• Columbia shuttle cover up April 27, 1981

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    STS-1 DISASTER/COVERUP

    Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER #64 of 80

    Digitized by Jon Volkoff, email address eidetics@cerf.net

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    This is the Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER(R), 1629 K Street N.W.,
    Washington, DC 20006

    Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is April 27,
    1981, and this is my AUDIO LETTER No. 64.

    "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
    start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
    some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
    and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
    noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)

    And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
    ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
    first attempt to launch a space shuttle into orbit had finally
    begun.

    In days gone by, the voice of "Mission Control" has always
    been a familiar hallmark of American manned flights into space.
    In the early days, beginning with "PROJECT MERCURY", the voice
    was that of Col. John (Shorty) Powers. Later, during the
    "APOLLO" program there were other voices; but regardless of who
    it was, that familiar voice of "Mission Control" would always
    stay with us throughout each space flight--that is, until this
    time. This time the voice of Mission Control, up until the
    moment of launch, was that of NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. The
    last words Harris spoke as the voice of Mission Control were the
    words you just heard: "The Shuttle has cleared the tower."

    Television cameras followed the Shuttle as it climbed higher
    and higher on a column of steam and smoke. For another 30
    seconds or so, we were allowed to hear the slowly fading roar of
    the Shuttle's rocket engines. Then the sounds from Mission
    Control abruptly changed. Exactly 45 seconds after lift-off,
    "live" audio from Mission Control was terminated. In its place
    NASA began feeding the radio and television networks an elaborate
    tape recording, which had been prepared far ahead of time by
    NASA. The change-over from "live" audio to the NASA tape
    recording sounded like this: (First, loud roaring for 10 seconds,
    abruptly fading, then into a steadily increasing-in-loudness
    humming-roaring for some 10 seconds.) "4-34...?" "Roger."
    (More of the roaring sound.)

    Just 45 seconds after lift-off, the falsified NASA coverage of
    the flight of the "Columbia" began. We were still able to see
    the Columbia by way of long-distance television cameras for
    another minute and a half, but the sounds we were hearing were no
    longer "live." They were the sounds of the special NASA tape
    recording. For the first minute or so of the tape recording, we
    heard nothing but the sound effects simulating conversation
    between the Shuttle and NASA-Houston. Then, for the first time,
    we heard the anonymous new voice of Mission Control. It was no
    longer the familiar live voice of Hugh Harris, but the recorded
    voice of someone else. For added realism, the new voice was
    interrupted in turn by the recorded voice of the alleged capsule
    communicator Daniel Brandenstein. It sounded like this: (first a
    high-pitched screech followed by) "One minute 45 seconds, coming
    up on go-go-go." "Columbia, you're negative seats." "That
    call-up says that, Columbia, the altitude is too high for
    ejection seat use."

    By that point the shuttle Columbia was more than 20 miles
    high, and climbing fast. Everything was going according to plan
    so far, so the things we were hearing on the tape recording
    corresponded to what we were seeing. We could still see the
    Shuttle on our TV sets, but it had dwindled to nothing more than
    three bright spots dancing in the distant sky.

    The last thing that you and I were able to see and verify for
    ourselves about the Shuttle was the separation of those two giant
    solid-rocket boosters. A little over two minutes after liftoff,
    we were able to watch the boosters, two burning bright spots,
    break off to each side. That left only the single tiny flame of
    the Shuttle itself, gradually fading into invisibility. Several
    seconds later the NASA tape recording caught up with what we had
    already seen, and said the boosters had separated. Moments later
    the tiny bright dot of the Shuttle faded from our screens. It
    was too far away for the television cameras to follow any longer.
    We had had our last look at the real space shuttle Columbia!

    In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 two months ago, I gave an advance alert
    about the secret military mission of the space shuttle Columbia.
    At that time I made public what the mission was really all about.
    I was also able to reveal what to expect in the falsified NASA
    coverage of the mission.

    The falsified coverage was designed to accomplish two
    purposes. First, to completely hide the military nature of the
    mission; and second, to make sure the mission looked like a total
    success, no matter what might happen in secret. As I detailed in
    AUDIO LETTER No. 62, the Bolsheviks here in the federal
    government are depending heavily on the Space Shuttle Program to
    get ready for a nuclear war against Russia.

    The falsified NASA coverage of the mission of the space
    shuttle Columbia was carried out exactly according to plan. I
    revealed this plan two months ago. There were the standard brief
    cockpit scenes made by techniques which I will describe later.
    Just to make it look good, it was spiced up by telling us that a
    few non-critical tiles had fallen off. Otherwise we were told
    over and over how perfectly the Columbia was performing.

    Four days ago on April 23, a news conference about the flight
    was held in Houston, Texas, by the alleged two astronauts, John
    Young and Robert Crippen. The entity called John Young summed up
    the flight in words that were more meaningful than most people
    suspected. Referring to the falsified flight which we followed
    on television, he called it, quote: "...even better than normal."
    And so it was, my friends. The Bolsheviks who now control NASA
    bent over backwards to paint the image of an abnormally perfect
    shuttle flight. Meanwhile the actual Shuttle mission, which was
    carried out in secret, did not go according to plan. After the
    Shuttle disappeared from our television screens, the flight
    continued for barely four more minutes before disaster struck.
    The Columbia never even reached earth orbit!

