AN AIRLINE MANAGER'S
STATEMENT
Posted
by C.E. Carnicom on behalf of the author
May 22 2000
Mr. Carnicom:
I read the email you received from the anonymous
mechanic and felt
compelled to respond to it. I, too, work for an airline,
though I work
in upper management levels. I will not say which airline, what
city I
am located, nor what office I work for, for obvious reasons. I wish
I
could document everything I am about to relate to you, but to do so
is
next to impossible and would result in possible physical harm to
me.
The email from the anonymous mechanic rings true. Airline companies
in
America have been participating in something called Project
Cloverleaf
for a few years now. The earliest date anyone remembers being
briefed
on it is 1998. I was briefed on it in 1999. The few airline
employees
who were briefed on Project Cloverleaf were all made to
undergo
background checks, and before we were briefed on it we were made to
sign
non-disclosure agreements, which basically state that if we tell
anyone
what we know we could be imprisoned.
About twenty employees in
our office were briefed along with my by two
officials from some government
agency. They didn't tell us which one.
They told us that the government was
going to pay our airline, along
with others, to release special chemicals
from commercial aircraft.
When asked what the chemicals were and why we were
going to spray them,
they told us that information was given on a
need-to-know basis and we
weren't cleared for it. They then went on to state
that the chemicals
were harmless, but the program was of such importance that
it needed to
be done at all costs. When we asked them why didn't they just
rig
military aircraft to spray these chemicals, they stated that
there
weren't enough military aircraft available to release chemicals on
such
a large basis as needs to be done. That's why Project Cloverleaf
was
initiated, to allow commercial airlines to assist in releasing
these
chemicals into the atmosphere. Then someone asked why all the
secrecy
was needed. The government reps then stated that if the general
public
knew that the aircraft they were flying on were releasing chemicals
into
the air, environmentalist groups would raise hell and demand
the
spraying stop. Someone asked one of the G-men then if the chemicals
are
harmless, why not tell the public what the chemicals are and why we
are
spraying them? He seemed perturbed at this question and told us in
a
tone of authority that the public doesn't need to know what's going
on,
but that this program is in their best interests. He also stated
that
we should not tell anyone, nor ask any more questions about it.
With
that, the briefing was over.
All documents in our office
pertaining to Project Cloverleaf are kept in
locked safes. Nobody is allowed
to take these documents out of the
office. Very few employees are allowed
access to these documents, and
they remain tight-lipped about what the
documents say.
Mr. Carnicom, I am no fool. I know there's something going
on. And
frankly, I am scared. I feel a high level of guilt that I have
been
aware of this kind of operation but unable to tell anyone. It's
been
eating away at me, knowing that the company I work for may be
poisoning
the American people. I hope this letter will open some eyes to
what's
happening.
Again, I wish I could give you documented
information, but you have to
understand why I must remain totally
anonymous.
Thank you.