Patrick McLanahan Collection #1 (122 page)

AMERICANS

K
EVIN
M
ARTINDALE,
President of the United States

M
AUREEN
H
ERSHEL,
Vice President

A
RMY
G
ENERAL
J
ONAS
H
ARMAN
S
PARKS
, National Security Adviser

J
OSEPH
G
ARDNER,
Secretary of Defense

A
RMY
G
ENERAL
W
ILLIAM
G
LENBROOK,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

D
R
. M
ARY
C
ARSON,
Secretary of State

K
EN
T. P
HOENIX,
Attorney General

C
ARL
M
INDEN,
Chief of Staff

U.S. M
ARINE
C
ORPS
M
AJOR
-G
ENERAL
A
NTHONY
L
EWARS,
White House Press Secretary

G
ERALD
V
ISTA,
Director of Central Intelligence

L
T
. G
ENERAL
P
ATRICK
M
C
L
ANAHAN,
special adviser to the President

B
RIGADIER
G
ENERAL
D
AVID
L
UGER,
asst. special adviser to the President

B
RIGADIER
-G
ENERAL
R
EBECCA
F
URNESS,
commander, First Air Battle Force (air operations), Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base (ARB), Nevada

B
RIGADIER
-G
ENERAL
D
AREN
M
ACE,
Air Battle Force operations officer and EB-1C mission commander

U.S. A
IR
F
ORCE
C
OLONEL
N
ANCY
C
HESHIRE,
AL-52 Dragon aircraft commander

U.S. A
IR
F
ORCE
R
ESERVE
M
AJOR
W
YATT
C
ROSS,
EB-52 Megafortress aircraft commander

U.S. A
IR
F
ORCE
R
ESERVE
C
APTAIN
M
ARK
H
OURS,
EB-52 mission commander

A
IR
F
ORCE
R
ESERVE
C
APTAIN
M
ARGARET
“M
UGS
” L
EWIS,
EB-1C Vampire aircraft commander

B
RIGADIER
G
ENERAL
H
AL
B
RIGGS,
deputy commander for operations (ground operations), First Air Battle Force, Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base, Nevada

M
ARINE
C
ORPS
S
ERGEANT
M
AJOR
C
HRIS
W
OHL,
NCOIC, First Air Battle Force

U.S. A
RMY
F
IRST
L
IEUTENANT
C
HARLIE
B
RAKEMAN,
Tin Man commando

A
RMY
N
ATIONAL
G
UARD
C
APTAIN
C
HARLIE
T
URLOCK,
CID engineer and pilot

U.S. A
RMY
S
PECIALIST
M
ARIA
R
ICARDO,
Tin Man commando

C
OLONEL
M
ARTIN
T
EHAMA,
commander, High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center (HAWC), Elliott Air Force Base, Nevada

C
APTAIN
H
UNTER
“B
OOMER
” N
OBLE,
XR-A9 Black Stallion aircraft commander, Elliott Air Force Base, Groom Lake

F
IRST
L
IEUTENANT
D
OROTHEA
“N
ANO
” B
ENNETON,
Ph.D., Black Stallion mission commander

U.S. A
IR
F
ORCE
C
APTAIN
W
IL
L
EFFERTS,
XR-A9 mission commander

U.S. N
AVY
L
IEUTENANT
C
OMMANDER
J
ACK
O
LRAY,
XR-A9 pilot

U.S. N
AVY
L
IEUTENANT
L
ISETTE
“F
RENCHY
” M
OULAIN,
XR-A9 mission commander

S
TACY
A
NNE
B
ARBEAU,
senior U.S. senator from Louisiana, ranking member of Senate Armed Services Committee; Colleen Morna, her aide

G
ENERAL
C
HARLIE
Z
OLTRANE,
commander, Eighth Air Force

G
ENERAL
C
OLLEEN
E
DGEWATER,
commander, Air Force Matériel Command

A
NN
P
AGE,
Ph.D., former U.S. senator, astronaut, and space weapon engineer

C
OLONEL
K
AI
R
AYDON,
Space Shuttle aircraft commander

C
IVIL
A
IR
P
ATROL
C
ADET
M
ASTER
S
ERGEANT
D
OUG
L
ENZ,
Cadet Lieutenant Katelyn VanWie's NCOIC

IRANIANS

M
AJOR
-G
ENERAL
H
ESARAK AL
-K
AN BUZHAZI,
former chief of staff of the Iranian military

C
IVIL
A
IR
P
ATROL
C
ADET
L
IEUTENANT
K
ATELYN
V
AN
W
IE,
aka Shahdokht Azar Assiyeh Qagev, heir presumptive of the Peacock Throne of Iran

I
MAM
S
AYYED
M
OSTAFA
S
HĪRĀZEMI,
religious leader of Iran

M
ASOUD
A
HMADAD,
president of Iran

B
RIGADIER
G
ENERAL
M
ANSOUR
S
ATTARI,
Buzhazi's aide

B
RIGADIER
-G
ENERAL
K
AMAL
Z
HORAM,
commander of the Second Rocket Brigade of the Pasdaran-i-Engelab, or Revolutionary Guards Corps

