by: Peter Chamberlin
The CIA parallel government which spawned the Iran/contra drugs/arms/money/public diplomacy pipeline kept the illegal network intact after Iran/contra, to fund its creation of an “Islamic militant network” and to use them to create the war on terror. This agency is bent on serving the evil internationalist elite, instead of the American people and the Constitution they have all swore to uphold. The mysterious death of reporter Steve Kangas, who explored the deep connections between the CIA and the corporate world, and the New Right, is a warning to all who will follow that it is dangerous to explore some truth. http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
For those of you in search of this dangerous knowledge, follow me into the labyrinth, as I use the recently released “Lost Chapter” from the Iran/Contra commission report http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/062908.html to throw a little light into the dark world which holds us all captive. I can confirm that some parts of the story revealed therein are true, because I was there, seeking to help my country, serving as an unwitting part of a network that was created to bring democratic freedom to an end in
At that time (1985-1988), I was approached by many groups because I had previously switched my activist loyalties from the Democrats and the “nuclear freeze” issue to Reagan and the “peace through strength” doctrine. I saw his plan to spend the Soviets into submission as the safest way to end the cold war. As a mouthy, hard-hitting activist/writer, I was considered “ripe” for recruitment into the leadership levels of the conservative movement.
From 1985 to 1986, I wrote articles and letters, and lobbied for aid to groups that were depicted as “freedom fighters” at that time, in Central America and
Because of my activist activities to end the cluster-bombing of Afghan children, I was approached to do the same thing on behalf of the anti-Sandinista “Contras” in
“A typical invitation to a briefing stated in pertinent part:
‘You are one of a small group of dedicated Americans who has stood by President Reagan . . . in
support of his agenda . .. It will be a pleasure to meet you in
Mr. Distel invited me to be his aide (pushing his wheelchair) at this Heritage Foundation conference and fund-raising dinner in
The “Democracy Project” for Central America may have failed with the prosecution of the crimes committed by key members of “the enterprise,” but the pipeline that they created to move the money, fighters, guns and equipment, is still there today, moving their biggest product, drugs, “candy” for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oszATUJ4IRE “CIA,
The pipeline in Afghanistan and Pakistan is still there as well, running at full capacity all these years, moving all those nasty money-makers and life-takers through it, fomenting the “war on terrorism” that we are told to believe that it is no fault of our own. It is the men, materiel and opium which moves freely through this CIA pipeline that haunts American, NATO and Pakistani troops there today.
That
The Heritage Fo conference, which was allegedly for Catholic aid groups serving
http://www.consortiumnews.com/lostchapter.pdf
“[the network, with] continuing help from Oliver North, created an inter-governmental structure the purposes and activities of which were masked from
Congress and public view... hired outside consultants and gave
encouragement, support and direction to groups of private
citizens outside the government. These groups raised money for
Contra weapons, lobbied the Congress, ran sophisticated media...
Campaigns...worked with S/LPD to influence American public opinion through manipulation of the American press... a network of private foundations and organizations. used White House briefings and private meetings with the President to raise more than $10,000,000 from private contributors, almost all for the Contra cause.
Approximately $1.7 million was ‘washed’ by Channell through Miller's domestic and Cayman Island entities International Business Communications (IBC) and I.C., Inc. --to the
The Miller/Channell network was able to operate successfully until the latter part of 1986, when increased government aid to the Contras and public disclosure of
both the Iranian arms sales and the Contra resupply network made
further assistance efforts unnecessary and unwise.
Frank Gomez was to write talking point papers on Central America; prepare speaker kits; identify and refute distortions and false allegations regarding
Roy Godson and the Heritage Foundation...raise money for the Catholic Church in Nicaragua...The format used in raising money for the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund --a White House briefing followed by a
function at the Hay Adams Hotel.
The briefing was held...in the Old Executive Office Building with North as the principal speaker...After the briefing, the potential donor group was taken across the street for a reception and dinner at the Hay Adams Hotel... These group briefings occurred on October 17, 1985; November 21, 1985; January 30, 1986; and March 27, 1986.
