[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Italy's Watergate
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 5:28:28 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Italy's WatergateReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=RAD20060730articleId=2865Italy's WatergateEspionage, secrecy, and corruption: Lessons for the Bush administration.by Patrick Radden Keefe July 30, 2006 slate.com/ - 2006-07-27 When Italian prosecutor Armando Spataro issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA officers last November, for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, it seemed like a hollow gesture. Spataro claimed that American operatives had snatched the imam, who is known as Abu Omar, and transported him to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. But there was no way the United States would extradite its spies, and it appeared that the Italian investigation of the murky practice of extraordinary rendition would go the way of similar cases in this country: nowhere.But Spataro wasn't hampered by the sort of pervasive official secrecy that prevails in the United States, and his team turned up revealing details of the abduction. The more they dug, the more dirt they found. Before long, the investigation blossomed into a full-blown spy scandal, replete with domestic wiretapping and the mysterious death of one of the investigators. By early July, two of Italy's top spymasters were under arrest. We haven't heard much about the story on this side of the Atlantic. (When asked whether he had discussed it at the G8 summit with President Bush, Italy's new Prime Minister Romano Prodi quipped that Bush probably doesn't even know "the initials" of Italy's spy agency, Sismi.) But this is Italy's Watergate. It has already revealed in unprecedented detail the anatomy of an extraordinary rendition. And it raises serious doubts about the Bush administration's "just trust us" insistence that behind the veil of secrecy, espionage is an honest, upstanding business. In February 2003, Abu Omar (whose full name is Hasan Mustafa Osama Nasr) was under surveillance by Italy's special branch police force, the Digos, on suspicion of recruiting terrorists. Walking to mosque one day, he was whisked into a CIA van. The Digos didn't witness the event and wondered why the guy they had been tailing had suddenly disappeared. CIA officials told them that Omar was headed to the Balkans, when in fact he was being interrogated in an Egyptian prison. When they learned of this deception more than a year later, prosecutors in Milan were outraged at the CIA's apparent violation of Italian sovereignty. The Americans had unquestionably strayed a bit outside their jurisdiction. And they'd carried out the rendition with a minimum of subtlety. In the weeks surrounding the abduction, they stayed at fine hotels, including Milan's Principe di Savoia (single room: $588 a night), eventually racking up $158,000 in room charges. The Rolling Stones keep a lower profile when they swing through Milan. The American operatives also used easy-to-tap, unsecure cell phones to coordinate their plans with headquarters in Langley, Va. And when the supposed architect of the mission, CIA Milan Chief Robert Seldon Lady, blew town, he forgot to pack a surveillance photo of Abu Omar. He left it (oops) in his apartment for the Digos to find. The message seemed to be: Not only will we swoop into your country, screw your investigation, and steal your suspect—we're going to do it in broad daylight and leave a trail of clues, just because we can. But that wasn't exactly the message, because the Italian government had given permission for the CIA's mission. When the story first broke, representatives of Silvio Berlusconi's government denied knowing anything about the rendition. But when Spataro's investigators questioned a Sismi operative, he said he had been told "in explicit terms" that the rendition was a joint operation between Sismi and the CIA. Suddenly this was no longer a story about Italian sovereignty. It was a turf battle between different security agencies—the Digos and Sismi—that were both after the same guy. Which explains the peculiar thing that happened next: At the prosecutors' behest, Italian cops started wiretapping Italian spies. It's hard to say which is stranger—that cops would monitor the calls of their own country's spies, or that the spies would be foolish enough to say anything sensitive on an unencrypted line. In Italy prosecutors enjoy a great deal of institutional autonomy, and suspicion that Italian spooks had aided a crime was grounds enough for Spataro's team to start watching the watchers. Wiretapping is a favorite tactic in Italy—police and spies tap 100,000 phones every year—and the prosecutors who had pieced together the CIA's movements by looking at phone records began doing the same with the Sismi brass. Tracing the phone of Marco Mancini, Sismi's No. 2, led them to a penthouse apartment on Via Nazionale, a popular shopping thoroughfare in
