|
The
Voice of the White House
Washington
,
D.C.
,
June
20, 2008
:
“I would say that at least 200 people working here in D.C. are
fully aware, and have read the official and highly classified
reports, that the oil people are grabbing everything they can here
before the pliant and crooked Bush and Cheney have to leave. They
want the ability to drill offshore when and where they please and
now, with Bush’s help, they are sewing up all the Iraqi oil
production with the usual Bush-approved no bid leases. Everything
here is now ‘no bid.’ If Halliburton needed 300 billions in
U.S.
taxpayer’s money, Bush would demand it and the ass-kissing
Congress would cheerfully give it to him, just like they have just
given the crooked and conspiratorial
U.S.
telephone companies like AT&T and their parent company, SBC, a
free pass on their connivance with Bush to snoop on all of us. In
Washington
,
money not only talks, it screams. The high gas prices? The Arabs are
to blame? Oh no, Bush and Cheney are directly responsible for this.
Sweet crude light is now $45 a barrel in
Saudi
Arabia
although the industry claims this is not so. It is and their profits
are not only obscene and criminal but they are doing terrible damage
to the American economy and driving more and more people here into
bankruptcy. The only solution is to nationalize the oil industry,
all of it, and then prosecute the thieves who have, entirely on
their own, pushed gas to what is going to be $5 a gallon, just in
time for the summer vacation driving times. This is not an accident.
It will also not be an accident when the price of gas drops a dollar
or so after the season is over but guess what? The price of heating
oil will shoot up just in time for winter! Nationalize the
oil and prosecute the corporate heads and see how fast the gas
prices drop.”
Conversations
with the Crow: Part 8
Editor’s
note: When we ran the first conversation
in this series, there was the question of reader interest and
acceptability. It is pleasant to report that our server was jammed
with viewers and the only other tbrnews story that has had more
viewers was our Forward Base Falcon story that had a half a million
viewers in less that two days. We are now going to reprint all
of the
Crowley
conversations, including a very interesting one on John
McCain, in chronological
sequence. It is also pleasant to note that two publishers and three
reporters have all expressed concrete interest in the
Crowley
conversations. It is even more pleasurable to note that a number of
people inside the Beltway and in
McLean
,
Virginia
, have been
screaming with rage! Here is a partial listing of documents from
Crowley
’s
personal files, now being scanned for publication:
DOCUMENT
CATALOG
Catalog
Number
Description of Contents __________________________________________________________________________________
1000
BH
Extensive file (1,205 pages) of reports on Operation PHOENIX.
Final paper dated January, 1971, first document dated
October, 1967. Covers the setting up of Regional
Interrogation Centers, staffing, torture techniques including
electric shock, beatings, chemical injections. CIA agents involved
and includes a listing of
U.S.
military
units to include Military Police, CIC and Special Forces groups
involved. After-action reports from various military units to
include 9th Infantry, showing the deliberate killing of
all unarmed civilians located in areas suspected of harboring or
supplying Viet Cong units. *
1002
BH
Medium file (223 pages) concerning
the fomenting of civil disobedience in
Chile
as the
result of the Allende election in 1970. Included are pay vouchers
for CIA bribery efforts with Chilean labor organization and student
activist groups,
U.S.
military
units involved in the final revolt, letter from
T. Karamessines, CIA Operations Director to Chile CIA Station
Chief Paul Wimert, passing along a specific order from Nixon via
Kissinger to kill Allende when the coup was successful.
Communications to Pinochet with Nixon instructions to root out by
force any remaining left wing leaders.
1003
BH
Medium file (187 pages) of reports of CIA assets containing
photographs of Soviet missile sites, airfields and other strategic
sites taken from commercial aircraft. Detailed descriptions of
targets attached to each picture or pictures.
1004
BH
Large file (1560 pages) of CIA reports on Canadian radio
intelligence intercepts from the Soviet Embassy in
Ottawa
(1958) and a
list of suspected and identified Soviet agents or sympathizers in
Canada
, to include
members of the Canadian Parliament and military.
1005
BH
Medium file (219 pages) of members of the German Bundeswehr
in the employ of the CIA. The report covers the Innere Führung
group plus members of the signals intelligence service. Another
report, attached, covers CIA assets in German Foreign Office
positions, in
Germany
and in
diplomatic missions abroad.
1006:BH
Long file (1,287 pages) of events leading up to the killing
of Josef Stalin in 1953 to include reports on contacts with L.P.
