PART II Special Report. The Story of Obama: All in
The Company
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August 16, 2010 -- Special Report. The Story
of Obama: All in The Company - Part II
In Part I of this WMR special report,
we
revealed the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the
CIA-affiliated Airlift Africa project to provide college degrees
to and gain influence over a group of 280 eastern and southern
African students from soon-to-be independent African nations to
counter similar programs established by the Soviet Union and
China. Barack Obama Sr. was the first African student to attend
the University of Hawaii. Obama Sr. and Obama's mother Stanley
Ann Dunham met in a Russian language class in 1959 and they
married in 1961.
The
African airlift program was administered
by Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya, a fellow Luo tribe
mentor and friend of the senior Obama. According to CIA
documents described in Part I, Mboya also served the CIA in
ensuring that pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese African nationalists
were stymied in their attempt to dominate pan-African
nationalist political, student, and labor movements.
One of Mboya's chief opponents was Ghana's
first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who was ousted in a CIA-inspired
coup in 1966, one year before to Obama Sr's son, Barack Obama,
Jr. and his mother joined Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian who
Obama's mother met at the University of Hawaii in 1965, when
President Obama was four years old.
In 1967, Obama and his mother joined her
husband in Jakarta. In 1965, Lolo Soetoro had been called back
from Hawaii by General Suharto to serve as an officer in the
Indonesian military to help launch a bloody CIA-backed genocide
of Indonesian Communists and Indonesian Chinese throughout the
expansive country.
Suharto consolidated his power in 1966, the
same year that Barack Obama, Sr.'s friend, Mboya, had helped to
rally pro-U.S. pan-African support for the CIA's overthrow of
Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966.
East-West Center, University of Hawaii, and
CIA coup against Sukarno
Ann Dunham met Soetoro at the East-West Center
at the University of Hawaii. The center had long been affiliated
with CIA activities in the Asia-Pacific region. In 1965, the
year that Dunham met and married Soetoro, the center saw a new
chancellor take over. He was Howard P. Jones who served a record
seven years, from 1958 to 1965, as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia.
Jones was present in Jakarta as Suharto and his CIA-backed
military officers planned the 1965 overthrow of Sukarno, who was
seen, along with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), as allies
of China.
When Jones was chancellor of the East-West
Center, he wrote an article for the Washington Post, dated
October 10, 1965, in which he defended Suharto's overthrow of
Sukarno. Jones was "invited" by the Post to comment on the
Suharto coup, described as a "counter-coup" against the
Communists. Jones charged that Suharto was merely responding to
an earlier attempted Communist-led coup against Sukarno launched
by Lt. Col. Untung, "a relatively unknown battalion commander in
the palace guard."
Jones's article, which mirrored CIA situation
reports from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, continued by stating
that the alleged leftist coup on September 30 "came within an
inch of succeeding through the assassination of six of the top
military command. It might well have succeeded had not Defense
Minister Nasution and a number of other senior generals also
maked for assassination acted fast in a dramatic counter-coup."
Of course, what Jones did not inform the Post's readers was that
the Suharto "counter-coup" had been assisted with the strong
help of the CIA.
Sukarno never blamed the Communists for the
assassination of the army generals nor did the Indonesian
Cabinet, where the second= and third-ranking leaders of the PKI
were present. The possibility that the assassination of the
generals was a CIA/Suharto "false flag" operation to affix blame
on the PKI cannot be ruled out. Two days after Suharto's coup, a
CIA "rent-a-mob" burned down the PKI headquarters in Jakarta. As
they marched past the U.S. Embassy, which was also the site of
the CIA station, they yelled out, "Long live America!"
Untung later said that when he became aware
that Suharto and the CIA were planning a coup on October 5, 1965
-- Indonesian Armed Forces Day -- forces loyal to him and
Sukarno moved first. Jones described this as "typical Communist
propaganda." Suharto moved against Sukarno on October 1. Jones
iterated that "there was not an iota of truth . . . in the
accusation that the CIA was working against Sukarno." History
has proven otherwise. Jones accused the Communists of taking
advantage of Sukarno's failing health to beat out the other
candidates to succeed him. The goal, according to Jones, was to
have PKI boss D.N. Aidit succeed Sukarno. Sukarno did not die
until 1970, while under house arrest.
A CIA paper, formerly classified Secret and
undated, states "Sukarno would like to return to the status quo
ante-coup. He has refused to condemn the PKI or the 30th
September Movement [of Lt. Col. Untung]; instead, he calls for
unity of Indonesia and asks that no vengeance be taken by one
group against the other. But, he has not succeeded in forcing
the Army to abandon its anti-PKI activities and, on the other
hand, he has bowed to their demand by appointing its single
candidate General Suharto as head of the Army."
Suharto and
Barry Obama Soetoro's step-father Lolo Soetoro would ignore
Sukarno's call for no vengeance, as hundreds of thousands of
Indonesians would soon discover.
The
mass murder by Suharto of Indonesian
Chinese is seen in the CIA paper's description of the Baperki
Party: "the leftist Baperki Party, with its major strength in
rural areas, is largely Chinese-Indonesian in membership." A CIA
Intelligence Memorandum, dated October 6, 1966 and formerly
classified Secret, shows the extent of the CIA's monitoring of
the anti-Sukarno coup from various CIA agents assigned as
liaisons to Suharto's army units surrounding the Presidential
Palace in Bogor and at various diplomatic posts around the
country, including the U.S. Consulate in Medan, which was
keeping track of leftists in that Sumatran city and, which, in
an October 2, 1965, Intelligence Memo, reported to the CIA that
the "Soviet consul-general in Medan has a plane standing by that
could be used for evacuation of Soviet citizens from Sumatra."
The October 6 memo also warns against allowing Untung from
developing a following in Central Java.
A CIA formerly Secret "Weekly Summary Special
Report" on Indonesia, dated August 11, 1967, and titled "The New
Order in Indonesia," reports that in 1966, Indonesia re-aligned
its economy in order to receive International Monetary Fund
(IMF) assistance. The CIA reports its is happy with the new
triumvirate ruling Indonesia in 1967: Suharto, Foreign Minister
Adam Malik, and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, who served as minister
for economics and finance.
The report also rejoices in the
outlawing of the PKI, but states it "retains a significant
following in East and Central Java," where
Ann Dunham Soetoro
would largely concentrate her later efforts on behalf of USAID,
the World Bank, and the Ford Foundation, all front activities
for the CIA to "win the hearts and minds" of the Javanese
farmers and artisans.
A CIA Intelligence Memorandum, formerly Secret
and dated July 23, 1966, clearly sees the Muslim Nahdatul Ulama
party {NU), the largest party in Indonesia and Muslim, as a
natural ally of the United States and the Suharto regime. The
report states that helped Suharto put down the Communists in the
post-coup time frame, especially where the NU was strongest:
East Java, where Obama's mother would concentrate her
activities, and North Sumatra and parts of Borneo. An April 29,
1966, formerly Secret CIA Intelligence Memorandum on the PKI
states: "Moslem extremists in many instances outdid the army in
hunting down and murdering members of the party [PKI] and its
front groups."
Dunham and Barry Soetoro in Jakarta and USAID
front activities
Dunham dropped out of the University of Hawaii
in 1960 while pregnant with Barack Obama. Barack Obama Sr. left
Hawaii in 1962 to study at Harvard. Dunham and Obama divorced in
1964. In the fall of 1961, Dunham enrolled at the University of
Washington while caring for her infant son. Dunham was
re-enrolled at the University of Hawaii from 1963 to 1966. Lolo
Soetoro, who Dunham married in March 1965, departed Hawaii for
Indonesia on July 20, 1965, some three months prior to the CIA's
coup against Sukarno. Soetoro, who served Suharto as an Army
colonel, was clearly called back from the CIA-connected
East-West Center to assist in the coup against Sukarno, one that
would eventually cost the lives of some one million Indonesian
citizens. It is a history that President Obama would like the
press to ignore, which it certainly did during the 2008 primary
and general election.
In 1967, after arriving in Indonesia with
Obama, Jr., Dunham began teaching English at the American
embassy in Jakarta, which also housed one of the largest CIA
stations in Asia and had significant satellite stations in
Surabaya in eastern Java and Medan on Sumatra. Jones left as
East-West Center chancellor in 1968.
In fact,
Obama's mother was teaching English
for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which
was a major cover for CIA activities in Indonesia and throughout
Southeast Asia, especially in Laos, South Vietnam, and Thailand.
The USAID program was known as Lembaga Pendidikan Pembinaan
Manajemen. Obama's mother, painted as a free spirit and a
"sixties child" by President Obama and people who claimed they
knew her in Hawaii and Indonesia, had a curriculum vitae in
Indonesia that contradicts the perception that Ann Dunham
Soetoro was a "hippy."
Dunham Soetoro's Russian language training at
the University of Hawaii may have been useful to the CIA in
Indonesia. An August 2, 1966, formerly Secret memorandum from
the National Security Council's Executive Secretary Bromley
Smith states that, in addition to Japan, Western Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the
Suharto coup was welcomed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern
European allies because its created a non-aligned Indonesia that
"represents an Asian counterweight to Communist China." Records
indicate that a number of CIA agents posted in Jakarta before
and after the 1965 coup were, like Dunham Soetoro, conversant in
Russian.
Dunham Soetoro worked for the elitist Ford
Foundation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Bank Rakyat (the
majority government-owned People's Bank of Indonesia), and the
CIA-linked USAID while she lived in Indonesia and later,
Pakistan.
USAID was involved in a number of CIA covert
operations in Southeast Asia. The February 9, 1971, Washington
Star reported that USAID officials in Laos were aware that rice
supplied to the Laotian Army by USAID was being re-sold to North
Vietnamese army divisions in the country. The report stated that
the U.S. tolerated the USAID rice sales to the North Vietnamese
since the Laotian Army units that sold the rice found themselves
protected from Communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese attack.
USAID and the CIA also used the supply of rice to force Laotian
Meo tribesmen to support the United States in the war against
the Communists. USAID funds programmed for civilians injured in
the war in Laos and public health care were actually diverted
for military purposes.
In 1971, the USAID-funded Center for
Vietnamese Studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale
was accused of being a CIA front. USAID-funded projects through
the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities
(MUCIA) -- comprising the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan State -- were accused of being
CIA front projects, including those for "agricultural education"
in Indonesia, as well as other "projects" in Afghanistan, Mali,
Nepal, Nigeria, Thailand, and South Vietnam. The charge was made
in 1971, the same year that Ann Dunham was working for USAID in
the country.
In a
July 10, 1971, New York Times report, USAID and the CIA were accused of "losing" $1.7 billion
appropriated for the Civil Operations and Revolutionary
Development Support (CORDS) program in South Vietnam. CORDS was
part of the CIA's Operation Phoenix program, which involved CIA
assassination and torture of South Vietnamese village elders and
Buddhist clerics. USAID money was also directed to the CIA's
proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, Air America. In Thailand,
USAID funds for the Accelerated Rural Development Program in
Thailand were actually masking a CIA anti-Communist
counter-insurgency operation. USAID funds programmed for public
works projects in East Pakistan in 1971 were used for East
Pakistan's military fortifications on its border with India, in
the months before the outbreak of war with India, in
contravention of U.S. law that prohibited USAID money for
military purposes.
In 1972, USAID administrator Dr. John Hannah
admitted to Metromedia News that USAID was being used as a cover
for CIA covert operations in Laos. Hannah only admitted to Laos
as a USAID cover for the CIA. However, it was also reported that
USAID was being used by the CIA in Indonesia, Philippines, South
Vietnam, Thailand, and South Korea. USAID projects in Southeast
Asia had to be approved by the Southeast Asian Development
Advisory Group (SEADAG), an Asia Society group that was, in
fact, answerable to the CIA.
The U.S. Food for Peace program, jointly
administered by USAID and the Department of Agriculture, was
found in 1972 to be used for military purposes in Cambodia,
South Korea, Turkey, South Vietnam, Spain, Taiwan, and Greece.
In 1972, USAID funneled aid money only to the southern part of
North Yemen, in order to aid North Yemeni forces against the
government of South Yemen, then ruled by a socialist government
opposed to U.S. hegemony in the region.
One of the entities affiliated with the USAID
work in Indonesia was the Asia Foundation,
a 1950s creation formed with the help of the CIA to oppose the
expansion of communism in Asia. The East-West Center guest house
in Hawaii was funded by the Asia Foundation.
The guest house is also
where Barack Obama Sr. first stayed after his airlift from Kenya to
Hawaii, arranged by the one of the CIA's major agents of
influence in Africa, Mboya.
Dunham would also travel to Ghana, Nepal,
Bangladesh, India, and Thailand working on micro-financing
projects. In 1965, Barack Obama Sr. returned to Kenya from
Harvard, with another American wife. The senior Obama linked up
with his old friend and the CIA's "golden boy" Mboya and other
fellow Luo politicians. The CIA station chief in Nairobi from
1964 to 1967 was Philip Cherry. In 1975, Cherry was the CIA
station chief in Dacca, Bangladesh. Cherry was linked by the
then-U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh, Eugene Booster, to the 1975
assassination of Bangladesh's first president, Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, and members of his family.
The hit on "Sheikh Mujib" and his family was
reportedly ordered by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Bangladesh was also on the micro- and macro-financing travel
itinerary of CIA-linked Ann Dunham.
