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			Letter #65  
			
			 
			Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is June 6, 1981, and 
			this is my AUDIO LETTER® No. 65.  
			
			 
			Wednesday afternoon May 13 was a beautiful sunny afternoon in Rome. 
			At the Vatican thousands of people were gathered in St. 
			Peter’s Square. They were waiting for the regular Wednesday 
			afternoon audience by the man known to the world as Pope John Paul 
			II. Right on time he made his appearance. As usual, he was standing 
			in a special jeep-like vehicle, waving to the crowd as the vehicle 
			drove slowly around the Square. Inside the walls of the Vatican that 
			afternoon it was a scene of peace and cheer. It was as if the insane 
			rush of a troubled world had been locked outside for a few precious 
			moments. Filled with a sea of smiling faces, St. Peter’s Square 
			seemed immune from the presence of evil. Suddenly the illusion was 
			shattered. 
			
			  
			
			There was the sound of gun fire, and the 
			man known as the Pope crumpled and fell. As the crowd looked on in 
			disbelief, the papal vehicle sped up and rushed out of St. Peter’s 
			Square. In a matter of moments the scene of tranquility had been 
			transformed into one of tragedy. Gone were all the smiles; and in 
			their place, tears. For days afterward people the world over were 
			asking just one question: 
			
				
				“Why would anyone shoot the Pope?”
				 
			 
			
			My friends, the answer to that question 
			will never be revealed by the controlled major media. The Vatican 
			has become just one more battleground in the secret war now raging 
			world-wide. The stakes involve the fate of over 700,000,000 Roman 
			Catholics—one-sixth of the human race.  
			
			 
			The man accused of the shooting reportedly said right away that he 
			had acted alone. As an excuse he said he was protesting against the 
			turmoil in Afghanistan and El Salvador. Then there were reports, 
			especially here in the United States, that perhaps he was tied in 
			with the Palestinians in some way. One story followed another in 
			rapid succession. Meanwhile the Italian police quickly found many 
			clues that the would-be assassin Mehmet Agca could not have acted 
			alone. All the evidence pointed clearly to a conspiracy. In Europe 
			conspiracies are known and recognized to be a fact of life and so 
			they are not pooh-poohed when they are discovered, but here in 
			America it is different. We’re treated like gullible children and 
			taught that the legal word “conspiracy” is a No-No. We must never 
			think that greedy, powerful men would ever work together to carry 
			out their plans. My friends, there’s a very good reason why we are 
			never allowed to think seriously about conspiracies.  
			
			  
			
			The reason is that a very small elite 
			number of people are trying to control all the rest of us. There are 
			an awful lot of us, and only a few of them. The only way they can 
			corral us and herd us around like sheep is to keep us ignorant of 
			what they are doing. Keeping you ignorant is the very essence of 
			their power. That, my friends, is why plots and conspiracies of all 
			kinds are kept secret, and that’s why the biggest conspiracy of all 
			is the conspiracy of SILENCE. It’s a conspiracy to keep you and me 
			in the dark so that the forces of darkness can continue unhampered. 
			The one thing they fear most is the TRUTH, known and understood by 
			the people, because the Truth is the Sword of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
			My friends, I live to know the truth, to understand the truth, and 
			to speak the truth. I want to do my part so that the truth will 
			continue to have a life of its own throughout our universe. I 
			believe there is nothing more important than to look for the truth, 
			and keep an open mind to receive it, because without the Truth 
			people perish.  
			
			 
			My three special topics for this AUDIO LETTER are: 
			
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				Topic #1--  THE POPE, 
				THE PRESIDENT, AND ASSASSINATION POLITICS   
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				Topic #2--  THE 
				AFTERMATH OF THE SHUTTLE “COLUMBIA” DISASTER   
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				Topic #3--  MOUNTING 
				WORLD CRISES AND “ACCIDENTAL” NUCLEAR WAR 
   
			 
			
			  
			
			Topic #1 
			
			  
			
			--In August 1978 the Cardinals of the 
			Roman Catholic Church were called into conclave at the Vatican. Pope 
			Paul VI 
			had died earlier that month, and the Cardinals faced the task of 
			choosing his successor—a new pope. From all around the world the 
			Cardinals converged on Rome for the papal conclave. As they did so, 
			the news was filled with speculation about the presumed leading 
			candidates for the papacy. Many were convinced that the conclave 
			would be a long one; instead, it turned out to be one of the 
			shortest papal conclaves in history. Voting by the Cardinals began 
			on August 26, 1978, and that very same day there was white smoke 
			from the Vatican. The Catholic Church had a new pope.  
			
			 
			Vatican watchers were astonished at the speed of the papal election. 
			They were even more astonished by the identity of the 
			new pope. He was not one of the acknowledged front runners but a 
			complete outsider to the Vatican power structure. The little known 
			Cardinal Luciani of Venice had become pope—Pope John Paul I. The 
			following day, August 27, 1978, I recorded my AUDIO LETTER No. 37. 
			In that report I gave a warning about the true significance of the 
			stunning surprise at the Vatican. The atheistic Bolsheviks, who have 
			lost their former power in Russia, will stop at nothing in their 
			frenzy to regain that power. To that end, the Bolsheviks were 
			launching a ruthless campaign to seize control of a tremendous 
			weapon, the Roman Catholic Church. The Bolshevik goal was, and still 
			is, to turn some 700,000,000 Catholics actively anti-Russian. For 
			the next few weeks there was no visible hint about the secret 
			conspiracy which I had reported in AUDIO LETTER No. 37. Instead, 
			Pope John Paul I quickly endeared himself to millions as the 
			“smiling Pope.” Then came the shock of September 28, 1978.  
			
