The Correction Scenario

By George O’Connor

For years, analysts in and out of government have predicted that a major shift in the world power structure could take place, throwing the U.S. government into total chaos. They never could have imagined the actual catalyst: a former CIA operative who uses his skills and training to bring down the United States government and replace it with something better.

Now, one analyst will try to help average Americans rebuild the pride they once had. He will try to do this by developing a “Correction Scenario.” The power lies with him to create a new government built on basic democratic principles, so that the United States will once again be a major world player. However, will the powers that be let him live to see his plan become reality?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Aug 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483454818

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Beginning and the End

The Early Years

The Military Years

The Assignments

The Russian Contact

The Scenarios

Safe Haven

Dying the First Time

Building the Correction Scenario

The Removals

Executing the Plan

The Correction Scenario

Interlude

The Meetings

Gathering the Intel

Dmitry Initiates the Congressional Contacts

The Lieder Meeting

Race for the Presidency

The Implementation

The Rebuilding of America

Corporate America Comes of Age

The World Becomes A Better Place

The Speech

The World Mending Summit

The Final Chapter or Is It?

Janet’s Final Chapter?

About the Author

Preface

W hen a government ceases to exist for its citizens, it ceases to be a living entity. The average citizen participates in electing a government and hopes that the elected officials will carry out the will of the people. Recently, we have seen the breakdown of the United States government. We cannot blame the frustrated analysts who recommended scenario after scenario for the government to execute or the average Americans who has voted for a congress in hoping they will make the correct decisions to lead their country. We also cannot blame the analyst or the average American for turning on their own government, for in reality the government has turned on them.

Russia and China have started to upstage the United States through simple maneuvering, while the US administration fumbles in the dark attempting to make decisions and take the right path. American companies on the other hand, have the same paths they can chose from most take the right path. Why the US Government fails to make the same decisions and take that right path is almost amusing but in reality very sad.

It is only a matter of time before two major events will happen. The first is a major revolution in the United States and second, China will become the dominant super power throughout the world. The American government cannot stop the inevitable from happening in its present condition.

For years, analysts in and out of the government have predicted that a major shift in the world power structure will take place, throwing the US government into total chaos. Like the Roman Senate, Congress has succumbed to power and greed, While the Administration fiddles away, Rome will burn.

The analysts who saw this coming hope that through this chaotic era, the American people will not only be able survive but also create a new government based on the basic democratic principles that will rebuild the United States into a major world player. This power lies within all people, over their government.

This is the story of one analyst who tried to help the average American rebuild the pride they once had. He tried to do this through developing the Correction Scenario.

Introduction

The Beginning and the End

A s he woke, he realized it was 4 am, his usual time to get out of bed, but then he realized he was finally retired and there was nothing to analyze. Reading the late breaking news, last night’s situation reports and the latest intelligent readings from the field agents were all finished. Top-secret clearance gone, agency contacts gone, partners gone and most of all nothing to do, he was now completely out of the game. However, the most important thing, his wife was dead, dead of cancer.

His mind wandered back to the first time he realized he had a talent for research and analysis. He could look at almost any situation and arrive at the possible scenarios and the probabilities of which scenario would be the best approach for a successful outcome. His first assignment, analyzing the outcome of US air superiority in Viet Nam based on the readiness of the Phantom and Intruder jets. This put him on the fast track to develop scenarios for aircraft readiness, gathering data for command decisions to correct dangerous situations for pilots and navigators. He knew the corruption in the federal government was deeply rooted and it would be impossible to correct the errors, but only minimize them.

He realized it was time to put an end to this insanity, which allowed the US government to wield its unfettered power throughout the world in the name of democracy. He would gather the notes from all his assignments and create a document that would potentially lead to the fall of the current US government and bring forth the rebirth of a new era of US world leadership. He knew once, the Correction Scenario had been implemented; he would have to leave the United States and cease to exist.

