Chapter 75: Operation Peacock Freedom

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Chapter 75: Operation Peacock Freedom

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...is also now ready for your amusement:

https://www.ttbrown.com/defying_gravity/75_peacock.html

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James Barrett

interesting to think

Post by James Barrett »

Its interesting to think that there might be a couple of retired ( maybe, you know the saying) intelligence officers out there reading this that are chuckling in their beards right now ( if they have them) and remembering what it was like to " heist a peacock".

My thought is that they are lucky that the thing didn't scream its little head off during this exercise. A peacock always sounds like a woman in distress, enough to curdle your blood when you are not expecting it. But maybe if it was dark enough and the bird was feeling safe enough it would have gone along with the program.

So silly question maybe Paul, but what happened to the peacock that Dr. Brown sent this operation out for? And what happened to the other things? I am assuming that the van and the car eventually met up somewhere on the way to California. I wonder how much they laughed. Two CIA (?) officers and a peacock going cross country? Something I doubt they would admit to today but it would have to rank right up there.

It must have been very important for Dr. Brown not to come back into the area again otherwise why would he go to all of this trouble. And extra notebooks? whats that all about? Everything headed for San Francisco? Isn't that where Charles Miller was heading when he left Ashlawn, per Dr. Browns instructions. So is the next location then San Francisco?

And everybody seems to know except really Linda. Which is sad actually but I can see that it was for her own protection. I wonder how much of this Mrs. Brown knew more about than she was telling? Alot of stress here and I think its more than just financial. JDB
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Post by flowperson »

Paul...I believe that the "peacock heist" was a symbolic extravaganza, designed to show the "other side" just how much in charge of the "big picture" the good guys really were/are . Recall that by TTB's own words later, the "Xerxes Gate" operation was to be of supreme importance later in his career, and that it involved petrovoltaics somehow. And what was the royal symbol of ancient Persia...the peacock! Later on in modern times the Shah sat upon "the peacock throne" until the guys in black came along and ran him out of town.

Your narrative in these two chapters is excellent and really puts the reader in a virtual partnership with the main operatives. I'm assuming that the SFO part of the story to come, along with some L.A. stuff too, will relate to TTB's work in affiliation with SRI and Stanford in general. Glad we discovered the whereabouts of the "missing notebooks" and am hoping we'll get a virtual peek at what they encompassed soon. Like I said before, Martin Decker was really a "dick", but we already knew that didn't we ? And just maybe he didn't have any choice in the matter.

Great work ! Did the elephant leave anything behind on your desk ?

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no choice

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Your look at the peacock symbolism was very, very interesting Flow. Throw a red flag down on that part of the discussion. Maybe we will be able to get back to it someday.

You said:"
"Like I said before, Martin Decker was really a "dick", but we already knew that didn't we ? And just maybe he didn't have any choice in the matter."

And I think thats a very astute observation. Paul has had the oportunity to interview individuals who held Martin Decker in high esteem so it may be that he indeed was a complicated individual locked into a very complicated and stressful situation and the whole of that story has not been told yet. Maybe someday someone will do that. But for Paul to follow all of those leads would take him away from the trail of that elusive fox, Townsend Brown.

So I guess its off to California!

On one of our research trips I stood in a parking lot where Building #4 once stood .... and there was no trace of the building, the wall, the guard shack or even the name of DECKER .... except finally a lonely little sign that said " Decker Lane". An enormous complex ...... gone or parts of it renamed. As if it had been "erased".

I am just throwing down the thought that Martin Decker may not have been simply a difficult man ... but a man put into a difficult situation. He may have been a good man .... But that didn't stop him from throwing a lovely peacock into a cage.... or at least ... trying to.

Elizabeth
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Men in black .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNbBeJ1Ewg
That peacock caught my attention in the previous chapter talking of it at the Decker lab, and birds feathers exhibit such a FIELD, and its all about field, biefeld-brown.
The picture of the chapter was brilliantly painted, I could see the whole scene as an observer, and four more books on the structure of space, fabulous.
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Kevin...re: MIB...See it is better to dance than to march !

flow.... :wink:
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Post by Mikado14 »

If it were I, I would have taken the peacock so that Decker could not have control over him anymore and hope that he would get the message. By the way, the easiest way to quiet a bird or anything for that matter is a little starting fluid or diethyl ether in a prudent manner.

And don't ask.

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so great

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Paul,
Wonderful! And TWO! I am really a happy camper!

But sad because as you said .... suddenly your two lines now have joined. And I can tell that the horse is headed for the barn or the end of this book. Going to enjoy every moment of the rest of the ride though!

I saw that the minute that you mentioned that Linda grabbed that number of notebooks. The last time we heard he had closed notebook number 2 ( and then later ( in 1967) he writes in that same notebook " No notes were taken"...... and here is the nexus .... Linda reaching for SIX notebooks.

So now we know that there is a different set. And the parallel stories have suddenly come together. Other things were going on that Linda could sense but couldn't identify! Hiding in plain sight just like those notebooks!

Strange how whe wrote in her journal on a particular day how so many seemed to go suddenly secretive around her. It was just after Labor day and she wrote that every one seemed quieter and she knew something was happening . So even though she wasn't in on things she knew something more important was going on than building a loudspeaker.

