"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - U.S. President James Madison
Recently, it was officially disclosed that an Indiana prosecutor told the Wisconsin governor to stage a false flag operation.
The prosecutor and Republican activist resigned after emails released
to the public showed he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a
fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget
repair bill.Directly from the emails:
“If you could employ an associate
who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions’ cause to physically
attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit
the unions,” Lam said in his email.
“Currently, the media is painting
the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the
role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest,” he
continued. “Employing a false flag operation would assist in
undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of
the unions.”
"Why of
course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship
... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
any country." - Hermann Goring, Nazi leader.
Forget the claims and allegations that false flag terror
– governments attacking people and then blaming others in order to
create animosity towards those blamed – has been used throughout
history.This essay will solely discuss government admissions to the use of false flag terror.
For example:
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The Roman Emperor Nero, decided that the Christian religion was
not to his liking. There was only one problem, he could not openly go
and round up all the Christian people at once for no reason. He needed
to sway public opinion, and used Diocletian’s theory of “problem”
“reaction” “solution.” In which the government work’s to create a
problem, and react to the public that your (government) was the victim,
and the government, who was the perpetrator of the whole plot… has the
solution. Nero decided, that he would stage a crisis in which, a
“Christian” sets a fire to the Roman City. That Summer of 64 a.d. he
ordered that very plan in action, this resulted in the city burning for
more than six days, innocent people being killed, and of course
“Christians” were blamed for the attack.
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On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded. There are two
theories for the explosion: Some believe the explosion was caused by an
external mine that detonated the ship’s ammunition magazines. Others
say it was caused by a spontaneous coal bunker fire that reached the
ammunition magazines. Nevertheless, the explosion killed 266 men.
Without waiting on an investigation, America’s main stream media blamed
the tragedy on Spain and beat the drums for war. By April, McKinley
yielded to public pressure and signed a congressional resolution
declaring war on Spain. To help pay for the Spanish-American War,
congress enacted a “temporary” tax of 3 percent on long-distance
telephone bills. This was essentially a tax on the rich, as only about
1,300 Americans owned phones in 1898. Although the Spanish-American War
ended in 1898, the temporary tax was only abolished in…2005. Over its
lifetime, the 107-year-old tax generated almost $94 billion—more than
230 times the cost of the Spanish-American War. The Spanish-American
War put a large nail in the coffin of Spain’s global empire. And by the
end of 1898, the United States, which was founded in opposition to
imperialism, found itself in control not only of Cuba, but of the
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Hawaiian Islands as well.
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World War I was fought between 1914-1918 and had a single event
used to justify American involvement, a U-boat torpedo hit ocean liner
Lusitania near Britain and some 1200 people, including 128 Americans,
on board lost their lives. Subsequent investigations revealed that the
major explosions were inside the Lusitania, as it was secretly
transporting 6 million pounds of artillery shells and rifle ammunition,
as well as other explosives on behalf of Morgan banking corporation to
help their clients, the Britain and the France. It was against US laws
to transport war materials and passengers in the same ship. As the
Lusitania left New York, the dock was crowded with news reporters as New
York newspapers had carried an advert in them paid for by the German
Embassy that any ship that sailed into the "European War Zone" was a
potential target for German submarines. Some newspapers printed the
warning directly next to Cunard's list of departure dates. There were
countless efforts to alert Americans not to allow the sail of the
Lusitania or to board the ship since it was known there would be
military aggression with the vessel. The British propaganda machine
went into overdrive condemning the sinking as an act of piracy. The
"Times" referred to the sinking by condemning those who doubted German
brutality and as a result of the overwhelming anger and objection to
the German attack on the Lusitania, the United States gained the
support for offensive operations in World War I, a war that the United
States originally had no involvement in, nor did it have motive or
justification for taking any sides. The U.S. was officially neutral
when World War I began, so there would not be any support for
involvement in the war unless otherwise gained from some kind of
attack. Unfortunately, with all the warnings and efforts by the German
Embassy to warn Americans of the attack on the Lusitania before it
sailed, there was no effort to stop the departure, even with many weeks
of campaigning.
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During the Great Depression, Manchuria, a province of China, had
its fair share of oil and coal. Japan, not being rich in natural
resources if you don’t include wasabi, needed oil and coal. After Japan
decided it needed to invade Manchuria, they needed a pretext to
justify the invasion. They chose to create a false flag attack on a
railway close to Liutiao Lake…a big flat area that had no military
value to either the Japanese or the Chinese. The main reason the spot
was chosen was for it’s proximity (about 800 meters distant) to Chinese
troops stationed at Beidaying. The Japanese press labeled the no-name
site of the blast Liutiaogou, which was Japanese for “Liutiao Bridge.”
There was no bridge there, but the name helped convince some that the
sabotage was a strategic Chinese attack. Colonel Itagaki Seishiro and
Lieutenant Colonel Kanji Ishiwara ordered officers of the Shimamoto
Regiment to place a bomb beneath the tracks. The original bomb failed
to detonate, and a replacement had to be found. Then, at 10:20 PM,
September 18, 1931, the tracks were blown. Surprisingly, the explosion
was minor. Only one side of the rail was damaged, and the damage was so
light that a train headed for Shenyang passed by only a few minutes
later. But it was a good enough excuse to invade… The Japanese
immediately charged the Chinese soldiers with the destruction, then
invaded Manchuria. A puppet government known as Manchukuo, was
installed. The League of Nations did investigate, and in a 1932 report,
denied that the invasion was an act of defense, as Japan had
advertised. Rather than vacate Manchuria, Japan decided to vacate the
League of Nations. This was shortly followed by World War II
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It is widely known that the Nazis, in Operation Himmler,
faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on
the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. In all, there were 21
fake terror actions along the border that same night, many of them
using “canned goods” from German prisons so there would be plenty of
bodies in the morning — evidence of Polish attackers that had been shot
in self defense. And thus, Hitler invented an excuse to invade Poland,
which he did the next day: September 1, 1939. The day World War II
began. Had it not been for the Nuremberg trials in 1945, the real story
behind the Gleiwitz attack might have never been uncovered. It was
there that the operation’s leader, Alfred Naujocks, spilled the beans
in a written affidavit. After that fateful night, Naujocks had several
more years of adventures with the Nazis. Then he deserted Germany and
turned himself over to Allied forces in 1944. He was held as a war
criminal until the war was over. After testifying at the Nuremberg
Trials, he became a businessman in Hamburg, and may have helped some
Nazis escape to South America on the side. He died in 1966.
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In 1933 — just a week before general elections that might place
enough Nazis in office to make Hitler defacto dictator — the Reichstag,
which housed the parliament of the German Empire, was set on fire.
As shown, for example, in this History Channel video
— the Nazis set fire to their own parliament, the Reichstag, and
blamed that fire on a mentally handicapped man found rolling in the
streets. The Reichstag fire was the watershed event which justified
Hitler's seizure of power and suspension of liberties. Der Fuhrer of
the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler, assured everyone that Communist terrorists
started the fire. Hitler’s partner in villainy, Hermann Goring, said
he had secret evidence that would soon be made public — evidence that
proved Communists did it. These proclamations came on top of weeks of
Nazi-organized street violence designed to whip the public into a
pathological fear of communists. The next day, the Nazis convinced a
senile President von Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Decree. The
decree, using defense against terrorism as an excuse, suspended just
about every major civil liberty set forth in the Weimar Constitution:
habeas corpus (the right to know why you’re being put in jail)? Gone.
Freedom of opinion? Gone. Freedom of the press? Not any more. Freedom
to organize and assemble? You gotta be outta your Commie-paranoid skull
— without a doubt, gone. The Reichstag decree even allowed the
government to spy on it’s own citizens’ personal mail and telephone
conversations without a warrant…something most Americans today could
hardly begin to fathom (at least before President George W. Bush signed a secret order in 2002
ordering the National Security Agency to do just exactly the same
thing.) Hitler suspended the liberty of every German citizen with the
passage of the "Enabling Act," which is very similar to the modern day
"Patriot Act." Most Germans, feeling safe from terrorism again, didn’t
mind that their freedom and liberty had been stolen, or that so much of
their life and work had become so strictly controlled. On the
contrary, they felt very enthusiastic and patriotic about the new
government because they ignorantly believed the new government cared
about them. And as long as the average citizen worked hard, kept his
mouth shut, and let his kids take part in the Hitler Youth organization,
he stayed out of the detention camps.
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In February of 1941, FDR proposed sacrificing 6 cruisers and 2
carriers at Manila to get the United States into World War II. Navy
Chief Stark objected stating: "I have previously opposed this and you
have concurred as to its lack of wisdom. Particularly do I recall your
remark in a previous conference when Mr. Hull suggested (more forces
to Manila) and the question arose as to getting them out and your 100%
reply, from my standpoint, was that you might not mind losing one or
two cruisers, but that you did not want to take a chance on losing 5 or
6." (Charles Beard PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE COMING OF WAR 1941, p
424) Most Americans do not realize that FDR was caught trying to
manipulate the US into war with Japan. In June of 1941, Advisor Harold
Ickes wrote FDR a memo the day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union,
"There might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such a
situation as would make it not only possible but easy to get into this
war in an effective way. And if we should thus indirectly be brought
in, we would avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of
communistic Russia." FDR was pleased with Admiral Richmond Turner's report
read July 22: "It is generally believed that shutting off the American
supply of petroleum will lead promptly to the invasion of Netherland
East Indies...it seems certain she would also include military action
against the Philippine Islands, which would immediately involve us in a
Pacific war." On July 24 FDR told the Volunteer Participation Committee,
"If we had cut off the oil off, they probably would have gone down to
the Dutch East Indies a year ago, and you would have had war." The next
day FDR froze all Japanese assets in US cutting off their main supply
of oil and forcing them into war with the US. Intelligence information
was withheld from Hawaii from this point forward.
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On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Americans are told that the
Japanese launched a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor that decimated the
U.S. Pacific Fleet and forced the United States to enter WWII. That’s
what most of us were taught as school children… At the very bottom of
this article, we have added the complete list of ALL warnings that Pearl
Harbor would be attacked so that readers can get the full scope of just
how much information was gathered about the attack in advance, since it
seems to be popular among skeptics to claim that only a "few" warning
were sent. In truth, Pearl Harbor was build specifically for Pacific
monitoring of naval and air movements by enemies of the United States
during a major World War. Are we to believe that the fundamental
purpose this base was built in the Pacific for failed to detect a
massive Japanese fleet which took an extremely long time to travel to
Hawaii to begin with? In 1941 a Rockefeller front organization, the
Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR) gave large sums to its Japanese
counterpart in Tokyo. The money was then funneled to a member of the
imperial family by Richard Sorge, a Russian master-spy, for the purposes
of inducing Japan to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor. Again,
Tavistock was the originator of all of IPR's publications. The
Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was established in 1925 to provide
a forum for discussion of Asian problems and relations between Asia
and the West. To promote greater knowledge of the Far East, the IPR
established a large research program, which was supported financially by
grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and
other major corporations. While the IPR leadership maintained it was a
nonpartisan body, others, including some former members, accused it of
supporting the Communist line with respect to its analysis of political
developments in the Far East.
