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<strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> Newsma<br />
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April 2007 505-423-3250<br />
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HELP WANTED<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> is back in<br />
Bingham, NM.<br />
But we need people to work the<br />
phones and computers here. We are<br />
putting in RV pads and hookups and<br />
expanding the offices and adding a<br />
coffee shop. We need people that don't<br />
mind staying in an RV and doing sales,<br />
office tasks and everything from<br />
construction to landscaping to shipping<br />
and order taking. We are looking for<br />
people experienced in advertising,<br />
layout and website work. We have a<br />
distributorship on Cavco Cabins. Ads<br />
for Clay's novels, films, books and those<br />
of Eustace Mullins will be appearing in<br />
Radio Television Interview Report<br />
which is distributed to over 4000<br />
Television and Radio Stations. We have<br />
National Distribution through Ingram<br />
Periodicals, the largest in the country.<br />
For the sales force, we are looking for<br />
men and ladies with computers and a<br />
phone to handle sales from the comfort<br />
of your own home using your computer<br />
and Yahoo Messenger in every state.<br />
Exclusive territories for advertising<br />
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and patriot events in your area and<br />
booking Clay and Eustace on local talk<br />
shows. Quit complaining about the New<br />
World Order and corrupt government<br />
and help us fix it by working with us.<br />
New films and books are now being<br />
produced and we will never stoop to<br />
hate or use the would be rulers tactics<br />
which are aimed at creating fear to<br />
divide and conquer.<br />
If you have a great job and are in a<br />
good place at this time in your life,<br />
please consider investing in the <strong>Free</strong><br />
<strong>American</strong> to help us grow and find the<br />
people we need to do the work required<br />
to produce this magazine and support<br />
Clay as he tries to find answers to the<br />
problems that even CNN and MSNBC<br />
are beginning to address. And remember,<br />
America has many Liberty Villages.<br />
Small towns across America have been<br />
drained of their youths and their vitality<br />
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Mullins and other insightful and fearless<br />
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CLAY DOUGLAS, AKA THE<br />
FREE AMERICAN HAS BEEN<br />
PUBLISHING THE FREE AMERICAN<br />
ALMOST SINGLE HANDEDLY FOR<br />
THE LAST 12 YEARS. THROUGH-<br />
OUT THE TRAILS AND TRIBULA-<br />
TIONS LOOKING FOR PARTNERS<br />
or Representatives<br />
IN THE NEW, NATIONAL<br />
FREE AMERICAN MAGAZINE<br />
DISTRIBUTE AND SELL ADS<br />
FROM<br />
2000 COPIES TO 10,000 COPIES<br />
IN PROTECTED TERRITORIES.<br />
YOUR TOWN!<br />
COMING SOON! A NEW NET-<br />
WORK!<br />
We are also bringing out our own<br />
network on the internet with Clay<br />
Douglas, Jeff Bennett and Eustace<br />
Mullins and other insightful and fearless<br />
broadcasters and unique, easy listening<br />
programming that can be down loaded<br />
and played by radio stations around the<br />
country for free at any times they wish.<br />
If they have the guts to stand up for<br />
America and our way of life. Unlike<br />
most other networks, we will provide<br />
Pro-<strong>American</strong> Music from Carl Kiang,<br />
Steve Voss, Poker Face, Toby Keith,<br />
Charlie Daniels, Steppenwolf , and even<br />
Biker Joe Warren. Keep your computer<br />
by the demands of industry and the lure<br />
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MAGAZINE<br />
March 2003 © Common Law Copyright, 2006<br />
MAGAZINE<br />
C.R. DOUGLAS<br />
CRD PUBLISHING, INC<br />
January/February<br />
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,<br />
WITHOUT PREJUDICE<br />
2007<br />
TABLE OF CON-<br />
Publisher’s Corner ............................................................................ 4<br />
I<br />
TENTS<br />
<strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> Bookstore and Products ......................................... 54<br />
Volume 4 Number 4<br />
January/February 2007<br />
PUBLISHER/EDITOR<br />
CLAYTON R. DOUGLAS<br />
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Editorial Viewpoint for 2006<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> remains committed to<br />
bringing the truth to the <strong>American</strong> people. We believe<br />
that in a free society, it is the job of the press to be<br />
the watchman of the government. It then falls upon<br />
the people, being fully informed, to decide what<br />
actions they must take to preserve and defend their<br />
liberty.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> is unabashedly, pro-<br />
<strong>American</strong>. Too many of our ancestors fought and<br />
died to protect our Constitution, the oldest in the<br />
world, to insure that we would retain those liberties<br />
spelled out in our Bill of Rights.<br />
Based on the knowledge we have compiled over<br />
the last nine years of publication, we believe there<br />
is a verifiable, well documented plan to force<br />
<strong>American</strong>s into a Global Government, complete with<br />
one world banking, a global ID system, an<br />
international police force, and a disarmed populous.<br />
This is unacceptable to us personally and<br />
incompatible with our Constitution and Bill of<br />
Rights.<br />
Those who advocate such a global system and<br />
the dismantling of our Bill of Rights, are either<br />
misguided, uninformed or, if totally knowledgable,<br />
traitors to this country. We will expose them.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> is not affiliated with any<br />
political party, religious sect, secret society, cult,<br />
club or movement.<br />
We do not advocate violence but we stress the<br />
right of self-defense and the individual’s right to<br />
bear arms, to be free of intrusive government, to<br />
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2007<br />
CLAYTON R. DOUGLAS<br />
& Caleigh Rose Douglas<br />
<strong>The</strong>re comes a time in our lives when things just do not work<br />
and we have to make changes. This is one of those times in my<br />
life and I am reaching out to you to help me determine what changes<br />
to make and how to do that. I would like to put you to work using<br />
the tools I have crafted. This magazine.<br />
My ex-wife, who I once loved with all my heart, criticizes me<br />
for putting my personal life in here and on my website, but she<br />
also finds fault when I talk about Jews in power behind the scenes.<br />
"You know you would be so much better off if you stopped talking<br />
about the Jews!"<br />
"Sure. I will do that if you can get the Jews to stop talking<br />
about the Arabs!" This statement is flippant but if the main stream<br />
targets White Supremacists and militant Muslims, and adherents<br />
to Christian Identity, why should Jewish Zionists Goals for world<br />
domination not be discussed<br />
If you agree with her and don't want to hear the truth, leave<br />
now and join her in the safety of your illusions. And it is those<br />
illusions that I intend to address in this issue. <strong>The</strong> cover provides<br />
the theme, Scammers.<br />
Most of you have been with me for years. You have read my<br />
columns, listened to my broadcasts and watched my films. You<br />
bikers out there have looked at my photos of beautiful women,<br />
gorgeous motorcycles and shared my stories of my encounters<br />
with famous bikers in Thunder Riders. You know who I am and<br />
what I think, but trying to put together a coherent and viable organization<br />
in opposition to the status quo is a little more difficult<br />
now than it has ever been. I may not be able to do it from Bingham<br />
like I once did, so Bingham might be up for sale and I will be<br />
considering relocating to another city or state where I can find the<br />
help I need to do all of the things that need to be done.<br />
Thunder Riders was a fun magazine to do and totally nonpolitical.<br />
I used it to get funds to run the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> because<br />
the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> goes in directions that are impossible for most<br />
mind-controlled <strong>American</strong>s to fathom. That worked until the "accident"<br />
took away the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> magazine, my radio show<br />
and the support of my family. My sons kept Thunder Riders going<br />
while I was kept unconscious but a year after they left (Or I ran<br />
them off, depending on your point of view.).<br />
I made a deal and sold Thunder Riders to get the money to<br />
republish the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> but I was unintentionally outted after<br />
the publicly traded company in the motorcycle industry announced<br />
their purchase of Thunder Riders and related items in a<br />
press release on Wall Street, stating that Clay Douglas would remain<br />
on as publisher.<br />
Obviously this announcement sent up a red flag on the ADL<br />
desk and every stockholder in that company was contacted and<br />
told what a right wing, radical, racist, Anti-Semite Clay Douglas<br />
was. <strong>The</strong> CEO of that company backed out because of the pressure<br />
from his stockholders. I let him because I did not want to be<br />
in business with or beholden to a spineless jackal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> people who buy the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> and listen to my broadcasts<br />
are special people and well educated by means other than<br />
the television. <strong>The</strong> advertisers in Thunder Riders are not that knowledgeable<br />
or worldly. <strong>The</strong> advertisers who had reaped the benefits<br />
of my writing and pictures in Thunder Riders were contacted and<br />
threatened with the loss of their Jewish clientele for supporting a<br />
right wing, racist, Anti-Semite like Clay Douglas. After that, my<br />
attempts to sell advertising fell flat there.<br />
I have a new name for the people behind this kind of action.<br />
Scammers. Name calling and demonization has always been the<br />
tool of tyrants and Zionists. Kind of like the situation this week in<br />
the Seattle airport where travelers were stripped of their enjoyment<br />
of Christmas by a Rabbi who threatened to sue the airport if<br />
it did not display the Menorah also. <strong>The</strong> airport took down all of<br />
the Christmas trees this year.<br />
You have tried to help when John Trochmann and I and others<br />
formed the Militias after Waco. Until the OKC blast and Timothy<br />
McVeigh, an employee of the US Army, was used to tarnish the<br />
Militia Movement. More Scammers.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n 9-11 happened and our stable world began to crumble.<br />
Well, at least mine did.<br />
Up to this point in time, the only Terrorists I could see were<br />
working for our government, like the BATF with back up from<br />
the FBI, as demonstrated by the actions against the Branch<br />
Davidians in Waco. Suddenly the Muslims were the new enemy<br />
overshadowing the evil Constitutionalists and their Militias.<br />
My perceptions, after 9-11, was that this was an engineered<br />
event not done by Arabs in a cave in Afghanistan anymore than<br />
OKC had been done by the Militias. I saw Osama Bin Laden in<br />
the same light of Tim McVeigh and Lee Harvey Oswald. More<br />
Scammers. Include Jewish mobster Jack Ruby in that list<br />
I referred to the trade towers as an exaggerated case of "Jewish<br />
Lightning" (Larry Silverstein bought the towers for $500 million,<br />
insured the complex for 700 billion and collected a few short<br />
months later. I featured a picture of Building Number 7 on the<br />
cover of the last <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> in 2004 along with Silverstein's<br />
statement that he had "pulled" #7. That and my film, "<strong>The</strong> True<br />
Face of FEMA, which exposed the Zionist created "Homeland<br />
Security" agenda against <strong>American</strong>s, is what, I believe led to my<br />
"accident" and three hospitals keeping me unconscious unnecessarily<br />
for three months, so my cracked ribs and collarbone could<br />
heal!<br />
Finally, my wife of 24 years, Janet, decided she didn't want to<br />
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deal with a badly injured, irritated, angry<br />
husband once he was out of the hospital<br />
and wanted to work again. Alone for the<br />
first time in 24 years and out of the dating<br />
scene, I got on something called Yahoo<br />
Personals in an attempt to meet someone<br />
to fill the void in my life. I started out talking<br />
to women in Phoenix without a lot of<br />
success. <strong>The</strong> few that I found attractive<br />
never wrote back and fewer still had the<br />
interest or the courage to even pick up a<br />
phone and call me after seeing my website.<br />
A few months back, I moved back to<br />
New Mexico to clean up my property and<br />
attempted to borrow money on the equity I<br />
had built up over the last ten years. But every<br />
company that assured me that my credit<br />
was not a problem because the plan allowed<br />
me to pay off every past due bill that had<br />
piled up while I was hospitalized, backed<br />
out at the last minute.<br />
One broker from Western Thrift and<br />
Loan, Mike Ferry, hung in and that is the<br />
reason you are able to read this account.<br />
But he met with so many problems that he<br />
was stunned. Is this the reason a mortgage<br />
application is run through Homeland Security<br />
now After the last lender continued<br />
to find a problem with everything from<br />
my signature on one page of eight to the<br />
paperwork of a ten year old trust, my broker<br />
told me he had found, the "nigger in<br />
the woodpile!"; One man in charge of disbursing<br />
the funds at Accredited Home<br />
Lenders in Orange, CA by the name of<br />
Steve Schwartz! Evidently the ADL has<br />
long arms. <strong>The</strong> broker told me it is called<br />
"Redlining", discrimination against a race,<br />
religion, economic group or Clay Douglas!<br />
It is a violation of Federal Law." Good luck<br />
proving it or getting the FBI to investigate.<br />
After much hair pulling and name calling,<br />
the money finally came through.<br />
Trying to juggle all of the business details<br />
and trying to find honest help did not<br />
leave time for many dates. One of my Thunder<br />
Riders salesmen tried to convert all of<br />
my advertisers to another biker magazine<br />
and another ran a hot check he passed off<br />
as an investment through my account.<br />
Scammer! <strong>The</strong>n suddenly, I began to get<br />
response on Yahoo from some really beautiful<br />
women. <strong>The</strong>y were not only beautiful;<br />
they were sensitive, loving and sensual.<br />
Unfortunately, they were no more real than<br />
the hot checks their "clients" sent me and<br />
most of them were an ocean away.<br />
Once I closed down Thunder Riders<br />
and made the decision to start <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong><br />
again and moved back to New Mexico<br />
I had less help and more to do than I had<br />
time on my hands. I was doing my show<br />
“Where the press is free and<br />
every man able to read, all is<br />
safe.” Thomas Jefferson, (letter to<br />
Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816)<br />
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on the Internet and figured I might be able<br />
to find some investors or help, using the<br />
Internet, since I was so far away from any<br />
major town.<br />
It wasn't until the response started flowing<br />
in that I noticed the posters appearing<br />
in the banks from the FBI warning <strong>American</strong>s<br />
about the Nigerian scams. A light<br />
dawned but it was a little late. I was so sharp<br />
and streetwise that I wasn't worried about<br />
being scammed; I sent no money to anyone<br />
except a few instances to aid in my investigations.<br />
I got help. Over a million dollars in investments<br />
and checks came in from those<br />
who wanted to help..... All in hot checks<br />
and forged money orders!<br />
Because of my website and shortwave<br />
broadcasts and now my presence on the<br />
Internet, I was so well known I got a lot of<br />
contacts. But the volume and nature of these<br />
attacks and scams has made me suspicious.<br />
Being the paranoid and conspiracy oriented<br />
person that I am, it seems that perhaps there<br />
was an intelligence of sorts directing these<br />
operations. <strong>The</strong>y could be using the lack<br />
of an extradition treaty with Nigeria to not<br />
only scam <strong>American</strong>s out of millions, but<br />
to use the beautiful women, who might be<br />
part of the Israeli white slavery/prostitution<br />
rings, to target prominent and unpopular<br />
enemies without fear of retribution or interference<br />
by the FBI. See the story in this<br />
issue.<br />
According to the FBI, the Nigerian and<br />
Ghanaian scammers operate with the blessings<br />
of the local governments because they<br />
constitute the largest industry in these African<br />
Countries.<br />
This book, while containing personal<br />
information about me and detailed photos,<br />
some graphic, should serve as a warning to<br />
all <strong>American</strong>s of the insidious nature of<br />
these scammers. If an investigative reporter<br />
and a streetwise biker can be led into this<br />
convoluted world where nothing is real,<br />
imagine what could happen to the average<br />
man or woman, looking for love, sucked<br />
into this, offered big bucks and beautiful<br />
companions for so little money. But multiply<br />
that by a few million lonely men and<br />
vulnerable women and you have an industry<br />
as big as drugs. This story is only a sampling<br />
of the information I have gathered. It<br />
will soon be a book. One of many I am<br />
sending out to other publishers in my attempt<br />
to restructure my life in some semblance<br />
of sanity.<br />
This issue has been delayed by forces<br />
or circumstances beyond my control: <strong>The</strong><br />
theft of my computer and every weapon<br />
with which I might have been able to defend<br />
myself with, including my bows and<br />
arrows, and the destruction of my other<br />
computers by means unknown (not viruses)<br />
were factors. Your subscriptions will be<br />
extended appropriately. For the last 2 weeks<br />
I have been going through all of my order<br />
books and trying to make sure your subs<br />
are updated since the updated list was in<br />
the stolen computer. If you have ordered a<br />
sub please call us and make sure we have<br />
you in the restored files toll-free at 888-<br />
678-1444<br />
But this theft and the unexplainable, recurring<br />
delays in my attempt to get my property<br />
refinanced to keep this magazine going<br />
are only the latest of ten years of escalating<br />
attacks and mishaps of which I have<br />
kept you apprised. <strong>The</strong>se incidents are simply<br />
outside the realm of statistically possible<br />
accidents. <strong>The</strong>se problems are not attributable<br />
to errors of judgment, mistakes<br />
in marketing or my combative, aggressive<br />
personality. Within the last month my<br />
website was taken down after a large company<br />
bought out the company who has<br />
hosted my site for the last ten years. After a<br />
few months of hassles that had never been<br />
there before, the new company shut down<br />
my site and everyone else’s, stopped answering<br />
their phones, and we could not<br />
come up with the codes to trnasfer my domain<br />
to another provider. Finally the phone<br />
rang and it was the former owner who asked<br />
if I would like to get my site back up. Hell<br />
yes was my answer. Seems the people who<br />
bought the company, never bothered to pay<br />
for it and split leaving everyone hanging.<br />
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Kind of like blowing up a plane to get one<br />
man.<br />
No sooner did my site get back up and<br />
operating on a limited basis, but another<br />
problem surfaced.<br />
Someone sent a check made out to in<br />
my banker’s name. <strong>The</strong> check was mailed<br />
directly to the bank with one of my account<br />
numbers on the back. <strong>The</strong> banker called.<br />
She told me someone had sent me a check<br />
for $3750.00 but they had put her name<br />
on iit. I asked her to check and see if the<br />
check was good. If it was, I asked her if<br />
she could just deposit it. My mistake. <strong>The</strong><br />
check turned out to be bad like so many<br />
others that i never let get to the bank. Usually,<br />
the manager and I found out they were<br />
bad, I took a copy of the check and envelope<br />
to the Sheriif’s office and went on with<br />
my business. This time the asst. Manager<br />
turned me in for trying to deposit a fraudulent<br />
check. I went by the next day to learn<br />
where it had come from, but she would not<br />
let me see it, would not give me a cop[y to<br />
take to the sheriff, and by the time I got<br />
back itno town from Albqueque, my account<br />
had been closed and my money frozen.<br />
No way for my credit cards to go into<br />
the account, no way to use my debit cards<br />
to get gas, so by the next morning my account<br />
on the computer showed that I was<br />
888,888.00 overdrawn and since teh cars I<br />
had run for $132.00 could not go in, I was<br />
overdraw by $20. But a meeting with a lawyer<br />
and some good advice and we will be<br />
back up and operating as usual shortly.<br />
Yes. It is discouraging. But people enjoy<br />
my articles, films and books and the<br />
articles I select have been accurate and<br />
years ahead of main stream news. What we<br />
talked about years ago in the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong><br />
are today’s headlines. And as you will<br />
see in this issue, I am not the first to be<br />
attacked, harassed, demonized and made a<br />
target. You can call me unlucky and laugh<br />
at my problems and blame it on my outspokenness,<br />
but I am the canary in the coal<br />
mine, and when you become aware of the<br />
hidden war and unseen enemies, you and<br />
your family might have a chance to stand<br />
up for right, not might. I have been attacked,<br />
subjected to demonization but you are holding<br />
in your hands the best defense to tyranny.<br />
Become and be proud to be a <strong>Free</strong><br />
<strong>American</strong>!<br />
We need people to work the phones and<br />
computers here or anywhere in the US or<br />
overseas if you have a computer, Yahoo<br />
Messenger and a telephone. We are putting<br />
in RV pads and hookups here in Bingham<br />
and expanding the offices and adding<br />
a coffee shop. We need people that don't<br />
<strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> Newsma<br />
wsmagazine<br />
azine<br />
mind staying in an RV and doing sales, office<br />
tasks and everything from construction<br />
to landscaping to shipping and order taking.<br />
We are looking for people experienced<br />
in advertising, layout and website work. We<br />
have a distributorship on Cavco Cabins.<br />
Ads for Clay's novels, films, books and<br />
those of Eustace Mullins will be appearing<br />
in Radio Television Interview Report which<br />
is distributed to over 4000 Television and<br />
Radio Stations. We have National Distribution<br />
through Ingram Periodicals, the largest<br />
in the country. For the sales force, we<br />
are looking for, are men and women with<br />
computers and a phone to handle sales from<br />
the comfort of your own home using your<br />
computer and Yahoo Messenger in every<br />
state. Exclusive territories for advertising<br />
sales and subscriptions and you would be<br />
in charge of booths at major motorcycle and<br />
patriot events in your area and booking Clay<br />
and Eustace on local talk shows. Quit complaining<br />
about the New World Order and<br />
corrupt government and help us fix it by<br />
working with us. New films and books are<br />
now being produced and we will never<br />
stoop to hate or use the would be rulers<br />
tactics which are aimed at creating fear to<br />
divide and conquer.<br />
If you have a great job and are in a good<br />
place at this time in your life, please consider<br />
investing in the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong> to help<br />
us grow and find the people we need to do<br />
the work required to produce this magazine<br />
and support it as we triy to find answers<br />
to the problems that even CNN and<br />
MSNBC are beginning to address. And<br />
remember, America has many Liberty Villages.<br />
Small towns across America have<br />
been drained of their youths and their vitality<br />
by the demands of industry and the<br />
lure of the cities. But the cities have become<br />
prison camps and ghettos of the New<br />
World Order Police State.<br />
You can be a part of the answer. Consider<br />
joining the Constitution Party as the<br />
one uncompromised party out there. I can<br />
recommend it because I helped write their<br />
charter and I have pleadged the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong><br />
to back it and promote it. If they want<br />
me, I will run for any office in the state<br />
they would like me to, and I will be happy<br />
to debate any Rebublican or Democrat out<br />
there. I may be too controbersial to win but<br />
then again, maybe the <strong>American</strong> people are<br />
ready for the truth. And there is another<br />
factor out there that I may be able to appeal<br />
to. We have over 30% of <strong>American</strong>s<br />
either behind bards or on probation or parole.<br />
It may be time to organzie the Guglag<br />
Refugees to reclaim <strong>American</strong> from the<br />
growing police state.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rest of the stories in this issue follow<br />
traditional lines but all will show you<br />
that we are all in the grips of the greatest<br />
scammers of all, the ones who control the<br />
TV that controls your minds and pulls the<br />
strings of your government.<br />
We are being set up for a total police<br />
state that will make the former Soviet Union<br />
and Red China look like desirable countries<br />
to live in. <strong>The</strong> targeting of Clay Douglas<br />
follows the pattern of attacks against<br />
a long line of notable people, people like<br />
the intellectuals in Red China, Russia, Germany,<br />
Joe McCarthy, Ernst Zundel, Eustace<br />
Mullins and Ezra Pound here. When a coup<br />
occurs, it is important to take out all who<br />
