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Top Ten Censored Stories of 1994
Powerful Group of Ultra-Conservatives
Has Secret Plans for Your Future
Observers of the nation's political scene, who wonder why
the United States took a sharp right turn in 1994, should know
about the Council for National Policy (CNP). In May 1981, under a
tent in the backyard of political strategist Richard Viguerie's
suburban Virginia home, 160 new-right political leaders
celebrated their political fortunes and the election of President
Ronald Reagan the previous November.
This elite group of administration officials, congressmen,
industrialists, and conservative Christians -- including Interior
Secretary James Watt, Office of Management and Budget Director
David Stockman, Phyllis Schlafly, Joseph Coors, Sen. John East
(R-NC), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Paul Weyrich, founding
president of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank --
launched a political federation to secretly coordinate their own
political agenda.
Weyrich, reportedly the single most important person of CNP,
once proposed that the Republicans include a plank in their 1988
platform that AIDS be controlled by "reintroducing and enforcing
anti-sodomy laws." And CNP's R.J. Rushdoony, a leader of the
Christian Reconstruction movement, argues that right-thinking
Christians should take "dominion" over the United States and do
away with the "heresy" that is democracy.
After the public inauguration of the group, the CNP went
underground. As investigative journalist Joel Bleifuss notes,
"we do not know much about the CNP's actions or agenda," but we
do know that the radical right is on the ascendant within the
Republican Party and has taken over state GOP organizations in
Texas, California, Minnesota, Hawaii, Iowa, Nevada, Arizona,
Idaho, and Virginia.
Russ Bellant, author of "The Coors Connection," said the
meetings of this little-known organization are often a spring-
board for radical-right campaigns and long-term planning. "But
these efforts will seldom be traced to the CNP." The group meets
quarterly behind closed doors and is so secretive that the
group's Washington office will neither confirm nor deny where, or
even if, the group meets.
While the roster of the 500 members of the organization is
confidential, it is known to include Jerry Falwell, of the
Liberty Alliance; Oliver North, CNP executive committee member;
Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK); Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS); Sen. Jesse Helms
(R-NC); Rep. Bob Dornan (R-CA); Brent Bozell III, of the Media
Research Center; [World Anti-Communist League and] Iran-contra
figure Gen. John Singlaub; Richard Shoff, former leader of the Ku
Klux Klan in Indiana; Republican pollster Richard Wirthlin;
Robert Weiner, head of Maranatha, a Christian cult; Howard
Phillips of the Conservative Caucus; Linda Bean Folkers of the
L.L. Bean Co.; televangelist John Ankerberg; Bob Jones III,
president of the Bob Jones University; and former attorney
general Edwin Meese, CNP president in 1994.
To emphasize the secret nature of their meetings, CNP
Executive Director Morton C. Blackwell wrote a memorandum to
members attending a meeting in St. Louis in 1993 instructing them
that all remarks made at the conference were to be strictly
private. "The media should not know when or where we meet or who
takes part in our programs, before or after a meeting."
And, with the exception of the alternative press, the
Council for National Policy has managed to escape the attention
of the media.
SOURCE: IN THESE TIMES, 8/8/94, "Right-Wing Confidential" by
Joel Bleifuss
Secret Pentagon Plan to Subsidize Defense Contractor Mergers
SOURCE: NEWSDAY, 7/28/94, "Flak for Defense Merger" by
Patrick J. Sloyan.
The Pentagon is secretly funneling taxpayer dollars to giant
military contractors to help them grow even larger. This
extraordinary Pentagon ploy to pay defense contractors billions
of dollars to underwrite expenses connected with acquisitions and
mergers was approved without any announcement in 1993; it was not
discovered until July 1994.
According to Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch, the
unprecedented payment plan will save taxpayers money. Deutch said
the mergers would help reduce overhead charges by defense
contractors as the industry becomes smaller. Members of the House
Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee rejected Deutch's
explanation saying the policy was a potential windfall for
defense contractors and an incentive for hostile corporate
takeovers ... with taxpayers picking up the bill.
David Cooper, of the General Accounting Office, said that
while no specific savings could be seen, the new policy could
involve "several billions of dollars" in payments to defense
contractors for postmerger restructuring costs that have yet to
be defined.
Norman Augustine, chairman of Martin Marietta, a giant
billion-dollar defense contractor, supported the plan, arguing
that the federal government would reap lower costs from defense
mergers over the long term. Under the plan, Augustine's company
would get $270 million from the Pentagon to cover expenses
related to the purchase of subsidiary from General Electric.
Martin Marietta already quietly received a $60 million payment
from the Pentagon to buy a General Dynamics subsidiary.
It was Martin Marietta's Augustine who originally persuaded
Defense Secretary William Perry and Deutch to approve the
money-for-merger plan.
Both Perry and Deutch were on the Martin Marietta payroll
before joining the Clinton administration.
The administration's payment plan was challenged as illegal
and unnecessary by Brookings Institute expert Lawrence Korb,
senior Pentagon official during the Bush administration, who
argued "Taxpayer subsidization is not necessary to promote
acquisitions and mergers."
1947 AEC Memo Reveals Why
Human Radiation Experiments Were Censored
SOURCE: SECRECY & GOVERNMENT BULLETIN, March 1994,
"Protecting Government Against the Public" by Steven Aftergood;
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW, March/April 1994, "The Radiation
Story No One Would Touch" by Geoffrey Sea.
As the secrecy ban is finally lifted, the unethical,
immoral, and illegal Cold War radiation experiments on
unsuspecting humans by the Department of Defense are illuminated
by a most remarkable document that has emerged virtually
unnoticed.
Dated April 17, 1947, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
memorandum, stamped SECRET and addressed to the attention of a
Dr. Fidler, at the AEC in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, reads in part as
follows:
"Subject: MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS
"1. It is desired that no document be released which
refers to experiments with humans and might have adverse effect
on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering
such work field should be classified 'secret'."
--O.G. Haywood, Jr., Colonel, Corps of Engineers.
Apparently it was effective, for it was not until November
15, 1993, when The Albuquerque Tribune (circulation: 35,000)
broke the story which was then catapulted into the national
headlines by the forthright admissions and initiatives of
Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary. Eileen Welsome's three-part
investigative series for the Tribune later won her a Pulitzer
Prize.
Ironically, as Geoffrey Sea, author and radiological health
physicist, points out, documentation of the inhumane program was
massive, solid, and publicly available, as early as 1986. But the
major news media were not interested; it was only after the
disclosures by a small daily newspaper and Secretary O'Leary --
with all the victims dead and most of the perpetrators retired --
that the news media put it on the national agenda.BR>
Even now, as new revelations about the enormous scope of the
horrifying experiments are discovered, there is little if any
mention of the AEC memorandum which has been described by
America's security classification expert, Steven Aftergood, as
"One of the more remarkable documents to emerge" from the Energy
Department's new openness initiative -- the 1947 Atomic Energy
Commission memorandum on the classification of human radiation
experiments.
As Aftergood points out, the memorandum identifies the true
enemy -- "public opinion." And the means used to defeat the enemy
-- "classification."
"The practice of classifying information in order to prevent
embarrassment to an agency has long been prohibited," Aftergood
said. "And yet it is commonplace. The AEC memo itself was
classified Secret (meaning it supposedly 'could be expected to
cause serious damage to the national security')."
Classification of the AEC memo, which was obtained by Rep.
John Dingell's subcommittee on oversight, was finally canceled by
the authority of the Department of Energy, on February 22, 1994.
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