The Early Years

I t was early September and he was driving to college for his first semester. He wondered if he had made the right decision, in going to college instead of pursuing a career in the culinary arts. As a 14 year old, he could cook rings around many accomplished cooks. A friend who gave him his first cookbook had inspired him but his parents prevailed and off to college he went. As he arrived on campus, he noticed the stately buildings, the spans of maple and elm trees cascading up the main entrance and the Great Hall of the main building. Once inside he entered the mad world of students scurrying around to sign up for the required courses in their curriculums. After getting his class schedule, he proceeded to his assigned dorm, only to find out that they had run out of room, he and twenty other freshmen were to go to a local motel on the beach for their first semester boarding.

On his first day of class, he realized he was different from the other freshman. Most freshmen congregated together for moral support but he drifted away from the crowd to be alone. He would soon realize that he was a loner; with a self imposed wall that would not allow anyone to pass through, with the exception of one person, a person he fell in love with in high school and eventually married. A person he would love and lose to an early death. The one scenario he would fail to predict correctly.

During his first semester, he worked hard to grasp the essentials of accounting and economic principles. As he grasped them, he realized that economics was an area he enjoyed and quickly grasped. As luck would have it, he joined the business fraternity and quickly became the housemaster at his frat house. Again, luck would intervene, one of his fraternity brothers; a student aid to the Business Administration Department was graduating and they were looking for a new student aid. This starts the story of the making of an analyst. For the next three and half years, he would learn the science and art of analysis.

On his first day, he was to meet some of the great minds of the Business Department. Three were top economist, three were top financial wizards and two were top legal minds. One of the legal minds had tutored a potential future US President. His department chair seeing the thirst for knowledge quickly restructured his course schedule so he could spend most of his class time with the professors, learning the relationships of accounting and economic theories. In his sophomore year, he would fill his mind on statistical analysis, realizing the relationship among the three disciplines.

In his junior year, he met to a professor of economics, Dr. Strand at the State University. This relationship completed his college education as an analyst. He would not only learn how to build statistical models, but also analyze the impact they would have on world situations. He developed a model that showed how economic modeling, could be used as a starvation technique in almost any country.

At the start of his senior year, a war in Southeast Asia broke out. He realized that after graduation he had one of two choices, go to graduate school or enlist in the military service. He knew the decision would be difficult. On one hand, he saw the political unrest in his country, with students rioting on campuses all over the U.S., yet on the other hand, he remembered the three years he served as a ships officer in the US Merchant Marines. As a Purser in the US Merchant Marine’s he sailed to many Caribbean and South American countries making important connections, some of which would prove to be influential in his dealings with one major South American crime family later in his career as an analyst, the Familia Corporatival. One of these connections was a man who had powerful connections throughout South America while another had powerful connections throughout the Caribbean.

While sailing in his second year as a summer time relief officer, he met this powerful man Olivia, who introduced him to the South American crime family. During his sailing trips, Olivio began to introduce him to more influential and powerful men, some with questionable ethics and backgrounds.

Matt also met a group of men, who controlled many businesses in South America and the Caribbean Islands from Curacao to Brazil. The men were from respected families and were beyond reproach. While he did not fear any of their powers, he respected what they could do, with or without malice. It would have been an easy and profitable life to stay in the merchant marines, but his skills as an analyst and his love for one woman made it impossible. These men would play an important role in many of his future government assignments, including the removal of congressional leaders and business heads. The final removal was The Death of a Presidency a removal from office of the Vice-President and President of the United States.

During his senior year, his department chair assigned him a challenging task. The task was to develop a working model to predict power and monetary shifts in the US over the next ten years, based on data he had gathered at the university with Dr. Strand. This was the ultimate challenge; a model of such magnitude was beyond comprehension. He would build it on his previous models from the university. His first challenge was to see if he could get Dr. Stand to buy his preliminary assumptions on world power and monetary shifts.

A month went by and he was ready to approach the doctor with his first model. As the doctor read Matt’s paper and model exhibits, he realized that the student had now become the teacher. He also realized that in the wrong hands the model would be devastating to many countries. He felt it was time to have a meeting with his federal contacts, to discuss the best way to channel this student’s models.

