LETTER TO WILLIAM CASEY FROM GWYNN GARNETT

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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
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Executive Registry
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Personal
Mr. William Casey, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
What I read leads me to think that some CIA, DOD and USDA
"intelligence" about world food is incorrect and incomplete.
This is an effort to help. Food is the ultimate weapon among
super powers. Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev will negotiate the
level of sub-systems and other subordinate matters at the
Summit. Mr. Reagan does not know that food is the ultimate
weapon; nor does he know the importance of South Africa in se-
curing the ultimate weapon for the USA and the West. Mr. Gorba-
chev does not know the vulnerability of the USSR to food, even to
an interruption of materials from South Africa and through the
Straits.
Food systems of the USA, USSR, EC-10 and Japan are non-
sustainable; food for all depends on access to strategic
materials from South Africa and the Straits, depends upon
alternative farming systems by the:end of the century. Under-
standably, individuals at CIA, USDA, DOD, IBM, AT &-T do not have
the background and vision to comprehend the problems and
solutions of F & A worldwide. Understanding its subtle workings
and potentials will require an organized task-force supported
with high-tech information management, thought processing,
networking and accessing. Downloading, suitable for CIA, would
take about three weeks. The details are complete.
Attachment #1 is material to show how Food has become
the Ultimate East-West weapon, since WW II and that
South Africa controls that weapon.
Attachment #2 is a position outline for the USA to take
command at the Summit of the Ultimate Weapon.
Attachment #3 is a piece, "Food is the Ultimate
Weapon." I have sent it to U.S. and U.K. media. I
hope it will be validated and re-written by journalists
to break before the Summit.
Attachment #4 is a chart showing demand, indigenous
production and imports required by the USSR from 1960
to 1985 and projections to 2010.
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Attachment #5 - C B S Coordinated Biofarm Systems,
Inc., Profit Information Exchange, Inc. - PIE, for
Food and Agriculture, Worldwide
I will reserve this "Food package" for CIA until Nov. 3 and
then try to interest the media. If you wish, I will meet with
you. Call me at
Cordially,
GG:djc
Encl.
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Attachment #1
How Food has become the Ultimate Weapon Since WW II
Since WW II, Western nations have industrialized
agriculture; that made them depend on industrial inputs to make
inputs for agricultural production. Following are maps that show
the world's oil traffic on the same theater on which foods play
their role. To complete one facet of the world food situation,
add to the world's flow of oil for 1985 and 2010 and then place
in succession the following transparent overlays on top of each
of the four:
1. The World's flow of Strategic Materials required
for making agricultural inputs
2. The World's Flow of Industrial Inputs for
Agricultural Production
3. The World's Flow of Foods
4. The Soviet Military and Naval Presence Along the
Trade Lanes.
The effect of industrial farming systems on the structure
and the life of soil are available; the effects of long range
industrial farming on agricultural production have been
estimated. The effect of foods from industrialized food systems
on human cells and genes are available; these effects on
industrial societies has been evaluated.
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1/ Overlays: 1. Strategic Material Traffic - 4 periods
2. Food Production Requisites Traffic - 4 periods
3. Food Traffic - 4 periods
4. Soviet MiIitarv.anti Naval Presence - 4 periods
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To Europe 6
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comparative uii Trarric - rour rerious & Transpaienc:ies 1/
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SOUTH SOUTH OCEAN
PACIFIC ATLANTIC INDIAN
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Comparative
Oil Traffic
1975
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South African keserves as a Percentage
of World Reserves in 1975
World Percentage
Mineral Ranking World Non-Communist .
. platinum
chrome ore
vanadium
gold
manganese ore
fluorspar
diamonds
nickel
uranium
zinc
phosphate rock
asbestos
antimony
. lead
iron ore
coal
titanium
World
1 86 99
1 83 84
1 64 96
1 49 61
1 48 84
1 46 50
2 8 92
3 10 12
4 . 17 30
4 9 9
4 8 .8
5 10 14
5 4 10
5 4 5
6 4 6
6 2 4
8 2 40
Balance of Production and Consumption
of all Mineral Commodities
Production as % Consumption as Production as %
of world total % of world total of consumption
Western world 42.2 64.5 .65.4
Communist 26.9 25.9 103.9
world
Third World 30.9
South Africa's Mineral Exports in 1975
Western Europe 20.4%
Japan 19.6%
West Germany 18.2%
U.K. 16.6%
USA 10.6%
Africa 7.4%
Canada 4.1%
Central & S. America 1.0%
Far East Asia 0.9%
Australia & New Zealand 0.7%
Middle East 0.3%
Eastern Europe & USSR 0.2%
Percentage of total imports of minerals in 1974
supplied by South Africa to her five
main trading partners
South African Mineral Production as a
Percentage of World Production
SOURCE: South Africa's Strategic Minerals
by W. C. I. van Rensburg and D. A. Pretorius.