Beria who planned to kill Stalin, believing himself to be the target
for removal. Names of cut outs, CIA personnel in
Finland
and
Denmark
are noted as are original communications from Beria and agreements
as to his standing down in the DDR and a list of MVD/KGB files on
American informants from 1933 to present. A report on a
blood-thinning agent to be made available to Beria to put into
Stalin’s food plus twenty two reports from Soviet doctors on
Stalin’s health, high blood pressure etc. A report on areas of
cooperation between Beria’s people and CIA controllers in the
event of a successful coup. *
1007
BH
Short list (125 pages) of CIA contacts with members of the
American media to include press and television and book publishers.
Names of contacts with bios are included as are a list of payments
made and specific leaked material supplied. Also appended is a
shorter list of foreign publications. Under date of August, 1989
with updates to 1992. Walter Pincus of the Washington Post, Bradlee
of the same paper, Ted Koppel, Sam Donaldson and others are
included.
1008
BH
A file of eighteen reports (total of 899 pages) documenting
illegal activities on the part of members of the U.S. Congress.
First report dated
July 29, 1950
and final
one September 15, 1992. Of especial note is a long file on Senator
McCarthy dealing with homosexuality and alcoholism. Also an attached
note concerning the Truman Administration’s use of McCarthy to
remove targeted Communists. These reports contain copies of FBI
surveillance reports, to include photographs and reference to tape
recordings, dealing with sexual events with male and female
prostitutes, drug use, bribery, and other matters.
1009
BH
A long multiple file (1,564 pages) dealing with the CIA part
(Kermit Roosevelt) in overthrowing the populist Persian prime
minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. Report from Dulles (John Foster)
concerning a replacement, by force if necessary and to include a
full copy of
AJAX
operation.
Letters from AIOC on million dollar bribe paid directly to
J.Angleton, head of SOG. Support of Shah requires exclusive
contracts with specified western oil companies. Reports dated from
May 1951 through August, 1953.
1010
BH
Medium file (419 pages) of telephone intercepts made by order
of J.J. Angleton of the telephone conversations between RFK and one
G.N. Bolshakov. Phone calls between 1962-1963 inclusive. Also copies
of intercepted and inspected mail from RFK containing classified
U.S. documents and sent to a cut-out identified as one used by
Bolshakov, a Russian press (TASS) employee. Report on Bolshakov’s
GRU connections.
1011
BH
Large file (988 pages) on 1961 Korean revolt of
Kwangju
revolt led
by General Park Chung-hee and General Kin-Jong-pil. Reports on
contacts maintained by CIA station in
Japan
to include
payments made to both men, plans for the coup, lists of
“undesirables” to be liquidated
Additional material on CIA connections with KCIA personnel
and an agreement with them to
assassinate South Korean chief of state, Park, in 1979.
1012
BH
Small file (12 pages) of homosexual activities between FBI
Director Hoover and his aide, Tolson. Surveillance pictures taken in
San Francisco
hotel and
report by CIA agents involved. Report analyzed in 1962.
1013
BH
Long file (1,699 pages) on General Edward Lansdale. First
report a study signed by DCI Dulles in
September of 1954 concerning a growing situation in former
French Indo-China. There are reports by and about
Lansdale
starting
with his attachment to the OPC in 1949-50 where he and Frank Wisner
coordinated policy in neutralizing Communist influence in the
Philippines
.. Landsale
was then sent to
Saigon
under
diplomatic cover and many copies of his period reports are copied
here. Very interesting background material including strong
connections with the Catholic Church concerning Catholic Vietnamese
and exchanges of intelligence information between the two entities.
1014
BH
Short file (78 pages) concerning
a Dr. Frank Olson. Olson was at the U.S. Army chemical
warfare base at
Ft.
Detrick
in
Maryland
and was
involved with a Dr. Gottleib. Gottleib was working on a plan to
introduce psychotic-inducing drugs into the water supply of the
Soviet Embassy. Apparently he tested the drugs on CIA personnel
first. Reports of psychotic behavior by Olson and more police and
official reports on his defenstration by Gottleib’s associates. A
cover-up was instituted and a number of in-house CIA memoranda
attest to this. Also a discussion by Gottleib on various poisons and
drugs he was experimenting with and another report of people who had
died as a result of Gottleib’s various experiments and CIA efforts
to neutralize any public knowledge of these. *
1015
BH
Medium file (457 pages) on CIA connections with the
Columbian-based Medellín drug ring. Eight CIA internal reports,
three DoS reports, one FBI report on CIA operative Milan Rodríguez
and his connections with this drug ring. Receipts for CIA payments
to Rodríguez of over $3 million in CIA funds, showing the routings
of the money, cut-outs and payments. CIA reports on sabotaging
DEA investigations. A three-part study of the Nicaraguan
Contras, also a CIA-organized and paid for organization.