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] India: Top civil servant was C IA spy
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 3:01:44 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] India: Top civil servant ‘was CIA spy’Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2item_no=99708version=1template_id=40parent_id=22 Top civil servant ‘was CIA spy’ Published: Saturday, 29 July, 2006, 11:27 AM Doha Time Former foreign affairs minister Jaswant Singh posing with his book A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India during the release in New Delhi NEW DELHI: Moles, nuclear secrets, espionage in high places are all essential ingredients for a racy spy thriller – but they have also ensured the memoirs of India’s former foreign minister will be a runaway publishing success. In ‘A Call to Honour,’ published this week, soldier-statesmen Jaswant Singh claims one of India’s top civil servants was in the pay of the CIA and leaked secrets to the US about India’s nuclear programme in the early 1990s.In a country where conspiracy theories abound about the penetration of the establishment by foreign intelligence services, the book is said to be on course to sell 50,000 copies – 10 times the normal level of a bestseller in India.The memoirs have sparked furious denials from retired mandarins, and the country’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has asked Mr Singh to reveal the name of the mole.It is all a far cry from Mr Singh’s days in power. Friendly with Bill Clinton and an admirer of Charles de Gaulle, he was seen as a tough nationalist who bargained hard with the Chinese.In a seemingly deft display of public relations, the former minister has teased journalists with details of the mole’s identity. He was a civil servant “in such a high position that he was privy to a lot of information”. Then it was revealed that he was no longer in office. Next that he lived abroad.Retired intelligence officials say Mr Singh is right. “We know the Americans had somebody inside. They knew about plans to test nuclear weapons and stopped us in the early 90s,” said B Raman, who worked for the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external espionage agency, until 1994. “The question is, was the American information from a paid informant or from an official who liked to talk too much?” During the 1971 war between India and Pakistan that culminated in the independence of Bangladesh it was claimed the CIA had a spy in the Indian cabinet. In the past few weeks one of India’s former intelligence officials who ended up working for Microsoft has been arrested, prompting the departure of a senior US embassy official from Delhi.However, some of Singh’s friends say he would be aghast to find himself at the centre of a spying scandal. – Guardian Newspapers LimitedGulf Times Newspaper, 2006 __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Declassified archives document ties between CIA and Nazis
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 3:05:31 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Declassified archives document ties between CIA and NazisReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=DAM20060728articleId=2851Declassified archives document ties between CIA and Nazisby Andre DamonJuly 28, 2006World Socialist Web SiteOn June 6, the US national archives released some 27,000 pages of secret records documenting the CIA’s Cold War relations with former German Nazi Party members and officials.The files reveal numerous cases of German Nazis, some clearly guilty of war crimes, receiving funds, weapons and employment from the CIA. They also demonstrate that US intelligence agencies deliberately refrained from disclosing information about the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann in order to protect Washington’s allies in the post-war West German government headed by Christian Democratic leader Konrad Adenauer.Eichmann, who had sent millions to their deaths while coordinating the Nazis’ “final solution” campaign to exterminate European Jewry, went into hiding in Buenos Aires after the fall of the Third Reich. Utilizing friendly contacts in the Catholic Church and the Peron government in Argentina, Eichmann was able to reside in the South American country for 10 years under the alias of Ricardo Klement. He was abducted in 1960 by Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, put on trial in Israel and executed in 1962.The documents show that the CIA was in possession of Eichmann’s pseudonym two years before the Mossad raid. The CIA received this information in 1958 from the West German government, which learned of Eichmann’s alias in 1952. Both the CIA and the Bonn government chose not to disclose this information to Israel because they were concerned that Eichmann might reveal the identities of Nazi war