Mitre Corporation

[Peter Lemkin]

Thought perhaps they deserve their own thread.......but will be found on several 911 threads on the Forum, as well.

Dr. James R. Schlesinger

Chairman
Board Member Since 1985

Dr. James R. Schlesinger serves as chairman of the board of The MITRE Corporation. He is also a consultant to the Departments of Defense and State, and a member of the Defense Policy Board and the International Security Advisory Board.

Dr. Schlesinger is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is a director of the Sandia National Corporation. He is also a counselor and trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a trustee of the Atlantic Council, the Nixon Center, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

Dr. Schlesinger was the nation's first Secretary of Energy, taking the oath of office one day after President Carter signed the legislation creating the new department. He served in this position from August 5, 1977, until 1979. In the previous year, President-elect Carter had asked Dr. Schlesinger to become assistant to the president, charged with the responsibility for drafting a plan for the establishment of the Department of Energy and a national energy policy.

From July 1973 to November 1975, Dr. Schlesinger was Secretary of Defense. Immediately prior to this appointment, he served as Director of Central Intelligence. In August 1971, he was selected by President Nixon to become chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, a position he held until February 1973.

Dr. Schlesinger began his government service in 1969 as assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget (later the Office of Management and Budget), where he also served as acting deputy director.

He was a senior staff member at the RAND Corporation from 1963 to 1967, and RAND's director of strategic studies from 1967 to 1969. He also served as consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and to the Bureau of the Budget.

From 1955 to 1963, he was assistant and then associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Schlesinger has also served on many government commissions and advisory groups. Recently, he served as chairman of the Secretary's Task Force on Department of Defense (DoD) Nuclear Weapons Management. He was also vice chairman of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. From 1999 to 2003, he was a member of the Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety, and Security of the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, and from 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission). He served as co-chair of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on DoD Energy Strategy and the DSB Task Force on the Future of the Global Positioning System (GPS). He chairs the advisory group on GPS for the PNT (positioning, navigation, and timing) Executive Committee. He was vice chairman of the President's Blue Ribbon Task Group on Nuclear Weapons Program Management (19841985) and served on the Governor's Commission on Virginia's Future (19821984) and the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (19821983).

Dr. Schlesinger has been awarded thirteen honorary doctorates. He is the recipient of the National Security Medal, the DoD Eugene G. Fubini Award, as well as six other departmental and agency medals. He is the recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Medal, the George Catlett Marshall Medal, the H. H. Arnold Award, the Navy League's National Meritorious Citation, the Distinguished Service Award of the Military Order of the Carabao, the Jimmy Doolittle Award, the Military Order of the World Wars Distinguished Service Award, the Henry M. Jackson Award for Distinguished Public Service, and the William Oliver Baker Award. In 2009, he received the Air Force Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Schlesinger is the author of The Political Economy of National Security, 1960, America at Century's End, 1989, and numerous articles.

In 1950, Dr. Schlesinger received a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was selected for the Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowship. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1952 and 1956, respectively.

[Peter Lemkin]

MITRE History

During the five decades since its founding, MITRE has earned an international reputation for technical excellence and innovation.


Overview

In July of 1958, MITRE was founded as a private, not-for-profit corporation to provide engineering and technical services to the federal government. In doing so, it fulfilled a request by Secretary of the Air Force James Douglas for a specialized services group to provide the system engineering and ongoing support for the massive, multi-billion dollar, continental air defense system called SAGE. SAGE, or Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, was developed for the United States Air Force from 1950 to 1957 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Digital Computer Laboratory, the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. MITRE was incorporated one month following the installation of the first of 23 national SAGE centers at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. MITRE first settled in the Boston area.

The company's first president was C.W. "Hap" Halligan (1958-1966), formerly of Western Electric and Bell Telephone Laboratories and responsible for the development of SAGE's vast telephone communications network. "MITRE's mission," announced Halligan, "is to provide the objectivity and high technical competence necessary in the long-range planning, integration and design of electronic command and control systems."