    My friends, I believe you have both the right and the need to
    know what happened to the space shuttle Columbia two weeks ago.
    I believe you deserve to know, in detail, how and why the truth
    was hidden from you. The stakes involve nothing less than the
    very survival of our land and our way of life.

    My three special topics for this AUDIO LETTER are:

    Topic #1--THE ADVANCE PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
    Topic #2--THE ABORTED FLIGHT OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE "COLUMBIA"
    Topic #3--THE NASA COVERUP OF THE "COLUMBIA" DISASTER.

    Topic #1--There is an old saying that "Seeing is believing." For
    that reason, television has become the No. 1 tool of deception in
    America today. Through television we are made to see things we
    do not understand so that we will believe things that are not
    true. If television were used honestly and constructively,
    television could be a great force for good. Instead, it's used
    continually to hoax, deceive, and mislead us. Video-taping makes
    events which took place weeks or months ago look as if they were
    taking place "live" right before our eyes. Computer editing
    enables scenes to be spliced together to create completely
    artificial images that look real. Special effects of all kinds
    enable these television hoaxes to be very convincing indeed.

    Two years ago I described one major television hoax in detail
    in AUDIO LETTER No. 44. That hoax involved no less than the NBC
    television news program "Meet the Press." Now we have been
    treated to another great television hoax, and this one was the
    granddaddy of them all. In terms of sheer deception, this was
    the "Meet the Press" hoax, "Guyana", and SKYLAB all rolled into
    one. This was the hoax coverage of the first flight of the space
    shuttle Columbia.

    To begin with, we were led to believe that until two weeks ago
    no space shuttle had ever left the earth's atmosphere and gone
    into space. We were also led to believe that the very first
    space flight by a shuttle had to be an orbital flight, instead of
    something less extreme. To make matters still worse, NASA swore
    up and down that this very first flight, pushing the Shuttle to
    its limits, just had to have men aboard. At one point even John
    Young himself was quoted to this effect very widely in the
    controlled major media. For example, two months ago on February
    15, the New York Times carried a big article about the Shuttle.
    Quoting from the article: "Mr. Young said, to have conducted an
    unmanned orbital flight of the Shuttle first would have added
    perhaps $500,000,000 to project costs, and meant another year's
    delay." Statements like that were cooked up purely to explain
    away the many things that did not add up about the announced
    plans for the Columbia's flight. Many people believe these
    explanations, but they were just a litany of lies.

    For example, time after time during the television coverage of
    the alleged flight this month, John Young's earlier statement was
    totally contradicted. Authoritative spokesmen pointed out over
    and over that the astronauts control the Shuttle by telling
    computers aboard the Shuttle what they want. The computers then
    do all the actual activation and control of the Shuttle--and, in
    an emergency, the Shuttle can fly itself into orbit, re-enter,
    and even land itself without help from the pilots. So much for
    all those lies NASA told us about an unmanned first flight being
    impossible.

    The real reason astronauts were aboard the first orbital
    flight was the one I revealed in AUDIO LETTER No. 62. It was a
    military mission, and the astronauts had to be aboard to carry it
    out. NASA told us that the flight this month was only a test
    flight with the cargo bay practically empty. But the cargo bay
    of the Columbia was not empty. It carried a laser-armed Spy
    Satellite equipped with special shields to protect it against
    Russian space weapons. "But wait a minute", you say. "They
    showed us live pictures from space and you could see that the bay
    was empty." No, my friends, not "live" pictures but video tapes.
    The pictures with the doors closed were taken inside a training
    mock-up of the shuttle that is carried inside a specially
    modified Boeing 747. The pictures with the doors open were taken
    on the ground inside a darkened hangar. Then these scenes were
    combined by video tape editing techniques with video tapes of the
    earth taken from orbit years ago. The final product was what you
    saw on television. It was not what it appeared to be, but
    "seeing is believing."

    My friends, the next time you see a replay of those scenes
    with the Shuttle doors open, supposedly in space, there is a
    telltale clue to look for. Look at the shadows visible inside
    the open cargo bay. Shadows in space tend to be sharp and harsh
    because there is no air to soften and diffuse them. The shadows
    we saw in the video tapes on television were softer because they
    were not made in space. Also, look at the angle of the shadows.
    The earth is shown floating straight overhead, and it is all in
    daylight. Look at the slant of the shadows inside the open cargo
    bay, then ask yourself: "Where is the light coming from to make
    shadows like that?"

    The impossible shadows which we saw in the Shuttle bay video
    tapes are just one small example of the many discrepancies in the
    NASA hoax. More to the point, NASA has pretended that the
    Columbia flight this month was the very first shuttle flight into
    space. We are supposed to believe that the only previous shuttle
    operations were a few gliding tests launched from mid air by
    another modified 747. Nothing could be more ridiculous or more
    untrue.

    There is one very obvious question about the Space Shuttle
    Program which NASA has always managed to side step. Somehow no
    one ever quite dares to ask it. The question is: Why wasn't the
    space shuttle "Enterprise" the first to be sent into orbit?
    After all, the Enterprise made its public debut nearly four years
    ago in the summer of 1977.

