OPERATION CYANIDE
GRAVE CONSEQUENCES: Operation Cyanide Attack on USS Liberty Spy Ship
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
GRAVE CONSEQUENCES: Operation Cyanide
How Operation Cyanide Nearly Started WWIII
“We Don’t Need Poison; We Need a Truth Serum”
© Iona Miller & Charles W. Stone, Cryptoporticus Productions, 2010
See Video http://www.vimeo.com/10833767
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property Grave Consequences, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer. The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” --Forbes
THE STORY
Independent Feature Film - A high concept twist combining action adventure, suspense, and docudrama surrounding a failed false-flag attempt to drag the Cold War Superpowers into the Six-Day War. The covered-up incident – Operation Cyanide, an attack on the USS Liberty spy ship -- is a little-known milestone in history that nearly precipitated WWIII. This Covert Action led directly to escalation of Jihad and terrorism as well as increasing US involvement in the Middle East. It is a tale of collusion, betrayal and heroism that won the Medal of Honor. Like the Gulf of Tonkin and Maine incidents, false flag operations are used as pretext for shooting wars. But who today remembers the USS Liberty and its sacrificed crew? This based-on-fact film is a social issue picture, reflecting "the break up of consensual views of social reality" in a postmodern world. But, “Liberty” is always relevant.
VIDEO - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=263777981595
OVERVIEW
TRUTH FOR REEL Productions is an entertainment enterprise promoting production of feature-length films for theatrical release. Our stories can be produced as “headline-based” fiction -- docudramas -- or factually-based documentaries. Our group of insightful investigative insiders has a unique perspective on world events, clandestine activity and “deep politics.”
Distinct from the main line of historical fiction, in which the historical setting is a mere backdrop for a plot, docudramas demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:
OBJECTIVES
Our goal is to make "movies that matter" - quality, intelligent, commercial films - on modest, cost-efficient budgets. We know how to handle controversial subjects to unpack their stories with emotional logic, without placing “blame,” allowing audiences their own point of view and conclusions. Corrosive secrets are issues that remain or return to relevance. Rather than “fictionalizing,” we illustrate the truth. Conspiracy and “truth” films have gone mainstream. Espionage films remain perennial favorites with wide audiences. “Dramatic license” leaves interpretation open.
The founders of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions bring vision, passion, dedication, and a wealth of talents and experiences to the company. The principals are professional activists and writers with intelligence, promotional, and publishing backgrounds. Our content-driven stories are geared to push the product through all domestic and international venues including U.S. Theatrical, Foreign Theatrical, domestic and foreign network television, video and DVD sales, cable, pay per view and satellite. Our mission is to create valuable feature film products that will generate highly-attractive ROIs for our investors. Obscure, small movies routinely make from two to ten times their investment.
DOCUDRAMA PROJECT
Grave Consequences; Operation Cyanide is an expose that lifts the lid on hidden history that led to 1960s escalation of both US interests and Jihad in the Middle East. Operation Cyanide and the attack on the USS Liberty is an action-packed, covered up incident that could easily have erupted into WWIII and directly lead to escalation of Arab hostilities, including terrorism, toward the West and its interests. It created sentiments which led to al-Qaida.
Without placing blame, the film outlines the complex military and intelligence interaction of the US, Soviet Union, UAR (Egypt), Syria and Israel surrounding the Six-Day War, particularly a failed false-flag attempt by joint US-Israeli intelligence, in response to a Soviet-inspired attempt to destroy Israel’s nuclear capacity and sovereignty. The issue remains diplomatically sensitive, but the public is hungrier than ever for fact-based, unsanitized history that outlines The Big Picture that continues to affect our daily lives in tangible ways. These facts would have been torn from the headlines, but they were concealed. The survivors of USS Liberty still await their “rightful” historical place.
Docudramas recreate reality and can be used to explore social and national history. One need only think of the battles fought over docudramas like Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) or Nixon (1995), In the Name of the Father (1993), Malcolm X (1992), Schindler’s List (1993) and “W” (2008) to see the heat which docudrama generates. The docudrama has become a culturally important form which is the site of political battles over the nature of "truth," "reality," and the media manipulation of history and everyday life. This is not a movie-of-the-week biopic, but a film from an inside view of how it might have happened, with the potential for lasting global and artistic importance. The representation of reality is not equal to the reality it represents. But docudrama does make claims to provide a fairly accurate interpretation of real historical events. In other words, it is a non-fictional drama.
Docudrama argues that lost or elusive moral perspectives can be regained. Functional distortions include created dialogues among characters, expressions of internal thoughts, meetings of people that never happened, events reduced to two or three days that actually occurred over weeks, and so forth. While the actuality a work recreates may show the exercise of right and wrong thrown into jeopardy, the docudramatization of actual people, incidents and events ultimately restores a sense of a moral system at work. The world here can still be a place where on some scale, in some way, the struggle for a balance between right and wrong attains coherence.
Standard dramatic formulas from mainstream film and television apply wholesale to representing history. These conventions include a goal-oriented protagonist with clear motivations; a small number of central characters (two to three) with more stereotyping for secondary characters; causes that are generally ascribed to personal sources rather than structural ones (psychological traumas rather than institutional dynamics); a dramatic structure geared to the length of the program (a two-hour movie might have the normal "seven-act" structure); and an intensification of emotional ploys. The desire for emotional engagement by the viewers (a feature valuable for maintaining the audience through commercials) produces an inflection of the docudrama into several traditional genres. In particular, docudramas may appeal to affects of suspense, terror, or tears of happiness or sadness.