Mineral
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uranium
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chrome ore
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asbestos
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ferrochrome
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nickel
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manganese
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fluorspar
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Attachment 2
A Position Outline
for the U.S.A.
to Take Command of the Ultimate Weapon
1. Food is the ultimate weapon (see attachment #1 and piece by
Gwynn Garnett, "Food is the Ultimate Weapon.")
2. There are revolutionary innovations in food production
efficiency, profitableness and healthfulness that are
waiting for use.
3. The brain and nervous system of' the new food revolution is
electronic information management and communications systems
coupled with thousands of resource efficient, low-input
practices already available.
4. The new innovations (called CBS) can be aimed about the
world via satellite with laser-like precision.
5. CBS is modular with 2,000 to 4,000 growers each. Modules
can begin with one or a group of foods in one or a
combination of areas.
6. CBS can be partially operational in 1986, and can be
programed to mainstream in industrial countries by 2010 and
in underdeveloped countries by 2020. The up-front
investment will be under $25 million, and profits high
because of the value of the information.
7. If it wished, CIA could control and use food as the ultimate
weapon through the new innovations.
8. Position for U.S.A.: Mr. Reagan invites Mr. Gorbachev to
join him at the UN to establish a "Protectorate" for South
Africa - to protect the food supply of the USSR, the mid-
East, China, Japan, the EC-10, the U.S.A. and other
countries in the Western Hemisphere, Africa and S.E. Asia.
CBS will mainstream, sooner or later, because of its
potential profits for growers and information managers. It could
commence in 1986 modestly. It might take 10 years to commence.
CBS has developed over many years. Much information is
available; details for start-up are complete.
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F O O D I S T H E U L T I M A T E W E A P O N
Introduction to a 3-part series
Gwynn Garnett
The Green Revolution in agriculture after WW II changed
dramatically the way nations are fed; industrializing food
systems made the world too small and the time too short for
atomic weapons. But, defense plans of all nations ignore these
changes. Food has emerged as the ultimate weapon. Mr. Gorbachev
and Mr. Reagan will represent their constituencies at the Summit
to negotiate the levels of weapons sub-systems.
With some of these same weapons technologies and the same
generation of biological technologies, the world leaders could
use the Summit to trigger a Good Revolution that would secure the
supply of healthful foods for their constituents. Later if they
felt compelled to negotiate about the level of weapons sub-
systems, they could schedule a Summit for that later on.
Food is the ultimate weapon, not in the hands of
beligerants, God forbid, but because of the nature of the food
systems that have emerged since WW II in industrial nations
The food supply of all industrial nations is now insecure:
- The USSR, Japan and the mid-East depend on the
Western Hemisphere for essential foods and
freedom of the seas.
Food production in the Western Hemisphere and
Europe depends on South Africa for vital
industrial minerals and on access to the Persian
Gulf and Straits of Good Hope for petroleum.
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See the map on the opposite page showing the dependence of
the nations of the world on each other for foods and for the
strategic materials to produce industrial inputs to grow foods.
These dependencies of antagonists on each other are
ignored. There are more subtle but more important changes in the
food supply of industrial nations since WW II. They too are
ignored. Two of the subtle effects of industrialized food
systems are:
- Farming systems that depend heavily on industrial
inputs are biologically unsound, so they are
inefficient, unprofitable and'non-sustainable.
- Foods from industrialized farming systems are
hazardous to eat.
The USSR and the USA and nations who depend on the USA for
food imports are vulnerable to the unsound farming systems; the
USSR, Japan and the mid-East are importers most vulnerable. The
USA, Canada, South America and the EC-10 are not reliable
exporters of food in a time frame of twenty years, even if there
is no interruption in the supply of industrial inputs.