criminals holding high office in the West German government, particularly Adenauer’s national security adviser Hans Globke.When Eichmann was finally brought to trial, the US government used all available means to protect its West German allies from what he might reveal. According to the declassified documents, the CIA pressured Life magazine into deleting references to Globke in portions of Eichmann’s memoirs that it chose to publish.In addition to the revelations regarding Eichmann, the documents chronicle the CIA’s creation of “stay-behind” intelligence networks in southwestern Germany and Berlin, labeled “Kibitz” and “Pastime,” respectively. The Kibitz ring involved several former SS members. In the early 1950s, the CIA provided these groups with money, communications equipment and ammunition so that they could serve as intelligence assets in the event of a Soviet invasion of West Germany.The CIA documents were reviewed by Timothy Naftali, a historian with the National Archives Interagency Working Group, the government body that oversaw their declassification and release. According to an article published by Naftali, the stay-behind program was dissolved “in the wake of public concerns in West Germany about the resurgence of Neo-Nazi Groups.” Specifically, the Kibitz-15 group, led by an “unreconstructed Nazi,” became a potential source of public embarrassment for the US, as its members were broadly involved in Neo-Nazi activity. [1]The CIA terminated the program by 1955 and arranged for many of its contacts to be resettled in Canada and Australia. According to the documents, Australia provided funds for relocation while the CIA provided its ex-assets with a “resettlement bonus.”The CIA employed Gustav Hilger, a former adviser to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As an employee of the German foreign office, Hilger was present at the negotiation of the Stalin-Hitler pact in 1939. The CIA deemed his experience with the USSR sufficiently valuable to free him from incarceration at Fort Meade in Maryland and employ him as an intelligence evaluator in West Germany.In 1948, Hilger moved to the United States and obtained a position at the CIA’s K Street building in Washington as a researcher and expert on the USSR. Hilger eventually left the CIA to work for the West German foreign office.According to a paper analyzing the CIA documents published by Robert Wolfe, a former senior archivist at the US National Archives, “it is beyond dispute that Hilger criminally assisted in the genocide of Italy’s Jews During the roundup of Italian Jews in late 1943, a note signed ‘Hilger’ recorded Ribbentrop’s concurrence that the Italians be asked to intern the Jews in concentration camps in Northern Italy, in lieu of immediate deportation. The SS intended thereby that the Italian Jews and their potential Italian protectors should believe that internment in Italy was the final destination, rather than eventual deportation to the murder mills in Poland to be immediately murdered or gradually worked to death. The stated purpose of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent says
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 2:51:44 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/15160128.htmPosted on Sun, Jul. 30, 2006CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysBy John CrewdsonChicago Tribune(MCT)WASHINGTON - Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA targeted for abduction and rendition nearly a dozen Muslims living in Italy whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaida, a senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors in Milan.Meanwhile, aircraft flight records suggest the possibility of the CIA's previously unsuspected involvement in the disappearance of Mohamed Morgan, an Islamist militant living in Milan now believed to be in an Egyptian prison.The testimony about the CIA's target list was given in June by Gen. Gustavo Pignero, a senior official of the Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, to prosecutors investigating the disappearance of an Egyptian-born imam, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.Pignero's testimony is the first indication the CIA may have made far more extensive use than previously known of its paramilitary Special Operations Group to seize people suspected of terrorist links and render them without trial to Egypt and other Mideast countries for detention and interrogation.In addition to the CIA list, which Pignero recalled included "certainly more than 10" residents of Milan, Turin and Naples, Pignero said he was told by the then-chief of the CIA's Rome station that similar clandestine abductions were planned for Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.No unexplained disappearances have been reported in Belgium or the Netherlands. But the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported Sunday that Gamal El-Minshawy, an Egyptian