STRATEGY
Critical quibbling aside, the docudrama is one of the most popular and lucrative genres in North America, perhaps because it blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction and in the process generates an emotional hyperreality that brings the audience into the event. Such fact-based documentaries and docudramas are suitable for submission to Sundance Film Festival, Cannes, Toronto and several other major international film festivals that create a buzz. Such films are marketable to all major film markets, including North America, Europe, Asia, NAPTE and American Film Market in Los Angeles. Quality independent films and insightful documentaries have grown their market-share over the last decade. A well produced independent film can maintain high production standards while keeping costs low in comparison to films created by the major studio system.
Foreign markets comprise more than half of a film’s revenue, so our emphasis is on storylines that have interest on all continents. Popular and profitable documentaries have proven that people will go see intelligent movies that strip away propaganda and historical lies. Controversy sells tickets and becomes a built-in aspect of PR. Other options with growing markets include Non-traditional Films, Large format films, direct-to-DVD movies, and small screen films, each having unique market characteristics.
TARGET MARKET
The theatre-going general public thrives on action films with a story. We will do everything in our creative power to make this revealing film receive a rating PG-13 from the MPAA so that it could be suitable for teenagers as well as our primary target audience, which are males 18-65 years of age. All completed films have a significant value in the international marketplace.
STAGES OF PRODUCTION
The budget will cover all stages of production from pre-production to principal photography and post-production, including sound and editing, public relations and marketing campaigns during post-production and after the film’s completion, music clearances and rights, composer, insurance, completion bond, contingencies, and cast. Budget minimum and maximum are cast contingent.
Author and film attorney Mark Litwak says the Hollywood moviemaking system is a complex and cumbersome machine, rife with waste. Producer Arnon Milchan (Pretty Woman, JFK) says no one in Hollywood really knows what they´re doing, and nine out of ten decisions made there are wrong. Only a strong seller´s market could support such incompetence and inefficiency. Producing quality, cost-effective movies on modest budgets will ensure even greater profitability for us, because production costs can not be passed on to the customer. Litwak also notes that most of those in the industry don´t have much to say, while we do.
* SCRIPT SYNOPSIS
Opening scene: The spymaster liked his mistresses as “modern” as he wanted to make his country. In the “swingin’ 60s” apartment of his favorite lover, a very tense Salah Nasr is half dressed, heatedly talking on the phone with his Soviet counterparts. Hurling his shoe through a closed window, he vehemently punctuates Egypt’s urgent desire to push not only “the envelope,” but their target – what his psyops calls “the Zionist entity” -- into the sea, once and for all. The underwater cable crackles with static that is not so unusual for the times. But alert to all espionage potentials, Soviet intelligence on the far end naturally wonders if their seemingly secure phone line has been compromised.
Cut to a “Guppy” submarine in international waters off the Northern Sinai Coast. Frogmen just bugged the undersea cable. They know the Soviets have amassed nuclear submarines off the coast of Israel. NSA cryptographer Lt.-Commander Schleicher rapidly decodes the crucial conversation in case the US needs to take immediate retaliatory measures on Cairo, conventional or perhaps, unthinkably, nuclear… Little do they realize that they and the topside USS Liberty are sitting ducks slated for human sacrifice in a draconian plan to blow the Soviets all the way back to Moscow leaving a clear path to Middle East oil for the West – an ill-fated Operation Cyanide.
Cut to a clandestine meeting in the dark labyrinths of Washington DC. An insider military/intelligence faction argues among themselves with a Mossad agent over what to do next and what they CAN tell the President and maintain deniability… Meanwhile, the USS Liberty is locked in the gun sights of a power trap of competing agendas, target of a Goliath international power struggle. The result is more than a very embarrassing truth. A murderous air and sea attack ensues that leaves the sitting duck Liberty a floating bloodbath, dead in the water.
It actually happened, at least something like that. Salah Nasr headed Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate from the late 1950s until 1967, when he was arrested and tried after the Six-Day War. Shortly after the womanizer’s death, his mistress published her memoirs revealing intimate details of how he exerted significant control on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser by throwing in his path real and imagined coups, assassination and terrorist plots all of which he was responsible for foiling. According to Arab rhetoric, Israel had no right to exist. Utterly destroying Israel and "reversing the results of 1948" was the central goal. Prestige and leadership of the Arab world were based on aggressive confrontation of Israel. In the Six-Day War, Israel responded decisively to the imminent threat in a war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
In 1967 it sure wasn’t the Summer of Love in the Middle East. That June the USS Liberty, the world’s most advanced NSA spy ship, was viciously attacked and nearly sunk by Israeli firepower during the Six Day War. Was it Israel’s “fault” or was there some collusion with US intelligence denied for political purposes? The Cold War was at its height and the US wanted the Soviets out of the Middle East in the absolute worst way – perhaps even enough to risk WWIII. This little known event is in the same class of Covert Actions as the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Gulf of Tonkin Incident which also took place in the 1960s decade.