1016
BH
A small file (159 pages) containing lists of known Nazi
intelligence and scientific people recruited in Germany from 1946
onwards, initially by the U.S. Army and later by the CIA. A detailed
list of the original names and positions of the persons involved
plus their relocation information. Has three U.S. Army and one FBI
report on the subject.
1017
BH
A small list (54 pages) of American business entities with
“significant” connections to the CIA. Each business is listed
along with relevant information on its owners/operators, previous
and on going contacts with the CIA’s Robert Crowley, also a list
of national advertising agencies with similar information. Much
information about suppressed news stories and planted stories
On
October 8th, 2000
, Robert Trumbull Crowley, once a leader of the CIA's
Clandestine Operations Division, died in a
Washington
hospital of
heart failure and the end effects of Alzheimer's Disease. Before the
late Assistant Director Crowley was cold, Joseph Trento, a writer of
light-weight books on the CIA, descended on
Crowley
's widow at her town house on
Cathedral Hill
Drive
in
Washington
and hauled away
over fifty boxes of
Crowley
's CIA files.
Once Trento had his new find secure in his house in Front
Royal , Virginia, he called a well-known Washington fix lawyer with
the news of his success in securing what the CIA had always
considered to be a potential major embarrassment. Three months
before, July 20th of that year, retired Marine Corps colonel William
R. Corson, and an associate of
Crowley
, died of
emphysema and lung cancer at a hospital in
Bethesda
,
Md.
After Corson's death,
Trento
and a well-known
Washington
fix-lawyer went
to Corson's bank, got into his safe deposit box and removed a
manuscript entitled 'Zipper.' This manuscript, which dealt with
Crowley
's involvement in
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, vanished into a CIA
burn-bag and the matter was considered to be closed forever.
The small group
of CIA officials gathered at
Trento
's house to
search through the
Crowley
papers, looking
for documents that must not become public. A few were found but, to
their consternation, a significant number of files
Crowley
was known to
have had in his possession had simply vanished.
When published material concerning the CIA's actions against
Kennedy became public in 2002, it was discovered to the CIA's
horror, that the missing documents had been sent by an increasingly
erratic Crowley to another person and these missing papers included
devastating material on the CIA's activities in South East Asia to
include drug running, money laundering and the maintenance of the
notorious 'Regional Interrogation Centers' in Viet Nam and, worse
still, the Zipper files proving the CIA’s active organization of
the assassination of President John Kennedy..
A massive, preemptive disinformation campaign was readied,
using government-friendly bloggers, CIA-paid "historians"
and others, in the event that anything from this file ever surfaced.
The best-laid plans often go astray and in this case, one of the
compliant historians, a former government librarian who fancied
himself a serious writer, began to tell his friends about the CIA
plan to kill Kennedy and eventually, word of this began to leak out
into the outside world.
The originals had vanished and an extensive search was
conducted by the FBI and CIA operatives but without success.
Crowley
's survivors, his
aged wife and son, were interviewed extensively by the FBI and
instructed to minimize any discussion of
highly damaging CIA files that
Crowley
had, illegally, removed from
Langley
when he retired.
Crowley
had been a close
friend of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s notorious head of
Counterintelligence. When Angleton was sacked by
DCI William Colby in December of 1974,
Crowley
and Angleton
conspired to secretly
remove Angleton’s most sensitive secret files our of the agency.
Crowley
did the same thing right
before his own retirement , secretly removing thousands of pages
of classified information that covered his entire agency
career.
Known as “The Crow” within the agency, Robert T. Crowley
joined the CIA at its inception and spent his entire career in the
Directorate of Plans, also know as the “Department of Dirty
Tricks,”:
Crowley
was one of the
tallest man ever to work at the CIA. Born in 1924 and raised in
Chicago
,
Crowley
grew to six and
a half feet when he entered the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point
in N.Y. as a
cadet in 1943 in the class of 1946. He never graduated, having
enlisted in the Army, serving in the Pacific during World War II. He
retired from the Army Reserve in 1986 as a lieutenant colonel.
According to a book he authored with his friend and colleague,
William Corson, Crowley’s career included service in military
intelligence and Naval Intelligence, before joining the CIA at
inception in 1947. His entire career at the agency was spent within
the Directorate of Plans in covert operations. Before his
retirement, Bob Crowley became assistant deputy director for
operations, the second-in-command in the Clandestine Directorate of
Operations.
One of
Crowley
’s first major assignments within the agency was to assist
in the recruitment and management of prominent World War II Nazis,
especially those with advanced intelligence experience. One of the
CIA’s major recruitment coups was Heinrich Mueller, once head of
Hitler’s Gestapo who had fled to
Switzerland
after the
collapse of the Third Reich and worked as an anti-Communist expert
for Masson of Swiss counterintelligence. Mueller was initially hired
by Colonel James Critchfield of the CIA,
who was running the Gehlen Organization out of Pullach in
southern
Germany
.