Less than a year after its founding, the need to locate near the Pentagon dictated the establishment of an office in Virginia. MITRE expanded again in 1963 after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the company system engineering responsibility for the National Airspace System (NAS). As our work program continued to grow, MITRE established two principal locations, one in Bedford, Massachusetts, and one in McLean, Virginia. MITRE also began moving staff to sites around the world in an effort to work closely with our customers. We have 7,000 employees supporting hundreds of projects for numerous government organizations.

During the five decades since its founding, MITRE has earned an international reputation for technical excellence and innovation. MITRE manages four Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): one for the Department of Defense (known as the DoD Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence FFRDC); one for the Federal Aviation Administration (the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development); one for the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the Center for Enterprise Modernization); and one for the Department of Homeland Security (known as the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute). MITRE also has its own independent research and development program that explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve our sponsors' problems in the near-term and in the future.

[Peter Lemkin]

IS DEFENSE CONTRACTOR MITRE CORP. THE TROJAN HORSE OF 9/11?
By Christopher Bollyn American Free Press
http://www.americanfreepress.net

Did a central controller with "super user" privileges of the command and control systems of the Department of Defense,
NORAD, the Air Force, and the FAA, control the aerial attacks of 9/11?
There is only one agency that has that capability â a little-known private company known as MITRE Corp.
There are basically two versions of events surrounding the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
There is the government version, propagated by the controlled media, which claims that 19 Arab terrorists,
organized by Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, hijacked 4 passenger aircraft and used them to attack the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. This version, used to launch the "war on terror" and two invasions in the Middle East,
is challenged by a lack of evidence. On the other hand, a host of unofficial explanations, based on available evidence,
make up what can be called the "inside job" or anti-government version. This version basically claims that agents
embedded within the U.S. military and intelligence organizations conspired to carry out the terror attacks.
The two foreign nations most often implicated in the unofficial explanations of 9/11 are Israel and Britain.
Both countries are supporters and beneficiaries of the Bush administration's "war on terror." For the Israelis, Iraq,
a major threat, was drastically reduced in power and put under military occupation. For the British, a oil-rich territory,
Iraq's southern region of Basra, which it originally occupied in 1914, was reoccupied and its immense oil assets
put under control of the Crown. Royal Dutch Shell and BP, formerly named British Petroleum,
are two companies said to be controlled by the Crown, which have posted record profits since 9/11.

While both Britain and Israel have substantial assets and powerful organizations in the United States, proponents
of the anti-government version have not explained how a foreign power could manipulate the computer systems
of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD), and the U.S. Air Force,
and thereby control the aerial attacks of 9/11. When American Free Press interviewed Eckehardt Werthebach,
former president of Germanyâs domestic intelligence service, in December 2001, he said âthe deathly precisionâ
and âthe magnitude of planningâ behind the 9/11 attacks would have required years of planning.
Such a sophisticated operation, Werthebach said, would require the âfixed frameâ of a state intelligence organization,
something not found in a âloose groupâ of terrorists like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta.
Many people would have been involved in the planning of such an operation, Werthebach said.
He pointed to the absence of leaks as further indication that the attacks were âstate organized actions.

Andreas von B��low, who served on Germany's parliamentary commission and oversaw the three branches
of the German secret service, told AFP that he believed that Mossad, Israel's intelligence service,
was behind the terror attacks. The attacks, he said, were carried out to turn public opinion against
the Arabs and boost military and security spending. âYou donât get the higher echelons,â von B��low said,
referring to the âarchitectural structure which masterminds such terror attacks. At this level,
he said, the organization doing the planning, such as Mossad or British intelligence,
is primarily interested in affecting public opinion.
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In a recent article in AFP, " The Perfect Terrorist Plan To Level the Twin Towers Created In 1976" by Greg Szymanski,
it was reported that the U.S. Army devised a plan in 1976 to bring down the towers using commercial airliners
and box cutters as weapons. At the time, George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA and Martin R. Hoffmann
was Secretary of the Army. Hoffmann told AFP that he did not recall being involved in this planning reportedly done
by the U.S. Army. An architect, even of destruction, needs a contractor. Proponents of the anti-government version
of 9/11 provide evidence to support their claims, but do not explain how the U.S. military
and civil aviation control systems could have been hijacked to allow the aerial attacks to occur.

