-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.weberman.com/ <A HREF="http://www.weberman.com/">COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA: THE CIA AND THE ASSASSI </A> --[2]-- THE FACTS LINDA TRIPP'S CONNECTION TO THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY An accounting of LINDA TRIPP's past work experience was released by the Pentagon during the controversy over her legal history, and included the following information: Work Experience •White House, Executive Assistant to White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum 1993 to ??? (she came to the Pentagon in August 1994) •White House, Executive Assistant, worked for senior advisor Bruce Lindsey January 1993 to April 1993 •White House, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff 1992 •White House, Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Media Affairs 1991 to 1992 •Department of the Army, Office of Deputy Under Secretary for Operations Research, Secretary/Stenographer 1990 •Department of the Army, Classified Assignment (Operations Assistant), Fort Bragg, North Carolina 1988 to 1989 WHAT WAS GOING ON AT FORT BRAGG WHEN LINDA TRIPP WAS THERE This excerpt comes from the December 1, 1998 issue of the New York Times in regard to Bin Laden operative Ali A. Mohamed. In the most notable of these incidents, Mr. Mohamed took leave from the Army base at Fort Bragg, N.C., and told friends that he planned to join the mujahedeen rebel forces in Afghanistan and "kill Russians." After returning, he boasted of his combat exploits to colleagues at the Army's Special Warfare School, prompting two of his superiors to file reports with Army officials at Fort Bragg and with Army intelligence. He thanked another officer, Capt. Michael W. Asimos, for providing him with some unclassified maps of Afghanistan before he left. "I remember Ali coming back at some point in 1988," Captain Asimos recalled, "and telling me how much Ahmad Shah Massoud was pleased that I took him some maps." Mr. Massoud led one of the mujabedeen groups fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. It is not known whether Mr. Mohamed had a relationship with any terrorist organization while in the Army. In retrospect, some of his colleagues say, he had an unusual interest in classified matters. Captain Asimos ran a classified war game at Fort Bragg in 1988 that involved military and intelligence officers from all over the country. He said he had told participants to be careful of what they said in front of Mr. Mohamed, who they said did not hold a security clearance. "I can specifically remember Ali coming down and saying "I want to be involved in this, I want to help, I have a great deal of knowledge here," Captain Asimos recalled. Toward the end of his service in the Army, Mr. Mohamed asked to be introduced to the C.I.A.'s representtive at Fort Bragg, a former Army officer said. The Army officer, unaware that Mr. Mohamed already had a history with the agency, recalls telling the C.I.A. official that Mr. Mohamad has this burning desire to be utilized as an intelligence operative and "you're the logical guy to look at him." The meeting lasted about an hour, the Army officer recalled. Afterward, he said, the C.I.A. official joked that Mr. Mohamed might already be utilized a "spook," using the slang term for espionage agent. "I just kind of laughed," the officer said. "How ridiculous that this guy could possibly be a spook matriculating in this sort of bastion of special operations activity." •Department of the Army, Army Intelligence Command, Classified unit (administrative assistant), Fort Meade, Maryland 1987 •Department of the Army, HQ Allied Forces Europe, Personal Assistant to the United States Representative, Brunssum, Belgium 1984 to 1987 Other •Written and oral fluency in German •Sustained Superior Performance Awards •Maintained top secret clearance •Extensive foreign travel Linda LINDA TRIPP was also questioned about Travelgate Affair. She is at the center of everything!! LINDA TRIPP is still the director of the Pentagon's oldest and most prestigious program, the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC). She is a Public Affairs Operations Officer for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs in the Pentagon. Appointed by President Clinton in l994, Linda served as Deputy Director of the program prior to being promoted to Director in 1995. She is now allowed to work out of her home. Of the more than 50 witnesses who have appeared before STARR'S grand jury, LINDA TRIPP testified the longest. LINDA TRIPP's public statements did not address how she became such close friends with Lewinsky. LINDA TRIPP advised Lewinsky to save the seman stained dress and put it in a safety deposit box. LINDA