





The A-12 was the penultimate success of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” and Clarence Leonard “Kelly” Johnson. His final design and implementation work include the U-2 Dragon Lady, the YF-12A, A-12 Oxcart (Archangel), and SR-71 Blackbird. All but the YF-12A were exceptional reconnaissance aircraft. The YF-12A was a ruse by Mr. Johnson to try to convince U.S.S.R. intelligence that the plane was a high altitude Mach-3 interceptor and thus could shoot down U.S.S.R. MIRV ballistic missiles in the reentry phase of their flights.
USAF Colonel Ken Collins Retired was in an A-12 Oxcart that had a mechanical failure causing a crash. Collins parachuted to safety at 25,000 feet. The CIA used sodium thiopental (truth serum) on Collins and I quote the CIA paper below: “Collins willingly took truth serum to help his memory.”
There are so many good papers that document the real work of the CIA on their official website. Every U. S. citizen and resident should be proud of our excellent intelligence partners past, present, and future: CIA, FBI, and NSA.
The NSA’s primary role is first and foremost electronic signals intelligence and interpretation. One of the FBI’s high priority jobs is counterintelligence which leads to arresting and interrogating foreign spies and potentially disloyal U.S. citizens. Finally, among the tasks assigned by law (National Security Act of 1947) is gathering intelligence on foreign soil and sending the results back to a station or headquarters for thorough analysis and investigation.




I have been a strong proponent of openness and no anonymity on the non-military and non-government portion of the Internet and the World Wide Web. I have used my real legal name on the Internet and WWW since December 1995. That honesty was in sharp contrast to the normal anonymity that hackers and hecklers hid behind that cloak of secrecy. I was known to Google as “Pate” from about 1997 to 2002 or so when my cryptography, number theory, etc. website was popular. That website died a premature death along with MindSpring and EarthLink in about 2010 or 2011. The first real inroads on secrecy and anonymity came with the advent of Facebook in 2004. Mr. Zuckerberg and his team wanted people to use their real names so that contact was easier. I wholeheartedly agree with that approach.
I went for a walk at approximately 04:30 AM Sunday, May 17, 2020. I saw a backpack on the sidewalk near the Troup Government Center. In a large city that would be cause for alarm but not in my sleepy little hamlet of LaGrange, Georgia. I kept walking debating about calling 911 about the backpack. When I was on Main Street heading towards Broome Street, I encountered a shoe less blond female. She asked me for some water, but I did not give her my half empty bottle because I do not know my covid-19 status for sure. For all I know I could be a vector of the dreaded virus. I asked if she wanted me to call 911 for her. She also stated that she lives with a male near downtown.
I kept walking still debating about calling 911 in reference to the backpack. As I was near Solomon’s Department Store, I called 911 about the backpack. I then proceeded to walk back to the area where the backpack was located on Ridley Avenue. I sat on a bench about 20 feet from the backpack. A canine unit LaGrange Police Department responded to my 911 call. The officer’s dog is a Belgian shepherd also its breed is known as a Malinois. The dog is named Bert, probably after Bert and Ernie on the kid’s show Sesame Street. The dog is trained for dope detection and apprehension. The officer left the dog in his car presumably because the animal is not trained for explosives detection. The officer established that the backpack only had clothes in it. And we lived happily ever after or for at least the time being.
I just came in from one of my 15 to 20-minute walks. While I was circling the downtown fountain square park, I observed a couple tightly hugging each other like it was until death do us part. In a previous blog entry, I have stated I do not like Public Displays of Affection (PDAs). I used my better discretion and did not yell “save it for home or the bedroom” at the couple since I might have gotten a beating or been shot. But come on people PDAs are sure fire signs generally that there is something fundamentally wrong in a couple’s relationship. So much for my pontificating.
I just remembered the name of a song from “Outside Inside” by the West Coast acid rock band Blue Cheer. Coincidentally, Blue Cheer like Strawberry Fields were slang for lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25). We had windowpane, orange barrel, and pure Sandoz LSD-25 back in my experience early in the 1970s. Back to a song off the previously mentioned album. It is “The Hunter”. Sometimes I feel like the character in the song. It is a cover of the Albert King tune off his “Born Under a Bad Sign” album. Here is the website of the lyrics:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/albertking/thehunter.html
I would like for a beautiful to me female to reverse roles and play the hunter of me!
The United States CIA is now known to have sponsored several plans to assassinate Fidel Castor of Cuba. The agency would not send in a CIA operator to do the dirty work but would recruit a nefarious criminal probably a member of the Mafia which is also known as the Cosa Nostra. The hired hand would be recruited clandestinely so the CIA would have plausible deniability. The Mafia was angry with Castro for kicking them out of the country and the subsequent loss of their gambling and other rackets empire in Cuba. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was aware of these attempts. Supposedly Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy for his attempts to take out Castro.
Assassinating the head of state of some other country is very dirty business and will probably cause a retaliatory attempt to kill the sponsor. Before leaving office, President Gerald Rudolf Ford, Jr. recruited George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush 41) and had him confirmed as Director of the CIA. President Ford then ordered DCI Bush to clean up the agency and stop all pending and future assassination plans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11905
A United States spy is a human intelligence (HUMINT) operative of the Directorate of Operations of the CIA now known as the Clandestine Service. A spy must maintain a low profile and is an individual who uses her/his training and wits instead of a lot of sophisticated equipment. The spy probably does not carry weapons nor use her/his cellphone as a primary means of communication with her/his handler (usually a station chief). The time-honored way of passing messages is the dead drop. The spy goes about her/his business with little or no fanfare.
A United States spy must rely on the CIA to swap a foreign operator for our her/him if he or she has the great misfortune of being arrested as a spy. It is a good tradition to always recover your valuable spy by nearly any means. See the great movie “Bridge of Spies”.