Had it been revealed, OPERATION CYANIDE meant certain political suicide for the Johnson Administration. The veil of absolute secrecy still conceals the betrayal of USS Liberty’s military and intelligence personnel, who were silenced for decades in the name of national security. Only the most valorous acts of courage saved the remaining crew and the ship from disappearing into the Deep with all her secrets including the newly deployed Moon Bounce Antenna.
But they did not die, despite the fact that air support was withdrawn. Furthermore, a US submarine also conducting espionage surveillance in the same area, briefly surfaced to periscope depth to catch photos of torpedo damage. The battle sounds were so loud that the submariners thought depth charges were being deployed against them. Questions that last a lifetime remained for the surviving crew of Liberty after the needless deaths of 34 of the crew and over 170 seriously wounded. The courageous Captain had to tuck his own guts back in after the bridge of the ship was blown up, while he continued to man the Conn for a stunning 17 hours that the Liberty was literally “dead in the water.”
The BBC, History Channel and other media have occasionally covered the story, but recently new disclosures and revelations have expanded the story. No dramatization has ever been done, because both US and Israeli governments have covered up the truth with the “plausible deniability” that the attack was a case of “mistaken identity”. Now, many influential government and military personnel say it absolutely isn’t so. We have the facts and the story wants to be told so the world knows what happened and what horrible consequences nearly ensued.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE
The synopsis (above) was shopped at NAPTE, 2010 where it was determined better suited to feature film development. It has been extensively researched with core content and characters identified. We have contacted some of the surviving participants for personal stories. A recontextualization has generated publication interest. Online versions of the story have drawn positive response.
The backstory is summarized at http://ionamiller2010.iwarp.com/whats_new_28.html
The core drama and timeline is outlined at http://ionamiller2010.iwarp.com/whats_new_27.html
An un-narrated illustrated video sketch is viewable at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=263777981595 and can be sent upon request.
DISTRIBUTION
Upon securing first monies through private financing, the Grave Consequences Company will seek out pre-sold distribution or negative pickup with a letter of agreement or letter of credit from interested distributors to assist in putting together the total budget for the picture. At present, all rights (including theatrical, cable, broadcast, pay-per-view, home-video, and international) are available.
In a seller´s market, every distributor wants to outmaneuver their competitors and acquire the few commercial independent films available at any given time. Given the scarcity of exceptional, excellent, or even quality ones, we anticipate a lot of competition for all our films, especially GRAVE CONSEQUENCES, which has the potential to ignite a rather fierce bidding war.
COMPANY, CAST, CREW
BUDGET
RISK
INVESTMENT OPTIONS
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Almost all film markets are expanding, and because of new technologies such as HD-DVDs, are also growing in number. So although a U.S. theatrical release is still the initial target, this now accounts for only about 11% of a film´s revenues. Home video, rentals, cable, pay-per-view, and other ancillary domestic markets constitute another 38%. Foreign markets now comprise 51% or more of a film´s revenues and are steadily increasing. So even if a film doesn´t do well at the box office here, it can still be very profitable. In fact, there are many companies producing moneymaking films that aren´t even intended for U.S. theaters. The number of film releases has remained relatively steady while the number of movie screens has increased dramatically.
Outstanding funding required for completion: $XX Million.
If you are an investor interested in this project, please contact Charles W. Stone at [email protected]
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This proprietary memorandum is informational in nature and relates to the packaging, production and distribution of the dramatic property Grave Consequences, written by Iona Miller and Charles W. Stone. It is for your confidential use and consideration only, and may not be reproduced, sold, or redistributed without explicit prior approval of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions.
“The movie industry keeps getting richer and richer. The market for movie entertainment has grown exponentially, and so have the potential rewards for big hits.” --Forbes
THE STORY
Independent Feature Film - A high concept twist combining action adventure, suspense, and docudrama surrounding a failed false-flag attempt to drag the Cold War Superpowers into the Six-Day War. The covered-up incident – Operation Cyanide, an attack on the USS Liberty spy ship -- is a little-known milestone in history that nearly precipitated WWIII. This Covert Action led directly to escalation of Jihad and terrorism as well as increasing US involvement in the Middle East. It is a tale of collusion, betrayal and heroism that won the Medal of Honor. Like the Gulf of Tonkin and Maine incidents, false flag operations are used as pretext for shooting wars. But who today remembers the USS Liberty and its sacrificed crew? This based-on-fact film is a social issue picture, reflecting "the break up of consensual views of social reality" in a postmodern world. But, “Liberty” is always relevant.
VIDEO - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=263777981595
OVERVIEW
TRUTH FOR REEL Productions is an entertainment enterprise promoting production of feature-length films for theatrical release. Our stories can be produced as “headline-based” fiction -- docudramas -- or factually-based documentaries. Our group of insightful investigative insiders has a unique perspective on world events, clandestine activity and “deep politics.”
Distinct from the main line of historical fiction, in which the historical setting is a mere backdrop for a plot, docudramas demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:
- A focus on the facts of the event being treated, as they are known;
- The use of literary and narrative techniques to flesh out or render story-like the bare facts of an event in history;
- A tendency to avoid overt commentary and explicit assertion of the creator's own point of view or beliefs.