have the intellectual ability to discern who<br />
and what is responsible for the atrocities<br />
that will follow.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new laws allow for the suspension<br />
of Habeas Corpus and the imprisonment<br />
of people like me with no explanation, no<br />
notification of our families, and no access<br />
to an attorney. What is happening to me<br />
alone here in Bingham is happening to millions<br />
of <strong>American</strong>s in our towns and cities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Internet is a double edged sword. It<br />
gives us access to information previously<br />
hidden, but it opens us up to scammers,<br />
tracking, monitoring and isolates us at the<br />
same time. We should approach it with caution.<br />
It does not provide us with the safety,<br />
security and familiarity of the community.<br />
In some strange way, Hillary Clinton was<br />
right about it takes a village. We do need a<br />
village. This was the concept that I envisioned<br />
with Liberty Villages, smaller<br />
homes, smaller, tighter, self-sufficient communities.<br />
And they are out there, Liberty<br />
Villages by the thousands. <strong>The</strong> basis of the<br />
America we once had. Many abandoned<br />
and dying like Bingham. Just waiting for<br />
the right people to abandon the New World<br />
Order concentration camps, factories and<br />
prisons we call cities and come back home.<br />
I believe that we can stand up against<br />
the New World Order just as Jesus, Washington<br />
and Jefferson did in their day. I, for<br />
one, refuse to be silent and submit to slavery,<br />
in whatever format they seek to conceal<br />
it. I will continue publishing this magazine<br />
if I get the advertisers and support any<br />
magazine needs to exist. It may not be in<br />
the slick format needed to get on the bookstore<br />
shelves right away but I will continue<br />
to write, create and speak out against all<br />
forms of tyranny and attempts to enslave<br />
or divide mankind.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y may kill me, they may even eat<br />
me, but they will never enslave me.<br />
END<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Internet as<br />
Psychological Warfare<br />
Clayton R. Douglas<br />
This article is hard to write, because it<br />
feels like an admission of failure. I have<br />
tried to revive the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>American</strong>. I have<br />
tried to establish Liberty Villages. By<br />
chance or design, everything that has happened<br />
has played a part in preventing me<br />
from rebuilding the magazine to what it<br />
should be..<br />
My accident, that was no accident, was<br />
the beginning. When the woman failed to<br />
kill me, three hospitals kept me sedated<br />
with mind altering drugs for three months.<br />
This led to the loss of my wife and my<br />
sons went back to Colorado. This loss sent<br />
me to the Internet to find a way to replace<br />
them and after I moved back to Bingham,<br />
and could find no one local to help, I went<br />
to the Net to find employees and backers<br />
and investors. This was a signal of my<br />
weakness. I was sending up a red flag that<br />
opened the door to hundreds of offers,<br />
hundreds of inquiries and almost to my<br />
ultimate destruction. But I soon learned<br />
that I was not the only one that was undergoing<br />
this kind of attacks. It was happening<br />
to ordinary <strong>American</strong>s who were<br />
not politically active or whose views were<br />
not controversial. <strong>The</strong> FBI told me that<br />
they think the governments of Ghana and<br />
Nigeria were iinvolved and they put up<br />
signs in banks to warn <strong>American</strong>s. After<br />
everything that has happened, the only<br />
disagreement I have with them, is that I<br />
think there are more than the governments<br />
of Ghana and Nigeria involved.<br />
<strong>The</strong> offers I began to receive were so<br />
intricate and varied that I began to keep a<br />
detailed record of what I knew to be scams,<br />
what I thought could be scams, and a few<br />
that seemed to be just lost souls not much<br />
different from me, looking for someone<br />
to love. But I thought I was dealing with<br />
people who were honest. <strong>The</strong> lawyers and<br />
the law enforcement I thought I was helping<br />
to stop the scammers, were in fact the<br />
real scammers. A lawsuit fought a half a<br />
world away, was resolved and suddenly I<br />
had won a large amount of money . . .<br />
money that could help immensely in the<br />
fight for freedom here. But there is no way<br />
to check on anything or anyone that is on<br />
Yahoo.<br />
It was backed up by documentation<br />
from Barclay’s Bank and the High Court<br />
of Ghana. All I had to do was send the<br />
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filing fees to my attorney. <strong>The</strong> programming<br />
I got here through my childhood and<br />
through TV led me to believe in the justice<br />
system here. And the international<br />
aspect of Barclays Bank got me. But no<br />
matter what I sent, there was always something<br />
else that needed to be done. None<br />
of the money I supposedly won ever materialized.<br />
I tried to hire help from there to bring<br />
here. <strong>The</strong>y ripped me off. I sent money to<br />
bring the help I needed. No one came. And<br />
while I looked for help locally, but no one<br />
even applied for an interview.<br />
I refinanced my property to get working<br />
capitol and to clear up my damaged<br />
credit. I paid off my ex-wife, got clear title,<br />
paid off every debt I owed, but there was<br />
delay after delay and the mortgage company<br />
shaved off point after point until,<br />
when it was all said and done, months<br />
longer that expected, I got some money, a<br />
much higher interest rate and no help here.<br />
And my credit rating went down not up.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the death threats began when the<br />
banks there, afraid of the fact that I had<br />
sued one successfully, did not want me to<br />
reveal who they were and how they operated.<br />
I was even told that <strong>American</strong> operatives<br />
of Al Qaeda would be used<br />
against me.<br />
I understand that poor people will do<br />
anything they can to try to scrape out a<br />
living in that AIDS racked continent. I understand<br />
crooked lawyers and politicians,<br />
here and there. But over the internet you<br />
cannot tell who is honest, who is truthful<br />
or even if who you are talking to is a man,<br />
woman, white or black. But this human<br />
elements sets the stage for a form of psychological<br />
warfare unlike any known before.<br />
I am in the process of cataloging all of<br />
the conversations and all of the means by<br />
which they con <strong>American</strong>s out of money<br />
and prey on the lonely and alone. It will<br />
be a book entitled, “SCAMMERS. A<br />
DESCENT INTO MADNESS”<br />
<strong>The</strong> distractions and the lies took a<br />
chunk of money from me, but the lack of<br />
help here in New Mexico and America did<br />
far more damage. I spent all of my time<br />
trying to fill orders, pay bills, keep my<br />
health while I tried to revive the <strong>Free</strong><br />
<strong>American</strong>. What hurt me more than the<br />
Scammers was the complete lack of help,<br />
support, or advertising from the Patriot<br />
community that I had devoted my life to<br />
here in America.<br />
Outside of a small percentage of my<br />
former subscribers who have signed up<br />
and ordered some products, I have not had<br />
the time necessary to get advertisers, sales<br />
people or ever radio time. RBN John<br />
Stadtmiller cut me off after two shows for<br />
no real reason.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n last month, my website went<br />
down. <strong>The</strong> company that had been hosting<br />
it for ten years sold out to a larger company<br />
last year. <strong>The</strong>n suddenly all of the<br />
webcites are down. My e-mail wasn’t<br />
working, No one answered the phones<br />
anymore at CyberConnectics. <strong>The</strong><br />
Cybcon.com website is down, and I could<br />
not get access to the codes needed to<br />
change providers. A large company had<br />
bought a successful business and did not<br />
pay the owner or provide the service for<br />
their customers. I know because Les<br />
Fenison, the former owner of<br />
CyberConnectics, called me and told me<br />
he had all the codes needed to get my cite<br />
back up and running. He also let me know<br />
that I was not the only one who had to<br />
deal with SCAMMERS and that they were<br />
from America too.<br />
But without the support in America for<br />
what we are trying to do, I am in worse<br />
shape that Ernst Zundel, recently sentenced<br />
to five years for doing and saying<br />
less than I have about the Zionists. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
attacks could come from the computers of<br />
Israel as easily as they could come from<br />
Ghana or Nigeria. It is a sophisticated form<br />
of warfare that is beyond the scope of a<br />
few Nigerians. I sit here and work on<br />
the next issue and the phone does not ring.<br />
People like Texe Marrs will not return my<br />
calls. Why<br />
It is this lack of support that opens the<br />
door for the kind of psychological warfare<br />
that it being turned on me now. It is<br />
the reason John Trockmann of the Militia<br />
of Montana, turned his back on the <strong>American</strong><br />
people, saying, “To Hell with them<br />
Clay, We tried to tell them what was coming<br />
and they did nothing to help us or support<br />
us. <strong>The</strong>y deserve the government they<br />
get!” Clayton R. Douglas<br />
“Democracy is two wolves and a<br />
lamb voting on what to have for<br />
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb<br />
contesting the vote!”<br />
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty<br />
of a nation must begin by subduing<br />
the freeness of speech."<br />
Benjamin Franklin<br />
April 2007 505-423-3250<br />
7
WARNING:<br />
THE END OF AMERICA<br />
AS WE KNOW IT IS AT<br />
HAND<br />
By Greg Evensen<br />
© 2007 Greg Evensen - All Rights Reserved<br />
<strong>The</strong> Patriot’s Preamble<br />
“Let it be known far and wide that <strong>American</strong> Patriots will<br />
come together in the year 2007, to unite the citizens and<br />
statesmen of the Republic of the United States of America.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y will gather with the purpose of maintaining our nation’s<br />
sovereignty, to reinstate our Constitutional and Natural<br />
Rights, and to free the <strong>American</strong> people from institutional<br />
servitude. <strong>The</strong>y will come to pursue this course with Honor,<br />
Dignity, and Courage, while acknowledging that unless God<br />
keeps our nation and guides her steps, we will have labored in<br />
vain.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> United States of America and its citizenry has been assessed,<br />
warned, plotted against, and sold out by internationalists<br />
in government, business, and the banking industry. Its<br />
workforce has been decimated, its standard of living shredded<br />
and its working people made financial slaves through unjust taxation,<br />
socialist government practices, rules and regulations at all<br />
levels in society that would make any communist dictator grin<br />
with envy.<br />
Our role as partners in governmental affairs has been reduced<br />
to a whisper that is not heard by any elected official anywhere—<br />
with very, very few exceptions. Our representative government<br />
has become 535 regional dictators who live a life of luxury, selfimportance<br />
and as arrogant master over the populace. <strong>The</strong> congress<br />
of the United States has carefully exempted itself from<br />
virtually all repressive laws they choose not to adhere to and<br />
have given themselves retirement pensions, health care and other<br />
perks, the rest of us can only dream of. <strong>The</strong>y have become the<br />
Duma (Soviet Parliament) types who exemplify nothing other<br />
than crass selfishness at the expense of every <strong>American</strong> working<br />
citizen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bush Administration has been pursuing a blending of<br />
Canada, America and Mexico into the “North <strong>American</strong> Union.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have done it under the cover of governmental darkness.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have been running a race as to how fast they can manipulate<br />
our great nation into a “no going back” strategic position<br />
with these other two nations. <strong>The</strong> president and his cabal of sellout<br />
White House/Congressional turncoats have intentionally kept<br />
the <strong>American</strong> people in a state of confusion (war on terror, etc.)<br />
so that organized resistance to this national sovereignty killing<br />
plan can not be formulated. Business and banking interests are<br />
salivating at the thought of trillions of dollars in “free trade”<br />
being exchanged throughout North America.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cultures of Canada and Mexico are not that of the United<br />
States and its citizens. A disaster of Biblical proportions is on its<br />
way WHEN this plan is forced upon our nation. It is only one of<br />
several scenarios that are nearing completion and will spell the<br />
absolute end of the United States as we know it. Some will argue<br />
that the USA needs drastic overhauling and that this is the<br />
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natural result of “planned obsolescence” in <strong>American</strong> culture.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are huge problems that must be addressed<br />
(www.heartlandusaparty.org) now by the <strong>American</strong> public, or<br />
the last opportunity to do so under “open and free” conditions<br />
will be lost. <strong>The</strong>re is no more time to talk this sorry state of<br />
affairs to death. Decisive and uncompromising action must be<br />
taken. Here is what I suggest to my fellow victims:<br />
TAKE THIS BULL BY THE HORNS<br />
AND PUT IT ON ITS BACKSIDE<br />
Unless you accept that this country is in its LAST days, you<br />
will continue to shake your heads and laugh at all who have written<br />
week after week to help you realize just how much will SOON<br />
be lost to our nation forever. You will be counted among those<br />
who were as responsible as the complicit socialist Washington<br />
government for our national demise precisely because you were<br />
intentionally ignorant. <strong>The</strong> power through information written by<br />
authors of brilliant and inciteful backgrounds has given a massive<br />
amount of data that could have and should have made a difference<br />
in your lives, your interest in government actions, and a marvelous<br />
treasure chest of debate justifications when you discuss<br />
these issues with others.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is NO TIME LEFT for you to take the luxury of noninvolvement.<br />
You will face a time when you will give an account<br />
to your family as to why you couldn’t or wouldn’t take the time to<br />
educate yourself about your nation’s sacred history. You will stand<br />
alone as the verdict comes in that you were negligent in NOT<br />
preparing to protect and care for your family and friends during<br />
military government (Martial Law) because of a “terrorist” attack,<br />
financial/stock market collapse or any other number of possibilities<br />
real or contrived that gives the government the justification<br />
for arrest and indefinite incarceration in detention camps already<br />
built for you and your loved ones. THEY ALREADY EX-<br />
IST!! <strong>The</strong>se detention/ re-education camps are for those who aren’t<br />
willing to submit to the new global order that is about to be established.<br />
Precisely because you are uninformed and intentionally ignorant,<br />
you will blindly board the truck that takes you to your likely<br />
last destination. You will trust the government to help you one last<br />
time. Some of you will stumble around the camp looking for your<br />
welfare check, prescription drugs or how you can contact the nearest<br />
legal defense or ACLU attorney so that you can take the camp<br />
commander to court for mistreatment. You, who I have just described,<br />
deserve a detention camp. “…..may your chains rest lightly<br />
upon your wrists.”<br />
All of us MUST take responsibility for what is coming. Many<br />
of us have adamantly fought against the rising tide of a police<br />
state government.Try to understand you do not always get chance<br />
We are losing badly. NOT because we don’t care, NOT because<br />
we haven’t tried, and certainly NOT because we haven’t committed<br />
to resisting this complete sell-out of the Founders dream for<br />
this nation and its people. We are failing because YOU have not<br />
protested at the school board meetings, the city council chambers,<br />
the county commission boards and the state and federal legislatures<br />
while you still have freedom of speech. Because, out of indifference<br />
or fear, you have not stood up to this criminal neglect<br />
and criminal actions against our constitution, these elected sellouts<br />
have sensed your negligence and have had the boldness to<br />
give America away to the highest bidder.<br />
You have allowed the Federal Reserve to “regulate” our cur-<br />
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ency into a mountain of debt and steer the dollar into oblivion.<br />
You have allowed Congress to abandon gold and silver and encouraged<br />
the mighty international consortium of bankers to call<br />
every political policy in Washington. You have allowed presidents<br />
and representatives to subvert our constitution to the point of irrelevance<br />
because many of you who were constitutional experts<br />
would not challenge these republic killing “laws” at their source<br />
or in the courts. Above all, you have allowed yourself to be compromised<br />
when serving on the jury, a good example is how a brainwashed<br />
jury convicted 2 innocent border agents for shooting an<br />
illegal drug smuggler.<br />
Many of you in the medical field have believed your own myth<br />
building lifestyle that suggests you are some type of god that sells<br />
pharmaceuticals like snake oil to unsuspecting people who can<br />
neither understand nor challenge your control of their lives, let<br />
alone afford the drugs that they “needed.” You have refused to<br />
endorse less expensive, natural remedies that could have made<br />
the critical difference for some or avoided the pain and expense<br />
of chemo “cures” for cancer in others that in most cases only<br />
prolonged the agony of those buying in to your version of medicine.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a movement to ban natural vitamins and you are<br />
silent there, as well.<br />
You business owners who scammed the public or charged obscene<br />
prices for your products, and then squeezed the worker and<br />
his family into poverty, take a short second place in shame to<br />
America’s bankers. <strong>The</strong> oldest professions in the world are not<br />
prostitution or politicians, but bankers. You alone shoulder the<br />
responsibility along with the Federal Reserve for bankrupting<br />
America’s families and our nation’s financial system. Jail for individuals<br />
mentioned here is kind compared to a hangman’s noose<br />
in my view.<br />
Regardless of the cause or the effect, America is on her knees.<br />
She is a haggard old woman unable to understand who she used<br />
to be. No longer are the strong arms of brave young men and<br />
women able to help her to her feet. <strong>The</strong>re is no one left who knows<br />
this original America or cares.<br />
I appeal to my friends in the law enforcement community.<br />
Whether you are serving now, retired, or were in short of full<br />
retirement, the burden has fallen to you. <strong>The</strong>re is no time left to<br />
muddle this about. <strong>The</strong> nation needs you now and will in the near<br />
future. When I left law enforcement, I never had to sign a statement<br />
giving up my oath. I did not give up that oath to defend<br />
America from all enemies—foreign and domestic—when I left<br />
the military. I have no intention of abandoning America now, in<br />
her time of ultimate peril. I have stood in that great gap. I have<br />
been shot at. I have fought for my life along a lonely stretch of<br />
highway against tall odds to bring in two or three wanted fugitives.<br />
I have tracked the killers through dark fields and deserted<br />
farmhouses. I have held the dying and comforted them to the end.<br />
I am no hero, just someone dedicated to seeing to it that as many<br />
as possible do not have to face a horrible police state America,<br />
where those older, traditional police officer—peace officers—big<br />
men with big hearts were the ideal of our communities, no longer<br />
exist.<br />
All people from all walks of life are invited, encouraged, and<br />
desperately needed to attend our two day summit in KC this summer.<br />
I believe it to be one of the last best chances to make a real,<br />
long lasting difference in our nation. We may fail, but we will<br />
surely at least give our very best. I am asking our newly formed<br />
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“Centurions for America” organization to stand with me and other<br />
gallant police officers from all levels of service to come to Kansas<br />
City. I am asking these great men and women to absolutely promise<br />
that they will not submit their badge and their oath to a criminal<br />
element masquerading as government officials. I ask that all<br />
of you help these men and women assume their last great roll call<br />
assignment as defenders of their communities against crime and<br />
criminal activity from WHATEVER source. If those of you who<br />
were trained to serve and protect, fail in this coming confrontation<br />
with world-wide forces of evil whose only goal is the destruction<br />
of America and her people, then indeed, the fight has<br />
been lost.<br />
Winston Churchill said it best when he declared in a speech to<br />
the British Parliament in 1943, “you may have to fight knowing<br />
that there is absolutely no chance for success and you will surely<br />
not survive, but to live on as a slave is a far worse fate.” Where<br />
will you stand my law enforcement friends When the government<br />
moves against its people to institute martial law or implement<br />
a “North <strong>American</strong> Union,” or sign on to the United Nations<br />
World Government, will you let our communities and beloved<br />
homes be sold to international elites My heart says NOT EVER!<br />
Let’s agree to stand together as necessary and in the manner in<br />
which our nation requires us to stand. Not government politics<br />
nor embedded traitors dictates, but the needs of our constitution,<br />
our Declaration of Independence with its new relevance for our<br />
time, and for the dedication of hundreds of thousands of soldiers,<br />
sailors, airmen, marines, coast guardsmen, merchant marines and<br />
police officers at all levels who have answered the call and given<br />
their all so that you and I, our children and grandchildren could be<br />
free. It is to them that I humbly say, “yes, sir, I am reporting as<br />
needed.” Fellow <strong>American</strong>s, you are needed NOW. Get involved,<br />
NOW. Call these arrogant self-serving, liberal bureaucrats and<br />
DEMAND change NOW. Show up at the city and county meetings<br />
where your community is being fenced in around an Agenda<br />
21 model that will kill private property usage and ownership. Don’t<br />
be fooled into accepting an unelected, unaccountable county manager<br />
who doesn’t represent you, but rather serves the good-ol-boy<br />
system. Keep your county commissioners, who are elected and<br />
accountable to we, the people.<br />
Don’t count on your church leadership to expose evil and save<br />
America. <strong>The</strong>y have compromised their principles for money and<br />
relationship building and can no longer discern evil. Jesus said<br />
when salt loses its savor it is to be trodden underfoot. Pastors<br />
have lost their savor, and in the process, have lost their backbone<br />
and the love for their fellow man. <strong>The</strong>y fear IRS more than God.<br />
Finally, ask Almighty God to bless your efforts, protect you<br />
and your family from the evil, and as Churchill also said in<br />
England’s darkest hour, “NEVER, NEVER, EVER GIVE UP.”<br />
America is worth every effort we make fellow lawmen, even unto<br />
death. Let’s stand together now and win the battle by the force of<br />
truth, conviction of a righteous cause, and with the help of our<br />
friends and fellow citizens, in a powerful and persuasive show of<br />
solidarity in defense of a free and honorable America.<br />
What do cockroaches and evil in people have in common When<br />
exposed they both run for cover. Political Correctness is the cloak<br />
that protects evil. And remember that Truth is hate to those who<br />
hate the Truth.<br />
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A Visit in Prison<br />
with Ernst Zuendel<br />
Daniel McGowan, Professor Emeritus<br />
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During the recent conference in Iran (Review<br />
of the Holocaust: Global Vision) I was<br />
in prison in Mannheim, Germany interviewing<br />
Ernst Zuendel. Labeled a “Holocaust denier,”<br />
Ernst has been in jail for almost four<br />
years without being charged with a violent<br />
crime or without even being convicted of a<br />
non-violent one. He is 67 year old.<br />
As a six-year old Ernst witnessed the Allied<br />
firebombing of Pforzheim in which ten<br />
to twenty thousand German civilians were<br />
killed. As a teenager he became a pacifist; at<br />
age 19 he moved to Canada to avoid serving<br />
in the post-war German army. In Canada he<br />
worked as a graphic artist and publisher specializing<br />
in 20th century German history.<br />
Many of the books he republished questioned<br />
the Holocaust, such as the underground booklet<br />
Did Six Million Really Die by Richard<br />
Harwood. Others he merely distributed, like<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rudolf Report by Germar Rudolf, An<br />
Eye for an Eye: <strong>The</strong> Untold Story of Jewish<br />
Revenge Against Germans in 1945 by John<br />
Sack, and Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening<br />
to the Jewish Question by David Duke.<br />
He also sold books on UFOs and alternative<br />
medicines.<br />
