By ALEX CONSANTINE
[Repost]
The Condor Precursor ...
"The
9/11 attack was the parallel to the Pinochet
coup ... Operation Condor ... Pinochet also
imposed extraordinary police powers ...
After 9/11, thousands of Arabs and Muslims
were also rounded up by the US military and
kept in prison in secret ... They were also
tortured ... 9/11 was the equivalent of a
coup for Bush. Its version of Operation
Condor is being assembled in the Pentagon by
Undersecretary of Defense Stephen Cambone
and his military deputy, Lt. Gen. William G.
Boykin ..." – Maria Montelibre
"'Counterterrorism' plus George Schultz's
doctrine of 'preemptive counterinsurgency'
equals revolutionary fascist insurgency..."
– Lyle Courtsal
"In this world, in this strange world of
covert overthrow of governments and
clandestine armies and secret operations,
the problem we're facing is that you are
working with two realities: you're working
with ... exchange of power, economic power,
power over people, controlling their lives.
In order to do that you disguise certain
persons and send them into roles to
influence. They become actors on a stage and
they influence our minds in a way that is
not real, but effect a reality that will
touch us later." – Mae Brussell, Dialogue
Assassination, Broadcast no. 16, October 13,
1971
To
Mussolini, "fascismo," a word he coined, had
dual meanings. It is rooted in the Latin
"fasces," a rather strange-looking axe with
poles strapped to it, but the term also
meant "Group."
Christopher Deliso at Antiwar.com found the
9/11 group when he poked into the Plame
investigation, "a relay team of hawkish
officials providentially placed throughout
various government agencies." The serpentine
network wound through the CIA, Pentagon,
Office of Special Plans, State Department,
DIA, NSA and other federal agencies. Deliso
described operatives darkening the wings of
the Libby investigation, but the same could
be said of the 9/11 inquiry: the same "relay
team" performed "a handoff of information
from the point of origin (the CIA) to the
ultimate 'commissioners' of the inquiry."
Given the "intra- and inter-factional nature
of all of these agencies, it is
understandable why the highest officials in
the land jostled to get their 'people'
strategically inserted throughout the
departments, where they could garner inside
information and hinder the objectives of
their ostensibly direct employers whenever
they conflicted with the goals of their real
minders..."1
The "minders" were represented by George
Schultz and his Hoover "scholars" at the
Bush grooming sessions early in his first
run for the White House. The Morgan,
Rockefeller and Harriman syndicates whose
interests are served by the think tanks
sprawl, too. Skyscrapers have crumbled
beneath their feet.
Photo:
Allendé
These are the Royals. Royals set loose their
hounds for the installation of a
dictatorship in Chilé: Kissinger, Bush,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, the CIA and a military
junta on September 11, 1973: "CIA
acknowledges involvement in Allende's
overthrow, Pinochet's rise," September 19,
2000 .... "WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA is
acknowledging for the first time the extent
of its deep involvement in Chile, where it
dealt with coup-plotters, false
propagandists and assassins ... "
Twenty-five years before the CIA posted a
public confession, Howard Zinn went ahead
anyways and reported that Operation Condor,
"the CIA action to overthrow Allende, was
approved by the 40 Committee, whose chairman
[was] Henry Kissinger. And it was Kissinger
who recommended that Rockefeller head the
commission to investigate the CIA.
Rockefeller summed up the commission report:
'There are things that have been done which
are in contradiction to the statutes, but in
comparison to the total effort, they are not
major.' The same report can be made on the
Corleone family ..."2
How "in contradiction to the statutes" was
Condor? So in contradiction that the river
running through Santiago was dammed by
headless bodies. How many statutes did that
contradict?
Regime change has long been a staple of US
foreign policy. Exactly 28 years later, it
happened again. But the strategy had evolved
with the times. The idea was not to merely
impose military rule on a defenseless
population, but to rechannel resources of
government - its finances, military force,
technology, personnel and secrets - their
way.
The
early "jostling" to insert the 9/11 relay
team behind Bush resulted in the appointment
of Donald H. Rumsfeld as Secretary of
Defense. Rumsfeld was among the the central
genocidists engaged in Operation Condor I.
