“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he
cannot believe it exists”. -- J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director 1924-1972, quoted in The
Elks Magazine (August 1956). "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from
its [corrupt feudal] government." -- Thomas Paine. “Each of you, for himself, by himself
and on his own responsibility, must speak”. -- Mark Twain.  “The money powers prey upon
the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity.  It is more
despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than
bureaucracy.  It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light
upon its crimes.  I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the
bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.” -- President
Abraham Lincoln. “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act.” -- George Orwell.

  _____  

From: conspiracywatch-boun...@christiancommonlaw-gov.org
[mailto:conspiracywatch-boun...@christiancommonlaw-gov.org] On Behalf Of Jud Witham
Subject: Re: Conspiracy> BLACK OPS - PRIVATE OWNED AND RUN CIA !!!!!

 <http://portland.%20indymedia.%20org/en/2007/%2007/362202.%20shtml> http://portland.
indymedia. org/en/2007/ 07/362202. shtml

Blackwater USA Out Manuvers

the US Justice System

Can You Say WTC 7 Imploded !!!

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YUP and my DADDY and his Buddies and MARVIN BUSH own them !!!

http://www.sattlers.org/mickey/site/archive/2005/07/images/happy_duby...

 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR200...>
PRIVATE SPIES

 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR200...>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR200...

Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire.

By R.J. Hillhouse

Sunday, July 8, 2007; Page B05

Red alert: Our national security is being outsourced.

The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do with
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Al+Qaeda?tid=informline> al-Qaeda and
its fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth private spying industry that all but
runs U.S. intelligence operations today.

Surprised? No wonder. In April, Director of National Intelligence
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Mike+McConnell?tid=in...> Mike
McConnell was poised to publicize a year-long examination of outsourcing by U.S.
intelligence agencies. But the report was inexplicably delayed -- and suddenly
classified a national secret. What McConnell doesn't want you to know is that the
private spy industry has succeeded where no foreign government has: It has penetrated
the
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Central+Intelligence+...
ine> CIA and is running the show.

Over the past five years (some say almost a decade), there has been a revolution in the
intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing. Private companies now perform key
intelligence-agency functions, to the tune, I'm told, of more than $42 billion a year.
Intelligence professionals tell me that more than 50 percent of the National Clandestine
Service (NCS) -- the heart, brains and soul of the CIA -- has been outsourced to private
firms such as Abraxas,
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Booz+Allen+Hamilton+I...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Lockheed+Martin+Corpo...
ine> Lockheed Martin and
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Raytheon+Company?tid=...>
Raytheon.

These firms recruit spies, create non-official cover identities and control the
movements of CIA case officers. They also provide case officers and watch officers at
crisis centers and regional desk officers who control clandestine operations worldwide.
As the
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Los+Angeles+Times?tid...> Los
Angeles Times first reported last October, more than half the workforce in two key CIA
stations in the fight against terrorism --
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Baghdad?tid=informline> Baghdad and
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Islamabad?tid=informline> Islamabad,
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Pakistan?tid=informline> Pakistan -- is
made up of industrial contractors, or "green badgers," in CIA parlance.

Intelligence insiders say that entire branches of the NCS have been outsourced to
private industry. These branches are still managed by U.S. government employees ("blue
badgers") who are accountable to the agency's chain of command. But beneath them,
insiders say, is a supervisory structure that's controlled entirely by contractors; in
some cases, green badgers are managing green badgers from other corporations.

Sensing problems -- and possibly fearing congressional action -- the CIA recently
conducted a hasty review of all of its job classifications to determine which perform
"essential government functions" that should not be outsourced. But it's highly doubtful
that such a short-term exercise can comprehensively identify the proper "blue/green"
mix, especially because contractors' work statements have long been carefully formulated
to blur the distinction between approvable and debatable functions.

Although the contracting system is Byzantine, there's no question that the private
sector delivers high-quality professional intelligence services. Outsourcing has
provided solutions to personnel-management problems that have always plagued the CIA's
operations side. Rather than tying agents up in the kind of office politics that
government employees have to engage in to advance their careers, outsourcing permits
them to focus on what they do best, which boosts morale and performance. Privatization
also immediately increased the number of trained, experienced agents in the field after
the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Even though wide-scale outsourcing may not immediately endanger national security, it's
worrisome. The contractors in charge of espionage are still chiefly CIA alumni who have
absorbed its public service values. But as the center of gravity shifts from the public
sector to the private, more than one independent intelligence firm has developed plans
to "raise" succeeding generations of officers within its own training systems. These
corporate-grown agents will be inculcated with corporate values and ethics, not those of
public service.

