The new agency was ordered by President George Bush who made it clear after the 9-11 terror attacks in 2001 that he was a big admirer of the way MI5 and MI6 divide intelligence operations with ‘5’ working at home and ‘6’ abroad.

Presidential advisers are said to have used the BBC TV series Spooks, which is called MI-5 and has a cult following in the US, to hammer home the message that a domestic spy agency was vital for the war on terror.

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Britain's intelligence agencies have in recent years attempted to cast a wider net when it comes to recruiting -- the country's foreign intelligence service MI6 placed its first-ever advertisement for jobs in a newspaper in May 2007, and in recent years, it has launched its own website.

Separately, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's intelligence listening post, has embedded advertisements into popular video games in a bid to attract tech-savvy recruits.

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IS THIS OUR INDIA?

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan131007.htm

RAW: An Instrument of Indian Imperialism

By Isha Khan

Countercurrents.org   13 October, 2007

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India’s domestic and foreign policies, particularly the later. Working directly under the Prime Minister, it has over the years become an effective instrument of India’s national power. In consonance with Kautilya’s precepts, RAW’s espionage doctrine is based on the principle of waging a continuous series of battles of intrigues and secret wars.

RAW, ever since its creation, has always been a vital, though unobtrusive, actor in Indian policy-making apparatus. But it is the massive international dimensions of RAW operations that merit a closer examination. To the credit of this organization, it has in very short span of time mastered the art of spy warfare. Credit must go to Indira Gandhi who in the late 1970s gave it a changed and much more dynamic role. To suit her much publicized Indira Doctrine, (actually India Doctrine) Mrs. Gandhi specifically asked RAW to create a powerful organ within the organization which could undertake covert operations in neighboring countries. It is this capability that makes RAW a more fearsome agency than its superior KGB, CIA, MI-6, BND and the Mossad.

Its internal role is confined only in monitoring events having bearing on the external threat. RAW’s boss works directly under the Prime Minister. An Additional Secretary to the Government of India, under the Director RAW, is responsible for the Office of Special Operations (OSO), intelligence collected from different countries, internal security (under the Director General of Security), the electronic/technical section and general administration. The Additional Secretary as well as the Director General of Security is also under the Director of RAW. DG Security has two important sections: the Aviation Research Center (ARC) and the Special Services Bureau (SSB). The joint Director has specified desks with different regional divisions/areas (countries):

Area one. Pakistan: Area two, China and South East Asia: Area three, the Middle East and Africa: and Area four, other countries. Aviation Research Center (ARC) is responsible for interception, monitoring and jamming of target country’s communication systems. It has the most sophisticated electronic equipment and also a substantial number of aircraft equipped with state-of- the art eavesdropping devices. ARC was strengthened in mid-1987 by the addition of three new aircraft, the Gulf Stream-3. These aircraft can reportedly fly at an altitude of 52,000 ft and has an operating range of 5000 kms. ARC also controls a number of radar stations located close to India’s borders. Its aircraft also carry out oblique reconnaissance, along the border with Bangladesh, China, Nepal and Pakistan.

RAW having been given a virtual carte blanche to conduct destabilization operations in neighboring countries inimical to India had to seriously undertook restructuring of its organization accordingly. RAW was given a list of seven countries (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Pakistan and Maldives) whom India considered its principal regional protagonists. It very soon systematically and brilliantly crafted covert operations in all these countries to coerce, destabilize and subvert them in consonance with the foreign policy objectives of the Indian Government.

RAW’s operations against the regional countries were conducted with great professional skill and expertise. Central to the operations was the establishment of a huge network inside the target countries. It used and targeted political dissent, ethnic divisions, economic backwardness and criminal elements within these states to foment subversion, terrorism and sabotage. Having thus created the conducive environments, RAW stage-managed future events in these countries in such a way that military intervention appears a natural concomitant of the events. In most cases, RAW’s hand remained hidden, but more often that not target countries soon began unearthing those “hidden hand”. A brief expose of RAW’s operations in neighboring countries would reveal the full expanse of its regional ambitions to suit India Doctrine (Open Secrets. India’s Intelligence Unveiled by M K Dhar. Manas Publications, New Delhi, 2005).

Bangladesh

Indian intelligence agencies were involved in erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh since early 1960s. Its operatives were in touch with Sheikh Mujib for quite some time. Sheikh Mujib went to Agartala in 1965. The famous Agartala case was unearthed in 1967. In fact, the main purpose of raising RAW in 1968 was to organise covert operations in Bangladesh. As early as in 1968, RAW was given a green signal to begin mobilising all its resources for the impending surgical intervention in erstwhile East Pakistan. When in July 1971 General Manekshaw told Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that the army would not be ready till December to intervene in Bangladesh, she quickly turned to RAW for help. RAW was ready. Its officers used Bengali refugees to set up Mukti Bahini. Using this outfit as a cover, Indian military has sneaked deep into Bangladesh. The story of Mukti Bahini and RAW’s role in its creation and training is now well-known. RAW never concealed its Bangladesh operations.

Interested readers may have details in Asoka Raina’s Inside RAW: the story of India’s secret service published by Vikas Publishing House of New Delhi. The creation of Bangladesh was masterminded by RAW in complicity with KGB under the covert clauses of Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation (adopted as 25-year Indo-Bangladesh Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation in 1972).

RAW retained a keen interest in Bangladesh even after its independence. Mr. Subramaniam Swamy, Janata Dal MP, a close associate of Morarji Desai said that Rameswar Nath Kao, former Chief of RAW, and Shankaran Nair upset about Sheikh Mujib’s assassination chalked a plot to kill General Ziaur Rahman. However, when Morarji Desai came into power in 1977 he was indignant at RAW’s role in Bangladesh and ordered operations in Bangladesh to be called off; but by then RAW had already gone too far. General Zia continued to be in power for quite some time but he was assassinated after Indira Gandhi returned to power, though she denied her involvement in his assassination (Weekly Sunday, Calcutta, 18 September, 1988).

RAW was involved in training of Chakma tribals and Shanti Bahini who carry out subversive activities in Bangladesh. It has also unleashed a well-organized plan of psychological warfare, creation of polarisation among the armed forces, propaganda by false allegations of use of Bangladesh territory by ISI, creation of dissension’s among the political parties and religious sects, control of media, denial of river waters, and propping up a host of disputes in order to keep Bangladesh under a constant political and socio-economic pressure ( “ RAW and Bangladesh” by Mohammad Zainal Abedin, November 1995, RAW In Bangladesh: Portrait of an Aggressive Intelligence, written and published by Abu Rushd, Dhaka).

Sikkim and Bhutan

Sikkim was the easiest and most docile prey for RAW. Indira Gandhi annexed the Kingdom of Sikkim in mid-1970s, to be an integral part of India. The deposed King Chogyal Tenzig Wangehuck was closely followed by RAW’s agents until his death in 1992.

Bhutan, like Nepal and Sikkim, is a land-locked country, totally dependent on India. RAW has developed links with members of the royal family as well as top bureaucrats to implements its policies. It has cultivated its agents amongst Nepalese settlers and is in a position to create difficulties for the Government of Bhutan. In fact, the King of Bhutan has been reduced to the position of merely acquiescing into New Delhi’s decisions and go by its dictates in the international arena.

Sri Lanka

Post- independence Sri Lanka, inspite of having a multi-sectoral population was a peaceful country till 1971 and was following independent foreign policy. During 1971 Indo-Pakistan war despite of heavy pressure from India, Sri Lanka allowed Pakistan’s civil and military aircraft and ships to stage through its air and sea ports with unhindered re-fueling facilities. It also had permitted Israel to establish a nominal presence in its intelligence training set up. It permitted the installation of high powered transmitter by Voice of America (VOA) on its territory, which was resented by India.