G
ENERAL
H
OSEYN
Y
ASSINI,
commander-in-chief, Iranian armed forces

F
LIGHT
C
APTAIN
A
LI
-R
EZA
K
AZEMI,
transport pilot

L
IEUTENANT
G
ENERAL
M
UHAMMAD
B
ADI,
commander of the Pasdaran (Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps)

C
OLONEL
/G
ENERAL
A
LI
Z
OLQADR,
replacement Pasdaran commander; Major Kazem Jahromi, his aide

A
YATOLLAH
H
ASSAN
M
OHTAZ,
Director of the Supreme National Security Deputate and military adviser to the Faqih

M
AJOR
P
ARVIZ
N
AJAR,
Lieutenant Mara Saidi, Katelyn's bodyguards

C
OLONEL
J
AMAL
F
ATTAH,
chief political officer, Iranian embassy, Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan

RUSSIANS

L
EONID
Z
EVITIN,
president of the Russian Federation

G
ENERAL
K
UZMA
F
URZYENKO,
Russian chief of staff

PENTAGON PLANNING FOR SPACE BOMBER—
By Robert Windrem, MSNBC NEWS, August 14, 2001—An experimental NASA spacecraft could well be the harbinger for a small armada of billion-dollar space bombers—“space operations vehicles” that could be launched from a U.S. base and fire weapons at almost any target on Earth, all within 90 minutes of a presidential order.

…The next generation of America's bomber fleet will be a far cry not only from World War II's B-17 but from the stealthy B-2 bomber as well. Speed to target is likely to be just as high a priority as a bomber's payload in the 21st century.

…In June, Rumsfeld directed the Pentagon to investigate “suborbital space vehicles” that “would be valuable for conducting rapid global strikes,” according to a Pentagon planning document issued under his name. And as recently as last month, Boeing said it was talking to the Air Force about investing millions of dollars more in Boeing's X-37.

Then, in congressional testimony this month, Gen. Michael
Ryan, the Air Force chief of staff, acknowledged that a futuristic “space bomber” is being contemplated by the Pentagon's long-range planners…

 

STRATEGIC FORECASTING INC.,
www.stratfor.com, 9 November 2004—An Iranian official said Nov. 9 that Iran has acquired the capability to produce medium-range ballistic missiles in mass quantity. Defense Minister Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani told journalists in Tehran that the Islamic republic is able to manufacture in bulk the Shahab-3 missile, whose range was recently upgraded to 1,250 miles.

 

IRANIANS REFUSE TO TERMINATE NUCLEAR PLANS—
by Elaine Sciolino,
New York Times
—26 November 2004—
VIENNA
—Iran refused Thursday to abandon plans to operate uranium enrichment equipment that could be used either for energy purposes or in a nuclear bomb-making project, European and Iranian officials said.

The refusal threatened to scuttle a nuclear agreement Iran reached 10 days ago with France, Britain and Germany to freeze all of Iran's uranium enrichment activities, the European officials added. It also gave new ammunition to the Bush administration, which asserts that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program and cannot be trusted…

 

U.S. FORCE EYES RAPID SATELLITE CAPABILITY—
Jane's Defense Weekly,
7 January 2005—The U.S. Air Force, along with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), plans to conduct a flight experiment mid-year to see if it can rapidly place a light satellite payload into orbit aboard a small space launch vehicle. If successful, the demonstration could herald a new technology for space access, said officials involved with the launch.

 

RUSSIANS HELPING IRAN CREATE EUROPE MISSILE THREAT:
British Paper (AFP) Oct. 16, 2005—Former members of the Russian military have been secretly helping Iran obtain the technology needed to make missiles capable of hitting European capitals, a British newspaper claimed on Sunday.

Citing anonymous “Western intelligence officials,” The
Sunday Telegraph
said the Russians were go-betweens as part of a multimillion-pound deal they negotiated between Iran and North Korea in 2003.

“It has enabled Tehran to receive regular clandestine shipments of top secret missile technology, believed to be channeled through Russia,” the newspaper reported in a front-page article.

The allegations came after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice feuded openly with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over Iran's nuclear programme while on a brief trip to Moscow on Saturday.

…According to the
Telegraph,
Iran would be able to use its new technology to build a missile with a range of 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles).

“It is designed to carry a 1.2-ton payload, sufficient for a basic nuclear device,” the newspaper said.

It quoted a senior U.S. official as saying Iran's programme as “sophisticated and getting larger and more accurate. They have had very much in mind the payload needed to carry a nuclear weapon.

 

RUSSIA WARNS AGAINST MILITARY FORCE—
© Stratfor Inc., August 17, 2005—Military force against Iran would be “counterproductive and dangerous,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Aug. 17. The ministry called for a diplomatic solution to the tensions surrounding Tehran's nuclear program, warning of “grave” and unpredictable outcomes if force were employed.

