Lies and Coups - 'Nothing New'

"Senator, if you truly represent the best interests of the people, I want you and your colleagues to pass a law which grants absolute immunity from prosecution or punishment to anyone covered under the National Security Act, the CIA Act, the Espionage Act or any applicable military regulations so that they can come forward and speak first-hand of the crimes which are destroying the fabric of this nation. If you truly represent the people you will see to it that Nuremburg style trials are held in full view of the world and the guilty are brought to justice. And you will see that intelligence agencies of this government are either abolished or so drastically restructured that crimes of this nature can never happen again."
Mike Ruppert - Evidence to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1997
From The Wilderness Publications

"During Bush's first months in Langley, the CIA under orders from Henry Kissinger launched a campaign of destabilization of Jamaica for the purpose of preventing the re-election of Prime Minister Michael Manley. This included a large-scale campaign to foment violence during the election, and large amounts of illegal arms were shipped into the island. $10 million was spent on the attempt to overthrow Manley, and at least three assassination attempts took place with the connivance of the CIA. During his year at Langley, Bush was especially forthcoming towards Wall Street, above all towards the family firm. On at least one occasion, Bush gave an exclusive private briefing, including forecasts on the future development of the world energy market, for partners and executives of Brown Brothers, Harriman. Such an incident, it is superfluous to point out, entails the gravest questions of conflict of interest."
"George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

"Sunday Times Magazine writer Christine Toomey has won the Amnesty International Media Award for the best magazine article of the year. Her investigation last November into The School of the Americas, the US military academy in Georgia which numbered some of Latin America's most notorious dictators and human rights abusers among its graduates, was hailed by the judges as 'a well-balanced and original piece that powerfully exposed the link betweeen the USA and human rights violations in South America.' Click above to read her compelling report"
The Killing Fields
London Sunday Times, 28 July 2002

"Mr Kissinger has been formally asked by an investigating judge in Chile to respond to questions about the killing of an American citizen, Charles Horman, in the wake of the coup. The story of the journalist and film-maker's death became the basis for the 1982 film Missing.... Ever since the arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain in 1998, there have been attempts to show what part the US government played in the coup that brought him to power. Of particular interest has been the issue of whether the US effectively gave the military dictatorship carte blanche in dealing with dissidents, even if they were American citizens."
Kissinger may face Chilean court over coup killing
Guardian, 29 March 2002

"The US Embassy in Belarus has admitted that it is pursuing a policy similar to that in 1980s Nicaragua, in which anti-government Contra rebels were funded and supported. President Lukashenko, a dictatorial Communist, is heading for victory in presidential elections on Sunday. ... The ambassador's disclosure has coincided with moves by the Bush Administration to gain increased political influence in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and with reports in several European newspapers, which said that former US servicemen believed to be working for the CIA were escorted with Albanian guerrillas from a village in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia earlier this year.... President Lukashenko is popular and most Belarussians fear that a new, pro-Western leader would bring the poverty experienced by many Russians and Ukrainians after the transition to a market economy."
US adopts 'Contras policy' in communist Belarus
London Times, 3 September 2001

"In 1990, during Bulgaria's first post-Communist elections, professional agitators, backed by millions in covert financing from the US, organized massive street protests that ultimately succeeded in unseating the duly elected government. Even though the renamed Communist party had won the overwhelming majority in voting which western observers on the scene widely agreed had been fair, the US (through the CIA) used the mobs to intimidate and ultimately hound officials from office. ⁵⁰ Not coincidentally, one of the senior members of the Bush administration who coordinated the Bulgarian action was none other than James Baker – the man who spearheaded the Bush campaign's post-election response to Gore's challenges in Florida. ⁵¹... "
COUP 2K by JOHN DEE
Published in Lumpen, Jan. 2001

