DON BELL REPORTS

A WEEKLY COMMENTARY

Year Twenty-Seven ... Number Fourteen ... April 4, 1980

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THE C.I.A. AND "IRANGATE"

You've probably noticed the unusual treatment sometimes given a certain type of news story. The story itself is "buried" between ads on some inside page. That's because the story is important. But even more important is an item in the middle of the story, "buried" within the story itself. A current example is a news release by the Associated Press which appeared on an inside page of the March 26th New York Daily News. The story is about Iran's collaboration with Soviet Russia in regard to the Afghan invasion. The opening paragraphs read: "The Soviet Union has accepted the principle of holding multinational talks to try to resolve the crisis in Afghanistan, Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said yesterday. Ghotbzadeh, speaking with reporters in Tehran, said Iran had prosposed to Moscow more than two weeks ago that talks be conducted among Iran, Pakistan, the Soviet Union, the Afghan government, the Afghan rebels and possibly China in an effort to end the fighting in the central Asian nation..." The article then goes into considerable detail to describe conditions in Afghanistan then, several paragraphs later in the middle of the article, is this "sandwiched" item:

It might be noted that the recent flurry of diplomatic activity in regard to the fate of the American hostages in Tehran began after the Trilateral conference was concluded.

A similar significant statement was similarly "buried" in a story dealing with the deposed Iranian Shah's flight from Panama to Egypt. There was a lengthy report beginning on page one, then continued to an inside page. In the middle of the continuation was this statement: "Matters (concerning the Shah's flight) were not made easier by the circulation of reports that Evergreen International Airlines, the Oregon-based charter company that leased the Shah's jet airliner, had once been owned by the CIA. Informed sources disputed these reports, pointing out that Evergreen had operatd for years as a helicopter-leasing firm in the Pacific Northwest. They said the company later expanded by buying equipment from a now defunct CIA-owned company, Intermountain Aviation."

Notice that the above is not a denial of the fact that Evergreen was owned by the CIA, but merely an admission that Evergreen bought out another company that was owned by the CIA. In fact, the entire Iran operation, from the time of the ouster of Mohammed Mossadeq in 1954 and the installation of the young Shah Pahlevi, to the ouster and peregrinations of that same Shah in 1979-80, the CIA has been in charge of the total operation. In "The Last Great Nation on Earth," author Rose Martin reported: "The coup in Iran which ousted that weird but canny fanatic, Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and reinstating the young Shah on this throne, was reputedly master-minded by Secretary (of State) Dulles' brother, Allen, then heading the Central Intelligence Agency." In their book "Global Research," Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller wrote that: "The relationship of big corporations operating overseas with the U.S. government has steadily evolved during the years ... During the 25 years in which the United States was the most powerful nation on earth, the tigther and more notorious were the links between Washington, Wall Street and Detroit, the better it was for U.S. companies. When the CIA removed Mohaddem Mossadeq ... or when the same agency rescued Guatamalan banana land for United Fruit ... these were U.S. patriotic initiatives applauded by businessmen. The readier the Pentagon and CIA were to bring down or raise up governments ... the better the investment climate for U.S. corporations..."

It is not fair to blacken the name of all U.S. corporations because of certain CIA operations. Because, when any government was made to rise or fall, the principal beneficiaries always seem to be those corporations aligned with the Rockefeller interests. This was particularly true in the case of Iran. Representative George Hansen of Idaho, in a letter to Edward P. Boland, Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote: "(David) Rockefeller is Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank which, together with the Rockefeller trust funds and private family holdings, controls Exxon. The President of Exxon, H.C. Kauffman, also is a director of Chase Manhattan. There are other interlocking ties between the banking conglomerates and the oil colossus. Both have been under Rockefeller domination for decades ... Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, once he was restored to his throne in 1953, knew who deserved his gratitude. He permitted several American oil companies to muscle into the Iran oil operation which, before Mossadegh, had been dominated by the British. The dominant company in this new American-Iranian oil consortium was Exxon. The Shah also made Chase Manhattan his favorite bank. He personally ordered subordinates to channel oil purchases and other transactions through the Rockefeller bank. And he shunted other lucrative deals to the Rockefeller crowd.. There has been much speculation over the involvement of the Chase Manhattan in precipating the Iran crisis for financial reasons.. A financial newsletter of December, 1979, drawing heavily from the Financial Times of London and other reputable sources weaves the following very disturbing scenario: 'It is not apparent that the Iranian crisis was provoked by the Chase Manhattan Bank to save itself from possible bankruptcy ... the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming." (unquote)

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Dear Mr. Bell,

We recently brought a Royal typewriter for our library and found the enclosed information on the case (information including the phrase "Made in Hungary"). The typewriter was assembled in Hungary for a West German subsidiary of Litton Industries. It's nice to know that slave labor is competing with the free enterprise system through our multinational corporations.

