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casey abrams and ollie keen to go into greneda, cluster from git, recover banana wars.

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power of nightmares

ladeen fooled by novel; cia told casey it was their own black prop

http://www.wanttoknow.info/war/power_of_nightmares_transcript_1

O: To persuade the President, the neoconservatives set out to prove that the Soviet threat was far greater than anyone, even Team B, had previously shown. They would demonstrate that the majority of terrorism and revolutionary movements around the world were actually part of a secret network, coordinated by Moscow, to take over the world. The main proponent of this theory was a leading neoconservative who was the special adviser to the Secretary of State. His name was Michael Ledeen, and he had been influenced by a best-selling book called The Terror Network. It alleged that terrorism was not the fragmented phenomenon that it appeared to be. In reality, all terrorist groups, from the PLO to the Baader-Meinhof group in Germany, and the Provisional IRA, all of them were a part of a coordinated strategy of terror run by the Soviet Union. But the CIA completely disagreed. They said this was just another neoconservative fantasy.

MICHAEL LEDEEN , Special Adviser to the US Secretary of State 1981-1982: The CIA denied it. They tried to convince people that we were really crazy. I mean, they never believed that the Soviet Union was a driving force in the international terror network. They always wanted to believe that terrorist organizations were just what they said they were: local groups trying to avenge terrible evils done to them, or trying to rectify terrible social conditions, and things like that. And the CIA really did buy into the rhetoric. I don't know what their motive was. I mean, I don't know what people's motives are, hardly ever. And I don't much worry about motives.

VO: But the neoconservatives had a powerful ally. He was William Casey, and he was the new head of the CIA. Casey was sympathetic to the neoconservative view. And when he read the Terror Network book, he was convinced. He called a meeting of the CIA's Soviet analysts at their headquarters, and told them to produce a report for the President that proved this hidden network existed. But the analysts told him that this would be impossible, because much of the information in the book came from black propaganda the CIA themselves had invented to smear the Soviet Union. They knew that the terror network didn't exist, because they themselves had made it up.

MELVIN GOODMAN , Head of Soviet Affairs CIA, 1976-87: And when we looked through the book, we found very clear episodes where CIA black propaganda—clandestine information that was designed under a covert action plan to be planted in European newspapers—were picked up and put in this book. A lot of it was made up. It was made up out of whole cloth.

INTERVIEWER (off-camera): You told him this?

GOODMAN : We told him that, point blank. And we even had the operations people to tell Bill Casey this. I thought maybe this might have an impact, but all of us were dismissed. Casey had made up his mind. He knew the Soviets were involved in terrorism, so there was nothing we could tell him to disabuse him. Lies became reality.

VO: In the end, Casey found a university professor who described himself as a terror expert, and he produced a dossier that confirmed that the hidden terror network did, in fact, exist. Under such intense lobbying, Reagan agreed to give the neoconservatives what they wanted, and in 1983 he signed a secret document that fundamentally changed American foreign policy. The country would now fund covert wars to push back the hidden Soviet threat around the world.

President RONALD REAGAN : The specter of Marxist-Leninist controlled governments with ideological and political loyalties to the Soviet Union proves that there's a direct challenge to which we must respond. They are the focus of evil in the modern world.

VO: It was a triumph for the neoconservatives. America was now setting out to do battle against the forces of evil in the world. But what had started out as the kind of myth that Leo Strauss had said was necessary for the American people increasingly came to be seen as the truth by the neoconservatives. They began to believe their own fiction. They had become what they called "democratic revolutionaries," who were going to use force to change the world.

LEDEEN : We were aiming for an expansion of the zone of freedom in the world. And in part that had to do with fighting Communism, and in part that had to do with fighting other kinds of tyrannies. But that's what we were about, and that's what we're still about.

INTERVIEWER (off-camera): When you say you were democratic revolutionaries, what do you mean?

LEDEEN : It meant that we wanted to support the people who wanted to carry out revolutions against tyrannical regimes in the name of democracy, in order to install a democratic system.

INTERVIEWER : As simple as that.

LEDEEN : Yeah. It's not nuclear physics, you know. I mean, freedom is a fairly simple thing to get.