Edwin J. Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation...would be donating
$100,000 to Heritage and the Catholic Church in
The Heritage grant to INSI would be used [for] the dissemination in
materials designed to educate the public on the
political and economic realities of
scholarly responses to the materials...[which would be used for public diplomacy in the
Select the scholars to participate in this program from among
After Heritage transferred the $100,000 to INSI, Miller instructed INSI to transfer $80,000 of the grant to his Cayman Islands account from which funds were withdrawn as directed by North...that at least some of the money was transferred to
The Lost Report confirms what I have only suspected over the past twenty years, I was part of the Iran/Contra network and witnessed first-hand one of Oliver North’s slide presentations, pimping for the world empire. The only thing I remember from that presentation is that it was given by some guy in a uniform, who showed some satellite images of big Soviet airbases, allegedly in
In the next two years after the conference, I was invited to join a plethora of New Right organizations, think tanks, even a couple of PACs (political action committees): the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Committee for a Free Afghanistan, Young Americans for Freedom, Council for National Policy, Concerned Women for America, even the Republican National Committee. The thing that kept me from joining-up with most of them was the requests for donations.
Most of these committees and think tanks were sponsored by Heritage. I found this revealing explanation of the explosion of opportunities that had been offered to me:
“The Heritage Foundation has coordinated the meetings for a newly formed group called Third Generation. It is a group of young conservatives (born after 1952) attempting to develop an even more conservative agenda than their ‘elders.’” http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/hf_body.html
Obviously, from the many political offers that had been flowing in since the Heritage event, I had been hand-picked by the political gurus associated with Heritage for that group (born in 1953).
All of these organizations contributed to and solicited money for the private network described in the Lost Chapter revelation.
“On December 14, 1986, the Lowell (
The State Department was used to run a prohibited, domestic, covert propaganda operation...
The Administration's redefinition of the term ‘public diplomacy’--especially its use in ‘educating’ the American public--and the longstanding statutory prohibition on the domestic dissemination by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) of its materials to the American people. Under the terms of section 501 of the Smith-Mundt Act (the
[According to Smith-Mundt:
“The Smith-Mundt ban on domestic propaganda has been broadened over the years by subsequent legislation. The Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1972 amended the Smith-Mundt Act to include a ban on disseminating within the
http://law.jrank.org/pages/7785/Iran-Contra-Affair.html
“In March 1988, GRAND JURY indictments were brought against North, Poindexter, Richard V. Secord, and Albert Hakim. The indictments included four distinct charges: conspiring to obstruct the
As revealed in Lost Chapter:
“National Security Decision Directive 77
the issuing in January 1983 of National Security Decision Document (NSDD) 77, an NSC policy paper on the management of public diplomacy "relative to national security"...is classified, an unclassified version, released in March 1983:
A Special Planning Group (SPG) responsible for overall planning, direction, coordination, and monitoring of public diplomacy activities;
The Public Affairs/Nuclear Committee, to plan and coordinate on a regular basis U.S. Government domestic public affairs activities relating to foreign policy and national security issues (including countering the U.S. nuclear freeze movement);
The International Information Committee, to plan, coordinate, and implement international information activities in support of
The International Political Committee, to plan, coordinate, and implement international activities in support of
0liver North was reportedly named head of Project Democracy's covert arm 1n October 1983, after McFarlane was appointed National Security Adviser.
[A] Saudi Prince who proposed donating to the Contras $14 million of profits derived from the sale of Saudi oil. North referred the Prince who used a variety of pseudonyms, the most common of which was Ebrahim al-Masoudi [probably Bandar]
On April 26, 1985, Miller and Gomez incorporated a
Inc., to "Intel Co-Operation, Inc.,"
Miller and Gomez formed another
In addition to using the participants in the network to promote the enterprise, North used the occasion to create disinformation about the network and to refute negative news stories about the work being done:
“[North] also told an anecdote about some Nicaraguan agents that were recently caught with dope and money and so forth and disguised as American agents."
[Eugene H. Hasenfus (born January 22, 1941 in Florida) is a United States citizen who was an unemployed construction worker from Marinette, Wisconsin who secured work as a cargo handler for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)....He was aboard the Fairchild C-123 cargo plane shot down over Nicaragua on October 5, 1986, while delivering supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Hasenfus' capture and detention helped uncover and publicize the Iran-Contra Affair. A black book of phone numbers in the wreckage tied the plane to an operation run out of Ilopango airbase in
“The President, in his March 19, 1987 press conference said that he believed that contributors he met had donated money for political advertising for the Contras. [
A ‘big ticket items’ list was prepared by North and used by him and Channell in a solicitation off Nelson Bunker Hunt.