Yours Truly,
(name withheld)

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Even more overwhelming is the circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy if we observe the Rockefeller-CIA-Pentagon-State Department interlock. It is a well known fact among informed Americans that David Rockefeller is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also Chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Now, let's note the interlock of these organizations with federal government agencies:

The National Security Council is one of the most important agencies within the executive branch of our federal government. It advises the President with regard to "the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the national security. Its statutory members are President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. The National Security Adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski. All of these men were members of the Trilateral Commission. They resigned only when they obtained public office. Also, all of these men, with the exception of Jimmy Carter, are members of the Council of Foreign Relations. Just to complete this particular line-up: Brzezinski's Deputy Assistant is one David Aaron, also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Now let's look at the CIA, which is under the direction of the National Security Council and which the leading intelligence gathering agency. The Director of CIA is Stansfield Turner, a member of the CFR. The Assistant Director is Frank Carlucci, also a member of the CFR. Furthermore, since 1947 when the CIA was created under the National Security Council, every Director of the CIA has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In chronological sequence they have been: Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, Lt. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, General Walter Bedell Smith, Allen Dulles, John McCone, Vice Admiral William Raborn Jr., Richard Helms, James Schlesinger, William Colby, George Bush and Stansfield Turner. Just to complete this phase of the interlock between the Rockefeller crowd and the top national security agencies in our federal government, we should add that the budget of the CIA is hidden within the budget of the Defense Department, and the head of the Defense Department is Harold Brown, on leave from the Trilateral Commission, active member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Considering all the foregoing, it might be said that the CIA is a Rockefeller subsidiary, financed by the taxpayers of the United States. Also, aside from its overseas operations in Iran, Africa, Southeast Asia, Central and South America and the rest of the world, it is the head of the intelligence gathering body of the entire United States, including the FBI. An official CIA publication provides this information, and we quote:

Two events occurred in the history of the CIA which have contributed toward making the agency what it is today. The first of these events occurred when a man whom we call "The Spoiler," James R. Schlesinger became its Director on February 2, 1973. He immediately began to "reorganize" the CIA by firing its oldest, most dependable and trustworthy agents, installing leftwingers to replace them. Keyes Beech, writing for the Chicago Daily News, reported that morale of the CIA "has sunk to an all-time low under the impact of a drastic reorganization under the new director." Even more significantly: "under an administration that seems to insist on absolute loyalty to the President, the CIA will lose its most precious assets -- its integrity and independence of judgment, regardless of who is in power."

"Absolute loyalty to the President" really meant "absolute loyalty to Dr. Kissinger," who then occupied the post now held by Brzezinski. It was Kissinger who ordered the purge, and Schlesinger fired three experienced deputy directors and more than a thousand employees. Schlesinger headed the CIA only 6 months, but that was long enough to make of it a tool of Kissinger, who was in turn a tool of the Rockefeller crowd, as is Brzezinski. After "reorganizing" the CIA Schlesinger became Secretary of Defense. In that capacity, reported Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward in "Kissinger on the Couch": "He has replaced the MAD strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction -- and we are the ones whose destruction is assured. That is, he has assured the Soviet leaders in advance that, even if they launch a missile attack against us, we would not effectively retaliate against the Soviet population."

After "reorganizing" the policies of the Defense Department, we next find The Spoiler in the role of Secretary of the newly created Department of Energy. He didn't stay in this position long, either. But he was there long enough to convert an energy shortage into an energy crisis that Carter could call "the moral equivalent of war" (though Irangate isn't?) And he did institute policies that brought on ever-rising prices for gas and oil, and a new kind of peoples' tax called "windfall profits."

The second event in the life of the CIA received little coverage by the media. There was a great clamor for an investigation of the CIA and a cleanup of its activities, many of which were said to be illegal. So, to investigate the CIA, a committee was appointed, and Nelson Rockefeller was named as Chairman of the Investigation Committee. He found everything "in order" and exactly as the Rockefellers would wish the CIA to be. Incidentally, we are informed that Nelson Rockefeller appointed Ronald Reagan as a member of that Investigation Committee and that Reagan also, at least tacitly, found everything in order in the CIA. So, since Reagan's campaign staff contains members of the CFR, it could be assumed that Ronald Reagan isn't any more independent of the Rockefeller power structure than Carter was when he was selected to be our President.

During the past weeks there has been great diplomatic hullabaloo but no action concerning the hostages in Tehran. One wonders: would they be released if the American people focused their attention on Rockefeller instead of the Shah? It's about time that Congress investigated Rockefeller and our foreign policy. We are not very secure under our present National Security Council.

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