It was early spring when Dr. Strand’s government contacts called him. They informed him that they wanted to meet the student and discuss his hypothetical models. He immediately called Matt’s department chair to arrange a meeting with Matt to discuss the potential meeting with his government contacts. Later that month, Dr. Strand, Matt and his eventual Agency handler Williams met and went over the models with all concurring that they were theoretically accurate and feasible.

The following week he went to Washington to meet Dr. Strand’s contacts. The first group he met was a bunch of bureaucrats, who did not have the first inkling of what he was telling them, but as luck would have it, the chair of the President’s Economic Advisory Board was to have lunch with the student.

He had never been to Washington and was unfamiliar with the surroundings, especially the restaurants. The Economic advisor took him to the Hay Adams for lunch. While he was impressed with the décor, he felt the food was not worth the price. During the lunch, he started to explain his models to the Presidential economic adviser, who immediately became enthralled with the workability of the initial premise. His first thought was to arrange a meeting with the President, but realized that the President would not have the first clue how powerful a tool this would be to the United States. He knew it was time to step back and plan the right approach for the unveiling of these models, telling Matt he would contact him in a few days, after analyzing the models in further detail. Matt went to the hotel to await a phone call from the advisor. While he was waiting in his room, he called his fiancée Diane to let her know he would not be back for several days. That night he received a phone call from the advisor and told that a government agent would pick him up the next morning. The following morning an agent picked him up and drove him out of Washington and into Virginia. He was not sure where they were going until they arrived at Langley, realizing then he was at CIA Headquarters.

Once inside the main building he noticed the nameless plaques on the wall of honor. He was ushered to a conference room, where again he met agent Williams. Williams explained he would be in charge of their current and future meetings, regarding the models. The agent started to discuss the various programs within the CIA and asked Matt to review them over the next several weeks, prior to his graduation. Williams escorted Matt to a private office on the third floor to meet with the Director of Special Operations. Once inside his office, they started to talk about the models and what impact they could potentially have on world economies. After taking notes, he thanked Matt for his insights and had Williams escort him back to the main lobby and transport him back to Washington.

When Matt got back to New Jersey, he realized what could happen if he accepted a position with the CIA upon graduation. The hard part was not being able to tell his family or fiancée that he was considering such a career. Reviewing all the material he had been given he noticed a new program offering that would allow him to follow his own career path and accept consulting assignments given to him by the Agency. He called Williams, who was his handler and queried him about the new program. He explained that he would be one of the first in the program and would be a test case as a consultant to the Agency.

That night he met his fiancée. They started to discuss her career. He asked her why she had to stay in New Jersey. She told him she was studying to become a registered pharmacist in New Jersey and enrolled as an intern at a mid state pharmacy to comply with state requirements. He then realized that his love for her precluded him from taking a full time position with the Agency. The next day he called Williams and said he wanted to accept the consulting position.

The Military Years

M att graduated and spent the next two months training for his consulting position at the CIA. The FBI performed a special background check, which he passed. The State Department proceeded to issue him a top-secret clearance. The agency knew Matt’s draft status and suggested he join the Navy. Matt concurred that the Navy was the best place for him, but knew they had not suggested this for his benefit. What came next was a real surprise. He was to fill out an application, for Air Officers Candidate School, but once in the Navy he would fail the medical and become an analyst for the Navy, with a specialty in maintenance analysis.

The Navy at that time was just starting to create the role of analyst. While the Navy had intelligence officers’ on ships, they had no clue what an analyst’s would do. Again, as fortune would have it, they needed someone to redesign the military maintenance systems for its Phantom fighter and Intruder bomber aircraft heading to Viet Nam. He received orders to report to NAS Oceana. Oceana was the master jet base located in Virginia and close to Langley.