OBJECTIVES
Our goal is to make "movies that matter" - quality, intelligent, commercial films - on modest, cost-efficient budgets. We know how to handle controversial subjects to unpack their stories with emotional logic, without placing “blame,” allowing audiences their own point of view and conclusions. Corrosive secrets are issues that remain or return to relevance. Rather than “fictionalizing,” we illustrate the truth. Conspiracy and “truth” films have gone mainstream. Espionage films remain perennial favorites with wide audiences. “Dramatic license” leaves interpretation open.
The founders of TRUTH FOR REEL Productions bring vision, passion, dedication, and a wealth of talents and experiences to the company. The principals are professional activists and writers with intelligence, promotional, and publishing backgrounds. Our content-driven stories are geared to push the product through all domestic and international venues including U.S. Theatrical, Foreign Theatrical, domestic and foreign network television, video and DVD sales, cable, pay per view and satellite. Our mission is to create valuable feature film products that will generate highly-attractive ROIs for our investors. Obscure, small movies routinely make from two to ten times their investment.
DOCUDRAMA PROJECT
Grave Consequences; Operation Cyanide is an expose that lifts the lid on hidden history that led to 1960s escalation of both US interests and Jihad in the Middle East. Operation Cyanide and the attack on the USS Liberty is an action-packed, covered up incident that could easily have erupted into WWIII and directly lead to escalation of Arab hostilities, including terrorism, toward the West and its interests. It created sentiments which led to al-Qaida.
Without placing blame, the film outlines the complex military and intelligence interaction of the US, Soviet Union, UAR (Egypt), Syria and Israel surrounding the Six-Day War, particularly a failed false-flag attempt by joint US-Israeli intelligence, in response to a Soviet-inspired attempt to destroy Israel’s nuclear capacity and sovereignty. The issue remains diplomatically sensitive, but the public is hungrier than ever for fact-based, unsanitized history that outlines The Big Picture that continues to affect our daily lives in tangible ways. These facts would have been torn from the headlines, but they were concealed. The survivors of USS Liberty still await their “rightful” historical place.
Docudramas recreate reality and can be used to explore social and national history. One need only think of the battles fought over docudramas like Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) or Nixon (1995), In the Name of the Father (1993), Malcolm X (1992), Schindler’s List (1993) and “W” (2008) to see the heat which docudrama generates. The docudrama has become a culturally important form which is the site of political battles over the nature of "truth," "reality," and the media manipulation of history and everyday life. This is not a movie-of-the-week biopic, but a film from an inside view of how it might have happened, with the potential for lasting global and artistic importance. The representation of reality is not equal to the reality it represents. But docudrama does make claims to provide a fairly accurate interpretation of real historical events. In other words, it is a non-fictional drama.
Docudrama argues that lost or elusive moral perspectives can be regained. Functional distortions include created dialogues among characters, expressions of internal thoughts, meetings of people that never happened, events reduced to two or three days that actually occurred over weeks, and so forth. While the actuality a work recreates may show the exercise of right and wrong thrown into jeopardy, the docudramatization of actual people, incidents and events ultimately restores a sense of a moral system at work. The world here can still be a place where on some scale, in some way, the struggle for a balance between right and wrong attains coherence.
Standard dramatic formulas from mainstream film and television apply wholesale to representing history. These conventions include a goal-oriented protagonist with clear motivations; a small number of central characters (two to three) with more stereotyping for secondary characters; causes that are generally ascribed to personal sources rather than structural ones (psychological traumas rather than institutional dynamics); a dramatic structure geared to the length of the program (a two-hour movie might have the normal "seven-act" structure); and an intensification of emotional ploys. The desire for emotional engagement by the viewers (a feature valuable for maintaining the audience through commercials) produces an inflection of the docudrama into several traditional genres. In particular, docudramas may appeal to affects of suspense, terror, or tears of happiness or sadness.
STRATEGY
Critical quibbling aside, the docudrama is one of the most popular and lucrative genres in North America, perhaps because it blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction and in the process generates an emotional hyperreality that brings the audience into the event. Such fact-based documentaries and docudramas are suitable for submission to Sundance Film Festival, Cannes, Toronto and several other major international film festivals that create a buzz. Such films are marketable to all major film markets, including North America, Europe, Asia, NAPTE and American Film Market in Los Angeles. Quality independent films and insightful documentaries have grown their market-share over the last decade. A well produced independent film can maintain high production standards while keeping costs low in comparison to films created by the major studio system.
Foreign markets comprise more than half of a film’s revenue, so our emphasis is on storylines that have interest on all continents. Popular and profitable documentaries have proven that people will go see intelligent movies that strip away propaganda and historical lies. Controversy sells tickets and becomes a built-in aspect of PR. Other options with growing markets include Non-traditional Films, Large format films, direct-to-DVD movies, and small screen films, each having unique market characteristics.
TARGET MARKET
The theatre-going general public thrives on action films with a story. We will do everything in our creative power to make this revealing film receive a rating PG-13 from the MPAA so that it could be suitable for teenagers as well as our primary target audience, which are males 18-65 years of age. All completed films have a significant value in the international marketplace.
STAGES OF PRODUCTION
The budget will cover all stages of production from pre-production to principal photography and post-production, including sound and editing, public relations and marketing campaigns during post-production and after the film’s completion, music clearances and rights, composer, insurance, completion bond, contingencies, and cast. Budget minimum and maximum are cast contingent.
