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The Wars for OIL and Drugs Go on... |
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by Patriots
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30 Jun 2006
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President Bush and VICE President Cheney were defeated by the Supreme Court in overextension of the Executive powers yesterday. But the media and Congress have not done enough to find why their wars sacrifice American Citizens for their greed. This article attempts to show the truth, which is essential to the survival of our Constitution and way of life. |
The fact that one man, Melvin Lattimore was present at all three attacks on America, and aided the attackers, at WTC 1, Oklahoma, and 911, with the knowledge of high governmental officials, and still walks the streets, makes me extremely angry and critical of the U.S. Government. Why has justice been obstructed?
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/49818.php
Same man aided attackers at WTC 1, Oklahoma and 911, Still walks the streets
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/340939.shtml
Warning all Americans: REAL Terror Alert! See this Man, Run like hell!
author: all who care
What are the odds that one man was present at all three terror attacks on America, Oklahoma, WTC1 and 911? And that this man is still walking the streets?
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/4810.php
We were a nation of laws, we now are a Nation ruled by Nazi Thugs
Also at: What are the odds that one man was present at all three terror attacks on America, Oklahoma, WTC1 and 911? And that this man is still walking the streets?
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/4810.php
We were a nation of laws, we now are a Nation ruled by Nazi Thugs
h ttp://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Control of space and cyberspace.
Much as control of the high seas – and
the protection of international
commerce – defined global powers in
the past, so will control of the new
weapons,
"international commons" be a key to
world power in the future. An
America incapable of protecting its
interests or that of its allies in space
or the "infosphere" will find it
difficult to exert global political
leadership.
Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a
new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and
industrial policy will shape the pace and
content of transformation as much as the
requirements of current missions. interests or that of its allies in space
or the "infosphere" will find it
difficult to exert global political
leadership.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick26.htm
CONGRESS, LAWSUIT, LINK FOREIGN, DOMESTIC TERRORIST TO OKC
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2006/06/24628.shtml
Warning all Americans:Real Terror Threat! See this man run like hell!
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2006/06/24311.shtml
Nazis in CIA, put there by Bush family will prevent fair elections again.
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/4765.php
Who is Melvin Lattimore?
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2006/06/24514.shtml
You don't buy conspiracy theories? Then why is Congress now reopening the investigation into the Oklahoma bombing?
By all who care | 06.09.2006
Oil and Drugs : Officials of the Bush administration wrote a plan for Rebuilding America’s Defenses, so that the US would lead the world, after the end of the Soviet Union. BUT a cataclysmic event would be needed, and it would have to be a New Pearl Harbor!
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Control of space and cyberspace.
Much as control of the high seas – and
the protection of international
commerce – defined global powers in
the past, so will control of the new
weapons,
"international commons" be a key to
world power in the future. An
America incapable of protecting its
interests or that of its allies in space
or the "infosphere" will find it
difficult to exert global political
leadership.
Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a
new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and
industrial policy will shape the pace and
content of transformation as much as the
requirements of current missions. interests or that of its allies in space
or the "infosphere" will find it
difficult to exert global political
leadership.
This article contends that the motives, to exert global political
leadership., were
for oil and drugs, and to promote the interests of a foreign government, the Vatican. It goes on to show, the planners had to make it happen! The pipelines of Afghanistan and Iraq were too great a prize, to sacrifice the deaths of 3000 ordinary
Americans.
The war in Iraq has been fought on false pretenses. Cashing in on the beliefs of fundamentalist Christians made this war acceptable to them, for protecting the Holy land, and the place of Christ’s return, so a false flag operation was set up to blame the Muslims. It was engineered by VICE President Cheney, and President Bush, with the help of right wing members of the CIA, State department and Military.
OIL AND DRUGS
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BY GREG PALAST Tikkun Magazine JULY/AUGUST 2006
June 26, 2006
Did the Jews do it?
The US Congress will open hearings this week on the War in Iraq -- a wee bit late one might think. But one question at the forefront of the minds of many on both the Left and the Right is sure not to be asked: Did the Jews do it? I mean, after killing Jesus, did the Elders of Zion manipulate the government of the United States into invading Babylon as part of a scheme to abet the expansion of Greater Israel?
The question was first posed to me in 2004 when I was speaking at a meeting of Mobilization for Peace in San Jose. A member of the audience asked, "Put it together-- Who's behind this war? Paul Wolfowitz and Elliott Abrams and the Project for a "Jew" American Century and, and, why don't you talk about that, huh? And ...."
But the questioner never had the full opportunity to complete his query because, flushed and red, he began to charge the stage. The peace activists attempted to detain the gentleman--whose confederates then grabbed some chairs to swing. As the Peace Center was taking on a somewhat warlike character, I chose to call in the authorities and slip out the back.
Still, his question intrigued me. As an investigative reporter, "Who's behind this war?" seemed like a reasonable challenge--and if it were a plot of Christ-killers and Illuminati, so be it. I just report the facts, ma'am.
And frankly, at first, it seemed like the gent had a point, twisted though his spin might be. There was Paul Wolfowitz, before Congress in March 2003, offering Americans the bargain of the century: a free Iraq--not "free" as in "freedom and democracy" but free in the sense of this won't cost us a penny. Wolfowitz testified: "There's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money."
A "Free" Iraq
And where would these billions come from? Wolfowitz told us: "It starts with the assets of the Iraqi people.... The oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the next two or three years."
This was no small matter. The vulpine Deputy Defense Secretary knew that the number one question on the minds of Americans was not, "Does Saddam really have the bomb?" but "What's this little war going to cost us?"
However, Wolfowitz left something out of his testimony: the truth. I hunted for weeks for the source of the Pentagon's oil revenue projections--and found them. They were wildly different from the Wolfowitz testimony. But this was not perjury. Ever since the conviction of Elliott Abrams for perjury before Congress during the Iran-Contra hearings, neither Wolfowitz nor the other Bush factotums swear an oath before testifying. If you don't raise your hand and promise to tell the truth, "so help me, God," you're off the hook with federal prosecutors.
How the Lord will judge that little ploy, we cannot say.
But Wolfowitz's little numbers game can hardly count as a Great Zionist conspiracy. That seemed to come, at first glance, in the form of a confidential 101-page document slipped to our team at BBC's Newsnight. It detailed the economic "recovery" of Iraq's post-conquest economy. This blueprint for occupation, we learned, was first devised in secret in late 2001.
Notably, this program for Iraq's recovery wasn't written by Iraqis; rather, it was promoted by the neo-conservatives of the Defense Department, home of Abrams, Wolfowitz, Harold Rhode and other desktop Napoleons unafraid of moving toy tanks around the Pentagon war room.
Nose-Twist's Hidden Hand
The neo-cons' 101-page confidential document, which came to me in a brown envelope in February 2001, just before the tanks rolled, goes boldly where no U.S. invasion plan had gone before: the complete rewrite of the conquered state's "policies, law and regulations." A cap on the income taxes of Iraq's wealthiest was included as a matter of course. And this was undoubtedly history's first military assault plan appended to a program for toughening the target nation's copyright laws. Once the 82nd Airborne liberated Iraq, never again would the Ba'athist dictatorship threaten America with bootleg dubs of Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time."
It was more like a corporate takeover, except with Abrams tanks instead of junk bonds. It didn't strike me as the work of a Kosher Cabal for an Imperial Israel. In fact, it smelled of pork--Pig Heaven for corporate America looking for a slice of Iraq, and I suspected its porcine source. I gave it a big sniff and, sure enough, I smelled Grover Norquist.
Norquist is the capo di capi of right-wing, big-money influence peddlers in Washington. Those jealous of his inside track to the White House call him "Gopher Nose-Twist."
A devout Christian, Norquist channeled a million dollars to the Christian Coalition to fight the devil's tool, legalized gambling. He didn't tell the Coalition that the loot came from an Indian tribe represented by Norquist's associate, Jack Abramoff. (The tribe didn't want competition for its own casino operations.)
I took a chance and dropped in on Norquist's L Street office, and under a poster of his idol ["NIXON-- NOW MORE THAN EVER"], Norquist took a look at the "recovery" plan for Iraq and practically jumped over my desk to sign it, filled with pride at seeing his baby. Yes, he promoted the privatizations, the tax limit for the rich, and the change in copyright law, all concerns close to the hearts and wallets of his clients.
"The Oil" on Page 73
The very un-Jewish Norquist may have framed much of the U.S. occupation grabfest, but there was, without doubt, one notable item in the 101-page plan for Iraq which clearly had the mark of Zion on it. On page seventy-three the plan called for the "privatization....[of] the oil and supporting industries," the sell-off of every ounce of Iraq's oil fields and reserves. Its mastermind, I learned, was Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation.
For the neo-cons, this was The Big One. Behind it, no less a goal than to bring down the lynchpin of Arab power, Saudi Arabia.
It would work like this: the Saudi's power rests on control of OPEC, the oil cartel which, as any good monopoly, withholds oil from the market, kicking up prices. Sell-off Iraq's oil fields and private companies will pump oil in their little Iraqi patches to the max. Iraq, the neo-cons hoped, would crank out six million barrels of oil a day, bust its OPEC quota, flood the world market, demolish OPEC and, as the price of oil fell off a cliff, Saudi Arabia would fall to its knees.
"It's a no-brainer," Cohen told me, at his office at Heritage. It was a dim little cubby, in which, in our hour or two together, the phone rang only once. For a guy who was supposed to be The Godfather of a globe-spanning Zionist scheme to destroy the Arab oil monopoly, he seemed kind of, well...pathetic.
And he failed. While the Norquist-promoted sell-offs, flat taxes and copyright laws were dictated into Iraqi law by occupation chief Paul Bremer, the Cohen neo-con oil privatization died an unhappy death. What happened, Ari?
"Arab economists," he hissed, "hired by the State Department ... the witches brew of the Saudi Royal family and Soviet Ostblock."
Well, the Soviet Ostblock does not exist, but the Arab economists do. I spoke with them in Riyadh, in London, in California, in wry accents mixing desert and Oxford drawls. They speak with confidence, knowing Saudi Arabia's political authority is protected by the royal families -- of Houston petroleum.
"Enhance OPEC"
After two mad years of hunting, I discovered the real plan for Iraq's oil, the one that keeps our troops in Fallujah. Some 323 pages long and deeply confidential, it was drafted at the James A. Baker III Institute in Houston, Texas, under the strict guidance of Big Oil's minions. It was the culmination of a series of planning groups that began in December 2000 with key players from the Baker Institute and Council on Foreign Relations (including one Ken Lay of Enron). This was followed by a State Department invasion-planning session in Walnut Creek, California, in February 2001, only weeks after Bush and Cheney took office. Its concepts received official blessing after a March 2001 gathering of oil chiefs (and Lay) with Dick Cheney where the group reviewed with the Vice-President the map of Iraq's oil fields.
Once I discovered the Big Oil plan, several of the players agreed to speak with me (not, to the chagrin of some, realizing that I rarely hold such conversions without secretly recording them). Most forthright was Philip Carroll, former CEO of Shell Oil USA, who was flown into Baghdad on a C-17 to make sure there would be no neo-con monkey business in America's newest oil fields.
It had been a very good war for Big Oil, with tripled oil prices meaning tripled profits. In Houston, I asked Carroll, a commanding, steel-straight chief executive, about Ari Cohen's oil privatization plan, the anti-Saudi "no-brainer."
"I would agree with that statement" Caroll told me, "privatization is a no-brainer. It would only be thought about by someone with no brain."
Bush world is divided in two: neo-cons on one side, and the Establishment (which includes the oil companies and the Saudis) on the other. The plan the Establishment created, crafted by Houston oil men, called for locking up Iraq's oil with agreements between a new state oil company under "profit-sharing agreements" with "IOCs" (International Oil Companies). The combine could "enhance the [Iraq's] government's relationship with OPEC," it read, by holding the line on quotas and thereby upholding high prices.
Wolfowitz Dammerung: Twilight Of The Neo-Con Gods
So there you have it. Wolfowitz and his neo-con clique-- bookish, foolish, vainglorious--had their asses kicked utterly, finally, and convincingly by the powers of petroleum, the Houston-Riyadh Big Oil axis.
Between the neo-cons and Big Oil, it wasn't much of a contest. The end-game was crushing, final. The Israelites had lost again in the land of Babylon. And to make certain the arriviste neo-cons got the point, public punishment was exacted, from exile to demotion to banishment. In January 2005, neo-con pointman Douglas Feith resigned from the Defense Department; his assistant Larry Franklin later was busted for passing documents to pro-Israel lobbyists. The State Department's knuckle-dragging enforcer of neo-con orthodoxies, John Bolton, was booted from Washington to New York to the powerless post of U.N. Ambassador.
Finally, on March 16, 2005, second anniversary of the invasion, neo-con leader of the pack Wolfowitz was cast out of the Pentagon war room and tossed into the World Bank, moving from the testosterone-powered, war-making decision center to the lending office for Bangladeshi chicken farmers. "The realists," crowed the triumphant editor of the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, "have defeated the fantasists!"
So much for the Big Zionist Conspiracy that supposedly directed this war. A half- dozen confused Jews, wandering in the policy desert a long distance from mainstream Jewish views, armed only with Leo Strauss' silly aphorisms, were no match for Texas oil majors and OPEC potentates with a combined throw weight of half a trillion barrels of oil.
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Investigative Reporter Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War to be released next week in United Kingdom and Ireland by Penguin UK, from which this essay is adapted.
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Published on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 by CommonDreams.org by Steve Kretzmann and Jim Vallette
Operation Oily Immunity
During the initial assault on Baghdad, soldiers set up forward bases named Camp Shell and Camp Exxon. Those soldiers knew the score, even if the Pentagon's talking points dismissed any ties between Iraqi oil and their blood.
The Bush/Cheney administration has moved quickly to ensure US corporate control over Iraqi resources at least through the year 2007. The first part of the plan, created by the UN under US pressure is the Development Fund for Iraq which is being controlled by the US and advised by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The second is a recent Bush executive order that provides absolute legal protection for U.S. interests in Iraqi oil.
In May, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1483, which ended sanctions and endorsed the creation of Development Fund for Iraq, to be controlled by Paul Bremer and overseen by a board of accountants, including UN, World Bank, and IMF representatives. It endorsed the transfer of over $1 billion (of Iraqi oil money) from the Oil-for-Food program into the Development Fund. All proceeds from the sale of Iraqi oil and natural gas are also to be placed into the fund.
In the creation and expected implementation of this Development Fund for Iraq, one finds the fingerprints of the global economic structural adjustment that has attracted so much protest in recent years. World Bank and IMF programs, backed by the rigged rules of the World Trade Organization, have imposed dramatic financial restructuring upon much of the world. Developing countries have amassed huge debts in exchange for selling out their natural resources to powerful Northern corporations. This paradigm cloaks corporate welfare and neocolonialism in terms of "poverty alleviation" and now in Iraq, "humanitarian assistance".
New debt for Iraq will accrue through the very program that President Bush pledged would 'benefit the people of Iraq.' The Development Fund, derived from actual and expected Iraqi oil and gas sales, apparently will be used to leverage U.S. government-backed loans, credit, and direct financing for U.S. corporate forays into Iraq. Besides financing reconstruction projects, some of the funds will also be used as collateral for projects approved by the U.S. Export-Import Bank (ExIm), whose mission is not development or poverty alleviation, but rather the creation of US jobs and the promotion of American business abroad.
ExIm recently announced that it was open for business in Iraq and would begin considering applications by subcontractors (that is, companies hired by Bechtel and Halliburton) in Iraq. Corporations have found it next to impossible to obtain private bank credit for work in Iraq, due to the ongoing insecure environment. But ExIm has stepped in to take a lead role in facilitating U.S. business in Iraq.
"The primary source of repayment," explained an ExIm release, "is the Development Fund for Iraq, or another entity established under the auspices of the Coalition Provisional Authority with access to foreign exchange and protection from claims of creditors of the former regime." In other words, the US government is happy to provide credit to any US business wishing to do business in Iraq - especially because the money comes from Iraq.
For the Bush/Cheney administration and their allies in the oil industry, this was not enough. Hours after the UN endorsed US control of the 'Development Fund' for Iraq, Bush signed an executive order that was spun as implementing Resolution 1483, but in reality, went much further towards attracting investment and minimizing risk for US corporations in Iraq.
Executive Order 13303 decrees that 'any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void', with respect to the Development Fund for Iraq and "all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein."
In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, it will be immune from legal proceedings in the US. Anything that could go, and elsewhere has gone, awry with U.S. corporate oil operations will be immune to judgment: a massive tanker accident; an explosion at an oil refinery; the employment of slave labor to build a pipeline; murder of locals by corporate security; the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The President, with a stroke of the pen, signed away the rights of Saddam's victims, creditors and of the next true Iraqi government to be compensated through legal action. Bush's order unilaterally declares Iraqi oil to be the unassailable province of U.S. corporations.
In the short term, through the Development Fund and the Export-Import Bank programs, the Iraqi peoples' oil will finance U.S. corporate entrees into Iraq. In the long term, Executive Order 13303 protects anything those corporations do to seize control of Iraq's oil, from the point of production to the gas pump - and places oil companies above the rule of law.
The authors are analysts with the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network of the Institute for Policy Studies. For more information on Executive Order 13303, see www.seen.org
The authors are analysts with the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network of the Institute for Policy Studies. For more information on Executive Order 13303, see www.seen.org
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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
June 28, 2006 -- WMR has reported on the explosive information from two Iraqi War Army counter-intelligence veterans that they uncovered materials and documents proving that some of Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons were provided in 1988 by The Carlyle Group, through Spanish and French intermediaries. WMR has learned that pre-cursor and recombinant chemicals used in Iraqi WMDs were provided by a Texas petrochemical company and a chemical/biological toxin firm in which George H. W. Bush held and continues to hold a financial stake.
In April 2003, counter-intelligence personnel with the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion, California Army National Guard, discovered, with the help of an Iraqi Air Force Chief Warrant Officer, aerial bombs specially configured for delivering chemical and biological weapons. The discovery was made at Al Bakr Air Base, some 60 miles north of Baghdad. In all, 29 crates containing the bombs were discovered.
Dave DeBatto, one of the counter-intelligence agents who discovered the bombs, wrote,
"He [the Iraqi Warrant Officer] pointed to the midsection of the bomb and to what appeared to be a small, thin metal door or covering bolted shut with small metal pins and possibly covering a slot or chamber. Inside, ]the Warrant Officer], explained, was a small parachute. He told us that after the bomb was dropped from the aircraft, the metal covering was blown open and the parachute deployed at about two hundred feet, slowing the descent of the bomb. A chemical agent, which was located in another chamber located at the rear of the bomb, was then dispersed into the air in an aerosol spray and spread over as large an area as the prevailing winds allowed.
[The Warrant Officer] led us around to the rear of the bomb and pointed to the tail assembly. It had a circular piece of metal connected to spokes in a conventional sort of design, but the similarity stopped there. Where ordinarily the rear end of a conventional high explosive bomb would taper into a point, this bomb had apparently had the tail section cut off about six inches from the tip resulting in a flat, circular end. Into that flat end, a small handle was inserted like one on a drawer. [The Warrant Officer] motioned with his hand near the handle and said that this device was twisted in order to open the compartment and then the technician pulled the drawer out and inserted a chemical agent in the slot. When finished, the drawer was reinserted into the bomb and the handle was once again secured."
The Iraqi Warrant Officer was proud that he managed to hide the bombs from UN weapons inspectors over the years since Operation Desert Storm. According to information provided to WMR, Saddam's decision to hide these particular weapons from the UN actually protected the ultimate source of the chemical and biological weapons -- companies directly linked to George H. W. Bush and James Baker.
DeBatto wrote, "I opened the folded off-white paper form and noticed several interesting things right away. The bombs had been purchased in the United States in 1988 from what appeared to be a government contractor called The Carlyle Group. I am almost embarrassed now to say that I had not heard of The Carlyle Group at that time so the name meant nothing to me. The only reason I remember it at all is that I was amazed that the bill was in English and I was stunned to see that a bomb that was used by Iraq in delivering chemical WMD - the only WMD found during the entire Iraq war - was in fact supplied to Saddam Hussein by the United States. Un-blanking believable."
However, there is more to this story, much more.
The Bush/Baker-influenced Carlyle Group profiteered from the Iraq-Iran War in the late 1980s. In the late 1980s and early 90s, illegal U.S. weapons shipments to Iraq became the subject of an intensive investigation by the House Banking Committee Chairman, Rep. Henry Gonzalez of Texas. This is what Sen. Edward Kennedy said of Gonzalez at the award ceremony presenting him with the 1994 President John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, "The achievement of banking reform might have been enough courage for most elected officials -- but not Henry Gonzalez. The following year, he launched the "Iraqgate" investigation that exposed the role of the Atlanta branch o£ an Italian bank and the involvement of the U.S. Commodities Credit Corporation and Reagan and Bush Administration officials in the illegal sale of U.S. arms to Iraq leading up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War. The Bush Administration first asked -- and then pressured - Chairman Gonzalez to drop the investigation, on the ground that national security would be compromised. But Chairman Gonzalez saw through that flimsy pretext, and the rest is history."
From the reports of Gonzalez's Banking Committee and two law suits by Desert Storm veterans suffering from Gulf War Syndrome against two Texas-based companies named as sources of chemical and biological weapons for Iraq in court filings, WMR can report that George H. W. Bush and James Baker were directly involved in providing WMDs to Saddam Hussein using then-private businessman Donald Rumsfeld as an intermediary. U.S. Army counter-intelligence agents report to WMR that they and British WMD clean-up personnel were used as a janitorial team to get rid of evidence linking U.S. firms, including Carlyle, Phillips Petroleum (now Conoco Phillips), and Tanox Biosystems of Houston in providing deadly chemical and biological agents to Iraq in violation of UN sanctions. In addition, another Bush-connected corporation, Bechtel, was investigated by Gonzalez for providing not only chemical and biological production materials to Iraq but pressuring the U.S. Export-Import (EX-IM) Bank to underwrite loans for the construction of an Iraq-Aqaba, Jordan oil pipeline. [Vice President Dick Cheney's hand picked President of the EX-IM Bank, publishing magnate Phillip Merrill, was recently found in the Chesapeake Bay with a shotgun blast to the head and weighed down with an anchor].
On February 24, 1992, Gonzalez made the following remarks on the floor of the House concerning Bechtel, the first Bush administration, and the EX-IM Bank:
". . . the State Department and the White House would pressure the EX-IM Bank repeatedly to gain access to guaranteed financing for Iraqi projects. The most prominent of these projects was an Iraqi oil pipeline with an outlet at the Red Sea Port of Aqaba, Jordan. This contract alone was worth $1 billion for its contractor, Bechtel, the California engineering conglomerate. Secretary of State George Shultz and Bechtel had a longstanding business relationship. As a matter of fact, Secretary Shultz came from Bechtel, and he came back from Bechtel. He worked at Bechtel prior to becoming Secretary of State and, as I say and repeat, he went back immediately upon leaving the State Department. Other high officials in the Reagan administration involved in this project including President Bush, the current Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, former Attorney General Ed Meese, former NSC Director Robert McFarlane, and former CIA Director William Casey. At various times, every one of them contacted the EX-IM Bank to obtain financing for the Aqaba pipeline project. These officials all had one thing in common-they saw EX-IM Bank financing as crucial to United States-Iraq relations... Clearly, the highest levels of the administration placed tremendous importance on the Aqaba pipeline project. On June 19, 1984, the EX-IM Bank's Board met and not surprisingly approved a preliminary commitment of $484 million for the Aqaba pipeline for Bechtel. As a side note, the report read: Under normal peaceful circumstances, this project would not be economically viable. Can you imagine that? Under normal circumstances this project would not be viable. Oh, but it involves Bechtel. But Bechtel, as President Eisenhower said, is a mighty component of this great industrial defense complex, which in effect has been determining policy for our country, and particularly in the last two administrations."
The EX-IM Bank authorized the sale of chemical weapons to Iraq in the 1980s. On Dec. 20, 2002, The Washington Post reported, "An Export-Import Bank official reported in a memorandum that he could find 'no reason' to stop the sale [pesticides to Iraq from Dow Chemical], despite evidence that the pesticides were 'highly toxic' to humans and would cause death 'from asphyxiation'."
Bechtel also counted Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as a General Counsel; CIA Director Richard Helms (whose niece was the U.S. envoy of the Taliban and helped negotiate another pipeline deal (trans-Afghan CentGas) that would partly result in the 9-11 "Al Qaeda" attacks on the United States) as a consultant; and Ross Connelly, George W. Bush's chief financial officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (and another conduit of slush finds to the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority) as head of Bechtel Investments.
During his probe of U.S. military support for Saddam, Chairman Gonzalez also investigated another Iraqi pipeline consortium partner, Brown & Root, now Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, headed after the Bush I administration by Dick Cheney.
Gonzalez, in a letter to President George H. W. Bush on May 2, 1991, brought up the names of a number of other Republicans in the illegal WMD trade with Iraq:
COMMITTEE ON BANKING, FINANACE AND URBAN AFFAIRS,
Washington, DC
May 2,1991
Hon. GEORGE BUSH,
President of the United States,
Washington, DC
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: The House Banking Committee is conducting an
investigation into over $4 billion in unreported loans the former employees of the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) provided to the government of Iraq between 1985 and 1990. The Committee's investigation has uncovered the fact that Henry Kissinger was on the International Advisory Board of BNL during that same time period and that BNL was a client of Kissinger Associates.
As you are aware, Mr. Brent Scowcroft and Mr. Lawrence Eagleburger were high ranking officials of Kissinger Associates- Mr. Scowcroft as Vice Chairman and Mr. Eagleburger as President. Kissinger Associates represents many large multinational companies involved in various aspects of international trade, including the arms business. Since these firms sell their wares worldwide, they often are the beneficiaries of U.S. policy towards foreign countries. I am deeply concerned over the potential influence Mr. Kissinger may exert over the decisions and actions of Mr. Scowcroft and Mr. Eagleburger, and am especially troubled by a potential conflict of interest involving Mr. Scowcroft.
The NationaI Security Advisor is in a position to strongly influence our national security and foreign policies, including the U.S. export licensing process. These policies often have a direct influence on individual corporations doing business abroad. Until October 4,1990, Mr. Scowcroft owned stock in approximately 40 U.S. corporations. many of which were doing busies in Iraq. Those companies received more than one out of every eight U.S. export licenses for exports to Iraq. Several of the companies were also clients of Kissinger Associates while Mr. Scowcroft was Vice Chairman of that firm.
Mr. Scowcroft's stock holding, particularly in corporations that are clients of Kissinger Associates, present the potential for serious conflicts of interest and cause one to question whether or not his decisions as National Security Advisor are completely disassociated from the interests of his former boss and longtime colleague.
Mr. Eagleburger, the current Deputy Secretary of State, as well as Mr. Scowcroft, may also be involved in a conflict of interest related to their role in promoting military sales abroad. The Legal Times recently reported that Mr. Eagleburger and Mr. Scowcroft (a lifelong Air Force Officer) are strong advocates of using $1 billion in Export-Import Bank resources to finance the sale of U.S. military articles overseas. The Legal Times also
reported that Mr. Eagleburger actually sent a classified memorandum to all U.S. Embassies urging that U.S. defense firms be given more help selling weapons abroad. Many corporations, including Mr. Eagleburger's past employer, the ITT Corporation, stand to benefit if the U.S. foreign service is forced to take a greater role in selling U.S. military articles abroad. For your information, I have attached a copy of the Legal Times
article referring to Mr. Eagleburger's and Mr. Scowcroft's roles in expanding military sales abroad. I am concerned that their attempts to use the foreign service and the Export-Import Bank to assist corporations in financing military sales abroad may have been prejudiced by their past associations.
Mr. Scowcroft's and Mr. Eagleburger's actions seem out of step at a time when the U.S. should be leading a worldwide effort to limit arms proliferation. The positions held by these men are of the utmost importance to the national security of the United States. Persons filling such important positions must be independent from past associations which
could cloud their judgment.
I trust you will consider the issues I have raised in this letter and, if necessary, take appropriate action to ensure that potential conflicts are eliminated.Thank you for your time and consideration. With best wishes.
Sincerely,
HENRY B. GONZALEZ
Chairman
In a Nov. 1991 letter to CIA Director William Webster, Gonzalez sought specific information on foreign firms and individuals that received EX-IM Bank-backed loans from BNL:
1. Wafia Dajani (Jordanian citizen) and his related companies: Amman Resources, Amman, Jordan; Amman Resources International, Georgetown, Grand Cayman; Araba Holdings, Inc. Panama; Aqaba Packing Co., Amman, Jordan.
2. Technology and Development Group (TDG) London, England.
3. TMG Engineering Limited, London, England.
4. Matrix-Churchill Limited (MCL) Coventry, England.
5. Tigris Trading Company, Baghdad, Iraq.
6. Al-Arabi Trading Company, Ltd.
7. Meed International, Ltd, England.
8. Kintex, Sophia, Bulgaria (aka `Globus' or `Korekom').
9. TechnoExport Foreign Trade Company, Ltd., Czechoslovakia.
10. Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR, Moscow, USSR.
11. Exportkhleb, Moscow, USSR.
THE FOLLOWING IRAQI GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AND IRAQI INDIVIDUALS:
12. Ministry of Industry and Military Manufacturing, An Agency of the Republic of Iraq.
13. Nassar State Establishment for Mechanical Industries, An Agency of Republic of Iraq.
14. Central Bank of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq; Sadik Taha.
15. Rafidain Bank, Baghdad, Iraq.
16. Ali Mutalib Ali, former commercial attache at Iraq's German Embassy.
On Nov. 12, 1991, the CIA responded to Gonzalez:
Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington DC,
November 12, 1991.
Hon. Henry B. Gonzalez,
Chairman, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
Dear Mr. Chairman: In a letter dated 20 August 1991, the Banking Committee informed us of its investigation into the operations of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL). As a part of this investigation, the Banking Committee requested any foreign intelligence information this Agency may have on foreign beneficiaries of BNL loans to Iraq. As you are aware, we also are responding to a separate request from your Committee to review summaries of several raw, unevaluated reports on Iraq and BNL. Some of these summaries contain specific information on the Rafidain Bank (item 15 in your 20 August letter).
In addition to the information we are providing at this time, there are other documents, with the security classification TOP SECRET compartmented information, on the Iraq/BNL connection that we are prepared to provide directly to you and the other Committee members. The TOP SECRET compartmented documents also can be made available to staff members when they have obtained the appropriate clearances.
In response to your request, an extensive search of the files and indices of the appropriate CIA offices produced the following results that are keyed to your letter.
All portions classified secret
[ALL PORTIONS CLASSIFIED SECRET]
In addition to providing information from our classified files, we also have included some unclassified material from other open source publications (TAB B), and from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) that may assist you in this investigation. (TAB C)
In the course of searching our records, we identified documents relating to this matter that were originated by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, United States Information Agency, Department of Justice, and the Department of State. We are prepared to provide these agencies with specific document citations to facilitate their response to the Committee if you with to obtain these documents from them.
Sincerely,
Stanley M. Moskowitz,
Director of Congressional Affairs.
Enclosures classified secret
[ENCLOSURES CLASSIFIED SECRET]
Gonzalez also received a Federal Reserve Bank of New York memo regarding the shipment of nuclear triggers to Iraq and BNL:
Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
April 5, 1990.
To: Mr. Corrigan.
From: Thomas C. Baxter, Jr.
Subject: Lavoro.
I followed up on your suggestion about a possible connection between Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (`BNL') and the nuclear triggers that were seized in London. As you suspected, there is a connection. Apparently, Von Wedel (a former officer of BNL who is now cooperating with the government) says that one of the transactions done with Rafidian Bank at some point referenced nuclear detonators. According to Von Wedel, this reference scared BNL away from this particular transaction, but it is possible that the lesson the Iraqis learned was to be generic in preparing the credit documentation. Thus, it is entirely possible that BNL financed some of this material.
At any rate, I have been assured that those conducting the criminal investigation in Atlanta are looking into these connections, with a view to developing additional criminal charges. The resignation of the United States Attorney in Atlanta has led to a number of difficulties in that investigation. These difficulties have been compounded by what is perceived an interference from the Justice Department in Washington.
The press has also made a connection between BNL and the detonators. Attached you will find copies of two Financial Times articles doing just that.
There is also an interesting Justice Department memo from U.S. Attorney Robert Barr (later elected to the House of Representatives) that was uncovered by Gonzalez that points to Turkish involvement with Saddam's acquisition of WMDs from the United States. After serving a Bush I's National Security Adviser, Scowcroft became the head of the American-Turkish Council (ATC), an entity that figures prominently in the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network, the work of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates covert team, FBI Turkish and Farsi translator Sibel Edmonds' discoveries while looking over FBI intercepts, and the use of Turkish intermediaries connected to Russian-Israeli Mafia syndicates involved in WMD proliferation. Barr subsequently lost his House seat in a redistricting engineered with the assistance of George W. Bush political "Svengali" Karl Rove.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, U.S. ATTORNEY, NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, ATLANTA, GA, JANUARY 9, 1990.
Re: Assistance of Robert Kennedy.
Mr. Zane Kelly,
Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, GA
Dear Mr. Kelly: As you are aware Mr. Kennedy of your office has been providing essential assistance to this office in the BNL-Atlanta criminal investigation since late July 1989. In fact, without Mr. Kennedy's expertise this major case could not have progressed with the speed and depth accomplished to date. We certainly appreciate his efforts as well as those of yourself, Madeline Marsten and Ed Willingham.
Prior to anticipated indictment early next month, we request additional assistance from Mr. Kennedy, which involves a trip to Rome and Istanbul to interview essential non-grand jury witnesses. Travel may commence as early as January 19, 1990.
The stop in Rome is necessary to speak with a number of BNL-Rome employees, officers, and directors at whom Chistopher Drogoul and other key subjects have leveled charges of complicity in their BNL-Atlanta scheme. A Rome setting is required for immediate access to all relevant records which may assist in defeating these spurious claims by subjects of our criminal investigation.
The Istanbul portion of the trip is necessary to interview Yavus Tezeller, a Turkish national who has essential knowledge and records regarding kickbacks to BNL-Atlanta's First Vice President, Christopher Drogoul, and his father Pierre Drogoul. Tezeller's attorneys also indicate he can provide information regarding `after sale services,' unearned consulting fees, and other payments to the Iraqis, as well as kickbacks paid by United States and multinational companies to obtain Iraqi contracts. This is especially important information in light of the prevailing rumors regarding the Paris Club's intent to reschedule Iraqi debt, including a substantial portion of the $1.7 billion guaranteed by the CCC. Other Entrado and Enka officials with their relevant documents should also be available for interview.
Thank you again for the support of your office in this most important investigation.
Sincerely,
ROBERT L. BARR, JR.,
U.S. Attorney.
GALE MCKENZIE,
Assistant U.S. Attorney.
The George W. Bush administration attempted to censor all mention of U.S. firms in the 11,000-page WMD dossier submitted by Iraq to the UN Security Council prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. However, the 29 crates of aerial chem-bio dispersal bombs was proof in the pudding of Bush I (via Carlyle, Bechtel, and others) and Margaret Thatcher's complicity (via the firm Matrix Churchill) in arming Saddam. That is why the number one priority of American and British counter-intelligence personnel was recovery of the evidence and classification of the incriminating documents, including shipping bills. Unfortunately, for the Bush II and Blair governments, the uncensored Iraqi dossier was leaked to the German press.
The Iraqi dossier and UN weapons inspector reports support what Sen. Donald Riegle, the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, reported on Feb. 9, 1994, and reported in the Senate Banking Committee's "U.S. Chemical and Biological Exports to Iraq and Their Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War" (the "Riegle Report"), "the U.S. government actually licensed the export of deadly microorganisms to Iraq. It was later learned that these microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the United Nations inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program."
On September 11, 1990, PBS's Frontline reported the following, "In the beginning, the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro [BNL] provided credit for Iraqi purchases of U.S. grain and other commodities. Most were federally guaranteed loans under a program designed to help American farmers by promoting commodity exports. But the Iraqis soon began using BNL's money for equipment and technology which could help them develop their military-industrial base. BNL extended a $14 million letter of credit to a Tuscaloosa, Alabama company -- XYZ Options -- so the Iraqis could purchase precision carbide tools [which are used in chemical and biological weapon production]. $53.8 million in credit from BNL went to Lummus Crest in New Jersey to build an ethylene plant. Ethylene has many uses, including the production of chemical warfare agents."
In 1994, Bechtel, Phillips Petroleum and other firms were sued by Gulf War Syndrome sufferers for providing to Saddam's government, ethylene, a primary precursor ingredient for thiodiglycol, a chemical used in the production of mustard gas. Between 1983 and 1985, Phillips Export (a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum), sold 500 tons of thiodiglycol, to the Iraqi State Enterprise for Pesticide Production, via the Dutch firm, KBS Holland. In addition, five tons of thiodiglycol, were allegedly shipped to Iraq via the Spanish firm, Cades. Cades claims chemical was destroyed prior to its delivery. DeBatto and his team discovered the Carlyle shipments of WMDs were made via a Spanish intermediary. Phillips Export/ConocoPhillips is a defendant in a Texas civil suit brought by 3,500 Gulf War Syndrome sufferers.
In 2000, Phil Beck, a partner with the law firm, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, served as a member of George W. Bush's three-man Florida election trial team that argued on behalf of Bush before Judge N. Sanders Sauls. Beck was supported by four other Bartlit Beck lawyers, Shawn Fagan, Sean Gallagher and Glen Summers, and associate Joseph Fazioli , a former clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Not surprisingly, Beck served as counsel for Phillips Petroleum in a case involving a Phillips' ethylene plant in Sweeny, Texas (First Olefins Limited Partnership v. Phillips Petroleum Company) and a polythylene case (DuPont v. Phillips Petroleum). Phillips contributed $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential Inauguration Committee. Phillips personnel, along with those from Enron, were rewarded with positions on the Bush-Cheney Department of Energy Transition Team. Bush I's Secretary of State Eagleburger serves on the board of Conoco-Phillips.
The discovery of Carlyle documents with WMD components at Al Bakr by US Army counter-intelligence agents closes the loop on the involvement of Bush I and Baker in supplying Saddam Hussein with his deadliest weapons. Bush and Baker are reportedly shareholders in Houston-based Tanox Biosystems, sued by Gulf War Syndrome sufferers for shipping deadly biological agents to Iraq before Desert Storm. Tanox has also been accused of infecting death row inmates at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville with Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus), eventually passing the results if the tests to the U.S. Army's Fort Detrick bio-weapons laboratory. Another defendant in the Gulf War veterans' suit is Rhone-Poulenc, headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, and operator of a chemical plant in Houston. (After merger with Hoetsch, Rhone-Poulenc is now known as Aventis). DeBatto's discovery that the Carlyle shipment of the chem-bio weapons was made through Spanish and French intermediaries is bolstered by the fact that two firms identified by Gulf War plaintiffs, one Spanish -- Cades -- and the other French -- Rhone Poulenc -- are identified as pass through firms for U.S. shipments of nerve and mustard gas agents to Saddam in the 1980s.
The Gonzalez investigation of the provision by Phillips Petroleum of the mustard gas precursor chemical ethylene to Iraq was stymied on October 23, 1989, when Phillips' largest ethylene chemical plant in Pasadena, Texas, which sits alongside the Houston Shipping Channel, was rocked by a mega-explosion that killed 23 people and injured more than 100. According to the U.S. Fire Administration of FEMA, metal and concrete debris from the explosion were found as far away as six miles from ground zero. The report states that the explosion was caused by "a failure in either a line or valve which carried ethylene and/or isobutane. The line was reported as being approximately 10" in diameter and possibly carrying as much as 700 pounds per square inch pressure. It is not known if a mechanical failure took place or if human error was a factor. Regardless, a failure of a high pressure line carrying these types of flammable products can create a large, enveloping, explosive cloud within seconds." Rice University, 25 miles away, registered the explosion as 3.5 on the Richter scale, however, it was 4.0 at ground zero. A number of the plant's offices, which possibly contained documents that could have been of use to Federal investigators, were totally destroyed. Gonzalez and Senate Banking Committee investigators constantly complained that Bush I administration officials covered up every aspect of the Reagan-Bush secret arming of Iraq with WMDs. With no definite finding of what caused the Pasadena explosion, there is a possibility that more innocent Americans paid with their lives for the myriad crimes of the Bush Family.
4.
Trading with the enemy is part of the GHBush family.
Prescott Bush traded with Hitler.
The book America Betrayed details this.
http://universitypress.info/AmericaBetrayed.html...
UNIVERSITY PRESS
America Betrayed
Bush, bin Laden, 9-11
by R. Joseph, Ph.D.
University Press, 2nd Edition ISBN: 0971644578
Prescot Bush and Rockefeller's Standard Oil had been in business with the Hitler regime and the Nazis since 1933, and in 1942, three Bush businesses were seized by the U.S. government, for violation of the Trading With the Enemies Act.
Three generations of the Bush clan became members of a German secret society: the Yale chapter of the "Order of Skull and Bones." In Germany, the Order of Skull of Bones --also known as "The Brotherhood of Death"-- gave rise to Hitler and the dreaded SS. Prescot Bush, through his shipping company, became a special "Friend" of Himmler's SS--the same SS which, in conjunction with IG Farbin, ran the concentration and slave labor camps.
The Bush clan and Rockefeller's standard Oil, were in business with IG Farben, as well as with the Saudis who had also partnered with Hitler.
