Indulge me, if you will, an exercise in semiotic foraging whereby I take a cold war era pot-boiler spy novel -Death Beam (1981)- and use it as a sieve
through which to filter by association the facts, theories & speculations surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001.
First, a few links concerning the author...
Robert Moss as CIA propaganda agent.
Robert Moss as adopted Mohawk "active dreaming" guru.
A disillusioned
follower
Audio interviews
Perhaps there are some valuable tips for reading his novels
here
Now let us proceed "...to infer occult connections between twenty-year old cases and what was happening today..." (pg.160)
A date and location heading begins each chapter. The first three chapters that take place in New York are
1, 9, 11 (foreshadowing the year, the month, and the day)
These chapters begin as follows:
pg.1
1
New York, September 6
There was a line at the door to the Cafe Carlyle...
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Carlyle Group meeting on the morning of 9/11/01 in Manhattan;
source: final paragraphs of this
Guardian article & this
CBC article.
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pg. 110
9
New York, September 18
"It was a fix," Melanie Toussaint fumed as they fought their way through the mob of fight-goers at Madison Square Garden.
There was a threatening rumble of anger from many of the fans who shared their disappointment with the champion who had bowed out, with only light
injuries, after only nine rounds...
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Perhaps, according to one of the more outlandish theories, these 110 story towers were
"fixed" at birth.
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Pg.132
11
New York, September 24
Jimmy's toy cars were arrayed in lines, four deep, in the hallway, just in front of the door. He was now engaged in lining up behind them the
entire miniature cast of Star Wars...
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The
toasted cars of 9/11.
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To briefly summerize the plot of the novel: a team of American, British, and Israeli intelligence agents, members of a loose-knit spy cabal known as
"the Club," race to prevent the launch of the Soviet doomsday weapon Razrukha, the Death Beam satellite, on the kill date of November 7, which if
successful would fry millions of Americans within a hundred mile radius along the Eastern seaboard while leaving buildings and infrastructure intact.
Though this detail departs from the nature of the attacks of 9/11, there is a notable parallel to the kind of exotic weapons some speculate were used
to do the job on the WTC, notably as the beam weapon utilizes a micro-nuke as its power source:
"The basic source of energy for the weapon is supplied by fusion... a controlled, mini-thermonuclear explosion." (pg.337)
more details: "...the flux-compression process by which the energy generated by a mini-thermonuclear explosion would be converted into electrical
power to produce the beam..." (pg.330)
Review
these
links for a few of the speculations.
[edit on 1-7-2007 by 0ivae]