Crowley
eventually came
to despise Critchfield but the colonel was totally unaware of this,
to his later dismay.
Crowley
’s real
expertise within the agency was the Soviet KGB. One of his main jobs
throughout his career was acting as the agency liaison with
corporations like ITT, which the CIA often used as fronts for moving
large amounts of cash off their books. He was deeply involved in the
efforts by the
U.S.
to overthrow the
democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in
Chile
, which
eventually got him into legal problems with regard to investigations
of the
U.S.
government’s
grand jury where he has perjured himself in an agency cover-up
After his retirement,
Crowley
began to search
for someone who might be able to write a competent history of his
career. His first choice fell on British author John Costello
(author of Ten Days to Destiny, The Pacific War and other
works) but, discovering that Costello was a very aggressive
homosexual, he dropped him and tentatively turned to Joseph Trento
who had assisted
Crowley
and William Corson in writing a book on the KGB. When
Crowley
discovered that
Trento
had an ambiguous
and probably cooperative relationship with the CIA, he began to
distrust him and continued his search for an author.
Bob Crowley first contacted Gregory Douglas
in 1993 when he
found out from John Costello that Douglas was about to publish his
first book on Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo who
had become a secret, long-time asset to the CIA.
Crowley
contacted
Douglas
and they began a
series of long and often very informative telephone conversations
that lasted for four years. . In 1996,
Crowley
,
Crowley
told
Douglas
that he believed him to be the person that should ultimately
tell
Crowley
’s story but
only after
Crowley
’s death.
Douglas
, for his part,
became so entranced with some of the material that
Crowley
began to share
with him that he secretly began to record their conversations, later
transcribing them word for word, planning to incorporate some, or
all, of the material in later publications.
In 1998, when
Crowley
was slated to go
into the hospital for exploratory surgery,
he had his son, Greg, ship two large foot lockers of
documents to
Douglas
with the caveat
that they were not to be opened until after
Crowley
’s death. These
documents, totaled an
astonishing 15,000 pages of CIA classified files involving many
covert operations, both foreign and domestic, during the Cold War.
After
Crowley
’s death and
Trento
’s raid on the
Crowley
files, huge gaps
were subsequently discovered by horrified CIA officials and when
Crowley
’s friends
mentioned Gregory Douglas, it was discovered that
Crowley
’s son had
shipped two large boxes to
Douglas
. No one knew
their contents but because
Douglas
was viewed as an
uncontrollable loose cannon who had done considerable damage to the
CIA’s reputation by his on-going publication of the history of
Gestapo-Mueller, they bent every effort both to identify the missing
files and make some effort to retrieve them before
Douglas
made any use of
them.
All of this furor eventually came to the attention of Dr.
Peter Janney, a
Massachusetts
clinical
psychologist and son of Wistar Janney, another career senior CIA
official, colleague of not only Bob Crowley but Cord Meyer, Richard
Helms, Jim Angleton and others. Janney was working on a book
concerning the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, former wife of Cord
Meyer, a high-level CIA official, and later the mistress of
President John F. Kennedy.
Douglas
had authored a
book, ‘Regicide’ which dealt with
Crowley
’s part in the
Kennedy assassination and he obviously had access to at least some
of
Crowley
’s papers.
Janney was very well connected inside the CIA’s higher levels and
when he discovered that Douglas had indeed known, and had often
spoken with, Crowley and that after Crowley’s death, the FBI had
descended on Crowley’s widow and son, warning them to never speak
with Douglas about anything, he contacted Douglas and finally
obtained from him a number of original documents, including the
originals of the transcribed conversations with Robert Crowley.
In spite of the burn bags, the top secret safes and the
vigilance of the CIA to keep its own secrets, the truth has an
embarrassing and often very fatal habit of emerging, albeit decades
later.
While CIA drug running , money-launderings and brutal
assassinations are very often strongly rumored and suspected, it has
so far not been possible to actually pin them down but it is more
than possible that the publication of the transcribed and detailed
Crowley-Douglas conversations will do a great deal towards
accomplishing this.
These many transcribed conversations are relatively short
because
Crowley
was a man who
tired easily but they make excellent reading. There is an
interesting admixture of shocking revelations on the part of the
retired CIA official and often rampant anti-social (and very
entertaining) activities on the part of Douglas but readers of this
new and on-going series are gently reminded to always look for the
truth in the jest!
Date:
Monday,
April 22, 1996
Commenced:
11:17
AM CST
Concluded:
11:59
AM CST
GD:
Good morning, Robert. I wanted to let you know the box is finished
and I have checked it out. The neighbor’s cat started screeching
like a maniac and kept it up for the ten minutes I left the thing
plugged in.
