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Sensitivity is expressed to those in Iran and Iraq who lost loved ones in the Iraq/Iran war for this a true story of the details of how the story of the origins of that war got out.

We unabashedly used the spy sting on Iran as a visibility ploy LINK in our, so far, 15 year legal battle with the US Federal government.

Because of the work of many individuals, including some Persians, it is time to tell this story supported by documents in the hope of  peaceful settlement of these unfortunate matters before they get worse.

The contemplation of things as they are,
without error or confusion,
without substitution or imposture,
is in itself a nobler thing
than a whole harvest of invention.

Francis Bacon LINK

Wikipedia Nojeh coup posts

In the summer of 2007 two posts on Wikipedia appeared:

Post 1

Nojeh Coup

In July 1980, Zbigniew Brzezinski LINK of the United States met Jordan's King Hussein [LINK] in Amman to discuss detailed plans for Saddam Hussein to sponsor a coup in Iran against Khomeini. King Hussein was Saddam's closest confidant in the Arab world, and served as an intermediary during the planning. The Iraqi invasion of Iran would be launched under the pretext of a call for aid from Iranian loyalist officers plotting their own uprising on July 9, 1980 (codenamed Nojeh, after Shahrokhi/Nojeh air base in Hamedan). The Iranian officers were organized by Shapour Bakhtiar LINK, who had fled to France when Khomeini seized power, but was operating from Baghdad and Sulimaniyah at the time of Brzezinski's meeting with Hussein. However, Khomeini LINK learned of the Nojeh Coup plan from Soviet agents in France and Latin America. Shortly after Brzezinski's meeting with Hussein, the President of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr LINK quietly rounded up 600 of the loyalist plotters within Iran, putting an effective end to the Nojeh Coup.[5] Saddam decided to invade without the Iranian officers' assistance, beginning the Iran-Iraq war on 22 September 1980. ^{1 2}

Post 2

Failed Nojeh Coup

In July 1980, the U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski met Jordan's King Hussein in Amman to discuss detailed plans for Saddam Hussein to sponsor a coup in Iran against Khomeini. King Hussein was Saddam's closest confidant in the Arab world, and served as an intermediary during the planning. The Iraqi invasion of Iran would be launched under the pretext of a call for aid from Iranian loyalist officers plotting their own uprising on July 9, 1980 (codenamed Nojeh, after Shahrokhi/Nojeh air base in Hamedan). The Iranian officers were organized by Shapour Bakhtiar, who had fled to France when Khomeini seized power, but was operating from Baghdad and Sulimaniyah at the time of Brzezinski's meeting with Hussein. However, Khomeini learned of the Nojeh Coup plan from Soviet agents in France, Pakistan, and Latin America. Shortly after Brzezinski's meeting with Hussein, the President of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr quietly rounded up six hundred officers and executed many of them, putting an effective end to the Nojeh Coup [2]. Saddam would decide to invade without the Iranian officer's assistance, beginning the Iran-Iraq war on 22 September 1980.

Both were quickly removed but copied and reposted at several websites.

If, in fact, Zbigniew Brzezinski did what is claimed in both posts, then he may have committed a felony violation violation of 18 USC § 1091(c) LINK.

(c) Incitement Offense.— Whoever in a circumstance described in subsection (d) directly and publicly incites another to violate subsection (a) shall be fined not more than $500,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

History of NSA LINK FOIA LINK lawsuit

Payne went to work for Sandia National Laboratories LINK in September of 1980. Previously Payne was a computer science and psychology professor at Washington State University LINK.

Payne had two job assignments at Sandia labs involving NSA.

The first assignment was project leader for implementation of the NSA Missile Secure Cryptographic Unit [MSCU] for the US small missile program.

We were required to use Sandia lab radiation hardened 8085 microcontroller. We got the Forth operating system hosting an interactive incremental compiler and assembler working on our 8085 hardware using the Nautilis metacompiler which greatly speeded implementation of the software.