Ernst’s interest in history and revisionism<br />
led him to dispute and challenge specific<br />
“facts” about the Holocaust. He claimed<br />
1. that Hitler’s “Final Solution” was intended<br />
to be ethnic cleansing, not extermination<br />
2. that there were no homicidal gas chambers<br />
used by the Third Reich. (He did not<br />
deny that there were gas chambers used for<br />
disinfection.<br />
3. there were fewer than 6 million Jews<br />
killed of the alleged 55 million who died in<br />
WWII<br />
Over the years such firmly held beliefs<br />
expressed in writing and later on his wife’s<br />
Internet site (www.zundelsite.org ) caused him to be<br />
charged with incitement. He was tried twice<br />
in Canada. In the middle of the second trial<br />
in 1988, Ernst sent the first forensic team to<br />
Auschwitz. It was this “Leuchter Expedition”<br />
and the subsequent Leuchter Report that he<br />
believed revolutionized Holocaust revisionism,<br />
taking it beyond the “he said, she said...”<br />
testimonies and into the realm of solid forensic<br />
science.<br />
Such endeavors made him the target of<br />
those who protect the standard Holocaust<br />
narrative. He survived three assassination<br />
attempts, including by arson and pipe bomb,<br />
and although he lived in Canada for 42 years,<br />
he was never able to gain Canadian citizenship<br />
even though immigration officials had<br />
described his application as “flawless.”<br />
While some consider his views to border<br />
on heresy, freedom of speech in both the<br />
United States and Canada protected his right<br />
to publish and distribute the truth as he sees<br />
it. But neither our Bill of Rights nor the pleadings<br />
of his lawyers could prevent his being<br />
rendered by the United States, forced back to<br />
Canada, and then on to Germany where denying<br />
or revising certain aspects of the Holocaust<br />
is a crime.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Latest Incarceration<br />
On February 5, 2003, Ernst was arrested<br />
at his home in the mountain region of eastern<br />
Tennessee. He was seized on the pretext that<br />
he had violated immigration regulations, or<br />
had missed an interview date with US immigration<br />
authorities, even though he had entered<br />
the US legally, was married to an <strong>American</strong><br />
citizen, had been checked out by the FBI,<br />
had been given a health check, a work permit,<br />
and a social security number, had no<br />
criminal record, and was trying to secure status<br />
as a permanent legal resident.<br />
After being held for two weeks, he was<br />
deported to Canada. For the next two years<br />
— from mid-February 2003 to March 1, 2005<br />
— he was held in solitary confinement in the<br />
Toronto West Detention Centre, on the charge<br />
that he was a threat to national security. Like<br />
others who suffer rendition, there was no bail,<br />
no public trial, and no appeal. His mail was<br />
censored and the lights in his cell were kept<br />
on day and night.<br />
On March 1, 2005 Ernst was put in handcuffs<br />
and leg irons on a private jet and deported<br />
from Canada to Germany where he<br />
has been held as an a prisoner under investigation.<br />
As in Canada, bail was again denied.<br />
On June 29, 2005, the state’s prosecutor, Mr.<br />
Grossman, formally charged him with inciting<br />
“hatred” by having written or distributed<br />
texts that “approve, deny or play down” genocidal<br />
actions carried out by Germany’s wartime<br />
regime, and which “denigrate the<br />
memory of the [Jewish] dead.” <strong>The</strong> trial began<br />
on November 8, 2005, eight months after<br />
he arrived in Germany.<br />
Ernst is confined to his cell 22 ¾ hours<br />
per day. He has no access to phone or Internet<br />
and he may not communicate anything about<br />
the trial. He is able to receive two 30-minute<br />
visits per month, but all conversations must<br />
be in German or must be conducted through<br />
a prison-approved translator.<br />
Still Ernst remains upbeat and convinced<br />
that he has made a contribution to the truth<br />
surrounding WWII and the Holocaust. He<br />
does not deny that millions of people suffered<br />
at the hands of the Nazis, including millions<br />
of Jews, who were worked to death and suffered<br />
from disease (especially typhus) and<br />
who were often deliberately murdered both<br />
inside and outside of concentration camps.<br />
Zündel in court in Toronto at<br />
center rear is Paul Fromm, free<br />
speech campaigner in Canada.<br />
But he does not regard Jewish suffering as<br />
unique. He considers his efforts to tell the<br />
truth about the Holocaust as ground breaking<br />
and is satisfied to let others continue the<br />
research.<br />
Ernst believes that Zionists treat the Holocaust<br />
as a sword and a shield to deflect criticism<br />
of their racist quest to build a Jewish<br />
state in Palestine, a state in which over half<br />
the people today are not Jewish, “the state”<br />
being defined as all the land currently controlled<br />
by Israel, including West Bank, Gaza,<br />
and the Golan Heights. He regards himself<br />
as a political prisoner of Zionists who try to<br />
erase his contributions and punish him with<br />
defamation and imprisonment.<br />
A Day in Court<br />
An admirer once described Ernst Zuendel<br />
as “an outgoing, good-humored man who is<br />
blessed with a rare combination of unflagging<br />
optimism and practical ability. He maintains<br />
this infectious spirit even under very trying<br />
conditions. He is an unusually alert and<br />
sensitive individual with a keen understanding<br />
of human nature. He inspires confidence,<br />
loyalty and affection.” On December 7, 2006<br />
I witnessed his trial in Mannheim and found<br />
this description to be uncannily accurate.<br />
On that particular day those in the courtroom<br />
included Ernst, three judges, three jurors,<br />
a court reporter, three defense attorneys,<br />
four armed guards, twenty-four spectators,<br />
and one prosecutor, Mr. Grossman. Ernst<br />
wore an old blue suit with a red tie; he was<br />
attentive; he often smiled approvingly when<br />
something was said with which he agreed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> guards were friendly but disinterested.<br />
Facing the court, all the participants sat on<br />
the left hand side, except the state prosecutor<br />
who sat all by himself at a table on the right<br />
side. <strong>The</strong> jurors and the court reporter sat in<br />
line with the judges on an elevated platform<br />
along the front and the spectators sat in rows<br />
along the back wall. No media were present.<br />
<strong>The</strong> spectators were clearly there for<br />
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Ernst. Most were German men in their late<br />
60s or 70s; there were also a couple of<br />
younger women. Several men commented<br />
that they were proud of having been to every<br />
court session with Ernst over the past 21<br />
months. Although they had not met him personally,<br />
they were following his trial closely<br />
and were supportive of him. <strong>The</strong>y were helpful<br />
to my <strong>American</strong> Jewish colleague and me<br />
and guided us through the security outside<br />
the courtroom and made sure we got front<br />
row seats so that we could fully appreciate<br />
the courtroom experience. Many spoke English<br />
and had sons and daughters in America.<br />
Most were retired but one younger man had<br />
taken time off from work to witness this day<br />
of the trial.<br />
Ernst and his attorneys have not been allowed<br />
to discuss or challenge the veracity of<br />
the facts about the Holocaust, including facts<br />
that Ernst disputes and about which he would<br />
like to submit scientific evidence and expertwitness<br />
testimony.<br />
Offenkundigkeit, the German version of<br />
judicial notice, precludes it. <strong>The</strong> court is only<br />
allowed to consider if Ernst denied these particular<br />
facts and if so, when and where and<br />
how. During our visit, one of Ernst’s attorneys,<br />
84-year old Dr. Herbert Schaller[1],<br />
read a lengthy and impassioned statement<br />
saying that he believed in the same facts of<br />
the Holocaust as does Ernst and by so stating<br />
this he too is guilty. He ended by saying<br />
that in over 53 years of practicing law he had<br />
until now never been guilty of the same crime<br />
as the man he was charged to defend. <strong>The</strong><br />
head judge, Ulrich Meinerzhagen, appeared<br />
tired, agitated, and ready to explode.<br />
Visiting Ernst in prison<br />
It is not easy to visit Ernst Zuendel. He is<br />
allowed only two 30-minute visits per month,<br />
one hour if the visitor travels more than 100<br />
km. Though I wrote and faxed the prison a<br />
dozen times beginning in February 2006, the<br />
answer was always the same, no answer. But<br />
through his wife, Ingrid, Ernst knew that a<br />
colleague and I wished to visit him and he<br />
asked the judge to grant us permission to do<br />
so. Finally on September 23rd Judge<br />
Meinerzhagen told Ernst to tell his wife to<br />
tell me to fax him and formally request a visit.<br />
We were to each include a copy of our<br />
résumés and a copy of our passports.<br />
Another month passed before we received<br />
the visitation permission. Once we had that<br />
document, stamped and signed by the judge,<br />
we were able to make an appointment at the<br />
prison in Mannheim. On arrival the guards<br />
filled out a long form on each of us. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
took our passports and had us put everything<br />
else in a locker. <strong>The</strong>n we were searched,<br />
warned against speaking English, and told to<br />
cross the courtyard to the visitation rooms.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re we sat on one side of a table with a<br />
plastic shield in the middle; they brought Ernst<br />
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from the other side and allowed him to sit<br />
across from us while a guard sat at the end to<br />
monitor both parties. We asked if it was permissible<br />
to shake hands and the guard smiled<br />
and said that would be all right.<br />
Ernst began by asking us to contact his<br />
wife and tell her that he looked well and that<br />
he missed her. He had not been in contact<br />
with her for several weeks and he was worried<br />
that she would be worried about him.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n he asked if my colleague’s family had<br />
discouraged him from making this trip. My<br />
friend understood what Ernst was a king, but<br />
he was unable to answer in German, so I had<br />
to tell Ernst that indeed pressure had been<br />
put on us both not to have anything to do with<br />
a Holocaust “denier.”<br />
We asked Ernst about life in prison and<br />
his relationship with guards and other prisoners.<br />
He described a typical day and told us<br />
that he had only limited contact with other<br />
prisoners, but that they were friendly towards<br />
him. So too were the guards, especially because<br />
he followed the rules and was a threat<br />
to no one. He often asked the man monitoring<br />
our visit to corroborate what he was saying,<br />
almost as if to include him in the conversation.<br />
He talked about history and philosophy<br />
and about recent books he had read. He<br />
praised the prison library, which he said,” was<br />
markedly better than the one in the US jail in<br />
Tennessee, which had “only Tom Clancy novels<br />
and one old book on the US Presidents.”<br />
I had been forced to leave my notes outside<br />
and though I had many questions, I was<br />
not allowed to ask him anything about the<br />
trial, not even the names of his attorneys. <strong>The</strong><br />
hour passed quickly and the guard soon told<br />
us we would have to go. When we stood we<br />
looked questioningly at the guard and he nodded<br />
to us. We shook hands with Ernst, slowly,<br />
he taking each of our hands in both of his.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were big, soft, and warm; although Ernst<br />
is only six years older than I, he reminded me<br />
of my father saying goodbye when we last<br />
parted.<br />
Holocaust Denial<br />
Contrary to the warning given to people<br />
who currently tour Auschwitz, “Holocaust<br />
denial” is not infectious. In many ways the<br />
term is used as an epithet to discredit and<br />
demean those who question facts surrounding<br />
the Holocaust. Nor is Holocaust denial<br />
anti-Semitic; there are many Jews who question<br />
facts about the Holocaust and many more<br />
who object to its being used to elevate Jewish<br />
suffering above that of others.[2] Treating<br />
those who question the Holocaust as heretics<br />
reveals the degree to which the Holocaust<br />
itself has become a religion, a faith to<br />
be accepted and worshiped with spectacular<br />
memorials, best-selling books, and mandatory<br />
curricula for school children.<br />
Ernst believes that Jewish groups have<br />
wanted him jailed for promoting views that<br />
the Jewish-Zionist lobby considers harmful<br />
to its interests. He claims that the only sustained<br />
and institutionalized efforts to imprison<br />
him have come from this lobby, which<br />
includes the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the<br />
Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canadian Holocaust<br />
Remembrance Association, and the<br />
League for Human Rights of B’nai B’rith<br />
(with the Anti-Defamation League, its counterpart<br />
in the US). It is noteworthy that even<br />
the ACLU refused to defend his right of free<br />
speech.[3]<br />
Ernst Zuendel is neither a monster nor a<br />
heretic. He is a man with strong convictions<br />
and the courage to express them. He views<br />
himself not as a Holocaust “denier,” but rather<br />
as a Holocaust revisionist. For that he has been<br />
rendered by the United States, which otherwise<br />
professes to protect the right of free<br />
speech and the writ of habeas corpus, and by<br />
Canada, both countries in which he broke no<br />
law. To force him back to his birth country to<br />
be tried for a “crime” which he never committed<br />
in Germany is unjust. Those who<br />
would incarcerate revisionists like Ernst<br />
Zuendel and hold them, without bail, for years<br />
on end to drain them of their resources and to<br />
silence them as “Prisoners of Zion” could well<br />
be labeled as “justice deniers.” END<br />
Scientists Threatened for<br />
'Climate Denial'<br />
Scientists who questioned mankind's impact<br />
on climate change have received death<br />
threats and claim to have been shunned by<br />
the scientific community.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y say the debate on global warming<br />
has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance<br />
of politicians, scientists and environmentalists<br />
who have stifled all questioning about<br />
the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide<br />
emissions.<br />
Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor<br />
at the University of Winnipeg in<br />
Canada, has received five deaths threats by<br />
email since raising concerns about the degree<br />
to which man was affecting climate<br />
change. One warned that, if he continued to<br />
speak out, he would not live to see further<br />
global warming.<br />
"Western governments have pumped<br />
billions of dollars into careers and institutes<br />
and they feel threatened," said the professor.<br />
"I can tolerate being called a sceptic because<br />
all scientists should be sceptics, but<br />
then they started calling us deniers, with all<br />
the connotations of the Holocaust. That is<br />
an obscenity. It has got really nasty.<br />
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS IN<br />
STORE IF WE ALLOW ZIONISTS<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Destruction of Joe McCarthy:<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are profound lessons for today's<br />
White <strong>American</strong>s in the saga of this misled hero.<br />
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"Average <strong>American</strong>s can do very little insofar as digging<br />
Communist espionage agents out of our government is concerned.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y must depend upon those of us whom they<br />
send down here to man the watch-towers of the nation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> thing that I think we must remember is that this is a<br />
war, which a brutalitarian force has won to a greater<br />
extent than any brutalitarian force has won a war in the<br />
history of the world before.<br />
"You can talk about Communism as though it's something<br />
ten thousand miles away. Let me say it's right here<br />
with us now. Unless we make sure that there is no infiltration<br />
of our government, then just as certain as you sit there,<br />
in the period of our lives you will see a Red world.<br />
"Anyone who has followed the Communist conspiracy,<br />
even remotely, and can add two and two, will tell you that<br />
there is no remote possibility of this war which we are in<br />
today--and it's a war, a war which we've been losing--no<br />
remote possibility of this ending except by victory or by<br />
death for this civilization."<br />
THOSE WORDS were spoken 40 years ago by U.S.<br />
Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, Republican of<br />
Wisconsin, a man who since has been demonized unjustly.<br />
Since McCarthy's time the subversion of our<br />
nation has proceeded steadily, and his warning to us<br />
resonates more and more clearly as truth, now that<br />
death for this civilization is in view.<br />
Joseph McCarthy's fame as an anti-Communist began with a<br />
speech he delivered on February 9, 1950, to the Republican<br />
Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he said that<br />
there were at least 57 known Communists in the U.S. State De-<br />
partment, and that the State Department knew they were there.<br />
McCarthy's charge was credible, because President Harry<br />
Truman's Secretary of State at the time, Dean Acheson (pictured,<br />
on the Time cover below), was well known as a man sympathetic<br />
to Communism and Communists.<br />
As far back as the 1930s Acheson had worked as a lawyer on<br />
behalf of Stalin's regime, prior to the diplomatic recognition of<br />
the Soviet Union by the<br />
United States, and recently<br />
he had ignored<br />
reports about the Communist<br />
Party connections<br />
of his protege at<br />
the State Department,<br />
Alger Hiss. Acheson<br />
also had been the chief<br />
U.S. advisor at the Yalta<br />
Conference, in February<br />
1945, which consigned<br />
eastern Europe<br />
to Communist rule, and<br />
he presided over the<br />
drafting of the United<br />
Nations Charter. In the<br />
State Department<br />
Acheson fostered the<br />
careers of Communists<br />
and stifled the careers of anti-Communists.<br />
Furthermore, as Ohio's Republican Senator<br />
Robert Taft<br />
said at the time, "Pro-Communist policies of the State Department<br />
fully justify<br />
Joe<br />
McCarthy in his<br />
demand for an<br />
investigation."<br />
Communist infiltration<br />
of the<br />
U.S. government<br />
had occurred<br />
on a<br />
grand scale during<br />
the reign of<br />
Franklin<br />
Roosevelt (pictured).<br />
Congressman<br />
Martin<br />
Dies, Democrat<br />
of Texas and<br />
chairman of the<br />
House Committee<br />
on Un-<br />
<strong>American</strong> Activities<br />
from its<br />
inception in<br />
1938 until 1945,<br />
had warned<br />
Roosevelt in<br />
1940 that there<br />
were thousands<br />
of Communists<br />
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and pro-Communists on the government payroll, but FDR refused<br />
to take action, saying:<br />
“I do not believe in Communism any more than you do, but<br />
there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several<br />
of the best friends I have are Communists. . . . I do not<br />
regard the Communists as any present or future threat to our<br />
country; in fact, I look upon Russia as our strongest ally in the<br />
years to come. As I told you when you began your investigation,<br />
you should confine yourself to Nazis and Fascists.<br />
While I do not believe in Communism, Russia is far better<br />
off and the world is safer under Communism than under the<br />
Czars.”<br />
Under the circumstances, McCarthy's charge that there were<br />
57 known Communists in the State Department seems very modest.<br />
McCarthy had been a maverick from the beginning. In 1949<br />
he had dared champion the cause of German prisoners of war<br />
held in connection with the alleged "Malmédy massacre." In<br />
truth, what had happened near the Belgian town of Malmédy in<br />
December 1944 was unclear at the time, part of what U.S. General<br />
Thomas T. Handy, who in 1949 was the commander in chief<br />
of U.S. forces in Europe, called "a confused, mobile, and desperate<br />
combat action." It is known now that a number of <strong>American</strong><br />
soldiers who had surrendered there to the Germans were<br />
shortly thereafter killed in cross fire when their captors, who<br />
were marching them to a rear area, were engaged by other U.S.<br />
units. When their bodies were found by U.S. forces afterward<br />
with their hands tied behind their backs, however, it appeared<br />
that they might have been deliberately killed.<br />
After the war, Germans who had taken part in the fighting<br />
at Malmédy were turned over to U.S. Army Colonel A.H.<br />
Rosenfeld and his Jewish underlings for "interrogation." <strong>The</strong><br />
prisoners were arbitrarily reduced to civilian status so that they<br />
would not be protected by the Geneva Convention, and brutal<br />
torture was used to extract confessions. When 18-year-old prisoner<br />
Arvid Freimuth hanged himself after repeated beatings<br />
rather than sign a "confession," the prosecutors were permitted<br />
to use as "evidence" the unsigned statement which they themselves<br />
had contrived.<br />
McCarthy dared to speak against this officially sanctioned<br />
lynching, when almost no one else had the courage to do so. By<br />
fearlessly championing the underdogs, the defeated and vilified<br />
Germans, and speaking out against the actual atrocities committed<br />
by self-righteous aliens in <strong>American</strong> uniform, the Senator<br />
demonstrated the rare moral courage that later propelled him<br />
into the forefront of the struggle against Communism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator<br />
Raymond Baldwin, Republican of Connecticut, was assigned to<br />
investigate the charges of torture, but whitewashed them instead.<br />
On July 26, 1949, Senator McCarthy withdrew in disgust from<br />
the hearings and announced in a speech on the Senate floor that<br />
two members of the Committee, Senator Baldwin and Senator<br />
Estes Kefauver, Democrat of Tennessee, had law partners among<br />
the Army interrogators they were supposedly investigating. This<br />
was in several ways a preview of things to come.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Jews showed instant hostility toward anyone who<br />
interfered with their campaign of vengeance against the conquered<br />
Germans, and so they began turning their big guns in the<br />
media against McCarthy: a December 1949 poll of news correspondents<br />
covering the United States Senate already had reporters<br />
branding McCarthy "the worst Senator" -- a high honor indeed.<br />
When McCarthy had arrived in Washington as a freshman<br />
Senator in 1946, he had been invited to lunch by Secretary of<br />
the Navy James Forrestal (pictured, below). McCarthy writes:,<br />
“Before meeting Jim Forrestal I thought we were losing to<br />
international Communism because of incompetence and stupidity<br />
on the part of our planners. I mentioned that to Forrestal. I<br />
shall forever remember his answer. He said, "McCarthy, consistency<br />
has never been a mark of stupidity. If they were merely<br />
stupid they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor."<br />
This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it<br />
since.” (Which may explain why Forrestal was thrown from the<br />
upper floors of the hospital in Washington)<br />
Considering the destructive policies that thrived in Washington,<br />
McCarthy concluded that to fight Communism effectively<br />
it was not enough to denounce Communism in general;<br />
anyone -- even a Communist -- could claim to oppose Communism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Senator decided that it was necessary to identify those<br />
responsible for treasonous policies and then accuse them on the<br />
basis of what they actually had done, not on the basis of the<br />
ideas to which they paid lip service.<br />
A special investigating subcommittee chaired by Senator<br />
Millard Tydings, Democrat of Maryland, was set up purportedly<br />
to investigate McCarthy's claim that Communists and pro-Communists<br />
were being harbored in the State Department. In reality,<br />
as Tydings himself admitted, the purpose was to silence<br />
McCarthy. Tydings boasted, "Let me have McCarthy for three<br />
days in public hearings, and he will never show his face in the<br />
Senate again." Tydings' effort to discredit the upstart patriot<br />
would be heavily aided by the major media.<br />
One of the reporters present at the hearings was Elmer Davis,<br />
a prominent radio commentator who had been head of the Office<br />
of War Information (OWI). McCarthy noted: Many of<br />
the [principals in the] cases I was about to present had once<br />
been employees in the OWI under Davis and then had moved<br />
into the State Department. As I glanced at Davis, I recalled that<br />
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, one of the anti-Communist leaders of<br />
Poland, had warned the State Department, while Davis was head,<br />
how Pearson would cover the story. . . .<br />
As I waited for the chairman to open the hearing I, of course,<br />
knew the left-wing elements of the press would twist and distort<br />
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frankly I had no conception of how far the dishonest news coverage<br />
would go.<br />
In the case of Owen Lattimore, the testimony of McCarthy's<br />
chief witness, ex-Communist Louis Budenz, was widely misrepresented.<br />
Lattimore was a scholar on Far Eastern affairs employed<br />
by the State Department as a consultant; he had advised<br />
the State Department that Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-<br />
Tung was merely "a liberal agrarian reformer" at a time when<br />
Washington was still unsure how to react to Mao's efforts to<br />
overthrow the Chinese government. In McCarthy's words:<br />
[Budenz] . . . testified that . . . [Lattimore], who had been employed<br />
