Assassinations sometimes necessary in a plutocracy?
Who will be next? Barack Obama?
Why Did They Die? Accident or Murder ?
What did they have in common?
Hale Boggs, U.S. Representative from Louisiana; Warren Commission.
Ron Brown... The Ron Brown Plane Crash - Did CIA Hawks Assassinate Ron
Brown?
http://www.geocities.com/happy1215us/
Sen Paul Wellington... Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? Who Killed
Wellington... Bush?
Wellstone death all adds up - 2 + 2 = 5
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=91646
SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE ASSASSINATED BY COVERT US TERROR GROUP LINKED
TO BUSH
http://www.voxfux.com/archives/00000039.htm
Pres. John Kennedy.... Oswald alone?
Sen.Robert Kennedy... Sirhan ? really?
Rev. Martin Luther king.... James Earl Ray? Really?
Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan... Strange death.
GOP Senator John G. Tower
The Ron Brown Plane Crash - Did CIA Hawks Assassinate Ron Brown?
"No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded.
Decision and instructions [regarding assassination] should be confined
to an absolute minimum of persons. For secret assassination...the
contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully
executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually
investigated."--A Study of Assassination, a training manual written by
the CIA and distributed to agents and operatives at the time of the
Agency's 1954 covert coup in Guatemala, which ousted Guatemala's
democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.
"In the late 1970s, I also participated in the Senate's investigation
of the CIA and our intelligence community. We discovered efforts to
assassinate foreign leaders. We also tentatively pursued inquiries
into the possibility that plots had been laid to assassinate our
leaders. All part of the same Cold War, a Cold War that existed from
early memory."--former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, Russia Shakes the
World: The Second Russian Revolution and Its Impact on the World
"They are the most ruthless motherf---ers there are and if they want
to get somebody, they will. They will do their own people up."--David
Sanchez Morales, former Chief of Operations at the CIA station in
Miami (JM/WAVE) and a consultant to the Deputy Director of the Joint
Chiefs, talking about the CIA, Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation
On April 3, 1996, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others were
killed when their Air Force Boeing 737 crashed into a mountainside in
Croatia. One day after the crash, before any real investigation had
begun, Defense Secretary William Perry told the Associated Press that
the plane crash was "a classic sort of accident that good
instrumentation should be able to prevent." The Air Force soon agreed
and, in its ensuing investigation, determined that the tragic event
was due to navigational error. Since that time, certain anomalies and
evidence have come to light regarding the crash:
Ron Brown was found with a .45-inch inwardly beveling circular hole in
the top of his head, which resembled a gunshot wound. Despite this
suspicious wound, the Air Force medical examiners decided not to order
an autopsy.
Normally in plane crash investigations there is a two step process.
The Air Force first determines whether the crash was the result of an
accident, hostile fire, sabotage, or mechanical failure. In Ron
Brown's case, this determination (called a safety board) was skipped.
Instead, the Air Force immediately proceeded to the second part of the
investigation, where only accident and legal issues are considered.
The Air Force re****ted that a navigation beacon had been stolen from
the air****t sometime before the crash. This led some to speculate that
the pilot may have been intentionally drawn off course and into the
mountainside by a spurious beacon.
Three days after the the crash, Niko Jerkic--the man who was
responsible for maintaining the air****t's navigational aids--died by
gunshot. This was ruled a suicide. Jerkic's untimely death meant that
investigators did not have a chance to question him.
Planning a Political Assassination
For assassins desiring to get rid of a political opponent, a plane
crash would appear to be an ideal method. In plane crashes, evidence
of sabotage is often destroyed, or at least can be made to appear so
during any subsequent investigation. Also, the public knows that
accidents do happen, and that planes sometimes do crash all by
themselves.
However, conspirators have to be aware that even the most trusting
citizen may occasionally experience misgivings, especially regarding
the death of a powerful politician embroiled in controversy. Hence, to
cover all bases, it would be useful (from a conspiratorial planner's
viewpoint) to incor****ate certain elements into a plan that would
deflect attention from the conspirators and in the direction of
someone or something else, ideally an enemy.
This kind of diversionary planning may have occurred in case of the
JFK assassination: First, consider a 2001 Gallup poll which revealed
that 81 percent of the American public disbelieve the Warren
Commission's lone nut (Oswald did it) version of the assassination.
Among the 81 percent, there are those who believe that Oswald was a
patsy, set up by some group (or agency) to take the fall. Nearly four
decades after the event, there is much evidence of right-wing planning
and involvement by elements of the CIA in the assassination (i.e.,
that the assassination was, in essence, a CIA-planned conspiracy).