At the request of Ted Lewis, one of Payne's M.S. and Ph.D. students, who was editor of IEEE software, Payne wrote a 1984 article on 8085 Forth LINK.

Sandia weapons system department manager M Kent Parsons LINK was promoting construction of a radiation hardened version of the 8051 microcontroller because of the integrated peripheral would mean that Sandia would have to build fewer parts compared to 8085 implementations.

Parsons was impressed how quickly we completed the software. Sandia weapon systems were previous implemented in assembly language and did not work very well.

Parsons gave Payne the job assignment to port 8085 Forth to the 8051 microntroller. Parsons required extensive documentation so this turned out to be a big project and expensive project.

NSA paid for the 8051 Forth port project.

Payne wrote Embedded Controller Forth for the 8051 Family LINK which describes in detail this project.

Second Sandia NSA project Payne worked on was the implementation of NSA's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty seismic data authenticator. NSA cryptographer Ronald Benincasa designed the authentication algorithm LINK.

Sandia department manager Paul A Stokes LINK ordered Payne to write a technical report describing the hardware and software implementation of the seismic data authenticator which was later posted on Internet at Cryptome as a direct result of our NSA FOIA visibility lawsuit.

As a result of these two job assignments, Payne visited NSA frequently and, on one visit, was lecture by NSA cryptographer Brian Snow on NSA cryto unit implementations. Snow showed foils of the hardware schematics and told us about field failure modes of NSA's crypto units.

On completion of the seismic data authenticator project Payne was assigned by Sandia to break electronic locks for the FBI LINK engineering research facility in Quantico, VA. LINK This job assignment required SCI access LINK.

At the time the Sandia seismic data authenticator project was beginning, Sandia cryptographer G J Simmons LINK gave a lecture to a number of NSA and Sandia employees with the purpose of trying to convince NSA to abandon the Benincasa algorithm and use public key instead.

Simmons LINK literally plastered the blackboard with math symbols thus confusing many of the attendees.

Payne's supervisor Dr John Holovka, a chemist, asked Payne if he understood what Simmons was talking about. Payne replied affirmatively. Holovka then ordered Payne to write a comprehensible tutorial to try to explain in simple terms what Simmons was trying to say.

Here is a link to that tutorial LINK.

NSA concluded that switching from the tried and proven Benincasa algorithm would cause problems and not offer any significant benefit. ³

James R Gosler was a supervisor at Sandia labs at this time. Gosler was funded by NSA apparently doing "black hat" work.

Payne heard both Gosler and Simmons talk about their "covert channel" work several times. Simmons wrote one or more articles on information hiding LINK. This below paragraph taken from the above pdf summarizes the goal.

The problem originally arose in the context of nuclear arms limitation treaty verification. The USA and the USSR had decided to place certain sensors in each other’s nuclear facilities in order to share certain agreed sensor information, and needed integrity controls to prevent information being manipulated in order to provide false evidence that a test did or did not take place [8]. In addition, both parties wanted to be sure that the integrity mechanisms could not be abused to transmit other, prohibited, information. ¹¹

The role of NSA in the conflict is an open secret in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Only in this country has there been a relative news blackout, despite the fact that it was the U.S. administration that let the crypto cat out of the bag.

Void judgment filing in NSA FOIA lawsuit

"Under Federal law which is applicable to all states, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that if a court is

"...without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void; and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to a reversal in opposition to them. They constitute no justification; and all persons concerned in executing such judgments or sentences, are considered, in law, as trespassers." Elliot v. Piersol, 1 Pet. 328, 340, 26 U.S. 328, 340 (1828) "" LINK

Mr David Myrland LINK advised us that the proper way to void a judgment is to file a motion under the original case number accompanied with a mandatory judicial notice LINK.

Myrland posted a mandatory judicial notice example with case case law citations on Internet.