by the government, consulted for years by State Department<br />
officials on Far Eastern policy, and looked to by newspapermen<br />
and magazine editors for news on Far Eastern trends,<br />
had been a member of the Communist Party. Many newspapers<br />
and wire services so twisted Budenz's testimony about Lattimore,<br />
however, that it was not clear to most <strong>American</strong>s that Lattimore<br />
had indeed been identified positively as a Communist.<br />
One honest reporter, Dave McConnell of the New York Heald<br />
Tribune, wrote in the May 16, 1950, edition of his now defunct<br />
paper that "you have to use a sieve to strain out the bias in the<br />
McCarthy stories published in many papers."<br />
“Tail-gunner Joe," as McCarthy was nicknamed by the<br />
press, was seen by many as a national hero. A Gallup poll taken<br />
May 21, 1950, showed that among the general public he had<br />
four supporters for every three detractors. In a later Gallup poll,<br />
taken in January 1954, 50 per cent of the public viewed him<br />
favorably, and 29 per cent viewed him unfavorably. McCarthy<br />
(pictured, right) was the one man in Washington, D.C., who<br />
bucked the bipartisan pressure to be polite to America's enemies<br />
and to "get man who took anti-Communism seriously is willing<br />
to do something about it.<br />
At the time conservative writer Harold Lord Varney wrote<br />
in the <strong>American</strong> Mercury:<br />
“McCarthy is where he is today because he satisfies the deep<br />
national hunger for an affirmative man. In a Washington of vacillating,<br />
irresolute,<br />
pressuregroup-cowed<br />
politicians, he<br />
stands out in<br />
sharp relief as a<br />
man sure of<br />
himself. His<br />
unshaken selfconfidence<br />
is<br />
shown by the<br />
opponents he<br />
has tackled:<br />
they have been<br />
Marshall,<br />
Acheson,<br />
Tydings,<br />
Conant -- men<br />
in the full tide<br />
of their authority.<br />
And he has<br />
never lost a major<br />
Washington<br />
fight. . . .<br />
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He sometimes gets too far out in front of public opinion, but<br />
so far public opinion has always followed him. . . . Because<br />
McCarthy has been willing to act as the shock absorber of the<br />
main stream of pro-Communist abuse, the careers of all [other]<br />
anti-Communists have been made easier. . . .<br />
One far-reaching consequence of [McCarthy's fight] has been<br />
its impact upon the <strong>American</strong> world of ideas. <strong>The</strong> climate of<br />
<strong>American</strong> public discussion has been amazingly cleared<br />
since McCarthy began to fight. . . . <strong>The</strong> long grip on the nation's<br />
communications media exercised by the literary Reds and Pinkos<br />
has been broken. .”<br />
This is all very different, of course, from today's popular conception,<br />
which was molded by the controlled media. Little is<br />
said of McCarthy's popularity, which even Eisenhower dared<br />
not challenge directly. Instead, we are led to believe that<br />
McCarthy was a brutal tyrant who somehow managed to run<br />
roughshod over everyone's civil liberties and give the entire country<br />
a very bad case of claustrophobia for several years, all of this<br />
as chairman of a Senate subcommittee.<br />
Make no mistake about it, McCarthy did cause considerable<br />
discomfort to some people: to the alien subversives and traitors<br />
whose ultimate goal was and still is the New World Order. It<br />
was these people who, in their effort to silence McCarthy, ironically<br />
characterized him as an enemy of free speech. <strong>The</strong> <strong>First</strong><br />
Amendment, of course, had been drafted precisely to protect<br />
men like McCarthy, who dared to identify treason in high places.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were undoubtedly, however, some sincere, patriotic<br />
<strong>American</strong>s who agreed with McCarthy's aim of removing Communists<br />
from government, but who found his method, with all<br />
of its sensationalism and public-relations gimmickry, distasteful.<br />
McCarthy's method was, as he himself explained, a last resort:<br />
“I have followed the method of publicly exposing the truth<br />
about men who, because of incompetence or treason, were betraying<br />
this nation. Another method would be to take the evidence<br />
to the President and ask him to discharge those who were<br />
serving the Communist cause. A third method would be to give<br />
the facts to the proper Senate committee which had the power to<br />
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hire investigators and subpoena witnesses and records. <strong>The</strong> second<br />
and third methods . . . were tried without success. . . . <strong>The</strong><br />
only method left to me was to present the truth to the <strong>American</strong><br />
people. This I did.”<br />
People who criticized McCarthy's public accusations merely<br />
as being in poor taste clearly did not appreciate the gravity of<br />
the situation and the necessity for taking action. Also it should<br />
be noted that McCarthy had not wanted to read his original list<br />
of 57 subversives publicly, but the Tydings Committee required<br />
it of him. According to the Congressional Record of Feb 20,<br />
1950, p. 2049, McCarthy protested on the Senate floor:<br />
“I think . . . it would be improper to make the names public<br />
until the appropriate Senate Committee can meet in executive<br />
session and get them. . .It might leave a wrong impression.”<br />
Unfortunately, "the wrong impression" was exactly what the<br />
Tydings Committee wished to promote. In other words, contrary<br />
to the reputation for "recklessness" that was applied to him,<br />
McCarthy exercised his <strong>First</strong> Amendment right with great care.<br />
Like some resurrected Paul Revere or latter-day Cicero, it was<br />
he who sounded the alarm, who let the <strong>American</strong> people know<br />
that their government had been subverted by alien interests; and<br />
it was the shadow government of "globalists" who wished to<br />
silence him, so that their power and their pernicious influence<br />
would remain hidden from the <strong>American</strong> people. International<br />
Communism and international finance -- the twin thrusts of Jewish<br />
power -- were both ill-served by the attention McCarthy drew<br />
to the issues of loyalty and subversion. In the 1952 elections the<br />
Republicans captured both houses of Congress and the Presidency,<br />
largely due to McCarthy's influence. McCarthy became<br />
chairman of the Senate's Government Operations Committee and<br />
its Subcommittee on Investigations. <strong>The</strong> new President, however,<br />
was a pet of the New World Order clique, and he would<br />
succeed where Truman had failed in discrediting McCarthy.<br />
In the discrediting of McCarthy, there is no doubt that there<br />
was a conspiracy at work. We know this because men who were<br />
privy to the conspiracy later wrote books about it. <strong>The</strong> activities<br />
of the conspirators were, of course, necessarily subtle;<br />
Eisenhower (pictured, left) himself studiously avoided even mentioning<br />
McCarthy's name in public, and the media coverage was<br />
almost unbelievably biased. Thus, for the general public, the<br />
arrangements which brought down McCarthy were a mystery,<br />
though in essence they were very simple: McCarthy was maneuvered<br />
into an awkward position, the major media portrayed<br />
him as unfavorably as possible, and his colleagues deserted him.<br />
McCarthy's reputation was destroyed chiefly by the feud that<br />
two staffers on his Subcommittee on Investigations, Roy Cohn<br />
and G. David Schine, conducted against the United States Army,<br />
contrary to McCarthy's wishes.<br />
Under pressure from influential Jewish columnist George<br />
Sokolsky and the Jewish president of the Hearst Corporation,<br />
Richard Berlin, both purported anti-Communists, McCarthy announced<br />
on January 2, 1953, that 26-year-old Roy Cohn (pictured<br />
below and to right)<br />
would be the chief counsel of the Investigations Subcommittee.<br />
Cohn, the son of New York Supreme Court Judge Albert Cohn,<br />
had been well served by his Jewish connections in the past, having<br />
been hired as an assistant U.S. attorney immediately after<br />
passing the New York bar Examination. Cohn himself later admitted<br />
that he was hired by McCarthy primarily because he was<br />
a Jew:<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re was a growing slander abroad in the land . that<br />
McCarthy was a Jew-hater . . . and he wanted to deflect it. I was<br />
the obvious answer, and the alternative -- [Robert Kennedy,] the<br />
son of the well-known, well-documented anti-Semite Joseph P.<br />
Kennedy, the former pro-Hitler ambassador to the Court of St.<br />
James -- was the last person McCarthy needed to head his committee.<br />
It probably need not be stressed that the Jews themselves<br />
were the source of this "slander" that McCarthy felt obliged to<br />
counter. Thus, McCarthy was stuck with Cohn; privately he expressed<br />
the fear that if Cohn resigned for any reason the charge<br />
of "anti-Semitism" immediately would be raised against him<br />
again.<br />
Furthermore, with most of the news media already solidly<br />
against him, McCarthy was desperate for some favorable press<br />
coverage. Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen commented,<br />
"Cohn was put on the Committee by the Hearst press,<br />
and Joe doesn't dare lose that support."<br />
Cohn, who died<br />
of AIDS in 1986,<br />
was a homosexual,<br />
and rumor<br />
of the perversion<br />
became widespread<br />
after Cohn<br />
had brought another<br />
young Jew,<br />
G. David Schine,<br />
onto McCarthy's<br />
staff. According<br />
to Cohn himself<br />
in his autobiography,<br />
Cohn and<br />
Schine were then<br />
rumored to be<br />
"Jack and Jill."<br />
This rumor was<br />
undoubtedly a<br />
great embarrassment<br />
to<br />
McCarthy, since<br />
the controlled media<br />
had not yet<br />
succeeded in<br />
making homosexuality<br />
fashionable,<br />
and homosexuals<br />
were<br />
among the security<br />
risks to be investigated.<br />
At Cohn's insistence,<br />
Schine<br />
was accepted as<br />
an unpaid "chief<br />
consultant" on<br />
Communism.<br />
Schine's credentials<br />
for this position<br />
were that he<br />
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had authored a pamphlet, Definition of Communism, which his<br />
wealthy parents had allowed him to distribute in their hotel chain.<br />
This pamphlet gave incorrect dates for the Russian Revolution<br />
and the founding of the Communist Party, confused Marx with<br />
Lenin, Stalin with Trotsky, and Kerensky with Prince Lvov, and<br />
got Lenin's name wrong. <strong>The</strong> Jewish millionaire-playboy was<br />
thus highly qualified, in Cohn's view, to be a consultant.<br />
McCarthy hoped that he could save himself from accusations<br />
of "anti-Semitism" with Roy Cohn, and if necessary, with<br />
Dave Schine. But the day McCarthy accepted these two Jews as<br />
his assistants was the day his downfall really began.<br />
As the son of a Jewish multi-millionaire, Schine had avoided<br />
the draft for the Korean War by getting himself classified 4-F.<br />
As soon as he became a staff member of McCarthy's committee,<br />
however, at the instigation of left-wing journalist Drew Pearson<br />
(pictured, below left) the Army reclassified Schine 1-A and<br />
drafted him. Thus, the stage was set for Roy Cohn to involve<br />
McCarthy in a dispute with the United States Army.<br />
It is clear that McCarthy was dragged into this dispute against<br />
his will. Army lawyer John Adams relates: “Senator McCarthy<br />
spoke out quite freely about his irritation over Schine. He told<br />
me that the individual is of absolutely no help to the committee,<br />
was interested in nothing but the photographers and getting his<br />
picture in the papers, and that things had reached the point where<br />
he was a complete pest. McCarthy stated to me quite emphatically<br />
that he was anxious to see this individual drafted, and . . .<br />
he hoped . . . we would send him as far away as possible "to<br />
get him out of [his] hair." . . . "Send him wherever you can, as<br />
far away as possible. Korea is too close."<br />
Cohn raised hell with the Army, first threatening revenge for<br />
the drafting of Schine, then agitating for special treatment for<br />
his putative boyfriend. John Adams stated in a January 21, 1954,<br />
meeting in Attorney General Herbert Brownell's office that demands<br />
for the names of Army loyalty-board members usually<br />
were preceded by flare-ups over the reassignment of Schine.<br />
McCarthy was not happy about this behavior, and he privately<br />
complained that Cohn was indeed carrying out a vendetta against<br />
the Army on account of Schine.<br />
McCarthy had instructed Adams on December 17, 1953,<br />
that, having learned the extent of the interference Cohn and<br />
Schine were causing for the commanding general of Fort ix, he<br />
wished the Army to discontinue all special treatment for Schine.<br />
Subsequently, the alleged anti-Communist Jew, columnist George<br />
Sokolsky, contacted Adams repeatedly, continuing to urge special<br />
treatment for Schine. On February 12, 1954, Sokolsky went<br />
so far as to tell Adams that he, Sokolsky, would "get them to<br />
drop all this stuff they are planning for the Army [i.e., McCarthy's<br />
investigation of Communist subversion in the Army]," if a special<br />
assignment were arranged for Schine. It seemed that<br />
Sokolsky was more concerned about the comfort and onvenience<br />
of one fellow Jew than about the national security of the United<br />
States -- or he was deliberately exacerbating the animosity between<br />
the Army and McCarthy.<br />
Meanwhile, in late January 1954 a story in the New York<br />
Post featured Fort Dix recruits complaining that Schine lived<br />
among them like a visiting dignitary -- and Joseph McCarthy<br />
was taking the blame.<br />
Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens said that he was wary<br />
about "discriminating against" Schine, because Schine was a Jew.<br />
Likewise, McCarthy said that he was afraid to fire Cohn, "because<br />
[I] might be accused of being anti-Semitic." Here we have<br />
the Secretary of the Army and the chairman of a Senate committee,<br />
both paralyzed by fear of being called "anti-Semitic," allowing<br />
26-year-old Roy Cohn and the utterly inconsequential G.<br />
David Schine to walk all over them.<br />
It was not only the fact that McCarthy had felt the wrath of<br />
the Jews when he had spoken out against the barbarous treatment<br />
of German prisoners five years earlier that made him wary<br />
of offending them again. His investigations into Communist subversion<br />
were turning up a vastly disproportionate number of Jewish<br />
Communists, and he was afraid that the Jews would believe<br />
he was hunting Jews rather than Communists.<br />
By using the threat of investigation as a weapon to coerce<br />
the Army into giving special treatment to his friend Schine, Cohn<br />
had tainted the legitimacy of McCarthy's patriotic work. Cohn<br />
was creating exactly the impression of reckless disregard for<br />
fairness and propriety that McCarthy had wished to avoid.<br />
McCarthy had apparently hoped that the alleged anti-Communist<br />
Jews with whom he dealt were what they claimed to be.<br />
With their involvement, however, all his efforts met with grief.<br />
If the Senator had taken account of Jewish traits -- especially<br />
their bent for deception, which goes far beyond anything encountered<br />
in the Gentile world -- then perhaps he would have<br />
braved the charges of "anti-Semitism" rather than tolerate Jews<br />
on his staff.<br />
<strong>The</strong> anti-Communist credentials of Jewish columnist George<br />
Sokolsky, for example, who had recommended Roy Cohn, were<br />
invented rather late in life. In 1917, at the age of 24, Sokolsky<br />
had gone to Russia with a large number of other Jews, filled<br />
with ardor for the prospect of world Communism and hoping to<br />
lend a hand to the Bolsheviks in fastening the Communist yoke<br />
on the Russians. For a while he edited the English-language<br />
Communist newspaper Daily News in Petrograd; then he left for<br />
China to practice his journalistic skills on behalf of the revolutionary<br />
leader Sun Yat-sen, who was working to set up a Communist<br />
government in China and was receiving aid from the<br />
Soviets. In 1931, claiming disillusionment with the methods of<br />
Bolshevism, he returned to the United States, where he used<br />
different methods.<br />
As a right-wing columnist for the Hearst newspapers,<br />
Sokolsky was well-placed to accomplish much for the Jewish<br />
obsession with the New World Order by misdirecting the anti-<br />
Communist movement into blind alleys, false hopes, and confusion<br />
-- and away from the truth. Considering these facts, are we<br />
justified in believing his claim that he had completely changed<br />
his ideals and in the 1950s was fervently against what he had<br />
been fervently for earlier in Russia and china A clue may be<br />
provided by Sokolsky's 1935 book, We Jews, in which he lamented<br />
the fact that Jews are not even more cohesive than they<br />
are. Certainly, no race-conscious Jew could have genuinely supported<br />
McCarthy's efforts to root Communists out of positions<br />
of influence in <strong>American</strong> life, since he would have understood<br />
that exposing Communism meant exposing Jews.<br />
Similarly, Roy Cohn, who called Sokolsky his "rabbi," was<br />
another member of the far left who claimed a miraculous conversion:<br />
as late as 1949 he was openly calling anti-Communism<br />
a "witch-hunt" and said that Alger Hiss was a victim of a<br />
"right-wing conspiracy." Given the legendary cohesiveness of<br />
the Jewish people and the Jewishness of Communism, one is<br />
justified in viewing these overnight conversions with suspicion.<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re is more than Roy Cohn's youthful attachment to leftist<br />
causes to make us suspicious of his motives: his father Albert<br />
Cohn had been the first judge appointed by Franklin Roosevelt<br />
after the latter became governor of New York. Thus, the Cohns<br />
were firmly attached to the very clique that had fostered what<br />
McCarthy called "twenty years of treason."<br />
It looks very much as if McCarthy, who wished so much to<br />
avoid crossing the Jews, allowed himself to be swindled in the<br />
age-old game of Good Jew/Bad Jew.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man whom Eisenhower had appointed Secretary of the<br />
Army, Robert Stevens, head of the J.P. Stevens textiles business,<br />
was staunchly anti-Communist, having witnessed the pernicious<br />
influence of Communists in exacerbating labor disputes.<br />
Stevens was even distrustful of New Deal supporters. He was<br />
thus appointed not as a member of the New World Order clique<br />
around Ike, but merely as a valuable (if misguided) Republican<br />
booster. Stevens had apparently taken Eisenhower's anti-Communist<br />
campaign rhetoric at face value.<br />
Upon assuming office in February 1953, Stevens requested<br />
a briefing on the Army's Loyalty and Security Program: "<strong>The</strong><br />
presentation should set forth what steps are to be taken to prevent<br />
disloyal and subversive persons from infiltrating the Army,<br />
and what steps have been taken to discover and remove such<br />
persons who may have found their way into the Army Establishment."<br />
So concerned was Stevens about combatting subversion<br />
that he asked advice from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal<br />
Bureau of Investigation. Finally, when Stevens heard that<br />
McCarthy was concerned about security risks in the Army, he<br />
rushed a telegram to him, offering his assistance in the investigation.<br />
McCarthy's staff announced on September 10, 1953, that<br />
there was very serious evidence of espionage at Fort Monmouth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> evidence was an extract of a report from J. Edgar Hoover to<br />
the head of Army Intelligence. <strong>The</strong> document mentioned 35<br />
Fort Monmouth employees as security risks, most of them Jews<br />
of Russian origin who had been in contact with the atom-bomb<br />
spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Stevens instructed the commanding<br />
general at Fort Monmouth: "Cooperate! See to it that<br />
they interview anyone they wish to."<br />
During the investigation at Fort Monmouth, however, attention<br />
was diverted to nearby Camp Kilmer. This was the case of<br />
the Jewish Communist Irving Peress. Peress, an Army dentist<br />
who was proved to be not only a member but an organizer of<br />
Communist groups, had sworn a false oath upon receiving his<br />
officer's commission. Worse, when the matter was exposed Peress<br />
was promoted and later given an honorable discharge, thus escaping<br />
the jeopardy of a court-martial. <strong>The</strong> Peress case was a<br />
tremendous embarrassment to the Army, because it showed that<br />
security in the Army was a mere formality which was easily circumvented.<br />
McCarthy's confidential informant on the Peress case was<br />
General Ralph Zwicker. A hearing in New York City was arranged,<br />
and General Zwicker was called to testify as to the identity<br />
of the Pentagon official who had ordered Peress' honorable<br />
discharge. On the very morning of the hearing, however, Zwicker<br />
received an order from John Adams not to reveal the official's<br />
name. McCarthy did all he could to persuade Zwicker to talk in<br />
spite of the order, but he failed.<br />
<strong>The</strong>reafter the press made a great fuss over McCarthy's rough<br />
treatment of Zwicker and the "insult to the uniform." It was<br />
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alleged that McCarthy had without cause accused Zwicker of<br />
shielding subversives. Secretary Stevens decided not to allow<br />
General Zwicker or other Army officers to testify further. Says<br />
William Ewald, a Department of Defense official at the time: "A<br />
cheer went up: from anti-McCarthyites within the Administration<br />
itself, from editorial writers far and wide, from liberals<br />
coast to coast." Especially noteworthy was a telephone call to<br />
Stevens from Marshall Plan administrator Paul Hoffman in California<br />
-- at whose residence Eisenhower was then vacationing.<br />
This congratulation was inferred to represent the attitude of that<br />
champion McCarthy-hater, President Ike.<br />
Eisenhower's friend Hoffman was married to Anna<br />
Rosenberg, who had been Truman's Jewish Assistant Secretary<br />
of Defense in 1950 and had been diligent in promoting liberal<br />
rograms in the Army and the other armed services. She, more<br />
than anyone else, had forced full racial integration on the services.<br />
Unlike Ike, however, Secretary Stevens was not an implacable<br />
foe of McCarthy and anti-Communism. Although he<br />
thought Roy Cohn was awful, he said he saw McCarthy as a<br />
"reasonable" man. In a conference with the majority members<br />
of McCarthy's subcommittee, an agreement was reached and<br />
Stevens signed a document that stated this accord. <strong>The</strong> anti-<br />
McCarthy interpretation of this event has been that Secretary<br />
Stevens did not understand what he was doing. More likely,<br />
Stevens did not understand what Eisenhower was doing. Nor<br />
did the <strong>American</strong> people understand!<br />
Stevens said of the media's explosively hostile reaction to<br />
his reconciliation with McCarthy, "I think I have been absolutely<br />
crucified. . . ." Furthermore, he showed naiveté by saying that<br />
he thought the press had "misunderstood" the agreement.<br />
Eisenhower decided to have Secretary Stevens "admit an administrative<br />
error" and renege on the agreement. A repudiation<br />
of Stevens' agreement with McCarthy was composed, and<br />
Stevens was made to read it publicly. Meanwhile, President<br />
Eisenhower's staff, without Stevens' knowledge, had instructed<br />
Stevens' subordinate John Adams to compile a written record of<br />
Cohn's and Schine's behavior. Adams, a holdover from the<br />
Truman administration, apparently was considered more politically<br />
reliable than the conservative Stevens. On March 8, 1954,<br />
when Secretary Stevens was asked about the record of improper<br />
pressure by Cohn and Schine (which John Adams had leaked to<br />
the press a few days earlier) he said, "I personally think that<br />
anything in that line would prove to be very much exaggerated.<br />
. . . I am the Secretary, and I have had some talks with the committee<br />
and the chairman . . . and by and large as far as the treatment<br />
of me is concerned, I have no personal complaints . . . ."<br />
On March 10, although Stevens had not even been aware<br />
of the Schine chronology two days earlier, he was pressured<br />
into approving a version heavily "revised" by Defense Department<br />
attorney Struve Hensel. It was called the "Stevens-Adams<br />
chronology," although Stevens had only just learned of it. Under<br />
pressure, the Secretary of the Army was now lending his<br />
name to a document that he had said would be "very much exaggerated."<br />
In late April 1954 the Army-McCarthy hearings began. <strong>The</strong><br />
Army had accused McCarthy and Roy Cohn of using improper<br />
pressure, evidence of this being the so-called "Stevens-Adams<br />
chronology." McCarthy counter-charged that the Army was trying<br />
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Army.<br />
During the hearings Stevens was the Army's "star witness."<br />
He "stonewalled" the subcommittee, giving vague, unresponsive,<br />
and often self-contradictory testimony. It became clear to<br />
McCarthy that Stevens was acting under orders from<br />
Eisenhower's staff. <strong>The</strong> Army's case, however, already had been<br />
blown sky-high, and McCarthy essentially vindicated, when<br />
Senator Everett Dirksen, a member of the McCarthy Subcommittee,<br />
testified that the Army's counsel John Adams and<br />
Eisenhower's administrative assistant Gerald Morgan had approached<br />
him on January 22, 1954, seeking to stifle part of<br />
McCarthy's investigation of the Army. Dirksen testified that<br />
Adams had mentioned the Army's file on Cohn and Schine, dropping<br />
a "hint" That these files might be very damaging if they<br />
were "issued and ventilated on the front pages" of newspapers.<br />
At this point, John Adams, not wishing to be the lone scapegoat<br />
for Eisenhower, and, furthermore, living under the possibility<br />
of a prosecution for perjury, revealed that he had been told<br />