Arriving at NAS Oceana, he went to the Air Administration office, under the command of Lt. Belson. Belson did not know of Matt’s affiliation with the CIA and assumed because he was a college graduate that failed to past the pilot physical, the Navy had assigned him to his office to utilize his analytical background. His first assignment came from Lt. Commander Hadley who was in charge of the air wing. The Lt. Commander reviewed his background and found it interesting they attached Matt to his air wing and not the Pentagon. He read Matt’s orders that stated he was to redesign the Military Maintenance Management System (3M). Matt was to start the assignment on the following day. The following day he reported to air administration. Once he had settled in, he reviewed the background of the system and realized that not only was the system outdated, but also the contractors who supplied the components for the fighters and bombers must have been corrupt, to the point of bribing enlisted men and officers to fudge the maintenance records. The records made no sense, as to the high failure rates of certain expensive components. The assignment would be more than a rewrite; it would also be an investigation of corruption.

The first thing he did was contact Williams to inform him that this would not be a short and easy assignment. Williams agreed to meet him and discuss in detail what needed to be accomplished. The following evening he went off base to meet him at a location in Alexandria, VA. As he walked into the apartment, he met his NAS Oceana contact. Janet was in a civilian personnel position at the base and had free access to personnel records. Williams reviewed the findings and concurred that the assignment would be tricky. Williams told Matt that Janet was more than a clerk she was with the CIA in a support capacity. He was to use her skills as required.

Once back on base he proceeded to analyze, investigate and start redesigning the system. He met with the key aerospace contractors and started to review their flight maintenance results. Being the new person on the maintenance team both the naval personnel and contractors thought they could bury him with false data and continue their scheme. Matt knew he had to develop a plan that would circumvent the false data and obtain the information he needed.

That evening he went off base and meet Janet at a small out of the way bar. He told her of the erroneous data and enlisted her help in finding trustworthy naval personnel to enlist in his own data-gathering plan. She felt that his plan would place him in danger and suggested they use a field agent. He thought about this and said that it would take too long to bring the agent up to speed on the assignment, and a naval person would be more realistic in the assignment.

The next morning he gave her a list of the type of potential candidates he needed for his data gathering team. Janet would vet them and give him a potential list of candidates. Several days later, she gave him the list and they concurred the candidates were acceptable. Matt told Janet to go ahead and arrange a meeting with them. Matt would brief them on the project. In addition, to do this he rented an off base apartment under an assumed identity. Each weekend his team would meet with both of them to analyze the new data. They began to realize the data that was gathered was completely different then the data the aeronautical manufacturers were giving to the Pentagon. Once Matt gave the data to the CIA, it would prove the diversion of millions of dollars from the fighter and bomber programs. The money was going to offshore accounts of executives, government officials, US Senators and Congressmen.

As he started to analyze the data, he realized the mean time between failures (MTBF) was false, placing planes and flight crews in extreme danger every time they flew a sortie. He met with Janet and informed her it was time to have a meeting with Williams. That weekend they headed to DC to meet him. Again, he checked into the Hay-Adams, but this time Janet joined him. Because of the sensitivity of the meeting agenda, the meeting was in his hotel room.

At 6 PM, Williams came to the room. Matt let him in and said he would get Janet, who had an adjoining room. Janet came into Matt’s room and after everybody got a drink, sat down to a long and intense night of data review and potential scenarios, that would expose the group involved in the data manipulation. They agreed that Matt and Williams would present the findings at a joint meeting of the DOD, CIA and FBI.

Once the meeting was over Williams left Matt and Janet. They decided to have a nightcap and discussed the potential danger to both of them, if the assignment was ever exposed. It was also becoming apparent that it was becoming harder to keep their relationship on a purely professional basis. That evening they made love for the first time, knowing that nothing would ever come of it.

The following morning Matt left the Hay-Adams and headed for Oceana. He knew once he got back to the base he would have to start the ball rolling. That afternoon he had a squash date with Lt. Commander Hadley. Hadley had looked at Matt’s service jacket and noticed he was an avid squash and tennis player and he always welcomed fresh blood. Matt knew through Williams, Hadley could be trusted. Also being in charge of the air wing and a veteran Viet Nam pilot was the one man that would understand his findings. After finishing two sets of squash, Matt asked Hadley if they could have a conversation on the flight line. Hadley looked at Matt and said it was highly irregular; but knowing Matt’s background in analysis he agreed to meet him at the remote high power turn around after daily flight operations.

