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This Report does not address the
existence of a hollow globe with entrances at both ends. Nor will we
be looking for proof that Admiral Richard E. Byrd discovered or
explored unknown lands in the interior of our planet. This report is
looking into only two questions.
(1) Did Admiral Byrd make a flight
to the North Pole in February of 1947?
(2) Is the so-called “secret
diary” of Admiral Byrd that has been circulating amongst those of us
who are interested in the Hollow Earth Theory since the late 70s in
fact a true account of that alleged flight?
As a youngster in the late 50s I became very interest in the
exploits of the world’s last great explorer Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd. I read everything I could get my hands on regarding the Arctic
and Antarctic explorations of this great hero of the time. To my
surprise and delight ten years later, when my research into the
origin of UFOs led me to the study of The Hollow Earth, I again ran
into my childhood hero, The Admiral. Once again I studied the
exploits of this extraordinary man. A few years ago I decided to
compile and bring up to date everything I could having to do with
The Admirals involvement in the HollowEarth/Subterranean story.
However, I found one think that disturbed me.
Somewhere along the way there had been
added an expedition that no history book had even mentioned … a 1947
Arctic expedition. By this time I was aware of the cover-up of the
real reasons for the Admirals Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. I
was also aware of Admiral Byrd’s connections to
the Illuminati and
their plans for a
New World Order and of his early Arctic and
Antarctic explorations having been financed by their paymaster,
John
D. Rockefeller and his pals. I’ll be coving these aspects in future
reports in this series.
I also realized that in the massive cover-up about the Admiral’s
true reasons for his trips north and south it could be possible that
he went to the Arctic in February of 1947, but for what purpose? He
had already, as they say today, “been there – done that.” Another
problem: February is the dead of winter in the Arctic with it’s well
known 24 hours of darkness and unpredictable flying weather.
However, the biggest negative ruling out a February 1947 Arctic
expedition by Admiral Byrd was the indisputable fact that he was
smack dab in the middle of the command of his life – “Operation Highjump,” the most extensive Antarctic expedition in the world.
The operation made front-page headlines
around the world with reports about the Admirals personal movements
broadcast around the world daily from January 2nd until his return
to America on April 14th 1947. This would have made a North Polar
flight during this time damn near impossible. So, the question we
need to answer is: Where did the story of a February 1947 Arctic
expedition actually come from?
The first mention of a 1947 North Polar flight by the Admiral can be
found in the book
Worlds beyond the Poles: Physical Continuity of
the Universe (1959) by a controversial self-proclaimed scientist,
F. Amadeo Giannini. On page 13 of his book under the heading “The
Changing Scene 1927-1947” he presents a list of things that happened
during those years to support his theory. One of the entries is:
“1947: February “I’d like to see
that land beyond the pole. The area beyond the pole is the
center of the great unknown.” – Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
before his seven-hour flight over land beyond the North Pole.”
Not only was this the first time a 1947
flight ever mentioned, but this also seems to be the origin of this
often used quote attributed to Admiral Byrd and used by Hollow
Earthers constantly to prove their point. The actual source of
this quote was probably an article that appeared in the October 1947
National Geography Magazine titled “Our Navy Explores Antarctica,”
in which the Admiral refers several times to the “Mystery Land
beyond The Pole” although not in the sequence of words presented by
Mr. Giannini. And most importantly of all … Byrd was talking about
Antarctica.
Contrary to popular belief, Giannini was not a believer in the
Hollow Earth. Nor is his book, Worlds beyond the Poles, a Hollow
Earth book. As Walter Kafton-Minkel reported in his excellent book
on the history of the belief in a Hollow/Subterranean world
Subterranean Worlds (1989):
“As a young man in 1926, Giannini
had been wandering through a New England forest when he had a
vision. Guided by “his extrasensory perception” he suddenly
realized that the earth was not round, but sort of
spindle-shaped, and that the North and South Poles were illusory
points. The earth’s surface, he perceived did not end at the
points of the spindle but continued into space and curved back
over our heads. What looked like stars, planets, galaxies and
comets were actually “globular and isolated areas of a
continuous and unbroken outer sky surface.”
