-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Today's Lesson from Silent Coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin In early July, Huston sent a long analysis to the president, endorsed by Hoover and the other intelligence agency directors, on how to enhance cooperation. To this memo Huston added his own secret one that became known as the "Huston Plan." It called for six activities, some of which were clearly illegal. They includes electronic surveillance of persons and groups "who pose a major threat to internal security"; monitoring of American citizens by international communications facilities; the relaxation of restrictions on the covert opening of mail by federal agents; surreptitious entries and burglaries to gain information on the groups; the recruitment of more campus informants; and, to ensure that the objectives were carried out and that intelligence continued to be gathered, the formation of a new interagency group consisting of the agencies at the June 5 meeting and military counterintelligence agencies. Nixon endorsed these measures in the Huston Plan on July 14, 1970, because, as he put it in his memoir, "I felt they were necessary and justified by the violence we faced." ===== PsyOps Baptist Church Shooting We'll keep sending the Zombie killers until you give us all your guns. THE FBI was trying last night to establish the motive of a gunman dressed in black who marched into a Baptist church screaming profanities and shot dead seven worshippers. Four teenagers were among the dead. Larry Ashbrook, 47, turned a gun on himself after firing more than 40 shots from .38 and 9mm semi-automatic handguns at the congregation. Witnesses said he reloaded three times. The worshippers, some as young as six, had gathered for a school service at Wedgwood Baptist Church, in a suburb of Fort Worth. In scenes reminiscent of the massacre at Columbine High School in Denver, screaming children streamed on to the streets. Janet Reno, the Attorney General, said: "The thought of gunfire in a place of worship should be inconceivable." President Clinton also condemned the shooting. Police said Ashbrook, a local man, had no apparent link with the church. He had been experiencing trouble finding work, but was not connected to any violent group, although one officer said that documents found in his house showed him to be "trouble". Witnesses said he entered the church at about 7pm local time on Wednesday. Ashbrook told a cleaner that he wanted to see "the manager", then killed him. He walked down a corridor, killing a middle aged woman sitting on a bench and a volunteer selling books. He then walked from the corridor that flanked the fan-shaped sanctuary of the church into the main body of the building, firing at the congregation. London Telegraph, Sept. 17, 1999 Russia Follies Rumors Sweep Moscow as Russia Disasters Multiply Political revolution maybe? MOSCOW - Bombs are exploding in the middle of the night, in the middle of the capital, killing families in their sleep. Generals have boasted of victory in a war in the North Caucasus, only to be humiliated by thousands of Islamic militants who are striking behind their backs with bombs in apartment houses. And international inquiries have cast new suspicions over Russian financial institutions, as well as members of President Boris Yeltsin's family. How Mr. Yeltsin will react to the disasters and other problems that are accumulating in his last year in office is unclear. Political experts have given up predicting the next step of a leader generally scorned by the population and isolated by a political elite that is fleeing in droves from his once powerful tutelage. For days, rumors have swept Moscow that the Kremlin is again preparing to do something. The speculation ranges from declaration of a state of emergency, or a ''special regime,'' to an announcement by Mr. Yeltsin that he will resign 10 months ahead of schedule in a bid to give the advantage to his chosen successor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Other possibilities include another round of dismissals of top presidential staff members. A blast on Monday, which killed more than 120 people in an apartment building on Kashirskoye Highway, was the third explosion in Moscow in two weeks. Then came another bombing in southern Russia on Thursday, after one in an officers' barracks in Dagestan. Still, top officials have repeatedly insisted that the government has no plans to introduce a state of emergency, which some people fear could lead to a postponement of parliamentary and presidential elections. As Mr. Putin told Parliament on Tuesday, Russia lacks an adequate up-to-date law for imposing such emergency rule. And many political observers said they thought that the central authorities were too weak to impose the controls that such a move would entail. Rumors that Mr. Yeltsin may retire early continue to circulate. Analysts said they believed that the idea had been seriously discussed in the Kremlin as a strategy to propel Mr. Putin into power, where he could watch over the Yeltsin family interests. A month after Mr. Yeltsin named him as heir apparent, Mr. Putin appeared in polls to trail all possible presidential contenders, with a popularity rating of 2 percent. But as Russia's situation goes from bad to worse, a consensus has emerged that runs across society and across the political spectrum - Mr. Yeltsin's time has run out. ''If Yeltsin left today, it would be better for the people and political parties and it would be better for him, too,'' Yegor