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=william_casey

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_J._Casey_%28CIA_Director%29

 ashes: wm casey OSS and  gop fundraiser, rr picked casey, wall st tax dodge, OSS, his ideology ruled info

nicaraguan and el salv; congr said no to overthrow, RR lied

pentagon $30B cia 3 bill 381

casey liked ollie

 1/2 bill to chad (stingers lost)

saudis and cia spent big on muj in afg.  warlords skimmed gunsand $

RR scared ussr on alert 2 yrs, cyber war on gas pipeline.

how to war VN comic tranasl to sp for contras

RR signed guns for hostage finding 403 c powell transf missles to cia; deal led to increase in kidnapoing, 2 kia, some held 5 yrs

iran $ paid felix R (bombed cuban airliner, killed che

shipped arms (and info?) to both iran and iraq

casey denounced by his own bishop at his funeral

William J. Casey (1913-1987) was born in Queens NY on March 13, 1913. Casey served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from January 28, 1981, until his death on January 29, 1987.

**October 27, 1986 Biography from the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University**

"William J. Casey heads the United States' foreign intelligence community and directs the Central Intelligence Agency, a position he has held since appointed by the Ronald Reagan Administration in 1981.

"Casey is the first Director of Central Intelligence to be designated by the President as a cabinet officer. Also, he managed Ronald Reagan's successful primary and presidential election campaigns in 1980.

"A native of Long Island, New York, Casey graduated from Fordham University and St. John's University School of Law. After law school, he joined the Research Institute of America, rising to become chairman of the institute's board of editors.

"He was commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WW II, joining the wartime staff of William J. Donovan, founder of the Office of Strategic Services, the CIA's predecessor. Assigned to the European theatre, Casey received the Bronze Star for his work in coordinating French Resistance forces in support of the invasion of Normandy and the liberation of France.

"Later, in 1944, he became chief of American secret intelligence operations in Europe. After the war, he served as associate general counsel at the European headquarters of the Marshall Plan. Between 1949 and 1980, he practiced law and engaged in various publishing and entrepreneurial activities in New York City.

"Casey served in the early 70's as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1971-1973) and later became Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and president and chairman of the Import-Export Bank of the United States. Returning to private life, he became counsel to the New York and Washington, D.C. law firm of Rogers and Wells.

"Casey has authored a number of books on legal and financial subjects, as well as a history of the American Revolution.

"He received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal in 1983. Also, Casey has received the William J. Donovan Award and honorary degrees from Fordham University, St. John's University, Chung Ang University, New York Law School, Molloy College, Adelphi University, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Bryant College and Westminster College."

**William J. Casey Biography** from the The William J. Casey Institute of The Center for Security Policy web site:

"William J. Casey was -- to the enormous benefit of our nation -- a man consistently ahead of his time. From his vital role as Chief of Secret Intelligence in Europe for the Office of Secret Services to his extraordinary stewardship of Ronald Reagan's Central Intelligence Agency, Bill Casey's strategic vision shaped several of the defining moments in America history. His passionate commitment to freedom -- and the subtle, rarified strategies he used to help bring it to hundreds of millions of victims of fascist and communist repression -- is one of the truly great stories of our time.

"Mr. Casey came to accomplish his great feats for America's security by a rich and varied background of senior positions in both the public and private sectors. Indeed, it was the highly successful merger of Bill Casey's Wall Street and national security experiences that largely gave birth to the field of International Economic Security--the overarching focus of the Casey Institute's work program and raison d'etre.

"In the public sector, Bill Casey served as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. He likewise served in pivotal positions for the election campaigns of both Presidents**Richard M. Nixon**and Reagan. His final period of public service was as Director of Central Intelligence under President Reagan.

"Bill was likewise a luminary in the private sector where he translated his Fordham and St. John's degrees into an outstanding career in law and finance. He understood the uniqueness of the skills he possessed and undertook to share them through lecture series and many publications.

"The blending of this extraordinary man's life experiences made an incalculable difference in both restoring American power and prestige around the world and providing 'early warning' for the coming abuses and security concerns associated with international trade, financial, energy and technology flows. The Center for Security Policy recognized Casey's myriad achievements by awarding him its 1996 'Freedom Flame.'