RTC:
Wonderful news, Gregory. I am so looking forward to receiving it.
Send it to the drop address I gave you and use the name we decided
on.
GD:
No problem at all, Robert. It uses regular household current and on
one side you will find a dial and a toggle switch. The switch turns
it on and off and the dial adjusts the level of noise. I mean you
won’t hear any noise but that’s as good a term as anything else.
If you have pets, be careful to aim the box towards the embassy,
better up against the window which I would keep open during
operational times. I suggest you turn it on and off about three or
four times during the day but never leave it on for more than ten
minutes. You want general malaise but not protracted agony.
RTC:
And if their windows are closed?
GD:
Even better. The glass acts as a sounding board. If the curtains or
drapes are open, get a pair of glasses and stand back from the
window and watch for reactions. If not, just turn it on and off from
time to time. You won’t get people with exploding heads but
eventually you’ll hear about it.
RTC:
I suppose exploding Swiss diplomats would cause a stir.
GD:
I would think so. Now, I’ll send this out today before five and
then let you know. I won’t send it registered because then your
Mr. Fake Name would have to sign for it.
RTC:
Understood. You’ll be in my debt for this, Gregory.
GD:
My pleasure.
RTC:
And I’ve been digging out Kennedy material for you.
GD:
Wonderful, Robert. Now that that’s taken care of, I would like to
ask you about something I found in Mueller’s journals. I’m
translating them and believe me, it’s not the easiest job. His
German is short and to the point but not very cultured and I was
brought up to speak Hanoverian German. Mueller’s material reads
like police reports. Anyway, there was a passage I really want to
verify with you. I mean I will read my translation to you in toto
and then let me know if you know anything about it, either first or
second hand. It’s such a nasty piece of work that Bender won’t
want to publish it unless I get some confirmation. It isn’t too
long.
RTC:
Read on.
GD:
OK, here we go: Now remember that Mueller moved from DC to
Warrentown and lived on a large estate with his wife. He calls her
Bunny and that’s who he’s talking about. It starts out
“Friday,
12. July, 1951
Such a damned outrage! This is very hard to put down but I
really ought to just for reference and also for relieving me of the
pressure. I went out for a ride this morning, in spite of the
weather. I thought it would be my last before I went on the trip and
I do enjoy the rides now. I have gotten used to the horse and he to
me. So early this morning, I went out riding and worked my way
across the property to the area where the CIA unit was installed.
I smelt it before I got to it and so did the horse. A very
unhappy horse and later, a very unhappy Heini! The stench was
terrible as I approached the fenced-in trailers with their antenna
stuck up on top of two of the trailers. There was a path leading
down the hillside but the horse balked so I had to dismount and lead
him down the path. I wanted to see what smelt so bad and I found out
very quickly. In a small clearing were two human bodies, very much
decayed and bloated. There were two men wearing some kind of blue
shirts and pants and badly infested with maggots. They appeared to
be black men but given the advanced state of corruption, it was not
a certainty.
I remounted at the top of the path and rode over to the
fenced area but no one was in sight. By this time, I was becoming
very angry and went back home at a good canter and later a gallop.
Phone calls to the CIA people. There are dead human bodies on my
land! What is going on there? Silly, placating answers. Not good
enough for me. Get rid of these things or I will call the local
police and mortician at once! No, no, sir, do not do that! was the
response. They would send someone right out to clean it up. I was
please not to call anyone. It was (the usual shit) a matter of
national security! National security indeed! Two dead blacks and how
did they get there?
I want Bunny to know nothing about this. She came in when I
was shouting at the CIA fool so I had to pretend it was something
else. Oh yes, they came almost at once in a station wagon and drove
in at the gate and then out to the charnel house. Another car came
with two smooth-faced young men who wanted to talk to me privately.
Into the library and later Bunny said she could hear me shouting one
floor up through three closed doors! Angry is not the word to use,
believe me.
What have these swine done now? It seems that the CIA is
interested in mind control and were “practicing” on
“willing” subjects. They wanted to see if some new radio system
would have any effect on humans so they obtained several
“volunteers” from a
Virginia
jail and experimented on them. They used radio microwaves in varying
degrees of intensity on these poor fellows and literally roasted
them alive! The bodies were tossed down the hill and it had been
planned to bury them quietly on my farm!
There was a change of personnel and someone forgot the dead
blacks!
When I asked these two sleek weasels about this, the reply
was so awful I could not believe it! It seems that the CIA has no
problem roasting people alive as long as they are convicted black
criminals! Isn’t that a wonderful attitude? One of the CIA people
said, in such an offhanded way as to infuriate me that no one cared
about blacks because they were scarcely human!