CIA banking and Hawaii
Meanwhile, Dunham Soetoro's mother,
Madelyn
Dunham, who raised young Obama when he returned to Hawaii in
1971 while his mother stayed in Indonesia, was the first female
vice president at the Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu. Various CIA
front entities used the bank. Madelyn Dunham handled escrow
accounts used to make CIA payments to U.S.-supported Asian
dictators like Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, South
Vietnamese President Nguyen van Thieu, and President Suharto in
Indonesia. In effect,
the bank was engaged in money laundering
for the CIA to covertly prop up its favored leaders in the
Asia-Pacific region.
One of the CIA's major money laundering fronts
in Honolulu was the firm of Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham
& Wong (BBRDW).
(Wikipedia
BBRDW) After the CIA allowed the firm to collapse in
1983 amid charges that BBRDW was merely a Ponzi scheme, Senator
Daniel Inouye of the US Senate Intelligence Committee said the
CIA's role in the firm "wasn't significant." It would later be
revealed that Inouye, who was one of the late Alaska Senator Ted
Stevens's best friends in the Senate, was lying. In fact,
BBRDW
was involved heavily in funding covert CIA programs throughout
Asia, including economic espionage against Japan, providing arms
for Afghan mujaheddin guerrillas in their war against the
Soviets and covertly supplying weapons to Taiwan. One of BBRDW's
principals was John C. "Jack" Kindschi, who, before he retired
in 1981, was the CIA station chief in Honolulu. BBRDW's chairman
Ron Rewald had a counterfeit college degree certificate provided
for the wall of his office by the CIA's forgery experts and his
name was inserted in university records as an alumnus.
A false history for BBRDW was concocted by the
CIA claiming the firm had operated in Hawaii since it was a
territory. President Obama is currently plagued by allegations
that he has fake college and university transcripts, a phony
social security number issued in Connecticut, and other padded
resume items.
Did Hawaii's fake
BBRDW documents portend today's
questions about Obama's past?
BBRDW conducted its business in the heart of
Honolulu's business district, where the Bank of Hawaii was
located and where Obama grandmother Madelyn Dunham ran the
escrow accounts. The bank would handle much of BBRDW's covert
financial transactions.
Manchurian Candidate?
Obama/Soetoro and the "years of living
dangerously" in Jakarta
It is clear that
Dunham Soetoro and her
Indonesian husband, President Obama's step-father, were closely
involved in the CIA's operations to steer Indonesia away from
the Sino-Soviet orbit during the "years of living dangerously"
after the overthrow of Sukarno. WMR has discovered that some of
the CIA's top case officers were assigned to various official
and non-official cover assignments in Indonesia during this time
frame, including under the cover of USAID, the Peace Corps, and
the U.S. Information Agency (USIA).
One of the closest CIA contacts for Suharto
was former CIA Jakarta embassy officer Kent B. Crane. Crane was
so close to Suharto after "retiring" from the CIA, he was
reportedly one of the only "private" businessmen given an
Indonesian diplomatic passport by Suharto's government. Crane's
company, the Crane Group, was involved in supplying small arms
to the military forces of the United States, Indonesia, and
other nations. A foreign policy adviser to Vice President Spiro
Agnew, Crane was later nominated as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia
by President Ronald Reagan but the nomination was
dead-on-arrival because of Crane's dubious links to Suharto. The
ambassadorship would instead go to John Holdridge, a close
colleague of Kissinger. Holdridge was succeeded in Jakarta by
Paul Wolfowitz.
Suharto's cronies, who included Mochtar and
James Riady of the Lippo Group, would later stand accused of
funneling over $1 million of illegal foreign contributions to
Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
President Obama has twice postponed official
state visits to Indonesia, perhaps fearful of the attention such
a trip would bring to the CIA connections of his mother and
Indonesian step-father.
In the 1970s and 80s, Dunham was active in
micro-loan projects for the Ford Foundation, the CIA-linked
East-West Center, and USAID in Indonesia. One of the individuals
assigned to the U.S. embassy and helped barricade the compound
during a violent anti-U.S. student demonstration during the 1965
Suharto coup against Sukarno was
Dr. Gordon Donald, Jr. Assigned
to the embassy's Economic Section, Donald was responsible for USAID micro-financing for Indonesian farmers, the same project
that Dunham Soetoro would work on for USAID in the 1970s, after
her USAID job of teaching English in Indonesia. In a 1968 book,
"Who's Who in the CIA," published in West Berlin,
Donald is
identified as a CIA officer who was also assigned to Lahore,
Pakistan, where Dunham would eventually live for five years in
the Hilton International Hotel while working on microfinancing
for the Asian Development Bank.
Another "Who's Who in the CIA" Jakarta alumnus
is Robert F. Grealy, who later became the director for
international relations for the Asia-Pacific for J P Morgan
Chase and a director for the American-Indonesian Chamber of
Commerce. J P Morgan Chase's CEO
Jamie Dimon is being mentioned
as a potential replacement for Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner, whose father, Peter Geithner, was the Ford
Foundation's Asia grant-selector who funneled the money to Ann
Dunham's Indonesian projects. NewsFollowUp.com
CIA Black Projects and Hawaii
While in Pakistan, Dunham's son Barack visited
her in 1980 and 1981. Obama visited Karachi, Lahore, and
Hyderabad, India during his south Asia visits. It was during the
time period that the CIA was beefing up its anti-Soviet
operations in Afghanistan from Pakistan.
A January 31, 1958, heavily-redacted formerly
Secret NOFORN [no foreign dissemination] memorandum for CIA
Director Allen Dulles from the Deputy Assistant Director of the
CIA for Research and Reports [name redacted] reports on a
fact-finding mission to the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the
Middle East from November 17 through December 21, 1957.
The CIA Office of Research and Reports (ORR)
chief reports a meeting with the staff of retired Army General
Jesmond Balmer, a senior CIA official in Hawaii, about requests
by the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) for "a number of
detailed, time-consuming research studies." The ORR chief then
reports about a CIA "survey of students at the University of
Hawaii who have both Chinese language and research ability." The
ORR chief also reports that at a South-East Asia Treaty
Organization (SEATO) Counter Subversion Seminar at Baguio,
Philippines held from November 26-29, 1957, the Economic
Subcommittee discussed an "economic development fund" to combat
"Sino-Soviet Bloc subversive activities in the area and a
consideration of possible counter-measures which might be
employed."
The Thailand and Philippines delegations were
pushing hard for U.S. funding for an economic development fund,
which may have provided the impetus for later USAID projects in
the region, including those with which
Peter Geithner and
Obama's mother were intimately involved.
Although CIA geo-political covert operations
at the University of Hawaii are well-documented, the agency's
darker side of research and MK-UKTRA type operations has not
generally been associated with the University of Hawaii.
A series of formerly Confidential CIA
memoranda, dated May 15, 1972, points to the involvement of both
the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA), the CIA, and the University of Hawaii in the CIA's
behavioral science program. The memos are signed by then-Deputy
Director of the CIA Bronson Tweedy, the chief of the
Intelligence Community's Program Review Group (PRG) [name
redacted], and CIA Director Richard Helms. The subject of the
memos is "ARPA Supported Research Relating to Intelligence
Product," The memo from the PRG chief discusses a conference
held on May 11, 1972, attended by Lt. Col. Austin Kibler, ARPA's
Director of Behavioral Research. Kibler was the chief for ARPA
research into behavior modification and remote viewing. Others
mentioned in the PRG chief's memo include CIA Deputy Director
for Intelligence Edward Proctor, the CIA Deputy Director for
Science and Technology Carl Duckett, and Director of the Office
of National Estimates John Huizenga.
In 1973, after CIA Director James Schlesinger
ordered a review of all CIA programs, the CIA developed a set of
documents on various CIA programs collectively called the
"Family Jewels." Most of these documents were released in 2007
but it was also revealed that Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA's
director of MKULTRA, the agency's behavior modification,
brainwashing, and drug testing component, had been ordered by
Helms, before he resigned as CIA director, to be destroyed.
Duckett, in one memo from Ben Evans of the CIA to CIA Director
William Colby, dated May 8, 1973, conveys that he "thinks the
Director would be ill-advised to say he is acquainted with this
program," meaning Gottlieb's drug testing program under
MKULKTRA.
Senior Gerald Ford administration officials,
including Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, ensured that after the production of the
"Family Jewels" documents, no CIA revelations were made about
CIA psychological behavior-altering programs, including
MKULTRA
and Project ARTICHOKE.
The May 15, 1972, set of memos appears to be
related to the CIA's initial research, code named SCANATE, in
1972 into psychic warfare, including the use of psychics for
purposes of remote viewing espionage and mind control. The memo
discussed Kibler from ARPA and "his contractor," which was later
discovered to be Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo
Park, California.
In a memo from CIA Director Helms to, among
others, Duckett, Huizenga, Proctor, and the Director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, which later inherited reote viewing
from the CIA under the code name GRILL FLAME, Helms insists that
ARPA had been supporting research into behavioral science and
its potential for intelligence production "for a number of
years" at "M.I.T., Yale, the University of Michigan, U.C.L.A.,
and University of Hawaii and other institutions as well as in
corporate research facilities."
The role of the University of Hawaii in CIA
psych-war operations continues to this day. The chief of
research for DIA's Defense Counterintelligence and Human
Intelligence Center (DCHC) Behavioral Sciences Program, Dr.
Susan Brandon, who was reportedly involved in a covert program
run by the American Psychological Association (APA), Rand
Corporation, and the CIA to employ "enhanced interrogation"
techniques, including sleep and sensory deprivation, intense
pain, and extreme isolation on prisoners held at Bagram airbase
in Afghanistan and other "black prisons," received her PhD in
Psychology from the University of Hawaii. Brandon also served as
assistant director of Social, Behavioral, and Educational
Sciences for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the
George W. Bush White House.
The CIA's close connections to the University
of Hawaii continued to the late 1970s, when the former President
of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, Harlan Cleveland,
was a special invited speaker at CIA headquarters on May 10,
1977. Cleveland served as Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965 and Lyndon
Johnson's ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969 before taking up
his position at the University of Hawaii.
A CIA Director of Training memo dated May 21,
1971, reports on the active recruitment of a U.S. Marine officer
who was entering graduate school at the University of Hawaii.
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Part
III August 19, 2010 -- SPECIAL REPORT. The Story of
Obama: All in the Company -- Add one more Obama family member to
the CIA payroll.
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WMR previously reported on the CIA
links of President Obama's mother, father, step-father,
grandmother to the CIA. Not much is known about Obama's
grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who Obama mistakenly
referred to as "his father" in two speeches, one recently to the
Disabled American Veterans.
What is officially known about Stanley Armour
Dunham is that he served with the 9th Air Force in Britain and
France prior to and after the D-Day invasion. After the war,
Dunham and his wife, Madelyn and his daughter Stanley Ann --
Obama's mother -- moved to Berkeley, California; El Dorado,
Kansas; Seattle; and Honolulu. Armour Dunham is said to have
worked for a series of furniture stores.
Obama maintains that his mother and father
first met in a Russian-language class at the University of
Hawaii in 1959. However, a photograph has emerged of Stanley
Armour welcoming Barack Obama, Sr., complete with traditional
Hawaiian welcoming leis, from Kenya.
Obama, Sr. was the only
Kenyan student airlifted to Hawaii as part of the CIA-inspired
Airlift Africa project that saw Obama and 279 other students
from British eastern and southern African colonies brought to
the United States for college degrees prior to their homelands
gaining independence from Britain. The students were selected by
Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya who would later
conduct
surveillance for the CIA at pan-African nationalist meetings. Mboya was particularly focused on two African leaders who were
seen as too close to the Sino-Soviet bloc, Kwame Nkrumah of
Ghana and Sekou Toure of Guinea.
Stanley Armour Dunham with Barack Obama, Sr.
at
welcoming ceremony to Hawaii. The presence of two US Navy
personnel indicates the plane may have landed at Hickam Air
Force Base, an indication of the U.S. government's and CIA's
role in the Airlift Africa project.
The photograph of Armour Dunham with Barack
Obama, Sr., indicates that the "furniture salesman" in Hawaii
was, in fact, working with a CIA-funded project to rapidly
educate aspiring politicians to serve in post-independence
African governments to counter Soviet- and Chinese-backed
political leaders in the region.
There is a strong reason to believe that
Armour Dunham worked in the 1950s for the CIA in the Middle
East. An FBI file on Armour Dunham existed but the bureau
claimed it destroyed the file on May 1, 1997. Considering the
sour relations between the FBI and CIA during the Cold War, it
is likely that Armour Dunham was being monitored by FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover in the same manner as a number of other CIA
officials and agents were being surveilled. Similarly, the
pre-1968 passport records of Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,
were destroyed by the State Department.
There is a photographic clue that the Dunhams may have been
assigned by the CIA to Beirut,
Lebanon in the early 1950s. A
photograph of Obama's mother and grandparents has emerged that
shows Stanley Ann Dunham wearing what may be a school uniform
with the insignia of "NdJ," which stands for the College
Notre-Dame de Jamhour, a private Jesuit Catholic French language
school in Beirut, Lebanon. Graduates of the school include three
former presidents of Lebanon, Amine Gemayel, Bashir Gemayel, and
Charles Helou, all of whom maintained close relations with
Washington.
WMR was informed by Beirut sources that NdJ
was a male-only school until 1975 but there is also information
that NdJ has had a sponsorship arrangement with Catholic
educational institutions in Lyon, France.
Did Obama's mother [left] go to a private
school in Lebanon in the early 1950s while her father [middle]
worked for the CIA in Beirut?
There is also the curious nature of President
Obama's Social Security Number, issued in Connecticut, a state
where there is no other evidence of his ever being a resident.