Many establishment historians like to point out that there was no way America could have foreseen the attack. In 1932, during the Grand Joint Army-Navy Exercises, 152 aircraft carrier planes caught the defenders of Pearl Harbor completely by surprise and military strategies were altered to prepare for such an event, if it were to ever take place as it did years later, so why were they not prepared when they supposedly were supposed to have been? Dušan "Duško" Popov was a double agent working for MI5 during World War II under the cryptonym Tricycle. In 1941, Popov was dispatched to the United States by the Abwehr to establish a new German network. He was given ample funds and an intelligence questionnaire, a list of intelligence targets. This questionnaire was later published as an appendix to J.C. Masterman's book The Double Cross System. Of the three typewritten pages of the questionnaire, one entire page was devoted to highly detailed questions about U.S. defenses at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He made contact with the FBI and explained what he had been asked to do. During a televised interview, Dusko Popov related having informed the FBI on August 12, 1941 of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. So why did the FBI fail to tell the President? Or did they? In 1938, Admiral Ernst King led a carrier-born airstrike from the USS Saratoga successfully against Pearl Harbor in yet another exercise. To make matters worse, in 1940, FDR ordered the fleet transferred from the West Coast to its exposed position in Hawaii and ordered the fleet remain stationed at Pearl Harbor over complaints by its commander Admiral Richardson that there was inadequate protection from air attack and no protection from torpedo attack. Richardson felt so strongly that he twice disobeyed orders to berth his fleet there and he raised the issue personally with FDR in October and he was soon after replaced. His successor, Admiral Kimmel, also brought up the same issues with FDR in June 1941. On Oct 7th, 1940, navy IQ analyst McCollum wrote an 8 point memo on how to force Japan into war with US. Beginning the next day FDR began to put them into effect and all 8 were eventually accomplished. The McCollum memo outline that the United States first make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore. Then the US would make an arrangement with Holland for the use of base facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch East Indies. This was followed by more provocation for war by giving all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chiang-Kai-Shek. The memo then stated that a show of force would create a defensive mindset in Japan against American show of force so it would be best to send a division of long range heavy cruisers to the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore and send two divisions of submarines to the Orient. The memo urged that the US military keep the main strength of the U.S. fleet now in the Pacific in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. The memo then concluded by saying the Japanese would have no choice but to attack if the US insisted that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil and of course when the United States placed a complete embargo on all U.S. trade with Japan, in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire, this ensured that American forces in the Pacific were now in danger of being attacked, something FDR seemed to have initiated with this 8 point memo. On January 27, 1941, Joseph C. Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, wired Washington that he’d learned of the surprise attack Japan was preparing for Pearl Harbor. U.S. intelligence, which had broken every major Japanese code, also deciphered many Japanese dispatches. In May, Japanese Adm. Nomura warned his superiors that Americans were decoding his dispatches. However, nobody in Tokyo thought the Japanese codes could be broken, and the transmissions continued. On September 24, a dispatch from Japanese naval intelligence to Japan’s consul general in Honolulu was deciphered. The transmission was a request for a grid of exact locations of ships in Pearl Harbor. Surprisingly, Washington chose not to share this information with the officers at Pearl Harbor. Then, on November 26, the main body of the Japanese strike force—consisting of six aircraft carriers, two battleships, three cruisers, nine destroyers, eight tankers, 23 fleet submarines, and five midget submarines—departed Japan for Hawaii. Despite the myth that the strike force maintained strict radio silence, U.S. Naval intelligence intercepted and translated many dispatches. And, there was no shortage of dispatches: Tokyo sent over 1000 transmissions to the attack fleet before it reached Hawaii. Some of these dispatches, in particular this message from Admiral Yamamoto, left no doubt that Pearl Harbor was the target of a Japanese attack: The task force, keeping its movement strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet and deal it a mortal blow. The first air raid is planned for the dawn of x-day. Exact date to be given by later order. Even on the night before the attack, U.S. intelligence decoded a message pointing to Sunday morning as a deadline for some kind of Japanese action. The message was delivered to the Washington high command more than 4 hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But, as many messages before, it was withheld from the Pearl Harbor commanders. In addition to the US-decoded radio transmissions from the attack fleet, there were many specific warnings delivered to Roosevelt via non-American sources: a Yugoslav double agent named Dusko Popov, a dispatch decoded by the Dutch Army, a message from Kilsoo Haan of the Sino-Korean People’s League. Despite repeated denials, it’s clear the Roosevelt administration knew full well of the “sneak” attack long before it arrived. The United States was emotionally and physically exhausted from the 1st World War and was playing the role of isolationalist to the War in Europe. There was no way any support for war would be obtained unless otherwise given through some kind of attack. In 1979 the NSA released 2,413 JN-25 orders of the 26,581 intercepted by US between Sept 1 and Dec 4, 1941. The NSA says "We know now that they contained important details concerning the existence, organization, objective, and even the whereabouts of the Pearl Harbor Strike Force." (Parker p 21) Of the over thousand radio messages sent by Tokyo to the attack fleet, only 20 are in the National Archives. All messages to the attack fleet were sent several times, at least one message was sent every odd hour of the day and each had a special serial number. Starting in early November 1941 when the attack fleet assembled and started receiving radio messages, OP-20-G stayed open 24 hours a day and the "First Team" of codebreakers worked on JN-25. In November and early December 1941, OP-20-G spent 85 percent of its effort reading Japanese Navy traffic, 12 percent on Japanese diplomatic traffic and 3 percent on German naval codes. FDR was personally briefed twice a day on JN-25 traffic by his aide, Captain John Beardell, and demanded to see the original raw messages in English. The US Government refuses to identify or declassify any pre-Dec 7, 1941 decrypts of JN-25 on the basis of national security, a half-century after the war. -
The CIA admitted
that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage
bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its
democratically-elected president. Click here to see tons of videos on this matter
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On the morning of July 22, 1946, a group of 15-20 Irgun
terrorists dressed as Arabs entered the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
They unloaded 225 kilograms of explosives hidden in milk churns.(1) The
King David Hotel housed the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine
and Headquarters of the British Forces in Palestine. When a British
officer became suspicious, a shootout took place and the Irgun lit the
fuses and fled. The explosion destroyed part of the hotel and killed 91
people. Most of the victims were British but 15 innocent Jews also
died. It must not be felt that Begin was merely suspected of being
behind these murderous deeds. Begin admitted that the Irgun committed
these acts and that they were necessary for the establishment of a
Jewish state. Irgun's leader Menachem Begin would one day go on to
become the Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize, even though his radical group was involved in premeditated acts
of terror.
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Israel admitted
that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in
several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left
behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the
bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the
bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)
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According to Victor Ostrovski, a defector from the Israeli
Mossad, the US was allegedly tricked into bombing Libya when the
Israeli Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Tripoli which sent out
fake orders to “terrorists” which the US could intercept. The faked
orders caused Libya to be blamed for a German disco bombing. As a
result of this fake transmission, Reagan used it as evidence to bomb
Libya killing 30 people including Gadaffi's daughter.
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Back in 2001, it was reported in La Vox De Aztlan
that two men posing as press photographers, one of them a former
Israeli Colonel and Mossad agent, were arrested inside the Mexican
congress on October 10, 2001 armed with 9-mm pistols, nine grenades,
explosives, three detonators, and 58 bullets, but were released
following intense pressure from the Israeli Embassy. Curiously these
Israelis were found not with Israeli passports in their possession but
with Pakistani passports. The Israelis were booked for conspiracy to
destroy a building by means of an explosive by the Mexican police.
This was widely reported about around the world but a media blackout was
in effect in America.
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The well-respected former Indonesian president admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings
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In 1982, just when the PLO had abandoned the use of terrorism,
the Mossad spread disinformation about "terror attacks" on Israeli
settlements along the northern border in order to justify a full-scale
military invasion of Lebanon. Years later, even leading Israeli
spokesmen, such as former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, admitted that the
reports of "PLO terrorism" had been contrived by the Mossad.
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The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy joined NATO in 1949, years before the bombings occurred)
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As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified
documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff
signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate
plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist
acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to
justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with
the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News
Tonight with Peter Jennings* For lots more on the astonishing
Operation Northwoods, see the ABC news report; the official declassified documents; and watch this interview
with James Bamford, the former Washington Investigative Producer for
ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. One quote from the
Northwoods documents states: "A 'Remember the Maine' incident could
be arranged: We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame
Cuba. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of
national indignation."
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The Russian KGB apparently conducted a wave of bombings in Russia in order to justify war against Chechnya and put Vladimir Putin into power (see also this essay and this report)
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The Turkish government has been caught bombing its own and blaming it on a rebel group to justify a crackdown on that group. Muslim governments also play this game.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, or the USS Maddox Incident, are the
names given to two incidents, both of which disputed, involving North
Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin and is
studied as the justification for the military policy change with the
Vietnam conflict. This shift in policy resulted in the massive increase
of US forces and subsequent losses known as the Vietnam War. On August
2, the USS Maddox radioed it was under attack from three North
Vietnamese Navy P-4 torpedo boats. This account, however, has come into
sharp dispute with an internal NSA historical study which stated on
page 17 that Captain Herrick (commander of the Maddox) ordered Ogier's gun crews to open fire if the boats approached within ten thousand yards. At about 1505G, the Maddox
fired three rounds to warn off the communist boats. This initial
action was never reported by the Johnson administration, which insisted
that the Vietnamese boats fired first. The incident on August 2nd is
NOT officially acknowledged as an act of war, however a 2nd incident on
August 4th is. On August 4, a patrol off the North Vietnamese coast was
launched by Maddox and the Turner Joy, in order to "show
the flag" after the first incident. This time their orders indicated
that the ships were to no more than 11 miles from the coast of North
Vietnam. During an evening and early morning of rough weather and heavy
seas, the destroyers received radar, sonar, and radio signals that
they believed signaled another attack by the North Vietnamese navy. For
some two hours the ships fired on radar targets and maneuvered
vigorously amid electronic and visual reports of enemies. Despite the
Navy’s claim that two attacking torpedo boats had been sunk, there was
no wreckage, bodies of dead North Vietnamese sailors, or other physical
evidence present at the scene of the alleged engagement. Captain
Herrick sent a cable in which he acknowledged the attack may not have
happened and that there may actually have been no Vietnamese craft in
the area: "Review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedoes
fired appear doubtful. Freak weather effects on radar and overeager
sonarmen may have accounted for many reports. No actual visual sightings
by Maddox. Suggest complete evaluation before any further action
taken". President Johnson went on air on August 5th and described an
attack by North Vietnamese vessels on two U.S. Navy warships, the USS
Maddox and USS Turner Joy, requesting authority to undertake a military
response. This was known as the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution." Johnson
deliberately mislead the American people into believing acts of war had
taken place when in fact nothing occurred of that nature. The entire
Vietnam war was literally fought over a completely fabricated event. In
1965, President Johnson commented privately: "For all I know, our Navy
was shooting at whales out there." In 1981, Captain Herrick and
journalist Robert Scheer re-examined Herrick's ship's log and
determined that the first torpedo report from August 4, which Herrick
had maintained had occurred—the "apparent ambush"—was in fact
unfounded. Squadron commander James Stockdale was one of the U.S.
pilots flying overhead during the second alleged attack. Stockdale wrote
in his 1984 book Love and War: "[I] had the best seat in the
house to watch that event, and our destroyers were just shooting at
phantom targets—there were no PT boats there... There was nothing there
but black water and American fire power." In 1995, retired Vietnamese
Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, meeting with former Secretary of
Defense McNamara, categorically denied that Vietnamese gunboats had
attacked American destroyers on August 4th. A taped conversation of a
meeting several weeks after passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
was released in 2001, revealing that McNamara expressed doubts to
President Johnson that the attack had even occurred. In the Fall of
1999, retired senior CIA engineering executive S. Eugene Poteat wrote
that he was asked in early August 1964 to determine if the radar
operator's report showed a real torpedo boat attack or an imagined one.
He asked for further details on time, weather and surface conditions.
No further details were forthcoming. In the end he concluded that there
were no torpedo boats on the night in question, and that the White
House was interested only in confirmation of an attack, not that there
was no such attack.
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In 1970, King Hussein of Jordan was provided incriminating
intelligence that suggested the Palestine Liberation Organization was
plotting to murder him and seize power. Infuriated, Hussein mobilized
his forces for what has become known as the "Black September" purge of
the PLO. Thousands of Palestinians living in Jordan were rounded up,
some of the leaders were tortured, and in the end, masses of refugees
were driven from Jordan to Lebanon. New data, coming to light after the
murder of two leading Mossad operatives in Larnaka, Cyprus, suggested
that the entire operation had been a Mossad covert action, led by one
of its key operatives, Sylvia Roxburgh. She contrived an affair with
King Hussein and served as the linchpin for a major Mossad coup
designed to destabilize the Arabs.
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In Desert Storm, also known as the First Gulf war, 1991, Saddam
Hussein asked for permission from the US (via their ambassador April
Gillespie) to invade Kuwait. His answer was that the US does not care
about Arab quarrels. This was a trap, and after Saddam occupied Kuwait,
George HW Bush Sr. mobilized a so called "coalition" of some 40
nations to “liberate Kuwait” and to smash the recently-built Iraqi
military power base. A 15-year-old girl named “Nayirah” testified
before the U.S. Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers pulling
Kuwaiti babies from incubators, causing them to die. The testimony
helped gain major public support for the 1991 Gulf War, but — despite
protests that the dispute of this story was itself a conspiracy theory —
it was later discovered that the testimony was actually false, and in
turn was an actual conspiracy by the US Government to gain support for
the war. The public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which was in
the employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged the testimony.