    To all outward appearances, the Enterprise looks almost
    identical to its sister ship, the Columbia. The differences
    between the two are so subtle that you would never notice them
    unless you knew exactly what to look for. The engines of the
    Enterprise look just like the engines of the Columbia. The
    Enterprise is also covered with the same system of thermal tiles
    as the Columbia, so again, the question is: Why wasn't the
    Enterprise sent into orbit long ago? Why did NASA wait three
    years and more to launch the Columbia instead? The answer, my
    friends, is that the Enterprise was designed to be a training
    ship for shuttle astronauts. It is not meant for orbital flight.
    Instead, it is specially equipped to make shorter, suborbital
    flights into space. In effect, it can do everything short of
    going into earth orbit. It can climb to orbital altitudes as
    high as 125 miles before dropping back to earth. This enables
    astronauts to practice working in weightlessness for up to five
    and one-half minutes at a time. It also allows astronauts to
    practice landing the shuttle, slowing down from speeds of around
    5,000 miles per hour.

    The Enterprise is exactly like its sister ships in the crew
    compartment and cockpit. What makes the Enterprise radically
    different is the cargo bay area. The Enterprise cannot carry
    cargo because the bay area is taken up by rocket fuel tanks. The
    tanks of the Enterprise can hold well over 100,000 pounds of
    rocket fuel when fully loaded. To make a suborbital hop into
    space, the Enterprise is perched on top of a modified Boeing 747
    known as the "Launch Aircraft." Inside the 747 there are
    technicians with instruments and support equipment for the
    shuttle. The shuttle Enterprise is loaded with rocket fuel, and
    then the 747 takes off. At an altitude of around 40,000 feet,
    the shuttle is launched. The launch techniques are derived from
    the old days of the X-15 Research Airplane and others before it.
    The Enterprise is released from its mounts, rises up, and then
    falls back behind the 747. As soon as it is clear of the 747,
    the Enterprise starts its rocket engines and zooms upward at a
    steep angle. After a minute or so the rockets shut off, and the
    Enterprise is left to coast upward to its peak altitude and then
    drop back toward earth. From the moment the engines shut off
    until the shuttle begins re-entering the atmosphere five or six
    minutes later, the astronauts inside are weightless.

    Astronauts Young and Crippen made more than half a dozen
    training flights like this aboard the Enterprise before they
    lifted off aboard the Columbia at Cape Canaveral. That is why
    they were so ready to go all the way into orbit. They had
    already done everything else that was necessary to work their way
    up to it. Of course, other training was necessary to work their
    way up to those suborbital flights aboard the Enterprise. For
    one thing, they spent many hours in the detailed replica of the
    shuttle which is housed inside a modified Boeing 747. The
    "Flying Mock-Up", as it is called, is a simulator designed to
    acquaint astronauts with shuttle operation as realistically as
    possible. One of its advantages is that it can even provide
    periods of weightlessness of up to about 45 seconds. The 747
    pilot does this by flying a precise arc through the air called a
    "parabolic trajectory." It's an old technique developed a
    quarter century ago to help astronauts get accustomed to
    weightlessness.

    All of these things and more were originally conceived and
    developed for purely technical reasons, but they are being kept
    secret from you because the Bolsheviks who now control NASA have
    turned them into tools of deception against you and me. Lately,
    publicity about the Space Shuttle Program has been focused on
    three geographic locations. One is the launch site for orbital
    missions, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Another is Edwards Air Force
    Base, California. The third is that old stand-by, the NASA
    Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas.

    As always, we are being distracted from paying serious
    attention to the one area that is most important of all. It is
    the missing link, the true nerve center of the entire Space
    Shuttle Program. My friends, I'm talking about the White Sands
    Missile Range in southern New Mexico.

    Most people today rarely give a second thought to White Sands.
    Few people remember that White Sands is where America's Space
    Program got its start after World War II. Captured German V-2
    rockets were taken to White Sands to be studied and test fired.
    After the V-2s, there were American rockets, the Navy's Viking
    series, and others. They were launched, rocketed upward into the
    fringes of space, and came back to earth--all within the
    boundaries of the vast White Sands Missile Range. One time a
    missile got out of control, veered south, and almost destroyed a
    small Mexican town when it crashed to earth; but that incident
    was a dramatic exception to the normal situation. Most of the
    time, no one outside White Sands even knew when rockets were
    launched. Recently the public has been made aware of the vast
    wide-open spaces that constitute Edwards Air Force Base in
    California. For comparison, White Sands is so huge that it would
    hold nearly 100 Edwards Air Force Bases!

    White Sands, my friends, is the training base for space
    shuttle pilots; and since late 1977 it has also become much more.
    It is the geographic key to the secret military missions which
    are now the central focus of the Space Shuttle Program. The
    Shuttle Program today is being managed in a way that is far
    different from the original plans. In August 1977 we were shown
    early gliding tests of the training shuttle Enterprise. The plan
    of NASA was to drum up public support for the Shuttle Program,
    just as they had done a decade earlier in the Moon Program.