Industrialized farming systems offer foods that endanger
health and national gene pools; the systems have been practiced
for only one generation; after two and three generations,
populations will panic and be destabilized by fear that foods
cause sterility, illness and birth defects, and national defenses
based on weapons sub-systems will collapse of their own dead
weight.
Why are Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Reagan not informed about the
ultimate weapon? Is it because mass producing healthful foods
abundantly embraces the most complex phenomena in life, that
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of converting non-life particles to Life, cosmic energy to food
for the renewal of Life? Or did the "Information System" break
down in the F & A sector? Are weapons sub-systems the limit of
governments' understanding? The magnitude and prevalence of
ignorance about food in the world linked with a Summit on weapons
sub-systems is a cause for pity.
With great humility, I will try to draw on a life and a
world of experiences to write three articles about "Food is the
Ultimate Weapon" in an effort to shed, light on: _
Part 1 The Food Supply of All Industrial
Nations is Insecure
Part 2 Why Industrialized Food Systems are
Vulnerable
Part 3 A Quantum Leap to Mass Produce Healthful
Foods Profitably is Waiting to be
Triggered by Information Management
Entrepreneurs
I do not have the means to do these adequately but they need
to be done; it has not been done. I will try and hope that
others with means will rally to do it.
The three parts will raise questions about Food as the
Ultimate Weapon. These questions are too vital to each nation's
security to depend on secondary information such as mine. Part 3
of the series will suggest procedures so any nation can evaluate
for itself its food situation. With a small group of its own
personnel and electronic information and communications systems,
any nation can validate my postulates for itself within 10
weeks. The validation will reveal that industrial food systems
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are non-systainable and that information is available for
all nations to secure their supply of healthful foods and how to
do it. No government programs are needed to mainstream healthful
food systems by 2010 in industrial nations and by 2020 in
undeveloped nations.
Ed. Biographical note: (based on resume of resume)
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F O O D I S T H E U L T I M A T E W E A P O N
Part 1 The Food Supply of all Industrial Nations is Insecure
Gwynn Garnett
The food supply of all industrial nations is now insecure,
not in the hands of beligerants, God forbid, but because:
1. Each nation has industrialized its
agriculture since WW II and now depends on
likely antagonists for food or the industrial
raw materials needed to grow food. -
2. Industrialized food systems are
non-sustainable beyond a few generations
because of the biological nature of the
food chain.
3. Industrial food systems are frail, complex
and vulnerable to shortages of industrial
inputs, disease, weather, pests, sabotage and
because they are economically, ecologically
and sociologically unsound.
4. Mainstream foods are a hazard to eat; food
related health problems will escalate inthe
second and third generations of
industrialized food systems that will
destabilize societies.
The first priority of each government is to secure the
supply of healthful foods for its people. The food supply of no
industrial nation is secure, even before taking account of
the biological consequences of a nuclear war.
The only good about industrialized agriculture is that
it made antagonists depend on each other for food or requisites
to grow it; it makes atomic conflicts absurd until the supply of
healthful foods is secure. Leaders of nations still formulate
plans for defense in orthodox terms, oblivious of the fact that
the industrialization of agriculture after WW II made food the
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ultimate weapon, made adversaries dependent on each other, put
the government of South Africa in a strategic position to dictate
the flow of vital requisites for industrial inputs for
agriculture throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Since WW II, agriculture worldwide has become dependent upon
fertilizers, pesticides, chemicals, machinery, industrial seeds
and fuels; the production of each of these inputs and the
production of foods depend on petroleum. Petroleum for food
production.in the Western World depends on access to the Persian
Gulf through the Straits of Good Hope. The supply of food
production requisites for the Western World depends on access to
South Africa for platinum, vanadium, chrome, manganese,
industrial diamonds and fluorspar; the production of food and
food production requisites in the USA depends on the USSR for
some nitrogen and vital minerals.
The USSR depends on food imports of 40 to 55 million tons
p.a. from the USA and from nations who depend on the USA for food
production requisites. Food import requirements of the USSR are
increasing exponentially and will continue as long as her farming
concepts are biologically unsound. The USSR imports ???? million
tons p.a. of phosphates from the dwindling reserves of the USA.
