SPY-FI
Spooks, Kooks & Alphabet Suits
By Iona Miller
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GOD NEVER SLEEPS - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/god-never-sleeps.html
Twisted, Deadly & Dark... Intelligence, Mega-Criminal Enterprise, and the Power Elite
GOD NEVER SLEEPS
A High-Concept, Plot-based Film Trilogy on GOD -- Gold, Oil & Drugs by Iona Miller, (c) 2010
TRIANGLE OF POWER: Today, three major forces collude to control the world - Intelligence, Mega-Criminal Enterprise, and the Power Elite. They are related to one another in draconian ways. They are GOD - Gold, Oil and Drugs. Thus, we are fighting for GOD. "In GOD We Trust." But it's too late to trust a god whose profitable name is WAR. SPY 1099 teams -- "Spy in the Box" -- work for all factions from governments to transnational corpoglomerates and mega-criminal enterprise. All are trumped by clandestine machinations of the Power Elite and their hidden agenda.
Part 1 - TWISTED DESCENT: Spy 1099 OIL -- "Lions for Lambs" (2007) meets "The Recruit" (2003) at the BP oil rig blow out. A disaster has occured with international ramifications, and 'someone' has to pay. A stand-alone film that can be franchised into a SPY 1099 trilogy. An international thriller based on Outsourcing in today's transnational Intelligence Community.
The SPY 1099 team fights corrupt governments and the mysterious G.O.D.S. in the Caribbean to keep cheap oil flowing. Opening credits takes us in a slow slide down the crooked shaft of a newly-drilled oil well, which makes a TWISTED DESCENT (Horizontal Well Drilling) through the ocean floor to the buried treasure of light oil, foreshadowing our own "twisted descent" into the underworld of our protagonists, the Spy 1099 group. Hired for 'risk management' of the Cuba-Haiti oil exploration, they soon discover the main risk is the G.O.D.S. at the top of the food-chain -- their own employers' clandestine involvement in global drugs, money laundering, and black gold trade.
Rival factions and governments collude in transnational criminal enterprise. Tricksters trick tricksters and Watchers watch the Watchers. Each struggles with conflicting moral problems. Pressured from all sides by conflicting desires, loyalties in the "Spy in the Box" group are compromised and divided in the process. Heroes and opponents do an intricate dance, sometimes switching roles with 7-10 major reveals. A complex sequence of tricks surprises not only the opposition, but also the audience.
Spy games and operations are outsourced to private contractors, who subcontract more independent contractors. They have penetrated the CIA and the moonlighting CIA has penetrated them, changing the Rules of Engagement. Multinational corporation and crime organizations lurk in the shadows and in the well-lit haunts of the Power Elite. Their operations are clandestine, but we have "a need to know" more.
Sometimes the relatively unbelievable turns out to be true. The SPY 1099 team battles rival factions, seemingly against all odds. Perhaps as much as 50% of CIA work is outsourced. In 2010, 188,000 contractors outnumber full-time workers at Homeland Security. Congress calls it "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable." But it is a runaway trend impossible to halt. Private security contractors also backup the military and US overseas interests.
Haiti and Cuba is the setting; oil is the prize. Since the transfer of power from Fidel to Raúl Castro in 2006, Cuba has found new footing on the world stage. There is an expansion of Cuba’s financial and political ties with the European Union, Latin America, Russia, China, even Vietnam. A major oil find in Cuban waters subverts the old logic behind the U.S. embargo of Cuba. The Russians and Chinese are coming to search for oil in the Gulf less than 50 miles from Florida.
The U.S. 4th Fleet has been reestablished. U.S. Navy ships, aircraft and submarines are operating in the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of focus, which encompasses the Caribbean, and Central and South America and the surrounding waters. China is backing the widening of the Panama Canal for supertankers with capacity of a million barrels of crude oil and liquified natural gas. That, in turn, will open new routes whereby oil and mineral resources from West Africa can be taken directly to China -- deepening political bonds that Beijing has carefully fostered in that region.
The same dynamic bolsters China's influence in the Caribbean, expected to develop as a storage hub for oil before it heads west through the canal and on to China. Economists at Goldman Sachs believe that the new canal could play a pivotal role in its Bric (Brazil, Russia, India, China) investment story -- as a channel more directly linking the Chinese and Brazilian markets.
The Cold War has become a tightly wound COILED war - covert action for oil rights.
GOD NEVER SLEEPS
A High-Concept, Plot-based Film Trilogy on GOD -- Gold, Oil & Drugs by Iona Miller, (c) 2010
TRIANGLE OF POWER: Today, three major forces collude to control the world - Intelligence, Mega-Criminal Enterprise, and the Power Elite. They are related to one another in draconian ways. They are GOD - Gold, Oil and Drugs. Thus, we are fighting for GOD. "In GOD We Trust." But it's too late to trust a god whose profitable name is WAR. SPY 1099 teams -- "Spy in the Box" -- work for all factions from governments to transnational corpoglomerates and mega-criminal enterprise. All are trumped by clandestine machinations of the Power Elite and their hidden agenda.
Part 1 - TWISTED DESCENT: Spy 1099 OIL -- "Lions for Lambs" (2007) meets "The Recruit" (2003) at the BP oil rig blow out. A disaster has occured with international ramifications, and 'someone' has to pay. A stand-alone film that can be franchised into a SPY 1099 trilogy. An international thriller based on Outsourcing in today's transnational Intelligence Community.
The SPY 1099 team fights corrupt governments and the mysterious G.O.D.S. in the Caribbean to keep cheap oil flowing. Opening credits takes us in a slow slide down the crooked shaft of a newly-drilled oil well, which makes a TWISTED DESCENT (Horizontal Well Drilling) through the ocean floor to the buried treasure of light oil, foreshadowing our own "twisted descent" into the underworld of our protagonists, the Spy 1099 group. Hired for 'risk management' of the Cuba-Haiti oil exploration, they soon discover the main risk is the G.O.D.S. at the top of the food-chain -- their own employers' clandestine involvement in global drugs, money laundering, and black gold trade.
Rival factions and governments collude in transnational criminal enterprise. Tricksters trick tricksters and Watchers watch the Watchers. Each struggles with conflicting moral problems. Pressured from all sides by conflicting desires, loyalties in the "Spy in the Box" group are compromised and divided in the process. Heroes and opponents do an intricate dance, sometimes switching roles with 7-10 major reveals. A complex sequence of tricks surprises not only the opposition, but also the audience.
Spy games and operations are outsourced to private contractors, who subcontract more independent contractors. They have penetrated the CIA and the moonlighting CIA has penetrated them, changing the Rules of Engagement. Multinational corporation and crime organizations lurk in the shadows and in the well-lit haunts of the Power Elite. Their operations are clandestine, but we have "a need to know" more.
Sometimes the relatively unbelievable turns out to be true. The SPY 1099 team battles rival factions, seemingly against all odds. Perhaps as much as 50% of CIA work is outsourced. In 2010, 188,000 contractors outnumber full-time workers at Homeland Security. Congress calls it "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable." But it is a runaway trend impossible to halt. Private security contractors also backup the military and US overseas interests.