    In AUDIO LETTER No. 26 I detailed how the Apollo Program, the
    biggest military program in American history, was disguised as a
    peaceful scientific venture. In the same way, the original plan
    was to bathe the military Shuttle Program in the glare of
    deceptive publicity. In the process we would have learned about
    the suborbital space capability of the Enterprise. Even the
    crucial White Sands would have received more publicity.

    What changed it all was the secret "Battle of the Harvest
    Moon" in space September 27, 1977. This secret space battle,
    which I made public that month in AUDIO LETTER No. 26, took place
    barely one month after the first gliding tests of the space
    shuttle Enterprise. Russia's military take-over of space was
    under way!

    Only the next month, October 1977, a newly operational Russian
    Cosmos Interceptor shot down SKYLAB. SKYLAB, along with its crew
    of five American astronauts secretly aboard, died in a giant
    fireball over the United States. I reported on SKYLAB's fate
    that month in AUDIO LETTER No. 27, and also revealed that NASA
    was initiating a prolonged cover-up of what had happened. NASA
    wanted everyone to forget about that mysterious headline-making
    fireball, so they pretended that SKYLAB was still in orbit but
    sinking unexpectedly. NASA used stories about the space shuttle
    as part of their SKYLAB cover-up. They pretended that perhaps
    the shuttle would come along in time to save SKYLAB. As I
    reported then, that was a double lie by NASA. First, SKYLAB
    could never be saved because it had already been destroyed.
    Second, the United States was in no position at that time to
    launch the shuttle or anything else of a military nature into
    space. Russia was deploying her secret new Space Triad of
    advanced manned space weapons.

    America's previous military control of space had been totally
    shattered by Russia. Our military base on the moon had been put
    out of action in the "Battle of the Harvest Moon." Russian
    Cosmos Interceptors had started sweeping the skies clear of
    American Spy Satellites, and Russian hovering electrogravitic
    weapons platforms, the Cosmospheres, were making headlines by
    creating enormous air booms along the East Coast and elsewhere.
    All of these things took place just as America's Space Shuttle
    Program was getting off the ground.

    The result was a complete reorganization of the Shuttle
    Program. The old plans to bathe it in continuous publicity were
    thrown out. The Bolsheviks here, who have replaced the
    Rockefeller cartel in many areas of power, cast a net of secrecy
    over all these new military plans. We were never told about many
    of the capabilities of the training shuttle Enterprise, and we
    were never told about the many things which are going on at White
    Sands in the military Shuttle Program. By keeping these things
    secret from us, the Bolsheviks here have placed themselves in a
    powerful position to deceive us.

    We have never been told about the modified NASA 747 which
    carries a complete replica of the crew quarters and cargo bay of
    a shuttle. Therefore we are unaware that this airplane,
    originally intended for training, has become a Bolshevik tool of
    deception against us. When we saw video tapes of astronauts in
    the simulated Shuttle cockpit, we naturally thought it was the
    real thing. Seeing a notebook float in mid air for a few seconds
    next to the astronauts, we were supposed to think: "They are
    weightless because they are in orbit." We were given no clue
    that these moments of weightlessness had taken place months
    earlier in a 747 flying a controlled arc through the air.
    Likewise, we were shown one or two episodes of the astronauts
    moving around the cabin, obviously weightless for up to three or
    four minutes. What we were not told is that these scenes had
    been video-taped months earlier during suborbital space hops by
    the training shuttle Enterprise.

    Many of my listeners have called or written with the same
    observation about the first of these episodes shown the day of
    the launch. We heard the alleged "live" conversation of Young
    and Crippen, and yet, in the television picture, they were not
    moving their lips. They had merely posed for the camera during a
    suborbital flight months earlier, and they recorded the sound
    track we heard only days before the launch.

    While NASA may have fooled you and me about the Space Shuttle,
    they did not fool the new rulers of Russia. They learned last
    fall what the flight of the Columbia was really all about; and,
    my friends, when the Columbia was launched two weeks ago, the
    Russians were ready and waiting!

    Topic #2--A month before the shuttle "Columbia" blasted off from
    Cape Canaveral, the two astronauts who were to ride in it held a
    news conference in Houston. The day was March 9, 1981.
    Astronaut Robert Crippen caught the attention of the reporters
    when he said:

    "I think the odds, with the way we've designed the mission
    right now, are that we will probably come home early."

    Then he added, quote:

    "As far as John and I are concerned, if we get up and get down,
    it's a success."

    Those words of astronaut Crippen about a short mission were more
    accurate than most people realized.

    The real mission plan, which I had already made public in
    AUDIO LETTER No. 62, was for a short mission. The astronauts
    were supposed to get into orbit and deploy the military satellite
    from the Columbia's cargo bay very quickly, then they were to
    return to Earth--not aboard the Shuttle but in a special re-entry
    capsule. Two days later they were supposed to land the disguised
    shuttle "Enterprise" at Edwards Air Force Base as the final act
    in the falsified drama staged for our benefit.

