Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog
This article from 21 July 2017 is here updated and expanded to the present; and the dead links in it have been replaced by functional (this time, archived — and thus more permanent) links:
Before documenting that many trillions of dollars in U.S. Government military spending have been and are unaccounted-for, and that by far the most corrupt U.S. federal Department is the ‘Defense’ Department, it is important to document here, by means of the links that will be provided in this article, that, at least after the 9/11 event, the most respected institution in America has been and is the military, and so there exists in the United States a profoundly deceived public, which is a reflection of America’s having also a thoroughly corrupt national press or ‘news’-media, a U.S. press that is controlled by the same group of individuals who control the ‘defense’ contractors such as Lockheed Martin — the firms that derive all or almost all of their incomes from sales to the U.S. Government and to its allied governments. In other words: the U.S. is controlled by a racket, and is not (in any other than the formal sense — e.g., its Constitution) a democracy. Consequently, this article will document in its links, that the publicized and widespread view that the U.S. is a democracy instead of a dictatorship is false and results from the dictatorship’s control over America’s press, with support from also the press in countries that are allied with and vassals of America’s dictatorship.
Now, and for the past two decades, as is shown in annual Gallup polls taken since 1973, the American public has displayed far higher confidence and trust in “The Military” than in any other “Institution” (including than churches, schools, the Presidency, the police, courts — any).
This enormous public respect for, basically, America’s Military-Industrial Complex or MIC, didn’t even exist before 9/11. This overwhelmingly militarized American mentality is specifically in the 21st century, and existed virtually not at all in the 20th century. In fact, back in 1973 (the year Gallup first polled this), the most-respected institution was “The Medical System,” which then was 80% respected, and now is only 36% respected. Ever since 2002 (right after 9/11), “The Military” has been respected more than 70% (around twice as much as “The Medical System” now is), and it’s the only “Institution” that is consistently above 70%. Only “Small Business” comes close, in the upper 60s. Next down is “Police” in the lower 50s. Then, everything else is in the 30s or lower. Maybe the Government’s two responses to 9/11 (first, the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, which caused respect for the military to leap up 13% in 2002 but produced total failure; and, then, the other alleged 9/11 response, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, raised the figure yet another 3%) were the best things that ever happened for the owners of America’s giant weapons-manufacturers. This permanently militarized America, which exists ever since 9/11, enriches them enormously. The U.S. Government has served these corporate owners superbly, while the rest of the population pays the tab for it (via their taxes, and via their soldiers’ corpses — not even to mention the far more numerous corpses of residents in the invaded countries, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen).
So, there is this steady high American respect for the MIC. The U.S. public trust it more than anything else. And yet — according to the Inspector General (IG) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) — many billions, and sometimes even trillions, of dollars, in the Department’s periodic financial reports, are not documented. What has happened to this money from U.S. taxpayers is unknown — it’s gone missing (alleged to have been spent, but to payees unidentified). That’s the exact opposite of trustworthy.
According to the DOD’s IG, this vast chasm of financial darkness continues year-after-year (yet without at all reducing Americans’ trust in “The Military”). Apparently, Americans, as a lot, are gluttons for punishment — or else our ‘news’-media haven’t sufficiently reported the “waste, fraud, and abuse” that “The Military” (the most-respected U.S. institution) are doing to the American public. (And those media covered-up for the regime and uncritically spread its lies — such as about ‘Saddam’s WMD’ in 2002 — as if those allegations by the corrupt Government were instead facts, and so America’s press are themselves part of the regime; they’re only fakes as ‘journalists’, and so they certainly share in this Government’s guilt.) Either way, there is this extraordinarily high public confidence in the military, ongoing year-after-year, though the U.S. DOD continues to be the only unauditable federal Department, and though expenditures amounting (over the years) into trillions of dollars still remain unaccounted-for. But here, as will be documented in this article, will be the American ‘news’-media’s chance to call the public’s attention to this discrepancy between the military’s reality, versus the public’s perceptions of that reality, by their publishing this documentation (if they finally decide to do it — which they’ve never yet done):
On July 14th, Catherine Austin Fitts posted to her website links to some of the key relevant federal documents. Her site is linked-to below, and some of the documents that refer to trillions of dollars unaccounted-for are also linked-to below, and are then quoted from, so that a reader can obtain — even without clicking onto the links — a sense both of the enormity of the corruption, and also of the authoritativeness of the official statements that are being made in these documents, regarding the extent of that corruption.
I am using here the word “corruption” because whenever an official finding by a U.S. government agency is reporting trillions of dollars of taxpayer money that have been spent for purposes and recipients which are unknown, I call it “corruption,” on the basis that: regardless of whether or not the matter is intended or is instead sloppiness, even mere sloppiness is heinous if it ranges into trillions of dollars of taxpayer-money missing or wrongly spent. Even sloppiness, of that magnitude, in the expenditure of taxpayer funds, reflects corruption, if it continues on for years, or especially (as it is shown to do here) for decades, and still has not been stopped.
In fact, the most recent such IG report makes clear (on page 7 of 74) that “Army and Defense Finance and Accounting Service Indianapolis personnel did not adequately support $2.8 trillion in third quarter adjustments and $6.5 trillion in yearend adjustments made to Army General Fund data during FY 2015 financial statement compilation.” These “adjustments” — a total of $9.3 trillion over the half-year period examined — had been made to prior unacceptable reports, but were still failing to explain where the money had gone. Here is the main site (solari, of Catherine Austin Fitts), and excerpts from the main documents, which excerpts are posted immediately below it:
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“DOD and HUD Missing Money: Supporting Documentation for $21 Trillion of Undocumentable Adjustments”
2 October 2017, Catherine Austin Fitts, News & Commentary
“Dr. Skidmore and his team have now reviewed additional documentation and undocumented adjustments at DOD and HUD now total $21 trillion – more than the outstanding debt on the US government balance sheet.”
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26 July 2016 “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported”
“We determined that 236, totaling $2 trillion, of the 263 third quarter JV adjustments in our sample, and 170, totaling $2.1 trillion, of the 194 yearend JV adjustments in our sample, were in fact unsupported.”
“OASA(FM&C) and DFAS Indianapolis personnel did not adequately document or support adjustments made to AGF data during FY 2015 financial statement compilation. Specifically, OASA(FM&C) and DFAS Indianapolis personnel did not adequately support $2.8 trillion in JV adjustments for third quarter and $6.5 trillion in JV adjustments for yearend.17”
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23 September 2011 “Testimony of the [DOD] Deputy Inspector General for Auditing”
“We found the Department’s review process included less than half of the fiscal year 2010 first quarter gross outlays.10 … Comptroller officials stated that the $167.5 billion in outlays the Department did not examine for improper payments included internal and intragovernmental transfers. Those outlays were not subject to the OMB reporting requirements since the payments did not leave the Government. However, we later determined that Comptroller officials did not perform a reconciliation to determine whether these outlays were internal or intragovernmental transfers. A complete reconciliation is still needed to demonstrate that all outlays are being examined for overpayments and in order to accurately report the extent of the overpayments. Specifically, DoD did not review approximately $167.5 billion of the $303.7 billion in gross outlays for high dollar overpayments. Additionally, some overpayments that we or the Department identified were not reported, and the First Quarter FY 2010 High Dollar Overpayments Report did not include sufficient information about recoveries and corrective actions.”
“Unless DoD improves its methodology to review all its disbursements, it will continue to understate its estimate of overpayments and will likely miss opportunities to collect additional improper payments.”
“We are concerned with the accuracy and reliability of the Department’s estimation process. Without a reliable process to review all expenditures and identify the full extent of improper payments, the Department will not be able to improve internal controls aimed at reducing improper payments. 12 The Department’s financial management processes are not always adequate to prevent or detect improper payments. For example, in our recent audit of a contract supporting Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, we found DoD personnel did not validate that the contractor was entitled to $329.3 million it received as of January 12, 2010. These are costs paid to contractors that Defense Contract Audit Agency questioned because they do not comply with rules, regulations, laws and/or contract terms which meets the definition of an improper payment. These improper payments the audit agency identified are greater than the $1.3 billion of improper payments the Department identified during 2004 to 2010.”
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“The audits of the FY 1999 DoD financial statements indicated that $7.6 trillion of accounting entries were made to compile them. This startling number is perhaps the most graphic available indicator of just how poor the existing systems are. The magnitude of the problem is further demonstrated by the fact that, of $5.8 trillion of those adjustments that we audited this year, $2.3 trillion were unsupported by reliable explanatory information and audit trails or were made to invalid general ledger accounts. About $602.7 billion of accounting entries were made to correct errors in feeder reports.”
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THE MAJOR RECIPIENTS OF FEDERAL FUNDS:
Here, from the list of the 100 largest U.S. federal Government contractors, are the 20 largest recipients of U.S. federal government money:
The following is a list of the Top-100 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Prime Contractors in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 ranked by total contract funds awarded [and showing also the aggregate percentage of total U.S. federal spending on private contractors going to each company].
