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Tilting At Windmills > > With the current
need by our government to fight International > Terrorism, Weapons of Mass
Destruction, Drugs, and other threats -- > outlined in various official
pronouncements and in the upcoming speech > by DCI Tenet "21 Century
Intelligence Challenges," -- we should applaud > all efforts to
successfully meet those threats. > >
Unfortunately the CIA is led by a Cold Warrior unable to see how > to
correct [his intelligence failures] the problems and who instead > holds
on to the past. "Who did we recruit and what difference will it > make?"
is how he opens each morning's staff meeting -- when the emphasis > on
recruitment's and the inevitable lying it generates, has dumbed down >
the Agency in the past and now will continue to do so into the 21
Century. > > Numerous commentary, including some by
CIA personnel and scholars, > decry this phenomenon, yet the dumbed down
Directorate of Operations (DO), > and other elements carry the day. The
CIA will never meet the challenges > of the 21st Century until it accepts
these realities and moves to alter > its future. I have little faith that
Tenet, or anyone else now in the CIA's > leadership, understand the
problems or can or will devise solutions. Tenet > seems to be the lapdog
of Congressional Neanderthals and writes intelligence > to satisfy that
learned constancy. > > Ralph McGehee http://come.to/CIABASE > >
From CIABASE Web Site
Front Page (Edited for Length) > > CIA is
not now nor has ever been a central intelligence agency. >
It is the covert action arm of the president's foreign
policy > advisers. In that capacity it overthrows
or supports foreign > governments while reporting
"intelligence" justifying those > activities. It
shapes its intelligence, even in such critical >
areas as Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support >
presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of
its covert > action responsibility, and the
American people are the primary > target audience
of its lies." - Ralph McGehee > > "CIABASE
remains a one-of-a-kind, extraordinary resource for >
serious scholars, journalists, and researchers,
regardless of > their political leanings and
research interests." >
- John Macartney, American University > >
"Essentially the CIA stopped all accurate info on Vietnam >
while conducting a propaganda campaign to keep us in
this > war that was unwinnable. If we are to
avoid further "Vietnams" we > need a good,
reliable, trustworthy intelligence service." > >
Neanderthal Intelligence > > Mary McGrory
in a Washington Post (10/7/99 A3) article noted the >
buddy-binding over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
between the > Know-Nothings of the Senate and the
Know-Nothings of the CIA. > > She notes
that Majority Leader Trent Lott supposedly saw the >
wisdom of ramming the bill [an anti-Comprehensive Test
Ban > Treaty] through the Senate after he heard
from the Cold War > mascot agency, the CIA, that
certain low-yield atomic tests could > not be
definitively monitored. > > The CIA is
revered by the Know-Nothings of the Senate. The agency >
may have missed the demise of the Soviet Union and
gotten the > address of the Chinese embassy in
Belgrade wrong, but it thrills > the
reactionaries to be led up to the Senate attic and told >
secrets--like the one that low-yield explosions are
hard to > judge--that give them cover to vote
against things they were > going to vote against
anyway. > >
A Historical Whitewash (To a Large Degree) > >
Researchers and relatives of victims of human rights
abuses in > Chile charged CIA is withholding
information about its covert > operations in that
country, contrary to a White House directive. > >
The National Archives is expected to make public
hundreds of > documents from the State
Department, Pentagon and CIA relating to > the
military rule of Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet. But not any >
information about the CIA's involvement in a 1973 coup
against > Chilean President Salvador Allende or
its support for Pinochet. > > Peter
Kornbluh, a researcher at the National Security Archive, >
said CIA seems to have adopted a narrow interpretation
of the > administration's declassification
directive. "Not a single word > about CIA
operations in support of the Pinochet regime" has been >
released -- "This is a whitewash of history, pure and
simple." > > Moreover, the CIA succeeded
in pulling back hundreds of documents > on Chile
discovered in the files of the Nixon White House. "These >
are the documents which detail the history of U.S.