Adding to the mystery is a New York City address for a "male"
named Stanley Ann Dunham, 235 E. 40th St Apt 8F, New York NY
10016-1747. The address is a few blocks away from the address of
the Ford Foundation. Ann Dunham did work briefly in New York for
the Ford Foundation.
On August 9, 2010, WMR reported, "In a
December 19, 1971, article in the Boston Globe by Dan Pinck, [a
historian and former OSS officer] titled 'Is everyone in the
CIA?' it is alleged that identifying US Agency for International
Development (USAID) officers as CIA agents was a 'reasonably
accurate accounting of certain leading operatives and associates
of the CIA.' President Obama's mother,
Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro worked for USAID in rural Java in Indonesia. Pinck's
article was a review of a 1968 book, 'Who's Who in the CIA'
published in Berlin."
WMR has obtained a rare copy of "Who's Who in
the CIA," from England. The book, published in West Berlin in
1968, lists some 3,000 CIA agents and agents-of-influence around
the world.
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IV The Story of Obama: All in the Company
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August 25, 2010 -- SPECIAL REPORT. The Story
of Obama: All in the Company -- Part IV
Barack Obama's employment as an editor for CIA
front Business International Corporation (BIC) after his
graduation from Columbia University in 1983, came at a time when
such small business and political risk consulting firms were
mushrooming and their ranks growing with retired senior CIA
personnel. The expansion of BIC and similar firms in the early
1980s also came at a time when major corporations were phasing
out their internal risk departments and relying more on
companies like BIC.
However, Obama's contacts with the CIA came
earlier than his work for BIC. Obama's attendance at Occidental
College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981 is significant
considering the college's close ties with the CIA.
Occidental's
President, Richard C. Gilman, who retired in 1988, was a habitué
of Los Angeles's version of New York's Council on Foreign
Relations, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council (WAC). As a
director of the WAC, Gilman rubbed shoulders with fellow WAC
directors John McCone, a former CIA director; Simon Ramo,
chairman of top CIA contractor TRW, Inc.; and the wealthy oil
magnate Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum, himself
no stranger to intelligence-oriented intrigue.
Occidental was, for many years, a top target
for CIA recruiting efforts. WMR has obtained a CIA memorandum,
formerly Secret and dated February 8, 1967, that details the
CIA's "100 Universities Program," which, as stated by the
author, "originally conceived [redacted] as a recruitment
technique. Its purpose was to make better known on the campuses
of America the very existence of the CIA and its mission and
role in Government, to illustrate the vast range of vocational
opportunities in the Agency."
A formerly Secret CIA memorandum for the
Deputy Director for Administration from the acting Director of
Personnel, dated February 8, 1979, discusses an active CIA
recruitment effort at Occidental College on February 1, 1979.
Obama reportedly attended Occidental later in 1979. The memo
states, "[redacted] our [redacted[ recruiter, reports that he
briefed approximately seventy students at Occidental College in
Los Angeles on 1 February and was very well received. He added
that while they did not interrupt his presentation, about
fifteen to twenty members of the Socialist Democratic Alliance
demonstrated outside as he spoke and that their chanting of
"CIA, go Away" could be heard. Larry also reported that the
seventy attending his briefing was the largest number ever to
attend a briefing at the school by an employer." A burning
question is whether "Larry" ever tried to recruit a young Barack
Obama, Jr. at Occidental and whether he was successful at the
enthusiastically pro-CIA campus in 1979.
Obama's mother's employer and the CIA
Stanley Ann Dunham's employer in Indonesia,
the Ford Foundation, had a long-standing relationship with the
CIA. While ostensibly working on micro-financing and rural
development projects in Indonesia, Dunham's grant paymaster was
Peter Geithner, the father of current Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner.
The rural development project funded by the
Ford Foundation had long been a cover for U.S. intelligence
activities in Indonesia. An Indonesian Permanent Mission to the
UN bulletin dated November 19, 1959, states that a
Ford
Foundation grant funded the Village Community Development
Bureau's work with "development projects in line with village
custom and tradition."
The Ford Foundation helped establish two Cold
War institutes at Columbia University and Harvard, two
universities where Obama graduated. In the post-World War II
years, Ford Foundation money helped create the Russian Institute
at Columbia and the Russian Research Center at Harvard to
promote the study of Soviet and Russian history and politics for
a cadre of CIA Kremlinologists. In fact, Dunham and Obama, Sr.
met at a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii in
1960. Obama. Sr.'s scholarship was courtesy of a partly
CIA-funded operation called Airlift Africa, designed to educate
and gain influence over a new generation of eastern and southern
African leaders in the same year the USSR was doing the same by
establishing the People's Friendship University of Moscow, later
renamed Patrice Lumumba University.
The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations continued
to fund Columbia's Soviet studies programs through the early
1980s, while Obama was allegedly a student enrolled in a Soviet
studies program taught by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former
National Security Adviser under President Carter.
The Ford Foundation also funded CIA-directed
propaganda campaigns around the world. In 1967, Shepherd Stone,
born Shepherd Arthur Cohen, a former New York Times reporter and
director of international affairs for the Ford Foundation,
became president of the International Association of Cultural
Freedom (IACF), which saw its name change from the Congress of
Cultural Freedom after its direct funding from the CIA ceased.
Much like Barack Obama's post-Columbia
employer, BIC, the Ford Foundation, through groups like the
IACF, curried links with some of Europe's main leftist political
parties, including the British Labor Party, the West German
Social Democrats, and the French Socialists.
However, not every world leader was lulled
into a false sense of security by the Ford Foundation. A
formerly Secret CIA "Current Intelligence Weekly Summary," dated
April 20, 1962, reports that Burmese strongman Ne Win ordered
"the Asia Foundation and Ford Foundation to wind up their
activities" in Burma. The CIA report attacks Ne Win for his
decision to toss out both CIA-linked organizations, stating, "Ne
Win is a narrow nationalist with a suspicious conspiratorial
outlook, a short temper, and a tendency toward snap decisions."
Columnist Murray Kempton, writing in the
October 3, 1967, New York Post lambasted Stone, the IACF, and
the Ford Foundation for their close links to the CIA. Kempton
wrote, "One standard apology for the CIA used to be that its
subsidies were a considerable force for cultural progress, and
that it could not really be distinguished from, say, the Ford
Foundation. This is a sounder comparison than one would have
thought possible before reading the annual report of the Ford
Foundation, after which it is difficult with confidence to
distinguish the international activities of the Ford Foundation
from those of the CIA."
Kempton cites the Ford Foundation's $8 million
grant to MIT's Center for International Studies, adding that the
center was established with CIA funds. In 1966, one of the
architects of the Cold War policies of Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson,
McGeorge Bundy, took over as the President of the Ford
Foundation. Bundy also worked with the Council on Foreign
Relations and CIA officers Allen Dulles and Richard Bissell
to
create a carve-out in the post-World War II Marshall Plan that
covertly steered aid money to anti-Communist groups in Italy and
France. After President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Bundy
began directing U.S. covert operations as chairman of the
super-secret "303 Committee" in the Johnson White House.
Bundy signed a Secret memo on February 27,
1961, in which the Sprague Committee report on U.S. Information
Activities Abroad was circulated to senior officials. The
Sprague Committee, chaired by Mansfield D. Sprague of CIA-rife
New Canaan, Connecticut, was commissioned by President
Eisenhower and included Allen Dulles, CIA director, and the
committee's executive director, Waldemar A. Nielsen, who was
"loaned" by the Ford Foundation. The committee recommended
integrating "psychological factors" into the United States
"informational system."
The CIA's funding of foundations such as Ford
and Rockefeller was so prevalent during the 1960s, New York
Congressman William Fitts Ryan of New York introduced
legislation in 1967 that would have prohibited the CIA from
"granting, contributing, lending, or otherwise paying, directly
or indirectly, any of its funds to any foundation or
philanthropic organization,labor organization, publishing
organization, radio or broadcasting organization, or educational
institution -- including organization composed of students or
faculty members -- incorporated in the United States."
In a case eerily reminiscent of the post-gall
bladder surgery death of Pennsylvania Democratic Representative
John Murtha last February, in September 1972, Ryan died suddenly
following surgery on an ulcer and after he cast a vote against
new Vietnam War appropriations.
Ryan was particularly incensed over the CIA's
use of the National Student Association (NSA) and its global
counterpart, the International Student Conference (ISC), the
recruit agents. In fact, the Airlift Africa project that brought Obama, Sr. to the University of Hawaii appears to have been part
of a larger CIA program to use the NSA and ISC to recruit young
college students into its ranks. The CIA funded technical
assistance, education, and student exchange programs, via the
NSA and ISC, with Third World nations like Kenya and Indonesia,
the home countries of President Obama's father and step-father,
respectively.
Although Airlift Africa received a $100,000
grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation to pay for African
students personally selected by the CIA's Kenyan nationalist
asset, Tom Mboya, a mentor of Barack Obama, Sr., to travel to
the United States to study at various colleges (Obama, Sr. was
the first African student to attend the University of Hawaii),
the
CIA used a series of front foundations to launder money for
such projects. The chief CIA fund used for such purposes in the
early 1960s was the New York-based J. M. Kaplan Fund. The CIA
used a network of other funds to pass money through the Kaplan
Fund. These funds included, according to a March 1967, Ramparts magazine article, the Borden Trust of Philadelphia, the
Price Fund of New York, the Edsel Fund of San Francisco, the
Beacon Fund of Boston, and the Kentfield Fund of Dallas.
In 1958, a CIA-linked group called the Western
Regional Assembly met at Lake Arrowhead, California in a seminar
titled "The United States and Africa." Among those in attendance
was Walter P. Coombs, the executive director of the Los Angeles
World Affairs Council; Arthur N. Young, Trustee of Occidental
College; and
Frank LaMacchia, identified as "economic officer,
American Consulate General, Nairobi, Kenya." However, the Julius Mader book published in 1968, "Who's Who in the CIA," identified LaMacchia as a CIA officer
assigned to Nairobi, as well as
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, Seoul, and Baghdad.
The Lake Arrowhead conclave was told that for
Africa's emerging nations, "furtherance of education on the
college level is important, and the number of scholarships for
Africans to American institutions of higher learning should be
increased." In 1959, the CIA, likely though LaMacchia in
Nairobi, and
Mboya, kicked off Airlift Africa
that saw 230
African students airlifted to the United States, including
Barack Obama, Sr., a friend of Mboya, to Hawaii, via funding
from the Kennedy and an entity called the African-American
Students Foundation. NewsFollowUp.com
The Lake Arrowhead attendees also heard
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Joseph C.
Satterthwaite warn, "persistent and ingenious Communists,
skilled in subversive and revolutionary tactics, must be
reckoned with" in Africa. The Airlift Africa project was a form
of reckoning with the pro-Communists in Africa.
One of the Kenyan politicians who LaMacchia
and Mboya kept a close eye on was Kenyan left-wing nationalist
leader Oginga Odinga, whose son is now Kenya's Prime Minister.
Odinga, a Luo like Mboya and Obama, Sr., had cultivated close
relations with Soviet bloc countries and was dispatching Kenyan
students to the east bloc for college educations.
One of the agencies that worked closely with
the CIA to fund anti-communist student activities abroad was the
US Agency for International Development (USAID), another one of
Stanley Ann Dunham's employers in Indonesia. The CIA student
operations were conducted through Langley's Covert Action
Division No. Five, within the Plans Division. One of the chief
missions of the CIA's foreign students was to infiltrate leftist
student movements to either disrupt or recruit.
Obama's
grandmother and money laundering for the CIA
In our previous report on Obama's family and
the CIA, WMR reported on the use of a Honolulu-based front
company,
Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong, (BBRDW)
Inc., to ay off various Asian dictators, including President
Suharto of Indonesia, who seized power in 1965 in a CIA-inspired
anti-communist coup, merely two years before Stanley Ann Dunham
and seven-year-old Barack moved to Jakarta to be with Dunham's
new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a senior officer in Suharto's fascist
armed forces.
BBRDW used the facilities of the Bank of Hawaii to
transmit funds to CIA operatives and dictators in Asia. The bank
vice president in charge of the escrow accounts used for such
purposes was
Madelyn Dunham, Obama's grandmother, who died just
two days before her grandson was elected President of the United
States in 2008.
Although the CIA and Hawaii Senator Daniel
Inouye brushed off suggestions that BBRDW, which failed amid
charges that it was a Ponzi scheme, was a CIA front, WMR has
obtained from CIA files a letter, dated April 13, 1984, sent
from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii to the Justice
Department's Internal Security Criminal Division and the CIA's
Legislative Office forwarding a Honolulu article on the firm.
The article reveals that the
CIA stepped in to halt an Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) investigation of BBRDW in January 1983.
IRS Honolulu agent Joseph A. Campione confirmed that his IRS
bosses in Washington, DC had ordered him to halt his
investigation of BBRDW. The CIA's station chief in Honolulu,
Jack Kindschi, retired from the CIA and joined BBRDW after it
was established.
Ron Rewald, BBRDW's principal, was recruited
in 1976 by the CIA's chief officer in Chicago. In addition to
BBRDW, Rewald created a number of other CIA front firms in
Honolulu, including H&H Enterprises and Canadian Far East Trade
Corporation. Other firms that were joint CIA ventures with
foreign millionaires, included Hawaiian-Arabian Investment
Company and U.S. and United Arab Emirates Investment Company,
registered in Hawaii and involving Rewald, millionaire
Indonesian Indri Gautama, and UAE prince Saud Mohammed of the
emirate of Sharjah.