At 2100 hours, Matt met the Lt. Commander and revealed his data findings and his meeting with two other people, careful not to mention their names. Hadley was impressed with Matt’s findings and after hearing the scenario, which Matt was going to execute, was concerned it would place Matt and his go-between in danger. He asked Matt to keep him in the loop and they both went their ways.

The next morning, Matt arrived at his office at 0500 and started working on the failure rate reports, knowing that once they were released to the contractors’ representatives the shit would hit the fan. It was time to expose the ring and shut it down. He worked for several hours on the report and broke for lunch. After lunch, he played a round of tennis with the Atlantic US Navy tennis team. He learned to play tennis in high school and continued through college and the service, qualifying for the US Navy Atlantic tennis team. After showering, he grabbed a quick snack and headed to the technical flight hangar to teach a course in failure rate analysis to F-4 and A-6 pilots and navigation officers.

As he walked back to his office he noticed someone was following him. He ducked into fight ops and walked out onto the flight line, knowing that air maintenance crews would be servicing planes for the next morning’s flights. He walked behind some auxiliary power units and waited to see who would come out of flight ops. It was not long before he saw a person he would never have suspected, was following him. He waited until the person left and proceeded to walk across the flight line avoiding any lights. Once in his office he continued to work on his report.

The next morning he informed Lt. Commander Hadley he was going to submit his report to his handler, John Williams. Hadley asked him to come over to his office and bring the report, he wanted to review it, so as not to be blindsided upon its release. He left his office and walked through the main maintenance hangar to Hadley’s office. What happened next caught Matt off guard, for someone had informed NIS that he was giving confidential reports to a third party. Upon entering the office, he noticed two civilian personnel sitting opposite Hadley. Hadley asked for the report and started to read it. After reading the entire report and reviewing the analytical data, he gave the report to one of the civilians who asked Matt how he came about this data. Sensing something was wrong Matt stated that he had been analyzing reams of maintenance data from various squadrons over the past two months. The agent reviewing the report stated that acquiring this data by a non-com was highly irregular and could be misconstrued. At that moment, Matt knew the two men in the office were from the Naval Investigation Service (NIS) and realized they were there to place him under arrest, for potential espionage. However, in fact they had marked him as the primary suspect for the murder of Jay Fielder. Fielder was a petty officer assigned to the same division as Matt.

The agents escorted Matt to the NIS office and placed him in an interrogation room. For the next hour, he sat alone. The door finally opened and two different agents walked into the room and sat down. The older agent had a folder, which he opened, and after a long moment turned it towards him; the photo was the mutilated body of a sailor. He recognized the face, as that of Jay Fielder. Fielder was a person he knew and assigned to the same division as Matt. He asked if Matt knew the person in the picture, he respond yes. The agent started his interrogation. The problem with most interrogators is they cannot create a plausible scenario; they fumble around asking random questions with haphazard trap questions to trip up the suspect. While this agent was a cut above the typical NIS agent, he still had problems connecting each question into a plausible scenario. After an hour of questions and answers, he realized there was something different about this suspect. He walked out of the room and had another agent call the Bureau of Personnel (BUPERS) to confirm who Matt was.

Ten minutes later the agent came back and stated that BUPERS would not release any information on the sailor, except that he was on active duty and stationed at NAS Oceana. The senior agent turned and walked back into the interrogation room. He stared at Matt for several minutes without saying a word. All of a sudden, he jumped to his feet and yelled at Matt, Who do you work for? Matt looked at the agent quizzically. The agent was starting to lose control of the interrogation. Matt knew things were going to start getting dicey and he should defuse the impending disaster. He related to the agent his rehearsed response that he and Williams had agreed upon, if he should ever need it.