Haiti and Cuba is the setting; oil is the prize. Since the transfer of power from Fidel to Raúl Castro in 2006, Cuba has found new footing on the world stage. There is an expansion of Cuba’s financial and political ties with the European Union, Latin America, Russia, China, even Vietnam. A major oil find in Cuban waters subverts the old logic behind the U.S. embargo of Cuba. The Russians and Chinese are coming to search for oil in the Gulf less than 50 miles from Florida.
The U.S. 4th Fleet has been reestablished. U.S. Navy ships, aircraft and submarines are operating in the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of focus, which encompasses the Caribbean, and Central and South America and the surrounding waters. China is backing the widening of the Panama Canal for supertankers with capacity of a million barrels of crude oil and liquified natural gas. That, in turn, will open new routes whereby oil and mineral resources from West Africa can be taken directly to China -- deepening political bonds that Beijing has carefully fostered in that region.
The same dynamic bolsters China's influence in the Caribbean, expected to develop as a storage hub for oil before it heads west through the canal and on to China. Economists at Goldman Sachs believe that the new canal could play a pivotal role in its Bric (Brazil, Russia, India, China) investment story -- as a channel more directly linking the Chinese and Brazilian markets.
The Cold War has become a tightly wound COILED war - covert action for oil rights.
NEED TO KNOW - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/need-to-know.html
NEED TO KNOW: NONE TO TELL
The Untold Story of Mankind Research Unlimited
"Psychotronic Discoveries Behind the Washington D.C. Curtain"
The Real X-Files Were Subcontracted
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
See Video - http://www.vimeo.com/10785553
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property NEED TO KNOW, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
THE STORY
VIDEO - http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/video/video.php?v=217158356595
Independent Feature Film – “Men Who Stare at Goats” meets “The Lost Symbol.” A high concept romp into “Chapel Perilous,” or “down the rabbithole” into the untold story of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU), a quirky and spooked up Washington D.C. R&D thinktank investigating the paranormal, paraphysics, noetic sciences and complementary health from the early 1970s to the Millennium. The script can be written in the “Dan Brown” style of pursuing open-ended Mystery with a built in team of world-class experts, based on real life and/or composite personalities. More people become concerned about secret government research all the time, making it a popular subject for exploitation. The public now demands it has a NEED TO KNOW. In esoterics the Four Powers of the Sphinx are “To Know, To Will, To Dare, and To Keep Silent.” MRU applied this formula to its R&D.
All subcontracted research was conducted on a “need to know” basis. MRU’s founder and Director, Dr. Carl Schleicher has been called “a real Dr. Strangelove.” Even his name means “stealth” in German. MRU was a swinging door for scientists and parapsychologists defecting from behind the Iron Curtain and out-of-the-box thinkers in the US military, intelligence and cutting-edge weird science. MRU was linked to the infamous MK ULTRA psyops mind control program in Covert Action Bulletin. The “psi guys” at MRU “wrote the book” on military apps of psychotronics, but that clandestine work never saw the light of day outside of “supersoldier” programs. Psychotronics is the science of mind-body-environment relationships, an interdisciplinary science concerned with the interactions of matter, energy, and consciousness – more relevant today than ever.
MRU was the East Coast counterpart of Stanford’s SRI and Edgar Mitchell’s IONS in parapsychology and psychotronics. In 1973, the bestseller PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN came out and former Naval Intelligence Officer and cryptographer, Dr. Carl Schleicher actively wondered why theUS had no comparable program in psychotronics, where esoterics meets science. He resolved to create one, recruited authors Ostrander & Schroeder, and began collecting researchers and creating experimental protocols.
Thus, MRU in Washington D.C. was born in 1973 as a private company, seeking government and corporate contracts. It was a first-stop for scientists defecting from abroad and behind the Iron Curtain and those who went on to great notoriety, such as psychic Uri Geller, Star Wars inventor Stephan Possony and EM weapons pioneer Eldon Byrd. Many projects which failed to come to fruition within MRU eventually gained success or piqued public awareness, including remote viewing, biofeedback, Kirlian photography, hypnotic ESP, psionics, etc. There are many storylines and threads to follow through the maze of MRU itself and its spooky global connections. One of MRU’s main spy-entists was the inspiration for the Cold War psi-spy thriller, THE POWER (1990) by James Mills.
The Untold Story of Mankind Research Unlimited
"Psychotronic Discoveries Behind the Washington D.C. Curtain"
The Real X-Files Were Subcontracted
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
See Video - http://www.vimeo.com/10785553
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property NEED TO KNOW, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
THE STORY
VIDEO - http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/video/video.php?v=217158356595
Independent Feature Film – “Men Who Stare at Goats” meets “The Lost Symbol.” A high concept romp into “Chapel Perilous,” or “down the rabbithole” into the untold story of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU), a quirky and spooked up Washington D.C. R&D thinktank investigating the paranormal, paraphysics, noetic sciences and complementary health from the early 1970s to the Millennium. The script can be written in the “Dan Brown” style of pursuing open-ended Mystery with a built in team of world-class experts, based on real life and/or composite personalities. More people become concerned about secret government research all the time, making it a popular subject for exploitation. The public now demands it has a NEED TO KNOW. In esoterics the Four Powers of the Sphinx are “To Know, To Will, To Dare, and To Keep Silent.” MRU applied this formula to its R&D.
All subcontracted research was conducted on a “need to know” basis. MRU’s founder and Director, Dr. Carl Schleicher has been called “a real Dr. Strangelove.” Even his name means “stealth” in German. MRU was a swinging door for scientists and parapsychologists defecting from behind the Iron Curtain and out-of-the-box thinkers in the US military, intelligence and cutting-edge weird science. MRU was linked to the infamous MK ULTRA psyops mind control program in Covert Action Bulletin. The “psi guys” at MRU “wrote the book” on military apps of psychotronics, but that clandestine work never saw the light of day outside of “supersoldier” programs. Psychotronics is the science of mind-body-environment relationships, an interdisciplinary science concerned with the interactions of matter, energy, and consciousness – more relevant today than ever.
MRU was the East Coast counterpart of Stanford’s SRI and Edgar Mitchell’s IONS in parapsychology and psychotronics. In 1973, the bestseller PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN came out and former Naval Intelligence Officer and cryptographer, Dr. Carl Schleicher actively wondered why theUS had no comparable program in psychotronics, where esoterics meets science. He resolved to create one, recruited authors Ostrander & Schroeder, and began collecting researchers and creating experimental protocols.
Thus, MRU in Washington D.C. was born in 1973 as a private company, seeking government and corporate contracts. It was a first-stop for scientists defecting from abroad and behind the Iron Curtain and those who went on to great notoriety, such as psychic Uri Geller, Star Wars inventor Stephan Possony and EM weapons pioneer Eldon Byrd. Many projects which failed to come to fruition within MRU eventually gained success or piqued public awareness, including remote viewing, biofeedback, Kirlian photography, hypnotic ESP, psionics, etc. There are many storylines and threads to follow through the maze of MRU itself and its spooky global connections. One of MRU’s main spy-entists was the inspiration for the Cold War psi-spy thriller, THE POWER (1990) by James Mills.