It was because of these ‘irritants’ in the Indo-Sri Lanka relations that Mrs Indira Gandhi planned to bring Sri Lanka into the fold of the so-called Indira Doctrine (India Doctrine) Kao was told by Gandhi to repeat their Bangladesh success. RAW went looking for militants it could train to destabilize the regime. Camps were set up in Tamil Nadu and old RAW guerrillas’ trainers were dug out of retirement. RAW began arming the Tamil Tigers and training them at centers such as Gunda and Gorakhpur. As a sequel to this ploy, Sri Lanka was forced into Indian power-web when Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987 was singed and Indian Peace-Keeping-Force (IPKF) landed in Sri Lanka.

The Ministry of External Affairs was also upset at RAW’s role in Sri Lanka as they felt that RAW was still continuing negotiations with the Tamil Tiger leader Parabhakran in contravention to the Indian government’s foreign policy. According to R Swaminathan, (former Special Secretary of RAW) it was this outfit which was used as the intermediary between Rajiv Gandhi and Tamil leader Parabhakaran. The former Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, J.N. Dixit even accused RAW of having given Rs. five Crore to the LTTE. At a later stage, RAW built up the EPRLF and ENDLF to fight against the LTTE which turned the situation in Sri Lanka highly volatile and uncertain later on.

Maldives

Under a well-orchestrated RAW plan, on November 30 1988 a 300 to 400-strong well trained force of mercenaries, armed with automatic weapons, initially said to be of unknown origin, infiltrated in boats and stormed the capital of Maldives. They resorted to indiscriminate shooting and took high-level government officials as hostages. At the Presidential Palace, the small contingent of loyal national guards offered stiff resistance, which enabled President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to shift to a safe place from where he issued urgent appeals for help from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Britain and the United States.

The Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi reacted promptly and about 1600 combat troops belonging to 50 Independent Para-Brigade in conjunction with Indian Naval units landed at Male under the code-name Operation Cactus. A number of IAF transport aircraft, escorted by fighters, were used for landing personnel, heavy equipment and supplies. Within hours of landing, the Indian troops flushed out the attackers form the streets and hideouts. Some of them surrendered to Indian troops, and many were captured by Indian Naval units while trying to escape along with their hostages in a Maldivian ship, Progress Light. Most of the 30 hostages including Ahmed Majtaba, Maldives Minister of Transport, were released. The Indian Government announced the success of the Operation Cactus and complimented the armed forces for a good job done.

The Indian Defense Minister while addressing IAF personnel at Bangalore claimed that the country’s prestige has gone high because of the peace-keeping role played by the Indian forces in Maldives. The International Community in general and the South Asian states in particular, however, viewed with suspicious the over-all concept and motives of the operation. The western media described it as a display of newly-acquired military muscle by India and its growing role as a regional police. Although the apparent identification of the two Maldivian nationals could be a sufficient reason, at its face value, to link it with the previous such attempts by the mercenaries, yet other converging factors, indicative of involvement of external hand, could hardly be ignored. Sailing of the mercenaries from Manar and Kankasanturai in Sri Lanka, which were in complete control of IPKF, and the timing and speed of the Indian intervention proved their involvement beyond any doubt.

Nepal

Ever since the partition of the sub-continent India has been openly meddling in Nepal’s internal affairs by contriving internal strife and conflicts through RAW to destabilize the successive legitimate governments and prop up puppet regimes which would be more amenable Indian machinations. Armed insurrections were sponsored and abetted by RAW and later requests for military assistance to control these were managed through pro-India leaders. India has been aiding and inciting the Nepalese dissidents to collaborate with the Nepali Congress. For this they were supplied arms whenever the King or the Nepalese Government appeared to be drifting away from the Indian dictates and impinging on Indian hegemonic designs in the region. In fact, under the garb of the so-called democratization measures, the Maoists were actively encouraged to collect arms to resort to open rebellion against the legitimate Nepalese governments. The contrived rebellions provided India an opportunity to intervene militarily in Nepal, ostensibly to control the insurrections which were masterminded by the RAW itself. It was an active replay of the Indian performance in Sri Lanka and Maldives a few years earlier. RAW is particularly aiding the people of the Indian-origin and has been providing them with arms and ammunition. RAW has also infiltrated the ethnic Nepali refugees who have been extradited by Bhutan and have taken refuge in the eastern Nepal. RAW can exploit its links with these refugees in either that are against the Indian interest. Besides the Nepalese economy is totally controlled by the Indian money lenders, financiers and business mafia ( RAW’s Machination In South Asia by Shastra Dutta Pant, Kathmandu, 2003).

Afghanistan

Since December 1979, throughout Afghan War, KGB, KHAD (WAD) (former Afghan intelligence outfit) and RAW stepped up their efforts to concentrate on influencing and covert exploitation of the tribes on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. There was intimate co-ordination between the three intelligence agencies not only in Afghanistan but in destabilization of Pakistan through subversion and sabotage plan related to Afghan refugees and mujahideen, the tribal belt and inside Pakistan. They jointly organized spotting and recruitment of hostile tribesmen and their training in guerrilla warfare, infiltration, subversion, sabotage and establishment of saboteur force/terrorist organizations in the pro-Afghan tribes of Pakistan in order to carry out bomb explosions in Afghan refugee camps in NWFP and Baluchistan to threaten and pressurize them to return to Afghanistan. They also carried out bomb blasts in populated areas deep inside Pakistan to create panic and hatred in the minds of locals against Afghan refugee mujahideen for pressurizing Pakistan to change its policies on Afghanistan.

Pakistan

Pakistan’s size, strength and potential have always overawed the Indians. It, therefore, always considers her main opponent in her expansionist doctrine. India’s animosity towards Pakistan is psychologically and ideologically deep-rooted and unassailable. India’s war with Pakistan in 1965 over Kashmir and in 1971 which resulted in the dismemberment of Pakistan and creation of Bangladesh are just two examples.

Raw considers Sindh as Pakistan’s soft under-belly. It has, therefore, made it the prime target for sabotage and subversion. RAW has enrolled and extensive network of agents and anti-government elements, and is convinced that with a little push restless Sindh will revolt. Taking fullest advantage of the agitation in Sindh in 1983 and the ethnic riots, which have continued till today, RAW has deeply penetrated and cultivated dissidents and secessionists, thereby creating hard-liners unlikely to allow peace to return to Sindh. Raw is also involved similarly in Balochistan.

RAW is also being blamed for confusing the ground situation is Kashmir so as to keep the world attention away from the gross human rights violations by India in India occupied Kashmir. ISI being almost 20 years older than RAW and having acquired much higher standard of efficiency in its functioning , has become the prime target of RAW’s designs, ISI is considered to be a stumbling block in RAW’s operations, and has, therefore, been made a target of all kinds of massive misinformation and propaganda campaign. The tirade against ISI continues unabated. The idea is to keep ISI on the defensive by fictionalising and alleging its hand is supporting Kashmiri Mujahideen and Sikhs in Punjab. RAW’S fixation against ISI has taken the shape of ISI-phobia, as in India everyone traces down the origin of all happenings and shortcomings to the ISI . Be it an abduction at Bangalore or a student’s kidnapping at Cochin, be it a bank robbery at Calcutta or a financial scandal in Bombay, be it a bomb blast at Bombay or Bangladesh, they find an ISI hand in it ( “RAW :GLOBAL AND REGIONAL AMBITIONS” Edited by Rashid Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Saleem, Published by Islamabad Policy Research Institute, Asia Printers, Islamabad, 2005).