At the conclusion of WWII, and Germany's defeat, thousands of high ranking Nazis and SS agents were recruited, by Bush-Rockefeller lawyer, Allen Dulles, into what would later become the CIA. Allen Dulles, and later, George Bush, would become directors of the CIA...
...IG Farbin, a consortium of companies that included Bayer, conducted horible experiements on concentration camp inmates to discover an "ethnic biological weapon" --a deadly disease that would target specific ethnic groups... Drs. funded by the Rockefeller foundation directed this research.
In 1957, a scientist who completed his medical training in Nazi-occupied Poland, and who was funded by the Rockefeller foundation, injected 300,000 Central African men, women, and children, with an experimental polio vacine--a vacine that contained a deadly AIDS-like viruse, monkey HSIV. Years later, Central Africa would become "Ground Zero" for the AIDS/HIV epidemic...
On August 6, 2001, Bush received a memorandum titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," but then did nothing. Two weeks later, CIA Chief Tenet and his top deputies received a briefing paper labeled "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly." Bush and Cheney were notified and did nothing...War would be good politics and good for the business of war.
...Three generations of the Bush clan have been in business with governments and people who kill Americans, and on the morning of 9-11-2001, Bush sr. was in business with the bin Ladens and other Saudis who had helped fund Osama bin Laden and the attack of 9-11-2001... 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and Bush did nothing to stop the attack.
The attack of 9-11, would transform an inept, incompetent president into a war time leader who would attack not Saudi Arabia but Iraq and then steal its oil and assets...as well as attack American Civil Liberties and the U.S. constitution...
Bush knew in advance, but welcomed the attack of 9-11-2001, as its aftermath would not only earn his family and associates billions of dollars, but would provide an excuse for attacking Iraq and toppling its leader, Saddam Hussein--the sworn enemy of Osama Bin Laden.
"Key FBI Headquarters personnel had to be spies or moles.. who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden....Key FBI HQ personnel... continued to, almost inexplicably, throw up roadblocks and undermine Minneapolis' desperate efforts... to stop terrorists...." who planned "to take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." --FBI supervisor, and Coleen M. Rowley, FBI Special Agent & Chief Division Counsel...
"It was as if Usama bin Laden, hidden in some high mountain redoubt, were engaging in long-range mind control of George Bush." --United States Counterterrorism Chief, Richard A. Clarke.
...and it goes on and on...
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CONTENTS
THOSE WHO BURN BOOKS.....................................................7
THE NAZI-TERRORIST OIL-CONSPIRACY...................................................23 (DownLoad PDF)
THE BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH...........................................57 (DownLoad PDF)
CIA-NAZIS: TERROR & MURDER INCORPORATED (The Kennedy Assassination).....101 (DownLoad PDF)
THE TERRORIST ASSASSINS: Bush, the CIA, & the Ford, Rockefeller, Reagan Assassinations...173 (Download PDF)
THE TANGLED ROOTS OF TERRORISM.............................................213 (Download PDF)
BUSH-LADEN, WAHHABISM & THE GULF WAR...................................................263 (Download PDF)
BIOLOGICAL ETHNIC WEAPONS: AMERICA TERRORIZES THE U.S. ............................................303 (download PDF)
OSAMA BIN LADEN, AFGHANISTAN, TALIBAN, AL-QAEDA, FLORIDA & GEORGE BUSH...................................................................377 (download PDF)
BUSH, FBI & CIA SABOTAGE PRE-9-11 INVESTIGATIONS .........................................377
9-11: BUSH KNEW & ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN.................... 409
TERROR FOR OIL....................................................479 (download PDF)
BIN LADEN THE BUSINESSMAN ................................................................505 (download PDF)
A TAIL OF TWO "HEROES"........................................................................535
IRAQ & THE "BIG LIE"....................................................479 “
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Cheney Spoke of Need to Establish US Presence in Mid-East
author: D. Burbeck
Jun 26, 2006 11:52
By D. Burbeck
Mike Malloy of Air America Radio said a few nights ago that in the
'90s Cheney used to speak of the need to establish a U.S. presence
in the Middle-East. I had never heard this before, but it came as no
surprise.
Mr. Malloy had Greg Pallast on a few days later - investigative
reporter for the British Guardian Newspaper - who has discovered and
disclosed a document of the oil companies' written before the war which
states that the goal of the occupation in Iraq would be to control oil
production in accordance with what the Saudis wish. He said, essentially
it called for "shutting off the spigot".....in order to raise prices. Now things
make much more sense. Things are not going badly in Iraq. Things are
going just as the oil giants had planned. "
See more there
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6.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/index.html Many articles making connections to CIA and drugs
7.
Classic! Cheney's Halliburton and Btown and Root drug connection
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/bush-cheney-drugs.html
Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of
THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE
[Lead story in the October 24, 2000 issue of "From The Wilderness"]
by
Michael C. Ruppert
© Copyright 2000, Michael C. Ruppert and "From The Wilderness" Publications, P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, 818-788-8791, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. - Permission to reprint for non-profit only is hereby granted as long as proper sourcing appears. For all other permissions contact mruppert (at) copvcia.com.
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FTW October 24, 2000 - The success of Bush Vice Presidential running mate Richard Cheney at leading Halliburton, Inc. to a five year $3.8 billion "pig-out" on federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans is only a partial indicator of what may happen if the Bush ticket wins in two weeks. A closer look at available research, including an August 2, 2000 report by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) at www.public-i.org, suggests that drug money has played a role in the successes achieved by Halliburton under Cheney's tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000. This is especially true for Halliburton's most famous subsidiary, heavy construction and oil giant, Brown and Root. A deeper look into history reveals that Brown and Root's past as well as the past of Dick Cheney himself, connect to the international drug trade on more than one occasion and in more than one way.
This June the lead Washington, D.C. attorney for a major Russian oil company connected in law enforcement reports to heroin smuggling and also a beneficiary of US backed loans to pay for Brown and Root contracts in Russia, held a $2.2 million fund raiser to fill the already bulging coffers of presidential candidate George W. Bush. This is not the first time that Brown and Root has been connected to drugs and the fact is that this "poster child" of American industry may also be a key player in Wall Street's efforts to maintain domination of the half trillion dollar a year global drug trade and its profits. And Dick Cheney, who has also come closer to drugs than most suspect, and who is also Halliburton's largest individual shareholder ($45.5 million), has a vested interest in seeing to it that Brown and Root's successes continue.
Of all American companies dealing directly with the U.S. military and providing cover for CIA operations few firms can match the global presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000 people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or joint ventures, Brown and Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells, construct and operate everything from harbors to pipelines to highways to nuclear reactors. It can train and arm security forces and it can now also feed, supply and house armies. One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos.
Furthermore, the relationships between key institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a George "W" administration the Bush family and its allies may well be able, using Brown and Root as the operational interface, to control the drug trade all the way from Medellin to Moscow.
Originally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown and Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbors and tunnels, Brown and Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career. It prospered as a result, making billions on U.S. Government contracts during the Vietnam War. The "Austin Chronicle" in an August 28 Op-ed piece entitled "The Candidate From Brown and Root" labels Republican Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown and Root's largesse. According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five year tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to Republican candidates.
Independent news service "newsmakingnews.com," also describes how in 1998, with Cheney as Chairman, Halliburton spent $8.1 billion to purchase oil industry equipment and drilling supplier Dresser Industries. This made Halliburton a corporation that will have a presence in almost any future oil drilling operation anywhere in the world. And it also brought back into the family fold the company that had once sent a plane - also in 1948 - to fetch the new Yale Graduate George H.W. Bush, to begin his career in the Texas oil business. Bush the elder's father, Prescott, served as a Managing Director for the firm that once owned Dresser, Brown Bothers Harriman.
It is clear that everywhere there is oil there is Brown and Root. But increasingly, everywhere there is war or insurrection there is Brown and Root also. From Bosnia and Kosovo, to Chechnya, to Rwanda, to Burma, to Pakistan, to Laos, to Vietnam, to Indonesia, to Iran to Libya to Mexico to Colombia, Brown and Root's traditional operations have expanded from heavy construction to include the provision of logistical support for the U.S. military. Now, instead of U.S. Army quartermasters, the world is likely to see Brown and Root warehouses storing and managing everything from uniforms to rations to vehicles.
Dramatic expansion of Brown and Root's operations in Colombia also suggest Bush preparations for a war inspired feeding frenzy as a part of "Plan Colombia." This is consistent with moves by former Bush Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady to open a joint Colombian-American investment partnership called Corfinsura for the financing of major construction projects with the Colombian Antioquia Syndicate, headquartered in Medellin. (See FTW June, 00). And expectations of a ground war in Colombia may explain why, in a 2000 SEC filing, Brown and Root reported that in addition to owning more than 800,000 square feet of warehouse space in Colombia, they also lease another 122,000 square feet. According to the filing of the Brown and Root Energy Services Group, the only other places where the company maintains warehouse space are in Mexico (525,000 sq. feet), and the U.S. (38,000) square feet.
According to the web site of Colombia's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency Brown and Root had no presence in the country until 1997. What does Brown and Root, which, according to the AP has made more than $2 billion supporting and supplying U.S. troops, know about Colombia that the U.S. public does not? Why the need for almost a million square feet of warehouse space that can be transferred from one Brown and Root operation (energy) to another (military support) with the stroke of a pen?
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were released from prison within a few years. Others would go
virtually unpunished. No one ever investigated the Nazi sympa-
thizers in Western intelligence who had made it all possible."
"The bottom line is that the Nazi businessmen survived the
war with their fortunes intact and rebuilt their industrial empires to
become the richest men in the world." Indeed, some became
"multibillionaires" even though they "had been prominent mem-
bers of Hitler’s inner circle" (1,2).
Dulles’ clients got away with it. President Roosevelt’s dream
of putting the Nazis’ moneymen on trial died with him" (1,2).
Dulles and his clients had won.
However, insofar as the Dulles-Bush-Harriman-Rockefeller
clique were concerned, this was just a single battle. The great prize
would be to seize power in the United States and to use the govern-
ment to serve their own ends. Like Hitler, they intended to do it
"legally."
Knowledge is power. Secrecy insures that knowledge and
power are controlled by those controlling the secrets. If crimes re-
main secret, there is no punishment, just rewards.
Espionage and spying are a means of gaining access to the
secrets of others. Knowledge is power.
It was the job of Allen Dulles to bury the secrets which would
implicate his patrons and business partners, as well as himself, in
treasonable and criminal acts. However, Dulles, with a long his-
tory in spying and espionage, wanted more than to just bury se-
crets. Dulles wanted to build a spy agency (4), that like Himmler’s
Gestapo, would be above the law, and thus beyond any possibility
of penalty
Even before the end of World War II, Dulles, who would
soon become the first director of the CIA, had begun recruiting his
dream team of super-spymasters from the "Brotherhood of Death,"
that is, from Himmler’s dreaded SS, the Gestapo (5). Dulles would
create an American version of the Gestapo: the CIA. The CIA would
become his personal instrument of power.
for crimes such as terror, theft, slavery or murder.
Wall Street law firm in New York. Allen Dulles performed work
for Bush, Harriman, and Rockefeller in setting up business rela-
tionships with the Nazis and with top Nazi industrialists. Dulles
played a pivotal role in promoting U.S.-Nazi corporate relations
(6).
Dulles was also legal counsel for Standard Oil and the Nazi’s
IG Farben, which had partnered with the Rockefellers and owned
considerable Standard oil stock. His brother John Dulles (who
later became Secretary of State) was an IG Farben board member
(6).
Dulles was originally recruited by OSS intelligence chief
Colonel William J. Donovan, in 1941, and was posted to Berne,
Switzerland. Dulles was picked because of his great expertise on
Germany which he acquired through his law firm and by working
as an agent for Bush, Harriman, and Rockefeller (6).
From October 1942 to May 1945, he gathered intelligence
information on Nazi Germany, especially as it pertained to com-
merce and industry. Much of this information was also passed on
to his business associates, i.e. Bush and gang (1,2,6).
The Nazis considered Dulles to be "the most influential White
House man in Europe" and Dulles had numerous meetings with
top ranking members of the SS (4,6,7). In January of 1943, Dulles,
acting as a representative of the United States, began negotiating
with top Nazis. Dulles was urging that Hitler be deposed and re-
placed by SS chief Himmler (7).
Himmler was a mass murderer, responsible for the deaths of
at least ten million men, women, and children, in the Nazi death
camps and elsewhere (7,8). However, Himmler was still a business
man and a member of the "Brotherhood of Death" (8), as were
Bush, Harriman, Rockefeller, and other Dulles’ associates (9).
Dulles and gang thought Himmler would make a fine leader.
All were in agreement with the Dulles plan, including
Himmler, and presumably, the White House (7). "The stumbling
block was the question of how the SS could get rid of Hitler" (7).
Himmler wished to make Hitler an "honorary president."
The entire plan of replacing Hitler, however, went awry, when,
according to Dulles (4), Hitler became aware of the plan due to
"some Allied agency neither American or British."
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Himmler panicked.
Dulles then began negotiating with Obergruppenfuhrer Karl
Wolff (4), Himmler’s "senior aid" and the "Head of his Personal
Staff." Wolff "knew all the murkiest secrets of SS headquarters."
This too came to naught, perhaps because Hitler learned of
the meetings with Dulles. Curiously, Hitler seemed to know Dulles
personally, and thus did not object to these meetings. In April, 1945,
for example, Hitler summoned Wolff and asked him about Dulles
(7,8). Wolf replied: "I am happy to report to you, my Fuhrer, that
I have succeeded in opening doors through Mr. Dulles." After fur-
ther discussion, Hitler relied: "Go back to Italy. Keep up your rela-
tionship with Dulles and the Americans."
By this late stage of the game, it was clear that Germany had
lost the War. It was also clear that it would be impossible to install
Himmler as the leader of Germany, though, that hope was actually
kept alive until the final weeks of the war.
Dulles and the Bush gang had lots of Nazi "friends" includ-
ing hundreds of men who wore the dreaded SS death head. Many
of these were Nazi businessmen—men who, in the name of prof-
its, enslaved, starved, and worked to death, millions of men and
women.
When the war ended, Dulles acted to insure that Nazi busi-
nessmen would escape punishment with their fortunes intact. He
also helped thousands of high ranking SS officers to escape.
Dulles was not acting out of kindness. He wanted to put these
men to work as spies who would murder and kill in the name of the
good ‘ol USA. Even before the war ended, Dulles had begun re-
cruiting Gestapo agents, that is, members of the German Order of
Skull and Bones, the Brotherhood of Death, into what would be-
come the American version of the Gestapo, the CIA (5,6).
As recently revealed by the CIA (5) and as documented by
Christopher Simpson, in his extensively researched book, Blowback
(10), "hundreds of convicted Nazi war criminals" were "smuggled
out of Germany to avoid prosecution at the war crimes trials at
Nuremberg." They were "recruited by, and were put on the payroll
of several U.S. government agencies, including the Army CIC, the
OSS, and the Office of Policy Coordination within the State De-
partment."
Dulles was well rewarded for his work on behalf of his Nazi
friends and American business partners. He became the first direc-
tor of the CIA.
Once the war ended, thousands of SS men, murderers, tor-
turers, killers of women, children and babies, were recruited by
Dulles, including, as admitted by the CIA on April 29, 2001 (11),
Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon." Barbie was even-
tually convicted of crimes against humanity by a French court.
SS Nazi Major General Walter Dornberger was yet another
"butcher" recruited by Dulles. Dornberger had been sentenced to
death by hanging for war crimes. With the help of Dulles he es-
caped his fate, and was welcomed with open arms into what would
become the CIA (5).
As revealed by the National Archives, as admitted by the CIA,
and as reported by BBC and UPI (5), the CIA employed high rank-
ing Nazis, including Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen who placed
his Nazi spy ring at the disposal of Dulles following the close of
WWII. Gehlen’s Nazi CIA spy ring, became known as "the Gehlen
Organization and received millions of dollars in funding from the
U.S. until 1956" (11).
Gehlen was Hitler’s senior intelligence officer on the East-
ern Front during the war and was responsible for the torture and
murder of millions of Soviet prisoners of war. However, instead of
being brought to justice, Gehlen’s network of SS and Gestapo Nazi
agents, were secretly released from prisoner of war camps by U.S.
intelligence officers at the urgings of Allen Dulles.
According to T. H. Tetens author of "The New Germany and
the Old Nazis, "Gehlen "immediately asked for an interview with
the commanding officer " and offered the United States "his intel-
ligence staff, spy apparatus, and the priceless files for future ser-
vice."
Dulles made personal arrangements for Gehlen to be sent to
Washington where his offer was accepted. "The Pentagon-Gehlen
agreement," states Tetens (12), "in practice guaranteed the con-
tinuation of the all-important Abwehr division of the German Gen-
eral Staff. Hundreds of German army and SS officers were quietly
released from internment camps and joined Gehlen’s headquarters
in the Spessart Mountains in central Germany. When the staff had
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grown to three thousand men, the Bureau Gehlen opened a closely
guarded twenty-five-acre compound near Pullach, south of Munich,
operating under the innocent name of the South German Industrial
Development Organization."
"In the early fifties it was estimated that the organization
employed up to 4,000 intelligence specialists in Germany, mainly
former army and SS officers, and more than 4,000 V-men (under-
cover agents). Gehlen’s spy network stretched from Korea to Cairo,
from Siberia to Santiago de Chile. Within a few years the Gehlen
apparatus had grown by leaps and bounds" (12).
As summed up by Tetens (12), "the short period of 1950-51
must be marked as the time when Hitler’s old officers, SS leaders,
and [Nazi] party functionaries returned to power and influence."
A US Justice Department spokesman, Eli Rosenbaum, said
"the files demonstrated that the real winners of the war were Nazi
war criminals."
Allen Dulles, in his book "The Secret Surrender," justifies
his use of Gestapo agents, by making a distinction between "good"
and "bad" Nazis. Standartenfuehrer Eugen Dollmann, Himmler’s
representative in Rome, was a "good" Nazi, as was SS
Obergruppenfuehrer Karl Wolff.
In November, 1938, this "good" Nazi, Karl Wolff played a
major role in the atrocities of "Kristallnacht" (the night of broken
glass), during which 20,000 German Jews were attacked, beaten
up, their homes and business burnt, and then sent to concentration
camps where they were tortured, starved, and murdered.
After the conquest of Poland, Wolf sent a letter to Himmler
which read as follows: "For your letter of July 28th, 1942, I thank
you—also in the name of the Reichsfuehrer SS—sincerely. With
particular joy I noted your assurance that for two weeks now a
train has been carrying, every day, 5000 members of the Chosen
People to Treblinka, so that we are now in a position to carry through
this ‘population movement.’ With best regards and Heil Hitler!"
Thus, in the mind of Dulles and his CIA, there are "good"
sadists and mass murderers such as Wolff and even SS chief,
Himmler, and those that are bad sadists and murderers, i.e. com-
munists and labor leaders.
The CIA, thus, became a Nazi refuge and would soon be-
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come an instrument of Nazi-like terror. The CIA, like the Gestapo,
would employ espionage, propaganda, terror, chemical and bio-
logical warfare, including the purposeful infection and murder of
innocent American and foreign citizens, to obtain its objectives
(13, see also chapter 8). And, like the Gestapo, the CIA would be,
as it still is, above the law, and its agents would be encouraged to
break the law and to commit crimes against humanity.
"Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply.
If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts
of ‘fair play’ must be reconsidered. We must develop effective es-
pionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert,
sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisti-
cated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It
may become necessary that the American people be made ac-
quainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repug-
nant philosophy." —General James Doolittle, report to President
Eisenhower, 1954.
"The CS is the only part of the IC [intelligence community],
indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily
basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries
around the world. A safe estimate is that several hundred times
every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO officers engage in highly
illegal activities that not only risk political embarrassment to the
US but also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating
foreign nationals and, more than occasionally, of the clandestine
officer himself." —Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1996.
"Over the past fifty years, it is now documented, these Ameri-
canized fugitive Nazi war criminals have been involved in, and in
many cases in charge of U.S. government covert operations — in-
ternational weapons smuggling, drug cartels, Central American
death squads, right wing anti-communist dictatorships, LSD mind
control experiments — the Republican National Committee’s Eth-
nic Heritage Councils, and the Presidential campaigns of Richard
Nixon, Ron
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spying and murder, but as instruments to be used for gaining in-
credible wealth, as well as political power, and as yet another
means of gaining control over the United States government.
THE BIRTH OF THE CIA
The CIA was the afterbirth of a marriage between Hitler’s
SS, and the OSS (6,10,12). In 1944, William J. Donovan, the cre-
ator of the OSS, and his assistant, Allen Dulles, presented a draft
proposal for the creation of a super-spy agency, "which will pro-
cure intelligence both by overt and covert methods and will at the
same time provide intelligence guidance, determine national intel-
ligence objectives, and correlate the intelligence material collected
by all government agencies."
Three years later, in 1947, President Harry S. Truman, agreed
to the formation of a centralized intelligence agency, with Dulles
acting as a director (14). In 1949, the Central Intelligence Agency
Act (15) was passed, thus creating a spy agency which would be
modeled after the SS, and which would be above the law, and could
carry out its activities in secret and independent of congressional
scrutiny. The act also exempted the CIA from having to disclose its
"organization, functions, officials, titles, salaries, or numbers of
personnel employed."
Dulles immediately began recruiting Nazi terrorists and SS
torturers to fill the ranks, and to teach SS methods to new CIA
recruits (6,10,12). Almost overnight, the CIA became a criminal
enterprise, devoted to protecting the business interests of the Wall
Street elite, including those directed or controlled by Bush,
Harriman, Rockefeller, and the Dulles brothers. Anyone and ev-
eryone challenging or threatening the ability of these men and their
associates to make money and to rape and exploit third world coun-
tries, became dangers to "national security." Opponents would be
eliminated, their governments or organizations toppled, and indig-
enous populations, including workers, murdered or terrorized into
submission—tactics identical to those employed by Hitler’s SS—
the Brotherhood of Death (7).
ald Reagan, and George Bush" (12).
Hitler’s dream and his SS essentially became the CIA.
Indeed, the Dulles, Bush, Harriman, Rockefeller clique, like
Hitler before them, would employ Nazi-CIA terrorists not just for
THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA
""I worked in the CIA for 13 years" explained John Stockwell,
...Bush, bin Laden, 9-11...
in a speech given on October 10, 1987. In 1978, Stockwell, the
highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go pub-
lic, was awarded the Medal of Merit before he resigned.
"I sat on a subcommittee of the NSC [National Security Coun-
cil] so I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s, Henry Kissinger,
Bill Colby (the CIA director), making the important decisions. My
job was to put it all together and make it happen and run it" (16).
"I was conditioned by my training, my marine corps train-
ing, and my background, to believe in everything they were saying
about the cold war, and I took the job with great enthusiasm....
only to discover...that nothing we were doing in fact defended U.S.
national security interests."
"The CIA, the state department, works with the death squads.
They don’t meet the death squads on the streets where they’re ac-
tually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and
running trucks over their heads. The CIA people meet the police
chiefs, and the people who run the death squads, and they do liaise
with them, they meet them beside the swimming pool of the villas.
And it’s a sophisticated, civilized kind of relationship. And they
talk about their children, who are going to school at UCLA or
Harvard. They don’t talk about the horrors of what’s being done."
"I went to Nicaragua a total of 7 times. This was a major
covert action. It gave me a chance, after running operations from
Washington, to go to a country that was under attack, to talk to the
leadership, to talk to the people, to look and see what happens when
you give white phosphorous or grenades or bombs to people, and
they go inside a country... It gave me a chance to talk to the people,
who have been shot, or hit, or blown up.... We’re talking about 10
to 20 thousand covert actions."
"The Indonesian covert action of 1965, not only eliminated
the Indonesian communist party, it also eliminated the entire seg-
ment of the population that tended to support the communist party
- the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. The CIA’s report put the
number of dead at 800,000 killed. Ralph McGehee," who helped
run that operation, "said that this was a model operation that should
be copied everywhere in the world."
"That’s the sentiment in Washington. If you’re killing 1 to 3
million communists, that’s great. The problem, though, is that these
people killed by our national security activities are not commu-
nists. They’re not Communists, they’re not Communist KGB. In
the field we used to play chess with the KGB officers, and have
drinks with them. It was like professional football players - we
would knock heads on Sunday, maybe in an operation, and then
Tuesday you’re at a banquet together drinking toasts and talking.
The people that are dying are people of the third world. That’s the
common denominator. People that have the misfortune of being
born in the Metumba mountains of the Congo, in the jungles of
Southeast Asia, in the hills of Nicaragua. Far more Catholics than
communists, far more Buddhists than communists. Most of them
couldn’t give you an intelligent definition of communism, or of
capitalism."
"The CIA creates police units that become death squads with
the leaders on the CIA’s payroll, trained by the CIA. We had the
‘public safety program’ going throughout Central and Latin America
for 26 years, in which we taught them to break up subversion by
interrogating people. Interrogation, including torture. Dan Metrione,
the famous exponent of these things, was the master of the busi-
ness, how to apply the right amount of pain, at just the right times,
in order to get the response you want from the individual. They
developed a wire. They gave them crank generators, with ‘U.S.
AID’ written on the side, so the victims would know where these
things came from."
"Now how do you teach torture? Dan Metrione: ‘I can teach
you about torture, but sooner or later you’ll have to get involved.
You’ll have to lay on your hands and try it yourselves.’"
"To teach torture, sometimes they would grab beggars from
off the streets. All they could do was lie there and scream. And
when they would collapse, they would bring in doctors and shoot
them up with vitamin B and rest them up for the next class. And
when they would die, they would mutilate the bodies and throw
them out on the streets, to terrify the population so they would be
afraid of the police and the government. And this is what the CIA
was teaching them to do."
"To destabilize Nicaragua, beginning in 1981, we began
funding Somoza’s ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras
(the counter-revolutionaries). We created this force, it did not exist
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-7- until we allocated money. We’ve armed them, put uniforms on their
backs, boots on their feet, given them camps in Honduras to live
in, medical supplies, doctors, training, leadership, and then sent
them in to de-stabilize Nicaragua. Under our direction they sys-
tematically blew up granaries, saw mills, bridges, government of-
fices, schools, health centers. They ambushed trucks so the pro-
duce couldn’t get to market. They raided farms and villages... they
assassinated religious workers, teachers, health workers, elected
officials, government administrators. They use terror, a technique
to traumatize the society so that it can’t function.
"They’d go into villages, haul out families, and with the chil-
dren forced to watch they’d castrate the father, peel the skin off his
face, put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children
forced to watch they’d gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts
off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while
they do these things to the children. Its been documented that 13,000
people were killed this way in Nicaragua, mostly women and chil-
dren. These are the activities done by these contras. The contras
are the people Reagan and Bush call ‘freedom fighters’" (16).
THE NAZI-REPUBLICAN WING OF THE PARTY
Like Hitler’s Gestapo (7,8), the mission of the CIA had a
definite political purpose which was to put into power those sym-
pathetic to the interests of the Wall Street elite and who supported
the fascist ideology of the Brotherhood. However, it was not just
third world countries which would be subverted, but the govern-
ment of the United States.
As explained by Loftus and Aarons (1) "Dulles had been re-
cruiting Nazis under the cover of the State Department’s Office of
Policy Coordination. Eastern European émigré networks that had
worked first for the SS, then the British, and finally Dulles" were
also recruited and put on the payroll of the State Dept., even though
they were Nazis working for the CIA.
"The CIA did not know it, but Dulles was bringing them to
the United States less for intelligence purposes than for political
advantage. The Nazis’ job quickly became to get out the vote for
the Republicans."
"According to several of our sources among the ‘old spies,’
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Richard Nixon’s political career began in 1945, when he was the
navy officer temporarily assigned to review . . . captured Nazi docu-
ments" (1). The documents revealed the Nazi record of Karl Bless-
ing, "former Reichsbank officer and then head of the Nazi oil car-
tel, Kontinentale Ol A.G. ‘Konti’ was in partnership with Dulles’
principal Nazi client, IG Farben. Dulles" with Nixon’s help "lost
Blessings Nazi party records and personally vouched for Blessing
as an anti-Nazi in order to protect continued control of German oil
interests in the Middle East. Blessing’s Konti was the Nazi link to
Ibn Saud [King of Saudi Arabia] and ARAMCO [the Arabian-
American Oil Company]. If Blessing went down, he could have
taken a lot of people with him, including Allen Dulles," and the
Bush, Harriman, Rockefeller gang.
Naturally, the Dulles, Bush, Harriman, Rockefeller clique
were eager to reward Nixon for his help, and together, they "ar-
ranged financing for Nixon’s first congressional campaign. Nixon,
they believed, would be yet another useful tool in the toolbox they
were constructing in Congress. Some of these tools, i.e. Thomas
Dewey, they hoped to place in the White House. Nixon won, but
Dewey lost the election.
Not surprisingly, Richard Nixon gives a different explana-
tion as to how his relationship with the Bush gang first developed.
In his biography (17), Nixon claims that he saw an advertisement,
in a Los Angeles newspaper, that had been placed there, in 1946,
by the Orange County Republican Party and a wealthy group of
businessmen led by Prescott Bush. Bush and friends, Nixon claims,
wanted a young candidate to run for Congress against the liberal
democratic incumbent. Nixon says he responded to the ad, and
they basically hired him to run for congress, which he did, thus
becoming a congressional mouthpiece for the Bush gang.
Nixon, acting as the pro-business, anti-communist mouth-
piece of the Dulles-Bush-Harriman-Rockefeller clan, was so ef-
fective in this capacity, that he became Eisenhower’s running mate,
in 1952—despite Eisenhower’s dislike of the man.
"In preparation for the 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon campaign,
the Republicans formed an Ethnic Division, which, to put it bluntly,
recruited the ‘displaced Fascists’ who arrived in the United States
after World War II. Like similar migrant organizations in several
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Western countries, the Ethnic Division attracted a significant num-
ber of Central and Eastern European Nazis, who had been recruited
by the SS as political and police leaders during the Holocaust" (1).
The Nazis worked not only for the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket,
but to put Prescott Bush in the Senate. It was during this same time
period, during the early days of the attempted Nazification of the
Republican party, that Prescott’s son, George H. W. Bush, became
actively involved with Republican politics. It was possibly also
around this same period, that G.H.W. Bush began working in the
CIA.
It was the dream of Dulles and gang, to elevate their man
Nixon, to the White House. In 1960, Nixon ran against Kennedy.
Although the Nazi wing of the party was put at Nixon’s disposal,
he lost. Nixon didn’t blame his loss on the Nazis. Far from it. In-
stead, and at the urgings of Dulles and gang, he intended to make
full use of his Nazi friends the next time he ran for president.
"In 1968 Nixon promised that if he won the presidential elec-
tion, he would create a permanent ethnic council within the Re-
publican party" (1). The word "ethnic" was code for "Nazi." In
the early 1960s, if not before, George H.W. Bush also began play-
ing an active role in the creation of these ethnic councils. Thus he
willingly carried out Nixon’s promise after the 1972 election, while
he served as chairman of the Republican National Committee (1,19).
One of the men Bush helped to recruit was Laszlo Pasztor,
who became the Chairman of Nixon’s Republican Heritage Groups
council. During World War II Pasztor served as a government offi-
cial representing Nazi Hungary in Germany. Other émigré slots
were also filled by the members of various Nazi collaborationist
organizations (1,12,18,19).
As documented in a 1988 study by Russ Bellant of Politi-
cal Research Associates, virtually all of the Fascist organizations
of World War II were welcomed into the Republican party during
the Nixon administration—and George W. Bush, as chairman of
the party, played a major role. Emanuel Jasiuk was representative
of the character of the Republican ethnic leaders that Bush and
Nixon were after. Emanuel Jasiuk, was a notorious mass murderer
who was recruited by the Nazis when they invaded what is today
called the independent nation of Belarus (which during WWII was
My Notes:
So according to America Betrayed, the CIA under George W Bush engaged in terrorism in order to stop communism and promote him to the Presidency. Assination attemps are mentioned, against Ford, Regean as not coincidences. Haven't read it all but the CIA is too damn powerful, and Congress if it has the BALLS must investigate the accusations of its drug dealings to finance itself, the use of funds to bribe Congressmen, and question it's operation in the USA. These are the killers of our Bill of Rights!
Excerpts from America Betrayed,
excerpts
-Operation Gladio, Rockefeller, Bush, the
Ford-Reagan Assassinations-
"A coalition of multinational corporate executives, big-city
bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you George
Bush... their purpose is to control the American government." -
Ronald Reagan, 1980.
A totalitarian government, however, is the Hegelian/Hitler
ideal--the same ideal worshipped by the Yale Bonesmen--the
Brotherhood of Death. As detailed in previous chapters, the Bush
family made its fortune doing business with Nazis, and continued
supporting the totalitarian Hitler regime even after Hitler declared
war on the United States (13).
The CIA, too, was a manifestation of the Hegelian/Hitler
ideal. Thousands of murderers who had been Nazi SS Gestapo
officers, were recruited into the CIA (14). As detailed by the Church
Committee (15) and others (16) terror, torture, mass murder, and
the assassination of democratically elected leaders was official CIA
policy.
"One journalist is worth twenty agents." --anonymous CIA
agent.
Carl Bernstein, writing in the October 1977 issue of Rolling
Stone magazine, reported that more than 400 American journalists
worked for the CIA, and that the New York Times was one of the
CIA's closest media collaborators. Yet other CIA assets included
Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, as well as
Newsweek and Time magazine and CBS news. In December of
1977, the New York Times reported that "more than eight hundred
news and public information organizations and individuals," had
been on the CIA's payroll.
As summed up by Bernstein: "America's leading publishers
allowed themselves and their news services to become handmaidens
to the intelligence services."
Nor has the practice of using the media to lie to the Ameri-
can people gone away. A classified CIA report which was acciden-
tally released in 1992, revealed the CIA "has relationships with
reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly,
and television network in the nation."
"Mr. George Bush of the CIA" (6) had been a CIA agent
since at least 1960. In all likelihood, he never ceased to be a mem-
ber of this Nazi-like terrorist organization, even while serving
as a congressman or chairman of the Republican Party.
In the 1960s and 1970s, George Bush, and the CIA, were
dedicated to serving their own financial, personal, and political
interests as well as those of the Wall Street elite. Of course, they
did so in the name of "national security." Ostensibly, their goal the
reason they authorized the murder of innocent men, women, and
children, was to fight communism.
On February 7, 1980 Reagan gave a speech in which he
pointed out that Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission,
which, according to Reagan, "had led to a softening on defense."
George Bush, Reagan pointed out, believed that making money by
doing business with the enemies of America was more important
than defending America. Bush, he implied believed that business
and commerce "should transcend, perhaps, the national defense."
Bush would betray America, Reagan implied, because money
was more important to Bush than principles, honesty, or our na-
tional security.
The Reagan camp also began running political ads, one of
which showed a drawing of Bush juxtaposed above a headline which
read in part: "A coalition of multinational corporate executives,
big-city bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you
George Bush... their purpose is to control the American govern-
ment."
Joseph, R.
America Betrayed, R. Joseph — 1st ed.
Includes Extensive Footnotes & References
ISBN 0971644578
THE TERRORIST ASSASSINS
excerpts
-Operation Gladio, Rockefeller, Bush, the
Ford-Reagan Assassinations-
"A coalition of multinational corporate executives, big-city
bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you George
Bush... their purpose is to control the American government." -
Ronald Reagan, 1980.
A totalitarian government, however, is the Hegelian/Hitler
ideal—the same ideal worshipped by the Yale Bonesmen—the
Brotherhood of Death. As detailed in previous chapters, the Bush
family made its fortune doing business with Nazis, and continued
supporting the totalitarian Hitler regime even after Hitler declared
war on the United States (13).
The CIA, too, was a manifestation of the Hegelian/Hitler
ideal. Thousands of murderers who had been Nazi SS Gestapo
officers, were recruited into the CIA (14). As detailed by the Church
Committee (15) and others (16) terror, torture, mass murder, and
the assassination of democratically elected leaders was official CIA
policy.
"One journalist is worth twenty agents." —anonymous CIA
agent.
Carl Bernstein, writing in the October 1977 issue of Rolling
Stone magazine, reported that more than 400 American journalists
worked for the CIA, and that the New York Times was one of the
CIA’s closest media collaborators. Yet other CIA assets included
Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, as well as
Newsweek and Time magazine and CBS news. In December of
1977, the New York Times reported that "more than eight hundred
news and public information organizations and individuals," had
been on the CIA’s payroll.
As summed up by Bernstein: "America’s leading publishers
allowed themselves and their news services to become handmaidens
to the intelligence services."
Nor has the practice of using the media to lie to the Ameri-
can people gone away. A classified CIA report which was acciden-
tally released in 1992, revealed the CIA "has relationships with
reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly,
and television network in the nation."
"Mr. George Bush of the CIA" (6) had been a CIA agent
since at least 1960. In all likelihood, he never ceased to be a mem-
ber of this Nazi-like terrorist organization, even while serving
as a congressman or chairman of the Republican Party.
In the 1960s and 1970s, George Bush, and the CIA, were
dedicated to serving their own financial, personal, and political
interests as well as those of the Wall Street elite. Of course, they
did so in the name of "national security." Ostensibly, their goal the
reason they authorized the murder of innocent men, women, and
children, was to fight communism.
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Fahd family, the bin Laden family, the Emir of Kuwait, and the
Sultan of Brunei.
Since the 1950s, the CIA had been working on a plan to ex-
tend its grip into the Middle East, and to create terrorist cells, simi-
lar to Operation Condor in South America, and Operation Gladio
in Europe (9,20,23,33,36,48). In the 1970s, part of the plan called
for additional Middle Eastern terrorist cells to be created, controlled
and directed by the CIA, in conjunction with the Saudi, Pakistani,
Iranian, and Iraqi Intelligence services.
Some of these terrorist cells were to be dispatched into the
oil-rich southern states of the Soviet Union whose populations were
predominantly Muslim. These terrorist cells would be employed
to spread terror among civilians and to assassinate government of-
ficials (56). The purpose of these attacks, would be to destabilize
the Soviet Union, and to eventually gain access to these oil-rich
states which would then be exploited.
Other terrorist cells were directed to attack Middle Eastern
and European targets. As was the case with Operation Gladio and
Operation Condor, these terrorist acts would be directed at civil-
ians and were to be blamed on leftists, communists, and the Soviet
Union. Thus, although the CIA was conducting these terrorist op-
erations, the Soviets would be blamed for "fostering, supporting,
and expanding" terrorist activity worldwide" (57,58)—when as
often as not, the terrorists were under CIA control.
Bush was an oil-man. In 1978, the long range objective in
the Middle East and along Russia’s southern border, was to stir up
an Islamic revolution and thus strip the oil-rich states away from
the Soviet sphere of influence (56). "Holy warriors" ("mujahideen")
financed, trained, and armed by the CIA would be the vanguard,
and one of its leaders would be a young charismatic Saudi multi-
millionaire, Osama bin Laden—a member of the bin laden family,
with whom the Bush family had been doing business (59). In 1979,
Osama bin Laden, who was representing his family company in
Istanbul, began working with the CIA to recruit "Arab-Muslim
volunteers for Afghan’s resistance against the Red Army" (60).
On February 7, 1980 Reagan gave a speech in which he
pointed out that Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission,
which, according to Reagan, "had led to a softening on defense."
George Bush, Reagan pointed out, believed that making money by
doing business with the enemies of America was more important
than defending America. Bush, he implied believed that business
and commerce "should transcend, perhaps, the national defense."
Bush would betray America, Reagan implied, because money
was more important to Bush than principles, honesty, or our na-
tional security.
The Reagan camp also began running political ads, one of
which showed a drawing of Bush juxtaposed above a headline which
read in part: "A coalition of multinational corporate executives,
big-city bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you
George Bush... their purpose is to control the American govern-
ment."
Assassins
"Do i doubt Regean was right in his assesment of Bush in the above excerpt>
"On February 7, 1980 Reagan gave a speech in which he
pointed out that Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission,
which, according to Reagan, "had led to a softening on defense."
George Bush, Reagan pointed out, believed that making money by
doing business with the enemies of America was more important
than defending America. Bush, he implied believed that business
and commerce "should transcend, perhaps, the national defense."
Bush would betray America, Reagan implied, because money
was more important to Bush than principles, honesty, or our na-
tional security."
Excerpts from America Betrayed, Assassins
Since 1996, the task of the CIA to coopt the mass media has
been made much simpler. Less than two dozen corporations now
control or own over 90% of the nearly 10,000 newspapers, maga-
zines, and radio and TV stations in America (18).
18). Ben Bagdikian, "The Media Monopoly." 2000; see also: http://
www.corporations.org/media/
Controlling the media is a classic Nazi tactic. "Propaganda"
Hitler once said, "is the most effective form of terrorism."
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.(
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
THE CIA-CONTROLLED MEDIA: PROPAGANDA AS
TERROR
178
In 1974, there were only the grossest hints as to the CIA’s
involvement in assassinations, torture, mind-control
experiments,
and the manipulation of the media. It was to be the job of
Rockefeller, as well as Rumsfeld and Cheney, to cover all tracks
and to stop any House or Senate investigation, or at least throw it
off the track (15).
179
For example, there
is only a brief mention of "Operation Stay Behind" within the
Church reports (Pike’s report being suppressed). Operation Stay
Behind was a CIA terrorist operation aimed at the citizens and poli-
ticians of European countries and their democratically elected lead-
ers (20).