TRIPP and LUCIANNE GOLDBERG planned to steal the dress and consulted Mark Furman about DNA testing. A newly released document indicates that LINDA TRIPP may have doctored the tapes. Could she have done this on her own? LINDA TRIPP: NOT AN INTELLIGENCE AGENT, JUST AVERAGE AMERICAN Abridged text of LINDA TRIPP's statement to the press after concluding her Grand Jury testimony. "I am encouraged that it appears from press reports that Monica (Lewinsky) has decided to cooperate with the independent counsel... I understand that there has been a great deal of speculation about just who I am and how I got here. Well, the answer is simple. I'm you. I'm just like you. I'm an average American who found herself in a situation not of her own making. I'm a suburban mom, who was a military wife for 20 years, and a faithful government employee for 18 years. I never, ever asked to be placed in this position... I became aware between 1993 and 1997 of actions by high government officials that may have been against the law. For that period of nearly five years, the things I witnessed concerning several different subjects made me increasingly fearful that this information was dangerous, very dangerous, to possess. On Jan. 12, 1998, the day I approached the Office of the Independent Counsel, I decided that fear would no longer be my master. ...To cast me in the role of the villain, they have enlisted legions of paid prevaricators, not surprisingly, many in the entertainment industry have chosen to ridicule me as well. Going so far as to even make fun of my appearance in a manner so mean and so cruel that I pray none of you is ever subjected to it...I have never had any political agenda. I still don't." LINDA TRIPP maintains a conspiratorial view of the Clinton White House: "enlisted legions of paid prevaricators." The usual phrase is "paid provocateurs." Interesting. LUCIANNE GOLDBERG'S CIA CONNECTIONS LUCIANNE GOLDBERG, is a CIA connected journalist, who interfaces with several individuals mentioned in the Coup D'Etat in America Political Assassination Data Base. Born Lucianne Steinberger in 1935, GOLDBERG grew up outside Washington, where her father worked as a government physicist. The following is from Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years, by J. Anthony Lukas (Bantam edition, 1977), pp. 218-9: "The third operation belonged to Murray Chotiner. It was a sequel to a similar scheme he had directed in 1968. Chotiner hired two writers to pose as reporters with the Democratic campaigns and send back reports to him under the code name "Mr. Chapman's Friends." ... The first of Mr. Chapman's Friends was Seymour K. Freidin, a veteran journalist then working as a free-lance writer. Freiden had supplied intelligence on the Humphrey campaign for Chotiner in 1968. In March 1971 Chotiner hired Freidin again -- at $1000 a month -- and he reported on the Muskie campaign and others intermittently until August 1972.... In August 1972 he was replaced by another writer, LUCIANNE GOLDBERG, who reported on the McGovern campaign that fall. "They were looking for really dirty stuff," she says. "Who was sleeping with whom, what the Secret Service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane -- that sort of thing." Murray Chotiner is also in this data base. He died under mysterious circumstances. THE KGB REPORTED: "In August, 1973, it was learned that a free-lance writer, LUCIANNE GOLDBERG was paid $1,000 a week by the Republican Party during the 1972 presidential election campaign to keep tabs on the Democratic Party's candidates. Miss GOLDBERG is said to have received a total of more than $10,000 plus expenses. Another free-lance journalist, Seymour Freidin was paid over $10,000 by the Republicans for similar services. Then Jack Anderson wrote in his column that Seymour Freidin was a CIA agent. Freidin apparently realized that Anderson had the proof, so, when other wire service corespondents asked him whether this was true or not, he did not deny it. "I gave my word to Dick Helms," he said, meaning Richard Helms, CIA director 1966-1973." In 1972, GOLDBERG told the McGovern campaign that she worked for the North American Newspaper Alliance and later for Women's News Service. The addresses she listed for both agencies then is the same as her current residence on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The North American Newspaper Alliance was owned by OSS founder Ernest Cuneo, a highly influential Washington, D.C., attorney. [CIA 592-252-B] Ernest Cuneo's clients included United Fruit, and he was a friend of Allen Dulles. Priscilla Johnson, another CIA-linked journalist who worked for NANA interviewed Oswald in the Soviet Union and did a anti-conspiracy book with Marina Oswald!! Priscilla was close with