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Article: 528 of sgi.talk.ratical
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From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
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Subject: "An Introduction to the Assassination Business," by L. Fletcher Prouty
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Keywords: clandestine ops includes domestic psychological warfare and murder
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 21:49:14 GMT
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Lines: 417
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excerpts from "An Introduction to the Assassination Business:"
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Crimes such as these, some of which have remained open for years,
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cannot be solved by any one individual. But there are patterns and
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motives that serve to expose methods. In 1963, about one month
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before President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, a prominent
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Washington lawyer died. It was ruled a suicide because it appeared
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that he had put his own rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
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His name was Coates Lear, and he was a law partner of Eugene Zuchert,
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then Secretary of the Air Force. Lear knew a lot about special
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airlift contracts and about the plans for Kennedy's fatal visit to
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Texas. Then, for unexplained reasons, he began drinking excessively.
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And when he drank, he talked. Soon he was dead. . . .
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These are interesting cases. There were many reasons why both
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of these men might have been assassinated and they both died in the
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same manner. That type of "suicide" is one of the trademarks of
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the professional "mechanic," the kind of killer who works in the
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international assassination game. . . .
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Since World War II, there have been hundreds of "coups
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d'etats"--a euphemism for assassination. That list will grow as
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long as the United States does its diplomatic work clandestinely. . . .
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Eventually, practitioners of assassination by the removal of
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power reach the point where they see that technique as fit for the
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removal of opposition anywhere. That was why President Kennedy was
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killed. He was not murdered by some lone, gunman or by some
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limited conspiracy, but by the breakdown of the protective system
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that should have made an assassination impossible. . . . In fact,
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those responsible for luring Kennedy to Dallas on November 22, 1963
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were not even in on the plan itself. . . . All the conspirators
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had to do was to let the right "mechanics" know where Kennedy would
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be and when and, most importantly, that the usual precautions would
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not have been made and that escape would be facilitated. This is
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the greatest single clue to that assassination. Who had the power
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to call off or drastically reduce the usual security precautions
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that always are in effect whenever a president travels? Castro did
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not kill Kennedy, nor did the CIA. The power source that arranged
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that murder was on the inside. It had the means to reduce normal
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security and permit the choice of a hazardous route. It also has
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had the continuing power to cover up that crime for twelve years.
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The following appeared in the September, 1975 issue of "Gallery," a porno
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magazine which billed Fletcher Prouty as the "National Affairs Editor."
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Some people feel there is no credible way to justify associating oneself
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with such exploitative and demeaning media. Fletcher Prouty has told me
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that since the Ballentine paperback edition of "The Secret Team" was
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"disappeared" soon after it came out in February of 1974, it was very
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difficult for him to find publishers who would print his writings (from
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9/74 to 7/75 he was able to get 7 articles published in "Genesis" (another
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porno magazine), and from 9/75 to 6/78 he got 14 articles printed in
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"Gallery)". Up until the Ballentine paperback was squelched, he had been
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published in the likes of "The Nation," "The New Republic," (including
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cover-story features), and "Air Force Magazine." It is a telling
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indictment of the reality of the lack of public access to the mainstream
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corporate press, that a man like Fletcher Prouty--who served in the Air
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Force for 23 years, rose to the rank of Colonel, was a briefing officer in
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the Pentagon from 1955 thru 12/31/63, serving also as Focal Point Officer
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(liason) between the DOD and the CIA, first in the Headquarters of the Air
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Force (1955 to 1960), where he set up and then ran the structures that
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supplied Air Force logistical (military hardware) support for CIA
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clandestine operations world-wide, then in the Office of the Secretary of
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Defense (1960 into 1961), and then in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of
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Staff (1961 thru 12/31/63) where he ran the same support for all branches
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of the military--that a man possessing such critical first-hand experience
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and knowledge of the mechanisms, methodogy and factual history of CIA
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covert operations in this seminal period, would find his writings and
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analysis of these important issues essentially barred from the most
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generally accessible publications. As long as the conglomerate press in
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this country continues to increasingly restrict the range and variety of
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points of view being published, writers will resort to certain types of
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publishers they would not choose to go to if they had a better alternative.
