"Over the years we have been warned about the danger of subversive
organizations that would threaten our liberties, subvert our system, would
encourage its members to take further illegal action to advance their
views, organizations that would incite and promote violence, pitting one
American group against another... There is an organization that does fit
those descriptions, and it is the organization, the leadership of which
has been most constant in its warning to us to be on guard against such
harm. The [FBI] did all of those things."
-- Sen. Philip A. Hart
Select Committee on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans,
1975
www.cointel.org
- excellent reference site, including declassified and liberated documents.
Includes the FBI's letter to Martin Luther King, Jr. urging him to commit
suicide, sent just before he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize
your tax dollars at work - the FBI's psychological
warfare effort against Martin Luther King (1964)
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-jalon8mar08,0,2280342.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
From the Los Angeles Times
A break-in to end all break-ins
In 1971, stolen FBI files exposed the government's domestic spying program.
By Allan M. Jalon
ALLAN M. JALON is a longtime contributor to The Times and other publications
on issues of culture and media.
March 8, 2006
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago today, a group of anonymous activists broke
into the small, two-man office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
in Media, Pa., and stole more than 1,000 FBI documents that revealed
years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation
designed to suppress dissent.
The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, as the group called
itself, forced its way in at night with a crowbar while much of the
country was watching the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight. When agents
arrived for work the next morning, they found the file cabinets virtually
emptied.
Within a few weeks, the documents began to show up mailed anonymously
in manila envelopes with no return address in the newsrooms of major
American newspapers. When the Washington Post received copies, Atty.
Gen. John N. Mitchell asked Executive Editor Ben Bradlee not to publish
them because disclosure, he said, could "endanger the lives"
of people involved in investigations on behalf of the United States.
Nevertheless, the Post broke the first story on March 24, 1971, after
receiving an envelope with 14 FBI documents detailing how the bureau
had enlisted a local police chief, letter carriers and a switchboard
operator at Swarthmore College to spy on campus and black activist groups
in the Philadelphia area.
More documents went to other reporters Tom Wicker received copies at
his New York Times office; so did reporters at the Los Angeles Times
and to politicians including Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota and
Rep. Parren J. Mitchell of Maryland.
To this day, no individual has claimed responsibility for the break-in.
The FBI, after building up a six-year, 33,000-page file on the case,
couldn't solve it. But it remains one of the most lastingly consequential
(although underemphasized) watersheds of political awareness in recent
American history, one that poses tough questions even today for our
national leaders who argue that fighting foreign enemies requires the
government to spy on its citizens. The break-in is far less well known
than Daniel Ellsberg's leak of the Pentagon Papers three months later,
but in my opinion it deserves equal stature.
Found among the Media documents was a new word, "COINTELPRO,"
short for the FBI's "secret counterintelligence program,"
created to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the
U.S. Under these programs, beginning in 1956, the bureau worked to "enhance
the paranoia endemic in these circles," as one COINTELPRO memo
put it, "to get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every
mailbox."
The Media documents along with further revelations about COINTELPRO
in the months and years that followed made it clear that the bureau
had gone beyond mere intelligence-gathering to discredit, destabilize
and demoralize groups many of them peaceful, legal civil rights organizations
and antiwar groups that the FBI and Director J. Edgar Hoover found offensive
or threatening.
For instance, agents sought to persuade Martin Luther King Jr. to kill
himself just before he received the Nobel Prize. They sent him a composite
tape made from bugs planted illegally in his hotel rooms when he was
entertaining women other than his wife and threatened to make it public.
"King, there is one thing left for you to do. You know what it
is," FBI operatives wrote in their anonymous letter.
Under COINTELPRO, the bureau also targeted actress Jean Seberg for having
made a donation to the Black Panther Party. The fragile actress ultimately
committed suicide after a gossip nugget based on a FBI wiretap was leaked
to the L.A. Times and published. The item, suggesting that the father
of the baby she was carrying was a Black Panther rather than her French
writer-husband, turned out to be wrong.
The sheer reach of a completely politicized FBI was one of the most
frightening revelations of the Media documents. Underground newspapers
were targeted. Students (and their professors) were targeted. Celebrities
were targeted. The Communist Party of the U.S.A., the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, the Student Non-Violent Organizing Committee,
the Black Panther Party, the Women's Strike for Peace all were targeted.