Assume for a moment that there was a right-wing, CIA conspiracy in the
case of JFK, and that Oswald was the patsy. It would stand to reason
that the conspirators, in setting up the patsy, would want to divert
attention from themselves, should the public ever come to doubt the
lone-nut, official version of the assassination. Thus it may be
regarded as good planning that Oswald was ****trayed not just as a lone-
nut, but as a Communist as well. In this way, any suspicion of a
conspiracy would immediately point toward left-wing rather than right-
wing involvement (a desirable outcome from the conspirators' point of
view).
Likewise, if right-wing hawks were responsible for Ron Brown's plane
crash, they would probably want suspicion to focus on one of their
enemies--someone like President Bill Clinton.
Spinning a Conspiracy Theory
It is interesting from which direction a conspiracy theory of Ron
Brown's death was spun and in whose direction it was aimed. It is also
interesting to note that a lot of money was used in the effort and
that a right-wing, CIA-connected Pittsburgh billionaire, Richard
Mellon Scaife--heir to the Mellon family banking fortune--was behind
much of it. Steve Kangas, a journalist and former intelligence
analyst, gives some background on Scaife:
One of [the CIA's 1973] recruits was billionaire Richard Mellon
Scaife. During World War II, Scaife's father served in the OSS, the
forerunner of the CIA. By his mid-twenties, both of Scaife's parents
had died, and he inherited a fortune.... Scaife was encouraged by CIA
agent Frank Barnett to begin investing his fortune to fight the
"Soviet menace." From 1973 to 1975, Scaife ran Forum World Features, a
foreign news service used as a front to disseminate CIA propaganda
around the world.(1)
At Forum World Features, Scaife conducted what his CIA friend, Frank
Barnett calls "political warfare." Barnett explains:
Political warfare in short, is warfare--not public relations. It is
one part persuasion and two parts deception.... The aim of political
warfare...is to discredit, displace, and neutralize an opponent, to
destroy a competing ideology, and to reduce the adherents to political
impotence. It is to make one's own values prevail by working the
levers of power, as well as by using persuasion.(2)
Scaife has carried his political warfare campaign into the present
day. His instrument of dissemination is no longer a foreign news
service. Instead Scaife utilizes two Internet websites (NewsMax and
WorldNetDaily), a newspaper (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), along with
conservative foundations and think tanks. Steve Kangas writes:
Today [Scaife] owns the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and oversees the
Sarah Scaife, Carthage and Allegheny Foundations. Scaife assigned one
of his newspaper's re****ters, Christopher Ruddy, to a full-time,
ongoing investigation into the deaths of Vince Foster and Ron Brown,
trying to find evidence that the Clintons murdered them.(3)
Scaife's hired gun, Christopher Ruddy has applied the Scaife/Barnett
technique of political warfare--"one part persuasion and two parts
deception"--to the Ron Brown case. Ruddy was persuasive in arguing
that there were some strange and suspicious aspects to the plane
crash. Ruddy was also persuasive when he pointed out that Ron Brown
had been involved in various controversies during his term as Commerce
Secretary. However, Ruddy was deceptive when he omitted the fact that
the biggest controversy had to do with Ron Brown's fight with the
military establishment.
The Fight Over Ex****ts
Ron Brown's struggles with the hawks in the military and intelligence
agencies began almost from the moment that he assumed the post of
Commerce Secretary. An Associated Press article re****ted: "With the
Cold War over, Brown believed the United States no longer should
sacrifice economic interests to other foreign policy goals and he used
his close friend****p with Clinton to push a business agenda inside the
administration.... He succeeded in battles with the Defense Department
in loosening Cold War-era ex****t controls that American companies had
long complained severely limited their ability to sell high-technology
products such as computer and telecommunications equipment."(4)
Ron Brown was not alone in his quest to ease ex****t restrictions.
Brown's allies even included conservative organizations, like the
American Chamber of Commerce, which stated in its White Paper:
"Experience has shown...that unilateral ex****t controls are
ineffective, except where the United States may have a pronounced lead
over the rest of the world.... [With ex****t controls] U.S. companies
are put at a significant disadvantage vis-a-vis their foreign
competitors, without achieving the desired effect of blocking access
to technology."(5)
However, the military establishment remained unconvinced. When the
Clinton administration proposed that primary control over the ex****t
of commercial satellites be transferred from the State Department to
Ron Brown's Commerce Department, the military balked. In a memo dated
September 22, 1995, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies are on
record as rejecting the administration's plan to transfer authority to
Commerce. Also opposed was Secretary of State Warren Christopher.(6)
Attacks on the Commerce Department
Early in 1995, in what some might regard as a preemptive strike to
undermine Ron Brown's position at the Commerce Department,
"Allegations arose...concerning improprieties related to [Brown's]
financial transactions. In particular, there were media re****ts that
Secretary Brown...failed to disclose required information about First
International, a company he owned with a business associate, Nolanda
S. Hill."(7) In July 1995, an independent counsel was chosen to
investigate these charges. As the independent counsel probe got
underway, additional allegations would soon be leveled against the
Commerce Secretary.