Travistock - PsyWar Central - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/psywar-central.html
PSYWAR CENTRAL: IN THE TAVISTOCKS
Think Tanks to Army Tanks
Worldview Warfare, Mind Control and the Tavistock Agenda
"…eerily mesmerizing…”
SEE VIDEO - http://www.vimeo.com/10782341
http://www.facebook.com/iona.miller?ref=profile#!/video/video.php?v=211089441595
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
The backstory is summarized at http://tavistockagenda.iwarp.com/
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property PSYWAR CENTRAL: In the Tavistocks, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer.
The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” –Forbes
Working Title: PSYWAR CENTRAL: In the Tavistocks
THE STORY
Independent Feature Film – PSYWAR CENTRAL: IN THE TAVISTOCKS. “Clockwork Orange” meets “Bourne Ultimatum”. They wind you up because they know what makes you tick. Tavistock Clinic studied shellshock (post-traumatic stress) in WWI but switched to developing psychological warfare in 1922. It turned brainwashing and reprogramming on the public to manufacture “history” by formenting polarization, including the Superpowers. Rather than helping traumatized soldiers, it calculated their breaking points; it did the same for society and we are now precipitously close to breakdown. Tavistock shock doctrine now permeates global life. Their social engineers are a Who’s Who: Freud, Jung, Adler, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Edward Bernays, Eric Trist, A.K. Rice, Eric Miller, Aldous Huxley, R.D. Laing, and more. "...eerily mesmerizing..."
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." -- Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961
Tavistock is the paranoid child of the paternal Leipzig and Frankfort schools of 'critical thinking' and 'behaviorism.' The psychodynamics of Freud and Jung are its godparents, kindling the psychospiritual superego, archetypal and transpersonal aspects of depth psychology. The history of Tavistock is linked with drugs and psychopharmaceutical experimentation and abuse from the beginning. Cooke's 2009 article implies it ran on daily benzedrine. MK Ultra was perhaps the apex of this drug exploration to crack the mindbrain. Yet, the pharmacopiea of mindbending designer drugs for 'new' mental disorders grows daily, including stimulants for normal social adjustment.
"The Mother of All Think Tanks," Tavistock tentacles form holographic feedback loops, backdoors and wormhole shortcuts among cultural institutions. Each can be unpacked for their associations and effects on society - Intelligence, Military, Government, NGOs, Economics, InfoTech, Mass Media, Philosophy, Occult, Religion, Science, Academia, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine and Zeitgeist. Tavistock took the healing genius of Freud and Jung and aimed it at mass psychology in a controlling way.
Tavistock Formula for Formation of Pathology: Deception, Brainwashing, Dissociation, Conditioning, Negative Injunctions, Forced Choice, Engineered Consent, Double-bind, Dual Reality, Peer Pressure, False Identity, No Exit, Full-Spectrum Dominance = Demoralized Mind Controlled Population; "Bread & Circuses" Formula > The Spectacle > Predictive Programming > 'Manufractured' History
Don't Fall for It: Loaded Words, Loaded Images, The Bandwagon, Polarities, Card Stacking, Isolation, Faulty Reasoning, Conflicting Dualities, Mystique, Perceived Authority, Tunnel Vision, Paradigm and Process Addiction, Soul-Abuse, Sleepwalking, Trance Manipulation, Awareness Gap, Social Conditioning, Science Taboos, Cognitive Distortion, Defensive Routines, Cover Ups, External Rewards, Herd Processing, Oppression, Dehumanization, Injected Ideology
Think Tanks to Army Tanks
Worldview Warfare, Mind Control and the Tavistock Agenda
"…eerily mesmerizing…”
SEE VIDEO - http://www.vimeo.com/10782341
http://www.facebook.com/iona.miller?ref=profile#!/video/video.php?v=211089441595
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
The backstory is summarized at http://tavistockagenda.iwarp.com/
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property PSYWAR CENTRAL: In the Tavistocks, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer.
The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” –Forbes
Working Title: PSYWAR CENTRAL: In the Tavistocks
THE STORY
Independent Feature Film – PSYWAR CENTRAL: IN THE TAVISTOCKS. “Clockwork Orange” meets “Bourne Ultimatum”. They wind you up because they know what makes you tick. Tavistock Clinic studied shellshock (post-traumatic stress) in WWI but switched to developing psychological warfare in 1922. It turned brainwashing and reprogramming on the public to manufacture “history” by formenting polarization, including the Superpowers. Rather than helping traumatized soldiers, it calculated their breaking points; it did the same for society and we are now precipitously close to breakdown. Tavistock shock doctrine now permeates global life. Their social engineers are a Who’s Who: Freud, Jung, Adler, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Edward Bernays, Eric Trist, A.K. Rice, Eric Miller, Aldous Huxley, R.D. Laing, and more. "...eerily mesmerizing..."
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." -- Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961
Tavistock is the paranoid child of the paternal Leipzig and Frankfort schools of 'critical thinking' and 'behaviorism.' The psychodynamics of Freud and Jung are its godparents, kindling the psychospiritual superego, archetypal and transpersonal aspects of depth psychology. The history of Tavistock is linked with drugs and psychopharmaceutical experimentation and abuse from the beginning. Cooke's 2009 article implies it ran on daily benzedrine. MK Ultra was perhaps the apex of this drug exploration to crack the mindbrain. Yet, the pharmacopiea of mindbending designer drugs for 'new' mental disorders grows daily, including stimulants for normal social adjustment.
"The Mother of All Think Tanks," Tavistock tentacles form holographic feedback loops, backdoors and wormhole shortcuts among cultural institutions. Each can be unpacked for their associations and effects on society - Intelligence, Military, Government, NGOs, Economics, InfoTech, Mass Media, Philosophy, Occult, Religion, Science, Academia, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine and Zeitgeist. Tavistock took the healing genius of Freud and Jung and aimed it at mass psychology in a controlling way.
Tavistock Formula for Formation of Pathology: Deception, Brainwashing, Dissociation, Conditioning, Negative Injunctions, Forced Choice, Engineered Consent, Double-bind, Dual Reality, Peer Pressure, False Identity, No Exit, Full-Spectrum Dominance = Demoralized Mind Controlled Population; "Bread & Circuses" Formula > The Spectacle > Predictive Programming > 'Manufractured' History
Don't Fall for It: Loaded Words, Loaded Images, The Bandwagon, Polarities, Card Stacking, Isolation, Faulty Reasoning, Conflicting Dualities, Mystique, Perceived Authority, Tunnel Vision, Paradigm and Process Addiction, Soul-Abuse, Sleepwalking, Trance Manipulation, Awareness Gap, Social Conditioning, Science Taboos, Cognitive Distortion, Defensive Routines, Cover Ups, External Rewards, Herd Processing, Oppression, Dehumanization, Injected Ideology
Operation Cyanide - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/operation-cyanide.html
GRAVE CONSEQUENCES: Operation Cyanide Attack on USS Liberty Spy Ship
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
GRAVE CONSEQUENCES: Operation Cyanide
How Operation Cyanide Nearly Started WWIII
“We Don’t Need Poison; We Need a Truth Serum”
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
See Video http://www.vimeo.com/10833767
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property Grave Consequences, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer. The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” --Forbes
THE STORY
Independent Feature Film - A high concept twist combining action adventure, suspense, and docudrama surrounding a failed false-flag attempt to drag the Cold War Superpowers into the Six-Day War. The covered-up incident – Operation Cyanide, an attack on the USS Liberty spy ship -- is a little-known milestone in history that nearly precipitated WWIII. This Covert Action led directly to escalation of Jihad and terrorism as well as increasing US involvement in the Middle East. It is a tale of collusion, betrayal and heroism that won the Medal of Honor. Like the Gulf of Tonkin and Maine incidents, false flag operations are used as pretext for shooting wars. But who today remembers the USS Liberty and its sacrificed crew? This based-on-fact film is a social issue picture, reflecting "the break up of consensual views of social reality" in a postmodern world. But, “Liberty” is always relevant.