Stroyev, chairman of the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, said in a recent interview. ''His attempt to hold onto power or to stay there by installing his own man will create enormous tension in society.'' A year ago, Mr. Stroyev, a former Communist who has been Mr. Yeltsin's tactical ally in recent years, would not have made such a statement. But since then, the country has undergone a severe financial crisis that has sunk more of its people into poverty, a regular turnover of governments and domestic scandals that have spilled onto the international scene. The open-ended war in the Caucasus has come to Moscow with a wave of what officials say are surely terrorist attacks, attributed to Islamic guerrilla leaders whose operations in Dagestan have made a mockery of the Kremlin's earlier claim of victory. The latest bombing in Moscow propelled Mr. Yeltsin into action. He summoned top security officials to his office, and since then he has reportedly been keeping close track of the investigation and the security measures ordered in Moscow and across the country. But even as the nation tries to steady itself for the possibility of further attacks, Moscow newspapers expressed doubts about the adequacy of the government's preparations. ''After asking whether another terrorist act can be averted, the key question is whether the executive power controls the country as a whole,'' said Nezavismiya Gazeta, a Moscow newspaper. Chechnya, the rebel republic where the guerrillas have made their base, long ago slipped out of Moscow's control. The heirs of the once-dreaded KGB network have proved incapable of anticipating violence, even when it strikes at the heart of the capital. Mr. Stroyev attributed the weakness of the central authority to a flawed constitution, drafted by Mr. Yeltsin in 1993, that gave him the illusion of power but none of its instruments. ''On the one hand, he received enormous rights,'' Mr. Stroyev said in an interview in the central city of Orel, where he is governor. ''But on the other hand, he was absolutely deprived of power over the country. ''He may discharge his chief of staff and the prime minister, but no one else. His power does not extend further than the Kremlin walls. Nobody needs such a system of power. If it remains, we will lose Russia.'' For the seven years of his presidency, President Yeltsin's power, illusory or not, was enough to hold rivals in check. His instincts were also acute enough to throw the challengers off guard, as he played his favorite game of balancing different interest groups against one another. Now, as his status diminishes, and his opponents, including former Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov and Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, openly challenge his authority, reports of corruption in his entourage have been met with a wearied yawn by many politicians, among them Mr. Yeltsin's fiercest critics. ''I know that in Russia there is terrible corruption, at all levels,'' Grigori Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal opposition party Yabloko, said in an interview. ''What difference does it make what went on in Yeltsin's back yard?'' Mr. Stroyev showed the same indifference to reports of bribery and kickbacks given to members of ''the family,'' a term now used to describe Mr. Yeltsin's inner circle. The reports arose from an investigation, conducted with the help of Swiss authorities, into the Mabetex Project Engineering Group of Lugano, Switzerland, a company that has won several lucrative Kremlin contracts. ''Even I, chairman of the Federation Council, am not interested in what is going in the Kremlin,'' Mr. Stroyev said. ''I don't care about the family or its decisions. I know that they will not take any decisions.'' International Herald Tribune, Sept. 17, 1999 Waco Was a Professional Hit Why is Salon Magazine Promoting a Suspect Waco "Witness"? by Carol Valentine Waco Survivor's Story(s)--True or False? The September 9, 1999 edition of Salon magazine carried a story written by Branch Davidian David Thibodeau, whom (we are told) survived the April 19, 1993 inferno at the Mt. Carmel Center in Waco. Among other things, David T. discusses that fateful day. http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/09/09/waco/index.html Can we rely on David Thibodeau's account of the events of April 19, 1993? Please read the following and come to your own conclusions. I see two major problems with Mr. Thibodeau's account(s): (a) important elements in his accounts keep changing, and (b) none of the accounts are credible. Some history: By the summer of 1995, the news of how the mothers an children died in the Mt. Carmel center had made the rounds in the Waco protest movement: The moms and kids had hidden from the CS in an old concrete records storage room that was being used as a pantry in 1993. Instead of protecting the moms and kids, the concrete room became their tomb. The story worried me from the beginning. Mothers are practical people. When the air is poisoned, the practical solution is to get *away* from it. But the concrete room was a catch basin for poisoned air. It was windowless. It had a doorway, but no door. Poisoned air entering the room from the doorway would have nowhere to escape. Why would the moms take their babies to a catch basin to *escape* the CS? I wanted to know more. So in July, 1995 I interviewed David Thibodeau on the telephone. I asked David T. whether he had seen the mothers and children on April 19. First he said no. Then I asked who told the