living in Austria, vanished in early 2003 from Mecca.Pignero's testimony was excerpted in an Italian arrest warrant issued this month for the former CIA station chief, who CIA sources say is now assigned to the agency's headquarters in Virginia.A Milan court last week asked the Italian justice minister to formally request that the Bush administration extradite the former station chief and two dozen other CIA operatives to Italy to stand trial for Abu Omar's alleged kidnapping.Prosecutors also have charged two senior SISMI officials with aiding the CIA's "unlawful restraint" of Abu Omar.Accusations that SISMI knew of the CIA's plan to snatch Abu Omar, and revelations that the agency was paying reporters to spy and tapping the phones of the politically powerful, has produced a furor in Italy.Pignero's disclosure has refocused prosecutors' attention on Morgan, who disappeared from Vigevano, Italy, near Milan, eight months after Abu Omar allegedly was abducted in early 2003.Pignero didn't say whether Morgan was on the CIA's "black list." But official documents show that Morgan, a regular at the Milan mosque where Abu Omar often preached, was being monitored by Italian police at the time he vanished.Two years ago, the religious chief of that mosque, Arman Ahmed El Hissiny Helmy, told Milan prosecutors he believed Morgan was in the same Egyptian prison as Abu Omar.A former Vigevano prosecutor, Carmen Manfredda, recalled in a telephone interview Friday that an investigation of the Morgan case had been initiated but lapsed.Prosecution sources in Milan said the case was closed after the discovery that Morgan had booked a commercial airline ticket to Egypt, leading prosecutors to believe he had traveled voluntarily.But some sources close to the Abu Omar investigation now question whether the commercial airline booking may have been an attempt to mask Morgan's possible abduction.A key piece of potential evidence is U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records showing that a Gulfstream jet - the same kind the CIA allegedly used to fly Abu Omar to Egypt - left Cairo on Oct. 31, 2003, en route to its home base at Fort Bragg, N.C.The Gulfstream is registered to Braxon Management Services of Great Falls, Mont., which shares the address of a law firm, Church, Harris, Johnson and Williams.An attorney with the firm, who is also listed as Braxton's agent, has not responded to repeated inquiries from the Chicago Tribune over the past year about the nature of Braxton's business.Several aircraft known to have been used by the CIA in other "renditions" are registered to front companies.---© 2006, Chicago Tribune.Visit the Chicago Tribune on the Internet at http://www.chicagotribune.comDistributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.Alessandra Maggiorani in Rome contributed to this report.Click here to find out more!-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent says
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 12:07:04 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15160128.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jspPosted on Sun, Jul. 30, 2006 CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysBy John CrewdsonChicago Tribune(MCT)WASHINGTON - Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA targeted for abduction and rendition nearly a dozen Muslims living in Italy whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaida, a senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors in Milan.Meanwhile, aircraft flight records suggest the possibility of the CIA's previously unsuspected involvement in the disappearance of Mohamed Morgan, an Islamist militant living in Milan now believed to be in an Egyptian prison.The testimony about the CIA's target list was given in June by Gen. Gustavo Pignero, a senior official of the Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, to prosecutors investigating the disappearance of an Egyptian-born imam, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.Pignero's testimony is the first indication the CIA may have made far more extensive use than previously known of its paramilitary Special Operations Group to seize people suspected of terrorist links and render them without trial to Egypt and other Mideast countries for detention and interrogation.In addition to the CIA list, which Pignero recalled included "certainly more than 10" residents of Milan, Turin and Naples, Pignero said he was told by the then-chief of the CIA's Rome station that similar clandestine abductions were planned for Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.No unexplained disappearances have been reported in Belgium or the Netherlands. But the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported Sunday that Gamal El-Minshawy, an Egyptian living in Austria, vanished in early 2003 from Mecca.Pignero's testimony was excerpted in an Italian arrest warrant issued this month for the former