1. Lockheed Martin Corp., 10.71% of all U.S. $ to contractors
2. The Boeing Company, 5.33%
3. Raytheon Company, 4.54%
4. General Dynamics Corp., 4.22%
5. Northrop Grumman Corp., 3.49%
6. United Technologies Corp., 2.58%
7. L-3 Communications Holdings Inc., 1.86%
8. BAE Systems plc, 1.63%
9. Humana Inc., 1.31%
10. Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., 1.13%
11. Bechtel Group Inc., 1.07%
12. Health Net Inc., 1.01%
13. Unitedhealth Group Inc., 0.97%
14. SAIC Inc., 0.92%
15. General Atomic Technologies Corp., 0.85%
16. McKesson Corp., 0.79%
17. Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, 0.75%
18. AmerisourceBergen Corp., 0.68%
19. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., 0.65%
20. United Launch Alliance L.L.C., 0.63%
As is obvious, all or almost all of these firms are contractors to (recipients of money from) the U.S. Department of Defense; and they may reasonably be presumed to be benefiting significantly from some of the unaccounted-for payments from the U.S. DOD. However, if the money isn’t going to them, then where is it going? And why? And for what? Why is there no congressional investigation to answer these questions? And why are U.S. ‘news’-media not publicizing this matter so as to force such investigations? Are payoffs involved — payoffs for silence? Why are none of the ‘news’-media that have the resources to explore these questions, publishing their own investigations into it, since Congress won’t investigate? And, since the Inspector General’s reports into these matters have had no impact, why isn’t the focus finally shifting away from studying to find how much is missing, toward instead prosecuting the people who — at the very least — failed to do what they were being paid to do: keep track of every cent of taxpayers’ money? If doing that job is too dangerous, then shouldn’t the people who are tasked to do it be paid more, so as to cover their exceptionally high personal risk? Is all of this secrecy really necessary in order to keep “The Military” far on top as the most respected of all institutions in the United States — even after all of the harms that the U.S. military has actually caused in Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., destroying those countries and others? How much would the American public’s respect for the military — the mass-killing institution — be brought down, if the truth about it were known? Would the mass-killing institution deserve to be the most respected institution even if it weren’t so profoundly corrupt?
UPDATED DATA:
https://investingnews.com/top-defense-contractors/
“10 Top US Defense Contractors”
Scott Tibballs – August 8, 2019
1. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT)
Revenue: US$53.8 billion; year-to-date gains: 39.5 percent
2. Boeing (NYSE:BA)
Revenue: US$101.1 billion, year-to-date gains: 2.34 percent
3. Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC)
Revenue: US$30 billion, year-to-date gains: 46.7 percent
4. Raytheon (NYSE:RTN)
Revenue: US$27 billion, year-to-date gains: 19.72 percent
5. General Dynamics (NYSE:GD)
Revenue: US$36.1 billion, year-to-date gains: 15 percent
6. United Technologies
This company will be merging with Raytheon in 2020. UTX is up by 19.12 percent year-to-date, with its shares valued at US$129.01.
7. L3 Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX)
L3 Harris develops advanced defense technologies in communications. It is up by 55.82 percent year-to-date, at US$207.46.
8. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII)
Huntington Ingalls is a major component of US Navy shipbuilding capacity. The company is trading at US$207.37, up by 7.69 percent year-to-date, though it has been much higher.
9. Leidos (NYSE:LDOS)
Leidos is a technology company with major contracts with the Department of Defense. The company was trading at US$80.54 as of August this year, up 54.79 percent year-to-date.
10. Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH)
Booz Allen Hamilton is a cyber security and intelligence company, once called the “world’s most profitable spy organization” by Bloomberg. The company is trading up 58.94 percent year-to-date at US$70.46 as of August.
ADDED OBSERVATIONS, regarding those recently soaring military sales:
On 21 May 2017, I headlined “U.S. $350 Billion Arms-Sale to Sauds Cements U.S.-Jihadist Alliance” and reported that, “On Saturday, May 20th, U.S. President Donald Trump and the Saud family inked an all-time record-high $350 billion ten-year arms-deal that not only will cement-in the Saud family’s position as the world’s largest foreign purchasers of U.S.-produced weaponry, but will make the Saud family, and America’s ruling families, become, in effect, one aristocracy over both nations, because neither side will be able to violate the will of the other. As the years roll on, their mutual dependency will deepen, each and every year.”
I followed that up, on 14 August 2018, by “America’s Militarized Economy” and opened with “Donald Trump’s biggest success, thus far into his Presidency, has been his sale of $400 billion (originally $350 billion) of U.S.-made weapons to the Saudi Arabian Government, which is owned by its royal family, after whom that nation is named. This sale alone is big enough to be called Trump’s ‘jobs plan’ for Americans. It is also the biggest weapons-sale in all of history. It’s 400 billion dollars, not 400 million dollars; it is gigantic, and, by far, unprecedented in world-history.”
That’s what has mainly been driving the recent massively increased sales-volumes of America’s ‘defense’ contractors. It also underscores why Trump refuses to blame Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman al-Saud for ordering Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi to be chopped up in Istanbul and disposed of, even while Trump blames leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, etc., for all sorts of alleged (usually fictitious) atrocities. On December 24th, İbrahim Karagül, of Turkey’s Yeni Safak newspaper, bannered “Khashoggi murder: Five executions, one cover-up can’t save you.” and he said, of Saudi Arabia’s ‘investigation’ into Khashoggi’s murder:
The case was a setup, the trial was a setup, the death sentences are also a setup. The Saudi administration, which refrained from disclosing even the whereabouts of Khashoggi’s body, resolved to kill those who did the crown prince’s dirty work to save Salman. This is an act of silencing, destruction of evidence, the liquidation of people whose loyalty is in doubt and who are likely to talk.
Saud al-Qahtani, the leader of the murder team, was not convicted. Even Mohammad al-Otaibi, Istanbul consul general, whom Turkey showed as the unwanted man and asked the king to withdraw, was not even accused. Ahmed Asiri, deputy chief of intelligence who planned the murder – and was supposedly dismissed – was released.
But, because the vast majority of Americans don’t get to know any of this, they think that today’s America is still like pre-1945 America was, instead of having switched to become more like the fascist powers themselves were. Germany, Italy, and Japan, had heavily militarized economies during the 1930s through early 1940s, and America has a heavily militarized economy ever since (at least) 1980, and especially now — long after the Cold War ended on Russia’s side in 1991, and especially long beyond any reasonable excuse for these constantly rising ‘defense’ expenditures. There’s economic growth in such countries (that is, in imperialistic fascist countries), and almost all of it goes to the controlling owners of ‘defense’ contractors. What grows, then, in such countries, isn’t actually the patient, but the tumor. However, lots of Americans don’t know the difference between the two and are satisfied with any type of growth at all, and they even respect the world’s most corrupt military more than they respect any other institution. In a functioning democracy, this would be impossible, because any public anywhere would be outraged by it and would be in open revolt against it if only they knew about it. Furthermore, if this were a democracy, then the entire public would already have learned about this, and the situation wouldn’t have reached so bad — and so dangerous (for the entire world — such as now, after Trump assassinated Iran’s #2 leader) — a stage, as it already has reached, while nothing was being done to stop it and to imprison (and nationalize the wealth of) the U.S. billionaires who have been behind (and so enormously profiting from) heisting the Government and getting the public to fund these imperialistic operations of the nation’s aristocrats. Astronomical political corruption is the sole source of all of this. And this corruption is in the courts, and not only in Congress and in the Executive, and allows this rape of democracy to be called ‘constitutional’ and thus go unpunished, and thus to become constantly worse.
Soaring wealth-inequality, not only inside the United States, but throughout the world, results from this. And the biggest crimes are at the top — where there is impunity (because it’s ‘constitutional’ — even though that’s only a lie about what the Founders had meant by their Constitution).
When the crooks actually write the laws, the laws become crooked. When the crooks also control the ‘news’-media, the public are defenseless because ignorant and deceived. Wherever fascism is in control, this is the way that it functions.
HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT RESPOND TO THIS:
Mick West, who blogs as metabunk dot org, is a propagandist for the “Establishment” or the billionaires’ preferences of what the public should believe; and, on 16 May 2018, he headlined “Debunked: Missing $21 Trillion / $6.5 Trillion / $2.3 Trillion – Journal Vouchers”, and he presented a representative of America’s Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) asserting, to U.S. House members, that “this is not a new story, it dates back to 2001 and before,” and, West noted, “All these things are accounting things that, as Norquist says ‘occur after the money is spent’. They are things that you want to get right in your accounting, but if you get the values wrong then it does not mean you’ve lost the money. It means you’ve got some estimate wrong, and you’ll put to little or to much [West meant “too much or too little”] in one fund or another.” Referring, then, to the $21 trillion, he wrote, “This is just more of the same though, still not missing money, still just unsupported accounting information transfers.” However, only a sucker would take that casual attitude to the enormous amount of money in the ‘defense’ budget that is “unsupported” as to who received it, and whether or not those payments were in accord with what Congress had actually authorized. Furthermore, such a casual attitude toward U.S. ’defense’-expenditures — the expenditures which constitute actually over half of the U.S. federal Government’s discretionary expenditures, and even around half of the total world’s military expenditures — is an invitation to corruption in over half of this Government’s annually authorized spending; and any intelligent person would expect that such an invitation would be taken advantage of by insiders who are in a position to benefit from it. West quotes from only one alleged authority, the “Defense Department Comptroller, David L. Norquist,” a person who is largely responsible for the problem, who said “it’s an accounting problem that does need to be solved because it can help hide other underlying issues,” but (at 1:43 in the accompanying video) “it’s not the same thing as not being able to account for money that Congress has given you to spend, but it’s still a problem that needs to be fixed.” Mick West simply trusted this statement, by Norquist — though Norquist is one of the officials responsible for the problem — but Norquist failed to prove (and wasn’t even asked to prove it, by the Representatives whom he was there addressing, who didn’t seem to be alarmed about where that $21T actually went) his key assertion, that “it’s not the same thing as not being able to account for money that Congress has given you to spend.” And, even if that assertion, by that official, is true (which should not be assumed, and which even seems ludicrous on its very face), the problem is unquestionably an invitation to corruption in ‘defense’-expenditures, and those are precisely the type of federal expenditures that overwhelmingly dominate the income to the federal Government’s contractors, the corporations that make all or most of their profits from sales to the federal Government and to its allied governments (such as to the Saud family). Therefore, casually allowing — and not even investigating as being possibly treasonous — these expenditures, is, itself, enormously scandalous, but the Representatives there were treating it so casually. In fact, at the very opening of the hearing, which was held on 10 January 2018 (at 02:12 in the video of the 1:41:33-long hearing) the Chairman of the Committee emphasized the “We must spend more” on the military, even though we already spend around half of the entire world’s military expenditures. Manifestly, this hearing was a charade. In the full video, the passage that Mick West quoted from is at 18:00-22:00, and the Representatives were clearly on the side of the charade, not on the side of the American people. Clearly, all members of that Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, behave as if they are in the pockets of firms such as Lockheed Martin.
On 15 November 2018, Reuters headlined “Pentagon fails its first-ever audit, official says”, and reported that “‘We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it,’ Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan told reporters.”
On 27 November 2018, The Nation headlined “Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed” and David Lindorff opened: “On November 15, Ernst & Young and other private firms that were hired to audit the Pentagon announced that they could not complete the job. Congress had ordered an independent audit of the Department of Defense, the government’s largest discretionary cost center — the Pentagon receives 54 cents out of every dollar in federal appropriations — after the Pentagon failed for decades to audit itself. The firms concluded, however, that the DoD’s financial records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible.”
So, that was the result of the latest version of this charade, which is virtual treason by the federal Government.
In short: Congress is satisfied for this situation to continue, and the members of Congress evidently have no fear that the voters back home will vote against them if a challenger makes this issue a major issue in that Senator’s or Representative’s next Party primary. The presumption is that the voters don’t care, and that the ‘news’-media won’t enlighten the voters about this matter, and about how it impacts, for example, which nations the U.S. will categorize as being an “ally,” to sell weapons to, and which nations it will categorize as being an “enemy,” to target for conquest.
Invading and militarily occupying all of these countries which ‘our’ Government calls an “enemy” (though that country never even threatened, much less invaded, the U.S.) is the end-product of a vast amount of corruption — this much is absolutely clear.
None of this could happen if the United States Government did not secretly continue the Cold War against Russia after Russia ended it on its side in 1991. Russia is the U.S. aristocracy’s necessary bogey-man. For example: how many Americans know that in June 2013, which was months before the Maidan demonstrations even started in Russia’s next-door-neighbor Ukraine on 21 November of that year, the U.S. federal Government was already seeking U.S. Government contractors to transform a building in Sevastopol Crimea in Ukraine into becoming part of a U.S. naval base there which Obama was planning to replace Russia’s largest naval base, which had been — and still remains — located there since 1783? He had started by no later than June of 2011 his planning for the February 2014 coup in Ukraine.
The origin of this goes all the way back to 26 July 1945, but the next key date was 24 February 1990, which continued the Cold War after Russia ended it.
Anyone who writes about U.S. policy and doesn’t place this issue front and center is either misinformed or else corrupt. But anyone who does place it front and center will be unemployed (except, perhaps, at struggling non-mainstream U.S. national news-media). This is how much of a dictatorship today’s U.S. has now become. Lying and cover-up have now become obligatory in all of the mainstream U.S. media, so as to prevent the American public from knowing what this article has documented to be true. This article has been written as an introduction to understanding recent American history.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
We are only allowed to accent the positive, the success’s of defense technology. But before the success, always comes many more failures, and these failures cost money, lots of money. And since we cant admit these (like Boeing’s software troubles), they get swept under the financial and congressional rugs. This is where a good percentage of the missing money disappears.
‘Alabama writes that “failures” in defense technology is where a good percentage of the missing money disappears.”
sorry, you either don’t understand mathematics or you didn’t bother to read the data. The amount of “missing”, i.e. stolen, money is astronomical, the equivalent to the entire US national debt.
For example, in 2015 the Army’s total budget was $120 billion, and yet the Inspector General of the US DOD reported that **$6.5 trillion** was unsupported or missing documentation !!! This was **54 times the entire annual budget for the Army in 2015 ** see https://home.solari.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DODIG-2016-113.pdf
Undocumented or unsupported adjustments should maybe come to 1% or less of any business process. Please explain how 54 times the entire annual budget can be missing as part of “failure of defense technology”?
See https://home.solari.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DODIG-2016-113.pdf for more complete documentation of the missing/stolen $21 trillion (that is 21,000 billion dollars, or 21,000,000 million dollars).
I see no indication that a large portion of the missing money could not have been used for failed projects. It simply does not state precisely where the money went, just that it went.
Alabama, maybe you don’t get the math.
One prime example here is the Army budget for 2015, which was $120 billion. The ‘unsupported adjustments”, that is, the money listed as being spent by the Army in 2015 that was not accounted for equaled 54 times the total budget for the Army in 2015, $6,500 billion.
Please explain how 54 times the total annual budget can be “missing”? Listen to Dr. Mark Skidmore explain this at https://usawatchdog.com/21-trillion-in-missing-money-could-trigger-meltdown-dr-mark-skidmore/
Skidmore and his colleagues documented this using government documents (that are posted at https://missingmoney.solari.com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/ ).
Subsequently a new “accounting rule” was established by the Federal government (FASAB Statement 56, see https://constitution.solari.com/fasab-statement-56-understanding-new-government-financial-accounting-loopholes/ ) that allows all Federal Departments and Agencies to keep a double set of books. That is, they can just lie about what they do with the funds they receive.
Power — not law — rules in a fascist state.
The list here is just “Hardware” stuff military toy’s
The real budget expenses are the accountants and lawyers, say arthur-anderson, 100’s of billions of dollars, ten’s of 1,000’s of lawyers making +$500k/year, all over the world at US-MIL bases writing law for local country’s which essentially are selling USA franchises, that say “Iraq can only buy Ford auto’s”
So dig deeper folks, cuz this article only touches the blatant in your face Hardware, but its the “Services”, like BlackWater, and the 100’s companys that provide lawyers and legal services to US-MIL
I’m pretty sure Snowden worked for Arthur-Anderson as a CIA/NSA analyst, this is how they do stuff all these ‘top secret’ spy jobs are farmed out to Accounting/Legal-Service companys ( all USA based, but many Israel )
In the example I gave above, the 2015 FY budget for the US Army, which totaled $120 billion, the largest single expenditure listed by the Army for 2015 was for about $12 billion for the purchase of F-35s that year. Yet the Army reported that $6.500 billion dollars in expenditures — 54 times the entire budget for the Army that year — were unaccounted for in 2015 !!! (there were 170 transactions included that listed $2,100 billion in unaccounted/missing funds) I put the links in my previous post if you want to look it up. see also https://home.solari.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Unsupported_Adjustments_Report_Final_3.pdf
And what was the final response to the disclosures by Dr. Skidmore and Cathryn Austin Fitts that $21 trillion was missing or unaccounted for from the Federal Budget during the period 1998-2015? The passage of an obscure accounting rule that allows all the Federal Departments and Agencies to keep a double set of books, in order to hide/classify missing/unaccounted/stolen funds . . . which official government documents show to be equal to the entire US National Debt, $21 trillion. see https://constitution.solari.com/fasab-statement-56-understanding-new-government-financial-accounting-loopholes/
Been spent on secret projects from flying saucers to time – space travel and moon & mars & saturn bases etc…
Underground bases for aliens etc… and to make stuff for them.
Lot of testing was required.
But it puts $ into the economy.
‘These “adjustments” — a total of $9.3 trillion over the half-year period examined — had been made to prior unacceptable reports, but were still failing to explain where the money had gone.’
Again?
I remember reading about Rabbi Dov Zekheim who was comptroller of the Pentagon during Little Bush’s administration failing to account for USD 2.3 Trillion. Money apparently found its way to the only democracy in the ME.
Dov is apparently doing well.
Not updated but still useful:
https://rense.com/general75/latest.htm
Right to the point, this article! How come that all Congress House members become millionaires?