VIDEO - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=263777981595
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
GRAVE CONSEQUENCES: Operation Cyanide
How Operation Cyanide Nearly Started WWIII
“We Don’t Need Poison; We Need a Truth Serum”
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
See Video http://www.vimeo.com/10833767
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property Grave Consequences, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer. The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” --Forbes
THE STORY
Independent Feature Film - A high concept twist combining action adventure, suspense, and docudrama surrounding a failed false-flag attempt to drag the Cold War Superpowers into the Six-Day War. The covered-up incident – Operation Cyanide, an attack on the USS Liberty spy ship -- is a little-known milestone in history that nearly precipitated WWIII. This Covert Action led directly to escalation of Jihad and terrorism as well as increasing US involvement in the Middle East. It is a tale of collusion, betrayal and heroism that won the Medal of Honor. Like the Gulf of Tonkin and Maine incidents, false flag operations are used as pretext for shooting wars. But who today remembers the USS Liberty and its sacrificed crew? This based-on-fact film is a social issue picture, reflecting "the break up of consensual views of social reality" in a postmodern world. But, “Liberty” is always relevant.
VIDEO - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=263777981595
Aftershock - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/aftershock.html
AFTERSHOCK: In HARMS Way
"CO-IN-CIA-dence:
The Haitian Earthquake Was An Act of GOD - Gold, Oil & Drugs"
Whoever controls energy controls the economy.
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
See VIDEO - http://www.vimeo.com/10877819
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property Aftershock: In HARMS Way, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer. The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” –Forbes
"CO-IN-CIA-dence:
The Haitian Earthquake Was An Act of GOD - Gold, Oil & Drugs"
Whoever controls energy controls the economy.
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
See VIDEO - http://www.vimeo.com/10877819
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property Aftershock: In HARMS Way, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer. The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” –Forbes
The Osborne Effect - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/osborne-effect.html
THE OSBORNE EFFECT
Black Man in the CIA
“His Life is a Quest, but His Mission Isn’t Impossible”
© by Leutrell Osborne, Sr. and Iona Miller, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
“And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies.” (King Lear, Act V, Scene 1)
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property THE OSBORNE EFFECT written by Leutrell Osborne, Sr. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions and the TRIPLE E Enterprise.
Black Man in the CIA
“His Life is a Quest, but His Mission Isn’t Impossible”
© by Leutrell Osborne, Sr. and Iona Miller, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
“And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies.” (King Lear, Act V, Scene 1)
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property THE OSBORNE EFFECT written by Leutrell Osborne, Sr. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions and the TRIPLE E Enterprise.
Scratch A Magus, Find A Spy -
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/scratch-a-magus-find-a-spy.html
DARK OPS & DARK ARTS:
Tricksters, Mystics & Masters of Deception
Crowley, Blavatsky, Dee, Bacon, Nostradamus, St. Germain, Cagliostro,
Mata Hari, Gurdjieff, Roerich, Fortune, Hess, Leary
Beneath the broad tide of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface. --A.E. Waite
The spies hide in every corner, but you can't touch them, you know. -- Coldplay
Psychic Battlefield
Spying is the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the covert act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. In truth the majority of the information collected is not that ‘secret’ but often the interpretation of the synergism is. Espionage is defined as the practice of spying or the using of spies. The defensive side of intelligence activity, i.e., preventing another nation from gaining such information, is known as counterespionage.
The world of ESPionage is all spooked up, in all ways that might apply. Many mages mixed dark ops with the dark arts long before CIA's "Weird Desk" and SRI and Ft. Meade remote viewers took the occult arts to new heights of diabolical application, including attempted psychic attacks and visualized heart attacks. There are indications MI5's Occult Bureau recruited from The Golden Dawn. Many mages, known and unknown to history, presaged the clairvoyants of Operation Grill Flame by centuries. Paranormal ESPionage was an outgrowth of CIA's MK ULTRA mind control research. He who controls the paradigm controls the world.
Many are witting and unwitting participants in Worldview Warfare. Esoterics is at the root of it. Rather than strange bedfellows, occultism and espionage share common ground. The black art of espionage is about obtaining secret information and witches, psychics and astrologers have always claimed to be able to predict the future and know about things hidden from ordinary people. The Jesuits spied for their order and the Church everywhere they went. The magi
are adept at shifting perception and looking at the top down Big Picture.
Tricksters, Mystics & Masters of Deception
Crowley, Blavatsky, Dee, Bacon, Nostradamus, St. Germain, Cagliostro,
Mata Hari, Gurdjieff, Roerich, Fortune, Hess, Leary
Beneath the broad tide of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface. --A.E. Waite
The spies hide in every corner, but you can't touch them, you know. -- Coldplay
Psychic Battlefield
Spying is the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the covert act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. In truth the majority of the information collected is not that ‘secret’ but often the interpretation of the synergism is. Espionage is defined as the practice of spying or the using of spies. The defensive side of intelligence activity, i.e., preventing another nation from gaining such information, is known as counterespionage.
The world of ESPionage is all spooked up, in all ways that might apply. Many mages mixed dark ops with the dark arts long before CIA's "Weird Desk" and SRI and Ft. Meade remote viewers took the occult arts to new heights of diabolical application, including attempted psychic attacks and visualized heart attacks. There are indications MI5's Occult Bureau recruited from The Golden Dawn. Many mages, known and unknown to history, presaged the clairvoyants of Operation Grill Flame by centuries. Paranormal ESPionage was an outgrowth of CIA's MK ULTRA mind control research. He who controls the paradigm controls the world.
Many are witting and unwitting participants in Worldview Warfare. Esoterics is at the root of it. Rather than strange bedfellows, occultism and espionage share common ground. The black art of espionage is about obtaining secret information and witches, psychics and astrologers have always claimed to be able to predict the future and know about things hidden from ordinary people. The Jesuits spied for their order and the Church everywhere they went. The magi
are adept at shifting perception and looking at the top down Big Picture.