And the current piecemeal system has introduced some vulnerabilities. Historically, the
system offered members of the intelligence community the kind of stability that ensured
that they would keep its secrets. That dynamic is now being eroded. Contracts come and
go. So do workforces. The spies of the past came of age professionally in a strong
extended family, but the spies of the future will be more like children raised in
multiple foster homes -- at risk.

Today, when Booz Allen Hamilton loses a contract to SAIC, people rush from one to the
other in a game of musical chairs, with not enough chairs for all the workers who
possess both the highest security clearances and expertise in the art of espionage. Some
inevitably lose out. Any good counterintelligence officer knows what can happen next.
Down-on-their-luck spies begin to do what spies do best: spy. Other companies offer them
jobs in exchange for industry secrets. Foreign governments approach them. And some day,
terrorists will clue in to this potential workforce.

The director of national intelligence has put our security at risk by classifying the
study on outsourcing and keeping the truth about this inadequately planned and managed
system out of the light. Much of what has been outsourced makes sense, but much of the
structure doesn't, not for the longer term. It's time for the public and Congress to
demand the study's release. More important, it's past time for the industry -- an
industry conceived of and run by some of the best and brightest the CIA has ever
produced -- to come up with the kind of innovative solutions it's legendary for, before
the damage goes too deep.

 <mailto:r...@thespywhobilledme.com> r...@thespywhobilledme.com

R.J. Hillhouse writes the national security blog the Spy Who Billed Me and is the author
of the espionage thriller "Outsourced."

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 <http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/12/africa/12iraq.php?page=1>
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/12/africa/12iraq.php?page=1

Guards <http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/12/africa/12iraq.php?page=1>  steal $282
million from a bank in Baghdad

IN AMERICAN DOLLARS Hmmmm   <http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/33.gif>

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te&submit=Search> By Alissa J. Rubin

Published: July 11, 2007

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BAGHDAD: In an astonishing heist, guards at a bank here made off with more than a
quarter-billion dollars on Wednesday, according to an official at the Interior Ministry.

The robbery, of $282 million from the Dar Es Salaam bank, a private financial
institution, raised more questions than it answered, and officials were tight-lipped
about the crime. The local police said two guards engineered the robbery, but an
official at the Interior Ministry said three guards were involved.

Both confirmed that the stolen money was in American dollars, not Iraqi dinars. It was
unclear why the bank had that much money on hand in dollars, or how the robbers managed
to move such a large amount without being detected.

Several officials speculated that the robbers had connections to the militias, because
it would be difficult for them to move without being searched through many checkpoints
in Baghdad.

Otherwise on Wednesday, there was only scattered violence in the city, although 18
bodies were found by the police in different neighborhoods, signaling that sectarian
killing had not ebbed.

1.      Bae Systems Enters Agreement With The Carlyle : TheFreeLibrary.com

Business Editorshitech Writers Nashua N.H.Business Wireapril 23 2001...Find hundreds of
leading publications on numerous topics at TheFreeLibrary.com.

thefreelibrary.com/BAE+SYSTEMS+Enters+Agreement+With+the+Carlyle+...

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... Major is employed by the Carlyle Group and BAE Systems, the major arms supplier ...
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.com/articles/ap/2007/01/14/business/EU-FIN-COM-Britain-Shipyard.php> Reports: BAE
Systems, Carlyle Group plan bid for Britain's nuclear ...

Reports: BAE Systems, Carlyle Group plan bid for Britain's nuclear submarine dockyard
... BAE Systems PLC and U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group LP ...

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carlylegroup.com/eng/fund/biofund-3702.html> The Carlyle Group : Bio : Thomas W. Rabaut

Biography of Thomas W. Rabaut at The Carlyle Group ... of the Land and Armaments
Operating Group of BAE Systems where he oversaw 11,000 ...

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Riggs, Carlyle and Bush

... host of the BAE slush funds; the Bush-family-tied Carlyle Group, which is the ...
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Business

... CCD cameras, is spun out of BAE Systems to puruse industrial, aerospace, medical,
... BAE SYSTEMS North America has reached agreement with The Carlyle Group, ...