Cord Meyer. Cord Meyer was born on November 10, 1920. His father was a wealthy Long Island real estate developer turned diplomat. He attended Yale University, enlisted in the Marines, and lost an eye and a twin brother during World War II. In April 1945 he married Mary Eno Pinchot, a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Mary Pinchot was the niece of former Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot. Cord Meyer divorced Pinchot in 1958. Meyer joined the CIA and headed it's Organizational Division. LUCIANNE GOLDBERG was also the agent for Leo Damore& Senatorial Privilege, an expose about Sen. Ted Kennedy & Chappaquiddick incident. And she ghost wrote former FBI agent Gary Aldrich & memoirs, a favorite book of Clinton haters. GOLDBERG, SID editor; b. N.Y.C. Mar. 1, 1931; s. Emmanuel and Florence (Fischbein) G.; m. Lucianne S. Cummings, April 10, 1966; children: Joshua John, Jonah Jacob. B.A., U.Mich., 1950, M.A., 1952; student, N.Y.U., 1952-53. Editorial asst. Washington Post & Times Herald, 1955-56; fgn. affairs editor World Week mag., N.Y.C., 1955-57; asst. editor North Am. Newspaper Alliance, 1957-58, news editor, 1958-60, editor, 1960--, gen. mgr., v.p., 1964--; editor Women's News Service, 1964-81; pres. N.Am. Newspaper Alliance, Inc., Bell-McClure Syndicate, 1972, exec. editor, 1973-81; gen. exec. United Feature Syndicate, 1973, mng. editor, 1974-78, v.p., exec. editor, 1978--, Newspaper Enterprise Assn., 1979--; exec. editor Ind. News Alliance, 1980--. Served with AUS, 1953-55. Mem. Nat. Cartoonists Soc., Soc. of Silurians, Sigma Delta Chi. Clubs: Overseas Press Am., Dutch Treat, Hudson Harbor Yacht (N.Y.C.). Home: 255 W 84th St, New York NY 10024 Office: 200 Park Ave, New York NY 10166. >From an article by Frank Greve and Ron Hutcheson, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, February 6, 1998: "GOLDBERG came to share her husband's conservative views, and his close friendship with Victor Lasky, a stridently anti-Kennedy, anti-Communist columnist that Mr. GOLDBERG's syndicate published. In 1972, Lasky introduced Mrs. GOLDBERG to Murray Chotiner, Richard Nixon's first dirty trickster. He'd directed Nixon's 1946 smear campaign against Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, claiming she was a "pink lady" - a communist sympathizer. Chotiner recruited GOLDBERG to spy on McGovern. To gain press credentials, she said she was writing for the Women's News Service, edited by her husband, to which she had sometimes sold freelance stories. After the caper was exposed, both GOLDBERGs offered to sever their ties to the wire service. Mrs. GOLDBERG's offer was accepted. Her husband's wasn't." VICTOR LASKY Victor Lasky, was more than a simple right-wing columnist. He was a CIA operative. Lasky began his career in journalism as a copy boy for The New York Journal American. After Army service in World War II, Victor Lasky became a journalist who "exposed" Communist infiltration of American institutions. In 1955 he wrote for WRKO radio. He covered the Alger Hiss trial, and co-wrote a book about the case entitled Seeds of Treason. From 1956 to 1960, he was a public relations executive with Radio Liberty, a well-known CIA proprietary. From 1962 to 1980 Victor Lasky was a news columnist for the North American Newspaper Alliance. The North American Newspaper Alliance published Victor Lasky's columns attacking the critics of the Warren Commission. In the early 1960's Nelson Rockefeller protested against an alleged investigation of Victor Lasky by the Justice Department. Rockefeller claimed a Justice Department official had made inquires regarding Lasky at the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. [FBI 62-72612-84; FBI 62-7261 NR October 18, (?) 1963] In 1963 Lasky wrote JFK, The Man and the Myth. In 1968 he wrote Robert F. Kennedy, The Myth and the Man. He was the recipient of a $20,000 cash payment from the NIXON White House in the early 1970's. [WFO FBI 139-166, Hdqrs.. 139-4089-2312 - 6.18.73] Around this time Victor Lasky wrote, It Didn't Start with Watergate, a defense of RICHARD NIXON. In 1978 Lasky became a principal in Accuracy In Media, an ultraconservative media watchdog group whose directors included Claire Boothe Luce. Accuracy In Media sent a letter of protest to The National Enquirer when it published an article in April 1977 by this author on OSWALD'S 201 file. DAVID PHILLIPS, who retired from the CIA and headed the Association of Retired Intelligence Agents, was quoted extensively in this letter. Claire Boothe Luce was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Retired Intelligence Agents. In the mid-1980s, Lasky was close to CIA director William Casey. Lasky was associated with FRANK STURGIS through men like Nathan Weyl. Check the DATABASE! Victor Lasky died of cancer on February 22, 1990. He was 72. [FBI 64-44828. 