It took an enormous amount of self-control on my part to keep
me from picking up a poker from the fireplace and doing great damage
to these two worms. I threw both of them out and ordered them to not
only remove the bodies but their experimental station as well. I
told them that if I heard one more word of this insane behavior I
would personally take it to the President first and the newspapers
second.
White faces and many apologies. They crawled out and I had a
very stiff drink to calm down again. The station wagon left, the
driver had a white mask over his face and the other one threw up on
the driveway as the car bumped along!
Fortunately, Bunny saw, smelt or heard nothing and I had to
go up and lie terribly to her. I am totally frustrated by this
because my first instinct, besides shoving my shoe up their
assholes, was to put them under arrest and turn them over to the
local police for obvious murder. I can’t do that in my position
but I would go to Harry with this if I ever hear about it again.
Mind control indeed!
Later:
I spoke very sharply with (Walter Bedell, ed.) Smith when I calmed
down and he was also furious. Told me that there are elements in the
organization that are “completely lunatic” and he will speak
with “someone” about this. I told him that if I ever heard of
such psychotic nonsense again, the President would be the next on my
list of callers and Smith said not to worry about this reoccurrence.
No doubt the lunatics will go somewhere else. If I ever catch these
evil swine on the property again, I will turn
Arno
loose on them and he can certainly earn his pay.
Apparently, they (the CIA, ed.) are involved in
“mind control” work. This consists of drugging people, using
electric shock on others, God knows what else! You should see some
of the thoroughly lunatic types that scuttle up and down the halls,
mumbling to themselves while clutching files to their breasts like a
mama monkey with a dead baby. As expected, Wisner is involved in
this madness. And him with a well-endowed (from the photos) black
lover! When they are not burning people to death or looting the
safes of cash, they are encouraging all kinds of strange madness.
I have no time for my journal now and am getting ready to
leave here on the 19th for a working vacation. Will get in touch
with Willi (Krichbaum. A former SS colonel who was Müller’s
deputy in the Gestapo and later a senior employee of Colonel
Critchfield’s CIA-controlled Gehlen organization in
Munich
,
ed.)
and then a musical interlude. I cannot see the family because they
are still watched but will drop a card to Sophie.
There will be no mention of the new wife or the forthcoming
(I hope) child. No point of putting honey on your ass and squatting
on an anthill, is there?”
RTC:
My God, Gregory! He wrote that?
GD:
Yes, he did but in German. Is it true?
RTC:
They did….I mean these mind control idiots did far worse than
that. Is that true? I don’t doubt it for a second. Cameron once
decided to put a woman into ice water to see if he could break down
her resistance and she died of shock. That sort of thing. Loaded one
of their own with LSD and when he started screaming, got frightened
and tossed him out of a hotel window. Oh, and we mustn’t forget
the Goat Boy. That’s the strange Dr. Gottleib. We called him that
because he lived in a hovel and kept a bunch of goats around. He
used to have sexual affairs with them. Gregory, we have had lots of
people like that. Fortunately, for my sanity at least, and my
reputation, I was in the intelligence branch and I left the care and
feeding of the nut fringe to others with stronger stomachs. Believe
it? I have no knowledge of that incident but I believe it. I can see
why your Mr. Bender would be queasy about that. You know, if things
like this ever become really public, they will burn all of us at the
stake. I personally never was involved with such madness and
actually, outside of my own areas, I had no real idea what we were
up to but I can tell you that we had more than our share of raging
nuts on board.
GD:
Do you have any problems if I publish it?
RTC:
That’s not my call, Gregory. They would have a fit over there but
I’m not in service anymore and I can plead ignorance of the whole
thing. Is there more like that in these diaries?
GD:
That’s mild, very mild, Robert. Getting paid to kill the Iranian
prime minister.
RTC:
That I know about. Who was the prime mover here?
GD:
Anglo-Iranian and Angleton.
RTC:
Could you make a copy of that one and send it to me? We don’t need
to discuss it on the phone. My God, the burned darkies were bad
enough.
GD:
Where do your people recruit?
RTC:
St. Elisabeth’s does occur to me as a natural source.
GD:
A church?
RTC:
No, a local asylum.
GD:
Robert, thanks for the patience and watch for the box. If it gets
lost, I can have another made. Let me leave you now and I will get
back to work on the Mueller material. OK?
RTC:
I have a nice new name for you, Gregory. Try Mr. Sunshine.
GD:
That’s such a happy name, Robert. And it does fit me so well.
RTC:
I’ll call you the moment the package arrives. I’ll thank you for
the poems.
GD:
For sure. Goodbye.
RTC:
Goodbye, Gregory.