Rewald told the Hawaii Investor that millions
of dollars in CIA funds were "freely co-mingled" with the funds
of innocent investors in accounts such as those maintained in
the Bank of Hawaii, as well as in overseas accounts.
BBRDW
accounts in Hawaiian and overseas banks were used to launder
money for the Sultan of Brunei, Philippine banker Enrique Zobel
and his close friend President Ferdinand Marcos, Indian Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi, Gandhi's son and future Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi, and President Suharto of Indonesia.
Grandmother Madelyn's bank also had dealings
with another CIA bank, Nugan Hand Bank of Australia, through
which the CIA funded the constitutional coup d'etat against
Australian Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975. After
Nugan Hand collapsed in the late 1970s, co-founder Frank Hand
was found slumped over the steering wheel of his parked car near
Sydney. Hand was shot through the head although a rifle on the
seat beside him had been wiped clean of fingerprints. The world
of Pacific finance that Obama's banker grandmother dealt with in
the 1970s and 1980s dealt with much more than loaning money for
beachfront properties in idyllic South Pacific settings.
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Story of Obama: All in the Company. Part V -- final report
in a five-part series
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August 30-31, 2010 -- SPECIAL REPORT. The
Story of Obama: All in the Company. Part V -- final report in a
five-part series
In this, the last of a five-part series on how
Barack Obama, Jr. is a creation of the Central Intelligence
Agency, WMR delves into the behavior modification, creative
leadership, and phenomenological research programs that were at
full throttle while Obama was an employee of CIA front Business
International Corporation (BIC).
In 1984, while Obama was working as an editor
at BIC in Manhattan, CIA deputy director for intelligence
Robert
Gates, who Obama retained as his Secretary of Defense from the
Bush administration, renamed the CIA's Political Psychology
Division the Political Psychology Center (PPC) and transferred
the group from the Office of Global Issues (OGI) to the Office
of Scientific and Weapons Research (OSWR).
The CIA's political psychology program is
directly linked to its overall psychological and behavioral
science programs. In fact, the CIA continues to send CIA
officers for training to the Stanford Institute for Political
Psychology program at Stanford University. Stanford and
Stanford
Research Institute (SRI) figure prominently in the CIA
behavioral science and modification programs that enabled Barack
Obama to hurdle into political office.
A CIA memorandum from the chief of OSWR/PPC to
the Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence, dated 1984,
requests that a consultant member of the PPC's Senior Behavioral
Science Panel be permitted to publish an unclassified paper
prepared by the PPC at the University of Chicago. At the time of
Gates's push for
political psychology programs at the CIA, Obama
was working on the very same psychological-propaganda
"journalism" projects at BIC, a CIA front. The paper in question
sought to depict Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini as intent on
bringing down "'Western' supported regimes and to establish in
their place one 'united Islamic Nation' guided by the Islamic
Republic of Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini." The paper suggests
Khomeini would accomplish his goals by stirring up the Shi'a
populations of "Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates,
Syria, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and Iraq" and maintain
"the Gulf and the Arab world in a state of crisis."
The CIA's push for political action on the
international and domestic media is seen in a formerly
SECRET/SENSITIVE agenda for a meeting on "Political Action,"
dated August 5, 1982 and attended by Secretary of State George
Schultz, Secretary of Defense NewsFollowUp.com Caspar Weinberger, Deputy Defense
Secretary Frank Carlucci, CIA Director William Casey, US
Information Agency director Charles Wick, and National Security
Adviser William Clark.
The CIA's Project MOCKINGBIRD, developed under
the aegis of Cord Meyer, was a Cold War-era program designed to
influence the foreign and domestic media and its successor
programs governed the
CIA's use of BIC journalists, of which
Obama was one, to push propaganda and disinformation at home and
abroad. With the approval of the new Political Action doctrine
by the Reagan administration, there was a major push to use
companies like BIC and other private sector operations to push
U.S. propaganda abroad. The cover for the Reagan administration
had to be in the private sector for, as the memo states,
"Obviously as a government we cannot and should not simply
emulate Soviet methods. Nor will our political parties be able
in the foreseeable future to play the international role of
European parties. But there is much that we can do."
The memo states that there should be a private
sector campaign to challenge the Soviets abroad and states that
"even the New York Times" supported such an effort.
The private
sector propaganda effort was called PROJECT TRUTH and its
details are outlined in a formerly Confidential memorandum from
Wick to Clark dated April 23, 1982.
A major propaganda effort against the Soviets,
using U.S. and foreign private -- unions, parties, youth,
church, business, etc. -- and public persons and elements, is
described. Particular targets for the initiative included the
May 13-16 Bilderberg meeting in Norway, the Fall UN General
Assembly meeting, the April 28 Washington meeting of the
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations, and a contrivance
known as "International Afghanistan Day."
The Reagan national security team was clearly
intent, using cut-outs like BIC and others, to increase the U.S.
"ability to generate political initiatives and conduct political
campaigns, using overt and covert resources and combining
government and private efforts here and abroad."
The CIA, Business International Corporation,
Looking Glass, and nurturing future leadership
CIA files indicate the PPC was partially
involved with a project called
LOOKING GLASS, which involved a
group of CIA and top business officials whose mission included
"cultivating talent" from an early age.
WMR has obtained an agenda from the
"Conference on Cultivating Talent" held in Greensboro, North
Carolina from January 17-18, 1984, and co-sponsored by the
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). CCL was founded in 1970 by
H. Smith Richardson, founder of the Vick Chemical Company.
Among the participants were the CIA's director
of training and education, former National Security Agency (NSA)
director Admiral Noel Gayler, and William Verity, Jr., the
former chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a director
at BIC in Manhattan. Gayler also served as Commander of the U.S.
Pacific Command in Hawaii from 1972 to 1976, succeeding Admiral
John S. McCain, Jr., the father of Obama's 2008 challenger,
Senator John S. McCain III of Arizona.
Verity, who was also chairman of Armco steel
corporation, later succeeded Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. as Secretary
of Commerce in the Reagan administration. Verity became Commerce
Secretary after Baldrige died in a freak rodeo accident in
California. During his directorship at BIC, Verity also served
on the boards of Eli Lilly and Chase Manhattan Bank, as well as
serving as chairman of the board of trustees of Ford's Theater
in Washington, DC.
Most of the CCL participants at the two-day
conference were behavioral scientists. In our previous report on
Obama and the CIA, WMR revealed that
CIA director Richard Helms
considered the University of Hawaii, the alma mater of Obama's
mother and father, as one of five top centers for the CIA's
behavioral science research work. The others were MIT, Yale,
University of Michigan, and UCLA.
Speaking at the CCL conference, in addition to
Verity, were Billie L. Alban, President of Alban & Williams,
Ltd., an international consultancy. Alban was a core faculty
member at UCLA and previously served on the staff of the
Tavistock Institute in London. Currently, she teaches at
Columbia University. Part of Alban's biography held in CIA
archival files, which states her clients included the CIA-linked
Bankers Trust, is redacted. Today, CCL's board of governors
includes faculty members from Columbia and Harvard universities.
Verity was joined at the conference by two
executives of Armco. One cartoon from the conference found in
the CIA archives depicts two men with one pointing to a group of
people representing the bottom rungs of society and exclaiming,
"There is the raw material for a new, dynamic world!" The
presence of Verity of BIC at the conference attended by the
CIA's chief of education and training raises the specter of
BIC's role in supplying "raw material" from its ranks,
individuals like Obama, for the CIA's "new, dynamic world."
The CIA and Tavistock
Also known as the "Freud Hilton,"
Tavistock
has long been involved in brainwashing techniques and CIA work
since its foundation. The institute also has links to the
Harvard Psychology Clinic, the CIA, and Stanford Research
Institute (SRI), a major contractor for CIA psychic warfare
activities in the 1970s and 80s. Alban told the 1984 CCL
seminar, "talent should be nurtured and developed for tomorrow
not today. If one focuses on today's requirements, by the time
talents are nurtured one will find they are the talents required
of yesterday. The focus must be visionary and look to the needs
of the future."
The Tavistock Institute has long been linked
with the CIA's MK-ULTRA and Projects BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE
mind
control and brain-washing operations, conducted by the CIA's top
scientist for such matters, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. Much of the
records about MK-ULTRA and other CIA programs was destroyed on
the order of Helms in 1972. BLUEBIRD documents describe what the
CIA was trying to accomplish with behavioral modification in the
early 1950s: "Can we 'alter' a person’s personality? Can we
devise a system for making unwilling subjects into willing
agents and then transfer that control to untrained agency agents
in the field by use of codes or identifying signs?" In other
words, the movie "The Manchurian Candidate," was not purely a
fictional account within the CIA's research and scientific
community.
Considering Obama's penchant for homosexual
encounters in Chicago and Washington, DC, the question of a
continuation of Gottlieb's
OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX continues
to the present day. A sub-program of MK-ULTRA, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
employed
prostitutes in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York
City to lure targeted individuals into CIA safehouses where they
would then be plied with drugs like LSD. They would then be
tested for their susceptibility to sexual blackmail. The program
was "officially" halted in 1966, but the continuing use of
prostitutes by the CIA for blackmail purposes has been verified
to WMR by workers in the sex industry.
Twelve pages in the CIA's director for
training and education's January 25, 1984, report to the deputy
director for administration remain classified to this day, but
in a hand written note on the CIA transmittal sheet, he states
"I think you will find Tab B to be very interesting." The deputy
director for administration replies, also in a handwritten note,
"I did -- though I don't [subscribe]? to call the community on
Tab C."
Tab B is the training and education director's
comments to the CCL. The talking points include:
"- Pleased to be invited to participate and to
exchange ideas on the cultivating and nurturing of talent.
- Our recent visibility has been both an asset
and a liability in this regard. More people know of the CIA and
its activities than when I joined (tell the labor union story),
and this attracts some good people. By the same token, it brings
out the weird ones.
- We have an exceptional screening process
involving security investigation, testing, (assessment -
OSS-CCL) psychological screening, medical review, interviewing,
polygraph, etc. (and a long processing time!) [Ed. note: it
cannot be determined if this reference is to the Office of
Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA or the CIA's
Special Security Office. CCL, however, appears to indicate a
past and on-going relationship between the CIA and the Center
for Creative Leadership.]
- So, the pepole who come to us are, for the
most part, exceptionally talented, thoroughly screened, and
represent a real challenge for us to stretch, nurture and
retain.
- Eventually reach the point where at least
some people are identified early on as having high potential for
senior agency-wide positions and are consciously developed
toward that end.
CIA university recruitment the year Obama
graduated from Columbia
A September 11, 1984 memo to Dan Carlin, the
assistant director of the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board (PFIAB) from the CIA's executive
assistant/executive director to director William Casey points
out the academia sources for the past year's CIA undergraduate
recruits. Two recruits came from Columbia University.
Obama
graduated from Columbia in 1983 after reportedly studying under
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former National Security Adviser to
President Carter. The chairman of the PFIAB at the time of the
stepped-up CIA college recruiting campaign was Anne Armstrong,
the Ford administration's ambassador to London from 1976 to 1977
and a major backer of George H.W. and George W. Bush. A one-time
board member of Halliburton, Armstrong was a mentor for Karl
Rove when she served as co-chairman of the Republican National
Committee from 1971 to 1973.
By way of comparison, one undergraduate was
recruited from Harvard, one from Occidental College (where Obama
attended before transferring to Columbia), one from Claremont
Men's College, one from Pepperdine. Topping the list are five
each from Georgetown and Dartmouth. Graduate recruits include
one from Harvard Law, where Obama attended law school after his
"community service" work in Chicago; three from the University
of Michigan (one of Helms's favored behavioral science research
campuses), and, trumpeting other graduate schools, American
University in Washington, with five new recruits.
CIA archival records also indicate an on-going
relationship between Obama's former college, Occidental, and the
CIA in 1983. A MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour transcript shows a guest,
Lawrence Caldwell of Occidental, as having been a scholar in
residence at the CIA's Office of Soviet Analysis for two years.
Behavioral science, the CIA, and SRI
A formerly Secret NOFORN [not releasable to
foreign nationals] proposal for the CIA, dated December 31,
1992, and prepared for the CIA by Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) describes in great
detail the
agency's behavioral science programs, which included anomalous
cognition (AC) and anomalous perturbation (AP). AC is defined as
"the awareness of information that is considered otherwise
shielded from all known sensory channels" and AP is "the
perturbation of physical matter under conditions of complete
physical and sensorial isolation."
The document states that research into both
field began in 1973 with the CIA engaged in such research and
was followed by U.S. military service and Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) research with SRI through fiscal year 1990. The
document also states "beginning in 1986, the U.S. Army Medical
Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) [Fort Detrick,
Maryland] initiated the first coordinated long-term examination
of AC and AP phenomenon."
SAIC proposed to conduct various research
projects for the CIA are similar to some of the "enhanced
interrogation" techniques used on detainees in Guantanamo Bay,
Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, and other CIA "black sites"
in
the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The experiments, conducted by SRI
since 1974, included exposing individuals to flashing light or
no light to discover how their central nervous systems reacted
to the visual stimuli. Experiment subjects were fitted with EEGs
(electroencephalogram) monitors to measure their reaction to the
flashing light stimuli. Part of the SAIC proposal remains
redacted.
A sub-contractor to SAIC was the Lucidity
Institute of Napa, California, founded in 1987 by Dr. Stephen
LaBerge for the conduct of "research on lucid dreams and to help
people learn to use them to enhance their lives. Lucid dreaming
means dreaming while knowing that one is dreaming and allows
people to consciously guide the direction of their dreams."