That same year, congressional Republicans would draft legislation to
dismantle the Department of Commerce. The Republicans would fail in
this endeavor, but not for lack of trying. According to Gary Hufbauer,
a trade expert, "The force of Brown's personality was one of the major
factors that saved the department."(8)
On March 14, 1996--in defiance of the military and intelligence
agencies--the Clinton administration transferred control of satellite
sales from the State Department to Ron Brown's Commerce Department.
This may have been the fateful decision that sprung the CIA hawks into
action. Twenty days later Ron Brown would lose his life.
Assassinations's Prime Suspect
Whenever an American politician dies in a suspicious plane crash, the
skeptical and discerning citizen will look first in the direction of
the CIA--an organization whose modus operandi in the political realm
includes heavy-handed techniques like sabotage, assassinations, and
coups.
The CIA almost certainly maintains lists of saboteurs and assassins
that have worked with it in various campaigns over the years, and CIA
operatives could conceivably put together an assassination plan by
placing a few phone calls.
In all likelihood, it will never be conclusively known whether the CIA
or some other party was responsible for sabotaging Ron Brown's plane.
However, given the circumstances surrounding the plane crash, the CIA
has to be at the top of the suspect list.
The CIA School of Assassination at Fort Bragg
Endnotes:
1. Steve Kangas, "The Origins of the Overclass," Liberalism Resurgent,
Website: http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/L-overclass.html
2. Frank R. Barnett, "A Proposal for Political Warfare," Military
Review, March 1961.
3. Kangas.
4. Associated Press, "Now Who Will Speak Up for Capitalism in the
Administration?," The Minnesota Daily, April 8, 1996, sec. World/
Nation.
5. "U.S. Ex****t Controls," 2001 White Paper: American Business in
China (The American Chamber of Commerce Publications, February 2001).
6. Bill Gertz, "Satellite Ex****t Concerns Not New," The Wa****ngton
Times National Weekly Edition, June 11-17, 1998.
7. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
in Regard to Ronald H. Brown: (Filed August 29, 2000), pp. 3-4.
8. Associated Press, "Now Who Will Speak Up for Capitalism in the
Administration?".
Copyright by Glenn Watson 2002
Links:
American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone
The Garrison Investigation
Jim Garrison--1967 Lecture (Audio)
Kennedy Curse or Right-Wing Vendetta?
The Intimidation of Dealey Plaza Witnesses
CIA Operative Gen. Ed Lansdale Photographed in Dealey Plaza
Did Militarists Sabotage Gary Power's U-2 Plane?
The Watergate Plane Crash - Flight 553
The Enemy Within - The Pentagon Plan to Terrorize U.S. Citizens and
Blame Cuba
The Truth About 9-11 (Video)
The Pentagon's Fleecing of America
Dick Cheney's Strange Activities on 9-11
MIT Engineer Jeff King Says World Trade Center Demolished
The Anthrax Attacks - Were U.S. Senators Attacked for Opposing the
Patriot Act?
Using Disaster Drills as a Cover to Stage False Flag Terror Attacks
A Timeline of CIA Meddling in Latin America
The Senator who Suspected a JFK Conspiracy
CIA Assassin David Morales Photographed at the Ambassador Hotel
Gerald Ford's Role in the JFK Assassination Cover-up
The Truth about Arlen Specter
Hale Boggs - Warren Commission Member and Critic
George H. W. Bush -- Was He Part of It?
"Body of Secrets" - Attack on the USS Liberty
Cold Facts on the Cold War
Tapes Reveal Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political Reasons
Dirty Politics--Nixon, Watergate, and the JFK Assassination
Fonda was Right and Bush was Lying
The October Surprise
The Consortium
Hitler and Stalin - Clash of the Dictators
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Notable JFK Conspiracy Theorists: LBJ, Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover
Who Killed JFK? The evidence points to a right-wing faction of the
CIA with some help from its friends. In CIA lingo, friends are
referred to as "assets." CIA "assets" were also employed to help
cover-up the crime. This CIA faction was angry at JFK for his refusal
to commit to a full-scale invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, and for
his efforts to seek an accommodation with the Soviet Union and Fidel
Castro. High-level CIA officers are implicated. They include:
Richard Helms, James Angleton, David Phillips, E. Howard Hunt,
Theodore Shackley, William Harvey, David Morales, Edward Lansdale, and
George Joannides. Typing any of these CIA officer's names into an
Internet search engine, along with the words "JFK assassination," will
uncover a network of conspirators.
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