Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975: Removed Section on CIA

[bobthedrummer]

Assassination Plots

White House Aide Dick Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report to Dampen Impact (The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 543 Feb. 2016)

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB543-Ford-White-House-Altered-Rockefeller-Commission-Report

No wonder no one wants to bring charges against all the perpetrators of the domestic assassinations of US citizens that were placed on "lists" since the 1960's.

I hope there will be accountability to we, the people sooner rather than later.

[chknltl]

1. KnR nt

[bobthedrummer]

2. The History of Operation CHAOS (Verne Lyon 1990)

"For over fifteen years, the CIA, with assistance from numerous government agencies conducted a massive illegal domestic covert operation called Operation CHAOS."
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/lyon.html

[JDPriestly]

3. K&R and bookmarked for future reference.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. K & R! Often portrayed as innocuous or restorative, the Ford Admin was anything but

A veritable rogue's gallery, it created the template for the country's neocon excesses.

Alexander Haig was his first Chief of Staff
Donald Rumsfeld succeeded Haig as Chief of Staff and was later Secretary of Defense
Dick Cheney was Chief of Staff following Rumsfeld
George H. W. Bush was Director of Central Intelligence
Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State and National Security Advisor

[yurbud]

9. People held Nixon's pardon against him, and they were right to.

The explanation that prosecuting Nixon would have weakened faith in our government implies that we are all children, and I doubt those who said it believed it anyway.

More likely, the analysis was if Nixon was prosecuted, future presidents would be more careful even when following the orders of their wealthy patrons, which cannot be tolerated.

[ReRe]

12. "COG"

Continuance Of Government

(SOP of TPTB.)

It's why government officials who commit treason always "get away with murder," so to speak.

[bobthedrummer]

34. There it is. n/t

[Octafish]

44. Peter Dale Scott details the way Cheney ran the operation on September 11

A Podcast on the Little-Known “Continuity of Government” Effort Underlying National Emergencies

http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/09/12/peter-dale-scott-explains-the-secret-cheney-operation-on-911/

FTR: [font color="red"][font size="5"]NO DEMOCRATS WERE INVITED TO THE COG SECRET UNDISCLOSED SECURE LOCATION[/font size][/font color]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5027094

[ReRe]

45. Required homework for everyone to mark...

... A cornucopia of a file, Octafish. Everyone needs to get their thinking hats and their reading glasses on and enter herein. The Peter Dale Scott "whowhatwhy" podcast is 1st on the list which really explains "COG".

[Zen Democrat]

21. And the members of the Rockefeller Commission to investigate domestic CIA activites?

Nelson Rockefeller, Chairman
Ronald Reagan
Lyman Lemnitzer (former CJCOS)
Douglas Dillon
David Belin (of Warren Commission infamy)
Edgar Shannon Jr.
John T. Connor
Erwin Griswold
Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO)
And then Dick Cheney edited the final report

Old Jerry Ford was not a good man. He was part of the FBI cover-up of JFK murder; then was selected VP by Nixon in the middle of Watergate; he takes office and then ....

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.

He spent a lifetime making corrupt bargains.

[bobthedrummer]

32. Yep-absolutely the way it's been done time and time again, corrupted to the core. n/t

[silvershadow]

5. K&R...

Probably at Poppy's urging...or Cheney's.

[Festivito]

6. For one, we had a vice president who knew HE COULD HIDE THE MURDER OF A PRESIDENT.

and get away with it.

[Ikonoklast]

19. People forget that Ford was on the Warren Commission.

Inside fixer for the Republicans his entire life, and was rewarded for his loyalty.