Ironically, one of this summer's blockbuster movies,
"Inception," dealt with the subject of invading people's dreams
to steal secrets. Leonardo DeCaprio plays a secretive agent
named Dorn Cobb who is an "extractor" agent operating in the
para-psychological dream invasion program. What may be fiction
in Hollywood was far from it in the CIA research with SAIC, SRI,
and the Lucidity Institute.
One of the methods used by the SRI and SAIC
program to determine "the differences between effective and
ineffective liars" was called the Q-Sort technique. The
technique was used to separate "highly talented" individuals in
test "clusters."
The paragraph on the intelligence applications
of anomalous cognition is 90 percent redacted from the SAIC
proposal as are at least three reference works cited in the
document. Academic institutions involved in the project
included, in addition to SRI, Stanford University, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, the Institute of Buddhist Studies in
Berkeley, and UCLA (one of Helms's favorite CIA behavioral
science research centers).
The CIA-SAIC-SRI project principals had either
worked at or attended the Biofeedfack Institute of San
Francisco; SAIC; Yale (another of Helms's favored research
centers); Columbia University; Harvard; Bellevue Hospital in New
York; the U.S. Army Medical Research Unit in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia; the Stanford Hypnosis Research Laboratory;
Carnegie-Mellon University; MIT (another one of Helms's favored
behavioral science centers); the World Bank; the Air Force
Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio; University of Minnesota; the Brain Research Institute; the
Behavioral Research Foundation of St. Kitts, West Indies; the
Tavistock Institute in London; the A.K. Rice Institute of
Rainier, Washington, an off-shoot of the Tavistock Institute;
Sleep Disorders Clinic, Provo, Utah; Neurology Study Section of
the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Tibetan
government-in-exile, Dharamsala, India; U.S. Veterans
Administration; University of Wisconsin-Madison; US Naval
Research Laboratory, Washington, DC; and perhaps, most
interestingly, the University of Hawaii (also designated by
Helms as one of the CIA's favored behavioral science research
centers and where two of the principals involved in the SAIC-CIA
project had an affiliation).
The research director for the CIA-SAIC program
was Dr. Edwin C. May, an internationally-recognized
parapsychology expert who is the executive director for the
Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for
Fundamental Research in Palo Alto, California. May was a lead
researcher for the CIA's STARGATE remote viewing and ESP project
until it was closed down in 1995. WMR has previously reported
that the program moved from the CIA to the National Security
Agency and involved research carried out with Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore and the Monroe Institute in Faber,
Virginia, south of Charlottesville The Monroe Institute was also
heavily involved in the STARGATE program. The current research
is also linked to the Parapsychology Foundation of New York
City.
Other members of the team included a retired
Army Major General who now specializes in human bionics a radio
astrophysicist; an expert who maintains that sexual orientation
may be influenced by experiences in childhood; a counselor for
survivors of the People's Temple cult of Reverend Jim Jones
(itself linked to a CIA MK-ULTRA behavioral modification and
mind control operation); a current specialist with the Farsight
Institute of Atlanta, a remote viewing research center; a
neuro-linguistic programming expert; a toxicology specialist; a
principal of the Pentagon's PANDORA project on the use of
electro-magnetic weapons to roboticize human beings; an expert
in the imaging and computer mapping of the human brain; an
inventor of the cochlear implant; an expert on the mass popular
opposition of Okinawans to the U.S. military presence on the
island; a future warfare expert for the Pentagon and member of
the National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board and
Defense Intelligence Agency Scientific Advisory Committee; a
former Army Undersecretary for acquisition; a Defense
Intelligence Agency psi-tech officer who worked on
electro-magnetic weaponry for battlefield psychological purposes
-- PROJECT SLEEPING BEAUTY -- who worked with another Army
Intelligence psi-tech officer who was partially the inspiration
for the movie "Men Who Stare At Goats;" a specialist on the
brainwashing techniques, including sleep deprivation, by the
North Koreans on American prisoners of war and the Church of
Scientology who was an expert witness on the brainwashing
techniques of the Symbionese Liberation Army on heiress Patty
Hearst; and, lastly, a University of Hawaii-linked specialist on
the psychological effects of prison and prison brutality on
prisoners who later defended, as an expert witness, one of the
prison guards at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad.
The presence of a Jonestown de-programmer on
the CIA-SAIC team in noteworthy. On August 31, 2007, WMR
reported: "During the time of the Jonestown massacre, the
People's Temple's ship, the 'Cudjoe,' was en route to Trinidad
with members of the Temple on board. Temple members soon set up
operations in Trinidad and Grenada, where [Prime Minister Eric]
Gairy, a CIA client, who, in a 1977 speech before the UN General
Assembly, called for the UN to establish an Agency for Psychic
Research into Unidentified Flying Objects and the Bermuda
Triangle, was in charge. According to the Oakland Tribune, the
St. George's University Medical School in Grenada had on its
staff one Dr. Peter Bourne, the son of the university's vice
chancellor Sir Geoffrey Bourne. Peter Bourne is a graduate of
the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), where he
studied the psychological effects of stress on those in combat.
He also served one year in Vietnam as the head of the Army's
psychiatric research team. Bourne later became an Assistant UN
Secretary General and an adviser to then-Congressman Bill
Richardson. It was under the guise of rescuing American medical
students at the university, that the Reagan administration
launched a 1983 invasion to overthrow Bernard Coard, who had
ousted and executed Bishop in a coup. Both Bournes said the
medical students were never in any danger. [Some believe that
author Robert Ludlum got the idea for CIA mind-controlled
assassins in his novel "The Bourne Identity" and its sequels
from Geoffrey Bourne's work.]
The Jonestown connection to the U.S. war in
Southeast Asia does not end there. The U.S. ambassador to Guyana
at the time of the Jonestown massacre was John Burke, who served
with his Deputy Chief of Mission Richard Dwyer, were allegedly
working for the CIA in Bangkok during the Vietnam war. Dwyer was
wounded in the Port Kaituma shootings where [Representative Leo]
Ryan and the others were killed. On Sept. 27, 1980, Jack
Anderson reported that Dwyer was a CIA agent and a friend of
Jones. Anderson reported that on one of the tapes made during
the mass suicide Jones was heard saying, 'Get Dwyer out of here
before something happens to him.' Dwyer reportedly left Guyana
for Grenada after the massacre. The US Consular Officer at the
embassy in Georgetown, Guyana was Richard McCoy, who allegedly
liaised with Jim Jones and was a U.S. Air Force intelligence
official. Another alleged CIA employee, operating under State
Department cover, was Dan Webber, who also visited the Jonestown
the day after the massacre. Joe Holsinger, Ryan's assistant and
friend, later said that he believed that Jonestown was a massive
mind control experiment and that the CIA and military
intelligence was involved in the program."
The nexus of Obama's almae matres: Occidental,
Columbia, and Harvard, as well as that of his parents, the
University of Hawaii, in the CIA's mind control, behavioral
modification, and mass hypnosis projects is deeply troubling.
The fact that Obama has failed to provide a full accounting of
his past academic and professional employment history, coupled
with the presence of a major CIA presence within his and his
parents', grandparents', and step-father's backgrounds opens up
the real possibility that Obama was, to use the CIA's own term,
"nurtured," for a higher calling. Obama told the nation that his
would be the most open and transparent in recent recent history.
However, Obama's biography and those of his parents and
guardians are full of more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese.
It is well past time for the President to make good on that
promise and fully release his past academic, passport,
employment, and overseas travel records.
After eight brutal years of George W. Bush and
Dick Cheney, the nation was ready for any change. Unfortunately,
the CIA, through LOOKING GLASS, MK-ULTRA, ARTICHOKE, PANDORA,
and other behavioral science programs were ready to answer the
call. The CIA answered the call with Obama and most of us bought
him and his "Hope and Change" propaganda fecundity "nurtured" by
CIA programs going back some sixty years.
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Obama's mother, father, grandmother, and
step-father point to president's CIA pedigree
August 4, 2010 -- |
WMR previously reported on President
Obama's more than one year employment by a CIA front operation,
Business International Corporation, Inc. (BIC) of New York after
his graduation from Columbia University in 1983.
However, the State Department's
recent
revelation in response to a Freedom of Information Act request
that the pre-1965 passport files of Obama's mother,
Ann Dunham Soetoro, were destroyed
in the 1980s, has re-ignited suspicions that Obama's mother
worked for the CIA under non-official cover (NOC) cover in
Indonesia while married to Lolo Soetoro.
Mangunharjo, a retired colonel in General Suharto's CIA-backed
ranks. Soetoro and Dunham married in 1965 after meeting at the
University of Hawaii. That same year, the CIA-backed Suharto
launched an anti-Communist coup that saw leftist President
Sukarno eventually ousted from power and up to one million
suspected Communists, including many ethnic Chinese Indonesians,
massacred by government troops.
Obama recently lifted a ban on U.S. military
support for the Indonesian Red Beret KOPASSUS special operations
forces imposed after the unit committed human rights abuses in
East Timor in the late 1990s. The 12-year ban, imposed by the
Clinton administration, was maintained by the Bush
administration.
In 1967, Dunham moved with six-year old Barack
Obama to Jakarta. In 1966, as Suharto consolidated his power,
Colonel Soetoro was battling Communist rebels in the country.
Dunham moved back to Hawaii in 1972, a year after Obama left
Indonesia to attend school in Hawaii, and she divorced Soetoro
in 1980. Soetoro was hired by Mobil to be a liaison officer with
Suharto's dictatorship. Soetoro died in 1987 at the age of 52.
Ann Dunham died in 1995, also at the age of 52. Obama, Sr. died
in an automobile accident in Kenya in 1982 at the age of 46.
Obama, Sr. attended the University of Hawaii courtesy of a
scholarship arranged by Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya.
Obama and Dunham married in 1961, however, Obama, at the time,
had a wife back in Kenya. Obama and Dunham officially divorced
in 1964, the same year Dunham married Soetoro.
Obama, Sr. met his old friend Mboya, the
Kenyan Minister of Economic Planning and Development, shortly
before Mboya was gunned down by an assassin in Nairobi in 1969.
Kenya's autocratic president Jomo Kenyatta was viewed as being
behind the assassination of Mboya, a would-be rival for the
presidency. Mboya was 39 when he was assasinated. Obama, Sr.
testified at the trial of Mboya's accused assassin and shortly
thereafter, Obama, Sr. was the target of an attempted
hit-and-run assassination attempt.
Files released by the State Department on
Dunham's name-change passport application lists two dates and
places of marriage to Soetoro: March 5, 1964, in Maui and March
15, 1965, in Molokai -- almost a year's difference. In her 1968
passport renewal application, Barack Obama's name is listed as
Barack Hussein Obama (Soebarkah). In passport renewal and
amendment applications filed from Jakarta, Dunham uses two
different names: Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro and Stanley Ann
Soetoro.
Dunham again applied for a passport from Jakarta in 1981 while
working for the Ford Foundation. Her New York-based boss at the
time was
Peter Geithner,
the father of Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Dunham also worked in rural villages in Java for the US Agency
for International Development (USAID),
which was and remains notorious for conducting CIA operations
around the world.
SourceWatch
Peter F. Geithner "is
an advisor to the Asia
Center at
Harvard University and a consultant to the Asia
Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Rockefeller
Foundation,Sasakawa
Peace Foundation, and other organizations. He
serves on the boards of the National
Committee on United States-China Relations, the China
Center for Economic Research (Peking
University), the Center
for the Advanced Study of India (University
of Pennsylvania), lemente (Holdings)
Asia, Inc., and the Institute
of Current World Affairs.
"Mr. Geithner was with The Ford
Foundation for
28 years, where he held program management positions
mainly concerned with Asia. He was Director of Asia
Programs from 1990 to 1996. Prior to assuming that
position, he served for two and a half years as the
Foundation’s first representative in Beijing, China.
His earlier assignments with the Foundation included
Program Officer in Charge, Developing Country
Programs (New York), Representative for Southeast
Asia (Bangkok), Deputy Head, Asia Pacific (New
York), and Deputy Representative for India, Nepal,
and Sri
Lanka (New
Delhi).
"Prior to joining The Ford Foundation, Mr. Geithner
served with the U.S.
Agency for International
Development in Zimbabwe, Zambia,
and Washington, D.C. He was also Assistant to the
President of a private international company, and
served for four years as a Naval Aviator.
"Mr. Geithner is a graduate of Dartmouth College
(BA) and the Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (MA). He is a member
of Phi
Beta Kappa, a recipient of the State Department
Distinguished Service Award, and the Royal Thai
Government Order of the White Elephant.“ [1]
USAID as CIA front.
Download USAID docs,
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Ann Dunham and President Obama's father,
Barack Obama, Sr., a native of the British colony of Kenya, met
in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii in 1959.
The teaching of Russian in Hawaii, which hosted a number of US
military bases and intelligence operations, is significant since
a Russian language class during the height of the Cold War would
normally attract a majority of U.S. intelligence professionals.
At the time Dunham met Obama, Sr. in
Russian-language class at the University of Hawaii, the CIA was
engaged in major covert operations in Asia, including attempted
assassinations of Asian leaders. An August 1975 article in
Penthouse by former New York Times reporter
Tad Szulc
reported on two high-level planned CIA assassinations that were
turned down by the 'highest levels' at the White House in the
late 1950s: '. . . senior CIA officials proposed the
assassination of Indonesian President Sukarno as part of a
broader plot to overthrow his left-leaning government. At least
one American pilot, employed by the CIA, was captured by
Sukarno's forces during the coup attempt. To kill Sukarno, the
CIA, according to intelligence sources, planned to fire a shell
from a ceremonial 105-mm cannon in front of the presidential
palace while Sukarno spoke from a balcony.' The CIA finally
succeeded in ousting Sukarno in 1965, with the help of Barack
Obama's step father.