It turned out that she had taken acting lessons on request of the CIA
and was actually the niece of a major politician in Kuwait. Nayirah
was later disclosed to be Nayirah al-Sabah, daughter of Saud bin Nasir
Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to the USA. The Congressional Human
Rights Caucus, of which Congressman Tom Lantos was co-chairman, had
been responsible for hosting Nurse Nayirah, and thereby popularizing
her allegations. When the girl's account was later challenged by
independent human rights monitors, Lantos replied, "The notion that any
of the witnesses brought to the caucus through the Kuwaiti Embassy
would not be credible did not cross my mind..." Nevertheless, the senior
Republican Mafiae Human Rights Caucus, John Edward Porter, responded
to the revelations "by saying that if he had known the girl was the
ambassador's daughter, he would not have allowed her to testify."
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Following the invasion, the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group concluded
that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical, and biological programs in
1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion but that
Iraq intended to resume production once sanctions were lifted. Although
some degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned chemical weapons from
before 1991 were found, they were not the weapons to justify the
invasion. Some U.S. officials also accused Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda, but no evidence of a
meaningful connection was ever found. Other reasons for the invasion
given by the governments of the attacking countries included Iraq's
financial support for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, Iraqi
government human rights abuse, and an effort to spread democracy to the
country. Whatever reasons people might tell themselves were the reason
that they personally supported or did not support the invasion of Iraq
is completely irrelevant. The actual support for the invasion on a
legal level and on an international level with the UN and in the
diplomatic community as well, the only support gained for any invasion
anywhere in the world, in any legal capacity, was because prior to the
invasion, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom
asserted that the possibility of Iraq employing weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) threatened their security and that of their
coalition/regional allies. When American society starts to rationally
look at the motive and justification it gave itself for war in Iraq in
2003, one finds it hard not to see numerous manufactured lies and a lot
of propaganda from corporate and government manipulated media that
demonstrated willful disregard for the truth to support the claim of
WMD's, no matter how you look at it. The evidence indicates that
Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program ... Iraq has
attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment
needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for
nuclear weapons." -- President Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in Cincinnati. This
story, leaked to and breathlessly reported by Judith Miller in the New
York Times, has turned out to be completely made up. Department of
Energy officials, who monitor nuclear plants, say the tubes could not be
used for enriching uranium. One intelligence analyst, who was part of
the tubes investigation, angrily told The New Republic:
"You had senior American officials like Condoleezza Rice saying the
only use of this aluminum really is uranium centrifuges. She said that
on television. And that's just a lie." "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." -- President Bush, Jan.28, 2003, in the State of the Union address. Turns
out, this was based on a document that the White House already knew to
be a forgery thanks to the CIA. Sold to Italian intelligence by some
hustler, the document carried the signature of an official who had been
out of office for 10 years and referenced a constitution that was no
longer in effect. The ex-ambassador who the CIA sent to check out the
story is pissed: "They knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie," he
told the New Republic, anonymously. "They [the White House] were
unpersuasive about aluminum tubes and added this to make their case
more strongly." "We believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." -- Vice President Cheney on March 16, 2003 on "Meet the Press." There
was and is absolutely zero basis for this statement. CIA reports up
through 2002 showed no evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. "[The CIA possesses] solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al-Qaeda going back a decade." -- CIA Director George Tenet in a written statement released Oct. 7, 2002 and echoed in that evening's speech by President Bush. Intelligence
agencies knew of tentative contacts between Saddam and al-Qaeda in the
early '90s, but found no proof of a continuing relationship. In other
words, by tweaking language, Tenet and Bush spun the intelligence 180
degrees to say exactly the opposite of what it suggested. "We've
learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and
poisons and deadly gases ... Alliance with terrorists could allow the
Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints." -- President Bush, Oct. 7.
No evidence of this has ever been leaked or produced. Colin Powell told
the U.N. this alleged training took place in a camp in northern Iraq.
To his great embarrassment, the area he indicated was later revealed to
be outside Iraq's control and patrolled by Allied war planes. "We
have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet
of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse
chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We are concerned
that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs [unmanned aerial
vehicles] for missions targeting the United States." -- President Bush, Oct. 7.
Said drones can't fly more than 300 miles, and Iraq is 6,000 miles from
the U.S. coastline. Furthermore, Iraq's drone-building program wasn't
much more advanced than your average model plane enthusiast. And isn't a
"manned aerial vehicle" just a scary way to say "plane"? "We have
seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and
biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they're
weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control
arrangements have been established." -- President Bush, Feb. 8, 2003, in a national radio address.
Despite a massive nationwide search by U.S. and British forces, there
are no signs, traces or examples of chemical weapons being deployed in
the field, or anywhere else during the war. "Our conservative
estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons
of chemical weapons agent. That is enough to fill 16,000 battlefield
rockets." -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, Feb. 5 2003, in remarks to the UN Security Council. Putting aside the glaring fact that not one drop of this massive stockpile has been found, as previously reported on AlterNet
the United States' own intelligence reports show that these stocks --
if they existed -- were well past their use-by date and therefore
useless as weapon fodder. "We know where [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat." -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003, in statements to the press. Needless to say, no such weapons were found, not to the east, west, south or north, somewhat or otherwise. "Yes, we found a biological laboratory in Iraq which the UN prohibited." -- President Bush in remarks in Poland, published internationally June 1, 2003. This
was reference to the discovery of two modified truck trailers that the
CIA claimed were potential mobile biological weapons lab. But British
and American experts -- including the State Department's intelligence
wing in a report released this week -- have since declared this to be
untrue. According to the British, and much to Prime Minister Tony
Blair's embarrassment, the trailers are actually exactly what Iraq said
they were; facilities to fill weather balloons, sold to them by the
British themselves. The other fundamental lie that needs to be
dismantled is that only Republicans were convincing the public to
support the war. All intelligence was being given by a corrupt
Republican administration, however, unilateral war policy of aggression
was being proposed on the left as well:
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002.
"We know that he has stored away secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002.
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002.
"My position is very clear: The time has come for decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. I'm a co-sponsor of the bipartisan resolution that's presently under consideration in the Senate. Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave threat to America and our allies..."
John Edwards (D, NC), Oct. 7, 2002 
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force — if necessary — to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002.
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years .... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002.
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do."
Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002.
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members.... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct. 10, 2002.
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.
Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002.
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime .... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction .... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003.
You can’t call it a conspiracy theory when the government itself admits it.
And this is not just ancient history:
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Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser – Zbigniew Brzezinski – told the Senate that a terrorist act might be carried out in the U.S. and falsely blamed on Iran to justify war against that nation
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A retired 27-year CIA analyst who prepared and presented Presidential Daily Briefs and served as a high-level analyst for several presidents, would not put it past the government to “play fast and loose” with terror alerts and warnings and even events themselves in order to rally people behind the flag
Here are theories of other possible false flag attacks or events in which may have been "allowed" to take place to exploit certain political agendas:
Many historians argue that some of the major wars in US History were kicked off with support gained from a false flag attack. This is a nice breakdown of some of those theories.
One of the more famous ones you will hear about is the USS Liberty Incident. On the fourth day of the 1967 Arab Israeli War, the intelligence ship 'USS Liberty' was steaming slowly in international waters, 14 miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli armored forces were racing deep into Sinai in hot pursuit of the retreating Egyptian army.
- The U.S. Government had posted the Liberty off the coast of Gaza, in international waters, to monitor developments in the region during the Six Day War. (The Liberty's mission will be discussed in detail below.) At dawn 8 June, Israeli aircraft began reconnoitering the ship, some flying so close that the pilots could clearly be seen, and as low as masthead height, obviously photographing it. This extensive observation lasted seven hours and involved eight separate observations, at about 0600, 0900, 1000, 1030, 1100, and 1130, 1200 and 1215 p.m. U.S. intercept stations twice overheard Israeli pilots reporting that the ship was American. The visibility conditions were perfect; the ship's American flag was flying free and clear in a good breeze.
- At 1400 a well coordinated attack by jet aircraft and torpedo boats began. Jets hammered the virtually unarmed ship with cannon and rockets, and napalmed it. Its forward machine guns were wiped out in the first firing pass, and whatever transmitting antennas survived that pass were disabled by the second. Nine minutes into the attack, crewmen jury rigged a transmitter to an antenna. But the radiomen discovered that four out of five of the ship's radio frequencies, including the international distress frequency, were being jammed. Ironically, the only time Liberty could transmit was while the jets were firing their missiles. A frantic cry for help was sent to the Sixth Fleet, only 400 miles away and off Crete; despite the Israeli jamming, the Liberty's plea for assistance was received. The patchwork transmitting arrangement ceased functioning soon afterward.
- Torpedo boats soon arrived and continued the attack, firing five torpedoes, with one hitting and killing 25 men. They then leisurely circled the defenseless ship for 40 minutes, pumping hundreds of 40mm, 20mm, and 50cal. rounds at wounded men on deck, stretcher bearers and fire fighters. Thinking the ship was about to sink, the crew threw life rafts over the side; the attackers machine gunned those too. With increased radio activity from the U.S. Sixth Fleet indicating an impending U.S. response (many of the Fleet's messages bore "Flash" precedence), the Israelis suddenly contacted the U.S. embassy and informed it of this "accident." It was probably the longest "accidental" attack in the history of naval warfare an hour and 15 minutes.
- Two separate flights of jets from the carriers America and Saratoga were recalled by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the first flight probably because Washington was not absolutely certain of the attackers' identity and was leery of starting a war with the Russians if they were the guilty party. The second flight was recalled after receipt of the Israeli explanation.
'Liberty' had been rushed to Sinai to monitor communications of the belligerents in the Third Arab Israeli War: Israel and her foes, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
At 0800 hrs, 8 June, 1967, eight Israeli recon flights flew over 'Liberty,' which was flying a large American flag. At 1400 hrs, waves of low-flying Israeli Mystere and Mirage-III fighter-bombers repeatedly attacked the American vessel with rockets, napalm, and cannon. The air attacks lasted 20 minutes, concentrating on the ship's electronic antennas and dishes. The 'Liberty' was left afire, listing sharply. Eight of her crew lay dead, a hundred seriously wounded, including the captain, Commander William McGonagle.
At 1424 hrs, three Israeli torpedo boats attacked, raking the burning 'Liberty' with 20mm and 40mm shells. At 1431hrs an Israeli torpedo hit the 'Liberty' midship, precisely where the signals intelligence systems were located. Twenty-five more Americans died.
Israeli gunboats circled the wounded 'Liberty,' firing at crewmen trying to fight the fires. At 1515, the crew were ordered to abandon ship. The Israeli warships closed and poured machine gun fire into the crowded life rafts, sinking two. As American sailors were being massacred in cold blood, a rescue mission by US Sixth Fleet carrier aircraft was mysteriously aborted on orders from the White House.
An hour after the attack, Israeli warships and planes returned. Commander McGonagle gave the order. 'prepare to repel borders.' But the Israelis, probably fearful of intervention by the US Sixth Fleet, departed. 'Liberty' was left shattered but still defiant, her flag flying.
The Israeli attacks killed
34 US seamen and wounded 171 out of a crew of 297, the
worst loss of American naval personnel from hostile
action since World War II.
"We had been surveilled all
morning and part of the afternoon by Israeli forces. They knew who
we were. We heard them reporting over radio who we were and how we
were sailing and where we were sailing. They saw the flag and
everything else. We were in international waters."
- Senator Adlai Stevenson III in 1980, his last year as a United States Senator from Illinois, invited Jim Ennes to his Senate office for a private, two hour meeting to discuss the USS Liberty attack and coverup. Following the private meeting, Ennes was invited back the next day to discuss the attack with members of Stevenson's staff, along with members of the staff of Senator Barry Goldwater and members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
- In that meeting, staff members told Ennes that they found his story convincing, but that they would recommend to both senators that they not pursue an investigation because an investigation would only antagonize Israeli interests while "nothing good could come of it." Goldwater accepted that staff recommendation. Stevenson did not. Instead, Stevenson called a news conference in which he announced that he was convinced that the attack was deliberate and that the survivors deserved an investigation. He would, he said, spend the remaining few weeks of his Senate term attempting to arrange for an inquiry.
- Almost immediately, the government of Israel contacted the White House and offered to settle the outstanding $40million damage claims for $6million an amount equal to one dollar for each Jewish victim of the Holocaust. Vice President Walter Mondale quickly agreed to that offer just before Christmas while Congress and President Carter were on vacation. The Department of State followed immediately with a press release, reported on the front page of the New York Times, which announced, "The book is now closed on the USS Liberty."