RAW over the years has admirably fulfilled its tasks of destabilising target states through unbridled export of terrorism. The India Doctrine spelt out a difficult and onerous role for RAW. It goes to its credit that it has accomplished its assigned objectives due to the endemic weakness in the state apparatus of those nations and failure of their leaders.

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan131007.htm

CLAUDIO FAVA,QUEI BRAVI RAGAZZI,SPERLING &KUPFER,2008

Le riflessioni politiche del volume-ideologicamente manichee-procedono di pari passo con il rifiuto tout court del realismo politico e delle sue implicazioni,inducendo il lettore a comprendere senza ombra di dubbio di trovarsi di fronte ad un saggio militante profondamente intriso di ostlita' antiamericana ed antiatlantica.D'altra parte,l'inchiesta della Commissione europea non ha contribuito a salvaguardare il rispetto del diritto internazione-ed in particolare delle Convenzioni di Ginevra-ma al contrario ha contribuito a screditare l'azione di contrasto americana ed europea di fronte alla opinione pubblica mondiale,determinando in primo luogo -unitamente alle risultanze della Procura di Milano e alle inchieste del Washington ^post e della ABC news-un grave conflitto tra istituzioni nazionali e sovranazionali e in secondo luogo una notevole perdita di credibilita' degli alleati di fronte agli americani finendo in tal modo per gratificare ideologicamente la diffusa ostlita' antiamericana contribuendo a rendere maggiormente efficace sul fronte della guerra psicologica l'offensiva di Al Quaeda e dei suoi alleati.Al di la' dell'affresco psicologico fatto dall'autore di alcuni protagonisti volontari o meno della vicenda-p.e.la l'operato di Pollari e' assimalta a quello di una patetica comparsa-e al di la' delle analogie-piu' volte ribadite-tra il modus operandi della mafia e quello della intelligence,le scelte politico-militari degli americani e degli alleati ci trovano-con buona pace del furore iconoclasta e giustizialista di Fava-pienamente solidali. in quanto dettate dalla ragion di stato.Le numerose omissioni,la secretazione dei protocolli di intesa con gli alleati,la delegittimazione politica della inchiesta della Commissione e delle convenzioni internazionali,il rifiuto di conferire credibilita' giuridica ai terroristi,l'uso degli interrogatori rinforzati-ampiamente applicati dai francesi durante la guerra di Algeria e dagli americani in America Latina-costituiscono scelte ispirate al realismo politico unico approccio possibile di fronte alla pericolosita' rappresentata dal terrorismo per tutte le democrazie europee. Contrariamente all'opinione dell'autore il modus operandi del governo inglese-dal Foreign Office all'MI6-e di Pollari e' stato conforme ai precetti della salvaguardia della sicurezza nazionale e al rispetto degli accordi bilaterali ed in ambito Nato. In conclusione- sia detto con esplicita ironia-la credibilita' delle valutazioni di Fava e' a tutti gli effetti equivalente a quella di Giulietto Chiesa e Gianni Mina' l'imparzialita' dei quali e' ampiamente nota.

GAGLIANO GIUSEPPE

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I have many reservations about this so called female Al-Qaeda, Aafia Siddiqui. #1: There are two versions of the story, as can be seen in the article. One from the Afghans, and one from the Americans.

#2: Why would a woman who graduated from the elite, extremely hard to get into, highly respected MIT come from her home in Pakistan, which, granted, isn't a very safe place to live, but then go to Afghanistan, the war zone, the capital of which the US and British backed Hamid Karzai government doesn't even have full control over. She gets a biology and neuroscience degree and heads back over there? Ok, maybe she might have been a Pakistani agent or real Al-Qaeda. Let's go a little deeper into this, then.

#3: She had maps of "unidentified landmarks". Yes, always unidentified, vague accounts surrounding these things. Unidentified locations, etc. These allegedly included recipes for explosives and chemical weapons, maps of the Afghan provincial governer's compounds, and the mosques he prayed in. Some gel and liquid stuff was supposedly found in glass jars in her handbag, which an Afghan government spokesman called liquid poison. Really, so you chemically analyzed it? When? All that seems more like an intelligence operative than Al-Qaeda to me. We're told that Al-Qaeda has deadly weapons. So why haven't they used them after all these years, if they have all these nukes, deadly explosives and hazardous chemical knowhow? After Iraq and Afghanistan, and possibly Iran and Pakistan as well? What are they waiting for, every Arab nation to get glassed? And the mainstream media will continue to pound their hypnotic combo of dramatic music, multiple screens, and speaking in an insistent, alarming tone to whip the public up into a frenzy to rejuvenate the exhausted war on freedom. And the Americans and Western Europeans blindly believe whatever the media says, despite how much they say when you ask them about the mainstream media, that you need to read behind the lines. Haha.

The UN's ethnic breakdown shows that the Afghans are nothing more than farmers and goatherders. Where would they obtain this complex knowledge? I have to ask this about the myth of modern terrorism. When has anyone actually seen anything really solid in the way of real chemical attacks in the fashion we are told? We're always told, it could happen, it could happen. But it hasn't.

Inconsistencies abound. This Times of London article says:

They add that she attacked US military officials who arrived at her detention centre to take her away, rushing out from behind curtains, snatching up an assault rifle that had been left lying on the floor, and firing twice before she was shot in the chest and subdued.

What? It was just left lying on the floor? Just like that? Oh, I'm tired, I'll just chuck this on the floor. And she was able to take it? In that sort of installation, we're supposed to believe that they don't have cameras in each room to prevent anyone from hiding like we're told that she was? They have to have them in there in order to know when they're asleep so they can torture them by denying them sleep with their loudspeakers and lights, right? Outright bold lies, as usual, from Bush & Co.

Continuing in this article is her family's side of the story.

But her family say that far from being arrested last month, Ms Siddiqui disappeared from the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2003, along with her three children.

They fear that Ms Siddiqui has been the subject of extraordinary rendition, snatched off the street and held in secret for five years, during which, they suspect, she has been brutally interrogated. Several high-profile al-Qaeda suspects have been held at a detention facility at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan under conditions of such secrecy that they are nicknamed "ghost" prisoners.

One British journalist, Yvonne Ridley, suggested last year that Ms Siddiqui could be the supposed "grey lady of Bagram", a Pakistani woman who has allegedly been held there for years.

"What a mockery that after five years' detention Aafia is suddenly discovered in Afghanistan," said Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the missing woman's younger sister, at a press conference in Karachi.

Jesus. Look at her. Of course she was tortured. So she disappears back in 2003, and then reappears in US custody, suddenly facing charges. The BBC also asks questions about her mysterious disappearance. This case is so much like all the other tales of rendition, like Khaled al-Masri, who got kidnapped in Germany. Just vanished off the streets, tortured, and just dumped back out in a foriegn land when they were done with him.

Who has the real capability to supply this woman with this James Bond-like equipment? A nation of goatherders and farmers, or Western intelligence agencies with billions of dollars of cash in hand? Due to the many inconsistencies and obvious lies in the government's story here, who would you be more likely to believe? The woman's family, or the people who sweep up innocent people, through the notorious rendition (torture) program, and who also engage in activities like this.

