freddy
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Active Shooter Mandalay Bay
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Marine Cpl
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Start that thread. Let's see were it goes. You show me proof the school existed and I'll show you proof it didn't.
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
The people shot and running is not what we are disputing. But you already know that and said it anyway to have some semblance of an argument.
That's like me saying that there was a concert if I was arguing on your side.
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ECU Pirates
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After you answer my question. How many people would need to be involved in the cover up and are the graves empty? Use the foil I sent you please.
ECU Pirates
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Also if anyone had real proof the school never existed it would be common knowledge.
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Holdover already answered that question.
ECU Pirates
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No he didn't and I want your answer. I didn't know he spoke for you. He thinks the school was real ( I think). Thinking that was never a school would make his number of 100 (way too low) increase.
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Post 1225. First paragraph.
ECU Pirates
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Are you drunk? I want your estimate. Don't forget you said the school didn't exist.
freddy
.308 Win
Careful! Will is preparing to destroy!
ECU Pirates
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Only his theory....
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
I don't know. However many it takes to take over the investigation and not let anyone else in who isn't cleared. It isn't rocket science. The Feds come in and take over. It's that simple.
Holder probably arranged the whole thing when he met with Malloy 2 weeks prior to discuss gun control with him. The actors were given their scripts.
http://m.beforeitsnews.com/conspira...sandy-hook-on-gun-control-launch-2447482.html
ECU Pirates
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If the school didn't exist it would have to be just about the entire population of Newtown and anyone that lived there. The current population is about 30k. It was a real school Will.
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Start that thread. Let's go at it there and not ruin this one. I'm done here. Let's keep this one related to the Mandalay Bay.
Start that thread.
ECU Pirates
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I accept your surrender.
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Start the thread.
ECU Pirates
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I already finished it here.....
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
That's what I thought.
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
Well that's a just a simple disagreement about secrets, the Lockheed martin SR71 blackbird was designed in the late 1950s
It flew missions all over the world and nobody even knew it existed until the mid late 1970s, thousands of people were involved in its design manufacture maintenance and operations, there are still classified materials regarding the JFK assassination 60 years ago. There are operations in Vietnam which are still secret today. Nobody knew about global strike until it was declassified recently , the military has its own space shuttle and carries out operations with it, nobody knew just how good the Chobham armor on the Abrams was , or even what it was made from until The Russians obtained samples from the Mideast. Nobody knows of the operations of the CIA in the Ukraine or the Mid east or Africa , there are millions of things we don't know about that are kept from the public , We also know for a fact that politicians lie through their rotten teeth , We know that public opinion can be manipulated by omitting facts or down right lying. As long as people are corrupt and power hungry there will be cover ups , look at the scandals of the Clintons , We still don't have the answers to a lot of them .
As far as what Will said, I keep an open mind about it. I cannot prove or disprove it, But the fact that the school didn't have any internet signature is something I cant explain , the fact that the parking lot didn't have any handicap accessible spaces is interesting . Combine that with some of the witnesses who are obviously lying, and I don't think its all that crazy after all .
From Police report: regarding Kaitlin Roig, Sandy Hook 1st grade teacher Room 12
file #00091247
Roig stated that she told her kids to get into the bathroom. She had 15 students that day, one was absent. Roig stated that the children initially
placed themselves into the bathroom. When she came in, Roig stated that she put the littlest one on the toilet paper dispenser for a moment and
held her there with one arm as she moved the kids around. Roig stated that she picked up two or three children and placed them behind the door
because she could not close it. At one point, there were 5-6 kids standing on the toilet, all at once, so she could make room, and only one child
remained there the whole time. Roig stated that she stood along the wall near the toilet paper dispenser, across from the door, and she told the
children in front of her to crouch down. Roig stated that she locked the door and left the light on. Prior to closing the door, Roig stated that she
pulled the wheeled bookshelf in front of the door. Roig stated that it was about 6 feet high and 4 1/2 feet wide. Roig clarified tha_t it was light and on
wheels, a child could push it. Roig stated that she had the kids in the bathroom and in place in under a minute
Teacher Kaitlin Roig told police she heard “rapid-fire shooting” outside of the school, near her classroom. She rushed her students into the classroom’s bathroom, pulled a rolling storage unit in front of the bathroom door as a barricade and then closed and locked the door.
