Sources

CIA: read all about it

The most striking intelligence story since the last issue was Tim Spicer’s ‘CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US’.(1) It included this:

‘A British intelligence source revealed that a staggering four out of ten CIA operations designed to thwart direct attacks on the US are now conducted against targets in Britain…..The CIA has already spent 18 months developing a network of agents in Britain to combat al-Qaeda, unprecedented in size within the borders of such a close ally, according to intelligence sources in both London and Washington.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who has advised Mr Obama, told The Sunday Telegraph: “The British Pakistani community is recognised as prob-ably al-Qaeda’s best mechanism for launching an attack against North America. The American security establishment believes that danger continues and there’s very intimate cooperation between our security services to monitor that.”

….The British official said: “The Americans run their own assets in the Pakistani community; they get their own intelligence. There’s close cooperation with MI5 but they don’t tell us the names of all their sources. Around 40 per cent of CIA activity on homeland threats is now in the UK. This is quite unprecedented.”

…….The British intelligence official revealed that CIA chiefs sent more resources to the UK because they were not prepared to see American citizens die as a result of MI5’s inability to keep tabs on all suspects.’

As of this writing (late April), Gabriel Ronay’s ‘Serb death squad leader “was top CIA agent”’ (Sunday Herald [Glasgow] 23 March 2009) had not been picked up by any London-based media. The claim has come from Jovica Stanisic, the former head of Serbia’s Secret Police. On trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague, Stanisic has produced testimonials from two former CIA officers, William Lofgren and Doug Smith. Smith was the CIA’s Bosnia station chief in the 1990s.(2) Not unrelated to this is an exchange between Edward Herman and the editor of (the left) Foreign Policy in Focus on the issue of the demonisation of the Serbs during the Yugoslav war. (3)

One of the CIA’s big Cold War psy-ops projects, distributing books and magazines into the Soviet bloc, has been revealed in participant John P. C. Matthews, ‘The West’s Secret Marshall Plan for the Mind’.(4)

Douglas Valentine’s ‘How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA’, is a self-explanatory trailer for his forthcoming book on the subject.(5) A list of Valentine’s published writ-ing is to be found at <http://members.authorsguild.net/valentine/>

Russell’s story

Roderick Russell, whose experience at the hands of agents working for Grosvenor International was briefly described in Lobster 56, has placed a new full-length account, originally a paper delivered at a conference, on-line (6) Centrally he asks the question: ‘From a victim’s perspective, how do you protect whistle-blowers when intelligence services are involved and all police investigations stopped?’

Stealing elections

The fact that the Republicans didn’t use computers to steal the presidential election doesn’t mean the threat to do so has gone away. Get to your computer and put up <www.youtube.com/> then search for Stephen Spoonamore and watch the inter-views there with him. Spoonamore is a Republican-voting computer whizz and in these interviews he describes how elect-ions are stolen using electronic voting machines. Sample quote: ‘Diebold machines are brilliantly designed for stealing elections.’(7)

One of those who may have been involved in election stealing, Mike Connell, the chief IT consultant to George Bush’s strategist/disinformationist Karl Rove, died in a plane crash in December 2008. Connell, who was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio, is reported to have asked for protective custody and was warned not to fly.(8)

Martial law in America?

Peter Dale Scott has been interested in the possibility of martial law and/or the suspension of the constitution in America for some time. It was one of the themes of his book The Road to 9/11 (reviewed in Lobster 54) and it arises again in his essay ‘Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War’.(9)

‘The financial bailout legislation of September 2008 was only passed after members of both Congressional houses were warned that failure to act would threaten civil unrest and the imposition of martial law…… Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA 27th District) reported the same threat on the Congressional floor (Rep. Sherman later down-played his remarks slightly on the Alex Jones show):

“The only way they can pass this bill is by creating a panic atmosphere…. Many of us were told that the sky would fall…. A few of us were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. That’s what I call fear-mongering, un-justified, proven wrong.” ’

MI6, BP and oil

Reportedly the subject of a D-notice after it appeared in the Daily Mail, and subsequently withdrawn from that paper’s Website, Glen Owen’s ‘Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars….…how BP spent £45m to win ‘Wild East’ oil rights’(10) begins:

‘BP executives working for Lord Browne spent millions of pounds on champagne-fuelled sex parties to help secure lucrative inter-national oil contracts.

The company also worked with MI6 to help bring about changes in foreign governments, according to an astonishing account of life inside the oil giant.’

Making dolphins deaf

In ‘Military sonar blamed for mass dolphin strandings’ (The Times 8 April 2009) Lewis Smith reported that ‘Tests on a captive dolphin have demonstrated that hearing can be lost for up to 40 minutes on exposure to sonar.’(11)

We had more or less inferred this, had we not? But some actual evidence is useful. Will the world’s navies stop using sonar for a bunch of dolphins (and whales)? No, they won’t.