			  
			
			After a mere 33 days we were told that 
			Pope John Paul I had died, suddenly and unexpectedly, and the man 
			who succeeded him 2-1/2 weeks later was another surprise. He was the 
			first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the first Slavic pope ever. 
			He was from bitterly anti-Soviet Poland, and his reputation was that 
			of a man who stands up to the Soviets. On October 16, 1978, the 
			former Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland became known as Pope John Paul II. 
			The Bolshevik intrigues and maneuvering in the Vatican continued 
			right on track. By late 1978 more and more of the pronouncements 
			issued in the name of Pope John Paul II were anti-Soviet in tone. 
			The public signs of rapid change in the Vatican were dramatic. 
			Meanwhile behind closed doors, the forces at work were far more 
			sinister and revolutionary than most people could ever imagine. I 
			reported on these developments in AUDIO LETTERS Nos. 39, 41, and 42.
			 
			
			 
			The Vatican, my friends, had become the setting for assassination 
			politics in the spiritual warfare between East and West. It had 
			begun with the surprise election of Cardinal Luciani as Pope John 
			Paul I in August 1978. He had been thrust into the papacy by forces 
			of which he was not even aware—Bolshevik forces. They intended to 
			use him for transitional purposes to begin the anti-Soviet 
			transformation of the Church, but he had turned out to be hard to 
			manipulate into saying and doing what the Bolsheviks wanted, so the 
			Bolshevik agents in the Vatican cut short the interim papacy of Pope 
			John Paul I by assassinating him.  
			
			 
			When the next pope was selected, the Bolsheviks made certain that 
			his image was made to order for their purposes. When Cardinal 
			Wojtyla of Poland became Pope John Paul II, it was only his image 
			that the Bolsheviks wanted. The man himself was strong-minded and 
			independent. He also had plans for restructuring the Vatican in ways 
			that the Bolsheviks could not afford. To make sure that Pope John 
			Paul II never carried out those plans, the Bolsheviks once again 
			resorted to assassination. 
			
			 
			The preparations had been made far ahead of time, and they were 
			carried out without a hitch. In mid November 1978, Pope John Paul 
			II, the most visible pope in history, virtually dropped out of sight 
			for a while. As I reported in AUDIO LETTER No. 41, he was being 
			poisoned, and on November 20, 1978, he succumbed. Immediately he was 
			replaced by a “Bolshevik look-alike”, an actor; and the very next 
			day the Vatican announced that the Pope had re-appointed all of the 
			top officials in the Vatican hierarchy known as the Curia. The 
			Vatican restructuring, which had been planned by the late real Pope 
			John Paul II, was snuffed out. The Bolshevik actor-Pope then 
			proceeded to make maximum use of the anti-Russian image of the man 
			he had replaced. Doing exactly as he was told, he was stoking up 
			bitter feelings toward Russia in heavily Catholic Eastern Europe; 
			and most of all these bitter feelings were being encouraged in 
			Poland, the most heavily Catholic of all.  
			
			 
			In AUDIO LETTER No. 42 I was able to make public where all this was 
			intended to lead. The Bolsheviks were trying to make Poland explode 
			against Russia in an uprising to be known as the “Pope’s 
			Revolution.” It was to be triggered during a papal visit to Poland 
			in May 1979. The actor-Pope himself was to provide the spark for 
			revolution in a way which he himself was not being told. At a 
			critical emotional moment during his coming trip to Poland, the 
			actor-Pope was to be assassinated. When I made the details of the 
			plan public in AUDIO LETTER No. 42, the momentum toward a Pope’s 
			Revolution was building fast; but if there is one thing the Russians 
			do not intend to allow, it is a Bolshevik revolution in Poland. 
			Having learned of the “Pope’s Revolution” plan, the Kremlin directed 
			Poland’s leaders to take all possible steps to minimize the risk. 
			Poland even announced that foreign journalists entering Poland to 
			cover the Pope’s visit would have to pay very high fees for the 
			privilege. Meanwhile Russian Intelligence operatives went to work to 
			undo the plan altogether.  
			
			 
			In AUDIO LETTER No. 46 I reported that Russia had finally succeeded 
			in stopping the “Pope’s Revolution” plot. In early May 1979 the 
			Bolshevik actor-Pope was eliminated and replaced by a Russian actor, 
			another “double.” Immediately the Vatican announced that it would 
			agree to a one-month delay in the papal visit to Poland, as 
			requested by the Polish government. In that way, a crucial emotional 
			stimulus for revolution was eliminated. As I detailed in AUDIO 
			LETTER No. 42, the original timing of the papal visit for St. 
			Stanislaus Day had been essential to the plot. With the threat of 
			revolution averted, Poland then dropped its earlier demands for high 
			fees by visiting journalists. A month later the Russian actor-Pope 
			known to the world as Pope John Paul II visited Poland without 
			mishap.  
			
			 
			The Bolshevik plan for a “Pope’s Revolution” in Poland two years ago 
			was thwarted by the Russians, but the Bolsheviks never give up in 
			their agitation for revolution and war. Soon they were at work on 
			Poland through another avenue, the so-called “Solidarity” labor 
			movement, and at the same time the Bolsheviks have never given up on 
			their dream of seizing control of the Roman Catholic Church.  
			