Author and film attorney Mark Litwak says the Hollywood moviemaking system is a complex and cumbersome machine, rife with waste. Producer Arnon Milchan (Pretty Woman, JFK) says no one in Hollywood really knows what they´re doing, and nine out of ten decisions made there are wrong. Only a strong seller´s market could support such incompetence and inefficiency. Producing quality, cost-effective movies on modest budgets will ensure even greater profitability for us, because production costs can not be passed on to the customer. Litwak also notes that most of those in the industry don´t have much to say, while we do.
* SCRIPT SYNOPSIS
Opening scene: The spymaster liked his mistresses as “modern” as he wanted to make his country. In the “swingin’ 60s” apartment of his favorite lover, a very tense Salah Nasr is half dressed, heatedly talking on the phone with his Soviet counterparts. Hurling his shoe through a closed window, he vehemently punctuates Egypt’s urgent desire to push not only “the envelope,” but their target – what his psyops calls “the Zionist entity” -- into the sea, once and for all. The underwater cable crackles with static that is not so unusual for the times. But alert to all espionage potentials, Soviet intelligence on the far end naturally wonders if their seemingly secure phone line has been compromised.
Cut to a “Guppy” submarine in international waters off the Northern Sinai Coast. Frogmen just bugged the undersea cable. They know the Soviets have amassed nuclear submarines off the coast of Israel. NSA cryptographer Lt.-Commander Schleicher rapidly decodes the crucial conversation in case the US needs to take immediate retaliatory measures on Cairo, conventional or perhaps, unthinkably, nuclear… Little do they realize that they and the topside USS Liberty are sitting ducks slated for human sacrifice in a draconian plan to blow the Soviets all the way back to Moscow leaving a clear path to Middle East oil for the West – an ill-fated Operation Cyanide.
Cut to a clandestine meeting in the dark labyrinths of Washington DC. An insider military/intelligence faction argues among themselves with a Mossad agent over what to do next and what they CAN tell the President and maintain deniability… Meanwhile, the USS Liberty is locked in the gun sights of a power trap of competing agendas, target of a Goliath international power struggle. The result is more than a very embarrassing truth. A murderous air and sea attack ensues that leaves the sitting duck Liberty a floating bloodbath, dead in the water.
It actually happened, at least something like that. Salah Nasr headed Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate from the late 1950s until 1967, when he was arrested and tried after the Six-Day War. Shortly after the womanizer’s death, his mistress published her memoirs revealing intimate details of how he exerted significant control on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser by throwing in his path real and imagined coups, assassination and terrorist plots all of which he was responsible for foiling. According to Arab rhetoric, Israel had no right to exist. Utterly destroying Israel and "reversing the results of 1948" was the central goal. Prestige and leadership of the Arab world were based on aggressive confrontation of Israel. In the Six-Day War, Israel responded decisively to the imminent threat in a war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
In 1967 it sure wasn’t the Summer of Love in the Middle East. That June the USS Liberty, the world’s most advanced NSA spy ship, was viciously attacked and nearly sunk by Israeli firepower during the Six Day War. Was it Israel’s “fault” or was there some collusion with US intelligence denied for political purposes? The Cold War was at its height and the US wanted the Soviets out of the Middle East in the absolute worst way – perhaps even enough to risk WWIII. This little known event is in the same class of Covert Actions as the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Gulf of Tonkin Incident which also took place in the 1960s decade.
Had it been revealed, OPERATION CYANIDE meant certain political suicide for the Johnson Administration. The veil of absolute secrecy still conceals the betrayal of USS Liberty’s military and intelligence personnel, who were silenced for decades in the name of national security. Only the most valorous acts of courage saved the remaining crew and the ship from disappearing into the Deep with all her secrets including the newly deployed Moon Bounce Antenna.
But they did not die, despite the fact that air support was withdrawn. Furthermore, a US submarine also conducting espionage surveillance in the same area, briefly surfaced to periscope depth to catch photos of torpedo damage. The battle sounds were so loud that the submariners thought depth charges were being deployed against them. Questions that last a lifetime remained for the surviving crew of Liberty after the needless deaths of 34 of the crew and over 170 seriously wounded. The courageous Captain had to tuck his own guts back in after the bridge of the ship was blown up, while he continued to man the Conn for a stunning 17 hours that the Liberty was literally “dead in the water.”
The BBC, History Channel and other media have occasionally covered the story, but recently new disclosures and revelations have expanded the story. No dramatization has ever been done, because both US and Israeli governments have covered up the truth with the “plausible deniability” that the attack was a case of “mistaken identity”. Now, many influential government and military personnel say it absolutely isn’t so. We have the facts and the story wants to be told so the world knows what happened and what horrible consequences nearly ensued.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE
The synopsis (above) was shopped at NAPTE, 2010 where it was determined better suited to feature film development. It has been extensively researched with core content and characters identified. We have contacted some of the surviving participants for personal stories. A recontextualization has generated publication interest. Online versions of the story have drawn positive response.
The backstory is summarized at http://ionamiller2010.iwarp.com/whats_new_28.html
The core drama and timeline is outlined at http://ionamiller2010.iwarp.com/whats_new_27.html
An un-narrated illustrated video sketch is viewable at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=263777981595 and can be sent upon request.
DISTRIBUTION
Upon securing first monies through private financing, the Grave Consequences Company will seek out pre-sold distribution or negative pickup with a letter of agreement or letter of credit from interested distributors to assist in putting together the total budget for the picture. At present, all rights (including theatrical, cable, broadcast, pay-per-view, home-video, and international) are available.
