Anser

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

ANSER ( http://www.anser.org) is a public-service research institute, an independent, not-for-profit corporation chartered in California with the assistance of the RAND Corporation (->) founded in 1958. In October 1998, Dr. Ruth David (former Director for Science and Technology at the CIA) became president and chief executive officer of ANSER. David and ANSER started to work on the idea of a Homeland Security already in 1998. Between 1998 and 1999 she already pushed the CIA to forge new partnerships with the private sector and helped creating In-Q-Tel. "Ruth David and her Deputy, Joanne Isham, were the first senior Agency officials to understand that the information revolution required the CIA to forge new partnerships with the private sector and design a proposal for radical change." Source: http://www.in-q-tel.com/news/attachments/in-q-tel_cia.html

In November 1999, Dr. David initiated ANSER's Homeland Defense (->) Strategic Thrust to address the growing national concern of multi-dimensional, asymmetric threats from rogue nations, sub-state terrorist groups, and domestic terrorists. In May 2001, the ANSER Institute of Homeland Security finished their final concept, still a few months ahead before the Sep11th attack took place and Tom Ridge (->) became famous. Dr. David served in several leadership positions at the Sandia National Laboratories (->), where she began her professional career in 1975. Mr. Aaron Cohen received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1952 and an M.S. degree in applied mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1958 A&M is connected with the CIA. In May 2002 Texas A&M regents "named former CIA director Robert Gates on Saturday as the sole finalist for university president. Five of the seven regents who attended the special meeting voted for Gates, 58, who served as CIA director from 1991-93.

Another Chairman on the Board of Advisors of ANSER is Dr. Jay C. Davis

For the three years prior to rejoining Livermore in July of 2001, he served as the founding Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the Department of Defense. From 1969 to 1971, he was an Atomic Energy Commission Postdoctoral Fellow in nuclear physics at the University of Wisconsin.

In the 1970s, he was principal scientist and project manager for the design and construction of the Rotating Target Neutron Source­II Project, building the most intense 14-million-electron-volt neutron sources in existence, used for nine years by the United States and Japan for fusion materials testing. In the 1980s he became the founding Director of the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, building the most versatile and productive accelerator mass spectrometry lab in the world.

Dr. Davis played a major role in the application of accelerator mass spectrometry to the biosciences, particularly in low-level toxicology and in dose reconstruction from events such as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl. In 1994, he was asked to merge several research organizations at Livermore to create the Earth and Environmental Sciences Directorate. In 1998, he became the first Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency ( http://www.dtra.mil/ ), integrating DoD's technical and operational activities to deal with weapons of mass destruction. At the DTRA they developed the Thermobarics, which they later used in Tora-Bora: http://www.dtra.mil/td/thermo/td_thermo.html

Davis is on advisory bodies for the CIA and the National Nuclear Security Administration. He has served as a visiting professor at Texas A&M (chemistry) and Angelo State University (government). He is on the Board of Directors of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

Dr. Davis participated in two UN inspections of Iraq in the summer of 1991, having major operational and scientific responsibilities in the inspection process. He was selected as the only non-UN member of the team that briefed the UN Security Council after the confrontation at Fallujah on June 28, 1991, that produced the conclusive evidence of Iraqi evasion of the inspection process and violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Excerpts from an article by GROUND ZERO Forum (->), originally released at Scoop: "Officially ANSER describes itself as a public-service research institute, an independent, not-for-profit corporation chartered in California with the assistance of the RAND Corporation in 1958. This organisation, with one base close to the Pentagon, was founded to help them respond on a day-to-day basis to identified needs for unbiased studies and analyses. If this is indeed a day-to-day basis, then ANSER must have known about all warnings about an attack and the advice to the Pentagon of September 10th, that their employees should not take a plane the following day. 

ANSER has its home office in Arlington, VA and other offices in Colorado Springs, CO; Newport News, VA; Stoneham, MA; and Fairmont, WV. Current President and Chief Executive Officer of ANSER is Dr. Ruth David. In November 1999, she initiated ANSER's Homeland Defense Strategic Thrust. From September 1995 to September 1998, Dr. David was Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the CIA. She served in several leadership positions at the Sandia National Laboratories, where she began her professional career. Sandia is one of the institutes, which is working on new thermo-nuclear or microwave weapons. From 1991 to 1994, Dr. David was Director of the Development Testing Center that developed and operated a broad spectrum of full-scale engineering test facilities. Dr. David is a former adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico and has technical experience in digital and microprocessor-based system design, digital signal analysis, adaptive signal analysis, and system integration. 

