His book on the engineering cover-up of 9/11 will be published
Roland Angle never wanted the spotlight. He didn’t care about personal notoriety or accolades.
He just wanted people to know the truth. And he continued fighting to expose the truth about 9/11 until his passing on April 7.
Roland may not have been a household name in the Truth Movement before taking the helm of AE911Truth in 2021, but his impact on our efforts and on the cause has been significant. In fact, he was one of the first engineers to sign the AE petition in 2007, which now contains the names of more than 3,600 architects and engineers.
Over the past couple of years, Roland focused on a project that was very important to him, a book on how engineers were used to cover up the 9/11 deception. It’s called Engineering the 9/11 Cover-Up: How the Explosive Demolition of the World Trade Center Was Hidden from the World.
While there is still work to be done before the book can be published, Roland succeeded in laying out the architecture of the engineering cover-up in a way he was uniquely positioned to do. I’m honored to have been able to work with Roland by editing the book, and we at AE911Truth are determined to make sure it is published this year.
When he joined the AE911Truth board of directors in 2016, Roland was already convinced of the importance of reaching out to the engineering community to share the essential World Trade Center evidence. He understood as well as anyone that it was engineers involved in creating the official reports that had propped up the official story and given it its apparent credibility.
Roland explained that some 500 engineers were involved in the official investigations into the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, and about two dozen decisions were “deliberately made to derail the investigations’ ability to reach an accurate conclusion.” Among these, he included: “destroying the evidence, refusing to test for incendiaries, refusing to release their analysis and their computer models, and fabricating stories about the fireproofing removal.”
Efforts to get a new investigation were always blocked on the grounds that the “experts” had already weighed in. Roland was determined to counter this myth.
In addition to being featured in the AE911Truth films 9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out (2012) and SEVEN (2020), Roland created Project Due Diligence (PDD), which has become one of the most effective programs ever created at AE911Truth. PDD involved sending volunteer engineers out to present the WTC controlled-demolition evidence to chapters of major engineering associations like the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). The result of these presentations was that not a single engineer in attendance ever disagreed with the scientific validity of the evidence presented.
Angle as a young engineer in 1966 working for Ralph M. Parsons Company on the construction and maintenance of launch control facilities and silos for the Minuteman Missile System.
Born for the role
Angle describes his father as a man of very few words, which is why he remembered so much of what he did say.
Roland was perfectly positioned to take on the engineering cover-up. He had 50 years’ experience as a civil engineer, owned three engineering firms, and taught engineering principles to high school students. He was also trained in the use of explosives during his time with the Special Forces of the U.S. Army Reserves in the 1960s.
I had the opportunity to interview Roland for an AE911Truth profile in 2022. From this, I gained considerable insight into some of the things that had fueled his commitment to truth.
His perspective on war and propaganda was profoundly influenced by his father, a career Navy man who, through a stroke of luck, avoided an almost certain death in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A radio operator on the USS Arizona, his father had been sent to Massachusetts for radar training and was on his way back to the ship when the attack occurred. All the radio operators on the Arizona that day — many of them close friends of Roland’s father — were killed.
War was more than just an intellectual issue for Roland. As a child, his father was often on military assignment, and there was always the fear in the family that he would not make it home.
But while Roland’s father was a man of few words, he did impress upon his son the importance of questioning official pronouncements and challenging propaganda. Roland particularly recalled two things he remembers his father telling him. One was: “Rich people declare wars and poor people fight them,” and the other was: “Don't believe anything you read or hear and only half of what you see.”
These lessons never left Roland. And they were only reinforced when he started seeing his peers coming back home from the Vietnam War, either wounded, psychologically scarred, or in body bags.
Roland grew up understanding the cost of war and the elusiveness of truth. He was determined to expose, in any way he could, some of the lies that continue to destroy so many lives.
In his own quiet way, Roland made an enormous contribution to this cause. It’s up to all of us to continue that fight.
From left to right: Engineers Larry Cooper, Roland Angle, Gene Johnson, and Charles Coleman at the 2019 ASCE Structures Congress.
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Craig McKee is a writer for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and the creator of the blogs Truth and Shadows and Thought Crimes and Misdemeanors. He also hosts the Truth and Shadows podcast on YouTube and Rumble.