Eventually, police officers slid their badges under the bathroom door. Roig refused to come out and told them that if they were truly police, they should be able to get the key to the door — which they did.
Eventually someone pounded on the bathroom door. Kaitlin refused to open it even after the police officers put their badges under the door. If you’re the police, she told them, you’ll have the master keys. She held her breath, listening to one key after another trying the lock. Then the door swung open to a dozen officers. “That’s the moment I knew we’d been rescued.”
From Connecticut State Police Sergeant William F. Cario’s report (5/6/2013):
The northern corridor of the school was still being cleared as I finished removing children from the bathroom in Room #8. I believe I re-checked the victims in Room #10, and I next went to Room #12.(Kaitlin Roig room) I remember saying that we needed to search the rooms again to check every area where a child could hide. I then heard a noise from the southwest corner of the room and recognized that a wheeled bookcase was likely concealing a bathroom. I froze when I heard the noise and Lt. Vangheli looked at me. I moved toward the bookcase announcing “State Police”. I pulled the bookcase aside and exposed the bathroom door. I could hear children talking and continued calling to them. An adult female voice asked for a badge. I couldn’t get to my badge, but Lt. Vangheli pulled his off and it was passed under the door. One of the children said “It is the police” after the badge went under the door. The female voice then said something about us needing a key to get into the room. I tried to talk her into opening the door as one of the members of the CSP ESU ran out to find a key. I believe the ESU trooper was TFC Faughnan. After telling us to get a key, the bathroom became very quiet and I became suspicious that something was wrong. TFC Faughnan arrived with a key which he handed to me. I was so anxious that I bent the key in the lock. I was able to push the door in only a few inches before there was resistance. I realized that the children were packed so tightly into the bathroom that I could not open the door. Most of the children in the bathroom appeared to be frightened and were crying. I had to squeeze the children out of the bathroom one by one and passed them off to waiting police officers and troopers. The last one out of the bathroom was the teacher, Kaitlin Roig. She was very emotional and I had to persuade her to come out. The troopers then worked together to get the children out of the building as a group.
Multiple police officers and the teacher all agree the bathroom door in room 12 was locked , that she locked the door and the police had to obtain a key to enter. We all agree on that? Ok herein lies the problem:
From Police crime scene photos:
The police could not have opened the bathroom door to 12 with a key , nor could she have locked it since the lock was drilled out.
The police report and the teachers story are false. That's not my opinion, that's the fact of the case.
why would she lie? Why would the police lie? How could they be mistaken about this fact?
This is only one more anomaly among many . I'm not claiming Bigfoot shot these kids, or they were abducted by illegal aliens, I'm basing this on police reports .
So if I'm suspicious that I wasn't told the truth, Its because I wasn't. It has nothing to do with the voices in my head or lack of tin foil.
It flew missions all over the world and nobody even knew it existed until the mid late 1970s, thousands of people were involved in its design manufacture maintenance and operations, there are still classified materials regarding the JFK assassination 60 years ago. There are operations in Vietnam which are still secret today. Nobody knew about global strike until it was declassified recently , the military has its own space shuttle and carries out operations with it, nobody knew just how good the Chobham armor on the Abrams was , or even what it was made from until The Russians obtained samples from the Mideast. Nobody knows of the operations of the CIA in the Ukraine or the Mid east or Africa , there are millions of things we don't know about that are kept from the public , We also know for a fact that politicians lie through their rotten teeth , We know that public opinion can be manipulated by omitting facts or down right lying. As long as people are corrupt and power hungry there will be cover ups , look at the scandals of the Clintons , We still don't have the answers to a lot of them .