"The Dutch government has released a report that details the alliance between the United States and the Islamic effort to help Bosnian Muslims. The report determined that the United States provided a green light to groups on the State Department list of terrorist organizations to operate in Bosnia. This included the Lebanese-based Hezbollah. For the European Union, the U.S. effort marks a stain that calls into question Washington's war on terrorism."
U.S. gave green light to terrorists in Bosnia
WorldNetDaily, 24 April, 2002

"...[America's] easy answer for Bosnia's ills was 'lift and strike' - re-arm the Bosniaks (mostly Bosnian Muslims) and Croats and bomb the Serbs. At first arms were sent to Bosnia via Croatia, but the Croats were reluctant to arm the Bosnian army with sophisticated weapons, so America took it upon itself to deliver arms directly to the Bosnian Muslim Army - the ABiH. ..These covert air drops began at the start of 1995. ... American intelligence-gathering in the region was conducted on a huge scale. ...This intelligence-gathering was aimed as much at the UN as the Serbs, and intelligence was passed directly on to the Bosnian Government. Former UN Commander in Bosnia General Sir Michael Rose was aware that the Americans were secretly bugging his office....."
Allies and lies
BBC Online, 22 June 2001

"While the United States is relentlessly bombing Afghanistan with the official aim of getting Osama bin Laden, one of bin Laden's top collaborators is running a terrorist training camp in an area of Kosovo that is under U.S. control"
'U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Kosovo'
Executive Intelligence Review, 2 November

"'Today, the circumstances which we have created here have changed. Today, it is absolutely necessary to guarantee the stability of Macedonia and its entry into NATO. But we will certainly remain here a long time so that we can also guarantee the security of the energy corridors which traverse this country' [said General Michael Jackson, commander of NATO forces in Macedonia] ....It is clear that Jackson is referring to the 8^th Corridor, the East-West axis which ought to be combined to the pipeline bringing energy resources from Central Asia to terminals in the Black Sea and in the Adriatic, connecting Europe to Central Asia. That explains why the great and medium-sized powers, and first of all Russia, don't want to be excluded from the settling of scores that will take place over the next few months in the Balkans".
Italian daily, Sole 24 Ore, 13 April 1999

"With deliberate archness, Hitchens builds a case that Kissinger's actions in office qualify him for prosecution as a war criminal. In the wake of World War II, Japanese soldiers and politicians were hanged for less, and on much scantier evidence than exists about Kissinger. Step by step, Hitchens gives us verse and footnote on how Kissinger promoted policies that he had prior reason to believe would kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Chapter by chapter, Hitchens goes on to detail Kissinger's complicity in a litany of coups, assassinations and mass killings in Chile, Bangladesh and Cyprus. Not to mention his sanctioning of the bloody invasion of East Timor ('Timor was not a significant policy problem' - Kissinger) and many other grisly adventures in US foreign policy."
'The Trial of Henry Kissinger' - a Book Review
BBC Online, 18 July 2002

"Two of the most startling examples of the culture of deception occurred at summit meetings Nixon had with the Soviets and the Chinese. In both cases, Nixon and his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, asked the foreign leaders to join them in lies to deceive Nixon’s own Secretary of State, William Rogers...."
Inside the White House That Was Built of Lies
Time Magazine 5 Nov 2001

"The Department of State is under growing pressure from the Central Intelligence Agency to destroy its inventory of an official history of U.S. relations with Greece during the 1960s and to replace it with a new, sanitized version...The sticking point appears to be a handful of documents that allude to CIA intervention in the electoral process in Greece some 35 years ago. ... Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet has gotten personally involved in the matter, attempting to enlist the help of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in blocking release of the official history. According to one source, Mr. Tenet contacted Mr. Armitage to discuss the matter as recently as the night of September 10, at a time when his attention might have been more profitably directed elsewhere. A State Department official would not confirm or deny that the September 10 conversation took place."
STATE DEPT MULLS "BOOK BURNING"
Federation of American Scientists, 21 September 2001