[bobthedrummer]

25. Yep & he and Nixon both were "beholden" to John Edgar Hoover who hated the TRUTH, among other things

The Shadow of Nazism Over US Torture Policy (Jacqueline Marcus April 2016)

How Nazism Shaped US War Policies: Thousands Of SS War Criminals Recruited To The U.S. By CIA-Pentagon After WWII

http://www.constantinereport.com/shadow-nazism-us-torture-policy

[bobthedrummer]

23. And then "passed the torch" to the shadow government that proceeded to even "grander achievements"

Defense Intelligence Agency/DIA Declassified: A Sourcebook (The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 534)

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB534-DIA-Declassified-Sourcebook

[Festivito]

24. And, did he tell Obama that he could hide information on the killing of a president?

Say, if Obama started to research warnings prior to 911, JFK, Iraq lead-up, single payer, ...

[gregcrawford]

7. Accountability?

Don't hold your breath. The Bush Crime Family and all their minions, Cheney, Rummy, that evil fuck, Kissinger, and the shits that watered down the Warren Report all have too many venomous tentacles and friends in high – and low – places. The political "Elites" that Andrew Sullivan recently came out of retirement to fawn over in typically oily fashion regularly murder people for thinking about the truth, let alone actually telling it.

Hmmm... I remember when this whole thing was dismissed as a "conspiracy theory," the buzz phrase to which they always resort when someone gets a little too close to the truth for the comfort of the Ruling Elite.

Fuck those fucking fucks to death.

[mountain grammy]

8. Yep.

[ReRe]

13. Yep... That's how it works, sadly. :-( n/t

[Hydra]

14. +1000

They are free to skate over and over again, while people mysteriously die in their wake.

[GoneFishin]

18. Yep. They did a good job smearing as a "conspiracy theorist" anyone who dares to point out that the

wealthy and connected have their share of sociopaths who are not restrained by a conscience or respect for human life, and are capable of unthinkable violent acts for selfish gains.

I am surprised that none of their minions are here yet. Oh well, they should be along any time.

[Judi Lynn]

46. You speak for so fucking many of us! n/t

[shraby]

10. Eventually the whole sordid story will be told because the perps cannot live forever to cover their

asses. The truth will win.

[billhicks76]

11. Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Gary Webb, Paul Wellstone

Not to mention JFK, RFK and MLK. They think they can get away with anything after pulling those off.

[Betty Karlson]

15. Aren't the 1 % above the law?

[Lodestar]

50. And 9/11.

[Enthusiast]

16. Paving the way for Iran—Contra. They even interfered with the 1980 presidential election.

Is it any wonder this country is in such a quagmire?

[blm]

28. They interfered with 2004, too. No way would they let Kerry access documents

they managed to keep from him when he was investigating and exposing IranContra, BCCI, and CIA drug running.

[merrily]

17. In 1975, rumors that a chunk was missing from the Rockefeller Report were dismissed as a

"conspiracy theory" because, heaven knows, government always tells us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth--just as it expects us to do.

[bobthedrummer]

22. Those days have passed, finally, merrily.

Now it's in our faces, 24/7, along with the "latest" technology being utilized by all kinds of "bad actors" posing as Patriots of HOMELAND Inc..

(U) Office of the Director or National Intelligence Classification Guide (ODNI CG)
Includes Administrative Update September 30, 2014
Approved for release by ODNI on March 16, 2016
FOIA Case# DF-2015-00044 (The Federation of American Scientists/FAS pdf)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/odni-cg.pdf

[merrily]

29. I am not sure those days ever existed. I was gently mocking those who cry "conspiracy theory"

and believe that is a rebuttal because, heaven knows, everything is always exactly as it seems or as government assures us it is.

http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?1706-Conspiracy-theories-Give-Ockham-s-Razor*-a-rest-now-and-again-will-ya

[Octafish]

20. Frank Church warned us about secret government...

“That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

-- Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) FDR New Deal, Liberal, Progressive, World War II combat veteran. A brave man, the NSA was turned on him. Coincidentally, he narrowly lost re-election a few years later.

And what happened to Church, for his trouble to preserve Democracy:

In 1980, Church will lose re-election to the Senate in part because of accusations of his committee’s responsibility for Welch’s death by his Republican opponent, Jim McClure.