"Neutralize them in the same manner they are trying to destroy
and neutralize the U.S.," one memo said.
Eventually, the COINTELPRO memos some from Media and some unearthed
later prompted hearings led by Rep. Don Edwards of California and by
Sen. Frank Church of Idaho on intelligence agency abuses. In the mid-1970s,
the wayward agency began finally to be reined in.
It is tragic when people lose faith in their government to the extent
that they feel they must break laws to expose corruption.
But a war that had been started and sustained by lies had gone on for
years. And a government had betrayed its citizens, manipulating their
fear to strengthen its grip on power.
Today, again, many people worry that their government may be on the
road to subverting its own ideals. I hope that the commemoration of
those unknown activists being held today in Media, Pa., will serve as
a reminder that fighting for democracy abroad must remain more than
merely an excuse to weaken civil liberties at home.
Copyright 2006 Los Angeles Times
Ward Churchill and Jim VanderWall, "The Cointelpro Papers:
Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States,"
South End Press: 1990.
www.prorev.com/mil.htm
Mission creep:
the militarizing of America
By Sam Smith
From the March 1996 issue of the Progressive Review
... last July, Charles Swett, who works for the Pentagon office handling "special operations and low intensity conflict" wrote an internal memo titled: Strategic Assessment: The Internet. The report, uncovered by the Federation of American Scientists, provides an overview of the Internet, particularly its usefulness for spying on both Americans and foreigners and for spreading disinformation during psychological operations.
Of course, Swett didn't use those words, so to be absolutely fair let's quote the man:
The Internet could also be used offensively as an additional medium in psychological operations campaigns and to help achieve unconventional warfare objectives. Used creatively as an integral asset, the Internet can facilitate many DOD operations and activities. . .
The Internet is a potentially lucrative source of intelligence useful to DOD. The intelligence can include . . . information about the plans and operations of politically active groups.
Networks of human sources with access to the Internet could be developed in areas of security concern to the US, and these sources could be oriented to seek specific needed information. If contracted and managed correctly, such a system could be much more responsive and efficient than the current complex, unwieldy, intelligence tasking and collection processes we must use.
If it became widely known that DOD were monitoring Internet traffic for intelligence or counterintelligence purposes, individuals with personal agendas or political purposes in mind, or who enjoy playing pranks, would deliberately enter false or misleading messages. Our analysis function would need to account for this. A great deal of "brain power" exists on the Internet, and if it could be harnessed and channeled for productive purposes, it might be a useful addition to DOD's informational and political assets. Any such use, of course, would have to be protected by appropriate security measures.
It would be possible to employ the Internet as an additional medium for Psychological Operations (Psyops) campaigns. E-mail conveying the US perspective on issues and events could be efficiently and rapidly disseminated to a very wide audience. DOD intelligence agencies should investigate the role of the Internet in helping coordinate the operations of political activists and paramilitary groups in regions of interest.
The Internet should be incorporated in our Psyops planning as an additional medium.
Means of employing the Internet offensively in support of our unconventional warfare objectives should be employed.
While boring from within, the FBI and police also attack dissident movements
from the outside. They openly mount propaganda campaigns through public
addresses, news releases, books, pamphlets, magazine articles, radio,
and television. They also use covert deception and manipulation. Documented
tactics of this kind include:
False Media Stories: COINTELPRO documents expose frequent
collusion between news media personnel and the FBI to publish false and
distorted material at the Bureau's behest. The FBI routinely leaked derogatory
information to its collaborators in the news media. It also created newspaper
and magazine articles and television "documentaries" which the
media knowingly or unknowingly carried as their own. Copies were sent
anonymously or under bogus letterhead to activists' financial backers,
employers, business associates, families, neighbors, church officials,
school administrators, landlords, and whomever else might cause them trouble.
One FBI media fabrication claimed that Jean Seberg, a white film star
active in anti-racist causes, was pregnant by a prominent Black leader.
The Bureau leaked the story anonymously to columnist Joyce Haber and also
had it passed to her by a "friendly" source in the Los Angeles
Times editorial staff. The item appeared without attribution in Haber's
nationally syndicated column of May 19, 1970. Seberg's husband has sued
the FBI as responsible for her resulting stillbirth, nervous breakdown,
and suicide.
