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Executive summary

Major General Albert Newton Stubblebine III was a genuine and highly placed United States Army intelligence officer. He graduated from West Point in 1952, served approximately 32 years, commanded the Army’s Electronics Research and Development Command and later the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, or INSCOM, and was inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 1990.

Declassified CIA records confirm his command position and his involvement with the Army’s remote-viewing program, known at different times as GRILL FLAME and CENTER LANE. They do not, however, validate every paranormal, medical, political, or 9/11 claim he and his wife later advanced.

After retiring, Stubblebine became a prominent critic of the official explanation of the September 11 attacks. He particularly disputed whether American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon. His statements are historically important because of his former intelligence position, but his conclusion conflicts with extensive physical, eyewitness, passenger, air-traffic, forensic, and FBI evidence.

Dr. Rima E. Laibow, his second wife, was trained as a psychiatrist and later became a natural-medicine and “health freedom” activist. Together they founded the Natural Solutions Foundation. Laibow attracted considerable attention after appearing in the 2009 television program Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. She alleged that influential international figures contemplated using pandemics and vaccination campaigns for population control. No documentary evidence establishing that allegation was presented in the broadcast.

Laibow did fight publicly and legally over Stubblebine’s hospital treatment. Federal court records prove that she brought a detailed negligence and wrongful-death lawsuit concerning his final hospitalization. But the federal case was ultimately dismissed on jurisdictional and procedural grounds, not resolved by a trial determining whether her medical allegations were true.

1. Albert Stubblebine’s background

Albert Newton Stubblebine III was born on February 6, 1930, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1952 and was commissioned as an armor officer. He subsequently earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University.

During his military career, he served in armor, military intelligence, Vietnam-era assignments and senior research-and-development commands. His decorations included:

• Army
  Distinguished Service Medal
• Two
  Legions of Merit
• Bronze
  Star Medal
• Two
  Air Medals
• Other
  service and campaign decorations

Military Times’ awards database records that one Legion of Merit recognized his service as G-2, or senior intelligence officer, of the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Military Times Hall of Valor

Senior commands

Stubblebine commanded:

• The
  U.S. Army Electronics Research and Development Command, or ERADCOM
• The
  U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, or INSCOM, from approximately
  1981 to 1984
• Army
  intelligence organizations associated with training, doctrine, collection
  and intelligence-system development

INSCOM was responsible for signals intelligence, counterintelligence, human intelligence, security activities and operational intelligence support. Stubblebine therefore held an important position, but descriptions calling him “chief of all U.S. intelligence” are exaggerated. He commanded Army INSCOM—not the CIA, NSA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency or the entire American intelligence community.

The Army’s official Military Intelligence Hall of Fame identifies him as a 1990 inductee. U.S. Army Military Intelligence Hall of Fame

2. What the declassified documents establish

Several declassified CIA Reading Room records bear Stubblebine’s name.

CIA–INSCOM relationship

A CIA letter addressed to Stubblebine as commanding general of INSCOM thanks him for an INSCOM briefing and meeting. This independently confirms his senior position and working relationship with CIA officials. Declassified CIA letter to Stubblebine

GRILL FLAME and CENTER LANE

Declassified records show that Army INSCOM was involved in attempts to investigate “remote viewing”—the alleged acquisition of information about distant targets by paranormal means.

Records bearing Stubblebine’s name include:

• A
  briefing concerning termination of GRILL FLAME funding for fiscal year
  1983. CIA record on GRILL FLAME funding
• A
  memorandum confirming that INSCOM’s GRILL FLAME operation ceased on
  September 30, 1982. Declassified GRILL FLAME cessation memorandum
• CENTER
  LANE material marked for Stubblebine as INSCOM commander. Declassified CENTER LANE document

These records establish that the programs existed and that Stubblebine supported or supervised Army involvement. They do not prove that remote viewing worked reliably.