SOURCE: http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=frank_church_1

From GWU's National Security Archives:

"Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal": The National Security Agency versus Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald, Frank Church, et al.

Newly Declassified History Divulges Names of Prominent Americans Targeted by NSA during Vietnam Era

Declassification Decision by Interagency Panel Releases New Information on the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Panama Canal Negotiations

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 441
Posted – September 25, 2013
Originally Posted - November 14, 2008
Edited by Matthew M. Aid and William Burr

Washington, D.C., September 25, 2013 – During the height of the Vietnam War protest movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the National Security Agency tapped the overseas communications of selected prominent Americans, most of whom were critics of the war, according to a recently declassified NSA history. For years those names on the NSA's watch list were secret, but thanks to the decision of an interagency panel, in response to an appeal by the National Security Archive, the NSA has released them for the first time. The names of the NSA's targets are eye-popping. Civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King and Whitney Young were on the watch list, as were the boxer Muhammad Ali, New York Times journalist Tom Wicker, and veteran Washington Post humor columnist Art Buchwald. Also startling is that the NSA was tasked with monitoring the overseas telephone calls and cable traffic of two prominent members of Congress, Senators Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Howard Baker (R-Tennessee).

SNIP...

Another NSA target was Senator Frank Church, who started out as a moderate Vietnam War critic. A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee even before the Tonkin Gulf incident, Church worried about U.S. intervention in a "political war" that was militarily unwinnable. While Church voted for the Tonkin Gulf resolution, he later saw his vote as a grave error. In 1965, as Lyndon Johnson made decisions to escalate the war, Church argued that the United States was doing "too much," criticisms that one White House official said were "irresponsible." Church had been one of Johnson's Senate allies but the President was angry with Church and other Senate critics and later suggested that they were under Moscow's influence because of their meetings with Soviet diplomats. In the fall of 1967, Johnson declared that "the major threat we have is from the doves" and ordered FBI security checks on "individuals who wrote letters and telegrams critical of a speech he had recently delivered." In that political climate, it is not surprising that some government officials eventually nominated Church for the watch list.[10]

SOURCE: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441/

I wonder if the late Sen. Richard Schweiker (R-PA) also got the treatment from Poppy, Cheney, Rummy and their cronies in secret government?

“I think that the report, to those who have studied it closely, has collapsed like a house of cards, and I think the people who read it in the long run future will see that. I frankly believe that we have shown that the [investigation of the] John F. Kennedy assassination was snuffed out before it even began, and that the fatal mistake the Warren Commission made was not to use its own investigators, but instead to rely on the CIA and FBI personnel, which played directly into the hands of senior intelligence officials who directed the cover-up.” — Senator Richard Schweiker on “Face the Nation” in 1976.

Lost to History NOT

It's like the Doomsday Machine on Star Trek, a Police State with Supercomputers destroys Democracy.

[bobthedrummer]

27. Mess With The Best-Die Like The Rest-a lot of US survived that to this very day Brother, as you so

well know.

Phoenix 1967-1971 (Global Security)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/ops/vietnam-phoenix.htm

[Octafish]

30. Walter Mondale warned us, too.

For some reason, it didn't get much press attention at the time or since.

State of Deception

Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?

BY RYAN LIZZA
The New Yorker, Dec. 16, 2013

EXCERPT...

The Church committee recommended not only sweeping reform of the laws governing the intelligence community but also a new system of oversight. Senator Walter Mondale, a member of the committee, said he worried about “another day and another President, another perceived risk and someone breathing hot down the neck of the military leader then in charge of the N.S.A.” Under those circumstances, he feared, the N.S.A. “could be used by President ‘A’ in the future to spy upon the American people.” He urged Congress to “very carefully define the law.” In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which forbade the intelligence agencies to spy on anyone in the U.S. unless they had probable cause to believe that the person was a “foreign power or the agent of a foreign power.” The law set up the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and, in 1976, Congress created the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The N.S.A. and other spy agencies are instructed to keep the committee, as well as a similar one in the House, “fully and currently informed.”