According to the 1976 Senate report on the CIA by the Church
Committee, this program was first conceived by the US Joint Chiefs
of Staff was staffed and funded by the CIA, and put into operation
in 1948 by the National Security Council.
Essentially, the CIA was using Nazis, Neo-Nazis, SS-offic-
ers, and CIA-trained terrorists to indiscriminately murder Euro-
pean men, women and children, and to assassinate or otherwise
remove or eliminate communist, socialist, and left-wing politicians.
In Italy, this program was referred to as "Operation Gladio
33). Operation Gladio had engaged in a reign of terrorist bombings
across the country that left at least thousands injured and dead. The bombings
were blamed on the extreme left as part of a strategy to mold public opinion
to the idea of an alternative government taking power by force. The Gladio
personnel created a parallel government called P2 (Propaganda Duo), a neo-
Nazi secret society composed of most of the country’s top industrialists, bank-
ers, and diplomats. P2 had close connections with the CIA and carried out
drug smuggling missions and assassinations for them. PT not only infiltrated
the Red Brigades but took over the organization, and carried out the murder
of Aldo Moro in 1978. Colonel Oswald Le Winter of the CIA, who served as
U.S. liaison officer with Gladio, has stated that the planning staff of the Red
Brigades was made up of CIA intelligence agents. Gladio carried out the
1980 bomb attack on Bologna Railway station in which 85 people were killed
and hundreds injured. Subsequent investigation led to the exposure of much
of the conspiracy and in consequence, the CIA arranged for P2’s Grandmas-
ter, fascist Lucio Gelli to escape to Argentina.
America Betrayed
ply as "Agent Zero" described how [ex-Swedish Prime Minister Olaf] Palme
had been caught in a deal between the CIA and Iran to release American
hostages in Tehran. ‘Palme was a fly in the ointment so we got P2 to rub him
out," the agent said. The second programme, which showed the gaunt silhou-
ette of ‘Agent Zero One’, alleged that P2 was not wound up in the mid-1980s,
after the arrest of its leader Licio Gelli. "It still exists. It calls itself P7," he
said. According to the agent, the lodge is still functioning with branches in
Austria, Switzerland and East Germany. ‘Zero One’ has now been revealed
by the Italian press to be Dick Brenneke, allegedly a career CIA officer"
(Richard Bassett, Times, 24/7/90). "In the programme, Mr. Brenneke alleged
that, throughout the 1970’s the CIA had made large sums of money available
to the subversive Masonic Lodge, P2, widely believed to have been involved
in the August, 1980 Bologna train station bombing in which 85 people were
killed. Furthermore Mr. Brenneke claimed that, not only does the CIA con-
tinue to secretly finance a revived P2, but that it was involved in the 1986
killing of the Swedish Prime Minister, Mr. Olaf Palme. According to Mr.
Brenneke, P2, under the guidance of its Grand master, Mr. Licio Gelli, used
some of the finance made available by the CIA to set up agencies in West
Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These agencies in turn were used by P2
to set up the assassination of Mr. Palme, on the orders of the CIA. Finally,
and perhaps most sensationally, Mr. Brenneke alleged that President Bush,
then director of the CIA, not only knew about these CIA activities in Italy
(during the late 1970s and early 1980s) but was in fact one of the master-
minds behind them. In the 1976 general election, the huge success of the
Communist Party...encouraged some to believe that Italy might be close to
voting in its first ever Communist government. In order to forestall this pos-
sibility, the CIA allegedly sponsored a series of right wing terrorist attacks,
via Mr. Gelli’s P2...The CIA denied the charges and said Mr. Branneke had
never worked for the agency" (Paddy Agnew, Irish Times, 7/24/90). "In a
four part special on RAI, the main Italian state-run television network,
Brenneke claimed he had been making payments to members of P2, a right-
wing Masonic lodge, on behalf of the CIA from l969 to 1980. He said he had
made payments which ranged from $lm to $10m a month and were part of
the struggle against communism. He said P2 was also involved in arms and
drugs trafficking for the CIA...The programme sparked a political storm in
Italy...However a note of caution....Earlier this year he was put on trial in
Oregon for allegedly lying under oath about his claims that Bush traveled to
Paris in 1980 to make a deal with the Iranians over the American hostages.
Brenneke was acquitted on all charges"(Mark Hosenball, Sunday Times, 7/
29/90).
(which means "sword"). In Austria it was named "Schwert"
("sword"). In France it was called "Glaive" ("sword"). It was called
"Operation Sheepskin" in Greece. "Sveaborg" in Sweden. In Bel-
gium, Operation Stay Behind had the name: "SDR-8." Likewise,
in Switzerland it was given an alpha-numerical name: "P26."
America Betrayed
economy "scream" in Chile prior to the overthrow of Allende, now Angola
was the target. The collapse of the Portuguese regime, and the subsequent
likelihood of her African colonies gaining independence and control over
their own destiny, was an anathema to the Wall Street elite. This led to a
decision to fund a civil war in Angola, and to install a Wall Street-friendly
military dictatorship rather than allow elections which might lead to "leftist"
regimes gaining power. However, in December, 1975 the Clark Amendment
was passed by the Senate, which explicitly cut off US funding and banning
CIA operations for the military actions in Angola which had erupted in civil
war with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. Nevertheless, even after the
Clark Amendment became law on February 9, 1976, Bush defied the law and
directed the CIA to continue providing planeloads of weapons and to make
large cash payoffs to pro-western terrorist factions who were murdering, tor-
turing, starving, and terrorizing the men, women, and children of Angola.
However, as this had to be done covertly and secretly, the CIA and Republi-
can leadership controlling the U.S. government sought to use two "surro-
gates" Britain and South Africa, to provide soldiers to fight Wall Street’s war
by proxy.
Regardless of country, Operation Stay Behind was run by
the CIA and British Intelligence under the umbrella of NATO, and
involved the use of snipers, police officers, and para-military units
to kill people at random and to conduct brutal raids on supermar-
kets, theaters, and other public places (21-28). In one series of at-
tacks, in Brussels in the mid 1980’s, 28 people were murdered while
shopping at local supermarkets. Again, the purpose of these attacks
was to strengthen the hand of right-wing governments and to pre-
vent left-wing governments or politicians from coming to power.
It was the duty of Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller, Cheney, and
Rumsfeld, to try to cover up these crimes. Indeed Rumsfeld (the
Secretary of Defense when the U.S. was attacked on 9/11) had served
as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium in 1973 and
1974—when some of the worst atrocities were taking place— and
thus had a special personal interest in preventing any damaging dis-
closures.
Operation Sword ("Gladio/Schwert/Glaive, etc.") was an out-
growth of Dulles’ "Operation Stay Behind." Initially, this program
served to recruit high ranking Nazis and SS Gestapo agents into the
OSS and the CIA after the close of WWII. By 1952, Dulles and his
CIA had created a secret guerrilla terrorist army whose primary mis-
sion was terrorism and assassination—often of random targets who
might be murdered by snipers, as they shopped or walked down the
street. Dulles believed that through random acts of terror, left-wing
governments could be overthrown, or prevented from ever coming
to power if the blame for those terrorist acts could be placed on left-
ists (20). Right wing governments are always the beneficiaries of
terrorism.
Operation Sword was first put into operation in Italy, in 1947.
Italian citizens were gunned down by snipers, trains were derailed,
and buildings and planes were blown up by CIA-Nazi agents, and
then blamed on "communists." The purpose of this terrorist cam-
paign was to prevent a communist electoral victory in the 1947 Ital-
ian elections.
.
These and other acts of random terror (Operation Stay Be-
hind), although directed by the CIA (in conjunction with British In-
telligence) were administered under the protective umbrella of the
Clandestine Co-ordinating Committee at the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers Europe "SHAPE" (22). SHAPE would later became
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Although these CIA-terrorist cells were spread all over Eu-
rope, the training bases were located in Germany, Italy and France.
Likewise, these terrorist operations were directed and funded by CIA
agents working in the US Embassies in Rome, Paris, and Berlin.
These same CIA agents not only controlled these terrorists cells, but
had infiltrated and often directed the Intelligence services of these
and other countries (23).
In other words, the purpose of Operation Gladio was to use
terror and murder not to combat any external threat, but to combat
internal threats by using terrorism. However, the targets of these
terrorist acts would not be opposition politicians per se, but rather,
the citizens of the state.
Gladio also served as a useful weapon to keep the Italian elec-
torate under control. Citizens would be shot and killed by snipers,
they and their families might be blown up while strolling down the
street. No one was safe. Even police were targeted (28).
Rember the Malvo shootings?
"Mr. George Bush of the CIA" (6) had been a CIA agent
since at least 1960. In all likelihood, he never ceased to be a mem-
ber of this Nazi-like terrorist organization, even while serving
as a congressman or chairman of the Republican Party.
In the 1960s and 1970s, George Bush, and the CIA, were
dedicated to serving their own financial, personal, and political
interests as well as those of the Wall Street elite. Of course, they
did so in the name of "national security." Ostensibly, their goal the
reason they authorized the murder of innocent men, women, and
children, was to fight communism.
George H.W. Bush was rejected yet again. The people and
the Republican party refused him the Republican nomination for
President. Bush was rejected not just because Ronald Reagan was
the superior man and the superior candidate, but also because of
the persistent questions about slush funds, illegal activities,
coverups, and his role in the "Trilateral Commission" (39)
On February 7, 1980 Reagan gave a speech in which he
pointed out that Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission,
which, according to Reagan, "had led to a softening on defense."
George Bush, Reagan pointed out, believed that making money by
doing business with the enemies of America was more important
than defending America. Bush, he implied believed that business
and commerce "should transcend, perhaps, the national defense."
Bush would betray America, Reagan implied, because money
was more important to Bush than principles, honesty, or our na-
tional security.
The Reagan camp also began running political ads, one of
which showed a drawing of Bush juxtaposed above a headline which
read in part: "A coalition of multinational corporate executives,
big-city bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you
George Bush... their purpose is to control the American govern-
ment."
Reagan got the nomination, and Bush, with the help of his
Wall Street, CIA, Skull and Bones network, began working full tilt
on Reagan’s entourage to convince them that having Bush on the
ticket would help elect Reagan. Reagan, however, did not like and
did not trust George Bush. In the days just before the Republican
convention, Reagan is quoted as saying: "I want to be very frank
with you. I have strong reservations about George Bush. I’m con-
cerned about turning the country over to him."
Reagan didn’t just distrust him, he thought Bush was an ef-
feminate "wimp."
Finally, at the very last minute, despite Reagan’s distrust and
scorn, Bush became his running mate.
In November of 1980, Reagan won the Presidency in a land-
slide. Bush was sworn in as vice-president of the United States on
January 20.
59).Wall Street Journal, "Vetting the Frontrunners: From Oil to Base-
ball to the Governor’s Mansion," 9/28/1999; Jonathan Beaty & S.C. Gwynne,
"The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI," Random
House, 1993; James H. Hatfield, "Fortunate Son," St. Martins Press; Arthur
Frederick Ide, et al., "Bush in business with bin Laden. Jihad, Mujahideen,
Taliban, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush & Oil: A Study in the Evolution
of Terrorism & Islam," Liberal Press, 2002.
Since 1996, the task of the CIA to coopt the mass media has
been made much simpler. Less than two dozen corporations now
control or own over 90% of the nearly 10,000 newspapers, maga-
zines, and radio and TV stations in America (18).
18). Ben Bagdikian, "The Media Monopoly." 2000; see also: http://
www.corporations.org/media/
Controlling the media is a classic Nazi tactic. "Propaganda"
Hitler once said, "is the most effective form of terrorism."
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.(
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
THE CIA-CONTROLLED MEDIA: PROPAGANDA AS
TERROR
178
In 1974, there were only the grossest hints as to the CIA’s
involvement in assassinations, torture, mind-control
experiments,
and the manipulation of the media. It was to be the job of
Rockefeller, as well as Rumsfeld and Cheney, to cover all tracks
and to stop any House or Senate investigation, or at least throw it
off the track (15).
179
For example, there
is only a brief mention of "Operation Stay Behind" within the
Church reports (Pike’s report being suppressed). Operation Stay
Behind was a CIA terrorist operation aimed at the citizens and poli-
ticians of European countries and their democratically elected lead-
ers (20).
According to the 1976 Senate report on the CIA by the Church
Committee, this program was first conceived by the US Joint Chiefs
of Staff was staffed and funded by the CIA, and put into operation
in 1948 by the National Security Council.
Essentially, the CIA was using Nazis, Neo-Nazis, SS-offic-
ers, and CIA-trained terrorists to indiscriminately murder Euro-
pean men, women and children, and to assassinate or otherwise
remove or eliminate communist, socialist, and left-wing politicians.
In Italy, this program was referred to as "Operation Gladio
33). Operation Gladio had engaged in a reign of terrorist bombings
across the country that left at least thousands injured and dead. The bombings
were blamed on the extreme left as part of a strategy to mold public opinion
to the idea of an alternative government taking power by force. The Gladio
personnel created a parallel government called P2 (Propaganda Duo), a neo-
Nazi secret society composed of most of the country’s top industrialists, bank-
ers, and diplomats. P2 had close connections with the CIA and carried out
drug smuggling missions and assassinations for them. PT not only infiltrated
the Red Brigades but took over the organization, and carried out the murder
of Aldo Moro in 1978. Colonel Oswald Le Winter of the CIA, who served as
U.S. liaison officer with Gladio, has stated that the planning staff of the Red
Brigades was made up of CIA intelligence agents. Gladio carried out the
1980 bomb attack on Bologna Railway station in which 85 people were killed
and hundreds injured. Subsequent investigation led to the exposure of much
of the conspiracy and in consequence, the CIA arranged for P2’s Grandmas-
ter, fascist Lucio Gelli to escape to Argentina.
America Betrayed
ply as "Agent Zero" described how [ex-Swedish Prime Minister Olaf] Palme
had been caught in a deal between the CIA and Iran to release American
hostages in Tehran. ‘Palme was a fly in the ointment so we got P2 to rub him
out," the agent said. The second programme, which showed the gaunt silhou-
ette of ‘Agent Zero One’, alleged that P2 was not wound up in the mid-1980s,
after the arrest of its leader Licio Gelli. "It still exists. It calls itself P7," he
said. According to the agent, the lodge is still functioning with branches in
Austria, Switzerland and East Germany. ‘Zero One’ has now been revealed
by the Italian press to be Dick Brenneke, allegedly a career CIA officer"
(Richard Bassett, Times, 24/7/90). "In the programme, Mr. Brenneke alleged
that, throughout the 1970’s the CIA had made large sums of money available
to the subversive Masonic Lodge, P2, widely believed to have been involved
in the August, 1980 Bologna train station bombing in which 85 people were
killed. Furthermore Mr. Brenneke claimed that, not only does the CIA con-
tinue to secretly finance a revived P2, but that it was involved in the 1986
killing of the Swedish Prime Minister, Mr. Olaf Palme. According to Mr.
Brenneke, P2, under the guidance of its Grand master, Mr. Licio Gelli, used
some of the finance made available by the CIA to set up agencies in West
Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These agencies in turn were used by P2
to set up the assassination of Mr. Palme, on the orders of the CIA. Finally,
and perhaps most sensationally, Mr. Brenneke alleged that President Bush,
then director of the CIA, not only knew about these CIA activities in Italy
(during the late 1970s and early 1980s) but was in fact one of the master-
minds behind them. In the 1976 general election, the huge success of the
Communist Party...encouraged some to believe that Italy might be close to
voting in its first ever Communist government. In order to forestall this pos-
sibility, the CIA allegedly sponsored a series of right wing terrorist attacks,
via Mr. Gelli’s P2...The CIA denied the charges and said Mr. Branneke had
never worked for the agency" (Paddy Agnew, Irish Times, 7/24/90). "In a
four part special on RAI, the main Italian state-run television network,
Brenneke claimed he had been making payments to members of P2, a right-
wing Masonic lodge, on behalf of the CIA from l969 to 1980. He said he had
made payments which ranged from $lm to $10m a month and were part of
the struggle against communism. He said P2 was also involved in arms and
drugs trafficking for the CIA...The programme sparked a political storm in
Italy...However a note of caution....Earlier this year he was put on trial in
Oregon for allegedly lying under oath about his claims that Bush traveled to
Paris in 1980 to make a deal with the Iranians over the American hostages.
Brenneke was acquitted on all charges"(Mark Hosenball, Sunday Times, 7/
29/90).
(which means "sword"). In Austria it was named "Schwert"
("sword"). In France it was called "Glaive" ("sword"). It was called
"Operation Sheepskin" in Greece. "Sveaborg" in Sweden. In Bel-
gium, Operation Stay Behind had the name: "SDR-8." Likewise,
in Switzerland it was given an alpha-numerical name: "P26."
America Betrayed
economy "scream" in Chile prior to the overthrow of Allende, now Angola
was the target. The collapse of the Portuguese regime, and the subsequent
likelihood of her African colonies gaining independence and control over
their own destiny, was an anathema to the Wall Street elite. This led to a
decision to fund a civil war in Angola, and to install a Wall Street-friendly
military dictatorship rather than allow elections which might lead to "leftist"
regimes gaining power. However, in December, 1975 the Clark Amendment
was passed by the Senate, which explicitly cut off US funding and banning
CIA operations for the military actions in Angola which had erupted in civil
war with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. Nevertheless, even after the
Clark Amendment became law on February 9, 1976, Bush defied the law and
directed the CIA to continue providing planeloads of weapons and to make
large cash payoffs to pro-western terrorist factions who were murdering, tor-
turing, starving, and terrorizing the men, women, and children of Angola.
However, as this had to be done covertly and secretly, the CIA and Republi-
can leadership controlling the U.S. government sought to use two "surro-
gates" Britain and South Africa, to provide soldiers to fight Wall Street’s war
by proxy.
Regardless of country, Operation Stay Behind was run by
the CIA and British Intelligence under the umbrella of NATO, and
involved the use of snipers, police officers, and para-military units
to kill people at random and to conduct brutal raids on supermar-
kets, theaters, and other public places (21-28). In one series of at-
tacks, in Brussels in the mid 1980’s, 28 people were murdered while
shopping at local supermarkets. Again, the purpose of these attacks
was to strengthen the hand of right-wing governments and to pre-
vent left-wing governments or politicians from coming to power.
It was the duty of Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller, Cheney, and
Rumsfeld, to try to cover up these crimes. Indeed Rumsfeld (the
Secretary of Defense when the U.S. was attacked on 9/11) had served
as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium in 1973 and
1974—when some of the worst atrocities were taking place— and
thus had a special personal interest in preventing any damaging dis-
closures.
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It was the duty of Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller, Cheney, and
Rumsfeld, to try to cover up these crimes. Indeed Rumsfeld (the
Secretary of Defense when the U.S. was attacked on 9/11) had served
as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium in 1973 and
1974—when some of the worst atrocities were taking place— and
thus had a special personal interest in preventing any damaging dis-
closures.
Operation Sword ("Gladio/Schwert/Glaive, etc.") was an out-
growth of Dulles’ "Operation Stay Behind." Initially, this program
served to recruit high ranking Nazis and SS Gestapo agents into the
OSS and the CIA after the close of WWII. By 1952, Dulles and his
CIA had created a secret guerrilla terrorist army whose primary mis-
sion was terrorism and assassination—often of random targets who
might be murdered by snipers, as they shopped or walked down the
street. Dulles believed that through random acts of terror, left-wing
governments could be overthrown, or prevented from ever coming
to power if the blame for those terrorist acts could be placed on left-
ists (20). Right wing governments are always the beneficiaries of
terrorism.
Operation Sword was first put into operation in Italy, in 1947.
Italian citizens were gunned down by snipers, trains were derailed,
and buildings and planes were blown up by CIA-Nazi agents, and
then blamed on "communists." The purpose of this terrorist cam-
paign was to prevent a communist electoral victory in the 1947 Ital-
ian elections.
.
These and other acts of random terror (Operation Stay Be-
hind), although directed by the CIA (in conjunction with British In-
telligence) were administered under the protective umbrella of the
Clandestine Co-ordinating Committee at the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers Europe "SHAPE" (22). SHAPE would later became
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Although these CIA-terrorist cells were spread all over Eu-
rope, the training bases were located in Germany, Italy and France.
Likewise, these terrorist operations were directed and funded by CIA
agents working in the US Embassies in Rome, Paris, and Berlin.
These same CIA agents not only controlled these terrorists cells, but
had infiltrated and often directed the Intelligence services of these
and other countries (23).
In other words, the purpose of Operation Gladio was to use
terror and murder not to combat any external threat, but to combat
internal threats by using terrorism. However, the targets of these
terrorist acts would not be opposition politicians per se, but rather,
the citizens of the state.
Gladio also served as a useful weapon to keep the Italian elec-
torate under control. Citizens would be shot and killed by snipers,
they and their families might be blown up while strolling down the
street. No one was safe. Even police were targeted (28).
Rember the Malvo shootings?
"Mr. George Bush of the CIA" (6) had been a CIA agent
since at least 1960. In all likelihood, he never ceased to be a mem-
ber of this Nazi-like terrorist organization, even while serving
as a congressman or chairman of the Republican Party.
In the 1960s and 1970s, George Bush, and the CIA, were
dedicated to serving their own financial, personal, and political
interests as well as those of the Wall Street elite. Of course, they
did so in the name of "national security." Ostensibly, their goal the
reason they authorized the murder of innocent men, women, and
children, was to fight communism.
George H.W. Bush was rejected yet again. The people and
the Republican party refused him the Republican nomination for
President. Bush was rejected not just because Ronald Reagan was
the superior man and the superior candidate, but also because of
the persistent questions about slush funds, illegal activities,
coverups, and his role in the "Trilateral Commission" (39)
On February 7, 1980 Reagan gave a speech in which he
pointed out that Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission,
which, according to Reagan, "had led to a softening on defense."
George Bush, Reagan pointed out, believed that making money by
doing business with the enemies of America was more important
than defending America. Bush, he implied believed that business
and commerce "should transcend, perhaps, the national defense."
Bush would betray America, Reagan implied, because money
was more important to Bush than principles, honesty, or our na-
tional security.
The Reagan camp also began running political ads, one of
which showed a drawing of Bush juxtaposed above a headline which
read in part: "A coalition of multinational corporate executives,
big-city bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you
George Bush... their purpose is to control the American govern-
ment."
Reagan got the nomination, and Bush, with the help of his
Wall Street, CIA, Skull and Bones network, began working full tilt
on Reagan’s entourage to convince them that having Bush on the
ticket would help elect Reagan. Reagan, however, did not like and
did not trust George Bush. In the days just before the Republican
convention, Reagan is quoted as saying: "I want to be very frank
with you. I have strong reservations about George Bush. I’m con-
cerned about turning the country over to him."
Reagan didn’t just distrust him, he thought Bush was an ef-
feminate "wimp."
Finally, at the very last minute, despite Reagan’s distrust and
scorn, Bush became his running mate.
In November of 1980, Reagan won the Presidency in a land-
slide. Bush was sworn in as vice-president of the United States on
January 20.
59).Wall Street Journal, "Vetting the Frontrunners: From Oil to Base-
ball to the Governor’s Mansion," 9/28/1999; Jonathan Beaty & S.C. Gwynne,
"The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI," Random
House, 1993; James H. Hatfield, "Fortunate Son," St. Martins Press; Arthur
Frederick Ide, et al., "Bush in business with bin Laden. Jihad, Mujahideen,
Taliban, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush & Oil: A Study in the Evolution
of Terrorism & Islam," Liberal Press, 2002.
Since 1996, the task of the CIA to coopt the mass media has
been made much simpler. Less than two dozen corporations now
control or own over 90% of the nearly 10,000 newspapers, maga-
zines, and radio and TV stations in America (18).
18). Ben Bagdikian, "The Media Monopoly." 2000; see also: http://
www.corporations.org/media/
Controlling the media is a classic Nazi tactic. "Propaganda"
Hitler once said, "is the most effective form of terrorism."
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.(
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
THE CIA-CONTROLLED MEDIA: PROPAGANDA AS
TERROR
178
In 1974, there were only the grossest hints as to the CIA’s
involvement in assassinations, torture, mind-control
experiments,
and the manipulation of the media. It was to be the job of
Rockefeller, as well as Rumsfeld and Cheney, to cover all tracks
and to stop any House or Senate investigation, or at least throw it
off the track (15).
179
For example, there
is only a brief mention of "Operation Stay Behind" within the
Church reports (Pike’s report being suppressed). Operation Stay
Behind was a CIA terrorist operation aimed at the citizens and poli-
ticians of European countries and their democratically elected lead-
ers (20).
According to the 1976 Senate report on the CIA by the Church
Committee, this program was first conceived by the US Joint Chiefs
of Staff was staffed and funded by the CIA, and put into operation
in 1948 by the National Security Council.
Essentially, the CIA was using Nazis, Neo-Nazis, SS-offic-
ers, and CIA-trained terrorists to indiscriminately murder Euro-
pean men, women and children, and to assassinate or otherwise
remove or eliminate communist, socialist, and left-wing politicians.
In Italy, this program was referred to as "Operation Gladio
33). Operation Gladio had engaged in a reign of terrorist bombings
across the country that left at least thousands injured and dead. The bombings
were blamed on the extreme left as part of a strategy to mold public opinion
to the idea of an alternative government taking power by force. The Gladio
personnel created a parallel government called P2 (Propaganda Duo), a neo-
Nazi secret society composed of most of the country’s top industrialists, bank-
ers, and diplomats. P2 had close connections with the CIA and carried out
drug smuggling missions and assassinations for them. PT not only infiltrated
the Red Brigades but took over the organization, and carried out the murder
of Aldo Moro in 1978. Colonel Oswald Le Winter of the CIA, who served as
U.S. liaison officer with Gladio, has stated that the planning staff of the Red
Brigades was made up of CIA intelligence agents. Gladio carried out the
1980 bomb attack on Bologna Railway station in which 85 people were killed
and hundreds injured. Subsequent investigation led to the exposure of much
of the conspiracy and in consequence, the CIA arranged for P2’s Grandmas-
ter, fascist Lucio Gelli to escape to Argentina.
America Betrayed
ply as "Agent Zero" described how [ex-Swedish Prime Minister Olaf] Palme
had been caught in a deal between the CIA and Iran to release American
hostages in Tehran. ‘Palme was a fly in the ointment so we got P2 to rub him
out," the agent said. The second programme, which showed the gaunt silhou-
ette of ‘Agent Zero One’, alleged that P2 was not wound up in the mid-1980s,
after the arrest of its leader Licio Gelli. "It still exists. It calls itself P7," he
said. According to the agent, the lodge is still functioning with branches in
Austria, Switzerland and East Germany. ‘Zero One’ has now been revealed
by the Italian press to be Dick Brenneke, allegedly a career CIA officer"
(Richard Bassett, Times, 24/7/90). "In the programme, Mr. Brenneke alleged
that, throughout the 1970’s the CIA had made large sums of money available
to the subversive Masonic Lodge, P2, widely believed to have been involved
in the August, 1980 Bologna train station bombing in which 85 people were
killed. Furthermore Mr. Brenneke claimed that, not only does the CIA con-
tinue to secretly finance a revived P2, but that it was involved in the 1986
killing of the Swedish Prime Minister, Mr. Olaf Palme. According to Mr.
Brenneke, P2, under the guidance of its Grand master, Mr. Licio Gelli, used
some of the finance made available by the CIA to set up agencies in West
Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These agencies in turn were used by P2
to set up the assassination of Mr. Palme, on the orders of the CIA. Finally,
and perhaps most sensationally, Mr. Brenneke alleged that President Bush,
then director of the CIA, not only knew about these CIA activities in Italy
(during the late 1970s and early 1980s) but was in fact one of the master-
minds behind them. In the 1976 general election, the huge success of the
Communist Party...encouraged some to believe that Italy might be close to
voting in its first ever Communist government. In order to forestall this pos-
sibility, the CIA allegedly sponsored a series of right wing terrorist attacks,
via Mr. Gelli’s P2...The CIA denied the charges and said Mr. Branneke had
never worked for the agency" (Paddy Agnew, Irish Times, 7/24/90). "In a
four part special on RAI, the main Italian state-run television network,
Brenneke claimed he had been making payments to members of P2, a right-
wing Masonic lodge, on behalf of the CIA from l969 to 1980. He said he had
made payments which ranged from $lm to $10m a month and were part of
the struggle against communism. He said P2 was also involved in arms and
drugs trafficking for the CIA...The programme sparked a political storm in
Italy...However a note of caution....Earlier this year he was put on trial in
Oregon for allegedly lying under oath about his claims that Bush traveled to
Paris in 1980 to make a deal with the Iranians over the American hostages.
Brenneke was acquitted on all charges"(Mark Hosenball, Sunday Times, 7/
29/90).
(which means "sword"). In Austria it was named "Schwert"
("sword"). In France it was called "Glaive" ("sword"). It was called
"Operation Sheepskin" in Greece. "Sveaborg" in Sweden. In Bel-
gium, Operation Stay Behind had the name: "SDR-8." Likewise,
in Switzerland it was given an alpha-numerical name: "P26."
America Betrayed
economy "scream" in Chile prior to the overthrow of Allende, now Angola
was the target. The collapse of the Portuguese regime, and the subsequent
likelihood of her African colonies gaining independence and control over
their own destiny, was an anathema to the Wall Street elite. This led to a
decision to fund a civil war in Angola, and to install a Wall Street-friendly
military dictatorship rather than allow elections which might lead to "leftist"
regimes gaining power. However, in December, 1975 the Clark Amendment
was passed by the Senate, which explicitly cut off US funding and banning
CIA operations for the military actions in Angola which had erupted in civil
war with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. Nevertheless, even after the
Clark Amendment became law on February 9, 1976, Bush defied the law and
directed the CIA to continue providing planeloads of weapons and to make
large cash payoffs to pro-western terrorist factions who were murdering, tor-
turing, starving, and terrorizing the men, women, and children of Angola.
However, as this had to be done covertly and secretly, the CIA and Republi-
can leadership controlling the U.S. government sought to use two "surro-
gates" Britain and South Africa, to provide soldiers to fight Wall Street’s war
by proxy.
Regardless of country, Operation Stay Behind was run by
the CIA and British Intelligence under the umbrella of NATO, and
involved the use of snipers, police officers, and para-military units
to kill people at random and to conduct brutal raids on supermar-
kets, theaters, and other public places (21-28). In one series of at-
tacks, in Brussels in the mid 1980’s, 28 people were murdered while
shopping at local supermarkets. Again, the purpose of these attacks
was to strengthen the hand of right-wing governments and to pre-
vent left-wing governments or politicians from coming to power.
It was the duty of Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller, Cheney, and
Rumsfeld, to try to cover up these crimes. Indeed Rumsfeld (the
Secretary of Defense when the U.S. was attacked on 9/11) had served
as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium in 1973 and
1974—when some of the worst atrocities were taking place— and
thus had a special personal interest in preventing any damaging dis-
closures.
Operation Sword ("Gladio/Schwert/Glaive, etc.") was an out-
growth of Dulles’ "Operation Stay Behind." Initially, this program
served to recruit high ranking Nazis and SS Gestapo agents into the
OSS and the CIA after the close of WWII. By 1952, Dulles and his
CIA had created a secret guerrilla terrorist army whose primary mis-
sion was terrorism and assassination—often of random targets who
might be murdered by snipers, as they shopped or walked down the
street. Dulles believed that through random acts of terror, left-wing
governments could be overthrown, or prevented from ever coming
to power if the blame for those terrorist acts could be placed on left-
ists (20). Right wing governments are always the beneficiaries of
terrorism.
Operation Sword was first put into operation in Italy, in 1947.
Italian citizens were gunned down by snipers, trains were derailed,
and buildings and planes were blown up by CIA-Nazi agents, and
then blamed on "communists." The purpose of this terrorist cam-
paign was to prevent a communist electoral victory in the 1947 Ital-
ian elections.
.
These and other acts of random terror (Operation Stay Be-
hind), although directed by the CIA (in conjunction with British In-
telligence) were administered under the protective umbrella of the
Clandestine Co-ordinating Committee at the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers Europe "SHAPE" (22). SHAPE would later became
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Although these CIA-terrorist cells were spread all over Eu-
rope, the training bases were located in Germany, Italy and France.
Likewise, these terrorist operations were directed and funded by CIA
agents working in the US Embassies in Rome, Paris, and Berlin.
These same CIA agents not only controlled these terrorists cells, but
had infiltrated and often directed the Intelligence services of these
and other countries (23).
In other words, the purpose of Operation Gladio was to use
terror and murder not to combat any external threat, but to combat
internal threats by using terrorism. However, the targets of these
terrorist acts would not be opposition politicians per se, but rather,
the citizens of the state.
Gladio also served as a useful weapon to keep the Italian elec-
torate under control. Citizens would be shot and killed by snipers,
they and their families might be blown up while strolling down the
street. No one was safe. Even police were targeted (28).
Rember the Malvo shootings?
"Mr. George Bush of the CIA" (6) had been a CIA agent
since at least 1960. In all likelihood, he never ceased to be a mem-
ber of this Nazi-like terrorist organization, even while serving
as a congressman or chairman of the Republican Party.
In the 1960s and 1970s, George Bush, and the CIA, were
dedicated to serving their own financial, personal, and political
interests as well as those of the Wall Street elite. Of course, they
did so in the name of "national security." Ostensibly, their goal the
reason they authorized the murder of innocent men, women, and
children, was to fight communism.
George H.W. Bush was rejected yet again. The people and
the Republican party refused him the Republican nomination for
President. Bush was rejected not just because Ronald Reagan was
the superior man and the superior candidate, but also because of
the persistent questions about slush funds, illegal activities,
coverups, and his role in the "Trilateral Commission" (39)
On February 7, 1980 Reagan gave a speech in which he
pointed out that Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission,
which, according to Reagan, "had led to a softening on defense."
George Bush, Reagan pointed out, believed that making money by
doing business with the enemies of America was more important
than defending America. Bush, he implied believed that business
and commerce "should transcend, perhaps, the national defense."
Bush would betray America, Reagan implied, because money
was more important to Bush than principles, honesty, or our na-
tional security.
The Reagan camp also began running political ads, one of
which showed a drawing of Bush juxtaposed above a headline which
read in part: "A coalition of multinational corporate executives,
big-city bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you
George Bush... their purpose is to control the American govern-
ment."
Reagan got the nomination, and Bush, with the help of his
Wall Street, CIA, Skull and Bones network, began working full tilt
on Reagan’s entourage to convince them that having Bush on the
ticket would help elect Reagan. Reagan, however, did not like and
did not trust George Bush. In the days just before the Republican
convention, Reagan is quoted as saying: "I want to be very frank
with you. I have strong reservations about George Bush. I’m con-
cerned about turning the country over to him."
Reagan didn’t just distrust him, he thought Bush was an ef-
feminate "wimp."
Finally, at the very last minute, despite Reagan’s distrust and
scorn, Bush became his running mate.
In November of 1980, Reagan won the Presidency in a land-
slide. Bush was sworn in as vice-president of the United States on
January 20.
59).Wall Street Journal, "Vetting the Frontrunners: From Oil to Base-
ball to the Governor’s Mansion," 9/28/1999; Jonathan Beaty & S.C. Gwynne,
"The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI," Random
House, 1993; James H. Hatfield, "Fortunate Son," St. Martins Press; Arthur
Frederick Ide, et al., "Bush in business with bin Laden. Jihad, Mujahideen,
Taliban, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush & Oil: A Study in the Evolution
of Terrorism & Islam," Liberal Press, 2002.
Excerpts from" America Betrayed"
Excerpts from America Betrayed, Assassins
Since 1996, the task of the CIA to coopt the mass media has
been made much simpler. Less than two dozen corporations now
control or own over 90% of the nearly 10,000 newspapers, maga-
zines, and radio and TV stations in America (18).
18). Ben Bagdikian, "The Media Monopoly." 2000; see also: http://
www.corporations.org/media/
Controlling the media is a classic Nazi tactic. "Propaganda"
Hitler once said, "is the most effective form of terrorism."
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.(
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
Despite the efforts of the Ford-Rockefeller White House, the
Senate and House each established their own Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by Frank Church and Otis Pike (re-
spectively). Rockefeller, with the assistance of Kissinger, Rumsfeld,
and Dick Cheney, began obstructing Senate and House inquir-
ies, particularly those which in any way concerned the training and
employment of CIA assassination teams (10,15,19) or terrorist at-
tack squads, such as Operation Gladio.
The Pike Committee finally issued a contempt of Congress
citation against Henry Kissinger for his refusal to provide
THE CIA-CONTROLLED MEDIA: PROPAGANDA AS
TERROR
178
In 1974, there were only the grossest hints as to the CIA’s
involvement in assassinations, torture, mind-control
experiments,
and the manipulation of the media. It was to be the job of
Rockefeller, as well as Rumsfeld and Cheney, to cover all tracks
and to stop any House or Senate investigation, or at least throw it
off the track (15).
179
For example, there
is only a brief mention of "Operation Stay Behind" within the
Church reports (Pike’s report being suppressed). Operation Stay
Behind was a CIA terrorist operation aimed at the citizens and poli-
ticians of European countries and their democratically elected lead-
ers (20).
According to the 1976 Senate report on the CIA by the Church
Committee, this program was first conceived by the US Joint Chiefs
of Staff was staffed and funded by the CIA, and put into operation
in 1948 by the National Security Council.
Essentially, the CIA was using Nazis, Neo-Nazis, SS-offic-
ers, and CIA-trained terrorists to indiscriminately murder Euro-
pean men, women and children, and to assassinate or otherwise
remove or eliminate communist, socialist, and left-wing politicians.
In Italy, this program was referred to as "Operation Gladio
33). Operation Gladio had engaged in a reign of terrorist bombings
across the country that left at least thousands injured and dead. The bombings
were blamed on the extreme left as part of a strategy to mold public opinion
to the idea of an alternative government taking power by force. The Gladio
personnel created a parallel government called P2 (Propaganda Duo), a neo-
Nazi secret society composed of most of the country’s top industrialists, bank-
ers, and diplomats. P2 had close connections with the CIA and carried out
drug smuggling missions and assassinations for them. PT not only infiltrated
the Red Brigades but took over the organization, and carried out the murder
of Aldo Moro in 1978. Colonel Oswald Le Winter of the CIA, who served as
U.S. liaison officer with Gladio, has stated that the planning staff of the Red
Brigades was made up of CIA intelligence agents. Gladio carried out the
1980 bomb attack on Bologna Railway station in which 85 people were killed
and hundreds injured. Subsequent investigation led to the exposure of much
of the conspiracy and in consequence, the CIA arranged for P2’s Grandmas-
ter, fascist Lucio Gelli to escape to Argentina.
America Betrayed
ply as "Agent Zero" described how [ex-Swedish Prime Minister Olaf] Palme
had been caught in a deal between the CIA and Iran to release American
hostages in Tehran. ‘Palme was a fly in the ointment so we got P2 to rub him
out," the agent said. The second programme, which showed the gaunt silhou-
ette of ‘Agent Zero One’, alleged that P2 was not wound up in the mid-1980s,
after the arrest of its leader Licio Gelli. "It still exists. It calls itself P7," he
said. According to the agent, the lodge is still functioning with branches in
Austria, Switzerland and East Germany. ‘Zero One’ has now been revealed
by the Italian press to be Dick Brenneke, allegedly a career CIA officer"
(Richard Bassett, Times, 24/7/90). "In the programme, Mr. Brenneke alleged
that, throughout the 1970’s the CIA had made large sums of money available
to the subversive Masonic Lodge, P2, widely believed to have been involved
in the August, 1980 Bologna train station bombing in which 85 people were
killed. Furthermore Mr. Brenneke claimed that, not only does the CIA con-
tinue to secretly finance a revived P2, but that it was involved in the 1986
killing of the Swedish Prime Minister, Mr. Olaf Palme. According to Mr.
Brenneke, P2, under the guidance of its Grand master, Mr. Licio Gelli, used
some of the finance made available by the CIA to set up agencies in West
Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These agencies in turn were used by P2
to set up the assassination of Mr. Palme, on the orders of the CIA. Finally,
and perhaps most sensationally, Mr. Brenneke alleged that President Bush,
then director of the CIA, not only knew about these CIA activities in Italy
(during the late 1970s and early 1980s) but was in fact one of the master-
minds behind them. In the 1976 general election, the huge success of the
Communist Party...encouraged some to believe that Italy might be close to
voting in its first ever Communist government. In order to forestall this pos-
sibility, the CIA allegedly sponsored a series of right wing terrorist attacks,
via Mr. Gelli’s P2...The CIA denied the charges and said Mr. Branneke had
never worked for the agency" (Paddy Agnew, Irish Times, 7/24/90). "In a
four part special on RAI, the main Italian state-run television network,
Brenneke claimed he had been making payments to members of P2, a right-
wing Masonic lodge, on behalf of the CIA from l969 to 1980. He said he had
made payments which ranged from $lm to $10m a month and were part of
the struggle against communism. He said P2 was also involved in arms and
drugs trafficking for the CIA...The programme sparked a political storm in
Italy...However a note of caution....Earlier this year he was put on trial in
Oregon for allegedly lying under oath about his claims that Bush traveled to
Paris in 1980 to make a deal with the Iranians over the American hostages.
Brenneke was acquitted on all charges"(Mark Hosenball, Sunday Times, 7/
29/90).