- Indeed, from that point on, it was impossible to generate any congressional interest in the Liberty at all. Senator Stevenson's staff told me later that they felt the settlement was directly related to Senator Stevenson's announced plan to hold an inquiry, and was engineered to block forever any inquiry plans. Israel did subsequently pay $6million in three annual installments of $2million each. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said later that he considered the payments meaningless, as Congress merely increased the annual Israeli allotment by that amount.
- Adlai Stevenson later ran for Governor of Illinois. He was strongly opposed by Israeli and Jewish interests. He lost. Many feel it was his support for the Liberty that cost him the election. Many also feel it was Stevenson's experience with the Liberty that has intimidated other Members of Congress who might otherwise support the survivors.
In contrast to American outrage over North Korea's assault on the intelligence ship 'Pueblo,' Iraq's mistaken missile strike on the USS 'Stark,' last fall's bombing of the USS 'Cole' in Aden, and the recent US-China air incident, the savaging of 'Liberty' was quickly hushed up by President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
The White House and Congress immediately accepted Israel's explanation and let the matter drop. Israel later paid a token reparation of US $6 million. There were reports two Israeli pilots who had refused to attack 'Liberty' were jailed for 18 years.
Surviving 'Liberty' crew members would not be silenced. They kept demanding an open inquiry and tried to tell their story of deliberate attack to the media. Israel's government worked behind the scenes to thwart these efforts, going so far as having American pro-Israel groups accuse 'Liberty's' survivors of being 'anti-Semites' and 'Israel-haters.' Major TV networks canceled interviews with the crew. A book about the 'Liberty' by crewman James Ennes' was dropped from distribution. The Israel lobby branded him 'an Arab propagandist.'
The attack on 'Liberty' was fading into obscurity until last week, when intelligence expert James Bamford came out with Body of Secrets, his latest book about the National Security Agency. In a stunning revelation, Bamford writes that unknown to Israel, a US Navy EC-121 intelligence aircraft was flying high overhead the 'Liberty,' electronically recorded the attack. The US aircraft crew provides evidence that the Israeli pilots knew full well that they were attacking a US Navy ship flying the American flag.
Why did Israel try to sink a naval vessel of its benefactor and ally? Most likely because 'Liberty's' intercepts flatly contradicted Israel's claim, made at the war's beginning on 5 June, that Egypt had attacked Israel, and that Israel's massive air assault on three Arab nations was in retaliation. In fact, Israel began the war by a devastating, Pearl-Harbor style surprise attack that caught the Arabs in bed and destroyed their entire air forces.
Israel was also preparing to attack Syria to seize its strategic Golan Heights. Washington warned Israel not to invade Syria, which had remained inactive while Israel fought Egypt. Bamford says Israel's offensive against Syria was abruptly postponed when 'Liberty' appeared off Sinai, then launched once it was knocked out of action. Israel's claim that Syria had attacked it could have been disproved by 'Liberty.'
Most significant, 'Liberty's' intercepts may have shown that Israel seized upon sharply rising Arab-Israeli tensions in May-June 1967 to launch a long-planned war to invade and annex the West Bank, Jerusalem, Golan and Sinai.
Far more shocking was Washington's response. Writes Bamford: 'Despite the overwhelming evidence that Israel attacked the ship and killed American servicemen deliberately, the Johnson Administration and Congress covered up the entire incident.' Why?
Domestic politics. Johnson, a man never noted for high moral values, preferred to cover up the attack rather than anger a key constituency and major financial backer of the Democratic Party. Congress was even less eager to touch this 'third rail' issue.
Commander McGonagle was quietly awarded the Medal of Honor for his and his men's heroism – not in the White House, as is usual, but in an obscure ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard. Crew member's graves were inscribed, 'died in the Eastern Mediterranean..' as if they had be killed by disease, rather than hostile action.
| A former Navy attorney who helped lead the military
investigation of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed
34 American servicemen says former President Lyndon Johnson and his
defense secretary, Robert McNamara, ordered that the inquiry conclude
the incident was an accident. In a signed affidavit released at a Capitol Hill news conference, retired Capt. Ward Boston said Johnson and McNamara told those heading the Navy's inquiry to "conclude that the attack was a case of 'mistaken identity' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary." It was “one of the classic all-American cover-ups,” said retired Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who spent a year investigating the attack as part of an independent panel he formed with other former military officials. The panel also included a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James Akins. |
Torpedo hole in USS Liberty |
| “Why would our government put Israel’s
interests ahead of our own?” Moorer asked from his wheelchair at the
news conference. He was chief of naval operations at the time of the
attack. Moorer, who has long held that the attack was a deliberate act, wants Congress to investigate. [ Newsday] |
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Israel claims the USS Liberty was mistaken for the
out-of-service Egyptian horse carrier El Quseir - can you spot the
difference?
El Quseir
USS Liberty
Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested.
Later, a dual-citizen Israeli major told survivors that he was in an Israeli war room where he heard that pilot's radio report. The attacking pilots and everyone in the Israeli war room knew that they were attacking an American ship, the major said. He recanted the statement only after he received threatening phone calls from Israel.
The pilot's protests also were heard by radio monitors in the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak and offered to submit to further questioning by authorities. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government has any interest in hearing these first-person accounts of Israeli treachery. [ Washington Report]
- In addition to the above mentioned circumstances which show that Israel's attack was deliberate the lengthy and careful surveillance, the radio jamming, etc. numerous other details belie Israel's professed innocence. They include:
- * The Israelis initially claimed they had "mistaken" the Liberty for the Egyptian ship El Quseir. But the El Quseir was only 40 percent the size of Liberty (4000 vs. 10,400 tons). The El Quseir was an old, rusted out horse transport that bore about as much resemblance to the Liberty as a rusty VW does to a new Cadillac. The Liberty was arrayed with numerous specialized antennas, and an ultramodern (for 1967) 16foot microwave dish, a device possessed by no other ship in the world except her sister ship Belmont. She bore standard U.S. Navy markings, which included a freshly painted 10foothigh hull number, and Liberty on the stern.
- * The radio jamming is by itself damning evidence that the assailants knew exactly whom they were attacking. Such jamming requires intimate advance knowledge of the target being jammed, obtained by extended monitoring of its signals. And this was selective jamming; it struck Liberty's frequencies and no others, which means the Israeli literally listened to the exact radio transmissions since they knew the exact frequency and therefore knew they were Americans
- Afterward, in one of their ever changing explanations, the Israelis claimed to have learned the ship's identity when they heard its distress signals. But the attack continued for sixty six minutes after the first distress signal, which the Israelis had jammed, was sent. Had this particular Israeli claim been true, they would have recalled the torpedo boats before they even reached the ship.
- * The Israelis claimed that the ship's U.S. flag hung limp because there was no wind. Later, when presented with the fact that the flag had been perfectly visible, they claimed that they thought that the ship was an enemy vessel flying false colors. The extended radio monitoring, exposing considerable advance investigation of Liberty's communication facilities, refutes this claim.
- * The Israelis claimed that the torpedo boats, after first sighting the ship, had called in the aircraft to attack after the ship refused to identify itself. This is an obvious lie, because the attack was clearly a preplanned and well coordinated one two punch employing different branches of the Israeli Defense Forces. The jets were already intent on attacking the ship before the Liberty came into the torpedo boats' radar range. Directly contradicting themselves, the Israelis later claimed that their aircraft had called in the torpedo boats.
- * The Israelis eventually admitted that before the attack, their commanders had compared reconnaissance photos of the Liberty with Jane's Fighting Ships. But they claimed that before the attack they twice telephoned the U.S. naval attache in Tel Aviv inquiring whether the Liberty was a U.S. ship and were told that there were no U.S. Navy ships in the area. They claimed that having received a negative reply, they decided that the ship had to be the El Quseir. However, the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, and later the naval attache, emphatically stated that no such inquiries were made. The Israelis not only knew the ship's nationality and that she was an "ELINT" ship; they also knew she was the Liberty herself.
- * Immediately preceding the attack, an Israeli pilot recognized Liberty as a U.S. ship and radioed this information to IDF headquarters. He was instructed to attack anyway. This dialog was intercepted at the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter revealed the existence of this intercept in 1991.
- * Finally, there is evidence, circumstantial but clear, of a relationship between the attack on the Liberty and a postponement of Israel's planned attack on the Golan Heights. The Golan attack was scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on 8 June; the Liberty was spotted by 6 a.m. or earlier; last minute orders delayed the Golan attack; the Liberty was put out of commission; and the Golan attack occurred shortly thereafter. The vaunted IDF made very few mistakes in that war.
- After the attack Secretary of State Dean Rusk recommended a strong response, and Presidential Counselor Clark Clifford advised President Johnson to treat Israel in the same manner as the U.S. would treat the Soviets or the Arabs if they had committed the atrocity. The U.S. would certainly not have taken this insult in silence had the offender been any country but Israel. But President Johnson stoically accepted Israel's explanation. The Navy conducted a Court of Inquiry, which ignored and even suppressed testimony that the attack had been deliberate; it dealt only with the actions and performance of the Liberty crew. State Department legal advisor Carl Salans performed an assessment of Israel's official explanation; with only the Navy's highly incomplete and erroneous preliminary investigation to go on, he thoroughly discredited the Israeli Government's claims of innocent error. The logical next step was to confront the Israelis with his findings, but that was not done. The U.S. Government's inaction was completely out of keeping with the outrageousness of the attack.
- Let's not forget that the USS Liberty was being heavily watched with surveillance for hours on end before the attack was undertaken and the attack was done by unmarked planes, as if there was an effort to conceal the offensive operation in a war that Israelis never attacked with unmarked planes. In fact, unmarked planes is the act of mercenaries, not of a national military, so it is beyond silly to pretend that they somehow didn't know what they were doing. They were trying not to be detected. It is so obvious it is not even funny.
- Loftus and Aarons's book, the subject of Rodman's critique, is a collection of preposterous and demonstrably false theories and allegations. With regard to the Liberty attack, the only significant detail they get right is that it was deliberate, but they actually make the ludicrous statement that Israel's attack was justified because "the Liberty was gathering electronic information on Israeli troop movements and sending it to British intelligence, which in turn relayed it to the Arabs." Not only does this statement lack any genuine authentication, it also betrays a conspiracy mindedness that makes all their other concoctions suspicious. Another claim born of this same free ranging inventiveness is that "U.S. intelligence attempted to curry favor with the Arab oil producers by giving the precise details of Israel's order of battle to the Arabs during the war."
- Other ridiculous claims:
- * "Civilian `spies' of the National Security Agency (NSA)" had wrested control of i.e. hijacked the Liberty from the U.S. military and the Joint Chiefs of Staff; "Commander McGonagle [Liberty's skipper] did not know it at the time, but the real masters of his ship were the civilian spies of the NSA." That U.S. ELINT ships' collection assignments were drawn up at NSA is well known; it is not the big secret that the authors make it. They state that only an individual known as an NSA "Major" and two others "had access to the supersensitive communications areas" on the ship, where in reality well over 100 men worked. The individual they refer to was Allan Blue, a 23 year old Arabic linguist, who was killed. Blue was a GS7 a relatively low level civilian NSA employee, not a "major"; and NSA certainly does not confer military rank.
- * "The Israelis tried to jam the ship's frequencies, to no effect. The Liberty's equipment was much too sophisticated to be stopped in that fashion." Anyone who wants to believe this statement should ask the American radiomen who were desperately trying to find an open frequency with which to alert their potential rescuers, while their comrades were falling dead around them.
- * Liberty "was there to spy on the Jews. That was its only mission." Had this been the case, Hebrew linguists would have been aboard; there were none. There were at least four Russian and three Arabic linguists aboard, however; that indicates the ship's intelligence targeting. Additionally, Ennes has recently disclosed that a special tasking of the ship, apart from gathering all the information on every party it could, was to determine if TU95 "BEAR" Bombers of the Egyptian Air Force were controlled and flown by Soviets. Ennes also says that "at least two men recall that their orders were to concentrate on Soviet intercepts and to ignore any Israeli signals they happened to hear. The order was `Note the signal and, if it is Israeli, drop it.'"
- Loftus and Aarons's other falsities concerning the Liberty incident let alone those included in the rest of their work are far too numerous to mention here. They continually cite unidentified sources "confidential interviews" of "former CIA officer[s]" and "former NSA employee[s]," etc; thus they are free to invent whatever suits them. Yet Rodman says this work "deserves to be taken seriously." They allege "a massive espionage campaign against Jewry and Israel by western intelligence agencies," and claim that these agencies "aided Arab armies during the many Arab Israeli wars." Rodman terms this work "an important subject that has thus far not received its due."