CONTINUED...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/state-of-deception

Nice history. If we can get it.

[bobthedrummer]

33. And Otis Pike-as well as all the contemporaries--some of whom were made examples of (wetwork)

[villager]

26. It seems to have worked. Think how many here at the "Underground" still clutch to fairy tales

...about domestic assassinations, how our government really operates, etc.

[Octafish]

38. Just Us playing politics.

David Bonior, Frank Church, Otis Pike, Gary Hart and other great Democrats were targeted by the Right for supporting democracy, justice and equal rights for Cubans and Nicaraguans and El Salvadorans and others brutalized by the 1-percent. Liberals, in other words.

GOP Michigan legislature redistricted one great Party Whip out of his seat. Other liberal, progressive and humanitarian Democrats, likewise got the ziggy in the press and at the ballot box for opposing genocide in the name of capitalism.

CIA Out of Control

Russ Baker
Village Voice, Sept. 10, 1991

EXCERPT...

Dellums press secretary Max Miller says the representative from Berkeley, together with majority whip David Bonior--another outspoken liberal--made an agreement with Speaker Thomas Foley to maintain a low profile in return for gaining seats on the committee. After one full round of legislation and briefings, Miller says, Dellums will be heard from. "They wanted to find out as much as they could before speaking out." Meanwhile, the energetic Oliver North, in his role as president of something called the Freedom Alliance, has launched a campaign to collect a million Dump Dellums signatures. He calls Dellums "a pro-Marxist, antidefense radical," who would be a threat on the "supersensitive" committee. Putting Dellums on the panel, North says, was an "extremely reckless and very dangerous appointment."

And those who make trouble get trouble. Reports and rumors that the apparatus pokes into the personal lives of members of Congress underlines the danger of investigating national security agencies. "There's a little bit of fear that if you do go after the intelligence community, your career is threatened," says McGehee, author of "Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA." Even the complacent Senate intelligence committee chair David Boren has reason to worry. According to the "Voice"'s Doug Ireland (see Press Clips, May 28), Boren faced a vicious primary battle in his first senatorial campaign, during which his opponents accused him of being a homosexual. At a press conference, Boren swore on a white Bible that he was not. "It would therefore be utterly churlish," Ireland wrote, "to speculate on whether or not the Company has a file on the state of its tamed watchdog's libido." Since then, Boren has called Robert Gates "one of the most candid people we've ever dealt with."

Leading congressional critics of the CIA have been defeated, despite their long, distinguished careers in Washington and Congress's nearly foolproof 98 per cent reelection rate. Both Otis Pike and Frank Church were defeated soon after chairing their precedent-setting '70s hearings. Pike's report had been so incendiary that Congress voted not to release it before the White House had a chance to censor the document. (It was ultimately leaked to and published by the "Voice.&quot Pike's committee staff director had been warned by the CIA special counsel, "Pike will pay for this, you wait and see--we'll destroy him for this," according to "The New York Times." Also defeated were outspoken senators Dick Clark, Birch Bayh, and Harold Hughes. Foreign money--possibly South African--is believed to have financed the defeat of Clark, a vocal critic of the CIA and U.S. ties with South Africa.

Challenging the CIA also means trying to rein in dictatorial tendencies that naturally accrue to the occupant of the Oval Office. "Every president of the United States, no matter what he says before he becomes president, about how he's going to clean things up," says Marchetti, "once he gets in there and finds out that's *his* agency, that's *his* intelligence community, hey, all bets are off."

One man who told the truth blew his chance to become CIA director, thanks to "reformer" Jimmy Carter. Hank Knoche, acting director following Bush's retirement, had been called down to a Senate committee. "The chairman was complaining that `we just don't know what's really going on,'" says Marchetti, who was privy to the details of the incident. "They asked [Knoche] about covert action operations: `Do we know all the stuff that's going on? Could you tell us more about them?'" Asked to reveal the 10 largest ongoing operations, Knoche offered to name a few of the lesser ones, despite urgings from his aide that he keep his mouth shut. President Carter reportedly heard about it, and was none too happy. Instead of Knoche, the odds-on favorite for the slot, he named intelligence novice and old Naval Academy chum Admiral Stansfield Turner. "Hank learned his lesson that day," says Marchetti.