			 
			For the past two years the Catholic Church has been moving quietly 
			in the opposite direction to that desired by the Bolsheviks. The man 
			known as Pope John Paul II has initiated overtures toward eventual 
			reunification of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. 
			If that were to happen in the present circumstances, it would be an 
			unmitigated disaster for the Bolsheviks. Catholics in the West and 
			Russian Orthodox believers in the East would consider themselves 
			“spiritual brothers” instead of enemies. Worse yet for the 
			Bolsheviks, a papal visit to Russia has been in the works very 
			quietly in the Vatican. The Bolsheviks are determined to prevent 
			that from happening; and, as usual, the Bolsheviks turned to one of 
			their favorite political techniques—assassination.  
			
			  
			
			Early last month the Russian actor-Pope 
			celebrated a special mass for new Swiss Guards. As if in a 
			premonition, he warned them that they might be faced with giving 
			their lives in their role as his protectors. A scant week later, 
			inside the walls of the Vatican, he was cut down by the bullets of a 
			professional killer. This time he survived; but as I said before, my 
			friends, the Bolsheviks never give up. My friends, we are once again 
			plunging into an era of assassination politics. For Americans, the 
			shooting in the Vatican on May 13 created a sense of deja vu. We had 
			seen it all before as recently as six weeks earlier right here in 
			our own land. It all looked horribly familiar—and no wonder. The 
			Satanic forces responsible for the shooting of the actor-Pope are 
			the same ones who were behind the shooting of the President. These 
			dark forces, as I have said many times, are the Bolsheviks. Having 
			lost control of Russia, they now have a stranglehold on America’s 
			government instead.  
			
			 
			When news of the Pope’s shooting reached Washington, reporters asked 
			for reactions from the White House. The resulting national 
			television news reports that evening were very strange. We were 
			shown only a “still photograph” of the President with the alleged 
			quote: “I will pray for him.” By contrast, we were then shown the 
			Vice-President talking with reporters on the White House lawn about 
			the tragedy in Rome. We saw and heard seemingly heartfelt words of 
			anguish at such brutal and senseless violence. It was the 
			Vice-President, not the President, whom we saw expressing the 
			feelings most Americans wanted to hear.  
			
			 
			This is just one example, my friends, of a subtle but important 
			pattern in our news these days. A sophisticated program of 
			psychological conditioning is now under way directed at you and me. 
			It is a disarming soft-sell, but it is also using powerful 
			subliminal techniques to insure success. It’s a program to build up 
			the George Bush image in our minds while letting the Ronald Reagan 
			image slowly recede. We’re being prepared to accept it easily when 
			the so-called Reagan era comes to an abrupt end soon!  
			
			 
			What’s happening now is a preliminary phase in the plan which I 
			first reported just after the election last November 1980. In AUDIO 
			LETTER No. 60 I gave a warning that we would soon be told that the 
			President had met with, quote: “an unfortunate accident, or a sudden 
			fatal illness.” Then we would see a change in the policies of the 
			White House built around the image of George Bush.  
			
			 
			Just over two months ago on March 30 this plan of the Bolsheviks 
			here almost succeeded on the first attempt. Outside the Washington 
			Hilton Hotel the entity President Reagan was led into an ambush, 
			about which I will have more to say in a few moments. It was 
			intended to cut down the President on the spot, just as several 
			others were cut down. The assassination attempt did not succeed in 
			that goal, but it was a partial success even so, because from that 
			day onward the image of George Bush has been shining brighter and 
			brighter in the public eye.  
			
			 
			First, the period of hospital confinement of the President was 
			exploited. It was an opportunity to show off a restrained, 
			statesmanlike image on the part of the Vice-President. This 
			image-building began immediately during the first hours after the 
			shooting. First, the entity known as General Alexander Haig rushed 
			into the White House briefing room and seized the podium. His voice 
			quivering with intensity, he announced, “I am in charge here.” It 
			was a virtuoso performance, an act calculated perfectly to create 
			headlines, furrowed brows, and a source of jokes for comedians. 
			Stories of a power tug of war between Haig and Bush automatically 
			focused attention on the Vice-President in a favorable light. In 
			contrast to the Haig outburst, the Bush entity acted humble and 
			deferential. News reports said Bush refused even to sit in the 
			President’s seat in Cabinet meetings.  
			
			  
			
			The Bush image grew as a model of 
			judgment and restraint. As the President recovered, public opinion 
			polls were taken to judge what effect the shooting had on people. 
			They found a dramatic rise in people’s favorable rating of the 
			President; but for the Vice-President the improvement was 
			astronomical—from 31% to 69% favorable in just a few weeks, 
			according to NBC. As I say these words, the subtle image-making is 
			continuing. On Memorial Day almost two weeks ago it was not the 
			President we saw in news reports laying a wreath at the Tomb of the 
			Unknown, but the Vice-President. And that same evening the entity 
			Bush popped up again. Millions tuned into a Bob Hope Special that 
			evening, and the closing act was none other than the Vice-President. 
			It was prime time exposure of the supposedly non-political kind that 
			is most valuable of all in politics. Those who are building the 
			image of George Bush before us by way of news guidelines are setting 
			us up for things to come. What happened last March 30 outside the 
			Washington Hilton was a warning, and we should not ignore it. It all 
			began that day when the entity President Reagan emerged from the 
			special VIP exit of the Hilton. The VIP exit is around the corner 
			from the rest of the hotel.  
			