CIA station chief, who CIA sources say is now assigned to the agency's headquarters in Virginia.A Milan court last week asked the Italian justice minister to formally request that the Bush administration extradite the former station chief and two dozen other CIA operatives to Italy to stand trial for Abu Omar's alleged kidnapping.Prosecutors also have charged two senior SISMI officials with aiding the CIA's "unlawful restraint" of Abu Omar.Accusations that SISMI knew of the CIA's plan to snatch Abu Omar, and revelations that the agency was paying reporters to spy and tapping the phones of the politically powerful, has produced a furor in Italy.Pignero's disclosure has refocused prosecutors' attention on Morgan, who disappeared from Vigevano, Italy, near Milan, eight months after Abu Omar allegedly was abducted in early 2003.Pignero didn't say whether Morgan was on the CIA's "black list." But official documents show that Morgan, a regular at the Milan mosque where Abu Omar often preached, was being monitored by Italian police at the time he vanished.Two years ago, the religious chief of that mosque, Arman Ahmed El Hissiny Helmy, told Milan prosecutors he believed Morgan was in the same Egyptian prison as Abu Omar.A former Vigevano prosecutor, Carmen Manfredda, recalled in a telephone interview Friday that an investigation of the Morgan case had been initiated but lapsed.Prosecution sources in Milan said the case was closed after the discovery that Morgan had booked a commercial airline ticket to Egypt, leading prosecutors to believe he had traveled voluntarily.But some sources close to the Abu Omar investigation now question whether the commercial airline booking may have been an attempt to mask Morgan's possible abduction.A key piece of potential evidence is U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records showing that a Gulfstream jet - the same kind the CIA allegedly used to fly Abu Omar to Egypt - left Cairo on Oct. 31, 2003, en route to its home base at Fort Bragg, N.C.The Gulfstream is registered to Braxon Management Services of Great Falls, Mont., which shares the address of a law firm, Church, Harris, Johnson and Williams.An attorney with the firm, who is also listed as Braxton's agent, has not responded to repeated inquiries from the Chicago Tribune over the past year about the nature of Braxton's business.Several aircraft known to have been used by the CIA in other "renditions" are registered to front companies.---© 2006, Chicago Tribune.Visit the Chicago Tribune on the Internet at http://www.chicagotribune.comDistributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.Alessandra Maggiorani in Rome contributed to this report.-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station -
[cia-drugs] Sean McBride Internet troll
Re: [ctrl] Re: Chip Berlet - II "Sean" This is really getting to be quite the farce. We all know that "Sean McBride" is an Internet persona on a souped up lap-top, ands whomever from Berlet's Political-Research has the lap-top may be the "Sean" of the hour. I mean all the boiler-plate and talking points are there. We have nice Sean, attack Sean, erudite Sean, nazi sean, anti-nazi Sean, etc. You know, "Sean" you can go back on the net and find that I am always the same real person, a bad-typing, cranky S.O.B. (and my momma's a nice lady). I realize that you folks have spent a lot of time a money in the creation of the Internet persona of Sean McBride, so the zombie trolls marches on. I can understand how with your superior intelligence you felt like you were doing great work, I mean you could perform your day job and spook job at the same time. You could denigrate authors like Sutton and me, and collect all that intelligence on the nazis. And then because of your superior intellect theyv'e made you Fuehrer. I mean spooks have never sent anybody into spy on nazis, ,who then became the Fuerhrer, have they? Then using those nazi brownshirts to gain power, the spooks got their man as Fuerhrer, to turn on those loyal early followers, kill them, and go to work for his true masters the Junker Families? But then you can't be bothered with real secret history. Gee, "Sean" Berlet's interest in apocalyptic issues and yours intertwine. Odd isn't? Oh, by the way, you have posted that I " have claimed to be able to judge the relative power and influence of elite universities like Yale, Harvard, MIT and Stanford." Please post where i have claimed that or apologize, Mr, Sincerity. Have a nice day? Peace, Kris Millegan Re: [ctrl] Posting on political-research "Sean" this is so much hyperbole. You first popped up on my list cia-drugs, of which you are still a lurking member, right after 9-11 to lead the attack on the deconstruction of 9-11 that was happening, pick fights and to carry the Israelis did it meme. You are blocking my posts , whilst cross-posting on my forum. You are a cowardly, Internet spook troll. Prove me wrong? You have had