We decided to file to vacate judgment in the visible NSA FOIA lawsuit for several reasons:

1 Any conduct which did not follow judicial rules would be very visible.
2 We would use the NSA lawsuit as a "trial balloon," then file to vacates judgment once we saw what the court was going to do.
3 Payne appealed the NSA lawsuit to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Therefore a valid case number is available at the Tenth Circuit to file again if New Mexico federal court did not do the right thing to try to get these unfortunate matters peacefully settled.

We filed motion of void judgment for lack of jurisdiction and mandatory judicial notice in the NSA FOIA lawsuit on May 11, 2007 in Santa Fe, NM.

Much to our surprise clerk of the court docketed both documents on May 16, 2007 LINK!

Assistant US attorney Jan Elizabeth Mitchell of the New Mexico Department of Justice responds to our motion on May 29, 2007.

Mitchell represented NSA on the original NSA FOIA lawsuit.

Mitchell and the court are upset since they state the case was closed on 10/27/1999 and issue a warning.

A motion before a US court is followed by a response. A response is followed by a reply. And a reply may be followed by a surreply with permission of the court.

Deceased Santa Fe federal court chief judge Santiago Campos presided over 1997 NSA FOIA lawsuit.

Judge Martha Vazquez replaced Campos and is defendant in one of Morales and Payne's New Mexico state 12 person jury trial lawsuit.

June 12, 2007 we file "MOTION for Extension of Time to File response to any document filed between June 5 through June 22, 2007, due to unavailability, by William H Payne, Arthur R Morales."

June 17, 2007 Vazquez files order of reference threatening us [i]mposition of sanctions, including censure, striking pleadings, imposition of fines and/or incarceration of the Plaintiffs. ... LINK. Cryptome posts link to this threat.

Payne and Morales file reply to Michell's response on June 6, 2007. LINK In that reply we file criminal complaint affidavit against Zbigniew Brzezinski for possible felony violation of Title 18 § 1091 (c). LINK. This matter is now formally before a federal court of law.

Judge M Christina Armijo replaces Judge Vazquez but chief magistrate Lorenzo Garcia, a defendant in one of Payne's state lawsuits, remains.

Garcia proposes to sanction Payne and Morales. LINK.

Judge Armijo adopts magistrate judge Garcia's sanction proposal and fines Payne and Morales $10,000 each and strikes all void judgment pleadings on August 27, 2007. LINK.

US marshals Halverson and Bowman ask Payne and Morales if they are going to pay the $10,000.

Payne is threatened with arrest by marshal Halverson if Payne posts Halverson's photo on Internet. LINK.

Jeff Sedgwick, a colleague of Richard Cornforth LINK, advises Payne to file criminal complaint affidavit with the commander of the nearest military base under Title 18 § 4. LINK.

Payne and Morales file criminal complaint file three criminal complaint affidavits with Kirtland Air Force Base commander Colonel Terrence Feehan.

Judge advocate Lieutenant Colonel Tishlyn E. Taylor sends criminal complaint affidavits to Albuquerque US attorney office.

Payne and Morales complain to Feehan's and Taylor's commanding officer, General Terry Gabreski on October 24, 2007. LINK.

Gabreski certified return receipt requested complaint is returned unopened on November 2, 2007.

Current state

Crises in Iran and Iraq LINK

Events in Iran and Iraq led to another round of crude oil price increases in 1979 and 1980. The Iranian revolution resulted in the loss of 2 to 2.5 million barrels per day of oil production between November, 1978 and June, 1979. At one point production almost halted.

While the Iranian revolution was the proximate cause of what would be the highest prices in post-WWII history, its impact on prices would have been limited and of relatively short duration had it not been for subsequent events. Shortly after the revolution production was up to 4 million barrels per day.

Iran weakened by the revolution was invaded by Iraq in September, 1980. By November the combined production of both countries was only a million barrels per day and 6.5 million barrels per day less than a year before. As a consequence worldwide crude oil production was 10 percent lower than in 1979.

The combination of the Iranian revolution and the Iraq-Iran War cause crude oil prices to more than double increasing from from $14 in 1978 to $35 per barrel in 1981.