covert > operations to foment chaos and violence
inn Chile. And there's > only one reason to
withhold them--to continue to cover up this >
history." - Washington Post 10/7/99 A28. > >
The "To a Large Degree," relates to a study produced by
the > Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to > Intelligence
Activities, United States Senate dated 1975 -- >
entitled "Covert Action In Chile 1963-1973." This report includes >
some information on CIA operations to overthrow
Allende. In 1976 > I acquired a copy of the
report that now may have disappeared > from the
Committee's holdings. > >
History Teaches Us? > > Beginning shortly
after World War Two, the United States >
supported an imported regime in Vietnam that ultimately led to >
the trauma of the Vietnam War. As a consequences of
this war, the > narcotics traffic in Vietnam and
surrounding countries -- the > Golden Triangle --
grew enormously -- accounting for majority of >
percentages of heroin and opium entering the United States. The >
war itself grew to such bitter proportions that it
threatened the > existence of our own form of
government. > > Beginning in the early
eighties we began supporting the > Afghanistan
Mujehedin, to fight what was estimated to be a >
massive Soviet push -- (our bad intelligence did not recognize >
the soon death of the USSR). Along with this
CIA-supported > Mujehedin, we created generations
of new terrorists. Sadly our > do-goodism created
the Golden Crescent -- a new melange of >
countries exporting the majority percentages of heroin and opium >
entering the United States. > >
Now we are told that we must fight the new drug threat
by > supporting a narco-terrorist
counterinsurgency in Colombia. From > that
traffic, they tell us, 70 to 80 percent of the narcotics >
entering the U.S., emanates. Can this new war generate
massive > new percentages of drugs -- 170% to
180% -- flooding our shores? > > I fear
that the new war on drugs will create agonies for the >
United States. What will be the impact of this
narco-war on the > streets of Los Angeles? I
predict that this new war on drugs will > enflame
the entire region. Would it not be wise now, before the >
new war gets out of hand, to reconsider our policies.
What does > history teach us? > >
Colombia & DCI Tenet > > In Colombia,
one major consideration is how an increase in >
United States military involvement in Colombia reflects the >
Vietnam War. The population numbers of the two
countries are > similar, and the existence of
revolutionary movements somewhat > similar. How
heavily have these movements organized that >
population? In Vietnam the Communists organized millions of South >
Vietnamese who committed themselves totally to their
victory -- > while our intelligence blinded
itself and counted only a > fraction. Are we
doing this again in Colombia? > > Another
major issue is the Colombian military which is corrupt, >
supports drug traffickers and sponsors death squads.
Can such an > organization demand the loyalty of
the people and the unquestioning > support of
the United States? Does this not mirror Vietnam realities? > >
Lastly, David Ignatius in a Op-ed piece asks the
question how > George Tenet is doing as DCI. He
in writing the article > apparently had the
assistance of the CIA's staff. Yet in his > piece
there is no mention at all of analysis, analysts, etc. >
Tenet focuses entirely on operations and recruitment's
-- the road > to all the disasters of the past.
Tenet opens each morning's staff > meeting with
the question -- who did we recruit and what difference >
will it make? > >
To me the lack of analysis -- 1% -- one percent -- of the >
intelligence budget is allocated for all-source
intelligence. > This figure reflects his approach
and foresees many more and > possibly more
disastrous intelligence failures under his reign. > >
"Spinning The American Public." > > A
former senior Clinton Administration official charged that the >
new multi-agency plan to control the dissemination of
information > abroad is aimed at "spinning the
American public." > > Presidential
Decision Directive 68, ordered the creation of the >
International Public Information (IPI) system -- and
said > "information aimed at the U.S. audience
should be coordinated > integrated, deconflicted
and synchronized with the IPI to achieve > a
synergistic effect." PDD 68 does not distinguish between what >
would be done overseas and what would be done at
home... it talks > about a news war...The target
is the American people." Washington > Times
7/29/99 A1. > > PDD 68 orders top
officials from the Defense, State, Justice, >
Commerce, and Treasury and the CIA and FBI to meet and set up a >
core group. Coordinating this massive agglomeration
will > inevitable produce fact-blindness
especially when you include the > misinformation
operations of the CIA. If there is any plan to >
distinguish fact from fiction, IPI should know about CIA >
deception operations -- but CIA will never reveal those
details > to anyone. > >
One major role for the CIA is the creation of false
evidence to > support its operations -- it
refuses to share those details with > other
agencies. Internally it even restricts details of such >
operations using strict need-to-know and
compartmentation > policies. So when it conducts
many and massive deception > operations those
deceits inevitably will end up in the domestic >
media and will shape our foreign policies. With the creation of >
the IPI these stories will be disseminated world-wide
and > especially domestically. > >
What are some types of CIA False Evidence operations?