• A CIA agent met with bin Laden two months before 9/11 at a hospital in Dubai where he was undergoing kidney treatment, according to the French paper Le Figaro.
• As Newsweek has reported from their military sources, several of the 9/11 hijackers themselves were found to have been trained at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, which is dubbed the Cradle of US Navy Aviation, even listing their personal addresses there on their driver's licenses, and another was trained at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
• David Shayler, a former MI5 agent, who did jail time for doing so under the Official Secrets Act, revealed in 2002 that MI6, the UK version of the CIA, paid Al-Qaeda a large sum of money to assassinate Libya's Gahddafi, gave asylum to an Al-Qaeda member in Manchester, and buried information that would have led to bin Laden's arrest. It doesn't stop at Bush. Not by far.
• The alleged mastermind of the London bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, was exposed by former Justice Department prosecutor and counterterrorism expert John Loftus, to be an MI6 asset who was sheltered and protected by them before the bombings. Watch him here. The New York Times has also covered this.
• Three of the Madrid train bombers have been outed as police informants, with the one who supplied the explosives in possession of the private phone number of Spain's Civil Guard bomb squad.

And that's when they're not just patsies like Moussaoui and the Miami "bombers". Knowing the dark activities of the intelligence agencies who have been caught redhanded just coldly carrying out these savage strikes, why should anyone look to anyone but the intelligence agencies for any sort of terrorist activity?

And my last concern with this is that this case has been brewing for five years, and she's been on US soil for at least a couple of weeks too. Why all the TV blitzes about this now? Why is she being tried in a US court for shooting a US military man, in full view of the public? This isn't like them. It's to create another media circus to restore the West's confidence in the war on freedom. Because it certainly hasn't been applied to anyone found to have really been planning terrorist attacks or catching them beforehand. No, it only is to be used as a justification for Americans to be humiliated at the airports by TSA punks sky high on power trips, and to be conditioned to accept a no-fly list as a mainstream, normal thing, when a policy like this is one of the primary organs of a police state. Will Americans start standing up for their rights and demand en masse that this come to a permanent stop? To steal a line from Bill Clinton, do you have the courage to change?

Der ehemalige italienische Staatspräsident Francesco Cossiga hatte am 30. November 2007 dieser bekannten Zeitung ein Interview gegeben, in dem er aller Welt ein »offenes Geheimnis« bekannt gab: Die Terroranschläge in New York und in Washington vom 11. September 2001 wären nicht das Werk irgendwelcher islamitischer Terroristen, sondern von den USA mithilfe Israels organisiert worden. Der Grund für die Terrorakte sei darin zu suchen, dass man einen Grund brauchte, um gegen die arabischen Nationen vorzugehen und die westlichen Verbündeten für einen Krieg gegen bzw. in Afghanistan bzw. dem Irak zu gewinnen. (Quelle: www.corriere.it/politica/07_novembre_30/osama_berlusconi_cossiga_27f4ccee-9f55-11dc-8807-0003ba99c53b.shtml )

Francesco Cossiga ist nicht irgendwer. Abgesehen von seinem einstigen Amt als italienischer Staatspräsident hatte er nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges mit dem Warschauer Pakt und dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs offenbart, dass er als Präsident der »einzige politische Kontaktmann« der Terrororganisation GLADIO gewesen sei. Bei GLADIO handelte es sich um eine Geheimorganisation von NATO, CIA und MI6 (britischer Auslandsgeheimdienst) während des Kalten Kriegs. Sie existierte von ca. 1950 bis mindestens 1990 und erstreckte sich über das damalige Westeuropa, Griechenland und die Türkei. Im Zuge der Aufdeckung von GLADIO wurde 1990 bekannt, dass Teile der Organisation unter Mitwirkung von staatlichen Organen systematisch und zielgerichtet an gravierenden Terrorakten in mehreren europäischen Ländern beteiligt waren, die offiziell »linken« oder »ausländischen Terroristen« in die Schuhe geschoben wurden. GLADIO, so heißt es, sollte im Falle einer Invasion durch die Truppen des Warschauer Vertrages als so genannte »Stay Behind«-Organisation Anschläge und Attentate hinter den feindlichen Linien verüben. De facto handelte es sich bei dieser Gruppierung um eine Ansammlung von Söldnern, Faschisten, regulären Soldaten, Agenten und Militäragenten, die verschiedene Attentate, Morde und Anschläge in Westeuropa verübten und dabei nach der Methode »Unter falscher Flagge« agierten. Nach aufwändigen und lang andauernden Recherchen italienischer Staatsanwälte hatte am 24. Oktober 1990 der damalige Ministerpräsident Giulio Andreotti im italienischen Abgeordnetenhaus die Existenz von GLADIO gestehen müssen.

Im Zusammenhang mit Cossigas Aussage stellt sich die folgende Frage beinahe von allein: Wurde GLADIO je aufgelöst bzw. gibt es eine Nachfolgeorganisation? Die Terroranschläge auf das World Trade Center in New York und das Pentagon in Washington waren logistische Meisterwerke und wurden von Insidern organisiert, die geheimdienstliche Netzwerke nutzten. Sie ähneln in gewisser Hinsicht (auch) dem, was GLADIO vorher praktizierte. War der 11. September eine »False Flag«-Operation?

Quelle - Knopp

For one, it is reaffirming to know the universe speaks to us continuously, whether it be through Tesla's aether, or what Bohm referred to as nonlocal connections. How and why, in my opinion, is immaterial. What is important, is learning how to listen. Two, certain recent [towering] events (notably the potentially WWIII instigating situation in the KauKasus mountains, and the kickoff of the dehumanist [mount] Olympics, threatened conspiring to redirect my focus back to the realm of fear, but have taught me there is a pathway (a circular one, I'd suspect) one could follow to elevate one's self to a higher realm, by first deflecting the neural pathways into the lower regions.

When looking outwards and upwards, trying to move one's self from a mind of ignorance to one of awareness, you will inevitably face the great beast. That beast, is the conspiratorial octopus, whose multiple tentacles, have penetrated almost every aspect of our lives; from science, to religion, to the "arts" themselves. The closer you get to the head of the octopus, the more your ratio of answers than questions increases. [Found the first image on a site showing the extent of the reach of a multi-tentacled beast innocuously known as the NCAA.]

One could deduce the beast/creature is also a Hydra, and should one get too close to any of the heads (as two of the authors involved in the above book, Danny Casolaro and Jim Keith, may have), you risk being put to the sword yourself. Rather than risk that route personally, I'll opt instead to vibrate at a lower frequency for the time being. As I deduced last time I contemplated the octopus theme: phalli and tentacles are connected at so many levels, they can, in many ways, be considered one and the same.

Looking at the last of the above images (a depiction from the Biblical tale of Shadrak, Meshak and Abendigo: three names / extensions that will arise again before this is over), it should be clear that phallus worship (disguised as monotheism), predates most known forms of Octopus worship, or any group of Japanese men having a wank at images of tentacles penetrating the innocent. From such a perspective, whether you're the monogamous type, preferring one penis per orifice of your preference, and one God to serve/please over many, or polytheistic and polyandrous, fantasizing/fearing the rape of many tentacles, is moot.

Being a creature born with one penis, I can attest to considerable personal energies being spent thinking of, or in the course of pursuing, couplings for my own tentacle. The thought of having many such appendages, would seem unfeasible not accounting for a quantum expansion in mental processing capacity. Hence, as I sit at my computer, resisting baser distractions which naturally tug at me while vibrating at this lower frequency, I push my focus lower, going within, into the depths of my own universe, to contemplate the symbolic meaning of my octopus.