Twenty-six years later Iran's production is only two-thirds of the level reached under the government of Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran.

Iraq's production remains about 1.5 million barrels below its peak before the Iraq-Iran War.

westexas on January 17, 2007 - 12:39pm

I have previously expressed the opinion that if what is going on in the Middle East does not scare the crap out of you, you are not paying close enough attention. LINK

Lawmaker: Iran to build 19 more nuclear plants

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran plan to build 19 more nuclear power plants and will seen solicit international bids for the construction., a lawmaker said Monday. "Contracts for the construction of 19 nuclear power plants, each with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, will be put into into international tender in the near future, " Kazem Jalali was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. Mr Jalali, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the bids will be in line with parliamentary legislation that call for production of 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants in the future.

Dallas Morning News December 25, 2007

JSTOR: A Characterization of the Splitting of Inseparable LINK

...Michael J. Norris received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1944 under Saunders MacLane ... He has been with Sandia Laboratories since then except for a temporary ...

Garrett Birkoff bought Payne lunch at the Harvard faculty club in the mid 1970.

Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders MacLane Algebra Macmillan, New York, 1965. LINK

Reason for visit was plans to work on a NSF-funded pseudorandom number and distribution algorithm sampling library.

NSA screwed-up that project up. See Bamford's book the Puzzle Palace, page 361. Look for Bruce Barnes NSF reference.

Payne also visited Irene Stegun LINK about this project.

ABC producer James Bamford, who was then working with Wayne Madsen, heard about Buehler through reporter John K Cooley LINK is author of the Puzzle Palace [LINK] explains why NSA screwed-up that project.

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The NSA-Crypto AG Sting

For years US eavesdroppers could read encrypted messages without the least difficulty

For decades, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been reading effortlessly ultra sensitive messages intercepted from all parts of the world. This extraordinary feat was not the consequence of the work of some genius cyber mathematician. Nor was it the result of the agency dominance in the field of super computers, which allegedly have outpaced their most direct rivals by orders of magnitude. The truth is far simpler and quite troubling. The game was rigged.

A book published in 1977 by Ronald Clark (The Man Who Broke Purple: The Life of Colonel William F. Friedman) revealed that William F. Friedman, another Russian-born genius in the field of cryptography (he deciphered the Japanese code in World War II) and onetime special assistant to the NSA director, had visited Boris Hagelin in 1957. Friedman and Hagelin met at least on two other occasions. Clark was urged by the NSA not to reveal the existence of these meetings for national security reasons. In 1982, James Bamford confirmed the story in his book on the NSA: The Puzzle Palace. The operation was codenamed the "Boris project." In effect, Friedman and Hagelin had reached an agreement that was going to pave the way to cooperation of Crypto AG with the NSA.

Crypto AG, of course, denied the allegations as "pure invention." In 1994, the company issued a message in the Swiss press, stating that "manipulation of Crypto AG equipment is absolutely excluded."

[Crypto AG engineer] Buehler was bitterly disappointed. He felt nothing short of having been betrayed by his former employer. During all these years, Buehler never thought for a second that he had been unknowingly working for spies. Now, he was sure that he had done so.

Buehler contacted several former Crypto AG employees. All admitted to him, and eventually to various media, that they believed that the company had long cooperated with US and German intelligence agencies.

One of these former engineers told Buehler that he had learned about the cooperation from Boris Hagelin Jr., the son of the company's founder and sales manager for North and South America. In the 1970s, while stranded in Buenos Aires, Boris Hagelin Jr. confided that he thought his father had been wrong to accept rigging the Crypto AG machines.

Stunned by the revelation, the engineer decided to take this matter directly to the head of Crypto AG. Boris Hagelin confirmed that the encryption methods were unsafe.

"Different countries need different levels of security. The United States and other leading Western countries required completely secure communications. Such security would not be appropriate for the Third World countries that were Crypto's customers," Boris Hagelin explained to the baffled engineer. "We have to do it."