			  
			
			The hotel itself is many stories high, 
			but the VIP entrance is set into a stone wall only about 15 feet 
			high. At the top of the wall is a handrail with a walkway and trees 
			behind it. In other words, the VIP exit from the Hilton comes out 
			under a small park-like area. The exit itself is unmarked except for 
			a concrete canopy extending out to the curving driveway. A good 
			photograph of the scene appeared on page 30 of People magazine for 
			April 13, 1981. My friends, the whole idea behind the Hilton’s VIP 
			entrance is to provide security for important visitors. The natural 
			and prudent thing from the security standpoint would have been to 
			park the presidential limousine directly opposite the door at the 
			end of the short canopy. That way there would have been only a few 
			short steps from the door to the limousine. And that is how things 
			are done by highly trained security forces. But, my friends, 
			everything was done differently on March 30. Someone had arranged 
			for the President to walk into a classic ambush. The limousine was 
			not parked at the curb next to the VIP exit. 
			
			 
			Instead, it was parked at least 20 feet farther away to the left as 
			the presidential party walked outside. The car was parked 
			opposite a rounded corner in the stone wall, which curves away from 
			the street. Back around that corner waiting to see the 
			President stood the press and various onlookers, including allegedly 
			John Hinckley, Jr.; and just behind and above them 
			there were the numerous windows and balconies of the hotel itself. I 
			have been informed by certain professionals whose 
			business is the protection of VIPs that the pattern in all this is 
			unmistakable. The President walked into the perfect setup for 
			assassination—a cross fire.  
			
			  
			
			As he approached the limousine, the 
			President became an easy target from two directions at once—one 
			direction was the sidewalk above the overhanging canopy of the VIP 
			exit, the other direction was from behind and above the press and 
			onlookers, which included John Hinckley. In AUDIO LETTER No. 63 I 
			quoted an early NBC television news report by Judy Woodruff. She had 
			been with the presidential party inside the hotel and had walked out 
			the exit. She had not rounded the corner to the area where Hinckley 
			and the cameras were waiting, so she could not have seen Hinckley. 
			That’s clear both from her own eyewitness account on NBC and from 
			replays of the video tapes; yet she said, quote: “I noticed there 
			were some shots fired from an overhanging, from a sidewalk that was 
			above where the President’s car was.” If you will look at the 
			photograph in People magazine, which I mentioned earlier, you’ll see 
			very clearly the area that Judy Woodruff was describing. It’s not 
			the area where Hinckley was.  
			
			 
			As for Hinckley himself, we are supposed to believe he did it all by 
			himself. Always it’s a “lone assassin”, always he’s portrayed as “a 
			nut”, and always there’s a note left behind conveniently by the 
			otherwise nutty assailant to avoid loose ends. We are also supposed 
			to believe that Hinckley squeezed off six (6) shots in only two (2) 
			seconds and hit four (4) targets in that time. We’re not supposed to 
			think about the fact that every time a pistol is fired, even a small 
			caliber pistol, it kicks. It deflects upward, spoiling the aim 
			briefly.  
			
			 
			If that were not enough, we’re supposed to forget about the 
			bystander who jumped on Hinckley as soon as he started firing. 
			Alfred Antonucci, a carpenter’s union official from Cleveland, had 
			arrived too late for the President’s speech, so he waited outside 
			for a glimpse of the President. He was standing right next to 
			Hinckley. On April 13 Antonucci was interviewed on ABC’s “Good 
			Morning, America” by David Hartman. Hartman mentioned the alleged 
			six shots by Hinckley, and Antonucci said, quote: “Well, let me say 
			this. He fired the first shot; and whether it was the second, the 
			split second of the second, I was on top of him to break the aim.” 
			Then on May 1 the New York Daily News published an interview of 
			Antonucci. 
			
			  
			
			Antonucci is quoted as saying, quote: 
			
				
				“I hit him on the back of the neck 
				as hard as I could; and his gun, which he held with two hands 
				aimed right at Reagan, came down. He kept shooting with one 
				hand. I was told later by high authorities that four of the six 
				shots hit the sidewalk.” 
			 
			
			My friends, we saw for ourselves on 
			television the scuffle to subdue Hinckley as soon as he started 
			shooting. Mr. Antonucci’s story fits perfectly with what we saw 
			ourselves, but we’re supposed to ignore what we saw and just believe 
			the official story that Hinckley fired six very accurate shots. Now, 
			suppose we do a little simple counting. On TV we saw four (4) men 
			wounded—that’s at least four bullets. Four (4) bullets also hit the 
			sidewalk, thanks to Mr. Antonucci; that brings the total to at least 
			eight, and from other reports at least two more bullets hit the 
			limousine. That’s a total of at least 10 bullets that we know of. 
			Hinckley’s revolver, my friends, was only a six-shooter.  
			
			 
			Those who plotted the assassination attempt on March 30 are pulling 
			all kinds of strings to cover up the truth. A perfect example of 
			this was Time magazine for April 13, 1981. The lies began with the 
			cover itself. It’s a painting, not a photograph, depicting the 
			moment of the President’s wounding. It shows the President viewed 
			across the roof of the limousine—left arm raised, grimacing in pain. 
			It is accurate except for one thing. You will see what is wrong with 
			the Time cover if you will compare it with the photograph I 
			mentioned in People magazine. 
			
			 
			On the cover of Time the stone wall is drawn as if it were a tall 
			building. There’s no hint of the overhanging sidewalk from which 
			NBC’s Judy Woodruff said shots were fired.  
			
