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Protecting US Defense Technology
By Yoichi Shimatsu
World Exclusive to Rense.com
4-13-14
KUALA
LUMPUR - Several blogs are using dubious
photo analysis to question the credibility of Philip Wood, the American
aboard MH370 whose i-Phone message showed that the plane had been hijacked,
its passengers detained by "unknown military personnel" and
the detention center to be on the Diego Garcia military base. The secrecy
surrounding Wood's background does not mean that he and his fiance Sarah
Bajc are "crisis actors". On the contrary, the facts point to
his status as a tech-security agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA).
Across Asia,
the DIA has a reputation for professionalism far surpassing the CIA's
armchair scholars, narcissist neophytes and diplomatic cocktail freeloaders.
Wood fits the DIA profile to a tee, being computer savvy, knowledgeable
about defense-related technology, careful in maintaining his cover at
IBM, silent about his military record and physically tough.
The fact that
the Israelis confined and likely murdered a DIA agent reveals the extreme
desperation that compelled the theft of America's most advanced defense
technology. The midair hijack aimed at abducting 20 computer-technology
experts with Freescale Semiconductor exposes the outlaw mentality of a
rogue state that holds its closest ally and benefactor in utter contempt.
Simply put, Israel has emerged as America's most implacable enemy and
all the more dangerous because it poses as an ally and friend.
Israel resorted
to stealing the Freescale Kinetis KL02 and KL03 techology, rather than
waiting to pay for licensing rights, because the micro-controller is urgently
needed for the upcoming military assault on Iran. The widening divide
between the State Department and Israel over Iran policy, particularly
the question of a bombing campaign, put the hawkish and fanatic Netyanhu
government onto a "go it alone" warpath against Tehran.
Since it is
logistically impossible for the Israel Air Force to fly long-distance
sorties against Iranian military sites without control over Syrian airspace,
the only feasible alternative to aerial bombing is to unleash hordes of
lightweight ultra-small robotic weapons that can fly and crawl into underground
military facilities.
The KL series
microcontroller units (MCU) are the brains for these tiny self-guided
weapons, whose sensors can find pathways through air ducts, power conduits
and plumbing pipes to attack electronic controls and incapacitate personnel
with nerve gas or biowarfare agents. When launched from Dolphin submarines
under the cover of nightfall, there is no effective defense against an
army of tiny ninja robots.
The one person
who stood in the way of Israel's devious plans was Philip Wood, who was
not a crisis actor, as suggested in a disinformation campaign, but instead
an American patriot. Without his courageous efforts to organize resistance
against the hostage-takers, the Israelis would have gotten away with the
perfect crime. Now, thanks to his sense of duty and personal sacrifice,
the perpetrators stand naked before the world as the despicable thugs
they really are. The test of American honor rides on whether the White
House or Congress dares to defy Israeli treachery by acknowledging Phil
Wood with a posthumous medal.
Get
Off of My Cloud
Texas resident
Wood was, on the surface, a quiet and unassuming computer memory expert
with IBM, following his father's career path. Oddly, no details of his
work on cloud computing and computer security in Dallas-Fort Worth are
listed on his Linked-in page.
The omission
of a local client list is due to the fact that Big Blue's largest customer
in Fort Worth is USAF-Lockheed Plant 4 at Carswell military airfield.
Plant 4 is where the Air Force and its aerospace contractors install,
test and improve the aviation electronics for America's most advanced
fighters, including the F-22, F-35 and F-18, along with the navigation
systems for drones, missiles and smart bombs. Computer security against
hackers and human-based industrial espionage is, therefore, all-important
to protecting American defense-technology edge against its many adversaries
and friendly rivals.
The Air Force
upgraded its longtime partnership with IBM computer services with a 2010
master contract to transfer its production data, including weapons design
and personnel matters, to a cloud computing platform with strong security.
Even well-protected servers in any lab or office can be hacked with relative
ease with newer software. Cloud computing, in contrast, establishes a
virtual network protected by the latest firewall software even before
its public release. The network is constantly monitored to determine user
behavior and to track down any attempts to break into unauthorized areas.