(Concluded
at
11:59
AM CST
)
Oil
to hit $250 a barrel, says Gazprom chief
· Opec calls for calm and denies any shortages
·
Shell tanker drivers to strike this weekend
June
11 2008
by
Terry
Macalister
The
Guardian,
The
Russians undermined Opec's attempts to talk down the oil market
yesterday by warning that crude prices could almost double to $250 a
barrel within 18 months.
The
prediction from Alexey Miller, chairman of Gazprom, came as the
price of oil leaped $2.75 to $137.10 a barrel even though Opec
insisted everyone was already "panicking" unnecessarily
and stressed there were no shortages.
The
soaring value of crude yesterday pushed British wholesale gas prices
to new record highs of 100.75p per therm for next winter deliveries.
This will put pressure on domestic heating bills, while the current
price of motor diesel has already reached £1.30 a litre.
Gazprom
said the higher crude prices it expected would drag gas values up
too. "We think it [oil] will reach $250 a barrel in the
foreseeable future," said Miller, insisting that high demand
rather than financial speculation was the primary factor, an
argument that runs counter to that put forward by Opec.
The
comments came 24 hours after Tony Hayward, the BP chief executive,
said supply constraints were partly responsible for the very high
crude prices so far.
A
spokesman for Gazprom, which is also one of Russia's largest crude
producers, expected the price to hit $250 some time in 2009. The
company exports gas to Europe at prices linked to oil products for
historic reasons and Miller said the current gas price was $410 per
1,000 cubic metres.
Analysts
said the latest Russian energy estimates were hard to support and
noted they were not backed up with specified research data.
"It's crazy... maybe they know something we don't," said
one. Abdullah al-Badri, the secretary general of Opec, had earlier
appealed for calm. "Really we need some calm. We are panicking
too much," Badri told a global energy summit. "The
situation is unbearable as far as we are concerned. I want to say,
there is no shortage now and in the future."
Saudi
Arabia said on Monday it would soon call for a meeting to discuss
what it called unjustified rises in prices.
Badri
supported holding such a meeting, which he said might happen before
the next scheduled Opec gathering on September 9. He hoped that
measures could be taken to curb speculation in the oil market, a
factor Opec believes is inflating prices to levels not justified by
supply and demand.
"We
are not happy with the current level of price for one reason. It has
nothing to do with the fundamentals," he said.
"Speculators
are playing a big role in high oil prices. Also there are other
considerations, the value of the dollar and the geopolitical
situation."
Opec,
which pumps about two in every five barrels of oil, was willing to
raise production if needed, although there was no demand for extra
barrels. "Nobody is asking for oil at this time. We are
checking with our member countries. There is no queue for oil,"
he said.
But
there could be queues at British service stations this weekend as
tanker drivers who deliver to the one in ten forecourts controlled
by Shell are threatening to go on a four day strike starting this
Friday as part of a pay dispute.
Gordon
Brown told the public not to panic-buy fuel but the department of
business admits that there is likely to be "stock-outs" at
some facilities.
"If
the strike were to affect other retailers, it would have a more
significant impact. The government is working with the wider fuel
industry on measures to reduce any disruption to the public and
business," said the department which is hoping an Acas
arbitration meeting between the Unite union and the haulage firms
will break the deadlock.
SECRECY
NEWS
SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2008, Issue No. 60
June 19, 2008
COST
OF SECRECY SYSTEM REACHES RECORD HIGH
The cost of implementing the national security classification
system in government and industry reached an all-time high of $9.91
billion last year, according to the latest annual report from the
Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO).
http://www.fas.org/sgp/isoo/2007rpt.pdf
The 2007 classification cost figure, which includes physical
security, computer security and other aspects of classified
information security, was a 4.6 percent increase over the year
before and is the highest amount ever reported by the ISOO.
Is that too much? Not enough? The right amount? The new
report doesn't venture an opinion. Instead, it suggests that
"the annual rate of growth for total security costs is
declining." That is not strictly true, since the rate of growth
actually increased from 2006 to 2007, though it is now lower than it
was in the immediate post-2001 period.
The ISOO annual report each year presents a unique snapshot
of classification and declassification activity throughout the
executive branch, though the data provided are often of uncertain
significance and are cited with exaggerated precision.
The number of new secrets ("original classification
decisions") increased by 1% in 2007 to 233,639, ISOO reported.
Meanwhile, "derivative" classification decisions,
referring to the restatement of previously classified information in
a new form or a new document, increased sharply by 12.5 percent for
a combined total of 23,102,257 classification actions (original and
derivative) in 2007. Again, no judgment on the quality or propriety
of these classifications is offered.