Deep State (from any political side) activity show us the totality of a criminal nation where all people at the top become corrupt and cream off the spoils.The billionaires at the top rule and make the laws and make deals with thoe top ten companies. Nobody can drain a swamp when it i snot even mentioned how trillions disappear.
Only one question:
Why aren’t US citizen more alert ? Ad least it is their tax payer money used.
Don’t hold US tax payers their government for responsible ?
At least a democracy should have such functions for tax payers.
How Zionist Israel Is Robbing American Blind!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/n0-61F-q3YM/
The most important and craziest part is: Currect Account Balance = -466,200,000,000 USD (2017) at minute 6:40
My country, Vietnam, one of the most corrupted: 9,104,000,000 USD
Link to confirm:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html
My head is blow by this!! Can anyone explain to me what is going on now?
Monnalisa,
We are not alert because we don’t care. Not at all. Try to tell the truth or show facts like Eric had in this article and you will be dismissed in seconds. I have never been able to get info or articles like this across to anyone here. Never. We don’t care, not a bit. Wish it was different. Disgusting.
Kalchain, I really think people would care, if they were getting real news. From vietnam on the MIC knew it had to shut down this knowledge and they did. Most people I know who think they get it listen to NPR, they do not get it!
We have started a group called Planet VS the Pentagon, our goal, to educate Americans about the pentagon budget, to make sure they understand if they are fighting for the climate that they have to deal with the pentagon first, as it is the larges green house gas emitter in the world. The dod does not have to tell anyone about its carbon emissions, or the number of superfund sights it creates pretty much every base will end up a superfund site. States like WA. CAL and TEX like to claim how well they are doing with carbon emissions, guess why? That’s right they do not have to include the Bases that these and other states are filled with.
We will be presenting soon at a conference then holding a town hall and hopefully going on the road.
The “Greens versus the Blues” Chariot Races in the Byzantine Empire served to distract the people { Mob } from the corruption of the Leadership; while The bread and provisions provided to the populace kept them pacified….to the point that the Elites could do as they pleased. Nothing in our World has changed. ” Not worth a “Byzant ” will soon be followed by ; ” Not worth a Dollar “. Look up into the skies of our entire World and you will see a good part of those “so called ” Missing Trillions being sprayed with pathogens all over the Globe ; on ignorant and unsuspecting victims. The NFL is the current ” Blues and Greens” ….Welfare and EBT Cards does the rest. The most likely instigators and authors of our current dilemma might be found in a revealing interview if one ” Googles ” THE 1976 WALLACE ROSENTHAL INTERVIEW “. It is a Historical fact that King Herod ordered the Murder of thousands of baby boys a couple thousand years ago. Today ; Planned Parenthood does not differentiate between the sexes. What’s New ?.
You said it, frank reps. “Look up into the skies . . . “. Nothing hidden there. Sure, the explanations for those freaky formations are hidden, but the spraying itself is clear for all to see.
The American people are unaware because independent journalists like Mr. Zuesse, and all the alternate news websites services across Planet Earth have no collective voice. We need to have a presence across the spectrum of video broadcast platforms that equals national television’s monopoly controlled by the for-profit corporate media consortium.
This well written article and others published on the Vineyard of the Saker, Fort-Russ, Russia Insider, Moon of Alabama, et al, need to feed a smartphone app that pulls back the propaganda curtain and exposes the lies told to the citizenry by the government.
An Anti-Global Alliance requires adroit marketing that is clever enough to catch the eye of the young and old to deliver the underlying message. We all have seen two-minute advertising on television that holds our attention long enough to receive information about the product being shown. A number of cartoons published in newspapers (do people still read them?) such as Scott Adams, Dilbert make jest about the incompetence of corporate management that makes the reader laugh but also communicates the truth in many instances.
Of course all this takes a lot of money and probably major sponsors who spend their advertising dollars on media platforms that reach a broad audience in order to fund this independent operation. We need to “sell truth” as a commodity so that viewers come to value it and the repercussions that occur when lies spewed by the Globalists in power result in a waste of taxpayer money or our own lives due to imperialist foreign polices that lead to endless foreign wars.
And how do you propose that that be done? That’s the question. It has always been the question.
The same way the Founding Fathers of the United States started; they met together in a convention to discuss the abuses and usurpations the British crown imposed upon the American colonists who vehemently objected to having no representation in the British parliament during the reign of King George III. You know as well as I the American people receive little representation in the U.S. Congress today.
Mr. Zuesse, concerned independent journalists such as yourself and the editors-in-chief of the alternate web based news services need to meet, face to face. That is the spark that will carry forward in our century if the men and women who reject unbridled military conflict, tyranny and corruption commit themselves to forging a common purpose.
Without a beginning there can be no evolution towards restoring truth in journalism. Without a beginning your voice as esteemed and respected as it is here at the Vineyard of the Saker and in many scholarly circles, will remain a small voice. Small voices are locked away at the bottom of the Sea of Lies and Half-Truths.
You will only be remembered by your loving family after God calls you to heaven. To make the pen mightier than the sword requires resolute sacrifice. Only in the privacy of your own thoughts can you truthfully answer the question; what is holding me back from greater participation in unmasking the leviathan of evil?
Thanks for your reply. Those great figures of history met together only after there already were public demonstrations against the existing regime. Samuel Adams was the key leader of those demonstrations in Boston, and this mushroomed subsequently elsewhere throughout the colonies. But before Adams, there was already enormous resistance to the Government, though no movement yet to overthrow it — nothing yet of a revolutionary sort. I have no idea of how it could be done in our time, but anyone who does is welcomed to email me with a detailed and carefully thought-out presentation of how such a movement could become started: the.eric.zuesse@gmail.com
It will be started with one man, courage, and money.
Lets put it this way, if this theory of yours is so rock solid dependable, what is stopping you from gathering up these folks and creating this information network?
I’ll tell you what is stopping you, (and these other sources of information), money. Since the economy has been financialized you must now borrow money in order to accomplish anything, and those you borrow money from (in todays high interest rate environment no less) are going to want a big say in what is reported. As soon as you dont report what they want to be said, the money rug gets pulled out and all you are left with is the debt upon which you are standing, your voice is suddenly silenced.
Ergo the volume of your message is directly dependent upon the size of your wallet, and this is always the way its been. People with money either like what they are already hearing, or get involved legally to an opposing view.
No one in their right mind would jump into a debt trap to attempt to change the status quo, unless they had an iron clad case and presented it themselves, there are no other options my friend.
4 corporations control 90% of the media and they are used to put out the official narrative/propaganda/”news” from the US security agencies and deep state. It will be a COLD DAY IN HELL before they would allow Mr Zuesse a voice in this process.
And by the way, Mr. Zuesse is not discussing “a theory”, the missing money has been thoroughly documented by Dr. Mark Skidmore of Michigan State University and Cathryn Austin Fitts, former Director of HUD, see https://home.solari.com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eHf9JJRZs&feature=emb_title
“I’ll tell you what is stopping you, (and these other sources of information), money.”
Bingo.
Be careful with Russia Insider as well as Zero Hedge. Some good articles, SOME OTHERS NOT.
After reading an important article, don’t file it away. Share it as far and wide as you can. Social media, family, friends, and neighbours. When commenting on other blogs. Be the broadcaster. It doesn’t cost a dime.
just a remark:
Don’t US citizen are aware of “Constant dripping will wear away the stone” ?
Do US citizen think that “exceptionality” (propagandized for some time) will last forever?
Don’t see they for what it’s tax payer money is used ?
Are far too many still in medieval times locked i.e. stealing, robbing und murdering is good for the reputation of a state ?
Paperclip grade – Long 3 hr. Delicious if you have time!
Dark Journalist X-Series 77: Deep State X-Operatives MKULTRA Doomsday Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeEOvQVihWI
Detail discussion on COG from JFK onward and how murdering Iran general can be made ‘legal’. For anyone who want to understand the hidden USSA gov activity, this is very important! Your time will be well spent.
It boils down to this – running a global empire based on military superiority is more expensive – a lot more expensive – than authorities in the US can openly admit. I have never beleived the corruption claim, not because there is no corruption & theft on a grand scale, but that the real expense of military activities world wide is being hidden. Hence no audit. The official budget is already astronomical, if the US populace were to know the real cost, who knows what would happen?
The American Military and Intelligence apparatus IS the so-called “swamp.”
Is Donald Trump going to drain the swamp, as he promised?
Of course not. Trump and Congress are giving even more money to the swamp, as evidenced by the recent National Defense Act (NDAA), which officially gifted $738 billion to the American Military-Intel Swamp.
Just exactly why are perpetual war and warmongers so attractive to US voters that they vote for them election after election? It has absolutely nothing to do with being bamboozled by MSM propaganda!
Go to
https://www.governmentcontractswon.com/
on the right column of links click on “contractors by state” and select Virginia. Notice that in 2018, “private” businesses in the state of Virgina (population 8.4 million) were awarded 324,283 contracts worth $46.4 billion and that there are 17,538 private DoD contractors in Virginia, and that from 2000 to 2018 private DoD contractors in Virginia were awarded over $733.9 billion for 936,040 contracts.