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January 1980-July 1987: Reagan Advisers Run Parallel Government

Members of the Reagan administration run a secret shadow government that operates outside of official channels and circumvents Congressional oversight. The Miami Herald reports in July 1987: “Some of President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside the traditional cabinet departments and agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, Congressional investigators and administration officials have concluded.” Figures involved in the secret structure include Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, National Security Adviser William Clark, CIA Director William Casey, and Attorney General Edwin Meese. Secret contacts throughout the government act on the advisers’ behalf, but do not officially report to them. The group is reportedly involved in arming the Nicaraguan rebels, the leaking of information to news agencies for propaganda purposes, the drafting of martial law plans for national emergencies, and the monitoring of US citizens considered potential security risks. The secret parallel government is tied to the highly classified Continuity of Government (COG) program, originally designed to keep the government functioning in times of disaster. From 1983 to 1986, North reportedly leads the parallel structure from his office in the Old Executive Office Building across from the White House. Sources tell the Miami Herald that North’s influence within the shadow government is so great that he can alter the orbits of surveillance satellites to monitor Soviet activity, launch spy aircraft over Cuba and Nicaragua, and “become involved in sensitive domestic activities,” which apparently include monitoring US citizens with sophisticated surveillance software (see 1980s). The existence of the secret structure is uncovered during investigations into the Iran-Contra affair, but the details of the shadow government are never fully disclosed. During the hearings, Representative Jack Brooks is prevented from questioning North regarding his involvement (see 1987). In a secret memo to the chairmen of the Iran-Contra committee, Arthur Liman, chief counsel to the panel, writes that behind the arms scandal is a “whole secret government-within-a-government, operated from the [Executive Office Building] by a lieutenant colonel, with its own army, air force, diplomatic agents, intelligence operatives, and appropriations capacity.” Some officials interviewed by the Miami Herald believe the group of advisers first formed during the late stages of Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign (see October 1980). [Miami Herald, 5 July 1987.')" class="nL">Miami Herald, 7/5/1987]

Entity Tags: Jack Brooks, Arthur Liman, Edwin Meese, William Casey, Oliver North, William Clark, Reagan administration

october surprise?

Summer 1980: CIA Agent: Republicans Open Secret Channel to Iran in Preparation for ‘October Surprise,’ Arms Deals

Robert Sensi’s membership card in Republicans Abroad. [Source: Larry J. Kolb]According to a later account by Robert Sensi, a young CIA agent with excellent contacts among prominent Arabs, the Republican National Committee opens what Sensi calls “a secret channel to Iran.” Sensi is not only alluding to the secret plans for the US to sells arms to Iran, which is just developing (see Early 1980), but to the “October Surprise” of the November 1980 US presidential elections (see October 1980). Sensi will bring the matter up to author and fellow CIA agent Larry Kolb in a Washington, DC, hotel bar in 1986, but will not go into detail. Sensi will note that CIA Director William Casey has been involved in the US’s secret dealings with Iran since the outset, as has Robert Carter, the deputy director of Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign. Sensi will say that Casey, Carter, and the other participants are using the overseas political organization Republicans Abroad as cover for more covert activities. The organization is “a great drawing card,” according to Sensi, who is a member. “It gives us access to embassies and a lot of people we would have had a hard time getting to without the cachet of representing the ruling party in the United States.” Writing in 2007, Kolb will reflect on the Republican Party’s “own in-house team of covert operatives, as capable of conducting espionage and sabotage for the Republican Party as for the CIA. It seemed the Republicans were still doing what they had been caught doing during Watergate. Spying on and sabotaging the Democrats. Ratf_cking, as the Republican operatives called it (see October 7, 1972). Coming just a few years after the Watergate national Passion Play and all it had put our country through, this seemed flagrant and foul, like sleaze squared. And like politics-as-usual.” [*America at Night* (London: Riverhead Books, 2007)., 28-29.')">Kolb, 2007, pp. 28-29]

Entity Tags: Republican National Committee, Central Intelligence Agency, Larry Kolb, Ronald Reagan, William Casey, Robert Carter, Robert Sensi, Republicans Abroad

Timeline Tags: Iran-Contra Affair

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Committee on the Present Danger (see 1976) to his administration, 20 of them in national security positions. Reagan himself is a member, as is:

Kenneth Adelman, the US’s deputy representative to the UN;

Richard Allen, Reagan’s assistant for National Security Affairs;

William Casey, director of the CIA;

John Connally, a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board;

Jeane Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to the UN;

John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy;

Michael Novak, the US representative on the UN’s Human Rights Commission;

Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy;

Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;

George Shultz, Secretary of State.

