yellow cake
This blind spot is revealed in that concluding quote from his book on the Phoenix Program (PHP). It says that the PHP is present everywhere when Left or Right governments conduct their secret wars on dissenters. This,
of course, nullifies his entire historical analysis and trivializes PHP (as well as similar programs) by reducing it to a set
of techniques in a war
of terror against civil population or just individual “dissidents.” From such a perspective, there is no difference between PHP and the war
of the revolutionary government in Paris against the counterrevolutionary peasants in Vandee or the Soviet government’s use
of the Red Army and OGPU against the Tambov Rebellion or later the Banderovite underground in Western Ukraine. The KGB running “dissident” groups and using psychiatry to suppress the voices
of a capitalist restoration is also a part
of the PHP family together with the CIA’s reign
of terror in the Northern Caucasus or El Salvador. Everything is lumped together. I just hope that this line is nothing more that a tribute to that perennial fear
of North American middle-class dissenters to be labeled “commies” and does not affect the bulk
of his analysis. I didn’t read the book (I’ll certainly do) but if this interview is a fair summary
of the historical origin(s)
of PHP it’s far from being complete or even touching its central roots. The fact is that by the end
of WWII the United States had relatively little experience in conducting anti-partisan war and clandestine warfare in general. I can think only
of the Philippines and the “pacification”
of American Indians. The supreme experts in this business were the British and the Nazis. The latter were
of a higher importance because they had a unique experience
of fighting the partisan movement in the SU the like
of which even the British never dealt with. In the early CIA, the battle worthy core for this type
of warfare were the Gehlen Org and Organization
of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B). The Gehlen Org, led by the chief
of Wehrmacht’s intelligence in the Eastern Front General Reinhard Gehlen, was stuffed with the intelligence cadres
of the Abwehr and other Nazi secret services. Importantly, it also included highly knowledgeable ethnic specialists from Rosenberg’s Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Importantly, because the secret warfare the US ruling class was to carry out on a global scale was essentially construed as ethnicity based. To give one example, what we call now Operation Gladio Plan B, that is the use
of “Islamism” as proxy for gaining control over the Caucasus and Central Asia (with Russia proper and China to follow) began soon after WWII in a mosque in Munich which served for organizing veterans from Muslim Wehrmacht and SS units fighting in the Eastern Front. This CIA project was run by Rosenberg’s specialist on Soviet Muslims Dr. Gerhard von Mende who was also a member
of Gehlen Org. The latter’s role in the original Operation Gladio in Europe and Turkey where the Nazis had extensive intelligence network is yet to be researched as far as I know. A very special group within Nazi intelligence apparatus appropriated by the US were Russian White officers who specialized in all types
of political warfare, from scorched land tactics to false flag operations to penetrating Soviet partisan movement and even Soviet counterintelligence. They could teach Americans a lot and were most likely used in European Gladio and anti partisan warfare in LA. See for instance the career
of Boris Smyslovsky aka Colonel Holmston . As to OUN-B (B is for Bandera) and its Bespeka (Security) organization, these were the best
of the best, a genuine treasure trove for the CIA and DIA. These people knew the guerrilla warfare from the inside and had experience in ethnic and political cleansing operations. The head
of Bespeka and later a CIA agent Mykola Lebed organized the genocide
of Polish population in Volhynia (1943) which in scope was second only to the Nazi cum OUN genocide
of Jews in Ukraine and Belorussia. Under the CIA’s DOD Frank Wisner, the military and security wing
of OUN-B waged military and terror operations in Soviet Ukraine. Wisner calculated that by 1951 Lebed’s people killed some 35,000 Soviet police troops and Communist party cadres (Blowback – America’s recruitment
of Nazis, and
its disastrous effect on our domestic and foreign policy by Christopher Simpson). This count doesn’t include other victims
of Banderovite terror — ordinary Ukrainians who refused to cooperate and the pro-Russian intelligentsia. OUN and Nazis believed that preventive terror should aim at the extermination
of the creme
of national intelligentsia. I suspect that the PHP type
of operations had adopted this principle and that the assassination
of hundreds
of Middle East scientists and intellectuals that began with the invasion
of Iraq may have something to do with this. 2013
The call or opportunity to choose (sometimes using forms
of the Hebrew word bachar) is found again and again in the Bible. It was all too easy for God’s people to slip back. Too often the people chose their own ways, doing evil in God’s sight, choosing what displeased Him (Isaiah 66:3,4). "They hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord" (Proverbs 1:29). Too few were like the Psalmist who said, "I have chosen the way
of truth [Hebrew, emunah, which also means ‘faithfulness’]" (Psalm 119:30). Or like the sons
of Korah who said, "Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be (Hebrew, bacharti, ‘I have chosen to be’) a doorkeeper in the house
of my God than dwell in the tents
of the wicked" (Psalm 84:10). Wisdom’s call was, "Choose my instruction instead
of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her" (Proverbs 8:10,11; cf. 16:16). horton
People who were the hi-tech survivors
of the previous civilization in decline some note.
And on the night
of our entry into Egypt, I, Abram, dreamt a dream; and behold, I saw in my dream a cedar tree and a palm tree. Men came and they sought to cut down the cedar tree and to pull up its roots, leaving the palm tree standing alone. But the palm tree cried out/saying, "Do not cut down this cedar tree, for cursed be he who shall fell it." And the cedar tree was spared because
of the palm tree and was not felled.
http://on.aol.com/video/egypt-strikes-b ... -518654393
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m- ... hose-sarin
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28212724
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-1 ... t-funding-
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 870#p29285
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. aristo
ceteris paribus
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-1 ... crash-opex
Widows and Orphans was a dour retort as we witness who picked up the marples.
I would rather be (Hebrew, bacharti, ‘I have chosen to be’) a doorkeeper in the house
of my God than dwell in the tents
of the wicked.
(Psalm 84:10).