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Raytheon, 9/11 & Related
Raytheon means "light from the gods." ...??CEO:
William H. Swanson?Military contracts 2005: $9.1
billion?Defense-related
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Raytheon_Company
Raytheon Company
From Demopedia
Raytheon Company had an office on the 91st floor of
WTC2, above the impact area, yet suffered no
casualties. ... Raytheon had also been hit with
millions of dollars in fines for padding costs of
equipment it sold to the US military. Raytheon also
has a hush-hush subsidiary, E-Systems, whose clients
include the CIA and NSA.
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=13
Raytheon
Aircraft support for drug-enforcement activities
become a part of E-Systems' work after it bought up
Air Asia, the CIA's aircraft repair and maintenance
facility in Taiwan in 1975. Until E-Systems took it
over, Air Asia provided support for Air America, the
CIA's covert airline that ferried arms, heroin and
opium in Indo-China during the Vietnam War, according
to the British reporter Christopher Robbins, who wrote
the authoritative account of the airline's history in
1979.??Immediately after acquiring Air Asia, E-Systems
won a contract to maintain planes for the U.S.-funded
Operation Condor in Mexico. Condor monitored drug
trafficking in the state of Sinaloa in the mid-1970s.
A 1985 U.S. congressional study found that the
contract was ''a shambles ... There are no adequate
records to indicate how the funds have been and are
being spent.'' The study also cited incidents of
planes
being used for joy rides. Peter Dale Scott and
Jonathon Marshall, authors of ''Cocaine Politics,''
say that the Condor operation ''succeeded in filling
the jails with hapless peasants ... but failed to
arrest a single drug trafficker.''??E-Systems paid
$4.2 million in 1994 to settle a lawsuit brought by
Carlos Uribe, a man in El Paso, Texas, on the Mexican
border. Uribe charged that an E-Systems employee,
Truett Burney, accidentally murdered Uribe's wife in a
hotel room when his gun went off in an adjoining room
in September, 1991. Burney's lawyers said he was
helping install ''top secret listening devices'' on
suspected drug traffickers at the time.??E-Systems has
a murky history as a military contractor also. The
first time the company appeared in the news was when
it was sued by the widow of an employee who was killed
in a 1971 crash of an Air Force plane sent to spy on a
French nuclear test.??In the early 1970s, E-Systems
won the contract to install communication gear on Air
Force One, the U.S. president's plane. This led to
similar contracts for the heads of state of Iran,
Israel, Nigeria, Malaysia, Romania and Saudi Arabia.
E-Systems has since built the ''Doomsday Plane,'' an
airborne command post for the Pentagon and the White
House in the event of a nuclear attack.??In 1977,
during the height of the ''dirty war'' in Argentina,
E-Systems won a contract to supply ''Wheelbarrow''
systems -- a radio transmitter that detonates
explosives by remote control -- to the Argentine
police. In August 1990, E-Systems pleaded guilty to
criminal charges of falsifying results on tactical
field radios manufactured at its Florida factories.
The company paid out almost $3 million in fines to
settle the charges. ??* Source: opensecrets.org
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Raytheon & the 9/11 Flight Manifests – Excerpts:
Flight 11: Peter Gay was Raytheon's Vice President of
Operations for Electronic Systems and had been on
special assignment to a company office in El Segundo,
Calif.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html
This division is one of two divisions making the
Global Hawk. (ISR Journal, 3/02)
Kenneth Waldie was a senior quality control engineer
for Raytheon's electronic systems.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html
David Kovalcin was a senior mechanical engineer for
Raytheon's electronic systems.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html
Flight 175: Herbert Homer was a corporate executive
working with the Department of Defense.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html
And for some very strange reasons he was listed for
several days as having died in the while working in
the Pentagon.
Flight 77:
Stanley Hall was director of program management for
Raytheon Electronics Warfare.
One Raytheon colleague calls him "our dean of
electronic warfare."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/12/victim-capsule-flight77.htm
Charles S. Falkenberg:
He worked on "EOS Webster" a mapping system which
provides Landsat Images, which are part of the mapping
system for the Global Hawk technology.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020302091225/http://ivanova.gsfc.nasa.gov/hdfeos/notes.html
For detailed info on Raytheon and Global Hawk:
Ewing2001's encyclopedia:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040720111226/http://news.globalfreepress.com/ewing/911SkepticsUnite.html
Raytheon is working on Global Hawk piloltless aircraft
program.
