Covert Operations in China
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Ralph McGehee wrote:
> Covert Acion In China
>
> In response to another's knowledgeable comments on the possibility of
> the CIA running covert operations in China, included below are some
> extracts from CIABASE.
>
> I should first note that there are various trends within the U.S.
> Government re China -- the more conservative elements; e.g., many
> Republicans and some Democrats see fealty to Taiwan as the prime
> objective of our China foreign policy.
>
> The Clinton Administration apparently seeks a rapprochement with
> China through liaison and trade. It apparently also seeks, through
> political action operations via the National Endowment for
> Democracy (NED) and the CIA, to convert the Chinese government.
> But more conservative elements seek a confrontation with China.
>
> My particular concern, is that the conservative policy may hold sway
> and we may see a Vietnam-like war in China -- first in the Western
> Provinces and then throughout China.
>
> I believe that DCI Tenet serves the conservative agenda as do his
> CIA Directorate of Operations employees. The Nixon/Kissinger
> rapprochement to China left CIA Cold Warriors agape and they
> wait to counter this "tragic" apostasy.
>
> Now conservatives beat the drums against China -- to stir
> up public opinion to sponsor more drastic covert actions. The
> power to stir emotions is a mighty tool. I recall in amazement how
> the U.S. public was brought to fear the tiny island nation of Grenada.
> An extremely poor nation of about 100,000 people without a navy,
> air force and only a tiny militia, whom we feared was about to
> pounce on Harlequin, Texas. Absurd, but we believed.
>
> The CIA as a policy-implementing agency uses its
> intelligence-gathering role for propaganda -- possibly
> the most important propaganda tool in its covert arsenal.
> My particular concern is that it operations may lead to a
> massive paramilitary war, destructive to all.
>
> Ralph McGehee
> http://come.to/CIABASE
> ________________________________________________
>
> From CIABASE:
>
> 97 DCI Tenet said CIA to focus on 10 or 15 countries -- North Korea
> and Iran to nations like Russia and China -- and strengthen emphasis on
> fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and arms proliferation.
> New York Times 7/22/97
>
> China, 87-97 CIA suspected of instigating separatism in Xinjiang by
> helping Moslem separatists there. this isn't surprising given the CIA has
> provided covert support of pro-democracy movements in China since the late
> 1980's, and since it has a covert assistance network in place. China's
> state security and public security ministries, have made it a priority to
> uncover CIA's ops in China and have uncovered evidence indicating that
> separatists have had contacts with the CIA, although China has doubts about
> extent of CIA's involvement today. Beijing has refrained from publicly
> accusing CIA, while maintaining usual line of blaming separatists and
> "foreign forces hostile to China" for a series of bomb attacks in the
> far-western region and in Beijing in the recent past. sources briefing DSO,
> inc. 8/27/97
>
> 97-99 DCI Tenet put the proliferation of biological, chemical and nuclear
> weapons at the top of his list of issues "that pose dangers to the lives of
> all Americans..." in testimony before the senate intelligence committee,
> (sic). Tenet said, countries such as Russia and China "require particular
> attention" because, despite recent promises to halt sales of missiles and
> missile technology, both countries have contributed to proliferation. Tenet
> was appearing along with other senior Intel officials at senate Intel
> committee's annual open hearing on current and projected national security
> threats. Phyllis oakes, assistant secretary of state for INR called
> proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons a major threat.
> she said the u.s. funds programs at chemical and biological institutes in
> Russia to keep specialists there. lt. gen. Patrick m. Hughes, director of
> the DIA, also put proliferation as "the greatest direct threat to u.s.
> interests worldwide," noting that 20 countries are actively developing such
> weapons motivated "either by regional competition or the desire to develop
> a deterrent or counter to the concomitant superiority of others, including
> the u.s." Washington post 1/29/98 a7
>
> 96 politicization flourishes under Tenet...we all have reason for grave
> concern. CIA's analytical record under Tenet has been dismal. early in
> 1998, the CIA's office of transnational issues, unhappy with a report by
> university of Hawaii professor Gary fuller on the relative ethnic stability
> of China, pressured university officials to fire him. although not sworn in
> until 7/97, DCI Tenet served as acting DCI when deutch left in late 1996.