Spartacus:
Tad Szulc
was born in Warsaw on 25th July, 1926. As a young
boy he was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland.
Later he studied at the University of Brazil
(1943-1945).
Szulc worked for the Associated
Press in
Brazil before moving to the United
States in
1949. He covered the United
Nations for
the United
Press International until
joining the New
York Times in
1953. He worked as a foreign correspondent and
reported on a series of important events. This
included the overthrow of Marco
Pérez Jiménez, the military dictator of Venezuela in
1958. The following year Szulc published Twilight
of the Tyrants (1959).
In 1961 Szulc discovered that the Central
Intelligence Agency were
training Anti-Castro partisans in Florida and Guatemala with
the idea of invading Cuba.
Szulc's article was published in theNew
York Times on
7th April, 1961. However, the editor removed details
of the proposed invasion and the involvement of the
CIA in this operation.
Later, President John
F. Kennedy, told the New
York Times's managing editor, Turner
Catledge: "If you had printed more about the
operation, you would have saved us from a colossal
mistake."
Szulc joined forces with Karl
E. Meyer to
write The
Cuban Invasion: The Chronicle of a Disaster.
The CIA did not approve of the book and according to
their files, Szulc was described as "anti-agency"
and "under suspicion as a hostile foreign agent."
Szulc also became unpopular with the communist
government in the Soviet
Union for
his reporting of the Prague
Spring. Szulc was a supporter of Alexander
Dubcek and
the reform movement in Czechoslovakia.
On the morning of the Red
Army invasion,
Szulc wrote: "Czechoslovakia
was occupied early today by troops of the Soviet
Union and four of its Warsaw Pact allies in a series
of swift land and air movements." This resulted in
him being thrown out of the country on the grounds
that he was taking "an interest in secret military
questions."
After leaving the New
York Times in
1972 Szulc wrote several books including Compulsive
Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt (1974),
a biography of E.
Howard Hunt, The
Energy Crisis (1978), The
Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years(1978), Fidel:
A Critical Portrait (1986), The
Secret Alliance (1991), Pope
John Paul II (1995)
and Chopin
in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic
Composer (2000).
Tad Szulc
died of cancer in Washington, D.C., on 21st May,
2001.
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Szulc also wrote: "In 1958, a plot was
concocted to kill China's Premier Chou En-lai during a visit to
Rangoon, Burma. This was at the beginning of the Soviet-Chinese
split, and apparently the CIA reasoned that Chou's death would
aggravate the developing split. The notion was that Chou was a
moderate and thus posed an obstacle to a possible Soviet-Chinese
confrontation. Furthermore, intelligence sources said, the CIA
planned, by the dissemination of 'disinformation' through
intelligence channels, to lead the Chinese to believe that Chou
was killed by the Russian KGB. This murder plot, which was also
stopped by Washington, provided for a Burmese CIA agent to place
untraceable poison in a rice bowl from which Chou was expected
to be eating at a government dinner in his honor. This
particular kind of poison, intelligence sources said, would have
acted within forty-eight hours and there would be no trace of it
if an autopsy were performed. The plan was countermanded at the
last moment."
As WMR previously reported, "At the same time
he was attending Occidental [College in Los Angeles, 1979-81],
Obama, using the name Barry Soetoro and an Indonesian passport
issued under the same name, traveled to Pakistan during the U.S.
buildup to assist the Afghan mujaheddin. WMR has learned from
informed sources in Kabul that Obama has been extremely
friendly, through personal correspondence on White House
letterhead, with a private military company that counts among
its senior personnel a number of Afghan mujaheddin-Soviet war
veterans who fought alongside the late Northern Alliance
commander Ahmad Shah Masood.
In 1981, Obama spent time in Jacobabad and
Karachi, Pakistan, and appeared to have an older American
'handler,' possibly a CIA officer. WMR previously reported that
Obama also crossed the border from Pakistan and spent some time
in India. At the time of Obama’s stay in Pakistan, the country
was being built up as a base for the anti-Soviet Afghan
insurgency by President Carter’s National Security Adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski and later by President Reagan’s CIA director
William Casey. Obama has suspiciously refused to release his
transcripts from Occidental or Columbia University and he has
remained cagey about his post-Columbia employment with BIC."
In early 2008, when employees of The Analysis
Corporation, a CIA contractor headed up at the time by Obama's
current deputy national security adviser John O. Brennan, a
former CIA official, were illegally accessing Obama's State
Department passport files, WMR reported: "An informed source has
told WMR that Obama’s tuition debt at Columbia was paid off by
BIC. In addition, WMR has learned that when Obama lived in
Indonesia with his mother and his adoptive father Lolo Soetoro,
the 20-year-old Obama, who was known as ‘Barry Soetoro,’
traveled to Pakistan in 1981. He was hosted by the family of
Muhammadmian Soomro, a Pakistani Sindhi who became acting
President of Pakistan after the resignation of General Pervez
Musharraf on August 18, 2008. WMR was told that the Obama/Soetoro
trip to Pakistan, ostensibly to go ‘partridge hunting’ with the
Soomros, related to unknown CIA business. The covert CIA program
to assist the Afghan mujaheddin was already well underway at the
time and Pakistan was the major base of operations for the CIA’s
support."
WMR also reported: "Dunham Soetoro was in
Indonesia when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Barack
Obama visited Lahore, Pakistan, where his mother worked as a
'consultant,' in 1981. According to a declassified Top Secret
CIA document titled 'Worldwide Reaction to the Soviet Invasion
of Afghanistan,' dated February 1980, Indonesia became a hotbed
of anti-Soviet students demonstrations after Moscow’s invasion
of Afghanistan. The report states, 'Indonesian students have
staged several peaceful demonstrations in Jakarta and three
other major cities. They have also demanded the recall of the
Soviet Ambassador because of remarks he made to a student
delegation on 4 January and have called for a severance of
Soviet-Indonesian relations.'”
Obama's mother was in Lahore as a consultant
for the Asian Development Bank, a perfect NOC job at the time
the CIA, under William Casey, was beefing up its covert presence
in Pakistan to battle the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, known to
Obama as "Toot", began working for the Bank of Hawaii in 1960, a
year after her daughter met Obama, Sr. and in 1970 she became
one of the first female bank vice presidents. Madelyn Dunham
retired from the bank in 1986. It is suspected that the Bank of
Hawaii acted as a financial vehicle for CIA operations in Asia
and the South Pacific.
The Bank of Hawaii has, according to published
reports, been linked to a number of CIA-connected operations in
the Asia-Pacific region, including links to the Indonesian Lippo
Group and Mochtar Riady's contributions to the presidential
re-election campaign of Bill Clinton; American International
Group (AIG) -- bailed out by Obama; the CIA's Nugan Hand Bank in
Australia; another CIA-influenced bank, the Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) and an affiliate bank in the Cook
Islands, Commercial Bank of Commerce Cook Islands, Ltd. (CBCCI)
in Rarotonga -- which in the 1980s were funneling money to South
Pacific islands to counter Soviet influence in the region; the
USAID officer in Suva, Fiji, William Raupe, who was actually a
CIA official cover agent; global bullion trader Deak
International; European Pacific investments; and a CIA front
company in Honolulu called Bishop Baldwin Rewald Dillingham Wong
(BBRDW), Ltd., which maintained financial and political links to
Asia-Pacific leaders, including Philippines President Ferdinand
Marcos, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India, Suharto in
Indonesia, the Sultan of Brunei, the chiefs of the New Zealand
Security Intelligence Service -- which acted on behalf of the
CIA in South Pacific small island states, and maintained slush
fund accounts in the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Spain,
and South America. The CIA cut-out, which took over the assets
of the collapsed Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, also used actor
Jack Lord, from Hawaii 5-0 fame, on its promotional material as
a way to "open doors" and maintained close links with the US
Pacific Command based in Hawaii.
In the 1960s, the Bank of Hawaii began opening
up branches all over the Pacific: Palau, Guam, Yap, Ponape, and
Kosrae. It also bought the Bank of American Samoa and the First
National Bank of Arizona and had gained significant, if not
fully controlling, financial stakes in the Bank of New
Caledonia, Bank Indosuez in Vanuatu, National Bank of the
Solomon Islands, Bank of Queensland, Bank of Tonga, and Bank
Indosuez Niugini in Papua New Guinea, Bank Paribas Polynesia.
The Bank of Hawaii also opened up branches in Suva, Saipan, and
Tokyo. By the time Madelyn Dunham retired in 1986, the bank was
also deeply connected to John Waihee, the first Native Hawaiian
governor of Hawaii, elected in 1986. The CIA's BBRDW and an
affiliate, Canadian Far East Trading Corporation, also
maintained close links with Waihee and Governor George Ariyoshi.
When Barack Obama graduated from the private
Punahou High School in Hawaii in 1979 and transferred to
Occidental College in Los Angeles, Eugene Welch was the CIA's
station chief in Hawaii. Punahou High School was also the alma
mater of another US Senator, Hiram Bingham III of Connecticut,
who was said to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones, the movie
character popularized by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. At
the time, the CIA was engaged in a major recruiting campaign,
including on college campuses, after Admiral Stansfield Turner,
the CIA director, was ordered by President Jimmy Carter to clean
up the agency after previous scandals.
The CIA's Hawaii-based Asia-Pacific financial
operation appears to have been the brain child of retired CIA
deputy director for intelligence Ray S. Cline, a proponent of
the CIA's paying pro-American strongmen around the world large
sums of cash to ensure their loyalty, including Mobutu Seso Seko
of Zaire, King Hussein of Jordan, Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan,
General Lon Nol of Cambodia, the Shah of Iran, Suharto, and
Marcos. Helping to assist these operations was Madelyn Dunham
who was in charge of the Bank of Hawaii's secretive escrow
account business. During her grandson's presidential campaign in
2008, Madelyn Dunham refused all media interview requests. She
died in Hawaii two days before her grandson was elected
president. With the death of Toot, the early chapters of the
life of Barack Obama, Jr, his father, mother, and step-father
also went to the grave.
At the time Obama's mother and father met in
Russian language class in Hawaii, the CIA was embarked on an
aggressive covert campaign in Asia, one that involved starting a
Soviet-Chinese war and aiming to assassinate Sukarno of
Indonesia. The CIA was similarly involved in an aggressive
covert war with the Soviets in Africa, vying for control of the
continent's newly-independent states. In the world of the CIA
there are no coincidences.
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Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro's CIA
colleagues |
March 7, 2011 --
The time period that President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann
Dunham Soetoro/Sutoro, worked for various Indonesian and
Pakistani operations associated with the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) was during a time frame when
USAID was composed almost entirely of CIA official and
non-official cover agents who worked throughout Indonesia and
Southeast and South Asia.
Ann Dunham Soetoro and Barack Obama as "flexible cover"
agents
Before he was sacked as CIA director in 1976 and replaced by
George H. W. Bush, William E. Colby commissioned a study of the
agency's priorities in a five-year plan. The Secret NOFORN plan,
titled
"Director of Central Intelligence: Perspectives for Intelligence
1976-1981," see:(CIA.GOV)
described the importance of agencies like USAID
in the CIA's operations. The report states: "Contributions of
such agencies as State, Defense, Treasury, USAID, USIA,
Agriculture, and Commerce can be enhanced substantially by more
effective approaches to information gathering and in the
reporting aspects of their activities. We need particularly,
gains in the interrelationships between overt and clandestine
and technical and human sources. We must establish more direct
lines between our human collectors and our technical
collectors."
Classified CIA documents from the late 1970s, while Dunham
Soetoro was working for USAID, the CIA-linked Development
Alternatives, Inc. and East-West Center of the University of
Hawaii, describe in great detail the type of deep agent
"flexible cover" under which she worked for the CIA. A Secret
paper written by C.D. Edbrook as a basic text for CIA agent
training and titled "Principles of Deep Cover," see
(FAQS.org
) describes the environment in which Obama's
mother worked in both Indonesia and later, Pakistan.
Edbrook defines "flexible cover" as "a logical reason for
interest in diversified local groups" and "mobility." Dunham
Soetoro's varied employers in Indonesia suggest that her career
met the definition of a "flexible agent," either a non-official
cover (NOC) employee of the CIA or a career contract agent. The
latter became highly favored in the late 1970s after CIA
director Stansfield Turner sacked a number of career clandestine
services officers. On career contract agents, Edbrook clearly
favored their use in stating: "many of the problems of deep
cover are avoided when a service can recruit suitable agents
already embarked on legitimate careers."
From January 1968 to December 1969, Dunham Soetoro worked for
the Indonesia-America Friendship Institute in Jakarta, a
suspected CIA front. Dunham was also co-founder of the
Indonesian Heritage Society at the National Museum in Jakarta.
She worked at the Society as a volunteer from 1968 to 1972. In
1969, the CIA Jakarta CIA station chief was Stuart E. Methven
whose official cover was embassy political officer. Methven
became the CIA station chief in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974 from
where he launched the CIA's covert war against the government of
Angola.
From January 1970 to August 1972, Dunham Soetoro was an
executive at the Institute of Management Education and
Development (IMED) in Jakarta, likely a continuation of her CIA
flexible cover employment.