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Order and Government ...

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BAE Systems <BA L> and U S private equity group Carlyle <CYL UL> have launched ...
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To All Delegates & Prosecutors as well as La Media,

 The most corrupt industry in the world that you'll ever lay eyes on secured more than
ten separate contracts for the Sultan of Oman, using the go-between man Timothy Landon.

 "Published: 12 July 2007

Nestling in the folds of the Hampshire hills, the hamlet of Faccombe sits in splendid
isolation. Cab drivers working just five miles away are not aware of it; bar staff in
the Marco Pierre White restaurant up the road can barely pronounce its name. A sense of
eerie solitude exudes from the village's quaint pond-side pub, clipped lawns and
carefully-tended lanes.

Until last week, the whole of Faccombe was owned by just one man. He was known locally
as Timothy Landon, but in the Middle East, where he spent much of his adult life, they
called him the White Sultan. Brigadier Landon, to use his proper title, was one of the
richest and most secretive men in Britain, and the inhabitants of his Arcadian kingdom
were told never to discuss his affairs.

On Friday, Landon died, after a protracted battle with lung cancer, aged 64. His funeral
yesterday was a typically private affair. Only a handful of close acquaintances were
invited, plus a few representatives from the oil-rich Kingdom of Oman, where they
f�ted him as a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia. Six of Landon's estate workers, clad in
his personal tweed, carried the coffin.

He leaves behind �500m, the hamlet of Faccombe, and an extraordinary tale about how he
acquired a fortune that made him twice as wealthy as the Queen.

Only one picture of Landon has ever been published. He is photographed in his svelte
youth, sitting in a Land-Rover with gun-toting associates of the Sultan of Oman, whom he
helped lead a bloodless coup in the oil-rich nation in 1970. He is wearing a local
head-dress, the picture cryptically annotated with the words "an intelligence
Land-Rover". The grainy black-and-white photo carried on these pages, is, perhaps, the
fitting footnote to his remarkable life.

Landon was, after all, a man whose murky fortune was created from a conflict in which he
helped the current Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Sa'id, seize power from his own father in
a coup surreptitiously orchestrated by the British government. He was a lifelong
adventurer and arms dealer who filled his coffers through a close friendship with the
secretive Arabian dictator, and later became a crucial strategic link between the UK and
the Arab world. Today, with the West in historic conflict with radical Islam, his legacy
is more important than ever.

More controversial, too. Earlier this year Landon was named as a key figure in the BAE
Systems affair, allegedly passing money to an Austrian aristocrat to ease an arms deal
between the firm and the Czech government. The sale is being investigated in three
European countries. Questions have been raised in the Hungarian parliament over Landon's
international business activities. He is alleged to have been involved in arms deals to
dubious regimes over several decades, and has been accused of breaking oil embargos to
South Africa and Rhodesia.

Little wonder, then, that Landon's legacy should be one of sinister secrecy, as well as
extraordinary wealth. In Faccombe, where the neoclassical barns are deceptively
welcoming and the pub is wreathed in ivy, strangers are not just bamboozled by secrecy,
they are made unwelcome. Walk past St Barnabas church, with several generations of the
same family buried side by side, and the noise of twitching curtains becomes deafening.
Those asking difficult questions in the Jack Russell pub are sent on their way before
the local brew even wets their lips.

In his later years, Landon would drive around London and Hampshire in a privately-owned
black cab to avoid exposure. Some speculate this was due to security concerns
accompanying someone rich enough to be regarded as one of Britain's 100 wealthiest men,
and to have built up a property portfolio that contained around 50,000 acres of England,
including several historic grouse moors. Others thought it laid bare paranoia that
surrounded the manner in which his fortune was accumulated. To understand who was right,
we must return to the beginning of his colourful and mysterious life.

James Timothy Whittington Landon was born on 20 August 1942 on Vancouver Island, British
Columbia. He came to England for his secondary education at 11 and attended Eastbourne
College, where he was an unassuming pupil of stocky build who decided to follow the
military footsteps of his father, who served in the Canadian army. Landon junior went on
to Sandhurst and graduated in August 1962.

According to Army records he was at best a mediocre soldier, coming 182nd out of the 208
cadets in his year. Despite this, he managed to secure a three-year commission as a
second lieutenant in a cavalry regiment, the 10th Hussars, where again, he failed to
excel.

