Reply #11: SAIC= All Pentagon - All Day

[DagmarK]

From a publication of the Northern Illinois University's Sociology Dept's publication: The Crypt.

From January 1994 of that publication --

http://www.soci.niu.edu/~crypt/other/saic2.htm
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January 1994
Science Applications International Corporation, of which Inman is a director, has many members in top spots within the Pentagon.
The Pentagon, in standard behavior-mode, refused to comment to the Times on anything concerning Science Applications. William J. Perry, the current second in command at the Pentagon and the man who has replaced Inman as nominee, was a director of Science Applications until he was elevated to his current position in 1993. Like Inman, Perry is a military-industrial complex insider, steeped in the Strangelovian traditions of Cold War secrecy and superweapons development.

Perry, given the fatuous title "godfather of stealth technology" by the Washington Post in 1989 when the truth about the disastrous B-2 bomber began to leak, was Jimmy Carter's undersecretary for research and engineering in the late Seventies when stealth projects, among other bizarre schemes for Doomsday weaponry, began disappearing into the nascent vortex of SAR (Special Access Required) - or "deep black" financing.

In addition, Perry was involved intimately with the application and strategy behind the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS), a space-based radio-navigating system meant to supply US forces with concise, accurate, three-dimensional locating information on land, sea and in the air. In the late Seventies, Perry argued strongly for corruption of any commercially available GPS real-time data so that no one could use the system for meaningful purpose, thereby ensuring no value to a potential enemy. The policy backfired during the Gulf War, when US military forces were faced with a shortage of hand-held GPS receivers capable of unscrambling encrypted military channel data.

The Pentagon unscrambled GPS transmission so civilian receivers could also be used in the war effort. At the same time, according to
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Ashtech, a French-owned, California-based firm developed a GPS receiver capable of correcting Pentagon-corrupted GPS data, making it more accurate than receivers - made by Rockwell International - upon which the military was relying.
Perry was also an advocate of strong research into the effects of induction of electromagnetic pulses in satellite circuitry by proximal nuclear explosions, specifically concerning the GPS.

Others in the defense establishment at the time felt the study of near nuclear bursts on satellites unnecessary, simply because they carried the equal risk of damaging the instigator's space assets.

In 1980, Perry - then the number three man in the Pentagon - stood in the way of Congress when it tried to find out something of the procedures for going to nuclear war. All Perry volunteered was the assertion that everything would work, that the Soviets would indeed be bombed whether or not the President, the White House, Washington, D.C., or the rest of the country were pulverized.

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More SAIC-relevant links at the above link:

NEW: Complete Crypt News 42.
Science Applications, DoD and the architects of cyberfear."
The groovin' cats at Science Applications who speak of "electronic Pearl Harbor."
The favorite slogan of U.S. Info-warriors.
The Info-warriors of National Defense University: faux Alvin Tofflers.
A Science Applications honcho yearns to launch viruses.
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