to compile the chronology on Cohn and Schine by members of<br />
Eisenhower's staff in a secret meeting in the Attorney General's<br />
office the day before approaching Dirksen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> White House was now clearly implicated in a conspiracy<br />
to shield subversion in the government. On May 17 Eisenhower,<br />
in an obvious attempt to prevent his own role from being investigated<br />
further, issued what became known as the "iron curtain"<br />
order. Eisenhower claimed that it was a Constitutional principle<br />
that the President could forbid his subordinates from revealing<br />
any information to the Congress. On May 27, after several<br />
more days of vague, unresponsive, and sometimes conflicting<br />
testimony from Stevens, McCarthy responded in exasperation<br />
to Eisenhower's gag order: "<strong>The</strong> oath which every person in this<br />
government takes, to protect and defend the country against all<br />
enemies, foreign and domestic, that oath towers far above any<br />
presidential security directive." He urged federal employees to<br />
come forward with any information they might have about corruption<br />
and subversion in government.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next day Eisenhower had his press secretary convey to<br />
the media a statement that likened McCarthy to Hitler: a comparison<br />
that was not meant to flatter McCarthy. Edward R.<br />
Murrow and other media figures took their cue and began echoing<br />
that line.<br />
McCarthy, however, was expressing essentially the same idea<br />
which <strong>The</strong>odore Roosevelt had expressed half a century earlier,<br />
when the latter said: “It is patriotic to support [the President]<br />
insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not<br />
to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise<br />
he fails in his duty to stand by the country. . In any event,<br />
it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth--whether about the President<br />
or anyone else.<br />
And of course, the truth was exactly what Ike feared.<br />
Was this not the Eisenhower who had carried out Operation<br />
Keelhaul after the Second World War, in which Anti-Communist<br />
Russians, Hungarians, and others were forcibly repatriated<br />
to a certain death under Communism Was this not the<br />
Eisenhower who deliberately starved to death over a million<br />
German prisoners of war And was this not the same Eisenhower<br />
who later sent paratroopers into Little Rock to enforce racial<br />
integration with bayonets<br />
Regardless of the legal result, biased media coverage made<br />
the Army-McCarthy hearings a propaganda victory for the pro-<br />
Communists. Army counsel Joseph Welch (pictured, right),<br />
through hyperbole and histrionics, managed to convince a large<br />
portion of the public that a few peripheral issues he raised during<br />
the hearings were serious embarrassments to McCarthy.<br />
For example, Welch insisted for the television cameras that<br />
part of an FBI report listing subversives at Fort Monmouth was<br />
"a carbon copy of precisely nothing" and "a perfect phoney,"<br />
even though FBI Director Hoover said that he had written it.<br />
Similarly, Welch dramatically accused McCarthy of introducing<br />
a "doctored" photograph into evidence: it was a quite genuine<br />
photograph, which merely had been cropped and enlarged for<br />
the sake of clarity. <strong>The</strong> media played up Welch's accusations<br />
and ignored McCarthy's explanations.<br />
Welch was much more an actor than a lawyer: later, in 1959,<br />
he starred in a major Hollywood production, Anatomy of a<br />
Murder, alongside Jimmy Stewart and Lee Remick. In any event,<br />
during the Army-McCarthy hearings the Senate hearing room<br />
was his stage, and he played his role to the hilt. When McCarthy<br />
pointed out that a member of Welch's own law firm, Fred Fischer,<br />
had been a member of the National Lawyers' Guild, an organization<br />
cited as a Communist front by the Attorney General, Welch<br />
waxed maudlin and sobbed the famous line, "Have you no<br />
sense of decency at long last" Later, outside the hearing room,<br />
Welch wept again for the benefit of the news photographers.*<br />
As reported by the media, Welch was a man of great humanity<br />
who was shocked that McCarthy would be so ignoble as to<br />
attempt to ruin Fischer's career with his accusation, while<br />
McCarthy was a heel for even raising the matter. <strong>The</strong> fact that<br />
McCarthy's charge was perfectly accurate seemed to make no<br />
difference at all to the media.<br />
And so it was with other episodes in the hearings. One contemporary<br />
observer, Harold Varney, noted in the <strong>American</strong> Mercury:<br />
“Unfortunately, the anti-McCarthy press was not honest<br />
enough to admit publicly that the Senator had been vindicated.<br />
<strong>The</strong> smearers continued to parrot the smears, just as if the disproof<br />
were not before the country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> masters of the controlled media were determined to "get"<br />
McCarthy, and they did. <strong>The</strong>y had not directed as much hatred<br />
on any public figure since Adolf Hitler.<br />
By September many of his supporters in the Congress, ever<br />
sensitive to the direction of the political wind, had thrown in<br />
the towel. McCarthy's Senate colleagues stripped him of his<br />
committee chair in<br />
November. On December<br />
2, 1954, the<br />
Senate voted 67-22 to<br />
condemn him for<br />
"conduct contrary to<br />
Senatorial traditions."<br />
<strong>The</strong> condemnation<br />
permanently ended his<br />
effectiveness as a legislator.<br />
(*footnote: Many<br />
believe that Welch set<br />
up McCarthy through<br />
his breaking of a prehearing<br />
agreement and<br />
threatening to expose<br />
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"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last Have you left<br />
no sense of decency" was asked of the notorious Senator Joe<br />
McCarthy by Attorney Joseph Welch at the climactic moment<br />
of the Army-McCarthy Hearings, a 55-day spectacle that riveted<br />
the attention of the nation in the spring of 1954. A grandfatherly,<br />
bespectacled man with a fondness for neckties, Walpole's<br />
Welch was the lead counsel for the Army during the hearings,<br />
which aired live on the ABC and DuMont networks.<br />
Welch's memorable excoriation of McCarthy came as the bullet<br />
point of a tearful and impassioned speech in which he blasted<br />
McCarthy for his "cruelty and recklessness." It was a moment<br />
that would forever alter the lives of both men... Welch, an<br />
attorney at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, was hired to<br />
represent the Army.... <strong>The</strong> penultimate confrontation with the<br />
Wisconsin senator came on June 9, while Welch was needling<br />
Cohn in cross examination about the contention that there were<br />
130 known Communists working in Army labs throughout the<br />
country.<br />
After stewing for a while in the background, McCarthy<br />
finally interjects after Welch playfully asks Cohn why he doesn't<br />
just have the FBI get all of the Communists out of the Army by<br />
sundown. McCarthy tells Welch that one of his co-workers at<br />
Hale and Dorr, "a young man named Fischer," had belonged for<br />
three or four years to the National Lawyers Guild, an organization<br />
that was named "years and years" ago as the legal bulwark<br />
of the Communist party.<br />
Since Welch was so interested in ferreting out Communists,<br />
he should be made aware of the fact that Fischer was a<br />
member of his own firm, McCarthy said. Welch's response was<br />
brutally effective. Welch: 'Until this moment, Senator, I think I<br />
never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred<br />
Fischer is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School<br />
and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant<br />
career with us. When I decided to work for this committee, I<br />
asked Jim St. Clair, who sits on my right, to be my first assistant.<br />
I said to Jim, "Pick somebody in the firm to work under you that<br />
you would like." He chose Fred Fischer, and they came down on<br />
an afternoon plane.<br />
That night, when we had taken a little stab at trying to see<br />
what the case was about, Fred Fisher and Jim St. Clair and<br />
I went to dinner together. I then said to these two young men,<br />
"Boys, I don't know anything about you, except I've always<br />
liked you, but if there's anything funny in the life of either one<br />
of you that would hurt anybody in this case, you speak up quick."<br />
'And Fred Fisher said, "Mr. Welch, when I was in the<br />
law school, and for a period of months after, I belonged to the<br />
Lawyers Guild," as you have suggested, Senator. 'He went on to<br />
say, "I am Secretary of the Young Republican's League in Newton<br />
with the son of [the] Massachusetts governor, and I have<br />
the respect and admiration of my community, and I'm sure I have<br />
the respect and admiration of the twenty-five lawyers or so in<br />
Hale & Dorr."<br />
“And I said, "Fred I just don't think I'm going to ask<br />
you to work on the case. If I do, one of these days that will come<br />
out, and go over national television and it will just hurt like the<br />
dickens." And so, Senator, I asked him to go back to Boston.<br />
Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do<br />
an injury to that lad...It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear<br />
he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it<br />
were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I<br />
would do so.<br />
'I like to think I'm a gentle man, but your forgiveness<br />
will have to come from someone other than me.'<br />
McCarthy: 'Mr. Chairman, may I say that Mr. Welch talks<br />
about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting; he has<br />
been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn<br />
before sundown get out of any department of the government<br />
anyone who is serving the Communist cause. Now, I just give<br />
this man's record and I want to say, Mr. Welch, that it had been<br />
labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944.'<br />
Welch: 'Senator, may we not drop this We know he belonged<br />
to the Lawyers Guild. And Mr. Cohn nods his head at<br />
me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn'<br />
Cohn: 'No, sir.'<br />
Welch: 'I meant to do you no personal injury, and if I<br />
did, I beg your pardon. Let us not assassinate this lad further,<br />
Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency,<br />
sir, at long last Have you left no sense of decency' Welch's<br />
stirring condemnation was the beginning of the end for<br />
McCarthy, who would be censured by the Senate later that year.<br />
Following his censure McCarthy returned home to Wisconsin,<br />
where he died of complications from alcoholism in 1957.<br />
He was only 48.<br />
Welch, on the other hand, found himself a national celebrity.<br />
His exposure of McCarthy's bluster earned him high<br />
praise from the media and various civic organizations and his<br />
stirring speech secured him a permanent place in the annals of<br />
history.<br />
While there is little question of the effectiveness of<br />
Welch's condemnation, recent evidence has suggested that it may<br />
not have been as spontaneous as it seemed to those who watched<br />
it unfold live on the air.<br />
A number of historians now believe that McCarthy may have<br />
blundered his way into a carefully planned trap.<br />
One of the strongest advocates of this theory is Nicholas<br />
von Hoffman, who describes the encounter from Cohn's perspective<br />
in Citizen Cohn (<strong>The</strong> Life and Times of Roy Cohn.<br />
Doubleday). Von Hoffman writes that despite the animosity between<br />
the two parties, Welch and McCarthy agreed before the<br />
trial that several areas would be off limits.<br />
Welch agreed that he would not mention Cohn's avoidance<br />
of the draft during World War II. In return, McCarthy's<br />
camp agreed that they would not bring up Fischer's membership<br />
in the Lawyer's Guild.<br />
Von Hoffman and several other sources suggest that<br />
the agreement also extended to Cohn's sexual orientation.<br />
Though he denied it to his dying day, Cohn was widely known<br />
as a homosexual, especially to the Washington insiders that<br />
packed the hearing room each day.<br />
According to several sources, it is possible that Welch<br />
had intentionally provoked McCarthy earlier in his cross examination<br />
by showing Cohn a picture that had been doctored by<br />
the McCarthy camp prior to being submitted as evidence. After<br />
Cohn offers no explanation for how the altered picture came to<br />
be, Welch playfully asks him if it might have been created by a<br />
pixie. McCarthy angrily jumps in. McCarthy: 'Will the counsel<br />
for my benefit define -- I think he might be an expert on that<br />
-- what a pixie is'<br />
Welch: 'Yes, I should say, Senator, that a pixie is a close<br />
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THIS IS HOW A GROUP OF PRO-ISRAEL AMERICANS<br />
WANT THE USA TO DESTROY IRAN AFTER THE IRAQ<br />
WAR<br />
EXCELLENT BACKGROUND ON THE HISTORY OF<br />
A I P A C .<br />
REAL INSIDERS by JEFFREY GOLDBERG<br />
A pro-Israel lobby and an F.B.I. sting.<br />
Issue of 2005-07-04 From <strong>The</strong> New Yorker”http://<br />
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Several years ago, I had dinner at Galileo, a Washington restaurant,<br />
with Steven Rosen, who was then the director of foreign-policy<br />
issues at the <strong>American</strong> Israel Public Affairs Committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group, which is better known by its acronym, AIPAC,<br />
lobbies for Israel’s financial and physical security. Likemany<br />
lobbyists, Rosen cultivated reporters, hoping to influence their<br />
writing while keeping his name out of print. He is a voluble<br />
man, and liked to demonstrate his erudition and dispense aphorisms.<br />
One that he often repeated could serve as the credo of K<br />
Street, the Rodeo Drive of Washington’s influence industry: “A<br />
lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the<br />
s u n . ”<br />
Lobbyists tend to believe that legislators are susceptible to<br />
relative of a fairy. Shall I proceed, sir Have I enlightened you'<br />
persuasion in ways that executive-branch bureaucrats are not,<br />
At this point, according to sources, the room erupted<br />
and before Rosen came to AIPAC, in 1982 (he had been at the<br />
in laughter. It was a dig at Cohn's expense, but it wasn't a direct<br />
Rand Corporation, the defense-oriented think tank), the group<br />
violation of the agreement, a subtle point that may have been<br />
focussed mainly on Congress. But Rosen arrived brandishing a<br />
lost on McCarthy.<br />
new idea: that the organization could influence the outcome of<br />
Von Hoffman quotes from Michael Straight, who wrote about<br />
policy disputes within the executive branch—in particular, the<br />
the moment in the New Republic. "As law the comment was<br />
Pentagon, the State Department, and the National Security Council.<br />
improper; as humor it was unjust; as drama it was beyond anything<br />
that the theatre could conceive or reproduce."<br />
Rosen began to court officials. He traded in gossip and speculation,<br />
and his reports to AIPAC’S leaders helped them track<br />
Was this dig, and Welch's subsequent needling about<br />
getting all the Communists out by sundown, designed to lure<br />
currents in Middle East policymaking before those currents coalesced<br />
into executive orders. Rosen also used his contacts to<br />
McCarthy into making a foolish attack on Fischer <strong>The</strong>re seems<br />
to be some legitimacy to this argument, especially when one<br />
carry AIPAC’S agenda to the White House. An early success<br />
considers the way that McCarthy later reacts.<br />
came in 1983, when he helped lobby for a strategic coöperation<br />
McCarthy: 'Mr. Chairman, may I say that Mr. Welch talks<br />
agreement between Israel and the United States, which was<br />
about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting; he has<br />
signed over the objections of Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary<br />
been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours...'<br />
of Defense, and which led to a new level of intelligence sharing<br />
Cohn, a talented if unscrupulous lawyer in his own right, is<br />
and military sales.<br />
smart enough not to respond to Welch's thrust and later tries to<br />
AIPAC is a leviathan among lobbies, as influential in its<br />
dissuade McCarthy from pursuing his inquiry into Fischer,<br />
sphere as the National Rifle Association and the <strong>American</strong> Association<br />
of Retired Persons are in theirs, although it is, by com-<br />
though it is to no avail.<br />
Welch: 'Senator, may we not drop this We know he<br />
parison, much smaller. (AIPAC has about a hundred thousand<br />
belonged to the Lawyers Guild. And Mr. Cohn nods his head at<br />
members, the N.R.A. more than four million.) President Bush,<br />
me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn'<br />
speaking at the annual AIPAC conference in May of 2004, said,<br />
Cohn: 'No, sir.'<br />
“You’ve always understood and warned against the evil ambition<br />
of terrorism and their networks. In a dangerous new cen-<br />
Yet McCarthy insists on pursuing the issue, sealing his<br />
own fate at the hands of Welch's eloquence.<br />
tury, your work is more vital than ever.” AIPAC is unique in the<br />
Without asking Welch himself, it's difficult to know how<br />
top tier of lobbies because its concerns are the economic health<br />
much of his speech was real and how much was part of a carefully<br />
designed plan. This anecdote recounted by von Hoffman<br />
and security of a foreign nation, and because its members are<br />
drawn almost entirely from a single ethnic group.<br />
seems to suggest that it was a bit of both.<br />
AIPAC’S professional staff—it employs about a hundred<br />
"Welch had tears in his eyes as he delivered the last<br />
people at its headquarters, two blocks from the Capitol—analyzes<br />
congressional voting records and shares the results with<br />
line; they were rolling down his cheeks as he left the center area;<br />
he passed a young reporter named John Newhouse who had been<br />
its members, who can then contribute money to candidates directly<br />
or to a network of proIsrael political-action committees.<br />
late and had to accept standing room by the door. As Welch went<br />
by, tears still coursing, he looked at Newhouse and winked.")<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Center for Responsive Politics, a public-policy group, estimates<br />
that between 1990 and 2004 these pacs gave candidates<br />
and parties more than twenty million dollars.<br />
Robert H. Asher, a former AIPAC president, told me that the<br />
pacs are usually given euphemistic names. “I started a pac called<br />
Citizens Concerned for the National Interest,” he said. Asher,<br />
who is from Chicago, is a retired manufacturer of lamps and<br />
shades, and a member of the so-called Gang of Four—former<br />
presidents of AIPAC, who steered the group’s policies for more<br />
than two decades. (<strong>The</strong> three others are Larry Weinberg, a California<br />
real-estate developer and a former owner of the Portland<br />
Trail Blazers; Edward Levy, a construction-materials executive<br />
from Detroit; and Mayer “Bubba” Mitchell, a retired builder<br />
based in Mobile, Alabama.)<br />
AIPAC, Asher explained, is loyal to its friends and merciless<br />
to its enemies. In 1982, Asher led a campaign to defeat Paul<br />
Findley, a Republican congressman from Springfield, Illinois,<br />
who once referred to himself as “Yasir Arafat’s best friend in<br />
Congress,” and who later compared Arafat to Gandhi and Martin<br />
Luther King, Jr. ”<strong>The</strong>re was a real desire to help Findley out<br />
of Congress,” Asher said. He identified an obscure Democratic<br />
lawyer in Springfield, Richard Durbin, as someone who could<br />
defeat Findley. “We met at my apartment in Chicago, and I recruited<br />
him to run for Congress,” he recalled. “I probed his views<br />
and I explained things that I had learned mostly from AIPAC. I<br />
wanted to make sure we were supporting<br />
someone who was not only against Paul Findley but also a friend<br />
of Israel.”<br />
Asher went on, “He beat Findley with a lot of help from<br />
Jews, in- state and out-of-state. Now, how did the Jewish money<br />
find him I travelled around the country talking about how we<br />
had the opportunity to defeat someone unfriendly to Israel. And<br />
the gates opened.” Durbin, who went on to win a Senate seat, is<br />
now the Democratic whip. He is a fierce critic of Bush’s Iraq<br />
policy but, like AIPAC, generally supports the Administration’s<br />
approach to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Durbin says that he<br />
considers Asher to be his “most loyal friend in the Jewish community.”<br />
Mayer Mitchell led a similar campaign, three years ago, to<br />
defeat Earl Hilliard, an Alabama congressman who was a critic<br />
of Israel. Mitchell helped direct support to a young Harvard Law<br />
School graduate named Artur Davis, who challenged Hilliard in<br />
the Democratic primary, and he solicited donations from AIPAC<br />
supporters across America.<br />
Davis won the primary, and the seat. “I asked Bubba how he<br />
felt after Davis won,” Asher said, “and he said, `Just like you<br />
did when Durbin got elected.’ “ Mitchell declined to comment.<br />
AIPAC’S leaders can be immoderately frank about the<br />
group’s influence. At dinner that night with Steven Rosen, I mentioned<br />
a controversy that had enveloped AIPAC in 1992. David<br />
Steiner, a New Jersey real-estate developer who was then serving<br />
as AIPAC’S president, was caught on tape boasting that he<br />
had “cut a deal” with the Administration of George H. W. Bush<br />
to provide more aid to Israel. Steiner also said that he was “negotiating”<br />
with the incoming Clinton Administration over the<br />
appointment of a pro-Israel Secretary of State. “We have a dozen<br />
people in his”—Clinton’s— ”headquarters . . . and they are all<br />
going to get big jobs,” Steiner said. Soon after the tape’s existence<br />
was disclosed, Steiner resigned his post. I asked Rosen if<br />
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half smile appeared on his face, and he pushed a napkin across<br />
the table. “You see this napkin” he said. “In twentyfour<br />
hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on<br />
this napkin.”<br />
Rosen was influential from the start. He was originally recruited<br />
for the job by Larry Weinberg, one of the Gang of Four,<br />
and he helped choose the group’s leaders, including the current<br />
executive director, Howard Kohr, a Republican who began his<br />
AIPAC career as Rosen’s deputy. Rosen, who can be argumentative<br />
and impolitic, was never a candidate for the top post. “He’s<br />
a bit of a kochleffl”—the Yiddish term for a pot-stirrer, or meddler—Martin<br />
Indyk, who also served as Rosen’s deputy, and<br />
who went on to become President Clinton’s Ambassador to Israel,<br />
says. Rosen has had an unusually eventful private life, marrying<br />
and divorcing six times (he is living again with his first<br />
wife), and he has a well-developed sense of paranoia. When we<br />
met, he would sometimes lower his voice, even when he was<br />
preparing to deliver an anodyne pronouncement. “Hostile ears<br />
are always listening,” he was fond of saying.<br />
Nevertheless, he is a keen analyst of Middle East politics,<br />
and a savvy bureaucratic infighter. His views on the Israeli-Palestinian<br />
conflict are not notably hawkish; he once called himself<br />
“too right for the left, and too left for the right.” He is a<br />
hard-liner on only one subject—Iran—and this preoccupation<br />
helped shape AIPAC’S position: that Iran poses a greater threat<br />
to Israel than any other nation. In this way, AIPAC is in agreement<br />
with a long line of Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister<br />
Ariel Sharon, who fears Iran’s nuclear intentions more than<br />
he ever feared Saddam Hussein’s. (AIPAC lobbied Congress in<br />
favor of the Iraq war, but Iraq has not been one of its chief concerns.)<br />
Rosen’s main role at AIPAC, he once told me, was to<br />
collect evidence of “Iranian perfidy” and share it with the United<br />
S t a t e s .<br />
Unlike <strong>American</strong> neoconservatives, who have openly supported<br />
the Likud Party over the more liberal Labor Party, AIPAC<br />
does not generally take sides in Israeli politics. But on Iran<br />
AIPAC’S views resemble those of the neoconservatives. In 1996,<br />
Rosen and other AIPAC staff members helped write, and engineer<br />
the passage of, the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, which<br />
imposed sanctions on foreign oil companies doing business with<br />
those two countries; AIPAC is determined, above all, to deny<br />
Iran the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons. Iran was a main<br />
focus of this year’s AIPAC policy conference, which was held<br />
in May at the Washington Convention Center. Ariel Sharon and<br />
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, among others, addressed<br />
five thousand AIPAC members. One hall of the convention center<br />
was taken up by a Disney- style walk-through display of an<br />
Iranian nuclear facility. It was kitsch, but not ineffective, and<br />
Rosen undoubtedly would have appreciated it. Rosen, however,<br />
was not there. He was fired earlier this year by Howard Kohr,<br />
nine months after he became implicated in<br />
an F.B.I. espionage investigation. Rosen’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell,<br />
expects him to be indicted on charges of passing secret information<br />
about Iranian intelligence activities in Iraq to an official of<br />
the Israeli Embassy and to a Washington Post reporter. A junior<br />
colleague, Keith Weissman, who served as an Iran analyst for<br />
AIPAC until he, too, was fired, may face similar charges.<br />
<strong>The</strong> person who, in essence, ended Rosen’s career is a fiftyeight-<br />
year-old Pentagon analyst named Lawrence Anthony<br />
Franklin, who is even more preoccupied with Iran than Steven<br />
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Rosen. Franklin, until recently the<br />
Pentagon’s Iran desk officer, was indicted<br />
last month on espionage charges. <strong>The</strong> Justice<br />
Department has accused him of giving<br />
“national-defense information” to<br />
Rosen and Weissman, and classified information<br />