(which means "sword"). In Austria it was named "Schwert"
("sword"). In France it was called "Glaive" ("sword"). It was called
"Operation Sheepskin" in Greece. "Sveaborg" in Sweden. In Bel-
gium, Operation Stay Behind had the name: "SDR-8." Likewise,
in Switzerland it was given an alpha-numerical name: "P26."
America Betrayed
economy "scream" in Chile prior to the overthrow of Allende, now Angola
was the target. The collapse of the Portuguese regime, and the subsequent
likelihood of her African colonies gaining independence and control over
their own destiny, was an anathema to the Wall Street elite. This led to a
decision to fund a civil war in Angola, and to install a Wall Street-friendly
military dictatorship rather than allow elections which might lead to "leftist"
regimes gaining power. However, in December, 1975 the Clark Amendment
was passed by the Senate, which explicitly cut off US funding and banning
CIA operations for the military actions in Angola which had erupted in civil
war with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. Nevertheless, even after the
Clark Amendment became law on February 9, 1976, Bush defied the law and
directed the CIA to continue providing planeloads of weapons and to make
large cash payoffs to pro-western terrorist factions who were murdering, tor-
turing, starving, and terrorizing the men, women, and children of Angola.
However, as this had to be done covertly and secretly, the CIA and Republi-
can leadership controlling the U.S. government sought to use two "surro-
gates" Britain and South Africa, to provide soldiers to fight Wall Street’s war
by proxy.
Regardless of country, Operation Stay Behind was run by
the CIA and British Intelligence under the umbrella of NATO, and
involved the use of snipers, police officers, and para-military units
to kill people at random and to conduct brutal raids on supermar-
kets, theaters, and other public places (21-28). In one series of at-
tacks, in Brussels in the mid 1980’s, 28 people were murdered while
shopping at local supermarkets. Again, the purpose of these attacks
was to strengthen the hand of right-wing governments and to pre-
vent left-wing governments or politicians from coming to power.
It was the duty of Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller, Cheney, and
Rumsfeld, to try to cover up these crimes. Indeed Rumsfeld (the
Secretary of Defense when the U.S. was attacked on 9/11) had served
as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium in 1973 and
1974—when some of the worst atrocities were taking place— and
thus had a special personal interest in preventing any damaging dis-
closures.
Operation Sword ("Gladio/Schwert/Glaive, etc.") was an out-
growth of Dulles’ "Operation Stay Behind." Initially, this program
served to recruit high ranking Nazis and SS Gestapo agents into the
OSS and the CIA after the close of WWII. By 1952, Dulles and his
CIA had created a secret guerrilla terrorist army whose primary mis-
sion was terrorism and assassination—often of random targets who
might be murdered by snipers, as they shopped or walked down the
street. Dulles believed that through random acts of terror, left-wing
governments could be overthrown, or prevented from ever coming
to power if the blame for those terrorist acts could be placed on left-
ists (20). Right wing governments are always the beneficiaries of
terrorism.
Operation Sword was first put into operation in Italy, in 1947.
Italian citizens were gunned down by snipers, trains were derailed,
and buildings and planes were blown up by CIA-Nazi agents, and
then blamed on "communists." The purpose of this terrorist cam-
paign was to prevent a communist electoral victory in the 1947 Ital-
ian elections.
.
These and other acts of random terror (Operation Stay Be-
hind), although directed by the CIA (in conjunction with British In-
telligence) were administered under the protective umbrella of the
Clandestine Co-ordinating Committee at the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers Europe "SHAPE" (22). SHAPE would later became
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Although these CIA-terrorist cells were spread all over Eu-
rope, the training bases were located in Germany, Italy and France.
Likewise, these terrorist operations were directed and funded by CIA
agents working in the US Embassies in Rome, Paris, and Berlin.
These same CIA agents not only controlled these terrorists cells, but
had infiltrated and often directed the Intelligence services of these
and other countries (23).
In other words, the purpose of Operation Gladio was to use
terror and murder not to combat any external threat, but to combat
internal threats by using terrorism. However, the targets of these
terrorist acts would not be opposition politicians per se, but rather,
the citizens of the state.
Gladio also served as a useful weapon to keep the Italian elec-
torate under control. Citizens would be shot and killed by snipers,
they and their families might be blown up while strolling down the
street. No one was safe. Even police were targeted (28).
Rember the Malvo shootings?
"Mr. George Bush of the CIA" (6) had been a CIA agent
since at least 1960. In all likelihood, he never ceased to be a mem-
ber of this Nazi-like terrorist organization, even while serving
as a congressman or chairman of the Republican Party.
In the 1960s and 1970s, George Bush, and the CIA, were
dedicated to serving their own financial, personal, and political
interests as well as those of the Wall Street elite. Of course, they
did so in the name of "national security." Ostensibly, their goal the
reason they authorized the murder of innocent men, women, and
children, was to fight communism.
George H.W. Bush was rejected yet again. The people and
the Republican party refused him the Republican nomination for
President. Bush was rejected not just because Ronald Reagan was
the superior man and the superior candidate, but also because of
the persistent questions about slush funds, illegal activities,
coverups, and his role in the "Trilateral Commission" (39)
On February 7, 1980 Reagan gave a speech in which he
pointed out that Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission,
which, according to Reagan, "had led to a softening on defense."
George Bush, Reagan pointed out, believed that making money by
doing business with the enemies of America was more important
than defending America. Bush, he implied believed that business
and commerce "should transcend, perhaps, the national defense."
Bush would betray America, Reagan implied, because money
was more important to Bush than principles, honesty, or our na-
tional security.
The Reagan camp also began running political ads, one of
which showed a drawing of Bush juxtaposed above a headline which
read in part: "A coalition of multinational corporate executives,
big-city bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you
George Bush... their purpose is to control the American govern-
ment."
Reagan got the nomination, and Bush, with the help of his
Wall Street, CIA, Skull and Bones network, began working full tilt
on Reagan’s entourage to convince them that having Bush on the
ticket would help elect Reagan. Reagan, however, did not like and
did not trust George Bush. In the days just before the Republican
convention, Reagan is quoted as saying: "I want to be very frank
with you. I have strong reservations about George Bush. I’m con-
cerned about turning the country over to him."
Reagan didn’t just distrust him, he thought Bush was an ef-
feminate "wimp."
Finally, at the very last minute, despite Reagan’s distrust and
scorn, Bush became his running mate.
In November of 1980, Reagan won the Presidency in a land-
slide. Bush was sworn in as vice-president of the United States on
January 20.
59).Wall Street Journal, "Vetting the Frontrunners: From Oil to Base-
ball to the Governor’s Mansion," 9/28/1999; Jonathan Beaty & S.C. Gwynne,
"The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI," Random
House, 1993; James H. Hatfield, "Fortunate Son," St. Martins Press; Arthur
Frederick Ide, et al., "Bush in business with bin Laden. Jihad, Mujahideen,
Taliban, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush & Oil: A Study in the Evolution
of Terrorism & Islam," Liberal Press, 2002 |
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CIA And Mossad |
by rese
(No verified email address) |
01 Jul 2006
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Remember the word "terrorist" was coined by the British Press to describe the Israelis who dressed up as Arabs and bombed the King David hotel, killing Israelis and Arabs, and Bits togain independence from Great Britain?
Remember the 5 dancing Israelis dressed in Palestianian attire, caught celebrating and photographing the destruction of the Trade Center on 911. They were found with traces of explosives in their urban moving van, and traces of anthra at their headquarters. They were given lie detector tests, and failed. Even found out they were Mossad agents. Yet the authorities, Michael
Chertoff only deported vthem. Same Chertoff which knew about Melviun Lattimore.
Shows the CIA works with the
Mossad too, probably other world intelligence offices.
This is a goood argument for state sponsored terror to keep the international corporate business world going, but the highest officials of our land are guilty of treason, by their failure to protect the Constitution and the premis of democratic governments, governments are of the people, by the people and for the people. We enter into government for mutual securiuty not the attack of a government on its own people. |
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Half article, continued |
by Patriot
(No verified email address) |
01 Jul 2006
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Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of
THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE
[Lead story in the October 24, 2000 issue of "From The Wilderness"]
by
Michael C. Ruppert
© Copyright 2000, Michael C. Ruppert and "From The Wilderness" Publications, P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, 818-788-8791, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. - Permission to reprint for non-profit only is hereby granted as long as proper sourcing appears. For all other permissions contact mruppert (at) copvcia.com.
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FTW October 24, 2000 - The success of Bush Vice Presidential running mate Richard Cheney at leading Halliburton, Inc. to a five year $3.8 billion "pig-out" on federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans is only a partial indicator of what may happen if the Bush ticket wins in two weeks. A closer look at available research, including an August 2, 2000 report by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) at www.public-i.org, suggests that drug money has played a role in the successes achieved by Halliburton under Cheney's tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000. This is especially true for Halliburton's most famous subsidiary, heavy construction and oil giant, Brown and Root. A deeper look into history reveals that Brown and Root's past as well as the past of Dick Cheney himself, connect to the international drug trade on more than one occasion and in more than one way.
This June the lead Washington, D.C. attorney for a major Russian oil company connected in law enforcement reports to heroin smuggling and also a beneficiary of US backed loans to pay for Brown and Root contracts in Russia, held a $2.2 million fund raiser to fill the already bulging coffers of presidential candidate George W. Bush. This is not the first time that Brown and Root has been connected to drugs and the fact is that this "poster child" of American industry may also be a key player in Wall Street's efforts to maintain domination of the half trillion dollar a year global drug trade and its profits. And Dick Cheney, who has also come closer to drugs than most suspect, and who is also Halliburton's largest individual shareholder ($45.5 million), has a vested interest in seeing to it that Brown and Root's successes continue.
Of all American companies dealing directly with the U.S. military and providing cover for CIA operations few firms can match the global presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000 people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or joint ventures, Brown and Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells, construct and operate everything from harbors to pipelines to highways to nuclear reactors. It can train and arm security forces and it can now also feed, supply and house armies. One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos.
Furthermore, the relationships between key institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a George "W" administration the Bush family and its allies may well be able, using Brown and Root as the operational interface, to control the drug trade all the way from Medellin to Moscow.
Originally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown and Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbors and tunnels, Brown and Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career. It prospered as a result, making billions on U.S. Government contracts during the Vietnam War. The "Austin Chronicle" in an August 28 Op-ed piece entitled "The Candidate From Brown and Root" labels Republican Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown and Root's largesse. According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five year tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to Republican candidates.
Independent news service "newsmakingnews.com," also describes how in 1998, with Cheney as Chairman, Halliburton spent $8.1 billion to purchase oil industry equipment and drilling supplier Dresser Industries. This made Halliburton a corporation that will have a presence in almost any future oil drilling operation anywhere in the world. And it also brought back into the family fold the company that had once sent a plane - also in 1948 - to fetch the new Yale Graduate George H.W. Bush, to begin his career in the Texas oil business. Bush the elder's father, Prescott, served as a Managing Director for the firm that once owned Dresser, Brown Bothers Harriman.
It is clear that everywhere there is oil there is Brown and Root. But increasingly, everywhere there is war or insurrection there is Brown and Root also. From Bosnia and Kosovo, to Chechnya, to Rwanda, to Burma, to Pakistan, to Laos, to Vietnam, to Indonesia, to Iran to Libya to Mexico to Colombia, Brown and Root's traditional operations have expanded from heavy construction to include the provision of logistical support for the U.S. military. Now, instead of U.S. Army quartermasters, the world is likely to see Brown and Root warehouses storing and managing everything from uniforms to rations to vehicles.
Dramatic expansion of Brown and Root's operations in Colombia also suggest Bush preparations for a war inspired feeding frenzy as a part of "Plan Colombia." This is consistent with moves by former Bush Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady to open a joint Colombian-American investment partnership called Corfinsura for the financing of major construction projects with the Colombian Antioquia Syndicate, headquartered in Medellin. (See FTW June, 00). And expectations of a ground war in Colombia may explain why, in a 2000 SEC filing, Brown and Root reported that in addition to owning more than 800,000 square feet of warehouse space in Colombia, they also lease another 122,000 square feet. According to the filing of the Brown and Root Energy Services Group, the only other places where the company maintains warehouse space are in Mexico (525,000 sq. feet), and the U.S. (38,000) square feet.
According to the web site of Colombia's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency Brown and Root had no presence in the country until 1997. What does Brown and Root, which, according to the AP has made more than $2 billion supporting and supplying U.S. troops, know about Colombia that the U.S. public does not? Why the need for almost a million square feet of warehouse space that can be transferred from one Brown and Root operation (energy) to another (military support) with the stroke of a pen?
DRUGS
As described by the Associated Press, during "Iran-Contra" Congressman Dick Cheney of the House Intelligence Committee was a rabid supporter of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North. This was in spite of the fact that North had lied to Cheney in a private 1986 White House briefing. Oliver North's own diaries and subsequent investigations by the CIA Inspector General have irrevocably tied him directly to cocaine smuggling during the 1980s and the opening of bank accounts for one firm moving four tons of cocaine a month. This, however, did not stop Cheney from actively supporting North's 1994 unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate from Virginia just a year before he took over the reins at Brown and Root's parent company, Dallas based Halliburton Inc. in 1995.
As the Bush Secretary of Defense during Desert Shield/Desert Storm (1990-91), Cheney also directed special operations involving Kurdish rebels in northern Iran. The Kurds' primary source of income for more than fifty years has been heroin smuggling from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Iran, Iraq and Turkey. Having had some personal experience with Brown and Root I noted carefully when the Los Angeles Times observed that on March 22, 1991 that a group of gunmen burst into the Ankara, Turkey offices of the joint venture, Vinnell, Brown and Root and assassinated retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant John Gandy.
In March of 1991, tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees, long-time assets of the CIA, were being massacred by Saddam Hussein in the wake of the Gulf War. Saddam, seeking to destroy any hopes of a successful Kurdish revolt, found it easy to kill thousands of the unwanted Kurds who had fled to the Turkish border seeking sanctuary. There, Turkish security forces, trained in part by the Vinnell, Brown and Root partnership, turned thousands of Kurds back into certain death. Today, the Vinnell Corporation (a TRW Company) is, along with the firms MPRI and DynCorp (FTW June, 00) one of the three pre-eminent private mercenary corporations in the world. It is also the dominant entity for the training of security forces throughout the Middle East. Not surprisingly the Turkish border regions in question were the primary transhipment points for heroin, grown in Afghanistan and Pakistan and destined for the markets of Europe.
A confidential source with intelligence experience in the region subsequently told me that the Kurds "got some payback against the folks that used to help them move their drugs." He openly acknowledged that Brown and Root and Vinnell both routinely provided NOC or non-official cover for CIA officers. But I already knew that.
From 1994 to 1999, during US military intervention in the Balkans where, according to "The Christian Science Monitor" and "Jane's Intelligence Review," the Kosovo Liberation Army controls 70 per cent of the heroin entering Western Europe, Cheney's Brown and Root made billions of dollars supplying U.S. troops from vast facilities in the region. Brown and Root support operations continue in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia to this day.
Dick Cheney's footprints have come closer to drugs than one might suspect. The August Center for Public Integrity report brought them even closer. It would be factually correct to say that there is a direct linkage of Brown and Root facilities - often in remote and hazardous regions - between every drug producing region and every drug consuming region in the world. These coincidences, in and of themselves, do not prove complicity in the trade. Other facts, however, lead inescapably in that direction.
A DIRECT DRUG LINK
The CPI report entitled "Cheney Led Halliburton To Feast at Federal Trough" written by veteran journalists Knut Royce and Nathaniel Heller describes how, under five years of Cheney's leadership, Halliburton, largely through subsidiary Brown and Root, enjoyed $3.8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer insured loans. The loans had been granted by the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). According to Ralph McGehee's "CIA Base ©" both institutions are heavily infiltrated by the CIA and routinely provide NOC to its officers.
One of those loans to Russian financial/banking conglomerate The Alfa Group of Companies contained $292 million to pay for Brown and Root's contract to refurbish a Siberian oil field owned by the Russian Tyumen Oil Company. The Alfa Group completed its 51% acquisition of Tyumen Oil in what was allegedly a rigged bidding process in 1998. An official Russian government report claimed that the Alfa Group's top executives, oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven "allegedly participated in the transit of drugs from Southeast Asia through Russia and into Europe."
These same executives, Fridman and Aven, who reportedly smuggled the heroin in connection with Russia's Solntsevo mob family were the same ones who applied for the EXIM loans that Halliburton's lobbying later safely secured. As a result Brown and Root's work in Alfa Tyumen oil fields could continue - and expand.
After describing how organized criminal interests in the Alfa Group had allegedly stolen the oil field by fraud, the CPI story, using official reports from the FSB (the Russian equivalent of the FBI), oil companies such as BP-Amoco, former CIA and KGB officers and press accounts then established a solid link to Alfa Tyumen and the transportation of heroin.
In 1995 sacks of heroin disguised as sugar were stolen from a rail container leased by Alfa Echo and sold in the Siberian town of Khabarovsk. A problem arose when many residents of the town became "intoxicated" or "poisoned." The CPI story also stated, "The FSB report said that within days of the incident, Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) agents conducted raids of Alfa Eko buildings and found 'drugs and other compromising documentation.'
"Both reports claim that Alfa Bank has laundered drug funds from Russian and Colombian drug cartels.
"The FSB document claims that at the end of 1993, a top Alfa official met with Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the now imprisoned financial mastermind of Colombia's notorious Cali cartel, 'to conclude an agreement about the transfer of money into the Alfa Bank from offshore zones such as the Bahamas, Gibraltar and others. The plan was to insert it back into the Russian economy through the purchase of stock in Russian companies.
"É He [the former KGB agent] reported that there was evidence 'regarding [Alfa Bank's] involvement with the money laundering ofÉ Latin American drug cartels."
It then becomes harder for Cheney and Halliburton to assert mere coincidence in all of this as CPI reported that Tyumen's lead Washington attorney James C, Langdon, Jr. at the firm of Aikin Gump "helped coordinate a $2.2 million fund raiser for Bush this June. He then agreed to help recruit 100 lawyers and lobbyists in the capital to raise $25,000 each for W's campaign."
The heroin mentioned in the CPI story, originated in Laos where longtime Bush allies and covert warriors Richard Armitage and retired CIA ADDO (Associate Deputy Director of Operations) Ted Shackley have been repeatedly linked to the drug trade. It then made its way across Southeast Asia to Vietnam, probably the port of Haiphong. Then the heroin sailed to Russia's Pacific port of Valdivostok from whence it subsequently bounced across Siberia by rail and thence by truck or rail to Europe, passing through the hands of Russian Mafia leaders in Chechnya and Azerbaijan. Chechnya and Azerbaijan are hotbeds of both armed conflict and oil exploration and Brown and Root has operations all along this route.
This long, expensive and tortured path was hastily established, as described by FTW in previous issues, after President George Bush's personal envoy Richard Armitage, holding the rank of Ambassador, had traveled to the former Soviet Union to assist it with its "economic development" in 1989. The obstacle then to a more direct, profitable and efficient route from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Turkey into Europe was a cohesive Yugoslavian/Serbian government controlling the Balkans and continuing instability in the Golden Crescent of Pakistan/Afghanistan. Also, there was no other way, using heroin from the Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos and Thailand), to deal with China and India but to go around them.
It is perhaps not by coincidence again that Cheney and Armitage share membership in the prestigious Aspen Institute, an exclusive bi-partisan research think tank, and also in the U.S. Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. Just last November, in what may be a portent of things to come, Armitage, played the role of Secretary of Defense in an practical exercise at the Council on Foreign Relations where he and Cheney are also both members. Speculation that the scandal plagued Armitage, who resigned under a cloud as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, is W's first choice for Secretary of Defense next year is widespread.
The Clinton Administration took care of all that wasted travel for heroin with the 1998 destruction of Serbia and Kosovo and the installation of the KLA as a regional power. That opened a direct line from Afghanistan to Western Europe and Brown and Root was right in the middle of that too. The Clinton skill at streamlining drug operations was described in detail in the May issue of FTW in a story entitled "The Democratic Party's Presidential Drug Money Pipeline." That article has since been reprinted in three countries. The essence of the drug economic lesson was that by growing opium in Colombia and by smuggling both cocaine and heroin from Colombia to New York City through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (a virtual straight line), traditional smuggling routes could be shortened or even eliminated. This reduced both risk and cost, increased profits and eliminated competition.
FTW suspects the hand of Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder in this process and it is interesting to note that Lehder, released from prison under Clinton in 1995, is now active in both the Bahamas and South America. Lehder was known during the eighties as "The genius of transportation." I can well imagine a Dick Cheney, having witnessed the complete restructuring of the global drug trade in the last eight years, going to George W and saying, "Look, I know how we can make it even better." One thing is for certain. As quoted in the CPI article, one Halliburton Vice President noted that if the Bush-Cheney ticket was elected, "the company's government contracts would obviously go through the roof."
THE DARK PAST
In July of 1977 this writer, then a Los Angeles Police officer struggled to make sense of a world gone haywire. In a last ditch effort to salvage a relationship with my fiancŽe, Nordica Theodora D'Orsay (Teddy), a CIA contract agent, I had traveled to find her in New Orleans. On a hastily arranged vacation, secured with the blessing of my Commanding Officer, Captain Jesse Brewer of LAPD, I had gone on my own, unofficially, to avoid the scrutiny of LAPD's Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID).
Starting in the late spring of 1976 Teddy had wanted me to join her operations from within the ranks of LAPD. I had refused to get involved with drugs in any way and everything she mentioned seemed to involve either heroin or cocaine along with guns that she was always moving out of the country. The Director of the CIA then was George Herbert Walker Bush.
Although officially on staff at the LAPD Academy at the time, I had been unofficially loaned to OCID since January when Teddy, announcing the start of a new operation planned in the fall of 1976 had suddenly disappeared. She left many people, including me, baffled and twisting in the breeze. The OCID detectives had been pressuring me hard for information about her and what I knew of her activities. It was information I could not give them. Hoping against hope that I would find some way to understand her involvement with CIA, LAPD, the royal family of Iran, the Mafia and drugs I set out alone into eight days of Dantean revelations that have determined the course of my life from that day to this.
Arriving in New Orleans in early July, 1977 I found her living in an apartment across the river in Gretna. Equipped with scrambler phones, night vision devices and working from sealed communiquŽs delivered by naval and air force personnel from nearby Belle Chasse Naval Air Station, Teddy was involved in something truly ugly. She was arranging for large quantities of weapons to be loaded onto ships leaving for Iran. At the same time she was working with Mafia associates of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello to coordinate the movement of service boats that were bringing large quantities of heroin into the city. The boats arrived at Marcello controlled docks, unmolested by even the New Orleans police she introduced me to, along with divers, military men, former Green Berets and CIA personnel.
The service boats were retrieving the heroin from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, oil rigs in international waters, oil rigs built and serviced by Brown and Root. The guns that Teddy monitored, apparently Vietnam era surplus AK 47s and M16s, were being loaded onto ships also owned or leased by Brown and Root. And more than once during the eight days I spent in New Orleans I met and ate at restaurants with Brown and Root employees who were boarding those ships and leaving for Iran within days. Once, while leaving a bar and apparently having asked the wrong question, I was shot at in an attempt to scare me off.
Disgusted and heart broken at witnessing my fiancŽe and my government smuggling drugs, I ended the relationship. Returning home to LA I made a clean breast and reported all the activity I had seen, including the connections to Brown and Root, to LAPD intelligence officers. They promptly told me that I was crazy. Forced out of LAPD under threat of death at the end of 1978, I made complaints to LAPD's Internal Affairs Division and to the LA office of the FBI under the command of FBI SAC Ted Gunderson. I and my attorney wrote to the politicians, the Department of Justice, the CIA and contacted the L.A. Times. The FBI and the LAPD said that I was crazy.
According to a 1981 two-part news story in the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" it was revealed that The FBI had taken Teddy into custody and then released her before classifying their investigation without further action. Former New Orleans Crime Commissioner Aaron Cohen told reporter Randall Sullivan that he found my description of events perfectly plausible after his thirty years of studying Louisiana's organized crime operations.
To this day a CIA report prepared as a result of my complaint remains classified and exempt from release pursuant to Executive Order of the President in the interests of national security and because it would reveal the identities of CIA agents.
On October 26, 1981, in the basement of the West Wing of the White House, I reported on what I had seen in New Orleans to my friend and UCLA classmate Craig Fuller. Craig Fuller went on to become Chief of Staff to Vice President Bush from 1981 to 1985.
In 1982, then UCLA political science professor Paul Jabber, filled in many of the pieces in my quest to understand what I had seen in New Orleans. He was qualified to do so because he had served as a CIA and State Department consultant to the Carter administration. Paul explained that, after a 1975 treaty between the Shah of Iran and Saddam Hussein the Shah had cut off all overt military support for Kurdish rebels fighting Saddam from the north of Iraq. In exchange the Shah had gained access to the Shat al-Arab waterway so that he could multiply his oil exports and income. Not wanting to lose a long-term valuable asset in the Kurds, the CIA had then used Brown and Root, which operated in both countries and maintained port facilities in the Persian Gulf and near Shat al-Arab to rearm the Kurds. The whole operation had been financed with heroin. Paul was matter-of-fact about it.
In 1983 Paul Jabber left UCLA to become a Vice President of Banker's Trust and Chairman of the Middle East Department of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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If one is courageous enough to seek an "operating system" that theoretically explains what FTW has just described for you, one need look no further than a fabulous two-part article in "Le Monde Diplomatique" in April of this year. The brilliant stories, focusing heavily on drug capital are titled "Crime, The World's Biggest Free Enterprise." The brilliant and penetrating words of authors Christian de Brie and Jean de Maillard do a better job of explaining the actual world economic and political situation than anything that I have ever read.
De Brie writes, "By allowing capital to flow unchecked from one end of the world to the other, globalization and abandon of sovereignty have together fostered the explosive growth of an outlaw financial marketÉ
"It is a coherent system closely linked to the expansion of modern capitalism and based on an association of three partners: governments, transnational corporations and mafias. Business is business: financial crime is first and foremost a market, thriving and structured, ruled by supply and demand.
"Big business complicity and political laisser faire is the only way that large-scale organized crime can launder and recycle the fabulous proceeds of its activities. And the transnationals need the support of governments and the neutrality of regulatory authorities in order to consolidate their positions, increase their profits, withstand and crush the competition, pull off the "deal of the century" and finance their illicit operations. Politicians are directly involved and their ability to intervene depends on the backing and the funding that keep them in power. This collusion of interests is an essential part of the world economy, the oil that keeps the wheels of capitalism turning."
After confronting CIA Director John Deutch on world television on November 15, 1996 I was interviewed by the staffs of both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. I prepared written testimony for Senate Intelligence which I submitted although I was never called to testify. In every one of those interviews and in my written testimony and in every lecture since that time I have told the story of Brown and Root. I will tell it again at the USC School of International Relations on December the 8th, 2000 - regardless of who wins the election.
Michael C. Ruppert
www.copvcia.com
Sources:
- The Center for Public Integrity, "Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough", Knut Royce & Nathaniel Heller,
http://www.public-i.org/story_01_080200.htm
-"Le Monde - Diplomatique", April 2000.
- The U.S. Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
-The Aspen Institute, www.aspeninst.org
-"The Austin Chronicle", August 28, 2000
-The Associated Press, "Study: US Could Save Cost in Balkans" - 10/10/00
-The Associated Press, "Cheney, North Relationship Probed" - 8/11/00
-"The New York Times" Index
-The Council on Foreign Relations
-"The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush" - Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
-"CIA Base" © 1992, Ralph McGehee
-CIA Inspector General Report of Investigation: Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States. Volume II: The Contra Story - Report 96-0143-IG.
-newsmakingnews.com, 27 August 2000, "The Dick Cheney Data Dump"
- Securities and Exchange Commission - "Edgar" Data base.
-Halliburton/Brown and Root - www.Halliburton.com/brs
-The Vinnell Corporation - www.Vinnell.com
-"The New York Press," 8/1/00
-"The Los Angeles Times," March 23, 1991.
-"The Los Angeles Herald Examiner:, Oct. 11 & 18, 1981
-"The Christian Science Monitor" - Oct. 20, 1994
-"Jane's Intelligence Review" - February 1, 1995.
-Written testimony of Michael C. Ruppert for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence dated 10/1/97 - http://www.fromthewilderness.com//free/ciadrugs/ssci.html
-"From The Wilderness" (4/99, 4/00, 6/00)
8.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/W_plane.html
The Bush Drug Sting, The Sins of the Father, The Sins of the Son and -- The Smoking Airplane
9.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/volii.html
Why Does George W. Bush Fly in Drug Smuggler Barry Seal's Airplane?
10.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/contra1.html
WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CELERINO CASTILLO III, (D.E.A., RETIRED) FOR THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, DEA
WHY?
11.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/322288.shtml
The Downing Street Memo and the Rove leak are the TIP of the Iceberg! This article traces the roots of Fascism, through the Bush dynasty, back to the Nazis and their roots in the Inquisition. The "New World Order " is an old project of the world's elite facilitated by a coup d etat in Dallas. George Bush senior was one of its leaders. Since then, some of the CIA became home to many Nazis.
The anthrax attack remains unsolved, even though evidence shows it CAME FROM a U.S. MILITARY Base. The most likely suspect, Dr. Zack was covered up by major media.
If followed up, this story would unravel the Official 911 theory, and the administration.
Excerpts: PART I
New Evidence suggests ex-President George Bush led a coup d'e tat in leading the CIA gang present there.
It's big news I think when a President condones Terrorists. I think it's even bigger when this evidence shows a coup de etat occurred in Dallas. Who was Bush serving? Senator Prescott's protégé Richard Nixon. The same who had financed Hitler's war machine. Nixon elevated Kissinger to high rank, and Kissinger was from Nazi Europe. Kissinger brought many ex Nazi's into the CIA and that led to more terrorist activities, and I think to 911. His plan was to use(his words,not mine) "military dumb animals" to further their plan for a New World order" which translates to support the elite and rich families of the Globe, ie. Bush, Rockefellers, Harriman's, etc. Their interests are getting richer, and they control foreign policy, and major media.
http://jfkmurdersolved.com/posada.htm
"The Case against Posada Carriles"
See http://www.ctwilcox.com/ click on doc flicks,
It was reported by the New York Times, a few weeks ago, the fact that "In May, Luis Posada Carriles, a militant anti-Castro fighter from the cold war era, was arrested here on charges of entering the country illegally and was imprisoned in El Paso, where he awaits federal trial. Barely anyone in Miami protested, even though many Cuban-Americans consider Mr. Posada, 77, to be a hero who deserves asylum. "
I did a search on him and found more than the Media dare print.
The above website http://jfkmurdersolved.com/posada.htm
has documents that shows Bush was in the CIA at that time. These assassins were in Dallas when Kennedy was murdered. Marita (became a CIA agent after being misstress to Castro) a testifies how she saw Oswald (now known CIA agent) and Ruby together, with two carloads of them at a motel the night before, armed with weapons. She got out. She testified that Frank Sturgis later boasted, "we killed Kennedy."Other witnesses said they saw Posada in the Square also that terrible day.
The website also has documents that show one of those who knew and encouraged Oswald was a friend of George Bush Senior. He has repeatedly said he never knew him. The website reveals that many of these witnesses were killed before they could testify to the conspiracy. Even Jack Ruby was said he was willing to testify but he claimed he was being given a cancer causing drug that eventually did kill him.
The website provides pictures of George Bush with the CIA agent Felix Rodriquez and George Bush, and Felix Rodriquez's capture of Che Gueierra, who later had his hands cut off after he was shot. These agents also participated in the removal of democratic leaders in South American countries. Apparently Nixon was a Protégé of Prescott Bush. Nixon brought in Henry Kissinger, ex Nazi, who brought over many Nazis to serve in the CIA.
The author shows the history of this group. Some were hand picked by ex-President George Bush himself from the CIA initially to assainate Castro and invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs attack... He and other Texas oilmen financed some of their operations. A Dr. Orlando Bosch, convicted of blowing up a Cuban airliner, with the help of Posada was later PARDONED by Bush Senior as President. The author says Bosch was the leader of the group at the motel where this gang was in Dallas the night before the killing of President J.F. Kennedy, Jr.
PART II
If we don't know our history, we're bound to repeat it. Yes, just substitute the word Inquisition, for Holocaust. If you refuse to discuss these issues, you're letting the door open for another INQUISITION right here in America.
This is history, and the JESUITS have a bloody history, and the White Popes have been unable to stop them. That is not a smear. That is a fact.
This government's involvement in Israel is a result of the Jesuits pressing for the creation of Israel, by supporting, if not creating the Zionist movement. These are historical Facts. Our Council of Foreign Relations is blindly supporting a suicidal foreign policy. Or country is increasingly becoming a police state.History sheds some light on how this has happened.
Traditionally, via the Council of Trent, heretics were slaughtered.Heretics were any persons who did not accept the rules of the Catholic Church. Anyone who said "we're saved by Grace", was considered a heretic, and was killed or excumunicated. The Bible was banned for centuries. The Holocaust was modeled after the Jesuits
Fact: Otto Strasser was one of the founders of the Nazi Party. He revealed in his book Hitler and I that, Mein Kampf was ghostwritten by a Jesuit Priest, Bernhardt Stampgle.
http://www.believeinhim.com/AntichristConspiracy.pdf
Fact: 1933 Hitler signed Concordant with Vatican Cardinal Pacelli.
Fact: Hitler himself said" I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits. The SS was modeled after it. He compared Himmler to Loyola.
Fact: Hitler thought the emigration of Jews to Palestine would benefit Germany. Those who did get out were forbidden to go to America, at the pressure of American Jews.
Fact: Bush family, through Prescott benefited selling to the Nazis.
Fact: The Bush family fortune is based on this illegal trade.
Fact: US brought many Nazis over to work in the CIA, military and science.
Fact: The CIA was present in Dallas the Day of the Kennedy killing. (They were not allowed to work in the USA at that time, only overseas)
Fact: Bush Senior was in CIA, and in Dallas, and knew many of the CIA, one "of which was reported by another CIA under oath,, to have said We killed the President that day, very professional"
Fact: Not only oil is sold from the offshore rigs, drugs are too.
Fact: Jesuits and Catholic Church support Castro, and other dictators in Latin America, and were the original perpetuators of the Opium wars.
Fact: Nazis sent Vatican gold when the War was over.
Fact: While a Cardinal, Ratinger said, the Messiah is yet to come.
Fact: In the book AntiChrist Conspiracy, Inside the Devil's lair, the author quotes the words of Samuel Morse, who asserted like the Trojan Horse, the Jesuits have come into the country to destroy the principles of religious freedom and democracy.
Fact: 911 official theory has thousands of omissions. As seen on your other blogs
Fact: The bombing of a country for false reasons has led America wide open to nuclear suitcase bombs brought over through an unprotected border, by newly created Jihadists from Iraq.
Fact: From the Talmud:Sanhedrin 99a: "When Messiah comes, he will destroy the Christians>"
I Well what else do the Jesuits have to do but desire POWER?
Their founder, Loyola carried out the greatest Holocaust of all time, the Inquisition, of Spain, Europe and the Americas. Later they aided Hitler, Mien Camp was written by one of them. Later they killed off any white Pope that tried to disband their order.
They have a militaristic organization. Loyal priests probably do good, but at the top, they're behind wars. Their order is the head of the Opus Die, Masons, Knights of Columbus,Skull and Bones etc.
They want to rule the world from Jerusalem, in the Third temple. They have taken an oath to eradicate any nonbelievers.
. Please follow these links to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=jesuit Read the Jesuit oath: Wonder why the Germans smashed babies heads against walls?
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/ Charts power structure of the "Black Pope"
http://www.reformation.org/holocaus.html#Contents
http://www.reformation.org/
http://www.reformation.org/hitler.html
Mein Kampf was ghost-written by a Jesuit Priest.
Part 3
I find this source the BEST evidence of ProZionist,and Jeusit involvement in 911. The chapter on Anthrax is particularly fascinating.I'm posting a few excerpts from it.
http://www.the7thfire.com/9-11/Pastore_Investigation_of_%209-11/chapter_
http://www.the7thfire.com/9-11/Pastore_Investigation_of_%209-11/chapter_
A good place to start searching for the culprit is the US bio-weapons lab at Fort Detrick, MD. The Ames strain of anthrax has in fact been traced to Fort Detrick, where Assaad once worked until he was laid off in 1997. After he was let go from Fort Detrick, Assaad filed a federal discrimination suit based upon the brutal abuse and harassment that he had endured from some highly suspicious co-workers. In 1991, Assaad found an 8 page poem in his mailbox which became a courtroom exhibit. The poem had 235 lines, many of them lewd and sexually explicit, mocking Assaad. Along with the poem, the perpetrators left Assaad a rubber camel with a large penis attached to it. (5
The scientist who was the ring-leader in these horrible attacks on Dr. Assaad was Dr. Lt. Col. Philip Zack. Philip Zack was to "voluntarily" leave Fort Detrick shortly after Assaad brought Zack's poem and camel to the attention of his supervisors. (7) Strike one on Dr. Zack
12.
www.vaticanassassins.org/
Researcher Eric VonPhelps 's website is huge, so be very patient until it loads. He exposes the deeds of the Jesuits. It is helpful to read the entire website. Another expert n the deeds of the Jesuits is found at www.reformation.org.
13. www.arcticbeacon.com/ Greg Zygmanski is an investigative reporter and radio host, who has explored the Jesuits with other experts, see particularly the articles:
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/25-June-2006.html
Confession No.10: Billy Graham firmly Under Vatican And Jesuit Control? Vatican and Jesuit Vendetta for England Never-Ending; Should Serve as Example Of What Is Really Happening in America
Researchers come forward with information that Dr. Graham was a 33rd Degree Freemason. Recent Guardian article says EU is a Catholic plot to impose Vatican sovereignty over Britain.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/18-June-2006.html
Confession No.9: Will America Rise Up Against Jesuits, Vatican And New World Order Tyranny?
As the question lingers will Americans sit back and allow the 'powers that be' to refer to them as 'useless eaters' or will they rely on past history to uncover and remove the real culprits behind the destruction of America.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/7-June-2006a.html
According to Researcher Jared Israel, Vatican And Hitler Worked Together
Although the Vatican openly claims Nazism was the antithesis of the Catholic Church, strong evidence claims it was nothing but double talk. Most Italians are wise to the Vatican's lying ways, saying La vita e' una fregatura. But sadly most Americans remain in the dark due to infiltrated media.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/1-June-2006.html
Hidden Book By Samuel Morse Written In 1835 Gives Important Clues About Real Culprits Behind The New World Order
A look at history quickly warns The Vatican's role in the NWO must be considered just as they were in 1835 when the liberties of America were being threatened.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/28-May-2006.html
Confession No. 6: The Search For America's Hidden Enemy Continues With The Jesuits
Researcher Jeremy Lack says Vatican/Jesuit tyranny erased from history, especially from 1960.
Also his scoop on the Leo Wanta story:
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/22-June-2006.html
The $27.5 Trillion Dollar Man Still Trying To Recover U.S. Funds From The Clutches Of The Bush And Clinton Crime Families
Leo Wanta is still shaking up the international banking community as London-based financial currency review finally sheds some needed light on the magnitude and importance of the 'Leo Wanta story'
And his uncovering a military plan to attacl the WTC w0ith boxcutters and airliners in the seventies
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/23-Mar-2005.html
Threats Don't Stop Information Leak About Our Military's 1976 Plan to Blow Up WTC
Former GI not concerned about death threats and releases names of others who participated in what has been called 'the perfect terrorist plan' devised by our own military to bring down the WTC with airplanes and box cutters.
23 Mar 2005
Also in addition to his many articles, he also has information on the Jesuit finances: As did Sherman Skolnick: See Sherman Skolnick’s Reports.
. http://www.ciadrugs.com/ Rodney Stich, defrauding America
14.
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/
PHDs and former Bush officials agree:
SCHOLARS AFFIRM CHENEY COMPLICITY IN 9/11
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/petition/
Petition to the government to release documents regarding 911
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/339728.shtml
FOUR TRAITORs, The DEVIL is in the Details! IMPEACH!!!!
Summary first, very detailed, takes a few moments to load because of length. Excellent videos and links. More on SARAH McCLENDON's Famous Quote of George Bush Senior , Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched."
Watch the video, Who Controls the World
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3891535120990840079&q=Who+Contro
Watch the Videos, Loose Change and the Corporation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=Loose+Cha
Other articles by this author:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/71121.html
America Betrayed confirms that the financiers of the Nazis (Bush family included) brought in thousands of Nazis into the CIA, who operate ruthlessly to support the rich and terrorize the poor, and that the CIA killed President JF Kennedy. , and effected a coup d etat. also shown by http://jfkmurdersolved.com/buy2.htm...... click on Lois Posada. The article goes on to say that the NaziCIA led by GH Bush then became part of the Republican Party. The secrecy that Bush is claiming needed for National Security is to keep a secret that 911 was engineered by officials within the government for pure financial gain for their private corporations., and the cooperation of certain foreign governments.
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/253181.shtml...
Media wages Propaganda for BUSH CHENEY NUKE IRAN PLAN
Bush is insisting on amnesty, because he wants his brother, Jeff to run, who will get all these illegalsto vote for the most criminal family in history.
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/253128.shtml.........
