Guillaume Vogeleer (Jimmy le Belge)

Voir aussi

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/26/gordon-duff-libya-and-the-cia-the-unseen-partnership/

(...) To accomplish this, CIA insiders, Ted Shackley aided by Edwin Wilson and the Nugan Hand Bank went into business with Gaddafi. They agreed to take care of his “problems” for him, with “extreme prejudice” and he would protect them from extradition if the “climate” changed.

No one knows the exact year, but by 1973, the CIA had established a base of operation in Libya and had begun, not only training and equipping Libya’s army on behalf of Israel but had gone into full partnership with Libya’s secret police and intelligence services as well. (...)

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Nugan Hand Bank

Les fondateurs de la Nugan Hand Bank (NHB) ont armé les Hmongs au Laos (une opération de la CIA) ... et ont dû rencontrer Wilson, fournisseur d'armes ...

Ecouter à partir de la minute 15'30" de

http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_2009_04_25.mp3

Nugan Hand Bank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank

(...)  Nugan Hand Ltd. was founded in Sydney in 1973 by Australian lawyer Francis John "Frank" Nugan (who was reputedly associated with the Mafia in Griffith, New South Wales) and former U.S. Green Beret Michael Jon "Mike" Hand who had experience in the Vietnam War (after which he began training Hmong guerillas in Northern Laos under CIA aegis, an experience alleged to account for his ties to the "Golden Triangle" heroin trade).   (...)


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnuganbank.htm

In 1973 Frank Nugan, an Australian lawyer, and Michael Hand, a former CIA contract operative, established the Nugan Hand Bank. Another key figure in this venture was Bernie Houghton, who was closely connected to CIA officials, Ted Shackley and Thomas G. Clines.

(...)

In 1974 the Nugan Hand Bank got involved in helping the CIA to take part in covert arms deals with contacts within Angola. It was at this time that Edwin Wilson became involved with the bank.

(...)

By 1976 the Nugan-Hand Bank appeared to have become a CIA-fronted company.

(...)


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nugan_Hand_Bank

(...)  Frank Nugan, a drunk, mediocre lawyer from Australia with a wildly exaggerated resume teamed up with ex CIA operative and Green Beret Michael Jon Hand who had experience in Vietnam and with the Hmong guerrillas of Laos. The third major player in the beginning and direction of the bank was a mysterious expatriate from Texas named Bernie Houghton who was much alive in intelligence community.  (...)


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Jon_Hand

(...)  "In 1975 he left Australia and spent a year smuggling arms to US supported rebels in southern Africa, working for Ed Wilson and US Naval Intelligence. Agents of the Eastern Division of the CIA, run by Ted Shackley, were also involved in this shipment. Hand occasionally returned to Australia, and there are allegations he helped forge documents during the Loans Affair to discredit the Whitlam government.

"In March 1976, Hand returned to Australia to set up the Nugan Hand Bank, a ‘legitimate’ bank for black money, which he co-founded with Frank Nugan. Again, it seems to have been Ed Wilson who arranged for Nugan Hand to get a banking licence in the Cayman Islands."  (...)

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Un lecteur attentif me conseille

http://fr.scribd.com/doc/131256455/THE-CRIMES-OF-PATRIOTS-A-TRUE-TALE-OF-DOPE-DIRTY-MONEY-AND-THE-CIA-BY-JOHNATHAN-KWITNY-1987





(...)

Sur la Task Force 157 :

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/N%20Disk/Navy%20Intelligence%20Task%20Force%20157/Item%2001.pdf

(Ed Wilson, etc)

Il est très intéressant de retrouver Richard Slott dans l'article suivant ...

... surtout que c'est à l'époque où il aurait rencontré Guillaume Vogeleer et Stefano delle Chiaie à Bangkok ...

Sur CMA (lié à "Soldier of Fortune"), voir

http://fr.scribd.com/doc/114784940/BROWN-CMA


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http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19840526&id=EqNjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ou8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1560,2018199


Ottawa Citizen - 26 mai 1984















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Il est question de Posey et de CMA.

D'après certains documents DNSA, Posey voulait recruter des réfugiés indochinois comme mercenaires pour encadrer et entraîner les Contras.

Il semble qu'en France et en Angleterre cette campagne de recrutement visant les Indochinois était menée par des néonazis britanniques (Alan Ash et Terence Cooper).

"L'Empire Moon" (1986) mentionne des conseillers "asiatiques" dans les camps honduriens des contras mais parle plutôt de taïwanais ou sud-coréens.

