Mr. X and The National Security Council

To the other members of the U.S. National Security Council, he was known only by the interesting epithet Mr. X.

Indeed Mr. X was the name referred to him by the other members of the National Security Council including the President.

For in actuality, Mr. X was really and truly the unknown member of the National Security Council.

The press did not know of his existence.

The public did not know of his existence.

Anyone in government outside the U.S. National Security Council did not know of his existence.

This mysterious Mr. X had served on the National Security Council under every President (both Democrat and Republican) since the Administration of President John F. Kennedy took office in January of 1961.

Every President since Kennedy had been forced to name him to the Security Council.

Only each succeeding new President knew why in a Book of Secrets that was passed to every President after he took office (a Book of Secrets that was alluded to in one of the Nicholas Cage National Treasure films).

Indeed Barack Obama got his first gray hair after taking office when he read in the Book of Secrets why Mr. X must continue on the U.S. National Security Council.

Inside Mr. X's office in Washington D.C. only a few blocks from the White House, Mr. X was reading a news item.

What disturbed him was not so much the news item itself but a communique he had read some months earlier.

The news item dealt with a 1,700 year old marble statue of a woman that had been found after a sudden and fierce storm in the eastern Mediterranean had caused part of a cliff to collapse in the southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon.

This news item would not have disturbed him so much if he hadn't read a top secret communique some months earlier.

The communique dealt with the Voynich Manuscript a rare and unusual manuscript located in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University.

The book was a mysterious one. Allegedly written in code in an unknown language. Some claimed the 13th Century English Franciscan monk Roger Bacon as its author. The book was said to have been bought by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in the late 16th Century. The 17th Century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher was asked to decipher it by one of the manuscript's later owners but he apparently couldn't.

Anyways the communique from a few months back made the claim that a scholar had finally cracked the code and claimed the book was prophetic.

Well other so-called scholars had made such claims before.

But in this communique, the proof of his having cracked the code would become apparent in a few months time this scholar had wrote "when in December of this year (2010) a huge storm would hit the eastern Mediterranean and a marble statue of a woman with her head and arms missing would be found as a result of a cliff falling in Ashkelon, Israel."

Mr. X had sent messages to the Directors of the FBI, the CIA and Homeland Security ordering that this man must be found at all costs.

He had also written a message to the head of a covert branch of the CIA asking him to investigate whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange knew about the existence of this communique.

And if he discovered that he did, then Mr. Assange must be immediately terminated, Mr. X had directed.

And by terminated, Mr. X meant in the same manner as Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator had terminated people.

To be continued.