Food exports of the USA will fall to fractions by the end of the
century unless her production concepts become biologically sound.
Industrialized farming is like industrialized fishing: it can be
industrialized progressively to increase the catch until the
herring, the anchovies, the sardines and the oysters are gone;
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industrialized farming is like mining: it can be industrialized
to increase the yield until the vein is exhausted. Growing foods
embraces exquisite biological phenomena.- it can be
sustainable and abundant, but this will require profitable
changes in the USA, the USSR and the EC-10.
By the year 2000, it is likely that food supply will be
short enough and worrisome enough to destabilize the societies of
the USSR, the USA, the EEC, Japan and Egypt, whether there is
a disruption of world trade or not; if there is a disruption, the
destabilization will come sooner. Destabilization of populations
due to food will make meaningless the "Superiority" or the
"Equivalency" of weapons sub-systems. If leaders were doing
their jobs, they would recognize that industrialization of
agriculture changed the relationships among nations since WW II.
The USA and the USSR seem most oblivious of the ultimate weapon.
If the USSR bombed industrial centers in the USA,
industrialized agriculture would starve, food supplies would
be thrown into chaos; exports of food and exports of industrial
requisites to other food exporting nations would stop; food
imports of the USSR from the USA and from nations dependent on
the USA for requisites for agriculture would stop; chaos. in many
cities would result. If the USA bombed industrial centers of the
USSR, food production on state farms and cooperatives would be
decimated; chaos would follow. The USSR's exports of
agricultural nitrogen and strategic materials to the USA would
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stop; USA production of foods and farm requisites for export
would be crippled.
A change in the government of South Africa is virtually
certain; the friendliness of the government that will follow
toward the West is uncertain. The West would continue to receive
the petroleum and strategic minerals. But if the Straits and the
minerals were in the hands of an unfriendly government, they
probably would be available but subject to conditions dictated by
the new government and their supply to the West could be
insecure; then industrialized food production would be insecure
in the West. Food for nations which depend on exports from the
West would be insecure - USSR, Japan, EC-10 and the mid-East.
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The Food Supply of the Each Superpower is Insecure
The food supply of each super power is a complex mosaic.
Computer Profiling data banks and thought management aids are
needed to keep them in focus. Some major considerations of the
food supply of the USSR illustrate:
1.
How
the
Mr.
much food and what quality of food will
Russian people demand to satisfy what
Gorbachev is leading them to expect?
2.
What production will the weather and the
farming system dictated from Moscow-bring
forth?
3.
What will be the security of food production
in nations on whom the USSR will depend
increasingly for food and phosphates: a) how
much will be left for export after domestic
demands are met, b) will there be biological
compatibility of food systems with sustained
abundance, c) will Western suppliers have
access to the Persian Gulf through the
Straits of Good Hope and. to South Africa and
the USSR for vital minerals. .
4. Will there be freedom from atomic conflict.
The chart on the opposite page shows the make-up
of grain supply for the USSR in the perspective from
1965 to 1985 and projected to 2010. The origin of
imports in 1984/85 is shown. Not included are imports
of oil, seeds and other foods and feeds.
I believe the demands of the USSR for foods will increase
over the next 25 years, beyond what she can produce or find
available in the world for import. That will be so, even if
there is no disruption in the import of strategic materials to
Western suppliers. The quantity of food will be inadequate to
meet the demand; the quality of food will trigger panic before
the end of the century. When Mr. Gorbachev has a World Food
Situation Report, he will divert his nation's efforts from
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weapons sub-systems to food, the ultimate weapon, to avoid being
consumed by it. How secure is the supply of the food for the
USSR from 1985 to 2010? Check my reasoning and conclusions.
Major considerations in the food supply of the USA for
domestic use and for export depend on:
1. How much food and what quality of food will the
American people demand?
2. What farming system will growers use to make the most
profit and the weather bring?
3. Will the USA continue to-have access to the Persian
Gulf through the Straits of Good Hope for petroleum, to
South Africa for strategic minerals, to the USSR for
minerals and nitrogen?