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_______________________________________________________________________
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ASSASSINATION BUSINESS
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(c) 1975 By L. Fletcher Prouty
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reprinted here with permission of the author
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Assassination is big business. It is the business of the CIA
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and any other power that can pay for the "hit" and control the
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assured getaway.
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The CIA brags that its operations in Iran in 1953 led to the
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pro-Western attitude of that important country. The CIA also takes
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credit for what it calls the "perfect job" in Guatemala. Both
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successes were achieved by assassination. What is this
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assassination business and how does it work?
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In most countries there is little or no provision for change of
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political power. Therefore the strongman stays in power until he
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dies or until he is removed by a coup d'etat--which often means by
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assassination. The instance, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, for all
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of his wealth and seeming power, died from an assassin's bullet
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even though he was protected by an elite guard trained by a private
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contractor selected by the United States Department of Defense.
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This brings up the question of mechanics.
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Foreign assassination, and to a degree domestic assassinations,
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are set in motion not so much by a specific plan to kill the
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intended victim as by efforts to remove or relax the protective
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organization around the target. Thus, if the CIA secretly lets it
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be known that it is displeased with a certain ruler and that it
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would not act against a new regime, some cabal will certainly move
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against him. Firstly, such CIA sentiment encourages cabals into
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action and, secondly, it frightens the existing "elite corps."
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Most palace guards are hated because they are oppressive. When
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they learn that their CIA support is being removed or weakened,
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they think of themselves first and begin to head for exile, leaving
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the ruler vulnerable to the designs of a cabal. This is how the
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passive "displeasure" of the CIA kills. The same applies to
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domestic assassinations. Consider the following event.
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The autopsy was routine: suicide. A high government official,
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recently promoted, was found alone in his house, dead and with his
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rifle beside him. A single bullet had shattered his head. There
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were no other signs of violence. A poorly typed note to his wife
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and son lay on the table near him. The hastily scribbled signature
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was his own. But the "suicide" was an assassination. After his
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promotion, the official had found papers in the files of his
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predecessor that showed that the law had been broken, that huge
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payoffs had been made, and that cases had been judged on the basis
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of favoritism and bribery. Consequently, a major industry had
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suffered grievously. An earlier administration had accepted this
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corruption as part of its technique of staying in power.
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The new official, a fair and honest man, had been deeply
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troubled by what he had found. He had told his superiors and was
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stunned when they told him to keep his mouth shut, that they would
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take care of things. He had begun to drink heavily, and when he
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was drunk, he had talked. He had become tense. But he worked long
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hours and went through all the cover-up files. He reconstructed
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what had happened and prepared a complete report and had just about
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finished it. He did much of his work late at night at home.
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On one of those evenings his wife had gone off on a visit and
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his son was at college.
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The phone call was calm and official-sounding: "This is the
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police. Have you heard from your son recently? Well, something
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has happened. "
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The policeman said he would come right over to talk about it,
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and added that he was out of uniform and was driving an unmarked
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car. Yes, he would have identification: Fairfax County Police.
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The car pulled up quietly. There was a quick knock on the door.
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The policeman entered, showed his identification and was invited to
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sit down. At the split second when the official turned to usher
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the "policeman" into the house, he was hit a sharp blow on the back
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of the head. He suffered a massive concussion and was dead. The
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"policeman" went to a closet where he knew a rifle was kept (the
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house had been well cased). The rest was simple. He hoisted the
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body up on the end of the rifle with the muzzle in the victim's
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mouth. One shot blew the top of the head off, removing evidence of
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the first blow. The suicide note had already been typed on the
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official's typewriter and the signature had been lifted from
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another paper signed with a ball point pen.
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In moments the "policeman" was on his way. The unmarked car was
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left in back of the Forrestal building, where it had been taken
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from a pool of cars, and the assassin was on his way by taxi to
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Washington National Airport. He shuttled on the last flight to New
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York. He had already made arrangements for a series of flights
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that would take him to Athens. Less than twenty-four hours later,
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he was on the beach south of the city, among old friends and
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acquaintances in the modern world's equivalent of the Assassin
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Sect. He was a faceless, professional, multinational "mechanic."