“The Men Who Stare at Goats”

Journalist Jon Ronson made Stubblebine widely known through his book The Men Who Stare at Goats. The Library of Congress catalog sample describes Stubblebine as commanding approximately 16,000 Army intelligence personnel. Library of Congress catalog material

Ronson reported that Stubblebine experimented with ideas such as:

• Remote
  viewing
• Spoon
  bending
• Enhanced
  human performance
• Becoming
  invisible to an adversary
• Attempting
  mentally to pass through a wall

Stubblebine acknowledged attempting the wall exercise and acknowledged that he did not pass through it. The book and subsequent movie mixed documented programs, recollections, satire and dramatization; the movie should not be treated as a literal documentary.

3. Retirement and marriage to Dr. Rima Laibow

Stubblebine retired from the Army in 1984. He later worked for BDM Corporation, a defense contractor, as a vice president associated with intelligence systems.

He married psychiatrist Rima E. Laibow after the end of his first marriage. A later federal court opinion states that Laibow and Stubblebine had been married for 23 years by the time of his death.

Together they established the Natural Solutions Foundation. Their organization describes Stubblebine as its founding president and Laibow as medical director. Natural Solutions Foundation founders’ page

4. Dr. Rima E. Laibow

Laibow’s organizational biography says that she graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1970 and trained in adult and child psychiatry. She later emphasized:

• Natural
  and nutritional approaches
• Neurofeedback
• Opposition
  to mandatory vaccination
• Informed
  consent
• Opposition
  to Codex Alimentarius policies
• Criticism
  of pharmaceutical companies and international health organizations
• Use
  and promotion of “nano silver”

Her educational background and psychiatry training do not automatically substantiate her later claims about vaccines, population control or nano-silver products.

Natural Solutions Foundation

The Foundation operated websites, broadcasts, fundraising campaigns and product-related pages. Stubblebine and Laibow frequently appeared together on alternative-media programs.

Representative video material includes:

• Alex Jones with Stubblebine and Laibow—YouTube playlist
• Alex Jones interview with Laibow and Stubblebine
• Additional Stubblebine–Laibow interview
• “The General Speaks” discussion

These are primary sources for what the couple said, but they are not independent verification of those statements.

Federal action concerning nano silver

In 2021, a federal court ordered Laibow, the Natural Solutions Foundation and another trustee to stop distributing a nano-silver product promoted as preventing, treating or curing COVID-19. The Justice Department said the claims lacked credible scientific support and that the product constituted an unapproved and misbranded drug under federal law. U.S. Department of Justice announcement

That order is significant when evaluating Laibow’s medical claims. It does not erase her medical education, but it demonstrates that federal regulators and a court rejected specific therapeutic representations associated with her organization.

5. Stubblebine’s account of learning about 9/11 in Hawaii

In recorded interviews, Stubblebine said that he was retired and in Hawaii when he learned about the September 11 attacks. His account generally proceeds as follows:

1. He initially accepted news reports that hijacked airliners struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

2. Because of his military background, he said he trusted the government and military reporting.

3. He later began examining photographs of the Pentagon damage.

4. He compared the visible opening and façade damage with his understanding of the dimensions and construction of a Boeing 757.

5. He ultimately stated that he did not believe a Boeing 757 had produced the Pentagon damage.

6. He emphasized that he did not claim to know precisely what struck the building.

The commonly circulated video is:

• Major General Stubblebine’s views on 9/11

Another older link associated with his explanation is:

• Stubblebine
  explaining his doubts about 9/11

YouTube uploads sometimes disappear, are retitled or are replaced by excerpts. Therefore, the Hawaii portion may appear in a longer interview even when a shorter repost contains only his Pentagon discussion.

His Pentagon argument

Stubblebine concentrated on:

• The
  apparent size of the initial hole
• The
  absence, in selected early photographs, of recognizable wings or a tail
• The
  Pentagon’s reinforced construction
• His
  conclusion that the visible damage was inconsistent with a large airliner

His military credentials make his opinion noteworthy, but they do not make him an aeronautical-crash investigator, forensic pathologist or structural-impact specialist.

