Tilting At Windmills
Bob\
Quolde Warrior Quixote and allopathic meds attacking
their favorite symptoms. Nixon declared war on cancer and
drugs, Clinton on cigarettes, Congress on Monicagate.
Congress tilted at windbags, but the Ruby Ridge and Waco
perps and malefactor-in-chief of www.wwatergate.com
and Chinagate and Train Deaths got away. War on guns produces
gangs, war on retrovirus kills with AZT knocking out thymidine
production. Counter- terror was stalking MLK. Nixon's drug war
emphasized treatment, but that was not George Bush or Lucien
Conein's job description, so drug war became another trojan horse
for nascent secret government. Ooops, mixed a metaphor there,
let's saysay tilting at windmills is some little Huk war charade
with Lansdale's windmill has Quixote looking good to himself in
the TV mirror(a controlled press is a mirror--no feedback!) as he
jousts from a gift horse, but then we have that victorious lone crazed
jouster sneaking his wheeled wooden horse into the city under cover
of insanity(electioneering folly).
Lansdale's first-generation free-lunch was digging up part of
Japanese emporer Hirihito's gold after WWII. Next free-lunch
was fake Huk wars advertising the competence of Magsaysay
in the Philippines. That was tilting at windmills because the
war was fake, and also because Magsaysay would have been
elected without Lansdale--Magsaysay elected Quixote Lansdale
to a job in Vietnam. Lansdale tilted at windmills again, starting
up a fake Huk war by attacking the demographic groups and
reversing the merit system in the military leadership, handing
off to a crew of reverse-merit bozos. He had to kill JFK to cover
up the Castle Grande Texas colonia windmill farm. DIA-Dope,
heroin-in-body-bags, another free-lunch, CIA-Crack, another,
catering the next jousting match, war on drugs.
It's no use tilting at thumb-twiddlers, though a thousand can
stir up a breeze. It's the noids who tap the tube.
-B
Tilting At WindmillsWith 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 BoardTable 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
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Aozotorp
>let's saysay tilting at windmills is some little Huk war charade
>with Lansdale's windmill has Quixote looking good to himself in
>the TV mirror(a controlled press is a mirror--no feedback!) as he
>jousts from a gift horse, but then we have that victorious lone crazed
>jouster sneaking his wheeled wooden horse into the city under cover
>of insanity(electioneering folly).
>
>Lansdale's first-generation free-lunch was digging up part of
>Japanese emporer Hirihito's gold after WWII. Next free-lunch
>was fake Huk wars advertising the competence of Magsaysay
>in the Philippines. That was tilting at windmills because the
>war was fake, and also because Magsaysay would have been
>elected without Lansdale--Magsaysay elected Quixote Lansdale
>to a job in Vietnam. Lansdale tilted at windmills again, starting
>up a fake Huk war by attacking the demographic groups and
>reversing the merit system in the military leadership, handing
>off to a crew of reverse-merit bozos. He had to kill JFK to cover
>up the Castle Grande Texas colonia windmill farm. DIA-Dope,
>heroin-in-body-bags, another free-lunch, CIA-Crack, another,
>catering the next jousting match, war on drugs.
Well you can go read James Hamilton-Paterson's "America's Boy: A Century of
Colonialism in the Philippines" on this! And Oh Yes, Read about Ole Col.
Napoleon Valeriano a psychotic Killer there who was soon transfered to S.
Vietnam to create death and Mayhem over there!