So, here I am... 12 years later (personal diatribe):
Looking back to the time when I discovered this investment opportunity;a company chaired by this world-power foreign ambassador and run by a visionary ceo. A ground-floor opportunity to establish a position in the company that was was going to change the telecommunications industry as we knew (still know) it. My play in this company was going to pay my 7 yr. old daughter's college education [sophomore today], with change to spare. The potential went all the way to the "stratosphere". Years passed. Chairmen changed, but scaled prototypes and demonstrations were arranged for the investors, along with annual stockholders meeting. The chief designer of the smiling whale (miss Vern's participation here) was removed and the whale was replaced with a serpent, designed by a scientist from Stuttgart, Germany. Oh, I missed a very important facet/opportunity, the ride to the upper atmosphere when the stock price rose from pennies to dollars..... and back to pennies again. The CEO is later replaced by other high profile CEOs from the business/financial/military complexes; the company's name changed multiple times; directors' changes have modeled a busy roulette wheel. We moved to the Cape Canaveral complex and finally got tangible agreements with U.S. Gov't agencies to keep us dreaming. There have been conspiracy theories associated with this company; and now I'm beginning to subscribe to that possibility or tie-in to black-ops (I know, I know... this argument was hammered years ago). I consider the change in personnel, the SEC judgement, the CEO criminal conviction/sentencing, etc. should have been enough to permanently close the doors of this company... it lives. So, the last conclusion for me is that this World Surveillance Group Incorporated is a front for some off-the-books entity and is kept alive for that purpose. I guess the "GTAL" no longer applies. Merry Christmas / Happy New Year / Happy Holidays to all of the "Stratospherians" that are out there.