From 1972 to 1975, Dunham Soetoro double-dipped, returning to
the University of Hawaii to obtain her Masters of Arts in
anthropology from the University of Hawaii, under a grant from
the CIA-funded Asia Foundation, while continuing to serve under
contract IMED in Jakarta. The CIA's liaison for various USAID
programs in Jakarta was Vicent Michael Shields who operated
under official cover as the embassy's economic and commercial
attache.
From 1972 to 1975, Dunham Soetoro taught Indonesian crafts at
the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, further developing her "flexible
cover" credentials. In 1975, the year Indonesia invaded East
Timor with the support of the CIA, Dunham Soetoro returned to
conduct "anthropological field work" on Java. Dunham Soetoro
worked in Jakarta in 1975 and moved to work in Yogyakarta in
1976.
In March 1977, Dunham Soetoro taught a course under Professor
Leon Mears at the Faculty of Economics of the University of
Indonesia in Jakarta. The course was designed for the staff of
the Indonesian National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS).
From June 1977 to September 1978, Dunham Soetoro returned to
Yogyakarta and researched small village industries under a grant
from the CIA-linked East-West Center.
In May 1978, Dunham Soetoro returned to Jakarta and consulted
with the International Labor Organization to develop
recommendations on village industries for the Suharto regime's
third five-year plan, REPELITA III. On November 24, 1980, Dunham
divorced Lolo Soetoro. From 1977 to 1980, the CIA station chief
in Jakarta was Carl Edward Gebhardt. Case officers at the CIA
station during this time frame were economics section officer
James D. Anders, Jr.; Ronald M. Cinal, whose previous posting
was Nairobi, Kenya; and William H. Wright, who worked in 1977 at
the consulate in Surabaya -- while Dunham Soetoro was working in
the Surabaya CIA station city of responsibility Yogyakarta --
and who was transferred in 1979 to Jakarta.
Dunham Soetoro's field work extended throughout Java: a major
target in the CIA's influence extension operations.
From October 1978 to December 1980, under contract to USAID
and Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), a CIA front company,
Dunham consulted on rural industries development in central
Java. The CIA's station chief in Jakarta in June 1980 was Warren
E. Frank and the deputy chief of station from July 1979 through
1980 was Harrison McAlpine, who, from 1971 to 1974, was a USAID
"public administration adviser" in Vientiane, Laos. Also at the
CIA station in Jakarta in 1980 was Robert H. Mills, operating
under official cover of embassy First Secretary and who, form
1972 to 1974, was operating at the U.S. Consulate in Surabaya,
eastern Java, as a USAID "public safety program" officer.
The identities of the CIA agents assigned to Indonesia in the
late 1960s, 70s, and 80s were compiled in various writings by
the whistleblowing former CIA agent Philip Agee.
From January 1981 to November 1984, Dunham worked under the
cover of the Ford Foundation's Southeast Regional Office in
Jakarta. Dunham's grants came from the head of the foundation's
grant program in New York, Peter Geithner, the father of Timothy
Geithner, the current Treasury Secretary.
Edbrook's paper on "deep cover" describes Dunham Soetoro's
checkerboard employment record to a tee: "The cover with the
best chance of enduring in any area is one that does not feed
off the area but contributes needed skills or knowledge or a
commodity that is lacking . . . non-commercial cover may be more
desirable in some places: in newly independent countries, for
instance, teachers or technicians may be more needed and welcome
than business representatives and the desire of the new
governments to get them elsewhere than from the former colonial
power may provide another nation with cover opportunities for
its own nationals or for third-national agents."
In post-coup Indonesia, neither the Dutch, the former
colonial rulers, or the Chinese, who were linked to the previous
Sukarno government, were held in esteem. Thus, "teachers" like
Dunham Soetoro were able to make instant inroads in urban and
rural areas alike while keeping her CIA cover intact. Similarly,
Obama's 1981 trip from Indonesia to Pakistan and southern India,
reportedly using an Indonesian passport issued to "Barry
Soetoro," describes Edbrook's "cover opportunities" for
"third-national agents."The pressure the Obama administration
applied to newspapers like The New York Times to hold off on
publishing details on Raymond Davis, the sometimes CIA contract
employee and currently, its acting station chief in Pakistan and
jailed by Pakistan for murder, exemplifies Obama's strong
support, even empathy, for CIA covert operations. Similarly, the
Obama administration has applied strong pressure on Cuba to
release jailed accused CIA spy Alan Gross, who operated in Cuba
under Development Alternatives, Inc., the same CIA-USAID front
company that employed Obama's mother in Indonesia.
Obama hired by front company as CIA launched major propaganda
offensive through media
In fact, Obama's own work in New York for CIA front company
Business International Corporation (BIC), after graduating from
Columbia University, came after President Reagan signed the
classified National Security Council Decision Directive 77.
NSCDD-77 authorized the CIA and other intelligence agencies to
produce mountains of disinformation, biased news, propaganda,
and planted news stories in the name of "Project Democracy" and
the renewed ideological war against Communism. The plan was the
reincarnation of CIA Plans Director Frank Wisner, Sr.'s "Mighty
Wurlitzer," the CIA's worldwide propaganda and deception
operation that relied on, in part, firms like BIC. Wisner was
also the originator of the CIA's program to recruit foreign
students attending U.S. universities -- students like Barack
Obama, Sr. and Lolo Soetoro -- to serve as CIA agents after they
returned to their home nations. Funding for the students tuition
was either made directly by the CIA or through foundations like
the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. Perhaps not
coincidentally, Wisner's son, Frank Wisner, Jr., was dispatched
as President Obama's special envoy to Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak during his waning days in office.
From 1983 to 1984, Obama edited a BIC newsletter titled
"Financing Foreign Operations," a topic that his grandmother,
who he called "Toot," was more than familiar considering her
role in back channeling CIA pay-offs through the BankoH. In
addition to writing for "Business International Money Report,"
Barack Obama specialized in writing about the financial
situations in Mexico and Brazil. BIC was allegedly involved in
politics in Australia and Fiji in the 1980s, supporting the
CIA's initiatives to discredit politicians seen as
anti-American, including Australian Labor Party lobbyist David
Combe, former Australian Attorney General and High Court judge
Lionel Murphy, and Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra. It has
been reported that eleven CIA agents were present in Suva on May
14, 1987, when Fijian Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka ousted
Bavadra's government in a coup said to have been the mastermind
of retired General Vernon Waters, the old CIA hand who served as
Reagan's ambassador to the UN. BIC's headquarters were located
at 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, across the street from the UN
headquarters. Bavadra accused Walters of helping to engineer the
coup in Fiji. "Toot" Dunham had retired from BankoH in 1986, the
year before the coup.
In 1984, Obama left his high-paying job at BIC to literally
"parachute" into south Chicago to become a "community
organizer." Obama's mission had little to do with organizing a
blighted community -- after the CIA's OPERATION CHAOS, a
domestic spying operation against radical groups was shut down
after the Watergate scandal, President Reagan and William Casey
restored it under a different name and greatly expanded its
operations. In Chicago, the surveillance targets for Obama
included the feared El Rukn gang, thought to have links to
Muammar Qaddafi's Libyan government, the Black Panthers, and the
Nation of Islam.
Madelyn Dunham: on watch at Hawaii bank during major CIA
financial operations in Pacific region
In 1970, Dunham Soetoro's mother, Madelyn Dunham, became one
of the first female vice presidents of the Bank of Hawaii in
Honolulu. WMR previously reported that Madelyn Dunham handled a
number of escrow accounts through which the CIA paid off leaders
and politicians in various Asian countries where the "BankoH"
maintained branches, including Indonesia. 1970 was the same year
that Australian banker Frank Nugan and US Green Beret officer
and CIA agent Michael Hand formed Australasian and Pacific
Holdings, Ltd., a CIA proprietary firm that shared investors
with executives of the CIA's Air America and USAID.
In 1973, using the profits from Australasian and Pacific
Holdings, Nugan and Hand established the Nugan Hand Bank, with
branches or offices in Chiang Mai, Thailand; Manila; Taipei; the
Cayman Islands; Honolulu; Singapore; Kuala Lumpur; Hong Kong;
Washington, DC; Cape Town; and Sydney. The Chiang Mai branch
laundered profits from drug smuggling while the other branches
paid off Pacific region politicians and handled accounts used
for weapons smuggling. In January 1980, when Nugan's body was
discovered in his Mercedes on a quiet road in Sydney, the
business card of William Colby was found in his pocket. Nugan
Hand Bank was established while Colby was CIA director.
Nugan Hand Bank also financed the supply of bombs and other
explosive materials, as well as weapons like machine guns,
helicopter gunships, and rocket launchers, to terrorists. The
terrorist arming operation was carried out largely by a CIA
military carve-out known as U.S. Navy Task Force 157, which
likely used the CIA's paramilitary training base at Harvey
Point, North Carolina as one of its operational centers. The
Nugan Hand-Task Force 157 operations involved secret arms deals
with Thailand, Brazil, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines,
Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iran, Angola, and Libya. The operation
was linked to CIA arms smugglers Edwin P. Wilson, Frank Terpil,
Nugan Hand's Saudi branch chief Bernie Houghton, CIA oil
specialist Walter McDonald, CIA Canberra station chief John D.
Walker, and former CIA White House liaison officer John Paisley.
Paisley's body was found in 1978 in the Chesapeake Bay, weighed
down with anchor chain and with a single gunshot wound to the
head. Paisley's death was later ruled a suicide. In 1996,
Colby's body was also found underwater in the Chesapeake Bay.
Colby's death was ruled a drowning after suffering a heart
seizure. Most of Nugan Hand's business records were destroyed in
a high-priority and global CIA black bag operation.
As Nugan Hand Bank was collapsing, in 1979, the CIA quickly
moved to establish a replacement firm in Honolulu, Bishop,
Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham, and Wong (BBRDW). The name of the
firm borrowed the names of prominent Hawaii families, including
Bishop, whose name graces the Bishop Museum of Honolulu, where
Dunham Soetoro worked from 1972 to 1975 while studying under a
grant from the CIA-linked Asia Foundation. Operating as an
international investment firm, BBRDW quickly filled the vacuum
left by Nugan Hand and it opened offices in all the countries
where Nugan Hand maintained branches, including Hong Kong,
Taipei, Jakarta, Singapore, Cayman Islands, and Sydney, with
additional locations in Auckland, Stockholm, London, Paris, Sao
Paulo, and Santiago. BBRDW also did business with BankoH when
Madelyn Dunham was still handling the secretive escrow accounts.
BBRDW collapsed in 1983 but there was another CIA replacement
already ramped up: the Bank of Credit and Commerce International
(BCCI), which had taken over First American Bank of Washington,
DC. First American handled the secret financial operations for
some 200 CIA proprietary companies established after William
Casey became director of the CIA in 1981. Casey appointed CIA
veteran Douglas Mulholland to act as the CIA's point man at the
Treasury Department, with a side liaison function to the Federal
Reserve Bank, to ensure that the CIA's secret financial deals
remained that way -- secret. Eminent Democratic Party
politicians like former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and
Robert Altman were brought in to run First American to provide
the First American's CIA drug money and weapons smuggling
laundering operations with cover and legitimacy. When BCCI's
unsavory operations became known in 1988, Senator John Kerry, a
member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suddenly began
to waffle on conducting a thorough investigation of BCCI after
it was discovered that two top Democrats -- Clifford and Altman
-- as well as the CIA, were using the bank for covert and
illegal activities. House Banking Committee chairman Henry
Gonzalez (D-TX) suspected that Kerry and House Intelligence
Committee chairman Lee Hamilton (D-IN) were covering up for
Langley. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, is now used as a virtual shadow Secretary of State by
Obama. Before BCCI collapsed in 1990, the CIA ensured that key
bank documents held by Treasury and the Fed were destroyed in
another major bank shredding operation.
BCCI's international branches were more ubiquitous than those
of Nugan Hand and BBRDW combined. BCCI, with its headquarters in
Luxembourg, maintained branches in Washington, DC; Grand Cayman;
London, Chicago, New York, Abu Dhabi, Karachi, Jeddah, Kuwait,
Shenzhen, Geneva, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Miami, Willemstad,
Amsterdam, Toronto, Paris, Muscat, Gibraltar, Singapore,
Istanbul, Manila, Atlanta, Monte Carlo, Houston, Nassau, Tampa,
Boca Raton, Encino, Islamabad, and Dubai.
A nasty CIA habit: overthrowing Australian governments in
"quiet coups"
Nugan Hand was used to finance the 1975 overthrow of the
Australian Labor Party government of Prime Minister Gough
Whitlam and an operation conducted jointly with Britain's MI-6,
which received the backing of Queen Elizabeth II who gave the
necessary instructions to her Governor General of Australia, Sir
John Kerr, a CIA asset. The CIA overthrow of Whitlam may not
have been the last time the agency interfered in Australian
politics. It is noteworthy that WMR was recently informed by ba
reliable source that the June 2010 "midnight overthrow" of
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by his deputy, Julia
Gillard, was engineered by the CIA and U.S. Republican Party
operatives linked to the international political dirty tricks
operations run by Karl Rove. Rove has allegedly built up a
network of political leaders who do the bidding of the United
States, including Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and
Gillard, especially in regard to the American case against
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.
It is significant that the Governor General who appointed
Gillard to the post of Prime Minister, Quentin Bryce, was
launched into political prominence by Prime Minister Malcolm
Fraser, who was installed as prime minister after the overthrow
of Whitlam in the 1975 CIA-engineered coup. Bryce has been
described by her associates as a "control freak."