The CIA > forges documents and places them where
they will be discovered > and disseminated
widely. (It effectively demonizes targets even >
the most honorable while glorifying sponsored "demons"). It sets >
off bombs, blaming them on targets. It plants
"Communist" or now > probably "terrorist" weapons
shipments and arranges for them to > be found as
it broadcasts details of such widely. > >
It buys foreign media and employees and book publishers, >
establishes policy-making think tanks and their
publications, it > employs foreign radio and
television stations -- all used to > disseminate
its deceits. > > As one example -- It kept
the media riveted for months as it told > of
Cuban troops in Angola raping Ovimbundu girls. The villagers >
were outraged, captured the Cubans, and over a period
of months > held a trial, proclaimed them guilty
and then executed the Cubans > with their own
weapons -- the only thing wrong with the story was >
that it was all made up. > >
Doctored photographs, false atrocity stories, falsely
attributed > scholarly books written criticizing
or blaming this or that > movement or target
(over 1000 titles published in one period) > make
up more of its arsenal of lies. Its operations in academia >
sponsor or subvert thousands of domestic academicians
and untold > numbers of foreign academics. It
also sponsors numerous > politicians and their
groups and media operations. (One sample of > the
massive nature of the deceptions it employs can be found >
here, those it used in Chile and they led to the
empowerment of > Pinochet.) > >
I have had a number of experiences with the
disinformation/ > deception operations. Perhaps
the most pervasive and destructive > were CIA
lies re Vietnam from 1950 through 1998. But I found that >
it also lied most effectively in its intelligence and
-- in the > facts that it suppressed. >
> So this is what the American people can expect
under the new IPI. > To appreciate its terrible
power I recommend reading George > Orwell's
classic "1984." > > Details of a group
similar to IPI in the Reagan Administration >
that was declared illegal. > >
DCI Tenet Claims Responsibility > > DCI
Tenet told Congress yesterday that he takes "ultimate >
responsibility" for the accidental bombing of the
Chinese Embassy > in Belgrade and promised to
change the Agency's procedures to > ensure that
such a mistake cannot happen again. Tenet attributed >
the error to poor targeting procedures, inadequate
review and > faulty databases. "It was a major
error," Tenet told the House > Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence. "I cannot minimize >
the significance of this." The Yugoslav Directorate of Supply and >
Procurement was the first target "unilaterally proposed
and > wholly assembled" by CIA. Tenet also gave
new details about a > mid-level intelligence
analyst who challenged the targeting data >
before the airstrike. Washington Post 7/23/99 A16. > >
A recent Admiral Jeremiah report followed up and
concluded the > CIA needed to be scrubbed from
the top to bottom. A departing > (conservative)
case officer recorded the devastating >
intellectual inability's of the leadership of the CIA's >
Directorate of Operations. > >
A number of high-level analysts left the CIA and wrote
of its > terrible intelligence. For example see:
Lost Promise: How CIA > Analysis Misserves the
Nation by John A. Gentry. A former top Soviet >
affairs analyst, Melvin Goodwin, decries the CIA's analytical
inability's. > > Yet from his first days,
Tenet ignored the CIA's analytical needs > and
pushed ahead with his own non-intellectual tack. He called >
for increased operations and dismayingly overtly
discussed his > plans for increased covert
actions against China. > > Contributing to
the CIA's intelligence failures are the inability's >
of its Directorate of Operations. We have official
testimony re > Cuba's DGI running the Agency's
entire stable of Cuban double > agents, East
Germany's STASI than ran hundreds if not thousands >
of CIA double agents; and, the KGB's known double
agents loyal to > the USSR who duped the CIA into
