A Tiny Microchip
Was The Likely Motive For Pentagon Hijack Of MH370
By Yoichi Shimatsu
3-25-14
HONG KONG - The question tormenting millions of cyber-sleuths is Why?
What could be the motive behind the elaborate plan for the midair capture of
Malaysian Airlines flight 370?
Among the 200-plus passengers bound for Beijing, the target group for the hijack
is narrowing down to 20 tech employees working for Freescale Semiconductors,
based in Austin, Texas. Among these programmers and systems designers are 12
Malaysians and 8 citizens of mainland China.
The company is no newcomer but has long-time connections in East Asia, as the
former design subsidiary of Motorola, which once dominated the Asian
communications market in the postwar era. Freescale has design centers in Kuala
Lumpur and in China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chengdu and Suzhou.
Besides its lucrative production of microchips for automotive components,
Freescale has extensive contracts with the U.S. military, producing wafers and
circuits for navigation, periscopes, electronic targeting, self-guided missiles
and other weapons systems that require intelligence controls.
Any defense-related company at the nerve center of Pentagon hardware is bound to
attract the attention of weapons designers from both adversarial and allied
nations upgrading their military capability. Japan, France and the UK, along
with Russia, China and Iran, all want the leading edge that contractors like
Freescale provide.
What technological innovation would prompt the Pentagon's military intelligence
agencies to electronically interdict a civilian airliner in mid-flight, while
disposing of the collateral passengers as shark bait?
Ultra-small Microcontoller
In February 2013, Freescale unveiled the Kinesis KL02, the world's smallest
microcontroller, measuring 1.9 mm by 2mm and containing RAM, ROM and a clock.
The company brags that the device is so small that it can be swallowed for
medical uses, such as releasing drugs according to prescription schedule or
directing micro-surgery.
Tiny though it may be, the micro-controller is the key to next-generation
warfare based on self-guidance, tactical versatility and hierarchy of commands,
in short, an adaptive thinking weapon that can outsmart foes. Potential
applications include:
- Drones smaller than a fly, either as remotes or autonomously, on surveillance
missions or to deliver biowarfare packets, for example, lab-cloned viruses or
toxic drugs. Their light weight means longer flying periods or even indefinite
hovering time if solar-powered.
- Injectable implants to insert a human-machine interface, for example, a
targeting system attached to the optic nerve, rendering Google glasses obsolete.
Bionic implants could be implanted in nerves of the limbs to control
battery-powered prosthetics, realizing the Pentagon's dream of a human-centered
robotic warrior, known to anime fans as "meka".
- Maneuverable micro-satellites and mini-submarines that can be operated as
drones or act independently to track and hunt larger weapons systems, spy
satellites too small to be detected by ground telescopes, and orbiting warheads
containing chemical, biological or nuclear materials.
Strategic Versus Commercial Interest
The series code of Kinesis KL02 stands for Version 2 made in Kuala Lumpur, which
is the capital of Malaysia. This core of America's next-generation weapons
systems was developed overseas, in a Muslim-preponderant country economically
allied with China, Russia and Japan and often at odds with US foreign policy.
Therefore, an upcoming round of testing in China, and possible manufacture of
Version 3 in Beijing, was a prospect that the Pentagon agencies, especially the
NSA, the US Air Force's Space Command and DARPA, had to stop by any means
available.
As Freescale Malaysia prepared to test Kinesis at its sister research labs in
Beijing and Tianjin, alarm bells were sounding at the DARPA-funded Charles Stark
Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That leading weapons-research
facility was created during World War II to build navigation systems and bomb
sights stabilized against turning and vibrations by inertia. It has since moved
on to microchips for every military application, including inertial guidance for
ballistic missiles, communications, GPS, intelligent targeting systems, orbital
piloting for the International Space Station and, under the cover of
"biomedical", the transhuman super-soldier program.
The release of Kinesis exposed the Pentagon's dilemma over dual-use technology,
which can garner vast profits through civilian applications, as shown by GPS for
cars and smartphones, yet threaten to wipe out America's technological lead in
warfare. The choice of whether to down on a new technology is not limited to
Pentagon insiders and generals, since defense contractors and elite corporate
executives are also involved.
Dirty Work for Israel
In the case of Freescale, the executive management and several veteran board
members are connected with the Carlyle Group, which favors civilian
commercialization of defense-related technologies to benefit its investment
partners, including George Bush Senior and several retired defense secretaries.