As far as what Will said, I keep an open mind about it. I cannot prove or disprove it, But the fact that the school didn't have any internet signature is something I cant explain , the fact that the parking lot didn't have any handicap accessible spaces is interesting . Combine that with some of the witnesses who are obviously lying, and I don't think its all that crazy after all .
From Police report: regarding Kaitlin Roig, Sandy Hook 1st grade teacher Room 12
file #00091247
Roig stated that she told her kids to get into the bathroom. She had 15 students that day, one was absent. Roig stated that the children initially
placed themselves into the bathroom. When she came in, Roig stated that she put the littlest one on the toilet paper dispenser for a moment and
held her there with one arm as she moved the kids around. Roig stated that she picked up two or three children and placed them behind the door
because she could not close it. At one point, there were 5-6 kids standing on the toilet, all at once, so she could make room, and only one child
remained there the whole time. Roig stated that she stood along the wall near the toilet paper dispenser, across from the door, and she told the
children in front of her to crouch down. Roig stated that she locked the door and left the light on. Prior to closing the door, Roig stated that she
pulled the wheeled bookshelf in front of the door. Roig stated that it was about 6 feet high and 4 1/2 feet wide. Roig clarified tha_t it was light and on
wheels, a child could push it. Roig stated that she had the kids in the bathroom and in place in under a minute
Teacher Kaitlin Roig told police she heard “rapid-fire shooting” outside of the school, near her classroom. She rushed her students into the classroom’s bathroom, pulled a rolling storage unit in front of the bathroom door as a barricade and then closed and locked the door.
Eventually, police officers slid their badges under the bathroom door. Roig refused to come out and told them that if they were truly police, they should be able to get the key to the door — which they did.
Eventually someone pounded on the bathroom door. Kaitlin refused to open it even after the police officers put their badges under the door. If you’re the police, she told them, you’ll have the master keys. She held her breath, listening to one key after another trying the lock. Then the door swung open to a dozen officers. “That’s the moment I knew we’d been rescued.”
From Connecticut State Police Sergeant William F. Cario’s report (5/6/2013):
The northern corridor of the school was still being cleared as I finished removing children from the bathroom in Room #8. I believe I re-checked the victims in Room #10, and I next went to Room #12.(Kaitlin Roig room) I remember saying that we needed to search the rooms again to check every area where a child could hide. I then heard a noise from the southwest corner of the room and recognized that a wheeled bookcase was likely concealing a bathroom. I froze when I heard the noise and Lt. Vangheli looked at me. I moved toward the bookcase announcing “State Police”. I pulled the bookcase aside and exposed the bathroom door. I could hear children talking and continued calling to them. An adult female voice asked for a badge. I couldn’t get to my badge, but Lt. Vangheli pulled his off and it was passed under the door. One of the children said “It is the police” after the badge went under the door. The female voice then said something about us needing a key to get into the room. I tried to talk her into opening the door as one of the members of the CSP ESU ran out to find a key. I believe the ESU trooper was TFC Faughnan. After telling us to get a key, the bathroom became very quiet and I became suspicious that something was wrong. TFC Faughnan arrived with a key which he handed to me. I was so anxious that I bent the key in the lock. I was able to push the door in only a few inches before there was resistance. I realized that the children were packed so tightly into the bathroom that I could not open the door. Most of the children in the bathroom appeared to be frightened and were crying. I had to squeeze the children out of the bathroom one by one and passed them off to waiting police officers and troopers. The last one out of the bathroom was the teacher, Kaitlin Roig. She was very emotional and I had to persuade her to come out. The troopers then worked together to get the children out of the building as a group.
Multiple police officers and the teacher all agree the bathroom door in room 12 was locked , that she locked the door and the police had to obtain a key to enter. We all agree on that? Ok herein lies the problem:
From Police crime scene photos:
The police could not have opened the bathroom door to 12 with a key , nor could she have locked it since the lock was drilled out.