In a seller´s market, every distributor wants to outmaneuver their competitors and acquire the few commercial independent films available at any given time. Given the scarcity of exceptional, excellent, or even quality ones, we anticipate a lot of competition for all our films, especially GRAVE CONSEQUENCES, which has the potential to ignite a rather fierce bidding war.
COMPANY, CAST, CREW
BUDGET
RISK
INVESTMENT OPTIONS
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Almost all film markets are expanding, and because of new technologies such as HD-DVDs, are also growing in number. So although a U.S. theatrical release is still the initial target, this now accounts for only about 11% of a film´s revenues. Home video, rentals, cable, pay-per-view, and other ancillary domestic markets constitute another 38%. Foreign markets now comprise 51% or more of a film´s revenues and are steadily increasing. So even if a film doesn´t do well at the box office here, it can still be very profitable. In fact, there are many companies producing moneymaking films that aren´t even intended for U.S. theaters. The number of film releases has remained relatively steady while the number of movie screens has increased dramatically.
Outstanding funding required for completion: $XX Million.
If you are an investor interested in this project, please contact Charles W. Stone at [email protected]
GORDON DUFF: THE GRUDGE, AN INVERTED HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND AMERICA http://ionamiller.weebly.com/operation-cyanide.html
WHAT ISRAEL IS TAUGHT ABOUT THEIR “BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Sept. 20, 2010 - Two weeks ago, USS Liberty survivor, Philip Tourney, was told he would be killed within a month. The threat made against Tourney, US Navy veteran and heroic survivor of the Israeli attack, torpedoes, napalm, strafing lifeboats, was made by an individual identified as an agent of the security services of the State of Israel.
Though Tourney is certainly outspoken about Israel, this kind of reaction, against a retired member of America’s armed forces seems ill-conceived at best, violating the unwritten code every intelligence operative lives by. Tourney and his wife were threatened. The threat was in public. The Tourneys are “civilians,” non-combatants, hardly legitimate assassination targets.
This threat is timed with admissions by Israeli intelligence sources of, not only new and shocking reasons for the USS Liberty attack but of a previously unknown rift between Israel and the United States dating back to 1967. The roots of this confrontation begin in 1963 with President Kennedy’s written demands to Israel that it dismantle its nuclear weapons program and extend into the present day, an unstated but bitter and poisonous feud.
Admissions are made, in the heat of anger, indicating that Israel had full foreknowledge of the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon better known as “9/11.”
Israeli intelligence sources indicate that both operations had been infiltrated but no effort to prevent the attacks was made. Israel had long ago admitted it knew about the killing of the 241 Americans in Lebanon, well in advance. However, admissions that the terrorist organization said to have planned the 9/11 attacks had been similarly infiltrated is a disturbing revelation.
The rationale initially given American military sources for Israeli failure to warn the United States in 1983 was that such a warning would potentially endanger the value of Israeli intelligence sources.
That has all changed. We are now told that the “stand down” of intelligence sharing was and is based on retaliation against the United States for an incident in 1967. Israel claims that the United States, in combination with Egypt, planned a “nuclear castration” of Israel.
This runs totally opposite of accounts that place Johnson as Israel’s “president of choice,” accounts that support theories of Israel’s complicity in the Kennedy assassination.
One of the most dangerous and controversial policy initiatives of Kennedy’s presidency, even compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was Kennedy’s insistence that the Middle East be free of nuclear weapons and that Israel dismantle its nuclear program by the end of 1963. The crisis reached a height during the summer of 1963 when Kennedy sent written demands to Israel demanding inspection of their nuclear facilities, demands that brought down one Israeli government.
As of November 22, 1963, Israel had not responded to the president’s letter. No response has been issued to this day. Only journalist Helen Thomas, a good friend of President Kennedy, continued to demand that this issue be addressed. Her loyalty to President Kennedy’s memory eventually cost her everything.
The intelligence community almost universally accepts that Israel killed Kennedy, especially when extrapolated through the total lack of media conspiracy “chatter” regarding this, the most obvious possible scenario. Compare this to police arriving on a murder scene; blood drenched suspect standing over a body with an axe in hand.
The first thing they ask, “Did you see who did it?”
The cottage industry of selling wild speculation over the Kennedy murder(s) that never touch on the Dimona demand are seen as conclusive. A nearly five decade disinformation campaign blaming everyone from organized crime to Corsican drug cartels has managed to hide any constructive focus from the general public.
Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, was particularly notice worthy. According to Stone, Kennedy was killed by “southern boys” with too much time on their hands.
THE INCIDENT
Israel claims the United States was planning an attack on its nuclear facilities during the 6 Day War, using the “fog of war” as cover. They now privately claim the brutal attack on the USS Liberty was, not only defensive but a warning to the United States from, as Moshe Dyan calls it, “a junkyard dog.”
Thus, the varying positions on, not only the USS Liberty but America’s allegiances during the “6 Day War,” are irreconcilable. Members of the USS Liberty crew were unaware of any such taskings as indicated in the Israeli accusations. However, carrier personnel with the American battle groups in the Mediterranean at the time have told this author the “load outs” were clearly for ground targets including “runway denial” munitions, cluster weapons designed to crater large concrete surfaces.