Virginians’ economic well-being depends upon those DoD dollars continuing, year after year, decade after decade, literally forever! Therefore, no majority of voters in Virginia is ever, and I do mean ever, no matter how “woke”, going to vote for a candidate, maybe like Gabbard, who might be promising to destroy Virginia’s war-based economy and destroy many well-paying jobs. They’re going to continue to vote for warmongers for POTUS and congress! They do not give a damn how many people are killed by the weapons that they are helping to produce.
Virginia is not alone in the war business. Check out what “private” DoD contractors in other states such as California receive annually. It’s mind boggling.
Therefore, the US will never, and I do mean never, be politically capable of changing it’s “foreign policy” unless and until, once again with feeling, Virginians /Americans are given a detailed alternative to their present “war way” of making a living and no D or R candidate is spelling out such an alternative.
But there is still a faint glimmer of hope.
Trump proved that a complete political outsider could/can “go around” the MIC and be elected. Trump paid a helluva price when he shook hands with Putin in Helsinki. That summit proved that the US MSM is also an MIC tool and that the MIC’s pockets are very deep — in fact, infinitely deep. The Fed will fund the whole nine yards. This is the reason that Trump has had to endure the siege of the Deep State. Shiff’s impeachment “witnesses” spelled it all out, letter by letter. If the US does not fight Russia in Ukraine, it will have to fight Russia in the US. No applicant for a job in the Deep State Department will get that job unless they espouse exactly what those witnesses espoused. The HR dept should have a sign on its door stating “Russiaphobes and Chinaphobes only”.
Antiwar candidates can be elected, but if they are elected, just like Trump they’ll be fighting the MSM and civil service and intelligence deep state every day of their political lives, which does not make for a very nice way of life for those politicians’ families. This is why a majority of congress must also be real anti-war so that they can support each other as a bloc against the unelected deep state.
Present reality is that politicians are selected by voters every two or four years. None of these politicians are going to change absolutely anything about the election system or rules of campaign financing (bribery). Therefore, to stop the MIC and change the US’s war-based economy, antiwar candidates must somehow get elected within that very same system. If that does not happen, the US is doomed to suffer financial or nuclear destruction.
(Furthermore, if the US cannot develop an economic system that does not absolutely depend upon perpetual population/economic growth, humanity will certainly suffer an environmental disaster. IMO, designing and implementing such an alternative economic system will be far more difficult than getting antiwar POTUS and congress people elected, which is really saying something. When people cannot even agree upon the meanings of words — the word “imminent”, for a very recent example — as a vitally necessary first step, this may simply be a bridge too far for the supposedly most intelligent species on the planet.)
Again, for the present moment, here in reality-land, at least the number of voters who voted for Donito Assolini have to somehow be enticed into voting for an anti-war candidate for POTUS and a majority of anti-war candidates running for seats in the legislative branch. That is the one and the only way that the MIC is going to go away!
How do antiwar candidates “entice” millions of voters all across the 50 United In Warfare States Of America, who make their living in the MIC or its spin-offs, into voting for these anti-war candidates? That is the question, not whether “to be or not to be?” If those candidates can not be elected, the US, and perhaps all the other nations of the world, are not going “to be” for much longer.
To entice those MIC etc. voters, those anti-war candidates are going to have to promise that if they are elected they are going to maintain the present DoD contract system, so that these millions of voters will not lose their jobs; but their jobs will be to produce all the great things that will improve the lives of all their fellow citizens. And by “improve” I mean that instead of making military aircraft that will in a few years end up sitting in a bone yard, they will make, for just a few examples, wind turbines, solar panels, bullet trains, etc. The services or electric power from these devices would not be “free”, just as the weapon systems of today are not free.
Which would millions of voters enjoy more, the benefit they receive from weapon systems, or electric power, a trip across the country in an electric-powered bullet train, etc.? How would millions of voters feel about the US becoming energy independent in very few years of spending under a slightly-altered DoD contract system?
If I was an anti-war candidate, I would propose to millions of voters that the nation create another “Liberty Ship” program (again, under the existing DoD contract system). Liberty Ships were the workhorses of World War II. They were built in 13 states by 15 companies in 18 shipyards. The first of 2,710 Liberty ships, the SS Patrick Henry, was launched in September 1941, after 150 days of construction. (The shipyard was built at the same time as the ship.) Under this highly automated ship-building system, the SS Robert E. Peary liberty ship was built in 4 Days 15 Hours 29 Minutes.
These were not small boats, not by a long shot. Here are some specifications.
Displacement: 14,245 long tons
Length: 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam: 56 ft 10.75 in (17.3 m)
Draft: 27 ft 9.25 in (8.5 m)
Propulsion: Two oil-fired boilers; triple-expansion steam engine; single screw, 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
Range: 20,000 nmi (37,000 km; 23,000 mi)
Capacity: 10,856 t (10,685 long tons)
Again, in just a few years of assembly-line development, one of these vessels was assembled in only 4 Days 15 Hours 29 Minutes. Imagine such an assembly line system for relatively simple wind turbines, bullet trains, vehicles of all types, etc.
This is what anti-war candidates have to promise those millions of voters in the MIC in order to capture their votes. This is precisely what Gabbard and other anti-war candidates have to start proposing today, not 6 months down the road. If she were to do this today, she would start a firestorm of a debate, which is precisely what is needed to shake up the present arrangement. Does she have the intellectual wherewithal and “courage” to do this? We will soon find out. Unless anti-war candidates specifically propose such a detailed transition from a war-based economy to one based upon peace, they will not be elected and the US MIC’s perpetual wars will go on until the nukes start dropping.
The above is the only realistic, practical, politically acceptable way that humanity has a future. But will capitalists be as eager to increase the national debt for peace as they are for war?
War is indeed essential to the American economy and Way of Life in general.
The US economy is based on what is called Military Keynesianism.
Or it could called American War Capitalism.
I think the question then is just how sustainable is this model? Keep it going and eventually risk the global economy or shut it down and only risk the U.S. economy. The answer is obvious, just not pleasent.
Susan, but that’s what I am saying. I present the hard work of folks like the Saker, Eric, moon of Alabama, many many others. Often to people I have known for thirty years. They refuse to listen. I told one person that I have known for 40 years, why do you trust msm over these sources that I trust? I say I can sit in your home while you watch the msm news and tell and prove to you they are lying, and yet they still trust msm over this truth. All completely closed minds. Just amazing. A 71 year old friend told me our attack on Iran was about freedom and democracy!! Stunning. I told him that was for highschool students, that he needed to go deeper, much deeper. He won’t, they won’t.
Some suggestions on where the missing money goes. The evidence is all around us.
1) Chemtrail spraying project, and similar other project.
2) The construction of DUMB bases around the US.
3) Israhell.
4) The newly revealed ” Space force ” , has probably been going on for at least a decade now.
5) Clandestine operations.
The CIA, Fellow Travelers and Their Clandestine Underground & Undersea Lairs
This will be a little long and meandering, but please bear with me. There is pay dirt in the meandering.
I became aware of the CIA’s grim nature early in life. I was born and reared just a short hop, skip and jump away from the CIA’s main training facility, at Camp Peary, in Tidewater Virginia. I’ve been by the place umpteen times over the years. It has always, in my childhood and adulthood, had a dark, glowering, foreboding sort of appearance from the outside, just driving past — the security fence, the brooding silence, the entry way. The place radiates a negative aura. How could it be otherwise?
So I was directly aware of the CIA from my earliest years, when I was just a little boy.
In the late 1970s and 1980s I read a whole suite of excellent books about the CIA, all of which I recommend to one and all.
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story, by John Stockwell
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, by Fletcher Prouty
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, by Jonathan Kwitney
The first book, by John Stockwell, a former US Marine Corps officer and CIA agent, was very revelatory for me at the time, maybe 30 years ago when I first read it. Stockwell related how he became progressively more and more aware of the CIA’s massive criminality, and of his own role in it, until he was led by his conscience to resign in disgust from the agency. The book got a fair amount of press at the time. As I recall the CIA tried to block it, and finally struck a deal where the CIA itself receives the royalties from the book’s sale! — or something like that. So much for 2nd amendment rights to freedom of the press.
The Secret Team, by Fletcher Prouty, first appeared in the 1970s. I avidly devoured it when I read it in the 1980s. Prouty lays it all right out — the CIA by then had already metastasized into everything — Hollywood, academe, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, publishing, radio and TV broadcasting, newspapers and magazines, politics, banking, the military, religion and much more. Its tentacles and operatives were everywhere, insinuating the CIA into everything, everywhere. Prouty made the point that already as of the early 1970s, hundreds of compartmentalized units in the US military were de facto CIA operations, removed from effective control of the military chain of command. Think of the implications of that. A little later on in this blog post I will provide a concrete example of just one instance of what Prouty means.
The last two books, by Alfred McCoy and Jonathan Kwitney, have to do with the CIA’s long-time, massive involvement in global narcotics trafficking operations, and associated, massive money laundering activities. You could make the case that the CIA is indirectly and directly the world’s single largest narco-trafficking and dirty-money-laundering criminal cartel.
