The ENIGMA Code was actually cracked by the British at GCHQ in Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, UK. The machine which cracked is now in a museum.
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From: William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [CTRL] U-571,Nazis,NASA,MAGIC....
> 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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