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York Times" 11/3/84.
19. Rodriguez and Weisman, "op. cit.," pp. 220-21.
20. Report of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International
Operations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate,
December 1988, pp. 61-62.
21. Rodriguez and Weisman, "op. cit.," pp. 221-22.
22. "Ibid.," pp. 224-25.
23. General Gorman "Eyes Only" cable to Pickering and Steele, Feb. 14,
1985. Partially declassified and released on July 30, 1987 by the National
Security Council, bearing no. D 23179. Document no. 00833 in the
Iran-Contra Collection.
24. U.S. government stipulations in the trial of Oliver North, reproduced
in "EIR SpecialReport:" "Irangate...," pp. 20, 22.
25. Gregg Hearings, p. 99.
26. Rodriguez and Weisman, "op. cit.," p. 227.
"XVII: Iran-Contra"
In July 1985, Vice President George Bush was designated by President Reagan
to lead the "Task Force on Combatting Terrorism".
Bush's task force was a means to sharply concentrate the powers of
government into the hands of the Bush clique, for such policies as the
Iran-Contra armaments schemes.
The task force had the following cast of characters: George Bush, U.S. vice
president: chairman; Admiral James L. Holloway III: executive assistant to
Chairman Bush; Craig Coy: Bush's deputy assistant under Holloway; Vice
Admiral John Poindexter: senior NSC representative to Chairman Bush; Marine
Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North: day-to-day NSC representative to George Bush;
Amiram Nir: counterterror adviser to Israeli Premier Shimon Peres; Lt. Col.
Robert Earl: staff member; Terry Arnold: principal consultant; Charles E.
Allen, CIA officer: Senior Review Group; Robert Oakley, director, State
Department Counter Terrorism Office: Senior Review Group; Noel Koch, deputy
to asstistant secretary of defense Richard Armitage: Senior Review Group;
Lt. Gen. John Moellering, Joint Chiefs of Staff: Senior Review Group;
Oliver "Buck" Revell, FBI executive: Senior Review Group.
The Terrorism Task Force organization, as we shall see, was a permanent
affair. / Note #2 / Note #7
"August 8, 1985:"
George Bush met with the National Security Planning Group in the residence
section of the White House. Spurring on their deliberations on the
terrorism problem, a car bomb had blown up that day at a U.S. air base in
Germany, with 22 American casualties.
The officials discussed shipment of U.S.-made arms to Iran through Israel
-- to replenish Israeli stocks of TOW missiles and to permit Israel to sell
arms to Iran.
According to testimony by Robert McFarlane, the transfer was supported by
George Bush, Casey and Donald Regan, and opposed by Shultz and Weinberger.
/ Note #2 / Note #8
"August 18, 1985:"
Luis Posada Carriles escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he was being
held for the terrorist murder of 73 persons. Using forged documents falsely
identifying him as a Venezuelan named "Ramon Medina," Posada flew to
Central America. Within a few weeks, Felix Rodriguez assigned him to
supervise the Bush office's Contra resupply operations being run from the
El Salvador air base. Posada personally ran the safe-houses used for the
CIA flight crews.
Rodriguez explained the arrangement in his book: "Because of my
relationship with [El Salvador Air Force] Gen. Bustillo, I was able to pave
the way for [the operations attributed to Oliver] North to use the
facilities at Ilopango [El Salvador air force base].... I found someone to
manage the Salvadorian-based resupply operation on a day-to-day basis. They
knew that person as Ramon Medina. I knew him by his real name: Luis Posada
Carriles.... I first [sic!] met Posada in 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia,
where we went through basic training together .. as U.S. Army second
lieutenants...."
Rodriguez neglects to explain that agent Posada Carriles was originally
recruited and trained by the same CIA murder operation, "JM/WAVE" in Miami,
as was Rodriguez himself.
Felix continues: "In the sixties, he reportedly went to work for DISIP, the
Venezuelan intelligence service, and rose to considerable power within its
ranks. It was rumored that he held one of the top half-dozen jobs in the
organization....
"After the midair bombing of a Cubana airliner on October 6, 1976, in which
seventy-three people were killed, Posada was charged with planning the
attack and was thrown in prison.... Posada was confined in prison for more
than nine years...." / Note #2 / Note #9
"September 10, 1985:"
George Bush's national security adviser, Donald Gregg, met at 4:30 P.M.
with Oliver North and Col. James Steele, the U.S. military official in El
Salvador who oversaw flights of cargo going to the Contras from various
points in Central America. They discussed information given to one or more
of them by arms dealer Mario DelAmico, supplier to the Contras. According
to the entry in Oliver North's notebook, they discussed particularities of [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]