What motive would US officials have in allowing these attacks to take place and why would politicians in the U.S. want to enter the major world wars if the nation seemed to be more interested in a neutral position to begin with? According to Dr. Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time," the backbone of European nobility and establishment families had wanted to centralize their control over the nations of Europe for a very long time, but a massive military force outside of European control was hard to come by for their exploiting in these efforts, until the United States was developed. It was through the Civil War that the US really boosted its military buildup for the first time. Many historians point out that there are common financiers to both sides of the Civil War, just like in most major wars since the 1800's. These families in Europe had historically made efforts to overthrow the various thrones throughout Europe and incite revolutions through, for example, the Masonic lodges. The French Revolution was one of these incidents. Many historians point out that the Masonic lodges played a substantial role in the American Revolutionary war against the British thrown by the Scottish Rite of freemasonry. The primary characters in this conspiracy throughout Europe in the lodges to overthrow the monarchs include individuals who would later become some of these establishment families during World War I whose assets and control spanned multiple nations. It is conceivable that these European families were continuing an older agenda set out by their ancestors and immediate relatives to take power from the monarchs. If true, as Professor Quigley writes, one such effort of their conspiracy was to manipulate various nations of Europe to enter into major wars with one another and collapse their economies. These former colonial powers have historically fought before but not to an extent that bankrupted their entire nations. To achieve such a feat would require complicity from within the power structures of each nation. According to Quigley, this was achieved through various conspirators such as Lord Alfred Milner and some of these plans were set in motion by prominent figures long before the war like Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes and Milner were joined by other figures who Quigley asserts were involved in the planning and execution of several historical events such as the Jameson Raid, the Second Boer War, the founding of the Union of South Africa, the replacement of the British Empire with the Commonwealth of Nations, and a number of Britain’s foreign policy decisions in the twentieth century.
Quigley claims that an agreement was made among many intellectuals and enlightened figures as far back as the 1700's that the monarchs, or "old world order," needed to collapse and transition into a more modern representative form of government where individuals would be granted their own sovereign rights and pursuit of liberty. The achievement of this goal could be obtained through some sort of common government designed to replace the fallen European powers. This exact scenario played out with the proposal of the "League of Nations" and ironically benefited many of the people that Quigley had pointed out were figures who manipulated the nations to go to war to begin with, against their own interests. Professor Carroll Quigley was not just some person who was making these claims. He was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is noted for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, for his academic publications, and for his research on secret societies. He is one of the most credible and renowned researchers in these fields and Quigley has also taught some of the most influential minds of our time, including President Bill Clinton. Clinton named Quigley as an important influence on his aspirations and political philosophy in 1991, when launching his presidential campaign in a speech at Georgetown. Clinton also mentioned Quigley again during his acceptance speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Quigley was a professor who shaped the minds of hundreds of future movers and shakers in the fields of economics, foreign policy, intelligence gathering and even military diplomacy. One distinctive feature of Quigley’s historical writings was his assertion that secret societies have played a significant role in recent world history and he makes these assertions with an immense presentation of references citing direct admissions and documented agreements from the conspirators he accuses. Quigley was granted access into the Council on Foreign Relations personal archives where he was able to see the complexity of the planning that went into the conspiracy to collapse these European powers in order to establish the League of Nations. It was through certain loosely affiliated “front groups”, including the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Institute of Pacific Relations, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that this global conquest was to be achieved, among many other networks which would be designed and established over the years. These figures were accused of conspiracy to write and manipulate policy, indoctrinate individuals for implantation of these agendas and even organize the international policies of a world government, something that Masonic lodges had set out to do in their quest to dismantle and abolish the monarchs of the world and the rule of the Catholic Church. The monarchs and Catholic Church were described as the "Old World Order" and a preliminary term used for any post European dominated empire that many use today is the "new world order" which refers to the "new world" or "Americas" and the domination of America over the rest of the world. Every generation has seen the redefining of policies and continual implementation of debated roles this "new world order" would manifest into. Some figures have proposed more socialist versions of a global bureaucracy while others debate various forms of capitalism.
On the American front, Smedley Butler, the two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major in the US Military, disclosed in his book, "War is a Racket," that while conspirators in the network were destabilizing the former powers of Europe and setting the stage of international war, he spent 33 years and four months in active military service as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, he was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. He helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. He helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. He helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. He helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. He brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. He helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927, he helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Out of all those who came out talking, as most skeptics like to point out would happen if the conspiracy were true, it comes as no surprise that one of the leading insiders disclosing the conspiracy confirming Quigley's assertions was the top US Military figure of his time. One of the reasons Butler decided to go public was because in 1934, he was involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot. Smedley Butler told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists had approached him to lead a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and align with Hitler and the Axis in a global conquest for domination. The individuals that were involved denied the existence of a plot, and the media ridiculed the allegations. The final report of the committee stated that there was evidence that such a plot existed, but no charges were ever filed.
As difficult it may be to believe Butler's claims, the BBC released a documentary titled The White House Coup, and the program alleged that "The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans." In that documentary, author John Buchanan said, "The investigations mysteriously turned to vapor when it comes time to call them to testify. FDR's main interest was getting the New Deal passed, and so he struck a deal in which it was agreed that the plotters would walk free if Wall Street would back off of their opposition to the New Deal and let FDR do what he wanted". The program connected major companies to the American Liberty League, formed by Al Smith, who, the program asserted, was to be the fascist ruler once FDR was overthrown. Here are the 3 parts of that series you can watch on the internet: Part 1 Part 2 and Part 3
The conspiracy turned out to be true and it included some of the most influential figures in American society including automotive developer and tycoon Henry Ford, chemical industrialist Irénée du Pont and Union Banking Chairman Prescott Bush, the father of former president George HW Bush Sr & the grandfather of former president George W Bush. Not to anyone's surprise, Prescott Bush was charged with treason for financing Hitler's war machine and helping back the enemy before and even during World War II. All the Bush's were members of Yale's notorious Skull and Bones society which is rumored to be part of one of the highest levels of power within the German originated Bavarian Illuminati, which is officially said to have been disbanded since the late 1700's.
With that said, many conspiracy theorists like to point out that there was an odd set of figures who originally founded the secret society including Lord Rothschild that can be credited during the 1800's with establishing the central banks of Europe and even financing both sides of the Civil War. The Rothschild family fortunes and assets/holdings are not to be disclosed under any circumstance and that policy has been in effect for over a century. It is, however, an interest to many economists and it has been determined that the Rothschild family acquired at least half of Europe's entire wealth by the mid 19th century and that they do indeed sit as primary shareholders of many central banks throughout Europe and the United States. Many find it very difficult not to believe conspiracy theories when all of this information is applied to this larger historical timeline of continued centralization, manipulation and common direction of economics, diplomacy and military on both a national and global scale.
What about 9/11?
Some people are circulating conspiracy theories on the internet about September 11th being a possible false flag attack. Of the various theories, some of the primary ones proposed can be summed up in 4 primary groups. The first group is the largest in terms of support which states that the attacks may have been detected in some capacity in advance by administration officials but were allowed to continue much like some of the conspiracies of Pearl Harbor with World War II that many historians claim they can document a strong case for with many supporting pieces of evidence. The LIHOP, or "let it happen on purpose," theories are the most common because of the overwhelming number of government whistleblowers and prior knowledge incidents that have been documented by countless credible sources.
Some of the LIHOP documentaries also have included MIHOP arguments, it is recommended to watch these if you want to see some of the more credible or acclaimed films on 9/11 conspiracy:
1 - 9/11: Press For Truth
2 - In Their Own Words: The Untold Stories of the 9/11 Families
3 - Aftermath: Unanswered Questions From 9/11
4 - Core of Corruption: In the Shadows
5 - Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
6 - Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
7 - Oil, Smoke and Mirrors
8 - 9/11 Mysteries
9 - 9/11: The Road To Tyranny
10 - Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic
11 - Loose Change: Final Cut
12 - Martial Law 9/11: The Rise of the Police State
13 - The 9/11 Chronicles: Truth Rising
14 - The Elephant In The Room
15 - The Great Conspiracy
16 - War and Globalization: The Truth Behind 9/11 (Lecture)
17 - Who Killed John O’Neil?
18 - Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
19 - Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
There are actually many dozens more documentaries, but this should get you started
So why would 9/11 be so suspect?
Rebuilding America’s Defenses, a year 2000 report from the neo-conservative think tank, Project for the New American Century, says:
“To preserve American military preeminence in the coming decades, the Department of Defense must move more aggressively…the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”The report maintains that a world dominated by America, both economically and militarily, is good for everybody on the planet — especially the greedy pockets of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex.
One may wonder what highly-intelligent brains are doing the thinking in the PNAC tank. Members have included:
- Dick Cheney
- Jeb Bush
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Paul Wolfowitz
- Scooter Libby
- John Bolton
- Dov S. Zakheim
- Robert B. Zoellick
- Richard Perle
- William Kristol
- Dan Quayle
Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote a book in the 1990's called "The Grand Chessboard" where he outlines America's fundamental survival being based on a military intervention and sustained war in the middle east. Brzezinski is not just anyone, he was Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University. This, of course, after being educated at Harvard. He was National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter (1977-81) where he personally drafted the creation of the Mujahedeen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was his operation that created Osama Bin Laden as a CIA asset under the name, Tim Osmand. Brzezinski bragged after 9/11 that Al-Qaeda was the CIA term given for the database of CIA operative in the region of Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda literally translates to "database." Brezeinski is the Trustee and founder of the Trilateral Commission and is the International advisor of several major US/Global corporations. He is also a close associate of Henry Kissinger. During Ronald Reagan's administration he was a member of NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy and also during that time he was a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is also a past member, Board of Directors, The Council on Foreign Relations and in 1988 he was Co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force.
Brzezinski is also a past attendee and presenter at several conferences of the Bilderberg Group - a non-partisan affiliation of the wealthiest and most powerful families and corporations on the planet.
"Moreover, as America becomes an
increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult
to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the
circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct
external threat." (p. 211, Grand Chessboard)
"The attitude of the American
public toward the external projection of American power has been much
more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in
World War II largely because of the shock effect of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.” (pp 24-5, Grand Chessboard)
Besides enabling the neocons to fund the growth of an empire already glutted with over 700 overseas bases in 130 countries,
the attacks handed a lackluster administration the political power to
abolish fundamental American freedoms while increasing corporate
domination.Eight days after the attacks, the 342-page Patriot Act was given to Congress. That same week, letters armed with anthrax from a U.S. military lab entered the mail. Subsequently, while Congressional offices were evacuated, examined, cleaned, and nasal cavities swabbed, the Patriot Act remained largely unread.
Then, with little debate, the Patriot Act became law, giving the Bush administration unprecedented power to access people’s medical records, tax records, information about the books they bought or borrowed, and the power to conduct secret residential searches without notifying owners that their homes had been searched.
According to statements by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a Bronze Star recipient with 22 years of experience in intelligence operations, a classified intelligence program code named Able Danger
had uncovered two of the three 9/11 terrorist cells a year before the
attacks, and had identified four of the hijackers. Shaffer alerted the
FBI in September of 2000, but the meetings he tried to set up with
bureau officials were repeatedly blocked by military lawyers. Four
credible witnesses have come forward to verify Shaffer’s claims.In the fall of 2000, two of the Flight 77 hijackers moved in with an FBI informant while they took flight-school lessons in San Diego. The CIA already had the two under surveillance because they had just returned from an al Qaeda summit in Malaysia. Somehow, both the CIA and the FBI allowed the two suspected terrorists to travel in and out of the country and buy airline tickets without raising a flag.
In July of 2001, Phoenix FBI special agent Kenneth Williams sent FBI headquarters a memo,
subtitled “Osama bin Laden and Al-Muhjiroun supporters attending civil
aviation universities/colleges in Arizona.” His recommendation to
investigate terrorists training at aviation schools was ignored by FBI
headquarters.In August, a Pan Am International Flight Academy instructor warned the FBI that a student (Zacarias Moussaoui) might use a commercial plane loaded with fuel as a weapon. The instructor asked, “Do you realize that a 747 loaded with fuel can be used as a bomb?” Moussaoui was then arrested on immigration charges, but despite the repeated urging of the school and local agents, FBI headquarters refused a deeper investigation.
The U.S. also received dozens of detailed warnings — names, locations, dates — from the intelligence agencies of Indonesia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, India, Argentina, Morocco, Russia, Israel, France, and even the Taliban. It would seem that the entire world was onto the bungling Saudi hijackers, and somewhat perplexed that the U.S. wasn’t taking preventative actions. But in each case the U.S., as if by design, chose not to investigate.
