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decision by a former CIA director aligning himself with the interests of their
hated enemies, the Arabs.
THE ISRAELI LOBBY's CIA POWER GRAB
It is interesting to note further that Colby's death came at a critical time
when the Israeli lobby in Washington was engaged in a major behind-thescenes
effort to substantially expand the power of the CIA and its thendirector,
John Deutch, a Belgian-born Jewish refugee and longtime
Washington figure known for his close ties to Israeli intelligence.
The so-called "reform" measures—designed to increase the power of the
CIA director—were of such a nature that a genuine CIA reformer such as
William Colby would have certainly emerged as a very loud and very
public critic of such proposals, particularly since the fine hand of the Israeli
lobby was very clearly at work behind the scenes.
On April 24, 1996—two days before Colby disappeared—a little-noted
Senate committee vote laid the groundwork for a bizarre and unprecedented
proposed restructuring of the U.S. civilian and military intelligence system.
Sen. Arlen Specter—the infamous former Warren Commission staff
attorney—now the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee (and a leading congressional supporter of Israel) pushed through a
vote on a measure to extend the author of the CIA director to control the
budgets of all U.S. intelligence agencies, most of which were then under the
purview of the military divisions.
Under Specter's proposal (which was fully endorsed by Deutch) the CIA
director would also have been granted the authority to play a major role in the
appointments of the directors of the various intelligence agencies, including
those inside the Pentagon. This would put Deutch in control of not only the
CIA but also the national Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance
Office and the Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as the Army, Navy, Air
Force and Marine intelligence groups. 905
On April 25 even the Washington Post was moved to comment (quite
correctly) that "Such a radical change is likely to run into strong opposition
not only from the military services themselves but also from other
congressional committees with Pentagon oversight. The Senate Armed
Services Committee had already sent a letter to Specter saying it wants to
hold off action on any of the reforms that would limit powers of the
Pentagon, such as the proposal to give the [CIA director] a role in the
naming of agency heads." 906
Certainly, this proposal was extraordinary, to say the least, but it was fully
in keeping with an ongoing push (at that time) to expand the influence of the
CIA and its current director, John Deutch.
After assuming his CIA post, Deutch was greeted by numerous
laudatory articles in the mainstream media proclaiming that there was—as
Parade magazine cooed in a favorable cover story—a "new CIA" 907 under