The police report and the teachers story are false. That's not my opinion, that's the fact of the case.
why would she lie? Why would the police lie? How could they be mistaken about this fact?
This is only one more anomaly among many . I'm not claiming Bigfoot shot these kids, or they were abducted by illegal aliens, I'm basing this on police reports .
So if I'm suspicious that I wasn't told the truth, Its because I wasn't. It has nothing to do with the voices in my head or lack of tin foil.
ECU Pirates
.308 Win
Do the voices in your head say the school never existed?
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
depends who you ask
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
voices say no. I do believe it was a school . Im not 100% sure it was still active.
Uzi
.308 Win
Wait a minute, that's a trick question, not fair!
freddy
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Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
freddy
.308 Win
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
There are some things that have been debunked from reaching theorists. That doesn't mean anything.
It's the same thing as the 4th floor shooter in the Mandalay. That's been debunked as well but it doesn't mean that because of that one fact, the rest of the narrative being told is correct.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Las Vegas Massacre Analysis
I am of the opinion that we will never know the real details of the Las Vegas Massacre, that we will never know how many shooters were involved, what weapons they used, where they were located, etc etc.
Why? For the simple reason that the FBI has not and will not conduct a proper investigation, furthermore, they will obstruct and derail any legitimate investigations the LVMPD will attempt.
The morning after the shooting, the bodies of the victims have been removed but the sheer amount of detritus left behind is plain to see, and all of this stuff is evidence, all of it should be photographed in situ then tagged, bagged and collected for later forensic analysis.
Las Vegas Massacre Analysis | Veterans Today
I am of the opinion that we will never know the real details of the Las Vegas Massacre, that we will never know how many shooters were involved, what weapons they used, where they were located, etc etc.
Why? For the simple reason that the FBI has not and will not conduct a proper investigation, furthermore, they will obstruct and derail any legitimate investigations the LVMPD will attempt.
The morning after the shooting, the bodies of the victims have been removed but the sheer amount of detritus left behind is plain to see, and all of this stuff is evidence, all of it should be photographed in situ then tagged, bagged and collected for later forensic analysis.
Las Vegas Massacre Analysis | Veterans Today
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
You should learn the difference between circumstantial evidence, and actual evidence. Police photos and police reports are considered to be actual evidence in any court in the country. Tell me, under what different circumstances would a shotgun blast be found in the book case. Tell me under what different circumstances could the bathroom door be opened with a set of keys? Circumstantial evidence is evidence that may be interpreted differently .
Definition of circumstantial evidence
:evidence that tends to prove a fact by proving other events or circumstances which afford a basis for a reasonable inference of the occurrence of the fact at issue
The keyhole being drilled out is NOT circumstantial, the shotgun blast to the bookcase is NOT circumstantial , it is direct evidence of a lie.
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
Here is a ""secret""conspiracy by the CIA to rescue people in Iran . It gives insight into how conspiracy's from the CIA are conducted. This is from the CIA's own website. If an intelligence agency were to conduct operations in the US they would be using similar tactics.
A relative "moderate"--Abulhassan Bani-Sadr--was about to be elected President of Iran, and we judged it possible that he could be sold on these economic points and then might be able to gain agreement from the radical factions of the regime. If so, the cover for infiltrating the Delta Force (in preparation for a hostage rescue attempt at the Embassy) as a team of movie set construction workers and camera crews to prepare the set was a natural. We imagined that it might be possible to conceal weapons and other material in the motion picture equipment.
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Forming a Film Company
One weekend in early January, between trips to Ottawa and planning sessions with NE Division, I made a quick visit to California. I brought along $10,000 in cash, the first of several black-bag deliveries of funds to set up our motion picture company. I arrived on Friday night and met with Jerome and one of his associates in a suite of production offices they had reserved for our purposes on the old Columbia Studio lot in Hollywood. I had invited a CIA contracts officer to the meeting to act as witness to the cash delivery and to follow up as bagman and auditor for the run of the operation. It would take two years to clear all accounts on these matters.
