Chapter 4: Chronicle of a Conquest Foretold...

Negotiations, in business, must be done by two equal parties: if one party is weaker, then it's a takeover; if both parties are equally matched, then it's a straight fight. Either way, what varies, then, is the length of the fight.
 
Because of this, we, the Human Race, would never survive intact any contact with an alien species: we would be irrevocably changed by whatever occurred. Any visiting species would be the superior one, technologically: because they got here, didn't they? If they were our equal, then we would have heard about, or from, them by now.
 
So, let us assume they will be mightier; we don't have to speculate on their moral worth - mainly, though not only, because we may not be in any great position to stand in judgment over anyone on that. The very obvious question is then begged: why no contact yet?
 
Again, if we assume they have been in contact; then how have we not heard? The answer may lie in what is known as a 'false-flag' operation: a covert military operation designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities, groups or nations than those who actually planned and executed them. 'Mightier', then, ceases to refer to technological or military strength; it just indicates who may have the better ideas.
 
A fine example of this is The Maitland Plan. Major General Thomas Maitland was a British officer who had fought in Spain with Wellington against Napoleon. In 1800, he came up with a strategy to wrest control from the Spanish Crown - ally of Napoleon at the time - the entire continent of South America; his plan was nothing if not audacious:
 

Seize control of Buenos Aires.

Take position in Mendoza.

Coordinate actions with an independentist Chilean army.

Cross the Andes.

Defeat the Spanish and take control of Chile.

Continue up the coast and liberate Peru.

Start another rebellion in the north of the continent.

In time, have these two forces meet in the middle.

Thus, deny Spain of all its American dominions.

 
Sounds familiar?
 
Official history records, accurately, that Britain never carried out the Maitland Plan. History is less forthcoming about who did. Who did? Why, we did.
 
It starts with Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda; in 1796, de Miranda was initiated as a freemason by his good friend, French General Lafayette, in Philadelphia, USA.
 
After much travelling around Europe, de Miranda settled in London; there, he set up a Masonic lodge under the French Rite - of 5 Degrees, not the 33 Degrees of Scottish Rite - called the Lautaro Lodge; this lodge became the main focal point for the liberation of South America when, in 1810, a certain Simon Bolivar, with, amongst others, the learned Andres Bello, came to stay with their compatriot at his house in Grafton Way.

Bolivar stayed in London until 1813, before leaving to start his 'Campana Admirable', and claim the title of 'El Libertador'; Bello stayed in London for a total of 19 years, working first for Colombia's, then Chile's diplomatic missions there.
 
1n 1811, Jose de San Martin, Argentinian soldier and hero of the Peninsular War, obtained a passport from his British brother-in-arms, Lord Macduff, long-time friend of Maitland, to come to England, to meet with his old school-friend Bernardo O'Higgins, who was living briefly in London at that time - O'Higgins had by this time become a mason at de Miranda's Lautaro Lodge.
 
This is a list of prominent people known to have been initiated into the Lautaro Lodge in London by 1811:
 
Jose De Gurruchaga
Santiago Marino
Andres Bello
Luis Lopez Melendez
Simon Bolivar
Jose Maria Caro
Bernardo O'Higgins
Jose Miguel Carrera
Juan Pablo Fretes
Jose De San Martin
Tomas Guido
Jose Cortes De Madariaga
Francisco Isnardi
 
In 1812, San Martin set sail on the good ship 'George Canning' to Buenos Aires, and immediately set up the continent's first Lautaro Masonic Lodge; a few of its founding members were:
 
Jose De San Martin
Carlos Maria De Alvear
Jose Matias Zapiola
Ramon Eduardo De Anchoris
Bernardo De Monteagudo
Juan Martin De Pueyrredon
Antonio Alvarez Jonte
Nicolas Rodriguez Pena
Julian Alvarez
 
Stop me if you've heard this story before... So, by the time the Andes gets crossed, and right after the Battle of Chacabuco, O'Higgins and San Martin create the first Lautaro Masonic Lodge in Chile; its first members in 1817 were:
 

Tomas Guido
Jose Antonio Balcarce
Jose Ignacio Zenteno
Juan Gregorio Las Heras
Ramon Freire
Manuel Blanco Encalada
Miguel Zanartu
Ramon Arriagada

San Martin eventually joined forces with Bolivar in 1821, and, following the 'Conferencia de Guayaquil' in 1822, gave his old London Lodge Brother total control of his armies. It plainly didn't bother his financial and political backers that in 1825 Bolivar became one of the few people on Earth to name an entire country after himself - Bolivia should be proud...

Where's the British deception, I hear you ask? Well, I can only think it entirely coincidental that Bolivar and Bello came to London to ask for financial aid for their new Republic; that San Martin was funded by British banks; as was O'Higgins. No deception, really: I can't imagine that it might have occurred to them that, rather than carry out the Maitland Plan themselves, the British could just pay us to do their heavy lifting for them, at a handsome profit for their banks.
 
I'm sure I've bored you enough with all this trivia; so, no need to read this, or this 262-page book in Spanish, for further background.
 
Nevertheless, a fine example, I hope you'll agree, of what is known as a false-flag operation.
 
And, for a course called 'Translations and Betrayals - from book [...] to reality...', apposite; proof that even history, with the right light from on high, can be made to look like science-fiction...