Waves from cinematic masterpiece, U-571, ripple from WWII all the way to
present-day enigmas of secrecy
Cracking the Nazi Enigma Code led to Nazi surrender, Project Paperclip, Top
Secret MAGIC and, some say, even to a modern-day coup within NASA
by Paul Davids - 05/05/2000
By the time you read this, you will already have heard much about - and may
have seen - the new film U-571, which torpedoed its way to the top of the
theatrical movie charts right after its launch, submerging all competition
with about 20 million in gross receipts on opening weekend. It won’t surprise
readers of FLYING SAUCERS OVER HOLLYWOOD to learn that I was at the premiere
the night of April 17th. But it may surprise you to learn that I’ve uncovered
secret significance in a World War II submarine film that help us plow
through the rough seas which led to the major changes in America after the
war. The ripples from the race to crack the Nazi Enigma Code lead to the door
of the National Security Agency and the CIA - and even have reverberations in
the accident (some call it sabotage) that befell lunar flight APOLLO 13, the
subject of another blockbuster film from Universal Pictures.
Paul Davids
The U-571 premiere took place in Westwood, Los Angeles. Upon entering the
theater, my first question was whether the Navy guards, standing motionless
in the theater lobby, were actors in costume, hired as set dressing for the
occasion, or whether they were genuine. As I studied the large submarine
model prop that was on display for the premiere, I exchanged a few words with
one of the "extras" in a Navy uniform, and quickly discovered that he and his
colleagues were not SAG people in costumes. They were from a naval base in
San Diego. They were assigned to the premiere because the Secretary of the
Navy was delighted with the film and eager to provide whatever moral support
necessary for a seaworthy launch.
I could understand why. U-571 swells the heart with old-time apple pie
patriotism. It shows incredible courage, determination, and loyalty during
the struggle against the Nazis, in a stunningly successful mission. Some
critics praised the production, but belittled the story. Kenneth Turan of the
Los Angeles Times (who rather liked the film) stated, nevertheless, that it
was "undernourished in terms of dialogue and character development." But
above all, what is important about the film is the very nature of the secret
mission. The Navy men, played by Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Jack
Noseworthy, Derk Cheetwood, Jon Bon Jovi, Erik Palladino, and Harvey Keitel,
were assigned to capture a Nazi-encoding machine on board the U-571. With
that encryption machine in hand, the Allies would be able to crack the Nazi
Enigma Code. The advantage that this knowledge would yield in warfare would
be incalculable. The enemy's secret transmissions would then become
transparent.
Enigma Code machine
U-571 ends where the struggle to crack the Nazi code is about to begin. If
there were to be a sequel, it would inevitably have to span the second half
of the 20th century, because the series of events that followed the cracking
of Enigma ripple right through to the present day. In that sense, the mission
of the men aboard U-571 had a result that re-shaped America. We can debate
whether the establishment of what we’ve come to call our “National Security
State” was for good or for evil, but it is a fact that things changed
dramatically after the war. Here’s some of the aftermath that the film leads
up to, but does not explore:
James Bamford's epic book, The Puzzle Palace, describes the founding of the
ultra-secret "National Security Agency," or NSA (so secret that until
recently, it was illegal to mention its name, even in Congressional
testimony!). The beginnings of the NSA (still termed by some "No Such
Agency"), as well as the transformation of the wartime OSS into the CIA, were
to be found in the exploits of William Friedman. It was the "brilliant"
William Friedman who cracked both the Nazi Enigma Code and the Japanese
secret wartime code. Friedman and his code-breakers were operating under a
secret banner known as MAGIC, and it was MAGIC that was later transformed
into the National Security Agency.
The code name MAGIC is one that should instantly raise the eyebrows of all
who studied the UFO enigma. Ignore for a moment the scoffers who claim the
notorious MJ-12 documents (purported briefing documents for President
Eisenhower about the UFO crash at Roswell) were fakes. MJ-12 in those
documents was an abbreviation of MAJIC-12. Thus, the term that sounds like
MAJIC (whether spelled MAGIC or MAJIC) shows up both in connection with the
cracking of the Nazi code and in the 1952 documents purported to outline the
crash recovery of an alien vehicle at Roswell in 1947. Whether the term
MJ-12, MAJIC-12, or MAJESTIC-12 was chosen by document hoaxers who were
sophisticated about the significance of MAGIC in intelligence circles, or
whether it is a real code name of a real UFO-connected government group, is a
significant question. The matter is unresolved, but as you'll discover at
www.majesticdocuments.com, the issue is at the forefront of ufological
questions today. The reason is that many ORIGINAL documents bearing the
MAJIC-12 identification have been leaked into the hands of private
researchers who are putting those documents to forensic tests.We’re not
talking about just a few pages, we’re talking about reams. This is either one
of the most elaborate hoaxes since the Hitler diaries, or it is the
unearthing of a mother lode of treasures that are half a century old and have
finally just seen the light of day.