Our production company, "Studio Six Productions," was created in four days, including a weekend, in mid-January. Our offices had previously been occupied by Michael Douglas, who had just completed producing The China Syndrome.
Jerome and his associate were masters at working the Hollywood system. They had begun applying "grease" and calling in favors even before I arrived. Simple things such as the installation of telephones were supposed to take weeks, but we had everything we needed down to the paper clips by the fourth day.
We arranged for full-page ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the two trade papers most important to any business publicity campaign. We tried to keep Jerome's well-known name hidden, but the "trades" had their reporters hot on our trail, and the word was out that something big was brewing in the industry.
When the press discovered that Jerome was connected with this independent production company, interest mounted and more press play followed. Our efforts to keep Jerome's involvement secret actually added credibility to our putative film-making company. Hollywood, moreover, was an ideal place to create and dismantle a major cover entity overnight. The Mafia and many shady foreign investors were notorious for backing productions in Hollywood, where fortunes are frequently made and lost. It is also an ideal place to launder money.
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Picking a Script
Once Studio Six Productions was set up, we tackled the problem of identifying an appropriate script. Jerome and I sat around his kitchen table discussing what the theme should be. Because Star Wars had made it big only recently, many science-fiction, fantasy, and superhero films were being produced. We decided we needed a script with "sci-fi," Middle Eastern, and mythological elements. Something about the glory of Islam would be nice, too. Jerome recalled a recent script that might serve our purpose, and he hauled it out of a pile of manuscripts submitted for his consideration.
This script fit our purpose beautifully, particularly because no uninitiated person could decipher its complicated story line. The script was based on an award-winning sci-fi novel. The producers had also envisioned building a huge set that would later become a major theme park. They had hired a famous comic-strip artist to prepare concepts for the sets. This gave us some good "eyewash" to add to a production portfolio.
We decided to repackage our borrowed script by decorating it with the appropriate logo and title markings. The only copy of the script we needed would be carried by me as a prop to be shown to the Iranians in my role as production manager--and only in the event we were questioned at the airport in Tehran.
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Argo
Jerome and I then set about picking a name for our movie. We needed something catchy from Eastern culture or mythology. After several tries, we hit on it! During our 10-year association, he had proven to be a great story and joke teller. He once told a group of us a profane "knock-knock" joke, with the word "Argo" in the punch line.
This word became an in-house disguise-team recognition signal and battle cry. We used it to break the tension that often built up when we were working long hours under difficult circumstances preparing for an important operation. Jerome remembered this. He also recalled that the name stemmed from mythology. He looked up the definition of Argo and confirmed it as the name of the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed to rescue the Golden Fleece from the many-headed dragon holding it captive in the sacred garden. Perfect! This precisely described the situation in Iran.
I quickly designed an "Argo" logo, which we used for full-page ads in the trades. The ads proclaimed that "Studio Six Productions Presents 'Argo'... A cosmic conflagration ... story by Teresa Harris." (Teresa Harris was the alias we selected for our story consultant; it would be used by one of the six awaiting our arrival in Tehran.)
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Calling the Iranian Consulate
On my last day in California, I made our first business call from our studio offices to the Iranian Consulate in San Francisco, using my alias. I said I required a visa and instructions on procedures for obtaining permission to scout a shooting location in Tehran. My party of eight would be made up of six Canadians, a European, and a Latin American.
The Latin American would be an OTS authentication officer, "Julio," who was posted in Europe. His languages were Spanish, French, and Arabic, and he had considerable exfiltration experience. We had selected OTS-produced documentation for his cover legend as an associate producer representing our production company's ostensible South American backers. I would travel on an OTS-produced European passport.