Bogus Leaflets, Pamphlets, and Other Publications: COINTELPRO
documents show that the FBI routinely put out phony leaflets, posters,
pamphlets, newspapers, and other publications in the name of movement
groups. The purpose was to discredit the groups and turn them against
one another.
FBI cartoon leaflets were used to divide and disrupt the main national
anti-war coalition of the late 1960s. Similar fliers were circulated in
1968 and 1969 in the name of the Black Panthers and the United Slaves
(US), a rival Black nationalist group based in Southern California. The
phony Panther/US leaflets, together with other covert operations, were
credited with subverting a fragile truce between the two groups and igniting
an explosion of internecine violence that left four Panthers dead, many
more wounded, and a once-flourishing regional Black movement decimated.
Another major COINTELPRO operation involved a children's coloring book
which the Black Panther Party had rejected as anti-white and gratuitously
violent. The FBI revised the coloring book to make it even more offensive.
Its field offices then distributed thousands of copies anonymously or
under phony organizational letterheads. Many backers of the Party's program
of free breakfasts for children withdrew their support after the FBI conned
them into believing that the bogus coloring book was being used in the
program.
Forged Correspondence: Former employees have confirmed
that the FBI has the capacity to produce state-of-the-art forgery. This
capacity was used under COINTELPRO to create snitch jackets and bogus
communications that exacerbated differences among activists and disrupted
their work.
One such forgery intimidated civil rights worker Muhammed Kenyatta (Donald
Jackson), causing him to abandon promising projects in Jackson, Mississippi.
Kenyatta had foundation grants to form Black economic cooperatives and
open a "Black and Proud School" for dropouts. He was also a
student organizer at nearby Tougaloo College. In the winter of 1969, after
an extended campaign of FBI and police harassment, Kenyatta received a
letter, purportedly from the Tougaloo College Defense Committee, which
"directed" that he cease his political activities immediately.
If he did not "heed our diplomatic and well-thought-out warning,"
the committee would consider taking measures "which would have a
more direct effect and which would not be as cordial as this note."
Kenyatta and his wife left. Only years later did they learn it was not
Tougaloo students, but FBI covert operators who had driven them out.
Later in 1969, FBI agents fabricated a letter to the mainly white organizers
of a proposed Washington, D.C. anti-war rally demanding that they pay
the local Black community a $20,000 "security bond." This attempted
extortion was composed in the name of the local Black United Front (BUF)
and signed with the forged signature of its leader. FBI informers inside
the BUF then tried to get the group to back such a demand, and Bureau
contacts in the media made sure the story received wide publicity.
The Senate Intelligence Committee uncovered a series of FBI letters sent
to top Panther leaders throughout 1970 in the name of Connie Mathews,
an intermediary between the Black Panther Party's national office and
Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, in exile in Algeria. These exquisite
forgeries were prepared on pilfered stationery in Panther vernacular expertly
simulated by the FBI's Washington, D.C. laboratory. Each was forwarded
to an FBI Legal Attache at a U.S. Embassy in a foreign country that Mathews
was due to travel through and then posted at just the right time "in
such a manner that it cannot be traced to the Bureau." The FBI enhanced
the eerie authenticity of these fabrications by lacing them with esoteric
personal tidbits culled from electronic surveillance of Panther homes
and offices. Combined with other forgeries, anonymous letters and phone
calls, and the covert intervention of FBI and police infiltrators, the
Mathews correspondence succeeded in inflaming intra-party mistrust and
rivalry until it erupted into the bitter public split that shattered the
organization in the winter of 1971.
Anonymous Letters and Telephone Calls: During the 1960s,
activists received a steady flow of anonymous letters and phone calls
which turn out to have been from the FBI. Some were unsigned, while others
bore bogus names or purported to come from unidentified activists in phony
or actual organizations.
Many of these bogus communications promoted racial divisions and fears,
often by exploiting and exacerbating tensions between Jewish and Black
activists. One such FBI-concocted letter went to SDS members who had joined
Black students protesting New York University's discharge of a Black teacher
in 1969. The supposed author, an unnamed "SDS member," urged
whites to break ranks and abandon the Black students because of alleged
anti-Semitic slurs by the fired teacher and his supporters.