The unraveling of the Enigma Code taught us much about the nature of secrecy,
as practiced by the Nazi adversaries. So profound was the respect of the U.S.
government for the brilliance of its German enemy that a massive undertaking
to bring Nazi intelligence apparatus and Nazi scientists to America began.
The order to bring these Germans to the U.S. to work for our side was signed
by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff even before the official German
surrender. This effort was initially called Operation Overcast. Most
interestingly, the name of the effort was changed to Project Paperclip on
July 20, 1945.
Call it coincidence or call it synchronicity, but the date July 20th keeps
showing up at key moments of U.S. history. Some would say that there are no
“accidents” in history, and with that in mind, consider that July 20th,
1969, was the date of the first lunar landing, when Neil Armstrong took his
first steps on the moon. Consider that it was on July 20th, 1976, exactly
seven years later, that the Viking spacecraft touched down on Mars and sent
back the first pictures from the Martian surface. (This was the same
expedition that resulted in the initial photos of “The Face on Mars” which
had been taken from Mars orbit). Richard Hoagland (www.enterprisemission.com)
has traced the importance of the July 20th date in secret societies and
rituals that can be noted all the way back to the days of worship of Isis and
Horus in ancient Egypt. He would argue that the choice of the July 20th date
for these events has been intentional, reminding us that most of our national
leaders have had ties both to the Freemasons, and other secret societies. He
believes that those in power often send “secret signals” to a select,
privileged and powerful group by the choice of dates for major events. In
this regard, we might recall that Buzz Aldrin brought the Freemason flag to
the moon, and afterwards delivered it to the leaders of Freemasonry in
Washington, D.C.
At the close of the war, the Allies took over what remained of Hitler’s
Gestapo and intelligence network. Project Paperclip was so-named because the
photos of the former Nazis, who were being admitted to the U.S., were
paper-clipped to their files. James Bamford’s The Puzzle Palace traces how,
beginning with German scientists such as Werner von Braun, these former Nazi
“assets” were amalgamated into what became the CIA and NSA. Few Americans
would question just how much credit is due to German scientists, working in
secrecy in post-war America, for the progress of U.S. advances in rocketry
and space research. The lingering question that many find upsetting is the
extent to which “Nazi intelligence” was incorporated into U.S. intelligence
agencies in post-War America - and whether what was incorporated was more
than information, but something so fundamental it secretly changed the
“character” of America in some inimical way.
If, in fact, the officially arranged incorporation of former Nazis into the
U.S. intelligence network ended up reshaping intelligence strategy in a
manner that ultimately undermines American ideals, some feel that NASA did
not escape a similar influence.
Hoagland, for one, laments that NASA, which Eisenhower founded (and JFK
vastly expanded) as an "open and public" space program - a program dedicated
to sharing its discoveries with all humankind - may have turned into another
kind of organization along the way. Extreme secrecy in space research was
supposed to occur only in military space programs. In its pure conception,
NASA was to be neither military nor enshrouded in secrecy. It was never
intended to be a "captive" of America's intelligence network, including the
CIA and NSA. It was dedicated to the principal that space exploration, as
exemplified by NASA, was primarily to be for the benefit of all humankind and
for the advancement of knowledge, wherever the research and discoveries might
lead.
Apollo 13
Hoagland has a very controversial theory that all of that may have changed
thirty years ago, at the time of the disaster aboard lunar mission Apollo 13.