Of 59.7 million pages reviewed for declassification last
year, 37.2 million pages were declassified government-wide, a
decrease both in the number reviewed and the number declassified but
an increase in the rate of declassification. (At the Central
Intelligence Agency, the situation was reversed: There was a 138
percent increase in the number of pages reviewed and a slight
increase in the number declassified, but "a significant
decrease" in the proportion of reviewed pages that were
declassified.)
The Department of Transportation reviewed 380,000 pages but
declassified none of them because they all had to be referred to
other agencies for further processing. The President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board (recently renamed the President's
Intelligence Advisory Board) reviewed 130 pages and declassified 40
of them.
ISOO reported uneven compliance with basic classification
system rules and regulations at several agencies.
"Disappointingly, we continued to find deficiencies at
multiple agencies relating to basic requirements concerning
implementing regulations, security education and training,
self-inspections, classification, and document markings," the
report stated.
One interesting data point that does not appear in the report
is the number of classification challenges filed by authorized
holders of particular information who believe that it is improperly
classified. (Section 1.8
of Executive Order 12958, as amended, authorizes and encourages such
classification challenges.)
In response to an inquiry from Secrecy News, ISOO indicated
that there were 275 classification challenges filed by cleared
personnel in FY 2007. The number of challenges that were actually
accepted or approved by the originating agencies was not available.
The "2007 Report to the President" from the
Information Security Oversight Office, which is the first issued by
the new ISOO director William J. Bosanko, was transmitted to the
White House on May 30 and made public today.
The new report makes no mention of the Office of the Vice
President (OVP) and its continuing refusal to cooperate with ISOO's
reporting requirements on classification and declassification
activity. That refusal, highlighted by a complaint filed by the
Federation of American Scientists in 2006, led to a confrontation
between the OVP and ISOO's former director J. William Leonard last
year, and the issue remains technically unresolved.
JASON ON WIND FARMS AND
RADAR
Wind farms that use spinning blades and turbines to generate
electricity have the undesirable side effect of disrupting the
operation of radar systems. The JASON defense science advisory group
was asked to consider the problem and to propose solutions.
"Wind farms interfere with the radar tracking of
airplanes and weather. The velocity of the blade tips can reach 170
mph, causing significant Doppler clutter. This creates problems and
issues for several stake holders, including DHS, DOD, FAA and NOAA,"
the JASONs said in a report to the Department of Homeland Security
earlier this year.
"Examples of issues include: a wind farm located close
to a border might create a dead zone for detecting intruding
aircraft; current weather radar software could misinterpret the high
apparent shear between blade tips as a tornado; current air traffic
control software could temporarily lose the tracks of aircraft
flying over wind farms."
To address the problem Defense Department officials proposed
a strategy of "non-technical mitigation," by which they
mean simply eliminating wind farms that interfere with DoD assets.
But the JASONs suggested several alternative approaches that
in many cases would permit continued operation of wind farms in
proximity to radar installations.
See "Wind Farms and Radar," JASON, January 2008:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/wind.pdf
REDUCING CONTROLS ON
UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION
To reduce unnecessary restrictions on unclassified
information, Congress should require agencies to publish more of
their unclassified records, we suggested in a letter to the House
Intelligence Committee this week.
A White House policy announced last month to establish a
government-wide standard for "controlled unclassified
information" (CUI) may exacerbate existing barriers to public
access, even sweeping up embargoed press releases into a formal
control category (Secrecy News, May 28).
Instead of facilitating broad information sharing, as
intended, CUI could end up as the equivalent of a fourth level of
classification that tends to prohibit public access to information
that has not been specifically approved for release.
One way to avoid that outcome is to increase the routine
disclosure of unclassified records of public interest.
"In parallel with the CUI process, Congress should
mandate affirmative new disclosure requirements that will directly
counteract the tendency to control information unnecessarily,"
I wrote in a letter to Rep. Anna Eshoo of the House Intelligence
Committee.
"Specifically, for example, I would urge legislation
requiring the
DNI
Open
Source
Center
to publish all or most of its
unclassified analytical products."
Rep. Eshoo had invited comments on the new CUI policy. Our
June 16 reply is here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/cui/fas061608.pdf
A hearing was held last week on a bill introduced by Rep.
Jane Harman to require the Department of Homeland Security by
statute to adopt the new CUI policy. Witnesses included Meredith
Fuchs of the National Security Archive, Patrice McDermott of
OpenTheGovernment.org and
Caroline Fredrickson of the ACLU. Their prepared statements are
available here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2008/index.html#ipad
VARIOUS INTELLIGENCE
HEARINGS AND DIRECTIVES
Newly published hearing records and Pentagon directives
concerning intelligence policy include the following.
A House Intelligence Subcommittee examined intelligence
community personnel security policy in "Security Clearance
Reform," February 27, 2008:
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