    In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 I described the military purpose of the
    mission in detail. For the first time in three years the
    Pentagon was hoping to get a Spy Satellite into orbit that could
    not be shot down immediately by Russia. I also outlined
    important features of the flight plan which had been conceived
    for the Columbia. Now I want to give you more details about that
    and tell you how it turned out because, my friends, the
    Bolsheviks here in the Government are now planning to try it
    again with a second shuttle flight presently scheduled for the
    fall of this year 1981.

    Knowing what happened this time, I believe you will be far
    better prepared to see through it all next time. If you can
    think back to American space launches of the past, you may have
    noticed something very unusual about the launch of the Columbia.
    In the past, manned space launches from Cape Canaveral have
    always been made toward the southeast, toward the equator, but
    not this time. The Columbia was launched to the northeast, away
    from the equator. The reason for this, my friends, was the
    secret space reconnaissance mission of the Columbia.

    In its public news releases, NASA told everyone that Columbia
    was launched into a 44-degree orbit--that is, it would never go
    further north or south than 44 degrees above and below the
    equator. But the actual orbit chosen for the Columbia was a
    69-degree orbit. A 69-degree orbit was chosen because it would
    take the Columbia, and the Spy Satellite inside it, all the way
    north to the Arctic Circle and beyond. That is the kind of orbit
    that is necessary if a spy satellite is to fly reconnaissance
    over Russia.

    The northeast launch of the Columbia was done in order to
    enable the Spy Satellite to start gathering data over Russia only
    minutes after the Columbia reached orbit. These days time is of
    the essence in any attempt to spy on Russia. Every American spy
    satellite launched at Russia during the past three years has been
    blinded or shot down before gathering much data.

    The secret flight plan for the Columbia was completely
    different from what NASA claimed in public. The plan called for
    Columbia to be launched on an initial northeast course in the
    general direction of Bermuda, then roughly 2-1/2 minutes after
    launch, Columbia was to begin an unorthodox course change--a wide
    sweeping turn into the north. This unprecedented curving launch
    was intended as an evasive maneuver. Planners of the Columbia
    mission believed this would enable Columbia to sneak past any
    Russian Cosmospheres that might be waiting overhead. Still
    accelerating on its curving course, the Columbia was supposed to
    pass about 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
    Roughly 200 miles east of Washington, D.C., the Shuttle's main
    engines were to cut off. After coasting in silence for a few
    seconds, the fuel tank was scheduled to cut loose as the Columbia
    passed 100 miles east of New Jersey. For the next two minutes
    the Shuttle and its fuel tank were to be coasting onward past the
    east tip of Long Island, over Boston, and onward toward Maine.
    During that time the Shuttle was supposed to maneuver away from
    the fuel tank, using small maneuvering jets. Finally, just as
    the Columbia passed over New Brunswick, Canada, the flight plan
    called for the orbital maneuvering engines to be fired.
    Somewhere over the Labrador Sea, flying upside-down, the Columbia
    was scheduled to reach earth orbit. As soon as it did so, the
    flight plan called for astronauts Young and Crippen to go to work
    fast. In less than 10 minutes time they were supposed to open up
    the cargo bay doors and turn on the sensors of the Spy Satellite
    resting inside. As they did these things, the Columbia was to be
    racing over the south tip of Greenland, out over the middle of
    the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland, above the
    Arctic Circle, and then dipping back southward toward northern
    Norway, Finland, and Russia. According to the flight plan, the
    Columbia was scheduled to cross the Russian border just south of
    the strategic Kola Peninsula. The time: a mere 22 minutes, 42
    seconds, after lift-off from Cape Canaveral. At that moment
    initial reconnaissance over Russia was to be under way. The Spy
    Satellite inside the cargo bay, even though not yet deployed,
    would have had a perfect view downward through the open doors of
    the upside-down Shuttle.

    The Columbia was intended to fly over a course across Russia
    that began just west of the strategic White Sea in extreme
    northwestern Russia. From there the planned course of the
    Columbia was to take it southeastward over some 2500 miles of
    strategic Russian territory. During the first minute alone, the
    Satellite was expected to see parts of the highly sensitive Kola
    Peninsula, the White Sea, including the super secret submarine
    yards at Archangel and the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The Shuttle was
    also to pass near Kazan, one of the bases of Russia's flying ABM
    system. This system, as I revealed a year ago in AUDIO LETTER
    No. 54, uses charged particle beams carried by supersonic TU-144
    transports.

    Toward the end of the first pass over Russia the Spy Satellite
    was expected to gather data on two more of Russia's four
    Cosmodromes--those of Baikonur and Tyura-Tam. In between,
    numerous other war targets were also to come under scrutiny. The
    Spy Satellite in the Columbia's cargo bay was expected to see all
    that during its very first pass over Russian territory. It would
    all take only 8-1/2 minutes! Then the Columbia would have
    crossed the border with Afghanistan, heading toward India.
    Barely 10 minutes later, the Spy Satellite was to be radioing its
    data down to the American receivers at Diego Garcia in the Indian
    Ocean.