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He earned good money and was convinced he was doing an essential
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job for the power center that he believed would save the world from
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communism. This story is, in most particulars, true.
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Some time ago it was revealed that the CIA had been issued a
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number of identification kits in the name of the Fairfax County,
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Virginia, police department. This does not necessarily mean the
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CIA planned to use those identities for the purpose of
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assassination. In fact, it isn't clear what the CIA planned to do
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with those documents.
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The CIA has many gadgets in its arsenal and has spent years
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training thousands of people how to use them. Some of these
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people, working perhaps for purposes and interests other than the
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CIA's, use these items to carry out burglaries, assassinations, and
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other unlawful activities--with or without the blessing of the CIA.
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Crimes such as these, some of which have remained open for
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years, cannot be solved by any one individual. But there are
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patterns and motives that serve to expose methods. In 1963, about
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one month before President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas,
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a prominent Washington lawyer died. It was ruled a suicide because
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it appeared that he had put his own rifle in his mouth and pulled
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the trigger. His name was Coates Lear, and he was a law partner of
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Eugene Zuchert, then Secretary of the Air Force. Lear knew a lot
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about special airlift contracts and about the plans for Kennedy's
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fatal visit to Texas. Then, for unexplained reasons, he began
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drinking excessively. And when he drank, he talked. Soon he was
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dead.
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The same pattern fits the case of William Miles Gingery, the
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scenario of whose death we have outlined above. He had been
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promoted to chief of the office of enforcement of the Civil
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Aeronautics Board. He had found many irregularities in that office
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when he took over, and he was scheduled to appear before Senator
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Edward M. Kennedy's Committee of Administrative Practices and
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Procedures.
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Gingery, a nondrinker, had begun drinking and was obviously
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terribly upset. One night he was found dead. His death, in early
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1975, was ruled a suicide; it was found that he had put the muzzle
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of his rifle into his mouth and fired.
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These are interesting cases. There were many reasons why both
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of these men might have been assassinated and they both died in the
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same manner. That type of "suicide" is one of the trademarks of
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the professional "mechanic," the kind of killer who works in the
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international assassination game.
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We hear much today about the CIA and the subject of
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assassinations. The agency has been linked to the assassination in
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1963 of Ngo Dinh Diem, the then president of South Vietnam, and of
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his brother Nhu. The Diems were killed in October 1963. During
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the summer of 1971 Charles Colson and E. Howard Hunt, among others,
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were interested in seeing what could be done to forge and alter
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official State Department messages to make it appear that President
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John F. Kennedy was directly implicated in these assassinations.
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This is an important point. If the White House wanted so badly to
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tie in a dead president to that plot, it must have known then that
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President Kennedy was *not* involved and that records proved that
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he wasn't. The timing of this "dirty tricks" project is
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interesting. Some months previous, the "New York Times" had
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published the Pentagon Papers. The "Times" version of the Papers
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contained a somewhat detailed but mixed-up version of the events in
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Saigon during the late summer of 1963, just before the Diems were
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killed. Anyone reading those papers carefully would discover that
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the CIA had been close to the assassination plan and that it had
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men on the scene. But nowhere in the Pentagon Papers is there any
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message or directive that states in so many words, "The Diems will
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be assassinated." Even lacking this explicit document, many
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researchers will still conclude that the CIA was mixed up in the
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affair, and will conclude also that Kennedy did not order the
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murders. In 1963 Hunt was an active CIA agent and was deeply
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involved with the then former Director of Central Intelligence,
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Allen Dulles, whom Kennedy had fired.
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So when the Nixon White House directed Hunt to forge State
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Department records in order to make it appear that JFK *had*
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directed the assassination of the Diems, the White House knew what
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it was doing, the CIA knew what it was doing, and Hunt most
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certainly knew what he was doing. But they goofed.
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Even if they had succeeded in making it appear that JFK had
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ordered the killing of the Diems, it would not have stood up,
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because that is not how political assassinations are done. The
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clue is that assassination is a murder of an enemy of the sect (and
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this can mean many things today), and that it is performed as a
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sacred religious duty. No one has to direct an assassination--it
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happens. The active role is played secretly by permitting it to
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happen. Take the case of the Diems.