"How appropriate that John Negroponte is Bush's ambassador at the United Nations. This week, he delivered America's threat to the world that it may 'require' to attack more and more countries. As US ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s, Negroponte oversaw American funding of the regime's death squads, known as Battalion 316, that wiped out the democratic opposition, while the CIA ran its 'contra' war of terror against neighbouring Nicaragua. Murdering teachers and slitting the throats of midwives were a speciality. This was typical of the terrorism that Latin America has long suffered, with its principal torturers and tyrants trained and financed by the great warrior against 'global terrorism', which probably harbours more terrorists and assassins in Florida than any country on earth. The unread news today is that the 'war against terrorism' is being exploited in order to achieve objectives that consolidate American power."
'The ultimate goal of the attacks on Afghanistan is not the capture of a fanatic, but the acceleration of western power'
John Pilger, 9 Oct 2001

"While Libya's donation of arms to the IRA in the 1980s has been the most public sign of where the republican movement has previously turned for support, the reality is that North America has been the most important link of all."
'Rich Friends in New York'
BBC Online 26 September

"Americans are the biggest terrorists. Americans have terrorised everybody since America began. First they came here from Europe and terrorised the Indians. Then they made slaves of black people and terrorised the Africans. They've always been terrorists."
African-American lady selling US flags at a stall in New York, quoted by BBC Radio 4's 'From our own Correspondent', 20 October, 2001.
Listen to BBC report on American citizens offering awkard post Sept 11 opinions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/audio/ram_fooc.ram (go 5:15 mins into transmission)

"The Taliban are a creation of America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in cooperation with Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), said leading US South-Asia expert Selig Harrison. Harrison spoke in front of an audience of security experts in London in a conference on 'Terrorism and regional security: Managing the challenges of Asia' in the last week of February, just before the Taliban's assault on the Buddha statues of Bamiyan. As a senior associate of the Carnegy Endowment for International Peace from 1974 to 1996, he had been in close contact with the CIA...... After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the CIA had encouraged militant Islamic groups from around the world to come to Afghanistan. The USA and its allies provided 3 billion dollars for building up the largest ever funded 'resistance movement'. .........The CIA had left much of the decision how to use the US funds to Pakistani specialists....'The CIA still has close links with the ISI', said Harrison. "
RATIONALIST INTERNATIONAL Bulletin # 68 (19 March 2001)
http://www.rationalistinternational.net/archive/rationalist_2001/68.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa68e10243d.htm

"The Pentagon has set up a covert unit to wage an information war that could include feeding false stories to foreign media, according to a report yesterday. A senior Pentagon official was quoted as saying that the information battle 'goes from the blackest of black programmes to the whitest of white'. The proposals appeared to have been leaked by Pentagon officials who fiercely oppose them and hope to ensure widespread outrage at home and abroad and increased scepticism about US statements on the War on Terror... It was unclear under what circumstances false news items would be relayed, but the plan is to influence public opinion and policymakers in the Middle East, Asia and even Western Europe....Among the suggestions are that the job of disseminating disinformation be undertaken by outside groups that reporters would not immediately realise were linked to the Pentagon.....One complication could be US laws that ban the Pentagon and CIA from undertaking propaganda activities in America.... The Defence Department could fall foul of the law if stories placed by the unit are picked up by the American media and later found to have been false. In the 1970s CIA disinformation was picked up from the foreign media by American news organisations..... Victoria Clarke, the Pentagon spokeswoman, would not discuss the Office of Strategic Influence. "
Pentagon 'ready to lie' to win War on Terror
London Times, February 20, 2002

"....in 1996, the US government was forced to release seven of the school's training manuals. Among other top tips for terrorists, they recommended blackmail, torture, execution and the arrest of witnesses' relatives..."
Backyard terrorism
The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it
London Guardian 30 Oct 2001

"It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush [Snr], operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States ultimately had to destroy."
ABC News Nightline, June 9, 1992

"We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has performed since 1961]. .....We're talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these things....The people that are dying in these things are people of the third world. That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of the third world. .....Most of them couldn't give you an intelligent definition of communism, or of capitalism...We are killing, and killing, and terrorizing people....."
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author, 1987