    That was the plan, my friends. The Bolshevik military
    planners here were confident that their Spy Satellite would get
    at least this planned first look at Russia. They were sure that
    Columbia's curving launch and the short time involved would
    prevent Russia from thwarting the mission. Columbia took off
    from Cape Canaveral at 7:00 A.M. Eastern Time, that Sunday
    morning. By 7:23 Columbia was expected to be over Russia
    already. By 7:31 Columbia was expected to be leaving Russian
    skies, and by 7:45 that Sunday morning the military planners
    expected to have their first reconnaissance data from Russia.

    The plan sounded plausible, my friends, but the Bolsheviks
    here are falling victim to the very Intelligence gap which they
    themselves created in America years ago. Russian Intelligence
    agents were able to learn the general outlines of the Columbia
    mission plan some six months ago. Fully one month before the
    public roll-out of the Columbia at Cape Canaveral last November,
    the Russian Space Command was studying the problem. There was no
    question about one thing: The Columbia's mission could not be
    allowed to succeed. Given even a shred of up-to-date
    reconnaissance data, the Bolsheviks in America are determined to
    set off nuclear war. Even so, there was a question about the
    best way to spoil the Shuttle mission. Several possibilities
    were considered, including sabotage or simply blasting the
    Columbia out of the sky. All were rejected because they shared
    one weakness. Each alternative would halt one shuttle mission,
    but it would not stop the Shuttle Program as a whole, and
    Russia's goal is to completely shut down the Space Shuttle
    Program.

    At last they hit upon the solution. What was needed was a
    Space Age version of the famous U-2 incident of two decades ago.
    In the waning days of the Eisenhower Administration, Russia had
    publicly accused the United States of invading its air space with
    spy flights. That was before the era of Spy Satellites, and
    invading other countries' air space was a serious charge in the
    eyes of the world. American spokesmen tried to defuse the
    growing furor while carefully avoiding a definitive denial of the
    charges; but the Russians kept it up. Finally President
    Eisenhower became so exasperated that he flatly denied, in
    public, that America was flying spy planes over Russia. That was
    exactly what the Russians were waiting for. The Russians
    promptly did what American Intelligence specialists thought they
    could not do--they shot down a high-flying U-2 on a flight over
    Russia. The name of the CIA pilot, the late Francis Gary Powers,
    filled the headlines world-wide overnight. The Russians had made
    a liar of the President of the United States! A summit had been
    scheduled between President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev, but
    the Russians icily called it off.

    The Russian Space Command proposed to the Kremlin that the
    shuttle Columbia be made the focus of a similar incident. All
    that was necessary was that the Columbia be made to crash land in
    Russia reasonably intact. Having protested continuously about
    the military nature of the Shuttle Program, Russia would be able
    to stun the world by proving it. They would put the crashed
    Shuttle on public display together with its nuclear-powered,
    laser-firing Spy Satellite. The Kremlin liked the plan, and
    agreed to it. To further emphasize the parallels with the 1960
    U-2 incident, Russia has recently proposed a summit with the
    United States. The plan was to withdraw the summit proposal in
    protest after shooting down the Columbia.

    The Russian Space Command went to work several months ago to
    get ready. They were faced with a tall order to bring down the
    Columbia on Russian territory without totally destroying it. As
    recently as a year ago it would have been an impossible task, but
    now Russia has a new space tool to do the job. It is a third
    version of the Russian levitating weapons platform, the
    Cosmosphere. They are called "Super Heavies" by the Russian
    Space Command.

    The Russian Super Heavy Cosmospheres are still considered
    experimental. Even so, the Russians have already built seven of
    them. They are mammoth machines, the largest flying machines
    ever built. In terms of volume, they are even bigger than the
    biggest zeppelins of the 1930's. They can carry a pay load of
    more than 50 tons, far more than our own space shuttle; and they
    are equipped with powerful electromagnetic propulsion which can
    take the Cosmosphere all the way to orbital speed. In short, my
    friends, the jumbo Cosmosphere is Russia's space shuttle. It is
    still experimental, but it is operating already.

    In order to carry out their attack on the space shuttle
    Columbia, Russia's entire fleet of seven jumbo Cosmospheres were
    made ready. Five were outfitted with special grappling equipment
    to enable them to seize a very large object in space. The other
    two were outfitted with neutron particle beam weapons. These
    weapons are the same type as were used in the "Battle of the
    Harvest Moon" in September 1977.


    At 7:00 A.M. Sunday morning, April 12, the rocket engines of
    the space shuttle Columbia roared to life. Moments later the
    giant solid boosters were fired, and the Columbia took off fast.
    As it climbed, it rolled around and started leaning into its
    flight path toward space. As we watched on our television sets,
    it rapidly dwindled off into the northeast. We watched as the
    solid boosters separated and peeled away to each side. Moments
    later the Columbia vanished from the screen.