The call to the Iranian Consulate was a washout. Officials there suggested that we apply at the nearest Iranian Consulate in our area. This was not surprising because many Iranian diplomats were carried over from the Shah's regime, and most were unsure of their current status and their visa-granting authorities.
I departed on the "red-eye special" that night with all the trappings of a Hollywood type, including matchbooks from the Brown Derby Restaurant, where Studio Six Productions held a farewell dinner for me.
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Final Technical Preparations
Back in Washington, the various efforts being mounted against Iran were still going full tilt. Our operations plan for the rescue of the six was being implemented at the working levels of OTS and NE Division, but it had not yet been coordinated with or approved by policymakers.
My immediate task was to participate in the final technical preparations for our three cover options. I had collected several exemplars of supporting documentation for our production party that were to be reproduced by the OTS graphics specialists to pad the wallets of our party. The script had to be altered and a presentation portfolio prepared for our production manager.
Joe Missouri, the document specialist who had accompanied me on the initial trip to Ottawa, had remained behind at that time to negotiate for ancillary documentation to support the Canadian part of the legend. This had required special authorization from senior levels of the Canadian Government, which Missouri managed to obtain. This was quite an accomplishment for a young officer.
By this time, Joe had returned to Washington and taken charge of the Argo portfolio. Joe had always been an artist at the typewriter. He took the roles of various members of the production party and fleshed them out in the form of resumes. This clever ploy provided briefing papers for each subject that could be carried in the open in the production manager's portfolio. When completed, this portfolio had everything needed to sell even the most sophisticated investment banker on our movie.
A Classic Case of Deception — Central Intelligence Agency
A relative "moderate"--Abulhassan Bani-Sadr--was about to be elected President of Iran, and we judged it possible that he could be sold on these economic points and then might be able to gain agreement from the radical factions of the regime. If so, the cover for infiltrating the Delta Force (in preparation for a hostage rescue attempt at the Embassy) as a team of movie set construction workers and camera crews to prepare the set was a natural. We imagined that it might be possible to conceal weapons and other material in the motion picture equipment.
[Top of page]
Forming a Film Company
One weekend in early January, between trips to Ottawa and planning sessions with NE Division, I made a quick visit to California. I brought along $10,000 in cash, the first of several black-bag deliveries of funds to set up our motion picture company. I arrived on Friday night and met with Jerome and one of his associates in a suite of production offices they had reserved for our purposes on the old Columbia Studio lot in Hollywood. I had invited a CIA contracts officer to the meeting to act as witness to the cash delivery and to follow up as bagman and auditor for the run of the operation. It would take two years to clear all accounts on these matters.
Our production company, "Studio Six Productions," was created in four days, including a weekend, in mid-January. Our offices had previously been occupied by Michael Douglas, who had just completed producing The China Syndrome.
Jerome and his associate were masters at working the Hollywood system. They had begun applying "grease" and calling in favors even before I arrived. Simple things such as the installation of telephones were supposed to take weeks, but we had everything we needed down to the paper clips by the fourth day.
We arranged for full-page ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the two trade papers most important to any business publicity campaign. We tried to keep Jerome's well-known name hidden, but the "trades" had their reporters hot on our trail, and the word was out that something big was brewing in the industry.
When the press discovered that Jerome was connected with this independent production company, interest mounted and more press play followed. Our efforts to keep Jerome's involvement secret actually added credibility to our putative film-making company. Hollywood, moreover, was an ideal place to create and dismantle a major cover entity overnight. The Mafia and many shady foreign investors were notorious for backing productions in Hollywood, where fortunes are frequently made and lost. It is also an ideal place to launder money.
[Top of page]
Picking a Script
Once Studio Six Productions was set up, we tackled the problem of identifying an appropriate script. Jerome and I sat around his kitchen table discussing what the theme should be. Because Star Wars had made it big only recently, many science-fiction, fantasy, and superhero films were being produced. We decided we needed a script with "sci-fi," Middle Eastern, and mythological elements. Something about the glory of Islam would be nice, too. Jerome recalled a recent script that might serve our purpose, and he hauled it out of a pile of manuscripts submitted for his consideration.