almost five years. "Sean" if you really want to help, use your vaunted "data mining skill to discover the 600 plus "unidentified" Yale secret society members from 1986 to the year 2000. "Sean," your conspirators have websites , pictures ,etc. "Forbes" has all the data. (with dripping sarcasm) Bones has no website. Can "Superior Sean" give me a list of the members? Peace, Kris Millegan Re: [ctrl] Re: Chip Berlet - II "sean" again you really ought to start writing farces. Your commentaries on Berlet are really quite amusing. Oh, by the way, do you see the 8000 lb.gorilla sitting right next to you? Could it be apocalyptic politics? Don't look now, Chipper, but I think it is starting to sink in. Let's see. FromBostonian "Sean McBride's" political-research yahoo group - "Description political-research is a forum for independent and skeptical minds to discuss cutting-edge strategic topics in American and world politics, with an emphasis on big picture dot-connecting and the analysis of high-quality information that is often suppressed by the mainstream media. "Some topics of interest: "9/11 research, Armaggedonist psychology, artificial intelligence, biometrics, Christian Zionism, data mining, Disclosure Project, false flag ops, Forbes billionaires, genetic engineering, global power elite, global superintelligence, global warming, Google, grid computing, Israel lobby, messianic cultism, mind amplification tools, nanotechnology, neoconservatism, nuclear terrorism, peak oil, profiling, recommender systems, robotics, search engines, Semantic Web, SETI, Singularity, social network analysis, supercomputing, text mining, transhumanism, ubiquitous computing" From Bostonian John Foster "Chip" Berlet'sPolitical Research Associates; Neoconservatives, who were overwhelmingly interventionist and strongly pro-Zionist, supported the war and denounced many of their former partners in Cold War anticommunism as bigots and antisemites. Paleocon Patrick J. Buchanan further highlighted the divisions within the former New Right coalition with his campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996, and his third party aspirations in 2000. http://www.publiceye.org/topics.html Topic: * Antisemitism * Apocalyptic Dualism * Building Equality * Christian Right Theocracy * Conspiracism Scapegoating * Defending Democracy Diversity * Dynamics of Bigotry * Economic Justice * Environmental Backlash * Ultra Right * Foreign Policy and Militarism * Free _expression_ Censorship * Government Misconduct * Hate Ethnoviolence * Heterosexism Homophobia * Intro. to the U.S. Political Right * LaRouchite Groups * Media Propaganda * Militias the Patriot
[cia-drugs] Whose Skull and Bones?
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/notebook.html Whose Skull and Bones?May/June 2006 by Kathrin Day Lassila '81 and Mark Alden Branch '86 Click here to download a PDF of this article as it appeared in the May/June 2006 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine. Did Skull and Bones rob the grave of Geronimo during World War I? For decades, it has been the most controversial and sordid of all the mysteries surrounding Yale's best-known secret society. The story was widely rumored but, despite the efforts of reporters and historians and the public complaints of Apache leaders in the 1980s, never verified. An internal history of Skull and Bones, written in the 1930s and leaked to the Apache 50 years later, mentioned the theft. But Bones spokesmen have always dismissed the story as a hoax. "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club, is now safe inside the T --." A former senior editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine has now discovered the only known contemporary evidence: a reference in private correspondence from one senior Bonesman to another. The letter was written on June 7, 1918, by Winter Mead '19 to F. Trubee Davison '18. It announces that the remains dug up at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by a group that included Charles C. Haffner Jr. '19 (a new member, or "Knight"), have been deposited in the society's headquarters (the "Tomb"): "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club the K -- t [Knight] Haffner, is now safe inside the T -- [Tomb] together with his well worn femurs[,] bit saddle horn." Mead was not at Fort Sill, so his letter is not proof. And if the Bonesmen did rob a grave, there's reason to think it may have been the wrong one. But the letter shows that the story was no after-the-fact rumor. Senior Bonesmen at the time believed it. "It adds to the seriousness of the belief [that the theft took place], certainly," says Judith Schiff, the chief research archivist at Sterling Memorial Library, who has written extensively on Yale history. "It has a very strong likelihood of being true, since it was written so close to the time." Members of a secret society, she points out, were required to be honest with each other