Apropos morgendagens KK-intervju med Kleiv Fiskvik, om USAs terror mot
Cuba. Amerikanske planar om en "Operation Northwoods" omfatta bruk av "ekte
eller simulert" terror, som skulle danne påskot for å invadere Cuba.
(KK-artikkellen har denne adressa
http://www.klassekampen.no/cgi-bin/nyheter.pl/2001/10/1901.html )
Asgeir Bjørkedal
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===================================== U.S. Military Schemes: Ominously Like 9-11
[8 October 2001]
=====================================
The 'Baltimore Sun' article posted below discusses James Bamford's new
book, "Body of Secrets."
The book indicates the NSA knows Osama bin laden has not broken with his
tycoon family. In
addition, using freedom of information documents, the author reveals that
during the 1960s the U.S.
government developed plans to stage false attacks - some involving the
slaughter of U.S. citizens,
including sailors and/or marines - to justify a 'counter'attack against
Cuba.
"'We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami
area, in other
Florida cities and even in Washington,' said one document reportedly
prepared by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. 'We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo
Bay and blame
Cuba,' the document says. 'Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would
cause a helpful
wave of indignation'....
"Another idea was to shoot down a CIA plane designed to replicate a
passenger flight
and announce that Cuban forces shot it down."
Bamford is not some conspiracy nut. Once an investigative reporter for
ABC, he is hailed as a top
expert on the National Security Agency (NSA). Here's an excerpt from a
"New York Times"
review of his earlier book, "The Puzzle Palace:"
"There have been glimpses inside the N.S.A. before, but until now no
one has
published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency. The
quality and depth
of Mr. Bamford's research are remarkable. Through interviews with
former N.S.A.
officials, scrutiny of thousands of obscure public documents and
aggressive use of the
Freedom of Information Act, Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything
except the
combination to the director's safe. " (Philip Taubman in the "New
York Times Book
Review." This excerpt is posted at Barnes and Nobles. To read this
and other
reviews, go to
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Puzzle+Pala
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Puzzle+Palace&user
id=2IO3GAXJAV
Click on "Puzzle Palace" and scroll down.
The 'Baltimore Sun' article follows.
-- Emperor's Clothes Staff.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = New book on NSA sheds light on secrets -
U.S. terror plan called Cuba invasion pretext
By Scott Shane and Tom Bowman Sun Staff
April 24, 2001
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WASHINGTON - U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to
commit terrorist acts
against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the
ouster of Communist
leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book about the National Security
Agency.
"We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in
other Florida cities
and even in Washington," said one document reportedly prepared by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We
could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," the document
says. "Casualty lists
in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation."
The plan is laid out in documents signed by the five Joint Chiefs but
never carried out, according to
writer James Bamford in "Body of Secrets." The new history of the Fort
Meade-based
eavesdropping agency is being released today by Doubleday.
NSA regularly picks up the conversations of suspected terrorist financier
Osama bin Laden, says
Bamford, and has monitored Chinese and French companies trying to sell
missiles to Iran. He
provides new details about an Israeli attack on a Navy eavesdropping ship
in 1967, suggesting that
the sinking was deliberate. And he reveals the loss of an "entire
warehouse" full of secret
cryptographic gear to the North Vietnamese in 1975, at the end of the
Vietnam War.
Bamford, a former investigative reporter for ABC News who wrote "The
Puzzle Palace" about the
NSA in 1982, said his new book is based mostly on documents obtained
through the Freedom of
Information Act or found in government archives. "NSA never handed me any
documents," he said.
"It was a question of digging."
He said he was most surprised by the anti-Cuba terror plan, code-named
Operation Northwoods. It
"may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government," he
writes.
The Northwoods plan also proposed that if the 1962 launch of John Glenn
into orbit were to fail,
resulting in the astronaut's death, the U.S. government would publicize
fabricated evidence that
Cuba had used electronic interference to sabotage the flight, the book says.
A previously secret document obtained by Bamford offers further
suggestions for mayhem to be
blamed on Cuba.
"We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or
simulated). ... We could foster
attempts on lives of Cubans in the United States, even to the extent of
wounding in instances to be
widely publicized," the document says. Another idea was to shoot down a
CIA plane designed to
replicate a passenger flight and announce that Cuban forces shot it down.