8.18.64; Wash. Evening Star 12.19.59; FBI 64-44828 File on MARTINO; New York Journal American 12.28.63; Nathan Weyl Red Star Over Cuba Devin Adair 1960 NY; MARTINO I Was Castro's Prisoner Devon Adair 1963; WCD 662; Wash. Post 2.23.90] LUCIANNE GOLDBERG can be reached at 212-799-1260. Ask her if she ever worked for the CIA. KENNETH STARR'S CONNECTION TO THE CIA SUBSIDIZED NAZIS: THE REGNERYS KEN STARR was a friend of the late Henry Regnery and is a friend of ALFRED REGNERY, Henry's son. ALFRED'S grandfather, William Regnery was a founder of the American Security Council. The American Security Council began in Chicago in 1955, staffed primarily by former FBI agents. In its first year it was called the Mid-American Research Library. Corporations joined to take advantage of what former FBI agent William Turner described in Power on the Right as "a dossier system modeled after the FBI's, which was intended to weed out employees and prospective employees deemed disloyal to the free enterprise concept." Before the founders of the American Security Council got into the business of collecting dossiers on Americans, however, they had another sort of political interest. Their political histories go back to the racialist and anti-Semitic groups in the 1930's that were working in concert with Hitler's war aims. Three groups in particular would later provide elements of the future American Security Council: the America First Committee, the American Vigilante Intelligence Federation, and the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies. THE AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE The person most responsible for establishing the American Security Council was General Robert Wood, then Chairman of Sears Roebuck. Prior to Pearl Harbor, Wood was also the chairman of the America First Committee, an organization committed to opposing all efforts to aid Allies besieged by Nazi Germany. As national chairman, Wood made no effort to keep out openly pro-Nazi groups known to have been supported by Germany, such as the German American Bund. Radio priest Father Charles Coughlin's anti-Semitic and pro-Axis followers were also permitted by Wood to work within America First. A 1942 FBI report indicated that Wood's "patriotic" group had "been called upon to accept financial assistance from pro-Nazi sources." After Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war on the United States, the America First Committee didn't go out of business as it officially declared on December 12, 1941. Five days later, a secret meeting of certain key leaders of America First took place in New York to plan for what they assumed (and hoped) would be the Axis victory in Europe and the Far East. "[T]he Committee has in reality gone underground," FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the White House. It began planning for the day when they would be the Americans with whom the victorious Nazis would negotiate a surrender. Finally, when the defeat of the Nazis by Allied powers was a foregone conclusion, the America First Committee secretly dissolved it self in 1944. WILLIAM REGNERY, an incorporator and early leader of the Committee with Robert Wood, helped Wood to found the ASC. His son, Henry Regnery, replaced him at their book publishing company and at the ASC. The younger Regnery told an interviewer several years ago that "I was very much opposed to our getting into the war; and I published this book, which was highly critical of Roosevelt and of the whole realm of American policies involving World War II. Very gladly, I must say." Regnery said that the book, published in the early 1950's, reflected his "Personal tastes." Henry Regnery was a blond-haired Midwesterner of German-Catholic extraction, the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer, who displayed at an early age far more interest in ideas than in making money. After receiving an engineering degree from MIT, he studied philosophy at the University of Bonn and economics at Harvard. Initially a liberal and a supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal, Regnery went to work for the Resettlement Administration and then the American Friends Service Committee. But his isolationism and pro-German sentiment made him oppose American entry into the European war; and his opposition to Roosevelt's foreign policy gradually led him to question the Democratic domestic policy as well. In 1945, Regnery met Frank Hanighen, an Omaha businessman, who with two other isolationists, Felix Morley and William Henry Chamberlin, had started a weekly broadsheet in Washington, Human Events. Regnery became a co-owner and the treasurer of the paper, but he