Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (37 page)

Powell suggests ground-up nutmeg for a psychedelic experience. Nutmeg has a poor dose/toxicity ration! However, the oil extract of nutmeg, containing myristicin, can be used in the synthesis of MMDA — a better and mellower high than MDA. See
Journal of Psychedelic Drugs
(Vol. 8 #4, Oct.-Dec. 1976).

On page 58 of Powell’s cookbook, Nalline is described as “…a freak — a drug someone forgot to make illegal.” Perhaps they forgot because Nalorphine is a powerful narcotic antagonist, which tends to produce violent convulsive reactions in morphine addicts. (See the
Merck Index).

For more information on drugs see “The Clandestine Drug Laboratory Situation in the U.S.”,
Journal of Forensic Sciences
(Jan. 1983 pp.18-31). This article, obligingly written by the DEA chief, reports that none of the 17 labs busted the previous year were successful in producing what was intended to be produced. The busted chemists were relying on recipes from popular “underground” drug manufacturing books. It was noted that such books contain errors which prevent the manufacture of the desired chemicals, while at the same time drawing the attention of government authorities because of the precursors recommended.

Let’s now examine his recommendations for manufacturing explosives:

His methods for producing Mercury Fulminate is incomplete and dangerous. Between steps 2 and 3, the solution should be cooled. Do not breathe the fumes. See
A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry
by Sir Edward Thorpe.

Powell’s recipe entitled “How to Make TNT” is also quite dangerous and incomplete. In step 1, mixing sulfuric acid and nitric acid will likely result in fulmination and red toxic fumes. Also the crude method he describes does not cover the removal of the Ortho Dinitro groups. If this were not done, the TNT would be extremely unstable. However, they can be removed with great ease by heating the crude material with aqueous sodium sulfite. See “Chemistry of Explosives” by George Wright, University of Toronto, in
Organic Chemistry
(p. 974).

The description of Picric acid does not sufficiently emphasize its unstable nature. For example, storing it in a cracked glass container may cause it to explode. See Thorpe’s. However, on page 120 he describes two relatively safer and easily obtainable chemicals (Potassium bichromate and potassium permanganate) as very sensitive, unstable, and too hazardous to work with.

He does have a couple of pages on general safety precautions, but the language suggests that they have been lifted from a military manual. Also, he uses the German spelling for some chemicals. If you attempt to order chemicals from an American company using German spelling, your order would likely be looked at with suspicion.

The Anarchist Cookbook
was originally published in 1971; the review by the
Library Journal,
which exposed these dangerous errors, came shortly thereafter. I wonder why it has gone through 28 printings without these errors being corrected. My theory is that Mr. Powell is not an anarchist, but in reality is spreading disinformation to potential enemies of the government. At the time of original publication, Mr. Powell was an unknown 21 year old college freshman. Where did he get access to this “information”? He says, from radical friends on both left and right.

The Minuteman Manual
is listed in the bibliography. The original Minutemen were colonial American revolutionaries. In the 60’s the radical right-wing sect called the Minutemen have since been disbanded by the FBI. It is not likely that the 1960’s Minutemen would have handed out their manual to a long haired 21 year old college freshman. Also, the Minutemen are opposed to the United Nations, and Powell’s father was a powerful bureaucrat in the UN propaganda ministry (see
Newsweek,
April 12, 1971). Things are getting curiouser and curiouser!

This same William Powell has also written a book entitled
Saudi Arabia and its Royal Family
(1982). It consists of interviews with members of the Saudi Royal family and other observations gathered while teaching at the University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It does not seem likely that the Saudi Royal family would give such generous treatment to a real anarchist. Reading the Saudi book, I came across some interesting quotes (p. 17):

“Were something or someone to cut the flow of oil from the Arabian Gulf, the result would be truly apocalyptic for the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and much of the developing world. … In a worst-case scenario, all gasoline available would go to essential services such as the military, the police and fire departments, and the transport of foodstuffs. Most nonessential businesses and industries would close. Unemployment would skyrocket.