This script fit our purpose beautifully, particularly because no uninitiated person could decipher its complicated story line. The script was based on an award-winning sci-fi novel. The producers had also envisioned building a huge set that would later become a major theme park. They had hired a famous comic-strip artist to prepare concepts for the sets. This gave us some good "eyewash" to add to a production portfolio.
We decided to repackage our borrowed script by decorating it with the appropriate logo and title markings. The only copy of the script we needed would be carried by me as a prop to be shown to the Iranians in my role as production manager--and only in the event we were questioned at the airport in Tehran.
[Top of page]
Argo
Jerome and I then set about picking a name for our movie. We needed something catchy from Eastern culture or mythology. After several tries, we hit on it! During our 10-year association, he had proven to be a great story and joke teller. He once told a group of us a profane "knock-knock" joke, with the word "Argo" in the punch line.
This word became an in-house disguise-team recognition signal and battle cry. We used it to break the tension that often built up when we were working long hours under difficult circumstances preparing for an important operation. Jerome remembered this. He also recalled that the name stemmed from mythology. He looked up the definition of Argo and confirmed it as the name of the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed to rescue the Golden Fleece from the many-headed dragon holding it captive in the sacred garden. Perfect! This precisely described the situation in Iran.
I quickly designed an "Argo" logo, which we used for full-page ads in the trades. The ads proclaimed that "Studio Six Productions Presents 'Argo'... A cosmic conflagration ... story by Teresa Harris." (Teresa Harris was the alias we selected for our story consultant; it would be used by one of the six awaiting our arrival in Tehran.)
[Top of page]
Calling the Iranian Consulate
On my last day in California, I made our first business call from our studio offices to the Iranian Consulate in San Francisco, using my alias. I said I required a visa and instructions on procedures for obtaining permission to scout a shooting location in Tehran. My party of eight would be made up of six Canadians, a European, and a Latin American.
The Latin American would be an OTS authentication officer, "Julio," who was posted in Europe. His languages were Spanish, French, and Arabic, and he had considerable exfiltration experience. We had selected OTS-produced documentation for his cover legend as an associate producer representing our production company's ostensible South American backers. I would travel on an OTS-produced European passport.
The call to the Iranian Consulate was a washout. Officials there suggested that we apply at the nearest Iranian Consulate in our area. This was not surprising because many Iranian diplomats were carried over from the Shah's regime, and most were unsure of their current status and their visa-granting authorities.
I departed on the "red-eye special" that night with all the trappings of a Hollywood type, including matchbooks from the Brown Derby Restaurant, where Studio Six Productions held a farewell dinner for me.
[Top of page]
Final Technical Preparations
Back in Washington, the various efforts being mounted against Iran were still going full tilt. Our operations plan for the rescue of the six was being implemented at the working levels of OTS and NE Division, but it had not yet been coordinated with or approved by policymakers.
My immediate task was to participate in the final technical preparations for our three cover options. I had collected several exemplars of supporting documentation for our production party that were to be reproduced by the OTS graphics specialists to pad the wallets of our party. The script had to be altered and a presentation portfolio prepared for our production manager.
Joe Missouri, the document specialist who had accompanied me on the initial trip to Ottawa, had remained behind at that time to negotiate for ancillary documentation to support the Canadian part of the legend. This had required special authorization from senior levels of the Canadian Government, which Missouri managed to obtain. This was quite an accomplishment for a young officer.
By this time, Joe had returned to Washington and taken charge of the Argo portfolio. Joe had always been an artist at the typewriter. He took the roles of various members of the production party and fleshed them out in the form of resumes. This clever ploy provided briefing papers for each subject that could be carried in the open in the production manager's portfolio. When completed, this portfolio had everything needed to sell even the most sophisticated investment banker on our movie.
A Classic Case of Deception — Central Intelligence Agency