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Edward Teller’s motive for setting up John Lennon’s murder
by Salvador Astucia, July 2, 2005
Many people have complimented me on my research of John Lennon’s murder, particularly the article which implicated Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo as Lennon’s true killer. But several people continue to ask, Why would the United States government have waited until December 8, 1980 to assassinate Lennon? If he was such a threat, why didn’t they kill him earlier? More specifically, why was he killed at that particular time, in December 1980? Previously, my response to that question was that Lennon had just entered public life after a five year sabbatical. The FBI had already labeled him as New Left, and put him under constant surveillance as early as 1967 because of his opposition to the Vietnam War and his power to influence millions of Beatle fans worldwide. After living as a recluse in New York City since 1976, Lennon decided to release a new album, Double Fantasy, in the fall of 1980. Given Lennon’s track record of opposition to right-wing political causes, and the Vietnam War, powerful right-wing interests within the United States government probably wanted to make sure the famed rock star did not use his celebrity to rally opposition against newly elected President-elect Ronald Reagan, one of the most conservative American presidents in history. Until recently, that had been my answer.
About a year ago (July 2004), I learned of a possible link to Edward Teller regarding the theft of Lennon’s personal effects from his estate. As many people know, Edward Teller was a renowned nuclear physicist, father of the H-Bomb and Godfather of modern right-wing military and Zionist politics in America. To many people, Teller was the embodiment of the worst in military and Zionist expansion within the American culture. Teller’s connection to Lennon is through free-lance writer Bob Rosen, author of Lennon book, Nowhere Man. Rosen was apparently a speech writer for one of Teller’s military colleagues, Hans Mark, former Secretary of the Air Force, former Deputy Administrator NASA, and advocate of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). In 1976, Mr. Hans co-authored a book with Teller entitled Critical Choices for Security: Power and Security.
Fred Seaman, Lennon's personal assistant, was convicted of stealing journals and other personal effects from the Lennon estate and was subsequently sentenced to five years probation. Mr. Seaman had given Lennon’s journals to Mr. Rosen which were subsequently used as the basis of Rosen’s book, Nowhere Man, which portrayed Lennon in an extremely negative light. Mr. Rosen publicly stated in his book that he had been a speech writer for a Secretary of the Air Force. Although the Secretary was not named, we know that Hans Mark was Secretary of the Air Force from May 18, 1979 through February 9, 1981 (Lennon was killed during that period). Afterwards, Mr. Mark became Deputy Administrator NASA, serving from July 10, 1981 through September 1, 1984.
Recently, I learned more information about Edward Teller which would explain why he might want someone like Lennon dead for a specific reason. The information came from a book published in 1992, written by William J. Broad, entitled Teller’s War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception. According to Broad, on Nov. 14, 1980, about three weeks before Lennon’s murder, a major SDI test was conducted in the Nevada Desert, testing laser-nuclear technology. IT WAS A BIG SUCCESS. Broad points out that advances in X-ray laser bomb technology were made at an "auspicious moment in the history of American politics." President Carter had just lost the election to Reagan. No one knew it at the time, but the nation was about to embark on a trillion dollar defense buildup, all because of Teller’s SDI program, which was given quite a boost within circles of power in Washington due to the successful tests on November 14, 1980.1
25-year-old Peter L. Hagelstein had developed the theory behind laser technology used in the SDI program. Hagelstein’s theory would allow a laser to "destroy satellites, missiles and warheads across vast reaches of space," just like Star Wars.2 According to Broad, Hagelstein was opposed to weapons design; however, the young scientist accepted a job at one of the major weapons labs in the world, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, located about 40 miles east of San Francisco. For all intents and purposes, Livermore was Teller’s lab. In 1980, Teller was ecstatic about young Hagelstein’s theory of using laser beams to essentially replace nuclear missiles. Teller’s SDI approach (using Hagelstein’s theory) was to use laser beams, instead of nuclear missiles, to transport enough energy to detonate a nuclear explosion. According to the theory (which later proved to be impractical and probably impossible), laser beams would be aimed anywhere in the world to detonate a nuclear holocaust. Teller was obsessed with worldwide Zionist domination and used SDI/Star Wars (falsely claiming it was purely a defensive weapon) as a means of achieving that goal. Unfortunately, Teller (the so-called genius) forgot that laser beams travel in straight lines, but the earth is curved, which makes pointing an SDI laser beam from Washington, DC to anywhere in China, for example, impossible. There were other problems with SDI, but that was a major flaw which was difficult to overcome. (NOTE: Another SDI conceptual flaw was detonating a nuclear explosion in space, in order to shoot down an incoming nuclear missile, would destroy other US military apparatus already in space, along with the incoming missile.)
The following is William Broad’s description (from his book, Teller’s War) of the test, code-named Dauphin, which occurred on November, 14, 1980, and set the stage for SDI (aka, Star War) which was publicly announced three years later by President Reagan, on March 23, 1983:
A trillion-dollar defense buildup was more than enough reason to have John Lennon murdered by Teller and the other right-wing framers of Star Wars, a program that began in earnest just three weeks before John Lennon’s murder, on December 8, 1980, with the successful Dauphin test in the Nevada Desert on November 14, 1980.
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SOURCES:
1 - William J. Broad, entitled Teller’s War: The
Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception, pp. 87, 91 2 -
ibid, pp. 82-83 3 - ibid, pp. 87, 88, 91
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