was unwilling to leave the Midwest. In 1947, with his father's help, he founded Henry Regnery Company. The first two books he published were pro-German attacks on the Nuremberg Trials. The company's third book was In Darkest Germany (1947) which reported that bombing raids in Germany's industrial North had left civilians starving and homeless. Neither of these nor the subsequent books Regnery had published made money, and by the time Buckley sent God and Man at Yale to Regnery in April 1951 the firm was barely solvent. In 1954 Regnery published two of Birch Society leader Robert Welch's books. In the 1950's, Regnery Publishing was subsidized by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Howard Hunt, as was Fredrick Praeger Publishing and Fodor's travel guides. Henry Regnery funded Western goals, and organization headed by Dan Smoot. In 1955 Smoot left H.L. Hunt's operation and established the Dan Smoot Report along with Jew hater Gerald L.K. Smith. President Reagan appointed ALFRED REGNERY to help dismantle the the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice. In 1986 Regnery approved a $186,000 grant to the Center For Judicial Studies, a conservative think tank with links to Jerry Falwell. In 1986 Alfred S. Regnery approved a grant for a book in which he would receive $1,000 to write a chapter. In 1988, when ALFRED REGNERY published Red Horizons, by Lt. Gen. Ion Mikhai Pacepa, the former head of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service, the DIE, who defected to the United States in 1979, Regnery received death threats from the PLO. Radio Free Europe broadcast excerpts from this book. In December of 1993 Regnery was acquired by Tom Phillips, publisher of Human Events. When I subscribed to Human Events, I was struck by the fact that the publication went out of its way to identify political figures who were Jewish or half-Jewish, for example, John Schlesinger. Regnery published these titles: A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States by Edwin Meese. Jacob Stein, who is now representing Monica Lewinsky, is the former independent counsel who investigated and cleared one-time Attorney General Ed Meese. Inquisition : The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon by Carlton Sherwood. Reverend Moon has been linked to Korean Intelligence which is tied in with the CIA. Man And God At Yale, by William Buckley and McCarthy and His Enemies by William F. Buckley, L. Brent Bozell. William Buckley was a CIA agent who worked in Mexico under E. Howard Hunt. The FBI'S Man in the Kremlin by John Barron. The CIA admitted funding Barron's book, KGB, published by Readers Digest Press. Unlimited Access : An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House by Gary Aldrich. LUCIANNE GOLDBERG was the literary agent for this favorite of the Clinton bashers. Values Matter Most : How Democrats or Republicans or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life by Ben J. Wattenberg. Lucianne and Sid's 28-year-old son Jonah GOLDBERG is employed by Ben Wattenberg, a think-tank activist who was intimately involved with CIA-linked contra support activities during the 1980s. Wattenberg was also vice-chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting, which was created by Congress in 1973 in an attempt to remove Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from the taint of direct CIA control. His son Daniel Wattenberg, a conservative writer who has helped expose the Clintons, was a special assistant to convicted Iran-contra figure Elliott Abrams. The Secret War Against Hitler by William Casey. Casey was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Ronald Reagan. Other authors from Regnery have been identified as either having been in contact with Nazis, such as Lynn Nofziger, or of having a similar political philosophy as the Nazis, such Patrick J. Buchanan, while others have been Jews who collaborated with the Nazis such as Alfred M. Lilienthal,"What Price Israel" (1953). Regnery also published the work of fascist Ezra Pound. He has also published Alexander Lebed. When LINDA TRIPP secretly taped conversations in which her young friend Monica Lewinsky claimed to have had an affair with the president, she tried to sell a book about the Clinton White House for as much as $500,000, to Regenery Press. The book was offered to Regnery in mid-1996 by New York agent LUCIANNE GOLDBERG. Click HERE for references on the Regnerys. KENNETH STARR'S CONNECTION TO RICHARD SCAIFE RICHARD SCAIFE, 63, of Shadyside, Pennsylvania, is the great grandson of the founder of Gulf Oil, Richard Beatty Mellon. SCAIFE won't use middle name because he feels Mellon clan mistreated his parents and is long estranged from reclusive, liberal sister Cordelia SCAIFE