What the official evidence says

The broader evidence contradicts his conclusion:

• American
  Airlines Flight 77 disappeared from normal air-traffic control tracking.
• Eyewitnesses
  reported seeing a large commercial aircraft approach and strike the
  Pentagon.
• Passengers
  and crew aboard Flight 77 were identified as victims.
• Aircraft
  wreckage and human remains were recovered.
• DNA
  identification connected victims to the crash site.
• The
  FBI’s PENTTBOM investigation treated Flight 77 as the aircraft that struck
  the Pentagon.
• The
  9/11 Commission recorded the Pentagon impact at approximately 9:37 a.m.
• Pentagon
  survivor Lieutenant Colonel Brian Birdwell testified that Flight 77 struck
  near his office. Birdwell’s 9/11 Commission testimony
• FBI
  accounts state that the aircraft penetrated the Pentagon’s rings and
  produced a large fireball before part of the outer ring collapsed. FBI account
• The
  FBI released Pentagon security-camera material through its Vault. FBI Pentagon video collection

The initial façade opening was not a clean outline of the aircraft. Wings, engines, fuselage, landing gear and other components behave differently when striking reinforced masonry at high speed. Portions fragment, fold, shear, burn or penetrate; the wings do not necessarily leave a full airplane-shaped silhouette.

Consequently, Stubblebine’s statement should be described as his personal conclusion—not a finding established by declassified evidence.

6. Jesse Ventura’s airport meeting with Dr. Laibow

The meeting appeared in the 2009 Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura episode titled “Secret Societies.”

What the broadcast depicted

Ventura’s production arranged to meet Laibow at or near a private airfield. The scene was staged dramatically:

• Laibow
  arrived in a private aircraft.
• The
  interview took place outside, near the aircraft or landing area.
• She
  said she no longer regarded the United States as safe for her.
• She
  declined to disclose fully where she was living.
• She
  departed after the interview.

Reposts frequently say that she “flew in and flew right back out.” The footage supports the intended presentation of a brief airfield meeting and departure. However, the exact flight logs, airport, arrival point, departure point and complete travel itinerary were not established in the program.

Some descriptions identify the location as Panama or say she was interviewed while living outside the United States. Others call the setting a “private landing strip.” These details should not be treated as independently proven without production records.

What Laibow alleged

Laibow claimed that a highly placed person had spoken to her about:

• A
  coming pandemic
• Mass
  vaccination
• Sterilization
  or infertility
• Population
  reduction
• International
  organizations such as the World Health Organization
• Powerful
  private groups influencing government policy

She did not publicly identify the alleged source in a way that permitted independent verification. No contemporaneous document, recording, sworn testimony or second named witness was produced.

Videos of the meeting

• Jesse Ventura interview with Dr. Rima Laibow—YouTube
• Longer “Secret Societies” excerpt
• Alternate
  preserved copy
• Another preserved interview copy

Did she “predict COVID-19”?

It is accurate to say she discussed a future pandemic in 2009. It is misleading to say she specifically predicted COVID-19:

• She
  did not name SARS-CoV-2.
• She
  did not give the virus’s genomic identity.
• She
  did not specify Wuhan, the precise emergence date or the documented
  clinical course.
• Pandemic
  planning and concern about novel influenza were already public subjects in
  2009 because of H1N1.
• Her
  more dramatic claims about intentional sterilization and planned mass
  killing were not supported by verifiable evidence.

A review of the viral claim concluded that the program did not provide credible evidence that COVID-19 or its vaccines had been planned in the manner later alleged online. PolitiFact review

7. Dr. Laibow’s fight over Stubblebine’s hospital treatment

This part of the story is supported by unusually detailed federal court records.

Timeline

According to the allegations summarized by the federal court:

• September
  1, 2016–January 4, 2017: Stubblebine was a patient at JFK Medical Center
  in New Jersey.
• January
  4, 2017: He was transferred to Kindred Hospital in Rahway.
• Laibow
  alleged that she was his attorney-in-fact and healthcare representative,
  that she was not given adequate notice and that she did not consent to the
  transfer.
• January
  4–February 5, 2017: He remained at Kindred.
• February
  5: He was transferred to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
• February
  6, his 87th birthday: He died.