about its affairs. Moreover, the yearbook entries for Haffner, Mead, and Davison confirm that they were all Bonesmen. (The membership of the societies was routinely published in newspapers and yearbooks until the 1970s.) Haffner's entry confirms that he was at the artillery school at Fort Sill some time between August 1917 and July 1918. Marc Wortman, a writer and former senior editor of this magazine, discovered the letter in the Sterling Memorial Library archives while researching Davison's war years for a book -- The Millionaires' Unit, released this month by PublicAffairs press -- about Yale's World War I aviators. The letter is preserved in a folder of 1918 correspondence in one of the 16 boxes of the F. Trubee Davison Papers. Mead's was one of many letters Davison received that year about Bones matters. With the war on, the Bonesmen were scattered around the United States and Europe, and society business like choosing new members had to be conducted by mail. "Lists of people to be tapped would come to Trubee and he would comment on them," says Wortman. Mead's letter also relays the news that Parker B. Allen '19 had been initiated as a member in Saumur, France, and Allen's yearbook entry confirms his membership in Bones and his posting to artillery school in Saumur. The Geronimo rumor first came to wide public attention in 1986. At the time, Ned Anderson, then chair of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, was campaigning to have Geronimo's remains moved from Fort Sill -- where he died a prisoner of war in 1909 -- to Apache land in Arizona. Anderson received an anonymous letter from someone who claimed to be a member of Skull and Bones, alleging that the society had Geronimo's skull. The writer included a photograph of a skull in a display case and a copy of what is apparently a centennial history of Skull and Bones, written by the literary critic F. O. Matthiessen '23, a Skull and Bones member. In Matthiessen's account, which quotes a Skull and Bones log book from 1919, the skull had been unearthed by six Bonesmen -- identified by their Bones nicknames, including "Hellbender," who apparently was Haffner. Matthiessen mentions the real names of three of the robbers, all of whom were at Fort Sill in early 1918: Ellery James '17, Henry Neil Mallon '17, and Prescott Bush '17, the father and grandfather of the U.S. presidents. "My assumption is that they did dig up somebody at Fort Sill. It could have been an Indian, but it probably wasn't Geronimo." Anderson arranged a meeting with Bones alumni Jonathan Bush '53, a son of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: MMM: U / SA Prisons [from Andre in South Africa]
Album: Cape Town, South Africa. 7 May 2005 MMM. Global Million Marijuana March. Photos:http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2005mmm http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2004mmm http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2003mmm http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2002mmm Andre helps organize the MMM in Cape Town.---start-- André du Plessis wrote: To: "'Eco Man'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: MMM: U / SA PrisonsDate: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:03:05 +0200From: André du Plessis Hi there Eco,Thought you might like this article;http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1click_id=13art_id=vn20060731030920724C728139Mass release of SA convicts likely - expert By Tony Carnie The periodic mass release of South African prisoners will continue for several years because the country is unlikely to "build itself" out of the problem of overcrowded jails.This is according to American sociology and criminal justice researcher Dr Susan Smith-Cunnien, who has been studying the issue of overcrowded prisons and mass prisoner releases in South Africa and the US.The University of St Thomas (Minneapolis) researcher told the World Congress of Sociology in Durban last week that the US and South Africa had among the highest rates of incarceration in the world according to a recent United Nations survey.The US topped the list and currently locked up nearly 738 out of every 100 000 citizens (almost one in 100 people), while South Africa had the 23rd highest incarceration rate in the world, at 344 prisoners per 100 000 citizens.The world average is about 187 prisoners per 100 000 people.In drawing comparisons between the two countries, Smith-Cunnien said the US had a total population about six times larger than South Africa.Whereas South Africa currently had 240 correctional service facilities and 190 000 inmates, the US had about 2,1-million prisoners in more than 5 000 federal or state prisons, or confinement centres.South Africa had a murder rate of about 40 victims per 100 000 people, whereas the US murder rate was about five victims per 100 000 people.Rape rates in South Africa were more than three times higher than in the US. The