This journey (which I alluded to at the beginning), began the first day of the month honoring the man who would be God, Augustus. At a friend's house, awaiting to go out, Galaxy Quest (a movie I had seen before, when my eyes were nary open) was on the television. The aliens in the film (pictured above), called Thermians, cast a reflection of themselves as normal humans. However, when they were subjected to torture (i.e., pain) or aroused sexually, their true nature was revealed.

Looking at Webster's Code Book, we see reflection defined as: "an instance of reflecting; especially: the return of light or sound waves from a surface." Digging deeper, we find that reflecting means "to turn into or away from a course: "deflect," or "to prevent passage of and cause to change direction; e.g., a mirror reflects light." We could go far deeper, but for now, it'd be a fair assumption, that the mirror may not be the best place to look if we want to find out who we are. We'll reflect on this further, in part two.

Above, we see one of the Thermians, in a state of increasing sexual arousal. Her tentacles have come out and are enveloping her human mate. Another human walking in on them was a little disturbed at the sight, as I suspect we would all be naturally. However, taking a look at the devilicious photo of the same actress, Missi Pyle, I'd have to confess, I'd be hard-pressed to deny her a proper shagging.

But, I'm not gonna turn this blog into a list of girls I'd like to shag (though I had been wondering, during times of frustration/introspection, whether the end-result might matter). There's a plot element in the movie, of a device called the "Omega 13," which is capable of either destroying the universe, or rewinding time by 13 seconds. As for the Omega, it wasn't too long ago I learned that the Omega was framed on the one dollar bill: {*1}

Also, note the 8 legged spider, and keep in mind it has three eyes (for part ii). The occult significance of the number 13 is near endless, so aside from pointing out it's an oft-repeating feature of "the bill," I won't get into all the permutations here. What I will stress however, is that the letter Omega is the 24th and final letter in the Greek alphabet.

Hence, an argument could be put forth that the Omega 13 (of Galaxy Quest) is a "reset" button. And, based on the present near-hopeless state of us (humanity), one has to wonder if a restart is the best option (thinking of the Matrix and such).

On Sunday (8/3), I settled in to my own routine, to watch the Venture Brothers (a show which merited it's own prior blog), and I caught me favourite character, Brock Samson say something like "or they may come at us in some kind of Octopus like tentacle thing that shoots lasers out of it's eyes." [Can't recall specific words.]

Tying Brock further into themes explored herein, are the above series of pics showing us he (a) is in fact a man among men (hence, we can assume connected the color purple), (b) is not adverse to sexual congress with marine life (the water metaphor, plus this scene was from a hallucination he had while doing a DMT type substance among shamans/occultists), and (c) has been assigned a tentacular clearance level ("8"). The most recent episode came on this Sunday night (08/10) after I had already started writing this article. In order to try and get this down today, I'll resist the urge to fully explore said episode (it may require a write-up of it's own, but will strongly suggest it is a "must-see" for any synchronaut).

The topics addressed were (a) a mysterious "orb" that has two uses (one unknown, the other could collapse the universe upon itself), (b) Nikola Tesla aligned with a faction, that was battling against another which included Aleister Crowley, (c) Crowley being murdered and made fun of, (d) high-ranking agent Brock being told that even he is but a mere pawn in a game he is incapable of understanding, and (e), I kid you not, contained humorous examples of discovering and misinterpreting synchromystic clues, including a tip on deciphering Webster's dictionary.

The crown on Brock's badge, not only shows us who controls these intelligence / mercenary agencies, but synchs us to another of "her majesties" operatives Ian Fleming, and his tool of disinformation/revealing, James Bond. {*2} The not so subtle Octopussy title, not only connects us back to the world-control seeking Octopi, but tentacle sex/porn. You don't have to be an occultist to notice the blatant penis imagery: be it the powerful rocket flying out of Bond's loins, the handjob suggestive layout of her hand with the "grip" positioned where the [purple] head of his manhood should be, or how every single woman in the third image is touching the penis obelisk (again, one's hand suggestively holding the "neck").

Aside: Found a strange tribute made 17 years later (2000) named Inside Octopussy. My first thought was, "Gee, what 13 year old boy named that one?" But, there was planning/reason behind this "exposé." It was filmed at the Berlin Wall and ran 33 minutes. Let's not forget the villain in the movie was Kamal Kahn! Capping it off, when I looked on IMDB today, found this bizarre section: "MOVIEmeter: 8% since last week why?" {*3}

The last image (above) is highly suggestive, with a titillating near revelation of the vulva through the see-through fabric. The 13 "Bonds," along with the revelation this is the 13th movie in the series, gives us yet another solid synch between the number 13, the number 8 and this multi-tentacled monster we're exploring herein.

The last event which prompted this journey, was finding the movie Dagon, shortly after Brock's "gentle nudge." Reading the comments on someone else's blog [BTW: they can be a great source of information, so if you're not in the habit of reading comments, get into it] a person going by anadæ recommended the movie (based on one of H.P. Lovecraft's writings). As I've come to expect from the synchrosphere [¿can I call it that?], between said comment and my writing this, Dedroidfy found a thorough site with all books Lovecraft (online). [On a sad note {*5}]

The above scenes are from the sacrifice ritual from Dagon. Beyond mere nudity, the scenes (a) hint that blood serves a purpose to lure the beast (hence, she was cut prior to being offered), (b) show the victim being lowered into the pit/well, where the god/octopus first squirts her with his oily discharge, and (c) most importantly, after her [ahem!] "disney moment," she is now dangling above the pit, so that the beast has to arise from the depths beyond the well to consume her.

Dagon's images also take us back to the arena of tentacle rape, a world which I didn't even know existed prior to undertaking first exploration of octopus them. [It would seem there are many fans: don't miss this comment.] In the odd news category, also found this bizarre story: Octopus sex man avoids jail, which though misleading (insinuating Octopus sex was his crime), offers up this useful nugget: "McLagan's self-esteem was so low he equated himself with a beast." Speaking of "the beast" (another moniker for Crowley), be sure to read the above exchange between Beast Boy and his friend / love-interest / soon-to-be victim.

While some would speculate that the internet gave rise to octopus porn culture, the 1934 cover of Spicy Adventures (see library of covers) would suggest otherwise. The theme has been with us since I don't know when and I'm beginning to surmise, inexorably connected to who and what we are. Whether pop culture is perpetuating the idea consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously would be a matter of great (and perhaps, trivial) debate. As you can see above, even Marvel Comics got in on the act. [Any Briton who cares to tell me whether the last above image is a joke or not, is welcome to comment.]

Subsequent looks at Futurama's Beast with a Billion Backs (covered in prior blog, and in detail by Hidden Agendas) convince me that while metaphoric and extremely clever, the main plotline of the movie is tentacle sex. The cover, featuring the most sexual character of the series, attests to that. My only question is whether the conspicuous location of (or even reason for) the V light behind her is a subtle nod to those not anally inclined, as to which orifice of Leila's the tentacles are intent on permeating. [For those interested in the grisly answer as to whether Leila got penetrated, see Quentin Tarantino, You Suck).

Aside: I'm sure this is just coincidence (one of the few), but I found it interesting that both IMDB's Futurama's BBB and Inside Octopussy entries have a "V" next to the date. V for Vaginal penetration???

The subsequent image (above) is the art-work of a young fan, which strongly supports my argument about the passing of memes. This was obviously not a conscious effort, but note the placement of the sole tentacle, Frye's tonque out in [oral] anticipation, the pink hearts (i.e, vaginas) and white swirls on background (¿along with upside-down male genitalia?) and lastly, the pronounced [¿engorged?] hearts in place of his eyes, indicating the confusion of carnal lust, as flowery love.

