[33] Matthew Everett, NORAD Exercise a Year Before 9/11 Simulated a Pilot Trying to Crash a Plane into a New York Skyscraper–The UN Headquarters, Shoestring 911, July 27, 2010, http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2010/07/norad-exercise-year-before-911.html

[34] SEADS Concept Proposal: Amalgam Virgo 01, accessed atwww.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/AmalgumVirgo.pdf

[35] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with Colonel Robert Marr, prepared by Geoffrey Brown,, January 23, 2004

[36] SEADS Concept Proposal: Amalgam Virgo 01

[37] Daniel Hopsicker, Will secret deal bring old management back to Venice Airport FBO?, Mad Cow Morning News, January 5, 2010, http://www.madcowprod.com/01052010.htm

[38] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with Ken Merchant and Paul Goddard, prepared by Geoffrey Brown,, March 4, 2004

[39] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with Ken Merchant and Paul Goddard

[40] History Commons Complete 9/11 Timeline, Context of ’9:05 am (and After) September 11, 2001: Flight 77 Reappears on Radar, but Flight Controllers Do Not Notice’,http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a905reappears

[41] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with Ken Merchant and Paul Goddard

[42] History Commons Complete 9/11 Timeline, Profile: Twin Star,http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=twin_star_1

[43] For example, see 9/11 Commission “DOD Document Request No. 18.”

[44] Transcript of 9/11 Commission Hearing of May 23, 2003,http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/archive/hearing2/9-11Commission_Hearing_2003-05-23.htm

[45] Joe Dejka, Inside StratCom on September 11 Offutt exercise took real-life twist, The Omaha World-Herald, February 27, 2002

[46] Mark H. Gaffney, Why Did the World’s Most Advanced Electronics Warfare Plane Circle Over The White House on 9/11?, The Journal of 9/11 Studies, July 2007.  See also the update several months later:http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters/g/MarkGaffneyOct2007Letter.pdf

[47] National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission Report, Notes to Chapter 1, footnote 116

[48] Vigilant Guardian 01-02 planning document,http://www.scribd.com/doc/26080483/GSA-B116-RDOD-03013141-Fdr-Entire-Contents-Vigilant-Guardian-Docs-760

[49] Vigilant Guardian 01-02 planning document

[50] Matthew Everett, ‘Real-World or Exercise’: Did the U.S. Military Mistake the 9/11 Attacks for a Training Scenario?, Shoestring 911, March 22, 2012,http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2012/03/real-world-or-exercise-did-us-military.html

[51] Matthew Everett, ‘Real-World or Exercise’

[52] Matthew Everett, ‘Real-World or Exercise’

[53] Vigilant Guardian 01-02 planning document

[54] Matthew Everett, ‘Let’s Get Rid of This Goddamn Sim’: How NORAD Radar Screens Displayed False Tracks All Through the 9/11 Attacks, Shoestring 911, August 12, 2010,http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2010/08/lets-get-rid-of-this-goddamn-sim-how.html

[55] Matthew Everett, On 9/11, the U.S. Military Was Preparing for a Simulated Nuclear War, Shoestring 911, November 23, 2011,http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-911-us-military-was-preparing-for.html

[56] Matthew Everett, The Repeatedly Delayed Responses of the Pentagon Command Center on 9/11, Shoestring 911, November 7, 2010,http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2010/11/repeatedly-delayed-responses-of.html

[57] Matthew Everett, ‘Let’s Get Rid of This Goddamn Sim’

[58] Matthew Everett, On 9/11, the U.S. Military Was Preparing for a Simulated Nuclear War

[59] NORAD and USNORTHCOM Public Affairs, NORAD and USNORTHCOM honour 9/11 heroes, October. 15, 2012, http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/v2/nr-sp/index-eng.asp?id=13272

[60] See Bloomberg Businessweek profile for Ralph Eberhart.  He has been a director at Triumph Group (military aviation), Jacobs Engineering (Oil & gas services), VSE Corp.(DOD equipment support), Rockwell Collins (military aviation), The Spectrum Group (Homeland security), Eid Passport (Homeland security),Standard Aero Holdings (military aviation), ObjectVideo (Homeland Security), and ICx Technologies (Homeland security).