Talking teeth

It has been reported since the introduction of radios that some people (presumed wackos in most accounts) claimed that the TV or the radio was talking to them through their teeth. However, it has been pointed out to me that in 2002 Time reported that ‘two British researchers have developed a prototype “phone tooth” that can be embedded in a molar and receive cellphone calls. The signals are translated into vibrations that travel from the tooth to your skull to your inner ear, where only you can hear them.’(12)

Maybe not all were wacko?

Get into the gr[o]ove

If anyone wants to read a Bohemian Grove membership list, one such – The real thing? How would one know? – can now be seen on-line.(13)

Like the Council on Foreign Relations membership lists that used to circulate a decade or more ago, even if genuine it is essentially meaningless, as almost everybody who is anybody is there.

Creeping militarisation

Scientists for Global Responsibility have published a report on the growing military influence on research in UK universities.(14) Related to which is a self-explanatory piece about America, ‘Militarizing the Social Sciences’. (15)

Pollard

Richard Cummings, who wrote in Lobster 50 about the CIA and The Paris Review, interviews Jonathan Pollard in ‘Did U.S. give WMD to Saddam Hussein?’ I thought I sort of understood the Pollard story, but reading Cummings I found I had under-stood almost nothing. (16)

Brain waves

I’ve published bits and piece of material on the bad news about microwave technology, including mobile/cell phones; but I had not before seen a big pull together of the negative research on phones. Assembled it really is impressive – and depressing and alarming. Have a look at Amy Worthington’s piece on the subject (especially her sources); (17) and then, if you are not too depressed, add her account of ‘Aerosol and electro-magnetic weapons in the age of nuclear wars’.(18)

Hearts and minds

Extracts from the new US Army counter-insurgency manual.

‘At its heart, a counterinsurgency is an armed struggle for the support of the population. This support can be achieved or lost through informat-ion engagement, strong represent-ative government, access to goods and services, fear, or violence…… However, military units alone cannot defeat an insurgency. Most of the work involves discovering and solving the population’s under-lying issues, that is, the root causes of their dissatisfaction with the current arrangement of political power. Dealing with diverse issues such as land reform, unemploy-ment, oppressive leadership, or ethical tensions…’(emphasis added)

I don’t think many people are going to hold their breath waiting for the US military to get involved in land reform or solving unemployment (let alone ‘ethical tensions’), do you?(19)

Bilderberg and chips

A while back this country’s leading watcher of Bilderberg, Tony Gosling,(20) reported a snippet via Jim Tucker from the last Bilderberg meeting: the assembled great and good were apparently dis-cussing implanting RFID chips in us, to be able to detect ‘terrorists’. Of course it won’t work: recent evidence shows (a) that the RFID chips can be easily repro-grammed and remotely read; and (b) that in a significant proportion of cases in animal studies of their use, between 2 and 5%, the implanted chip causes a tumour.(21)

Notes

1. <www.telegraph.co.uk/news/…/usa/barackobama/…/CIA-warns-Barack-Obama-that-British-terrorists-are-the-biggest-threat-to-the-US.html>
   See also Shipman’s ‘Why the CIA has to spy on Britain’, The Spectator, 25 February 2009 which has one or two fragments not in the Telegraph version.
2. See, for example, <http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/01-88/>
3. <http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/5973>. See Lobster 55 for an account of Herman’s critique of the NATO case.
4. <http://members.aol.comjpcmvdm/myhomepage/treasury.html>
5. <www.counterpunch.org/valentine01252008.html>
6. <www.scribd.com/doc/12401193/Corporate-Terrorism-Blowing-And-Failure-of-Policing >
7. His CV is at <http://cybrinth-africa.com/Stephen_Spoonamore.html>
8. <www.truthout.org/122408J>
9. <www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11681>
   There is a lot on the Net from the American right about the preparation of internment camps. Try this for example <www.resurrectingliberty.com/American %20Internment%20 Camps.html>. The camps exist; what is unknown is their purpose.
10. <www.informationliberation.com/?id=21945>
11. <www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6054843.ece>
12. <www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/tra_phone.html>
13. <http://obscurantist.com/texts/bohemian-grove-membership-list/>
14. Downloadable at <www.sgr.org.uk/ArmsControl/MilitaryInfluence.html>
15. <http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/08/militarizing-social-sciences.html>
16. <www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84195>
17. <www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7025>
18. <www.opednews.com/articles/Microwave-Technology–An-by-davidmorrison-081208-202.html> See also her ‘Radiation poisoning of America’ at <www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7025>
    Loosely related to which <www.defensetech.org/archives/003165.html > contains a series of articles on the mind control conundrum. Particularly interesting is David Hambling’s short account of claims very similar to those made by today’s targetted individuals (TIs) which were made two hundred years ago. <www.defensetech.org/archives/003187.html>.
19. Taken from Tactics in Counterinsurgency, Field Manual 3-24.2, 21 April 2009. This is downloadable at <www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24-2.pdf>
20. <www.bilderberg.org/> for Gosling’s jumbled but information-laden site.
21. <www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090800997_pf.html>