tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2493626948579432348.post6509003548502571722..comments2023-10-19T03:57:32.173-07:00Comments on Sherm Says: The CIA in Crisis: Part IIISherman De Brossehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607886884624597357noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2493626948579432348.post-41482437222827112312011-01-05T16:05:00.435-08:002011-01-05T16:05:00.435-08:00Great post summarizing the privatization of intell...Great post summarizing the privatization of intelligence, security, and counter-insurgency operations in the US. In Family of Secrets, Russ Baker, presents even more evidence (documents and interviews) that Bush senior was directly responsible for setting up oil and weapons ventures with the Saudi royal family in return for their assistance in setting up an “off-the-books” intelligence operation in the Middle East involving Saudi, Pakistani, Afghan and Iranian nationals. This all started in 1976 when Bush was CIA director (it was a direct response to the Church Committee making a lot of CIA covert operations illegal). However Bush substantially expanded it after Carter fired him as CIA director and used it (in Iran-Contra) to illegally sell weapons to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. In 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Bush drew the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI) into this network and got it legitimatized as an official CIA operation to promote fundamentalist Islam among Afghan “freedom fighters” to drive the Soviets out. The same network, as everyone knows, was used to crash 747's into the Twin Towers in 2001.<br /><br />In my recent memoir THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE (www.stuartbramhall.com),I write about my own close encounter with one of Bush's domestic "off-the-books" networks in 1987. I currently live in exile in New ZealandDr Stuart Jeanne Bramhallhttp://www.stuartbramhall.comnoreply@blogger.com