Other anonymous letters and phone calls falsely accused movement leaders
of collaboration with the authorities, corruption, or sexual affairs with
other activists' mates. The letter on the next page was used to provoke
"a lasting distrust" between a Black civil rights leader and
his wife. Its FBI authors hoped that his "concern over what to do
about it" would "detract from his time spent in the plots and
plans of his organization." As in the Seberg incident, inter-racial
sex was a persistent theme. The husband of one white woman active in civil
rights and anti-war work filed for divorce soon after receiving the FBI-authored
letter reproduced on page 50.
Still other anonymous FBI communications were designed to intimidate dissidents,
disrupt coalitions, and provoke violence. Calls to Stokely Carmichael's
mother warning of a fictitious Black Panther murder plot drove him to
leave the country in September 1968. Similar anonymous FBI telephone threats
to SNCC leader James Forman were instrumental in thwarting efforts to
bring the two groups together.
The Chicago FBI made effective use of anonymous letters to sabotage the
Panthers efforts to build alliances with previously apolitical Black street
gangs. The most extensive of these operations involved the Black P. Stone
Nation, or "Blackstone Rangers," a powerful confederation of
several thousand local Black youth. Early in 1969, as FBI and police infiltrators
in the Rangers spread rumors of an impending Panther attack, the Bureau
sent Ranger chief Jeff Fort an incendiary note signed "a black brother
you don't know." Fort's supposed friend warned that "The brothers
that run the Panthers blame you for blocking their thing and there's supposed
to be a hit out for you." Another FBI-concocted anonymous "black
man" then informed Chicago Panther leader Fred Hampton of a Ranger
plot "to get you out of the way." These fabrications squelched
promising talks between the two groups and enabled Chicago Panther security
chief William O'Neal, an FBI-paid provocateur, to instigate a series of
armed confrontations from which the Panthers barely managed to escape
without serious casualties.
Pressure Through Employers, Landlords, and Others: FBI
records reveal repeated maneuvers to generate pressure on dissidents from
their parents, children, spouses, landlords, employers, college administrators,
church superiors, welfare agencies, credit bureaus, and the like. Anonymous
letters and telephone calls were often used to this end. Confidential
official communications were effective in bringing to bear the Bureau's
immense power and authority.
Agents' reports indicate that such FBI intervention denied Martin Luther
King, Jr., and other 1960s activists any number of foundation grants and
public speaking engagements. It also deprived alternative newspapers of
their printers, suppliers, and distributors and cost them crucial advertising
revenues when major record companies were persuaded to take their business
elsewhere. Similar government manipulation may underlie steps recently
taken by some insurance companies to cancel policies held by churches
giving sanctuary to refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala.
Tampering With Mail and Telephone Service: The FBI
and CIA routinely used mail covers (the recording of names and addresses)
and electronic surveillance in order to spy on 1960s movements. The CIA
alone admitted to photographing the outside of 2.7 million pieces of first-class
mail during the 1960s and to opening almost 215,000. Government agencies
also tampered with mail, altering, delaying, or "disappearing"
it. Activists were quick to blame one another, and infiltrators easily
exploited the situation to exacerbate their tensions.
Dissidents' telephone communications often were similarly obstructed.
The SDS Regional Office in Washington, D.C., for instance, mysteriously
lost its phone service the week preceding virtually every national anti-war
demonstration in the late 1960s.
Disinformation to Prevent or Disrupt Movement Meetings and Activities:
A favorite COINTELPRO tactic uncovered by Senate investigators was to
advertise a non-existent political event, or to misinform people of the
time and place of an actual one. They reported a variety of disruptive
FBI "dirty tricks" designed to cast blame on the organizers
of movement events.
In one "disinformation" case, the [FBI's] Chicago Field Office
duplicated blank forms prepared by the National Mobilization Committee
to End the War in Vietnam ("NMC") soliciting housing for demonstrators
at the Democratic National Convention. Chicago filled out 217 of these
forms with fictitious names and addresses and sent them to the NMC, which
provided them to demonstrators who made "long and useless journeys
to locate these addresses." The NMC then decided to discard all replies
received on the housing forms rather than have out-of-town demonstrators
try to locate nonexistent addresses. (The same program was carried out
when the Washington Mobilization Committee distributed housing forms for
demonstrators coming to Washington for the 1969 Presidential inaugural
ceremonies.)