			 
			My friends, we’re living today in an “Alice in Wonderland” world. 
			We’re supposed to believe three impossible things before breakfast, 
			if that is what the controlled major media report to us. Only those 
			who are determined to search for the truth will be able to see it in 
			the days ahead. 
			
			  
			
			 
			Topic #2 
			
			  
			
			--On Tuesday evening April 28 millions 
			of Americans tuned in their TV sets to watch the entity President 
			Reagan address Congress. The speech was to build support for the 
			Administration’s Budget, but most people were interested for a 
			different reason. It was the first speech by the President since the 
			assassination attempt nearly a month earlier. Many people were too 
			absorbed in the dramatic re-appearance of a wounded president to pay 
			much attention to anything else. No one cared very much that the 
			space shuttle “Columbia” supposedly arrived back in Florida that 
			day, nor did many people give a second thought to the fact that it 
			was a full week overdue. After all, as far as the public was 
			concerned, the Columbia was a great success. We had seen it for 
			ourselves on television. Based on one space shuttle flight, we are 
			being told on all sides that we are once again on top in space.
			 
			
			  
			
			We are told that now we are five, ten 
			years ahead of those poor dumb Russians. It would be nice if all 
			those things were true, but unfortunately they are not true. In 
			AUDIO LETTER No. 62 I was able to make public ahead of time the real 
			mission of the Columbia, which was Military! I described the plan 
			for us to see the Columbia lift off from Florida, but to see a 
			different shuttle, the “Enterprise”, land two days later in 
			California. Meanwhile the Columbia was to have carried out a secret 
			military mission unseen by you. The deception built into the 
			original flight plan was bad enough; but as it turned out, the 
			flight of the Columbia ended very quickly in DISASTER; and you and I 
			were supposed to believe otherwise. The secret disaster of the space 
			shuttle Columbia and the television hoax which we were shown to hide 
			it were events of great importance. That is why I devoted my entire 
			AUDIO LETTER No. 64 to giving you the details. The space shuttle 
			“Columbia” is no more!  
			
			 
			The shuttle which we saw landing at Edwards Air Force Base in 
			California was the training shuttle “Enterprise.” It had simply been 
			relabeled with the name “Columbia” on its side. When the shuttle 
			landed in California on April 14 we were initially told that it 
			would be flown to Florida just a few days later; but as the days 
			went by, the shuttle just stayed there. NASA cooked up one excuse 
			after another to explain away the delays to the public.  
			
			 
			Meanwhile, frantic meetings were going on involving key joint 
			military and NASA personnel. Things had not gone according to plan, 
			and they were not sure what to do. One faction insisted that NASA 
			should go ahead according to the original plan. That plan called for 
			a switch in shuttles between California and Florida. On Day One a 
			modified “747” would take off from Edwards Air Force Base, 
			California, with the shuttle “Enterprise” riding piggyback. News 
			cameras would be on hand to record the take-off. 
			
			 
			The Enterprise would then be flown to its home base at White Sands, 
			New Mexico. Meanwhile the public would be told that the “747” with 
			the shuttle had made an over-night stopover. Then on Day Two another 
			modified “747” carrying a different shuttle would take off from 
			White Sands and fly to Florida. Once again reporters would be on 
			hand to watch the landing at Cape Canaveral. The new shuttle, of 
			course, would have the name “Columbia” on the side just as the 
			Enterprise does. In that way the training shuttle Enterprise was to 
			be returned to home base and a fresh orbital-rated shuttle sent to 
			Florida. The switch would be made without the public suspecting a 
			thing. In meetings behind closed doors about the situation, others 
			protested that it would be foolish to go ahead as originally planned 
			without more information. It was obvious that somehow the Russians 
			had destroyed the Columbia, but the question was: 
			
				
				“How?”  
			 
			
			The military shuttle planning group 
			agreed that they needed the answer to that question, otherwise there 
			would be no way to devise countermeasures to give the next shuttle 
			flight a better chance. Finally it was agreed all around that the 
			first urgent need was to buy time, so NASA spokesmen were told to 
			give the press a series of stalling stories about the post-flight 
			shuttle procedures in California. Meanwhile every available avenue 
			of Intelligence world-wide was pressed to come up with an answer to 
			that crucial question:  
			
				
				“What happened to the space shuttle 
				Columbia?”  
			 
			
			Day by day we saw brief news reports 
			about the post-flight checkout of the space shuttle at Edwards Air 
			Force Base. The shuttle was lifted onto the back of the “747” but 
			the take-off kept being pushed back one day after another. The 
			military shuttle planning group was drawing a blank from their 
			Intelligence sweep about the Columbia. The shuttle stayed on the 
			ground in California a week longer than originally planned, and 
			still no answer came about the Columbia. NASA ran out of excuses for 
			further stalling without raising unwelcome questions. The secret 
			shuttle planning team was still in no position to prepare for a 
			second orbital mission, and yet appearances have to be maintained.
			 
			
			 
			The United States Government is crowing loudly about the supposed 
			stunning success of the shuttle because it is the only hope left for 
			America in space. The space shuttle is the only program other than 
			Defense which has been given increased funding by the so-called 
			Reagan Administration.  
			