to an Israeli official. Franklin<br />
has pleaded not guilty; a tentative trial date<br />
is set for September. If convicted, he will<br />
face at least ten years in prison.<br />
I first met Franklin in November of<br />
2002. Paul Wolfowitz, then the Deputy<br />
Secretary of Defense, was receiving the<br />
Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson award from the<br />
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,<br />
a conservative-leaning group that<br />
tries to build close relations between the<br />
<strong>American</strong> and Israeli militaries. In the ballroom<br />
of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Pentagon<br />
City, a shopping mall, were a number<br />
of <strong>American</strong> generals and the Israeli Ambassador<br />
to the United States, Danny<br />
Ayalon.<br />
Franklin, a trim man with blond hair<br />
and a military bearing, is a colonel in the<br />
Air Force Reserve who spent several years<br />
as an analyst at the Defense Intelligence<br />
Agency. He has a doctorate in Asian studies<br />
and describes himself as a capable<br />
speaker of Farsi. In addition, he was a<br />
Catholic in a largely Jewish network of<br />
Pentagon Iran hawks.<br />
Franklin was particularly close to the<br />
neoconservative Harold Rhode, an official<br />
in the Office of Net Assessment, the<br />
Pentagon’s in-house think tank. Franklin<br />
was also close to Michael Ledeen, who,<br />
twenty years ago, played an important role<br />
in the Iran-Contra scandal by helping arrange<br />
meetings between the <strong>American</strong><br />
government and the Iranian arms dealer<br />
Manucher Ghorbanifar. Ledeen, now a<br />
resident scholar at the <strong>American</strong> Enterprise<br />
Institute, is one of the most outspoken<br />
advocates in Washington of confrontation<br />
with the Tehran regime.<br />
<strong>The</strong> conversation at the banquet, and<br />
just about everywhere else in official<br />
Washington at that time, centered on the<br />
coming war in Iraq. “We may well hope<br />
that with the demise of a truly evil and<br />
despotic regime in Iraq, we will see the<br />
liberation of one of the most talented<br />
peoples in the Arab world,” Wolfowitz<br />
said in his speech. Franklin did not seem<br />
especially concerned with the topic at<br />
hand. As we stood outside the banquet<br />
hall, he said that Iran, not Iraq, would turn<br />
out to be the most difficult challenge in<br />
the war on terror.<br />
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<strong>The</strong>n, as now, the Administration was<br />
divided on the question of Iran. Many of<br />
the political appointees at the Defense<br />
Department hoped that America would<br />
support dissidents in an attempt to overthrow<br />
Iran’s ruling clerics, while the State<br />
Department argued for containment. Even<br />
within the Defense Department, many officials<br />
believed that it would be imprudent<br />
to make regime change in Tehran a top priority.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are neocons who thought Iran<br />
should come sooner and neocons who<br />
thought it should come later,” Reuel Marc<br />
Gerecht, of the <strong>American</strong> Enterprise Institute,<br />
told me. As for Franklin, Gerecht,<br />
a former Iran specialist in the C.I.A.’s Directorate<br />
of Operations, said, “It’s fair to<br />
say that Larry was impatient with Bush<br />
Administration policy on Iran.” In the<br />
Pentagon’s policy office, I learned later,<br />
it was sometimes said that Franklin inhabited<br />
a place called Planet Franklin. Gerecht<br />
referred to him as “sweet, bumbling<br />
Larry.”<br />
A year later, on a reporting assignment<br />
in Israel, I ran into Franklin at the Herzliya<br />
Conference, which is the Davos of the Israeli<br />
security establishment. He said that<br />
he was there on Defense Department business.<br />
We talked briefly about Iraq—it was<br />
eight months after the invasion—and, as<br />
we spoke, General Moshe Ya’alon, then<br />
the Israeli Army chief of staff, swept into<br />
the room surrounded by bodyguards and<br />
uniformed aides. “Wow,” Franklin said.<br />
We stepped outside, and he talked only<br />
about Iran’s threat to America. “Our intelligence<br />
is blind,” he said. “It’s the most<br />
dangerous country in the world to the U.S.,<br />
and we have nothing on the ground. We<br />
don’t understand anything that goes on. I<br />
mean, the C.I.A. doesn’t have anything.<br />
This goes way deeper than Tenet”—<br />
George Tenet, who was the director of central<br />
intelligence at the time. He continued,<br />
“Do you know how dangerous Iran is to<br />
our forces in the Gulf We have great<br />
force-concentration issues now”—the<br />
presence of <strong>American</strong> troops in Iraq—<br />
”and the Iranians are very interested in<br />
making life difficult for <strong>American</strong> forces.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have the capability. You watch what<br />
they’re doing in Iraq. <strong>The</strong>ir infiltration is<br />
everywhere.”<br />
Franklin seemed more frustrated with<br />
<strong>American</strong> policy in Iran than he had the<br />
year before. “We don’t understand that it’s<br />
doable—regime change is doable,” he<br />
said. “<strong>The</strong> people are so desperate to become<br />
free, and the mullahs are so unpopular.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’re so pro-<strong>American</strong>, the<br />
people.” Referring to the Bush Administration,<br />
he said, “That’s what they<br />
don’t understand,” and he added, “And<br />
they also don’t understand how anti-<br />
<strong>American</strong> the mullahs are.” Franklin<br />
was convinced that the Iranians would<br />
commit acts of terrorism against <strong>American</strong>s,<br />
on <strong>American</strong> soil. “<strong>The</strong>se guys are<br />
a threat to us in Iraq and even at home,”<br />
he said.<br />
Franklin was not a high-ranking<br />
Pentagon official; he was five steps<br />
removed in the hierarchy from Douglas<br />
Feith, the Under-Secretary for Policy.<br />
For two years, though, he had been trying<br />
to change <strong>American</strong> policy. His efforts<br />
took many forms, including calls<br />
to reporters, meetings with Rosen and<br />
Weissman and with the political counsellor<br />
at the Israeli Embassy, Naor<br />
Gilon. According to Tracy O’Grady-<br />
Walsh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, he<br />
was not acting on behalf of his superiors:<br />
“If Larry Franklin was formally or<br />
informally lobbying, he was doing it on<br />
his own.”<br />
Franklin also sought information<br />
from Iranian dissidents who might aid<br />
his cause. In December of 2001, he and<br />
Rhode met in Rome with Michael<br />
Ledeen and a group of Iranians, including<br />
Manucher Ghorbanifar. Ledeen,<br />
who helped arrange the meeting, told<br />
me that the dissidents gave Franklin<br />
and Rhode information about Iranian<br />
threats against <strong>American</strong> soldiers in Afghanistan.<br />
(Rhode did not return calls<br />
seeking comment.) Franklin was initially<br />
skeptical about the meeting,<br />
Ledeen said, but emerged believing that<br />
America could do business with these<br />
dissidents.<br />
Franklin’s meetings with Gilon and<br />
with the two AIPAC men make up the<br />
heart of the indictment against him. <strong>The</strong><br />
indictment alleges that Rosen—”CC-<br />
1,” or “Co-Conspirator 1”—called the<br />
Pentagon in early August of 2002, looking<br />
for the name of an Iran specialist.<br />
He made contact with Franklin a short<br />
time later, but, according to the indictment,<br />
they did not meet until February<br />
of 2003. In their meetings, according<br />
to several people with knowledge of the<br />
conversations, Franklin told the lobbyists<br />
that Secretary of State Colin Powell<br />
was resisting attempts by the Pentagon<br />
to formulate a tougher Iran policy. He<br />
apparently hoped to use AIPAC to<br />
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lobby the Administration.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Franklin indictment suggests that<br />
the F.B.I. had been watching Rosen as<br />
well; for instance, it alleges that, in February<br />
of 2003, Rosen, on his way to a<br />
meeting with Franklin, told someone on<br />
the phone that he “was excited to meet<br />
with a `Pentagon guy’ because this person<br />
was a `real insider.’ “ Franklin, Rosen,<br />
and Weissman met openly four times in<br />
2003. At one point, the indictment reads,<br />
somewhat mysteriously, “On or about<br />
March 10, 2003, Franklin, CC-1 and CC-<br />
2”— Rosen and Weissman—”met at<br />
Union Station early in the morning. In the<br />
course of the meeting, the three men<br />
moved from one restaurant to another restaurant<br />
and then finished the meeting in<br />
an empty restaurant.”<br />
On June 26, 2003, at a lunch at the<br />
Tivoli Restaurant, near the Pentagon,<br />
Franklin reportedly told Rosen and<br />
Weissman about a draft of a National Security<br />
Presidential Directive that outlined<br />
a series of tougher steps that the U.S. could<br />
take against the Iranian leadership. <strong>The</strong><br />
draft was written by a young Pentagon aide<br />
named Michael Rubin (who is now affiliated<br />
with the <strong>American</strong> Enterprise Institute).<br />
Franklin did not hand over a copy<br />
of the draft, but he described its contents,<br />
and, according to the indictment, talked<br />
about the “state of internal United States<br />
government deliberations.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> indictment also alleges that<br />
Franklin gave the two men “highly classified”<br />
information about potential attacks<br />
on <strong>American</strong> forces in Iraq.<br />
In mid-August of 2002, according to<br />
the indictment, Franklin met with Gilon—<br />
identified simply as “FO,” or “foreign official”—at<br />
a restaurant, and Gilon explained<br />
to Franklin that he was the<br />
“policy” person at the Embassy. <strong>The</strong> two<br />
met regularly, the indictment alleges, often<br />
at the Pentagon Officers’ Athletic<br />
Club, to discuss “foreign policy issues,”<br />
particularly regarding a “Middle Eastern<br />
country”— Iran, by all accounts—and “its<br />
nuclear program.” <strong>The</strong> indictment suggests<br />
that Franklin was receiving information<br />
and policy advice from Gilon; after<br />
one meeting, Franklin drafted an “Action<br />
Memo” to his supervisors incorporating<br />
Gilon’s suggestions. Gilon is an expert on<br />
weapons proliferation, according to<br />
Danny Ayalon, the Israeli Ambassador,<br />
and has briefed reporters about Israel’s<br />
position on Iran. According to Lawrence<br />
Di Rita, a Pentagon spokesman, it is part<br />
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of the “job description” of Defense Department<br />
desk officers to meet with their<br />
foreign counterparts. “Desk officers meet<br />
with foreign officials all the time, not with<br />
ministers, but interactions with people at<br />
their level,” he said. <strong>The</strong> indictment contends,<br />
however, that on two occasions<br />
Franklin gave Gilon classified information.<br />
<strong>The</strong> issue of Israel’s activities in Washington<br />
is unusually sensitive. Twenty years<br />
ago, a civilian Naval Intelligence analyst<br />
named Jonathan Pollard was caught stealing<br />
<strong>American</strong> secrets on behalf of an Israeli<br />
intelligence cell—a “rogue” cell, the<br />
Israelis later claimed. Pollard said that he<br />
was driven to treason because, as a Jew,<br />
he could not abide what he saw as<br />
America’s unwillingness to share crucial<br />
intelligence with Israel. Pollard’s actions<br />
were an embarrassment for <strong>American</strong><br />
Jews, who fear the accusation of “dual<br />
loyalty”—the idea that they split their allegiance<br />
between the United States and<br />
Israel. For Israel, the case was a moral and<br />
political disaster. And there are some in<br />
the <strong>American</strong> intelligence community who<br />
suspect that Israel has never stopped spying<br />
on the United States.<br />
Earlier this month, Ayalon told me that<br />
Israel does not “collect any intelligence<br />
on the United States, period, full stop. We<br />
won’t do anything to risk this most important<br />
relationship.” In any case, he said,<br />
there was no need to spy, “because<br />
coöperation is so intimate and effective<br />
between Israel and the U.S.” Ayalon also<br />
said that Gilon, who is returning to Jerusalem<br />
later this summer, remains an important<br />
member of his staff; in recent months,<br />
Gilon has attended meetings at the State<br />
Department, the Pentagon, and the White<br />
House.<br />
In June of 2004, F.B.I. agents searched<br />
Franklin’s Pentagon office and his home<br />
in West Virginia, and allegedly found<br />
eighty-three classified documents. Some<br />
had to do with the Iran debate, but some<br />
pertained to Al Qaeda and Iraq. (A separate<br />
federal indictment, citing the documents,<br />
has been handed down in West Virginia.)<br />
According to a person with knowledge<br />
of Franklin’s case, the agents told<br />
Franklin that Rosen and Weissman were<br />
working against America’s interests.<br />
Franklin faced ruin—the documents found<br />
in his house could cost him his job, the<br />
agents said. Franklin, who did not have a<br />
lawyer, agreed to coöperate in the investigation<br />
of Rosen and Weissman, although<br />
apparently he was not given in return a<br />
specific promise of leniency. Soon, he was<br />
wired, and was asked to contact the two<br />
AIPAC employees. On July 21st, Franklin<br />
called Weissman and said that he had to<br />
speak to him immediately—that it was a<br />
matter of life and death. <strong>The</strong>y arranged to<br />
meet outside the Nordstrom’s department<br />
store at Pentagon City.<br />
A month before that meeting, <strong>The</strong> New<br />
Yorker had published an article by<br />
Seymour Hersh about the activities of Israeli<br />
intelligence agents in northern Iraq.<br />
Franklin, who held a top-secret security<br />
clearance, allegedly told Weissman that he<br />
had new, classified information indicating<br />
that Iranian agents were planning to kidnap<br />
and kill the Israelis referred to by<br />
Hersh. <strong>American</strong> intelligence knew about<br />
the threat, Franklin said, but Israel might<br />
not. He also said that the Iranians had infiltrated<br />
southern Iraq, and were planning<br />
attacks on <strong>American</strong> soldiers. Rosen and<br />
Weissman, Franklin hoped, could insure<br />
that senior Administration officials received<br />
this news. It is unclear whether<br />
what Franklin relayed was true or whether<br />
it had been manufactured by the F.B.I. <strong>The</strong><br />
Bureau has refused to comment on the<br />
c a s e .<br />
Weissman hurried back to AIPAC’S<br />
headquarters and briefed Rosen and<br />
Howard Kohr, AIPAC’S executive director.<br />
According to AIPAC sources, Rosen<br />
and Weissman asked Kohr to give the information<br />
to Elliott Abrams, the senior<br />
Middle East official on the National Security<br />
Council. Kohr didn’t get in touch<br />
with Abrams, but Rosen and Weissman<br />
made two calls. <strong>The</strong>y called Gilon and told<br />
him about the threat to Israeli agents in<br />
Iraq, and then they called Glenn Kessler,<br />
a diplomatic correspondent at the Washington<br />
Post, and told him about the threat<br />
to <strong>American</strong>s.<br />
A month later, on the morning of August<br />
27, 2004, F.B.I. agents visited Rosen<br />
at his home, in Silver Spring, Maryland,<br />
seeking to question him. Rosen quickly<br />
called AIPAC’S lawyers. That night, CBS<br />
News reported that an unnamed Israeli<br />
“mole” had been discovered in the Pentagon,<br />
and that the mole had been passing<br />
documents to two officials of AIPAC, who<br />
were passing the documents on to Israeli<br />
officials.<br />
Within days, the names of Franklin,<br />
Rosen, and Weissman were made public.<br />
<strong>The</strong> F.B.I. informed Franklin that he was<br />
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sion of classified documents. Franklin was<br />
said by friends to be frightened, and surprised.<br />
He said that he could not afford to<br />
hire a lawyer. <strong>The</strong> F.B.I. arranged for a<br />
court-appointed attorney to represent him.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lawyer, a former federal prosecutor,<br />
advised him to plead guilty to espionage<br />
charges, and receive a prison sentence of<br />
six to eight years.<br />
At about this time, Franklin received<br />
a call from Michael Ledeen, his ally in<br />
matters of Iran policy. “I called him and<br />
said, `Larry, what’s going on’ “ Ledeen<br />
recalled. “He said, `Don’t worry.<br />
Sharansky’ “—Natan Sharansky, the<br />
former Soviet dissident—” `survived years<br />
in the Gulag, and I’ll survive prison, too.’<br />
I said, `What are you talking about’ He<br />
told me what was going on. I asked him if<br />
he had a good lawyer.” Ledeen called the<br />
criminal-defense attorney Plato Cacheris.<br />
“I knew him from when he served as<br />
Fawn’s attorney,” Ledeen said, referring<br />
to Fawn Hall, who was Colonel Oliver<br />
North’s secretary at the time of the Iran-<br />
Contra affair. Cacheris has also represented<br />
Monica Lewinsky and the F.B.I.<br />
agent Robert Hanssen, who spied for<br />
Moscow. Cacheris offered to represent<br />
Franklin pro bono, and Franklin accepted<br />
the offer.<br />
AIPAC launched a special appeal for<br />
donations—for the organization, not for<br />
Rosen and Weissman. “Your generosity at<br />
this time will help ensure that false allegations<br />
do not hamper our ability or yours<br />
to work for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship<br />
and a safe and secure Israel,”<br />
AIPAC’S leaders wrote in the letter accompanying<br />
the appeal.<br />
But in December four AIPAC officials,<br />
including Kohr, were subpoenaed to testify<br />
before a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia.<br />
In March, AIPAC’S principal lawyer,<br />
Nathan Lewin, met with the U.S. Attorney<br />
for the Eastern District of Virginia,<br />
Paul McNulty, who agreed to let Lewin<br />
see some of the evidence of the Pentagon<br />
City sting. According to an AIPAC source,<br />
an eleven-second portion of the telephone<br />
conversation between Rosen, Weissman,<br />
and the Post’s Glenn Kessler, which the<br />
F.B.I. had recorded, was played for Lewin.<br />
In that conversation, Rosen is alleged<br />
to have told Kessler about Iranian agents<br />
in southern Iraq—information that<br />
Weissman had received from Franklin. In<br />
the part of the conversation that Lewin<br />
heard, Rosen jokes about “not getting in<br />
trouble” over the information. He also<br />
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Act”—the British law that makes<br />
journalists liable to prosecution if they<br />
publish classified material.<br />
Prosecutors argued to Lewin that this<br />
statement proved that Rosen and<br />
Weissman were aware that the information<br />
Franklin had given them was classified,<br />
and that Rosen must therefore<br />
have known that he was passing classified<br />
information to Gilon, a foreign official.<br />
Lewin, who declined to comment<br />
on the case, recommended that AIPAC<br />
fire Rosen and Weissman. He also told<br />
the board that McNulty had promised<br />
that AIPAC itself would not be a target<br />
of the espionage investigation. An<br />
AIPAC spokesman, Patrick Dorton, said<br />
of the firing, “Rosen and Weissman were<br />
dismissed because they engaged in conduct<br />
that was not part of their jobs, and<br />
because this conduct did not comport<br />
with the standards that AIPAC expects<br />
and requires of its employees.”<br />
When I asked Abbe Lowell, Rosen’s<br />
lawyer, about the firings, he said, “Steve<br />
Rosen’s dealings with Larry Franklin<br />
were akin to his dealings with executivebranch<br />
officials for more than two decades<br />
and were well known, encouraged,<br />
and appreciated by AIPAC.”<br />
Last month, I met with Lowell and<br />
Rosen in Lowell’s office, which these<br />
days is a center of Washington scandal<br />
management. (He also represents the<br />
fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff.) Lowell<br />
had instructed Rosen not to discuss specifics<br />
of the case, but Rosen expressed<br />
disbelief that his career had been ended<br />
by an F.B.I. investigation. “I’m being<br />
looked at for things I’ve done for twentythree<br />
years, which other foreign-policy<br />
groups, hundreds of foreign-policy<br />
groups, are doing,” Rosen said, and went<br />
on, “Our job at AIPAC was to understand<br />
what the government is doing, in order<br />
to help form better policies, in the interests<br />
of the U.S. I’ve never done anything<br />
illegal or harmful to the U.S. I never even<br />
dreamed of doing anything harmful to<br />
the U.S.”<br />
Later, he said, “We did not knowingly<br />
receive classified information from<br />
Larry Franklin.” Lowell added, “When<br />
the facts are known, this will be a case<br />
not about Rosen and Weissman’s actions<br />
but about the government’s actions.”<br />
Lowell said that he would not rehearse<br />
his arguments against any charges until<br />
there is an indictment.<br />
Rosen said that he was particularly<br />
upset by the allegation that, because he<br />
had informed Gilon that Israeli lives might<br />
be in danger, he was a spy for Israel. “If I<br />
had been given information that British or<br />
Australian soldiers were going to be kidnapped<br />
or killed in Iraq, I think I would<br />
have done the same thing,” he said. “I’d<br />
have tried to warn them by calling friends<br />
at those embassies.” He wants to believe<br />
that he could return to AIPAC if he is exonerated,<br />
but this does not seem likely.<br />
AIPAC leaders are downplaying Rosen’s<br />
importance to the organization. “AIPAC<br />
is focussed primarily on legislative lobbying,”<br />
Dorton told me. Rosen’s severance<br />
pay will end in September, although<br />
AIPAC, in accordance with its bylaws,<br />
w i l l<br />
continue to pay legal fees for Rosen and<br />
Weissman.<br />
Rosen’s defenders are critical of<br />
AIPAC for its handling of the controversy.<br />
Martin Indyk, who is now the director of<br />
the Saban Center for Middle East Policy,<br />
a think tank within the Brookings Institution,<br />
thinks that AIPAC made a tactical<br />
mistake by cutting off the two men. “It<br />
appears they’ve abandoned their own on<br />
the battlefield,” he says. “Because they cut<br />
Steve off, they leave him no choice.” Indyk<br />
wouldn’t elaborate, but the implication<br />
was clear: Rosen and Weissman will defend<br />
themselves by arguing that they were<br />
working in concert with the highest officials<br />
of the organization, including Kohr.<br />
Until there is an indictment, the<br />
government’s full case against Rosen and<br />
Weissman cannot be known; no one in the<br />
Justice Department will comment. <strong>The</strong><br />
laws concerning the dissemination of government<br />
secrets are sometimes ambiguous<br />
and often unenforced, and prosecutors in<br />
such cases face complex choices. According<br />
to Lee Strickland, a former chief privacy<br />
officer of the C.I.A., prosecutors<br />
pressing espionage charges against Rosen<br />
and Weissman would have to prove that<br />
the information the two men gave to Gilon<br />
not merely was classified but rose to the<br />
level of “national-defense information,”<br />
meaning that it could cause dire harm to<br />
the United States. Yet a reporter who<br />
called the Embassy to discuss the same information<br />
in the course of preparing a<br />
story—thus violating the same statute—<br />
would almost certainly not be prosecuted.<br />
Strickland continued, “Twice in the<br />
Clinton Administration we had proposals<br />
to broaden the statutes to include the re-<br />
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cipients, not just the leakers, of classified<br />
information. <strong>The</strong> New York Times and the<br />
Washington Post went bat-shit about this<br />
legislation. <strong>The</strong>y saw it as an attempt to<br />
shut down leaks.” If <strong>American</strong> law did<br />
punish those who receive, and then pass<br />
on, or publish, privileged information,<br />
much of the Washington press corps<br />
would be in jail, according to Lee Levine,<br />
a <strong>First</strong> Amendment lawyer. So would a<br />
great many government officials, elected<br />
and appointed, for whom classified information<br />
is the currency of conversation<br />
with reporters and lobbyists.<br />
Strickland, who said that he had spent<br />
much of his career at the C.I.A. “shutting<br />
down” leaks, called the AIPAC affair “uncharted<br />
territory.” It is uncommon, he said,<br />
for an espionage case to be built on the<br />
oral transmission of national-defense information.<br />
He also said, “Intent is always<br />
an element. If I were a defense attorney, I<br />
would argue that this was a form of entrapment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> F.B.I. agents deliberately set<br />
my client up, put him in a moral quandary.”<br />
He added, however, that although a jury<br />
might recognize the quandary, the law does<br />
not. “Just because you have information<br />
that would help a foreign country doesn’t<br />
make it your job to pass that information.”<br />
Even some of AIPAC’S most vigorous<br />
critics do not see the Rosen affair as a traditional<br />
espionage case. James Bamford,<br />
who is the author of well-received books<br />
about the National Security Agency, and<br />
an often vocal critic of Israel and the pro-<br />
Israel lobby, sees the case as a cautionary<br />
tale about one lobbying group’s disproportionate<br />
influence: “What Pollard did was<br />
espionage. This is a much different and<br />
more unique animal—this is the selling of<br />
ideology, trying to sell a viewpoint.” He<br />
continued, “Larry Franklin is not going to<br />
knock on George Bush’s door, but he can<br />
get AIPAC, which is a pressure group, and<br />
the Israeli government, which is an enormous<br />
pressure group, to try to get the<br />
<strong>American</strong> government to change its policy<br />
to a more aggressive policy.” Bamford,<br />
who believes that Weissman and Rosen<br />
may indeed be guilty of soliciting information<br />
and passing it to a foreign government,<br />
sees the case as a kind of brushback<br />
pitch, a way of limiting AIPAC’S long—<br />
and, in Bamford’s view, dangerous—<br />
reach.<br />
Other AIPAC critics see the lobby’s behavior<br />