mothers and children to go to the concrete room. He said he did not know. However, he confirmed that the mothers had gas masks and the children had no gas masks, so to protect the children, the mothers had buckets of water and cloths and with them; the mothers dunked the cloths into the buckets of water and covered the children's faces with wet cloths. But how could David Thibodeau know what was happening in the concrete room if he had not seen the mothers and kids that day? I asked him. Now he said that one of the mothers came out of the concrete room and told him what they were doing. I asked which mother came out: He said he did not remember which mother. It is curious. First David Thibodeau had not seen any of the mothers, then he had, but couldn't remember which. How likely is it that? There were a limited number of mothers--friends and co religionists with whom he had lived for years. One of the mothers inside that room was Michelle Jones, David Koresh's sister, the woman David Thibodeau says was his wife. With Michelle were her three children--two-year-old twin girls, and five-year-old Serenity Sea Jones. Since he remembered the incident, and given personal interest, we might expect that David would remember which mother had spoken to him. And what of the buckets and gas masks that David Thibodeau said the mothers were using? The Texas Ranger in charge of the collecting evidence in the concrete room, Sgt. Raymond Coffman, did not report finding any buckets or gas masks when he testified at the 1994 San Antonio trial of the Branch Davidians. Nor do the Autopsy Reports indicate any buckets or gas masks were found in the concrete room near the bodies, and they do not mention any traces of gas masks on or near the bodies. http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_bcc.html [Check hyphen in "Public-Action" when you place URL in window.] Some time after my telephone interview, I came across a copy of an October 14, 1994, article "Marked for Death," published in the Jerusalem Post. Reporter Haim Shapiro interviewed David Thibodeau who was visiting Israel at the time. http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/doc/d_doc15.html According to the Jerusalem Post, when David Thibodeau heard the CS attack begin, he donned his gas mask. Later a tank crashed through the front doors, and, according to Shapiro: "He tried to reach the children--whom he believes were in a *** buried bus *** [emphasis added] which the group had prepared as a shelter--but with stairways wrecked and sheets of flame all around him, it was impossible," says the Jerusalem Post article. He staggered out the door and looked back to see Mt. Carmel totally ablaze. "I knew that my friends were dying and I only hoped the kids were safe in the bus," David Thibodeau told the Jerusalem Post. Here is a diagram of the Mt. Carmel Center. Note in particular the locations of the buried school bus and the concrete room (called "cinder block" in this diagram). Very different places. http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/fig/w_fig10.html Now let's look at the September 9, 1999 Salon Magazine story. These are David Thibodeau's words: >It remains hard for me to clearly remember what happened after the tanks >made their move. Walls collapsed, the building shook, gas billowed in and >the air was full of terrible sounds: the hiss of gas, the shattering of >windows, the bang of exploding rockets, the raw squeal of tank tracks. >There were screams of children and the gasps and sobs of those who could >not protect themselves from the noxious CS. But remember that according to David Thibodeau's earlier statements, the children were in the concrete room (or the buried school bus). How could he hear their screams and gasps and sobs since he was not there? Neither the concrete room nor the buried school bus would pass sounds from the inside, such as "screams" and "gasps" and "sobs," to the outside, particularly over the noise of >the hiss of gas, the shattering of >windows, the bang of exploding rockets, the raw squeal > of tank tracks. Says David Thibodeau, >This continued for hours. Let us look at what we are being asked to believe. That on April 19, the day of the CS and tank attack, the Branch Davidian mothers and children were herded into a catch-basin for noxious air, and abandoned to their own devices. Despite hearing their screams and gasps, the men, including David Thibodeau, whose own wife and step-children were there, never checked in on them, even though their agony went on for "hours." And apparently, to David T.'s knowledge, none of the other Davidian men checked on the mothers and children either. And we are asked to assume that inside the concrete room the moms (who had gas masks) were holding onto the children (who didn't have gas masks), covering the kids' faces with wet cloths while the kids spluttered and gagged and writhed in their death throes, but the mothers' nerves never snapped. The moms didn't dream of getting up and running out of the gas chamber with their babies. The story is not credible. In order to believe that story, we would have to believe the Davidians -both the menfolk and the mothers--were callous, monstrous people, and I see no reason to believe that. David Thibodeau again: >Inside Mount Carmel, the notion of leaving seemed insane; with tanks >smashing through your walls and rockets smashing through the windows, our >very human reaction was not to walk out but to find a safe corner and pray. Well, all right. If the concrete room was so safe, why wasn't David T. there