Re: "The Chickens are coming home to roost." ? Malcolm X

--- In cia-drugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Millegan <RAMillegan@xxxx> 
wrote:
>
"The Chickens are coming home to roost. ? Malcolm X"

He said the above in refernece to the JFK assassination, which, as 
far as I can tell, is about as far off the mark as you can be.






http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_14.htm
> A Strategy of Tension
> 
> The Chickens are coming home to roost. ? Malcolm X
> 
> Like the Reischtag fire, the Oklahoma City bombing served as the  
> catalyst to impose a new wave of draconian legislation on the  
> American people.
> 
> The bombing also dovetailed perfectly with the policy of blaming 
pre- 
> arranged groups, developed in early 1980s by the CIA's Vince  
> Cannistraro working in tandem with Oliver North to develop the 
policy  
> that was used to divert attention onto Libya in the Lockerbie 
bombing.
> 
> The CIA had established a precedent for such policies more than 
forty  
> years ago in Italy and Greece, when the OSS intervened in those  
> countries' elections by supporting fascist collaborators who 
would  
> attack the population and disrupt political proceedings. Through  
> Operation SHEEPSKIN, the CIA worked with former Nazi collaborators 
in  
> Greece to institute a campaign of black propaganda, terrorist  
> bombings and other provocations to be blamed on the Left, 
resulting  
> in a fascist coup and the murder and repression of thousands.
> 
> The CIA helped create a "Strategy of Tension" in Italy through  
> collaboration with the Mafia, corrupt Italian secret services, 
and  
> fascists working through Masonic Mafia-linked societies such as 
Licio  
> Gelli's Propaganda Due (P2 Lodge). Gelli (AKA: the "Puppet 
Master")  
> had been friends with fascists such as Italian Dictator Benito  
> Mussolini, Croatia's Dr Pavlic, and Juan Peron of Argentina, and 
had  
> also fought with the fascist Italian Blackshirt division during 
the  
> Spanish Civil War.
> 
> Gelli's P2 and elements within the Vatican (such as Father 
Krujoslav  
> Dragonovic, a Croatian Catholic priest ? one of many who had 
helped  
> the CIA export Nazi war criminals out of Germany through its Rat  
> Lines), working in conjunction with the CIA, aligned itself with  
> criminals, corrupt police, and high government officials to 
discredit  
> the emerging Left and stage a fascist coup. "The Vatican's fear 
was  
> clear: Communism posed a threat to its religious, political, and  
> economic strength."[1294]
> 
> On behalf of democracy, the Mafia enlisted as their agent 
Salvatore  
> Giuliano. He and his cousin Gaspere Pisciotta led their men into  
> Portella della Ginestra. Without prejudice, they shot and killed 
a  
> dozen people and wounded more than fifty others. New elections 
were  
> held, and the Christian Democratic party won a resounding 
victory.  
> Later, at the orders of the Mafia, Pisciotta murdered Salvatore  
> Giuliano. At his trial, Gaspere Pisciotta said of the 
massacre, "We  
> were a single body: bandits, police, and Mafia, like the Father, 
the  
> Son, and the Holy Ghost."[1295]
> 
> P2 ? essentially a Right-wing parallel government, was aligned 
with a  
> super-secret Italian organization called Il Gladio ? set up in 
1956  
> with the help of British Intelligence and the CIA. Gladio was 
part  
> and parcel of MI5 and the CIA's 1948 efforts to establish a 
European  
> "Stay Behind" network of guerrilla fighters who would conduct 
covert  
> operations after a Soviet invasion ? using arms and explosives 
which  
> had been previously cached.
> 
> This network was conceived by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and  
> organized by the NSC, which set up the Office of Policy Co-
ordination  
> to run it, staffed and funded by the CIA. Like Operation 
SHEEPSKIN,  
> most of the so-called "freedom fighters" it recruited were little  
> more than fascist collaborators from WWII. And like the Nazi  
> organization ODESSA with which it often collaborated, its 
tentacles  
> extended throughout Europe and Latin America, and even the United  
> States.[1296]
> 
> While the main focus of Gladio was to resist a potential Soviet  
> invasion, its fascist roots and violent history indicate it has  
> served mainly as a policy instrument to resist internal 
subversion ?  
> through terrorist means. This goal was revealed in a briefing 
minute  
> of June 1, 1959, which stated Gladio's concern with "internal  
> subversion" and it's determination to play a role in the "politics 
of  
> emergency." This emergency would come about during the 1960s and  
> 1970s with the emergence of the anti-Capitalist movement, and the  
> shift from the Center to the Left by the ruling Christian 
Democratic  
> Party.[1297]
> 
> The covert objectives of Gladio were to spread panic and unrest  
> through the implementation of "terrorist outrages," and also to  
> directly attack the Left in an attempt to provoke them into an 
armed  
> response. The purpose of this strategy was to demonize the Left 
and  
> isolate them from popular support, while providing an excuse to  
> curtain civil liberties. As a 1969 memo from Aginter Press, a 
fascist  
> front group, explained:
> 
> Our belief is that the first phase of political activity ought to 
be  
> to create the conditions favouring the installation of chaos in 
all  
> of the regime's structures. This should necessarily begin with 
the  
> undermining of the state economy so as to arrive at confusion  
> throughout the whole legal apparatus. This leads on to a situation 
of  
> strong political tension, fear in the world of industry and 
hostility  
> towards the government and the political parties.? In our view 
the  
> first move we should make is to destroy the structure of the  
> democratic state, under the cover of communist and pro-Chinese  
> activities. Moreover, we have people who have infiltrated these  
> groups and obviously we will have to tailor our actions to the 
ethos  
> of the milieu ? propaganda and action of a sort which will seem 
to  
> have emanated from our communist adversaries and pressure brought 
to  
> bear on people in whom power is invested at every level. That 
will  
> create a feeling of hostility towards those who threaten the 
people  
> of each and every nation, and at the same time we must raise up a  
> defender of the citizenry against the disintegration brought about 
by  
> terrorism and subversion.?[1298]
> 
> General Gerardo Serravalle, head of "Office R" from 1971-1974 
(the  
> secret service office that controlled Gladio), revealed that at a  
> Gladio meeting in 1972, at least half of the upper echelons "had 
the  
> idea of attacking the Communists before an invasion. They were  
> preparing for civil war."[1299] As the 1969 dispatch added:
> 
> The introduction of provocateur elements into the circles of the  
> revolutionary left is merely a reflection of the wish to push 
this  
> unstable situation to breaking point and create a climate of 
chaos? 
> [1300]
> 
> One early Gladio-precipitated incident was the December, 12, 1969  
> bombing of the Banca Nazionale del' Agricultura in Milan's Piazza  
> Fontana. The attack killed 16 people and wounded 88. Police  
> immediatly arrested and blamed anarchists. One anarchist leader,  
> Giuseppe Pinelli, took the fall for the bombing, literally, when  
> police tossed him out the window of the local precinct 
headquarters.