Secret King of New Atlantis -
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/secret-king-of-new-atlantis.html
SUB ROSA: The Secret King of New Atlantis
Film Proposal by Iona Miller, 2007
http://baconisshakespeare.50megs.com/index.html
PLOT SYNOPSIS ~Elizabeth I meets Shakespeare in Love meets The da Vinci Code
Video et taceo ("I see and keep silent") ~Elizabeth
"A habit of secrecy is both politic and moral." ~Francis Bacon
Lies, Spies, and Deep Cover
Was Sir Francis Bacon a concealed Tudor Prince; did this Master and genius pen “Shakespeare"?
Many experts contend it is so…This version of his illustrious life is an uncollapsable probability cloud of fact and fantasy. Only his genius could not be concealed. A stealthy undercurrent of denial, disguise, deception, betrayal, spy networks and secret societies ran through Bacon's life, shaping him as he shaped his world with intelligence. The language of the Occult is a hidden language. Bacon hid his dangerous political truth in cyphers learned from his mentors, Magus John Dee and Sir Francis Walsingham the Spymaster. For the illiterate he used the common visual code of graphic symbols and emblems. The love of his life, Marguerite, is concealed in The Sonnets, and his wit, family history, political and social commentary in the Plays. The Tempest is a portrait of his mentor, Dr. Dee.
Film Proposal by Iona Miller, 2007
http://baconisshakespeare.50megs.com/index.html
PLOT SYNOPSIS ~Elizabeth I meets Shakespeare in Love meets The da Vinci Code
Video et taceo ("I see and keep silent") ~Elizabeth
"A habit of secrecy is both politic and moral." ~Francis Bacon
Lies, Spies, and Deep Cover
Was Sir Francis Bacon a concealed Tudor Prince; did this Master and genius pen “Shakespeare"?
Many experts contend it is so…This version of his illustrious life is an uncollapsable probability cloud of fact and fantasy. Only his genius could not be concealed. A stealthy undercurrent of denial, disguise, deception, betrayal, spy networks and secret societies ran through Bacon's life, shaping him as he shaped his world with intelligence. The language of the Occult is a hidden language. Bacon hid his dangerous political truth in cyphers learned from his mentors, Magus John Dee and Sir Francis Walsingham the Spymaster. For the illiterate he used the common visual code of graphic symbols and emblems. The love of his life, Marguerite, is concealed in The Sonnets, and his wit, family history, political and social commentary in the Plays. The Tempest is a portrait of his mentor, Dr. Dee.
Psi Ops Team
PSI OPS TEAM loses battle of the network screenwriters to X-Files
Truth is Stranger than Fiction Dept.
In early 1992, our literary agent, Bernard Shir-Cliff approached Rick and I because his buddies at FOX Network wanted to produce a show about the occult. Based on our own personal experience at SPOOK CENTRAL (MRU) we wrote a treatment of a psychic Mission Impossible Team, which had NOT been done at the time (prior to Dan Akroyd's show). Only the names have been changed to protect the usual suspects.
Of course, we came in 2nd of their solicitations to a little show called the X-Files, which I hear did pretty well ;)
Years later, I was surprised to see the star of our first episode, Trinity Church, turn up as the reveal in NATIONAL TREASURE.
Ah well, great minds think alike!
Here is the original treatment proposal file:
THE PSI OPS TEAM
c1992
by Richard and Iona Miller, with Burt Webb
Basic Idea:
Occult entities and energies from other dimensions are creating a real crisis on earth, jeapardizing the Ionosphere which screens earth from ultraviolet radiation death. A psychic "Mission Impossible" team is created to clean up the equivalent of psychic and spiritual toxic waste. The twist is that it all takes place against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of international, political and corporate intrigue. This one has it all: secret societies, dirty politics, Wall Street sharks, the Third World, ecological crisis, cloak & dagger, the occult, UFOs, cyberpunk brain interfacing, lunatic fringe, psychotronic weapons, and a global playing field whose prime time is running out.
Background:
The basic idea is that a wealthy industrialist has a change of heart about the impact of development on the world. He decides to dedicate his company to ecologically responsible projects, especially in the Third World. He runs up against a very powerful group of businessmen who have their own plans for exploiting the people and resources of the Third World. Strange things begin to happen to his projects. Poltergeists, ghosts that scare native workers, and other magical things. As he investigates, he finds that these are not hoaxes. He assembles a team including an occult scholar, a Russian biophysicist, and a parapsychological tinkerer with his EVP Ghostbox.
They begin to discover and explore a complex environment of other planes and dimensions which coexist with the earth. These planes have life forms which are intelligent and can sometimes communicate and even visit the earth. They are responsible for UFOs, ghosts, and other occult phenomena. There are different types with different power-bases and homes. There are groups with strong leaders, renegade individuals, etc., and they have complex and conflictive motivations.
One group feeds on death energy, while another feeds on birth energy. A third group consumes negative emotions and a fourth positive emotions. Some are acting out of ideological intent, others are feeding, still others are just playing jokes. There are objects and places on earth which have been "energized" by interactions with these other dimensions and their inhabitants. There are also occult rituals and drugs which can breach the barrier. The inventor in the Psi Ops group discovers a way to use complex microwave holograms to stimulate certain areas of the brain to access these realms.
Because of the increase in human population and the acceleration of social interactions and cultural change, more and more of these entities are interfering with human affairs. They exploit objects, places and people. The leader of the Psi Ops group decides to use his money and power to neutralize objects, places and people who are a conduit for these forces. This places him in direct opposition to the leader of the other group, who is a powerful wizard with his own agenda.
First known as the Entity, he plans to cause a major interpenetration of these other planes with the earth, so that magic becomes the normal state of affairs, with him as the ultimate power. He has powerful allies on the other planes. The Psi Ops Team must use their technology and make allies to oppose him. The adventures have to do with specific objects, sites or people, but the whole world is a game board, with them winning and loosing battles in a war with the Entity, who is trying to bring about a sort of unharmonic convergence.
CAST
Blake Martel - The Industrialist
Age: 55
Background: Inherited an international contracting firm from his father. Divorced with two sons, one deceased.
Personality: Authoritarian, not much humor, lots of honor, workaholic.
Abilities: Shrewd businessman, charismatic leader by virtue of
natural intensity and deep resonant voice.
Appearance: Medium height, medium build, brown hair and intense
brown eyes.
Karen Thorson - Executive assistant to Martel
Age: 40
Background: Came up through ranks to run her own corporation which
Martel bought, had affair but now only friends, interest in occult.
Personality: Pleasant but only opens up around her close friends.
Abilities: Highly intelligent, hard worker, great with details.
Appearance: Slender figure, red hair and freckles, cute face.
Iron Claw - Pilot for Martel
Age: 32
Background: Native American, Hopi.
Personality: Quiet and efficient but reserved.
Abilities: Excellent pilot and mechanic.
Appearance: Tall, good build, handsome, black hair and eyes, dark skin.
Stan Carter - Head of security for Martel
Age: 40
Background: Ex Army Intelligence (Eastern Europe), P.I.
Personality: Usually easy going but has a nasty temper when crossed.
Abilities: Intelligent and observant, weapons, explosives, martial arts.
Appearance: Black, medium height, stock build, rugged features.
Svetlana Mishkin - Russian biophysicist
Age: 29
Background: Emigrated to United States during Gorbachev years.