"Somewhere between America's spies and commandos is a small group of men and women like Johnny 'Mike' Spann, the CIA paramilitary officer killed by rioting prisoners in Afghanistan [Nov 2001].....They come from within the CIA's Directorate of Operations, whose primary mission is to conduct clandestine intelligence gathering. One branch, the Special Activities Division, is home to the CIA's offensive punch. Officers in this division are called upon when the president wants covertly to advance U.S. foreign policy, influencing a foreign government without any signs of U.S. action. Inside the division are intelligence officers who can create economic and political disruption in foreign countries, and write propaganda to influence foreign elections. Unlike the Green Berets, these officers can operate without uniform or identification as an officer of the U.S. government. If one is caught or killed, the government can plausibly deny their use."
National Post, 3 Dec 2001

"From Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, it has been an article of faith for executive branch policy makers that U.S. weapons exports are only made to responsible allies who use these systems for legitimate defensive purposes. This report puts that thesis to the test by documenting U.S. weapons deliveries to 50 current ethnic and territorial conflicts. Contrary to the conventional wisdom in Washington, official U.S. government data on arms transfers provides overwhelming circumstantial evidence that U.S.-supplied weaponry is at the center of many of today's most dangerous and intractable conflicts: - In the past ten years, parties to 45 current conflicts have taken delivery of over $42 billion worth of U.S. weaponry... Of the significant ethnic and territorial conflicts going on during 1993-94, 90% (45 out of 50) of them involved one or more parties that had received some U.S. weaponry or military technology in the period leading up to the conflict...Two of the men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing received weapons training in Afghanistan under the direction of fundamentalist Islamic forces that were armed and trained by the CIA. "
Weapons at War:
May 1995 - A World Policy Institute Issue Brief
by William D. Hartung

"Since 1990, the United States has exported more than $152 billion worth of weapons to states around the world. Many of these sales have been to repressive and/or unstable governments. This section provides general arms sales statistics and highlights policies of concern in some of America's major client states."
Federation of American Scientists - Arms Sales Monitoring Project

"There are 28 terrorist groups currently operating in 18 countries, according to the State Department's bi-annual list of active foreign terrorist organizations.... In the period of 1990-1999, the United States supplied 16 of the 18 countries on the State Department list with arms... In addition, the U.S. military (and the CIA) has trained the forces of many of these 18 countries in U.S. war fighting tactics, in some cases including individuals now involved in terrorism."
'US Arms Exports to Countries Where Terror Thrives' - Centre for Defense Information Report 2001

"Many of the same American corporate executives who have reaped millions of dollars from arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government, public records show..... A significant portion of the millions of dollars U.S. companies and their politically influential executives have earned in deals with the Saudis has been through military contracts... "
Boston Herald, 12 Dec 2001

Ingredients of the US 2000/2001 'Two Bite' Coup Click here for whole coup story in one web page (large file) or use individual menu links below to view elements (recommended)
1.Why You Hear Little About It In The Mainstream Press	8. Who's Really Running Post-Coup America?
2. What Are These People Capable Of? - 'Bite No 1' - Coup 2000	9. Behind The scenes - The Baker-Bush Snr effect
3. Why Was A Second Bite At The Coup Necessary?	10. The 911 Coup Smokescreen
4. Forewarned Is Forearmed For 'Bite No 2' - Coup 2001	11. Accommodating 'The Future' With John Ashcroft
5. Bite No 2 - Cementing The coup With the 911 opportunity	12. Only Pretend Friends Left Now For The US
6. Election Defeat Cover-Up Not The Only Reason - A, B, C, D, E	13.Ground Prepared Back In The Reagan-Bush Era - The Iran Hostages Fix
7. Lies and Coups - 'Nothing New'	14. 911 Converts Coup Into Putsch
Time for a Genuinely Open Public Inquiry into 911 - click here 1991 - 2002: TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?

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