Chem-Trails
Suggested by Joe via email
A few days back the topic of Chem-Trails was "discussed" with some denying such. This should put the proverbial nail in the coffin as to whether or not the U.S. has conducted such shenanigans.
Operation Popeye / Sober Popeye was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972. The highly classified program attempted to extend the monsoon season over specific areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, to disrupt North Vietnamese military supplies by softening road surfaces and causing landslides.
The chemical weather modification program was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and allegedly sponsored by Secretary of State Kissinger and the CIA without the authorization of then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird , who had categorically denied to Congress that a program for modification of the weather for use as a tactical weapon even existed.
Objectives
Operation Popeye's goal was to increase rainfall in carefully selected areas to deny the Vietnamese enemy, namely military supply trucks, the use of roads by:
- Softening road surfaces
- Causing landslides along roadways
- Washing out river crossings
- Maintaining saturated soil conditions beyond the normal time span.
The goal of the operation was to extend days of rainfall by about 30 to 45 days each monsoon season.
Public revelation
Reporter Jack Anderson published a story in March 1971 concerning Operation Popeye (though in his column, it was called Intermediary-Compatriot). The name Operation Popeye (Pop Eye) entered the public space through a brief mention in the Pentagon Papers and a 3 July 1972, article in the New York Times.
[Ed: I'm going to chicken out and not take a stance one way or the other on this topic. I do not deny the "government of the people, by the people, for the people" (depending on which people) will perform nefarious actions. Whether or not those actions are successful or not is a different matter. For example, I believe the wuflu fiasco was a failure in terms of its intended purpose.
Existence and success do not necessarily go together.
On the other hand, if at first you don't succeed ... apply more funding.
There's a whole lot of constantly renewing-itself atmosphere ... and most of it exists over massive bodies of water and uninhabited land.
The earth is a very resilient mechanism and while "we" might succeed in offing ourselves unto the hands of whatever gods may or may not exist, the planet will continue on its merry way and soon wipe all evidence of those crazy monkeys from its face.]