There’s no need to put lipstick on a pig, and pretend that it is something that it is not. The CIA has been a homicidal, larcenous, lying, thieving, backstabbing, dirty dealing, foul, vile organization virtually from its inception in 1947, when it was cobbled together from elements of the OSS, the USSA’s WW-II intelligence agency and the Gehlen Organization, the spy apparatus run by Adolf Hitler’s wartime spy chief, General Reinhard Gehlen. Gehlen struck a deal with the Americans at war’s end to deliver his NAZI spy organization to the American intelligence service, in exchange for clemency. Gehlen delivered the goods as promised, and several years later became the head of West Germany’s intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND. The OSS and the Gehlen Organization were merged, yielding the modern day CIA, meaning that from the very beginning the CIA has been a hybrid American-NAZI agency.
This is essential to understanding the world that we live in. World War-II did not end as we have been taught; neither was it conducted as we have been taught. Beyond the hybrid NAZI nature of the CIA, for decades it has closely coordinated operations and intelligence with the Mossad, the Zionist intelligence agency, and other agencies such as the British MI-6, obviously the German BND, which Hitler’s ex-spy master, Reinhard Gehlen, went on to direct after WW-II, and other agencies. If you find this improbable, bear in mind that after WW-II many hundreds of NAZI technicians, engineers and scientists were secretly brought to the US as part of Project Paperclip. They played an influential, crucial role in the manned space program of NASA and the ballistic missile programs of the US military. This is now publicly known by many people, though it was not known in the 1940s and 1950s.
There was also a less well known, Egyptian Operation Paperclip, authorized by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, run out of Factory 333, in Heliolopolis, Egypt. (As an aside, the US Operation Paperclip NAZIs were put to work in the late-1940s at Launch Pad 33 — it was the only one! — on White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Can you spot the Masonic numerology in both projects?) Nasser brought in a large contingent of ex-NAZI scientists, engineers and technicians to develop an Egyptian rocket and missile program. The Israelis caught wind of the program and targeted the German rocket experts for assassination. Astonishingly, the Mossad ended up recruiting former SS-officer and commando, Otto Skorzeny, a wartime favorite of Adolf Hitler, as a hit man to kill the Germans in Egypt. The Mossad tracked Skorzeny down in Spain and made him an offer that he did not refuse. Sorzeny went to work for the Mossad and killed 6 ex-NAZI rocket experts in Egypt. (You can’t make this stuff up!) The rest of the Germans hastily abandoned the project and that was the end of the Egyptian Project Paperclip operation.
I mention this curious, murderous, historical anecdote only to point out that in the world of the clandestine and secret services, things are frequently not what they superficially seem to be, not in the 1940s, not in the 1960s, and certainly not today.
Another aspect of Project Paperclip that my research has uncovered has to do with the USSA military’s post-war “Underground Plant Program.” In 1947 Project Paperclip requested Xaver Dorsch and three of his colleagues to be made available for the aforementioned “Underground Plant Program.” Xaver Dorsch was at that time perhaps the premier expert in the world on underground base construction. At war’s end he was the director of the Todt Organization, which was the NAZI military’s civil engineering agency. It was the approximate equivalent of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy Seabees, albeit that it was a nominally civilian agency. The Todt Organization was established by Fritz Todt, the father of the well-known, German Autobahn system of highways. Fritz Todt was killed in an airplane crash in mid-war, in 1942, and Xaver Dorsch was tapped to fill his position. Though Dorsch reported to Albert Speer, in 1944 Adolf Hitler asked Dorsch to begin a priority program of massive underground base construction and to report directly to him on its progress, instead of to Speer. The war ended and Xaver Dorsch was taken into USSA military custody where he was extensively debriefed, and then requested by Project Paperclip in 1947. In 1951 Dorsch surfaced publicly again and founded the Dorsch Consult, now known as the Dorsch Gruppe, a large and well known, international engineering firm.
The point I am making is quite simple: the ongoing, underground bases program, the military and civilian aerospace programs and the CIA, all had important input and contributions from expert elements of the Third Reich in the years just after WW-II’s end.
The Fletcher Prouty Operation
As I have already mentioned, Fletcher Prouty was the author of the eye-opening, Secret Team book, that provided so many troubling revelations about the CIA’s secret dealings. I spoke with Prouty in the late 1990s and he revealed to me that beyond being a liaison officer during the height of the Cold War between the CIA and the US military, that he had also been in charge of running the rat line that brought the Project Paperclip NAZIs to the United States. That conversation was more than 20 years ago and I didn’t know nearly as much, about a lot of things, as I do today. He confided to me that he and the others involved in Project Paperclip did not at first fully appreciate just how crazy the NAZI psychiatrists they brought over from Germany were. In retrospect, I believe he was alluding to the things the NAZIs were doing for mind control techniques that were utilized in the then publicly unknown MK-Ultra and Project Monarch mind control operations of the CIA, which I and many others believe are ongoing in a major way to the present day.
Prouty also mentioned to me that the week that President Kennedy was murdered, he was abruptly ordered to the South Pole. Clearly he was ordered to the ends of the Earth to get him out of the way of the conspirators. Given his high level access to the CIA and military, the cabal involved in the plot obviously wanted him out of Washington, DC, so that he could not interfere with the assassination.
At the time I spoke with Prouty I had already identified the US Army’s Warrenton Training Stations in northern Virginia as the site of a CIA underground facility. Nominally the training stations were identified as, and run by the US Army as, US Army facilities. But in reality the US Army fig leaf was just a cover for what in actuality was a CIA underground facility. I asked Prouty about that facility. He didn’t deny what I had discovered, but he replied that he couldn’t tell me anything about the Warrenton Training Stations, or what was done there, because that got into the area of “Special Operations” and was classified, and he could not divulge classified information. For those who want to know more about the Warrenton facilities try this Wikipedia article: Warrenton Training Center. Interestingly the article says: “In 2002, the Brookings Institution listed an unspecified WTC ‘relocation bunker’ as a facility with an active nuclear weapons, weapons-related or naval nuclear propulsion mission.” You may interpret that very unusual information as you wish. Your guess is likely to be as good as mine, as to what is really going on underground in Warrenton, Virginia.
It’s not the only underground facility in Virginia. There are assuredly many others, a few of which are publicly known, such as:
Peters Mountain, in Albemarle County not far from Charlottesville
Mount Weather, near Bluemont
There is also a major underground facility beneath the Pentagon and very likely beneath the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in the Washington, DC suburbs, not to be confused with Langley Air Force Base, at the other end of the state in Hampton, Virginia.
How Extensive Is The Underground System?
Very.
I have every reason to believe that what I know just scratches the proverbial surface.
Based on my research, and drawing on information that has been passed to me informally, I 100% expect that there are also underwater bases and tunnels, as well as underground bases and tunnels.
There are underground facilities and tunnels all over the USSA. They can be anywhere — and are! Under forests, mountains, deserts, cities, etc. The technology to construct bases one mile deep is comparative “child’s play” in the words of one expert who spoke to me off the record. I have been told that bases can even be as deep as several miles underground. I am not an insider, and I do not know all the technology that is available to the Deep State, but I believe that what I have been told is true. The one mile figure I 100% accept as state of the art for the underground bases projects.
Many underground bases are known: Mount Weather in Virginia, Peters Mountain in Virginia, Camp David in Maryland, Site “R” on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, the NSA underground facility in Laurel, Maryland, the underground facility beneath the White House, the Manzano base in New Mexico, the large facility beneath Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, etc.
Without question there are many more, and many large facilities, that remain clandestine, Top Secret, compartmentalized, publicly unknown.
In terms of the most likely areas for these facilities in the continental USSA the following have come to my attention:
a) the entire Appalachian region from New England all the way to northern Alabama and Georgia, including, but not limited to, the White Mountains in New England, the Interstate-81 corridor in Virginia, the eastern Tennessee region, the mountains of Pennsylvania and western Maryland
b) the entire Rocky Mountain region
c) the Sierra Nevada in California
d) all of the desert Southwest, including Nevada and lapping over into eastern and southern California
My research strongly points to a network of deep underground, high-speed, mag-lev train tunnels connecting at least some of the underground bases. Based on everything I know, including hard and soft data, I consider it likely that a highly secret, high-tech, high-speed, underground tunnel system has been built, likely in the mid-1970s to early 1990s time frame.
Based on my archival research and other information that has come to me, I also consider it likely that there are major tunnels and bases beneath the sea. Understand that once workers and construction equipment are down into the bedrock beneath the seafloor, the engineering challenges are not appreciably different from those encountered in a construction environment in solid rock thousands of feet beneath the surface of dry land. In both cases the operating environment is an enclosed environment in deep strata of solid rock.
I explore the technologies involved in constructing underground and underwater bases and tunnels in my three books (available at Amazon):
Hidden in Plain Sight: Beyond the X-Files
Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide?
Underwater and Underground Bases
Suffice it to say that for more than half a century, the technology in marine engineering, civil engineering, mining engineering and petroleum engineering has permitted this type of construction to go forward. The techniques and machinery involved are very sophisticated and powerful.