If American people demand foods with high measured healthfulness
and low in harmfulness to satisfy their growing fears of food
related sterility, illness and social abberations, food
production will drop severely because much land area cannot grow
healthful foods until rehabilitated; however, if growers adapt
practices more compatible with the biological nature of plants
and more profitable, the total production of foods for home use
and export will increase. But if the USSR and other foreign
nations adopt the same innovative practices, foreign demand for
American foods might fall. These defy measurement but leaders
should prepare to accommodate whatever happens. ,
The most important consideration of food security is that
industrial farming systems are not sustainable. They are like
industrial fishing and mining. See accompanying micro-photos
which show how industrial farming destroys soil life and
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structure and breaks the biological food chain. The most
impressive works revealing the effects of industrialized farming
were done by NOVA (PBS) (The Agricultural Situation and Seeds for
Tomorrow) and by Ward Sinclair of the Washington Post. Pioneering
magazines like ACRES and New Farm have monitored the agricultural
debacle for years.. The last issue of John Deere's prestigeous
FURROW Magazine unveiled a search for alternative farming
systems. Until there is a change in farming systems, industri-
alized food production will require more and" more industrial
inputs until non-sustainable levels are reached and production
falls. The USSR, the USA and all other nations whose agricul-
tures rely on high levels of industrial inputs will be caught in
this squeeze.
The security of food supply for export from Canada,
Argentina and the EC-10 depends on the same factors as food
supply from the USA plus their dependence for industrial inputs
from the USA. Aside from the uncertainties of the effects of
atomic conflict, the most variable factor in.the food equation,
within and among nations, is the response of populations to the
deteriorating quality of food from industrialized farming
systems. On the opposite page are chromatographs showing the
effects of industrial farming on living cells. Such impaired
cells work through our bodies year after year, eroding the
national gene pool from generation to generation. Studies show
that body functions of animals fed mainstream foods deteriorate
commencing the second and third generations. As some of these
same responses become manifest in humans, fear will grip the
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populations of the USSR, the USA, the EC-10 and the others;
nothing will matter but healthful foods, whatever that may take -
equivalency or superiority be damned.
An atomic conflict would destroy the facilities that produce
the industrial inputs to grow foods, the power to grow them, the
transportation to get them from farms and to and from ports. The
biological consequences of an atomic conflict adds a hideous
dimension. Stocks would be inconsequential and meaningless. Let
those responsible for national defense policy validate my
postulates for themselves; think how they got into such a mess
and how they can get out. The first step is for them to get a
"World Food Situation Report" and then secure food for their
constituents. The spectacle of Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Reagan
preening themselves like game cocks at the Summit to negotiate
levels of weapons subsystems is a cause for pity. They should
prepare themselves prayerfully to protect their constituencies
from being consumed by the ultimate weapon - food.
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I aim writing to inquire of your interest in several articles
on "Food is the Ultimate Weapon."
Industrialization of agriculture since WW II made the food
supply of each antagonist depend on the other - made the food
supply Of each industrial nation 'insecure; food has emerged as
the ultimate weapon. Industrialization of world agriculture
since WW II has changed the relationship of nations to each other
apparently In ways too subtle for governments to understand.
Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Reagan are negotiating about weapons
sub-systems oblivious of that fact.
The spectical of world leaders devoting their utmost
attention to the "Superiority" or the "Equivalency" in weapons
sub-systems is pitiful and meaningless when "Food is the Ultimate
Weapon;" it raises strategic, social and philosophical questions
that should be debated while there is time. Those who can should
urge those With means to use information management, computer
profiling, graphics, pictorials, video and essays to get the
information to the top on both sides.
The first part of the series might be something like the
attached. tf you are interested, please send your guide to
writers and comments or call
Cordially,
Gwynn Garnett
GG:djc
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Attachment #4
USSR: Total Grain Requirements
Production and Imports
Select Years Reported and Projected to 2010 1/
Year Requirements Production Imports
Million Metric Tons, Total Grains
1965
129
113
9
1970
177
177
1
1975
171
132
26
1980
214
179
34
1985
210
178
36
2010
269
169
100
2/
1 Consumption increasing at 1% p.a. for a population in-
creasing at 1% p.a.
2 Where might this quantity originate?
Note: Numbers do not balance because of some exports and stock
changes.
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Attachment 5
C B S
COORDINATED BIOFARM SYSTEMS, INC.