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February 11, 1982: CIA Is Given Green Light to Take Part in Illegal Drug Trade in Afghanistan

CIA Director William Casey gets a legal exemption sparing the CIA for a requirement that they report on drug smuggling by CIA officers, agents, or assets. Attorney General William French Smith grants the exemption in a secret memorandum. On March 2, Casey thanks Smith for the exemption, saying it will help protect intelligence sources and methods. [*Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism* (New York: Pluto Press, 2002)., 110-111.')">Cooley, 2002, pp. 110-111] There are allegations that in 1981 President Reagan approved a covert program to weaken Soviet soldiers fighting in Afghanistan by addicting them to illegal drugs (see February 1981 and After). A book cowritten by two Time magazine reporters will even allege that “a few American intelligence operatives were deeply emeshed in the drug trade” during the war. [*The road to 9/11: Wealth, empire, and the future of America* (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007)., 124-125.')">Scott, 2007, pp. 124-125] President Clinton will rescind the exemption in 1995. [*Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism* (New York: Pluto Press, 2002)., 111.')">Cooley, 2002, pp. 111]

Entity Tags: William French Smith, Central Intelligence Agency, William Casey

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, War in Afghanistan

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1984-1986: CIA Director Repeatedly Meets with Head of Criminal BCCI Bank, Funding of Afghan War Is Discussed

An ailing Agha Hasan Abedi in 1991. [Source: Associated Press]NBC News later reports that CIA Director William Casey secretly meets with the head of the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) from 1984 until 1986, shortly before Casey’s death. The NBC report, quoting unnamed BCCI sources, will claim that Casey met with BCCI head Agha Hasan Abedi every few months in a luxury suite at the Madison Hotel in Washington. The two men allegedly discussed the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages transactions and CIA weapons shipments to the mujaheddin in Afghanistan. The CIA denies all the allegations. [Associated Press, 21 February 1992.')">Associated Press, 2/21/1992] But books by Time magazine and Wall Street Journal reporters will corroborate that Casey repeatedly met with Abedi. [*The road to 9/11: Wealth, empire, and the future of America* (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007)., 116.')">Scott, 2007, pp. 116] Casey also meets with Asaf Ali, a BCCI-connected arms dealer, in Washington, DC, and in Pakistan. On one occasion, Casey has a meeting in Washington with Abedi, Ali, and Pakistani President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq. [*The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI* (New York: Random House, 1993)., 308.')">Beaty and Gwynne, 1993, pp. 308]

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1985-1986: CIA Becomes Unhappy with Afghan Fighters, Begins Supporting Islamist Volunteers from Other Countries

The Central Intelligence Agency, which has been supporting indigenous Afghan groups fighting occupying Soviet forces, becomes unhappy with them due to infighting, and searches for alternative anti-Soviet allies. MSNBC will later comment: “[T]he CIA, concerned about the factionalism of Afghanistan made famous by Rudyard Kipling, found that Arab zealots who flocked to aid the Afghans were easier to ‘read’ than the rivalry-ridden natives. While the Arab volunteers might well prove troublesome later, the agency reasoned, they at least were one-dimensionally anti-Soviet for now. So [Osama] bin Laden, along with a small group of Islamic militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps all over the Middle East, became the ‘reliable’ partners of the CIA in its war against Moscow.” The CIA does not usually deal with the Afghan Arabs directly, but through an intermediary, Pakistan’s ISI, which helps the Arabs through the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) run by Abdullah Azzam. [*MSNBC*, 24 August 1998.')">MSNBC, 8/24/1998] The agreement is sealed during a secret visit to Pakistan, where CIA Director William Casey commits the agency to support the ISI program of recruiting radical Muslims for the Afghan war from other Muslim countries around the world. In addition to the Gulf States, these include Turkey, the Philippines, and China. The ISI started their recruitment of radicals from other countries in 1982 (see 1982). This CIA cooperation is part of a joint CIA-ISI plan begun the year before to expand the “Jihad” beyond Afghanistan (see 1984-March 1985). [*Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia* (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001)., 128-129.')">Rashid, 2001, pp. 128-129] Thousands of militant Arabs are trained under this program (see 1986-1992).