as business as usual in Washington.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> No. 1 game in Washington is<br />
making people talking to you feel like<br />
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EZRA POUND by Eustace Mullins<br />
Foreword<br />
In 1949, while I was visiting Ezra Pound<br />
who was a political prisoner at St. Elizabeth's<br />
Hospital, Washington, D.C. (a Federal institution<br />
for the insane), Dr. Pound asked<br />
me if I had ever heard of the Federal Reserve<br />
System. I replied that I had not, as of<br />
the age of 25. He then showed me a ten dollar<br />
bill marked "Federal Reserve Note" and<br />
asked me if I would do some research at the<br />
Library of Congress on the Federal Reserve<br />
System which had issued this bill. Pound<br />
was unable to go to the Library himself, as<br />
he was being held without trial as a political<br />
prisoner by the United States government.<br />
After he was denied broadcasting time<br />
in the U.S., Dr. Pound broadcast from Italy<br />
in an effort to persuade people of the United<br />
States not to enter World War II. Franklin<br />
D. Roosevelt had personally ordered Pound's<br />
indictment, spurred by the demands of his<br />
three personal assistants, Harry Dexter<br />
White, Lauchlin Currie, and Alger Hiss, all<br />
of whom were subsequently identified as<br />
being connected with Communist espionage.<br />
I had no interest in money or banking as<br />
a subject, because I was working on a novel.<br />
Pound offered to supplement my income by<br />
ten dollars a week for a few weeks. My initial<br />
research revealed evidence of an international<br />
banking group, which had secretly<br />
planned the writing of the Federal Reserve<br />
Act and Congress' enactment of the plan into<br />
law. <strong>The</strong>se findings confirmed what Pound<br />
had long suspected. He said, "You must<br />
work on it as a detective story."<br />
I was fortunate in having my research at<br />
the Library of Congress directed by a prominent<br />
scholar, George Stimpson, founder of<br />
the National Press Club, who was described<br />
by <strong>The</strong> New York Times of September 28,<br />
1952: "Beloved by Washington newspapermen<br />
as `our walking Library of Congress',<br />
Mr. Stimpson was a highly regarded reference<br />
source in the Capitol. Government officials,<br />
Congressmen and reporters went to<br />
him for information on any subject."<br />
I did research four hours each day at<br />
the Library of Congress, and went to St.<br />
Elizabeth's Hospital in the afternoon. Pound<br />
and I went over the previous day's notes. I<br />
then had dinner with George Stimpson at<br />
Scholl's Cafeteria while he went over my<br />
material, and I then went back to my room<br />
to type up the corrected notes. Both<br />
Stimpson and Pound made many suggestions<br />
in guiding me in a field in which I had<br />
no previous experience.<br />
When Pound's resources ran low, I applied<br />
to the Guggenheim Foundation, Huntington<br />
Hartford Foundation, and other foundations<br />
to complete my research on the Federal Reserve.<br />
Even though my foundation applications<br />
were sponsored by the three leading<br />
poets of America, Ezra Pound, E.E.<br />
Cummings, and Elizabeth Bishop, all of the<br />
foundations refused to sponsor this research.<br />
I then wrote up my findings to date, and in<br />
1950 began efforts to market this manuscript<br />
in New York.<br />
Eighteen publishers<br />
turned it down without comment, but<br />
the nineteenth, Devin Garrity, president of<br />
Devin Adair Publishing Company, gave me<br />
some friendly advice in his office.<br />
"I like your book, but we can't print it,"<br />
he told me. "Neither can anybody else in<br />
New York. Why don't you bring in a prospectus<br />
for your novel, and I think we can<br />
give you an advance. You may as well forget<br />
about getting the Federal Reserve book<br />
published. I doubt if it could ever be printed."<br />
This was devastating news, coming after<br />
two years of intensive work. I reported<br />
back to Pound, and we tried to find a publisher<br />
in other parts of the country.<br />
After two years of fruitless submissions, the<br />
book was published in a small edition in<br />
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1952 by two of Pound's disciples, John<br />
Kasper and David Horton, using their private<br />
funds, under the title Mullins on the<br />
Federal Reserve. In 1954, a second edition,<br />
with unauthorized alterations, was published<br />
in New Jersey, as <strong>The</strong> Federal Reserve Conspiracy.<br />
In 1955, Guido Roeder brought out<br />
a German edition in Oberammergau, Germany.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book was seized and the entire<br />
edition of 10,000 copies burned by government<br />
agents led by Dr. Otto John.<br />
<strong>The</strong> burning of the book was upheld<br />
April 21, 1961 by judge Israel Katz of the<br />
Bavarian Supreme Court.<br />
<strong>The</strong> U.S. Government refused to intervene,<br />
because U.S. High Commissioner to<br />
Germany, James B. Conant (president of<br />
Harvard University 1933 to 1953), had approved<br />
the initial book burning order.<br />
This is the only book, which has been<br />
burned in Germany since World War II. In<br />
1968 a pirated edition of this book appeared<br />
in California.<br />
Both the FBI and the U.S. Postal inspectors<br />
refused to act, despite numerous complaints<br />
from me during the next decade. In<br />
1980 a new German edition appeared. Because<br />
the U.S. Government apparently no<br />
longer dictated the internal affairs of Germany,<br />
the identical book, which had been<br />
burned in 1955 now circulates in Germany<br />
without interference.<br />
I had collaborated on several books with<br />
Mr. H.L. Hunt and he suggested that I should<br />
continue my long-delayed research on the<br />
Federal Reserve and bring out a more definitive<br />
version of this book.<br />
I had just signed a contract to write the<br />
authorized biography of Ezra Pound, and the<br />
Federal Reserve book had to be postponed.<br />
Mr. Hunt passed away before I could get<br />
back to my research, and once again I faced<br />
the problem of financing research for the<br />
book.<br />
My original book had traced and named<br />
the shadowy figures in the United States who<br />
planned the Federal Reserve Act.<br />
I now discovered that the men whom I<br />
exposed in 1952 as the shadowy figures behind<br />
the operation of the Federal Reserve<br />
System were themselves shadows, the<br />
<strong>American</strong> fronts for the unknown figures<br />
who became known as the "London Connection."<br />
I found that notwithstanding our<br />
successes in the Wars of Independence of<br />
1812 against England, we remained an economic<br />
and financial colony of Great Britain.<br />
For the first time, we located the original<br />
stockholders of the Federal Reserve<br />
Banks and traced their parent companies to<br />
the London Connection.<br />
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This research is substantiated by citations<br />
and documentation from hundreds of newspapers,<br />
periodicals and books and charts<br />
showing blood, marriage, and business relationships.<br />
More than a thousand issues of<br />
<strong>The</strong> New York Times on microfilm have<br />
been checked not only for original information,<br />
but verification of statements from other<br />
sources.<br />
It is a truism of the writing profession<br />
that a writer has only one book within him.<br />
This seems applicable in my case, because I<br />
am now in the fifth decade of continuous<br />
writing on a single subject, the inside story<br />
of the Federal Reserve System. This book<br />
was from its inception commissioned and<br />
guided by Ezra Pound. Four of his protégés<br />
have previously been awarded the Nobel<br />
Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats for<br />
his later poetry, James Joyce for "Ulysses",<br />
Ernest Hemingway for "<strong>The</strong> Sun Also<br />
Rises", and T.S. Elliot for "<strong>The</strong> Waste Land".<br />
Pound played a major role in the inspiration<br />
and in the editing of these works--<br />
which leads us to believe that this present<br />
work, also inspired by Pound, represents an<br />
ongoing literary tradition.<br />
Although this book in its inception was<br />
expected to be a tortuous work on economic<br />
and monetary techniques, it soon developed<br />
into a story of such universal and dramatic<br />
appeal that from the outset, Ezra Pound<br />
urged me to write it as a detective story, a<br />
genre, which was invented by my fellow<br />
Virginian, Edgar Allan Poe. I believe that<br />
the continuous circulation of this book during<br />
the past forty years has not only exonerated<br />
Ezra Pound for his much condemned<br />
political and monetary statements, but also<br />
that it has been, and will continue to be, the<br />
ultimate weapon against the powerful conspirators<br />
who compelled him to serve thirteen<br />
and a half years without trial, as a political<br />
prisoner held in an insane asylum a la<br />
KGB.<br />
His earliest vindication came when the<br />
government agents who represented the conspirators<br />
refused to allow him to testify in<br />
his own defense; the second vindication<br />
came in 1958 when these same agents<br />
dropped all charges against him, and he<br />
walked out of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a free<br />
man once more.<br />
His third and final vindication is this<br />
work, which documents every aspect of his<br />
exposure of the ruthless international financiers<br />
to whom Ezra Pound became but one<br />
more victim, doomed to serve years as the<br />
Man in the Iron Mask, because he had dared<br />
to alert his fellow-<strong>American</strong>s to their furtive<br />
acts of treason against all people of the<br />
United States.<br />
In my lectures throughout this nation,<br />
and in my appearances on many radio and<br />
television programs, I have sounded the<br />
toxin that the Federal Reserve System is not<br />
Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a<br />
system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate.<br />
From November 1910, when the conspirators<br />
met on Jekyll Island, Georgia, to<br />
the present time, the machinations of the<br />
Federal Reserve bankers have been<br />
shrouded in secrecy. Today, that secrecy has<br />
cost the <strong>American</strong> people a three trillion<br />
dollar debt, with annual interest payments<br />
to these bankers amounting to some three<br />
hundred billion dollars per year, sums which<br />
stagger the imagination, and which in themselves<br />
are ultimately unpayable.<br />
Officials of the Federal Reserve System routinely<br />
issue remonstrances to the public,<br />
much as the Hindu fakir pipes an insistent<br />
tune to the dazed cobra, which sways its<br />
head before him, not to resolve the situation,<br />
but to prevent it from striking him. Such<br />
was the soothing letter written by Donald J.<br />
Winn, Assistant to the Board of Governors<br />
in response to an inquiry by a Congressman,<br />
the Honorable Norman D. Shumway, on<br />
March 10, 1983. Mr. Winn states<br />
that "<strong>The</strong> Federal Reserve System was established<br />
by an act of Congress in 1913 and<br />
is not a `private corporation'." On the next<br />
page, Mr. Winn continues, "<strong>The</strong> stock of the<br />
Federal Reserve Banks is held entirely by<br />
commercial banks that are members of the<br />
Federal Reserve System."<br />
He offers no explanation as to why the<br />
government has never owned a single share<br />
of stock in any Federal Reserve Bank, or<br />
why the Federal Reserve System is not a<br />
"private corporation" when all of its stock<br />
is owned by "private corporations".<br />
<strong>American</strong> history in the twentieth century<br />
has recorded the amazing achievements<br />
of the Federal Reserve bankers.<br />
<strong>First</strong>, the outbreak of World War I, which<br />
was made possible by the funds available<br />
from the new central bank of the United<br />
States.<br />
Second, the Agricultural Depression of<br />
1920.<br />
Third, the Black Friday Crash on Wall<br />
Street of October, 1929 and the ensuing<br />
Great Depression.<br />
Fourth, World War II. Fifth, the conversion<br />
of the assets of the United States and<br />
its citizens from real property to paper assets<br />
from 1945 to the present, transforming<br />
a victorious America and foremost world<br />
power in 1945 to the world's largest debtor<br />
nation in 1990.<br />
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ins, devastated and destitute, in much the<br />
same dire straits in which Germany and Japan<br />
found themselves in 1945.<br />
Will <strong>American</strong>s act to rebuild our nation,<br />
as Germany and Japan have done when they<br />
faced the identical conditions which we now<br />
face--or will we continue to be enslaved by<br />
the Babylonian debt money system which<br />
was set up by the Federal Reserve Act in<br />
1913 to complete our total destruction<br />
This is the only question, which we have<br />
to answer, and we do not have much time<br />
left to answer it.<br />
Because of the depth and the importance<br />
of the information, which I had developed<br />
at the Library of Congress under the tutelage<br />
of Ezra Pound, this work became the<br />
happy hunting ground for many other wouldbe<br />
historians, who were unable to research<br />
this material for themselves.<br />
Over the past four decades, I have become<br />
accustomed to seeing this material appear<br />
in many other books, invariably attributed<br />
to other writers, with my name never<br />
mentioned.<br />
To add insult to injury, not only my material,<br />
but even my title has been appropriated,<br />
in a massive, if obtuse, work called "Secrets<br />
of the Temple--the Federal Reserve".<br />
This heavily advertised book received reviews<br />
ranging from incredulous to hilarious.<br />
Forbes Magazine advised its readers to read<br />
their review and save their money, pointing<br />
out that "a reader will discover no secrets"<br />
and that "This is one of those books whose<br />
fanfares far exceed their merit."<br />
This was not accidental, as this overblown<br />
whitewash of the Federal Reserve<br />
bankers was published by the most famous<br />
nonbook publisher in the world.<br />
After my initial shock at discovering that<br />
the most influential literary personality of<br />
the twentieth century, Ezra Pound, was imprisoned<br />
in "the Hellhole" in Washington, I<br />
immediately wrote for assistance to a Wall<br />
Street financier at whose estate I had frequently<br />
been a guest. I reminded him that as<br />
a patron of the arts, he could not afford to<br />
allow Pound to remain in such inhuman captivity.<br />
His reply shocked me even more. He<br />
wrote back that "your friend can well stay<br />
where he is." It was some years before I was<br />
able to understand that, for this investment<br />
banker and his colleagues, Ezra Pound<br />
would always be "the enemy".<br />
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Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho,<br />
in 1885. He completed two years of<br />
college at the University of Pennsylvania<br />
and earned a degree from Hamilton<br />
College in 1905. After teaching at<br />
Wabash College for two years, he<br />
travelled abroad to Spain, Italy and<br />
London, where, as the literary executor<br />
of the scholar Ernest Fenellosa, he<br />
became interested in Japanese and<br />
Chinese poetry. He married Dorothy<br />
Shakespear in 1914 and became London<br />
editor of the Little Review in 1917. In<br />
1924, he moved to Italy; during this<br />
period of voluntary exile, Pound<br />
became involved in Fascist politics, and<br />
did not return to the United States until<br />
1945, when he was arrested on charges<br />
of treason for broadcasting Fascist<br />
propaganda by radio to the United<br />
States during the Second World War. In<br />
1946, he was acquitted, but declared<br />
mentally ill and committed to St.<br />
Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.<br />
During his confinement, the jury of the<br />
Bollingen-Library of Congress Award<br />
(which included a number of the most<br />
eminent writers of the time) decided to<br />
overlook Pound's political career in the<br />
interest of recognizing his poetic<br />
achievements, and awarded him the<br />
prize for the Pisan Cantos (1948). After<br />
continuous appeals<br />
from writers won<br />
his release from<br />
the hospital in<br />
1958, Pound<br />
returned to Italy<br />
and settled in<br />
Venice, where<br />
he died, a semirecluse,<br />
in<br />
1972.<br />
Ballad of the Goodly Fere<br />
by Ezra Pound<br />
Simon Zelotes speaking after the<br />
Crucifixion. Fere=Mate, Companion.<br />
Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all<br />
For the priests and the gallows tree<br />
Aye lover he was of brawny men,<br />
O' ships and the open sea.<br />
When they came wi' a host to take<br />
Our Man. His smile was good to see,<br />
"<strong>First</strong> let these go!" quo' our Goodly Fere,<br />
"Or I'll see ye damned," says he.<br />
Aye he sent us out through the crossed<br />
high spears. And the scorn of his laugh<br />
rang free, "Why took ye not me when I<br />
walked about Alone in the town" says he.<br />
Oh we drank his "Hale" in the good red<br />
wine. When we last made company,<br />
No capon priest was the Goodly Fere<br />
But a man o' men was he.<br />
I ha' seen him drive a hundred men<br />
Wi' a bundle o' cords swung free,<br />
That they took the high and holy house<br />
For their pawn and treasury.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y'll no' get him a' in a book I think<br />
Though they write it cunningly;<br />
No mouse of the scrolls was the Goodly<br />
Fere. But aye loved the open sea.<br />
If they think they ha' snared our Goodly<br />
Fere, they are fools to the last degree.<br />
"I'll go to the feast," quo' our Goodly Fere,<br />
"Though I go to the gallows tree."<br />
"Ye ha' seen me heal the lame and blind,<br />
And wake the dead," says he, "Ye shall<br />
see one thing to master all:<br />
'Tis how a brave man dies on the tree."<br />
A son of God was the Goodly Fere<br />
That bade us his brothers be.<br />
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men.<br />
I have seen him upon the tree.<br />
He cried no cry when they drave the nails<br />
And the blood gushed hot and free,<br />
<strong>The</strong> hounds of the crimson sky gave<br />
tongue. But never a cry cried he.<br />
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men<br />
On the hills o' Galilee, they whined as he<br />
walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like<br />
the grey o' the sea,<br />
Like the sea that brooks no voyaging<br />
With the winds unleashed and free,<br />
Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret<br />
Wi' twey words spoke' suddently.<br />
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,<br />
A mate of the wind and sea, If they think<br />
they ha' slain our Goodly Fere.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are fools eternally.<br />
I ha' seen him eat o' the honey-comb<br />
Sin' they nailed him to the tree.<br />
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IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY TAKEN THE “RED PILL”<br />
DO NOT READ THIS.....<br />
Dov Zakheim—A Key 9/11 Conspirator<br />
By Ryan Rumpole<br />
Global News Network<br />
Most people familiar with the 9/11<br />
cover-up have a fair idea of some of the<br />
key players in the monumental 9/11 crime.<br />
Rabbi Dov Zakheim, one of the central figures<br />
in this vile operation, isn’t as well<br />
known because he’s one who has always<br />
lurked in the shadows. Zakheim is as powerful<br />
as he is inconspicuous, and a man of<br />
many talents:<br />
1.. Graduate of the prestigious London<br />
School of Economics (PhD), and the University<br />
of Oxford (National Science Foundation<br />
Graduate Fellow)<br />
2.. Former CEO of Systems Planning Corporation,<br />
a highly specialized defense<br />
technology company that manufactures a<br />
one-of-a-kind remote-piloting system for<br />
aircraft, including commercial airliners<br />
(see below)<br />
3.. Senior Fellow for Asian Studies of the<br />
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)<br />
4.. Member of the Task Force on Defense<br />
Reform (appointed by Secretary of Defense<br />
Cohen)<br />
5.. Senior Advisor at the Center for International<br />
and Strategic Studies<br />
6.. Former Under Secretary of Defense<br />
(appointed by George W. Bush)<br />
7.. Comptroller of the Pentagon {see [1]<br />
below for performance report}<br />
8.. Pioneer and prime architect of Project<br />
for the New <strong>American</strong> Century (PNAC),<br />
neo-con cabal that authored Rearming<br />
America’s Defenses (RAD), the bible for<br />
<strong>American</strong> global domination [2]<br />
9.. Author of “Flight Of <strong>The</strong> Lavi: Inside<br />
A US-Israeli Crisis” (Brassey’s, 1996)<br />
10.. Long-time Bush associate, having<br />
served as a policy advisor to the governor<br />
during the 2000 campaign<br />
11.. Columnist for <strong>The</strong> Jerusalem Post<br />
12.. Editorial Board member of Israel Affairs<br />
13.. Ordained Rabbi<br />
14.. Citizen of the State of Israel<br />
How a citizen of Israel can serve as<br />
Comptroller of America’s central defense<br />
establishment is a question I shall leave<br />
to others for comment. While they ponder<br />
this disturbing oddity, perhaps they could<br />
also shed light on why every one of the<br />
following kingpins of the Bush administration<br />
are also Israeli citizens: Paul<br />
Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith,<br />
Michael Chertoff, George Tenet, Elliot<br />
Abrams, Donald Kagan, Richard Haas,<br />
Kenneth Adelman, Edward Luttwak, Robert<br />
Satloff, David Frum, David Wurmser,<br />
Steve Goldsmith, and Marc Grossman.]<br />
[1] “I know Dr. Zakheim has been trying<br />
to hire CPAs because the financial systems<br />
of the department are so snarled up<br />
that we can’t account for some $2.6 TRIL-<br />
LION in transactions that exist...” Secretary<br />
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, during<br />
testimony before the House Appropriations<br />
Committee: Fiscal Year 2002 Defense<br />
Budget Request, as given by Secy.<br />
Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs<br />
of Staff General Hugh Shelton, and Comptroller<br />
Dov Zakheim; on Monday, July 16,<br />
2001.<br />
NB: Dr. Zakheim resigned as Pentagon<br />
Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer<br />
at the beginning of March when it<br />
was revealed that the he is unable to account<br />
for the disappearance of $2.6 trillion<br />
(it’s unlikely this will receive much<br />
coverage in the mainstream media).<br />
Zakheim has since taken a lucrative position<br />
as a vice president of the megaconsultancy<br />
Booz, Allen, & Hamilton (one<br />
that also works closely with DARPA).<br />
Rabbi Zakheim is also Chief Executive<br />
Officer of SPC International Corporation<br />
(a subsidiary of the aforementioned<br />
remote-flight-control-technology firm), a<br />
company that specializes in “political,<br />
military, and economic consulting, and international<br />
sales and analysis”.<br />
In addition, Dr. Zakheim serves as<br />
Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and<br />
the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.<br />
As the Rabbi’s record clearly shows,<br />
he has serious tenure in the US defense<br />
establishment: more than 30 years of holding<br />
assorted senior positions at the Pentagon.]<br />
[2] Dov Zakheim is the co-author of<br />
that singularly sinister—and chillingly<br />
ominous—statement contained in Rearming<br />
America’s Defenses (RAD) re the plan<br />
for <strong>American</strong> global domination [through<br />
galvanizing <strong>American</strong> emotional support<br />
for full-scale war against oil-rich Arab<br />
states]: “...the process of transformation,<br />
even if it brings revolutionary change, is<br />
likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic<br />
and catalyzing event—like a new<br />
Pearl Harbor”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> PNAC document also expressly<br />
recommends the US should seize Iraq<br />
even if Saddam Hussein were deposed<br />
through a military coup. [So much for<br />
bringing “freedom and democracy” to the<br />
people of that country.]<br />
<strong>The</strong> good Rabbi’s involvement with<br />
PNAC, his previous directorship of a corporation<br />
that manufactures remote control<br />
flight systems, and his inability to document<br />
how the Pentagon has spent TRIL-<br />
LIONS of <strong>American</strong> taxpayers’ dollars<br />
suggests that real investigations into the<br />
crimes of 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan<br />
and Iraq would put Mr. Zakheim<br />
near the top of the witness list for interrogation<br />
and potential prosecution.<br />
SYSTEMS PLANNING CORPORATION<br />
Dr. Dov Zakheim was the former CEO<br />
of Systems Planning Corporation, a company<br />
that designs and manufactures extremely<br />
sophisticated control/guidance<br />
technology that enables an external operator<br />
to fly, and land, aircraft by remote control.<br />
One of the company’s principal prod-<br />
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ucts is the Command Transmitter System<br />
(CTS), a fully redundant, self-contained,<br />
solid-state platform capable of providing<br />
totally programmable remote flight control<br />
capability, including high-precision<br />
electronic navigation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> company’s parallel product, the<br />
Flight Termination System (FTS), enables<br />
system-equipped aircraft to be safely<br />
landed on any suitable runway in the<br />
world—regardless of the availability of<br />
ground-based navigational or landing aids<br />
(VOR, ILS, MLS, etc.).<br />
Such total independence in all flight<br />
regimes is achieved through a variety of<br />
ultra-sophisticated space-based technologies,<br />
including Mil-spec DGPS (Differential<br />
GPS, using extremely precise encrypted<br />
military “P” Code transmissions),<br />
and is accurate to within one foot of the<br />
runway centerline during landing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> CTS/FTS remote-control system<br />
is capable of controlling up to 8 airborne<br />
vehicles—including airliners—simultaneously<br />
from ground-based or airborne<br />
(AWACS) positions.<br />
[“Coincidence”: Operation Vigilant<br />
Guardian, one of five NORAD “war game<br />
exercises” underway on the morning of<br />