What about Iran?
Former prominent Republican U.S. Congressman and CIA official Bob Barr stated that the U.S. is close to becoming a totalitarian society and that elements in government are using fear to try to bring this about.
Republican U.S. Congressman Ron Paul stated that the government "is determined to have martial law." He also said a contrived "Gulf of Tonkin-type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran." Former National Security Adviser Brzezinski told the Senate that a terrorist act might be carried out in the U.S. and falsely blamed on Iran to justify yet another war.
The former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Paul Craig Roberts, who is called the "Father of Reaganomics" and is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Scripps Howard News Service, has said:
Retired 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who prepared and presented Presidential Daily Briefs and served as a high-level analyst for several presidents, stated that if there was another major attack in the U.S., it would lead to martial law. He went on to say:"Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging 'terrorist' attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?
"We have to be careful, if somebody does this kind of provocation – big violent explosions of some kind – we have to not take the word of the masters there in Washington that this was some terrorist event because it could well be a provocation allowing them, or seemingly to allow them to get what they want."The former CIA analyst would not put it past the government to "play fast and loose" with terror alerts and warnings and even terrorist events in order to rally people behind the flag.
General Tommy Franks stated that if another terrorist attack occurs in the United States "the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government." Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter stated before the Iraq war started that there were no weapons of mass destruction. He is now saying that he would not rule out staged government terror by the U.S. government. And British Parliament Member George Galloway stated that "there is a very real danger" that the American government will stage a false flag terror attack in order to justify war against Iran and to gain complete control domestically.
The abundance of reliable information in this essay suggests that not only has the U.S. in the past conducted false flag operations, but there is a possibility that 9/11 involved some element of this deceit, and a future false flag operation cannot be ruled out. Let us spread this news to all who care so that we might build the critical mass necessary to stop these secret operations and work together for a more caring civil society.
More info on USS Liberty:
- Statement by survivor John Hrankowski:
- We had been surveilled all morning and part of the afternoon by Israeli forces. They knew who we were. We heard them reporting over radio who we were and how we were sailing and where we were sailing. They saw the flag and everything else. We were in international waters.
- At 2:00 the action started when we had just completed a general quarters drill. I had just come out or the engine room to get some fresh air when the firing started. That's when I took my shrapnel hit, nothing fantastic but pieces of shrapnel. I went back to the boiler room and prepared to start lighting off number one boiler to get steam to get out of there.
- This persisted for probably 25 or 35 minutes with the aircraft rocketing us and hitting us with everything they had, napalm and cannon fire and after that there was a comparatively small lull. We heard that they were getting hit all over the place and we could see the torpedo boats moving in and firing torpedoes at us, and then one hit and put a 40 foot hole in the side of the ship and knocked all power off.
- By that time the ship's interior was blackened, you couldn't see anything except with battle lanterns. We were still in the process of lighting off the boiler and trying to head the ship out to see. The ship was listing and we got the word to prepare to abandon ship. We were ordered by Lieutenant Golden who was in charge in the engine room to exit, and the last one out of there was myself, and I had to cut off the boilers' fuel supply. I was the last one.
- We got outside at the main battle dressing station where a lot of injuries were. We were just about to go topside when we heard a lot of shots and canon fire and machine gun fire. Evidently they were trying to pick off people who were fighting fires and trying to put life rafts in the water. They were picking these people off with machine guns. We were told, I didn't see them, but we were told that they were shooting up the life rafts that were in the water, so needless to say they weren't going to take survivors at all.
- And so we headed back to our spaces and did not abandon ship. We stayed with it. And it continued probably for another 40 minutes with them shooting and finally after seeing that the ship was not going to sink they grabbed one of the life rafts and they exited the scene. And through that, the helicopters had come over loaded with Israeli troops.
- This lasted almost two hours and finally we got the ship turned around and boilers lit off and headed out to sea.
- We also heard that nine minutes into the attack we had reached a message to the Sixth Fleet and they were on their way with aircraft to help us. Little did we know until afterwards that three sets of aircraft were turned back.
- To be lied to is the supreme insult, it carries the implication that you are stupid enough to be misled and manipulated, thereby affirming the liars own superiority. To be successfully lied to confirms it.
- Israeli Pilot Speaks Up
- From: Ian Henshaw
- A few days ago came the latest Israeli attempt to deny that allegations that the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty during the Seven Days War in 1967 was a cold blooded murder designed to trigger a US attack on Egypt.
- The Israeli story has always been that they mistook a modern US surveillance ship flying then US flag for an Egyptian boat, not once but in multiple attacks. This excuse is not credible, as the recent BBC documentary showed. The film screened by BBC 2 in June 2003 had a US radio intercept officer recounting on camera that he heard the Israeli pilots twice warn their base that the ship was American.
- They had a US commander state that US planes were on their way to Cairo in retaliation with a nuclear payload, and that, as the news unexpectedly leaked out that the ship had been destroyed by Israel, Johnson and McNamara had to personally abort the operation. It was even suggested that the White House had planned the operation with Israel, sending the ship undefended a few miles off the Gaza coastline. Now this version is confirmed from the following leak from the Israeli side. Ian Henshall, publisher www.911dossier.co.uk, www.dumpblair.co.uk
- Israeli Pilot Speaks Up
- http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0693/9306019.htm
- Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested.
- Later, a dual-citizen Israeli major told survivors that he was in an Israeli war room where he heard that pilot's radio report. The attacking pilots and everyone in the Israeli war room knew that they were attacking an American ship, the major said. He recanted the statement only after he received threatening phone calls from Israel.
- The pilot's protests also were heard by radio monitors in the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak and offered to submit to further questioning by authorities. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government has any interest in hearing these first-person accounts of Israeli treachery.
- Key members of the Lyndon Johnson administration have long agreed that this attack was no accident. Perhaps most outspoken is former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer. "I can never accept the claim that this was a mistaken attack, " he insists. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk is equally outspoken, calling the attack deliberate in press and radio interviews. Similarly strong language comes from top leaders of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency (some of whose personnel were among the victims), National Security Council, and from presidential advisers such as Clark Clifford, Joseph Califano and Lucius Battle.
- A top-secret analysis of Israel's excuse conducted by the Department of State found Israel's story to be untrue. Yet Israel and its defenders continue to stand by their claim that the attack was a "tragic accident" in which Israel mistook the most modern electronic surveillance vessel in the world for a rusted-out 40-year-old Egyptian horse transport. Despite the evidence, no U.S. administration has never found the courage to defy the Israeli lobby by publicly demanding a proper accounting from Israel.
Here
is a complete list of warnings the United States gathered about the
Pearl Harbor attack in advance, to help give people an idea that it is a
hell of a lot more than just a "few" warnings:
- 27 January 1941, Dr. Ricardo Shreiber, the Peruvian envoy in Tokyo told Max Bishop, third secretary of the US embassy that he had just learned from his intelligence sources that there was a war plan involving a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This information was sent to the State Department and Naval Intelligence and to Admiral Kimmel at Hawaii.
- 31 March 1941 - A Navy report by Bellinger and Martin predicted that if Japan made war on the US, they would strike Pearl Harbor without warning at dawn with aircraft from a maximum of 6 carriers. For years Navy planners had assumed that Japan, on the outbreak of war, would strike the American fleet wherever it was. The fleet was the only threat to Japan's plans. Logically, Japan couldn't engage in any major operation with the American fleet on its flank. The strategic options for the Japanese were not unlimited.
- 10 July - US Military Attache Smith-Hutton at Tokyo reported Japanese Navy secretly practicing aircraft torpedo attacks against capital ships in Ariake Bay. The bay closely resembles Pearl Harbor.
- July - The US Military Attache in Mexico forwarded a report that the Japanese were constructing special small submarines for attacking the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, and that a training program then under way included towing them from Japan to positions off the Hawaiian Islands, where they practiced surfacing and submerging.
- 10 August 1941, the top British agent, code named "Tricycle", Dusko Popov, told the FBI of the planned attack on Pearl Harbor and that it would be soon. The FBI told him that his information was "too precise, too complete to be believed. The questionnaire plus the other information you brought spell out in detail exactly where, when, how, and by whom we are to be attacked. If anything, it sounds like a trap." He also reported that a senior Japanese naval person had gone to Taranto to collect all secret data on the attack there and that it was of utmost importance to them. The info was given to Naval IQ.
- Early in the Fall, Kilsoo Haan, an agent for the Sino-Korean People's League, told Eric Severeid of CBS that the Korean underground in Korea and Japan had positive proof that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor before Christmas. Among other things, one Korean had actually seen the plans. In late October, Haan finally convinced US Senator Guy Gillette that the Japanese were planning to attack in December or January. Gillette alerted the State Department, Army and Navy Intelligence and FDR personally.
- 24 September 1941, the " bomb plot" message in J-19 code
from Japan Naval Intelligence to Japan' s consul general in Honolulu
requesting grid of exact locations of ships pinpointed for the benefit
of bombardiers and torpedo pilots was deciphered. There was no reason
to know the EXACT location of ships in harbor, unless to attack them -
it was a dead giveaway. Chief of War Plans Turner and Chief of Naval
Operations Stark repeatedly kept it and warnings based on it prepared by
Safford and others from being passed to Hawaii. The chief of Naval
Intelligence Captain Kirk was replaced because he insisted on warning
HI. It was lack of information like this that lead to the exoneration
of the Hawaii commanders and the blaming of Washington for
unpreparedness for the attack by the Army Board and Navy Court. At no
time did the Japanese ever ask for a similar bomb plot for any other
American military installation. Why the Roosevelt administration
allowed flagrant Japanese spying on PH has never been explained, but
they blocked 2 Congressional investigations in the fall of 1941 to
allow it to continue. The bomb plots were addressed to "Chief of 3rd
Bureau, Naval General Staff", marked Secret Intelligence message, and given special serial numbers, so their significance couldn't be missed. There were about 95 ships in port. The text was:
"Strictly secret. "Henceforth, we would like to have you make reports concerning vessels along the following lines insofar as possible: "1. The waters (of Pearl Harbor) are to be divided roughly into five subareas (We have no objections to your abbreviating as much as you like.) "Area A. Waters between Ford Island and the Arsenal. "Area B. Waters adjacent to the Island south and west of Ford Island. (This area is on the opposite side of the Island from Area A.) "Area C. East Loch. "Area D. Middle Loch. "Area E. West Loch and the communication water routes. "2. With regard to warships and aircraft carriers, we would like to have you report on those at anchor (these are not so important) tied up at wharves, buoys and in docks. (Designate types and classes briefly. If possible we would like to have you make mention of the fact when there are two or more vessels along side the same wharf.)" - Simple traffic analysis of the accelerated frequency of messages from various Japanese consuls gave a another identification of war preparations, from Aug-Dec there were 6 messages from Seattle, 18 from Panama, 55 from Manila and 68 from Hawaii.
- Oct. - Soviet top spy Richard Sorge, the greatest spy in history, informed Kremlin that Pearl Harbor would be attacked within 60 days. Moscow informed him that this was passed to the US. Interestingly, all references to Pearl Harbor in the War Department's copy of Sorge's 32,000 word confession to the Japanese were deleted. NY Daily News, 17 May 1951.
- 16 Oct. - FDR grossly humiliated Japan's Ambassador and refused to meet with Premier Konoye to engineer the war party, lead by General Tojo, into power in Japan.
- 1 Nov. - JN-25 Order to continue drills against anchored capital ships to prepare to "ambush and completely destroy the US enemy." The message included references to armor-piercing bombs and 'near surface torpedoes.'
- 13 Nov. - The German Ambassador to US, Dr. Thomsen an anti-Nazi, told US IQ that Pearl Harbor would be attacked.
- 14 Nov. - Japanese Merchant Marine was alerted that wartime recognition signals would be in effect Dec 1.
- 22 Nov. - Tokyo said to Ambassador Nomura in Washington about extending the deadline for negotiations to November 29: "...this time we mean it, that the deadline absolutely cannot be changed. After that things are automatically going to happen."
- CIA Director Allen Dulles told people that US was warned in mid-November that the Japanese Fleet had sailed east past Tokyo Bay and was going to attack Pearl Harbor. CIA FOIA
- 23 Nov. - JN25 order - "The first air attack has been set for 0330 hours on X-day." (Tokyo time or 8 A.M. Honolulu time)
- 25 Nov. - British decrypted the Winds setup message sent Nov. 19. The US decoded it Nov. 28. It was a J-19 Code message that there would be an attack and that the signal would come over Radio Tokyo as a weather report - rain meaning war, east (Higashi) meaning US.
