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Adm. Moorer,Chairman JCS: Sarin Gas WAS Used Against
U.S. Troops....
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...The evidence was presented in court last January BY THE FORMER
CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF :
http://www.copvcia.com/sarin_gas_confirmed.htm
Here is the complete Moorer deposition, ready for download.
It is 415Kb, so be prepared: http://www.copvcia.com/PDF/MOORER.TXT
MOORER DEPOSITION IN TAILWIND SUITS CONFIRMS ALLEGATIONS OF SARIN
USE AGAINST VIETNAM DEFECTORS, POWS - INCRIMINATES CIA, KISSINGER
6-23-00, 12:30 PM
>From The Wilderness has obtained the January 17 deposition of
retired Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer taken in
connection with a "batch" of civil suits filed in the aftermath of
1997 and 1998 CNN reports relating to a series of 1970 CIA directed
missions known as Tailwind. Those missions, as originally, and
apparently accurately, reported by CNN involved the use of the
poison nerve gas Sarin to kill American defectors in Laos. The
Moorer deposition not only confirms all of the aspects of the
original CNN broadcast, it also suggests that former CNN Producers
April Oliver and Jack Smith may have actually understated the extent
of Sarin Gas use by U.S. forces under CIA control during the Vietnam
war.
On June 7, 1998 CNN aired the Tailwind report as a feature news
segment on the show Newsstand. Reported by CNN veteran Peter Arnett,
the stories stated that the CIA connected Studies and Observations
Group (SOG), then commanded by CIA veteran and Army General John
Singlaub, had used the lethal gas during covert operations into
Laos. In particular, the Tailwind story reported that American
defectors were the intended targets of the attacks.
The Tailwind report came eight months after an initial CNN Impact
report (also produced by Oliver) that featured extensive, lengthy,
and highly consistent on-camera quotes from Singlaub regarding
similar and related missions during the period. The stories
established that the United States had committed acts during the
Vietnam era - specifically the use of lethal nerve gas - that would
be considered war crimes under current international law.
Indeed, the United States has repeatedly bombed civilian and military
targets in Iraq in retaliation for Sadam Husseins use of the exact
same tactics.
In the wake of the June 1998 CNN Tailwind story Oliver was sacrificed,
crucified, tarred, feathered and fired after enormous pressure was
brought to bear on the network and TIME magazine by the likes of
Henry Kissinger and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell. Ted
Turners stock values were saved. Singluab subsequently sued both
Oliver and the network for defamation and slander. He also demanded
a public apology and exoneration. Both Singlaub and Moorer denied
that they had used the gas or brought it any closer to Southeast
Asian operations than the island of Okinawa.
Yet, according to admissions made by Moorer near the end of the
deposition, as much as 300 pounds of the gas were stored at a secret
CIA controlled Thai air/operations base called Nakhorn Phanom or
NKP. [The full text of that deposition, as received by FTW, is
available at the top of this page. Moorer's startling admissions
begin at page/section 0217.] Relying upon several exhibits including
official memoranda from the Joint Chiefs bearing classified notations
approved by Moorer and meticulously detailed contemporaneous notes
from Oliver describing her interviews with both Moorer and Singlaub,
Olivers attorney Roger Simmons secured a basic admission from
Moorer, who served as Joint Chiefs Chairman under Richard Nixon,
that the Tailwind missions into Laos were controlled by Henry
Kissinger and the CIA, not the Pentagon. This then invalidated
Moorers original strident assertions that he had controlled SOG
missions as JCS Chair and had never authorized the use of Sarin
gas or allowed it into the area of operations.
Later in the deposition, while reading notes taken by Oliver during
her seven hours of interviews with Moorer and later placed in CNN
files, Simmons elicited agreement from Moorer that he had made
statements to Oliver, and not disputed her findings that:
Military staff near the White House and the National Security
Council routinely stole documents from Henry Kissingers briefcase
so that they could find out what was really going on,
As many as twenty U.S. defectors were targeted for elimination by
Special Forces troops assigned to SOG in the Tailwind mission into
the Savan region of Laos in 1970,
Sarin gas was employed in the mission, The mission was successful,
Defectors were a routine high priority for execution on all SOG
missions inside Laos,
As many as 30 A1E Skyraider pilots at NKP had planes equipped to
dispense Sarin gas and that they had authorization to do so on
both support and search and rescue missions inside Laos,
Sarin was routinely used in extractions of downed aircrews in
hostile conditions, and that
It had been an option for pilots unable to rescue downed US aircrews
in Laos before nightfall to dispense Sarin gas on the U.S. aircrews
in order to kill them and prevent them from falling into enemy
hands.