Coninuing to resonate at this lower frequency, we find actual photographs of real people, ranging from hack amateur to professional photographs, of the sexual connection between Octopus and the self being repeated. The placement along the genitalia (or, lower chakras) could speculatively be seen as natural, but the center image is the one that grabs my attention the most.

In particular, I'm fascinated by the centering of the core/mouth (¿third eye?) of the Octopus directly over the heart (chakra). But, before I look deeper in the well, let me apologize for the mental rape I've subjected you to (yes, that man is wearing a bra). If you want to take this journey with me, you've got to come all the way.

The most eye-opening scene in Dagon [for me], was one where the protagonist was dreaming (i.e., with his third eye) {*4} of this lovely girl [who he, the protagonist, was unaware was actually his Gemini twin he was fated to join]. As they prepare to kiss and "couple" (I normally try not to use the word shag more than once in article, though the actress to the left was also quite shaggable ... oops, that's thrice now), he [and we] suffer from following shock (¿or revelation?)

The first image (one just discussed), on its own would imply little. However, the next one, shows the protagonist's father, exposed after her removes his mask (made of human skin). A few humans were skinned in the film (too graphic, hence I'll spare you), and the suggestion was the practice was tradition. The Greek word "apocalypse," as many of you may already know, literally translates to revealing by lifting the leather veil/covering. Have I stumbled into an apocalyptic truth herein?

At the beginning of this article, I discussed the Octopus of our "us versus them" world. It is a terrifying beast, and we've been instilled with a fear to constantly be on our guard, because it may be lurking around every corner to get us/subvert us/rape us. [btw: whoever took the first picture, would it have hurt to tidy up the apartment just a little bit? Oh, and yes, we get it ... pussy. That was not so clever.]

Its tentacles reach into the food we eat, to the [prescription] drugs we take, to the television we watch, and to even the music we listen to (discussed in prior blog). Even though I didn't label them as such at the time, my first-level conspiratorial expositions / research found "unseen hands" [nod to Epperson] wherever I looked. They were everywhere, and I confess, the beast was quite daunting. However, the following images don't seem so frightening, do they?

Note the significance of Lisa Simpson coming out of the recesses of her dark closet, in her Octopus outfit. Looking back over all the preceding images, I have to wonder if this scary octopus reaching at us from every direction is the lie, that keeps us tethered, ravaged and subjugated. What if the tentacles were our own instead, our connections to reach into everyone and everything, reversing the polarity of the flow, and indeed turning fear into love. Perhaps there lies a little Octopus inside all of us?

I was inspired to find an artist in America who has named his company SoulGlass (see the imagery). An artist, despite the uncreative state most art has been reduced to (topic of a prior blog), is one, who by definition, communes with his creator/soul, hence with the creative infinite. I can't say if it was the glass-blower's intent, but to me, such a "glass" could serve as the fragile container to hold one's soul. Practicality would dictate protecting such a structure, lest it shatter, with a hard yet pliable covering. A tough leather covering perhaps?

Looking at Revelations, from the cryptic metaphoric manual known as The Bible, and trying to account for the implanted distractions/deceptions put in at the beginning, and those later added by endless Czars of the Roman Empire (some tend to call them Popes of the Vatican), we are told that for the end times to begin, the beast must rise to destroy the [material] world. The Cthulhu mythos and the Kraken poets tell stories of similar nature.

Seeing that we, like the Earth itself, are 80% water, I think most of us are standing on the wrong shores, focused on looking out towards the wrong depths. {*6} Per Revelations 13:

1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,

4 and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who [is] like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'

So, perhaps if we wanna find the beast, we must look within the deep recesses of ourselves, and open the door to the shadow self we've spent a lifetime (or perhaps, lifetimes) trying to avoid. The universe is speaking to us: remember Fight Club? The oft-maligned Crowley, think of him what thou wilt, was completely in the right about one thing: asserting your will/power on others, lest you let them assert it on you. Come to think of it, that is precisely why we are in the mess we are in.

However, I'm not about to go off half-cocked and suggest we slay the beast within, for I like many here among you [Ding from memory bank: "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke." We'll revisit same song before this is over.], am still ignorant and confused as the true nature of ourselves (¿our elves?). We still toss out terms like good and evil while looking for saviors, without even understanding the meaning of the words, or even which side is deceiving nor which is assisting us. We blindly follow fools, until a new fool comes along, turning on the old and labeling him "evil," all the while, the new leads us back to "ground zero." [Credit to Mercurial Talismans for tip.]

How can we know who the ominous "eye" watching over us is, when we still don't even know who the "I" is? It is one thing to find the beast, and that is the simpler part. But, it is quite another to know his nature.

Hence, next up: triads, 8's, the water door, cubes, the grand chessboard, the Lion's Gate, "to infinity and beyond!" And, of course, more octopus porn! :-)

To be continued in Octopi, Phalli, Cubes of Life (II)

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*1: Thanks to reading Wrong Way Wizard's excellent article commemorating 7/4 1776: O Hey Can U Dig, By The Dawnz Early Light, Ma Peeps? In it he points to Talisman video by Charles Stanfeld Jones (who I believe is the same source I made the spider discovery through). We'll revisit the Rubik's cube and 1776 before this is through. [LB]

**2: Some visiting Brit's were poking fun of how dumb the average Americans have become, and while I concurred with their opinion, I asked what made them think they were any better? When I suggested they don't even know the queen runs their country, they insisted her position was merely "ceremonial." A few points later (percent ownership of the UK land mass, the "royal" air force, the "royal" navy, and who their most powerful organizations [MI5/MI6] belong to), they were forced to reconsider.

Hm: Now, I'm forced to wonder why it is expected demanded that we address those of royal [ignoble] lineage in the plural? [LB]

*3: This deserves it's own footnote. "Inside Octopussy" featured an actor named BJ Worth [¡grimace!] playing himself (¡no pun!). But, his resume suggests more. Of course he would be affiliated with the film XXX! [LB]

**4: An anonymous commenter once speculated whether we truly understand the nature of the third eye, beyond labels like good and bad. This is not my answer, but knowing Cthulhu is the great beast that lies dreaming in the deep, have to wonder if one of our many astral connections (tendricles) is not a symbiotic one between us and the great beast. [LB]

*5: Occult researcher/writer Kent Daniel Bentkowski of Kentroversy passed away in between this writing and my last. I had misgivings about including it as a mere footnote, though others (notably Greg from Occult of Personality and Henrik from Red Ice) have said much more on his passing. Personally, I just wanted to express my gratitude for Kent's work and all the insight he has given me on my path to enlightenment. [LB]

*6: I mentioned this last time around, but in case you missed it, Live from the Logosphere's Reptilian Brain, Cthulhu, Neptune, Andromeda and the Beast of Revelations is a must read and on-topic. [LB]

According to Suskind’s new book, ‘The Way of the World’, Iraqi Director of Intelligence Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti had been passing on sensitive intelligence to the UK’s MI6 intelligence service for more than a year before the U.S invasion. In early 2003, Suskind writes, Habbush told MI6 official Michael Shipster in Jordan that Saddam had ended his nuclear programme in 1991 and his biological weapons programme in 1996. Habbush explained to the British official that Saddam tried to maintain the impression that he did have such weapons in order to impress Iran.

Suskind writes that the head of MI6, Richard Dearlove, flew to Washington to present details of the Habbush report to Tenet, who then briefed National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Soon after that, the CIA informed the British that the Bush administration was not interested in keeping the Habbush channel open, according to Suskind’s account.

