Dr.
Carol Rosin
December 2000
Dr. Carol Rosin
was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and
was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life.
She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space
in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions
about space based weapons. Von Braun revealed to Dr. Rosin a plan
to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial
threat. She was also present at meetings in the ‘70s when the
scenario for the Gulf War of the ‘90s was planned.
CR: Dr. Carol Rosin SG: Dr. Steven Greer
CR: My name is Carol Rosin. I am an educator who
became the first woman corporate manager of an Aerospace Company,
Fairchild Industries. I am a Space and Missile Defense Consultant
and have consulted to a number of companies, organizations, and
government departments, even the intelligence community. I was a
consultant to TRW working on the MX missile, so I was part of that
strategy, which turned out to be a role model for how to sell space-based
weapons to the public. The MX missile is yet another weapon system
that we didn’t need.
I founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation
in Outer Space, a Washington DC based think tank. I am an author
and have testified before Congress and the President’s Commission
on Space.
When I was a Corporate Manager of Fairchild Industries
from 1974 through 1977, I met the late Dr. Wernher Von Braun. We
first met in early 1974. At that time, Von Braun was dying of cancer
but he assured me that he would live a few more years to tell me
about the game that was being played- that game being the effort
to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself.
Von Braun had a history of working with weapons systems. He escaped
from Germany to come to this country and became a Vice President
of Fairchild Industries when I had met him. Von Braun’s purpose
during the last years of his life, his dying years, was to educate
the public and decision-makers about why space-based weapons are
dumb, dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, unworkable,
and an undesirable idea, and about the alternatives that are available.
As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me
about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave
me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort
to prevent the weaponization of outer space. When Wernher Von Braun
was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear
on occasions when he was too ill to speak. I did this.
What was most interesting to me was a repetitive
sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately
four years that I had the opportunity to work with him. He said
the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision
makers was to use scare tactics… That was how we identify
an enemy.
The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was
that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy.
In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We
were told that they had “killer satellites”. We were
told that they were coming to get us and control us – that
they were “Commies.”
Then terrorists would be identified, and that was
soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going
to identify third-world country “crazies.” We now call
them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy
against whom we would build space-based weapons.
The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point
he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. Asteroids- against
asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.
And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens,
extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over
and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches
for him, he would bring up that last card. “And remember Carol,
the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based
weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie.”
I think I was too naïve at that time to know
the seriousness of the nature of the spin that was being put on
the system. And now, the pieces are starting to fall into place.
We are building a space-based weapons system on a premise that is
a lie, a spin. Wernher Von Braun was trying to hint that to me back
in the early 70’s and right up until the moment when he died
in 1977.
What he told me was that there is an accelerated
effort in place. He didn’t mention a timeline but he said
that it was going to be speeding up faster than anybody could possibly
imagine. That the effort to put weapons into space was not only
based on a lie but would accelerate past the point of people even
understanding it until it was already up there and too late.
When Von Braun was dying in front of me, the very
first day that I met him, he had tubes draining out of his side.
He was tapping on the desk telling me, “You will come to Fairchild.”
I was a schoolteacher. He said, “You will come to Fairchild
and you will be responsible for keeping weapons out of space.”
The way he said it with this intenseness in his eyes, and added
that very first day, the first time I met him, that space-based
weapons were a dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary,
untestable, unworkable idea.
The last card that was being held was the extraterrestrial
enemy card. The intensity with which he said that, made me realize
that he knew something that he was too afraid to mention. He was
too afraid to talk about it. He would not tell me the details. I
am not sure that I would have absorbed them if he had told me the
details or even believed him in 1974. But there was no question
that that man knew and had a need to know, I found out later.
There is no doubt in my mind that Wernher Von Braun
knew about the extraterrestrial issue. He explained to me the reasons
why weapons were going to be put into space, the enemies against
whom we were going to build these weapons, and that all of that
was a lie. He mentioned that extraterrestrials were going to be
identified as the final enemy against whom we were going to build
space-based weapons back in 1974. The way he said it to me, there
was no doubt in my mind that he knew something that he was too afraid
to talk about.
Wernher Von Braun never spoke to me about any of
the details that he knew related to extraterrestrials except that
one day extraterrestrials were going to be identified as an enemy
against whom we are going to build an enormous space-based weapons
system. Wernher Von Braun actually told me that the spin was a lie
– that the premise for space-based weaponry, the reasons that
were going to be given, the enemies that we were going to identify
– were all based on a lie.
I have been tracking the space-based weapons issue
for about 26 years. I have debated Generals and Congressional Representatives.