Everything changed, however, when Landon was seconded to Muscat, the capital of Oman,
towards the end of his commission in the mid-1960s. Here, he got lucky: Britain had
become embroiled in a guerrilla war with Communist rebels, trained and armed by Russia,
who were trying to overthrow the incumbent ruler, Sultan Sa'id Taimur. Thanks in part to
Landon's military nous, the rebels were kept at bay.

Shortly afterwards, talk turned to the Omani succession: the ultra-conservative Sa'id
Taimur was developing what was branded a "worrying independent streak" by Whitehall
apparatchiks, who were fearful that he would not play ball with British oil companies
anxious to cash in on Oman's recently discovered oil reserves. The British forces were
instructed to begin plotting with Sa'id Taimur's son, Qaboos, about deposing his father.
This, it was hoped, would secure the UK's national interests.

Intrinsic to this plan was Landon, who claimed (possibly apocryphally) to have first met
Qaboos while at Sandhurst, and was therefore seen as key to the success of the plan.
London's chief intelligence officer in Muscat, Brigadier Malcolm Dennison, convinced
Sa'id that he needed to let Landon visit Qaboos, who pined for the kind of contacts he
had made while studying to be a soldier in the UK.

At the time, the Sultan's son was living in the Salalah Royal Palace, in the south of
the country. He was under house arrest, since Sa'id was worried that Qaboos would
orchestrate a military coup to depose him. His fears were later proven right.

"I worked for Sa'id. He didn't trust his family because they had a history of doing each
other in," said the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who is a distant relation of Landon's
and coincidentally spent two years fighting Marxist guerrillas in Oman during the same
period. "The British, through Tim, could meet Qaboos. They made him realise that if his
father was to remain in control and be as reactionary as he was it would be bad for the
country."

Even in his role as a junior intelligence office, Landon provided useful military
intelligence to those fighting the guerrillas, including Fiennes. "We'd never had good
intelligence," said Fiennes. "But as soon as Tim came in we started getting the right
information. We started killing people." He added: "I had nearly been killed through
useless intelligence and it could be a bit worrying sitting in a cave somewhere
wondering if they'd got things right. But Tim made a point of getting to know the
locals; he learned their language and his information was reliable."

The bloodless coup, around the time of which Landon was photographed in that Land-Rover,
happened on 23 July 1970. One popular and colourful story records Landon storming a
staircase at the palace with an automatic pistol in his hand. However, local experts
maintain that this is almost certainly untrue.

Either way, Sai'd was forced from power. Two years after his deposition, he died in a
suite on the top floor of The Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, London, where he had been
living. When asked once what his greatest regret was shortly before his death, he is
believed to have said: "Not having Landon shot."

Qaboos' regime, for its part, began to prosper, thanks in no small part to Oman's
burgeoning oil revenue. Landon meanwhile broke from the British military and became a
senior personal adviser to Qaboos. According to Fiennes, Landon acted as a "generalist",
advising the Sultan whom to consult on specific military and economic issues and other
matters of governmental concern.

At this time Landon began his work in the arms trade and started receiving commission
from state oil deals. The subject was disclosed in 2002 by the writer John Beasant, who
is one of the foremost experts on Oman, and who was at the time working on a book called
The True-life Drama and Intrigue of an Arab State.

Speaking this week, Beasant recalled being offered a substantial sum not to go ahead
with his book. When he refused, he was expelled from the country. Since its publication,
the book has been officially banned by the Omani regime, which is notoriously sensitive
to criticism. When Robin Allen, the Financial Times' highly respected former Gulf
correspondent reported troubling financial waters ahead for the nation, he was also
banished.

Soon Landon began to accrue his fortune. Beasant said: "Landon was of enormous help to
Sultan Qaboos in establishing the modern Omani state at a time when the Sultan lacked
experience of government and was desperately short of local talent on which to draw."
Landon built up Oman's military as one of the best-armed small forces in the Middle
East, and was well rewarded for his efforts by the Sultan. This trend continued apace.
In 1980 alone, �400m was spent on defence in the country, which has a population of
just over two million people. According to Beasant's book, the arms purchases were
handled by David Bayley, another former British Army officer who would later become
Landon's business partner.