Citing a White House document, Bamford writes that the idea of creating a
pretext for the invasion
of Cuba might have started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the
last weeks of his
administration, when the plan for an invasion by Cuban exiles trained in
the United States was
hatched. Carried out in April 1961, soon after Kennedy became president,
the Bay of Pigs invasion
proved a fiasco. Castro's forces quickly killed or rounded up the invaders.
Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, presented the
Operation
Northwoods plan to Kennedy early in 1962, but the president rejected it
that March because he
wanted no overt U.S. military action against Cuba. Lemnitzer then sought
unsuccessfully to destroy
all evidence of the plan, according to Bamford.
Lemnitzer and those who served with him in 1962 as chiefs of the nation's
military branches are
dead. But two former top Kennedy administration officials said yesterday
that they were unaware
of Operation Northwoods and questioned whether such a plan was ever drafted.
"I've never heard of Operation Northwoods. Never heard of it and don't
believe it," said Theodore
Sorenson, Kennedy's White House special counsel. "Obviously, it would be
totally illegal as well as
totally unwise."
Robert S. McNamara, Kennedy's defense secretary, said: "I never heard of
it. I can't believe the
chiefs were talking about or engaged in what I would call CIA-type
operations."
Bamford writes that besides the Joint Chiefs, then-Assistant Secretary of
Defense Paul H. Nitze
also favored "provoking a phony war with Cuba."
"There may be a piece of paper" on Northwoods, said McNamara. "I just
cannot conceive of
[Nitze] approving anything like that or doing it without talking to me."
The book contains many other revelations in its detailed account of NSA,
the biggest U.S.
intelligence agency and Maryland's largest employer, with more than
25,000 personnel at Fort
Meade, site of its global eavesdropping efforts.
Among them:
In recent years, NSA has regularly listened to bin Laden's unencrypted
telephone calls. Agency
officials have sometimes played tapes of bin Laden talking to his mother
to impress members of
Congress and select visitors to the agency.
In the late 1990s, NSA tracked efforts by Chinese and French companies to
sell missile technology
to Iran, particularly the C-802 anti-ship missile. The eavesdropping led
to U.S. protests to the
Chinese and French governments.
When U.S. troops evacuated Vietnam in 1975, "an entire warehouse
overflowing with NSA's most
important cryptographic machines and other supersensitive code and cipher
materials" was left
behind. It was the largest compromise of such equipment in U.S. history,
Bamford writes, but the
agency still has not acknowledged it.
When Israeli fighter jets attacked the NSA eavesdropping ship USS Liberty
in the Mediterranean in
1967, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171, an NSA aircraft was
listening in and heard Israeli
pilots referring to the American flag on the ship. U.S. officials,
including President Lyndon Baines
Johnson, decided to forget the matter, Bamford writes, because they did
not want to embarrass
Israel. To this day, Israeli officials say their forces mistakenly
attacked the U.S. ship.
Bamford says the reason for the strike was Israel's desperate effort to
cover up its attacks on the
Egyptian town of El Arish in the Sinai. The Liberty was sitting offshore
and the Israelis feared that
the ship would detect the operation, which included the shooting of
prisoners.
Yesterday, an NSA spokesperson questioned a point made in the book about
the USS Liberty.
"We do not comment on operational matters, alleged or otherwise; however,
Mr. Bamford's claim
that the NSA leadership was `virtually unanimous in their belief that the
attack was deliberate' is
simply not true," the spokesperson said.
When he wrote "The Puzzle Palace" in 1982, Bamford was attacked by some
NSA officials, who
said his revelations gave the Soviet Union and other U.S. adversaries too
much information on the
secret agency. One former director referred to him as "an unconvicted
felon."
With the end of the Cold War, the agency has been less guarded. NSA's
current director, Air Force
Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has granted a number of interviews. Hayden
"cracked the door open
a tiny bit," said Bamford, partly to burnish NSA's public image and
correct misconceptions.
Copyright (c) 2001, The Baltimore Sun Reprinted for Fair Use Only
= = = = = = = = = = = Further Reading:
= = = = = = = = =
'Why Washington Wants Afghanistan' by Jared Israel, Rick Rozoff &
Nico Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm
'NATO Buildup in the Balkans: Part of a Deadly Game' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/farish.htm
'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' By
Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
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