 

ARMS SALE TO TEHRAN FUELS TENSIONS WITH ISRAEL—
Janes
Defence
Weekly, 14 December 2005—© Janes' Information Group—Tel Aviv—Russia confirmed earlier reports on 5 December of the deal with Iran, which includes the upgrading of Iranian Su-24 attack aircraft and MiG-29 multirole fighter aircraft, along with the acquisition of an unspecified number of patrol boats, 32 Antey Tor-M1 (SA-15 “Gauntlet”) low- to medium-altitude surface-to-air missile systems (16 tracked, 16 wheeled) and the upgrade of an unspecified number of T-72 main battle tanks. Russian news agency Interfax reported that the missiles would be deployed to protect Iran's soon-to-be-completed nuclear reactor in Bushehr.

The Tor-M1 can simultaneously detect and track up to 48 airborne targets out to a range of 40 km and can engage targets at a maximum range of 12 km and at altitudes from 10 m to 6,000 m. During a test in Russia, the Tor-M1 achieved a high kill probability against cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and jet fighters…

 

LOW-COST ACCESS TO ORBIT: MARINES TO THE RESCUE,
by Taylor Dinerman, www.thespacereview.com, 6 January 2006…In July 2002, the Marine Corps released a Universal Needs Statement that defined the Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) concept that, if successful, will give the U.S. a “…heretofore unimaginable assault support speed, range, altitude, and strategic surprise” capability. SUSTAIN is an RLV that will carry a squad (13 men) into space and land it anywhere on Earth within two hours with, among other requirements, “flexible launch on demand to any orbital inclination.”

A fully operational SUSTAIN-type vehicle would also be the preferred low-cost way to get cargo and personnel to and from LEO [low earth orbit]…

 

TWO-STAGE-TO-ORBIT “BLACKSTAR” SYSTEM SHELVED AT GROOM LAKE?—
©
Aviation Week and Space Technology,
5 March 2006…U.S. intelligence agencies may have quietly mothballed a highly classified two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane system designed in the 1980s for reconnaissance, satellite-insertion and, possibly, weapons delivery…

…A large “mothership,” closely resembling the U.S. Air Force's historic XB-70 supersonic bomber, carries the orbital component conformally under its fuselage, accelerating to supersonic speeds at high altitude before dropping the spaceplane. The orbiter's engines fire and boost the vehicle into space. If mission requirements dictate, the spaceplane can either reach low Earth orbit or remain suborbital.

…Exactly what missions the Blackstar system may have been designed for and built to accomplish are as yet unconfirmed, but U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) officers and contractors have been toying with similar spaceplane concepts for years. Besides reconnaissance, they call for inserting small satellites into orbit, and either retrieving or servicing other spacecraft. Conceivably, such a vehicle could serve as an anti-satellite or space-to-ground weapons-delivery platform…

 

www.Iranian.ws (a U.S.-based Iranian Web site) polls, 13 March 2006—49% of respondents believe the current Iranian regime will “go away because it is in its nature to be deposed by violent means.”

As to the question “If (or when) the time comes to choose between Iran or Islam,” 92% chose “Iran.”

As to the question “Which is the right model of governance for Iran?” 45% chose a republic, 34% chose a monarchy, and only 8% chose a theocracy.

As to the question “Do you support a separation of religion from state in Iran,” 81% chose “Yes, of course,” and 16% chose “No way.”

82% of respondents rate Iran's future under the current regime as “Not good.”

The poll Web site page http://www.iranian.ws/poll/ has a warning on it which reads: “According to some, you may turn to solid rock or may burn in hell for eternity by participating in our polls.”

 

PRATT & WHITNEY ROCKETDYNE COMPLETES MACH 5 TESTING OF WORLD'S FIRST CLOSED-LOOP HYDROCARBON-FUELED HYPERSONIC PROPULSION SYSTEM—
PR NewsWire-FirstCall, 27 July 2006—CANOGA PARK, Calif.—Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR), a business unit of United Technologies Corp., has completed testing of its hypersonic Ground Demonstrator Engine No. 2 (GDE-2) at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia…

The PWR GDE-2 produced significant hypersonic data results during several test runs conducted at Mach 5 conditions in the eight-foot High Temperature Tunnel at the Langley Research Center. The engine used standard JP-7 fuel in a closed-loop configuration to both cool engine hardware and fuel the engine's combustor…

 

IRAN, RUSSIA: A NUCLEAR MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE—
Strategic Forecasting Inc., 27 September 2006—Russia and Iran have signed a contract for the delivery of 80 tons of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr nuclear power facility, which is scheduled to be completed in September 2007. Russia appears to be in the process of finishing updating its military doctrine. Closer economic ties with Iran will allow Russia to maintain a foothold in the Middle East while keeping pressure on the United States, which lacks the bandwidth to respond to Russia's provocative moves.