Now, if this is not coincidental enough for you:
What are the odds that Raytheon also had one office in
the WTC2?
(AP, 9/11/01)
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/background/tenants.html
It was located in 91st floor in WTC2.
Raytheon shared the floor with Washington Group and
Gibbs&Hill.
While 13 employees of Washington Group died ...
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/lists/by-employer/page101.html
None died at Raytheon and Gibbs&Hill:
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/lists/by-employer/page101.html
This is rather surprising as after the hit of the
second plane only four person survived who were above
the 78th floor where the plane hit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/worldtradecentertrans.shtml
And the 91st might be significant in another way:
"every person believed to be above the 91st floor
died: 1,344."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/26WTC.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=3f3b44c322481877&ex=1057809600
The 91st floor was the line between life and death in
the WTC tower opposite to Raytheon's office.
Or in other words: The first plane hit the WTC1 in the
91st floor.
Strange, these coincidences...
Q: I hope, it's not too off-topic, but can you figure
out with Lexis, if Raytheon was also a sub tenant of
WTC 7?
I don't want to post the complete tenant list now (but
see DoD, US Secret Service, CIA as possible main
tenants).
WTC 7 Tenant list, excerpts:
(complete list on page 2:
http://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtc-report/WTC_ch5.pdf
)
26-27 Standard Chartered Bank
26 Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Department of Defense (DoD)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
24 Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
23 Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
...
9-10 US Secret Service
Also, Blackstone Group Inc. took over the mortgage of
WTC7 in autumn 2000, which could point on another
Raytheon connection.
http://www.blackstone.com/news/press_releases%255C7_world_trade_oct_2000.pdf
Blackstone, meanwhile part of Northrop Grumman/TRW and
Raytheon are both one of the TOP 5 military
contractors of DoD.
Q: Someone called Sherry Williams (she worked at Army
Missile Command) had prior knowledge, that Raytheon
'must have been' on "Flight 11."
Why????
http://www.legacy.com/Guestbook.asp?PersonID=91796
September 11, 2005
from the "Guest Book for Peter Gay"
"...When I learned that the planes were out of Boston,
I immediately thought that there must have been people
from Raytheon onboard...."
Raytheon-Homer died twice ...
http://tinyurl.com/6gkyr
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 14, 2001
"...The Department of Defense announced today ten
additional names of the approximately 126 persons who
remain unaccounted for in the wake of Tuesday's attack
on the Pentagon...
...Herbert Homer, Milford, Mass...
September 15, 2001
"...The Department of Defense announced today that
Herbert W. Homer, a civilian employee of the Defense
Contract Management Agency, was among the passengers
aboard United Airlines Flight # 175, which crashed
into the World Trade Center. He was previously listed
in error as unaccounted at the Pentagon..."
Homer's flight with Dick Cheney's envoy
http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0902/homer.html
From Lt. Col. Derek Green
Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
"...Remember our days at McGuire Air Force Base...
Remember that mission we flew to Russia? We were the
third C-141 ever allowed to fly into Tblisi, Georgia,
and we were carrying Secretary of Defense Dick
Cheney's envoy....
...Thanks my brother. I'll miss you...."
...the other "Homer" from "Flight 93"
(so far unestablished, if related). Co-pilot Homer was
afro-american.
Melodie Homer: US Gov "responsibility"
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1019-01.htm
October 2004
"I do believe that the President and his
administration were responsible for Sept. 11..."
Peter A. Gay was one of the few passengers from AA 11
who was not only identfied positively but without
using DNA. His body was apparently in such a condition
that analyses of teeth and fingerprints could be done.
http://www.091101memorial.org/AA11/Gay.html
And if this flight manifest is to be believed, Gay is
sitting next to Abdulaziz Al Omari.
http://www.1918redsox.com/aa11.htm
Another interesting passenger:
Raytheon reportedly successful on September 11.