In another case, during the demonstrations accompanying inauguration ceremonies,
the Washington Field Office discovered that NMC marshals were using walkie-talkies
to coordinate their movements and activities. WFO used the same citizen
band to supply the marshals with misinformation and, pretending to be
an NMC unit, countermanded NMC orders.
In a third case, a [Bureau] midwest field office disrupted arrangements
for state university students to attend the 1969 inaugural demonstrations
by making a series of anonymous telephone calls to the transportation
company. The calls were designed to confuse both the transportation company
and the SDS leaders as to the cost of transportation and the time and
place for leaving and returning. This office also placed confusing leaflets
around the campus to show different times and places for demonstration-planning
meetings, as well as conflicting times and dates for traveling to Washington.
Scoop: Anatomy Of A SWAT From A Lawyer’s Perspective
An actual agent will often point the finger at a genuine, non-collaborating
and highly valued group member, claiming that he or she is the infiltrator.
The same effect, known as a "snitch jacket", has been achieved
by planting forged documents which appear to be communications between
an activist and the FBI, or by releasing for no other apparent reason
one of a group of activists who were arrested together. Another method
used under COINTELPRO was to arrange for some activists, arrested under
one pretext or another, to hear over the police radio a phony broadcast
which appeared to set up a secret meeting between the police and someone
from their group.
Snitch
Jacketing - smearing an activist as an agent provocateur
The "indymedia" sites are an excellent place for uncensored
discussion of undercovered issues, and serve the peace and environmental
movement as a form of electronic bulletin board. However, the unmoderated
nature of indymedia allows right wingers and Cointelpro agents to spam
nonsense onto the discussion forums -- the Portland Indymedia discussion
list on 9/11 often has more disinformation about 9/11 (promotion of the
fake film "In Plane Site," among other nonsense) than real material.
There is a big difference between an editor and a censor - an editor merely
requires a writer to document the statements in an article, whereas a
censor shuts down discussion due to its unpopular nature. If Indymedia
had editors that make modest efforts to keep out the right wing disinformation
spam, it would be a far more useful media tool.
Oil Empire Website Linked to Carlyle Group
01.Sep.2004 16:20
John Houston The Oil Empire website that everyone keeps referencing has ties
to big oil and to the Carlyle Group. Just do a "whois" search
on the website and do a little investigative footwork. This information
has been out there for a very long time. I can't believe you people
still buy in to the Robinowitz scheme of BIG OIL and BIG PROFITS made
from war. He admits this much right on his website where he talks about
"peak oil."
My advice: Watch 911 in plane site and see for yourself.
Keenan
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
Posts: 2
Location: N. California
I'm sorry to see that you have apparently fallen for the oilempire
disinfo. Their analysis attacking the Pentagon 'no plane' theory is
complete nonsense. There is a consensus in the 9/11 truth movement that
Flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon. The physical evidence, if
analysed honestly, simply does not support the official hoax that Flight
77 crashed into the Pentagon. Only a few researchers, who appear to
be primarily disinfo agents, are trying to uphold this official government
lie.
Newcomers to the movement who happen upon certain websites, such as
Jim Hoffman's 911research.com and 911review.com, or Mark Robanowitz's
oilempire.us, are often fooled by the sophisticated methodology of disinfo
they employ. In order to gain credibility in the movement, the disinfo
agents will offer a limited hangout in which they present themselves
as a genuine 9/11 truth researcher, but then do serious harm to the
movement by attemtping to divide and discredit good people in the movement.
One of the most common tactics is called "badjacketing", which
is to smear someone else in the movement as an agent or a fake. In FBI
COINTELPRO history, badjacketing was used extensively to destroy many
social movements. As Barry Zwicker explained in his lecture, these agents
know how to be very convincing. That includes Mark Robaniwitz at oilempire.us
embracing permaculture and other things that gives more warm fuzzy feelings
to people who then conclude "well, if they support good things
like permaculture, then they must be telling the truth!"
note: how creative to spread badjacketing (aka snitch jacketing) while
supposedly complaining about the practice
Its important to understand that people like Jim Hoffman and Mark
Robanowitz at oilempire.us are not interested in an open and honest
debate about what happened at the Pentagon. If they were, then they
would not be disparaging the efforts of, and questioning the motives
of, those researchers who refuse to ignore the fact that the available
evidence is entirely inconsistent with the crash of a jetliner at the
Pentagon. It is absulutely inexcuseable for them to automatically accuse
others of being disinfo agents who disagree with them. Especially when
there are totally valid reasons not to buy the official hoax about the
Pentagon attack on 9/11. That's why most of the credible 9/11 researchers,
including David Ray Griffen, Webster Tarpley, Mike Ruppert (in those
few moments when he is speaking privately and honestly), Steven Jones,
Jeff King, and countless others dispute the official Pentagon hoax.