Profit Information Exchange, Inc. PIE
for
Food and Agriculture, Worldwide
Gwynn Garnett
Thousands of farmer-scientists worldwide have been
researching more profitable farm practices; thousands have
adopted forms of eco- and biofarming for the highest sustained
profits. They draw ideas from among themselves, from
universities, industry, medicine and pure sciences. They trade
ideas and results through media, associations, conferences,
demonstrations and personal exchanges. Their numbers are
growing. The need for such information and idea exchanges is
shown by corn; more than a hundred high profit practices may
apply under each of many situations; most of the practices that
apply in a given situation are symbiotic; a grower cannot take
advantage of many without information and program management.
Information is the big farm problem.
Based on work already done over the last century, a group
among these farmer-scientists have developed an organized program
to restructure food and agriculture that can mainstream in
industrial societies by 2010, without government. The aims of
the program are a) sustained profits for growers, b) human health
and c) environmental protection. It does sound immodest, but the
benefits from the surge in space, communications, medicine,
creative finance, pure sciences and most important, in
information management help make it possible. Because Food and
Agriculture embrace the most complex phenomena in life -
converting non-life particles to Life, cosmic energy to food for
the renewal of Life - its need for information management is
overwhelming.
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When put into practice, the new concepts will increase farm
resource efficiencies from 2 to 5 times and multiply profits for
most growers. The principles apply from Iowa to the Sahel. The
program will benefit every facet of life. No government programs
are needed.
The new concepts are called "Coordinated Biofarm Systems - CBS."
Implementation of CBS worldwide will require several large
information management companies and tens of thousands of new and
modified small companies as infrastructure. CBS is programed to
mainstream by 2010 in industrial countries and by 2020 in the
underdeveloped countries. Its Profit Information Exchange - PIE
in addition to its information function will do the coordination
and Program Management for CBS..
The aim of CBS is sustained profits for growers - not labor
efficiency, not food for the hungry, not exports to balance
international payments - sustained profits for growers. However,
it has been observed that high profits, high yields, high
quality, environmental protection and information management are.
indivisible. Thus tied to profits for growers are health,
abundance and environmental protection for the society.
CBS is based on innovations principally in four areas:
1. High-profit, low-input, resource-efficient
technologies and practices now available, but not
available for recall by growers.
2. Electronic profit information exchange and
communications systems to serve growers, bankers and
the rest of the infrastructure.
3. Commercially practical measures to differentiate
the nutritive value of foods - to. be available at
points of sale to consumers, processors and exporters.
These will guide growers to raise and consumers to buy
healthful foods for less.
4. Coordinated and programed infrastructures to serve
the production and marketing needs of growers, within
the existing system.
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CBS will begin to relieve the following problems within months
after it has been launched:
1. Relieve most distressed farmers, bankers and the
FCA,in early 1986
2. Commence to contribute billions of dollars p.a. to
balancing the federal budget and U.S. international
payments
3. Increase farm commodity and land prices by 20 to
100% by 1990
4. Address aggressively environmental protection and
conservation needs
5. Commence the mass production and marketing of
healthful foods
6. Rehabilitate thousands of rural communities with
tens of thousands of small private businesses
It took the developers over 20 years to observe phenomena in
many countries, formulate postulates and test them. But, it
should take a task force - think tank less than 10 weeks to
download and make a preliminary validation of CBS postulates with
the following support:
1. Electronic Information Management and
Communications
2. Network and download for information and ideas,
worldwide about sustained grower profits, and related
human health and environmental protection. See partial
lists attached:
a. Select scientists who have proven practices
b. Universities and Institutions
c. Business, Industry and Media
3. Access 40 information nets, thought processing,
profiling, graphics and word processing.
4. Network 1000 cooperating growers worldwide as
sounding' boards to test configurations of high-profit
practices.
This will accomplish the validation of CBS postulates and
establish the first Profit Information Exchange - PIE. It could
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be ready for service in the spring of 1986. Initially, the CBS
Profit Information Exchange will have the following components:
CBS Coordination of:
Other
Information
Information
Services
Supply
Information
Recall
Services
Information
& Farm Mgt.
Program Mgt.
Spreadsheet
Control & Analyses
Marketing
Computer Profiling
Employment
Enterprise Configuration
Activities
Program Management
The information appears to be so profitable that subscribers and
groups can be expected to pay $3,000 to $5,000 p.a. for services
and that 6 to 8 million will subscribe worldwide by 1990.