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By the summer of 1963 the Diem regime had been in full control
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of South Vietnam for ten years and the country was going from bad
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to worse. By August 1963 memoranda were being circulated in the
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government; they were unmarked, with no classification, and were
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hand-carried from person to person. These memos stated such things
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as, "We must find a way to get rid of the Diems." This was the
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summer of extreme and fanatical discontent in Vietnam, including
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Buddhist uprisings and self-immolations.
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The situation led to a series of inquiries from the CIA in
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Washington to Saigon in order to assess the opposition--what its
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strength might be and whether any of its prospective leaders might
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be better suited for the interests of the United States than were
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the Diems.
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The CIA, which had placed the Diems in power, was severely split
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over this problem. One faction wanted to keep Diem and go along
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with his further demands. Another was ready to drop him and begin
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again with someone else. There were two favorites in Washington
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and many more in Saigon. Thus the ground work for an assassination
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began.
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Word got out that the United States "might" withdraw its support
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of the Diems. This played into the hands of every Saigon cabal.
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But it did something more important. As the word got out, the
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people affected most were those who benefited from the Diem regime.
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The Diems' secret police, their elite guard, and the Diems' inner
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circle began to realize that they had better move fast. They had
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been oppressors, murderers. They had stolen hundreds of millions
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of dollars. Without the support of the United States, the CIA, and
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the Diems these inner elite were dead. As word began to get around
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Saigon, everyone began to think of evening their scores against the
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hated Diems. Death was in the air. As the elite began to fade
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away, the Diems' strength was dissipated rapidly.
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Yet in Washington, removed from the harsh reality in Saigon, it
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seemed only wise to study the situation from every angle. As
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August gave way to September, President Kennedy vacillated, the
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State Department did little, and the CIA kept firing out messages
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to its agents on all sides. Gradually a plan took shape. Madame
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Nhu, who had ridiculed the Buddhist victims by saying that if they
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wanted to "barbecue" themselves it was none of her business,
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suddenly realized that it might be a good time to take a long trip
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to Europe and the United States. This was the first phase. Next
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would be to get the Diems out of the country. Plans were made for
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them to attend an important meeting in Europe and they received
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formal invitations. A special plane was to fly them there.
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As their departure date approached, the CIA instructed its
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agents to work closer with the prospective new regimes. This
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hastened the disintegration of the Diems' elite guard. Then, for
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reasons that have never been clear, the Diems having gone as far as
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the airport, turned, stepped back into their car, and sped to their
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palace. They must not have understood how the game worked. If
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they did not leave the country, they would be dead. They returned
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to an empty palace. All of their guard had fled. The actual
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killing was a simple thing--"for the good of the cause." The
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United States and the CIA could wash their hands of it, for they
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had nothing to do with it. Like all assassinations, it just
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happened. In Washington the White House had tried to "save" the
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Diems, and by so doing, had preordained their deaths.
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This is the assassination scenario and it works in almost all
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cases, even when there is no elaborate plan. It would have seemed
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that the White House, and especially an old professional like E.
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Howard Hunt, would have known that it had happened that way and
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that changing the records would only have implicated them deeper
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than they already were by the summer of 1971.
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And now, in 1975, there has been a flood of charges about
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assassinations. Of course the CIA has been involved. It made it
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its business to get close to the elite guards of a great many of
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the Third World countries. As long as these nation's leaders play
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the game, like King Hussein and the Shah of Iran, all goes well;
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but if one of them gets out of line, or if some cabal begins to
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grow in power and offer what might seem a better deal, then, as in
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the case of the Diems, the power of the United States will be
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withdrawn. Then, without doubt, the King is dead.
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Most Americans are not aware of the fragility of Third World
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governments. Many have a military no larger and no more effective
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than a good-sized army band. Many have a "King's Guard" that is
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inadequate. The most trusted of the guard control the ammunition
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supplies; every time ammunition is issued for training, a close
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count is kept of expended rounds. Therefore no matter how wealthy
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the king may be, or how much wealth his country may possess in
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valuable raw materials, it will not assure his security. Rather,
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his money tends to threaten his life.