I have testified before the Congress and the Senate. I have met
with people in over 100 countries. But I have not been able to identify
who the people are who are making this space-based weapons system
happen. I see the news. I see the administrative decisions being
made. I know that they are all based on lies and greed.
But I have yet to be able to identify who the people
are. That is after tracking this issue for 26 years. I know that
there are big secrets being kept and I know that it is time the
public and decision-makers pay attention to the people who are now
going to be disclosing the truth. Then we need to make some definite
changes and build a system in space that will benefit every single
person, and all of the animals, and the environment of this planet.
The technology is there. The solutions to Earth’s urgent and
long-term potential problems are there. I have a feeling that once
we start studying this extraterrestrial issue, all of the questions
are going to be answered that I have had for 26 years.
But I have concluded that it is based on a few people
making a lot of money and gaining power. It is about ego. It is
not about our essence and who we really are on this planet and loving
each other and being at peace and cooperating. It isn’t about
using technology to solve problems and heal people in the planet.
It isn’t about that. It is about a few people who really are
playing an old, dangerous, costly game for their own pocketbooks
and power struggle. That is all it is.
I believe that this entire space-based weapons game
is initiated right here in the United States of America. What I
hope is that with this information that is being disclosed, the
new administration will to do what is right. That is to transform
the war game into a space game so that we use the technologies that
are available not just as spin-offs of war technology, but as direct
technological applications to build a cooperative space system that
will benefit the entire world and that will allow us to communicate
with the extraterrestrial cultures that are obviously out there.
Who would benefit from these space-based weapons?
They are the people who work in that arena, people in the military,
in industries, in universities and labs, in the intelligence community.
This is not just in the United States but it is worldwide. This
is a worldwide cooperative system. Wars are cooperative. Just as
peace will be when it breaks out. But right now there are a lot
of people benefiting. This is what our economy has been based on
in this country and spreading around the world- war. People suffer
as a result. It is not fair. It never has been. People have screamed:
“out of swords let us build plow shares, let’s have
peace and hold hands around the world,” but it hasn’t
worked because too many people are benefiting. Not only are they
benefiting financially, but from what my experience is there are
people who actually believe that Armageddon should happen so we
have to have these wars.
So it is going from the pocketbook, to the religious
right: some people actually believe that we have to have wars for
these religious reasons. There are people who just love war. I have
met warriors who just love to go to war. Then there are the good
people, the soldiers, who just take orders. They have to feed their
children and send them to college so they want to keep their jobs.
People in laboratories have told me that they don’t want to
work on these technologies for war but if they don’t they
won’t get a paycheck. Who is going to pay them? But what I
see is that there are not only dual uses for these technologies
but there are many uses for the same technologies.
We can build space hospitals, schools, hotels, laboratories,
farms, industries. It may sound far out but if we don’t do
that we are going to build battle stations and weapons pointed down
all of our throats and into space. Apparently we have been doing
some of that already. We have a choice now that can be made. We
can all benefit – all of the people in the military industrial
complex, in the intelligence community, in universities and labs,
in the United States and all over the world – we can all benefit.
We can just transform that industry so easily with just a decision
based on our highest consciousness, our spirituality, and on the
fact that we have no choice unless we all want to die. And we don’t.
So we can all benefit financially, spiritually, socially, psychologically;
it is technologically and politically feasible to transform this
game now and everybody will benefit.
In 1977 I was at a meeting in Fairchild Industries
in a conference room called the War Room. In that room were a lot
of charts on the walls with enemies, identified enemies. There were
other more obscure names, names like Saddam Hussein and Khadafi.
But we were talking then about terrorists, the potential terrorists.
No one had ever talked about this before but this was the next stage
after the Russians against whom we were going to build these space-based
weapons. I stood up in this meeting and I said, “Excuse me,
why are we talking about these potential enemies against whom we
are going to build space-based weapons if, in fact, we know that
they are not the enemy at this time?”
Well, they continued the conversation about how
they were going to antagonize these enemies and that at some point,
there was going to be a war in the Gulf, a Gulf War. Now this is
1977, 1977! And they were talking about creating a war in the Gulf
Region when there was 25 billion dollars in the space-based weapons
program that had yet to be identified. It wasn’t called the
Strategic Defense Initiative, at least. Not until 1983. This weapons
system, then, had obviously been going on for some time and I didn’t
know anything about. So I stood up in this meeting in 1977 and said,
“I would like to know why we are talking about space-based
weapons against these enemies. I would like to know more about this.
Would someone please tell me what this is about?” Nobody answered.
They just went on with this meeting as though I hadn’t said
anything.
