A US Veteran Speaks Out About Government Secrecy

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By Randy Sandberg

I am one of the people who doesn’t have to struggle quite so much to believe that “they” are in fact capable of doing the horrible things that are passed off by most who say, “Naw. This is America, that could never happen here.” I have grown to HATE those words. My disposition to believe comes from an experience I had when I was taking my first steps in adult life. It was the description in this particular video about the threatening of employees that inspired me to write here.

From late 1970 to mid-1973 I was a crew member on a nuclear ‘fast-attack’ submarine. The majority of that time our home port was Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. With normal submarine ops we were in and out, in and out during that time. 

My particular work ended up being that of a Navy yeoman (administrative). I was granted a Top Secret/Special Intelligence security clearance because I had kinda “fallen into” the responsibility of preparing the mission reports. Submarine operations are always hush-hush in general, but the info about WHERE and WHAT of the spec ops (special operations) was super secret, as at the time the fast-attack boats played a critical role in “intelligence gathering” during the Cold War. The ballistic missile boats of course had a totally different mission.

Something that I hear mentioned sometimes in the alternative media is the concept of “compartmentalization” of access to classified information. “Need to know” is used in the military and intelligence communities. Just because a person holds a Top Secret clearance does NOT mean that they have free access to any and all information at that level. I was thus only one of probably 8 of 120 crew members aboard at any given time who held that level of security clearance. My experience helps me to understand how this "need to know" works. The majority of my shipmates never had the same level of clearance.

The day before I was to fly away—being released from active duty—I was taken to an underground command center at the Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor. Despite my almost 2 years working on that base I did not even know the place existed ("need to know" at work). I was given a “debriefing” that included being forced to swear that for 25 years I would not speak about anything I had seen, heard, or even smelled during my time as a crew member, lest I face serious criminal charges, etc., etc.

It sounds like my experience was minor league compared to what is done these days as we heard in today’s video. Nevertheless my experience opened my eyes (I was only 22 years old the day I underwent the debriefing) and disposed me to mistrust the government based on seeing how much and how fluidly they lie and keep secrets.

As for the geoengineering/chemtrails—I recall that I young age I asked my mother about the planes that made “stripes” in the sky. Of course she had no idea. She told me only that they were “sky writers.” This would have been in the late 1950’s, and serves as my own confirmation that these programs have been around for a long time.

Again, keep up the good work. I am doing what I can to wake up the sheeple, but as you know it’s not easy.

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