IS DEFENSE CONTRACTOR MITRE CORP.THE TROJAN HORSE OF 9/11?

IS DEFENSE CONTRACTOR MITRE CORP.THE TROJAN HORSE OF 9/11?

By Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
http://www.americanfreepress.net

Did a central controller with "super user"

privileges of the command
and control systems of the Department of

Defense, NORAD, the Air
Force, and the FAA, control the aerial attacks

of 9/11? There is
only one agency that has that capability – a

little-known private
company known as MITRE Corp.

There are basically two versions of events

surrounding the terror
attacks of September 11, 2001. There is the

government version,
propagated by the controlled media, which

claims that 19 Arab
terrorists, organized by Osama Bin Laden in

Afghanistan, hijacked 4
passenger aircraft and used them to attack the

World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. This version, used to launch

the "war on terror"
and two invasions in the Middle East, is

challenged by a lack of
evidence.

On the other hand, a host of unofficial

explanations, based on
available evidence, make up what can be called

the "inside job" or
anti-government version. This version basically

claims that agents
embedded within the U.S. military and

intelligence organizations
conspired to carry out the terror attacks.

The two foreign nations most often implicated

in the unofficial
explanations of 9/11 are Israel and Britain.

Both countries are
supporters and beneficiaries of the Bush

administration's "war on
terror."

For the Israelis, Iraq, a major threat, was

drastically reduced in
power and put under military occupation. For

the British, a oil-rich
territory, Iraq's southern region of Basra,

which it originally
occupied in 1914, was reoccupied and its

immense oil assets put
under control of the Crown.

Royal Dutch Shell and BP, formerly named

British Petroleum, are two
companies said to be controlled by the Crown,

which have posted
record profits since 9/11.

While both Britain and Israel have substantial

assets and powerful
organizations in the United States, proponents

of the anti-
government version have not explained how a

foreign power could
manipulate the computer systems of the Federal

Aviation
Administration (FAA), the North American

Aerospace Defense Command (
NORAD), and the U.S. Air Force, and thereby

control the aerial
attacks of 9/11.

When American Free Press interviewed Eckehardt

Werthebach, former
president of Germany's domestic intelligence

service, in December
2001, he said "the deathly precision" and "the

magnitude of
planning" behind the 9/11 attacks would have

required "years of
planning."

Such a sophisticated operation, Werthebach

said, would require
the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence

organization, something
not found in a "loose group" of terrorists like

the one allegedly
led by Mohammed Atta.

Many people would have been involved in the

planning of such an
operation, Werthebach said. He pointed to the

absence of leaks as
further indication that the attacks were "state

organized actions."

Andreas von Bülow, who served on Germany's

parliamentary commission
and oversaw the three branches of the German

secret service, told
AFP that he believed that Mossad, Israel's

intelligence service, was
behind the terror attacks. The attacks, he

said, were carried out to
turn public opinion against the Arabs and boost

military and
security spending.

"You don't get the higher echelons," von Bülow

said, referring to
the "architectural structure" which masterminds

such terror attacks.
At this level, he said, the organization doing

the planning, such as
Mossad or British intelligence, is primarily

interested in affecting
public opinion.

In a recent article in AFP, " The Perfect

Terrorist Plan To Level
the Twin Towers Created In 1976" by Greg

Szymanski, it was reported
that the U.S. Army devised a plan in 1976 to

bring down the towers
using commercial airliners and box cutters as

weapons.

At the time, George H.W. Bush was head of the

CIA and Martin R.
Hoffmann was Secretary of the Army. Hoffmann

told AFP that he did
not recall being involved in this planning

reportedly done by the
U.S. Army.

An architect, even of destruction, needs a

contractor. Proponents of
the anti-government version of 9/11 provide

evidence to support
their claims, but do not explain how the U.S.

military and civil
aviation control systems could have been

hijacked to allow the
aerial attacks to occur.

Because the attacks involved systems used by

the FAA, NORAD, and the
U.S. Air Force, the conspirators would have

needed "super user"
access to the command and control centers of

these three separate
organizations.

Super user means the most privileged user on a

computerized data
system. The super user has complete access to

all files on the
system. For the previously mentioned agencies,

and virtually all
other U.S. defense and intelligence

organizations, there is one such
possible super user: a little-known private

not-for-profit
organization, based in Bedford, Mass., known as

MITRE Corp. MITRE
also has a headquarters in McLean, Va., on a

campus it shares with
Northrop Grumman.

The MITRE Corp. is a major defense contracting

organization headed
by the former Director of Central Intelligence

(DCI), Dr. James
Rodney Schlesinger. Schlesinger, who was

reportedly made DCI at the
request of Henry Kissinger in 1973, later

served as Secretary of
Defense.