In September 1985, Channell arranged a meeting in
Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt, as well as fellow billionaire and ultra right-wing zealot Joseph Coors, were the primary sponsors for many of the neo-fascist “conservative” organizations that comprise the “new right,” including the Heritage Foundation, most radical of these were the John Birch Society, the Council for National Policy and the World Anti-Communist League.
A famous name associated with the WACL is another “Contragate” figure, Major General John Singlaub was the head of the World Anti-Communist League in the late seventies: http://watch.pair.com/jbs-cnp.html
"It has since become something far more important: an instrument for the practice of unconventional warfare -- assassinations, death squads, sabotage -- throughout the world." Not only did the WACL adopt the techniques used by Nazis, but the Eastern European Nazi network as well...
there is a third type of Nazi, who is far more powerful, public, and dangerous than the other two: these are the Croatians, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Latvians who carried out the German-dictated massacres, who never faced a Nuremberg, and who joined the World Anti-Communist League... With the creations of the World Anti-Communist League, there came into existence a worldwide network of fascism..."
The first American League Chapter of the WACL was the American Council for World Freedom (ACWF)... Roger Pearson, served as the American League president for three years... ...Pearson has traveled in New Right circles for many years, formerly as an editorial associate for such mainstream organizations as the Heritage Foundation and the American Security Council... On the other [hand], he is a white supremacist who warns of the dangers of whites breeding with 'inferior' stock... world chairman of the World Anti-Communist League in 1978...”
http://watch.pair.com/heritage.html “Pearson's Eugenics And Race: "Dr. Roger Pearson's racialist theories are circulated worldwide by neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations." (6)
Pearson was brought to the
"In addition to homegrown agitators who dredged up anti-Semitic motifs that harkened back to the 1930s...(Paul Weyrich and Free Congress Foundation named)” http://watch.pair.com/jbs-cnp.html
“In 1984, Singlaub headed a Pentagon panel called to make recommendations on conducting military activities in
[Singlaub] became CIA deputy chief in
This bunch became the heart of the '
According to researcher Daniel Sheehan: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsheehan.htm
“Because Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage knew that their secret anti-communist extermination program was going to be shut down in
From 1975 to 1977, Armitage held this post in
From 1977 until 1979, Armitage remained in
Between 1976 and 1979, Shackley, Clines, Secord, Hakim,
According to testimony from former Congressman Charlie Wilson (from Charlie Wilson’s War, by George Crile), Ed Wilson, of the Secret Team went with him to Nicaragua, to meet with President Somoza, seeking Soviet-style weapons to ship to the Mujahedeen. Congressman Wilson heard “retired” CIA dirty tricks officer Ed Wilson offer the General an army of one-thousand “retired” agents for $100,000 each, to take care of their Sandinista problem. The claim that these agents were rogues, acting for pure profit on their own, does not hold water when you consider that wherever their handiwork has shown-up around the world over the past thirty years it has always been while performing duties in service of American foreign policy.
From the Lost Chapter:
“Funds belonging to IBC were at various times transferred directly or through another Hiller/Gomez corporation called Intel-Cooperation to Richard Secord's Swiss bank account 1n the name of Lake Resources, Inc.”
After
“The recent ‘color revolutions’ in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and the widespread suspicion that U.S. groups such as the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute (IRI), Freedom House [led by former CIA head James Woolsley, of Project for New American Century fame] and the Open Society Institute [created in 1993 by investor George Soros] played a key behind-the-scenes role in fomenting these upheavals have clearly helped trigger t style="he backlash.” http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faessay85205/thomas-carothers/the-backlash-against-democracy-promotion.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=762 “In one former
Washington Post article did belatedly note that a group of American men who wore "big cowboy hats and big cowboy boots" had arrived in
From these exploits in the Caspian Sea region, the “Secret Team” transported Hekmatyr’s troops and thousands of other Afghan veterans, as well as Iranian militias to places like
“Soon after the liberation of
(long the main recipient of CIA weaponry) started the Afghan civil war, by firing rockets at
The result was an illegal “Iran-Contra style operation” in
According to author and researcher Yossef Bodansky http://www.amazon.com/Bin-Laden-Man-Declared-America/dp/0761535810
“In
The Saudis provided most of the “legitimate” money for the covert program in
Today, we face the results of all of these years of the CIA’s program to train an Islamic army to wage war against
Bush has breathed new life into the American/Saudi/Pakistani Islamist network as the foundation for his covert war against
“Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the
“Demands that the President initiate an international effort to...prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran's nuclear program.”
This resolution is nothing less than a declaration of war against
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