> in January 97, Tenet testified that CIA had not withheld info re possible
> chemical exposures of gulf war vets. later the CIA, recanted Tenet's
> testimony. CIA since 1986, had evidence that chemical weapons were stored
> at the khamisiyah weapons depot destroyed by American combat engineers in
> 3/91. [even] later the IG issued a report indicating CIA identified more
> than 1.5 million documents with potential relevance to maladies of ailing
> desert storm vets. op-ed by Patrick g. eddington a former CIA analyst.
> Washington post 8/27/99 a29
>
> 98-99 CIA: cyberattacks aimed at u.s. by China and other countries have
> begun to focus on u.s. computer networks as a target for possible high-tech
> attacks that could cripple anything from telephones to electricity, per dci
> Tenet. per "strategic trends in China," published this month by the
> pentagon's national defense university, Chinese military officials believe
> the U.S. relies on satellites for 90 percent of its combat info and commo.
> air force lt. gen. Kenneth minihan, head of the national security agency,
> said attacks against u.s. networks were occurring "every day." Reuters
>
> China, 95 Chinese premier Li Peng has ordered ministries of state
> security and public security to increase antidissident ops. according to
> south China morning post, Peng and state council secretary general Luo Gan
> have concluded that covert ops from a western gvt have been financing and
> lending support to dissident groups. Kyoto 5/30/95
>
> China, 97 western China's Muslim Uighurs turmoil roils. Uighurs, a turkic
> Muslim people want re-establishment of what was once called eastern
> turkestan. linda benson, professor of history at oakland u. in Michigan one
> of the few experts on the region. region has been part of China at least
> since 1884. erkin alptekin is a spokesman for the eastern turkestan union
> of Europe. human rights activist harry Wu has alleged that the Xinjiang
> production and construction corps runs a multitude of labor camps. the
> eastern turkestan national freedom center, located in Washington, d.c. is
> led by 34-year-old exile anwar yusuf. his organization was established in
> Jul. 1995 and is funded by contributions. alptekin, 58, is perhaps the best
> known spokesman and is based in Bonn. he said his group is funded by
> private contributions. Washington post 2/23/97 a25
>
> 96-97 CIA reports Kazakstan president nursultan nazerbayev provided
> support and assistance to Uighur separatists behind the riots and
> anti-Chinese demonstrations in yining, Xinjiang province, about two weeks
> ago, which left more than 20 people dead and scores injured. nazerbayev has
> sanctioned three Uighur liberation movements, the united association of
> Uighurs, the united national revolutionary front and the united association
> of Uighurs, to reside within kazakstan's borders. CIA reports indicate
> leaders from the three groups met with nazerbayev earlier this month before
> making public declarations in favor of Uighurstan, a region the groups hope
> to carve out of xinjiang. more than 200,000 ethnic Uighurs live in
> kazakstan, and more than 50,000 reside in kyrgyzstan. CIA sources believe
> the yining riots were fueled by support from two separate fronts:
> afghanistan's taliban militia and turkey - with the support from turkey
> funneled through Uighur separatists resident in kazakstan. ankara has
> issued a stern diplomatic protest to China over the "brutal suppression" of
> the Muslim population in xinjiang province. Russia is in a quandary,
> "Russia is between two fires". "on the one side they are preparing for an
> official summit in april between president [boris] yeltsin and Chinese
> president jiang zemin, and on the other side they need the support of
> kazakstan's nazerbayev, who leans toward russian ideals." asia times
> 2/19/97 8
>
> China, 97 An explosion on a public bus injured at least eight people in a
> beijing shopping district. cause of explosion was unknown. terrorist
> attacks are almost unheard of in the Chinese capital. three bombings last
> month occurred in western xinjiang region, whose large Muslim population
> wants more autonomy. three bus bombs exploded within minutes of each other
> in xinjiang's capital, urumqi, on feb. 25 -- the last of the six days of
> official mourning ordered for deng. xinjiang is populated mostly by
> turkic-speaking Muslim groups who have grown increasingly resentful of
> Chinese domination. in the past year, Muslim separatist groups, mostly from
> the Uighur minority, have held gun battles with police and tried to
> assassinate pro-China officials. Washington post 3/8/97
>
> China, 97 China launching a new campaign against Muslim separatists in
> the nw region of xinjiang after a string of pro-independence sabotage
> incidents. Washington post 7/17/97 a22
>
> China, 98 16 people were killed and 30 were injured when a bus exploded
> in Wuhan. a Hong Kong-based dissident group put the death toll at 30.