Of course only a coincidence:
Aerospace Daily
September 11, 2001
Tests underway on low visibility landing system
RAYTHEON CO. and the Air Force have successfully
completed the initial phase of flight testing for a
system they said provides accurate and reliable
landing guidance for both rotary and fixed-wing
aircraft during low visibility approaches. Known as
the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System
(JPALS), it works with GPS and is a joint Department
of Defense development to provide an all weather, all
mission, all user capability for the armed services.
"...Calvin Drayton, deputy operations manager of the
city's Office of Emergency Management, in WTC 7, went
down for coffee and ended up trapped for 30 minutes in
a garage at World Financial Center.
But others were not so lucky. Among the victims that
day were 74 PA staff and police, at least 60 building
trades' workers, 13 employees of Washington Group
International..."
The Washington Group (Defense- and Pipeline projects)
oddly was later involved in a specialist post 9/11
'team', together with SH&E Group (Bechtel):
http://www.asse.org/groundzero1.htm
SH & E at Ground Zero
A firsthand account from the most dangerous workplace
in the U.S.
"...On September 12, 2001, a small group of SH&E
professionals from Bechtel Group Inc., led by Stewart
Burkhammer, a professional member of ASSE's National
Capital Chapter, arrived in New York City to assist
the
city and state of New York in the emergency
recovery effort...
...The SH&E group's task became one of real-time
hazard identification, analysis and control...
...At its maximum, our team consisted of more than 40
practitioners.
Joined by experts from the Washington Group, the team
included industrial hygienists, rigging specialists,
environmental engineers, industrial and construction
safety engineers, demolition safety experts and even a
high-rise/commercial building safety specialist..."
More on WGI:
http://www.wgint.com/corp_info_board_of_directors.html
https://www.horatioalger.com/members/member_info.cfm?memberid=WAS95
"...In 1996 Washington Construction merged with
Morrison Knudsen, a publicly traded construction and
engineering giant. From that Washington directed
formation of Washington Group International, acquiring
components of Westinghouse and Raytheon..."
Tue Oct 18 2005, 03:00PM
That's pretty wild that they got fingerprints from
him. Teeth I can understand but fingerprints? I don't
know how his skin survived the raging fires! Unless,
the body was ejected upon the intial explosion? Even
then that is hard to believe.
I don't know how they got this guy's ID -- unless
someone planted the remains there?
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread142784/pg1
Raytheon involved in 9/11 ???
... Raytheon was the 5th biggest government contractor
in
2003 and 2004. (of interest are the other companies
listed as well).
As one the the biggest militaty contractor both in
America and in the world, Raytheon develloped and
introduced the very first remotely controlled and
pilot-less Airliner just a couple of months before
9-11according to an August 2001 article in the USA
Today (by the way, the said article may have been
removed from the USA Today archives as of one month
ago, for a free copy contact pepelapiu@msn.com )
Interestingly enough, on 9-11 Raytheon lost five of
their high ranking employees. As details of the
passengers on the four hijacked flights emerge, some
are shown to have curious connections to the defense
company Raytheon, and possibly its Global Hawk
pilotless aircraft program (see 1998 (D) and August
2001).
1) Stanley Hall (Flight 77) was director of program
management for Raytheon Electronics Warfare. One
Raytheon colleague calls him "our dean of electronic
warfare." [AP, 9/25/01]
2) Peter Gay (Flight 11) was Raytheon's Vice President
of Operations for Electronic Systems and had been on
special assignment to a company office in El Segundo,
Calif. [AP, 9/25/01] Raytheon's El Segundo's
Electronic Systems division is one of two divisions
making the remote controlled Global Hawk. [ISR
Journal, 3/02]
3) Kenneth Waldie (Flight 11) was a senior quality
control engineer for Raytheon's electronic systems.
4) David Kovalcin (Flight 11) was a senior mechanical
engineer for Raytheon's electronic systems. [CNN,
9/01]
5) Herbert Homer (Flight 175) was a corporate
executive working with the Department of Defense.
[CNN, 9/01, Northeastern University Voice, 12/11/01]
Raytheon employees with possible links to Global Hawk
can be connected to three of the four flights. There
may
be more, since many of the passengers' jobs and
personal information have remained anonymous.