The other advantage
of the Cloud is its flexibility, moving as it can across different computer
nodes. If a major node is disrupted or destroyed by a virus attack, terrorist
bombing or a nuclear strike, the data network simply moves onto other
computers in safer locations. Therefore, in event of a nuclear war, America's
command-and-control system will survive intact to deliver a precision
counterstrike with its remaining arsenal.
Called
to Kuala Lumpur
After much
of Plant 4, with all its components, came under cloud protection, Wood
was transferred to Kuala Lumpur and Beijing following an IBM contract
signing with Freescale Semicondutor.
The Austin-headquartered
firm, a spinoff of Motorola, is heavily dependent on Asian programmers,
with their excellent design skills, mathematical prowess, lower salaries
and persistence at quality control. This is why the world's smallest MCUs
were designed and perfected at the Freescale plant in Petaling Jaya, on
the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.
The creation
of the KL series prompted top defense-technology experts to assign watchdogs
over Freescale's Asian operations. In November 2013, Joanne Maguire with
Lockheed was appointed to the Freescale board of directors. Her career
record shows her to be a veteran defense-tech executive as vice president
of Lockheed, a member of the national Defense Technology commission, and
a director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, a cutting-edge weapons
research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
At the same
moment, Phil Wood was appointed as fulltime technology manager with IBM
Malaysia. For the first time in his career, he was given the executive
privilege of having a public life and personal freedom, which was disclosed
mainly through his courtship of Beijing-based Sarah Bajc. Besides their
late-life romance, the couple "covered the bases" of high-tech
security, he in the defense-related sector and she in the civilian corporate
economy. A wedding could only increase their professional synergy. Their
pre-nuptial plan was to set up house in Kuala Lumpur. Instead, their relationship
proved to be tragic, cut short by an Israeli special forces team on Diego
Garcia.
Israel's
Best and Cruelest
Narrowing down
the possible suspects in the MH370 hijacking is not especially difficult.
The operation requires a unique set of resources, skills and experience.
The remote control of a larger jetliner requires a mobile satellite with
GPS guidance hardware to chart the path and narrow-band radar to determine
the captured aircraft's altitude. In short, guidance through three dimensions
plus time, through a spatial-temporal matrix with variable factors including
weather, potential mid-flight collision with other aircraft and evasion
of radar detection.
In short, the
operation requires a well-equipped and highly trained Air Force with the
most advanced, which reduces the field to the USAF and the Israeli Air
and Space Wing. The operation also involves an on-the-ground military
intelligence corps, thoroughly knowledgeable about passenger and crew
behavior in a hijacking situation. Among the world's 192 countries, no
air force unit has as much air-hijacking expertise as the Special Surface-Air
Designation Team Unit 5101, Israel's most secret special forces group,
which is known by the Hebrew term for "kingfisher" or Shaldag.
In recent years,
Shaldag conducted the deep infiltration into Syrian territory to target
a suspected nuclear plant being built by North Korean technicians. Later,
Kingfishers aboard helicopters, flying undetected amid white-hot phosphorus
barrages, used short-range missiles and gunfire to suppress nearly every
Hamas rocket-launch site during Operation Pillar of Fire against Gaza.
All the credit was given to Israel's Iron Dome missile shield, while the
real story of highly disciplined forward-deployed soldiers will never
see the light of day.
The commander
of Shaldag has earned a sterling reputation for accurate intelligence
work, meticulous preparation, boldness in attack and personal bravery
for his many successful operations. As a result, General Benjamin "Benny"
Ganz was promoted to Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense
Force in 2011. His first major decision was to combine the land, sea and
air special forces into a combined spearhead called the Iran Force. War
is on the horizon.
The electronic
hijacking of MH370 to seize the Firewall KL technology has all the hallmarks
of Ganz's tactical genius, steel determination and utter ruthlessness.
One team led by one leader pulled off the airborne equivalent of an Ocean's
11 heist. On a good day in a certain light, the general even looks like
George Clooney.