A ground attack could have been staged, Israel, Syria or Egypt.
Threats, such as those made against Tourney, were made against other American veterans openly angry at Israel for decades, demanding an explanation for the merciless attack on the US Navy ship in the Mediterranean in 1967, a carefully orchestrated attack of Israeli naval, air and airborne commandos, killing or wounding 201 of 296 crewmen.
We know for certain that the attack was a terrible embarrassment to the United States.
To cover up the incident, the captain was given a Medal of Honor, survivors were decorated, given duty stations of choice and silenced. Israel was allowed to claim they believed they were attacking an unarmed Egyptian cattle boat, an attack of a nearly “Pearl Harbor’ scale.
We believed that Israel still held to this absurd cover. We were wrong, very wrong.
Over 40 years later, we learn from Israeli sources, their side of the story. When we heard it, we were flabbergasted. We now know why Israel is so hostile to USS Liberty survivors and involved in a covert struggle against the United States spanning decades, or at least what they now tell us.
This is their side of the story:
Israel says they were deeply suspicious of President Lyndon Johnson and his National Security Advisor, McGeorge Bundy, a Kennedy Administration hold-over. Israel feared that Johnson and Bundy planned to carry out Kennedy’s plans for nuclear disarmament of Israel, by force if necessary.
Israel is said to have based their suspicions on information received from Soviet sources, information that they were told originated from James “Jesus” Angleton, CIA Counter-Intelligence Director. Angleton, who died in 1987, was the most controversial figure in America’s intelligence community, accused of both being a Soviet mole and a rabid anti-communist, seeing imaginary threats everywhere.
Editor’s note: The intelligence sharing relationship between Israel and the Soviet Union was, in itself, a reason for Israel to be fearful of American retaliation.
According to Israel, the USS Liberty was providing targeting data, they used the term “triangulation,” as its role in a planned American attack which was to begin with the destruction of Israel’s air forces by carrier based aircraft followed by the destruction of the Dimona nuclear complex.
America was believed to be working directly with Egypt and Syria, coordinating a two pronged attack on Israel to eliminate them as a threat to the region. Though overtly Egypt and Syria were allied to the Soviets, in fact Israel’s influence with the Kremlin was known to be a source of broad suspicions in the American intelligence community.
Israel claims they attacked the USS Liberty as a “preemptive” strike to disrupt the planned US attack, a justified act of self-defense and proof that America is and always will be an untrustworthy ally and inherently anti-Semitic.
Increasingly, in ways not noticed publicly, relations with Israel have been strained. Americans are, on the whole, indifferent to the Palestinians living in Israel. Decades of branding all Palestinians as terrorists have indelibly imprinted unquestioning support for Israel in the minds of almost all Americans.
Despite broad control of the media in the United States and Western Europe by Israel, an undercurrent of mistrust exists and is becoming worse every day, a mistrust better characterized as a “falling out” of criminal co-conspirators rather than a moral awakening. Perhaps “junior partners” in America aren’t getting a big enough percentage of “the take.”
Even considering the stresses of two unsuccessful wars and a concurrent monumental economic crisis, the subtext of hostility, decades old but an active and festering animosity, particularly between two nations that are publicly “inseparable” is uniquely disingenuous.
If Israel hates an America and carries an agenda meant to bring America to its knees tied to, what it sees as American betrayal, how do we explain the political and military leaders who support them in their efforts?
Sept. 20, 2010 - Two weeks ago, USS Liberty survivor, Philip Tourney, was told he would be killed within a month. The threat made against Tourney, US Navy veteran and heroic survivor of the Israeli attack, torpedoes, napalm, strafing lifeboats, was made by an individual identified as an agent of the security services of the State of Israel.
Though Tourney is certainly outspoken about Israel, this kind of reaction, against a retired member of America’s armed forces seems ill-conceived at best, violating the unwritten code every intelligence operative lives by. Tourney and his wife were threatened. The threat was in public. The Tourneys are “civilians,” non-combatants, hardly legitimate assassination targets.
This threat is timed with admissions by Israeli intelligence sources of, not only new and shocking reasons for the USS Liberty attack but of a previously unknown rift between Israel and the United States dating back to 1967. The roots of this confrontation begin in 1963 with President Kennedy’s written demands to Israel that it dismantle its nuclear weapons program and extend into the present day, an unstated but bitter and poisonous feud.
Admissions are made, in the heat of anger, indicating that Israel had full foreknowledge of the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon better known as “9/11.”
Israeli intelligence sources indicate that both operations had been infiltrated but no effort to prevent the attacks was made. Israel had long ago admitted it knew about the killing of the 241 Americans in Lebanon, well in advance. However, admissions that the terrorist organization said to have planned the 9/11 attacks had been similarly infiltrated is a disturbing revelation.
The rationale initially given American military sources for Israeli failure to warn the United States in 1983 was that such a warning would potentially endanger the value of Israeli intelligence sources.
That has all changed. We are now told that the “stand down” of intelligence sharing was and is based on retaliation against the United States for an incident in 1967. Israel claims that the United States, in combination with Egypt, planned a “nuclear castration” of Israel.
This runs totally opposite of accounts that place Johnson as Israel’s “president of choice,” accounts that support theories of Israel’s complicity in the Kennedy assassination.