CONTINUED...

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/alt.conspiracy/G8CP9pwqjvU

Heh heh heh.

[villager]

39. Had Dellums risen higher than his East Bay district, and not retired...

...I'm sure he would have had his pick of "private plane" flights to choose from...

[Octafish]

41. Agents for Bush

"The best way to predict the future is to make it happen." -- U.S. Army saying.

1980 campaign:

Agents for Bush

by Bob Callahan*
Covert Action Information Bulletin, Number 33 (Winter 1990)

EXCERPT...

Bush and Terrorism

The Bush presidential campaign not only set the tone for the role and structure of the intelligence apparatus in the new Reagan administration, it also took up a new foreign policy theme which would reap huge political dividends in the years to come. This new theme was terrorism/counterterrorism.

In July 1979 George Bush and Ray Cline attended a conference in Jerusalem where this theme was given its first significant political discussion before leaders of Israel, Great Britain and the United States.

It would take an enormously important event to keep a major American presidential candidate away from campaigning on the Fourth of July weekend. For George Bush, the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism was such an event. The Jerusalem Conference was hosted by the Israeli government and, not surprisingly, most of Israel’s top intelligence officers and leading political (figures) were in attendance. (6)

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin rose to the podium on July 2, 1979 to provide the conference with its opening address. By the summer of 1979, even Menachem Begin was willing to join in the bashing of his old Camp David friend, Jimmy Carter – a practice which had become almost endemic by the fall of 1979.

The Israelis were angry with Carter because his administration had recently released its Annual Report on Human Rights wherein the Israeli Government was taken to task for abusing the rights of the Palestinian people on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israel’s new anti-Carter tone was mile, however, compared to the rhetoric of the two separate U.S. delegations which attended the conference. The first delegation was led by the late Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Washington. It included the noted black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin; Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute; and Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter of Commentary Magazine. The members of this delegation were registered Democrats, yet all became very active in neo-conservative politics during the Reagan years.

The Republican delegation was led by George Bush. It included Ray Cline and two important members of Bush’s Team B form his CIA days – Major General George Keegan, a Bush supporter who had served as intelligence chief for the United States Air Force; and Harvard professor Richard Pipes. (7)

Looking for a mobilizing issue to counter the Carter-era themes of détente and human rights, the Bush people began to explore the political benefits of embracing the terrorism/anti-terrorism theme.

As Jonathan Marshall of the Oakland Tribune explains: “At the conference, Ray Cline developed the theme that terror was not a random response of frustrated minorities, but rather a preferred instrument of East bloc policy adopted after 1969 when the KGB persuaded the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to accept the PLO as a major political instrument in the Mideast and to subsidize its terrorist policies by freely giving money, training, arms and coordinated communications.(8)

In Ray Cline’s imagination, terrorism had now hardened into a system – an international trouble making system. Richard Pipes elaborated on the Cline hypothesis. “The roots of Soviet terrorism, indeed of modern terrorism,” Pipes states, “date back to 1879….It marks the beginning of that organization which is the source of all modern terrorist groups, whether they be named the Tupamaros, the Baader-Meinhoff group, the Weathermen, Red Brigade or PLO. I refer to the establishment in 1879 of a Congress in the small Russian town of Lipesk, of an organization known as Narodnaya Volya, or the People’s Will.”(9)

According to Philip Paull, who wrote his master’s thesis on the subject of the Jerusalem Conference, “If Pipes was to be believed, the Russians not only support international terrorism, they invented it!”(10)