A surprising number of passengers, especially on
Flight 77, have military connections. For instance,
William E. Caswell was a Navy scientist whose work was
so classified that his family knew very little about
what he did each day. Says his mother, "You just learn
not to ask questions." [Chicago Tribune, 9/16/01]
So, now we have a major player in the military which
stands to make millions, if not billions with the wars
resulting from 9-11, we also know Raytheon to be
responsible for the devellopement of Global Hawk and
remotely piloted airliners. But so it happens, five of
their employees were allegedly all on board the four
airplanes. But it gets better, much better. You
remember those Saudi royalties and Bin Laden relatives
flown out of the country just a couple of days
following 9-11 when no one else was allowed to fly?
They were flown out of the country directly from a
Raytheon owned airfield according to The St-Petersburg
Times. Just as coincidence would have it, 15 of the 19
alleged terrorists were Saudi nationals according to
The Washington Times . That's right my friends, none
from Iraq or Afghanistan but mostly from Saudi Arabia.
Did Raytheon have any involment with the 9-11 events?
It should be added that Raytheon has gained over $8.5
billions in government military contracts in 2004,
nearly double that of pre 9/11 years!
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http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_842.shtml
Business as usual -- 9/11 and the fall of America
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
May 26, 2006
Raytheon, maker of Patriot and Tomahawk missiles,
watched
its stock take off after the attacks.
Purchases of call options contracts on Raytheon stock
increased sixfold on September 10, 2001.
The Raytheon option contracts made money, if shares
were more than $25 each. The price zoomed up nearly 37
percent to $34.04 during the first week after post
9/11 trading.
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12600
US: CEOs with Defense Firms Double Salaries Since 9/11
The chief executives of the defense industry's largest
companies have doubled their paychecks since 9/11 and
the War on Terrorism began -- far greater than the
average 7 percent growth for all corporate CEOs.
byBryan Bender,The Boston Globe
August 30th, 2005
... Compensation for William H. Swanson, chief
executive of Raytheon Company in Waltham, more than
doubled to $5.3 million over his predecessor Dan
Burnham's salary in 2001, according to the study by
the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal Washington
think tank. ...
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http://www.gis.net/~larrabee/raytheonprofile.htm
BLACK TUESDAY - SECURITIES FRAUD
On Tuesday, October 12, 1999, Raytheon common stock
plummeted Raytheon's Class A shares fell $19-1/2, or
approximately 46 percent, from $42 to $22-1/2.
Additionally, Raytheon's Class B shares plunged from
$43 on October 11, 1999, to close at $24-1/4 on
October 12, 1999, a drop of $18-3/4, or 44 percent.
This crash represented a loss of about $8 billion in
market value in a single day. Worse yet, earlier in
the year, Raytheon's stock had traded at nearly $75.
http://www.gis.net/~larrabee/raytheonstock.htm
The plunge in stock prices was triggered by a Wall
Street Journal report that Raytheon was over cost or
behind schedule on more than a dozen fixed-price
defense contracts. The Journal reported that Raytheon
is behind on its lucrative Tomahawk cruise missiles,
P-3 Orion patrol aircraft and RC-135 reconnaissance
aircraft programs. It also reportedly was having
trouble with the shoulder-held Javelin missile, the
Navy Extremely High Frequency Satellite Communications
program and the conversion of a military plant in
Umatilla in northern Oregon for commercial use.
According to Reuters, CEO Daniel Burnham told analysts
that he'd been working to reform a culture at Raytheon
where managers think in terms of what they hope to
deliver, rather than what is realistic. "We've told
people, 'Tell us what's going on here. Don't hide
behind hope,'" Burnham said. "This has been clearly a
big wakeup call to a lot of people.''
Contrary to Burnham's suggestions, Raytheon's managers
were not hiding behind hope -- they were hiding out of
fear. Raytheon fosters a claustrophobic and tyrannical
culture in which managers are rightly fearful that an
excess of honesty will get them fired, as it has in
the past.