In June 2001 ANSER sponsored a BioTerror Scenario called DARK WINTER (->), which included role playing, but didn't inform the public. Participants included Jerome Hauer (->) (ex-OEM New York), James Woolsey (ex-CIA director) and many others. http://www.house.gov/reform/ns/web_resources/briefing_memo_july_23.htm 
http://www.house.gov/reform/ns/107th_testimony/testimony_of_jerome_m.htm

Another executive of ANSER is General Hatch, who has held numerous positions on the staffs at Headquarters Strategic Air Command (SAC), Offutt Air Force Base (->); at Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC; and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense http://www.anser.org/aboutanser/bios/trustees/hatchbio.html Nothing is known on Hatch's whereabouts on September 11th. Miriam E. John, another ANSER executive, is Vice President of Sandia's California Division. (->) http://www.anser.org/aboutanser/bios/trustees/johnbio.html 

At least 3 other ANSER executives worked for the CIA, too or still have ties to the Intelligence Agency or the Pentagon. One example is H.B. Zachry, who held several positions leading to his appointment as Manager of the Command and Service Module in the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office. Another is Dr. Mignogna: http://www.anser.org/aboutanser/bios/corpofficers/mignognabio.html 

He has served on high-level Air Force and DOD study efforts such as the Strategic Bomber Penetration Assessment Group and the Strategic Penetration Technology. Mignogna is an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the American University and a member of the AIAA Weapon Systems Effectiveness Technical Committee.

Dr. John Gannon, who works at ANSERs Homeland Security, served as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1997-2001) after serving for two years (1995-1997) as the Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA. homelandsecurity.org/Hls%2FAbout%20Institute/gannon%2Ehtm 

Mr. Gannon earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in history from Washington University in Saint Louis and a B.A. in psychology from Holy Cross College in 1966." Source: scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00068.htm

Other ANSER connections, partners or Homeland Security connected projects: 14th Air Division, Beale Air Force Base A&M University Advanced Information Technologies AIAA Air Force Air Force Association Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System (PAS III) American Astronautical Society (AAS) American Defense Preparedness Association American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Analytical Computing Service, Inc Arlington Association of the United States Army (AUSA) AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ Biological Weapons Convention Caspar Weinberger (-> Iran Contra) Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. Cia College of Aeronautics (New York) Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism Corvey Engineering Company Dataplan Defense Science Board Department of Defense Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Technology Area Review and Assessment panel DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) Earth and Environmental Sciences Directorate Eta Kappa Nu Falcon Foundation (U.S. Air Force Academy) Fannie and John Hertz Foundation FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) (->) Headquarters Strategic Air Command (SAC) Headquarters U.S. Air Force Intellibridge Corporation (->) Johns Hopkins University (->) Lockheed Martin Corporation (->) Madansky and Associates National Academy of Engineering (NAE) National Academy of Science National Nuclear Security Administration Natural Gas Pipeline Company Naval Academy Sailing Squadron New York University College of Engineering (Shell models, Arima-Horie models, Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superfluids) Newport Nsa Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Naval Studies Board Office of the Secretary of Defense Offutt Air Force Base (->) Operations Research Society of America PCR (Post-Conflict Reconstruction) RAND Corporation (->) Rockwell's Systems Development Center Rotating Target Neutron Source-II Project Royal United Services Institute Sandia Labs Federal Credit Union (->) Sandia National Laboratories/Sandia's Chemical and Biological Defense Program Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Technical Advisory Group Shea & Gardner (->) Sigma Gamma Tau Sigma Xi Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals Strategic Defense Initiative Advisory Council Tau Beta Pi U.S. Army and Air Force chemical and biological warfare protection program UN Security Council US Army War College Wendy Gramm (See Enron) West Point (->) Williams & Connolly LLP WORMSC

Compare: The Anser Institute http://elitewatch.netfirms.com/ANSER.html The Anser Institute of Homeland Security http://elitewatch.netfirms.com/ANSER_homeland.html (->Elitewatch.Netfirms.com)

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