When in Oman, Landon is believed to have worked with Mark Thatcher, the politician's son
who was no stranger to controversy in the Middle East. An infamous construction contract
was awarded to British firm Cementation, a subsidiary of property conglomerate Trafalgar
House, after Thatcher's mother, then Prime Minister, lobbied the sultan while Mark was
on the company payroll. Beasant writes that Landon helped one firm break oil sanctions
to Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s.

Landon's relationship with Qaboos continued throughout his life. Although it was a risky
business to be in, the Sultan apparently sent Landon cheques for �1m every birthday
until his death. "Who wouldn't have taken the chance to get that much money," said
Beasant.

In the early 1980s Landon returned to Britain. He left Oman, according to Beasant,
because, "rather like Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair, he became the story", but
continued to work for Qaboos from an office in London, where business dealings were kept
intensely secret. He ran an offshore company, Valurex, which was allegedly used in the
BAE System arms deals to Prague. He is also believed to have kept an office in
Washington, managed by a former CIA operative.

Around this time Landon married his wife, Katerina, a member of the ancient Hungarian
Esterhazy family. There were also rumours that she was related to the even more
aristocratic Austrian Hapsburgs, which earned Landon the title: "Mr Perhapsburg".

Mark Hollingsworth and Paul Halloran's 1995 book Thatcher's Gold claims that in 1982,
Landon was given an honorary knighthood after Sultan Qaboos lobbied Thatcher. Because
some in government were concerned about Landon's business dealings, the honour was given
to him as a foreign citizen: he was not allowed to use the title "Sir".

A loophole allowed this because Landon often travelled on his Omani passport, given to
him by the Sultan as a special diplomatic privilege. The Duke of Edinburgh has also
reportedly voiced "distaste" at Landon's affairs.

Away from the office, Landon's greatest passion was country pursuits. Faccombe boasts a
fine pheasant shoot, and during the 1990s he also began buying up grouse moors across
the north of England. He is known to have given at least �210,000 to the Countryside
Alliance, which has fought high-profile battles in favour of hunting.

"He liked the challenge � he was interested in conservation and management," said one
sporting agent. "He also liked the people who did it � the beaters, the pickers-up,
the gamekeepers. Whatever you are successful at in life, grouse moors create a levelling
out process, because you are subject to the will of nature."

Landon's name was linked several years ago the purchase of Viscount Lambton's
12,000-acre Muggleswick estate near Durham, and he is known to have purchased and
sold-on Knarsdale and Asholme moors in Northumberland, all for a price approaching
�10m. His other grouse moors at the time of his death stretched to North Yorkshire and
Scotland.

Landon's aparent affinity with the environment even provoked him to install one of the
country's first wind turbines at Faccombe. He was also rumoured � bizarrely � to
have embraced Buddhism, although this has been dismissed by another of Landon's close
friends, who has known him socially since the 1970s. "He was a pretty conventional
Christian gentleman. He might have done some meditation, but that's all," he said.

For many, Landon was simply a bon viveur. He was friends in equal measure with the
landed gentry and the farmers near Faccombe. He owned in his time a number of yachts,
one of which, Leander, was sold to National Car Parks founder Sir Donald Gosling for
�18m in the early 1990s.

Landon was a great fan of opera and supported a number of opera groups, including the
Pavilion Opera, London's premier touring chamber opera. After a day's shooting, he would
often pay young classical musicians to perform concerts at his lavish estate. He also
was fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, and would mix his shooting with skiing in
Canada, tennis, and riding.

Landon left behind a son, Arthur, believed to have been educated at Ampleforth College
and Bristol University, who will inherit much of his father's fortune and is now taking
some time off from university before considering his many options. "It's going to have a
profound effect on his life," said the friend. "But no doubt he will rise to the
occasion."

Arthur has one man to thank for his new-found financial fortune. But that one man �
Qaboos � is believed to have stayed away from yesterday's funeral.

In Faccombe, the leaves are being blasted from the verges, and the clipped lawns near
the Jack Russell are almost unbelievably verdant. It is silent, apart from the massed
braying of sheep and guard dogs disturbed by the brazenness of a stranger. Locals remain
undeterred by the potential changes that Landon's death will have on their future.

"We can only hope that it will have no effect," one said. "We'd be very surprised if it
did. I think people here believe that life will just continue on as normal." Nothing, it
seems, can pierce Faccombe's hermetic seal � not even death. It's presumably just what
the White Sultan would have commanded. "
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