Judicial watch's Video of attack on Pentagon
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/4516.php
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/WH-Dinner-Colber.mov
Has Comedian Colbert, by ridiculing Bush in his face, stopped nuclear War? Part 2
by rese Thursday, May. 04, 2006 at 9:25 PM
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/252874.shtml
Federal government Corruption Exposed
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/252874.shtml
Federal government Corruption Exposed
Treason has been committed by members of both major parties. Unless it is brought out into the open now, those same traitors will as they have said, attack Iran with Nukes, and throw the world into WW III.
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/media/Grossmann/Four%20Horsemen/066%20...
V. THE ENRON CONNECTION:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/337158.shtml?discuss
On 9/11: Was the Asbestos-Laced World Trade Center "Disposable"?
This article with comments shows the WTC was targeted for insurance. Another author.
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/252788.shtml
Neocons and Katrina
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/4352.php
Treason
http://www.barrychamish.com/html/larry-silverstein.htm...
Larry Silverstein Pulls it Off
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/4219.php
Bush okayed CIA leak?
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/252635.shtml
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/4219.php
by rese Thursday, Apr. 06, 2006 at 9:16 PM
Bush okayed CIA leak, Part 2
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/252635.shtml
Bush okayed CIA leak, Part 2
Apr 08, 2006 17:18
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/4238.php
Why is your tax money profiting the Jesuits?
by rese Sunday, Apr. 09, 2006 at 12:11
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/4193.php
PM America's greatest Threat
by rese Tuesday, Apr. 04, 2006 at 3:57 AM
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/336719.shtml
CNN Poll:AgreeU.S. government covered up the real events of the 9/11 attacks? Yes 84%
27.Mar.2006 00
Chinese Military Handed No-Bid Contract On Key US Security
> Infrastructure
> http://s13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=7325
> http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/march2006/270306nobid.htm
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> The Black Popes scenario for World War 3 & destruction by ERIC JON
> PHELPS
> http://s13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=2
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/252462.shtml......
Iran is Not a Threat to the U.S. nor Israel
Mar 25, 2006 16:07
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/4026.php
Murtha or Bush on Iraq?
by rese Tuesday, Mar. 21, 2006 at 6:35 AM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3891535120990840079&q=who+contro
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/3996.phpFormation of the Military Industrial Dictatorship
by rese Sunday, Mar. 19, 2006 at 9:46 AMhttp://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/252267.shtml
SCHOLARS AFFIRM CHENEY COMPLICITY IN 9/11:update
Mar 18, 2006 04:17
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/3926.php
No censure: Impeach!
by rese Monday, Mar. 13, 2006 at 6:01 AM
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/252149.shtml
911 was an inside Job by Dick Cheney and PNAC
Mar 12, 2006 12:06
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/335923.shtml
SCHOLARS AFFIRM CHENEY COMPLICITY IN 9/11.
18.Mar.2006 03:52
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848
Loose Change This Video clearly shows the physical evidence of 911 that is contradictory to the Official Version of 911.
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/251975.shtml
So you hate corporate control of America
author: rese
Mar 04, 2006 09:16
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/3680.php
Free Money!
by rese Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006 at 7:27 AM
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/251289.shtml
Illuminati=Evil=Live for them, Die for them
author: rese
Jan 30, 2006 14:25
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/251271.shtml
Porous Borders prove the "War on Terrorism" is phony!
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/251271.shtml |
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02 Jul 2006
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341889.shtml
SEC Chris Cox ,New York Rep.Peter King,CIA,Swift,NY Times,Republican stock fraud
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Frank Olson Story |
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04 Jul 2006
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http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articulations/Script-CodeNameArtichoke.html
The Frank Olson Legacy Project
Code Name: Artichoke
The CIA’s Secret Experiments on Humans
A film by Egmont R. Koch and Michael Wech
Camera: Sven Kiesche
Sound: Jan Schmiedt
Editing: Arno Schumann
Archive Research: John H. Colhoun
English version: Mark Rossman
Editorial Director: Gert Monheim
Production: Egmont R. Koch Filmproduktion
Bremen, Germany
Premier, ARD, WDR August 12, 2002
0.02
(distorted voice, like a radio newscast)
Frederick/Maryland. More than 40 years after his death, the body of former CIA scientist Dr. Frank Olson has been exhumed. Olson’s son Eric is convinced his father was murdered by agents of the American government because he wanted to leave the CIA. Dr. Frank Olson was an expert for anthrax and other biological weapons and had top security clearance. Forensic pathologists at George Washington University performed an autopsy and concluded that Olson probably was the victim of a violent crime.
00.50 Voice of Eric Olson
“I was strongly identifying with him, I loved him. And I am sure that's why in the end I came to take on this task trying to figure out what had become of him.”
Title: “Code Name: Aartichoke.”
1.36
It has been eight years since the exhumation. Eric Olson is still searching for the reasons behind his father’s death in November of 1953. Eric was nine years old at the time. It’s a quest he inherited as the oldest of three children. To solve the mystery of their father’s death.
2.01 Voice of Eric Olson
“My real memories of my father are not very many or very clear, because the trauma of his death really darkened a lot of these memories. His death was so dark and so unmentionable. After he died, it was a subject one couldn't really go near.”
2.25
Eric Olson has returned to live in the house his father built for the family in Frederick in 1950. Back then, Olson senior was one of the biochemists responsible for the biological weapons center the U.S. army ran nearby. The anthrax letters that killed five and caused illness to several others have haunted Eric ever since. Could there be a connection between his father’s death five decades ago and the acts of terror taking place today? (3.00)
3.15
The deadly disease that frightened America after the terrorist attacks on September 11th seems to have come from the same US Army Laboratory in Frederick where Olson had worked: Fort Detrick.
3.31
The biological weapons lab was founded in 1943. At the time, the Americans feared Hitler might attack the allied troops with a virus or bacteria. They quickly produced gas masks and anthrax weapons, in order to be able to strike back in kind.
3.58
Dr. Frank Olson, an army captain and one of the first scientists at Fort Detrick, worked together with Norman Cournoyer. The two became good friends. Their first sons were born within a few days of each other in 1944.
4.18 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson:
“We worked about five months in this thing called aerosols to see if we could test gas masks and impregnated clothing to see how good they were. And then one day he was transferred to working on hot agents. He said: 'Norm, how about working for me in the hot stuff?' That's how we always referred to it. N was Anthrax, X was botulism and so forth.” (4.53)
4.55
Christmas 1947. The war is finally over. Norman and his family celebrate together with Alice and Frank Olson and their children.
5.07 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson:
“Were we close? Yes! Very, very close, every day of the week for two and a half years. You are going to expect us to be close.”
5.17
Among the things his father left behind, Eric Olson found some home movies and slides. At first he didn’t pay them much attention. But today, he sees that material from a different point of view. Might it contain any indication of the secret anthrax research his father was doing after the war?
5.35
Frank Olson made a hobby of home movies. These scenes reveal nothing of his secret task involving deadly weapons. They show the perfect world of a young father, captured with the latest 8-mm camera to hit the market.
5.49
Frank Olson also used photography. He brought home a lot of slides from his many travels. His photographs also primarily show private moments.
6.02
Frank with his wife Alice and son Eric in 1945. Both in 1947 with son Eric and daughter Lisa. Christmas 1949 in a tuxedo. Alice had given birth to their third child, Nils, in the meantime.
6.19 Voice of Eric Olson:
“The whole subject of the relationship between a wife and a husband who is doing top secret, classified work is a subject one could discuss at some length. The wife develops uncanny kind of intuitions, about all the things that are not being said and she knows the limits of what she can ask. And for quite a long time, possibly ever since my father began working at Detrick, the whole business about the monkey dying was a very delicate matter for him.
When he would come home for lunch and have a certain kind of expression, she would immediately know that this meant that this morning all the monkeys had died, which meant that the experiment had been a success.”
7.06
Arthur Vidich is Frank Olson’s brother-in-law. Their families regularly spent their summer vacation together. Vidich remembers Frank Olson as an American patriot, who was enthusiastic about working for the Army’s biological weapons program.
7.22 Voice of Arthur Vidich/Brother-in-law of Frank Olson
“He was a person who believed in what he was doing, who felt the work that he was doing at the Center in Frederick was important for the United States. He considered himself a terribly loyal and patriotic person. That kind of an attitude of loyalty was one way of expressing your Americanism.”
7.58
Dr. Frank Olson had worked for the US Army’s biological weapons laboratory for exactly ten years when he died in New York in the wee hours of November 28, 1953. He spent the night at the Hotel Pennsylvania, along with a CIA agent who was there to guard him. That night, Frank Olson plunged to his death from his room on the hotel’s thirteenth floor. Through a closed window, it was said.
8.31
“Army Bacteriologist Dies In Plunge From New York Hotel”.
Nils, the youngest of Olson’s three children, scribbled on the clipping with a crayon.
8.43 Voice of Eric Olson:
“I was simply told that ‘Your father has had an accident,’ and that ‘he has died.’ The only detail that I was then given was that he had fallen or jumped out of a window. I remember quite clearly just being quite stupefied by this.
As a nine-year-old I was old enough to have some idea of cause and effect. And I had no idea what does it mean to fall out of a window. How you fall out of a window in the middle of the night. What is that?”
9.20
Eric didn’t understand.
And for his mother, the subject of his father’s death became a taboo.
9.33
The search for the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of Dr. Frank Olson begins in 1945, with the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany. American troops discovered the corpses of hundreds of prisoners who had been murdered or starved to death. Many of the survivors told US doctors about cruel experiments the camp’s doctors carried out using disease germs and various drugs.
9.59
A few weeks later, at Kransberg Castle north of Frankfurt, the scientific elite of Nazi Germany is arrested and questioned by American officers. The name of the project is “Operation Dustbin.” The American military hopes to evaluate and exploit the findings German researchers made during the war. Among the prisoners at Kransberg Castle is rocket scientist Professor Hermann Oberth, who collects autographs from his colleagues.
10.33
Also at Kransberg Castle: Some of the leading scientific experts in Nazi Germany had been involved in biological warfare, testing the effects of deadly germs on human beings in Dachau and other concentration camps. One of them was Professor Kurt Blome. Blome was the Third Reich’s Deputy Surgeon General and the man behind German research into biological weapons.
10.55
Blome will be among those charged in the case against concentration camp doctors brought before the military tribunal in Nuremberg. He will face the death penalty.
11.07
In spite of the fact that there is enough evidence against him, Kurt Blome will be acquitted in Nuremberg. The Americans have other plans for him.
11.21 Voice of Professor Kurt Blome: Untertitel // Subtitles
1) I stated publicly and openly that I was a conscientious National Socialist…
2) and a follower of Adolf Hitler.
11.29 Voice of Norman Cournoyer
“We were interested in anyone who did work in biological warfare. Did they want to use that? The Nazis? Yes, absolutely! They wanted to use anything that killed people. Anything!”
11.48
The Americans save Kurt Blome, seen here on the left, from death by hanging. In turn, he provides them with information about the Nazi biological weapons program. One of the specialists interrogating Blome is Donald Falconer, a friend and colleague of Frank Olson. Falconer is responsible for developing anthrax bombs.
12.12
Today, more than 50 years later, Donald Falconer lives in a convalescent home not far from Frederick.
12.22
Eric Olson has visited Falconer several times, hoping his father’s old friend might one day confide a crucial secret in him. But Falconer refuses to say anything, feeling bound by his military oath, and doesn’t want to be interviewed.
12.45
In one of his father film’s, immediately following images of his grandfather, Eric discovers a sequence that seems to show secret crop-dusting flights that took place in 1947. Using the findings of Blome and other Nazi scientists, the Americans experimented with artificial diseases capable of destroying crops.
13.07
After this short clip, more family pictures of the children.
13.15
Meanwhile, in Fort Detrick, a massive arms program is taking place with bacteriological weapons, primarily anthrax spores, which have proven to be highly resistant and therefore suitable for biological warfare.
13.29
Anthrax was cultivated in this building, then placed in bombs. The Americans are concerned about the Soviets’ biological arsenal. If the cold war should ever turn hot, deadly bacteria might be used as weapons. The army demands ample weapons at the ready.
13.50
Frank Olson often uses the Air Force to test germ warfare in the field, for example on the Caribbean island of Antigua. These tests are carried out to monitor the spread of diseases under realistic conditions. Most of the tests Olson’s team carries out in the Caribbean and on the Alaskan tundra deal with relatively harmless bacteria, but some tests are conducted using actual pathogens – called “hot stuff.”
14.20 Voice of Norman Cournoyer:
“We did not use anthrax, we used bacillus globigii which is very similar a spore as Anthrax is. So to that extent we did do something that was not kosher. We picked it up all over. It was picked up months after it.”
14.50
It’s an easy-going life they lead, but they have a secret mission. In California, Olson and his team drive up the Pacific coast in a yellow convertible to prepare an experiment to take place over San Francisco Bay. Spores will be released in order to test the city’s vulnerability to an act of Russian sabotage. Frank Olson loves life and has little interest in following rules. His unconventional manner seems inconsistent with his job working for the army.
15.21
In October of 1949, Olson is suspected of disclosing government secrets. He is interrogated by military intelligence.
15.30
(visual texts) “Olson was mildly impatient with the questioning conducted during the course of this interview. This attitude is regarded as typical by persons at Detrick who are acquainted with him."
“Olson is violently opposed to control of scientific research, either
military or otherwise, and opposes supervision of his work. He does not follow orders, and has had numerous altercations with MP's (...)”
15.52 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson:
“He was very, very open and not scared to say what he thought. For that matter to the contrary. He did not give a damn. Frank Olson pulled no punches at any time. And I don’t know. That’s what they were scared of, I am sure. He did speak up any time he wanted to. Was he gonna be caught on this? Could be. Could be.”
16.22
As the scientist responsible for biological warfare experiments, Frank Olson was among the most important holders of confidential information during the Cold War.
November 1953. Four years after he was suspected for disclosing secrets – an accusation that was never proved: During a trip to New York, Olson is accompanied by a CIA agent who watches him constantly, never leaving his side. Olson and the CIA agent take a room in the famous Hotel Pennsylvania. So, what are they doing in New York?
17.00
Armand Pastore is the manager of the hotel. He is on duty that night, when Frank Olson falls from the 13th floor, landing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel.
17.12 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager:
“He was laying there looking at me, trying to speak to me, very earnest
look in his eyes, wide open .... but there was blood everywhere: blood from his nose, blood from his eyes, blood from his ears, there was a bone protruding from his left arm, sticking straight out. And I kept trying to speak to him, but we were not really communicating, because I could not understand anything he was saying, and then finally he died.”
17.48
Pastore notifies the police and accompanies them to the 13th floor. In the meantime, he has determined that Olson must have fallen to his death from 1018A, and that there was probably another person in the room at the time.
18.03 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager:
“'Wait a minute', I said, ’it is possible that there is somebody in there'. Then they became alert and they pulled their guns out and said: ’You open the door and we'll go in.' I opened the door with my key and they rushed in. Here this guy was sitting in the commode with the hands on his knees, his hands up to his head. The cops said ’what happened' he said: ’I don't know, I just heard a crash of glass and I then I see, that Frank Olson is out of the window. And he is down on the street.'”
18.50
The CIA shadow testifies that he was fast asleep and didn’t hear Olson get out of bed. He can offer no explanation for the suicide. He has nothing else to say. He makes no statement regarding the reason the two were visiting New York. The case is closed quickly. No one is interested in the telephone call that was made from Olson’s room immediately following his death.
19.15 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager:
“The operator said, ’yes there was one call out of that room'. So I said ‘What was the conversation?' She said the man in the room called this number out in Long Island and said ‘Well, he's gone' and the man on the other end said ’Well, that's too bad' and they both hung up.”
19.39
Was that the CIA agent reporting that he had solved the “Frank Olson problem” in the Hotel Pennsylvania?
19.50
Eric Olson in New York. For years now, he has been searching for witnesses who might know something about his father’s death, which he considers to be a murder perpetrated by the CIA. He wants to know the motive. Was the government afraid Frank Olson might reveal state secrets? The recent terror attacks involving anthrax were a shock to Eric.
20.28
Eric finds himself wondering about a lot of things. Was the anthrax terrorist one of our own? Is that the reason he hasn’t been caught? Because he knows something no one else should find out about? A secret his father knew, too?
20.44
In a suburb of New York, Eric Olson meets long-time CIA veteran Ike Feldman. In the fifties, he worked in drug enforcement. At least, that was the official version. Although Feldman never met Eric’s father personally, he discovered some information about the circumstances of his death.
21.07 Voice of Ira (“Ike”) Feldman/Former CIA agent:
“The source that I have was the New York City Police Department, the Bureau of Narcotics Agents and the CIA Agents themselves. They all say the same thing: that he was pushed out of the window and that he did not jump.
People who wanted him out of the way said he talked too much and he was telling people about the things he had done which is American secret. If you work on a top government secret, a city secret, a state secret, and it spills out to people who should not know, there is only one way to do it: kill him.”
21.46
In April of 1950, Dr. Frank Olson received a diplomatic passport, unusual for an army scientist. Did he have a new job? In the following years, he traveled often to Europe, including making several trips to Germany.
22.00 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson:
“He was a member of the CIA. I only found this out after he told me about it. To me he was a Captain. That's all I knew about it at first. It turned out that he was a CIA agent. And stayed on, right on through to 1953.”
22.28
Pictures taken in Frankfurt and Heidelberg will later turn up among Olson’s slides. These cities were home to the US Army’s most important facilities in Germany. There is also a picture of the top secret CIA headquarters in Germany, located in the building of IG Farben in the heart of Frankfurt.
22.56
What is Olson’s new assignment? He is now working in an area that has nothing to do with biological weapons. Here, in the German offices of the CIA, the biochemist is conducting important conversations with US intelligence officers.
23.17
Increasingly, he can be found in the company of other CIA agents, including a certain John McNulty. It has to do with a top secret project to use chemicals, drugs and torture on human beings in order to break their will and make them submissive. Brainwashing.
23.35
The code name for this operation: Artichoke.
23.43
(Visual text!)
“The (...) team would enjoy the opportunity of applying
“Artichoke” techniques to individuals of dubious loyalty, suspected agents or plants and subjects having known reasons for deception.”
23.56
In Oberursel, in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt, hidden in old half-timbered houses, the US Army led a quiet interrogation center: “Camp King”. It was primarily Soviet agents and defectors from East Germany who were kept here, people the CIA considered to be communist spies. Special teams, the so-called “rough boys”, interrogated the prisoners.
24.23
Former SS member Franz Gajdosch was hired just after the war by the Americans to tend the bar in the officers’ mess at Camp King. Sometime in the year of 1952, in the top secret interrogation center, Gajdosch runs across another German: Professor Kurt Blome.
24.42 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./ Former barkeeper at “Camp King”:
“For a long time, Blome was a doctor at Camp King, he also ran the clinic. He was a protégé of the Americans, and had been a concentration camp doctor. He conducted experiments.”
25.03
The American officers who lived the good life at Camp King aren’t disturbed about Blome’s past. Was the former concentration camp doctor expected to lend his experience for their own planned experiments on human beings? A CIA consultant began planning the Artichoke experiments as early as September of 1951.
25.24
(Visual text!)
“The conversations at Oberursel pointed up (...) signs
and symptoms of drugs that might be used (...) We should look into the use of amnesia-producing drugs.”
25.34 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./ Former barkeeper at "Camp King":
“Of course their methods were not humane, they exerted a lot of pressure. There are ways of breaking people. At Camp King, they were notorious, the “rough boys” – anything somebody didn’t want to reveal, they would try to get it out of them.”
26.01
There are many indications that the cruel experiments involving human beings – “Operation Artichoke” – took place in this isolated CIA safe house near Camp King, at the edge of a town called Kronberg.
26.17
The former “Schuster Villa”, now called “Haus Waldhof", was built shortly after the turn of the century as the summer residence of a Jewish banking family from Frankfurt. The Nazis confiscated it in 1934, and the Americans took it over after the war.
26.33 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./Former bartender at “Camp King”:
“The neighbors, the community didn’t know who it was, what this place was, because the military personnel going in and out of the house weren’t in uniform, they wore civilian clothing. The vehicles had no license tags, so the community wasn’t even aware it was an American facility.”
26.58
At “House Waldhof,” in June 1952, the CIA begins conducting brain-washing experiments, using various drugs, hypnosis, and probably torture. One of the top secret protocols documents a Russian agent being pumped full of medication.
27.19
The goal of the experiments is to manipulate the human mind in order to extract secrets from its subjects. And then to erase their memory, so they can’t remember what happened to them.
27.38
Dr. Frank Olson arrived in Frankfurt on June 12, 1952, from Hendon Military Airport near London. He left the Rhine-Main region three days later, on June 15.
27.53
On June 13, experiments are conducted with “Patient No. 2”, a suspected Soviet double-agent.
28.03 Voice of Norm Cournoyer
“He was troubled after he came back from Germany one time. He came back and told me and he said Norm, I tell you right now you and I never talked about this, but we were both grown-ups and this was rough. He said ‘Norm, you would be stunned by the techniques that they used.’
They made people talk! They brainwashed people! They used all kinds of drugs, they used all kinds of torture.”
28.32
The CIA’s unscrupulous experiments on human beings continued the Nazi drug experiments they learned of during the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.
28.43 Voice of Norman Cournoyer
“They were using Nazis, they were using prisoners, they were using Russians, and they didn't care whether they got out of that or not.”
29.17
Meanwhile, the US army was conducting extensive experiments with a new miracle drug: LSD. Here, for example, a soldier was expected to assemble a rifle while under the influence of the hallucinogen.
29.35
The army’s LSD experiments took place on the campus of the Chemical Corps in Edgewood Arsenal. The scientists who worked in these laboratories in the early fifties, and who collaborated closely with Frank Olson, were looking for new hallucinogenic substances. They hoped to find a way to use the drugs on the battle ground.
30.04
Dr. Fritz Hoffmann, a chemist from former Nazi Germany, had been hired a few years earlier to spur the search for new behavior-modifying substances. Immediately after the war he courted the Americans, seeking to ensure a job in the United States.
30:21 Voice of Bennie E. Hackley/Chemical Corps US Army:
“There was an interest in the U.S. during that time in looking at mood-altering drugs from LSD to BZ and other possible mood-altering drugs. Fritz was interested in that area as well.”
30.50
After its experiments on soldiers, the army saw potential in using LSD and other drugs to sedate and “dope” enemy troops. In short order, it would be possible to conquer territory without a fight.
31.15
A short time later, the CIA begins conducting its own LSD experiments in the bohemian New York neighborhood of Greenwich Village, on Bedford Street. But unlike the army experiments, the subjects of these tests, which took place in an apartment disguised as a brothel, would not be informed. The CIA hired prostitutes to pour LSD into their customers’ drinks. And then lure them into revealing secrets.
31.41 Voice of Ira (“Ike”) Feldman/Former CIA agent
“My purpose was to see that we got guys up there we wanted to talk and through other people we got prostitutes to talk to these guys and each prostitutes would put something - which I found out later was LSD - into their drink and made them talk. Either they wanted to talk about narcotics, security or crime. This was all part of the CIA experiments. They called it ‘dirty tricks'”.
32.08
LSD, it was soon learned, was a much more effective way to loosen the tongue than alcohol was.
32.24
Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland, a three-hour drive from Washington. In an isolated vacation house at the edge of the lake, the CIA’s “dirty tricks” department converged here for a meeting with ten of its scientists in November 1953.
32.43
The meeting is about Artichoke. According to the invitation, it was a conference for sports journalists. But in reality, the participants, one of them Frank Olson, were to be placed under the influence of LSD.
32.58
One of the drinks has been spiked. Later, it will be said the CIA was conducting a kind of self test – but without the knowledge of the participants.
33.07 Voice of Ira (“Ike”) Feldman/Former CIA agent:
“I do not think again from what I heard, that he was drugged because he was a security agent. He was drugged because he talked too much.”
33.19
When Frank Olson was later briefed about the LSD experiment, he knew immediately what it meant: They had interrogated him with Artichoke techniques.
33.30 Voice of Eric Olson:
“Friday evening he came home and spent the weekend in this house with my mother, my brother and sister and me and during much of the weekend they sat on the sofa which was just over here. It was a foggy November weekend, as she described it, and they sat here, holding hands and staring out of this big window into the fog, and he described having made something he referred to as a terrible mistake.”
34.01
The CIA brings Olson, accompanied by an agent, to New York. In the hotel they are joined by a doctor working for the secret service, who administers medication. Frank Olson has become a security risk. But it seems the CIA has already found a solution.
34.24
Forty years later, at the Institute for Forensic Sciences at George Washington University. The body of Dr. Frank Olson has been exhumed and is undergoing an autopsy. Eric wants clarity, once and for all. And as it turns out, the results of the first autopsy in 1953 in New York were manipulated.
34.52 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University:
“The report from New York City, from the Medical Examiner's office which I had before me was totally inaccurate in some very important respects. It talks about lacerations, cuts of the flesh that in all probability might have been caused by glass in the course of his fall.
There were no lacerations. They were not there, totally non-existent.
We also noticed immediately that he had a hemorrhage, which we call a hematoma, which is under the skull by the frontal bone. That is only reasonably explainable as having occurred by reason of his being shall we say silenced, being rendered unable to defend himself, so that he could be tossed out of the window.”
35.54
Starrs arranges to visit the Pennsylvania Hotel with Armand Pastore, the hotel manager who found Frank Olson that night. Afterwards, he makes his judgment:
36.05 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University:
“It is my view and a number of my team members, not all of them, that it was homicide.”
36.16
That would mean Frank Olson was first knocked out by a targeted blow and then thrown out of the open hotel window. Just a few months before the murder took place, the CIA had this “Study of Assassination” prepared, a how-to book for agents, on how to kill people without leaving any clues. In this report, it says:
36.37
(Visual text!)
“The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. (...) In some cases it will be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him.”
36.49 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University:
“What was spelled out in that ‘Assassination Manual’ was almost letter for letter what happened to Doctor Olson and it was a protocol, as we call it, for an assassination, which fit like the fingers in a glove.”
37.10
So was it in fact murder? But for what reason? Why did Olson speak of a “terrible mistake” he had made?
37.24 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson:
“There is a piece missing and I am not sure that I am the one to give it to you. What happened was, that he just got involved in it in a way he was unhappy about it. But there was nothing he could do about it. He was CIA and they took it to the end.”
37.49
Summer 1953. Frank Olson and his father-in-law cut down a tree. Then the family goes to Tupper Lake on vacation. Just like every year. With Arthur Vidich, his wife and their children. Everything seems the same as always. But that appearance is deceiving. Frank is troubled by something. And he makes an attempt to confide in his brother-in-law Art.
38:16 Voice of Arthur Vidich/Brother-in-law of Frank Olson:
“I had never had a conversation with him about anything that might have involved moral values. What had startled me about it was that he had mentioned the Bible and that he was struggling with something. I knew that there was a problem that he was attempting to confront. But what that problem was, I did not know. I can visualize his face actually: It was drawn, in a way I had never seen it before.”
38.58
While the family enjoys summertime at the lake, Frank retreats into his own world.
39:03 Voice of Eric Olson:
“My mother also recalled that my father was short-tempered during that last summer. She knew that he had been going through some kind of crisis. She knew he had not been sleeping well, she knew he wasn't really at peace. He had been agitated and worried about something and from time to time discussed leaving Detrick, leaving his job and retraining himself as a dentist. She had encouraged him to do this if that is what he wanted to do.”
39.37
In Asia, at that time, a bitter war was going on between allied US troops against the North Koreans and Chinese. It had already been going on for three years. It was the first, long-awaited and long-feared battle between the West and Communism. Could the Korean War have anything to do with Frank’s personal problems?
40.05
He still has an office here in Fort Detrick, in the US army’s center for biological weapons. At the same time, he is working for the CIA. Among the tasks of the dirty tricks department in Building 1412 are brainwashing, drugs and torture, as well as murder by means of poisons and bacteria.
40.27
On July 17, 1953, Olson celebrates his 43rd birthday with friends. A few days later, he leaves for the last trip he will ever take. He took his movie camera.
40.42
First stop: London. First objects filmed: Big Ben and a parade on the Mall.
40.52
Then on to Paris. Near the Eiffel Tower, his two CIA colleagues sit in a sidewalk café and watch pretty French girls go by, on the left is John McNulty.
41.07
“Paris, London, Stockholm”, Frank will later write on the packaging. His son Eric is seeing his father’s last film consciously for the first time.
41.18
Then, suddenly, a picture of the ruins of the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate. The Soviet Memorial for the Victims of the Second World War. So Frank Olson was also in Berlin early in August 1953.
41.38
In Zehlendorf he photographs the headquarters of the American army.
Is Frank Olson on a secret Artichoke mission? Several top-level communist agents were being interrogated in Berlin at the time. It was a time of intense political and military tension in the divided city, just weeks after the civilian uprising in the Soviet sector. At the army headquarters in Berlin, Olson apparently witnessed brutal interrogation methods.
42.19 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson
“After he came back from Germany the last time he sounded different. When he talked to me he said, I can probably tell you things, that I can’t tell other people, because they are still in top secret material. The people he saw in Germany went to the extreme. He said: ‘Norm, did you ever see a man die?’
I said ‘No.’
He said, ‘Well, I did.’
Yes, they did die. Some of the people they interrogated died. So you can imagine the amount of work they did on these people.”
43.10 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson
“He said, that he was going to leave. He told me that. He said, ‘I am getting out of that CIA. Period’.”
43.19
In Korea, it’s just a matter of days before the first American prisoners of war will be released. Some of them will face charges of high treason, because they accused their own country of conducting biological warfare.
43.31 Voice of US Air Force Pilot (Prisoner of War in North Korea):
“If my son asked me what I did, what I did in Korea, how can I tell him that I came over here and dropped germ bombs on people destroying, and bringing death and destruction. How can I go back and face my family?”
43.48
Are their accusations accurate? Or are they themselves the victims of communist brainwashing? One thing is for certain: Back home, in freedom, the soldiers making these confessions will be interrogated again, using drugs and torture – by their own people!
(Visual text!)
“All hands agreed that (...) among the returning POWs
from Korea (...) the ‘hard core’ group and those who had been successfully indoctrinated were excellent subjects for Artichoke work.”
44.19
The American soldiers who claimed to have committed biological warfare were apparently manipulated using Artichoke techniques. This is documented in CIA papers. And indeed, all discredited their confessions.
44.30 Voice of US Air Force-Pilot (after his return):
“I did sign a confession, relating to germ warfare. The statements contained in this confession were false they were obtained under duress from Chinese communists. When making these statements I deliberately attempted to put in much as was false and ridiculous that I could possibly get away with.”
44.57 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson
“I took an oath when I left the Army that I would not talk about that. I am sorry.”
45.05
The Korean War Memorial in Washington honors the Americans who died in that fight. Of those who returned, some were interrogated by the CIA using cruel methods, and forced to rescind their confessions. But were the confessions the truth? Did the Americans in fact use biological weapons in the Korean War? As a test? And was this the secret Frank Olson knew, and might disclose?
45.34 Voice of Eric Olson
“This fits with what my mother had always said: Korea really bothered your father.
Finally when one my father's colleagues within the past year only told me that my father had come to understand that Korea was the key thing and that they were using biological warfare methods in Korea.
And then I preceded to ask him about the germ warfare confessions, this was alleged to be by the American government, these confessions made by the American servicemen were immediately discredited by the U.S. government under the idea that these were manipulated and produced only by the effect of brainwashing.
And at that point my father's colleague looked at me as if to say ‘read-my-lips’: ‘it wasn't all brainwashing’.”
46.24
Would this colleague, Norman Cournoyer, repeat this statement in front of the camera? He has never made a public statement. Neither about Frank Olson, nor about biological warfare in the Korean War. Will he, now in his 80s, pay last respects to his old friend Frank Olson? And to Frank’s son Eric, who takes part in this conversation?
46.46 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson
“I took an oath when I left the United States Army that I would never divulge that stuff.”
“You divulged it to me.”
“You cannot prove it, can you?”
“I can assert it. You told me.”
“Hearsay!”
“So you don't want to say it?”
“No .... I don't want to say it. But, there were people who had biological weapons and they used them. I won't say anything more than that. They used them.”
47:24 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson:
“Was there a reason for your Dad being killed by the CIA? Probably so.”
47.44
Around Frederick, Maryland, where Frank Olson lived while working for both the US Army’s secret biological warfare program and the CIA, the FBI is still looking for the anthrax terrorist.
For months, the largest investigation in the history of American criminal justice has been underway. Should the perpetrator be accused and the case come to court, the government in Washington might be forced to reveal what Eric Olson believes is top secret information about illegal research on biological weapons, about the use of anthrax in the Korean War – and about his father’s murder.
48.30
Eric wants to tell his friend Bruce about the latest evidence. Bruce has been at his side throughout his years of research. Once, in the summer of 1975, the American government didn’t hesitate to see to it that the truth was not made known.
48.43
The conspiracy originated at the top, in the White House, initiated by Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney. It had just been learned that the CIA allegedly drugged its employee Frank Olson with LSD before his supposed suicide.
Rumsfeld and Cheney, heads of the White House chiefs of staff, at the time recommended to President Gerald Ford that he apologize to the family in the name of the government, and to support retribution. In order to prevent worse things from happening. That’s the content of this White House memo:
49.21
“There (is...) the possibility that it might be necessary to disclose highly classified national security information in connection with any court suit or legislative hearings.”
49.38
Ten days later, Ford hosted the Olson family and apologized. This allowed him to remain silent about state secrets – and the true reasons for Frank Olson’s death.
49.52 Voice of Eric Olson
“What this means for me is that a national security homicide is not only a possibility, but really it is a necessity, when you have a certain number of ingredients together.
If you are doing top secret work that is immoral, arguably immoral, especially in the post-Nuremberg period, and arguably illegal, and at odds with the kind of high moral position you are trying to maintain in the world, then you have to have a mechanism of security which is going to include murder.”
50.26
The two politicians who collaborated in the conspiracy in 1975, Rumsfeld and Cheney, are back in power. As vice president and secretary of defense of the government of the United States. The Frank Olson case, it seems, is far from being closed, even 50 years later. That, at least, is one thing of which Olson’s son is now certain. |
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9/11 recovery workers: ‘Gov’t deceived, abandoned us’
By Deirdre Griswold
New York
Published Jul 3, 2006 3:36 PM
Millionaire Christine Todd Whitman, the Bush appointee who used to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said exactly one week after the collapse of the Twin Towers, “I’m glad to reassure the people of New York that their air is safe to breathe.”
Capitalist politicians, from President George W. Bush to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, put on hard hats for the cameras and praised the “first responders,” calling them heroes and offering all their support.
But today, thousands of those who worked at ground zero after the buildings collapsed are furious at the government, which they charge deceived and abandoned them.
This June 17, some 200 held a rally at the site to demand comprehensive health care for all those sickened by the work there after the disaster. “Many of the two dozen or so people who spoke at the event, including former recovery workers and their families, said that top federal, state and local officials seemed to be focusing on 9/11 memorials while workers who untangled the gnarled debris at ground zero continued to face red tape, resistance and skepticism over their claims.” (New York Times, June 18)
Like U.S. soldiers sickened by the Pentagon’s use of Agent Orange and depleted uranium in its wars for empire, these workers—whose health is failing after breathing in the toxic dust left by the towers’ collapse—are being treated as malingerers by a capitalist government that spends hundreds of billions each year for war and for state repression at home but has cut essential services.
Many former recovery workers who are too sick to labor now find themselves unemployed and joining the 45 million people in this country without health care.
A special program for 9/11 responders set up at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan has seen about 15,000 people since 2002, according to Dr. Robin Herbert. Almost five years after the collapse, it is still getting 100 new cases each month. So many are applying that there’s now a three-to-four-month backup. As of early this year, the program had received not one penny of government funds.
In January, WABC-TV Eyewitness News reported on the death of Chris Pellegrino, a cable installer who had worked at ground zero for months. He died of lung illness at age 42 after developing “World Trade Center cough.” The number of responders and recovery workers who have died, some in the prime of life, is now well over 30. Just one attorney, David Worby, said in January that 21 of his clients had died of Sept. 11-related diseases since mid-2004. (Associated Press, Jan. 18)
It took the death of a police detective, 34-year-old James Zadroga, for the state to finally acknowledge the link between breathing in the toxic dust and fatal lung disease. Zadroga’s father said at the rally, however, that doctors and Police Depart ment officials had ignored his son’s sickness until it was too late.
Doctors at Mount Sinai say they’re now seeing more cases of the severe lung scarring that killed Zadroga. (Newsday, June 1) They also report that cancers of the blood, kidney and pancreas are appearing among this group at a rate much higher than in the general population.
After 9/11, Congress rushed to pass the Patriot Act, which has turned into a huge boondoggle for big business. (See accompanying article, p. 10.) But when it comes to allocating tax money for a real public health program that would end the crisis in health care, these servants of capital run the other way.
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The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11
Happy coincidenting!
That governments have permitted terrorist acts against their own people, and have even themselves been perpetrators in order to find strategic advantage is quite likely true, but this is the United States we're talking about.
That intelligence agencies, financiers, terrorists and narco-criminals have a long history together is well established, but the Nugan Hand Bank, BCCI, Banco Ambrosiano, the P2 Lodge, the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro/Kennedy alliance, Iran/Contra and the rest were a long time ago, so there’s no need to rehash all that. That was then, this is now!
That Jonathan Bush’s Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and fined a US-record $25 million must embarrass his nephew George, but it's still no justification for leaping to paranoid conclusions.
That George Bush's brother Marvin sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing more than you must admit those Bush boys have done alright for themselves.
That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama’s brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things - one of those crazy things.
That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies he still is.
That al Qaeda was active in the Balkan conflict, fighting on the same side as the US as recently as 1999, while the US protected its cells, is merely one of history's little aberrations.
The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members so they could receive training in the United States, sound like the sour grapes of someone who was fired for making such wild accusations.
That one of George Bush's first acts as President, in January 2001, was to end the two-year deployment of attack submarines which were positioned within striking distance of al Qaeda's Afghanistan camps, even as the group's guilt for the Cole bombing was established, proves that a transition from one administration to the next is never an easy task.
That so many influential figures in and close to the Bush White House had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place at the right time.
That the company PTECH, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America’s Terrorist Watch List in October 2001, had access to the FAA’s entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack, means he must not have been such a threat after all.
That whistleblower Indira Singh was told to keep her mouth shut and forget what she learned when she took her concerns about PTECH to her employers and federal authorities, suggests she lacked the big picture. And that the Chief Auditor for JP Morgan Chase told Singh repeatedly, as she answered questions about who supplied her with what information, that "that person should be killed," suggests he should take an anger management seminar.
That on May 8, 2001, Dick Cheney took upon himself the job of co-ordinating a response to domestic terror attacks even as he was crafting the administration’s energy policy which bore implications for America's military, circumventing the established infrastructure and ignoring the recommendations of the Hart-Rudman report, merely shows the VP to be someone who finds it hard to delegate.
That the standing order which covered the shooting down of hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001, taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the Secretary of Defense, is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the error has been corrected, as the order was rescinded shortly after 9/11.
That in the weeks before 9/11, FBI agent Colleen Rowley found her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui so perversely thwarted that her colleagues joked that bin Laden had a mole at the FBI, proves the stress-relieving virtue of humour in the workplace.
That Dave Frasca of the FBI’s Radical Fundamentalist Unit received a promotion after quashing multiple, urgent requests for investigations into al Qaeda assets training at flight schools in the summer of 2001 does appear on the surface odd, but undoubtedly there's a good reason for it, quite possibly classified.
That FBI informant Randy Glass, working an undercover sting, was told by Pakistani intelligence operatives that the World Trade Center towers were coming down, and that his repeated warnings which continued until weeks before the attacks, including the mention of planes used as weapons, were ignored by federal authorities, is simply one of the many "What Ifs" of that tragic day.
That over the summer of 2001 Washington received many urgent, senior-level warnings from foreign intelligence agencies and governments - including those of Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Afghanistan and others - of impending terror attacks using hijacked aircraft and did nothing, demonstrates the pressing need for a new Intelligence Czar.
That John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial aircraft in July 2001 on account of security considerations had nothing to do with warnings regarding September 11, because he said so to the 9/11 Commission.
That former lead counsel for the House David Schippers says he’d taken to John Ashcroft’s office specific warnings he’d learned from FBI agents in New York of an impending attack – even naming the proposed dates, names of the hijackers and the targets – and that the investigations had been stymied and the agents threatened, proves nothing but David Schipper’s pathetic need for attention.
That Garth Nicolson received two warnings from contacts in the intelligence community and one from a North African head of state, which included specific site, date and source of the attacks, and passed the information to the Defense Department and the National Security Council to evidently no effect, clearly amounts to nothing, since virtually nobody has ever heard of him.
That in the months prior to September 11, self-described US intelligence operative Delmart Vreeland sought, from a Toronto jail cell, to get US and Canadian authorities to heed his warning of his accidental discovery of impending catastrophic attacks is worthless, since Vreeland was a dubious character, notwithstanding the fact that many of his claims have since been proven true.
That FBI Special Investigator Robert Wright claims that agents assigned to intelligence operations actually protect terrorists from investigation and prosecution, that the FBI shut down his probe into terrorist training camps, and that he was removed from a money-laundering case that had a direct link to terrorism, sounds like yet more sour grapes from a disgruntled employee.
That George Bush had plans to invade Afghanistan on his desk before 9/11 demonstrates only the value of being prepared.
The suggestion that securing a pipeline across Afghanistan figured into the White House’s calculations is as ludicrous as the assertion that oil played a part in determining war in Iraq.