As a result of the loss in market value and the
company's actions, a slew of shareholder securities
fraud class action lawsuits were filed against
Raytheon and its officers.
http://www.gis.net/~larrabee/classaction.htm
(detailed information on these class action lawsuits)
The lawsuits included allegations that Raytheon and
two of the company's senior officers omitted to
disclose in its financial statements that it was
violating Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
(``GAAP'')
by engaging in a systematic contract
``acceleration'' policy, under which the Company was
prematurely recording revenue on contingent sales
contracts prior to actual performance. As a result,
the Company's 1997 and 1998 revenues were materially
overstated in violation of GAAP and its financial
results for the period were materially inflated. Suits
also alleged that Raytheon omitted to disclose in its
financial statements that the Company was behind
schedule and experiencing significant cost overruns on
several fixed price defense contracts, which led to
Raytheon taking a significantly higher material charge
against 1999 third quarter earnings than was
previously announced. Raytheon allegedly issued a
series of materially false and misleading statements
during the Class Period (March 30, 1998 and October
11, 1999, inclusive) in order to conceal negative
trends in the Company's business to support the
company's acquisition of several companies using
company stock as consideration.
On May 13, 2004 Raytheon reported that it had reached
a preliminary agreement to pay $410 million in cash
and securities to settle these consolidated
class-action lawsuits. This settlement constitutes one
of the top 10 settlements of securities fraud lawsuits
in U.S history.
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Raytheon and ABLE DANGER
http://vichydems.blogspot.com/2006/02/wondering-about-why.html
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2006
Wondering about the Why.
BY WET PANTS
In March, 2000, Mr. Kleinsmith was ordered to stop all
work on Able Danger, and, later, to delete all the
information collected.
Special Operations Command didn't want to lose the
capability, so it transferred Able Danger to a private
contractor,
Raytheon, at its Garland, Texas, facility.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a111105secondversion
Late September 2000: Able Danger Data Collection
Begins Again; Mohamed Atta Supposedly Identified Again
The Able Danger data collection program—which lost the
support of the US Army’s Land Information Warfare
Activity (LIWA) unit last April (see April 2000)—is
reconstituted and moved to a private intelligence
research center run by Raytheon in Garland, Texas.
While the program worked only with unclassified data
under LIWA, the new Able Danger, referred to by some
as “Able Danger II,” has permission to mine
classified
information as well. [US Congress, 9/21/2005; US
Congress, 9/21/2005]
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http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/reasons-to-oppose-star-wars-3
Green Peace
Reasons to Oppose Star Wars, #3: Star Wars Is a Gravy
Train For Corrupt Military Corporations That Is
Costing American Taxpayers Billions of Dollars
Washington, DC, United States — Four major weapons
contractors, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and
TRW, are the primary contractors for national missile
defense, and these four also have unparalleled
influence in Washington D.C.
During the 1999-2000 election cycle alone, the four
Star Wars contractors contributed $2,485,744 from
their PACs, and another $2,378,113 in soft money -
almost five million dollars in just two years. These
same contractors also retain hundreds of lobbyists in
Washington D.C. to push their interests.
And the effort is paying off - in the past two years
the
four have earned $2.2 billion in contracts with
much more massive payoffs ahead. Despite the failure
of the Star Wars program thus far, Boeing has just had
its contract renewed through 2007, which, if fully
realized, will have a value of $13 billion.
With such huge sums of money comes corruption, and the
major Star Wars contractors have already been
implicated. Dr. Nira Schwartz, a senior researcher at
TRW working on the command, control and communication
systems, was fired when she refused to falsify
findings on the system's inability to distinguish
between a decoy and a missile. Dr. Theodore Postol, a
former Pentagon advisor and physics professor at MIT,
performed the only independent scientific analysis of
the test data in relation to the case. He concluded
that there was "criminal fraud" in the program. His
letter to the White House containing these allegations
was classified, and never answered.
When describing the actions of the companies that she
blew the whistle on, Dr. Schwartz asserted in a March
7, 2000 interview with the New York Times that missile
defense "is not a defense of the United States. It's a
conspiracy to allow them to milk the government. They
are creating jobs for themselves for life." And the
hundreds of billions of dollars that will be needed to
do this will come courtesy of the American taxpayer.
...
http://www.alexconstantine.blogspot.com/
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