On the other hand, Freescale is financially contolled by private-equity group
Blackstone, with major investors including the Rothschild banking family and
several of its business partners. As top financiers behind the Zionist movement,
the pro-Israeli interest is to prevent miniaturized robotic weapons from falling
into the hands of Iran and its allies Hezbollah and Hamas. Micro-vehicles,
self-guided and with tactical flexibility, swarming against Israeli cities,
ports and airfields would be a nightmare for the Israel Defense Force.
Therefore, the defenders of the Jewish state had to take action. Better to kill
200 Malaysian enemies and Chinese nobodies than to harm one hair on the head of
any of the Chosen People. And thus, the order came down from the Red
Shield, the House of Rothschild, to their neocon subordinates inside the
Pentagon: Stop Flight 370 at any cost to America's reputation.
The New Boss
Thus, in November, just a few months before the MH370 hijack, Freescale seated a
new member on its Board of Directors. Joanne Maguire is an executive with three
decades of experience in the Lockheed Martin Space Division. She studied
electrical engineering at University of Michigan and UCLA, where she earned her
master's degree. She was invited to the Harvard Program for Senior Executives in
National and International Security. Caltech honored her with the Karmann Wings
Award and she received the Peter Teets Award from the National Defense
Industrial Association. As the very embodiment of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), Maguire was the ideal choice to serve as watchdog
against the corporate profiteers at Freescale.
Hijacking the Truth
There is no point in further disparagement of the pilot and co-pilot of the
ill-fated flight, given their political connections with a compromised
opposition beholden to the colonial past. The practicing with landing at Diego
Garcia on the pilot's flight simulator indicates a deep background with the
Western intelligence services and probably Israeli espionage operating out of
Singapore.
Whatever the role of the plane crew, the NSA and US Air Force Space Command do
not need manned piloting, except to maintain the appearance of normality at
takeoff from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. As discussed in my earlier
article, voice communication and navigational signals would have been disabled
by a burst of powerful narrow-aperture radar used for electromagnetic warfare.
The cockpit computer would then be reprogrammed, using Boeing's own emergency
piloting system, expanded with Pentagon and Israeli software.
From the South China Sea to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the jetliner would
be remote-controlled by a drone operator. Its unscheduled flight path would be
tracked and subsequently remoted from data records by the NSA listening posts in
Sri Lanka and the Jindalee eavesdropping facility in northwest Australia. Radar
stations in the Maldives, installed under a US maritime accord, served to guide
the jetliner to the southernmost atoll of the archipelago toward Diego Garcia,
immediately to the south.
The airliner's descent over the Maldives, according to witnesses, went smoothly,
for a safe landing on the long tarmac at the US Air Force Base on Diego Garcia
Island, a CIA rendition center with underground hangars and prison used during
the Iraq and Afghan wars.
Upon arrival, the passengers would be herded into separate waiting areas, with
the prize captives from Freespace sent to a debriefing facility, where their
hard drives, laptops and smartphones would be confiscated and data downloaded,
while the human intelligence assets were being questioned. The interrogators had
a fairly easy task in telling the defenseless programmers: Join us or die with
the rest.
The cooperative would be given a new identity, and reintroduction into civilian
life in a remote North American community after being administered
memory-erasing drugs, similar to the ones first developed in the MK-ULTRA
program.
After vetting of all passengers, the uncooperative and high-risk suspects would
be drowned and their corpses tossed near a phony "crash site", off the coast of
Western Australia, while US submarines discharge other bits of "evidence" into
the cold waters. The crew of the plane was probably rewarded with a short walk
off the plank into the jaws of waiting sharks. Anyone who puts their trust in
imperial power deserves no less.
Once the operation is completed and the media begin the mourning rituals,
tearful American diplomats will attend memorial services for the missing victims
of a tragic accident. Meanwhile, a cabal of Air Force officers and defense
contractors will be clinking beer mugs with their former boss and guru, General
Michael Hayden, the bureaucrat who militarize spaced and expanded the NSA into
the global monstrosity that it has since become.
MH370 will be remembered on the History Channel as an unsolved riddle wrapped in
mystery, but no TV station will mention the other code involved in this dreadful
affair - KL02 - cause of the untimely deaths and mangled memories of any
survivors.
Yoichi Shimatsu is a Hong Kong-based science writer, former editor of The
Japan Times Weekly and a founding faculty member of journalism schools in Hong
Kong and Beijing.
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