> 
> In addition to this, the Procurator General of the Republic, De  
> Peppo, ordered the one unexploded bomb found in the wreckage to 
be  
> detonated immediately. As in Oklahoma, the destruction of this  
> evidence destroyed the single best chance at uncovering the true  
> perpetrators of the deadly attack.[1301]
> 
> Nevertheless, police eventually discovered the real perpetrators ?
  
> two fascists: Franco Freda and Giovanni Ventura. Ventura, it 
seems,  
> was in close contact with Colonel Guido Giannettinni of the SID 
(part  
> of the secret services), who was a fervent supporter of MSI. The  
> trial of Ventura and Freda was delayed for 12 years, when they 
were  
> finally given life sentences, only to be cleared on appeal.[1302]
[1303]
> 
> Former Gladio agents also attributed the 1969 Piazza Fontana 
bombing  
> and the 1974 [and subsequent 1980] Bologna bombings, which 
resulted  
> in over 113 deaths and 185 injured, to P2. These attacks include 
the  
> Mafia's involvement in the Red Brigade's kidnap and murder of 
Italian  
> Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978. The P2 organization was also  
> suspected of the 1976 assassination of Italian magistrate 
Vittoria  
> Occorsio. Occorsio was investigating P2 links to neo-Nazi  
> organizations at the time. His death conveniently terminated any  
> further investigation.[1304]
> 
> This "strategy of tension," organized around a brutal campaign of  
> terror and murder, resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people  
> during the decades of the 1970s and '80s. The wave of terror led 
to  
> the severe restriction of civil rights, with the 1975 law 
restricting  
> popular campaigning and radical political discussion. Many people  
> were locked up under "anti-terrorist" legislation (sound 
familiar?)  
> or expelled from the country.
> 
> As the Left (the Red Brigades) resorted to armed struggle to 
defend  
> themselves, it only strengthened Gladio/P2's position. The Red  
> Brigades, which had been systematically infiltrated by the secret  
> services, were repeatedly blamed for the attacks, all the while  
> unknowingly serving the agenda of the fascist P2 establishment.
> 
> One unforgetable example of this wave of terror was the Bologna  
> railway bombing in 1980, that killed 80 people and injured over 
160.  
> While reportedly masterminded by P2 members Stefano Delle Chiaie 
and  
> Licio Gelli, the attack was blamed on the Red Brigades to 
discredit  
> the Italian Communist party. According to author Steve Mizrach:
> 
> Some Italian political analysts believe that P2 and "Ordine  
> Nuova" (New Order) may have cooperated with the CIA [to bomb the  
> railway station].? There are clearly overlapping circles of  
> membership between P2, the CIA, and the Knights of Malta, a  
> "sovereign military order descended from the Knights of St. John- 
> Hospitallers," and whose membership in the U.S. has included Bill  
> Casey, Alexander Haig, and Prescott Bush [and reportedly George 
Bush]. 
> [1305]
> 
> This covertly-orchestrated "strategy of tension" would repeat 
itself  
> in Belgium in the mid-80s, in a bizarre series of killings called 
the  
> "Supermarket Massacres," in which hooded gunmen walked into 
crowded  
> supermarkets and began firing away. The massacres, orchestrated by 
a  
> group calling itself the "Killers of Brabant," were later 
discovered  
> to be linked to Belgium's Gladio unit.
> 
> The Supermarket massacres occurred during the period when the 
U.S.  
> was pushing a plan to base the Euro-Missiles (nuclear-tipped 
Cruise  
> missiles) in different European countries. The plan led to huge  
> demonstrations in Europe, with certain countries threatening to 
break  
> ranks with NATO. Belgium was one of those countries. The Belgian  
> Parliament, which investigated the incidents, felt that they were  
> another attempt to sow confusion and fear among the populace, 
thereby  
> generating public outcries for a law-and-order government which 
would  
> be amenable to the Euro-Missles.[1306]
> 
> Proof surfaced when a former gendarme, Madani Bouhouche, who 
worked  
> for state security and was a member of a neo-Nazi paramilitary 
group  
> Westland New Post (WNP), was arrested with one of the murder 
weapons.  
> The next day, Bouhouche's friend and fellow Right-wing militant 
Jean  
> Bultot fled to Paraguay (a popular respite for Nazis). While in  
> Paraguay, Bultot admitted to Belgian journalist René Haquin that 
the  
> killings were a state security destabilization operation with  
> government participation "at every level."
> 
> On January 25, 1988, another former gendarme, Robert Beyer, who  
> police caught with a file of state security agents and addresses 
of  
> garages filled with stolen arms, stated on Belgian television 
that  
> state security had provided the weapons used by the killers.[1307]
> 
> One of the attacks, the 1982 bombing of a Synagogue on the Rue de 
la  
> Régence in Brussels, was linked to a security guard for the 
Wackenhut  
> Corporation ? Marcel Barbier. An ardent anti-Semite and member of 
the  
> WNP, Barbier had been guarding the synagogue when it was attacked. 
In  
> August of 1993, police discovered plans of the synagogue in 
Barbier's  
> home, with detailed points of access. The Belgian director of  
> Wackenhut at the time was Jean-Francis Calmette, a member of the 
WNP. 
> [1308]
> 
> The parallel to the European "Strategy of Tension" is strikingly  
> similar to the Oklahoma City bombing. The U.S. establishment, 
which  
> has sought to demonize the Patriot/Militia Movement in the 
aftermath  
> of the attack, is following the exact same path that Gladio/P2  
> followed a decade earlier. Their links and associations to P2 
(which  
> will be detailed in Volume Two) make the parallel all the more 
ominous.
> 
> In 1994, a car-bomb blew up a Jewish community center in Buenos  
> Aires, killing 87 people. Police blamed the attack on unnamed 
Arab  
> militants. Yet in July of 1996, Argentine authorities arrested 17  
> police officers in connection with the attack.[1309]
> 
> On October 3, 1980 the Paris synagogue on rue Copernic was 
bombed,  
> killing four people and injuring 24 others. In media reports  
> suspiciously similar to the Oklahoma City bombing, it was 
announced  
> that "Right-wing" extremists were involved. Yet French 
intelligence  
> pointed fingers at the Mossad. One French Intelligence report 
stated:
> 
> On April 6, 1979, the same Mossad terror unit now suspected of 
the  
> Copernicus carnage blew up the heavily guarded plant of CNIM  
> industries at La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon, in southeast France,  
> where a consortium of French firms was building a nuclear reactor 
for  
> Iraq.? The Mossad salted the site of the CNIM bomb blast 
with 'clues'  
> followed up with anonymous phone calls to police ? suggesting 
that  
> the sabotage was the work of a conservative environmentalist 
group?.