That Afghanistan is once again the world’s principal heroin producer is an unfortunate reality, but to claim the CIA is still actively involved in the narcotics trade is to presume bad faith on the part of the agency.
Mahmood Ahmed, chief of Pakistan’s ISI, must not have authorized an al Qaeda payment of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta days before the attacks, and was not meeting with senior Washington officials over the week of 9/11, because I didn’t read anything about him in the official report.
That Porter Goss met with Ahmed the morning of September 11 in his capacity as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has no bearing whatsoever upon his recent selection by the White House to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
That Goss's congressional seat encompasses the 9/11 hijackers' Florida base of operation, including their flight schools, is precisely the kind of meaningless factoid a conspiracy theorist would bring up.
It's true that George HW Bush and Dick Cheney spent the evening of September 10 alone in the Oval Office, but what's wrong with old colleagues catching up? And it's true that George HW Bush and Shafig bin Laden, Osama's brother, spent the morning of September 11 together at a board meeting of the Carlyle Group, but the bin Ladens are a big family.
That FEMA arrived in New York on Sept 10 to prepare for a scheduled biowarfare drill, and had a triage centre ready to go that was larger and better equipped than the one that was lost in the collapse of WTC 7, was a lucky twist of fate.
Newsweek’s report that senior Pentagon officials cancelled flights on Sept 10 for the following day on account of security concerns is only newsworthy because of what happened the following morning.
That George Bush's telephone logs for September 11 do not exist should surprise no one, given the confusion of the day.
That Mohamed Atta attended the International Officer's School at Maxwell Air Force Base, that Abdulaziz Alomari attended Brooks Air Force Base Aerospace Medical School, that Saeed Alghamdi attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey merely shows it is a small world, after all.
That Lt Col Steve Butler, Vice Chancellor for student affairs of the Defense Language Institute during Alghamdi's terms, was disciplined, removed from his post and threatened with court martial when he wrote "Bush knew of the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. What is...contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain," is the least that should have happened for such disrespect shown his Commander in Chief.
That Mohammed Atta dressed like a Mafioso, had a stripper girlfriend, smuggled drugs, was already a licensed pilot when he entered the US, enjoyed pork chops, drank to excess and did cocaine, was closer to Europeans than Arabs in Florida, and included the names of defence contractors on his email list, proves how dangerous the radical fundamentalist Muslim can be.
That 43 lbs of heroin was found on board the Lear Jet owned by Wally Hilliard, the owner of Atta’s flight school, just three weeks after Atta enrolled – the biggest seizure ever in Central Florida – was just bad luck. That Hilliard was not charged shows how specious the claims for conspiracy truly are.
That Hilliard’s plane had made 30-round trips to Venezuela with the same passengers who always paid cash, that the plane had been supplied by a pair of drug smugglers who had also outfitted CIA drug runner Barry Seal, and that 9/11 commissioner Richard ben-Veniste had been Seal’s attorney before Seal’s murder, shows nothing but the lengths to which conspiracists will go to draw sinister conclusions.
Reports of insider trading on 9/11 are false, because the SEC investigated and found only respectable investors who will remain nameless involved, and no terrorists, so the windfall profit-taking was merely, as ever, coincidental.
That heightened security for the World Trade Centre was lifted immediately prior to the attacks illustrates that it always happens when you least expect it.
That Hani Hanjour, the pilot of Flight 77, was so incompetent he could not fly a Cessna in August, but in September managed to fly a 767 at excessive speed into a spiraling, 270-degree descent and a level impact of the first floor of the Pentagon, on the only side that was virtually empty and had been hardened to withstand a terrorist attack, merely demonstrates that people can do almost anything once they set their minds to it.
That none of the flight data recorders were said to be recoverable even though they were located in the tail sections, and that until 9/11, no solid-state recorder in a catastrophic crash had been unrecoverable, shows how there's a first time for everything.
That Mohammed Atta left a uniform, a will, a Koran, his driver's license and a "how to fly planes" video in his rental car at the airport means he had other things on his mind.
The mention of Israelis with links to military-intelligence having been arrested on Sept 11 videotaping and celebrating the attacks, of an Israeli espionage ring surveiling DEA and defense installations and trailing the hijackers, and of a warning of impending attacks delivered to the Israeli company Odigo two hours before the first plane hit, does not deserve a response. That the stories also appeared in publications such as Ha'aretz and Forward is a sad display of self-hatred among certain elements of the Israeli media.
That multiple military wargames and simulations were underway the morning of 9/11 – one simulating the crash of a plane into a building; another, a live-fly simulation of multiple hijackings – and took many interceptors away from the eastern seaboard and confused field commanders as to which was a real hijacked aircraft and which was a hoax, was a bizarre coincidence, but no less a coincidence.
That the National Military Command Center ops director asked a rookie substitute to stand his watch at 8:30 am on Sept. 11 is nothing more than bad timing.
That a recording made Sept 11 of air traffic controllers’ describing what they had witnessed, was destroyed by an FAA official who crushed it in his hand, cut the tape into little pieces and dropped them in different trash cans around the building, is something no doubt that overzealous official wishes he could undo.
That the FBI knew precisely which Florida flight schools to descend upon hours after the attacks should make every American feel safer knowing their federal agents are on the ball.
That a former flight school executive believes the hijackers were "double agents," and says about Atta and associates, "Early on I gleaned that these guys had government protection. They were let into this country for a specific purpose," and was visited by the FBI just four hours after the attacks to intimidate him into silence, proves he's an unreliable witness, for the simple reason there is no conspiracy.
That Jeb Bush was on board an aircraft that removed flight school records to Washington in the middle of the night on Sept 12th demonstrates how seriously the governor takes the issue of national security.
To insinuate evil motive from the mercy flights of bin Laden family members and Saudi royals after 9/11 shows the sickness of the conspiratorial mindset.
Le Figaro’s report in October 2001, known to have originated with French intelligence, that the CIA met Osama bin Laden in a Dubai hospital in July 2001, proves again the perfidy of the French.
That the tape in which bin Laden claims responsibility for the attacks was released by the State Department after having been found providentially by US forces in Afghanistan, and depicts a fattened Osama with a broader face and a flatter nose, proves Osama, and Osama alone, masterminded 9/11.
That at the battle of Tora Bora, where bin Laden was surrounded on three sides, Special Forces received no order to advance and capture him and were forced to stand and watch as two Russian-made helicopters flew into the area where bin Laden was believed hiding, loaded up passengers and returned to Pakistan, demonstrates how confusing the modern battlefield can be.
That upon returning to Fort Bragg from Tora Bora, the same Special Operations troops who had been stood down from capturing bin Laden, suffered a unusual spree of murder/suicides, is nothing more than a series of senseless tragedies.
Reports that bin Laden is currently receiving periodic dialysis treatment in a Pakistani medical hospital are simply too incredible to be true.
That the White House went on Cipro September 11 shows the foresightedness of America’s emergency response.
That the anthrax was mailed to perceived liberal media and the Democratic leadership demonstrates only the perversity of the terrorist psyche.
That the anthrax attacks appeared to silence opponents of the Patriot Act shows only that appearances can be deceiving.
That the Ames-strain anthrax was found to have originated at Fort Detrick, and was beyond the capability of all but a few labs to refine, underscores the importance of allowing the investigation to continue without the distraction of absurd conspiracy theories.
That Republican guru Grover Norquist has been found to have aided financiers and supporters of Islamic terror to gain access to the Bush White House, and is a founder of the Islamic Institute, which the Treasury Department believes to be a source of funding for al Qaeda, suggests Norquist is at worst, naive, and at best, needs a wider circle of friends.
That the Department of Justice consistently chooses to see accused 9/11 plotters go free rather than permit the courtroom testimony of al Qaeda leaders in American custody looks bad, but only because we don't have all the facts.
That the White House balked at any inquiry into the events of 9/11, then starved it of funds and stonewalled it, was unfortunate, but since the commission didn't find for conspiracy it's all a non issue anyway.
That the 9/11 commission's executive director and "gatekeeper," Philip Zelikow, was so closely involved in the events under investigation that he testified before the the commission as part of the inquiry, shows only an apparent conflict of interest.
That commission chair Thomas Kean is, like George Bush, a Texas oil executive who had business dealings with reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mafouz, suggests Texas is smaller than they say it is.
That co-chair Lee Hamilton has a history as a Bush family "fixer," including clearing Bush Sr of the claims arising from the 1980 "October Surprise", is of no concern, since only conspiracists believe there was such a thing as an October Surprise.
That FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds accuses the agency of intentionally fudging specific pre-9/11 warnings and harboring a foreign espionage ring in its translation department, and claims she witnessed evidence of the semi-official infrastructure of money-laundering and narcotics trade behind the attacks, is of no account, since John Ashcroft has gagged her with the rare invocation of "State Secrets Privilege," and retroactively classified her public testimony. For the sake of national security, let us speak no more of her.
That, when commenting on Edmond's case, Daniel Ellsberg remarked that Ashcroft could go to prison for his part in a cover-up, suggests Ellsberg is giving comfort to the terrorists, and could, if he doesn't wise up, find himself declared an enemy combatant.
I could go on. And on and on. But I trust you get the point. Which is simply this: there are no secrets, an American government would never accept civilian casualties for geostrategic gain, and conspiracies are for the weak-minded and gullible.
credit:
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004...ide-to-911.html
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There's a shadow on the faces of the men who send the guns to the wars that are fought in places where their business interest runs.
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED
· A Boeing 767 was secured and painted up to look like a United Airlines jet. It had remote controls installed in it, courtesy of some NORAD types. Call that plane "Pseudo Flight 175" and leave it parked at a military airfield for the moment.
· The number of the passengers on each flight was kept artificially low that day. Easy to do. Just monkey with the airline computers and show the fights full so no more tickets are sold. Include some of your own operatives in each flight, maybe.
· After the planes are in the air, the transponders must be shut down. There are a few ways to do this, maybe, but the simplest is this: Have one of the NORAD insiders call the pilots and say: "This is the North American Aerospace Defense Command. There is a national emergency. We are under terrorist attack. Turn off your transponders. Maintain radio silence. Here is your new flight plan. You will land at [name] military air base."
· The pilots turn off the transponders. The FAA weenies lose the information which identifies the airline, the flight number, and the altitude of the planes. Of course the planes can still be seen on conventional radar, but the planes are just nameless blips now.
· What did the radar show of the planes' flight paths? We'll never see the real records, for sure. But in the spy movies, when the spy wants to lose a tail, he gets a double to lead the tail one way while the spy goes the other. If I were designing Operation 911, I'd do that: As each of the original jets is flying, another jet is sent to fly just above or below it, at the same latitude and longitude. The blips of the two planes merge on the radar scopes. Alternately, a plane is sent to cross the flight path of the original plane. Again, the blips merge, just like the little bees you're watching outside the hive. The original planes proceed to the military airfield and air traffic control is thoroughly confused, watching the wrong blips ...
That's probably close to the way it was managed. Like I say, we'll never see the radar records so we won't know exactly.
[For the alleged flight paths of the four jets, see"
http://www.Public-Action.com/911/4flights.html";......
For names and locations of military airfields in the US, try
http://www.globemaster.de/bases.html...
You can search for a listing of bases in 9-11 related states by using the search engine.]
· A small remote controlled commuter jet filled with incendiaries/explosives -- a cruise missile, if you like -- is flown into the first WTC tower. That's the plane the first NBC eyewitness saw.
· Meanwhile, the passengers from Flights 11, 175, and 77, now at the military airfield, are loaded onto Flight 93. If you've put some of your own agents aboard, they stay on the ground, of course.
· Flight 93 is taken aloft.
· Flight 93 is shot down or bombed -- makes no difference which. Main deal is to destroy that human meat without questions. Easiest way to dispose of 15,000 lbs. of human flesh, and nobody gets a headline if they find a foot in their front garden. No mass graves will ever be discovered, either.
· The trail is further confused by issuing reports that Flight 77 was actually headed towards the White House but changed its course.
· The trail is further confused by having The Washington Post wax lyrical about the flying skills of non-existent pilots on a non-existence plane (Flight 77).
· The trail is further confused with conflicting reports and artificial catfight issues, such as -- did The Presidential Shrub really see the first tower hit on TV while he was waiting to read the story about the pet goat ...
So we know the Boeing that used to be Flight 93 was blown up. The other three original Boeings (Flights 11, 175, 77) still exist somewhere, unless they were cut up for scrap.
The passengers and crews of Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93 died in an airplane crash, just like the newspapers said. Only for most of them, it was the wrong crash. But that's as close to the truth as the news media likes to get anyway, so it works.
WHY DO IT THAT WAY?
So there you have it. Not four planes. More than four took off from the East Coast airports: the four scheduled Boeings, the remote controlled Pseudo Flight 175 Boeing, and two small remote controlled jets or cruise missiles. Figure in a couple of extra planes to confuse the flight paths of the original passenger jets.
The four original Boeings had conventional controls. The look-alike Boeing and the two small jets were drones, rigged with remote control. You called it Global Hawk, and that's good enough. The mimic planes could have been piloted or remote controlled.
Why not just install remote control in four passenger jets like you described in "NO SUICIDE PILOTS"? Here's why: You might get remote control gear installed on a passenger jet so pretty the pilot would not notice, but that would be more work, more time, and more people. Then you would have to control your special plane through maintenance dispatch and try to get it lined up for that day, that time, that flight. Then you would have to multiply those efforts by four.
There would be too many chances of things going wrong. Plane substitution would be much simpler. You'd just need the NORAD insiders, the personnel at the military airfield, and maybe an agent or two inside the FAA air traffic control system to make sure things go smoothly.
That should not be too difficult because NORAD has sent lots of its people over to the FAA to work on the FAA radars
Indira Singh, an "IT consultant" who previously worked on a Defense Advanced Research Project, and who was employed by J.P. Morgan on 9/11, in risk management, pointed to MITRE's role at the FAA during the 9/11 Citizens' Commission hearings in New York last September.
"Ptech was with MITRE Corporation in the basement of the FAA for two years prior to 9/11," Singh said. "Their specific job is to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force in the case of an emergency. If anyone was in a position to know that the FAA - that there was a window of opportunity or to insert software or to change anything - it would have been Ptech along with MITRE."
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=68463...
IS DEFENSE CONTRACTOR MITRE CORP.
THE TROJAN HORSE OF 9/11?
By Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
http://www.americanfreepress.net...
Did a central controller with "super user" privileges of the command and control systems of the Department of Defense, NORAD, the Air Force, and the FAA, control the aerial attacks of 9/11? There is only one agency that has that capability - a little-known private company known as MITRE Corp.
There are basically two versions of events surrounding the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. There is the government version, propagated by the controlled media, which claims that 19 Arab terrorists, organized by Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, hijacked 4 passenger aircraft and used them to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This version, used to launch the "war on terror" and two invasions in the Middle East, is challenged by a lack of evidence.
On the other hand, a host of unofficial explanations, based on available evidence, make up what can be called the "inside job" or anti-government version. This version basically claims that agents embedded within the U.S. military and intelligence organizations conspired to carry out the terror attacks.
The two foreign nations most often implicated in the unofficial explanations of 9/11 are Israel and Britain. Both countries are supporters and beneficiaries of the Bush administration's "war on terror."
For the Israelis, Iraq, a major threat, was drastically reduced in power and put under military occupation. For the British, a oil-rich territory, Iraq's southern region of Basra, which it originally occupied in 1914, was reoccupied and its immense oil assets put under control of the Crown.
Royal Dutch Shell and BP, formerly named British Petroleum, are two companies said to be controlled by the Crown, which have posted record profits since 9/11.
While both Britain and Israel have substantial assets and powerful organizations in the United States, proponents of the anti-government version have not explained how a foreign power could manipulate the computer systems of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD), and the U.S. Air Force, and thereby control the aerial attacks of 9/11.
When American Free Press interviewed Eckehardt Werthebach, former president of Germany's domestic intelligence service, in December 2001, he said "the deathly precision" and "the magnitude of planning" behind the 9/11 attacks would have required "years of planning."
Such a sophisticated operation, Werthebach said, would require the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a "loose group" of terrorists like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta.
Many people would have been involved in the planning of such an operation, Werthebach said. He pointed to the absence of leaks as further indication that the attacks were "state organized actions."
Andreas von Bülow, who served on Germany's parliamentary commission and oversaw the three branches of the German secret service, told AFP that he believed that Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, was behind the terror attacks. The attacks, he said, were carried out to turn public opinion against the Arabs and boost military and security spending.
"You don't get the higher echelons," von Bülow said, referring to the "architectural structure" which masterminds such terror attacks. At this level, he said, the organization doing the planning, such as Mossad or British intelligence, is primarily interested in affecting public opinion.
In a recent article in AFP, " The Perfect Terrorist Plan To Level the Twin Towers Created In 1976" by Greg Szymanski, it was reported that the U.S. Army devised a plan in 1976 to bring down the towers using commercial airliners and box cutters as weapons.
At the time, George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA and Martin R. Hoffmann was Secretary of the Army. Hoffmann told AFP that he did not recall being involved in this planning reportedly done by the U.S. Army.
An architect, even of destruction, needs a contractor. Proponents of the anti-government version of 9/11 provide evidence to support their claims, but do not explain how the U.S. military and civil aviation control systems could have been hijacked to allow the aerial attacks to occur.
Because the attacks involved systems used by the FAA, NORAD, and the U.S. Air Force, the conspirators would have needed "super user" access to the command and control centers of these three separate organizations.
Super user means the most privileged user on a computerized data system. The super user has complete access to all files on the system. For the previously mentioned agencies, and virtually all other U.S. defense and intelligence organizations, there is one such possible super user: a little-known private not-for-profit organization, based in Bedford, Mass., known as MITRE Corp. MITRE also has a headquarters in McLean, Va., on a campus it shares with Northrop Grumman.
The MITRE Corp. is a major defense contracting organization headed by the former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Dr. James Rodney Schlesinger. Schlesinger, who was reportedly made DCI at the request of Henry Kissinger in 1973, later served as Secretary of Defense.
Schlesinger, a former director of strategic studies at the RAND Corp., was described in a 1973 biography as a "devout Lutheran," although he was born in New York in 1929 to immigrant Jewish parents from Austria and Russia. Schlesinger earned three degrees from Harvard University.
Schlesinger's father, an accountant, founded the accounting firm Schlesinger & Haas, and was a trustee and chairman of the budget of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. His father was also a member of the New York State Grand Lodge of Masons.
The MITRE Corp., of which Schlesinger is chairman of the board of trustees, is connected to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, and Mitretek Systems of Falls Church, Va.
Schlesinger is a senior advisor for the Lehman Brothers investment firm and a member of the Defense Policy Board and advisory council for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The MITRE Corp. has provided computer and information technology to the FAA and the U.S. Air Force since the late 1950's. MITRE is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) for the Dept. of Defense, the FAA, and the Internal Revenue Service.
The chairman of the board of trustees of Mitretek Systems, a spin-off of MITRE Corp., is Martin R. Hoffmann, who served as Secretary of the Army when the "perfect terrorist plan" was reportedly prepared in 1976.
MITRE's Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) FFRDC for the Dept. of Defense was established in 1958. The C3I "supports a broad and diverse set of sponsors within the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. These include the military departments, defense and intelligence agencies, the combatant commands, and elements of both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," according to MITRE's website. "Information systems technology," it says, "coupled with domain knowledge, underpin the work of the C3I FFRDC."
The U.S. Air Force maintains its Electronic Systems Center (ESC) at the Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Mass. The ESC manages the development and acquisition of electronic command and control (C2) systems used by the Air Force.
The ESC is the Air Force's "brain for information, command and control systems," according to Charles Paone, a civilian employee of the ESC. It is the "product center" for the Air Force's Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) and Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (J-STARS), Paone said.
Asked about MITRE's role at the ESC, Paone said, "MITRE does the front-end engineering. It's basically our in-house engineer." MITRE employees operate the computer systems at Hanscom AFB, Paone said.
MIT's Lincoln Laboratories, the parent of MITRE, is located on the Hanscom AFB.
A second FFRDC, the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) provides computer engineering and technology to the FAA. MITRE's support of the FAA began in 1958, when the company was created.
The FAA's Airspace Management Handbook of May 2004, for example, was written and published by the MITRE Corp.
Note that both Stewart Air Force Base and PTECH are mentioned in the following:
http://www.rense.com/general64/moss.htm......
The IDC, a private, non-profit university, is closely tied to the Mossad. The IDC has a "research institute" headed by Shabtai Shavit, former head of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, called the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
The IDC also has a "Marc Rich Center for the Study of Commodities, Trading and Financial Markets" and a "Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy." The cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder, who is a supporter of Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his far-right Likud Party, founded the Lauder school.
Lauder, president of the Jewish National Fund and former chairman of New York Governor George Pataki's Commission on Privatization, is the key individual who pushed the privatization of the WTC and former Stewart AFB, where the flight paths of the two planes that hit the twin towers oddly converged. Ronald Lauder played a significant, albeit unreported, role in the preparation for 9/11.
Pataki's wife, Libby, has been on Lauder's payroll since at least 2002 and reportedly earned $100,000 as a consultant in 2004. According to The Village Voice, between 1994 and 1998, Gov. Pataki earned some $70,000 for speaking to groups affiliated with Lauder.
THE PTECH CUTOUT
Ptech, a mysterious software company has been tied with the events of 9/11. The Quincy, Massachusetts-based company was supposedly connected to "the Muslim Brotherhood" and Arab financiers of terrorism.
The firm's suspected links with terrorism resulted in a consensual examination by the FBI in December 2002, which was immediately leaked to the media. The media reports of the FBI "raid" on Ptech soon led to the demise of the company.
Ptech "produced software that derived from PROMIS, had an artificial intelligence core, and was installed on virtually every computer system of the U.S. government and its military agencies on September 11, 2001," according to Michael Ruppert's From the Wilderness (FTW) website.
"This included the White House, Treasury Dept. (Secret Service), Air Force, FAA, CIA, FBI, both houses of Congress, Navy, Dept. of Energy, IRS, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Enron and more," FTW reported.
"Whoever plotted 9/11 definitely viewed the FAA as the enemy that morning. Overriding FAA systems would be the most effective way to ensure the attacks were successful," FTW reported. "To do this, the FAA needed an evolution of PROMIS software installed on their systems and Ptech was just that; the White House and Secret Service had the same software on their systems - likely a superior modified version capable of 'surveillance and intervention' systems."
But did the U.S. government unwittingly load software capable of "surveillance and intervention" operations and produced by a company linked to terrorism onto its most sensitive computer networks, or was Ptech simply a Mossad "cutout" company?
WHY DID CHERTOFF KILL THE PTECH INVESTIGATION?
ON WHOSE BEHALF?
GOT TREASON? NORAD drilled for use of Jets as Missiles:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm...
The A-3 Skywarrior that hit the Pentagon was owned by Raytheon.
It was guided by Sysplan's (FTS) technology.
It intercepted AA 77 and shadowed it so closely so as to appear to be a single aircraft on radar.
The A-3 continued the mission, as evidenced by Mr. Mineta when he arrived at Cheney's Command Bunker in time to hear him barking orders to his subordinate about the approaching "plane." "The orders still stand!"
The silver A-3 was painted with the American Airlines logo - a piece of which is part of the debris that was photographed outside the Pentagon on the lawn.
The outer half of the wings sheered off on impact, because these wings were designed with hinges to fold up for storage on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Pieces of the wings were visible outside the Pentagon, and were quickly hidden from view.
This was a building full of defense specialist who instantly recognized the aroma of explosives on the scene in the aftermath.
No cell phone calls were made from any flights on 9/11. That was and remains a physical impossibility.
The explosion you see in the video is NOT fuel from the aircraft.
This A-3 was converted into a missile itself.
The "plane" is a "missle."
Against all protocol (and the law), the lawn of the Pentagon became a hive of activity as Government employees scurried to taint a crime scene (and the site of what would typically result in an FAA investigation), removing all essential evidence.
9/11 was an operation of the US Government in concert with Israel and The Crown - with the complicity of those at the highest levels of NORAD, NSA, CIA, FBI and other agencies.
For a list of the criminals, follow the money, the "Indictments," the "Retirements," the "Promotions," and the Medal Of Freedom Award Winners.
Hundreds were in on it...thousands know the truth.
Now you do.
CNN Correspondent Jamie McIntyre claimed on live TV last week that he photographed some of the debris, including the "cockpit" found outside of the building in the immediate aftermath. He said this in as part of the Government/Media Orchestrated PsyOps event which accompanied the release of the "smoking missile" video - all in a carefully-scripted effort to tell the viewer that they were seeing a 757 on the video that WAS NOT THERE.
Let's see those crime scene photos on CNN, Jamie. Let's see that A-3 cockpit photo you took.
Now that the Government is turning against the MEDIA - who are you going to turn to?
Either you are with US, or against US.
This administration is going to the Hague.
Resurrected Hijackers
Several Suicide Hijackers Later Turn Up Alive in the Middle East
Of the 19 alleged hijackers identified by the FBI, at least six turned up alive after the attack. The FBI's identifications included names, photographs, and, in several cases, other personal details -- all of which matched the six persons who surfaced after the attack to proclaim their innocence.
Abdulaziz Alomari
Abdulaziz Alomari was identified by the FBI as the hijacker who accompanied Mohamed Atta from the connecting flight from Portland and helped him hijack and pilot Flight 11 into the North Tower. Abdulaziz told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper: "The name [listed by the FBI] is my name and the birth date is the same as mine, but I am not the one who bombed the World Trade Center in New York." 1 Saudi Embassy officials in Washington defended the innocence of Alomari, saying that his passport was stolen in 1996 and that he had reported the theft to the police. 2
Saeed Alghamdi
Saeed Alghamdi, a Saudi Airlines pilot, was identified by the FBI of being a hijacker of Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania. Alghamdi was "shocked and furious" to learn this three days after the attack, noting that his name, place of residence, date of birth, and occupation matched those described by the FBI. "You cannot imagine what it is like to be described as a terrorist - and a dead man - when you are innocent and alive," said Alghamdi, who considered legal action against the FBI. 3
Salem Al-Hamzi
Al-Hamzi was identified by the FBI as one of the hijackers of Flight 77, thought to have crashed into the Pentagon. Al-Hamzi said: "I have never been to the United States and have not been out of Saudi Arabia in the past two years." 4
Ahmed Al-Nami
Al-Nami was identified by the FBI as one of the hijackers of Flight 93. Al-Nami said: "I'm still alive, as you can see. I was shocked to see my name mentioned by the American Justice Department. I had never even heard of Pennsylvania where the plane I was supposed to have hijacked." 5
Waleed Alshehri
Waleed Alshehri, a Saudi Arabian pilot, was identified by the FBI as one of the hijackers of Flight 11. Alshehri turned up in Morocco after the attack where he contacted both the Saudi and American authorities to tell them he was not involved in the attack. 6 7
Abdulrahman al-Omari
Abdulrahman al-Omari, a Saudi Airlines pilot, was identified by the FBI as one of the hijackers of Flight 11. After learning this, he visited the US consulate in Jeddah to demand an explanation. 8
Ameer and Adnan Bukhari
Ameer and Adnan Bukhari were named by CNN as suspected hijackers of Flight 175, the jetliner which crashed into the South Tower, in an article dated 9/13/01. In a correction, CNN stated that Ameer Bukhari died in a small plane crash in Florida, and that Adnan was still alive in Florida, having passed a polygraph test to confirm his innocence. 9
http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/deceptions/identities.html...
Unless and until the topic becomes:
"9/11 Was An Inside Job"
24/7
By everyone....
Every other discussion about every other outrage is irrelevant.
Let them get away with 9/11, and Martial Law is all the future holds.
You're talking about "Laws?"
Laws do not apply.
There are no laws governing this administration.
None.
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary."
George Orwell
" The news and truth are not the same thing. "
Walter Lippmann
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology."
Michael Parenti
"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television."
Howard Zinn
"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
Mark Crispin Miller
"Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world ... Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations."
Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent
"Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on."
Michael Parenti
"Why of course the people don't want war... That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Hermann Goering
"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."
Noam Chomsky
Who here is attempting to LIMIT DEBATE AND DISCUSSION?
WHY?
from 911wasinsidejob
Bush plans $5 billion arms sale to Pakistan By Jim Wolf
Mon Jul 3, 3:49 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush Administration said on Monday that it planned to sell Pakistan up to 36 advanced F-16 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp. in a weapons package that could be worth more than $5 billion.
The proposed sale of 18 new "Fighting Falcon" fighters with an option for 18 more demonstrates the United States' commitment to a long-term relationship with Pakistan, White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters.
The State Department said it was part of a drive to broaden a strategic partnership with Pakistan and advance U.S. interests in South Asia.
The new F-16 C/D Block 50/52 aircraft would be used for close air support in the U.S.-declared global war on terrorism, among other things, the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a notice to Congress. The agency, responsible for government-to-government arms sales, said the fighters would be worth $3 billion if all options were exercised.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060703/pl_nm/arms_pakistan_usa_dc;_ylt...
To arms, world, to arms. Get 'em while they're hot.
By: reademandweep
Abramoff worked as a bagman for AIPAC.
The Franklin / AIPAC spy scandal is all part of the Libby/Plame story. It's ALL connected.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
AIPACS's ONLY job is to get politicians elected who will vote in favor of Israel everytime, and to prevent those from being elected who would vote in the interest of America's citizens.
Remember the "PRETEXT" for the war?
Remember the "NEW PEARL HARBOR" that was the REQUIREMENT for the implementation of the PNAC plan?
Are you a COINCIDENCE THEORIST?
Why does the FBI think that Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11?
The ONLY story that matters, the ONLY one that can wake the sheeple from their slumber, is the "9/11 Inside Job" story.
PTECH and MITRE software from Israel enabled it, Cheney and NORAD ran it, Mossad implemented it in concert with others, and we're all paying for it.
Neocon = Co-Conspirator in 9/11.
They all knew. They ALL know.
The Media is complicit in the coverup.
Agent Chertoff's job was to coverup the money trail (Operation Greenquest).
Neocon = Treasonous Traitor.
Guess what country benefitted from 9/11.
Do you think Bin Laden wanted to help Israel? NOT!
Have you looked at the FBI's Official Ten Most wanted web site? Bin Laden is there, but he is NOT wanted in connection with 9/11.
THIS is the biggest untold story in the World right now. "FBI has no proof that Bin Laden was involved in 9/11."
For those of you who actually believe that Bin Laden was involved in the 9/11 attacks, the FBI Most Wanted web site disagrees with you, and so does Wikipedia:
"The FBI does not yet have 'hard evidence' linking him to the 9/11 attacks and so as of 2006 he has only been indicted on the embassy murders; he is officially still only a suspect in 'other terrorist attacks throughout the world'."
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm...
So, how many of you here have criticised me for my conspiracy theories?
To each of you - go ahead, tell me again about the one where Osama Bin Laden attacked America on 9/11.
Anybody?
Anybody?
Have you actually LOOKED at the person in the fake Bin Laden video?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html...
The FBI declines to confirm its authenticity.
BECAUSE IT'S FAKE!
BIN LADEN DID NOT ATTACK US ON 9/11.
THE FBI CONFIRMS IT.
There is no Bin Laden.
By: 911wasinsidejob
Conflicts and power
From an outstanding interview with Professor Ilan Pappe of Haifa University (my emphasis):
"I think that neo-conservatism is mainly a product of the Cold War, and I think as happened in Israel, so in the US, a lot of people benefit economically, sociologically, politically, from a situation of conflict which begins with the producers of arms, and it ends with the people who have a hold on the decision-making apparatus in the name of national security. And of course this was all lost in a way when the Soviet Union collapsed, and the cold war ended. And I think this group of people were looking for a new bogey man, a new threat to the national security of the US and they found it because of the very strong influence, I think, of Israel among other things, in the Arab world and the Islamic world. Of course, movements such as the Islamic Al-Qaeda did not help. They provided the pretext, and the context for even pushing these ideas even further. And what we have now is the same people, a next generation, who would do all they can to perpetuate the conflict, because they benefit from the conflict. They benefit from situations of wars, of conflicts, and so on, and I think this is what enforces their hold over the American policy making in the world at large, and in the Middle East in particular."
We often wonder why people like Ledeen seem to be so interested in creating conflict for the sake of conflict. One reason is that people who are aware of the timing of a conflict are in a position to make money off it. Another reason is that this constant conflict constitutes the sole reason why these people have any power. They create an escalating series of problems, and then have to remain in power to 'solve' them. Of course, the solutions continue to lead to more conflicts. We can understand all the the talk about Iran as another example of creating a conflict which gives these characters something to do. While a civil war in Iraq benefits Likudniks in the American government and in Israel, it also benefits a guy like Cheney, whose only interest is in creating more power for Cheney. The United States has fallen into a vicious cycle where the jobs of the neocons and their fellow travelers like Cheney and Rumsfeld are dependent on their cleaning up the messes they have already started. An end to conflict would put them out of power, so we'll never see an end to conflict.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/...
A fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Ledeen holds a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. In 1983, on the recommendation of Richard Perle, Ledeen was hired at the Department of Defense as a consultant on terrorism. While being investigated as a security risk by his supervisor, Noel Koch, it was learned from the CIA station that Ledeen had been carried in Agency files as an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel.
After having his access to classified materials blocked he ceased working there. He next appeared at the National Security Council as a consultant working with NSC head Robert McFarlane. Ledeen was involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair -- an adventure that he documented in the book "Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair." A prominent member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) board of governors and the Center for Security Policy (CSP), he advocates "total war" inline with the "Grand Strategy for the Middle East" which advocates "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot and Egypt as the prize." Ledeen is presently a serving member on the China Commission and, with the support of DOD Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, he has since 2001 been employed as a consultant for the Office of Special Plans OSP). He is involved in the handling of classified materials and has high-level security clearances. He was also involved in election rigging of the 2000 election.
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html...
Who was it that said We could never have imagined terrorists using planes as a weapon ...or some such....
Contingency planning Pentagon MASCAL exercise simulates
scenarios in preparing for emergencies
Story and Photos by Dennis Ryan
MDW News Service
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/images/exercise_simulate_a...
Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 -- The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment to the affected areas.
Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the "plane crash" was a simulated one.
The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to Oct. 24-26 in the Office of the Secretaries of Defense conference room.
http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/5_44/local_news/2852-1.htm... |
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Impeach Nazi Gang before UN invades America |
by digger
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05 Jul 2006
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http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/72404.html
High Court has Ruled: Bush is a War Criminal
You might have missed this point in the mainstream media coverage...
By Dave Lindorff
The media has missed this point, and the Justices kind of glided over the significance of what they were saying. So now the question is: What are we the people going to do about it?
Largely missed in all the coverage of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case was the establishment by the court majority that all Bush administration claims to the contrary, the Geneva Convention rules regarding captured prisoners apply to the captives taken not only in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but in the so-called War on Terror.
What has been largely missed is the clear point that the Supreme Court has thus now declared that for the past five years, Bush and his gang of war-mongers, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State and former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, former Attorney General Donald Rumsfeld and current Attorney General and former White House Chief Counsel Alberto Gonzales, and many others in the administration, have been guilty of violating the Third Convention on treatment of prisoners of war. They are also, therefore, in violation of federal law, which back in 1996 adopted that convention as part of the U.S. criminal code.
In other words, the whole top administration, from Commander in Chief George W. Bush on down, is guilty of war crimes. The punishment for committing war crimes ranges from a lengthy jail sentence to, in the event the crimes in question caused the death of any prisoners being held, to death. And there have been many deaths among those who have been held and tortured on orders of the administration--most recently the three suicides at Guantanamo, which included on man who had only three days earlier been targeted for release (but who never learned this because government's secrecy and tight security prevented his attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights from getting the news to him).
IN OTHER WORDS IF AMERICANS DON'T IMPEACH THIS NAZI GANG, WE ARE ENDANGERING OUR COUNTRY TO BE INVADED BY UN TROOPS ALREADY HERE, WHICH HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT SHACKLED BOXCARS!
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/300277.shtml
FEMA's NAFTA-wide police state: & Bush/Cheney connections in its railcar contracts & lines
author: the truth will not be televised, so learn to read
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/03/281821.shtml
SHACKLED BOXCARS in OR,TX,,MT,NH, NC; & intervew w/imported NATO crack troops
author: your 'need to know' basis promotion
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/281672.shtml";In June of 1996, an FBI agent got hold of the Region Three BLUE List (from a CIA agent), and found his own name on it, and those of several others he knew in Virginia. The Regional BLUE List stated that the names on the BLUE List would be picked up 'within six weeks of the actual martial law declaration.' This parallels the Nazi RED/BLUE List policy almost to the letter. The parallel Nazi plan was published by Heinz Hohne in his 1966 book, The Story of the Nazi SS: The Order of the Death's Head.
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[WHY BUSH FAMILY SENT THE U.S. RESERVES TO DIE IN IRAQ] "Who will be doing the actual picking up? Foreign 'cops' (United Nations Internal Security Forces). Over 30 foreign military bases under the United Nations flag are already set up in the US., all with the approval of special appointees in high Federal positions. These bases are already manned with over ONE MILLION troops from Russia, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Great Britain, Nicaragua, and Asian countries. Why are they here? Because unlike our own troops--many of which along with the Guard and Reserve of 24 states are being deployed overseas--will have no qualms about firing on U.S. citizens when the time comes. There are more than 2,000 Russian tanks, military trucks and chemical warfare vehicles just outside Gulfport, Mississippi. They began arriving in January of 1994. There are 180 foreign troops at Fort Reilly which was confirmed to me by a Brigadier General. There are 300 who came into the Birmingham, Alabama airport on a big white Russian cargo plane on December 13, 1995." [THE 1995 OKLAHOMA CITY MURRAH BUILDING BOMBING FAILED TO USHER ALL THIS IN....THEN...]
There's not going to be some future event when the invading troops are going to show up. They're already here...
Plus a list of the potential concentration camp sites--some which have been reported below as hoaxes upon investigation--though many of them were found to be far from a hoax.
AND BELOW: UNITED STATES AND CANADA LIST OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS: THE TWO COUNTRIES PRESENTLY PLACED UNDER DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY'S "NORTHCOM" JURISDICTION IN THE EVENT OF 'MARSHAL LAW'.
Please pass this list to loyal military memebers of Canada and the United States to keep them aware of what the NWO transnational corporate elites are planning for all North American populations. |
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Holy Shi#! |
by digger
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05 Jul 2006
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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
July 4, 2006 -- Even Bush's crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush's recent trip to Vienna. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House "toilet security" ("TOILSEC"), which has Austrians talking the most. The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush's personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush's security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president's bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush's feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush's waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.
In the past, similar operations were conducted against foreign leaders to determine their medical condition. However, these intelligence operations were directed against dictators in countries where even the medical conditions of the top political leaders were considered "state secrets." The Israeli Mossad conducted one such operation against Syrian President Hafez Assad when he visited Amman, Jordan in Feb. 1999 for the funeral of King Hussein. The Mossad and its Jordanian counterpart installed a special toilet in Assad's hotel room that led not to a pipe but to a specimen canister. Assad suffered from diabetes and cancer and the operation was designed to discover the actual medical condition of the ailing leader. During Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Washington in 1987, the CIA reportedly placed a special trap under a sewage tank to collect the Soviet leader's bodily waste for analysis. More recently, the CIA was reported to have collected waste samples from Ugandan President-dictator Yoweri Museveni's toilet when he visited Washington.
Even Bush's toilet paper was flown in from the U.S. Air Base at Ramstein, Germany. In addition, Bush's food was flown in from the United States and tested with special chemicals before he ate it. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was shot by a firing squad in 1989, was the last major European leader to constantly use a food tester. The last frequent state visitor to Vienna, who always relied on a food tester, was Adolf Hitler.
All of Austria is talking about Bush's "souvenirs" sent back to Washington from Vienna.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/72448.html
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Bernard Kerik’s guilty plea: Corruption case underscores fraud of “homeland security” |
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Enron, Ken Lay is now dead |
by rese
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05 Jul 2006
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http://www.yuricareport.com/PoliticalAnalysis/FraudinWhiteHouse.htm
News Intelligence Analysis
Fraud Traced to the White House
How California’s energy scam was inextricably
linked to a war for oil scheme
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By Katherine Yurica
This story begins with the California energy crisis, which started in 2000 and continued through the early months of 2001, when electricity prices spiked to their highest levels. Prices went from $12 per megawatt hour in 1998 to $200 in December 2000 to $250 in January 2001, and at times a megawatt cost $1,000.
One event occurred earlier. On July 13, 1998, employees of one of the two power-marketing centers in California watched incredulously as the wholesale price of $1 a megawatt hour spiked to $9,999, stayed at that price for four hours, then dropped to a penny. Someone was testing the system to find the limits of market exploitation. This incident was the earliest indication that the people and the state could become victims of fraud. The Sacramento Bee broke the story three years later, on May 6, 2001.
Today, Californians are still paying the costs of the debacle while according to state officials the power companies who manipulated the energy markets reaped more than $7.5 billion in unfair profits.
During those early months of the Bush administration, and even during the prior transition period, Dick Cheney was deeply involved in gathering information for a national energy policy. The intelligence he gathered would provide justification for a war against Iraq but would also place White House footprints all over a fraud scam. This is how it all happened.