Tenet has called the story of the Habbush prewar intelligence a "complete fabrication", claiming Habbush had "failed to persuade" the British that he had "anything new to offer by way of intelligence". His statement actually reinforces Suskind’s account, however, by indicating that he had simply chosen not to believe Habbush. "There were many Iraqi officials who said both publicly and privately that Iraq had no WMD," said the statement, "but our foreign intelligence colleagues and we assessed that these individuals were parroting the Baath party line and trying to delay any coalition attack."

Contradicting Tenet’s claim that the British did not take the Habbush report seriously, MI6 director Dearlove told Suskind he had asked Prime Minister Tony Blair why he had not acted on the intelligence from Habbush.

Another high-level U.S. source in the last months of the Saddam regime was Saddam’s foreign minister Naji Sabri. Tyler Drumheller, the CIA’s chief of clandestine operations for Europe from 2001 until 2005, recounts in his book ‘On the Brink’ that Sadri was passing on information to an official of a European government in early autumn 2002 indicating that hints of a WMD programme were essentially a "Potemkin village" used to impress foreign enemies.

Sidney Blumenthal wrote in Sep. 2007 that two former CIA officers who had worked on the Sabri case identified the foreign intermediary as being France and said he had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the CIA and French intelligence to provide documents on Saddam’s WMDs.

Drumheller told ‘60 Minutes’ that Sabri "told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program."

On Sep. 17, 2002, the CIA officer who had debriefed Sabri in New York, briefed CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin, according to Blumenthal’s account. McLaughlin responded that Sabri’s information was at odds with "our best source". That was a reference to ‘Curveball’, the Iraqi who claimed knowledge of an Iraqi mobile bio-weapons lab programme but was later found to be a professional liar.

The next day, Tenet briefed Bush on Sabri’s intelligence, but Bush rejected it out of hand as "what Saddam wanted him to think".

French intelligence agents later tapped Sabri’s telephone conversations and determined that he was telling the truth. But it was too late. One of Tenet’s deputies told the CIA officers, "This isn’t about intelligence. It’s about regime change."

Yet another highly credible U.S. source on the WMD issue in Sep. 2002 was Saad Tawfik, an electrical engineer who had been identified by the CIA as a "key figure in Saddam Hussein’s clandestine nuclear weapons programme". The story of the CIA’s handling of his testimony is told in James Risen’s ‘State of War’.

In early Sep. 2002, Tawfik’s sister, who lived in Cleveland, flew to Baghdad with a mission from the CIA to obtain details about Saddam’s nuclear weapons from her brother. But when she returned in mid-September, the CIA didn’t like the report from her conversations with the source.

Tawfik told his sister that Saddam’s nuclear programme had been abandoned in 1991. When she told him the CIA wanted her to ask such questions as "how advanced is the centrifuge" and "where are the weapons factories", Tawfik was incredulous that the CIA didn’t understand that there was no such programme.

Tawfik’s was only one of thirty cases of former Iraqi WMD experts who reported through relatives that Saddam had long since abandoned his dreams of WMD, according to Risen.

Both the Sabri evidence and the evidence from Tawfik and other former Iraqi experts was available to the CIA during the work on the Oct. 2002 National Intelligence Estimates (NIE). But the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence kept all of that evidence out of the NIE process.

No report based on any of that evidence was ever circulated to State, Defence or the White House, according to Risen and Blumenthal.

The disappearance of all that credible evidence reflected a deliberate decision by Tenet. The White House Iraq Group had just rolled out its new campaign to create a political climate supporting war in early September, and Tenet knew what was expected of him. As an analyst who worked on the NIE told Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times, "The going-in assumption was that we were going to war, so this NIE was to be written with that in mind." That means Tenet’s account of the CIA’s role in the WMD issue in his 2007 memoirs completely ignored the credible evidence from Habbush, Sabri and the former Iraqi specialists that there was no active program, as well as his own role in suppressing it.

Tenet even brazenly claimed that a "very sensitive, highly placed source in Iraq" about whom "little has been publicly said" had "reported that production of chemical and biological weapons was taking place". The reporting from the source, continuing through the NIE and beyond, "gave those of us at the most senior level further confidence that our information about Saddam’s WMD programmes was correct."

Tenet was clearly referring to the reporting coming from the Sabri debriefings, but his description of them was a prevarication. As Blumenthal reported, they had written a report on Sabri’s intelligence spelling out his view that there was no active WMD programme, but they later discovered that it had been rewritten and given an entirely new preamble asserting that Saddam already possessed chemical and biological weapons and was "aggressively and covertly developing" nuclear weapons.

Tenet -- who was a political operator rather than an intelligence professional -- had betrayed the CIA’s mission of providing objective analysis, instead choosing to serve the interests of the Bush administration in preparing the way for war. It is not difficult to imagine how he would have meekly carried out whatever was asked of him by the White House -- even forging a document and leaking it to the media, to buttress the administration’s case for war.

*Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist. The paperback edition of his latest book, ‘Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam’ was published in 2006.

Der frühere Wall Street Journal-Journalist und Pulitzer-Preisträger Ron Suskind hat in seinem neuesten Buch "The Way of the World", das am Mittwoch in den USA herausgekommen ist, schwere Vorürfe gegen den amerikanischen Geheimdienst CIA erhoben.

Im Vorfeld des Angriffskrieges der USA gegen Irak im Jahre 2003 unterhielt der englische Auslandsgeheimdienst MI6 Kontakte zu Saddam Husseins Geheimdienstchef Tahir Jalil Habbush. Dieser versicherte der MI6, der Irak besäße keinerlei Massenvernichtungswaffen. Daraufhin, so berichtet die Londoner Times online am 6.8.08, sei der ehemalige britische Geheimdienstchef Sir Richard Dearlove im Februar 2003 nach Washington geflogen, um dem damaligen CIA-Direktor George Tenet den Habbush-Bericht zu überbringen. Tenet habe den Bericht Präsident Bush und der Sicherheitsberaterin Condoleezza Rice zur Kenntnisnahme überreicht. Aus dem Habbush-Bericht ging hervor, was später durch Untersuchungen bestätigt wurde: Saddam Hussein hatte das Chemiewaffenprogramm 1991 und das Biowaffenprogramm 1996 einstellen lassen.

Nach der Irak-Invasion geriet Habbush in die Gefangenschaft des CIA. Offiziell ließ die USA Habbush weiterhin steckbrieflich mit einem Finderlohn von einer Million Dollar suchen. Wie Autor Suskind in der Huffington Post vom 7.8.08 noch einmal bekräftigt, habe Habbush vom CIA ein Schweigegeld in Höhe von 5 Millionen Dollar erhalten, damit er über keine Informationskanäle bekanntgibt, dass Irak über keine Massenvernichtungswaffen mehr verfügt habe.

Doch der CIA kaufte nicht nur Stillschweigen. Nun wurden auch Dokumente gefälscht, um eine Beziehung zwischen Saddam Hussein und den Attentaten vom 11. September 2001 sowie zum - erfundenen - irakischen Atomwaffenprogramm herzustellen. In einem angeblichen Brief an Saddam Hussein mit dem offiziellen Briefkopf der irakischen Regierung schrieb Habbush mit Kugelschreiber: Muhammad Atta, der vermutliche Drahtzieher der 9/11-Attentate, habe im Sommer 2001 erfolgreich den geplanten Anschlag im Irak trainiert. Zudem habe gerade Al Quaida dem Irak bei der Beschaffung von Uran aus dem Niger geholfen. Das von CIA und Habbush gefälschte Dokument wurde sodann als "Beweis" für die Richtigkeit der Bush-Anschuldigungen in der Presse weltweit lanciert.