			 
			Before the shuttle Enterprise left California aboard its “747”, the 
			shuttle planning group had to make a decision: Should they, or 
			should they not, make the planned switch between shuttles at White 
			Sands. There are three more orbital-rated shuttles at White Sands, 
			and a specific mission has been planned for each one. One of the 
			planners summed up the dilemma in the words, and I quote:  
			
				
				“How can we send an orbital bird to 
				the Cape? STS-2, 3, and 4 may require major modifications in 
				order to get past the Russians. We won’t know what those 
				modifications are until we get the missing feed-back on STS-1. I 
				say send the Enterprise. We can keep it sub-orbital by faking an 
				abort—shut down one engine before press-to-MECO and let 
				Enterprise return to Kennedy. That will keep Enterprise out of 
				danger from Ivan. It will also keep the ball rolling while 
				giving us more time to set up a successful orbital shot.” 
			 
			
			Someone else asked:  
			
				
				“What about the public relations 
				impact? One thing we don’t need is to abort a mission this early 
				in the program.” 
			 
			
			The reply was:  
			
				
				“Would you rather lose another 
				orbital bird to Ivan? Besides, if we do it right, we could end 
				up with even more public support. You know what I mean—the idea 
				that the shuttle is safe even if something does go wrong, and so 
				on.” 
			 
			
			There was a long silence, followed by 
			more discussion, but finally the suggestion was adopted. On Monday 
			April 27 the “747” bearing the shuttle Enterprise took off from 
			Edwards Air Force Base, California. The following day we saw the 
			same shuttle, the training shuttle Enterprise, landing in Florida. 
			There was no switch.  
			
			 
			The secret shuttle planners are still feeling their way. The plan 
			could be changed, but as of now it will be the training shuttle 
			Enterprise that rolls out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral later 
			this summer. It will look just like the Columbia did before its 
			April launch, mated to a giant fuel tank and huge solid-rocket 
			boosters.  
			
			 
			NASA is presently shooting for the very early launch date of 
			September 30, 1981. According to the present plan the launch is to 
			proceed smoothly for the first few minutes. Unlike the Columbia, the 
			Enterprise will not veer north toward the kind of orbit forbidden by 
			Russia. Then, one engine will shut down prematurely. It will be 
			earlier in the flight than the point at which contact with Columbia 
			was lost last April. Then, as we are still watching on television, 
			the Enterprise will return for its alleged “emergency” landing at 
			Kennedy. By now the Enterprise has made so many computerized 
			landings that NASA has confidence that the landing will be made 
			safely.  
			
			 
			There will be an uproar about the aborted space flight, but it will 
			not last long. Aided by the controlled major media, NASA will 
			convince most Americans that the safe outcome of the supposed 
			“emergency” is what counts. It will be said that this just proves 
			how reliable the shuttle really is. By staging an aborted shuttle 
			mission this fall of 1981, the joint military and NASA shuttle team 
			will be buying time. They will not he expected to launch another 
			mission until early 1982. By then they are hoping to have learned 
			what they must do to get past the Russians into space. 
			
			  
			
			 
			Topic #3 
			
			  
			
			--When news of the presidential 
			assassination attempt here in Washington flashed around the world 
			last March 30, it triggered an old concern in many minds. America 
			was caught in a vulnerable moment. Would some other country try to 
			take advantage in some way? Most of all, would Russia decide to 
			invade Poland? At that time headlines were telling us that an 
			invasion might be imminent. As it turned out then, our worries were 
			unfounded. Russia had made no move toward Poland; instead, they were 
			in the process of cooling down the latest “Solidarity” labor crisis. 
			Likewise other nations around the world generally acted with 
			restraint following news of the shooting—that is, all the world’s 
			nations except one. The lone exception was Israel. The timing could 
			not have been more precise, my friends, if it had been planned in 
			advance. As the first shocking bulletins of the shooting flashed 
			across America, Israeli war planes were starting their engines. As 
			White House spokesmen were gathering to brief the press, Israeli 
			fighter bombers were gathering over Lebanon.  
			
			 
			Through the afternoon and evening we Americans huddled around our 
			television sets for the latest word from George Washington 
			University Hospital. Meanwhile Lebanese villagers were huddling in 
			basements and bombed-out shelters as Israeli missiles and bombs 
			exploded all around them. On the BBC World Service and other 
			short-wave radio news reports around the world, the sudden new 
			Israeli raids on Lebanon that day were big news. Not so here in 
			America. News of the presidential shooting and its aftermath drowned 
			out everything else. It was not until Syrian troops began making 
			moves in response to the Israeli raids that Lebanon began to enter 
			our consciousness here. Day by day the Israelis and Syrians lashed 
			out at one another more and more, directly and through surrogates in 
			Lebanon.  
			
			 
			On April 28 Israeli jets shot down two Syrian helicopters over 
			Lebanon. It was big news overseas. Here in the United States though 
			it was overshadowed by the presidential speech to Congress that 
			evening. It was not until the following day, April 29, that the 
			Lebanon crisis received top billing in America’s controlled major 
			media. The Syrians had moved Russian SAM-6 anti-aircraft missiles 
			into the Bekaa valley of Lebanon. This was Syria’s answer to 
			Israel’s downing of two of her helicopters the day before over Zahle. 
			Thus the Middle East missile crisis was born. Another mounting 
			crisis is the growing feud between the United States and Japan. 
			Lately it seems as if Washington can’t do anything right towards the 
			Japanese. On the morning of April 10, 1981, the first attempt to 
			launch the space shuttle “Columbia” took place at Cape Canaveral. It 
			ended in failure due to a computer problem, but it was the top story 
			that day here in America. It all but drowned out the news story that 
			was No. 1 that day in Japan.  
			