"Latin America: Murder, Inc.," a classified
report prepared by the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Subcommittee on
International Operations, revealed the
origins of Condor. The title reiterated a
confession by Lyndon Johnson a few months
before his death: "We were running a Murder,
Inc. in the Caribbean."
The Senate report explained that the U.S.
had "joint operations between Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and
Uruguay. The joint operations were known as
Operation Condor. These are special teams
used to carry out [the] killing of enemies."
Jack Anderson offered a glimpse of
"Operation Condor, An Unholy Alliance" on
August 3, 1979:
"Assassination teams are centered in Chile.
This international consortium is
located in Colonia Dignidad, Chile. Founded
by the SS, led by Franz Pfeiffer Richter,
Adolf Hitler's 1000-year Reich may not have
perished. Children are cut up in front of
their parents, suspects are asphyxiated in
piles of excrement or rotated to death over
barbecue pits." Colonel Otto Skorzeny, a
postwarm CIA recruit, code-named the Battle
of the Bulge Operation Greif - "Condor."3
Another CIA recruit oversaw the Chilean
incarnation of Condor.
Global Research reports: "Henry Kissinger
belongs in the dock alongside the Chilean
dictator.... He remains a prominent figure
in the affairs of the US ruling
establishment and is protected by the
government. In 2002, the Bush administration
attempted unsuccessfully to name this war
criminal as the head of the 'independent'
panel investigating the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks on New York and
Washington.
"George Bush senior should be the subject of
an indictment for the role the CIA played
under his direction in fostering and
covering up for the assassination squads
that roamed Latin America and, ultimately,
the streets of Washington.
"The most prominent figures in the Bush
administration - Vice President Dick Cheney
and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - are
likewise implicated. Cheney was the White
House chief of staff during the Condor
Operation, while Rumsfeld was defense
secretary, supervising US ties to the Latin
American military."4
Rumsfeld
crony George Schultz established business
ties with the Pinochet regime, and learned a
thing or two about fascist economics for
grafting to domestic policies. Independent
Latin journalist Maria Montelibre writes,
"General Pinochet’s Labor Minister and
Mining Minister in those days, José Piñera,
is a Harvard educated boy, friend of George
Schultz, among others. Piñera is now head of
the Cato Institute Privatization Project in
the U.S., which supports and instigates
Bush’s privatization schemes. Piñera planned
the Social Security privatization plan in
Chile with Dictator Pinochet."5
The Condor is Rumsfeld's again, and it was
spotted by a reporter for Ireland's Village
magazine in 2004: "Extraordinary Rendition
bears more than a passing resemblance to
operation Condor, the 'multinational of
terror' organised by six US-backed Latin
American dictatorships in the 1970s." The
Latin American terror program crossed
national borders. "Regimes swapped suspects
and facilitated death squads and kidnap
teams. Suspects were disappeared without a
trace, held without due process and
monitored by physicians during torture
sessions." The post-9/11, Condor-like
rendition program was "first mooted inside
the offices of US intelligence," at the
behest of Donald Rumsfeld.6
Others noticed haunting similarities between
Condor and Rumsfeld's "war on terror." An
editorial appeared in The Nation in January
2005: "Did anyone in the Bush White House
cast an uneasy eye over the new indictment
of Gen. Augusto Pinochet? It may seem over
the top to mention that old buzzard in the
same breath as an elected US President. But
consider Task Force 6-26. It sounds like a
relic of Pinochet's Operation Condor....
Task Force 6-26 is a secret unit composed
mostly of US Navy SEALs operating in Baghdad
- its existence unacknowledged by the
Pentagon. According to the Washington Post,
a fact-finding mission for Army generals
warned a year ago that Task Force 6-26 was
running an off-the-books prison for
detainees."7
But Rumsfeld coordinated with others in
Washington operating on behalf of the
"minders," as William Blum notes: "1973,
September 11, CHILE: President Allende
overthrown by General Pinochet in a bloody
coup in which 3000 Chileans are massacred.