Personality: Friendly and trusting, passionate.
Abilities: Brilliant theoretical scientist in a variety of disciplines.
Appearance: Big, full figured woman, features a little too strong to be
beautiful, but attractive.
Chet Billings - Parapsychological tinkerer
Age: 25
Background: College drop-out, estranged from family.
Personality: Withdrawn, almost antisocial but lonely.
Abilities: Computers, electronics, chemistry, great in lab.
Appearance: Short, thin, long scraggily blond hair, poor dresser.
Moshe Ben Gurion - Occult Scholar
Age: 65
Background: Survivor of holocaust as a child, emigrated to US to escape
conflict in Middle East.
Personality: Old World Gentleman.
Abilities: Encyclopedic knowledge of the occult and mythology.
Appearance: Tall, slender, silver hair, big nose, dresses formally.
Fernando Castille - The Entity (Head of Opposition)
Age: 45
Background: From noble Spanish Aristocracy.
Personality: Arrogant and demanding, charismatic.
Abilities: Shrewd businessman and powerful occultist.
Appearance: Tall and dashing, impeccable dresser.
STORIES
Obviously the first story needs to be a two hour, made for TV movie which sets up the premise. Opens with Stan Carter witnessing a spontaneous human conbustion of a native who had been helping him learn why workers are deserting a project in the interior of Brazil. (Turns out to be some hydroelectric project which will flood an ancient ruin which is a power site that Castillo wants to exploit).
He reports back to Martel who puts Karen to work assembling a team to investigate the paranormal nature of the problems. She goes to University to talk to Moshe who teaches courses. He introduces her to two of his ex-students, Sventlana and Chet.
There follows the usual stuff with personality conflicts, slowly tracking down the opposition group and its leader, Chet building the brain interface, Martel fending off the financial attacks, Stan dealing with the occassional car chase and gun fight. Moshe handling an occult confrontation or two and a grand finale in the jungle of Brazil with the aid of an old shaman where both conventioanl and occult weapons and combatants duke it out. The bad guys are beaten, but escape to fight another day. Show ends with decision to act as a sort of Metephysical Protection Agency (MPA) to clean up toxic sites and objects by somehow "valving" off the esoteric energy charge.
EPISODE I:
THE MANHATTAN CONSPIRACY
Basic Story Line:
A high ranking member of a Secret Lodge is inducted into an inner circle and finds out he cannot accept some of the past actions of the Order. Among other things, he finds out about the theft of Manhattan (Manhattan Conspiracy). He decides to bail out and takes the deed, among other things, for insurance. The Lodge put the heat on him and he contacts (Tom Lyttle). This man remembers family legends about the deal and agrees to meet the Lodge, but is killed before he can keep his appointment. Now a race is on to find the deed. The main character enlists the aid of detective. The detective hires a hacker to crack the Lodge files. There are the usual car chases, threats, gun fights and narrow escapes. The main character eventually recovers the deed and some real nasty dirt on Lodge activities. Now he has to decide what to do. Will anyone believe him? If he is believed and what he knows is made public, will the Lodge retaliate? If he says and does nothing, will he suddenly disappear?
(3 Acts, 2 subplots)
Act I: The Set Up
Opening Scene - Begins with Ben Gurion's initiation into the inner echelon of The Lodge, and the revelation of its various manipulative activities, both financial and psychological. Martel's team has attempted an infiltration for months, so this is their chance. Upon closer inspection, Ben Gurion realizes he is dealing with very "dark forces." He quickly formulates a plan to steal key evidence of the plot, including the deed to prime Manhattan property, allegedly under the control of an orthodox church (actually a front for The Lodge activities).
Chase scene around Manhattan ensues, showing landmarks and back alleys. Ben Gurion winds up at the occult shop of an acquaintance, where he is shuttled into a strange contraption which allows him to slip into another dimension for escape. He is now a fugitive from The Lodge (through the remaining shows). This mystery character has many enemies from around the world because of his activism, and has lived as an "underground" person for many years. He is a master of disguise, and hypnotic manipulation, (sort of like "Yoda").
Scene 2 - Opens in the Psi Ops lab in Seattle, Washington, a couple of days after his escape. Ben Gurion awakens from a hypnotic trance. He has just undergone a regression to determine what really happened during his escape, and to recall helpful details and specifics about his pursuers. His description of the Manhattan Conspiracy for the benefit of the Psi Ops team fills in the viewer through dialog and interrogation by the other characters present. Martel is present, but shown only from behind. He remains a mystery man for several episodes. Thorsen and Carter are also present, helping plan security and recourse.
Scene 3 - Ben Gurion calls for his former students Svetlana and Chet to join the team in planning their strategy. Flashbacks describe the sexual tension between these two. Even though he is four years younger, Chet harbors a crush on Svetlana, because he worships her brilliant intellect. They had previously worked together on developing an interdimensional brain interface. She is a biophysicist, he has background with biochips.
Though it is really unrequited love, there was a time or two in the past when Svetlana succumbed to his advances in a moment of weakness. This old fuel keeps his fire burning, and he pursues her relentlessly, even though he is not (and never will be) her "type." He is a great programmer, but hopelessly immature, emotionally.
The sexual undercurrent is a continuing theme throughout the series, which never consummates or resolves. They are virtually forced to work together due to circumstance, though it is painful for them both for different reasons.
Act II: The Confrontation
Scene 1 - Through their vast network of informants and "dark forces," The Lodge manages to locate Ben Gurion in Seattle. They descent like a plague of locusts, attempt, and are successful at retrieving their documents. They take them back to The Vault which, though in another dimension, is accessible only from the catacombs underlying the old Trinity church property in Manhattan. They now perceive the entire team as their enemy, and plot to eliminate them all for their highly proprietary knowledge.
Scene 2 - Back in the Lab again, a discussion of how to retrieve documents from the timeless/spaceless alternative dimension ensues. Using the brain interface, how to break into the Vault from a remote location is explained, and Carter can now go in and get the job done. The problem is that in the process, he is observed by The Entity (unknown to the team), and he mobilizes even more of his vast resources. There is the implication that he is "otherworldly." Yet, his world-wide financial grip gives him tremendous political clout.
Scene 3 - In the course of a seemingly unrelated government business activity (IRS audit), Thorson is lured and captured by the minions of Castille. Because of her attempt to protect Ben Gurion, Karen Thorson is captured and held for ransom, only to lure the other players within reach. She is the easiest mark. The subplot of tension between Svetlana and Chet continues. Though the heavy "baggage" of their past interaction is very apparent, they must now put that aside, and focus on their respective specialties.
Act III: The Resolution
Scene 1 - Back at the Lab, hacking their way into top level computers, the team gets a better idea of who the Entity is, his world-wide network of influence, and his alternative dimensional resources. Hints of his past manipulations of world economy, psychology, and culture to gain an economic stranglehold, and dupe the world into enslavement for his own glory - almost an Anti-Christ figure with his behind-the-scenes machinations.