> 
> Two years later, six people were killed and 22 injured when  
> terrorists attacked Goldenberger's Deli in Paris. Again, "Right-
wing  
> extremists" were blamed. Implicated in the attack was one Jean-
Marc  
> Rouillan, leader of a mysterious Left-wing group called Direct  
> Action. While the real facts were being covered up by the 
government,  
> angry French intelligence officers ? some who had quit in disgust ?
  
> decided to leak the story to the Algerian National News Service.  
> Rouillan, it turns out, had been operating in the Mediterranean 
under  
> the cover name of "Sebas" and had been linked to the Mossad.[1310]
> 
> Illustrating the concept of trained killers who work on a "need-to-
 
> know" basis, former Mossad Agent Ari Ben-Menashe describes how 
Abu  
> Abbas launched an attack on the Greek Cruise ship Achille Lauro 
in  
> 1985. According to Ben-Menashe, Rafi Eitan, the director of Lakam, 
a  
> super-secret agency in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, gave 
orders  
> to former Jordanian Army Colonel Mohammed Radi Abdullah,[Libel -  
> 1391] who passed on instructions to Abu'l Abbas, leader of the 
Tunis- 
> based PLF, who in turn was receiving millions from Israeli  
> intelligence officers posing as Sicilian dons. Abbas' orders were 
to  
> "make it look bad," and to show what a deadly, cutthroat bunch 
the  
> Palestinians were." The "terrorists" complied by killing Leon  
> Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish man in a wheelchair, then throwing 
his  
> body overboard. As Ben-Menashe states, the entire operation was  
> nothing more than an "Israeli 'black' propaganda operation."[1311]
> 
> Nidal began his long and bloody career in the PLO, only to become 
a  
> bitter rival of Yasser Arafat. It was a situation that the 
Israeli  
> Mossad, in a manner similar to their CIA cousins, would seek to  
> exploit. As Middle East expert Patrick Seale writes:
> 
> Israeli penetration of Palestinian organizations was common, but 
it  
> was clearly not the whole story. Most intelligence sources I  
> consulted agreed that it was standard practice to use penetration  
> agents not simply to neutralize or destroy the enemy but to try 
to  
> manipulate him so that he did one's bidding without always being  
> aware of doing so.?
> 
> Whatever jobs [Abu Nidal] might have done for Arab sponsors, and 
they  
> had been numerous and nasty, he had done many other jobs from 
which  
> Israel alone appeared to benefit."[1312]
> 
> Confirming Seale's theory are top Middle East terrorism experts,  
> including intelligence officers in Arab countries, and even 
within  
> Abu Nidal's own organization. One French terrorism expert 
stated: "If  
> Abu Nidal himself is not an Israeli agent, then two or three of 
his  
> senior people most certainly are. Nothing else can explain some 
of  
> his operations?"
> 
> A former senior Jordanian intelligence officer said: "Scratch 
around  
> inside Abu Nidal's organization and you will find Mossad."
> 
> Backing up these reports was a former member of Abu Nidal's own  
> Justice Committee, who told Seale that Mossad agents captured by 
Abu  
> Nidal were usually killed very quickly to prevent them from  
> confessing their true motives.
> 
> Abu Iyad, former chief of PLO Intelligence, added, "Every 
Palestinian  
> who works in intelligence is convinced that Israel has a big hand 
in  
> Abu Nidal's affairs."[1313]
> 
> Nidal's organization has been responsible for some of the most 
brutal  
> acts of terrorism in the world. According to the State 
Department,  
> Abu Nidal has carried out more than 100 acts or terrorism that 
have  
> resulted in the deaths of over 280 people. Some of these attacks  
> include the 1986 grenade and machine-gun assaults on El Al 
counters  
> at the Rome and Vienna airports, attacks on synagogues, and  
> assassinations of Palestinian moderates.
> 
> He (Iyad) had told me that Abu Nidal's murdering Palestinian  
> moderates was connected with [former Israeli Prime Minister] 
Begin's  
> determination never to negotiate with Palestinians for fear of 
losing  
> the West Bank. For Begin (who had once called the 
Palestinians "two- 
> legged animals" worthy of extinction), the moderates, who wanted 
to  
> negotiate, were the real danger and had to be eliminated. If the  
> Israelis had in fact infiltrated Abu Nidal's organization, 
perhaps  
> some spymaster in Jerusalem had said, 'We've got someone who can 
do  
> the job for us.'
> 
> Abu Nidal's most well-known attack was on a Greek cruise ship in 
1988  
> that left nine people dead and 80 wounded. As Seale points out  
> regarding the attack on the vessel City of Poros, "no conceivable  
> Palestinian or Arab interest was served by such random savagery." 
In  
> fact, Greece was the European country most sympathetic to the  
> Palestinian cause, its prime minister, Andreas Papandreou, often  
> defending Arabs against Israel's charges of terrorism. After the  
> attack, Greece was furious with the Palestinians, who had damaged 
the  
> Greek tourist trade and hastened the fall of the Papandreou 
regime.  
> The motive, as in the Achille Lauro attack, was apparently to 
cast  
> the Palestinians as heartless murderers. Several sources that 
Seale  
> consulted were convinced the attack was a typical Mossad 
operation. 
> [1314]
> 
> What is curious is that Israel has never punished Abu Nidal's  
> organization. Israel has a long-standing policy of launching  
> immediate and massive retaliation against any terrorist attack. 
While  
> Israeli forces have bombed, shelled and raided Palestinian and  
> Shi'ite positions in Lebanon, and have sent hit teams to kill  
> Palestinian guerrilla leaders in other countries, they have never  
> attacked Abu Nidal. Given Israel's harsh and unrelenting policy 
of  
> retribution against terrorist attacks, this seems more than a bit  
> bizarre. As Seale concludes:
> 
> Abu Nidal is a professional killer who has sold his deadly 
services  
> certainly to the Arabs and perhaps to the Israelis as well. His  
> genius has been to understand that states will commit any crime 
in  
> the name of national interest. A criminal like Abu Nidal can 
flourish  
> doing their dirty work.[1315]
> 
> Former DEA agent Mike Levine described how an organization called 
the  
> "Triangle of Death," founded by Nazis, would blow up whole planes 
to  
> kill one person. The organization, based in Paraguay, ran heroin 
and  
> cocaine, and committed murders for the French Secret 
Service. "The  
> quid pro quo agreement they had with the CIA and the French 
Secret  
> Service," said Levine, "is that you protect us and we'll do you  
> favors. And they did, and they got their protection.[1316]
> 
> One of the most recent examples of the use of "false  
> flags" (scapegoats) was the November 4, 1995 assassination of 
Israeli  
> Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In a classic case of political  
> demonizing strikingly similar to the Oklahoma City bombing, the  
> gunman, Yigal Amir, was held out to be a "Right-wing fanatic." As  
> William Jasper writes:
> 
> The alleged gunman, Yigal Amir, was said to be a "fanatic Jewish  
> fundamentalist." What's more, we were told repeatedly, he was part 
of  
> a conspiracy of "religious extremists" ? a conspiracy so 
nefarious  
> and immense, mind you, that it had achieved meteorological  
> significance, creating a "climate of hate" and an "atmosphere of  
> violence." According to Time magazine, Rabin's opponents had 
created  
> climatologically "the equivalent of the Right-wing milieu that led 
to  
> the Oklahoma City bombing." In fact, said Time, even if Amir had  
> acted alone, "he had many ideational conspirators."[1317]
> 
> But unlike the massive cover-up obsfucating the Oklahoma City  
> bombing, it didn't take long for investigators to discover that 
Amir  
> was actually a paid informant for the Israeli security service, 
the  
> Shabak. Amir had been inexplicably allowed through Rabin's 
protective  
> security perimeter, and his suspected accomplice ? leader of the  
> Right-wing extremist group Eyal, Avishai Raviv, turned out to be 
a  
> Shin Bet operative (General Security Service, the Israeli 
equivalent  
> to the FBI).
