September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

illegally recruiting Afghan mujahedin mercenaries to fight for Azerbaijan (against
Russian backed Armenians), using Mega Oil as the financial cover. (This approach
appears to be part of the CIA handbook. This same approach of using an oil company as
cover for covert operations was used in the 1970s, with right wing CIA trained death
squads in South America masquerading as Bridas employees. This is the same Bridas
that competed for the Afghan pipeline rights.)
“Over the course of the next two years, the company they founded procured thousands of dollars worth
of weapons and recruited at least two thousand Afghan mercenaries for Azerbaijan - the first
mujahedin to fight on the territory of the former Communist Bloc. And they did it under the guise of
an oil company… - MEGA Oil - … we have discovered no documentary evidence to tie MEGA Oil, as
an entity, definitively to the United States government. There is however considerable evidence that all
three prime movers in the company - former Iran-Contra conspirator Richard Secord, legendary Air
Force special operations commander Harry "Heinie" Aderholt, and the man known as either a
diabolical con-man or a misunderstood patriot, Gary Best - were in the past involved in some of the
most infamous activities of in the history of the CIA.” [God Save the Shah: American Guns, Spies and
Oil in Azerbaijan; by Mark Irkali, Tengiz Kodrarian and Cali Ruchala; May 22, 2003]
It is of small historic note that of the mercenaries procured by Secord, one of them was
actually Osama Bin laden:
“In the summer of 1993, Azerbaijan’s President Heydar Aliyev hired over 1,000 Islamist mercenaries
in the war against Nagorno Karabakh Armenians. They were flown on civilian aircraft from
Afghanistan to Azerbaijan. The mercenaries, including Arab veterans of the Afghan war (`1979-89`),
took an active role in the Karabakh conflict (Moscow News 9/13/00). One of Bin Laden’s associate
claimed that Bin Laden himself led mujahedin in at least two battles in Nagorno Karabakh.”
[Associated Press 11/14/99]
Secord also brought the Mossad into Azerbaijan, which confirms reports that Israelis
fought side-by-side with mujahedin. In the news report of David Kimche’s involvement,
is the very important observation that not only are the Mossad in Azerbaijan, but that the
secret service organizations of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are all working in
unison with the Mossad and Richard Secord. When trying to understand why such a high
powered team as the Iran-Contra/October Surprise team – is reconstructed in a little
country like Azerbaijan, it becomes clear that Azerbaijan is merely a base of operations
for the broader Central Asian operation initiated by Bush in 1991.
“According to Wolfgang Bueschel in BCDX 351, "Mr. Vafa Culuzadeh, adviser of former Azerbaijan
President Ebulfez Elicibey, told the Italian press agency IPS in October 1992 from Baku, that the
Israelian secret service specialist David Kimche and... Richard Secord, who was involved in the `Iran-
Contra`-Affair, visited Azerbaijan, (and) presented a delegation of more Israelian secret service
personnel. Mr. Culuzadeh took part on a return visit to Israel, (and) lead a delegation of
Azerbaijan/Uzbek/Kazakh secret services." David Kimche is a `30-year` veteran of the Mossad and
was an important force behind the Reagan administration's `arms-for` hostages swap with Iran and its
secret aid to the Nicaraguan rebels (coined `Iran-Contra`.) In fact, it was Kimche who helped to
organize the Contras, who supplied them with Israeli military advisers, who sold the US government
Palestinian weapons Israel had seized in 1982, and who claimed he could get access to the `hostagetakers`
in Lebanon.” [Voice of Southern Azerbaijan, Nick Grace C., 4/13/1998]
Secord’s employer in this operation - President Heydar Aliyev – was no novice in the
realm of covert operations, being a former top KGB official.
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