This meant that these seemingly
“heavenly” bodies weren’t heavenly at all, but points of the
vast land surface of the universe, part of which was the earth’s
surface. There was no need to develop rockets to explore space,
wrote Giannini for “space” was an illusion created by the
refraction of the lenses of our eyes, telescopes and cameras.
All we needed to do to reach Mars or Venus was to climb into an
airplane (or amphibious vehicle) with a very large tank of gas
and fly (or drive) there. When Admiral Byrd flew beyond the
poles he had proven Giannini correct – the earth did not end at
the poles, but continued into “vast new lands.”
(Page 195)
Immediately following the publication of
Giannini’s book the heated debates about a February 1947 North Polar
Flight began and the argument has continued until today.
It’s all in The New
York Times
By 1961 the controversy had reached the point, particularly in the
pages of Ray Palmer’s Flying Saucer magazine, that in the February
1961 issue of that magazine in an article titled,
“Byrd Did Make North Pole Flight In
Feb. 1947 – Giannini,” editor Ray Palmer made a challenge to Mr.
Giannini.
Undoubtedly this [article] will lead to still further action on
the part of Mr. Giannini, whose place in this weird question of
the mystery surrounding both Poles must certainly be settled in
the pages of this magazine. Thus we invite Mr. Giannini to use
all the space he needs in our pages to present his case – which
as we see it is to produce the proof with which he backed up his
book and the information concerning Byrd that he has presented.”
(Page 4)
However, Giannini never took Mr. Palmer
up on his challenge. In fact Mr. Giannini never presented his proof
anywhere. His stock answer to any inquiries was “You can find all
the information in The New York Times.”
I have spent many hours at the Jacksonville Public Library reading
through the microfilm files of The New York Times, carefully
studying every account having to do with Admiral Byrd, the Arctic
and Antarctica for the years surrounding 1947. While I do believe
there is an important connection to what was taking place in the
Northern Polar area during 1947 and The Admiral’s “Operation
Highjump” at the South Pole, nowhere can I find any
indication that Admiral Byrd was personally involved in the secret
Arctic missions of 1947. (I’m still researching the 1947 missions of
both poles during 1947 and will report on them in due time.)
However, I will say that for Admiral
Byrd to have gone to the North Pole in February of 1947 would have
been like Eisenhower leaving the European front to check on General MacArthur’s doings in the Philippines. Then why did Giannini insist
that Byrd made this fictional trip? A fact which, when studied
closely, could discredit his whole book – even his theory. Walter-Kafton-Minkel
explained it away as simply shoddy research. My research indicates
there could be a more sinister reason.
Giannini and
the One Worlder Connection
As I’ve reported in the series regarding Admiral Byrd’s exploits of
1925-1935, he had definite ties to the One Worlders, i.e. John D.
and his pals. (THEI Volume 1.) Giannini claims to have been
encouraged in his work by such well known people of his time as
William Cardinal O’Connell, Archbishop of Boston; Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, President, California Institute of Technology (Pasadina
California); The Rev. Professor Jerome S. Riccard, S.J., Physicist &
Seismologist, Santa Clara University (California), among others. He
also claims that he was instrumental in causing the 1928 Expedition
to the North Pole of the famous explorer Capt. Sir George Hubert
Wilkins.
The question arises, how could a man
with the ideas of F.Amadeo Giannini have any influence over men of
this statute? The following sentence taken from one of Giannini’s
own letters to a Mr. Ogden who was challenging the 1947 North Polar
flight might say more that he planed. The letter from Giannini to
Ogden was published in the February 1961 issue of Flying Saucer
magazine.