May. SCAIFE is worth $870 million. During World War II, while Richard and Cordelia's father, Alan SCAIFE, served in Europe in the OSS, the forerunner to the CIA, the SCAIFE family lived in Washington. SCAIFE is a former alcoholic who was expelled from Yale after a drunken party. He ended up at the University of Pittsburgh, where is father was Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He shuns publicity. Richard Mellon SCAIFE is, in effect, Kenneth Starr'S future boss in private life. Starr was given the position of first Dean of the School of Public Policy of Pepperdine University. This position was created with the help of a of a 1.1 million dollar gift from "life regent" Richard SCAIFE. SCAIFE gave Pepperdine 10 million dollars over the years. Starr had to postpone filling this seat, then had to decline it, but he knows the Gulf Oil Money is out there waiting for him. A Clinton White House report stated that SCAIFE was the force behind the circulation of the story that Clinton White House aide Vincent Foster was murdered. SCAIFE CHRONOLOGY 1964 SCAIFE family makes $750,000 grant to Hoover Institute For War Peace and Revolution. Over the past 25 years the SCAIFEs have donated about $20 million to the Hoover Institution. On the Board of Directors of CIA proprietary Radio Free Europe. 1965 SCAIFE inherited over $200 million from Mellon mother 1965. 1972 Reportedly gave $1 million to Nixon reelection campaign. 1973 Richard Mellon SCAIFE, was entangled with a major CIA propaganda effort based in London during the 1970s. It began as Forum World Features in the 1960s, which then spun off the Institute for the Study of Conflict in 1970. Both were funded jointly by SCAIFE and the CIA. One of the largest CIA media/propaganda operations was Forum World Features (FWF). Forum World Features was originally known as the Information Bulletin, Ltd. and received its CIA direction and funding through the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). Princeton Professor Morroe Berger, former president of the Middle East Studies Association was a consultant for the Congress for Cultural Freedom (1958-61) while it was a CIA operation. At the same time, the Congress for Cultural Freedom was underwriting the Lebanese journal, "Al-Hiwar". As mentioned above, Walter Z. Lacquer was the Bulletin's principal director, and Meir Mindlin was its editor. By 1960, Information Bulletin, Ltd. became Forum Service and re-incorporated itself in Delaware with Melvin Lansky as edi torial director. Lansky was a director of Congress for Cultural Freedom; co-editor of its magazine "Encounter"; and a "witting" CIA collaborator. By 1965, Congress for Cultural Freedom was headed by CIA officer, Michael Josselson who at the time was directing CIA contract employee, Brian Crozier to reconstruct Forum Service. In December, 1965, CIA officer Robert G. Gately replaced Mindlin, and in January, 1966, Forum Services became Forum World Features. Crozier became director-general; John Tousa, former BBC radio producer became editor; and Tarzie Vittachi -- now a senior UN official -- Asian director. In mid-1966, Forum World Features was bought by John Hay Whitney, then publisher of the New York Herald-Tribune and part owner of the International Herald-Tribune. Whitney was yet another CIA collaborator. Forum World Features was now a commercial enterprise which had cut its ties with Congress for Cultural Freedom. On January 31, 1975, Richard Mellon SCAIFE bought Forum World Features. The Nation Magazine reported: "One of SCAIFE's earliest mentors was the late Frank Barnett, head of an organization called the National Strategy Information Center, a major SCAIFE beneficiary for many years. In 1962 Richard Barnett had been recruited to lead the National Strategy Information Center by William Casey, later Director of Central Intelligence. In its heyday, the National Strategy Information Center was regarded as a shadowy group with close connections to the intelligence community; Barnett was a sort of freewheeling broker who put ideas and money people together. One such case involved a C.I.A.