And did you catch the comment that she didn't have any more work to do building the speakers? ( apparently they had been built and tested and demonstrated. ) YET the team of Spirito and Pushcheck was there still as well as the others, with loyaties decidedly to Dr. Brown. So it seems that there was a program within a program here. And Dr. Brown was working as hard as ever. Will we ever know what was going on?

And Paul you have mentioned the Cutlass . What was she doing while he was getting ready to leave the area?

Is it just me or does it sound like Mr. Sprito and Mr. Pushcheck just considered Mr. Moyer the same as an annoying mosquito. Anybody who gets locked out of a facility does not really run much of anything for sure! So many comments and not enough time!

These were some really good chapters Paul! Even though my heart is breaking again for Linda. Super Bad Ass indeed. Victoria
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Kevin..... do you get the feeling your are surrounded by men in black?

(PUSH YOUR REFRESH BUTTON)
Image

This chapter is telling more about SPY STUFF again.... 8)

Great suspense and is as good as Robert Ludlum or others involved in the navy who purpously leaked the Electrohydrodynamic sub propulsion device that was such a critical part in the hunt for red October.

Looks to me that by looking at all this social and human exploration of people under stress with enormous responsabilities, one can see the true champions. Those stars on the wall.....

This chapter made me feel so good that I also found a perfect solution to all my present social woes. :shock:

I have an attorney who is going to get me uplifted from this slum and into a proper living and working area. :lol: It turns out that the socialist government here also pays for lawyers..... They just need a good investigator (gee I wonder if I could find one of those?)

Anyhow the trickfox will soon be upgrading it's living quarters, and so I have cheered up quite well. I just decided to manipulate a few events in the past to help me change my own future.
:wink:

We are going to to to classical science what these people are doing to classical music instruments....see the complete 2 minute film--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lc ... re=related.
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Enjoy...

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twofold

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Paul-

Congratulations again -- twofold!

I know how hard it is to pull this amorphous kind of material together into a cohesive, readable, and understandable whole. You're doing a great job of it. My own writing is progressing slowly with various interruptions and pauses including coordination factors. However, slow but sure does it. Slow can even be fast in the long run. Maybe that's a bit of a rationalization, though.

One of the things that struck me in reading these chapters is how Townsend Brown's own group effort, while coordinating through a seeming separate but at least temporarily affiliated group, could sometimes be quite at odds in perspective. The Peacock/Papers Raid was obviously serious business, though no one got hurt. This seems meaningful in the sense that we might reasonably assume that the Caroline Group did not necessarily completely buy into the agendas of temporarily, or even long term, affiliated groups. I had assumed this before -- even to the point of remarking on a presumed ability to swim with sharks without being eaten. But this offers confirmation. Perhaps Twigsnapper might have a comment.

As ever,

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dapper

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Trickfox-

Quite dapper! Looks like you're ready for a party at Area 51 or the Canadian equivalent.

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Post by flowperson »

Hey...I see guys who look a lot like Trickfox walking by on the street just about everyday here. Or...maybe it's the inimitable Trickfox doing a little teleporting from Canada, eh ?

flow.... :wink:
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only one

Post by Mark Culpepper »

Although many may look like him. I think there is really only one Trickfox!

Thoughts on this situation at Deckers during the summer of 1966.

There were obviously at least two levels to this situation.
Linda was on one level but with her intuitive powers was sensing another.
Ron Moyer seems to be on that same level ( lets call it A) without any instruction I think about what was actually happening under his feet. Thats why his attitude. He was going forth totally without briefing. And I am sure that it was meant to be that way.

Decker on the other hand must have known about the existence of project B even though he may not have known the specifics of it. He was most likely paid for the use of his facility by the Caroline Group. The people then who worked directly with Dr. Brown were also reporting to him as their boss. As their attitude shows. Taking it from Moyers " list" that means there were at least 20 of them on the "inside" of project B.

I think that Decker had taken money from the " Nassau" group.... still needed more ... maybe was getting ready for some sort of " blackmail" or " threats of disclosure" situation and who ever made that phone call to Dr. Brown said as much, from the look of it. So The Caroline Group pulled out. And eventually shut Mr. Decker down entirely. Thats what it looks like to me and I will bet that anyone who investigates further will see signs of that.

And you are right about the symbolism of the peacock I think. Just that I can't quite see all of that yet. So ... again, out of curiosity ....where did the peacock end up?

And you have already written that in the summer of 1967 the Browns were working and living on the coast of California ( Santa Monica) and toward the end of the year there is a meeting at RAND and Dr. Brown announces to Linda that she should " start her own life" that the Project is being " shut down"? Now even more than the thoughts I had before WHAT,WHAT,WHAT, WHAT? MarkC
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mark of a good writer

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And of course its the mark of an excellent story. Where the reader wants MORE. So .... Paul ..... what comes next? Sorry but I can't help asking. MarkC
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I didn't know where this place was, looking around the area, you could be excused for thinking you were back in England.
http://cryptome.org/peary-eyeball.htm

You would have thought that the car may have have developed another fault, as the raid had been completed?
James bond always celebrated a completed mission with a girl.
But Bond was from this side of the pond ?
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