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Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 9/11 Terrorists, Part 30:
NIMA Toads

By Alex Constantine
Research Assistance by Team8

DATELINE - WASHINGTON 

"It SPIES ON TERRORISTS ... GUIDES WAR FIGHTERS TO
THEIR TARGETS ... ALL WITH AN ARRAY OF SPACE-AGE
TECHNOLOGY ...."
                                 - CNN, December 13,
2002

The Eyes of God

"There are reports that the indiscriminate 
spying on Americans is even wider, and that 
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 
has brought satellite surveillance to bear on 
the US for domestic spying ...." 
        - Rowan Wolf, "A Slow Motion Coup"

Like so many others in this history, Lieutenant
General James R. Clapper, too, had a dream - of
omnipresence. After the Gulf War, the DIA director was
driven to upgrade the handling and communication of
intelligence - particularly "pictures, not reports" -
in the hot zone.  

"The ultimate ideal," he said, "is to have a constant
God's-eye view of the battlefield. Anywhere, anytime,
all the time."?1 

Clapper, like Hayden, was a military careerist. After
32 years in the Air Force, he retired with the rank of
lieutenant general in 1995. In civilian drag, Clapper
moved on to executive corporate positions and
directorships at several private military intelligence
contracting concerns, including Booz Allen Hamilton,
until, on August 8, 2001, Rumsfeld and CIA Director
George Tenet jointly announced that he would take over
the reins at the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
(NIMA), succeeding NIMA's first director, James C.
King.2 

This secret apparat, established in 1996,
headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, rechristened the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2003,
produced and fed intelligence images and geospatial
data to military forces and federal policymakers. NIMA
was a bureaucratic omelot of existing agencies,
including the Defense Mapping Agency and the CIA's
satellite photo analysis division. 

"If you think about it, everything and everybody has
to be someplace," Clapper told CNN in 2002. "We try to
create the setting, the geographical setting if you
will, and help determine where things and people could
be."3 

In the same segment, Patrick Eddington, a former CIA
photo analyst, told CNN's David Ensor that merging the
CIA's satellite imagery division with NIMA was a
drastic error: "It creates a corporate culture," he
said.  "And that is absolutely death. It guarantees
intelligence failures."

Clapper wouldn't hear it, of course: "I think we do a
very good job of satisfying all of our masters." To be
completely precise, some the agency's masters have not
been altogether pleased with its performance -
particularly congressional oversight committees.
Accountability requirements in government are a
necessity. Without them, congressional monitors of the
intelligence community are only briefed by
intelligence officials when compelled by leaks and
scandals. But Clapper doesn't see it that way:
‘‘Oversight has become too complicated,’’ he has
complained. ‘‘There are too many jurisdictions, too
much paperwork.’’4

James C. King, a retired three-star Army general,
outgoing director of NIMA, is an interesting study in
his own right. King was born on March 18, 1946, in
Salt Lake City. He entered the Army as a military
graduate of Utah State University's Reserve Officer
Training Corps program, with assignments in Vietnam,
Japan, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. His
corporate profile at Gestalt LLC, where he is on the
advisory board, reveals that King is "an acknowledged
expert in the development of intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance," and so forth. "During
his 33 years in the U.S. Army, he was involved in
foreign and national security policy formulation and
implementation, intelligence operations, and
leadership of large organizations. King joined NIMA in
March 1998 [under] the Department of Defense and
National Intelligence Agency, comprised of 13,000
employees and contractors."

Before joining MZM, Inc. in December 2001, King served
under General Hayden as the NSA's associate deputy
director for operations - not for long, but long
enough to execute his role in the 9/11 operation. MZM
Inc. is based in Washington, D.C. Mitchell J. Wade
started up the high-tech security firm in 1993, but
was forced to step down in June 2005 after news
reports that he did financial favors for Rep. Randy
"Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), who lobbied to fund
programs that retained MZM on contract.5

On May 8, 2006, Justin Rood at TBM Muckraker reported
that the relationship between Hayden and King
continued after the latter left the NSA: "King worked
at NSA Headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, in 2004
and 2005." Not only was King under contract, he was
"working on same floor as Hayden.... He was doing
special projects for Hayden as an MZM employee." What
was this about special projects? "As an MZM employee,
King was involved in a number of controversial
projects. In 2002, he was a key adviser to the team
creating CIFA, the Pentagon's domestic surveillance
operation. In 2004, he was one of three MZM staffers
who worked on the White House Robb-Silberman
Commission, which recommended expanding CIFA's
powers." King has made generous campaign contributions
to congressional candidates Wade smiled upon,
including Virgil Goode (D-Va., $6,000) and Rep.
Katherine Harris (R-Fla., $4,000).6

But it wasn't his first taste of bad press. In May,
2001, King was a subject to a fraud investigation
involving an Indian-owned company in Alaska. NIMA
director King was accused of conducting a cost-benefit
analysis as part of the sweeping privatization
program. Instead, he exercised an option permitting
him to forego the cost study if the agency selected a
contractor owned 51 percent by an American Indian
tribe. Pentagon reporter Bill Gertz reported, "NIMA´s
conversion of government employees to contractors [is]
expected to increase taxpayer costs, not reduce them,
we are told by an agency source."7 Perhaps this is why
King avoided the cost-benefit study.

The Team8 investigation of “Project Trailblazer” found
that NIMA was allied with the NSA in the execution of
9/11. Nico Haupt of Team8 writes that press reports
that the Trailblazer program under the NSA has been a
dismal failure are "hogwash - 'Trailblazer' is a huge
satellite spy surveillance program" that has been in
operation since 1998/99, "with big contracts to
defense contractors like Titan Corporation (James
Woolsey, PNAC, ex-CIA, BTG Inc.)" The eavesdropping
program that cursed Hayden's confirmation as CIA
director in May 2006 was a Trailblazer sub-operation,
the code-name a cover for "Ronald Reagan’s STAR WARS
and its intelligence surveillance tools. These folks
know exactly what they’re doing, under the cover of
'negligence.' The irony is that 'Trailblazer' also is
a scripted analogy and official secret service
code-name for George Bush."

But the word has other clandestine meanings:
“'Trailblazer' is nothing other than the operation of
9/11."

Two of the core operatives, Haupt says, were Stephen
Campone and James King, "who left NIMA two days after
Bush’s alleged Bin Laden 9/11 memo," jumping to MZM
Inc. - "the very same company immediately close to
Hayden, and now linked to the bribery scandal. 

"The privatization of CIA and Pentagon started BEFORE
9/11, in awareness of 9/11." The same can be said for
the NSA and NIMA. The privatization of intelligence
and space surveillance were goals of the 9/11
operation. 

"Homeland Security was also already established with
help of ANSER Institute," Haupt observes ... BEFORE
9/11!!"

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NOTES

1) Loch K. Johnson, Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence
in a Hostile World, Yale University Press, 2004.

2) "JAMES R. CLAPPER NAMED DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY," DoD press release no.
363-01. 
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2001/b08082001_bt363-01.html

3) David Ensor, "Secretive map agency opens its
doors," CNN report, December 13, 2002. 
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/12/09/map.makers/

4) Accountability and America’s Secret Foreign Policy:
Keeping a Legislative Eye on the Central Intelligence
Agency,
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2005.00005.x?cookieSet=1

5) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=MZM_Inc.

6) Justin Rood, "CIA Nominee Hayden Linked to MZM,"
TPM Muckraker.com, May 8, 2006.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=140537

7) Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, "NIMA under
fire," Inside the Ring column.
http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/ring051801.html

Alex Constantine

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