burglary rates were similar, but the theft rate in the US was almost twice as high as in South Africa.Smith-Cunnien said one of the inevitable results of high crime rates in both countries was prison overcrowding and periodic mass releases of prisoners.In South Africa, the prison population had grown enormously between 1995 and 2000, partly because of an increase in crime and partly because of a surge in the awaiting-trial population.In July 1998, about 9 000 prisoners were released early to coincide with former president Nelson Mandela's birthday, and in September 2000 the government announced it would release 11 000 awaiting-trial prisoners, with another 7 000 prisoners getting early releases.In July 2003 the Correctional Services Department announced plans for the early release of another 7 000 prisoners, while another 18 000 prisoners were released in June last year.There had been similar mass releases in the US in the past 30 years, although prisoners were released in smaller batches from individual jails rather than in system-wide releases.By the 1980s, overcrowding was so severe in parts that some states passed emergency release laws.The US also saw a huge surge in prison populations, with inmates increasing from 500 000 in 1980 to more than 2-million in 2004. This was attributed to new minimum sentences and a surge in drug-related convictions. Apart from mass releases, the US had responded with a major programme to increase the number of prisons between the 1980s and 1990s.Further mass releases were unlikely to happen in the US, she said, but were likely to continue in South Africa as a matter of necessity until the country was able to establish a new, more informal community correctional system."While the South African government has been willing to invest in prison construction and renovation, the reality is that other issues facing the nation - education, health and family support - are more pressing than those faced in the US."Thus from a financial perspective, it is unlikely that South Africa could 'build itself' out of the prison overcrowding system even if that should be the path it would prefer."This article was originally published on page 5 of The Pretoria News on July 31, 2006Published on the Web by IOL on 2006-07-31 03:09:00 André du Plessis InternAfrica +27 72-324-5010http://www.internafrica.org/ --No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/403 - Release Date: 2006/07/28--end of forwarded message- MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The
[cia-drugs] Koreas exchange fire along DMZ
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060801/6320060801074420E2.html Koreas exchange fire along DMZ SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Yonhap) -- Border guards of the two Koreas briefly traded fire Monday but there were no South Korean casualties, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Tuesday.The shootout occurred around 7:35 p.m. in Yanggu in the eastern portion of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), as North Korean soldiers fired two bullets towards a South Korean guard post, said a JCS official. South Korean soldiers immediately fired back six rounds but there was no response, the official said, requesting anonymity. "According to our rules of engagement on GOPs (general outposts), we should return fire if North Korea makes provocative acts," he said.One of the two North Korean bullets hit a South Korean guard post inside the DMZ, but it didn't kill or injure South Korean soldiers, JCS officials said. The other North Korean bullet fell near the guard post, they said.It is not immediately known whether there were any North Korean casualties.Monday's incident took place amid rising tension over North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons programs. On July 5, North Korea conducted multiple missile tests, ignoring repeated international warnings not to do so. All seven North Korean missiles fell harmlessly into the East Sea, but the United States and Japan led the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution imposing limited sanctions on the North. North Korea had said sanctions on the communist state were tantamount to a declaration of war. Armed clashes along the inter-Korean border have been rare as the two Koreas have been pushing reconciliation since the first-ever summit of their leaders in Pyongyang in 2000. The mine-strewn 4-km-wide and 248-km-long DMZ forms a buffer between the Koreas, which are still technically in state of war as the 1950-53 Korean ended with an armistice.In 2004, a North Korean tracer shot fell near a South Korean post inside the DMZ, triggering an immediate return of fire from the South.The navies of the two Koreas fought gun battles along the disputed western maritime border in 1998 and 2002, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides.[EMAIL PROTECTED] __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
