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within a state," a black projects coordination office within the
structures otherwise nominally under the control, of the American
government and military
Clearly, it would be difficult, especially if there were no means
of independent financing of these projects, altogether apart from the
US government's own "black budget." But we have already seen
that a crucial component of Bormann's postwar survival and
resuscitation plan was capitalization. Three conduits in particular
were often utilized by O.D.E.S.S.A and other postwar Nazi secret
organizations: (1) drugs and thereby organized crime, (2) t h e
Church, i.e., various "ministries" within Protestantism and diverse
religious orders and congregations within the Roman Catholic
Church, and (3) false corporate fronts and dummy corporations,
holding companies, and banking institutions. The United State,
particularly in the last few decades, seems to have been a fertile
ground for all three types of activity, at least in general terms.
As for maintaining the secrecy of such an independent and
"occulted" entity, this is a solved problem, for the Manhattan
Project was just such an entity, with only a very few at the highest
echelons of its myriad compartmentalized "need-to-know"
departments possessing the whole picture. In the postwar
atmosphere, particularly with the Cold War ensuing, it may actually
have been quite easy to accomplish. With US government defense
contracts and black projects run increasingly on a cost-plus basis,
all expenses for such research was funded, with an addition margin
tacked on for corporate profit. This, added to the other genuinely
off-the-books funding that Bormann and the SS envisioned, would
have supplied twin sources of funding of almost limitless wealth.
But the most important consideration with respect to this
question is the fact that the very classification and
compartmentalization of black projects would itself operate as a
favorable environment to run an "unofficial" black project within an
"official" one. With projects split over several locations, its needed
technologies farmed out to various companies, various departments
of government, and coordinated from some secret center, it would
seem a relatively easy, rather than difficult, thing to do.
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