9/11 and orchestrated by Dick Cheney, involved<br />
the simulated hijacking of commercial<br />
airliners.<br />
At one point during the exercises,<br />
while the four “real” hijacked aircraft were<br />
airborne, as many as TWENTY-TWO<br />
independent radar blips representing “hijacked”<br />
aircraft were simultaneously displayed<br />
on FAA radar screens along the<br />
Eastern seaboard.<br />
This, obviously, created total pandemonium.<br />
Air traffic controllers who had<br />
been advised beforehand by NORAD of<br />
the “simulated hijackings”, began frantically<br />
calling NORAD to determine which<br />
of the twenty-two targets were “real” and<br />
which were “exercise.” All indications are<br />
that whatever it was that happened to the<br />
four real “hijacked” airliners occurred during<br />
this purposefully orchestrated melee<br />
while the order was given for the US Air<br />
Force to “stand down”.]<br />
<strong>The</strong> CTS/FTS system (subsequently<br />
improved, tested and implemented by<br />
Raytheon) allows specialist ground controllers<br />
to listen-in on cockpit conversations<br />
on the target aircraft, then take absolute<br />
control of its computerized flight<br />
control system by remote means and safely<br />
land the aircraft at any airport within<br />
range.<br />
In other words, this technology was designed<br />
to empower “law enforcement<br />
agencies” to hijack hijackers.<br />
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[NB: <strong>The</strong> ground station technology<br />
for CTS/FTS was developed by Raytheon<br />
under an Air Force contract for the Joint<br />
Precision Approach and Landings System<br />
(JPALS) program. A government-industry<br />
team accomplished the first precision approach/auto-land<br />
by a civil aircraft using<br />
this system on August 25, 2001 at<br />
Holloman AFB, NM. A FedEx Express<br />
727-200 aircraft demonstrated hundred<br />
percent system proficiency by executing<br />
six full auto-lands using the JPALS ground<br />
station.]<br />
“HOME RUN”<br />
In partnership with Raytheon, System<br />
Planning Corporation also supplies CTS/<br />
FTS technology to commercial airplane<br />
manufacturers for installation in airliners<br />
(Boeing: confirmed; Airbus: undetermined,<br />
but highly probable given the<br />
consortium’s connection to BAE, a US<br />
military contractor.)<br />
It has been reported that DARPA’s<br />
codename for the CTS/FTS system was<br />
“Home Run”. Former German Secretary<br />
of Defense Andreas Von Buelow may have<br />
alluded to foreknowledge of Home Run<br />
technology in an interview he gave the<br />
German daily “Tagesspiegel” on January<br />
13th, 2002:<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is also the theory of one British<br />
flight engineer: according to this, the<br />
steering of the planes was perhaps taken<br />
out of the pilots’ hands, from outside. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>American</strong>s had developed a method in the<br />
1970s, whereby they could rescue hijacked<br />
planes by intervening into the computer<br />
piloting [automatic pilot system].<br />
This theory says this technique was abused<br />
in this case [9/11]...”<br />
Upon deeper scrutiny this may not appear<br />
quite so much a “theory” as might<br />
first seem. It’s been reported that the German<br />
national carrier Lufthansa, seriously<br />
concerned that one of its own aircraft<br />
might be “rescued” by the <strong>American</strong>s without<br />
its authority, had every one of its Home<br />
Run-equipped Boeing aircraft stripped of<br />
the <strong>American</strong> flight control computers. It’s<br />
reasonable to presume that Herr Von<br />
Buelow—the Secretary of Defense and<br />
Minister of Science and Technology at the<br />
time—would have known all about this<br />
mammoth but secretive task (how very<br />
clever—and discreet—of Von Buelow to<br />
“drop” the information into the middle of<br />
an interview about the 9/11 attacks).<br />
Lufthansa aircraft (and possibly others)<br />
are now effectively impervious to Home<br />
Run take-overs, but that is more than can<br />
be said for the <strong>American</strong> aircraft fleet.<br />
In order to make Home Run truly effective,<br />
it had to be completely integrated<br />
with all onboard systems, and this could<br />
only be accomplished with a new aircraft<br />
design, several of which were on the drawing<br />
boards at that time. Under cover of extreme<br />
secrecy, the multinationals and<br />
DARPA went ahead on this basis and built<br />
“back doors” into the new computerized<br />
flight control systems.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were two very obvious hard requirements<br />
at this stage: 1) a primary control<br />
channel for use in taking over the<br />
flight control system and flying the aircraft<br />
back to an airfield of choice, and 2)<br />
a covert audio channel for monitoring<br />
flight deck conversations. Once the primary<br />
channel was activated, all aircraft<br />
functions came under direct ground (or<br />
AWACS) control, permanently removing<br />
the hijackers and pilots from the control<br />
loop.<br />
It needs mention that this was not a<br />
system designed to “undermine” the authority<br />
of the flight crews, but rather,<br />
implemented as a “doomsday” device in<br />
the event the hijackers began to shoot passengers<br />
or crew members, possibly including<br />
the pilots. Based on the reasonable<br />
assumption that hijackers only carry a limited<br />
number of rounds of ammunition, and<br />
many modern airliners carry in excess of<br />
300 passengers, Home Run was envisaged<br />
as a system that could be used to fly all<br />
the survivors to a friendly airport for a safe<br />
landing.<br />
System Activation<br />
Activating the primary Home Run<br />
channel is reportedly fairly straightforward.<br />
A transponder, as many readers<br />
know, is a combined radio transmitter and<br />
receiver which operates automatically—<br />
in the case of 9/11, relaying data between<br />
the four aircraft and air traffic controllers<br />
on the ground. <strong>The</strong> transmitted signals represent<br />
a unique “identity” for each aircraft,<br />
essential in crowded airspace to avoid<br />
midair collisions—and equally essential<br />
for Home Run controllers trying to lock<br />
onto the correct aircraft.<br />
Once the correct target aircraft is located<br />
by radar, the Home Run duplex data<br />
bus “piggy backs” the transponder channel<br />
and assumes direct control from the<br />
ground. This could explain why NONE<br />
of the four aircraft sent the special “I have<br />
been hijacked” transponder code (7500),<br />
despite multiple activation points for this<br />
distress transmission on all four aircraft—<br />
and despite being flown by combat-hardened<br />
ex-fighter pilots.<br />
Because the transponder frequency<br />
had already been piggy-backed by Home<br />
Run, transmission of the special hijack<br />
code was rendered impossible. This was<br />
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the first hard proof that the target aircraft<br />
had been hijacked electronically from the<br />
ground, rather than by Arab patsies toting<br />
box-cutters.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Home Run listening device on the<br />
flight deck utilizes the cockpit microphones<br />
that normally feed the Cockpit<br />
Voice Recorder (CVR), one of two black<br />
boxes armored to withstand heavy impact<br />
and thereby later provide investigators significant<br />
clues to why the aircraft crashed.<br />
However, once plugged into Home Run,<br />
the CVRs are bypassed, and voice transmissions<br />
are no longer recorded on the 30<br />
minute continuous-loop recording tape.<br />
If Home Run is active for more than<br />
thirty minutes, there will therefore be no<br />
audible data on the Cockpit Voice Recorders.<br />
Crash investigators are said to have<br />
recovered the CVRs from the Pentagon<br />
and Pittsburg aircraft, and publicly confirmed<br />
that both are completely blank. <strong>The</strong><br />
only possible reason for this is data capture<br />
by Home Run, providing the final<br />
hard proof that the attack aircraft were<br />
hijacked electronically from the ground,<br />
rather than by “Arab terrorists”.<br />
Discussion<br />
It is not being suggested that remote<br />
circumvention and take-over of the four<br />
airliners’ controls is definitely what happened<br />
on 9/11. But if this scenario seems<br />
improbable, one must necessarily consider<br />
the probability of four airliners being taken<br />
over simultaneously, casually flown<br />
around a large swath of the country for<br />
almost two hours under the vigilant eye<br />
of NORAD, and then used as missiles—<br />
all without a single fighter being<br />
scrambled to intercept any of them.<br />
Since this is what actually happened,<br />
we have no choice but to consider other<br />
“implausible” scenarios. And since the<br />
official scenario is itself an unsubstantiated—and<br />
truly farfetched—”conspiracy<br />
theory,” other competing scenarios should<br />
also receive serious attention.<br />
<strong>The</strong> public’s reluctance to question<br />
official doctrine on this matter is a symptom<br />
of the societal role for which most of<br />
us have been bred and trained: to be everfaithful<br />
hounds, tails thumping the floor<br />
as we contentedly slurp the hand of class<br />
authority. Such credulity also becomes<br />
inevitable when the alternative is so unbearable:<br />
if someone in Bush’s position<br />
is capable of lying to us about something<br />
as huge, as gut-wrenchingly horrible as 9/<br />
11, then everything we believe about this<br />
country—about the nature of civilization<br />
itself—might just be childish nonsense.<br />
Most people simply don’t have the guts<br />
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to sustain the childish belief in government-as-benevolent-father,<br />
a person will<br />
adapt that belief to any circumstance. <strong>The</strong><br />
behavioral end result can resemble courage;<br />
indeed, we are taught to regard it as<br />
the DEFINITION of courage. Actually,<br />
it’s one of cowardice’s darkest moments.<br />
Even a casual examination of Nazi Germany,<br />
where this phenomenon was rampant,<br />
will drive this point home.<br />
It’s almost funny, the way people<br />
readily see the threat of technological circumvention<br />
presented by Diebold’s electronic<br />
voting machines, yet when the subject<br />
switches to Systems Planning<br />
Corporation’s Flight Termination System,<br />
which is every bit as real, and to the exactly<br />
parallel possibilities it represents visa-vis<br />
9/11, they suddenly retreat into profound<br />
and combative denial. It’s as if a<br />
threshold has been crossed into a realm<br />
of possibilities too vile to entertain, so they<br />
simply don’t. Never mind that this<br />
country’s operatives have been traveling<br />
the world, perpetrating similar horrors, for<br />
all of the past century.<br />
Rather than acknowledge the possibility<br />
of a unifying pattern, Joe Sixpack<br />
would much rather ‘shoot the messenger.’<br />
Every so often,<br />
such people establish<br />
a new highwater<br />
mark for<br />
cowardice and<br />
facultative stupidity,<br />
and the present<br />
is definitely one of<br />
those times. After<br />
all, the official 9/<br />
11 scenario they<br />
cling to with such<br />
desperate faith<br />
comes from only<br />
one source: the<br />
Western “intelligence<br />
community”—the<br />
most<br />
brazen, systematic,<br />
resourceful,<br />
and interlocked<br />
association of habitual<br />
liars this<br />
world has ever<br />
seen.<br />
As should<br />
have been made<br />
clear by any number<br />
of intelligence<br />
scandals over the<br />
years, the credibility<br />
of this bunch<br />
goes past zero into the negative: pending<br />
airtight proof, anything they say should be<br />
reflexively deemed a lie. You may remember<br />
that the FBI also provided the identities<br />
of “the 19 hijackers” within hours—<br />
information that soon also became quite<br />
suspect, especially considering there was<br />
NOT ONE Arab name on any of the flight<br />
manifests (miraculously, they even found<br />
paper passports that had survived fireballs,<br />
Arabic flight manuals conveniently left in<br />
the trunks of cars, etc., etc.)<br />
At least seven of the hijackers are still<br />
alive in the Middle East—a pretty good<br />
alibi, wouldn’t you say Several of these<br />
ex-suspects had their passports or other<br />
IDs stolen from them over the years, and<br />
it’s entirely possible that all 19 hijackers<br />
had stolen identities, meaning they could<br />
have come from anywhere—or been absent<br />
altogether. Our media were pretty<br />
slack about acknowledging this at the time,<br />
and since then have dropped this ball entirely.<br />
What’s really amazing is that not<br />
one mainstream journalist has asked how<br />
these 19 alleged hijackers boarded their<br />
aircraft when their names were not on any<br />
of the passenger manifests.<br />
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community” to render every detail of our<br />
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Dov Zakheim’s<br />
Homeland Security biz and<br />
the remote control of aircraft<br />
Dov Zakheim. Not many <strong>American</strong>s<br />
know who he is, but they ignore him at<br />
their own peril. If for no other reason, a<br />
dual Israeli-<strong>American</strong> citizen as Comptroller<br />
and Chief Financial Officer of the<br />
United States Dept. of Defense should<br />
raise some eyebrows. He was also President<br />
Bush’s senior foreign policy advisor<br />
during the 2000 campaign.<br />
He was (is) Corporate VP1 at System<br />
Planning Corporation, a major player<br />
in the “Homeland Security” industry. One<br />
of the products that SysPlan sells is the<br />
Command Transmitter System, a remote<br />
control system for planes, boats, missiles<br />
and other vehicles. It’s highly customable<br />
and configurable to interface with an almost<br />
limitless number of vehicle types.<br />
<strong>The</strong> remote control theory of 9/11 looks a<br />
little better every day.<br />
Command Transmitter System<br />
System Planning Corproation’s Command<br />
Transmitter Systems (CTS) provide<br />
remote control and flight termination<br />
functions through a fully-redundant selfcontained<br />
solid-state system.<br />
Exciter<br />
<strong>The</strong> exciter incorporates state-of-theart<br />
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to simultaneously generate an RF carrier<br />
and up to 6 of 20 available standard IRIG-<br />
By tones. It has 20 watts of output power<br />
and an internal ferrite isolator. <strong>The</strong> exciter<br />
may also be used as a standalone unit.<br />
High-Power Amplifier<br />
<strong>The</strong> high-power amplifier (HPA) is<br />
solid-state, dependable, and cool running,<br />
allowing continuous 1-kW output power<br />
at temperatures from 0o to 50oC, and from<br />
sea level to 30,000 feet AMSL. <strong>The</strong> Command<br />
Transmitter System is MIL-STD-<br />
461C qualified and designed to military<br />
standards for high MTBF and continuous<br />
24-hour-per-day operation. State-of-theart<br />
CMOS micro-controllers provide full<br />
fault detection and reporting. High-power<br />
ferrite isolators allow full-power operation<br />
with antenna VSWRs up to 2:1. <strong>The</strong><br />
HPA is designed for graceful degradation,<br />
which allows high-output power operation<br />
even with several amplifier modules<br />
inoperative.<br />
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.As an optional feature, each HPA sub-system<br />
is provided with an RF switch matrix<br />
that allows real-time replacement of HPA<br />
units. External modulation inputs may be<br />
used to modulate the transmitters with externally-generated<br />
tones from 10 Hz to 100<br />
kHz.<br />
<strong>The</strong> system can be switched automatically<br />
or manually between transmitters.<br />
Automatic switching to the redudant system<br />
is completed in less than 5ms upon<br />
detection of an internal fault or at preset<br />
RF power thresholds. <strong>The</strong> system is<br />
mounted in two standard 60"-high racks<br />
for easy installation in mobile platforms.<br />
<strong>The</strong> roller-bearing, tiltable rack slides allow<br />
easy access within the chassis for low<br />
MTTR. CTS generally ships with front<br />
panel button operation for broadcast frequency<br />
and tones. Add-on options are<br />
available from SPC for remote control features.<br />
For more information on an integrated<br />
control system, see SPC’s Flight<br />
Termination System Download a CTS<br />
brochure. CTS Specifications Performance<br />
FeatureFTS Specification Frequency<br />
Range: 400-550 MHz in 100-kHz<br />
steps RF Output Power:Exciter: 20 Watts;<br />
HPA: 1 kW RF Power Control: 1-dB steps,<br />
60-dB total range Permissible Antenna<br />
VSWR: > 2:1 continuously, 50 ohms nom.<br />
Harmonics: < -50 dBc at 1 kW Spurious:<<br />
-80 dBc at 1 kW Modulation: FM<br />
Deviation:± 300 kHz Modulation<br />
Range:Internal: 7.5-73.95 kHz (IRIG-B<br />
tone frequencies)<br />
From 1985 until March 1987, Dr.<br />
Zakheim was Deputy Under Secretary of<br />
Defense for Planning and Resources.In<br />
that capacity, he played an active role in<br />
the Department’s system acquisition and<br />
strategic planning processes and guided<br />
Department of Defense policy in a number<br />
of international economic fora. He also<br />
successfully negotiated numerous arms<br />
cooperation agreements with various U.S.<br />
allies.<br />
Dr. Zakheim served the Reagan Administration<br />
in a variety of other senior<br />
Department of Defense posts from 1981<br />
through 1985. He had served previously<br />
as Principal Analyst with the National Security<br />
and International Affairs Division<br />
of the Congressional Budget Office.<br />
A graduate of Columbia University,<br />
New York, where he earned his B.A.,<br />
Summa Cum Laude and was elected to Phi<br />
Beta Kappa, Dr. Zakheim also studied at<br />
the London School of Economics. Dr.<br />
Zakheim earned his doctorate in economics<br />
and politics at St. Antony’s College,<br />
University of Oxford, where he was a National<br />
Science Foundation Graduate Fellow,<br />
a Columbia College Kellett Fellow,<br />
and a post-doctoral Research Fellow. He<br />
has served as Adjunct Professor at the National<br />
War College, Yeshiva University,<br />
and Columbia University and as Presidential<br />
Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Trinity<br />
College, Hartford, CT.<br />
Dr. Zakheim served for two terms as<br />
a Presidential appointee to the United<br />
States Commission for the Preservation of<br />
America’s Heritage Abroad. In 1997 he<br />
was appointed by Secretary of Defense<br />
Cohen to the Task Force on Defense Reform.<br />
In May 1998 Secretary Cohen<br />
named him to the first Board of Visitors<br />
of the Department of Defense Overseas<br />
Regional Schools. In February 2000 he<br />
was appointed to the Defense Science<br />
Board Task Force on the Impact of DoD<br />
Acquisition Policies on the Health of the<br />
Defense Industry.<br />
Dr. Zakheim writes, lectures, and provides<br />
media commentary on national defense<br />
and foreign policy issues, both domestically<br />
and internationally, including<br />
appearances on major U.S. network news<br />
telecasts, CNN’s Newshour, Larry King<br />
Live, BBC Arab and World Service, and<br />
Israeli, Swedish, and Japanese television.<br />
He is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post,<br />
a regular contributor to Defense News,<br />
and an editorial board member of Israel<br />
Affairs and of <strong>The</strong> Round Table (the Commonwealth<br />
Journal of International Affairs).<br />
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01/20/07 “<strong>The</strong> Nation” — — Did Ariel<br />
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and in Vice President Cheney’s office.<br />
It’s not that they are supporters of<br />
Israel—no crime there—but that some of<br />
them might be conspirators in a clandestine<br />
operation launched by Sharon’s Likud<br />
Party. <strong>The</strong>y make up the very network of<br />
ideologues—from civilians at the Defense<br />
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think tanks—who have been accused<br />
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ascertain whether Sharon recruited or<br />
helped place in office people who knowingly,<br />
and secretly, worked with him to affect<br />
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Rhode of the Pentagon’s Office of Net<br />
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involves the possibility that US officials<br />
(most, but not all, Jews) are working on<br />
Sharon’s behalf. <strong>The</strong>y include Feith and a<br />
handful of other officials, including those<br />
in the inner circle of his policy office who<br />
formed the core of the Office of Special<br />
Plans (OSP). <strong>The</strong> probe faces stiff political<br />
resistance. Yet it may have legs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> investigation burst into the news<br />
in late August when CBS News reported<br />
that the FBI had caught a Feith staffer,<br />
later identified as Larry Franklin, trying<br />
to deliver what turned out to be a classified<br />
draft of a presidential memo on Iran<br />
to AIPAC and an Israeli Embassy diplomat.<br />
Subsequent attention focused largely<br />
on whether Franklin was a spy for Israel,<br />
but in fact he is only a minor figure in a<br />
far more sweeping probe that began two<br />
years ago.<br />
What triggered the original investigation<br />
isn’t known, but it is known that it<br />
began at a critical moment, as Feith and<br />
Rhode began assembling a team, which<br />
included Franklin, to form the OSP. It’s<br />
been widely reported that the OSP manufactured<br />
exaggerated intelligence reports<br />
on the threat from Iraq, but less reported<br />
is the fact that the OSP also carried out<br />
unauthorized operations. Several OSP officials—including<br />
Rhode, Franklin and<br />
Michael Maloof, one of the two original<br />
staffers of the forerunner to OSP, joined<br />
by Michael Ledeen of the <strong>American</strong> Enterprise<br />
Institute (AEI)—took part in a<br />
rogue Pentagon initiative, beginning in<br />
2001 with unsavory wheeler-dealers in<br />
Rome and Paris, to discuss regime change<br />
beyond Iraq, in Iran and Syria. <strong>The</strong> CIA<br />
found out about the Rome meeting, and<br />
the agency may have asked the FBI to start<br />
watching Feith, Rhode, Ledeen, Franklin<br />
et al. Former CIA and Defense intelligence<br />
officials familiar with the case stress that<br />
the FBI is looking at an operation run by<br />
the Israeli prime minister, not by the<br />
Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, and<br />
that the investigation is based solely on<br />
concerns about foreign influence. “It’s<br />
about Sharon,” says a former senior CIA<br />
operations officer. “This has nothing to do<br />
with anti-Semitism.”<br />
Some familiar with the case suggest<br />
that the FBI’s investigation is looking back<br />
as far as 1996, when Feith, Richard Perle,<br />
Feith’s boss at the Pentagon in the 1980s<br />
and until recently chairman of the<br />
Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, and<br />
David Wurmser, a co-founder of OSP who<br />
is now Cheney’s Middle East adviser,<br />
wrote a radical memo, called “A Clean<br />
Break,” to incoming Israeli Prime Minister<br />
Benjamin Netanyahu calling for confrontation<br />
with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and<br />
the PLO.<br />
Since the investigation came to light,<br />
Sharon’s closest allies have led an effort<br />
to derail it. Screaming the loudest is Marc<br />
Zell, Feith’s former law partner, who is<br />
now an attorney in Israel tied to the<br />
Likud’s right wing and to the settler movement.<br />
“It’s a cheap shot by certain people<br />
inside the government to embarrass Doug<br />
and the Pentagon leadership,” Zell told the<br />
Philadelphia Inquirer. “Certain elements<br />
inside the military and intelligence communities<br />
are unhappy with the policy decisions<br />
of people in the upper echelon and<br />
attempt, sometimes in a very crude way,<br />
to embarrass them.” News of the investigation<br />
stunned AIPAC, the Jewish Institute<br />
for National Security Affairs, AEI and<br />
others in Likud’s Washington circuit. And,<br />
of course, AIPAC’s friends in Congress<br />
are hopping mad. Ha’aretz, the Israeli<br />
daily, said that news of the inquiry landed<br />
like the “diplomatic equivalent of an<br />
unexploded cluster bomb.”<br />
Perle is demanding that the White<br />
House clamp down on the investigators,<br />
according to the Boston Globe. “It’s pretty<br />
nasty, and unfortunately the Administration<br />
doesn’t seem to have it under control,”<br />
the Globe quotes Perle as saying. But<br />
according to the Financial Times, the<br />
White House is quietly doing just that: <strong>The</strong><br />
London daily reports that the White House<br />
is pressuring the FBI and the Justice Department<br />
not to issue indictments in the<br />
case.<br />
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Democratic Representative John Conyers<br />
wrote to the chairman of the House Judiciary<br />
Committee demanding an investigation<br />
into “substantial and credible evidence<br />
that Pentagon officials...have engaged<br />
in unauthorized covert activities.”<br />
Conyers specifically cited Feith. And the<br />
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence<br />
is now deep into phase two of its own<br />
probe, which includes examining the work<br />
of the OSP; its report is expected after the<br />
November election.<br />
<strong>The</strong> FBI has an ace in the hole that may<br />
allow it to resist White House pressure.<br />
“By now,” says a retired intelligence official,<br />
“the FBI has gathered up so much<br />
material in grand jury records and things<br />
like that that they are in a position to push<br />
back against pressure from the Administration<br />
to back away from this. When they<br />
get pressure, they leak to somebody. And<br />
the potential of disclosure is a real threat<br />
to the Administration.” In addition, the<br />
counterintelligence probe could spin off<br />
investigations in several possibly related<br />
scandals, including the Ahmad Chalabi<br />
case and the Valerie Plame leak, not to<br />
mention the Franklin matter.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y have no case,” says AEI’s<br />
Michael Ledeen. We’ll see.<br />
END<br />
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