At Scholars for 9/11 Truth (st911.org), probably the most credible 9/11
research group in the whole movement, NOBODY believes in the official
lie that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.
note: Ruppert repeatedly publicly and privately pointed out this false
claim is not real. Like many people, he originally thought it might have
validity until he looked closer. Scholars for 9/11 Truth never was the
"most credible" research group, and has fallen apart over bizarre
arguments disconnected from reality. Some of the people who lent their
names to it are sincere and good researchers, but they aren't the ones
who controlled the content of the website. A number of the people who
lent their names to the "Scholars" group definitely do understand
that Flight 77 was flown into the nearly empty part of the Pentagon. In 2007, the "Scholars" group held a conference dedicated in large part to the claim that planes didn't hit the World Trade Center, either and all of the thousands of people in New York City who claim to have seen them were dupes.
"What about all those witnesses who saw a big commercial airliner
crash into the Pentagon," you ask? Almost all of them can be proven
to be agents of the Pentagon, the Bush Administration, the mainstream
media, and high political operatives both Democratic and Republican.
For an excellent review of the bogus "eye witness" accounts
of the Pentagon, check out Dave McGowan's analysis here: http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr68e.html.
Also, it is important to keep in mind that any experienced criminal
investigator will tell you that physical evidence always outweighs eye
witness evidence, especially when there is a discrepency between the
two.
note: in reality, the hundreds of eyewitnesses
of the Flight 77 crash are a diverse, semi-random group of people. While there are employees
of the government and media who saw the flying plane, plane crash and
plane parts, this is not surprising given the location of the events.
But even the most cursory examination of the facts coupled with a basic
understanding of geography disproves every assertion of the above paragraph.
Busy highways were not screened off from
anyone not part of the conspiracy before the crash. Most of the eyewitnesses
do not have their comments on websites, although they told their families,
friends, co-workers, etc about their experiences. Many eyewitnesses had
no special ties to the DC power structure. No eyewitness saw a missile
or small plane hit the Pentagon. And the physicalevidence corroborates the obvious fact
that Flight 77 really did crash. Finally, the "davesweb" website
also promotes the false "abiotic oil"
claims, so it is not exactly a fact checked, scientifically accurate journalistic
endeavor.
Another important point is that there was lots of eye witnesses who
saw multiple aircraft, including what appeared to be a large Boing [sic] aircraft
that flew towards the Pentagon and then veered off to the left at the
last minute just before the attack. This could have been an intentional
distraction by the perpetrators to confuse people. And, this could account
for at least some of the eye witnesses who claimed to have seen a large
commerical aircraft. And, most of the witnesses who say they saw a large
commercial aircraft didn't actually see it crash into the Pentagon.
I.E. first they saw the plane, then after it disappeared they saw/heard
an explosion far away towards the Pentagon a little later.
note: anyone with a basic understanding of Arlington County can see through
this, since if a large jet had really "veered off to the left"
it would have been seen by a LOT of people along Washington Blvd, the
GW Parkway, along the Potomac River, the 14th Street bridge and other
vantage points. Those who had a good view of the impact site definitely
saw the crash, and the cleanup workers saw the plane parts everywhere.
Dave McGowan at The Center of an Informed America, probably has the
most thorough overall analysis about what happened at the Pentagon and
the ensuing disinfo campaign: October 2, 2004
September 11, 2001 Revisited: Act II www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr68.html.