Scene 2 - Lots of action now ensues, depending on the close coordination of the entire Psi Ops team. Karen is rescued, plus the documents, plus dirt on The Lodge. The team can now threaten or blackmail The Lodge to leave them alone, but of course they are undaunted, since they are prepared to sacrifice their dark souls for their "cause." Each minion has their own idea of what their reward will be, predicated on their personal psychology (lust, money, fame, power, etc.). Again, Castille almost prevails.
Scene 3 - Though temporarily thwarted, Castille tucks his tail and musters his forces for another day. Perhaps he retreats to his compound in Spain, with its underground hi-tech/occult training ground. With his "generals" around him, he feels secure for the moment to live to fight another day.
The ill-defined group of researchers and intelligence operatives become more cohesive in rallying around Ben Gurion. Even beyond his protection, they now have a common mission to "save the world" from immanent social/political/financial collapse.
Martel provides the necessary funds as patron and world-wise director. But we still aren't exactly sure just who he is on the world stage. He is still shown from the back only to preserve the mystery. A future show will disclose in more detail the context of his life and involvement. Personal conflicts in the group remain evident, but bonding experiences moderate these as time goes on.
The documents provide the basis for a legal battle to usurp The Lodge's power spot in downtown Manhattan. The Trinity Church, which has been the dupe of Castille, musters its financial and political power against the team for another episode.
04-09-92
Truth is Stranger than Fiction Dept.
In early 1992, our literary agent, Bernard Shir-Cliff approached Rick and I because his buddies at FOX Network wanted to produce a show about the occult. Based on our own personal experience at SPOOK CENTRAL (MRU) we wrote a treatment of a psychic Mission Impossible Team, which had NOT been done at the time (prior to Dan Akroyd's show). Only the names have been changed to protect the usual suspects.
Of course, we came in 2nd of their solicitations to a little show called the X-Files, which I hear did pretty well ;)
Years later, I was surprised to see the star of our first episode, Trinity Church, turn up as the reveal in NATIONAL TREASURE.
Ah well, great minds think alike!
Here is the original treatment proposal file:
THE PSI OPS TEAM
c1992
by Richard and Iona Miller, with Burt Webb
Basic Idea:
Occult entities and energies from other dimensions are creating a real crisis on earth, jeapardizing the Ionosphere which screens earth from ultraviolet radiation death. A psychic "Mission Impossible" team is created to clean up the equivalent of psychic and spiritual toxic waste. The twist is that it all takes place against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of international, political and corporate intrigue. This one has it all: secret societies, dirty politics, Wall Street sharks, the Third World, ecological crisis, cloak & dagger, the occult, UFOs, cyberpunk brain interfacing, lunatic fringe, psychotronic weapons, and a global playing field whose prime time is running out.
Background:
The basic idea is that a wealthy industrialist has a change of heart about the impact of development on the world. He decides to dedicate his company to ecologically responsible projects, especially in the Third World. He runs up against a very powerful group of businessmen who have their own plans for exploiting the people and resources of the Third World. Strange things begin to happen to his projects. Poltergeists, ghosts that scare native workers, and other magical things. As he investigates, he finds that these are not hoaxes. He assembles a team including an occult scholar, a Russian biophysicist, and a parapsychological tinkerer with his EVP Ghostbox.
They begin to discover and explore a complex environment of other planes and dimensions which coexist with the earth. These planes have life forms which are intelligent and can sometimes communicate and even visit the earth. They are responsible for UFOs, ghosts, and other occult phenomena. There are different types with different power-bases and homes. There are groups with strong leaders, renegade individuals, etc., and they have complex and conflictive motivations.
One group feeds on death energy, while another feeds on birth energy. A third group consumes negative emotions and a fourth positive emotions. Some are acting out of ideological intent, others are feeding, still others are just playing jokes. There are objects and places on earth which have been "energized" by interactions with these other dimensions and their inhabitants. There are also occult rituals and drugs which can breach the barrier. The inventor in the Psi Ops group discovers a way to use complex microwave holograms to stimulate certain areas of the brain to access these realms.
Because of the increase in human population and the acceleration of social interactions and cultural change, more and more of these entities are interfering with human affairs. They exploit objects, places and people. The leader of the Psi Ops group decides to use his money and power to neutralize objects, places and people who are a conduit for these forces. This places him in direct opposition to the leader of the other group, who is a powerful wizard with his own agenda.
First known as the Entity, he plans to cause a major interpenetration of these other planes with the earth, so that magic becomes the normal state of affairs, with him as the ultimate power. He has powerful allies on the other planes. The Psi Ops Team must use their technology and make allies to oppose him. The adventures have to do with specific objects, sites or people, but the whole world is a game board, with them winning and loosing battles in a war with the Entity, who is trying to bring about a sort of unharmonic convergence.
CAST
Blake Martel - The Industrialist
Age: 55
Background: Inherited an international contracting firm from his father. Divorced with two sons, one deceased.
Personality: Authoritarian, not much humor, lots of honor, workaholic.
Abilities: Shrewd businessman, charismatic leader by virtue of
natural intensity and deep resonant voice.
Appearance: Medium height, medium build, brown hair and intense
brown eyes.
Karen Thorson - Executive assistant to Martel
Age: 40
Background: Came up through ranks to run her own corporation which
Martel bought, had affair but now only friends, interest in occult.
Personality: Pleasant but only opens up around her close friends.
Abilities: Highly intelligent, hard worker, great with details.
Appearance: Slender figure, red hair and freckles, cute face.
Iron Claw - Pilot for Martel
Age: 32
Background: Native American, Hopi.
Personality: Quiet and efficient but reserved.
Abilities: Excellent pilot and mechanic.
Appearance: Tall, good build, handsome, black hair and eyes, dark skin.
Stan Carter - Head of security for Martel
Age: 40
Background: Ex Army Intelligence (Eastern Europe), P.I.
Personality: Usually easy going but has a nasty temper when crossed.
Abilities: Intelligent and observant, weapons, explosives, martial arts.
Appearance: Black, medium height, stock build, rugged features.
Svetlana Mishkin - Russian biophysicist
Age: 29
Background: Emigrated to United States during Gorbachev years.
Personality: Friendly and trusting, passionate.
Abilities: Brilliant theoretical scientist in a variety of disciplines.
Appearance: Big, full figured woman, features a little too strong to be
beautiful, but attractive.
Chet Billings - Parapsychological tinkerer
Age: 25
Background: College drop-out, estranged from family.
Personality: Withdrawn, almost antisocial but lonely.
Abilities: Computers, electronics, chemistry, great in lab.
Appearance: Short, thin, long scraggily blond hair, poor dresser.
Moshe Ben Gurion - Occult Scholar
Age: 65
Background: Survivor of holocaust as a child, emigrated to US to escape
conflict in Middle East.
Personality: Old World Gentleman.
Abilities: Encyclopedic knowledge of the occult and mythology.
Appearance: Tall, slender, silver hair, big nose, dresses formally.
Fernando Castille - The Entity (Head of Opposition)
Age: 45
Background: From noble Spanish Aristocracy.
Personality: Arrogant and demanding, charismatic.
Abilities: Shrewd businessman and powerful occultist.
Appearance: Tall and dashing, impeccable dresser.