(Excerpt)
“This author [Giannini] cares not a little how you, or Palmer,
or Palmer’s magazine, use the name, Giannini. But inasmuch as
the name has been known and respected for more than 60 years,
from Vancouver to San Diego – due to the activity of the late
Amadeo Peter Giannini of bank of Italy and Bank of America
fame…”
His family owned the Bank of Italy and
the Bank of America! If, as my research seems to indicate, it is the
One Worlders plan to hide what is going on at the earth’s poles,
what better way to cloud the water, so to speak, than to have one of
their own, an admitted member of an international banking family
toss in a controversy, such as this phony trip by Byrd, to make Hollow Earthers look ridiculous. And it seems to have worked … The
1947 Byrd “secret” flight has kept anyone from looking into what was
really going on in 1947.
Any time that I have approached the question of this impossible
flight and the lack of evidence supporting it, those diehard
believers have pointed at the “Missing Diary of Admiral Byrd” as
“proof” that he did indeed make such a flight. It is time we look
closely at this so-called “document.”
I had long known that there was a missing Admiral Byrd diary, but
everything I had read said it was the diary of his 1926 polar
flight, not the alleged ’47 flight. Recently this lost 1926 diary
was uncovered amongst the Admiral’s papers at the Ohio State
University. (See THEI Volume III #2.) Even the late Jimmy the Greek
wouldn’t have given you good odds on the possibility of there being
two “lost” diaries. Thanks to Hollow earth artist, writer and
researcher Max Fyfield, who sent me his original copy of this
purported diary I was able to see the original evidence.
Having read almost everything that was
ever published by The Admiral I knew as soon as I started the first
page that this was not the writing of Admiral Byrd. Admiral Byrd, an
educated man, wrote very eloquently. The cover of this diary,
presented in mimeograph booklet form, contains the crest adopted by
the German secret Thule Society – a swastika and a sword surrounded
by oak leaves. As Walter Kafton-Minkel wrote in
Subterranean Worlds:
“The diary itself, written in
comic-book prose worthy of Michael X or Guy Ballard, describes
Byrd’s awe building as he draws nearer to the Pole. He looks
down and sees vegetation instead of ice: There should be no
green valley below! We should be over ice and snow! … Our
navigation instruments are still spinning, the gyroscope is
oscillating back and forth…”
(Page 238)
The date indicated in this diary is
“Feb. 19, 1947. How fortunate for Giannini, this substantiates his
claim. Of course, this was the dead of winter. How was the crew able
to see snow below? Or green fields for that matter.
Other passages should be noted.
(Page 3) “---Hours: Vast snow ice
and snow below, note coloration of yellowish nature…”
(Page 4) “---Hours: In the distance is what appears to be
mountains!”
There are those who would argue that he
was seeing by the light of the inner
Sun, yet…
(Page 5) “---I cannot see the sun
anymore…”
How could he have seen the sun anyway?
February is a period of total darkness!
I propose that the only reason that this diary was produced was to
back up the claim of Giannini that such a flight happened. And we
know the source of the diary!
Captain Tawani
Wakawa Shoush and The Society for a Complete Earth
The alleged diary first became available from an organization based
in rural Missouri, which called itself “The Society for a Complete
Earth” in the 1970s. The head of this organization was a Native
American, Captain Tawani Wakawa Shoush. As Walter Kafton-Minkel
explains:
“The society used as it’s emblem the
crest of the Thule Society … Shush said he was a retired U.S.
Marine and a pilot whose goal was to fly a dirigible into one of
the polar openings and establish contact with the Arianni, (his
spelling) the “tall blond, blue-eyed super-race” that rules the
inner world. The Arianni, he wrote, spoke “a language very much
like German” and lived in “cities built of shimmering crystal”
and used their saucers – again called flugelrads – to patrol the
skies of the surface world and keep an eye on us … Shoush sold
copies of what he claimed was a suppressed diary kept by Admiral
Byrd during his North Pole flight of 1947.”