    The television scene shifted to the alleged Mission Control in
    Houston. It was the old familiar scene with rows of Mission
    Controllers intent on their consoles. Up in front the NASA
    computer-controlled map started tracing the alleged course of the
    Columbia. According to the map, Columbia was heading out over
    the Atlantic toward Bermuda; but at that moment, free of the
    solid boosters, Columbia was already starting its long sweeping
    curve to the north. One-hundred-fifty miles east of Charleston,
    South Carolina, Russia's fleet of 7 jumbo Cosmospheres were
    hovering high over the ocean. As the space shuttle approached on
    its elaborate curving path, the Cosmospheres started speeding up
    to intercept it. The Shuttle was already flying upside-down with
    the huge fuel tank on top. The two Cosmospheres armed with
    neutron beams closed in on the Columbia from below and slightly
    behind, where they could not be seen by Young and Crippen. The
    other five jumbo Cosmospheres with their grappling equipment flew
    in formation above and well behind the fuel tank to be out of the
    line of fire. The Cosmospheres paced the Shuttle until it
    reached a predetermined altitude and speed.

    Then the armed Cosmospheres opened up with their neutron
    beams. Firing at point-blank range, each Cosmosphere fired just
    two bursts from its beam weapon. The first salvo flooded the
    cockpit area and an area near the engines in the rear. Young and
    Crippen died instantly, the neutron radiation having totally
    disrupted all activity of their nervous systems, brains, eyes,
    and hearts. At the same time the Shuttle's engines shut down. A
    fraction of a second later, the second salvo flooded neutron
    radiation into the nose and an area beneath the cargo bay. These
    shots were calculated to derange and shut down the Columbia's
    flight computers--that is, all the computers except one. The
    Russians wanted the backup computer to take over and do its
    job--that is, make an emergency automatic re-entry and crash
    landing in Russia. They anticipated that it would do so because
    the backup computer is heavily shielded against radiation. The
    shielding is a material more efficient than lead. It is gold!
    The Russians expected that the "Gold Computer", as it is known in
    certain circles, would take over after the engines shut down.
    Sure enough, within 10 seconds after the engines shut down, the
    fuel tank, still a third full, was automatically cast loose. The
    Gold Computer was now flying the Shuttle. The five jumbo
    Cosmospheres with grappling equipment fastened onto the fuel
    tank. Then, using their powerful electromagnetic propulsion,
    they veered away with the tank. From its northeasterly course,
    the tank was swerved around over the North Atlantic in a great
    arc until it was heading southeast instead. The Cosmospheres
    then accelerated to orbital speed and cast the fuel tank loose.

    Three years ago the first Cosmospheres had sent a message by
    way of enormous air booms along America's East Coast. Now
    Russia's newest Cosmospheres were using the Shuttle fuel tank to
    send a chilling new message to America's Bolshevik war planners.

    Meanwhile the armed Cosmospheres followed the Columbia itself.
    Having had its engines shut down prematurely, the Columbia was
    well below orbital speed. Instead it was following a ballistic
    path, just like an ICBM, into the heart of Russia. It looked as
    though the Russian plan was going to work, but then the
    unexpected happened!

    One of Columbia's deranged computers apparently started
    working again. The brief shut-down had thrown it out of
    synchronization with the Gold Computer, so the two computers
    apparently did not communicate with one another. As the Columbia
    passed over the border of Russia, it was flying right-side-up
    instead of upside-down under control of the Gold Computer. But
    the other computer opened up the cargo bay doors right on
    schedule. As the Shuttle began to re-enter over Russia, hot air
    flooded the cargo bay. Heat sensors in the Spy Satellite
    detected the heat build-up, which was programmed into the
    Satellite's computer as a sign of "attack damage." Finally, the
    temperature built up to a critical point, activating a
    self-destruct circuit in the Satellite. The Spy Satellite
    exploded, blowing the Columbia apart.

    The Russians had hoped for a crash landing in recognizable
    form. Instead, the Columbia ended up in wreckage strewn along a
    line some 85 miles long in central Russia southeast of the City
    of Kazan. As it turned out, neither the Bolsheviks here nor the
    Russians got what they wanted. The Bolsheviks did not get their
    reconnaissance data, and the Russians did not get a recognizable
    space shuttle to show the world. That leaves the stage set for
    another "try" by both sides later this year.

    Topic #3--Sunday, April 12, 1981, was the 20th anniversary of the
    first manned flight into space. It was the anniversary of the
    first orbital flight by a Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. It
    was also a day of total disarray among the Bolshevik masters of
    America's Space Shuttle Program.

    Less than eight minutes after launch that Sunday morning they
    knew something had happened to the Columbia. You and I were
    still hearing the sound effects of a seemingly successful flight,
    courtesy of the NASA tape recording from Houston. But the
    military controllers at White Sands, who were following the real
    flight, were hearing nothing at all. Columbia had suddenly gone
    totally silent.

    At 7:45 A.M. the news got worse. Columbia had failed to
    arrive over the Indian Ocean on schedule.

    Before the morning was out, there was still more bad news.
    NORAD was tracking the fuel tank of the Shuttle. It was not
    supposed to be in orbit at all--but there it was, in an orbit
    that looked impossible.

    That evening, Sunday April 12, the Shuttle's fuel tank
    re-entered over the Gulf of Mexico just south of Louisiana. The
    tank had ruptured but there was still a sizeable amount of liquid
    hydrogen and oxygen inside. When the tank re-entered it heated
    up and set off an enormous explosion, creating a giant cloud at
    the fringes of space. Gold plating, which is used extensively in
    the shuttle fuel tank because of its heat transfer properties,
    was vaporized and scattered through the cloud. The result was
    the same as when gold is added in tiny quantities to stained
    window glass--a brilliant pinkish-red color. The giant pink
    cloud, with chunks of the ruined fuel tank flashing in the sun,
    created headlines as it passed to the northeast over Louisiana
    and Mississippi. Meanwhile, Government spokesmen tried to
    pooh-pooh it all as, quote "a natural phenomenon."