The Rockefellers' ITT corp., now run by John
McCloy, donates $1 million to the coup
effort, which is orchestrated by Henry
Kissinger."8
The
planning was conceived in pitiless detail by
social engineers. In the 1960s, Abt
Associates - a consulting firm founded by
Clark C. Abt, a German who migrated to the
U.S. in 1937, earned a degree at MIT and
joined Raytheon after the war - assisted the
Pentagon and CIA with Project Camelot, a
computer model for destabilizing foreign
governments. Socialist scholar Guerry
Hoddersen writes that Abt Associates
"developed a simulation game called Politica
that drew information from a computer
linking the files of the CIA, the Defense
Intelligence Agency and the State
Department. Politica was used in training
Third World police" and predicting "which
social forces could be mobilized against
leftist governments."9
As early as 1965, the American
Anthropological Association's executive
board began to receive complaints concerning
social engineering projects in the Third
World. The DoD and CIA recruited
anthropologists to assist in
counterinsurgency operations, and from this
program rose Project Camelot with its
cynical code-name. The Army, according to
the AAA, "had a contract with American
University to study sociopolitical factors
that could lead to internal warfare in that
country."10
A survey of Condor undertaken by an
independent Virtual Truth Commission
("Telling the Truth for a Better America")
exposed the "minders" of the coup:
"......................... 1976-OPERATION
CONDOR, SOUTH AMERICAN ASSASSINATION CARTEL,
THE YEAR GEORGE BUSH SR. IS CIA DIRECTOR. In
1976, Nelson Rockefeller was Vice President
(to Ford), and his advisor Henry Kissinger
was Secretary of State. In this year
Kissinger's puppet dictator Pinochet, of
Chile, organised Operation CONDOR, to
co-ordinate death squad assassinations by
the secret police of the dictators of Chile,
Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay .
30,000 leftists were assassinated/
executed/"disappeared."... Many of the top
ranking Nazi war criminals in South America
are believed to have lived in Colonia
Dignidad. In 1993, a cache of documents
called the 'ARCHIVES OF TERROR' was found in
Paraguay detailing Nazi war criminal
involvement in Operation Condor, and listing
victims, including Israeli agents who were
trying to find Nazis to bring to trial. It
is highly probable that George Bush and
Henry Kissinger knew about, and directed,
Operation CONDOR. General Pinochet was never
ashamed of his pro-Nazi fetish, preferring
Nazi uniforms and marching music. In 1985 an
American professor, Boris Weisfeiler, was
disappeared at Colonia Dignidad. Today
Dignidad is a prospering commune valued at
$5 billion, but closed to the public and
protected by the Chilean military. Today
David Rockefeller is the scion of his
families' empire, running Chase-Manhattan
Bank, the Trilateral Commission, the Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Rockefeller
Center, NYC. Kissinger was Bush jr's choice
to head the September 11th investigation.
Paul Bremer III, former Director of
Kissinger Associates, was Bush's appointed
ruler of Iraq."11
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NOTES
1) Christopher Deliso, "Lesser Neocons of
L'Affaire Plame," '
http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=8137.
2) Howard Zinn, "The CIA, Rockefeller, and
the Boys in the Club," Howard Zinn Reader,
1975. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Rockefeller_
BoysClub.html
3) Mae Brussell, "The Nazi Connection to the
John F. Kennedy Assassination,"
http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20
Articles/Nazi%20Connection%20to%20JFK%20Assass.html.)
4) "Chile's Arrest of Pinochet and the
Condor Killers in the US," December 19,
2004.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=view
Article&code=20041219&articleId=329
5) Maria Montelibre, "Privatization of
Social Security: First step towards fascism.
http://www.elsemanario.net/print_col.php?cid=111
6) Michael McCaughan, "Shannon used as
kidnap operation stop-over," Village
magazine, Ireland
(October 2-8, 2004).
7) Anon. "Prosecuting US Torture," The
Nation, January 3, 2005.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050103/editors
8) A summation of William Blum's Rogue
State. http://twincities.indymedia.org/newswire/display/19468/index.php
9) Guerry Hoddersen, "CAFTA: trade pact
promises 'Brave New World' of misery and
inequality," Freedom Socialist, vol. 25, no.
2, June-July 2004.
http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol25no2/
cafta.html
10) James N. Hill, "The Committee on Ethics:
Past, Present, and Future," Handbook on
Ethical Issues in Anthropology, AAA.
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ch2.htm
11) Virtual Truth Commission, "Operation
Condor. www.geocities.com~virtualtruth/condor.htm
Also see, Lucy Komisar, "Operation Condor
and
Pinochet," Los Angeles Times, November 1,
1998.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007