- 25 Nov. - Secretary of War Stimson noted in his diary "FDR stated that we were likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as next Monday." FDR asked: "the question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without too much danger to ourselves. In spite of the risk involved, however, in letting the Japanese fire the first shot, we realized that in order to have the full support of the American people it was desirable to make sure that the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt in anyone's mind as to who were the aggressors."
- 25 Nov. - Navy Department ordered all US trans-Pacific shipping to take the southern route. PHH 12:317 (PHH = 1946 Congressional Report, vol. 12, page 317) ADM Turner testified "We sent the traffic down to the Torres Straight, so that the track of the Japanese task force would be clear of any traffic." PHH 4:1942
- 25 Nov. - Yamamoto radioed this order in JN-25: " (a) The task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters and upon the very opening of hostilities, shall attack the main force of the United States Fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow. The raid is planned for dawn on X-day -- exact date to be given by later order. (b) Should the negotiations with the US prove successful, the task force shall hold itself in readiness forthwith to return and reassemble. (c) The task force will move out of Hitokappu Wan on the morning of 26 November and advance to the standing-by position on the afternoon of 4 December and speedily complete refueling." ( Order to sail - scan from the PHA Congressional Hearings Report, vol 1 p 180, transcript p 437-8) This was decoded by the British on November 25 and the Dutch on November 27. When it was decoded by the US is a national secret, however, on November 26 Naval Intelligence reported the concentration of units of the Japanese fleet at an unknown port ready for offensive action.
- 26 Nov. 3 A.M. - Churchill sent an urgent secret message to FDR, probably containing above message. This message caused the greatest agitation in DC. Of Churchill's voluminous correspondence with FDR, this is the only message that has not been released (on the grounds that it would damage national security). Stark testified that "On November 26 there was received specific evidence of the Japanese intention to wage offensive war against Great Britain and the United States." C.I.A. Director William Casey, who was in the OSS in 1941, in his book THE SECRET WAR AGAINST HITLER, p 7, wrote "The British had sent word that a Japanese fleet was steaming east toward Hawaii." Washington, in an order of Nov 26 as a result of the "first shot" meeting the day before, ordered both US aircraft carriers, the Enterprise and the Lexington out of Pearl Harbor "as soon as practicable." This order included stripping Pearl of 50 planes or 40 percent of its already inadequate fighter protection. In response to Churchill's message, FDR secretly cabled him that afternoon - "Negotiations off. Services expect action within two weeks." Note that the only way FDR could have linked negotiations with service action, let alone have known the timing of the action, was if he had the message to sail. In other words, the only service action contingent on negotiations was Pearl Harbor.
- 26 Nov. - the "most fateful document " was Hull's ultimatum that Japan must withdraw from Indochina and all China. FDR's Ambassador to Japan called this "The document that touched the button that started the war."
- 27 Nov. - Secretary of War Stimson sent a confused and confusing hostile action possible or DO-DON'T warning. The Navy Court found this message directed attention away from Pearl Harbor, rather than toward it. One purpose of the message was to mislead HI into believing negotiations were continuing. The Army which could not do reconnaissance was ordered to and the Navy which could was ordered not to. The Army was ordered on sabotage alert, which specifically precluded attention to outside threat. Navy attention was misdirected 5000 miles from HI. DC repeated, no less than three times as a direct instruction of the President, "The US desires that Japan commit the first overt act Period." It was unusual that FDR directed this warning, a routine matter, to Hawaii which is proof that he knew other warnings were not sent. A simple question--what Japanese "overt act" was FDR expecting at Pearl Harbor? He ordered sabotage prevented and subs couldn't enter, that leaves air attack. The words "overt act" disclose FDR's intent - not just that Japan be allowed to attack but that they inflict damage on the fleet. This FDR order to allow a Japanese attack was aid to the enemy - explicit treason.
- 29 Nov.- Hull sat in Layfayette Park across from the White House with ace United Press reporter Joe Leib and showed him a message stating that Pearl Harbor would be attacked on December 7. This could well have been the Nov. 26 message from Churchill. The New York Times in its 12/8/41 PH report on page 13 under the headline "Attack Was Expected" stated the US had known that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked the week before. Perhaps Leib wasn't the only reporter Hull told.
- 29 Nov. - The FBI embassy tap made an intercept of an uncoded plain-text Japanese telephone conversation in which an Embassy functionary (Kurusu) asked 'Tell me, what zero hour is. Otherwise, I won't be able to carry on diplomacy.' The voice from Tokyo (K. Yamamoto) said softly, 'Well then, I will tell you. Zero hour is December 8 (Tokyo time, ie, December 7 US time) at Pearl Harbor.' (US Navy translation 29 Nov)
- 30 Nov. US Time (or 1 Dec. Tokyo time) - The Japanese fleet was radioed this Imperial Naval Order (JN-25): "JAPAN, UNDER THE NECESSITY OF HER SELF-PRESERVATION AND SELF-DEFENSE, HAS REACHED A POSITION TO DECLARE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." (Congress Appendix D, p 415). US ally China also recovered it in plain text from a shot-down Japanese Army plane near Canton that evening. This caused an emergency Imperial Conference because they knew the Chinese would give the information to GB and US. In a related J-19 message the next day, the US translated elaborate instructions from Japan dealing in precise detail with the method of internment of American and British nationals in Asia "on the outbreak of war with England and the United States"
- 1 Dec. - Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI, Twelfth Naval District in San Francisco found the missing Japanese fleet by correlating reports from the four wireless news services and several shipping companies that they were getting strange signals west of Hawaii. The Soviet Union also knew the exact location of the Japanese fleet because they asked the Japanese in advance to let one of their ships pass (Layton p 261). This info was most likely given to them by US because Sorge's spy ring was rolled up November 14. All long-range PBY patrols from the Aleutians were ordered stopped on Dec 6 to prevent contact.
- 1 Dec. - Foreign Minister Togo cabled Washington Ambassador Nomura to continue negotiations "to prevent the U.S. from becoming unduly suspicious."
- 1 Dec. - The tanker Shiriya, which had been added to the Striking Force in an order intercepted Nov 14, radioed "proceeding to a position 30.00 N, 154.20 E. Expect to arrive at that point on 3 December." (near HI) The fact that this message is in the National Archives destroys the myth that the attack fleet maintained radio silence. They were not ordered to (Order 820). Serial numbers prove that the Striking Force sent over 663 radio messages between Nov 16 and Dec 7 or about 1 per hour. The NSA has not released any raw intercepts because the headers would prove that the Striking Force did not maintain radio silence. On Nov 29 the Hiyei sent one message to the Commander of the 3rd fleet; on Nov 30 the Akagi sent several messages to its tankers - see page 474 of the Hewitt Report. Stinnett in DAY OF DECEIT (p 209) found over 100 messages from the Striking Force in the National Archives. All Direction Finding reports from HI have been crudely cut out. Reports from Dec 5 show messages sent from the Striking Force picked up by Station Cast, P.I.
- From traffic analysis, HI reported that the carrier force was at sea and in the North. THE MOST AMAZING FACT is that in reply to that report, MacArthur's command sent a series of three messages, Nov 26, 29, Dec 2, to HI lying about the location of the carrier fleet - saying it was in the South China Sea. This false information, which the NSA calls inexplicable, was the true reason that HI was caught unawares. Duane Whitlock, who is still alive in Iowa, sent those messages.
- There were a large number of other messages that gave the location of the Striking Force by alluding to the Aleutians, the North Pacific and various weather systems near HI.
- 1 Dec. - FDR cut short his scheduled ten day vacation after 1 day to meet with Hull and Stark. The result of this meeting was reported on 2 Dec. by the Washington Post: "President Roosevelt yesterday assumed direct command of diplomatic and military moves relating to Japan." This politically damaging move was necessary to prevent the mutiny of conspirators.
- 1 Dec. 3:30 P.M. FDR read Foreign Minister Togo's message to his ambassador to Germany: "Say very secretly to them that there is extreme danger between Japan & Anglo-Saxon nations through some clash of arms, add that the time of this war may come quicker than anyone dreams." This was in response to extreme German pressure on November 29 for Japan to strike the US and promises to join with Japan in war against the US. The second of its three parts has never been released. The message says it contains the plan of campaign. This is 1 of only 3 known DIPLOMATIC intercepts that specified PH as target. It was so interesting, FDR kept a copy.
- 2 Dec. 2200 Tokyo time- Here is a typical JN-25 ships-in-harbor report sent to attack fleet, words in parenthesis were in the original: "Striking Force telegram No. 994. Two battleships (Oklahoma, Nevada), 1 aircraft carrier (Enterprise) 2 heavy cruisers, 12 destroyers sailed. The force that sailed on 22 November returned to port. Ships at anchor Pearl Harbor p.m. 28 November were 6 battleships (2 Maryland class, 2 California class, 2 Pennsylvania class), 1 aircraft carrier (Lexington), 9 heavy cruisers (5 San Francisco class, 3 Chicago class, 1 Salt Lake class), 5 light cruisers (4 Honolulu class, 1 Omaha class)"
- 2 Dec. - Commander of the Combined Imperial Fleet Yamamoto radioed the attack fleet in plain (uncoded) Japanese Climb Niitakayama 1208 (Dec 8 Japanese time, Dec 7 our time). Thus the US knew EXACTLY when the war would start. Mount Niitaka was the highest mountain in the Japanese Empire - 13,113 feet.
- 2 Dec. - General Hein Ter Poorten, the commander of the Netherlands East Indies Army gave the Winds setup message to the US War Department. The Australians had a center in Melbourne and the Chinese also broke JN-25. A Dutch sub had visually tracked the attack fleet to the Kurile Islands in early November and this info was passed to DC, but DC did not give it to HI. The intercepts the Dutch gave the US are still classified in RG 38, Box 792.
- 2 Dec - Japanese order No. 902 specified that old JN-25 additive tables version 7 would continue to be used alongside version 8 when the latter was introduced on December 4. This means the US read all messages to the Striking Force through the attack.
- 4 Dec. - In the early hours, Ralph Briggs at the Navy's East Coast Intercept station, received the "East Winds, Rain" message, the Winds Execute, which meant war. He put it on the TWX circuit immediately and called his commander. This message was deleted from the files. One of the main coverups of Pearl Harbor was to make this message disappear. Japanese Dispatch # 7001. In response to the Winds Execute, the Office of US Naval IQ had all Far Eastern stations (Hawaii not informed) destroy their codes and classified documents including the Tokyo Embassy.
- 4 Dec. - The Dutch invoked the ADB joint defense agreement when the Japanese crossed the magic line of 100 East and 10 North. The U.S. was at war with Japan 3 days before they were at war with us.
- 4 Dec. - General Ter Poorten sent all the details of the Winds Execute command to Colonel Weijerman, the Dutch military attache' in Washington to pass on to the highest military circles. Weijerman personally gave it to Marshall, Chief of Staff of the War Department.
- 4 Dec - US General Thorpe at Java sent four messages warning of the PH attack. DC ordered him to stop sending warnings.
- 5 Dec. - All Japanese international shipping had returned to home port.
- 5 December - In the morning FDR dictated a letter to Wendell Wilkie for the Australian Prime Minister, "There is always the Japanese to consider. The situation is definitely serious and there might be an armed clash at any moment...Perhaps the next four or five days will decide the matters."
- 5 Dec. - At a Cabinet meeting, Secretary of the Navy Knox said, "Well, you know Mr. President, we know where the Japanese fleet is?" "Yes, I know" said FDR. " I think we ought to tell everybody just how ticklish the situation is. We have information as Knox just mentioned...Well, you tell them what it is, Frank." Knox became very excited and said, "Well, we have very secret information that the Japanese fleet is out at sea. Our information is..." and then a scowling FDR cut him off. (Infamy, Toland, 1982, ch 14 sec 5)
- 5 Dec. - Washington Star reporter Constantine Brown quotes a friend in his book The Coming of the Whirlwind p 291, "This is it! The Japs are ready to attack. We've broken their code, and we've read their ORDERS."
- 5 Dec. - Lt. Howard Brown of Station Cast in the Philippines received urgent request from Washington to listen for a short message from Tokyo which ended with the English word "stop". He heard the message at 11:30 PM Hawaiian time Dec 6. This is the Hidden Word Code set up in a message of November 27 (e.g. in code, Roosevelt=Miss Kimiko). The message was: "Relations between Japan and the following countries are on the brink of catastrophe: Britain and the United States."
