ELECTION MESS A CIA COVERT OPERATION?
by Sherman H. Skolnick 12/8/00
Old-timers with covert operations expertise felt in their gut that something
about the year 2000 presidential election blitz was part of an intelligence
agency covert scheme. In spy parlance, they suspected the American people are
victims of "black ops". Invoking "national security", the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency ordered the major press and wire services to play down if
not entirely omit any possible CIA complicity mentioned in an Associated
Press story later "spiked". Here are portions of the apparently censored
story "Thursday December 7 415 AM ET Florida Official Admits Helping GOP By
VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)- One attorney
charged there was a 'sinister' conspiracy to aide George W. Bush. A former
CIA agent said he was trying to help GOP voters. A county election official
said she let! Republican operatives correct absentee ballot applications." And
later in the story As to the Martin County case, AP said "Charles Kane, who
testified he worked for the FBI and retired from the CIA in 1975, said
nothing secretive and sinister occurred. 'We had an obligation to them', he
said of Republicans who had received the inaccurate ballot document.'We had
filled out their forms. We did not see this as altering. All we saw this as
was correcting a problem caused by the Republican Party of Florida'" A later
AP version omitted these matters. Even in the apparently suppressed story,
Associated Press left out plenty. Retired CIA and other agency covert
operations agents contend the Charles Kane who testified in the Martin
County, Florida case is the same Charles Kane they have known for many years.
They describe Charles Kane as being reportedly as follows : ===When he was
younger, Charles Kane reportedly looked almost exactly l! ike Lee Harvey
Oswald, the CIA "patsy" blamed by the fraudulent Warren Commission as the
"lone assassin" in 1963 of President John F. Kennedy. Several assassination
researchers in their magazine articles and books have described how Oswald
was framed up with situations involving Oswald "look-alikes". The book
suppressed in the U.S., "Farewell America", has an extensive detailing of
this. ===Charles Kane was reportedly part of CIA's super-secret bloody dirty
tricks project called "Operation 40". ===Charles Kane reportedly played a
role in CIA's aborted invasion in 1961 of Cuba at the "Bay of Pigs".
===Charles Kane was active in Chicago with CIA-mafia gangsters including Sam
"Momo" Giancana, murdered with an OSS special type assassin gun in 1975, the
same year the current Charles Kane testified he retired from the American
CIA. Kane was also reportedly active with Johnny Roselli, a CIA-mafia
operative murdered shortly after Gia! ncana. [Some details are in "Double
Cross" the book by Giancana relatives.] Kane reportedly helped Chicago area
gangsters, including Giancana, plant the fraudulent 8,000 ballots in Chicago
that enabled John F. Kennedy to carry Illinois and its Electoral College vote
in 1960. Nixon was left out as a result. Nixon later played a key role at
CIA's "Bay of Pigs" fiasco, blamed onto the newly-inaugurated President
Kennedy. ===Charles Kane for many years reportedly was part of "Executive
Action" activities of the FBI and CIA,originally domestic and overseas coups
and political assassinations but in more recent years dirty tricks short of
actual political murders. Has the CIA complicity in orchestrating the Florida
presidential election scandal, as well as other events in the U.S., started
to unravel? Has an apparent split in American CIA surfaced by way of the
testimony of Charles Kane? Why then was he a witness in the Martin County
2000 Presidential Election,of the book "1876" by Gore Vidal. [He is a distant
relative of Albert Gore, Jr. Fancy people use their grandmother's last name
as their first name.] Originally published in 1976, by Random House, Inc.,
the last 80 pages or so of the book give the details of the Samuel
Tilden-Rutherford B. Hayes election struggle of 1876, a extremely close
election where one candidate got a plurality of the national popular vote and
the other got the majority Electoral College vote. Strange, but it centered,
in part around FLORIDA and massive corruption of public officials as to the
election. Conspiracy theorists assert that the year 2000 election seems to
use the book "1876" as a nearly exact blueprint, for how the nation can be
divided up. Tilden, according to Gore Vidal's book, never conceded but lived
out his life contending he had been th! e elected President. Tilden sought at
the site of the Presidential inauguration to be sworn in as the elected
President but was blocked by armed troops. As re-createed in Vidal's book,
the country almost boiled over into a second American Civil War. Little-known
to the public,all the major Establishment news networks and newswire services
about to run stories about the American CIA, have to get prior clearance from
the spy agency. In the U.S., there is a non-statutory version of Britain's
Official Secrets Act requiring articles to be circulated effecting "national
security" to be first submitted to be approved. In a like fashion in the
U.S., such articles have to be submitted in advance to the CIA Censorship
Board or a similar almost unknown agency or commission. British press outlets
and newswire services that run afoul of the law are subject to having their
equipment, presses, radio and television transmitting instruments, buil! dings,
and vehicles seized by the London government. On the other hand, American
outlets, under presidential edict rather than law-by-Congress, if accused of
about to violate "national security", are subject to having their satellite
links blocked by the super-secret satellite operations agency, the National
Reconnaissance Office, NRO; websites shut down; and their wire service
connections, domestic and overseas, terminated. The U.S. Secret Service
reserves the arbitrary power to themselves to keep "un-co-operative"
journalists from attending important press conferences, by denying them
mandatory press credentials and security clearances, thus making such
journalists unemployable. The American CIA and their "privitized" adjuncts,
such as reportedly Wackenhut, have long engaged in overthrowing foreign
governments, assassinating popular U.S.leaders and officials, caused fake
foreign and domestic "emergencies" and coups. WHY is ! it hard then to believe
they would not also orchestrate, on a vast scale, the overthrowing of the
American Central Government, to favor, for example, the British itching to
return us to a puppet colony status? Some contend we may see the American
Constitution overthrown by such means and the nation run by Martial Law as a
way of dealing with an expected U.S. financial debacle. Stay tuned. See
attached: "spiked" AP story posted on another website.