That was the moment Hoagland cites as the time of a possible "coup" within
NASA, in which the secret intelligence network (which he implies operated
under metaphysical Nazi inspiration) finally "took control" in an attempt to
end the rest of the Apollo Program. Hoagland argues that, contrary to the
popularly believed "failure" en route to the moon, Apollo 13 actually may
have been sabotaged in a "metaphysical power play.” He postulates that “dark
forces” in the intelligence community deliberately staged the "accident" at
exactly 55 hours, 54 minutes and 53 seconds into the key numbered lunar
flight. He notes that the purported "explosion" of an oxygen tank aboard the
spacecraft took place on April 13th, which he finds quite bizarre, because
the mission itself was deliberately launched just days before at precisely
13:13 GMT.Hoagland interprets this as an "inside code" for an extremely
crucial event in the "metaphysical history" of both the Freemasons and the
Nazis - the arrest of the Knights Templar, on October 13th, 1307.
Though some of Hoagland's critics have accused him of flights of fancy and
extreme paranoia, reasonable people have an obligation to consider the
lineage of NASA's power elite. That would include the lineage of NASA's
cohort, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has been the engineering
headquarters behind so many unmanned space flights. Both NASA and JPL have
strong links to the National Security Agency, which in turn (as you'll
recall) was founded from the MAGIC team of William Friedman who cracked the
Nazi Enigma code. Lou Allen, who headed JPL for many years (and was a strong
colleague of the late Dr. Carl Sagan in the Planetary Society), had been head
of the National Security Agency. Daniel Goldin, who currently heads NASA, has
a background from TRW, where he worked on many "Black Budget" projects of
secret military origin. Recently, Goldin made a startling revelation - that
JPL falls under the jurisdiction of the JPL Oversight Committee based at
Caltech, and that Admiral Bobby Ray Inman is the head of that oversight
Committee. This is utterly new and startling information. Like Lou Allen,
Admiral Inman also served for awhile as head of the National Security Agency.
Most interestingly, about a decade ago, there were a series of bizarre
reports from one Robert Oeschler, describing his interviews with Admiral
Inman in which very strong hints were dropped by Inman about UFO reality, and
the reality of a group that controls UFO-related information, much like
MJ-12. Those reports warrant rereading today in light of the recently
revealed connection between Admiral Inman and JPL, in the aftermath of
several apparent JPL failures in Mars missions.
In a theory that could topple the history of the space program as we think we
know it, Hoagland proposes that at least some of those supposedly “failed”
missions, going back to the Mars Observer, were actually successful.
Unfortunately, the public was told otherwise, specifically so that critical
data involving extraterrestrial artifacts would not have to be publicly
revealed. He states that America's master spies are now the ones "pulling the
strings." The tragedy, as he puts it, is that NASA has lost the freedom and
independence and openness of its original grand vision and mission. In the
eyes of those who are concerned about a possible conspiratorial course of
events in the space program, "truth" and "honesty" in NASA became yet another
casualty of the bullets that ended the JFK Presidency.
U-571
This is all much food for thought, and I was chewing it over as I headed for
the premiere party of U-571 at the Crystal Ballroom of the Beverly Hills
Hotel, immediately after the screening.Excitement was in the air over what
was expected to be a great success. Congratulatory remarks were heard
everywhere about Jonathan Mostow, director of U-571, who was following up his
1997 debut in the little seen film, “Breakdown.” How many others, I
wondered, might be thinking any of the thoughts that had been flooding my
mind? Was anyone else grappling with the fact that the little box with the
code machine floating on a raft at sea at the end of the movie was,
essentially, the new beginning for contemporary American history?
Enigma was decoded and we won World War II. For that, all Americans are
eternally grateful. But are we eternally grateful for the aftermath? Are we a
stronger nation today for having the intelligence network we do? Or for
having a marriage of military and industry that President Eisenhower
cautioned us about more than four decades ago, when he warned of the powerful
“military industrial complex” that wanted to seize control of and redefine
the mission of America? Do we have a stronger space program by having our
“public” space agency run by the same men who have spent half a lifetime
keeping the secrets of “Black Budget” military space programs, some of whom
have been Directors of the NSA?
I don’t have the answers, but would like to have the peace of mind of knowing
that I’m not the only one posing the questions. From Washington and the
Establishment media, rarely if ever are any of these issues acknowledged or
addressed. It’s all quiet in those halls of power, like it was with those
Navy men aboard the captured U-571, who tried to be so quiet they couldn’t
even hear themselves breathe as depth charges burst all around them.
This is AlienZoo’s Hollywood correspondent, surfacing for air at last, after
seeing the great submarine film that joins company in cinema history with
“Das Boot,” “Run Silent, Run Deep” and “The Enemy Below.” Log on at this
site again next Friday, as we continue our search for THE TRUTH in the land
of cinema and dreams.
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