- 6 December - This 18 November J19 message was translated by the Army:
"1. The warships at anchor in the Harbor on the 15th were as I told you in my No.219 on that day. Area A -- A battleship of the Oklahoma class entered and one tanker left port. Area C -- 3 warships of the heavy cruiser class were at anchor.
2. On the 17th the Saratoga was not in harbor. The carrier Enterprise, or some other vessel was in Area C. Two heavy cruisers of the Chicago class, one of the Pensacola class were tied up at docks 'KS'. 4 merchant vessels were at anchor in area D.
3. At 10:00 A.M. on the morning of the 17th, 8 destroyers were observed entering the Harbor..." Of course this information was not passed to HI. - 6 Dec. - A Dec 2 request from Tokyo to HI for information about the absence of barrage balloons, anti-torpedo nets and air recon was translated by the Army.
- 6 Dec. - at 9:30 P.M FDR read the first 13 parts of the decoded Japanese diplomatic declaration of war and said "This means war." What kind of President would do nothing? When he returned to his 34 dinner guests he said, "The war starts tomorrow."
- 6 Dec. - the war cabinet: FDR, top advisor Hopkins, Stimson, Marshall, Secretary of the Navy Knox, with aides John McCrea and Frank Beatty "deliberately sat through the night of 6 December 1941 waiting for the Japs to strike." (Infamy ch 16 sec 2)
- 7 December - A message from the Japanese Consul in Budapest to Tokyo:
"On the 6th, the American Minister presented to the Government of this country a British Government communique to the effect that a state of war would break out on the 7th." The communique was the Dec 5th War Alert from the British Admiralty. It has disappeared. This triple priority alert was delivered to FDR personally. The Mid-East British Air Marshall told Col. Bonner Fellers on Saturday that he had received a secret signal that America was coming into the war in 24 hours. Churchill summarized the message in GRAND ALLIANCE page 601 as listing the two fleets attacking British targets and "Other Japanese fleets...also at sea on other tasks." There only were three other fleets- for Guam, the Philippines and HI. 2 paragraphs of the alert, British targets only, are printed in AT DAWN WE SLEPT, Prange, p 464. There is no innocent purpose for our government to hide this document. - 7 December 1941 very early Washington time, there were two Marines, an emergency special detail, stationed outside the Japanese Naval Attache's door. 9:30 AM Aides begged Stark to send a warning to Hawaii. He did not. 10 AM FDR read the 14th part, 11 A.M. FDR read the 15th part setting the time for the declaration of war to be delivered to the State Department at 1 PM, about dawn Pearl Harbor time, and did nothing. Navy Secretary Knox was given the 15th part at 11:15 A.M. with this note from the Office of Naval IQ: "This means a sunrise attack on Pearl Harbor today." Naval IQ also transmitted this prediction to Hull and about 8 others, including the White House (PHH 36:532). At 10:30 AM Bratton informed Marshall that he had a most important message (the 15th part) and would bring it to Marshall's quarters but Marshall said he would take it at his office. At 11:25 Marshall reached his office according to Bratton. Marshall testified that he had been riding horses that morning but he was contradicted by Harrison, McCollum, and Deane. Marshall who had read the first 13 parts by 10 PM the prior night, perjured himself by denying that he had even received them. Marshall, in the face of his aides' urgent supplications that he warn Hawaii, made strange delays including reading and re-reading all of the 10 minute long 14 Part Message (and some parts several times) which took an hour and refused to use the scrambler phone on his desk, refused to send a warning by the fast, more secure Navy system but sent Bratton three times to inquire how long it would take to send his watered down warning - when informed it would take 30 or 40 minutes by Army radio, he was satisfied (that meant he had delayed enough so the warning wouldn't reach Pearl Harbor until after the 1 PM Washington time deadline). The warning was in fact sent commercial without priority identification and arrived 6 hours late. This message reached all other addressees, like the Philippines and Canal Zone, in a timely manner.
- 7 December - 7:55 A.M. Hawaii time AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL.
- 7 December - 1:50 P.M. Washington time. Harry Hopkins, who was the only person with FDR when he received the news of the attack by telephone from Knox, wrote that FDR was unsurprised and expressed "great relief." Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about December 7th in This I Remember p 233, that FDR became "in a way more serene." In the NY Times Magazine of October 8, 1944 she wrote: "December 7 was...far from the shock it proved to the country in general. We had expected something of the sort for a long time."
- 7 December - 3:00 PM "The (war cabinet) conference met in not too tense an atmosphere because I think that all of us believed that in the last analysis the enemy was Hitler...and that Japan had given us an opportunity." Harry Hopkins (top KGB agent and FDR's alter ego), Dec. 7 Memo (Roosevelt and Hopkins R Sherwood, p. 431)
- 7 December - 9 hours later, MacArthur's entire air force was caught by surprise and wiped out in the Philippines. His reaction to the news of Pearl Harbor was quite unusual - he locked himself in his room all morning and refused to meet with his air commander General Brereton, and refused to attack Japanese forces on Formosa even under orders from the War Department. MacArthur gave three conflicting orders that ensured the planes were on the ground most of the morning. MacArthur used radar tracking of the Japanese planes at 140, 100, 80, 60, down to 20 miles to time his final order and ensure his planes were on the ground. Strategically, the destruction of half of all US heavy bombers in the world was more important than naval damage in Pearl Harbor. Either MacArthur had committed the greatest blunder in military history or he was under orders to allow his forces to be destroyed. If it were the greatest blunder in history, it is remarkable how he escaped any reprimand, kept his command and got his fourth star and Congressional Medal of Honor shortly later. Prange argued, "How could the President ensure a successful Japanese attack unless he confided in the commanders and persuaded them to allow the enemy to proceed unhindered?"
- 7 December - 8:30 PM, FDR said to his cabinet, "We have reason to believe that the Germans have told the Japanese that if Japan declares war, they will too. In other words, a declaration of war by Japan automatically brings..." at which point he was interrupted, but his expectation and focus is clear. Mrs. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, observed later about FDR: "I had a deep emotional feeling that something was wrong, that this situation was not all it appeared to be." Mrs. Perkins was obsessed by Roosevelt's strange reactions that night and remarked particularly on the expression he had:" In other words, there have been times when I associated that expression with a kind of evasiveness."
- FDR met with CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow at midnight. Murrow, who had seen many statesmen in crises, was surprised at FDR's calm reaction. After chatting about London, they reviewed the latest news from PH and then FDR tested Murrow's news instincts with these 2 bizarre giveaway questions: "Did this surprise you?" Murrow said yes. FDR: "Maybe you think it didn't surprise us?" FDR gave the impression that the attack itself was not unwelcome. This is the same high-strung FDR that got polio when convicted of perjury; the same FDR that was bedridden for a month when he learned Russia was to be attacked; the same FDR who couldn't eat or drink when he got the Japanese order to sail.
- 8 December - In a conversation with his speech writer Rosenman, FDR "emphasized that Hitler was still the first target, but he feared that a great many Americans would insist that we make the war in the Pacific at least equally important with the war against Hitler."
- Later, Jonathan Daniels, administrative assistant and press secretary to FDR said, "The blow was heavier than he had hoped it would necessarily be...But the risks paid off; even the loss was worth the price..."
- FDR reminisced with Stalin at Tehran on November 30, 1943, saying "if the Japanese had not attacked the US he doubted very much if it would have been possible to send any American forces to Europe." Compare this statement with what FDR said at the Atlantic Conference 4 months before Pearl: "Everything was to be done to force an 'incident' to justify hostilities." Given that a Japanese attack was the only possible incident, then FDR had said he would do it.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was a series of false-flag proposals that originated within the United States government in 1962. ]The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or other operatives, to commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro.[2] One part of Operation Northwoods was to "develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."
Operation Northwoods proposals included hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. It stated:
"The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere."
Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. Although part of the U.S. government's Cuban Project anti-communist initiative, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted and the proposals included in the plan were never executed.
James Bamford summarizes Northwoods as follows:
Operation Northwoods, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.[3]
Content
In response to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project, Brig. Gen. Edward Lansdale, the document listed methods, and outlined plans, that the authors believed would garner public and international support for U.S. military intervention in Cuba. These were to be staged attacks purported to be of Cuban origin.
1.Since it would seem desirable to use legitimate provocation as the basis for US military intervention in Cuba a cover and deception plan, to include requisite preliminary actions such as has been developed in response to Task 33 c, could be executed as an initial effort to provoke Cuban reactions. Harassment plus deceptive actions to convince the Cubans of imminent invasion would be emphasized. Our military posture throughout execution of the plan will allow a rapid change from exercise to intervention if Cuban response justifies.
2.A series of well coordinated incidents will be planned to take place in and around Guantanamo to give genuine appearance of being done by hostile Cuban forces.
a. Incidents to establish a credible attack (not in chronological order):
1.Start rumors (many). Use clandestine radio.
2.Land friendly Cubans in uniform "over-the-fence" to stage attack on base.
3.Capture Cuban (friendly) saboteurs inside the base.
4.Start riots near the base main gate (friendly Cubans).[14]
5.Blow up ammunition inside the base; start fires.
6.Burn aircraft on air base (sabotage).
7.Lob mortar shells from outside of base into base. Some damage to installations.
8.Capture assault teams approaching from the sea or vicinity of Guantanamo City.
9.Capture militia group which storms the base.
10.Sabotage ship in harbor; large fires—napthalene.
11.Sink ship near harbor entrance. Conduct funerals for mock-victims (may be in lieu of (10)).
b. United States would respond by executing offensive operations to secure water and power supplies, destroying artillery and mortar emplacements which threaten the base.
c. Commence large scale United States military operations.
3.A "Remember the Maine" incident could be arranged in several forms:
a. We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.
b. We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere in the Cuban waters. We could arrange to cause such incident in the vicinity of Havana or Santiago as a spectacular result of Cuban attack from the air or sea, or both. The presence of Cuban planes or ships merely investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling evidence that the ship was taken under attack. The nearness to Havana or Santiago would add credibility especially to those people that might have heard the blast or have seen the fire. The US could follow up with an air/sea rescue operation covered by US fighters to "evacuate" remaining members of the non-existent crew. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.
4.We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.[15]
The terror campaign could be pointed at refugees seeking haven in the United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized. Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement, also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.
5.A "Cuban-based, Castro-supported" filibuster could be simulated against a neighboring Caribbean nation (in the vein of the 14 June invasion of the Dominican Republic). We know that Castro is backing subversive efforts clandestinely against Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Nicaragua at present and possible others. These efforts can be magnified and additional ones contrived for exposure. For example, advantage can be taken of the sensitivity of the Dominican Air Force to intrusions within their national air space. "Cuban" B-26 or C-46 type aircraft could make cane-burning raids at night. Soviet Bloc incendiaries could be found.
6.Use of MIG type aircraft by US pilots could provide additional provocation. Harassment of civil air, attacks on surface shipping and destruction of US military drone aircraft by MIG type planes would be useful as complementary actions. An F-86 properly painted would convince air passengers that they saw a Cuban MIG, especially if the pilot of the transport were to announce such fact. The primary drawback to this suggestion appears to be the security risk inherent in obtaining or modifying an aircraft. However, reasonable copies of the MIG could be produced from US resources in about three months.[16]
7.Hijacking attempts against civil air and surface craft should appear to continue as harassing measures condoned by the government of Cuba. Concurrently, genuine defections of Cuban civil and military air and surface craft should be encouraged.
8.It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.
9.It is possible to create an incident which will make it appear that Communist Cuban MIGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over international waters in an unprovoked attack.
a. Approximately 4 or 5 F-101 aircraft will be dispatched in trail from Homestead AFB, Florida, to the vicinity of Cuba. Their mission will be to reverse course and simulate fakir aircraft for an air defense exercise in southern Florida. These aircraft would conduct variations of these flights at frequent Intervals.
b. On one such flight, a pre-briefed pilot would fly tail-end Charley at considerable interval between aircraft. While near the Cuban Island this pilot would broadcast that he had been jumped by MIGs and was going down. No other calls would be made. The pilot would then fly directly west at extremely low altitude and land at a secure base, an Eglin auxiliary. The aircraft would be met by the proper people, quickly stored and given a new tail number. The pilot who had performed the mission under an alias, would resume his proper identity and return to his normal place of business. The pilot and aircraft would then have disappeared.
c. At precisely the same time that the aircraft was presumably shot down, a submarine or small surface craft would disburse F-101 parts, parachute, etc., at approximately 15 to 20 miles off the Cuban coast and depart. The pilots returning to Homestead would have a true story as far as they knew. Search ships and aircraft could be dispatched and parts of aircraft found.[18]
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