The details for initially verifying the base and for CBS start-up
in early 1986 are available. CBS is Modular; a Module may have
from 2000 to 4000 growers; Modules may embrace one or more
products, or areas or both. A module may be started anywhere
worldwide after the information system is in operation.
Efforts have been made to interest IBM, AT & T and other
information managers. But, individuals do not have the
background and vision to comprehend F & A -problems and CBS
solutions. There is need for a task force - think tank supported
with electronic information management, networking, thought
management, accessing, analyses, graphics and word processing.
Its aim should be to validate whatever CBS postulates wash and be
ready to serve farmers and bankers early in 1986. The time
should be within 10 weeks to save the $11 billion alone for FCA
plus countless thousands of farmers and communities.
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Resume of Resume
G W Y N N G A R N E T T
Rancher near Greybull, Wyoming
Student, Iowa State College of Agriculture, BA, ROTC
Statistician, Farm Credit Administration, Omaha, Ne.;
IBM Equipment; University of Omaha,
Instructor of Statistics in Night School
Instructor, U.S. Army Infantry School, WW II
Commander, Infantry Company, European Theater
Director, Food & Agriculture, OMGUS and West Germany,
Quadripartite negotiations re German
Reparations; Rehabilitation of German
Agriculture, Food Import and Distribution;
Berlin Airlift
Lobbyist, American Farm Bureau; author PL480, Food for
Peace. Draft written in India
Administrator, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service - F & A
Intelligence, Foreign Market Development,
Reports to Congress
Vice President, Pan American Airways, task force that
built Intercontinental Hotel Chain - Program
Management
CEO, Joint Ventures - Vertical food businesses in
Nigeria, Spain, Iran, Greece and the USA
Author - CBS Reader No. 9
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[STAT'
Mr. William J. Casey, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
There is a Good Revolution in farm efficiency ready for
use. The likes of AT & T and IBM could bring it forth to relieve
the Farm Crisis in 1986 and mainstream it by 2010. No government
programs are needed. It cannot surface through the present
Establishment.
It is so innovative and so achievable that it is
incredible. It is the biological equivalent of E = MC2.
The new Food and Agriculture technologies could be the trump
card for the USA at the summit with the USSR.
If you are interested, call me at
Yours truly,
GG:djc
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Resume of Resume
G W Y N N G A R N E T T
Rancher near Greybull, Wyoming
Student,'Iowa State College of Agriculture, BA, ROTC
Statistician, Farm Credit Administration, Omaha, Ne.;
IBM Equipment; University of Omaha,
Instructor of Statistics in Night School
Instructor, U.S. Army Infantry School, WW II
Commander, Infantry Company, European Theater
Director, Food & Agriculture, OMGUS and West Germany,
Quadripartite negotiations re German
Reparations; Rehabilitation of German
Agriculture, Food Import and Distribution;
Berlin Airlift
Lobbyist, American Farm Bureau; author PL480, Food for
Peace. Draft written in India
Administrator, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service - F & A
Intelligence, Foreign Market Development,
Reports to Congress
Vice President, Pan American Airways, task force that
built Intercontinental Hotel Chain - Program
Management
CEO, Joint Ventures - Vertical food businesses in
Nigeria, Spain, Iran, Greece and the USA
Author -1CBS Reader No. 9
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Continued Resume of Resume
Conceptualized and helped to implement
P.L. 480, Food for Peace - U.S. food surpluses
converted to capitalize international trade and
development of poor countries
Business & Industry Development Co. Systems
of small businesses for poor countries
satellites of small U.S. companies
Coordinated Biofarm Systems, Inc. Systems of
Small Farms with Electronic Project Management PM
Commercially Practical - Measures of Nutritive
Value (MNV) available at points of sale
Electronic Profit Information Exchange (PIE)
for Food Systems, worldwide
Immediate Relief for Distressed Farmers with high
Technologies, PIE and innovative procedures
High Profit Farming with PIE Multiple choice
of maximum profit operations with given land,
labor and capital
Emergency, National Food Systems in case of
interruption of industrial raw materials or
food supply, disease, pestilence, drought,
riots, pollution control, terrorism or war
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