“All major cities would, in all probability, have to be placed under martial law. Curfews would be enforced at gunpoint. … Inflation would metamorphose… into a lethal epidemic. We would enter a wheelbarrow economy like that of Germany prior to Hitler’s rise to power…”

I could go on, but I think you get the idea. While his pessimistic analysis does not take full account of the market’s ability to conserve and switch to alternate fuels, I think a more important point is that Powell seems to believe that government is as essential as the transportation of foodstuffs, and that it can help solve the fuel crisis through the draconian methods he describes. If governments were to run out of gas tomorrow, anarchists would be dancing in celebration. (Mr. Powell’s talk of martial law is not fantasy. Executive Order #11490, signed by Richard Nixon in October 1969, allows the president to assume dictatorial powers after declaring a “national emergency”.)

It just doesn’t add up, unless an alternative theory is developed to explain these anomalies. My attempts to get the other side of the story from the publisher were met with a stone wall of silence. My suggestion is that much of Powell’s disinformation and influence may have come from the Trilateral Commission and/or the CIA. A U.S. Air Force combat controllers group studying guerrilla warfare has arrived at a similar conclusion. This theory would seem to dovetail with the
National Review
article which presented
The Anarchist Cookbook
at face value and even included a patronizing reference to “the boys at Harvard”. It is well known that William F. Buckley, the
National Review
editor, is a Yale graduate and once served the CIA in Mexico. (E. Howard Hunt, of Watergate fame, was CIA paymaster in Mexico City at the same time Buckley served).

I would like to quote Mr. Powell from the April 12, 1971 issue of
Newsweek:
“My book places power in the hands of the individual, where it belongs. The right calls it communist, the leftists call it profiteering, the liberals call it Neo-Nazi.”

And this reviewer calls it bullshit!

This article, edited for length, seems to be “reverse disinformation” aimed at educating the public about what the author supposes the plans of the controlling elite to be. In this it shares its broad intent with other possible hoax documents such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and The Wicca Papers, although going about its revelations in a highly original manner. It claims to be a handbook of strategy circulated among the secret technicians of “social automation.” Ostensibly dated May, 1979, it was supposedly discovered in an IBM copier at a surplus sale. Regardless of its origins the document is insightful, perhaps providing a real breakthrough in the understanding of elitist human control.

This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the “Quiet War,” being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with “silent weapons.” This book contains an introductory description of this war, its strategies, and its weaponry. It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or a worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e. slavery and genocide. This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position of great power and without full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and methodology for economic conquest — it must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the public.

The solution of today’s problems requires an approach which is ruthlessly candid, with no agonizing over religious, moral or cultural values. You have qualified for this project because of your ability to look at human society with cold objectivity, and yet analyze and discuss your observations and conclusions with others of similar intellectual capacity without a loss of discretion or humility. Such virtues are exercised in your own best interest. Do not deviate from them.

Silent weapon technology has evolved from Operations Research (O.R.), a strategic and tactical methodology developed under the military management (Eisenhower) in England during World War II. The original purpose of Operations Research was to study the strategic and tactical problems of air and land defense with the objective of effective use of limited military resources against foreign enemies (i.e., logistics). It was soon recognized by those in positions of power that the same methods might be useful for totally controlling a society. But better tools were necessary. Social engineering (the analysis and automation of a society) requires the correlation of great amounts of constantly changing economic information (data), so a high-speed computerized data-processing system was necessary which could race ahead of the society and predict when society would arrive for capitulation. Relay computers were too slow, but the electronic computer, invented in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, filled the bill.

The next breakthrough was the development of the simplex method of linear programming in 1947 by the mathematician George B. Dantzig. Then in 1948, the transistor, invented by J. Bardeen, W.H. Brattain, and W. Shockley, promised great expansion of the computer field by reducing space and power requirements. With these three inventions under their direction, those in positions of power strongly suspected that it was possible for them to control the whole world with the push of a button. Immediately, the Rockefeller Foundation got in on the ground floor by making a four-year grant to Harvard College, funding the Harvard Economic Research Project for the study of the structure of the American economy. One year later, in 1949, the United States Air Force joined in. In 1952 the original grant period terminated, and a high-level meeting of the elite was held to determine the next phase of social operations research. The Harvard project had been very fruitful, as is borne out by the publication of some of its results in 1953 suggesting the feasibility of economic (social) engineering.
(Studies in the Structure of the American Economy
— copyright 1953 by Wassily Leontief, International Sciences Press Inc., White Plains, New York.)