As regards the underwater bases, the following locations are prime areas that are likely to have bases:
a) the continental shelf off the eastern seaboard of the mainland USSA, all the way from Florida to New England
b) the New England sea mounts in the North Atlantic off of northeastern North America
c) the Gulf of Mexico
d) the Caribbean Sea, especially (but not only) around Puerto Rico and Andros Island in the Bahamas
e) Lake Erie
f) the Channel Islands off of southern California
g) the Hawaiian Island region
h) the Aleutian Islands region
i) the San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island region of western North America
What About the Funding?
Mind you that money is no issue, either to obtain the sums needed, or to hide the paper trail.
During my research I was privileged to have a lengthy conversation with a bona fide, high level, underground bases construction expert. I put to him the question as to how large, covert projects could be carried out with no paper trail of the funding.
To my astonishment, he proceeded to recite for me in detail how he had funded one of the clandestine projects on which he had been the lead project engineer. By the time he was finished I could scarcely comprehend what he had just told me. He laid out for me a convoluted, Rube Goldberg accounting scheme that involved offshore accounts, multiple USSA government agencies, an Egyptian shell company, and much more that went right over my head. The money was moved around, in very large amounts, in what amounted to a high finance, international, inter-agency, money laundering shell game.
I was stunned. Rest assured, Dear Reader, that the banking laws and money laundering laws are written to oppress and control **you** — while the Deep State does whatever it wants, and in a major, multi-million and multi-billion, even multi-trillion dollar way.
Yes, I mean that literally. Multi-trillions of dollars. They just skim it right out of the economy, defraud the public out of vast, unimaginable sums of money and do whatever they want: underground bases, underwater bases, secret, high-speed train tunnels, and God only knows what all else.
As Catherine Austin Fitts at the Solari Report, has documented, the USSA government cannot account for some $21 trillion in funding.
Where has the money gone? What has been done with it? Who really is running the USSA government?
I submit to you that a lot of that money has quite probably been lavished on secret underground and underwater bases and tunnels.
As for who or what is really running the USSA government? I don’t know and neither do you, but clearly the Congress is not in charge, and neither is the President.
We are witnesses to a deceitfully staged, Punch and Judy, political puppet show designed to distract our attention from the ENORMOUS craftily hidden theft that we are subject to, all while being told to: vote! pay taxes! obey the law! respect the government! pledge allegiance to the flag! support the military! submit to official authority!
Is the CIA Involved?
You can be certain of CIA involvement. The CIA is massively involved in a wide range of Black Ops, Covert Ops, Special Operations, call them what you like, and has been for the past 70 years.
Over the years I have heard the group that is running the domain of the secret underground and underwater bases referred to as the “Organization” or the “Company.”
For many years, the CIA has been informally referred to as the “Company.”
Why? Many explanations have been proffered, but certainly one of the biggest reasons has to do with the fact that the CIA is in business, extremely evil business to be blunt. Gun running/weapons trafficking, human trafficking, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and all of this on a massive, global scale.
It’s all very violently, way out of control. And those are just the things we know that the CIA does, that can be and have been documented.
Given what my research has uncovered, and the CIA’s known, long-time involvement in the highly secure, underground base in Warrenton, Virginia, for me it is no stretch to believe that “The Company” I have heard referenced with respect to the secret underground and undersea operations is, in fact, the CIA — or perhaps its Siemens subsidiary. Yes, that would be the same Siemens that played a role in the Third Reich and is still a major, international engineering firm, the same Siemens whose name keeps popping up in my underground and underwater bases and tunnels research. Not forgetting, of course, that the CIA was from its inception, a hybrid USSA-NAZI agency.
I leave you with the thought that nothing is as we have been told. The political theatre now underway in Washington, DC and elsewhere around the world is just a Punch and Judy puppet show to keep you distracted while the Deep State carries out its real agenda, its MASSIVE $21 trillion agenda.
I wish I could have another conversation with Fletcher Prouty. I know so much more as of late 2019 than I did when we spoke more than 20 years ago. But he’s dead now and has taken his secrets with him to the grave.
But not to worry. We live on and it falls to us to uncover the whole, corrupt, unimaginably horrid, criminal mess and recover control of our lives, our society and our world.
Please try and keep your comments shorter – as this is very long. Mod.
It is indeed very, very long!
However, it does contain a huge amount of information, valuable, shocking/stunning.
I am not familiar with this Richard Sauder?
Dr Richard Sauder is a very brave man. I cannot find it now, but I still have in my mind’s eye the pic of him standing alone on a wall protesting against a nuclear power station and then hauled off to jail.
I cannot say that I agree with all his adventures with entheogens that he is also well known for, but I can agree that we are different in terms of how we use the sacred plant teachers. For some they are the right thing, for myself its better to abstain.
Dr Sauder is most well known for his deep studies into underground bases but this does not say it all.
This Dolan writeup gives the basics. https://www.richarddolanpress.com/richard-sauder
@Amarynth
Thank you for the kind words!
Yes, I have been incarcerated in 12 different jails, correctional centers and prisons in 5 different states over the years for protesting against nuclear weapons and preparations for nuclear war. I’ve been out on the nuclear missile silo launch lids again and again and again. I paid a price for that.
I feel deeply for Julian Assange in prison in London, only for telling the truth about the crimes of the Empire, nothing else. Prison is very hard. Julian Assange may well die in prison, as he has said he may. Many men do. He would not be the first and certainly would not be the last.
We need more people with COURAGE. Eric Zuesse says that he needs money to go up against the Empire.
No, sir, Eric. Not money – but COURAGE. That’s the measure of a man or woman, not money. How strong is your spine? Do you have guts?
The last time I went out on a nuclear missile silo, in 2010 in North Dakota, I heard the helicopters coming from miles away across the countryside. Whop-whop-whop-whop-whop-whop! Coming toward me low and fast and hard. I knew they were carrying men with guns, coming to arrest me, maybe even to shoot me. I very briefly entertained the thought of going back over the fence and fleeing, and instantly rejected the idea. I stayed rooted to my spot on the nuclear missile silo launch lid. A tremendous, peaceful calm came over me. I had the certain, 100% inner knowing that I was doing a VERY GOOD THING. I’ve done this repeatedly during my lifetime.
Eric Suesse says that he needs money to tell the truth.
No, Eric, more than anything what you need is courage, a strong spine, a devil-may-care attitude, the manly gumption to carry on even when they are coming for you with heavy, armed force, handcuffing and chaining you and dragging you away to jail and maybe even to death. Because that’s what happens, that’s the way this world is set up, no matter if you’re Richard Sauder, or Julian Assange, or Jesus Christ himself. How much courage do you have, Eric?
As for entheogens, Amarynth, shamanic entheogens, **not recreational drugs**, they can show a person who is prepared and open as much as he or she can accept. There are no limits to awareness, perception and understanding. Any that exist are self-imposed!
I could not believe it when ayahuasca, for example, started showing me the reality of this Earth “realm” that we are in. We are in an artificially projected, very, very real seeming, but nonetheless fake, fraudulent, false, phony simulacrum, a convincing simulation of “real” reality, as it were. We are in the Mother Of All Mind F**ks. “Real” reality does exist, but this Earth “realm” as we presently perceive it is a fake copy of that “real” reality. We are in an infinitely, intricately convoluted, myriad-layered, computer program of mind boggling realism. The blood, the guts, the pain, the fear, the joy, the ecstasy, the boredom, the excitement, the planets and galaxies, hurricanes and wars and tornadoes, mountains and oceans, birth and death – and it all seems so real, so real that not one person in a thousand can believe that it’s all a fake projection from a Satanic A.I. far beyond ordinary human comprehension. That is the consciousness veil that we are laboring under, or rather the “unconsciousness” veil. This whole “reality” that we are in is completely, artificially, unbelievably programmed, up, down and sideways: religion, politics, science, history, anthropology, genetics, popular entertainment, culture, the economy, and on and on. It’s all programmed, layer after layer of programming. The rapid roll-out within just a half century of robotics, digital technology, 5G and 6G, neuralink (mind to computer) technology, etc. is only to deepen the multi-layered, artificial control program, and to enmesh humanity in a global, totalitarian control system that imprisons body, mind and soul. Are so-called “people” like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. even real human beings?
We are in a hijacked, false reality that fraudulently purports to be the “real thing”, when it is really a counterfeit knock-off of the real thing.
The quantum computing power to keep all of this Earth “realm” illusion going, like a Hollywood feature film on cosmic steroids, with several thousands of star, featured players and a supporting cast of billions, is stunning in its intricate complexity, down to the level of gazillions of electrons and photons. It is “devilishly” well done! So convincing, to keep myriad souls recycling through its endless hall of mirrors, trapped for endless cycles of completely artificial “time”.
But I suggest to you that that is exactly what we are faced with. How to free ourselves? Only by elevating our consciousness and level of awareness. There is no other way. I and many others have found the entheogenic plants to be of help, as sort of a helping hand, to temporarily remove the blinders. If you can get some good DMT, it will clear out a few mental cobwebs, guaranteed! It all depends on if a person is ready or not, and willing, to see behind the curtain, if only for a moment.
Ordinary political means are completely hopeless. A new slate of candidates? A new round of elections? A new political party? Another government? Another revolution? A new religion? Another financial currency? More money?