-sponsored organization in Europe called Forum World Features, run for a time by British freelance journalist and intelligence operative Brian Crozier. A bit more than a year ago, Crozier confirmed in an interview what others with less direct knowledge had said for many years: that "the C.I.A. personally requested Mr. SCAIFE" to take over as owner of Forum, which he ran from 1973 until 1975, when it was closed down shortly before TIME OUT, a London weekly, published an article on the C.I.A. connection which contained a 1968 CIA memorandum, addressed to then director Richard Helms, which described Forum as a CIA sponsored operation providing a significant means to counter communist propaganda. Crozier also referred to an account in his memoir Free Agent (1993), in which he said that although the C.I.A. in the early seventies declined to fund his proposed new cold war think tank, the Institute for the Study of Conflict, it arranged (through Barnett) for him to make an ultimately successful pitch to Richard SCAIFE instead." The Institute for the Study of Conflict was set up to study urban terrorism, guerrilla warfare and related subjects. Its Council members include numerous people with intelligence connections, some more official than others. Vice-Admiral Louis Le Bailly was Director-General of Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence, 1972-5. Richard Clutterbuck, lecturer in politics and a former Major-General, is regarded as one of those principally responsible for the British Army's counter insurgency tactics in Northern Ireland. Sir Robert Thompson was once one of President Nixon's favorite advisers and the author of the "strategic hamlets" concept of counter-insurgency war which he implemented in Malaya on behalf of the British Army. Another Council member is Sir Edward Peck, once head of the Secret Intelligence Service (British intelligence) clandestine operations in Berlin. Around this time the SCAIFE Group gave money to many of the same programs supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation. The Nation Magazine reported that the Smith Richardson Foundation has a special relationship with the CIA. The CIA and Army sent its staff to the first training program offered by the center. In 1978 35 CIA agents took part in the center's activities. The Smith Richardson Foundation is often referred to as one of the "four sisters" of conservative foundations for its tendency to fund in concert with the Olin, Sarah SCAIFE and Bradley foundations. Like the other three, it grants hundreds of thousands of dollars to academic groups such as the Madison Center for Educational Affairs and the National Association of Scholars, and such conservative think tanks as the American Enterprise Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Hoover Institution, Manhattan Institute, the Reason Foundation and the Hudson Institute. 1978 An academic organization secretly subsidized by the South African govemment - as confirmed by Rhoodie and another South African official - was the London-based Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI). One of the main activities of FARI was coordinating attacks among conservatives against the World Council of Churches which South Africa considered to be one of its most effective adversaries on the international political scene. Geoffrey Stewart Smith, head of FARI, published a book in 1979 entitled "The Fraudulent Gospel," which attacked the World Council of Churches. Unknown to the public was the fact that publication of the book was secretly subsidized by the South African government. In June 1978, FARI co-sponsored a conference in Brighton, England with the CIA-connected Institute for the Study of Conflict. Among those who attended was Richard Mellon SCAIFE. Also attending the conference was William Casey, who would later be appointed head of the CIA by Ronald Reagan. The Fletcher Program at Tufts has taken money from the two foundations most active in recent years in publicly promoting the need for a strong CIA. One of them, the SCAIFE Foundation (together with the closely linked SCAIFE Family Charitable Trusts and Allegheny Foundation) has provided the largest part of Fletcher's foundation backing since 1977, donating over $1.5 million. The other, the Smith Richardson Foundation, contributed over $100,000 from 1979 to 1981 for two projects it describes as a "project on [the] history of Vietnamese communism" and the "completion of (a] study of communist propaganda and political warfare." Since 1978, these two foundations have also provided most of the private funding to Pfaltzgraff's Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, SCAIFE alone donating over $500,000. The promotional efforts of the CIA by these foundations, consisting so far of at least eleven separate projects together costing over $500,000, appear to have begun on October 30, 1978, when SCAIFE president Richard Larry phoned Ernest Lefever (an IFPA "research consultant") to ask if his Ethics and Public Policy Center at Georgetown University would supervise a study of media treatment of the CIA and the KGB. Six months later, SCAIFE sponsored a conference of Fletcher's International Security Studies Program entitled: "Intelligence: Deception and Surprise." in attendence was an assortment of British scholars and former British spies, including Reginald Jones, Director of British Scientific Intelligence during World War