> The info Center of human rights and democratic movement in China quoted
> an unidentified source. "The center has good sources in China's
> dissident community." Emphasis added. Washington post 2/14-15/98
>
> China, Afghanistan, 97-99 Muslim separatists in northwest China are being
> trained in taleban-run camps in Afghanistan as they step up struggle for
> independence from beijing. resistance from turkic-speaking muslims, who
> make up three-fifths of the xinjiang population, the largest province in
> China, has plagued the communist leadership for decades. but there is a
> recent escalation by separatist groups, supported by militant islamic
> groups, such as the taleban. campaign is resisted by the Chinese. for them
> xinjiang, which is almost the size of texas, is of crucial strategic
> importance. province's significance stems from its shared borders with
> Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, tajiki-stan and a sliver of Afghanistan, as well as
> India, Russia and Mongolia. To counter them, China has spent billions. it
> has shifted millions of its inland poor to the province to strengthen
> China's control. influx of workers from China followed discovery in 1989 of
> vast oil reserves in the taklamakan desert. as a result of migration, the
> muslims now make up 58 per cent of the population, down from more than 80
> per cent 50 years ago. resentment among non-Chinese, the Uighurs, has
> swelled as they find themselves increasingly marginalized. although no govt
> can risk offending China by helping its opponents to organize outside its
> borders, some factions have established camps in mountains of central asia
> and are directing ops inside the Chinese border. "They have their own
> govt-in-exile and, there are military camps," said chris leung, an American
> researcher who spent time with Uighur separatists in Uzbekistan and Turkey.
>
> China, Xijiang, 96-97 China's crackdown on the Muslim Uighur uprising in
> Xijiang last month left more than 600 dead or injured per a Hong Kong
> magazine. the monthly cheng ming said the uprising lasted for about a week,
> during which 100 criminals were sentenced to death and 80 public security
> personnel killed. the uprising took place in six cities and involved more
> than 34,000 demonstrators. about 1,500 were arrested. Washington times
> 3/1/97 a6
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> Covert Acion In China
> I should first note that there are various trends within the U.S.
> Government re China -- the more conservative elements; e.g., many
> Republicans and some Democrats see fealty to Taiwan as the prime
> objective of our China foreign policy.
>
> The Clinton Administration apparently seeks a rapprochement with
> China through liaison and trade. It apparently also seeks, through
> political action operations via the National Endowment for
> Democracy (NED) and the CIA, to convert the Chinese government.
> But more conservative elements seek a confrontation with China.
>
> My particular concern, is that the conservative policy may hold
sway
> and we may see a Vietnam-like war in China -- first in the Western
> Provinces and then throughout China.
In this Testimony from the Senior Program Officer for Asia,
National Endowment for Democracy
(January 20, 1999)
(http://www.house.gov/international_relations/full/ws120993.htm)
The senior programe officer have this to say about future activities
in China:
.......Additional areas that would
benefit from increased research and attention include
minority rights, the situation of certain ethnic populations such as the
Uyghers in Xinjiang and Mongolians in Inner Mongolia,...
It is quite clear that NED hope to work on certain faultline in China
to break up China.
This NED document is interesting to read.
It gives us an outline of the various activities that NED have been
conducting in China eg. support of the VIP reference and some of the
Tibet activist groups.
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