Suddenly I stood up in the room and said, “If
nobody can tell me why you are planning a war in the Gulf when there
is a certain amount of money in a budget so that you can create
the next set of weapons systems that will be the beginning of the
sell to the public about why we need space-based weapons, then consider
this: my resignation. And you will not hear from me again!”
And nobody said a word, because they were planning a war in the
Gulf and it happened exactly as they planned it, on time.
SG: Who was at this meeting?
CR: The room was filled with people in the revolving
door game. There were people that I had seen once in a military
uniform and other times in a gray suit and an industry outfit. These
people play a revolving door game. They work as consultants, industry
people, and/or military and intelligence people. They work in the
industries and they revolve themselves through these doors and right
into government positions.
I stood up in this meeting and asked if I was hearing
correctly. That when there was 25 billion dollars expended in the
space-based weapons budget, that there was going to be a war in
the Gulf, stimulated, created, so that they could then sell the
next phase of weapons to the public and the decision-makers. This
war was going to be created so that they could dump the old weapons
and create a whole new set of weapons. So I had to resign from that
position. I could no longer work in that industry.
In about 1990 I was sitting in my living room looking
at the money that had been spent on space-based weapons research
and development programs and I realized that it had come to that
number, about 25 billion dollars, and I said to my husband, “I
am now going to stop everything. I am now going to stop and sit
and watch CNN television and I am going to wait for the war to happen.”
My husband said, “Well, you have finally gone over the edge.
You have flipped out.” Friends said, “You have really
gone too far this time. There is not going to be a war in the Gulf,
nobody is talking about a war in the Gulf.”
I said, “There is going to be a war in the
Gulf. I am going to sit here and wait for the war in the Gulf.”
And it happened right on schedule.
As part of the war game in the Gulf, we in the public
were told that the United States was successful in shooting down
Russian Scud Missiles. We were rationalizing new budgets based on
that success. In fact, we found out later, after the budgets were
approved for the next phase of weapons, that it was a lie. We did
not have successful shoot-downs the way we were told. It was all
a lie, just to get more money put in the budget to make more weapons.
I was one of the first people to go independently
to Russia when I heard that they had “killer satellites.”
[See the testimony of Dr. Paul Czysz. SG]
When I went to Russia in the early 70’s, I
found out that they didn’t have killer satellites, that it
was a lie. In fact, the Russian leaders and people wanted peace.
They wanted to cooperate with the United States and with the people
of the world.
Another time I called Saddam Hussein when he was
lighting his oil fields on fire. My husband was in the kitchen while
I was making this phone call. I got a call back from his First Attaché
with Saddam Hussein nearby and he asked, “Are you a reporter?
Are you an agent? Why do you want to know?”
I said, “No. I am just a citizen who helped
to start the movement to prevent the weaponization of outer space
and I have found that a lot of stories that I have been told about
weapons systems and the enemies are not true. I wanted to find out
what would satisfy Saddam Hussein so he would stop making these
oil fields catch fire and stop antagonizing people.” He said,
“Well, nobody has ever asked him that question, what he wants.”
…
So when I hear that there is a possible threat of
extraterrestrials – and I look at the history of thousands
of years of possible ET visitations, and hear the disclosures of
honest military-intelligence-industry people who have had experiences
with UFO’s, with crashes and landings, with live and dead
bodies of extraterrestrial beings – I know it is a lie. And
if I am ever told that these are enemies against whom we have to
build space-based weapons systems, based on my own personal experience
of having worked in the military industrial complex on weapons systems
and military strategy, I am going to know it is a lie. It is a lie.
Not only will I not believe it, but I am going to
go out as loudly as I can and tell everyone to take a look. They
[the ET’s] have not taken us away yet. We are still here after
thousands of years of visits. If in fact they are still visiting
us now and we have not been harmed then we have to look at this
as something that is not a hostile occurrence.
It would be my hope and my intention to do everything
I could to work with people who are working to communicate with
and cooperate with these extraterrestrial beings. They are clearly
not hostile. We are here. That is enough proof for me.
There is no limit to how people can choose to live
on this planet. We have a chance to do that and I think that the
window is closing rapidly. I don’t think that we have much
time in which to make that decision. We are too close in too many
ways to having some horrible disaster happen, having some sort of
war take place, whether it is from high technology or an exotic
weapons system.
We need leadership
and it has to start with the United States President and that is
who we all have to reach. If you are international, if you are around
the world, if you are in the United States of America, whether you
are from any party, any belief system or religion- the United States
Commander in Chief, the President of the United States is the person
that needs to be reached. We need to say that we want an ultimate,
comprehensive, verifiable ban on all space-based weapons