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Richard Parsons, orders from
Rockefeller to Obama,
WayneMadsenReport |
September 7, 2010 -- POSTSCRIPT ADDED. Obama's Wall Street "Svengali"
According to top Democratic Party sources,
some with long years of political experience at the national
level and in the highest levels of government,
there
is one adviser to President Obama who has his ear even more than
chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. That man is
Richard Parsons,
a graduate of the University of Hawaii and the
chairman of
Citigroup. Until 2007, Parsons also
served as chief executive officer of media giant Time Warner.
.... Democratic Party sources have also
told WMR that
Parsons knew Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,
at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, which we
previously reported was a CIA front operation to influence and
train a new generation of political leaders in the Asia-Pacific
region. ....
Parsons graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1968, one
year after Dunham Soetoro's graduation. Parsons also met his
wife, Laura Ann Bush, at the university and they married in
1968. ....
Parsons has had a long relationship with the Rockefeller family.
Parson's father was reportedly a gardener for the Kykuit
Rockefeller Estate in Westchester County, New York. The young
Parson' career was helped along with the assistance of then-New
York Governor Rockefeller. After earning his law degree at Union
University's Albany Law School, he became a legal counsel to
Rockefeller in Albany. Following that stint, Parsons ended up as
a managing partner of the Manhattan law firm, Patterson,
Belknap, Webb & Tyler. There, Parsons worked with Rudolph
Giuliani. Parsons looked after the legal affairs of Nelson
Rockefeller's widow, Happy Rockefeller, after the former Vice
President died at a Manhattan townhouse he owned after suffering
a sudden heart attack in 1979 during what many believe was an
extramarital tryst with an aide, Megan Marshack.
... WMR has been informed that it was
Parsons and Greg Craig, who was President Obama's counsel and
represented John W. Hinckley, Jr. after his attempted
assassination of President Reagan in 1981, who helped engineer
Nelson Rockefeller into the vice presidency after Gerald Ford
became President after Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.
Rockefeller was always miffed at Nixon for not being chosen as
his running mate in 1968. ...
Parsons became chairman of Dime Savings Bank on the
recommendation of Harry W. Albright, Jr., a former aide to
Rockefeller and New York state banking regulator. In 1989,
Parsons supported Republican New York mayoral candidate Giuliani
over Democratic candidate David Dinkins, who was elected to
become New York's first African-American mayor.
In 1991, Nelson Rockefeller's brother, Laurance Rockefeller,
recommended that Parsons be appointed to the board of Time
Warner. In 2001, Parsons became chief executive officer of AOL
Time Warner, after the merger with the Internet firm.
... Parsons served as
co-chair of President George W. Bush's commission on Social
Security reform. He also works closely with David Rockefeller
and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Parsons also served on an
economic advisory team under President Obama.
...
Part
of the reason why Obama was not critically treated by the media
was the fact that Parsons exercised control over a vast array of
the corporate media, including CNN, Time magazine, Money,
People, and Fortune magazines, and, at the time, AOL.
... But
more importantly, Parsons, according to Democratic Party
sources,
has
ensured that Obama maintains his policy of looking forward and
not back. Parsons, who is a friend of
former Bush policy adviser Karl Rove, has convinced Obama that
there should be no criminal investigations by the Justice
Department of Rove or other top Bush administration officials
from everything from political prosecutions of former Alabama
Democratic Governor Don Siegelman and Rove's involvement in
election fraud to the CIA's rendition and torture programs.
Parsons was a member of an economic advisory team that met with
President-elect Obama just two days after he was elected
President in 2008. ...
WMR
was told that Parsons represents the interests of the
Rockefeller family and the Council on Foreign Relations in his
meetings with Obama, described as one-way
communications that ensure that Obama is carrying out the wishes
of the Rockefellers and their business friends. One of those
demands may play out soon in Alabama, where Parsons and fellow
African-American, Democratic Alabama Representative Artur Davis,
has reportedly prevailed upon Obama and his Attorney General,
Eric Holder, to appoint Montgomery attorney George Beck to
replace U.S. Attorney Leura Canary as U.S. Attorney for the
Middle District of Alabama. Canary as part of the Rove operation
that targeted Siegelman for prosecution.
....
The
Rockefellers were at the forefront of Hawaii's booming real
estate development in the 1960s. The
Rockefellers also had controlling interest in Hawaii's major
bank, the Bank of Hawaii, or "Bank OH" as it was called by the
local Hawaiians. The bank held millions of dollars in escrowed
building and construction accounts, payable to builders after
the completion of hotel and other projects.
The "grand dame" of "Bank OH" was
Madelyn Dunham, Obama's grandmother who helped raise him.
Madelyn Dunham was also "Bank OH's" vice president in charge of
the escrow accounts. Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Obama/Soetoro,
worked on micro-financing projects for the Ford Foundation and
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which was
also connected to CIA operations as previously reported by WMR,
in Indonesia, Pakistan, and India.
... But the micro-loan
banking project, which provided small loans to Third World
farmers and artisans, had another, more secretive future
purpose. The micro-loan system, spurred on by the Rockefellers
and their Wall Street pals,
would lay the groundwork for the future transfer of millions of
jobs from American workers to cheap labor markets in the Third
World.
.... "Svengali" has evolved from
George du Maurier's fictional character to mean someone who is a
highly influential adviser to a political leader but accountable
to no one. Richard Parsons now channels the wishes of the
Rockefellers and other Wall Street barons to Obama. With Obama
listening more to Wall Street -- through Parsons -- than Main
Street, he and his party will soon pay a dramatic cost in the
upcoming election. ....
POSTSCRIPT: To provide more context, an informed source in
Washington, DC pointed out that Greg Craig would have been
involved in such a high-level matter as the Presidential
intrigue wrapped around the Watergate scandal in 1974. Craig
graduated from Yale in 1972. Joining the powerful Washington law
firm of Williams and Connolly in 1972, Craig was part of a team
with a senior partner, perhaps even his mentor, the
CIA-connected Edward Bennett Wiliams. Two-year associates
usually don’t operate solo at that level.
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The world of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and U.S.
government-run foreign assistance programs in which President
Obama was raised has long been dominated by the CIA. It is against this backdrop that Obama's
continuation of Bush-era covert and overt intelligence
operations abroad must be seen. Obama's mother, father, and
step-father directly benefited from U.S. government assistance
programs in countries where the CIA backed despotic regimes,
lavishing them with hundreds of millions of dollars of
assistance. ....
USAID and the Soetoros' years of living dangerously in Indonesia
Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, worked on micro-financing
projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
and Ford Foundation, both linked to the CIA, that helped prop up
dictatorships in Indonesia and Pakistan. After Suharto seized
power in 1965, USAID returned to Indonesia,
with
Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro as one of its chief employees, to
help Suharto create the New Order (Orde
Baru) that would usher in decades of fascist and kleptocratic
rule. In the
1980s,
when Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Jr. spent time in
Pakistan, USAID opened up a major office in Islamabad that
distributed "non-lethal aid" to Afghan mujaheddin refugees in
Pakistan, particularly in Peshawar.
... For years, USAID
operated in Manila from the J. Walter Thompson advertising
agency building at the Ramon Magsaysay Center on Roxas Boulevard
in the Malate district of the city. In 2000, the offices moved
to the Makati district of the city but the building that hosued
USAID was always known to locals as the "CIA building." The
building, owned by the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation, in honor of
the Philippines President who died in a 1955 plane crash, was
built in 1959 with a loan from the Rockefeller family. The
Rockefellers also provided grants to the Magsaysay Foundation.
....
The
CIA-linked Asia Foundation, which worked closely with the
CIA-funded East-West Center at the University of Hawaii in Manoa,
where Obama's mother met her second husband,
General Suharto's colonel, Lolo Soetoro, was linked closely to
USAID covert programs in Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines, South
Vietnam, Thailand, Palau, Malaysia, and other Asian-Pacific
nations. ....
Obama has continued USAID's involvement in CIA-directed programs
in former Soviet states, including Georgia, Ukraine, and
Kyrgyzstan. In so doing, USAID complements the destabilization
efforts of George Soros and his network of NGOs.
Soros
was a major financial backer of Obama's presidential campaign.
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Obama's sealed college
transcripts: a sign of CIA campus psychological assessment?
November 2010 --
WayneMadsenReport
see full report |
CIA archives contain two relatively obscure
articles with notes appended to the margins that reveal a
classified CIA program to conduct personality assessments on
college campuses to identify potential recruits. Considering the
fact that one of the articles is dated January 15, 1979, the
year Barack Obama enrolled, courtesy of a scholarship, at
Occidental College in
Los Angeles, a school cited by the CIA as a favored
campuses for agency recruitment efforts, there may be a logical
explanation for the sealing of Obama's transcripts from
Occidental and Columbia, where he transferred in 1981. Obama's
financial records from Occidental have also been sealed.
On August 25, WMR reported: "Occidental
was, for many years, a top target for CIA recruiting efforts.
WMR has obtained a CIA memorandum, formerly Secret and
dated February 8, 1967, that details the CIA's '100 Universities
Program,' which, as stated by the author, 'originally conceived
[redacted] as a recruitment technique. Its purpose was to make
better known on the campuses of America the very existence of
the CIA and its mission and role in Government, to illustrate
the vast range of vocational opportunities in the Agency.' A
formerly Secret CIA memorandum for the Deputy Director for
Administration from the acting Director of Personnel, dated
February 8, 1979, discusses an active CIA recruitment effort at
Occidental College on February 1, 1979. Obama reportedly
attended Occidental later in 1979. The memo states, '[redacted]
our [redacted[ recruiter, reports that he briefed approximately
seventy students at Occidental College in Los Angeles on 1
February and was very well received. He added that while they
did not interrupt his presentation, about fifteen to twenty
members of the Socialist Democratic Alliance demonstrated
outside as he spoke and that their chanting of 'CIA, go Away'
could be heard. Larry also reported that the seventy attending
his briefing was the largest number ever to attend a briefing at
the school by an employer.' A burning question is whether
"Larry" ever tried to recruit a young Barack Obama, Jr. at
Occidental and whether he was successful at the enthusiastically
pro-CIA campus in 1979."
In a January 15, 1979,
Village Voice article by
Ed Kiersh, it is revealed that the Educational Testing Service (ETS)
held a "highly-secret" conference, titled the "Future of the
World" conference, in a building in Princeton, New Jersey
secluded by 400-acres of woods and streams. Attending the Spring
1978 conference were David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger,
Alexander Haig, IBM Chairman Frank Cary, various prime ministers
from around the world, and Zbigniew Brzezinski,
then-national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter and
two years later, one of Obama's reputed professors at Columbia
University. Since Obama's Columbia records are sealed, there has
been no independent confirmation of Brzezinski's role as one of
Obama's professors.
Kersh's article reported that the Princeton
site was chosen for the meeting to securely discuss "world
destruction scenarios, defense pacts, and trade alignments."
Kiersh describes ETS as a fitting host for such a meeting and he
dubs the testing service as the "gatekeepers to the world."
ETS was created in 1948 by the College
Entrance Examination Board, American Council on Education, and
Carnegie Foundation as a non-profit test developer. However,
Kiersh points out that ETS's links soon extended to the White
House and CIA. The administrator of the Scholastic Aptitude Test
(SAT) and Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Kiersh refers to
ETS as an "Orwellian empire," which, in 1979, administered over
300 testing programs, from bar examinations and law and business
school admission tests to tests for barbers, professional
golfers, and police officers.
Kiersh also reveals that upon its founding in
1948, ETS hired psychometricians from the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. ETS also happens to
develop CIA entrance examinations. Kiersh also revealed that
foreign students also file personal and financial reports with
the ETS and there were suspicions that the CIA had access to the
records for purposes of recruitment. With Obama's status at
Occidental as either a U.S. enrollee or a foreign national
enrollee from Indonesia still an open question, there may be an
additional reason why Obama's records at Occidental remain
sealed. Present at Occidental when the school was a top CIA
recruiting campus and with the possibility that he enrolled as a
foreign student from Indonesia, Obama and his handlers may
realize that to open up Obama's transcripts would begin to
unlock other doors into his murky past.
Another article held in the CIA archives, a
New York Times piece by Joseph Treaster, dated August 7, 1977,
has a handwritten note in the top right-hand corner that reads
"MK-ULTRA," even though the CIA's top secret behavioral
modification program is mentioned nowhere in the article. The
article, titled "CIA Mind Probes Now More Benign," discusses a
CIA program to create its own "Manchurian candidate." The
article describes the CIA's then-ongoing "personality
assessment" program. The program was designed to probe an
individual's "weaknesses and strengths," as well as predict
actions and reactions, and devise ways of how to influence an
individual's behavior. Personality assessment factors given
weight by the CIA included where an individual was from, whether
he was a chain smoker, and who his father was.
Treaster described the CIA's personality
assessment program as largely the brainchild of CIA director
Dulles, who authorized CIA funding for the Society for the
Investigation of Human Ecology at the Cornell Medical Center in
New York in the early 1950s. Other CIA-funded personality
assessment programs existed at Rutgers University, where
Hungarian refugees were guinea pigs; McGill University of
Montreal, where there was a program to study the "effects of
repeated verbal signals upon human behavior ['Yes we can,' 'Hope
and change,' for example]; the Massachusetts Mental health
Center in Boston , where LSD experiments on humans were carried
out; and ETS in Princeton, where studies were conducted on "two
broad theories of personality."
The Society for the Investigation of Human
Ecology was shut down in 1965 and was largely replaced by
"Psychological Assessments, Inc.," a CIA front led by
psychologist and senior CIA intelligence officer, Colonel James
L. Monroe. In the mid-1970s, Psychological Assessments was
terminated and Monroe moved the operations to Texas.
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