> 
> Rabin's controversial peace talks with the Palestinians ? which 
would  
> have sacrificed significant amounts of land and compromised 
Israel's  
> security ? had made him highly unpopular with Right-wing 
elements,  
> including traditional Jews and many military officials. In fact,  
> Hamas suicide bombers were wrecking havoc with Israel's 
population. A  
> writer in the Jerusalem Post wrote: "If Yizhak Rabin were 
alive ....  
> he would probably have been asked to resign."
> 
> The irony was that the Shin Bet was controlled by Rabin himself, 
who  
> had personally selected its head, and served as its supreme chief. 
In  
> a policy suspiciously similar to the Oklahoma City situation, 
instead  
> of employing the Shin Bet to protect Israelis from Arab 
terrorists ?  
> its primary task ? Rabin employed them to infiltrate and smear 
his  
> Right-wing opponents. Politicizing the Shin Bet for his own 
purposes,  
> Rabin began orchestrating an Israeli version of COINTELPRO (the 
FBI's  
> program of infiltrating and compromising the anti-war and New 
Left  
> movements of the 1960s and '70s, and which is going on today 
against  
> the militias). This included setting up phony Right-wing militant  
> groups such as Raviv's Eyal.
> 
> As Rabin's popularity ratings dropped to a mere 32 percent, he  
> escalated his dirty-tricks campaign, using agents provocateur to  
> attack and smear the Prime Minister, who would then publicly  
> criticize them for planning public disorder. Raviv's job was to  
> distribute fervid "anti-government literature" which contributed 
to  
> the "climate of hate" that allegedly motivated Amir. The coup de 
etat  
> in this covert campaign would come in the form of a phony  
> assassination attempt on Rabin himself. The Shin Bet would foil 
the  
> gunman at the last moment, and all the world would see first-hand  
> evidence of the crazy Right-wing conspirators.
> 
> Yet, like the disastrous sting attempt in Oklahoma City, this 
covert  
> operation went horribly wrong. When Amir realized that his 
mentor,  
> Raviv, was a Shin Bet operative, he cleverly fed him false  
> information. Certain that the boastful and talkative Amir would  
> inform his trusted mentor of the moment of his attack (as the FBI  
> assumed with Emad Salem in the World Trade Center bombing), the 
Shin  
> Bet dropped their guard, and Rabin paid the price for his 
mendacity.
> 
> At least that is what is obvious. What is not obvious is why the 
Shin  
> Bet, who not only controlled Raviv but had ample notice of the 
threat  
> on the Prime Minister's life, failed to prevent the assassination. 
As  
> authors Uri Dan and Dennis Eisenberg note: "No human shield was  
> formed around Rabin, surveillance of the crowd was lax, Rabin 
wasn't  
> wearing a bullet-proof vest, and an [apparently] unknown 25-year-
old  
> was able to gain unobstructed access to Rabin."[1318] The 
parallels  
> to the Oklahoma City bombing are all too familiar.
> 
> Naturally, Prime Minister Shimon Peres, like his counterpart,  
> President Clinton in regards to Oklahoma, would promote the idea 
that  
> Rabin was killed by a pair of disgruntled "Right-wingers. And 
like  
> his American counterpart, Peres promised to crack down 
on "political  
> dissent."[1319]
> 
> On his August 19, 1995 radio address, President Clinton 
complained  
> that Congress still had not passed "his" Anti-Terrorism 
Bill. "It's  
> hard to imagine what more must happen to convince Congress to 
pass  
> that bill," Clinton warned, in the manner of an ominously veiled 
threat.
> 
> Then just two months later, on October 9, the nation witnessed 
its  
> first attack on a passenger train, when Amtrak's "Sunset Limited" 
was  
> derailed while enroute from Phoenix to San Diego. The derailment,  
> caused by sabotage, resulted in over 100 injuries, including one 
death.
> 
> The terrorists left behind a cryptic note, calling themselves the  
> "Sons of the Gestapo." The mainstream press quickly jumped on 
this  
> latest "terrorist" attack, coming as it did only six months after 
the  
> Oklahoma City bombing. While no one, including law-enforcement  
> officials, had ever heard of the "Sons of the Gestapo," the 
purveyors  
> of deception immediately played it up as the obvious work of 
a "Right- 
> wing" militia group.
> 
> FBI officials were more cautious however, speculating that the 
attack  
> may have been the result of a "disgruntled employee." Exhaustive  
> searches through numerous data-bases revealed no group 
called "Sons  
> of the Gestapo," and only someone with the technical knowledge  
> necessary to disable a warning system on a railroad track would 
be  
> capable of executing such a stunt.
> 
> It may not have mattered however. In the aftermath of the 
Oklahoma  
> City bombing, any such attack on American citizens would be 
excuse  
> enough to push the Anti-Terrorism Bill through Congress. And the  
> press and anti-militia activists such as the ADL and the SPLC 
were  
> eager to jump on the militia connection. "Sons of the Gestapo," 
they  
> asserted, could only be the pseudonym for a Right-wing hate-group.
> 
> Yet law-enforcement officials had only an enigmatic message to 
guide  
> them. The note left behind by the saboteurs rallied against the 
ATF  
> and FBI for their actions at Waco and Ruby Ridge, and 
stated, "This  
> is not Nazi Germany."
> 
> Why anyone would attack a passenger train to exact revenge on  
> government officials for killing innocent civilians (or blow up  
> babies as revenge for killing children) is beyond credulity. Yet, 
as  
> in the Oklahoma City case, this was the message that the 
saboteurs ?  
> and the government-controlled press ? wanted us to believe. 
America  
> was filled with hateful Right-wing extremists who would do 
anything ?  