Matt said that he was curious about the high failure rates, and did not realize his data gathering and analysis was a violation of military law. He was new to the service and just wanted to do a good job. He knew the agent would have to accept the answer or potentially place suspicion on Lt. Commander Hadley, who had given him the assignment. The agent then asked him where he was at 1900 hours on the previous day. Once again, Matt stated that he was the night master at arms at his barracks. The agent had this information verified and realized Matt could not have murdered Fielder. It was not until 38 years later, this time enlisting Matt’s help did NIS, which was now called NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigation Service), find out who murdered Jay Fielder and why. The agent told him to watch what he was analyzing in the future and bring any findings directly through the chain of command.

Matt headed towards the barracks to change his clothes and head off base. He watched in his car’s rear view mirror to make sure that no one was following him. He stopped at a bar on the beach to call Williams. He explained to Williams what had happened and felt NIS had bought his story. He asked Williams to run a check on Lt. Belson and find out if he ever was passed over for promotion and if so how many times; also look into his financials for any irregularities. For it was Lt. Belson Matt saw following him on that evening. After talking to Williams, he realized he had to wrap up his data gathering and analysis as soon as possible. Time was running out.

The next day he called Janet and arranged a meeting with her. That evening they met off base at an apartment belonging to one of her girlfriends. She poured both of them a drink and he started to explain to her why they had to get the data team together, for one final meeting. This meeting would prove that all the data pointed to one military officer and several aeronautical manufacturers; it also would give a conservative estimate of the siphoned money and lost lives of numerous flight officers, shot down over Viet Nam because of faulty aeronautical equipment.

The following week was intense, between the data gathering and the final analysis the team compiled should be enough evidence to put the officer in Leavenworth for twenty years and the responsible manufacturing executives to a federal prison for a long time. It was time to call Williams and have him arrange a meeting with the Judge Advocate General’s Office (JAG) and present the evidence.

The following Monday was a day he would never forget. Williams met him at the Judge Advocate General (JAG) building at the Washington Naval Yards and they proceeded to the conference room. Matt met the JAG staff; this included an Admiral, two JAG attorneys, an FBI agent and a special investigator from the US Attorney General’s Office. Williams asked Matt to give the group the complete background, regarding the request for the initial investigation, his team’s findings and their conclusion.

For the next several hours, Matt presented a scenario of such magnitude that the JAG officers looked shocked that this could happen and go undetected. Upon completion of his findings, Matt sat back emotionally drained and asked if there were any questions. Once the JAG officers got over the initial shock, they pelted Matt with one question after another. Once he answered all their questions, the Admiral cautioned him not to reveal anything. He and Williams left. Once outside Matt turned to Williams and asked what would happen? Williams said he was not sure, but he would let him know when he knew.

That night he met Janet. They had dinner at a remote beach restaurant, which served a great Bouillabaisse and had a bottle of Montrachet. Once dinner was over, they walked on the beach and headed back to their cars. They kissed and said good-bye, possibly for the last time.

The following morning he was called to Lt. Cmdr. Hadley’ office; he entered and was greeted by the Lt. Commander. The Lt. Commander introduced Matt to Mr. Williams. Hadley until that moment did not realize that Matt and special agent Williams, from the CIA knew each other. Williams smiled and told Matt it was time to move onto the next assignment; the FBI and DOD would finish the rest of the assignment. He also said that Lt. Belson was in custody and charged under several articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Hadley looked at Matt and said he had one big set and wished him the best of luck on his next assignment. Matt walked out of Hadley’s office and went to his barracks to start packing; he knew he was going home for some R&R, before he started his next assignment.

Matt arrived home late Thursday morning. He knew Diane would be working at the pharmacy until 5 PM. He went into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator, knowing it would be empty; how much food does one person need when living alone. He also reviewed the liquor situation and found one bottle of white wine. It was time to go shopping.

Two hours later, he came back with provisions for the evening and started marinating the rack of lamb in rosemary, garlic and wine. Once done, he prepared his first martini; careful to only rinse the iced glass with vermouth. He poured his martini, went into