False Flag Operations: The Intelligence Community. the Coindicence of Crisis
- ISBN-10
- 1466488808
- ISBN-13
- 9781466488809
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-07-11
- Author
- Heinz Duthel
Description
FALSE FLAG OPERATIONSTHE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITYTHE COINCIDENCE OF CRISESPseudo Operations should be distinguished, notes Cline, from the more common police or intelligence infiltration of guerrilla or criminal organizations. In the latter case, infiltration is normally done by individuals. Pseudo teams, on the other hand, are formed as needed from organized units, usually military or paramilitary. The use of pseudo teams has been a hallmark of a number of foreign counterinsurgency campaigns."False flag operations are covert operations which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy's strategy of tension.Whether or not the al-Qaeda attacks were "blowback" from the American CIA's "Operation Cyclone" program to help the Afghan mujahideen is a matter of some debate. Robin Cook, former British Foreign Secretary from 1997-2001, has written that al-Qaeda and Bin Laden were "a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies," and that "Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."A variety of sources CNN journalist Peter Bergen, Pakistani ISI Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf, and CIA operatives involved in the Afghan program, such as Vincent Cannistraro deny that the CIA or other American officials had contact with the foreign mujahideen or Bin Laden, let alone armed, trained, coached or indoctrinated them.In this influential coterie one of the most interesting and effective roles is that played by the behind the scenes, faceless, nameless, ubiquitous briefing officer.The person who has not lived in the intelligence environment - really lived in it and fully experienced it - cannot write accurately about it. Most people's sphere of reality is their family, work, home and recreation. They tend to accept the information fed to them by the news networks, corporations, government and others in positions of authority.No one likes the world the way it is, but emotionally they do not feel they could do anything to change it.They tend to judge themselves as good people and judge other people by their opinion of themselves. Because they spend all their energy on their own life, they settle into a level of apathy about things outside their sphere.Some people though are more predatory. This sets up a situation where the good people are taken advantage of, usually before they know what has happened. These situations are normally insignificant in the lifelong scheme of things.Some people that have been victimized by a society, group, corporation or the government are forced to be more sensitive to their actions and are more readily open to the facts and the resultant truths.Ask a veteran that has been wronged by the Veterans Administration or one of the Enron employees. They will tell you things are not as they seem. Most people do not feel or know of this unless they have experienced it themselves. The man who must depend upon research and investigation inevitably falls victim to the many pitfalls of the secret world and of the "cover story" world with its lies and counter-lies.