> kill anyone, women, children, babies ? to pursue their violent 
anti- 
> government agenda.
> 
> As Attorney General Janet Reno announced in the Oklahoma City 
case,  
> so the local U.S. Attorney, Janet Napolitano would declare: "We 
are  
> going to pursue every bit of evidence and every lead very 
thoroughly?  
> until we find the person or persons who committed this 
crime."[1320]
> 
> While the FBI swarmed through Maricopa County, interrogating 
local  
> residents and harassing the few isolated "desert rats" who 
inhabited  
> the surrounding countryside, a real investigation was being 
conducted  
> by a lone Maricopa County Sheriff. With the assistance of Craig  
> Roberts, a retired Tulsa police officer with military 
intelligence  
> experience who worked on the Oklahoma City investigation, the 
Sheriff  
> was able to uncover some amazing information.
> 
> What they found was that other than rescue vehicles, there were 
no  
> vehicle tracks entering or exiting the crash site. Moreover, the 
site  
> itself was extremely remote, being near the summit of the rugged 
Gila  
> Bend Mountains, which surrounded the site to the east, north, and  
> west. It was there, along a sharp S-curve, that the perpetrators 
had  
> pulled 29 spikes from the tracks, causing the fatal crash.
> 
> Why had the perpetrators chosen such a remote location, Roberts  
> wondered? Had they picked a more accessible spot, he reasoned, it  
> would have surely lessened their chances of being caught, as all 
they  
> would have had to do was drive to the nearest highway. In this 
case,  
> the nearest road was Highway 8, 38 miles away, necessitating a  
> difficult drive over rugged terrain, at the same time as law- 
> enforcement officers would surely be on a heightened state of 
alert.
> 
> What Roberts and his sheriff partner also discovered was that 90  
> minutes away by air, in Pinal County, was a mysterious air-base 
known  
> as Marana. The locked-down facility was owned by Evergreen, Inc., 
a  
> government contractor reportedly involved in drug smuggling 
during  
> the Iran-Contra period. The base, located off of Highway 10 
between  
> Phoenix and Tucson, was the site of strange night-time training  
> maneuvers involving black and unmarked military-type helicopters.  
> Passersby had also witnessed black-clad troops dropping into the  
> desert en mass, using steerable black "Paracommander" parachutes.
> 
> This began to raise some interesting possibilities. Had the  
> perpetrators been dropped into the site by air, then picked up by  
> chopper? Both Roberts and his colleague at the Sheriff's 
Department  
> were experienced military pilots. They observed that it would 
have  
> been easy for a helicopter to fly low through the mountain 
passes,  
> avoiding radar, and insert and extract a team. As Roberts 
noted, "A  
> full moon, wind out of the south at 8 knots, and a clear sky? 
would  
> be an ideal night for air operations."[1321]
> 
> The possibilities of a covert paramilitary commando team being  
> responsible for the attack raised more than a few eyebrows at the  
> Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, until they began 
investigating  
> a lead provided by a sympathetic FBI agent that several hikers 
had  
> seen a small group of parachuters drop into the desert that 
night.  
> They also discovered the following information:
> 
> ?a VFR target squawking 1200 that left Tri-City airfield in  
> Albuquerque on a southwest course, climbed to 10,500 feet, then, 
when  
> it was exactly due east of the Amtrak site, turn due west and flew 
a  
> course line that took it one mile south of the site. But just 
before  
> arriving over the site, it dropped to 8,500 feet. After crossing 
the  
> target zone, it turned on a southwesterly course towards 
California  
> at 8,500 feet. Albuquerque contacted the Los Angeles Center which  
> tracked the aircraft to a landing at Montgomery Field in San Diego.
?  
> It crossed the valley south of the bridge at 1940 hours (7:40 p.m.)
> 
> Since the winds that night were at 8 knots out of the south, a 
drop  
> one mile from the target site would compensate for wind drift.  
> Moreover, such a flight is not required to file a flight plan 
listing  
> its passengers, and an aircraft flying out of Albuquerque, 
squawking  
> on transponder 1200 wouldn't look particularly suspicious.
> 
> When they checked with the refueler at Montgomery Field, the 
records  
> indicated that the "N" number checked to a Beachcraft, registered 
to  
> Raytheon. Raytheon owns E-systems. Like Evergreen, E-Systems, 
based  
> in Greenville, Texas, is a covert government contractor, 
reportedly  
> involved in drug-running. The NSA contractor allegedly developed  
> sophisticated systems to create electronic "holes" which would 
allow  
> planes to cross the border without tripping the NORAD Early 
Warning  
> Systems. E-Systems, which is reputed to have "wet- 
> teams" (assassination teams), was directed by former NSA Director 
and  
> CIA Deputy Director Bobby Ray Inman.
> 
> While it is possible a jump was made from the twin-engine 
Beechcraft,  
> a plane commonly used for such purposes, it still left the problem 
of  
> the team's extraction. With the radar track information, the 
Maricopa  
> Sheriff then went to the Air Force at Yuma, who monitor the 
Aerostat  
> radar drug balloons. The DEA balloons have "look-down" capability 
for  
> detecting low-flying aircraft. The Master Sergeant at Yuma agreed 
to  
> help out. A short time later he called back.
> 
> "Sorry," he said. "We can't help you out."
> 
> "What? Why?" asked Jack.
> 
> "The plug's been pulled."
> 
> "What does that mean?"
> 
> The sergeant sounded very uncomfortable when he replied. "We 
really  
> wanted to check this out, but all I can say is the balloons were 
down  
> that night."
> 
> "Why?" asked Jack.
> 
> "Maintenance."
> 
> "All of them?" asked Jack, incredulously.
> 
> "Yes, sir." The sergeant sounded very nervous.
> 
> "Why?"
> 
> "All I can tell you is that they were ordered down for 
maintenance.  
> It came from above my pay grade."
> 
> One has to wonder what "above my pay grade" means. Why would all 
the  
> balloons be ordered down for maintenance? Obviously, a cover-up 
was  
> in progress.
> 
> It was beginning to sound suspiciously like the hurried demolition 
of  
> the Oklahoma Federal Building, to prevent any independent 
forensic  
> analysis of the bomb site. Or the Secret Service removing 
President  
> Kennedy's protective bubble from his limousine; failing to secure 
the  
> windows and rooftops along the parade route; and changing the 
route  
> at the last minute.
> 
> Like the two foregoing examples, only the government ? or shadow  
> elements within the government ? had the capability of pulling 
that  
> off. No "lone nut" or criminal syndicate could order such last-
minute  
> changes, or orchestrate such a massive and well-executed cover-
up.  
> Moreover, no militia group could order all the radar balloons down 
on  
> the night of the attack.
