Chinese Spy Balloon Had
Maneuvering Ability and Similarities to Google AI Balloon Project: Ex-DoD
Official (Connecting the Dots: China, Google,
Kissinger & Soros Funding, All Networking)
The Epoch Times
By Tiffany Meier and Venus Upadhayaya
February 15, 2023Updated: February 15, 2023
A sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2
conducts a search for debris with an underwater vehicle during recovery efforts
of a Chinese spy balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Myrtle Beach,
S.C., on Feb. 7, 2023. (Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy via AP)
The Chinese spy balloon had
maneuvering capability and had similarities to the Google balloon project Loon,
which utilized AI analytics in its operations, according to Col. (Ret.) John
Mills, an author and former director of cybersecurity policy, strategy, and
international affairs at the Department of Defense.
“What’s very interesting is in 2012, I was at Google and Google briefed me on Project Loon, their balloon project.
And they use their advanced AI and analytics to raise and lower the balloon and
they could maintain the position of a balloon by raising and lowering it. And
they could also maneuver it,” Mills said in an interview
recorded on Feb. 9 on China in Focus, a show on NTD TV, The
Epoch Times’ sister media.
He said throughout the “spy balloon” episode that the
Department of Defense has very clearly said that the Chinese balloon had
maneuvering capability.
The Chinese
regime maintained that it was a runaway weather balloon, but the U.S.
administration has refuted such claims.
“This was a PRC surveillance balloon. This surveillance
balloon purposely traversed the United States and Canada, and we are confident
it was seeking to monitor sensitive military sites,” said a senior defense
official speaking on background in a
statement on Feb. 4, indicating that the balloon could steer itself
over the United States.
Mills said that when Google briefed him about the Loon
project a decade ago, he was struck by its similarities with the CIA balloon
projects of the past.
“This looks a lot like the CIA project from the 50s and
60s. It was called by about 10 different code names—Skyhook, AshCan [etc.]. The
Google Project Manager … had left NASA and was working for Google, goes, ‘Yes,
we actually FOA’d [Freedom of Information Act] CIA, and they gave us all the
plans,” said Mills.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, was using Project Loon
to explore the possibility of using a fleet of balloons to beam high-speed
internet in remote areas of the world and was shut down after nine years
because Google couldn’t find a sustainable business model and partners.
However, it was not sufficiently clear why it was shut
down and Tech
Crunch called its closure “surprising,” because a year before,
it had gotten approval from the Kenyan government to provide commercial
connectivity services.
In Project Loon, Google had replicated the information it
received from the CIA through the FOA, but what was different was that Google
used its advanced artificial intelligence and big data analytics to maneuver
the balloon, according to Mills.
“The Chinese spy balloon had maneuvering capability,
which is interesting. So did the Chinese rip-off Google, which borrowed from
CIA? Curious question!” he said.
The Epoch Times reached out to Google for comment.
Mills thinks that the Chinese were clearly conducting
surveillance over specific U.S. strategic sites.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they were over the
three … existing missile wings,” said Mills, adding that the United States
roughly maintains 450 Minuteman III missiles on alert at three different
missile wings. “So roughly 150 missiles each at Malmstrom Montana Air Force
Base, Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota—which also has a bomber base—then
Francis E. Warren in Wyoming.”
The Minuteman is a strategic weapon system using a
ballistic missile of intercontinental range, according to the Defense
Department website, and the American intercontinental ballistic
missile force has remained on continuous round-the-clock alert since 1959. The
Minuteman III missiles make up the most responsive leg of the nuclear triad.
“The Chinese were clearly conducting surveillance. They
were exploiting gaps and seams in our air surveillance, our air picture. They
clearly were doing that, and they were clearly collecting information and it
also looked like the trackway went over Strategic Command Headquarters at
Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska,” said Mills.
He suspects that the Chinese balloon was a spy operation
and while it was over Nebraska, the Chinese were spying on the underground
facilities.
“They were clearly doing electronic signals collection,
perhaps imagery, perhaps measuring intelligence—all forms. Believe me, they
probably had all kinds of different little sensors and subsensors collecting
everything. So, there’s no question; they can call it weather all they want,”
said Mills.
Connecting the Dots:
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. was an ambassador to China for the Barack
Obama administration and is a director at the National Committee on
United States-China Relations, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
J. Stapleton Roy was
a U.S. ambassador for China, is a director at the National
Committee on United States-China Relations, an executive board member for
the United States-China Policy Foundation and a trustee at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. was a co-chairman for the United States-China Policy
Foundation, the National Intelligence Council chairman nominee for
the Barack Obama administration is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros is
the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
Victoria Ransom
is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) and was a director of product for Google Inc.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a
funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), a member of Kappa Sigma and the founder of CNN.
James R. Sasser is
a member of Kappa Sigma, a director at the National
Committee on United States-China Relations, a co-chairman for the United
States-China Policy Foundation and was a U.S. ambassador for China.
Chen
Zhili is the education minister for China and is
a director at the ClimateWorks Foundation.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the ClimateWorks
Foundation and the International Rescue Committee.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Winston Bao Lord is
an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and was an
ambassador for China.
Madeleine K.
Albright was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee
and a director at the National Committee on United States-China
Relations.
Henry
A. Kissinger was a director at the National Committee on
United States-China Relations, is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee and the founder of Kissinger Associates, Inc.
J. Stapleton Roy was
the vice chairman for Kissinger Associates, Inc. the U.S.
ambassador for China, is a director at the National
Committee on United States-China Relations, an executive board member for
the United States-China Policy Foundation and a trustee at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. was an ambassador to China for the Barack
Obama administration and is a director at the National Committee on
United States-China Relations, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. was a co-chairman for the United States-China Policy
Foundation, the National Intelligence Council chairman nominee for
the Barack Obama administration is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros is
the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
Victoria Ransom
is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) and was a director of product for Google Inc.
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