. Gen. Warren Black: Culture? With most of its people dead? It's vegetation burned off? Do you really think that the world you describe *is* a culture? The idea of war has changed since the advent of the Bomb.
Gen. Stark: Yes, but war's function remains the same, Blackie. Whether it's a spear thrown, or a nuclear bomb.
Prof. Groeteschele: War is still the resolution of economic and political conflict.
Brig. Gen. Warren Black: In these times, in any possible war, the overwhelming majority of citizens are going to be killed. Does this still suggest to you that war is a resolution of conflicts?
Prof. Groeteschele: Yes, General, the situation is no different then it was a thousand years ago. There were primitive wars in which entire populations were completely wiped out. The point remains: Who will be the victor, and who will be the victim? So short of disarmament, for which you seem to be arguing, and to which I highly doubt the Soviets would agree, what shall we do? These weapons exist. We can face that, or we can close our minds to it.
Brig. Gen. Warren Black: Groteschele, this world is no longer man's theater. Man has been made into a spectator. We define policy by discussing the possibility of a winnable nuclear exchange. Once one knows where he wants to go, he can collect a great amount of logic and fact to support his argument. My fear is that both we and the Soviets are settled on mutual destruction. We are now rallying our different logics to support our identical conclusions. And if we are not careful, gentlemen, we will both get the results that we want.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:30 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 29 November 2016