			 
			The previous day, an American submarine had sunk a small Japanese 
			freighter, supposedly by ramming it. Then the submarine had left the 
			scene without making any attempt to rescue survivors. Worse yet, the 
			United States had not even admitted the incident to Japanese 
			authorities until 36 hours later. In the weeks that have passed 
			since the incident took place, the episode has raised more and more 
			questions in Japanese minds. The United States Navy issued a report 
			about it which differs drastically from the testimony of the 13 
			Japanese survivors. The Navy report even puts the location of the 
			collision 3-1/2 miles away from where it actually happened. The 
			Japanese want to know WHY.  
			
			 
			To this and many other puzzling questions about the incident, the 
			Japanese are demanding answers, but they are not getting those 
			answers. The supposedly accidental sinking of the Japanese freighter 
			was only the opening gun in the Washington-Tokyo feud. Since then 
			Japan has been rocked by one shock after another at the hands of the 
			United States. American naval vessels have sailed through Japanese 
			fishing fleets, cutting fishing nets to ribbons. Suddenly there are 
			revelations that American ships with nuclear weapons aboard have 
			been using Japanese ports regularly in secret. Secretary of State 
			Haig canceled a visit to Japan. Even the visit of Prime Minister 
			Suzuki to Washington recently backfired on him. He agreed to 
			language in a joint communique that led to accusations in Japan that 
			Suzuki was making a secret military alliance with the United States. 
			The irony of it all is that Suzuki’s troubles are due to the fact 
			that he is resisting any such military alliance.  
			
			 
			The Bolsheviks here in America want Japan to re-arm, to become the 
			policeman of the Western Pacific. Suzuki’s predecessor, Prime 
			Minister Ohira, was ready to go along with America’s Bolsheviks 
			despite stern warnings from Russia not to. Then Ohira died suddenly 
			a year ago, and Suzuki replaced him. Suzuki does not want to re-arm 
			Japan, and so America’s Bolsheviks want him out of office. Japan has 
			endured all kinds of shocks in recent months, but they all have one 
			common denominator. They all have involved loss of face for Japan as 
			a whole and especially for Prime Minister Suzuki.  
			
			 
			In Asia, loss of face is a very serious matter. By using it as a 
			political weapon, America’s Bolsheviks believe they can bring down 
			the Suzuki government. Whoever follows Suzuki will have to talk 
			“peace” for domestic consumption, but he will have to prepare for 
			war if he is to get along with Washington. Elsewhere in Asia, Red 
			China and Vietnam have supposedly recently engaged in very heavy 
			border fighting with many casualties. Meanwhile the so-called Reagan 
			Administration is preparing to declare openly that it will sell 
			America’s most sophisticated weapons to Red China. The United States 
			Government, my friends, has gone insane from the cancer of 
			Bolshevism, and is leading America from folly to greater folly. In 
			Europe, too, there is turmoil at the hands of Bolshevik agents.
			 
			
			  
			
			The government of Italy has just been 
			brought down in a tremendous scandal involving a massive conspiracy 
			of many of the country’s leading citizens. In West Germany, 
			Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is under fire from forces who want to undo 
			the balance he has struck between East and West. And in France the 
			Bolsheviks won a tremendous victory in the election last month. 
			Until now, France has enjoyed a special relationship with Russia as 
			well as with the West. The relationship has been one of trust built 
			up laboriously beginning with the late President Charles de Gaulle; 
			but the new French president, Mitterrand, is working as fast as 
			possible to change that. Mitterrand will try to bring France into 
			the anti-Russian camp, headed by the Bolsheviks here in America.
			 
			
			 
			My friends, crises large and small are multiplying all around us, 
			and by and large they are not accidental. They are part of the 
			deliberate war build-up strategy of the Bolsheviks here, which I 
			made public in AUDIO LETTER No. 63. By turning the world into a 
			caldron of crises, they are setting the stage for NUCLEAR WAR ONE. 
			The whole world is becoming like the uneasy Balkans just before 
			World War I.  
			
			 
			World War I was set off seemingly by accident by the assassination 
			of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria by a terrorist. Today, we are once 
			again in the era of terrorism, assassination, and turmoil. Like 
			World War I, NUCLEAR WAR ONE will erupt suddenly from an unexpected 
			spark, seemingly by accident. But World War I was brought about 
			deliberately, my friends, and the same will be true of NUCLEAR WAR 
			ONE. All of this is not lost on the new rulers of Russia. Russia’s 
			rulers are convinced that it is only a matter of time until all-out 
			war breaks out between the United States and Russia, so the Russians 
			are continuing to whittle away at America’s ability to damage 
			Russia.  
			
			 
			When the space shuttle “Columbia” took off on its ill-fated flight 
			last April 12, a fleet of special airplanes were aloft to help track 
			it. The United States was depending heavily on its fleet of advanced 
			range instrumentation aircraft. These are flying radar and 
			communication stations known as “Droop Snoots” for their huge 
			bulbous nose. This special airplane is a modified military Boeing 
			707 designated EC-135N. When they are not involved in space shots, 
			the EC-135N’s also have many other uses, including the tracking of 
			Russian satellites. There are only a few EC-135N’s, so they are all 
			important. When the space shuttle “Columbia” took off last April, 
			there were only eight of them. 
			