Because the attacks involved systems used by the FAA, NORAD, and the U.S. Air Force, the conspirators
would have needed "super user" access to the command and control centers of these three separate organizations.
Super user means the most privileged user on a computerized data system. The super user has complete access
to all files on the system. For the previously mentioned agencies, and virtually all other U.S. defense
and intelligence organizations, there is one such possible super user: a little-known private
not-for-profit organization, based in Bedford, Mass., known as MITRE Corp. MITRE also has a headquarters
in McLean, Va., on a campus it shares with Northrop Grumman. The MITRE Corp. is a major
defense contracting organization headed by the former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Dr. James Rodney Schlesinger.
Schlesinger, who was reportedly made DCI at the request of Henry Kissinger in 1973, later served as Secretary of Defense.
Schlesinger, a former director of strategic studies at the RAND Corp., was described in a 1973 biography
as a "devout Lutheran," although he was born in New York in 1929 to immigrant Jewish parents from Austria and Russia.
Schlesinger earned three degrees from Harvard University. Schlesinger's father, an accountant, founded the accounting firm
Schlesinger & Haas, and was a trustee and chairman of the budget of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.
His father was also a member of the New York State Grand Lodge of Masons. The MITRE Corp., of which Schlesinger
is chairman of the board of trustees, is connected to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, and Mitretek Systems of Falls Church, Va. Schlesinger is a senior advisor
for the Lehman Brothers investment firm and a member of the Defense Policy Board and advisory council
for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The MITRE Corp. has provided computer and information technology
to the FAA and the U.S. Air Force since the late 1950's. MITRE is a Federally Funded Research
and Development Center (FFRDC) for the Dept. of Defense, the FAA, and the Internal Revenue Service.

The chairman of the board of trustees of Mitretek Systems, a spin-off of MITRE Corp., is Martin R. Hoffmann,
who served as Secretary of the Army when the "perfect terrorist plan" was reportedly prepared in 1976. MITRE's Command,
Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) FFRDC for the Dept. of Defense was established in 1958.
The C3I "supports a broad and diverse set of sponsors within the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.
These include the military departments, defense and intelligence agencies, the combatant commands,
and elements of both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,"
according to MITRE's website. "Information systems technology," it says, "coupled with domain knowledge,
underpin the work of the C3I FFRDC." The U.S. Air Force maintains its Electronic Systems Center (ESC)
at the Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Mass. The ESC manages the development and acquisition
of electronic command and control (C2) systems used by the Air Force. The ESC is the Air Force's
"brain for information, command and control systems," according to Charles Paone, a civilian employee of the ESC.

It is the "product center" for the Air Force's Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) and Joint Surveillance
Target Attack Radar System (J-STARS), Paone said. Asked about MITRE's role at the ESC, Paone said,
"MITRE does the front-end engineering. It's basically our in-house engineer." MITRE employees operate
the computer systems at Hanscom AFB, Paone said. MIT's Lincoln Laboratories, the parent of MITRE,
is located on the Hanscom AFB. A second FFRDC, the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD)
provides computer engineering and technology to the FAA. MITRE's support of the FAA began in 1958,
when the company was created. The FAA's Airspace Management Handbook of May 2004, for example,
was written and published by the MITRE Corp. Jennifer Shearman, MITRE's public relations manager for "corporate identity"
in Bedford, told AFP that MITRE is a "trusted mentor" for the FAA and is a "unique" provider of "objective
and independent" information for the U.S. civil aviation authority. MITRE's Bedford headquarters are located
near Boston's Logan airport where the two planes that struck the World Trade Center supposedly originated.

Bedford lies directly under the flight path of westbound flights leaving Logan. MITRE developed the technology
"to aid controllers in solving problems while keeping aircraft close to their route, altitude, and speed preferences."
Shearman was unable to say why the MITRE technology apparently failed on 9/11. Indira Singh, an "IT consultant"
who previously worked on a Defense Advanced Research Project, and who was employed by J.P. Morgan on 9/11,
in risk management, pointed to MITRE's role at the FAA during the 9/11 Citizens' Commission hearings in New York last September.
"Ptech was with MITRE Corporation in the basement of the FAA for two years prior to 9/11," Singh said.
"Their specific job is to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force in the case of an emergency.
If anyone was in a position to know that the FAA â that there was a window of opportunity or to insert software
or to change anything â it would have been Ptech along with MITRE." A representative of Ptech could not be reached.