Enter the Lead Villain
That Ken Lay, the former chairman of Enron, enjoyed a long and close relationship with George Bush senior is a well-known fact. What isn’t so well known is that George W. Bush also benefited from a close relationship with Lay. No one supported the younger Bush quite like Lay. Enron executives contributed more than $2 million to George W. Bush’s political campaigns since 1999, earning Lay an open door to the governor’s office. Lay was also Bush’s number one choice for Treasury Secretary. A study authorized by Rep. Henry Waxman reveals that Enron had 112 known contacts with the Bush administration in 2001. This figure does not include seventy-three disclosed contacts between former Army Secretary Thomas White and his former colleagues at Enron. (Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, recently fired White.)
Significantly, Ken Lay was also a close friend to Dick Cheney who is a former Enron shareholder. It should come to no one’s surprise that given the relationships, Ken Lay was selected to work on the Bush energy transition team under the chairmanship of Cheney. Lay’s easiest assignment? He interviewed potential candidates for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an agency that would oversee his company (and months later lead a slow, long investigation into Enron’s role in the California energy debacle). The President picked Lay’s nominee, Pat Wood, to serve as chairman of the agency.
Ken Lay was a very useful and a very knowledgeable man to have around. He knew, for instance, of the holes in the California power market that could be exploited. He tried to warn officials about the problem in 1994 when Enron testified at a Public Utility Commission hearing. Unfortunately his advice was ignored. Enron then went with the flow. It reversed itself, endorsed the system, and lauded the politicians for setting up what Enron knew was an exploitable and faulty infrastructure.
As events would unfold, the dark side of Enron got part of its comeuppance when the Justice Department began investigations of Enron’s role in the California energy disaster.
Along with Dynegy and other power brokering companies, Enron employees were subject to federal criminal charges. One Enron employee pleaded guilty to wire fraud while Dynegy agreed to pay $5 million in fines.
Enter A Little Damning Document
In April of 2001, Ken Lay handed Dick Cheney a two-page memorandum recommending national energy policy changes. The memo contained Enron’s positions on specific, rather technical issues, which were presented as a “fix” for the California crisis. (Enron brazenly advised the administration not to place price caps on energy, which would be precisely the request California officials made to the President, and which the President and the Vice President would just as brazenly deny until public pressure forced them to capitulate.)
According to a special report prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, over seventeen energy policies recommended by Enron made their way into the official White House National Energy Policy report.
Congress awoke from its somnambulism, having become alarmed at Enron’s close association with the Bush administration. Congressional committees asked Dick Cheney for the names of those who advised him and the reports he relied upon in drafting the nation’s energy policy. Cheney bluntly and adamantly refused to reveal those facts. After months of standoff, the General Accounting Office (GAO) filed a suit against the Vice President in an effort to obtain the requested information. The White House then developed a fascinating legal strategy that helped them triumph over the legislative branch.
Defense attorneys from the civil division of the Justice Department should have been assigned to the case. However, in an unprecedented move, the Bush administration required the services of the nation’s number-one-gun, Theodore Olson, the Solicitor General, who normally only makes appearances before the Supreme Court. Olson, his Assistant Solicitor General, and a handpicked group of Justice Department lawyers formed a special “trial defense task force” to defend the Vice President. This act telegraphed to the court, press, and public that this was no ordinary case. The move paid off, a federal judge found for Mr. Cheney and the GAO declined to file an appeal. That, more or less, marked the end of the story. But then something happened.
Enter Obscure News Article
On October 6, 2002, a newspaper in the UK published a little known article about Mr. Cheney’s advisers. According to Neil Mackay, an award-winning journalist, writing for Scotland’s Sunday Herald, Dick Cheney commissioned an energy report from ex-Secretary of State, James Baker III. The time of this “commission” is not reported, but since the members of the appointed task force held three videoconferences and teleconferences in December, January, and February 2000-2001, Cheney therefore logically contacted Baker some time prior to the December 2000 meeting—during the presidential transition period.
Enter the Man Who Gets Things Done
James Baker was uniquely situated to fulfill Cheney’s commission, for among the many hats he wears, he is legal counsel to the Carlyle Group, one of the nation’s largest defense investment firms whose board consists of former high level government officials, including George Bush senior. Baker was also the “hired gun” for George W. Bush’s campaign in Florida, along with Karl Rove. But among the hats he wears, none is more valuable than his ability to become invisible and leave no fingerprints behind. James Baker courts the press and is hailed a statesman; he also serves as the honorary chairman of the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, a think tank that was involved in aiding the George W. Bush presidential transition teams.
Equally intriguing is the fact that Baker has ties with both the Bushes and Ken Lay. Years earlier, in 1993, after Baker stepped down from his stint as Secretary of State, he and Robert A. Mosbacher—Bush senior’s commerce secretary—signed a joint consulting and investing agreement with Enron. The two men began a lucrative career making joint global investments with Enron on natural gas projects. Baker Botts LLC, James Baker’s law firm, flourished in its specialty of international oil and gas counseling.
Since Baker walked in their circles, when he set out to select an energy team to advise the White House, he filled it with leaders of the oil, gas, and power industries. Three appointees stand out: Kenneth Lay from Enron, who was working on the Bush Energy Transition team under Dick Cheney at the time; Chuck Watson, the then Chairman and CEO of Houston’s Dynegy Inc., and Dynegy’s General Counsel and Secretary, Kenneth Randolf. Both firms were deeply involved in illegally manipulating the California energy market at the time and eventually faced criminal investigations.
The oilmen selected for the task force were Luis Giusti, a Shell non-executive director, formerly CEO of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.; John Manzoni, regional president of British Petroleum; David O’Reilly, Chief Executive of Chevron/Texaco; and Steven L. Miller, Board Chairman, CEO and President of Shell Oil.
In his Sunday Herald article, Neil Mackay links another Fellow of the Baker Institute to the document, Sheikh Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, the former Kuwaiti oil minister. The Baker Institute’s report on energy was funded through Khalid Al-Turki and the Arthur Ross Foundation.
Sometimes a mystery is hidden in a loaded detail that most of us would rather skip over. A case in point is this: the Baker task force report shows a forty-one member task force, but the press release gives fifty-one as the number. This of course, could be just a typo. But when we look at the structure as revealed in the report, it shows the Baker energy task force team was divided into three separate groups. First came the names of the forty-one-all-star task force. Secondly, came the names of nine observers. And thirdly, there was an unknown number forming a group of “reviewers” whose identities were not disclosed, but who collectively had “broad academic, economic, and energy expertise.” According to the acknowledgements these “individuals reviewed drafts of the report at various stages and participated in the Task Force meetings.” Perhaps the most telling admission is that the final version was “greatly enhanced” by this shadowy group.
Enter Major Document No. 1
The Baker energy task force produced a report titled, Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century, dated April 2001. There is no mistaking the fact that reasonable, detailed and important expert advice is meted out to the new president. However, this amazing 107-page report strikes a drumbeat for action that grabs the reader as it propels a picture of a naked, energy-scarce nation, subject to energy shortages and price fluctuations, across its pages. Contrasting the state of what is, against what should be, and mercifully making powerful recommendations that will “save our economy,” it offers warnings such as: a sharp rise “in oil prices preceded every American recession since the late 1940s.”
The California energy crisis is raised again and again, along with the prophecy that America can expect “more California-like incidents” in the future. There’s even a connection made between the California crisis and the Middle East, which according to the report, “will remain the world’s base-load supplier and least expensive source of oil for the foreseeable future.” With that prophetic utterance, the stage is now set for a new actor, a new villain, and a new energy policy.
Enter Saddam Hussein
According to the Baker report, Saddam Hussein became a swing oil producer by turning Iraq’s oil taps “on and off” whenever he felt that it was in his interest to do so. During these periods Saudi Arabia stepped up to the plate and provided replacement oil supplies to the market to keep California type “disruptions” and scarcity from occurring in America. Hussein, the report says, used his own “export program to manipulate oil markets.” The report’s implications are clear: the national energy security of the U.S. was now in the hands of an open adversary and the Saudis might not make up the difference in the future. The Baker report recommends: “The United States should conduct an immediate policy review of Iraq, including military, energy, economic and political/diplomatic assessments…. Sanctions that are not effective should be phased out and replaced with highly focused and enforced sanctions that target the regime’s ability to maintain and acquire weapons of mass destruction.” Military intervention is listed as a viable prospect.
According to Neil Mackay in the Sunday Herald article, James Baker delivered the report to Dick Cheney in person in mid April 2001.
The subsequent events of September 11, 2001 helped take the world’s eyes away from the notion that an invasion of Iraq is for oil, but according to Mackay’s sources, the Bush cabinet agreed to military intervention in Iraq six months earlier, in April of 2001.
Enter Major Documents No. 2 and 3
A haunting familiarity exists between the Baker energy report and another policy paper that could negatively impact the Bush administration. The style of the two reports is similar, particularly in discussions on national security; their task force methodologies are essentially the same; they share the repeated use of a relatively rare term; they share similarly constructed phrases; they both name Iraq as an adversary and they both attack problems in the same manner. There is a possibility that one writer served on both task forces.
A little background is necessary: In June of 1997 a group of former republican administration officials launched The Project for the New American Century, a think tank offering research and analysis on a “revolution” in modern military methods and military objectives. Like the energy task force, the passionate neo-conservative authors endowed their Principles with hard-hitting force, calling for the necessity of “preserving and extending an international order friendly” to America’s “security, prosperity and principles.” The founders wrote: “The history of the 20th Century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge and to meet threats before they become dire.” In fact, on pages 51 and 67 of the institution’s intellectual centerpiece, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, the authors lament that the process of transforming the military would most likely be a long one, “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.” (How unfortunate for Americans, they got their needed event on September 11, 2001.)
The signers to the “principles” read like a who’s who of the Bush administration plus a chorus line of supporters: Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliott Abrams, plus world famous: William Bennett, Jeb Bush, and Dan Quayle, among others.
The signers endorsed two other dynamic enabling policies: increased military spending, and the necessity of challenging “regimes hostile to America’s interests and values.”
The seventy-six-page Rebuilding America’s Defenses was published in 2000. With a lot of expositional swagger, the authors created not only the ideal military preparedness level for their goal of global domination, but they identified a new kind of warfare that requires far less “force” than the military was accustomed to accept. What’s more, they identified the “hostile regimes” mentioned in the “Principles” to be none other than Iraq, North Korea, Iran and Syria.
The report credits Thomas Donnelly, a military writer, as “principal author,” and lists twenty-seven participants, some of whom contributed a “paper” to the discussion. The list of participants includes Dick Cheney’s present chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby as well as Paul Wolfowitz.
The two documents clearly show that before George W. Bush took office, key officials of his future administration not only listed Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as “adversaries” who “are rushing to develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons as a deterrent to American intervention in regions they seek to dominate,” but endorsed an alien concept, the doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against those nations believed to have hostile intent against the U.S. before such intent is manifested.
Enter Document No. 4
On May 16, 2001, Dick Cheney officially handed the National Energy Policy (national report) to George W. Bush. Ostensibly the cabinet members that formed the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG) were its authors. But a careful study and comparison of the national report with the Baker report reveals the Baker report provided the skeleton framework upon which the national energy policy was hung. However, the skeleton was broken up into unrelated parts: the skull in the middle, the thigh bone on top.
When it was all unraveled, almost every major policy action in the Baker report was incorporated into the national report. The tedious process of comparing the two reports with each other occasionally revealed a subtlety. For example, the Baker report says, “The U.S. must have a strategic energy policy based on energy security.” The national report subtly changes this to: “The NEPD Group recommends that the President make energy security a priority of our trade and foreign policy.” This foreign policy change led to the discovery that an important topic is missing from the national report.
Although every other oil producing country was discussed in the national energy text, two countries were glaringly omitted from even a mention: Iraq and Iran. There’s an explanation for the omissions: First, in reading the Baker report one is struck by the strategic military information provided, which would be odd and inappropriate in a report on energy. Secondly, the Baker report is divided into two sections: the first part focuses on strategic steps the new administration should take immediately. The second part focuses on long-range energy policy. “Taking care of Iraq” is listed as an immediate step in the Baker report. The national report, however, focuses solely on long-range policy.
Enter Incriminating Statements
One of the most striking facts about the national report is that it makes 110 references to California’s energy crisis, which was ninety-nine more than the Baker report makes. Clearly, someone in the White House needed an impressive energy crisis to tout. How unfortunate that the crisis cited was fraudulently induced. Like the Baker report, the national report states, “The California experience demonstrates the crippling effect that electricity shortages and black outs can have on a state or region.” Warnings abound: “America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s.” The 110 repetitions of the word “California” linked with words like “energy crisis,” and “energy shortages and price spikes,” could turn the national energy report into an ad man’s prized primer.
Notwithstanding its importance as an example of what could happen to other states, the author of a passage (at page 5-12) of the national report suddenly yields to an impulse to relate what really happened in California. In doing so, he completely contradicts at least 105 references to California throughout the report. The significance of this contradictory entry into the National Energy Policy must not be underestimated.
In the process of reversing the carefully construed “California experience,” the author’s grasp exceeds his knowledge in that his understanding of the events in California go beyond what he should have reasonably known at the time of its writing. For he wrote, “The risk that the California experience will repeat itself is low, since other states have not modeled their retail competition plans on California’s plan.” This is an astounding statement. If the California crisis was caused by a supply shortage as the author claims a line above this sentence, surely other states could suffer similar shortages. But no, the author is actually making an admission here: he is admitting the energy crisis in California can’t be replicated in other states because certain market means do not exist in the other states. How could the author know this? The writer of that sentence would have to be someone intimately involved in the California system; know the real cause of the state’s crisis; and be familiar with all the other state rules and market infrastructures.
But our knowledgeable author is not done. In trying to amplify what he just revealed, he tried to hide the true actors in the next sentence by misdirecting the reader away from the culprits to blame the state. This is a formula for incoherence. Nonetheless, the writer’s sentence found its way into the national energy report where it spoke for the Bush administration: “California’s failure to reform flawed regulatory rules affecting the market drove up wholesale prices.” If this sentence is read literally, it asks the reader to believe that a state’s experience of failure to amend its rules, along with the flawed rules themselves, somehow had an independent power to “drive up wholesale prices,” without an intervening acting agent. The only sensible reading left to us is that the flawed rules allowed power brokers to manipulate the system. But how could our author and his administration editors know this to be true without being in collusion with the wrongdoers? If they were not in collusion they would have reported the crime. But if they remained silent when they had a duty to report or stop the commission of a crime, they became accessories.
Continuing his unexpected analysis, the author tells us, “Actions such as forcing utilities to purchase all their power through volatile spot markets, imposing a single-price auction system, and barring bilateral contracts all contributed to the problems that California now faces.” This is nothing more than the author, and through him the White House, attempting to throw responsibility for any wrongdoing by energy companies in California squarely at the feet of the state.
Many people were blaming the state at the time, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The Hoover Institution jumped into the fray and released a book by James L. Sweeney, The California Electricity Crisis, which promotes and assigns blame like this: “After political leaders mismanaged the electricity crisis, California now faces an electricity blight while it struggles to recover from its self-imposed wounds.”
Not until the Sacramento Bee broke its story, “How Californians got burned” on May 6, 2001—ten days before the national report was released—did the public receive the first concrete signs the crisis may have been caused by manipulation. There was finger pointing in the media at the time, and accusations, but there was simply no proof. But after criminal convictions for federal wire fraud came thundering down, everything changed.
Enter the Federal Regulators
Following a two-year staff investigation, on March 26, 2003, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released findings that impacted this article in the above “Incriminating Statements” section. FERC’s latest investigation was to determine whether Enron or any other sellers manipulated the electricity and natural gas markets in California. In its report, “Price Manipulation in Western Markets” (Findings at a Glance) the FERC made the following finding:
“Staff concludes that supply-demand imbalance, flawed market design and inconsistent rules made possible significant market manipulations as delineated in final investigation report. Without underlying market dysfunction, attempts to manipulate the market would not be successful.”
Amazingly, the finding eerily echoes our unknown author’s statements published in the National Energy Policy document (the national report) at page 5-12. The questions I raised above are even more significant now: How could the author and the editors have inserted an accurate assessment of the causes of the California energy fraud in May 2001 without having inside knowledge and or without being part of the scam, when it took the FERC two years of investigation to release virtually the same findings as those published in the national energy report?
Enter the Question, “Who Done It?”
In a letter to the Vice President dated January 25, 2002, Rep. Henry Waxman outlined the information he gathered on how the National Energy Policy was written: passages not included in the draft of the national report, appear to have been added to the plan during the final revisions made under the direction of the White House. The White House energy plan was first drafted, Waxman says, by a “workgroup composed of staff from various agencies led by the Executive Director, Andrew Lundquist,” of Dick Cheny’s staff. Each chapter, according to Waxman, “was drafted by one of the participating agencies,” and those copies “were then circulated among all of the workgroup members.” The workgroup then met to discuss each agency’s comments before submitting the drafts to the White House.
Waxman wrote, “Any further changes in the plan were made under the direction of the White House. No subsequent versions of the White House energy plan were circulated to the interagency workgroup.” Assuming this description of the process applied to all the chapters of the national report, it appears the White House had the final word and made the final insertions and changes to the report.
In trying to answer the question, “Who done it?” our Sherlock Holmes people will have to look at the top levels of the White House and the Bush administration, and ask, “Who had sufficient knowledge of electricity markets in California and other states to have written the incriminating statements?”
Few if any names come to mind. Secretary of Energy, Spenser Abraham just doesn’t fit the profile. He was a one-term defeated junior senator from Michigan who is mainly known for never missing a roll-call vote and for his support of abolishing the same Department of Energy he now heads. Many people held the belief that Abraham’s appointment was a clear signal that Bush and Cheney would make all the energy decisions.
Andrew Lundquist, however, is another cup of tea. He was formerly the chief of staff for the Senate Energy Committee where he served brilliantly. Bush appointed him to be the Executive Director of the NEPD Group, chaired by Dick Cheney; however, he may never have seen the final changes.
Beyond Cheney and Lundquist and perhaps I. Lewis Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff, or perhaps Pat Wood, Chairman of FERC, who may fit the profile, one runs out of names.
However, another player does come to mind: he was a lone outsider who insinuated himself into a position of power in Bush’s White House. He is one man who by far is the most knowledgeable and capable power-market-man in the country, and he also happened to know how the marketing system in California could be rigged. His name is Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron.
Enter Ken Lay Act Two
Indeed, Rep. Henry Waxman’s Minority report on Enron found more instances of Ken Lay’s input transferred into recommendations to the President on pages 5-11 and 5-12 than any other portion of the national report. However, the recommendations don’t show the style and form of a contributing writer.
So the question is, are there any correlations between relevant passages in the text with other documents written by Ken Lay?
In a comparison of the two-page memo we know Lay submitted to Cheney, the passages attributed to the unknown author reveal similarities of vocabulary, including the identical use of words, a similar style of writing, and a correspondence of ideas expressed. It appears that Ken Lay may have written more of the national report than was previously suspected. So what about Dick Cheney as a suspect?
Although Mary Matalin, who was then serving as an adviser to the vice president, told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter that Cheney’s energy plan included input from many sources, “Just because some of the things are included in the plan doesn’t mean they were from the talks between Cheney and Lay.”
However, Mary Matalin may not have known what we now know: She apparently did not know that Ken Lay wrote his memo down on paper and submitted it to the Vice President. In fact, there may have been more than one memo submitted by Lay to Cheney, which might explain why the vice president went to such extremes to keep congress from viewing those documents.
It’s shocking to realize that at the same time the author’s incriminating admissions were being submitted to Dick Cheney, then read, edited and approved for publication by the White House, the fraudulent acts they referenced were being executed. This fact may have serious criminal justice implications for the White House. For in the spring of 2001, California was reeling from rolling blackouts and brownouts and the price of electricity was breaking through the sky like a con trail from a speeding jet.
It may be time to paraphrase Senator Howard Baker’s famous questions during the Watergate hearings, “What did the President and Vice President know and when did they know it?” At the very least, congress and the people of this country need to know who wrote the incriminating passages and who read them.
Enter Documents No. 5, 6 and 7
The New American Century Project’s writings were not the only brainy papers that were read and studied by conservatives before George W. Bush gained the presidency. We know the Baker Report went directly to Cheney. But other reports from Conservative think tanks like Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation had the ears of the group of neo-conservatives who favored using America’s great military power to not only carve out an empire but to set America on a course to global domination. One report, “Using Power and Diplomacy to Deal With Rogue States,” written in the mid 90’s by Thomas H. Henriksen, a senior fellow and associate director of the Hoover Institute is an analysis of the world following the end of the cold war. The report favors power over diplomacy. What is so striking about the paper is its wild-west, tough cowboy style.
Henriksen was worried about a few countries, “If left unchecked, rogue states like Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya, and others will threaten innocent populations, undermine international norms, and spawn other pariah regimes, as the global order becomes tolerant of this political malignancy.”
His solution? “America must act not like a policeman but like a sheriff in the old Western frontier towns, acting alone on occasion, relying on deputies or long-standing allies, or looking for a posse among regional partners. . .[America] cannot allow desperadoes to run loose without encouraging other outlaws to test the limits of law and order.” (Surely, given the president’s performance in his first two years in office, this sentence must have been inserted into George W. Bush’s play book.)
Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House and the then-soon- to-be-appointed member of the National Defense Policy Board echoes this simple, lone star imagery, in an address to the Overseers Meeting of the Hoover Institution. “Somebody on horseback with a satellite phone and a laser designator connected directly with a B-2 bomber or a B-52 with smart weapons has a level of power unthinkable ever before in human history.”
Then there are the sensible folks of the Council on Foreign Relations, advising the new president in June of 2001, “Saddam Hussein and his regime pose a growing danger to the Middle East and the United States. The regime cannot be rehabilitated. Therefore, the goal of regime replacement should remain a fundamental tenet of U.S. policy options.”
The paper, written by Geoffrey Kemp and Morton H. Halperin, with sixteen other participants, advises the president there are three red lines describing actions that Saddam Hussein might possibly take. If he crosses any one of the three, the report states, we will gain the support of the Arabs and the Turks against him:
“First, Iraqi military threats or attacks on allied forces.
Second, Iraqi threats or attacks on neighboring states.
Third, Iraqi acquisition and deployment of weapons of mass
destruction or their use, including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.”
Note the tense of the third sentence: it is present or future tense as opposed to the past tense. Judging from the subsequent actions and words of the president, it appears that the third red line in Kemp-Halperin paper may have played a large role in the administration’s attempts to gain allies in its war against Iraq.
Newt Gingrich’s address before the Hoover Board of Overseers was titled, “National Security Initiative, the Transformation of National Security,” and was an attempt to describe a new kind of military that called for a new kind of military education. He advised dropping the “concept of exit strategies,” which he said was a “fetish that grew out of the Vietnam War.” As for Saddam Hussein, Gingrich said, “We need to immediately replace him.”
Pulling his words out carefully, Gingrich revealed a stunning use of psychological intimidation and warfare. He elevated coercive verbal bullying to weaponry status. He said, “You cannot change Saudi Arabia as much as we need to change Saudi Arabia until you have an Iraq which is an American ally. And you need an Iraq that’s an American ally [because] it has a larger oil reserve than Saudi Arabia does.”
Gingrich unveiled how coercive a threat an American-Iraqi friendship would have over the Saudis: the bi-national friendship would destroy the Saudi’s sense of their reality that they alone are the one single source for the world’s reserve supply of oil. “The morning they see that we are that serious and we are that determined, they will negotiate with us in a very different way.” In other words, once there are two sources of cheap oil, it isn’t likely the Saudis will thumb their noses at a U.S. president’s offer to buy reserve oil at two dollars a barrel. It’s either two dollars a barrel or it’s nothing. (Since this speech, Gingrich has become an adviser to Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense.)
Enter Document No. 8
By December of 2002, “an Independent Working Group” led by two Ambassadors, Edward P. Djerejian and Frank G. Wisner, wrote a report for the president to guide him on what comes after the war. They created a “perfect” war on paper: The war was presumed to have occurred. It was a fast, smooth war. It ended nicely. There were no complications. The report does not address the problems of a war that bogs down in urban street fighting or in mass demonstrations against the United States or any other messy possibility.
Titled, “Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq,” the report is cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University.
The President and his advisers are greeted with constraints such as “uphold the territorial integrity of Iraq.”
Addressing the motives of the U.S., the report tells the president, “Western anti-war activists, the Arab public, average Iraqis and international media have all accused the United States of planning an attack on Iraq not to dismantle weapons of mass destruction but as a camouflaged plan to ‘steal’ Iraq’s oil for the sake of American oil interests.” The solution: any repairs, future investments, oil exports and sales of oil must be made transparent and involve both international and Iraqi oversight.
The report gets most interesting when it talks about oil—the lure and the reality. While there is great potential, “it will require massive investment.” ($28 billion.) The president is told, “Iraq has the second largest proven oil reserves in the world (behind Saudi Arabia) estimated at 112 billion barrels with as many as 220 billion barrels of resources deemed probable. Of Iraq’s 74 discovered and evaluated oil fields, only 15 have been developed.” In the western desert “there are 526 known structures that have been discovered, delineated, mapped, and classified as potential prospects in Iraq of which only 125 have been drilled.” It must be very difficult for some individuals and nations to let go of such a vision. We know the president and his men could not.
Enter Painful Conclusion
When John DiIulio, a high-level Bush administration official, left his job at the White House, he sent a letter to Ron Suskind at Esquire, describing his experiences working in the administration. DiIulio gave the world an insider’s view into the secret center of power. “There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus.”
DiIulio wrote, “The Clinton administration drowned in policy intellectuals and teemed with knowledgeable people interested in making government work.” DiIulio said simply that intellectual work wasn’t “Bush’s style.”
In “eight months,” DiIulio continued, “I heard many, many staff discussions, but not three meaningful, substantive policy discussions. There were no actual policy white papers on domestic issues.”
What Mr. DiIulio may not have known is what the Yurica Report discovered: the policy papers were written for this administration—and not by this administration. The National Energy Policy like the Baker report drills into the reader’s mind that devastating “California-like” crises can and will be repeated unless the administration and congress choose to take prescribed steps to regain control over energy supply-lines. Control or insurance is spelled out as w-a-r against Iraq. Something intervened, however, that made energy crises unnecessary as a justification tool for war. That something was another Pearl Harbor on September 11, 2001.
This story ends as it began: with unrequited lies, deception and fraud. Three sentences inserted into the National Energy Policy report reveal: 1) the White House knew the California crisis was man-made; 2) knew the power companies were manipulating the market in California; 3) and knew these facts at the time the people of California were being fleeced by the scam; 4) yet the Bush White House did nothing to stop the fraud.
A special prosecutor should be appointed by Congress to investigate this whole matter as well as what Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney knew and when they knew it.
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Documentation & Links
1. San Francisco Chronicle, “Memos show makings of power crisis,” May 10, 2002. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/10
2. The Sacramento Bee, Special Report: “How Californians got burned” May 6, 2001.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/archive/news/special/power/050601california
3. The two page Ken Lay Memo (Go to this page and click on the "Memo" photo-icon at the top of the article):San Francisco Chronicle, “The Enron Collapse”, January 30, 2002. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/30
4. Bush Administration Contacts with Enron, Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman by the Minority Staff Special Investigations Division Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives.
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_admin/admin_enron.htm
If the above link does not work click here for The Yurica Report copy.
5. How the White House Energy Plan Benefited Enron Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman by the Minority Staff Committee on Government Reform.
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_admin/admin_enron.htm
If the above link does not work click here for The Yurica Report copy.
Also see the following documents: How High Energy Costs Profitted Energy Companies.
6. Neil Mackay’s article in the Sunday Herald:
http://www.sundayherald.com/print28285
7. The Baker Report Press Release:
http://www.rice.edu/projects/baker/Pubs/reports/Pubs/bipp200107/bipp2001
Editor's Note: The Yurica Report has learned that the Baker Institute at Rice University has removed the Press release from their web site. For those interested for research and vital information purposes, we have placed a copy on our web site at:: Task Force Issues Recommendations for Energy Policy.
8. Document No. 1: The Baker Report, Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century:
http://www.rice.edu/projects/baker/Pubs/workingpapers/cfrbipp_energy/ene
Editor's Note: You may also read the report from our PDF file linked here.
9. Document No. 2: Project for the New American Century “Principles”:
http://newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
10. Document No. 3: Rebuilding America’s Defenses
http://newamericancentury.org/publicationsreports.htm
11. Document No. 4: National Energy Policy report:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/
12. FERC Findings and Report:
http://www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indus-act/wem/03-26-03.asp
13. San Francisco Chronicle, “The Enron Collapse”, January 30, 2002.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/30
14. Letter from Rep. Waxman to Dick Cheney, dated January 25, 2002. http://reform.house.gov/min/inves_energy/energy_cheney.htm
15. Document No. 5: Using Power and Diplomacy to Deal With Rogue States: http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/epp/94/94a.html
16. Document No. 6: Newt Gingrich, “National Security Initiative, The Transformation of National Security.” A speech to the Board of Overseers Meeting, Hoover Institution, July 18, 2002. http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/research/conferences/boo2002july.html
17. Document No. 7: A Report on U.S. Policy Options Towards Iraq by Geoffrey Kemp, Morton H. Halperin, Council on Foreign Relations: http://www.cfr.org/publication_print.php?id=3990&content=
18. Document No. 8: Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq Edward P. Djerejian and Frank G. Wisner, Co-Chairs http://www.rice.edu/projects/baker/Pubs/workingpapers/iraq/index.html
19. Esquire, “Why Are These Men Laughing?” January, 2003. “The DiIulio Letter” October 24, 2002,
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Katherine Yurica was educated at East Los Angeles College, U.S.C. and the USC school of law. She worked as a consultant for Los Angeles County and as a news correspondent for Christianity Today plus as a freelance investigative reporter. She is the author of three books. She is also the publisher of the Yurica Report.
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Saturday February 5, 2005
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Newly discovered tapes have revealed how the energy corporation Enron shut down at least one power plant on false pretences, deliberately aggravating California's crippling 2001 blackouts with the aim of raising prices.
The tapes also show that Enron, whose bankruptcy three years ago was the biggest corporate scandal of recent times, manipulated energy markets in Canada and was planning to rig the Californian market even before deregulation in 1998, for which the Texan corporation actively campaigned.
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The most damning revelations concern Enron's secret role in creating artificial power shortages in California, helping to trigger an energy crisis in 2000 and 2001 which cost residents billions of dollars in surcharges.
The crisis ultimately led to the ousting of the state's Democratic governor, Gray Davis, and paved the way for rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger in his place. Meanwhile, the shortages helped Enron to make $1.6bn (£850m).
This week, the federal energy regulatory commission recommended that the company return almost $1.7bn acquired from shady energy deals dating back to 1997.
Enron's former chief executive, Kenneth Lay, an enthusiastic financial backer and friend of President Bush (to whom he was "Kenny Boy"), has been charged with fraud and is facing trial, along with two other company officials, in Houston in September.
Those charges mainly involve allegedly cooking Enron's books to make the energy brokerage appear more profitable and boost its stock price. The new evidence suggests the company may also have promoted deregulation so enthusiastically because it knew it could fix the system to its own advantage.
"Enron, more than any company in California came in with consultants and presentations to all the legislators and policymakers to explain how deregulation would work, to explain how Enron was just trying to help," Eric Saltmarsh, executive director of California's Electricity Oversight Board, told the Guardian. "It later turned out to be part of their scheme. From the earliest days of deregulation, Enron was arguing for market structures that from the beginning it took advantage of."
The tapes came to light when a local authority in Washington state went to court over Enron's bills and was permitted to seize internal records from a company warehouse.
On one tape, an Enron official named Bill tells an employee called Rich at a Las Vegas power plant to take the plant offline on a confected excuse. The conversation took place on January 17 2001, in the last days of the Clinton administration, as blackouts were rolling across California, cutting off electricity to more than one million people, and after the energy secretary, Bill Richardson, had ordered generators across the west to direct their output to the troubled state.
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July 7/8, 2006 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Those who claim the Bush administration is a Nazi regime are not far from the truth. This story is a special investigation of Bush family slush funds, smuggling, and secret money conduits from and to various right-wing causes, including some that are extremely violent. The New York Times is running a story today about the U.S. military recruiting Aryan Nation, neo-Nazi, and other white supremacists into its ranks. The Times' report states that Neo-Nazi graffiti has sprung up in Baghdad, in quoting from a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The involvement of white supremacy and neo-Nazi groups with the Pentagon began in earnest during the administrations of Reagan and Bush I. According to informed sources who have tracked the neo-Nazis since the Reagan era, the surge in extreme right-wing elements in the Federal government was spurred on by the network of Nicaraguan Contra support activities created to facilitate going around the prohibitions enacted by the Congress. A key member of that strategy was Cheney's Chief of Staff David Addington, who was with the CIA, the Iran-Contra Committee in Congress, and then signed on as senior Vice President for the American Trucking Associations (ATA). WMR reported yesterday on the involvement of a foundation set up by McLean Trucking Co., a member of the ATA, with covert Contra support.
The ATA is a hotbed of GOP activity as well past connections with support for covert CIA activities. Its chief lobbyist is Jim ("Whit") Whittinghill, a former aide to Sen. Bob Dole. Whittinghill's wife, Nancy Dorn, served as an assistant to Texas Representative Tom Loeffler and later served as Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Dorn also served as 1989-93), Nancy Dorn worked for Defense Secretary Dick Cheney as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter-American Affairs. While working for Cheney, Dorn became a close associate of Addington. Dorn was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs. In 2001, Dorn returned to government after acting as a lobbyist for Pakistan, Azerbaijan, and China. She became special assistant for legislative affairs to Vice President Cheney. In 2002, Dorn became the Deputy Director for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where she served until 2003 before becoming Vice President for Government Relations of General Electric, the parent company of NBC and NBC News. (This puts into context the partisan pro-Bush editorial slants of the network's news division, particularly Nora O'Donnell, Campbell Brown, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, and Chris Matthews).
In the late 1980s and early 90s, Dorn was associated with the network of right-wing neo-confederates who were gaining tremendous influence in the Republican Party. While the Army's chief of civil works, Dorn had control over Arlington National Cemetery and issued guidance on how the Confederate Memorial Committee of the District of Columbia could hold its annual ceremony at the cemetery's Confederate War Memorial and pay for it with funds provided by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). According to John Edward Hurley, a one-time associate of White House correspondent Sarah McClendon and the head of the non-partisan Confederate Memorial Association (CMA), South Carolina GOP operative and Confederate Memorial Committee chairman Richard T. Hines, now a major lobbyist (RTH Consulting) in Washington, DC (whose clients include Gambia, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, and Nigeria), arranged with the UDC to have funds transferred for the Confederate monument and ceremony from sources in the South associated with far right-wing elements. Hines, who was close to South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, saw to it money was transferred from Metrolina Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina (connected to North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms), to First American Bank in Virginia (then owned by the CIA-connected Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)), to the Mid-Atlantic Credit Union in Gaithersburg, Maryland. One of the officials involved in this money movement was the chief accountant for Edison Electric Institute, which was working closely with Enron and, along with Enron, was one of the largest contributors to the Bush and GOP campaign coffers.
The impetus for the Confederate revival at Arlington Cemetery was promoted by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Jefferson Davis Camp Number 305. Its members included a number of individuals associated with white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which was the source of the New York Times article on Aryan Nation and neo-Nazi penetration of the U.S. military, the SCV has come under the control of racists and Ku Klux Klansmen. Denne Sweeney, on the urging of SCV Camp 305 member Kirk Lyons, an attorney for the Klan, took over as SCV commander in 2004. According to the CMA's Hurley, Lyons, who ran the Houston-based Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) (a right-wing rival of the SPLC), was significantly funded by Hines. Lyons later moved the SLRC to Black Mountain in western North Carolina. According to Hurley and the SPLC, the SCV and SLRC are part of a vast network of far right organizations, including the Council of Conservative Citizens (a successor to the Klan-linked White Citizens Councils), the secessionist Southern Partisan magazine (for which Hines arranged an interview with then Missouri Senator John Ashcroft), the secessionist League of the South, the Aryan Nations, the National Association for the Advancement of White People, and the National Socialist White Americans' Party).
With the recent news about neo-Nazi and Klan penetration of the U.S. military, it is noteworthy that Hines' wife, Patricia Mayes Hines, was the U.S. Army's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs during the George H. W. Bush administration. Mrs. Hines served under Cheney along with Dorn, who was permitting neo-Confederate penetration of Arlington Cemetery, and David Addington, who was continuing to help cover up the elder Bush's role in Iran-Contra as Cheney's General Counsel, and Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, who was Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Strategy and Resources and Deputy Undersecretary for Policy, and was also involved in senior Bush's covert operations abroad. Hines, who was an associate of the late Lee Atwater, Karl Rove's dirty tricks doppelganger, practiced his dirty tricks trade for George W. Bush in his home state against John McCain in the vicious 2000 GOP primary.
It is noteworthy that on the day he was arrested, Murrah Federal building bomber Timothy McVeigh was wearing a Southern Partisan magazine T-shirt bearing the Latin phrase, Sic Semper Tyrannis, along with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The phrase was shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot to death President Lincoln at Ford's Theater. Another violent connection to the neo-confederates is the FBI's VANPAC (Vance Political Assassination Conspiracy) case that involved white supremacist mail bombings directed against Federal judges. According to the Department of Justice, "four mail bombs [were] sent in December 1989 to different locations in the southeastern United States. One killed federal judge Robert Vance [11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals] in Alabama, a second killed a civil rights attorney [Robert Robinson] in Georgia, and two others [one at the U.S. Courthouse in Atlanta and the other at the NAACP headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida] were discovered before they exploded. A massive investigation ensued involving the FBI and several other law enforcement agencies. The FBI referred to the case as VANPAC because it involved the assassination of Judge Vance [at his home] with a bomb sent in a mail package. In June 1991, a federal jury convicted Walter LeRoy Moody, Jr. [a former Klansman] on charges related to the bombings." Louis Freeh, Jr. was appointed the Special Prosecutor in the VANPAC case. After moving the case from Birmingham, Alabama to St. Paul, Minnesota, and after introducing tainted evidence, Freeh won a successful conviction of Moody, who was sentenced to seven life sentences. An Alabama court sentenced Moody to death. In appreciation for his work, Freeh was nominated as U.S. District Court judge for the southern district of New York. In 1993, President Clinton named Freeh to be FBI Director, where he served during the McVeigh case and the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations of Clinton. Vance was a progressive Democrat in Alabama, having served as Democratic Party chairman for the state for 11 years. At the time of his death, several Alabama political figures cited "drugs" and "Colombian cartels" as the reason for the mail bombings directed at Federal judges. Vance, a Jimmy Carter appointee, had incurred the wrath of the neo-confederates who viewed him as too liberal and called him the "Daniel Ortega of Alabama." Because of the mail bombings directed against the Federal judiciary (Moody threatened to kill 17 judges), there were a number of judicial resignations around the United States, which allowed George H. W. Bush to replace them with his own people.
"Southern Partisan" T-shirt worn by right-wing terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh. George W. Bush has appointed many neo-confederates to top jobs in his administration.
The threat against judges resumed under Bush's son, George W. Bush. In 2005, after being threatened with death by white supremacist and World Church of the Creator (now "Creativity Movement") head Matthew Hale, U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, discovered the bodies of her 64-year old husband and 89-year old mother at her home. They had been brutally murdered. In a bizarre development, a Chicago man named Bart Ross shot himself in a Milwaukee suburb after being pulled over by police for a traffic violation. Police said they found a suicide note in which Ross claimed responsibility for the murders of Judge Lefkow's husband and mother. However, Ross had no known connections to any white supremacist organizations. Hale had been convicted for threatening Judge Lefkow's life and obstruction of justice. Threatening judges was not confined to people like Hale. Then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay threatened judges when he stated, "the time will come for the men responsible for the death of Terri Schiavo to answer for their behavior." Senator Frank Lautenberg wrote to DeLay, stating he was "stunned to read the threatening comments . . . directed at federal judges and our nation's courts of law in general."
Matthew Hale: Foot soldier for the GOP in threatening the lives of Federal judges.
The involvement of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with U.S. Special Forces, reported by the SPLC and New York Times, also bears on the neo-confederate penetration of the Bush administration. Ashbury International Group, of Sterling, Virginia, a private military contractor (PMC) offering the services of its ex-Special Forces personnel to the government, lost a lawsuit brought against its plans to build a shooting range in Nelson County, Virginia on the plantation of Confederate Congressman William Portcher Mills, the man who designed the Confederate flag. Appearing as a witness for Ashbury was Michael Garcia, a former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and now the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, along with attorneys for the National Rifle Association. Another Special Forces link to the neo-confederates is retired Army Lt. Col. Jeffrey Addicott, a former counsel for the US Special Forces assigned to the Pentagon and, who, according to the CMA's Hurley, was a close associate of top officials in the neo-confederate movement. Addicott is currently the Director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's College of Law in San Antonio, Texas and he chaired a panel at the National Defense Industrial Association's 2006 Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) conference, an event attended by every major PMC, including those making huge profits in Iraq. Hurley released the following statement on August 31, 2005, that implicates a number of Bush I and II officials in the neo-confederate movement and the Iran-Contra affair, including Chief Justice John Roberts:
A Washington association executive has called for an investigation into the role of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts when he represented the National Credit Union Administration, a regulatory agency of the federal government. He charged that there was a bizarre intervention by the NCUA to quash a subpoena for a personal account while Roberts was representing the group.
Hurley, president of the Confederate Memorial Association which owned and operated the only Confederate museum in the nation's capital, said that ongoing litigation against his association had been traced to Contra supporters and present and former employees in the general counsels office of the National Credit Union Administration. Moreover, Hurley said that evidence indicated that a $500,000 political slush fund was being covered up.