One of the most dangerous and controversial policy initiatives of Kennedy’s presidency, even compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was Kennedy’s insistence that the Middle East be free of nuclear weapons and that Israel dismantle its nuclear program by the end of 1963. The crisis reached a height during the summer of 1963 when Kennedy sent written demands to Israel demanding inspection of their nuclear facilities, demands that brought down one Israeli government.
As of November 22, 1963, Israel had not responded to the president’s letter. No response has been issued to this day. Only journalist Helen Thomas, a good friend of President Kennedy, continued to demand that this issue be addressed. Her loyalty to President Kennedy’s memory eventually cost her everything.
The intelligence community almost universally accepts that Israel killed Kennedy, especially when extrapolated through the total lack of media conspiracy “chatter” regarding this, the most obvious possible scenario. Compare this to police arriving on a murder scene; blood drenched suspect standing over a body with an axe in hand.
The first thing they ask, “Did you see who did it?”
The cottage industry of selling wild speculation over the Kennedy murder(s) that never touch on the Dimona demand are seen as conclusive. A nearly five decade disinformation campaign blaming everyone from organized crime to Corsican drug cartels has managed to hide any constructive focus from the general public.
Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, was particularly notice worthy. According to Stone, Kennedy was killed by “southern boys” with too much time on their hands.
THE INCIDENT
Israel claims the United States was planning an attack on its nuclear facilities during the 6 Day War, using the “fog of war” as cover. They now privately claim the brutal attack on the USS Liberty was, not only defensive but a warning to the United States from, as Moshe Dyan calls it, “a junkyard dog.”
Thus, the varying positions on, not only the USS Liberty but America’s allegiances during the “6 Day War,” are irreconcilable. Members of the USS Liberty crew were unaware of any such taskings as indicated in the Israeli accusations. However, carrier personnel with the American battle groups in the Mediterranean at the time have told this author the “load outs” were clearly for ground targets including “runway denial” munitions, cluster weapons designed to crater large concrete surfaces.
A ground attack could have been staged, Israel, Syria or Egypt.
Threats, such as those made against Tourney, were made against other American veterans openly angry at Israel for decades, demanding an explanation for the merciless attack on the US Navy ship in the Mediterranean in 1967, a carefully orchestrated attack of Israeli naval, air and airborne commandos, killing or wounding 201 of 296 crewmen.
We know for certain that the attack was a terrible embarrassment to the United States.
To cover up the incident, the captain was given a Medal of Honor, survivors were decorated, given duty stations of choice and silenced. Israel was allowed to claim they believed they were attacking an unarmed Egyptian cattle boat, an attack of a nearly “Pearl Harbor’ scale.
We believed that Israel still held to this absurd cover. We were wrong, very wrong.
Over 40 years later, we learn from Israeli sources, their side of the story. When we heard it, we were flabbergasted. We now know why Israel is so hostile to USS Liberty survivors and involved in a covert struggle against the United States spanning decades, or at least what they now tell us.
This is their side of the story:
Israel says they were deeply suspicious of President Lyndon Johnson and his National Security Advisor, McGeorge Bundy, a Kennedy Administration hold-over. Israel feared that Johnson and Bundy planned to carry out Kennedy’s plans for nuclear disarmament of Israel, by force if necessary.
Israel is said to have based their suspicions on information received from Soviet sources, information that they were told originated from James “Jesus” Angleton, CIA Counter-Intelligence Director. Angleton, who died in 1987, was the most controversial figure in America’s intelligence community, accused of both being a Soviet mole and a rabid anti-communist, seeing imaginary threats everywhere.
Editor’s note: The intelligence sharing relationship between Israel and the Soviet Union was, in itself, a reason for Israel to be fearful of American retaliation.
According to Israel, the USS Liberty was providing targeting data, they used the term “triangulation,” as its role in a planned American attack which was to begin with the destruction of Israel’s air forces by carrier based aircraft followed by the destruction of the Dimona nuclear complex.
America was believed to be working directly with Egypt and Syria, coordinating a two pronged attack on Israel to eliminate them as a threat to the region. Though overtly Egypt and Syria were allied to the Soviets, in fact Israel’s influence with the Kremlin was known to be a source of broad suspicions in the American intelligence community.
Israel claims they attacked the USS Liberty as a “preemptive” strike to disrupt the planned US attack, a justified act of self-defense and proof that America is and always will be an untrustworthy ally and inherently anti-Semitic.
Increasingly, in ways not noticed publicly, relations with Israel have been strained. Americans are, on the whole, indifferent to the Palestinians living in Israel. Decades of branding all Palestinians as terrorists have indelibly imprinted unquestioning support for Israel in the minds of almost all Americans.
Despite broad control of the media in the United States and Western Europe by Israel, an undercurrent of mistrust exists and is becoming worse every day, a mistrust better characterized as a “falling out” of criminal co-conspirators rather than a moral awakening. Perhaps “junior partners” in America aren’t getting a big enough percentage of “the take.”
Even considering the stresses of two unsuccessful wars and a concurrent monumental economic crisis, the subtext of hostility, decades old but an active and festering animosity, particularly between two nations that are publicly “inseparable” is uniquely disingenuous.
If Israel hates an America and carries an agenda meant to bring America to its knees tied to, what it sees as American betrayal, how do we explain the political and military leaders who support them in their efforts?