The Bush/Cline/Pipes definition of terrorism was of course both expeditious and powerfully political. “Left out of their equation,” Jonathan Marshall comments, “was any mention of terrorist acts by CIA-trained Cuban exiles, Israeli ties to Red Brigades, or the function of death squads from Argentina to Guatemala. Soviet sponsorship, real or imagined, had become the defining characteristic of terrorism, not simply an explanation for its prevalence. Moreover, there was no inclination whatsoever to include, under the rubric of terror, bombings of civilians, or any other acts carried out by government forces rather than small individual units.” (11)

Within days after the conference the new propaganda war began in earnest. On July 11, 1979, the International Herald Tribune featured a lead editorial entitled "The Issue is Terrorism," which quoted directly from conference speeches. The same day Congressman Jack Kemp placed selected quotes from the conference in the Congressional Record. In his syndicated column of July 28, 1979, former CIA employee William F. Buckley blasted two of his favorite targets in one single mixed metaphor: “No venture is too small to escape patronage by the Soviet Union,” Buckley stated, “which scatters funds about for terrorists like HEW in search of welfare clients.” Then in August, George Will, who also attended the conference, wrote about it in the Washington Post.

Before the year was out Commentary, National Review, and eventually New Republic writers would all church out yard after yard of copy on this theme. Soon after, Claire Sterling, who had also attended the conference, would create the first "bible" of this new perspective with the publication of her highly controversial book, The Terror Network.(12)

With the help of George Bush and Ray Cline, the Jerusalem Conference had managed to start a propaganda firestorm.

In the following decade, the theme of terrorism/counter-terrorism would grow increasingly important to George Bush. He would become the ranking authority on this subject in the Reagan White House. Indeed, it would be Bush’s own Task Force – the Vice President’s Task Force on Combatting Terroris, -- which would eventually provide Oliver North back channel authorization through which he would bypass certain dissenting administration officials in his ongoing management of the Reagan/Bush Secret War against Nicaragua.(13)

CONTINUED...

PDF: https://archive.org/details/GeorgeBushTheCompanysMan-CovertActionInformationBulletinNo.33

And that is how Poppy got his clue.

[villager]

42. Aw, shit, Bayard Rustin sold out!?

Don't know if I knew that before...

Damn, another hero fallen....

[Octafish]

43. Not sure...

He was there as part of the "civilian" delegation. That was 1979 or so. Lot of fuel under the reactor since then. Plenty of time to change sides more than a few times. "Everybody does it"...

I do know that issue of Covert Action Information Bulletin is solid gold, showing us just when Human Rights were tossed for Security cough "grab all you can any time you can."

[bobthedrummer]

31. The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know (Prof. James F. Tracey 2015)

"Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media..."

http://www.constantinereport.com/cia-media-50-facts-world-needs-know

AP, RCFP Sue Over FBI's Impersonation of Journalists and much more (Lauren Harper September 3, 2015)

https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/ap-rcfp-sue-over-fbis-impersonation-of-journalists-and-much-more-frinformsum-932015

The Office of Strategic Influence (The Center for Media and Democracy/SourceWatch page)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Office_of_Strategic_Influence

"Although hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on information operations, the hand of the United States is rarely apparent. And that's how the Pentagon wants it." (Tom VandenBrook Ray Locker USA Today February 29, 2012)

U.S. "info ops" programs dubious, costly

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-02-29/afghanistan-iraq-military-information-operations_usa-today-investigation/53295472/1

Spy Chief James Clapper Compares U.S. "intelligence Community" To Spiderman (Kevin Gosztola September 10, 2015)

http://shadowproof.com/2015/09/10/spy-chief-james-clapper-compares-u-s-intelligence-community-to-spider-man

"Death to America" is self-inflicted too, isn't it?

[bobthedrummer]

35. So now we, the people, are to believe that the CIA has "lost" the Senate Torture Report which has

never been released to US. Yet some of US were, in fact, murdered, tortured and experimented on right here in the land of the free and the home of the brave because we were on various "lists" composed by God knows who-but they were part and parcel of the US intelligence community even in the days of Nixon and Ford.