reporting falsely on the Soviet > Union's "super"
weapons of mass destruction. Echoing these >
unbelievable (in the full meaning of that term) failures, is the >
CIA's dissemination of "intelligence" from a known
Chinese double > agent that documented the Cox
report's conclusions and the > negative impact of
those on our national security. > > At
this web site I include a number of recommendations on how to >
improve the CIA's performance -- using many examples
taken from > my own experience. > >
Know-Nothing's > > It is obvious that the
CIA is in the midst of a major officer >
recruiting campaign that will determine the future of that >
institution for the next few decades. > >
In a number of articles I have quoted from case
officers, to a > director, to an Inspector
General, all on the general state of > disaster
in the CIA -- its morale, procedures, operations and the >
deficiencies of its personnel -- most at the top of
the > Directorate of Operations (DO). >
> These did not happen out of the mists -- the
CIA in the past (and > probably also now) has
used psychological testing criteria to > recruit
the naive, the innocent, the team-player and the not too >
academically outstanding, to man its outposts. (In my
case I and > a large number of recruits came
directly out of the manpower pool > of rejected
NFL hopefuls). It does not want the person who can >
see the implications of its actions. It wants the
"know-nothing" > who believes, or as the chant
says, "I don't know and I don't > care." It wants
the "operator" not the intellect. > >
Since leaving the CIA I have written a book, and began compiling >
a data base on relevant information about the CIA. As I
processed > information into the data base I was
stunned to see the universal > failure of its
intelligence over the past fifty plus years. > >
In short I discovered that the CIA used its
intelligence as a > means of bolstering its
operations, while avoiding any data that >
challenged such goals. > > The CIA
universally supported and supports militarized regimes >
around the world, and in so doing implicates itself in
the work > of death squads, drug smugglers,
terrorists and other less than > desirable
elements. In so doing, it has destroyed many future >
"George Washington's." > >
But now the situation is somewhat different. We are
faced with > international terrorism, there is a
real need for real > information, but you have
against that need, the know-nothings of > the DO
and the know-nothings of other segments of the CIA. > >
Do we want an operational or an intelligence
agency? > > I should note the personal
harassment that increases with my > efforts to
inform -- this in spite of the fact that CIA has >
written me numerous letters I may use any information
in the > public domain. - Letter from CIA's
Publications Review Board > >
Table of Contents > >
Introduction
Intelligence & Operational Analysis > Covert action in Chile
1963-73 A model operation >
CIA's Paramilitary Operations
Apocalypse now revisited > CIA trained
assassins
The ends justify the means? > How to counter
terrorism
An Updated Suggestion > CIA Support For
Terrorism
Support for Guatemalan Ops > Disembling, Deception &
Lies Domestic propaganda
operations > The CIA's Illegal Domestic
Ops Subverting Academia & the
Media > Intelligence Failure in
Vietnam CIA disinformation kept us in the
war > The Vietnam
War
More about the war > CIA personnel
requirements A
bizarre recruiting poster > "Deadly
Deceits"
Excerpts from Ralph's book > Past, Present &
Future
Economic intelligence & espionage > Past, Present & Future
Part II "We divide the world in
two..." > Congress against the
CIA
"Limited analytical capabilities" > The Bay of Pigs
Fiasco
"Ignorant, Arrogant and Incompetent" > Indian nuclear
test
The CIA was caught unawares > Chase Manhattan memo on
Chiapas Eliminate the Zapitistas! >
The CIA & the Price of Dissent
Ralph's struggle with the CIA > The CIA is in "Deep
rot"
"Needs to be scrubbed" from the top down > CIA sex
discrimination
CIA use & abuse of women > Paramilitary Operation in
China Next stop - Beijing >