> 
> As a Maricopa County resident stated to the Arizona Republic  
> regarding the FBI's so-called militia theory, "Buddy, you can't 
get  
> three people out here to get together on what kind of pickup to  
> drive, and you think we're going to form a militia?"
> 
> Obviously, no militia would benefit from such an attack. And what  
> about the "Sons of the Gestapo?" As Roberts wrote: "?as an old  
> Southeast Asia hand (a marine sniper during Vietnam), I remember 
that  
> one of the terms used by Phoenix Program assassins working under 
MACV- 
> SOG (Military Advisory Command, Studies and Observations Group) 
was a  
> twisted bar-room version of the last acronym. "Yeah," a drunk 
trooper  
> would mention. "I'm SOG? a son of the Gestapo."[1322]
> 
> The Phoenix assassination program, as previously discussed, was  
> organized by the CIA's William Colby, Ted Shackley, and fielded 
by  
> General John Singlaub. Singlaub commanded Second Lieutenant 
Oliver  
> North. Shackley, Singlaub, and North would go on to orchestrate 
the  
> secret and illegal Iran-Contra operation, smuggling drugs into 
this  
> country at such places as Mena, Arkansas? and Marana.[1323]
> 
> Curiously, whenever Iran-Contra drug shipments came in for the  
> California run, the drug balloons under "Operation Watchtower" 
were  
> shut down. Could this be the same mechanism that shut them down 
the  
> night of the attack?
> 
> Then, in September of 1997, a confidential FBI memo intended for 
the  
> U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix was accidentally faxed to the  
> Arizona Republic, the Associated Press, and other news media. The  
> memo states that the FBI's prime suspect is "a man with law  
> enforcement and firefighting experience who recently moved out of  
> Arizona."[1324]
> 
> Apparently, the "Sons of the Gestapo" note left behind was 
a "false  
> flag," a distraction designed to serve a political purpose. In 
this  
> case, that purpose ? like the Oklahoma bombing which preceded it ?
  
> was to connect the Amtrak attack with the Patriot/Militia 
movement.  
> Considering the reaction of the mainstream press, it appears they  
> have largely succeeded.
> 
> Interestingly, the same year as the Oklahoma City bombing, a 
grenade  
> exploded near the Citibank building in Manila. Another hit the 
Shell  
> Petroleum building. Four people were injured. The military 
claimed  
> the blasts were political statements from the leftist Alex 
Boncayao  
> Brigade (ABB).[1325] Yet five Philippine Congressmen accused the  
> military of carrying out the attack to justify the passage of anti-
 
> terrorism legislation.
> 
> The strongest accusation came from Makati Congressman Joker 
Arroyo,  
> who said the bombings could not have been staged by the  
> insurrectionary group, the Alex Boncayao Brigade or bank robbers.
> 
> "I don't think it is the ABB nor a bank robbery group as what the  
> police investigators said. Only the military has the capability 
of  
> using grenade launchers," Arroyo commented.[1326]
> 
> The U.S. certainly had its own share of manufactured incidents,  
> ranging from the sinking of the Lustitania to the Gulf of Tonkin  
> incident. Yet in the recent annals of CIA-connected provocations,  
> probably no better example exists than the 1985 bombing of the La  
> Belle Discotheque. The April 5th attack in Berlin killed two U.S.  
> servicemen and a Turkish woman, and left 200 others injured,  
> including 50 G.I.s.
> 
> Lybia was quickly blamed by the U.S. for the attack. Propagandized 
by  
> the American press as the preeminent sponsor of terrorism, Lybia 
had  
> early on incurred the wrath of the U.S. by attempting to throw 
off  
> the yoke of British and U.S. imperialism. Libyan President Muammar 
al- 
> Qaddafi, who came to power in 1969, nationalized oil production 
and  
> shut down U.S. military bases. Qaddafi began using the wealth  
> formerly exported to multinational corporations to improve the 
living  
> standards of his own people. Huge strides were made in education,  
> housing, medicine and agriculture in a county in which the 
literacy  
> rate had increased tenfold since 1969. While actually having the 
gall  
> to defer to his own people instead of the multinationals, Qaddafi  
> made the mistake of supporting national liberation and social 
justice  
> movements ? assisting such groups as the Sandinistas, the 
Basques,  
> the Kurds, and the Palestinians.[1327] This, unfortunately, also  
> included such terrorists as Abu Nidal.
> 
> In 1980, Ronald Reagan came to power on a pledge to restore U.S.  
> military might and prestige around the world (and also by making 
a  
> deal with the Iranians to hold the hostages until after his 
election.  
> This little scandal was known as "October Surprise.").
> 
> He had also pledged to combat terrorism (apparently, terrorism  
> sponsored by Reagan in Nicaragua and El Salvador was exempt from 
such  
> a pledge), and on the top of his hit-list was Libya. One of 
Reagan's  
> first acts was to order the CIA to destabilize, overthrow, and  
> assassinate Qaddafi. The attempts not only failed, but resulted in 
a  
> covert battle of nerves and dead bodies scattered across Europe.  
> After Abu Nidal's attacks on the Rome and Vienna airports in 
December  
> of 1986, Reagan imposed sanctions and asset freezes on Libya.
[1328]  
> Still this was not enough for the man who had pledged to vanquish  
> terrorism from the face of the earth (or at least certain parts of 
it).
> 
> Angry over the recent terrorist bombings, frustrated by the CIA's  
> failure to eliminate Qaddafi, and still smarting from Israeli 
rumors  
> of a Libyan hit-squad sent to assassinate him, the President 
opted  
> for a military-style assault. All the White House needed was an  
> excuse, and this came in the form of an attack on the La Belle  
> Discotheque. Nine days later, Reagan ordered U.S. planes to 
attack  
> the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, which resulted in over 
37  
> dead, including Qaddafi's infant daughter. Unfortunately for 
Reagan,  
> Qaddafi survived the attack.[1329]
> 
> But had Lybia actually bombed the disco? The White House was 
adamant.  
> The National Security Agency (NSA) had intercepted coded 
exchanges  
> between Tripoli and the East Berlin Libyan Peoples Bureau that  
> purportedly said, "We have something that will make you happy." A  
> second cable, hours after the bombing read, "An event occurred. 
You  
> will be pleased with the result."[1330] What is interesting is 
that  
> under orders from the NSC, the raw coded intercepts were sent  
> straight to the White House, bypassing normal NSA analysis 
channels,  
> drawing criticism from at least one NSA officer. A West German  
> intelligence official who later saw the cables, said they 
were "very  
> critical and skeptical" of U.S. intelligence blaming the Libyans.
[1331]
> 
> The U.S.'s evidence hinged on reports in Stassi (East German 
police)  
> files passed on to West German officials. The Stassi reports, 
based  
> on three separate informants, indicated the attack was planned by 
the  
> Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command 
(PFLP- 
> GC), which had met in Tripoli a month earlier. A member of that  
> group, living in Berlin, Youddeff Chraidi (code-named "Nuri"), 
had  
> carried out the attack.