Justice is coming people-finally.

[bobthedrummer]

36. Chapter 15-CIA Director (George Bush-The Unauthorized Biography)

"In late 1975, as a result in particular of his role in Watergate, Bush's confirmation as CIA Director was not automatic."
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/chapter-15-cia-director

[Octafish]

37. Carter fired Poppy. Then Poppy's people got Carter fired.

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The Deep State Plots The 1980 Defeat Of Jimmy Carter

By Peter Dale Scott
WhoWhatWhy.com on Nov 2, 2014

The Safari Club was an alliance between national intelligence agencies that wished to compensate for the CIA’s retrenchment in the wake of President Carter’s election and Senator Church’s post-Watergate reforms. As former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal once told Georgetown University alumni,

In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not write reports, and it could not pay money. In order to compensate for that, a group of countries got together in the hope of fighting Communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran. (1)

After Carter was elected, the Safari Club allied itself with Richard Helms and Theodore Shackley against the more restrained intelligence policies of Jimmy Carter, according to Joseph Trento. In Trento’s account, the dismissal by William Colby in 1974 of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton,

combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to start working with (former DCI Richard) Helms (then U.S. Ambassador to Iran) and his most trusted operatives outside of Congressional and even Agency purview. James Angleton said before his death that “Shackley and Helms … began working with outsiders like Adham and Saudi Arabia. The traditional CIA answering to the president was an empty vessel having little more than technical capability.”(2)

Trento adds that “The Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations. With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed . . . the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a worldwide money-laundering machine.”(3) Trento claims also that the Safari Club then was able to work with some of the controversial CIA operators who had been forced out of the CIA by Turner, and that this was coordinated by Theodore Shackley:

Shackley, who still had ambitions to become DCI, believed that without his many sources and operatives like (Edwin) Wilson, the Safari Club—operating with (former DCI Richard) Helms in charge in Tehran—would be ineffective. . . . Unless Shackley took direct action to complete the privatization of intelligence operations soon, the Safari Club would not have a conduit to (CIA) resources. The solution: create a totally private intelligence network using CIA assets until President Carter could be replaced. (4)

During the 1980 election campaign each party accused the other of plotting an October Surprise to elect their candidate. Subsequently other journalists, notably Robert Parry, accused CIA veterans on the Reagan campaign, along with Shackley, of an arguably treasonable but successful plot with Iranians to delay return of the U.S. hostages until Reagan took office in January 1981. (5)

SNIP...

The oil majors’ manipulation of domestic oil prices, combined with Carter’s failure to bring the hostages home, combined to cause the first defeat for an elected president running for reelection, since that of Herbert Hoover in 1932.

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http://whowhatwhy.org/2014/11/02/the-deep-state-plots-the-1980-defeat-of-jimmy-carter/

Heh heh heh.

[Judi Lynn]

40. I clicked the link to get the article to read, and save, got a Page Not Found, then this link:

http://whowhatwhy.org/2014/11/02/the-deep-state-plots-the-1980-defeat-of-jimmy-carter/

Switched from .com to .org at some point.

This article is important, and I'm very glad to have it available.

Thank you.

[bobthedrummer]

47. "The most efficient accident, in simple assassinations, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard

surface. Elevator shafts, stairwells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve (In some cases), it will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him."

A quote from a CIA "training manual" that just kills me everytime I read it. What about you?

[bobthedrummer]

48. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States of America-except re: "national security"

[Lodestar]

49. I'm guessing Cheney was also behind the Patriot Act

and other documents that were quickly introduced immediately in the aftermath
of 9/11. And the fact that the Patriot Act was not removed by Democratic leadership
during the Obama presidency is alarming.

[Lodestar]

51. Do any of these reports name names of who was assassinated?

And if it's a political assassination, who makes that decision?

[bobthedrummer]

52. MH CHAOS/Operation CHAOS became the International Terrorism Group (DU OP June 4, 2004)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1717968