Wie jeder weiß, wurden die Niger-Lügen sehr schnell entlarvt, was eine ganze Kettenreaktion von Skandalen losgetreten hat. Der damalige CIA-Mitarbeiter Rob Richer wird von Suskind folgendermaßen zitiert: "Bush wollte den Krieg im Irak vom ersten Tag seiner Amtszeit."

The WAR MONSTER MACHINE is spreading his poison in our world little by little ti`ll will kill us all. Terra is at the END OF THE ROAD for humanity . Just wait and see...
Georgia attacks Ossetia... Russia attacks Georgia... OUR WORLD ATTACKS LIFE ...
Our parents are touched by madness ... Our brothers are becoming cold blood criminals... Our childrens are dying in horibble pain... WE ARE BECOMING NOTHING, COSMIC DUST !

This was reported Wednesday by the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which points out that the requirement to hand over information to the EU Joint Situations Center in Brussels, known as SitCen, might turn into a one-way flow information for the UK agencies.

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Great Britain's spy agency, MI6, is known to movie fans as the employer of secretive Agent 007, James Bond. However, the Associated Press reported the agency has begun a not-so-secretive open recruiting campaign. MI6's head of human resources told the news agency that the terrorist threat is prompting the agency to reach out. The agency's campaign includes outreach to women and minorities.

People interested in security occupations are also in demand in the United States. The labor market in protective services occupations has been steadily tightening, according to the Trends in Unemployment by Occupation Insight by Staffing Industry Analysts. The jobless rate in protective service occupations was only 2.5% in the first quarter of 2008 -- down from 3.7% in 2007, 3.4% in 2006 and 4.0% in 2005. The current 2.5% level of unemployment in protective services puts it on par with that in computer and math, which occupational category also scores a 2.5% unemployment.

So, does anyone know of any prospective 007s? MI6 is hiring.

"Any intelligence officer who assumes his service is penetration proof is ignorant of intelligence history. William Hood senior CIA counterintelligence offier. Kap 7 A matter of trust nigel west

Känner mig utmattad av den politiska desininformationen i vissa delar av FRA debatten. Tack och lov hittade jag en vinkel hos Oscar Swartz som jag tycker är värd att beakta. Det är att ta ifrån FRA försvarets radioanstalt den civila myndighetsstämpeln/statusen Så här skriver han  

"FRA kanske borde stängas och militären få en avdelning för teknisk signalspaning i stället" 

Det är dags att börja fundera konstruktivt . För det är enklare att kritisera än att komma på hur den integrerade personliga integriteten och en bra FRA lag ska utformas.

Riksdagen eller någon utredare borde undersöka möjligheterna för att stycka upp myndigheten och anpassa de olika juridiska personerna (enheterna) till de lagar som då förväntas gälla för respektive del. Men jag kanske tänker fel.

Då skulle kommunikationsspaningen masstrålander kunna regleras med hjälp av de lagar som gäller för polisen samt säkerhetspolisen SÄPO och andra rättsvårdande myndigheter som får uppdrag utförda med hjälp av FRA. För Fra gör ju ingenting utan uppdrag från olika uppdragsgivare enligt Anders Wik

Det skulle även bli enklare att få ut information ang eventuell biografisk rapportering och kartläggning via Säpo som oftast är betällare. Då kan den som blivit övervakad i alla fall begära rättelse till integritetsskyddsnämden. Men den är säkert lika bakbunden och tandlös som FUN försvarets underrättelsenämd.

Den Militärtekniska signalspaningen kan väl läggas över till Must's brusar boys i Enköpings ledningsregemente

There's a great little piece in English language Andalucian newspaper The Olive Tree about Mark Thatcher facing eviction from his Spanish bolthole in the wake of Fighting Mann's EG coup trial:

MARK THATCHER is hiding out in a gated community on the Ronda-San Pedro road in fear of being kidnapped.

He fears an international snatch squad has been ordered to extradite him to Equatorial Guinea to face trial in an overthrow plot, he allegedly helped to fund.

This week fellow plot leader Simon Mann was found guilty and sentenced to 34 years in jail.

The son of former UK PM Margaret Thatcher rarely leaves his £3million bolthole in exclusive El Madronal, which has round-the-clock security.

He has installed a series of high-tech security systems in the home, that is owned by a former school friend Stephen Humberstone.

But now his days are numbered after Humberstone ordered him to leave the home he has rented since 2005 over unpaid bills.

Claiming he is three months in arrears to the tune of over 20,000 euros, Mr. Humberstone this week reportedly plans to serve court papers on him via the San Pedro courts.

“I want him off my property as soon as possible. If you see him, punch him in the face for me.

“I have absolutely no idea why a man as wealthy as him, who can still drive a Porsche, cannot pay his rent.

“All I can think is that he has no money. After talking to Mark I get the feeling he is receiving an allowance from his elderly mother.

“He always likes to pay in cash and even though the villa had maximum security he has fitted even more alarm systems. That shows how scared he is because he is a nasty piece of work and he is not liked.

“Despite all this he can still afford a driver and a cook – so why can he not pay his rent?”

Sir Mark, 54, who is estimated to be worth £64million, denies that he is behind in his rent and insists he has received nothing in writing from his landlord.

The piece goes on to talk about Scratcher's fears of being kidnapped and sent to Equatorial Guinea to face trial, a theme which TOP covers in salacious detail:

Alarmingly for Thatcher there are an estimated 120 international mafia gangs operating on the Costa del Sol, each capable of undertaking kidnap plots.

In 2005 there were a reported 50 plus kidnappings and “settling of accounts” on the coast.

In 2004 a Lithuanian gang kidnapped British businessman Frank Capa in broad daylight on the Ronda-San Pedro road.

The gang released him after nine days when the family paid a reported £1m
ransom.

A police source told the Olive Press: “There are quite a few groups of former soldiers from the Eastern Bloc, highly-trained with no money, and prepared to carry out these sort of crimes.

“There have been an alarming number of kidnappings over the last few years, most of them going unreported.”

Fret not, Scratcher! I'm sure you'll be fine!

EG coup blog posts:

• Fighting Mann's lawyer cries Guinea foul over coup extradition
• Fighting Mann: A "mere instrument" or a total tool?
• Fighting Mann drops Scratcher in the shit
• Fighting Mann earns 34 years
• Sugaring Spicer: the sensitive side of a professional gun

MI6's website encourages mothers to apply and assures women they won't be used as "honey pots," or seductresses. Disabled applicants are welcome. And a special search is directed at minorities who speak Mandarin, Arabic, Persian and the Afghan languages of Dari and Pashto.

Could the future James Bond be a woman or a dark-skinned Urdu speaker?

"The key challenge is the terrorist threat," MI6's head of human resources told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Government agencies have to show they're making positive efforts (to diversify) but for us it means much more."

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More than 20,000 people have applied since MI6 began its open recruiting campaign about a year ago, in a drive that has all but replaced the famous shoulder tap used to recruit author Graham Greene and others in the Second World War.

MI6's website encourages mothers to apply and assures women they won't be used as "honey pots," or seductresses. Disabled applicants are welcome. And a special search is directed at minorities who speak Mandarin, Arabic, Persian and the Afghan languages of Dari and Pashto.

"The key challenge is the terrorist threat," MI6's head of human resources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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