FTW routinely communicates with several Special Forces and CIA
veterans of the era. We cannot help but note that these particular
areas of Laos were heavily occupied by CIA personnel and CIA
mercenaries including Montangard and Hmong tribesmen actively
involved in the heroin trade on CIAs behalf and with CIA protection.
In a previous issue of FTW (7/98) we reported at length how and
why we believed that evidence existed that CIA ordered the deaths
of American POWs to prevent their repatriation and eventual disclosure
of CIA criminal activities.
When FTW first learned that the Tailwind cases had been settled we
also heard something else, utter silence from the allegedly offended
party who screamed bloody murder when the stories first aired -
John Singlaub. That suggested to us that April Oliver might have
emerged victorious. Inasmuch as additional public vindication was
one of the main objectives sought by Singlaub when he sued Oliver,
the fact that the settlements deny him that objective only increased
our suspicions. Reading the text of Moorers deposition then convinced
us.
Following the Tailwind stories I had the opportunity to meet with
Oliver several times in person and was a guest on a radio talk show
program with her.
I found her documentation to be meticulous and unassailable. One
of the reasons for this was that, as she alleged in her counter
suit against both Singlaub and CNN, Singlaub himself had been a
confidential source for the story originally.
He had violated that confidentiality agreement when he initiated
suits against her and CNN. Also, Oliver stated that she had submitted
the entire script of the Tailwind segment to Moorer and secured
his approval of the script before the broadcast. Moorer admitted
to that meeting.
Moorers repeated insistence under oath that John Singlaub never
lied and that anything he said could always be totally trusted was
put to the test when Olivers attorney confronted Moorer with his
own confirmation of statements made by Singlaub that defectors were
a high priority target. A number of people present in the room,
including Singlaub, Singlaub's attorney and what FTW took to be a
CIA handler for Moorer named Rudi Gresham, appeared to be caught
off-guard by the accurate detail contained in contemporaneous notes
taken by Oliver during her interviews with both Moorer and Singlaub.
Those notes had been stored, apparently unnoticed, in CNN files
after the broadcast.
Also at issue in the suits was CNNs questionable act of hiring
so-called First Amendment Champion, attorney Floyd Abrams to
represent Oliver without advising her that he was also representing
the network. CNN rushed into initial agreements that left Oliver
and associates twisting in the breeze while saving Ted Turners
bacon in the wake of his fawning public apology for a crime his
vaunted network never really committed in the first place. CNN
regularly uses military satellites for live news feeds and a source
inside CNN advised that the military had threatened to pull the
plug if Turner did not kill the stories.
FTW is aware of other cases like that of Los Angeles air freight
contractor Irwin Rautenberg who have won suits against the government
and the CIA for illegal activities wherein the essential ingredient
for settlement was that the victor remain absolutely silent about
the victory. [You havent heard about that one, have you?] The basic
rule would be something like, You can fight City Hall but no one
can ever know that you won because then everyone would do it.
Coverage of the settlements of the lawsuits has apparently been
limited to brief stories in the Associated Press and TV Guide. FTW
has contacted Oliver on several occasions but she has steadfastly
refused to discuss or even hint at the nature of the settlements.
However, she has told FTW that her personal life is fine and that
- absolutely apart from the settlements - she and her husband have
just purchased a new car and are have placed a contract on a six
bedroom, five bathroom house in Bethesda, Maryland where her daughter
will attend public school.
Having been a guest in Aprils current home I can only state that
the Oliver family has apparently not suffered as a result of the
settlement. Oliver has not disclosed her future plans but FTW wishes
her and her family all the best.
Ms Oliver adds that she unequivocally and wholeheartedly stands by
her original stories - as she produced them.
Copyright 2000, All Rights Reserved - From The Wilderness Publications
and Michael C. Ruppert. 818-788-8791
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