			 
			The Space Shuttle Program is an indispensable key to the current war 
			plans of the Bolsheviks here, and the EC-135N’s are crucial to the 
			Shuttle Program. On May 6, 1981, an EC-135N nicknamed the “Boss Hog” 
			took off from its base at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. It 
			headed east on what was to be a routine training flight. As the 
			modified “707” flew eastward, it was heading for an unexpected 
			rendezvous. Hovering high over the rolling hills of western 
			Maryland, a lone Cosmosphere was waiting for the Boss Hog. At 10:51 
			A.M. Eastern Time the pilot of the jet radioed the words “Flight 
			level 290” to flight controllers on the ground. The plane was at 
			29,000 feet. Moments later the Cosmosphere fired its Charged 
			Particle Beam weapon downward at the jet plane passing miles below 
			it. The beam blasted a hole through the top of the fuselage and 
			another out through the bottom.  
			
			  
			
			Explosive decompression emptied the 
			cabin of its air. The blast also set off a secondary explosion of 
			some kind, turning the jet into a ball of flames. At the same time 
			control cables through the tail were destroyed, and the jet turned 
			violently nose down. Instead of gliding to a crash many miles away, 
			the ruined airplane dropped like a rock, almost straight down. Radar 
			traffic controllers were startled to see the plane disappear 
			suddenly from their screens. It was all over before they even knew 
			anything had happened. On the ground, eye witnesses heard a 
			boom-boom-boom, and moments later a giant ball of fire came 
			screaming downward out of the clouds. For 10 more minutes small 
			pieces of debris from the plane kept settling earthward for miles 
			around.  
			
			 
			In any air disaster as violent as this one, the investigation 
			usually extends over a period of months—but not this time, my 
			friends. On Friday May 29, just over three weeks after the crash, 
			the Air Force quietly announced that its investigation was already 
			over. They knew what had blown their radar plane out of the air, but 
			they also declared that for the time being the results will not be 
			made public.  
			
			 
			While the Air Force was still reeling from the crash of the EC-135N, 
			it became the Navy’s turn. Once again Russia’s target was a highly 
			sophisticated electronic warfare jet. The plane involved was an 
			EA-6B Prowler based on the nuclear supercarrier USS Nimitz.  
			
			 
			On the night of Tuesday May 26, the Nimitz was engaged in 
			night-landing exercises just off the East Coast. Carrier landings 
			are always dangerous, and night landings especially so; but the 
			EA-6B has a special advantage. It is equipped with an Automatic 
			Carrier Landing System to permit safe landings even in conditions of 
			zero visibility. Partly as a result, the Prowlers are known as some 
			of the safest of all carrier aircraft; but on that night of May 26 
			one of Russia’s new Jumbo Cosmospheres was hovering high above the 
			Nimitz. It was one of the two which I described in AUDIO LETTER No. 
			64 armed with a Neutron Particle Beam. As an EA-6B approached the 
			Nimitz to land, the Cosmosphere waited. At a critical moment of the 
			final approach, the Cosmosphere fired. The invisible neutron beam 
			instantly killed the crew of three and temporarily deranged the 
			airplane’s electronic systems. Being suddenly without guidance, the 
			jet veered to the right and crashed into a deck full of airplanes. 
			The toll: 14 dead, 48 injured, and 20 aircraft destroyed or damaged. 
			It was the Navy’s worst flight-deck disaster since 1953.  
			
			 
			Day by day, my friends, the stakes are steadily increasing. 
			
			 
			The closer we get to all-out war, the more incidents like this we 
			will see; yet, somehow, we seem oblivious to the real cause. Our 
			leaders are telling us that we have to act “tough” to keep the 
			peace. Meanwhile our supposedly “tough” actions are leading to the 
			exact opposite of peace—NUCLEAR WAR ONE!   
			
			 
			LAST MINUTE SUMMARY  
			Now it’s time for my Last Minute Summary. My friends, these days we 
			hear constantly about something called National Security. What does 
			that mean to you? Can there be any such thing as National Security 
			without National Survival? If not, then our national security hangs 
			by a thread, because our national survival is in dire jeopardy. Our 
			leaders keep telling us that the threat to our security is Russia. 
			Then, while we are not looking, they turn right around and taunt the 
			Russian Bear. I have a last minute report to pass on to you in this 
			very vein. As you know, the supercarrier Nimitz entered port only 
			very briefly after the fiery crash of the EA-6B. It entered port on 
			May 28 and left again just two days later, May 30. The official 
			story was that it was heading for the Caribbean for continued 
			exercises.  
			
			 
			I must now report to you that the Nimitz was ordered to the north, 
			not to the south. In a drastic departure from normal procedure, an 
			American carrier group has been ordered into the Norwegian and 
			Barents Seas, right on the doorstep of Russia. This deployment is 
			expected to be brief, but it is very dangerous. It is an insane act 
			of bravado by the Bolsheviks here, like walking up to a bully and 
			knocking the chip off his shoulder. Probably the Nimitz will get 
			away with it, this time; but one of these days we will cross that 
			invisible line in the dust—and the world will be at war!  
			
			 
			My friends, what is called National Security today is a lie. The 
			more we spend on national security, the less secure we become. True 
			security can be built only on the foundation of mutual trust and 
			mutual respect, and those things in turn can be built only on the 
			TRUTH. Those who secretly control America’s destiny today cannot 
			stand the truth. They are the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 
			as He said long ago: They were liars from the beginning.  
			We must seek the Truth, cherish the Truth, and pass on the Truth to 
			others. Only in that way can we break free of the Satanic power that 
			now grips America.  
			
			 
			Until next month, God willing, this is Dr. Beter. Thank you, and may 
			God bless each and every one of you. 
  
			
			
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