too? >As the tanks rolled in and began smashing holes in the building and >spraying gas into the building, the FBI loudspeaker blared, "This is not an >assault! This is not an assault!" > >Around noon I heard someone yell, "Fire!" I thought first of the women and >children, whom I had been separated from. David Thibodeau became "separated" from the mothers and children? That implies he was with them at one point that morning, but he told me he had not seen them (except for the one mother whose identity he couldn't remember). On the other hand, David T. did not tell the Jerusalem Post about being "separated" from the mothers and kids--he just thought they were in the buried bus. David Thibodeau escaped the CS and the fire, and did so very well. Neither he nor any other of the "fire survivors" needed treatment for smoke or CS inhalation, yet *** all the moms and kids died. *** I remember the Branch Davidian men as protective of the women and children. Recall Wayne Martin's words during his 911 call on February 28, 1993: "We have women and children in here. Tell them to call it off!" Or David Koresh's words at the front door on that same day: "Now hold on! We have women and children in here!" But we are asked to believe that on April 19, the Branch Davidian character suddenly changed, that the Davidian men became utterly indifferent to the fate of the women and children and ran like cur dogs to protect their own hide . . . After a catastrophic event in which family members and loved ones die, survivors are often tortured by regrets and remorse. They often ask questions based on both intelligence and emotion, questions like: "What could I have done differently?" or "Why didn't I check in on them?" or "Why didn't I keep them with me?" and "Why did they die, and why did I live?" But six and one half years after the event, not one of the fire survivors has publicly made such an utterance and re-examined a most callous and uncaring action: sending the moms and kids to a dead air cul-de-sac on the day of the CS attack, never once checking on them, running out of the burning building themselves . . . and letting the mothers and children die. The Autopsy reports present even further problems with David Thibodeau's account(s). Surely the Davidian survivors, their families, and their lawyers have looked at the Autopsy Reports, yet they never have raised one question about the anomalies in those reports. For example, whose child was Mt. Carmel Doe 51A? The skull of this two year old was found in the concrete room, but it has not been identified. Is it likely that one of the Davidian mothers had a two year old, and no one noticed? Hardly. What about Doe 65 (remains of a two-to-four year old), Doe 31DE (remains of a 11-14 year old) ,and Doe 59 (remains of 14-19 year old Caucasian girl.) If these were Davidians, why have they not been identified? And if those people were not Davidians, who were they, and how did their bodies come to rest in the concrete room? And why are the Davidian survivors, their families, and their lawyers not talking about the bodies that are entirely MISSING? Where on earth could those bodies be? For more information, see http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_id2.html And why have there been no comments or questions from Davidian survivors, their families, or their lawyers about the mutilation, beheading, and selective burning of bodies in the concrete room? http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_analys.html Look at the quadruply amputated and beheaded body of John McBean http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/32/32_pix.html or the sawn off arm of Mary Jean Borst. http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/45/45_pix.html In Western culture, defilement of human remains is one of the most heinous acts one can perform. This is particularly true if you are a Christian and believe the body is the vessel of the soul, to be resurrected on the Last Day and rejoined with the soul to live in Everlasting Glory with God. But not one of the survivors talks about this defilement. Instead, we hear about how the FBI agents pulled their pants down and mooned the Davidians while they were driving the tanks around . . . Surely even the most ardent atheist deplores the defilement of human remains. But the Branch Davidians are quiet. Yes. There is something very wrong with the survivors' accounts of what happened on April 19, 1993, and their reactions to those events. Without the survivors's stories, our attention would be focused on the evidence, and the evidence SCREAMS that the mothers and children were murdered with malice aforethought. The evidence SHOUTS that their bodies were laundered--mutilated, decapitated, blown apart, and selectively burned--to disguise the time, cause, circumstances, and even the identities of the dead. But the survivors stories divert or attention from the evidence. We are so horrified by events that as decent, caring people, we can only offer solace. We would never dream of questioning their word. We never notice the survivors' stories and the government's story are one and the same: The US was only trying to get the Davidians to come out that day, when, ooops!, the mothers and children got dead. Without the survivors' stories, no one would believe the government's tale. The unbelievable stories of the Waco "fire survivors" are essential elements in the cover-up the Waco Holocaust. === Carol A. Valentine President, Public Action, Inc. Copyright, September, 1999 May be reproduced for non-commercial