A little more homework on your part about the evidence of what really
happened at the Pentagon can help you to see through the lies and deception
being offered at sites such as oiempire.us. I think it is important
for all of us in the 9/11 truth movement to identify and call out those
who are attempting to do great harm to the movement, because it is a
serious threat, as Barry Zwicker explained. I believe that the use of
superior logic and intelligence by those of us in the truth movement
who are willing to do our homework will prevail and let the truth win
out.
note: most of the people who believed this false claim are sincere, but
that sincerity does not mean that their beliefs are actually truth. Mr.
Zwicker has done some very good work, especially his early 2002 "Great
Deception" film, but his subsequent book Towers
of Deception uses false evidence that has been refuted to promote
this.
The "No Plane Hit Pentagon" is probably the most important
COINTELPRO campaign against the 9/11 truth movement. It has discredited
the "movement" inside the Beltway, alienated most of the 9/11
victim families, distracted from the real questions of Flight 77 (why
it wasn't intercepted and how it was steered into the nearly empty part
of the Pentagon), and given the media a "straw man" attack on
the truth movement.
"Robnaziwitz is a population controlists who supports the peak
oil psyOp."
-- vicious comment posted by probable Cointelpro operative at Portland
Indymedia (a site that allows anyone to post anything, even if it
grotesquely untrue, and has been overrun with spam from people pushing
nonsense posing as activism) Perhaps the insult is because this
site is opposed to Holocaust Denial?
It's certainly true that phony disinformation is spread thick throughout
the 911 truth movement, and it was in place prior to the attacks. Oilempire,
Mike Ruppert, and QuestionsQuestions are all disinformation.
"There (is) a cultural problem in the FBI that needs to be addressed.
If it isn't, it's going to destroy itself." Former FBI Special Agent Dan Vogel, speaking on CBS 60 Minutes II, May
29, 2001
"We take people’s freedoms away. We put your son, we put
your daughter in jail. We take away your freedom. We take away your house.
We take away your assets. We compile files of your information-FBI dossiers-
on you. If that doesn’t give you pause for thought, nothing in this
life will."
Paul Mark Moskal, Special Agent, Buffalo, NY
Collected here are a few of the public scandals which have come to light
about the FBI. (Index to Agents of the FBI)
(It does not pretend to be a comprehensive list)
1917 - IWW 'Wobbly' raids
1919 - 1920's Infiltration of UNIA and targeting Marcus Garvey
1919, 1920 - Palmer Raids
1920 - present - Communist Party U.S.A. infiltration
1920 - 1971 - Investigation of the Ameican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
1941 - 1976 - Socialist Worker's Party infiltration, burglaries, etc.
1953 - 1966 - Surveillance of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Al-Sabban)
1956 - 1971 - COINTELPRO Panthers, Anti-War Movement, Puerto Rico, KKK
1963 - 1968 - Surveillance and Threats against Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
1968 - 1970's - Infiltration and frame-ups against the Black Panther Party
1972 - 1976 - FBI actions against the American Indian Movement (AIM)
1973 - 1988 - Library Awareness Program
1979 - 1989 - Investigation of General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS)
1981 - 1986 - Burglaries and harassment of CISPES
1989 - 1990 - Earth First! (Arizona Five and Judi Bari)
1989 - 1991 - VANPAC
1992 - Randy Weaver standoff and Vicki Weaver assassination at Ruby Ridge
1993 - World Trade Center Bombing
1993 - 'Waco' seige and inferno (Mount Carmel)
1995 - Oklahoma City (Murrah Building bombed)
1995 - 1997 - SPLITRAIL (under construction)
1996 - TWA flight 800 crash investigation
1996 - The Centennial Park Bombing - FBI leaks Richard Jewell's name as a
suspect.
1997 - FBI Labratory misconduct (Whitehurst allegations)
1999 - SPAM from the Law Enforcement Online project (ANSIR e-mail)
2000 - CARNIVORE by any other name, would bite as hard
2000 - FBI attempts to squelch web sites (Mike Z, Cyptome.org, IndyMedia)
2000 - FBI gets caught lying to FISA Court
2001 - FBI gets caught witholding thousands of documents (4,034 pages) from
McVeigh Defense Team
2001 - FBI researcher releases Sircam internet worm to the net
2001 - Did the FBI know something about 9/11 before it happened?
2001 - Mass Detentions and Racial Profiling post-9/11
2001 - Who killed John P. O'Neill?