(Page 238)
When I first received the copy of this
“diary” from Max Fyfield I wrote a report concerning the forward of
the booklet which was written by a “Dr. William Bernard.” (See THEI
Vol. 1#6, “The Two Bernards,” page 30).
In that article I accused Mr. Susch of being an opportunist out to
make money and challenged him to prove me wrong. Although I had no
proof, I felt strongly about it at that time. Those of us who are
serious about these studies do not need false information seeded
around. I feel even stronger about it now. And I believe that I now
have the proof that this piece of trash is a phony.
The Proof
In 1928 Admiral Byrd published his account of the 1926 North polar
flight in a book titled Skyward. On page 196 Byrd reveals the
following information:
“When our calculations showed us to
be about an hour from the Pole, I noticed through the cabin
window a bad leak in the oil tank of the starboard motor. When I
took the wheel again I kept my eyes glued on the oil leak and
the oil pressure indicator.”
Compare this information to the
following passage from the so-called “secret diary.”
(Page 2) “--- Hours: Slight oil leak
in starboard engine, oil pressure indicator seems normal,
however.”
Once again, the odds of Admiral Byrd
having the exact same problem with the same engine on two different
flights 11 years apart would probably be about the same chance of
you winning the next lottery. And it gets better, or worse,
depending on your point of view. I mentioned my research into the
diary to my friend, and colleague artist Robert Van Aulen and he
responded by sending me a video copy of the 1937 MGM motion picture
“Lost Horizon,” drawing my attention to a scene where the star,
Ronald Coleman has an audience with the Dali Lama in Shangra-La, a
lost city in Tibet.
The Master tells him that there “is a dark time
coming” but that:
“You, my son, (said the Master),
“will live through the storm. You will preserve the fragrance of
our history and add to it a touch of your own mind. Beyond that,
my vision weakens … but I see in the great distance a new world
starting in the ruins … But in hopefulness, seeking it’s lost
and legendary treasures, and they will all be here, my son,
hidden behind the mountains under the blue moon, preserved as if
by a miracle…”
Now, lets compare that with what,
according to “The Secret Diary of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd,” was
a meeting between The Admiral and the “Master” of the Arianni:
“Yes, my son,” replied the Master,
“the dark ages that will come for your race will cover the Earth
like a pall, but I believe that some of your race will live
through the storm, beyond that I cannot say. We see a great
distance a new world stirring from the ruins of your race,
seeking its lost and legendary treasures, and they will be here
my son, safe in our keeping…”
It appears to me that the “Master” of
the Arianni was either a great Ronald Coleman fan that spent his
time watching old surface world movies or … this is a blatant case
of plagiarism. You decide.
As Editor of THEI I, like Ray Palmer am seeking the truth. And in
our quest I believe we should not only shout out about anything
positive we find, but also, just as loudly expose anything we find
to be false. Therefore. Like Palmer, I am offering the pages of
The
Hollow Earth Insider.com to anyone who can offer proof that the 1947
North Polar flight ever happened or that this diary is authentic.
But, to be honest with you … I don’t believe there will be any
takes. I believe I have proven my case. On the cover of the original
propertied diary is the question: “Is This “The Missing Secret Diary
of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd?” I say NO!
Read the diary in question
HERE.
Note: Capt. Shush’s
organization The Society For a Complete Earth is in no way
associated with the Society of the same name located in
California and headed by my personal friend and colleague Danny
Weiss. Danny and his group are truth-seekers just like you and
I. Nor am I in anyway discouraging anyone from participating
with him and his groups in their plans to one day make a flight
‘beyond the pole.’
Admiral Byrd did make a flight
beyond the pole… it just wasn’t in February of 1947. It is
unfortunate that Danny and his group picked the name of Shoush’s
defunct organization, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from
supporting him and his group in their endeavors. Danny Weiss and
The (modern) Society For a Complete Earth have my full support
and the support of this publication.
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