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Homeland
Insecurity by Douglas Valentine
Footnotes 
1 Does Thornberg's statement, which sounds
so much like Sen. Bob Kerrey's recent confession about his unpunished
massacre of civilians inVietnam, for which he fradulently accepted
a gold star, mean that America already does, as a matter of policy,
torture its enemies?
2 On behalf of Reagan's National Security
Advisor, Robert McFarlane, likely Mossad agent Ledeen directed
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to illegally sell weapons
to Iran in 1985, thus instigating the Iran Contra scandal.
3 In August 1968, a nationwide quota
of 1800 "neutralizations" was imposed on the Phoenix
Directorate, as a "management-by-objective" tool to
promote CIA efficiency. Neutralization statistics were tracked
by The Viet Cong Infrastructure Information System. VCIIS had
its origins in February 1966, when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara
established the Defense Department's Southeast Asia Programs
Division. The process was advanced in Saigon in January 1967,
when the joint Vietnamese CIA Combined Intelligence Staff fed
the names of 3000 terrorist suspects into the IBM 1401 computer,
installed at its "political order of battle" section.
The era of the computerized political blacklist had begun. In
January 1969 VCIIS was renamed the Phung Hoang Management Information
System. It contained the names and biographical information of
tens of thousands of confirmed and suspected terrorists. PHMIS
was eventually turned over to two CIA proprietary companies:
Southeast Asia Computer Associates and the Computer Science Corporation.
Researchers, see where they go.
4 The Chicago "Red Squad",
working with the FBI, killed Black Panther Party leader Fred
Hampton on 4 December 1969. That night BPP infiltrator William
O'Neal slipped Hampton a Mickey Finn., then left the apartment.
Around 4:30am the police kicked in the door and shot another
BBP member in the chest as he lay in bed. Other bullets ripped
through the walls, wounding Hampton; as he lay in bed with his
pregnant girlfriend, police entered the room and shot Hampton
in the head. It was a typical Phoenix-style assassination. For
more information on Hampton see the website COINTELPRO and Government
Oppression .
5 Information about Chaos was obtained
through the Rockefeller Commission report. See also the parts
about Chaos and Ober in Deborah Davis's, Katherine The Great.
6 The CIA's Office of Security was infiltrating
the anti-war movement through the use of a reserve cadre of trained
personnel, like cab drivers, construction workers, and janitors.
These "cover assets" reported on demonstrators that
threatened CIA facilities. It's this writer's belief, not paranoia,
that all manner of public employees, from librarians to postmen
to Pakistani Seven-Eleven operators have already been recruited.
7 After Salvador Allende was elected
president of Chile, Nixon told Helms to "Make the economy
scream," as indicated by Helms' notes of their September
15, 1970 meeting. Helms lied when he denied to Congress that
the CIA was involved in coup, in which Allende was assassinated,
and tens of thousands of Chileans were tortured and killed and
disappeared. Having had acess to many a politician's "sex
and drugs and rock 'n' roll" files, Helms was allowed to
plead no contest to two misdemeanors but wore his conviction
"like a badge of honor."
Sullivan was killed in November 1977.
He had just acknowledged that the FBI had used "whatever
means necessary" to hunt down the Weathermen, and was about
to testify as the chief witness in the trial of an FBI agent,
John J. Kearney, charged with having employed illegal wiretaps
and mail intercepts in the Weathermen investigation. He was killed
by a New Hampshire state trooper's son, who thought Sullivan
was a deer, and shot him twice in the neck. The kid lost his
hunting license for a year.
8 The age of anti-terrorism can be traced
to September 1972, when the last Phoenix coordinator, John Tilton,
crossed off the phrase "Phung Hoang Program" (Vietnamese
for Phoenix) in an evaluation report, and substituted the phrase
"anti-terrorism program" throughout the report.
9 According to McClintock (p. 304-5)
"There was a conscientious effort by (CIA and DIA) to shield
host country counterterror programs from unwanted attention."
"However strong the signal that.selective counterterror
had become mass counterterror, the efforts from within to oppose
mass killings were stymied."
10 One group, led by Leila Khaled tried
to hijack an El Al flight from Tel Aviv via Amsterdam. But Khaled
and her accomplice were overpowered by an El Al "sky marshal"
and several passengers after the pilot made a steep dive. British
security forces took Khaled into custody. The second hijacked
plane was flown to Cairo where the passengers and crew were ordered
off before the plane was blown up. A Swissair DC8 from Zurich
and a TWA 707 from Frankfurt were hijacked and flown to Zarqa
airstrip in Jordan. The Popular Front described the attacks as
the first strike in avenging "the American plot to liquidate
the Palestinian cause by supplying arms to Israel." They
demanded that the Swiss and West German governments release several
of their jailed comrades. After another hijacking resulted in
the release of 360 passengers and crews in exchange for Khaled
and six other convicted terrorists. As a final act of revenge,
terrorist bombers destroyed the aircraft. King Hussein of Jordan
had allowed over fifty terrorist groups into his country, but
Israeli attacks forced him to drive the Palestinians out of Jordan.
The purge created the "Black September" group. (From
the website Crime Library, article "Carlos the Jackal: Trail
of Terror.")
11 See the National Security Archive
website for Public Diplomacy and Covert Propaganda: The Declassified
Record of Ambassador Otto Juan Reich, by Thomas Blanton,
March 2001.
12 Some of the information on Buckley
was obtained from Mark Perry's February 1989 article in Regardies,
p. 96
13 Some of the information on the Counter-Terror
Network came from Peter Dale Scott's essay, The CounterTerrorism
Network: Bush, North, And The Accumulation of Secret Power.
14 Scott: "Clair George.. testified
how.Casey.bypassed him by having Charles Allen, the national
Intelligence Officer for Counter-Terrorism, deal with Ledeen
and Ghorbanifar on "terrorist" matters."
15 Emerson, Steve, Secret Warriors,
p 24. Shackley, Secord, Hakim, Tom Clines and Ed Wilson were
all linked to various moneymaking scams conducted under the aegis
of national security.
16 Instruments, p 306.
Douglas Valentine writes frequently for CounterPunch. He is the
author of The Phoenix
Program, the only comprehensive account of the CIA's torture
and assassination operation in Vietnam, as well as TDY
a chilling novel about the CIA and the drug trade.
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