March 21, 2005
Dirty Tricks Revisited
William Arkin targeted by the U.S. government?
by Justin Raimondo
In a "democratic" empire, as opposed to the later Roman
version, it isn't very often necessary to round up one's political opponents
and simply slap them in jail or throw them into the arena with a couple
of hungry lions. There are more efficient, and ultimately more effective,
ways to crush anyone who gets in the way of the powers that be, and
this is where the fine art of character assassination comes in. ....
Isn't it a funny coincidence how much the forgery of supposedly "classified"
documents has played a key role in the propaganda war over Iraq?
First, you'll remember, there were the Niger uranium forgeries: a series
of documents that purported to show how Saddam Hussein had actively
tried to procure weapons-grade uranium from the African nation of Niger,
which President Bush indirectly cited in his 2003 State of the Union
speech. It wasn't until after the speech was delivered, however, and
the president's announcement had been allowed to have its full effect,
that the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed the documents to
be completely bogus – crude forgeries that contained so many internal
mistakes that it took only a few hours with the Google search engine
to debunk them.
Then there was that allegedly "classified" memo, cited by
administration plant/male escort Jeff Gannon, supposedly describing
a meeting of a CIA task force at which covert agent Valerie Plame had
gotten her husband assigned to travel to Niger to look into Saddam's
alleged uranium-procurement efforts. In an interview with Plame's husband,
former Ambassador Joe Wilson, Gannon asked:
"An internal government memo prepared by U.S. intelligence personnel
details a meeting in early 2002 where your wife, a member of the agency
for clandestine service working on Iraqi weapons issues, suggested that
you could be sent to investigate the reports. Do you dispute that?"
But this "internal government memo" turned out to have more
than a few internal inconsistencies, not the least of which was that
it purported to show attendees at the meeting who could not have possibly
been present. Another forgery…
Now we have another phony set of documents, this time masquerading as
a "raw" intelligence report, designed to accomplish pretty
much what the Gannon "memo" was created for: to discredit
a political opponent and knock an obstacle out of the War Party's path.
Arkin, who insists he's an activist and not a journalist, has nonetheless
uncovered some of the biggest war stories of recent years, including
the Bush administration's "contingency plans" for using nukes
against seven countries and a secret Pentagon report detailing the real
problems that would accompany an American invasion of Iraq. He works
for Human Rights Watch and also does consultancy work for the Air Force:
he's a former Army intelligence analyst who has worked with Greenpeace,
and Kurtz describes him as "an academic, an author, a newspaper
columnist, and a talking head." He is, in short, a formidable obstacle
in the path of the War Party, one that would have to be blown out of
the water by nothing less than a charge of high treason – spying
for Saddam.
What seems clear enough is that a group inside the U.S. government was
bent on war and engaged in activities that were not quite legal –
and certainly not ethical – is an effort to drag us in, by hook
or by crook. That they were prepared to lie, to cheat, to smear their
enemies in any way possible – all of this is beyond dispute, and
is currently being investigated by U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald,
who is looking in to the Plame case as well as the forged Niger uranium
documents. Gannon, the discredited "reporter" who tried to
ambush Ambassador Wilson with yet another forged "classified"
report, was reportedly questioned by Fitzgerald's investigators, or
at least he is listed as being among those subpoenaed. This latest attempt
to hit someone over the head with a similarly "classified"
bludgeon fits a by now all-too-familiar pattern, and a sinister one
at that. ....
... this propaganda operation constituted an open conspiracy to embroil
us in a war with Iraq by any means necessary – including a campaign
of "dirty tricks" to discredit and even legally endanger the
antiwar movement.
The Arkin case is nothing new. During the Vietnam War, the government
ran a program called "Cointelpro" to set up and entrap opponents
of intervention into illegal activities, using provocateurs and other
disruptive tactics. That the same neocon creeps are carrying out the
same kind of dirty work in the same vicious cause is far from shocking.
What's surprising is that the dirty tricks get dirtier – but no
trickier. I mean, why in heck did someone insert a dead giveaway phrase
that gives the whole game away – like a clever naughty child who
wants to be caught?
In reading excerpts of these various forgeries, from the famed Niger
uranium papers to the latest smear against Arkin, I always wonder: who
writes this stuff? A neocon Jayson Blair, or perhaps some smartass young
ideologue acting out his fantasies on the government's dime?