STORIES
Obviously the first story needs to be a two hour, made for TV movie which sets up the premise. Opens with Stan Carter witnessing a spontaneous human conbustion of a native who had been helping him learn why workers are deserting a project in the interior of Brazil. (Turns out to be some hydroelectric project which will flood an ancient ruin which is a power site that Castillo wants to exploit).
He reports back to Martel who puts Karen to work assembling a team to investigate the paranormal nature of the problems. She goes to University to talk to Moshe who teaches courses. He introduces her to two of his ex-students, Sventlana and Chet.
There follows the usual stuff with personality conflicts, slowly tracking down the opposition group and its leader, Chet building the brain interface, Martel fending off the financial attacks, Stan dealing with the occassional car chase and gun fight. Moshe handling an occult confrontation or two and a grand finale in the jungle of Brazil with the aid of an old shaman where both conventioanl and occult weapons and combatants duke it out. The bad guys are beaten, but escape to fight another day. Show ends with decision to act as a sort of Metephysical Protection Agency (MPA) to clean up toxic sites and objects by somehow "valving" off the esoteric energy charge.
EPISODE I:
THE MANHATTAN CONSPIRACY
Basic Story Line:
A high ranking member of a Secret Lodge is inducted into an inner circle and finds out he cannot accept some of the past actions of the Order. Among other things, he finds out about the theft of Manhattan (Manhattan Conspiracy). He decides to bail out and takes the deed, among other things, for insurance. The Lodge put the heat on him and he contacts (Tom Lyttle). This man remembers family legends about the deal and agrees to meet the Lodge, but is killed before he can keep his appointment. Now a race is on to find the deed. The main character enlists the aid of detective. The detective hires a hacker to crack the Lodge files. There are the usual car chases, threats, gun fights and narrow escapes. The main character eventually recovers the deed and some real nasty dirt on Lodge activities. Now he has to decide what to do. Will anyone believe him? If he is believed and what he knows is made public, will the Lodge retaliate? If he says and does nothing, will he suddenly disappear?
(3 Acts, 2 subplots)
Act I: The Set Up
Opening Scene - Begins with Ben Gurion's initiation into the inner echelon of The Lodge, and the revelation of its various manipulative activities, both financial and psychological. Martel's team has attempted an infiltration for months, so this is their chance. Upon closer inspection, Ben Gurion realizes he is dealing with very "dark forces." He quickly formulates a plan to steal key evidence of the plot, including the deed to prime Manhattan property, allegedly under the control of an orthodox church (actually a front for The Lodge activities).
Chase scene around Manhattan ensues, showing landmarks and back alleys. Ben Gurion winds up at the occult shop of an acquaintance, where he is shuttled into a strange contraption which allows him to slip into another dimension for escape. He is now a fugitive from The Lodge (through the remaining shows). This mystery character has many enemies from around the world because of his activism, and has lived as an "underground" person for many years. He is a master of disguise, and hypnotic manipulation, (sort of like "Yoda").
Scene 2 - Opens in the Psi Ops lab in Seattle, Washington, a couple of days after his escape. Ben Gurion awakens from a hypnotic trance. He has just undergone a regression to determine what really happened during his escape, and to recall helpful details and specifics about his pursuers. His description of the Manhattan Conspiracy for the benefit of the Psi Ops team fills in the viewer through dialog and interrogation by the other characters present. Martel is present, but shown only from behind. He remains a mystery man for several episodes. Thorsen and Carter are also present, helping plan security and recourse.
Scene 3 - Ben Gurion calls for his former students Svetlana and Chet to join the team in planning their strategy. Flashbacks describe the sexual tension between these two. Even though he is four years younger, Chet harbors a crush on Svetlana, because he worships her brilliant intellect. They had previously worked together on developing an interdimensional brain interface. She is a biophysicist, he has background with biochips.
Though it is really unrequited love, there was a time or two in the past when Svetlana succumbed to his advances in a moment of weakness. This old fuel keeps his fire burning, and he pursues her relentlessly, even though he is not (and never will be) her "type." He is a great programmer, but hopelessly immature, emotionally.
The sexual undercurrent is a continuing theme throughout the series, which never consummates or resolves. They are virtually forced to work together due to circumstance, though it is painful for them both for different reasons.
Act II: The Confrontation
Scene 1 - Through their vast network of informants and "dark forces," The Lodge manages to locate Ben Gurion in Seattle. They descent like a plague of locusts, attempt, and are successful at retrieving their documents. They take them back to The Vault which, though in another dimension, is accessible only from the catacombs underlying the old Trinity church property in Manhattan. They now perceive the entire team as their enemy, and plot to eliminate them all for their highly proprietary knowledge.
Scene 2 - Back in the Lab again, a discussion of how to retrieve documents from the timeless/spaceless alternative dimension ensues. Using the brain interface, how to break into the Vault from a remote location is explained, and Carter can now go in and get the job done. The problem is that in the process, he is observed by The Entity (unknown to the team), and he mobilizes even more of his vast resources. There is the implication that he is "otherworldly." Yet, his world-wide financial grip gives him tremendous political clout.
Scene 3 - In the course of a seemingly unrelated government business activity (IRS audit), Thorson is lured and captured by the minions of Castille. Because of her attempt to protect Ben Gurion, Karen Thorson is captured and held for ransom, only to lure the other players within reach. She is the easiest mark. The subplot of tension between Svetlana and Chet continues. Though the heavy "baggage" of their past interaction is very apparent, they must now put that aside, and focus on their respective specialties.
Act III: The Resolution
Scene 1 - Back at the Lab, hacking their way into top level computers, the team gets a better idea of who the Entity is, his world-wide network of influence, and his alternative dimensional resources. Hints of his past manipulations of world economy, psychology, and culture to gain an economic stranglehold, and dupe the world into enslavement for his own glory - almost an Anti-Christ figure with his behind-the-scenes machinations.
Scene 2 - Lots of action now ensues, depending on the close coordination of the entire Psi Ops team. Karen is rescued, plus the documents, plus dirt on The Lodge. The team can now threaten or blackmail The Lodge to leave them alone, but of course they are undaunted, since they are prepared to sacrifice their dark souls for their "cause." Each minion has their own idea of what their reward will be, predicated on their personal psychology (lust, money, fame, power, etc.). Again, Castille almost prevails.
Scene 3 - Though temporarily thwarted, Castille tucks his tail and musters his forces for another day. Perhaps he retreats to his compound in Spain, with its underground hi-tech/occult training ground. With his "generals" around him, he feels secure for the moment to live to fight another day.
The ill-defined group of researchers and intelligence operatives become more cohesive in rallying around Ben Gurion. Even beyond his protection, they now have a common mission to "save the world" from immanent social/political/financial collapse.
Martel provides the necessary funds as patron and world-wise director. But we still aren't exactly sure just who he is on the world stage. He is still shown from the back only to preserve the mystery. A future show will disclose in more detail the context of his life and involvement. Personal conflicts in the group remain evident, but bonding experiences moderate these as time goes on.
The documents provide the basis for a legal battle to usurp The Lodge's power spot in downtown Manhattan. The Trinity Church, which has been the dupe of Castille, musters its financial and political power against the team for another episode.
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