> 
> Yet the "Libya did it" theory quickly fell apart during the trial 
of  
> Imad Mahmoud, another member of Nuri's group (Nuri could not be  
> found), as the Stassi informants' contradictions and 
inconsistencies  
> cast doubts on the case. Moreover, one informant, Mahmoud Abu-
Jabber  
> (code named "Faysal") was, according to KGB files, a CIA 
informer.  
> One KGB report indicated that Faysal had met with his CIA contact 
two  
> days prior to the attack, and told them the price of the bombing  
> would be $30,000, and not $80,000 as previously agreed.[1332]
> 
> Stassi defector Colonel Frank Weigand, based on a PLO Security  
> Report, concluded that Nuri was an agent for the West German 
police.  
> Other evidence which seemed to back this up was that while Nuri 
was  
> wanted for the murder of a Libyan CIA informer, he managed to  
> repeatedly cross Checkpoint Charlie (the East-West Berlin border  
> crossing), one of the most tightly-guarded border crossings in 
the  
> world. When German authorities finally located Nuri in Lebanon in  
> 1994, U.S. officials failed to provide the evidence needed to  
> extradite him, despite repeated pleas by West German officials.
[1333]
> 
> Ultimately, West German officials concluded that the CIA was  
> responsible for the bombing.
> 
> Weigand recalled one phone conversation intercept where a high- 
> ranking West German intelligence officer spoke with the Berlin  
> official responsible for the La Belle investigation. According to  
> Weigand, the investigator, when pressed for his conclusion, told 
the  
> West German spook, "Well, when I add it all up, I think the Yanks 
did  
> this thing themselves."[1334]
> 
> Weigand also cited a PLO Security Report indicating that the U.S.  
> knew in advance of the late March bombing of the German-Arab 
Society.  
> The implications of this, like those of the Oklahoma City attack,  
> were that authorities knew about the bombing beforehand, and 
failed  
> to stop it. While Nuri may have ultimately been responsible for 
the  
> bombing, the question of who he was working for hung over the 
case  
> like a dark cloud. As Weigand said. "I never could get [the CIA  
> thesis] off the table, and you know, the one theory does not 
exclude  
> the other."
> 
> A similar government-orchestrated outrage-incident was the 
Octopus'  
> 1985 plot to bomb the American embassy and presidential offices 
in  
> Costa Rica as a pretext for a full-scale U.S. invasion of 
Nicaragua.  
> The plan was an offshoot of Operation Pegasus, the CIA's program 
of  
> political assassinations, similar to the Phoenix Program.
> 
> The conspiracy was akin to the many American-engineered 
provocations  
> of the past. The U.S. ? through the skullduggery of the CIA ? 
would  
> bomb their own embassy, cleverly blaming it on the Sandinistas.
> 
> Civilian Military Assistance (CMA) leader Tom Posey and his band 
of  
> mercenaries ? Steven Carr, Robert Thompson, Rene Corvo, and Costa  
> Rican-American land-owners John Hull and Bruce Jones ? arranged 
for a  
> patriotic Cuban-American, Jesus Garcia, to take part in the plot.  
> According to Leslie Cockburn (Out of Control ) Posey showed 
Garcia  
> the blueprints of the embassy. "They came to me with a plan to 
hit  
> the American embassy in Costa Rica," recalls Garcia. "They had an  
> idea this would start a war between Nicaragua and the United 
States."
> 
> In addition to bombing the embassy, they were to "take out" the  
> American ambassador, Lewis Tambs, a vocal opponent of the 
Colombian/ 
> Contra cocaine trade, and collect the $1 million reward that the  
> Ochoa clan had placed on his head. The CIA-led group, which had 
been  
> funding their covert operations through arms and drug 
trafficking,  
> would solve the problem of an American official who had dared  
> interfere with their profitable business, while at the same time,  
> serving the lofty goals of U.S. foreign policy.[1335]
> 
> According to CMA mercenary Jack Terrell, the plan was to place C-4 
in  
> a light-box outside the embassy and detonate it. When Tambs ran  
> outside, he would be shot. A Nicaraguan would then be killed and 
fake  
> documents placed on his person to incriminate the Sandinistas.
[1336]
> 
> While Garcia refused to participate in the plot, he 
recalled, "The  
> embassy plan was blessed from the White House. There were too 
many  
> big people involved in this. In order to hit a U.S. embassy even 
us  
> Cubans who are here in Miami would normally out of courtesy 
notify  
> the CIA."
> 
> Considering the players involved, it appeared that the CIA knew 
fully  
> well of the plot, as it drew members from Brigade 2506, Ted  
> Shackley's old JM/WAVE anti-Castro Cuban mercenary group.[1337]
> 
> A second plot designed to draw the U.S. into the war involved the  
> bombing of Los Chiles, a small town along the border of Costa 
Rica.  
> The plan was to use a plane painted to look like a Sandinista 
craft  
> to drop bombs on the unarmed townspeople. Terrell described it as 
a  
> "continuous undercurrent of? really terrorist activity to try to 
draw  
> the United States Government into direct conflict with the  
> Nicaraguans because they were to be made to look like they were  
> committing overt acts against a neutral and unarmed country, 
Costa  
> Rica."[1338]
> 
> Garcia later learned that another hit was planned, this time on 
the  
> Cuban and Soviet embassies in Nicaragua. The plan was proposed to  
> Garcia by Major Alan Saum, a confederate of Posey's and General  
> Vernon Walters, U.S. ambassador to the UN and former Deputy 
Director  
> of the CIA. As Garcia later testified in court, "Saum had come 
from  
> the White House." Saum told Garcia the plan was "Vice-President  
> Bush's baby."
> 
> While neither plot was carried out, the Octopus did manage to  
> successfully murder eight people, mostly reporters, at La Penca,  
> Costa Rica on May 30, 1984. The target was Eden Pastora, a Contra  
> leader who wasn't going along with the plan, and was about to  
> announce his misgivings at a press conference. CIA Deputy 
Director  
> Dewy Clarridge had recently relayed a message to Pastora through  
> Alfonso Robelo (who had previously met with Bud McFarlane at the  
> White House) that his story would be "stopped" if he did not  
> acquiesce.[1339]
> 
> The bombing was carried out by Amac Galil, who posed as a  
> photographer, carrying a bomb inside a camera case. CIA "hit-man"  
> Felipe Vidal told Terrell that Galil was a Mossad agent. He 
allegedly  
> received his explosives training from John Harper, and his C-4  
> courtesy of John Hull. Vidal also told Terrell, "?we put a bomb 
under  
> him and it didn't work because of bad timing."