[Ptech appears to have been a Mossad front company created to provide insecure Trojan Horse software to the U.S. military
and intelligence agencies. Ptech has the typical Arab owners and financiers - and Mossad operators.]

For example, see Michael Goff, former marketing manager at Ptech, Inc.
http://www.goffpr.com/about.asp Photo: Dr. James Rodney Schlesinger Schlesinger
bio info: http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/schlesinger.html

[Peter Lemkin]

Ptech
Ptech's customer base spans the globe across the communications, distribution, energy, financial services, and government market segments. It includes:

AAA Michigan, ABN AMRO, Aetna, Allegheny Energy Supply, Applied Materials, Booz Allen Hamilton, Edward Jones, FAA, FBI, Fleet Securities, IBM Global Services, IRS, Meijer, The MITRE Corporation, MetLife, Motorola, NATO, NAVAIR, OneBeacon Insurance Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Southern California Edison, Sprint, SYSCO, WSIB, US Air Force, US Department of Energy, US Department of Education, US Department of Veteran Affairs, US House of Representatives, USDA Forest Service, US Postal Service, and Weyerhaeuser.

http://web.archive.org/web/200203141.../abou.comp.asp

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

On November 6th, 2002 the FBI raided a Boston-area computer software firm looking for evidence that the company, which does business with key government agencies, might have links to Osama bin Laden's terror network. This company was Ptech from Quincy, Massachusetts. The investigation was part of a broader Customs-led program known as "Operation Green Quest", a multiagency task force that has served 114 search warrants since September 11th, which has resulted in 50 arrests, 28 indictments and the seizure of about $27.4 million until the end of 2002. Source: http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,56758,00.html

(-> Boston-connection, ->Massachusetts-connection) Ptech's customers are: AAA Michigan, ABN AMRO, Aetna, Allegheny Energy Supply, Applied Materials, Booz Allen Hamilton, Edward Jones, Faa, FBI, Fleet Securities, IBM Global Services, IRS, Meijer, The Mitre Corporation, MetLife, Motorola, NATO, NAVAIR, OneBeacon Insurance Group, Price waterhouse Coopers, Southern California Edison, Sprint, SYSCO, WSIB, US Air Force, US Department of Energy, US Department of Education, US Department of Veteran Affairs, US House of Representatives, USDA Forest Service, US Postal Service, and Weyerhaeuser Source: http://www.ptechinc.com/01/abou/abou.comp.asp

Ignored from the mainstream press are background details on this company. The so called "secret owner", Yassin al-Kadi (->), one of 12 Saudi businessmen accused of funneling millions of dollars to al Qaeda, was well known in investigative circles. The Washington Post reported later, that public documents filed in Massachusetts showed that Ptech leased much of its office and computer equipment using financing provided by BMI Finance and Investment, a firm that was partly financed by Al-Qaeda and which shared office space in New Jersey with Kadi International. BMI was financed by Marzook (a US Designated Terrorist); Yassin Kadi, financier of HAMAS terrorist Mohammad Salah, and two siblings of Osama bin Laden. BMI has developed property in Indianapolis, IN, Baltimore, MD and other locations. The development schemes parallel those of QLI and Golden Marble, Inc. (above)." Source: http://www.judicialwatch.org/cases/7...scomplaint.htm

Ignored from mainstream media and US Congress it was known, that a whistleblower told the FBI already on Ptechs connections to Yasin al-Qadi in October 2001! Source: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/34...ch_tips+.shtml

But already in 1998 ex-FBI agent Robert Wright (->) was sabotaged on investigations on Yassin Kadi. Chicago-based special agent Robert Wright had accused the FBI of shutting down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City, which he linked to Hamas that time. Source: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/37/news-crogan.php
"Wright is the only FBI agent to seize terrorist funds (over $1.4 million) from U.S.-based Middle Eastern terrorists using federal civil forfeiture statutes, prior to the September 11th attacks. The original source of the funds was Yassin Kadi, a Saudi businessman, who is reportedly a financier of Osama bin Laden." Source: http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_2469.shtml