    The Bolsheviks here still are not quite sure what happened to
    the Columbia, but they do know that as far as Space is concerned,
    the Shuttle Program is their only hope. They have three more
    orbital shuttles hidden away at White Sands, and they intend to
    launch them all no matter what the odds may be, so the NASA
    cover-up of the Columbia disaster went right on according to
    plan.

    Two years ago I first revealed the existence of man-made
    genetic replicas of human beings. I was widely disbelieved and
    condemned at the time, just as I knew I would be. But they do
    exist, and once again they have been pressed into service before
    our eyes.

    Tuesday morning, April 14, genetic replicas called
    "Synthetics" of the late astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen
    were readied at White Sands. They were programmed to take a
    computerized ride on the training shuttle "Enterprise." The
    Young and Crippen entities boarded the Enterprise, which was
    mounted on top of the launch 747. After rocket fuel was loaded
    for the shuttle, the 747 took off and headed west, avoiding
    commercial air traffic. The launch 747 headed out over the
    Pacific until it was several hundred miles west of Los Angeles.
    Then it turned back toward the east toward the California coast.
    On television we were told that the non-existent Columbia was
    re-entering from orbit. Meanwhile the "Enterprise", re-labeled
    "Columbia", cut loose from the 747 and fired its rockets. It
    sped up to a speed of nearly 6,000 miles per hour, then we
    watched it as it made that dramatic race in from the sea to a
    precise computer landing at Edwards Air Force Base. It was all
    timed to agree as closely as possible with the official NASA
    timetable.

    Even so, a technical mistake was made that morning and as a
    result we were told that the Shuttle would land six minutes
    early. My friends, in space flight, six minutes might as well be
    a year. Six minutes in orbit corresponds to nearly a 2,000 mile
    error in the location of the Shuttle, but on TV nobody bothered
    to question it. They all just smiled and said, "Isn't it a
    lovely day to watch the Shuttle."

    After the dramatic Shuttle landing, former astronaut Gene
    Cernan expressed surprise on ABC television. He said the Shuttle
    simply did not look scorched enough for a ship that had
    re-entered from orbit. Likewise, when the synthetics called
    Young and Crippen emerged, they did not act like men who had been
    weightless for two days. Instead they bounded down the access
    steps and pranced around with restless energy, but no one
    questioned it. After all, we had seen the Shuttle landing for
    ourselves; and as that old saying goes, "Seeing is believing."

    Now it's time for my Last Minute Summary.

    My friends, the score in America's Space Shuttle Program is
    now "One down and three to go." Three more shuttles like the
    Columbia are waiting their turn in the desert at White Sands.
    Each will have the name "Columbia" painted on its side. The real
    Columbia is now dead, along with its crew; but thanks to these
    mechanical clones, the Columbia will live again in the public
    eye.

    I have given you as many details as time will allow about the
    Columbia disaster and its cover-up by NASA. The point of it all
    is not whether Russia is ahead or America is ahead in the Space
    race. The point is that we are being deceived. We are being
    given a false sense of security and a false sense of confidence.
    We are being led like sheep to slaughter into nuclear war and
    Bolshevik dictatorship.

    If we choose to believe their lies, then they will succeed,
    they will destroy our way of life, and enslave the few of us who
    survive their war. OR, we can learn to do as our Lord Jesus
    Christ taught us to do long ago. We can learn to look for the
    truth, cherish the truth, and believe the Truth. If we do that,
    my friends, then we will always be free.

    Until next month, God willing, this is Dr. Beter. Thank you,
    and may God bless each and every one of you.

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    The Russian Super Heavy Cosmospheres are still considered
    experimental. Even so, the Russians have already built seven of
    them. They are mammoth machines, the largest flying machines
    ever built. In terms of volume, they are even bigger than the
    biggest zeppelins of the 1930's. They can carry a pay load of
    more than 50 tons, far more than our own space shuttle; and they
    are equipped with powerful electromagnetic propulsion which can
    take the Cosmosphere all the way to orbital speed. In short, my
    friends, the jumbo Cosmosphere is Russia's space shuttle. It is
    still experimental, but it is operating already.

    It's been twelve years since this was published. Where are these now? What's left of the USSR is offering to sell everything they've got in
    space hardware: their shuttle, Buran; their space station, Mir, and their
    big booster, Proton. Nobody is that interested. But this technology
    has real export possibilities. Who do we contact for licencing?

    John Nagle



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  • From Wes Thomas@RICKSBBS to Ricky Sutphin on Sun Jan 12 22:15:24 2025
    Re: Columbia shuttle cover up April 27, 1981
    By: Ricky Sutphin to All on Sat Jan 11 2025 04:02 am

    This was an excellent old post. It reminds me of an old 70s film called Capricorn One.
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