Outgunned and
outnumbered by Israel's best and cruelest, Phil Wood had no chance in
this fight, but he tripped up his Israeli captors long enough for this
ongoing investigation by many veteran analysis in the US and Malaysia,
networked through rense.com, to pick up the trail and pursue the Ganz
gang. The American hero's body will probably never be found, when there
are so many places to dig holes in the Chagos Islands.
To
the Promised Land
So what happened
to the Malaysian Airline passengers if they did not die on impact in the
southern Indian Ocean?
The jet flew
toward the Red Sea, where electronic-warfare planes with Israeli Air Force
routinely jam Saudi and Egyptian radar. Nearing the southern tip of the
Sinai Peninsula, the Israel pilot would then veer the jetliner into the
Gulf of Aqaba and over the Israeli-controlled Negev Desert, while trying
not to be spotted near the port of Eilat. The plane was therefore probably
flown at night.
To guarantee
a safe landing, a Boeing 777 requires a 3900 meter runway like the one
at Diego Garcia. There are only three such long airfields in Israel, including
the international airports of Tel Aviv Ben Gurion and Ovda outside Eilat.
Landing a Malaysian jetliner at either civilian airport would be too conspicuous
since Malaysia does not recognize the "Zionist entity" as a
legitimate nation-state. Conversely, it would seem equally strange to
ground crews for an El Al jet land at Kuala Lumpur. There is no love lost
between these two small countries.
That leaves
only one possible destination, which is Nevatim Air Base south of Beersheba
and close to the Dimona Nuclear Weapons Reactor. The largest airfield
in the Middle East, Nevatim is the base for Israel's strategic nuclear
strike force and was used for tactical bombing campaigns against Gaza.
Its secret facilities include hardened underground hangars large enough
to hide a Boeing 777.
There inside
the labyrinth below sand, gravel and concrete slabs, Israel Air Force
interrogators have by now filtered out the Freescale programmers for dispatch
to IDF electronics-warfare laboratories at smaller military bases. Their
design concepts and production data will establish production of tiny
microcontroller chips at some of the 60 semiconductor companies that are
members of the Israel Advanced Technology Alliance (IATI), which is owned
by the Paris-based Rothschild Group.
Lord Jacob
Rothschild, head of London-based Rothschild Capital and dominant investor
in the Blackstone Group, was unable to pry the Kinetis KL series, from
the American executive management at Freescale's Austin headquarters.
Thus the head of the Rothschild dynasty made a lateral pass to his French
nephew Benjamin, whose IATI group is directly connected with the IDF electronic
warfare division. The history of the Rothschild fortune follows an iron
rule: Whenever you can't buy, steal.
Gen. Benny
Ganz and his Shaldag force were given the complicated assignment to obtain
the microcontroller by any necessary means. In cooperation with the Mossad
station in Singapore and Beijing, the Israeli Air and Space Wing's special
operations group devised the operational plan to seize the Freescale programmers
and their hard drives aboard MH370.
The operation
proceeded much like one of the intricate plots of the Ocean's 11 series,
beset with unexpected crises, but in the end brilliantly successful.
The loser in
the MH370 heist is not just Malaysia, but also the United States of America,
which has been humiliated as well as burned by its little upstart ally.
Punishing Israel won't be easy, even for a superpower.
Chandra Muzaffar,
head of the Malaysia human-rights group JUST International, described
the present situation as: "Barack Obama is only the second president
to move away from support for Israel. The first American leader who openly
opposed Israel was John Kennedy, and look what happened to him."
The theft of
the tiny Kinetis microchip is a giant step toward a war on Iran. The success
of the hijack operation is also a major challenge to America's superpower
status. A new global empire headquartered in Israel, Wall Street and the
City of London now feels confident enough to slap around the Pentagon
and the White House with impunity, and kill an American defense intelligence
agent inside a US military base.
If history
offers any lessons, two centuries ago the Rothschild-financed and controlled
Royal British Army smashed through US Marine Corps defenses and stormed
into Washington DC. After eating dinner inside the presidential residence,
the British troopers set fire to the White House. It is happening again.
Yoichi Shimatsu,
former editor with the Japan Times group, is a Hong Kong-based science
writer.