> 
> As Terrell later stated: "?if anything happens to these people,  
> whether they were carrying out directly or indirectly any plan of 
our  
> government, it's easy to be at arm's length and have this great 
big  
> beautiful deniability factor."[1340]
> 
> Naturally, the Washington Post and New York Times blamed the 
bombing  
> on the Sandinistas.[1341][1342]
> 
> Yet Garcia knew better. "There are people here who are above the  
> Constitution," recalled Garcia. "I didn't know the federal system 
was  
> like this. I never dreamed."[1343]
> 
> Garcia was eventually set up by Saum on a federal gun charge, he  
> figured, either because he refused to go along with the first 
plot,  
> or simply because of his knowledge of it.[1344]
> 
> John Mattes, Garcia's defense lawyer, while investigating 
Garcia's  
> story, began uncovering North and Casey's twisted web of gun and 
drug  
> smuggling. While Mattes was eager to present the evidence in 
court,  
> he never got the chance. The "Justice" Department, which 
initially  
> started a probe, suddenly switched tracks. They "weren't 
interested"  
> in going any further with it, Mattes said. He and his 
investigator  
> were later called into the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami and 
told,  
> "Get out. You're out. Stay out. You've crossed the line. You've 
gone  
> too far." (The U.S. Attorney threatened the public defender with  
> "obstructing justice.")[1345]
> 
> During testimony, Saum admitted that he had operated "under 
orders"  
> to bring about Garcia's arrest. Saum's wife told Cockburn that he 
was  
> working for the CIA.
> 
> Terrell would eventually express his misgivings to the press. As 
he  
> writes in Disposable Patriot:
> 
> During an operation, the gravity of what you are doing is obscured 
by  
> the determination to do whatever it is you have been programmed 
to  
> do. If you whack a bunch of people, blow up cars or hotels, or 
murder  
> children, it doesn't make any difference. Something in your 
character  
> sets you apart from normal people, and once it's trained and  
> propagandized to where you start believing what people are 
telling  
> you, you lose your sense of right and wrong, and in some cases, 
your  
> sense of morality. In the end, when the veil of perceived sanction 
is  
> lifted and you no longer have the protection of the invisible 
barrier  
> that justifies all your actions, then those unspeakable acts  
> committed in the name of freedom and democracy, come back in a 
more  
> objective retrospect. Finally, you understand the impact. You say 
to  
> yourself, did I do that? Usually, you did.[1346]
> 
> Former CIA officer Victor Marchetti discovered this unfortunate 
truth  
> long ago. As Marchetti writes in The CIA and the Cult of 
Intelligence:
> 
> The "clandestine mentality" is a mind-set that thrives on secrecy 
and  
> deception. It encourages professional amorality ? the belief that  
> righteous goals can be achieved through the use of unprincipled 
and  
> normally unacceptable means. Thus, the cult's leaders must  
> tenaciously guard their official actions from public view. To do  
> otherwise would restrict their ability to act independently; it 
would  
> permit the American people to pass judgment on not only the 
utility  
> of their policies, but the ethics of those policies as well.?
> 
> Finally, there was the blatantly uninhibited statement of former 
OSS  
> Colonel George White, one of the original founders of the CIA:
> 
> "I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, 
fun,  
> fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, 
cheat,  
> rape and pillage with the blessings of all the highest?"[1347]
> 
> Ten years later the Octopus would demonstrate similar ethics by  
> bombing the Federal Building in Oklahoma, taking out two 
potential  
> whistle-blowers in the process ? Secret Service agents Alan 
Whicher  
> and Mickey Maroney, while blaming it on Timothy James McVeigh ? a  
> "disposable patriot."
> 
> Were Whicher and Maroney ? like Gannon and McKee ? a "strong  
> secondary target?" As HUD employee Jane Graham said, "Maybe there 
was  
> a sting within a sting? to eliminate agents who knew too much."
> 
> Whicher formerly served on the White House detail, and was 
reportedly  
> involved in a little-known incident involving electronic bugging 
of  
> the White House by the Japanese. Whicher was subsequently 
transferred  
> to the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.[1348]
> 
> It was also rumored that the Secret Service agent had talked to 
his  
> wife just minutes before the blast, telling her that he had to 
get  
> off the phone because he was told to wait for an important call.  
> Apparently? that call never came.
> 
> Maroney served on Clinton's presidential campaign and transition  
> detail, and told friend and bombing survivor V.Z. Lawton about 
some  
> of the many Clinton-related improprieties he witnessed. Maroney,  
> described by Lawton as a "Christian person" and a "super guy," 
said  
> that the Clinton's were "two of the most foul-mouthed? low-lifes" 
he  
> had ever been around. In one humorous incident, he recalled how  
> Hillary threw an ashtray at Bill, only to miss and have it strike 
a  
> Secret Service Agent (who no doubt courageously threw himself 
between  
> the President and the deadly ashtray). One has to wonder however 
if  
> Maroney witnessed more than just obscene word play.[1349][1350]
> 
> Yet perhaps most interestingly, it was rumored that one of the  
> charges that destroyed the Murrah Building was beneath the Secret  
> Service office. This possibility became all the more apparent 
when  
> The Daily Oklahoman recently reported that a warning call was 
placed  
> to an answering service several days before the bombing, claiming  
> that an explosive charge was placed inside the Secret Service 
office:
> 
> ?Vance DeWoody, owner of Opal's Answering Service, and his 
employee,  
> Pat Houser? received an anonymous telephone call saying that a 
bomb  
> was going to go off in the office of the U.S. Secret Service on 
the  
> ninth floor of the Murrah Building.?[1351]
> 
> Opal's Answering Service? has a contract with the Secret Service.
> 
> It seems the deaths of Whicher and Maroney can be added to the  
> growing list of approximately 40 victims involved with or  
> knowledgeable of Clinton's financial, extra-marital, and drug-
related  
> activities at Mena, Arkansas who have met violent and untimely 
deaths.
> 
> The murders of Whicher and Maroney also have ominous parallels to 
the  
> deaths of Major Charles McKee and Agent Matthew Gannon aboard Pan 
Am  
> flight 103.
> 
> Describing how an organization might blow up an airplane or a  
> building to kill one or two people, former DEA Agent Mike Levine  
> says: "Once you arrange a death, once you employ one of these  
> organizations that do this sort of thing, it's out of your  
> control."[1352]
> 
> The deaths of Whicher and Maroney also meant two less witnesses 
to  
> testify about the Octopus' drug-running and related skull-duggery.
> 
> While scratching that itch, the Octopus managed to remove 
sensitive  
> files, conceivably implicating it in its illegal and murderous  
> activities.
> 
> Finally, with the destruction of the Oklahoma City Federal 
Building,  
> the Federal Government could point to a new "terrorist threat" in 
our  
> midst, while effectively halting political dissent, and 
successfully  
> arguing for a whole new spate of laws and regulations that 
threaten  
> to do away with what little freedoms Americans have left.
>






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