Hurley said a court order approving a $15,000 fraudulent legal bill, after being issued nearly two years ago, was mysteriously submitted to the bank last week. A two-year lapse in collecting court ordered fees is unheard of, and Hurley contends that this shows that the White House is concerned about illegal NCUA activities being exposed while Roberts represented the group.
A "Freedom Fighter" fundraiser was scheduled after Roberts had made several recommendations on the subject while he was in the White House Counsels' office. Moreover, Carl "Spitz" Channell and Richard Miller, who were raising private funds for the Contras, had met in the White House to ask support for the Contras (as the Walsh Iran/Contra Report noted). After the Roberts memos counseled that Contra fundraising should be held outside the White House, a "Freedom Fighter Night" was scheduled on July 12, 1986 to be held in October of 1986 at Confederate Memorial Hall. Hurley said that he cancelled the October event. However, prior to this, a previous reception at the Hall had been attended by White House personnel. Hurley added that the invitation to the October event was sent from the Capital Yacht Club.
Roberts represented the National Credit Union Administration when he was with Hogan and Hartson. In 1997, Roberts argued the NCUA case before the Supreme Court, which dealt with expanding the banking market for credit unions. In that case, Robert M. Fenner was listed as counsel for the NCUA with Roberts.
Hurley said that Fenner had employed David Eno as the head of his fraud hotline operation at NCUA. According to Hurley, Eno was a commander of the Jefferson Davis Camp No. 305 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization that sued the Confederate Memorial Association. Kirk Lyons, an attorney who has represented the KKK and the Aryan Nation, is an officer in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Eno and Richard Hines, another commander of the Jefferson Davis Camp and the husband of White House Domestic Policy advisor Patricia Hines, were behind the litigation against the Confederate Memorial Association.
Hurley said that the mysterious political funding that was used in the litigation against his organization was also used for the annual Confederate ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. He charged that the funds were part of a secret political slush fund that was wired overnight through a bank in Charlotte by Department of Energy attorney Stephen Page Smith. The funds were traced to the Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union in Gaithersburg, Maryland which was regulated by Roberts' client, the NCUA. .
A subpoena for this account was quashed by D.C. Superior Court Judge John H. Bayly. The motion to quash was submitted to Judge Bayly by attorney Stephen Bisker, a former employee of NCUA's Robert Fenner and current contractor for the NCUA who works for a major credit union auditing firm. .
Hurley also believes that another $500,000 of illegal political donations from the American Defense Institute may now be in the account, noting that attorney Thomas L. O'Neill was on the ADI board and was another attorney litigating against Mr. Hurley's association.
Alan Rothenberg, yet another attorney litigating against the Confederate Memorial Association, is the treasurer of the U.S. Premier Federal Credit Union. The president of the USPFCU was Randolph Earnest, assistant to Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the State Department and the former executive director of Lawyers for Bush-Cheney, a group that worked with Roberts during the 2000 election.
Roberts also represented the National Mining Association. Hurley say that Herbert Harmon, the chief lawyer in the massive litigation against the Confederate Memorial Association, uses his home as a contact address for the Rio Tinto mining operation, the largest in the world.
The high-profile Confederate ceremonies in Arlington National Cemetery are held in June and are attended by such notables as Richard B. Abell, a former Department of Justice Assistant Secretary in charge of the Office of Justice Programs and current magistrate for the U.S. Court of Claims; Nicholas D. Ward, who serves on the Probate and Fiduciary Rules Advisory Committee of the D.C. Superior Court; and Robert Wilkie, who currently serves on the National Security Council staff at the White House.
Another prominent lawyer supporting the legal action against Hurley is Col. Jeffrey Addicott, former senior legal counsel for the Special Forces and current director of the Center for Terrorism Law.
When Judge Bayly jailed Hurley in 1997 for objecting to the quashing of the subpoena for the Mid-Atlantic account which Hurley believes to be at the behest of the NCUA, Hurley sold the century-old D.C. museum. The strange motion to quash "by someone other than the holder of the account shows a massive fraud and an obstruction of justice in his case," Hurley said.
Hurley cited a Maryland trial that continues this week as an example of the perilous consequences of dealing with white supremacists. The trial involves the largest arson in the history of the state. All of the burned homes in Charles County belonged to blacks. The chief witness against the Confederate Memorial Association was Lewis Doherty, who is now listed as an organizer of the neo-Nazi National Alliance that was distributing white supremacist literature in Charles County prior to the arsons.
Hurley is calling for a complete investigation of John Roberts connection with the planned "Freedom Fighter" reception, the National Credit Union Administration, the National Mining Association and the Rio Tinto mining operation. He said that all the facts about Roberts in these matters should be known before there is "a secular canonization of this man for the highest court." |
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Operation Condor |
by Digger
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09 Jul 2006
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/342129.shtml
OPERATION CONDOR, 9/11-1973/2001
author: ALEX CONSANTINE
Operation Condor, the CIA-instigated overthrow of Allende in 1973, was overseen by some of the same political forces currently in control of the White House, including Cheney and Rumsefeld. Special renditions, abductions and torture, familiar themes in the headlines these days, were essential components of Condor and its domestic incarnation, Bush's "war on terror," a camouflage for suppressing dissent and the imposition of open fascist rule.
"The 9/11 attack was the parallel to the Pinochet coup
... Operation Condor ... Pinochet also imposed
extraordinary police powers ... After 9/11, thousands
of Arabs and Muslims were also rounded up by the US
military and kept in prison in secret ... They were
also tortured ... 9/11 was the equivalent of a coup
for Bush. Its version of Operation Condor is being
assembled in the Pentagon by Undersecretary of Defense
Stephen Cambone and his military deputy, Lt. Gen.
William G. Boykin ..." - Maria Montelibre
"'Counterterrorism' plus George Schultz's doctrine of
'preemptive counterinsurgency' equals revolutionary
fascist insurgency..." - Lyle Courtsal
"In this world, in this strange world of covert
overthrow of governments and clandestine armies and
secret operations, the problem we're facing is that
you are working with two realities: you're working
with ... exchange of power, economic power, power over
people, controlling their lives. In order to do that
you disguise certain persons and send them into roles
to influence. They become actors on a stage and they
influence our minds in a way that is not real, but
effect a reality that will touch us later." - Mae
Brussell, Dialogue Assassination, Broadcast no. 16,
October 13, 1971
---
To Mussolini, "fascismo," a word he coined, had dual
meanings. It is rooted in the Latin "fasces," a rather
strange-looking axe with poles strapped to it, but the
term also meant "Group."
Christopher Deliso at Antiwar.com found the 9/11 group
when he poked into the Plame investigation, "a relay
team of hawkish officials providentially placed
throughout various government agencies." The
serpentine network wound through the CIA, Pentagon,
Office of Special Plans, State Department, DIA, NSA
and other federal agencies. Deliso described
operatives darkening the wings of the Libby
investigation, but the same could be said of the 9/11
inquiry: the same "relay team" performed "a handoff of
information from the point of origin (the CIA) to the
ultimate 'commissioners' of the inquiry." Given the
"intra- and inter-factional nature of all of these
agencies, it is understandable why the highest
officials in the land jostled to get their 'people'
strategically inserted throughout the departments,
where they could garner inside information and hinder
the objectives of their ostensibly direct employers
whenever they conflicted with the goals of their real
minders..."1
These would be the Royals - the Morgans, Harrimans,
Rockefellers, and so on. The Royals set loose their hounds
for the installation of a dictatorship in Chilé in 1973:
Kissinger, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, the CIA and a
military junta ...
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CIA acknowledges involvement in Allende's overthrow,
Pinochet's rise
September 19, 2000?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA is acknowledging for the
first time the extent of its deep involvement in
Chile, where it dealt with coup-plotters, false
propagandists and assassins ...
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Twenty-five years before the CIA posted a public
confession, Howard Zinn went ahead anyways and
reported that Operation Condor, "the CIA action to
overthrow Allende, was approved by the 40 Committee,
whose chairman [was] Henry Kissinger. And it was
Kissinger who recommended that Rockefeller head the
commission to investigate the CIA.
Rockefeller summed up the commission report: 'There
are things that have been done which are in
contradiction to the statutes, but in comparison to
the total effort, they are not major.' The same report
can be made on the Corleone family ..."2
How "in contradiction to the statutes" was Condor? So
in contradiction that the river running through
Santiago was dammed by headless bodies. How many
statutes did that contradict?
Regime change has long been a staple of US foreign
policy. Exactly 28 years later, it happened again. But
the strategy had evolved with the times. The idea was
not to merely impose military rule on a defenseless
population, but to rechannel resources of government -
its finances, military force, technology, personnel
and secrets - their way.
The early "jostling" to insert the 9/11 relay team
behind Bush resulted in the appointment of Donald H.
Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld was among
the the central genocidists engaged in Operation
Condor I.
"Latin America: Murder, Inc.," a classified report
prepared by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee on International Operations, revealed the
origins of Condor. The title reiterated a confession
by Lyndon Johnson a few months before his death: "We
were running a Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean." The
Senate report explained that the U.S. had "joint
operations between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Paraguay and Uruguay. The joint operations were known
as Operation Condor. These are special teams used to
carry out [the] killing of enemies." Jack Anderson
offered a glimpse of "Operation Condor, An Unholy
Alliance" on August 3, 1979: "Assassination teams are
centered in Chile. This international consortium is
located in Colonia Dignidad, Chile. Founded by the SS,
led by Franz Pfeiffer Richter, Adolf Hitler's
1000-year Reich may not have perished. Children are
cut up in front of their parents, suspects are
asphyxiated in piles of excrement or rotated to death
over barbecue pits." Colonel Otto Skorzeny, a postwar
CIA recruit, code-named the Battle of the Bulge
Operation Greif - "Condor."3
Another CIA recruit oversaw the Chilean incarnation of
Condor.
Global Research reports: "Henry Kissinger belongs in
the dock alongside the Chilean dictator.... He remains
a prominent figure in the affairs of the US ruling
establishment and is protected by the government. In
2002, the Bush administration attempted unsuccessfully
to name this war criminal as the head of the
'independent' panel investigating the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
"George Bush senior should be the subject of an
indictment for the role the CIA played under his
direction in fostering and covering up for the
assassination squads that roamed Latin America and,
ultimately, the streets of Washington.
"The most prominent figures in the Bush administration
- Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld - are likewise implicated. Cheney was
the White House chief of staff during the Condor
Operation, while Rumsfeld was defense secretary,
supervising US ties to the Latin American military."4
Rumsfeld crony George Schultz established business
ties with the Pinochet regime, and learned a thing or
two about fascist economics for grafting to domestic
policies. Independent Latin journalist Maria
Montelibre writes, "General Pinochet's Labor Minister
and Mining Minister in those days, José Piñera, is a
Harvard educated boy, friend of George Schultz, among
others. Piñera is now head of the Cato Institute
Privatization Project in the U.S., which supports and
instigates Bush's privatization schemes. Piñera
planned the Social Security privatization plan in
Chile with Dictator Pinochet."5
The Condor is Rumsfeld's again, and it was spotted by
a reporter for Ireland's Village magazine in 2004:
"Extraordinary Rendition bears more than a passing
resemblance to operation Condor, the 'multinational of
terror' organised by six US-backed Latin American
dictatorships in the 1970s." The Latin American terror
program crossed national borders. "Regimes swapped
suspects and facilitated death squads and kidnap
teams. Suspects were disappeared without a trace, held
without due process and monitored by physicians during
torture sessions." The post-9/11, Condor-like
rendition program was "first mooted inside the offices
of US intelligence," at the behest of Donald
Rumsfeld.6
Others noticed haunting similarities between Condor
and Rumsfeld's "war on terror." An editorial appeared
in The Nation in January 2005: "Did anyone in the Bush
White House cast an uneasy eye over the new indictment
of Gen. Augusto Pinochet? It may seem over the top to
mention that old buzzard in the same breath as an
elected US President. But consider Task Force 6-26. It
sounds like a relic of Pinochet's Operation Condor....
Task Force 6-26 is a secret unit composed mostly of US
Navy SEALs operating in Baghdad - its existence
unacknowledged by the Pentagon. According to the
Washington Post, a fact-finding mission for Army
generals warned a year ago that Task Force 6-26 was
running an off-the-books prison for detainees."7
But Rumsfeld coordinated with others in Washington
operating on behalf of the "minders," as William Blum
notes: "1973, September 11, CHILE: President Allende
overthrown by General Pinochet in a bloody coup in
which 3000 Chileans are massacred. The Rockefellers'
ITT corp., now run by John McCloy, donates $1 million
to the coup effort, which is orchestrated by Henry
Kissinger."8
The planning was conceived in pitiless detail by
social engineers. In the 1960s, Abt Associates - a
consulting firm founded by Clark C. Abt, a German who
migrated to the U.S. in 1937, earned a degree at MIT
and joined Raytheon after the war - assisted the
Pentagon and CIA with Project Camelot, a computer
model for destabilizing foreign governments. Socialist
scholar Guerry Hoddersen writes that Abt Associates
"developed a simulation game called Politica that drew
information from a computer linking the files of the
CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State
Department. Politica was used in training Third World
police" and predicting "which social forces could be
mobilized against leftist governments."9
As early as 1965, the American Anthropological
Association's executive board began to receive
complaints concerning social engineering projects in
the Third World. The DoD and CIA recruited
anthropologists to assist in counterinsurgency
operations, and from this program rose Project Camelot
with its cynical code-name. The Army, according to the
AAA, "had a contract with American University to study
sociopolitical factors that could lead to internal
warfare in that country."10
A survey of Condor undertaken by an independent
Virtual Truth Commission ("Telling the Truth for a
Better America") exposed the "minders" of the coup:
".......1976-OPERATION CONDOR, SOUTH AMERICAN
ASSASSINATION CARTEL, THE YEAR GEORGE BUSH SR. IS CIA
DIRECTOR. In 1976, Nelson Rockefeller was Vice
President (to Ford), and his advisor Henry Kissinger
was Secretary of State. In this year Kissinger's
puppet dictator Pinochet, of Chile, organised
Operation CONDOR, to co-ordinate death squad
assassinations by the secret police of the dictators
of Chile, Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay .
30,000 leftists were assassinated/ executed/
"disappeared."... Many of the top ranking Nazi war
criminals in South America are believed to have lived
in Colonia Dignidad. In 1993, a cache of documents
called the 'ARCHIVES OF TERROR' was found in Paraguay
detailing Nazi war criminal involvement in Operation
Condor, and listing victims, including Israeli agents
who were trying to find Nazis to bring to trial. It is
highly probable that George Bush and Henry Kissinger
knew about, and directed, Operation CONDOR. General
Pinochet was never ashamed of his pro-Nazi fetish,
preferring Nazi uniforms and marching music. In 1985
an American professor, Boris Weisfeiler, was
disappeared at Colonia Dignidad. Today Dignidad is a
prospering commune valued at $5 billion, but closed to
the public and protected by the Chilean military.
Today David Rockefeller is the scion of his families'
empire, running Chase-Manhattan Bank, the Trilateral
Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),
and Rockefeller Center, NYC. Kissinger was Bush jr's
choice to head the September 11th investigation. Paul
Bremer III, former Director of Kissinger Associates,
was Bush's appointed ruler of Iraq."11
NOTES
1) Christopher Deliso, "Lesser Neocons of L'Affaire
Plame," http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=8137.
2) Howard Zinn, "The CIA, Rockefeller,
and the Boys in the Club," Howard Zinn Reader, 1975.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Rockefeller_BoysClub.html
3) Mae Brussell, "The Nazi Connection to the John F.
Kennedy Assassination,"
link to www.maebrussell.com.)
4) "Chile's Arrest of Pinochet and the Condor Killers
in the US," December 19, 2004.
link to www.globalresearch.ca
5) Maria Montelibre, "Privatization of Social
Security: First step towards fascism.
http://www.elsemanario.net/print_col.php?cid=111
6) Michael McCaughan, "Shannon used as kidnap
operation stop-over," Village magazine, Ireland
(October 2-8, 2004).
7) Anon. "Prosecuting US Torture," The Nation, January
3, 2005.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050103/editors
8) A summation of William Blum's Rogue State.
http://twincities.indymedia.org/newswire/display/19468/index.php
9) Guerry Hoddersen, "CAFTA: trade pact promises
'Brave New World' of misery and inequality," Freedom
Socialist, vol. 25, no. 2, June-July 2004.
http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol25no2/cafta.html
10) James N. Hill, "The Committee on Ethics: Past,
Present, and Future," Handbook on Ethical Issues in
Anthropology, AAA.
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ch2.htm
11) Virtual Truth Commission, "Operation Condor.
www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/condor.htm
Also see, Lucy Komisar, "Operation Condor and
Pinochet," Los Angeles Times, November 1, 1998.
homepage: http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/
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Rayathon Plunger?
But Rumsfeld coordinated with others in Washington
operating on behalf of the "minders," as William Blum
notes: "1973, September 11, CHILE: President Allende
overthrown by General Pinochet in a bloody coup in
which 3000 Chileans are massacred. The Rockefellers'
ITT corp., now run by John McCloy, donates $1 million
to the coup effort, which is orchestrated by Henry
Kissinger."8
The planning was conceived in pitiless detail by
social engineers. In the 1960s, Abt Associates - a
consulting firm founded by Clark C. Abt, a German who
migrated to the U.S. in 1937, earned a degree at MIT
and joined Raytheon after the war - assisted the
Pentagon and CIA with Project Camelot, a computer
model for destabilizing foreign governments. Socialist
scholar Guerry Hoddersen writes that Abt Associates
"developed a simulation game called Politica that drew
information from a computer linking the files of the
CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State
Department. Politica was used in training Third World
police" and predicting "which social forces could be
mobilized against leftist governments."9 |
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Colin Powell's Role in the PRETEXT:
The "Ambassadors" who worked for Colin Powell at "State" were all in the service of the Intelligence Community. Powell knew PRECISELY what the deal was. He was NEVER in the dark. He was PART of the Intelligence Community.
He did what "Good Soldiers" do. He performed honorably (by their standards) to serve the goals of the Intelligence Community - the center of ALL power in the Government.
All of them knew what the deal was, as they are all privy to the REAL game plan, not the one you read about or see on TV.
They know in advance the strategy of the Federal Reserve, any major market-moving announcements, the CIA's REAL agenda in every country, Carlyle's role in world affairs, Defense Department PsyOps, BlackOps, all of it.
An attitude of superiority and arrogance pervades the halls of power, and the prevailing attitude is this (as related to me by one of THEM directly):
"Nothing is as it appears, literally nothing. There is no Osama Bin Laden. The war in Iraq is going according to plan. The plan called for a quagmire and a protracted occupation.
We just want you to go on about your lives, doing your jobs, raising your children, sending them off to college...just living your lives day to day, and we'll take care of the nasty stuff."
This is the prevailing attitude at the highest levels in Washington. Literally nothing that you see in the news can be relied upon as factual. The news for the most part is scripted and manufactured by the government to coincide with a script that serves the strategic goals of those claiming to represent you. They are so arrogant, many actually believe their activities are in your best interest.
When you see the following:
"Former Rand Analyst"
used to describe someone, think "arrogant spook with a heart of stone."
When you see the name:
"Bin Laden" think CIA Invention.
These "Analysts" are everywhere within corporate America, working for companies, and for the government too. You see them on TV news nearly every day, as half of the talking heads interviewed on world affairs and terrorism are all on the same team, singing from the same script...the Government Script.
Nothing is as it appears...Nothing.
The following is from an article by Ron Suskind:
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued.
''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
THE ARROGANCE IS OVERWHELMING
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:09am | ignore this person
Suskind gives voice to CIA "invisibles" stunned by disregard for analysis
By Barton Gellman
The Washington Post
"The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11"
This is an important book, filled with the surest sign of great reporting: the unexpected.
One example out of many comes in Ron Suskind's gripping narrative of what the White House has celebrated as one of the war's major victories: the capture of Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan in March 2002.
Described as al-Qaida's chief of operations even after U.S. and Pakistani forces kicked down his door in Faisalabad, the Saudi-born jihadist was the first al-Qaida detainee to be shipped to a secret prison abroad.
Suskind shatters the official story line here.
Abu Zubaydah, his captors discovered, turned out to be mentally ill and nothing like the pivotal figure they supposed him to be.
Abu Zubaydah also appeared to know nothing about terrorist operations; rather, he was al-Qaida's go-to guy for minor logistics -- travel for wives and children and the like. That judgment was "echoed at the top of CIA and was, of course, briefed to the President and Vice President," Suskind writes.
And yet somehow, in a speech delivered two weeks later, President Bush portrayed Abu Zubaydah as "one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States."
And over the months to come, under White House and Justice Department direction, the CIA would make him its first test subject for harsh interrogation techniques.
How could this have happened? Why are we learning about it only now?
Bush ensnared his director of central intelligence at the time, George J. Tenet, and many others in a new kind of war in which action and evidence were consciously divorced.
The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaida attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."
THE ARROGANCE IS EVIDENCE.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2003109275_suski nd09.html
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:10am | ignore this person
Follow the Money Bush, 9/11 and Deep Threat
by Fran Shor
"What did the President know and when did he know it?"
This question, evocative of the Watergate investigation, is now being posed by politicians and pundits seeking to determine what information the Bush Administration had prior to the incidents of September 11, 2001. No amount of denial and back-pedaling by the Bush Administration can cover up the fact that Bush had advance knowledge of possible terror attacks on US targets.
In the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush Administration mobilized the war machine and repressive legislation to promote policies that secured its economic and ideological agenda. Thus, a more intriguing and significant question is: in light of what the Bush Administration gained from the fall-out of 9/11, how was that gain embedded in the actions and inactions by the Bush Administration prior to 9/11?
"Deep Throat" intimated: "Follow the money!" The money trail links Bush's oil background, his family's connections to Saudi investments, the politics of pipelines in Central Asia, and the military-industrial complex. By detailing Bush's background and fast-forwarding to the decisions of the Administration in its pursuit of war in Afghanistan, a possible war in Iraq, and a permanent war agenda, a money trail will unfold that will transform Deep Throat's admonition into a Deep Threat alarm concerning the lives and liberties of citizens of the United States and the world.
Conflicts of interest were definitely developed in the 1990's by father and son through their involvement with the Carlyle Group, an investment group filled with Reagan-Bush cabinet members. In 1990 with former Secretary of Defense, Frank Carlucci, as the CEO of Carlyle, George W. was appointed to the board of a Carlyle investment, Cateair. After his defeat in the 1992 Presidential election, George H. W. and James Baker, became Carlyle advisors and investors.
Although in the aftermath of 9/11 the bin Laden 2 million dollar investment in Carlyle was withdrawn, prior to that time George W's administration had put up road-blocks to the investigation of the bin Laden family. The lead investigator of Osama bin Laden's involvement in terror actions against the US, from the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 to the African embassy bombings in 1998 to the assault on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, was John O'Neill, a Deputy Director of the FBI. O'Neill had repeatedly been denied access to questioning the bin Laden family.
Ironically, O'Neill became the chief security person at the World Trade Center shortly before 9/11 where he, along with between 2-3,000 others, perished in the destruction of the WTC on that fateful and tragic day.
If 9/11 was a tragedy to thousands of Americans and their families, Bush and his father's Carlyle cronies hit the jackpot, especially with renewed contracts for Carlyle defense investments. In particular, Carlyle had invested heavily in United Defense, the primary manufacturer of the Crusader artillery system. Although the Crusader faced a skeptical Congress before 9/11, Carlucci and his lobbyists certainly managed to line-up his old college buddy, Donald Rumsfeld, behind promoting the outmoded Crusader. When Carlyle went public with United Defense stock offerings in the fall of 2001, Carlucci, Bush, Baker, and other investors in Carlyle made out like bandits.
The CIA and Other Deep Pockets - "Buzzy" Krongard
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 a number of news stories appeared concerning investments in "put" options in United and American Airlines.
Most of the investments in these put options originated in Germany through the Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank had earlier acquired Banker's Trust, a investment banking firm whose Vice Chairman in charge of "private client relations" in the late 1990's was A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard. In March of 2001, Krongard was appointed Executive Director of the CIA.
Certainly, the CIA has a history of laundering money and dealings with shady investment characters. What becomes particularly relevant in the lead-up to 9/11 is the August CIA briefing of Bush concerning the potential threat of attacks by bin Laden using hijacked planes on certain sites, such as the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and the fact that the CIA had bugging equipment on bin Laden messages and international banking operations.
http://www.counterpunch.org/shor0521.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_842.shtml
http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:11am | ignore this person
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_842.shtml
Raytheon is a darling of Carlyle Group.
Raytheon, maker of Patriot and Tomahawk missiles, watched its stock take off after the attacks.
Purchases of call options contracts on Raytheon stock increased sixfold on September 10, 2001.
Purchases of call options contracts on Raytheon stock increased sixfold on September 10, 2001.
Purchases of call options contracts on Raytheon stock increased sixfold on September 10, 2001.
The Raytheon option contracts made money, if shares were more than $25 each. The price zoomed up nearly 37 percent to $34.04 during the first week after post 9/11 trading.
Parenthetically, Raytheon had also been hit with millions of dollars in fines for padding costs of equipment it sold to the US military. Raytheon also has a hush-hush subsidiary, E-Systems, whose clients include the CIA and NSA, the latter about to make a hostile takeover of the other.
CLEARLY, Bets were placed in advance of 9/11 with foreknowledge of 9/11. This isn't just War Profiteering, this is TERROR PROFITERRING.
Raytheon had a DIRECT role in 9/11.
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/raytheon-connection-to-9-11
Americans (too many) do not know that Raytheon executives were killed on 9-11, or at least wound up permanently missing, which may be a more accurate way of saying it. It is who wound up missing that is most interesting.
This is an excerpt of the email we received and is information that we knew as of the issuance of the flight manifests for all four of the planes allegedly involved in 9-11:
Subject: Raytheon and 9/11
OK, I'm not gonna say anything here, except to let you read the evidence and then you can tell me what you think. (These are people who supposedly died on 9/11.) Mike
Raytheon and 9/11
2001-09-11 Stanley Hall Raytheon Director of Electronic warfare program management. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 77, the one that supposedly hit the Pentagon but did not.
2001-09-11 Peter Gay Raytheon VP of Electronic Systems on special assignment at the El Segundo, CA division office where the Global Hawk UAV remote control system is made. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 11, the one that supposedly hit the North World Trade Tower I.
2001-09-11 Kenneth Waldie Raytheon Senior Quality Control for Electronic Systems. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 11, the one that supposedly hit the North World Trade Tower I.
2001-09-11 David Kovalcin Raytheon Senior Mechanical Engineer for Electronic Systems. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 11, the one that supposedly hit the North World Trade Tower I.
2001-09-11 Herbert Homer Raytheon Corporate Executive working with the Department of Defense. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on United airlines Flight 175, the one that supposedly hit the South World Trade Tower II.
These are not only the type of people but they are the people that would be assigned to UAV type projects involving Mode 4 and Mode 5 upgrades. Why would they be in Boston and those planes coming from that direction and from north of Manhattan Island?
That 16 foot tunnel through three rings of the Pentagon is only made by a directional blast weapon. Rumsfeld has even slipped up and mentioned the missile that hit the Pentagon.
Some have seen the Pentagon parking lot camera video and the white trail of smoke. Jets do now leave white trails of smoke at sea level, but Thiokol powered AGMs do, at all attitudes.
A Real 9-11 Commission should have certain Hughes and Raytheon parties summoned for questioning, as well as those that follow:
Condoleezza Rice and the entire Chevron Board of Directors and key management in the United States and Caspian Basin area; and
Dick Cheney, for his role on the Oil Advisory Board of Kazakhstan as well as Vice President of the United States; http://www.contractwatch.org/datavault/backgrounddocs/Halliburton/housto n.pdf and
James H. Giffen, for the following reasons: http://www.seen.org/PDFs/Tug_of_war.pdf
Certain parties from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, OPIC [Overseas Private Investment Corporation]; and
At least 8 of the 10 commissioners sitting on the 9-11 Commission (see yesterday's email update); and
Thomas Kean and all of the Amerada Hess board members, including Nicholas Brady and Edith Holiday. See except below from another article I wrote; and.
Richard Armitage relating to his role and activities with the Pakistani ISI prior to 9-11 and since, and his Armitage & Associates which included the OPIC president Peter Watson; and
Numerous Big Oil executives and board members; and
Numerous Big Defense executives; and
FBI Translator Sibel D. Edmonds with the identity of all foreign and American names she found financing 9-11; and
Bridas Corporation executives and in the field operations people from the Caspian Basin region; and
Certain executives from US energy companies that operate natural gas fired electrical generators in Pakistan and need cheaper natural gas to improve their already bloated bottom lines; and
Certain former ENRON executives and operations people and certain current Prisma Energy International executives,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisma_Energy_International_Inc.
the new name for Cayman Island based ENRON and run by former ENRON and Halliburton execs; and
Certain Federal whistleblowers from multiple agencies; and
Certain Federal Reserve Bank persons including some who detected the same money laundering that Sibel Edmonds found; and
Certain parties affiliated with the WTC and PANY&NJ; and
Certain parties affiliated with asbestos removal and other WTC problems since at least 1988: and
Certain parties of the Pentagon personnel records division, including the records for specific persons; and
Certain parties with certain demolition companies; and
Certain FBI officials, or purported FBI officials, that seized all of the known tapes in and around the Pentagon; and
Certain persons from the Clinton – Gore Administration, Bush Administration, and certain consulting firms; and
Literally thousands of other people since the puzzle literally has thousands of pieces.
You can see another Part I, Pop Goes the Bush Mythology Bubble article at this link: http://www.mideastbeat.com/2005/12/and_in_the_beginning_was_911.html
Edith Holiday was later elevated to Secretary of the Cabinet in the George H. W. Bush administration. She also sits on the boards of White Mountains Insurance, and Heinz (which I found interesting). On the White Mountains board is another Amerada Hess board member, Frank A. Olson, and another from Citigroup, Arthur Zankel. It only took one "Google" to find a gaggle that included WTC Larry Silverstein and Mr. Zankel.
We might even have a Walker--Bush relative buried on that board too: F. Borden Walker, former Mobil Oil, Fairfax County, Va., board and now with Amerada Hess. That nasty matter of bribes in Kazakhstan involving Mr. James H. Giffen did involve Mobil, as well as Texaco, Amoco and Phillips Petroleum.
Yes, Mr. Kean, Nicholas Brady, Ms. Holiday and F. Borden Walker will all benefit by the removal of the Taliban and Bridas Corporation. Part II--Pop Goes the Bush Mythology Bubble in part addresses the pipeline all of these people conspired to take over. They could not make billions from oil investments in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and not have a way to get the landlocked oil and gas out. They had to have that pipeline across Afghanistan and the Taliban / Bridas Corporation were blocking the way. Chevron and Condoleezza Rice had to have been sitting in that boardroom down there, too, trying to figure out ways to get control of that pipeline so the oil and gas could get out."
Following the trail and the trial of James H. Giffen makes for interesting reading:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/archive/05-16-02_Chin-Pt_2.pdf
http://enews.ferghana.ru/4printer.php?id=1230
http://kazhegeldin.addr.com/2004en/engl_03_06_04.html
None of the right parties were being asked the right questions nor were any of the right issues addressed by the bogus 9-11 Commission that Bush appointed.
It would be a systematic, slow and painful process but in the end it would be beyond painful for certain parties. In the end, it would be a long overdue flushing of the toilet that is Washington, DC.
Bear in mind, these are the 9-11 Commission members that keep holding press conferences urging the President and Congress to implement their plan and findings, with all urgency.
Yes, they are urgent because the Truth is on their trail...
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:12am | ignore this pe
The Media is in on the coverup…
Talking Head Barry McCaffrey and his Raytheon:
Background
Vertex Aerospace LLC, formerly Raytheon Aerospace LLC, was acquired by Veritas Capital, a private equity investment firm, in 2001. The company changed its name from Raytheon Aerospace LLC in June 2003, but Raytheon Company (its former parent) retains about a quarter of the company.
Vertex Aerospace LLC has its headquarters in Madison, Miss. The company is considered one of the leaders in aviation and aerospace technical services, and its 6,300 employees operate in 42 states and 32 countries. About 95 percent of its sales are for the U.S. government, and its annual 2001 sales totaled about $500 million.
From 1997 to 2002, Vertex Aerospace (then Raytheon Aerospace) received around $2.1 billion in U.S. government contracts.
Former parent Raytheon, which maintains an interest in Vertex Aerospace, had more than 5,300 contracts with the U.S. government from 1990 through 2002 worth nearly $58.5 billion.
Barry McCaffrey, a member of the board of directors, was on the advisory board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a Washington lobbying group formed in October 2002 to increase public support for the war in Iraq. Richard Perle, who serves on the Defense Policy Board, a government-appointed group that advises the Pentagon, served on the same committee. Perle, who advised the Turkish government through his International Advisers Inc., also helped the Raytheon Company in attempts to sell its Patriot missiles to Turkey in the early 1990s. In June 1991, the Defense Department awarded Raytheon a $346.3 million modification to an existing contract, which included funding for 32 Patriot missiles for Turkey under a foreign military sale. Afghanistan contracts
According to a list of Pentagon contracts, Vertex Aerospace has a contract for aircraft equipment maintenance and repair in Afghanistan worth nearly $7.4 million. Government ties
According to chairman of the board Robert McKeon, the former government officials that work for Vertex or serve on its board offer "insight, not political connections or clout. They know what our customer, the Pentagon, needs and wants." Members of Vertex's board of directors who have government connections are indeed numerous.
Director Richard Hawley, who spent 35 years with the U.S. Air Force, served as Air Combat Commander from 1996 to 1999 and the commander of the Allied Air Forces Central Europe and the U.S. Air Forces Europe from 1995 to 1996. He was a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Director Barry McCaffrey served as the head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy from 1996 to 2001. Prior to assuming his "drug czar" duties, McCaffrey had a long career with the military, culminating in his service as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Southern Command from 1994 to 1996. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy. McCaffrey serves as a frequent media commentator on military matters, including the most recent Iraq war.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=46
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:12am | ignore this person
http://mail.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=8888651&conte nt_dir=ua_congressorg
The Phony "War on Terror"
Tom Ridge Confesses Terror Alerts Were Bogus What better way to distract people in order to consolidate one's power than to keep the masses afraid?
Have you noticed there is a pattern to the "Terror Threats?" Everytime bad news comes out about the Bush Administration, we are treated with more "terror threats", or the face of yet another "terrorist" is plastered on every newspaper, every television program, and talked about endlessly. What a great way to take the attention off of the corrupt Bush Regime. How very convenient. Have you noticed the pattern?
If not, pay careful attention, America. We are being played for fools. Tom Ridge Confesses Terror Alerts Were Bogus
As most intelligent Americans have already suspected, the so-called "terror alerts" announced by the Department of Homeland Security during the past several years were completely bogus and were used by the Bush-Cheney Regime as a propaganda ploy to promote the equally bogus "War on Terrorism."
Former Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said that Bush Regime officials forced him to elevate the "threat level" on what he calls "flimsy evidence," reports USA Today.
Ridge, who introduced the goofy color-coded "terror alert" system in 2002, attempted to rationalize his behavior during a Washington press conference.
Current US Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff (whose last name means "of the devil" in Russian) is allegedly deciding how quickly to scrap the color code alert system.
The color alert system has not been changed since December 2003 when it was moved from yellow to orange.
Red" presumably means that the entire nation gets shut down military dictatorship style, since presumably "terrorists" will be found hiding under every citizen's bed.
According to USA Today, "the level is raised if a majority on the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council favors it and President Bush concurs. Among those on the council with Ridge were Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI chief Robert Mueller, CIA director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell."
The color-coded system was a laughing stock from the start.
Wags noted -- if the color is orange, does that mean we should all wear orange and if you don't, then that means you're a terrorist.
The infantile American population, however, accepted this Ridge nonsense without protest.
Now that Tom Ridge has confessed that the terror alerts were bogus, bamboozled Americans can once again go back to sleep...
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:14am | ignore this person
The Sincerest Form of Flattery Private equity firms follow in Carlyle Group's footsteps
Veritas Capital Management is the 41st largest defense contractor and second only to the Carlyle Group among private equity firms. Though Veritas doesn't have any marquee former politicians in its ranks, its roster includes Adm. Joseph W. Prueher, ex-commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command and former U.S. ambassador to China; Gulf War I veteran and former U.S. Southern Command chief Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey; former commander-in-chief of Allied Forces in Southern Europe Admiral Leighton W. ("Snuffy") Smith; former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command Gen. Anthony C. Zinni; and Gen. Richard E. Hawley, former commander of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
The companies it has invested in have been very successful in bagging defense contracts, with nine of them winning Pentagon deals since 1998. More than 70 percent of the firm's contracts were brought in by Vertex Aerospace (formerly Raytheon Aerospace, part of the Raytheon Corp.), which provides aviation and aerospace technical services to the Pentagon and other branches of the U.S. government. Veritas sold Vertex in December 2003.
When Veritas bought MZM and renamed it Athena Solutions, James C. King, now Athena CEO, commented enthusiastically about the involvement of the Veritas Capital Defense and Aerospace Advisory Council in the sale. The Advisory Council includes the Honorable Richard Armitage, General Richard Hawley, General Barry McCaffrey, Admiral Jospeh Prueher, Admiral Leighton Smith and General Anthony Zinni.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/report.aspx?aid=425
http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/blog/mrs_panstreppon/2006/jun/14/more_on _mitchell_j_wade_mzm_inc
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:30am | ignore this person
The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1458
The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) was set up in late 2002 by Bruce Jackson, a director of the Project for the New American Century and former Lockheed Martin vice president. In an interview with the American Prospect's John Judis, Jackson said that acqaintances in the Bush administration asked him if he could replicate the success he had had pushing for NATO expansion through his U.S. Committee for NATO by establishing an outfit aimed at supporting the administration's campaign to convince Congress and the public to go along with a war. He said, "People in the White House said, 'We need you to do for Iraq what you did for NATO.'" (4)
Although the committee's advisory panel included a few relative moderates like Steven Solarz and Robert Kerrey, it was dominated by neocons and foreign policy hawks like Jeane Kirkpatrick, Robert Kagan, Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, William Kristol, and James Woolsey.
In a policy report about the committee, Jim Lobe wrote that CLI "appears to be a spin-off from the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a front group consisting mainly of neoconservative Jews and heavy-hitters from the Christian Right whose public recommendations on fighting President George W. Bush's 'war against terrorism' and alignment with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the second intifada have anticipated to a remarkable degree the administration's policy course." (2)
Since the "official end of hostilities" in Iraq, the committee appears to have disbanded, and its web site has been taken down.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
November 19, 2002
The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq bills itself as an NGO comprised of a "distinguished group of Americans" who want to bomb Saddam Hussein out of existence. Of course, NGO is a misnomer for this particular organization because its advisory board is stacked with former government types, including George Shultz. The president of the Committee is Randy Scheunemann, Trent Lott's former chief national-security adviser. Last year Scheunemann worked for Donald Rumsfeld as a consultant on Iraq policy. The Committee chairman is Bruce P. Jackson, the former vice president of the mega-defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Jackson chaired the Republican Party Platform's subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy when Bush ran for president in 2000. Jackson was also big on expanding the role of NATO -- think of all the new weapons that will be required -- and headed up a campaign to get Congress to ratify NATO's eastward expansion. Other NGO types include former Senator Bob Kerrey and former "Drug Czar" Barry McCaffrey. You may remember McCaffrey. As a two-star general and Gulf War "hero," McCaffrey ordered the massacre of hundreds of retreating soldiers and civilians on the Basra road from Kuwait to southern Iraq.
On November 15 US Newswire released a Committee press release. "The Committee was formed to promote regional peace, political freedom and international security through replacement of the Saddam Hussein regime with a democratic government that respects the rights of the Iraqi people and ceases to threaten the community of nations."
The Committee press release, however, mentions absolutely nothing about how these objectives will be achieved. But then, considering who is involved with the Committee, we don't need much of an explanation -- in essence, the Committee is a PR front for the Bush attack Iraq policy currently under way full steam ahead. The Committee is little more than an extension of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), an "educational" organization packed with neocons such as William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC, according to its web page, is "dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle." In other words, Pax Americana installed unilaterally by way of bunker-buster and cluster bomb diplomacy. Lest you think PNAC and the Committee are not joined at the hip, consider who agreed to be an officer of this new (non) NGO -- Gary Schmitt, PNAC's executive director.
The devil is in the details. One such detail concerns retired four star General Wayne Downing, an erstwhile lobbyist for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), the CIA bankrolled "opposition" to Saddam Hussein. It is estimated the CIA forked out between $60 and $70 million to get the INC rolling back in the early 90s. Another detail is Ahmed Chalabi, head of the INC and a former businessman and son of a wealthy banking family who has not stepped foot inside Iraqi since 1956.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/credib/2002/1119bush.htm
Posted by PLUNGER 07/08/2006 @ 07:43am | ignore this person
CORPORATE MEDIA MANIPULATION & COVERUP
9/11 was the PRETEXT.
THEY ALL KNEW IT WAS COMING:
The Committee, PNAC, AEI, CPSG -- who can tell these so-called NGOs apart without a scorecard? In fact, according to the Sunday Herald, Bush's Pax Americana plan was sketched out before he was appointed president in 2000. A Bushite rogue's gallery -- consisting of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- eagerly adopted a document entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century" writt | |