II; former CIA officer Thomas Latimer, staff director of the House Intelligence Committee; former CIA Director William Colby; former Czech intelligence officer Ladislav Bittman (contributing the obligatory exposition on KGB "active measures"), Richard Perle, soon to be Assistant Secretary of Defense; and Harvard's Richard Pipes, a CIA consultant who soon afterwards joined the NSC. 1981 In 1981 the John M. Olin Foundation joined with the Sarah SCAIFE Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation to establish New Criterion a neocon magazine. In 1981 the Institute For Religion and Democracy was established with funding from Smith Richardson and SCAIFE Foundations. The IRD was formed to counter the activities of groups such as the National Council of Churches. In 1981 the Heritage Foundation was funding Brian Crozier's International Freedom Fund. 1982-1983 Board of directors of HERITAGE FOUNDATION. Former USIA head Frank Shakespeare is on the Board of Directors of Heritage. Other directors include Paul Weyrich, long time associate of the John Birch Society. Paul Weyrich left Heritage in 1974 to form Free Congress Foundation with convicted Nazi war criminal Lazlo Pasztor. Roger Pearson was on the editorial board of the Heritage Foundation until he was fired for organizing an anti-Semitic conference at at meeting of the World Anti-Communist League. Pearson is best known today for publishing MANKIND QUARTERLY a eugenic journal that promotes the idea that White are innately superior to blacks and Asians. The NAZIS link to this website. In 1985, Ellen Gardner, Heritage Education Expert, worked briefly at the Department of Education under William Bennett after she said that handicapped people drained normal people of money and were responsible for their own disabilities. It should be noted that aside from killings, Jews, Gays and Gypsies, the Nazi exterminated physically and mentally handicapped people. Sam Francis Heritage's former expert on International Terrorism saw his column terminated by the Washington Times for racism. Heritage has interlocking direcorates with the Capitol Research Center which monitors the donations of mainstream foundations. Capitol Research is anti-enviormentalist and keeps really upset when foundations donate money teen anti-smoking campaigns. 1982 Partner with John McGoff in South Africa financed attempt to buy the American newspaper Sacramento Union to give South African government a voice in the United States. After SCAIFE bought the paper editor James Whelan resigned to become the new editor of the Moonie financed Washington Times. Whelan worked for ITT around the time of the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile and was connected with the Bay of Pigs invasion. I believe he wrote a book about the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination. SCAIFE, Grace and Smith Richardson Foundations come through with money for 1982 Salvadorian election. 1985 When problems arose at the USIA in 1985, SCAIFE was part of a board that reviewed the matter. SCAIFE involvement in Iran/Contra The Committee of Foreign Affairs of the United States House of representatives reported: "Godson turned for assistance to Clyde Slease of Pittsburgh, counsel to Richard Mellon SCAIFE and several Mellon family foundations. At the request of Slease, Godson arranged for a meeting with Oliver North and Robert McFarlane in the Situation Room of the White House. Slease agreed to try to raise $400,000 for North's project. Slease then persuaded an acquaintance in Pittsburgh, John Donahue, to donate $100,000, and they settled on designating the Heritage Foundation as the recipient of the donation. A September 12, 1985 letter from Richard Miller to Edwin Fuelner, Director of the Heritage Foundation, indicates that Donahue's $100,000 grant to the Heritage Foundation was then awarded to INSI in the form of a grant for, according to Miller's letter, "the purpose of disseminating in Central America materials designed to educate the public-on U.S. policy objectives." No such materials, however, were ever produced by INSI. Instead, Miller instructed INSI, after Heritage awarded it the $100,000, to transfer $80,000 of the grant to his Cayman Islands account fran which funds were withdrawn as directed by North. INSI retained a twenty percent administrative fee for its distribution of the grant, which, according to Miller, was the standard fee North had recommended him to take. Donahue was never informed that INSI would be the recipient of his grant nor that the money would eventually find its way into Miller's Cayman Island account or North's Lake Resources account. --[cont]-- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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