January 2020 federal court opinion

What Laibow alleged

Her complaint accused hospitals and medical personnel of:

• Failing
  to develop a coherent treatment plan
• Inadequately
  assessing nutrition and hydration
• Blocking
  or delaying parenteral nutrition
• Delaying
  placement of a PEG feeding tube
• Allowing
  dehydration and tachycardia
• Attempting
  to administer beta blockers over her objection
• Failing
  to prevent muscle wasting and pressure ulcers
• Inadequate
  turning and skin care
• Use
  of an allegedly ill-fitting intubation harness
• Inadequate
  protection against deep-vein thrombosis
• Improper
  medication administration
• Inadequate
  cardiac-resuscitation planning
• Poor
  infection control
• Hospital-acquired
  MRSA, C. difficile and pseudomonas infections
• Treatment
  failures that she claimed contributed to his death

The record says Stubblebine initially entered the hospital with aspiration pneumonia and sepsis. Laibow alleged that he improved before later developing more severe infections.

This documentary record supports the statement that she fought doctors and hospitals over his care. It also supports that she pursued the matter after his death.

What the case did—and did not—decide

The federal litigation did not produce a trial verdict confirming malpractice.

Several defendants obtained dismissals, and in August 2021 the federal court dismissed the remaining action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. The court explained that Stubblebine was an American citizen domiciled abroad and therefore could not supply the required diversity jurisdiction. It noted that the claims could potentially be pursued in state court. August 2021 federal opinion

Therefore:

• Verified: Laibow objected
  to aspects of his care, served as his healthcare representative and filed
  detailed legal claims.
• Not
  established by a verdict: That hospital negligence caused his death
  or that every treatment allegation was medically correct.
• Not
  supported by the court record: Claims that he was deliberately killed
  because of his intelligence knowledge or political opinions.

8. Death and later publications

Stubblebine died on February 6, 2017, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The Daily Telegraph published an obituary noting his Army-intelligence command and involvement with unconventional psychic-research programs. Telegraph obituary

Laibow later published The General Speaks: Intimate Conversations with the Dead. Its framing reflects her personal spiritual beliefs and experiences after his death. It is not a conventional military biography or independently documented medical investigation.

9. Source-by-source findings

10. Complete newspaper-article deep-research method

No newspaper clipping was attached to this request, so I used the available obituary and court reporting as starting points. For any future newspaper article, the proper walk-through is:

1. Record the newspaper, exact date, page, headline, author and edition.

2. Transcribe the article exactly enough to identify every person, organization, place and date.

3. Separate the article’s direct observations from quotations, allegations and editorial language.

4. Search the newspaper’s issues before and after publication for corrections or follow-ups.

5. Compare AP, Reuters, UPI and other wire reports from the same date.

6. Search Library of Congress, Chronicling America, WorldCat and book catalogs.

7. Search official Army, CIA, FBI, National Archives and congressional records.

8. Search court dockets for litigation connected with the people or events.

9. Locate interviews and video uploads; identify original broadcasts before relying on reposts.

10. Verify credentials through institutions rather than personal websites.

11. Build a dated timeline.

12. Label every major statement as confirmed fact, firsthand recollection, allegation, inference or disproven claim.

13. Record negative findings—for example, when no FBI file or AP report can be located.

14. Link primary records so readers can inspect the evidence themselves.

Final assessment

Albert Stubblebine deserves serious historical attention because he really was a major general, a senior Army intelligence commander, a participant in unconventional intelligence experimentation and a Military Intelligence Hall of Fame member.

His prominence does not independently prove his later conclusions about 9/11. His Pentagon analysis was an expression of personal skepticism and conflicts with the much larger body of physical and testimonial evidence identifying Flight 77.

Rima Laibow was medically trained and became an energetic advocate of alternative medicine and medical choice. Her airport interview with Jesse Ventura is authentic television footage, but the most sensational allegations she made there were unsupported by identifiable witnesses or documentary evidence.

The strongest substantiation for Laibow’s description of fighting to protect her husband is the federal litigation: the court record documents her objections, her role as healthcare representative and her detailed allegations concerning nutrition, hydration, medication, infections and end-of-life care. The courts did not, however, reach a verdict proving those allegations.