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Thus these puny sovereigns must appeal to some greater power for
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their protection. For many years the United States, usually
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through the CIA, has provided the training for the elite guard.
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Without his guard, King Hussein of Jordan would have been dead or
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deposed long ago. His guard is trained by the CIA, even including
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paratrooper training by a clandestine military assistance program
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provided by the United States Air Force and the Army, though it is
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under CIA control. Similarly, many rulers in Asia, Africa, and
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Latin America owe their positions and in most cases their lives to
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the United States and the CIA, and most recently, to private
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corporations hired to train, and thereby control, the "elite
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guard."
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This is how it begins; then comes the escalation. An elite
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guard is a small organization. As the ruler realizes his
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vulnerability, like the Diems and like the now deposed Haile
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Selassie of Ethiopia, he begins to look beyond the guard. He
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discusses an increase of his small and unskilled army with his
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"trainers"--the CIA. They are quick to say that he should have a
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larger army and that they can get him a military assistance program
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from the United States, provided he pledges undying loyalty. Now
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the program begins to pay off. A modest military assistance
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program of, say, fifty million dollars is begun. Of course, the
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entire amount is spent in the United States for American equipment.
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An old rule in the military assistance program is that whenever a
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piece of equipment is provided, ten times its cost will be spent
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for spare parts before it wears out. This is where the
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manufacturing companies make a real killing, for with spare parts
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they can charge whatever they want.
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The next escalation is as follows: if the ruler of one country
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has been given a fifty-million-dollar program, each of his
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neighbors asks for similar programs for self-defense. Since World
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War II this has been a trillion-dollar business. Meanwhile, trade
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missions from the United States begin to work over the client
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states to see what natural resources can be acquired and for what
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price, while the CIA works with selected American manufacturers to
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portion out various franchises, such as Coca-Cola and Singer Sewing
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Machines. Through this device other selected families in the
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client country are put on the road to becoming millionaires and
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powers in their own country. This creates power centers that at
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times are played off against each other, as the CIA sees fit.
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Eventually, the structure explodes, the elite guard weakens, and
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unless the ruler is a hard-headed pragmatist and leaves
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immediately, he will be assassinated.
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Since World War II, there have been hundreds of "coups
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d'etats"--a euphemism for assassination. That list will grow as
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long as the United States does its diplomatic work clandestinely.
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Why else has Henry Kissinger "shuttled" from country to country in
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the Middle East? If his relationship with each of these countries
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is an undercover relationship, then he cannot meet with them
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publicly and in a group.
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Eventually, practitioners of assassination by the removal of
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power reach the point where they see that technique as fit for the
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removal of opposition anywhere. That was why President Kennedy was
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killed. He was not murdered by some lone, gunman or by some
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limited conspiracy, but by the breakdown of the protective system
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that should have made an assassination impossible. Once insiders
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knew that he would not be protected, it was easy to pick the day
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and the place. In fact, those responsible for luring Kennedy to
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Dallas on November 22, 1963 were not even in on the plan itself.
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He went to Texas innocuously enough: to dedicate an Air Force
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hospital facility at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio. It was
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not too difficult then to get him to stop at Fort Worth--"to mend
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political fences." Of course, no good politician would go to Fort
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Worth and skip Dallas. All the conspirators had to do was to let
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the right "mechanics" know where Kennedy would be and when and,
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most importantly, that the usual precautions would not have been
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made and that escape would be facilitated. This is the greatest
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single clue to that assassination. Who had the power to call off
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or drastically reduce the usual security precautions that always
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are in effect whenever a president travels? Castro did not kill
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Kennedy, nor did the CIA. The power source that arranged that
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murder was on the inside. It had the means to reduce normal
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security and permit the choice of a hazardous route. It also has
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had the continuing power to cover up that crime for twelve years.
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--
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daveus rattus
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yer friendly neighborhood ratman
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KOYAANISQATSI
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ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life
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in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating.
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5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
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