Schlesinger, a former director of strategic

studies at the RAND
Corp., was described in a 1973 biography as a

"devout Lutheran,"
although he was born in New York in 1929 to

immigrant Jewish parents
from Austria and Russia. Schlesinger earned

three degrees from
Harvard University.

Schlesinger's father, an accountant, founded

the accounting firm
Schlesinger & Haas, and was a trustee and

chairman of the budget of
the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. His father was

also a member of the
New York State Grand Lodge of Masons.

The MITRE Corp., of which Schlesinger is

chairman of the board of
trustees, is connected to the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology
(MIT), MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, and Mitretek

Systems of Falls
Church, Va.

Schlesinger is a senior advisor for the Lehman

Brothers investment
firm and a member of the Defense Policy Board

and advisory council
for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The MITRE Corp. has provided computer and

information technology to
the FAA and the U.S. Air Force since the late

1950's. MITRE is a
Federally Funded Research and Development

Center (FFRDC) for the
Dept. of Defense, the FAA, and the Internal

Revenue Service.

The chairman of the board of trustees of

Mitretek Systems, a spin-
off of MITRE Corp., is Martin R. Hoffmann, who

served as Secretary
of the Army when the "perfect terrorist plan"

was reportedly
prepared in 1976.

MITRE's Command, Control, Communications, and

Intelligence (C3I)
FFRDC for the Dept. of Defense was established

in 1958. The
C3I "supports a broad and diverse set of

sponsors within the
Department of Defense and the Intelligence

Community. These include
the military departments, defense and

intelligence agencies, the
combatant commands, and elements of both the

Office of the Secretary
of Defense and the office of the Joint Chiefs

of Staff," according
to MITRE's website. "Information systems

technology," it
says, "coupled with domain knowledge, underpin

the work of the C3I
FFRDC."

The U.S. Air Force maintains its Electronic

Systems Center (ESC) at
the Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Mass. The ESC

manages the development
and acquisition of electronic command and

control (C2) systems used
by the Air Force.

The ESC is the Air Force's "brain for

information, command and
control systems," according to Charles Paone, a

civilian employee of
the ESC. It is the "product center" for the Air

Force's Airborne
Warning and Control System (AWACS) and Joint

Surveillance Target
Attack Radar System (J-STARS), Paone said.

Asked about MITRE's role at the ESC, Paone

said, "MITRE does the
front-end engineering. It's basically our

in-house engineer." MITRE
employees operate the computer systems at

Hanscom AFB, Paone said.

MIT's Lincoln Laboratories, the parent of

MITRE, is located on the
Hanscom AFB.

A second FFRDC, the Center for Advanced

Aviation System Development
(CAASD) provides computer engineering and

technology to the FAA.
MITRE's support of the FAA began in 1958, when

the company was
created.

The FAA's Airspace Management Handbook of May

2004, for example, was
written and published by the MITRE Corp.

Jennifer Shearman, MITRE's public relations

manager for "corporate
identity" in Bedford, told AFP that MITRE is a

"trusted mentor" for
the FAA and is a "unique" provider of

"objective and independent"
information for the U.S. civil aviation

authority.

MITRE's Bedford headquarters are located near

Boston's Logan airport
where the two planes that struck the World

Trade Center supposedly
originated. Bedford lies directly under the

flight path of westbound
flights leaving Logan.

MITRE developed the technology "to aid

controllers in solving
problems while keeping aircraft close to their

route, altitude, and
speed preferences." Shearman was unable to say

why the MITRE
technology apparently failed on 9/11.

Indira Singh, an "IT consultant" who previously

worked on a Defense
Advanced Research Project, and who was employed

by J.P. Morgan on
9/11, in risk management, pointed to MITRE's

role at the FAA during
the 9/11 Citizens' Commission hearings in New

York last September.

"Ptech was with MITRE Corporation in the

basement of the FAA for two
years prior to 9/11," Singh said. "Their

specific job is to look at
interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD

and the Air Force in
the case of an emergency. If anyone was in a

position to know that
the FAA – that there was a window of

opportunity or to insert
software or to change anything – it would have

been Ptech along with
MITRE."

A representative of Ptech could not be reached.

[Ptech appears to
have been a Mossad front company created to

provide insecure Trojan
Horse software to the U.S. military and

intelligence agencies. Ptech
has the typical Arab owners and financiers -

and Mossad operators.]

For example, see Michael Goff, former marketing

manager at Ptech,
Inc. http://www.goffpr.com/about.asp

Photo: Dr. James Rodney Schlesinger

Schlesinger bio info:
http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/schlesinger.html




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