None of that will free you or me. I am grateful to the shamanic plants for showing me the broad outlines of part of what we are up against.
There is, indeed, a great battle between forces of consciousness and unconsciousness. This Earth “realm” is a mighty, albeit artificial battlefield – the nature of the battle is far subtler, and far more difficult to ascertain than most people suspect.
No ayatollah or mullah, no rabbi, no priest or pope, no guru or spiritual master, no president or king or Congress-critter is going to save you. You will save yourself, with God’s help. Nothing more nor less. It’s you and God, one on one, and always has been and always will be!
Think of the Earth “realm” as more of a participant-observer sort of devious, cosmic, video arcade game or carnival sideshow and that’s probably not too far from the truth of the matter.
Lights! Sound! Action! And we’re all drawn into the greatest show on “Earth” – whatever the “Earth” is, and whether it even has any independent existence apart from the programmed “reality show” that’s running 24/7 in your mind and mine.
Let’s see, Donald Trump has a history as a “reality show” TV star.
See? It’s right in your face! It’s not even hidden, is it?
your statement of ‘MASSIVE $21 trillion agenda’ is probably very outdated. last count was 250 trillion at 2008 ‘meltdown’… also ‘We live on’ may not be so lucky and dreamy in the coming… I think you agree with me they are not running a human-friendly agenda! It appears the only way to be free again, is to kill the host of the worms so the body must also dies with it. Can’t kill the worms now… there is nothing even worth trying… the worm has already eaten the host alive!
First, a positive remark. Archiving sources is a great idea, and this needs to be done more often.
As for the rest of it, I found the long essay to be depressing. If anything, author Zuesse has understated the problems.
Essentially very few people are reporting the wasteful “Defense” spending. Monster DOD budgets are just taken for granted these days. People cannot care about things they don’t know about.
But don’t we have Representative Government – people whose jobs are to prevent wasteful spending? Yes, there are several hundred of them. They’re either some kind of fanatic, corrupt, or both. With the amounts of money involved, throwing a few hundred thousand to a few million dollars to each Representative or Senator amounts to chump change.
But why don’t The People demand they do their jobs. 1) The People don’t know there is a problem. 2) if they did, what can they do? The Republicans and Democrats are equally corrupt, and the two parties mostly control who become candidates for election. The voters are left with a choice of Tweedledum (D) and Tweedledee (R). The Powers That Be make enormous profits from the big fuss called “election campaigns”, but they don’t give a hoot which one moves to Washington, DC.
What if an actual reformer (by some miracle) got the nomination. Those Powers That Be can resort to using unlimited money to swamp Mr. Reformer. If that doesn’t work, they still have the no-verify touchscreen computer voting machines. These can be easily be made to report the “right” vote counts.
All this is why I found this essay to be so depressing. They have us by the *****, and their grip on power appears to be unbreakable short of an unthinkable level of national chaos.
Eric:
Everything is posted here:
The Missing Money
https://missingmoney.solari.com
This includes PDFs of all the government reports. There is an excellent series of seven briefing papers on all the legal aspects as well.
Latest is our poster every week and Dr. Skidmore’s daughters’ Missing Money song.
https://missingmoney.solari.com/my212020/
We keep this site updated
Thanks again for your piece.
Catherine
dear CAF, I wish you well :)
The inconvenient fact not spoken is – The underground COG, that is current still in effect as The Law, renewed by every POTUS in USSA since it first sneak through, can survive and even thrive without The PPL and anything on the surface (inc the monetary system, the dollar, the constitution, the infrastructure, the ‘growth’ and all the statistics, the labour force, the consumerism, the lot) They already build their empire and all systems functioning and they cannot wait to replace you.
They dont need anything from you, The PPL. You, The PPL exist, and still exist only for the purpose to be used and abuse, experimented on and incarcerated, and drained and milked. Your time on earth, your purpose coming to earth this time, is not in their ‘concern’. You are nothing to them, not even sub-human. And you have nothing they want. And you have nothing to fight them.
So how exactly that after the collapse, they will ‘MAGA’? By the founding father’s constitution? Like they will bow and agree and back down to The PPL finally? You have already seen how they treat those countries and entities they invaded and plunder and murder. How will you fight them? How will you save yourself and your children and grandchildren and god so merciful, The Republic, if it can be restore from ashes? You have seen what they did to us, wiping out our cultural history – Rus, Chi, ME, Africa. It is, as if, they want to launch a new breed of non-humans. But what does that actually means, biologically? A new earth of non-humans? Remember, they dont need you and me.
So I contend to you, respectfully, the missing money is a non-issue… even if The PPL recover all the 250 trillions, as some speculate, I dont think that would be enough. Its not enough as it is NOT about money – that’s my point. I don’t think they are after ‘money’ as such and I think you agree with me. Thus the resolution cannot be via ‘money’.
I am still very lost on how exactly anyone can get out of this without mother earth flip over and all civilisation become fossilised, another time and over again. Pls understand this is only one person’s opinion. Be safe there.
P/s love the interview Journey to Chartres with Thomas Meyer (full interview)
Wonderful to see you Catherine :-) albeit briefly.
Over the last number of hours, we’ve had CAF, Pepe Escobar and Dr Richard Sauder visiting The Saker Blog. I feel honored and it really gives me personal courage to continue.
Thanks and congratulations to the author for a unique brilliant revelation. Over the years I’ve learnt to trust the investigative quality, sincerity, conscientiousness and courage Eric Zuesse has brought in to his articles on various multilateral issues. March on Eric we (the readers) are with you!
Many years ago I read a similar report about missing American Trillions that capped around $9-10 Trillion over a 9-10 yr. period on which I commented (Whether the author was Eric or someone else I don’t remember anymore.)
Today my response is this:
First, this kind of money in trillions vanishing, call unaccounted, simply cannot happen without the top echelons of governance not knowing it, especially the top bankers involved and the Federal Reserve being ignorant of it. In the meantime the secret story how the Fed was founded is public knowledge.
Secondly, when Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the enormous influence of a Military-Industrial Complex even during his presidency, he definitely was not talking through his hat.
Third, the SIPRI graphic of world military spending may not be accurate. While China has begun to spend more, the amount the U.S. silently spends annually on smart nuke developments (increasing blast power of a single nuke), contravening Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT), may not be known at all due its “secrecy” nature.
Fourth, despite the Bin Laden elimination success and Grenada (or Haiti) intervention, the only post-WWII successes the U.S. military can ever claim of, the U.S. public need to know and be informed of this senseless U.S. defence spending, more than the rest of the world put together, that only bleeds America and does no enhancement to its security. American cannot simply control a multipolar world and beware, U.S. power is significantly diminishing all over the Globe, despite this mammoth trillion dollar spending.
Fifth, tragic it is, the U.S. had an excellent chance to lead the world soon after WWII end and post-Cold War time as a free democratic nation. It squandered both at the behest of MIC.
Sixth, Ron Reagan was willing to sign an agreement with Gorbachev for total elimination all nuclear weapons, but George Schultz, Edward Teller and Henry Kissinger & Co. sabotaged it by demanding a concession for the U.S. alone to unilaterally place space weapons, which Gorbachev could never agree to. Maybe the MIC was behind it.
Seventh, the MIC does not seem to want to realise that the more the lethal weapons are produced to beef up their greedy pockets, the greater the chances this wonderful blue-green Globe of ours will get blown up killing the MIC alongside. Is that what the American people want for themselves and for the world? Is that what your forefathers struggled and fought for? Only the American people can take brave action on this matter.
George Chakko, former U.N. correspondent, retiree in Vienna, Austria.
Vienna, 13/01/ 2020 12:13 noon CET
Don’t quote me for this, but last time I checked a few years ago there were around 7 million people involved directly or indirectly with the US murderous military complex..That’s the entire population of Serbia..This situation reminds me of the documentary about Round Up that I watched the other day..When farmers who used Round Up were interviewed about the dangers to entire ecosystems / themselves by use of Round Up, most of them said currently established agricultural practices are such that there was no viable safe alternative and they will all go out of business if they stopped using it tomorrow..Think about “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” situation – once you are in you can’t get out.
This is the kind of reason empires fall, and the kind of reason the fall is inevitable.
The point of empire is to gain wealth for greedy elites. But greedy elites who run empires don’t, can’t, have a sense of limits, of “this is enough”, and the process of gaining and keeping an empire will crush any ethical limits they might have had. And although they have interests in common, each member of the elite is still in it for themselves personally. So they inevitably take from, parasitize on, their own system, and nobody’s going to stop them because that’s what it’s for.
This parasitism, whether it’s in the form of embezzling from the military, financialization of the economy, or what have you, inevitably hollows out an empire.
Despite our efforts as well as those of Dave Lindorff, our government has not shared any underlying data or information regarding the nature of the undocumentable transactions. For example, both Mark Skidmore and Dave Lindorff have repeatedly asked the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to provide an addendum to a report published by the OIG in 2016, which indicated that the Army had $6.5 trillion in undocumentable transactions. Typically, undocumentable transactions are a just small fraction of authorized spending. How could a $122 billion Army financial statement generate undocumentable adjustments that were 54 times authorized spending?