purposes. Have you seen the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum? See what they did to the mothers and children-- http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter "In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell Information SuperSpyWay White House Modifies Encryption Stance--Sort of FBI gets $80 million to help in code-breaking. WASHINGTON -- The White House agreed Thursday to allow U.S. companies to sell the most powerful data-scrambling technology overseas with virtually no restrictions, a concession to America's high-tech industry over law enforcement and national security objections. The move was a defeat for the Justice Department, which had forcefully argued that criminals and terrorists might use the technology to scramble messages about crimes or deadly plots. Even as the new policy was announced, Attorney General Janet Reno said at the White House, ``In stopping a terrorist attack or seeking to recover a kidnapped child, encountering encryption might mean the difference between success and catastrophic failure.'' She said the policy ``will mean that more terrorists and criminals will use encryption.'' To help law enforcement, the White House will urge Congress to give the FBI $80 million over four years to develop techniques to break messages scrambled by terrorists. The decision should help U.S. companies in overseas competition -- and help consumers worldwide guarantee the privacy of their e-mail and online credit-card purchases. Although Reno described dire consequences of criminals using encryption, she readily acknowledged the technology ``is critically important for protecting our privacy and our security, and the administration.'' The White House's announcement comes as Vice President Al Gore, a self-described technology buff, courts the favor of the booming high-tech industry during his presidential campaign. ``This decision by the vice president, who was really leading this effort, now is consistent with the views of virtually everyone in the technology community,'' said Robert Holleyman, executive director of the Business Software Alliance. Critics of restrictions on export sales said criminals and terrorists already could buy or download powerful encryption technology made in other countries. ``Those who are going to misuse encryption for criminal purchases aren't going to limit themselves to U.S.-made encryption products,'' said Ed Gillespie, executive director of Americans for Computer Privacy. The administration will allow high-tech companies to sell even the most powerful encryption technology overseas to private and commercial customers after a one-time technical review of their products. ``A company (wanting approval) will need to come in with more than a brochure,'' Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre said. Reno said ``I'm obviously not going to tell you'' whether the FBI already can decode messages scrambled using the newly permitted encryption strengths. ``We are going to have a very significant research and development program in the months ahead of us,'' Hamre said. ``This is a complex environment, it's going to change every day and it's going to take us a fair amount of effort to stay ahead of the problem.'' The White House will still require companies to seek permission to sell the scrambling technology to a foreign government or military -- a condition Hamre said the Defense Department insisted upon -- and it maintains bans on selling to seven nations accused of terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba. Previously, the administration allowed companies to sell the most powerful scrambling technology only to specific industries overseas; other foreign customers were generally limited to so-called 56-bit encryption products, meaning those with 72-quadrillion unlocking combinations. ``This is a sweeping reform,'' said Dan Scheinman, senior vice president of legal and government affairs at Cisco Systems Inc. ``Imagine you're banking online -- you want to make sure those things are safe from a hacker. You buy things, you want to make sure your credit card is secure.'' The export limits never directly affected Americans, who are legally free to use encryption technology of any strength. But U.S. companies have been reluctant to develop one version of their technology for domestic use and a weaker overseas version, so they typically sell only the most powerful type that's legal for export, even to Americans. ``Forcing U.S. companies to do business under tight export controls was like asking them to use a black rotary telephone in a cellular, call-waiting world,'' said Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group. Critics cited more than 800 products available worldwide with stronger scrambling technology than the United States allowed its companies to sell overseas. ``You can pull it down over the Internet in less than 20 minutes,'' said Gillespie. ``Having Japanese and German and Irish companies be at the forefront of this technology is not in our best interests.'' A non-profit group of researchers demonstrated last summer it can unscramble a 56-bit coded message in just days using a custom-built computer worth less than $250,000. The White House announcement follows its decision exactly one year ago to relax export restrictions. At the time, Gore promised the administration would reconsider its limits within the year. The San Jose Mercury, Sept. 16, 1999 ----- 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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