Voir

http://www.zoominfo.com/s/#!search/profile/person?personId=749360&targetid=profile

et

Contra Terror in Nicaragua: Report of a Fact-finding Mission, September 1984 ...
Par Reed Brody

http://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE043543_b.html

RICHARD SLOTT'S FATHER

1975 February 26, 21:02 (Wednesday)

REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR FATHER DIED FEBRUARY 25 AT 3:00 PM. KISSINGER


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Le câble a été envoyé par Kissinger depuis Washington DC, au consulat américain à Can Tho (près de Saigon, dans le delta du Mékong).

La date: deux mois avant la victoire des communistes vietnamiens (offensive combinée du FNL et des Nord-Vietnamiens) et l'évacuation des Américains, à l'époque où ces derniers pensaient encore pouvoir sauver le régime du général Thieu.

Apparemment le père du destinataire est décédé aux Etats-Unis. Si Kissinger prend la peine de le prévenir lui même, ils se connaissaient peut-être.

Etudier le CV de Slott plus en détail permettra peut-être d'établir des liens avec Kissinger.

Voir le document suivant :

http://fr.scribd.com/doc/196000590/CMA-pdf

On retrouve notamment ELOL et Robert K Brown (SOF) !

http://textfiles.com/conspiracy/contrcia.txt

SECRET TEAM OF WEAPONS DEALERS
by Vince Bielski

(...)

A People's History of the Hmong
Par Paul Hillmer





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(...)





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http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/the_lost_commandos.html

notamment

(...)

A year after Dinh was captured, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. John K. Singlaub, then a colonel, assumed command of the unit that oversaw 34A missions. Singlaub, who later funneled arms to the Nicaraguan Contras and remains an anti-Communist activist in Alexandria, Va., says that a short while after he took command he became convinced that most of his teams in North Vietnam had been "rolled up by Communist security." In many cases, radio operators were broken under torture and forced to act as double agents. They lured other 34A teams into ambushes and repeatedly ordered airdrops of U.S. equipment the North Vietnamese could use. Retired U.S. Army Col. Fred Caristo, who helped run 34A missions as a captain, remembers one radioman ordering 30 pistols and silencers, 200 cartons of Salem cigarettes, 20 Seiko watches and dozens of pairs of paratrooper boots. "I mean we're talking about some real goodies," says Caristo, who now lives in Woodbridge, Va.

(...)

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http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-12/magazine/tm-432_1_north-vietnam

(...) According to the military, former intelligence officials, historians and the commandos themselves, these men were part of a highly classified operation--which came to be called Operation 34A by the military--that continued from 1961 to 1970 despite repeated failures and the doubts of U.S. leaders. (...)

But some of the former commandos believe that they should receive benefits because they were trained, controlled and paid by the U.S. government. "Some of these guys spent more than 20 years behind bars. They certainly deserve something for their efforts," Caristo says.

Singlaub looked into the possibility of compensation, but, he says, the government was unable to rationalize helping the commandos unless the same benefits were extended to all former South Vietnamese soldiers in the United States.

(...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_34A

Une vidéo (interview) :

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Singl

Singlaub's Role in Iran-Contra Affair
Nov 30, 1987

Major John Singlaub appeared on C-SPAN to talk about his role in the Iran-Contra affair and the pending lawsuit filed by the Christic Institute in which he was named as one of 29 defendants over his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.


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http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Chr

Christic Institute Iran-Contra Law Suit
Nov 25, 1987

Daniel Sheehan, the General Counsel for the Christic Institute, and Cliff Kincaid, the chairman of Accuracy in the Media, spoke with C-SPAN viewers about what the Christic Institute did and what issues that the institute generally focused on.

HERVE a écrit:

A People's History of the Hmong
Par Paul Hillmer



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http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/the_lost_commandos.html
(...)A year after Dinh was captured, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. John K. Singlaub, then a colonel, assumed command of the unit that oversaw 34A missions. (...) Retired U.S. Army Col. Fred Caristo, who helped run 34A missions as a captain (...)

Un de mes collègues, un chercheur basé aux Etats-Unis vient de me confirmer que dans les années 80, Caristo était "proche de Singlaub", et qu'il soutenait PKH. Ces dernières années mon collègue a cherché à entrer en contact avec Caristo après avoir entendu parler de lui, mais il ignorait qu'il était décédé en 2012.

On peut donc en déduire que Caristo faisait partie des réseaux de la WACL dans les années 80. Peut-être a-t-il eu l'occasion de rencontrer Jimmy le Belge en Thaïlande. Il est probable qu'il était aussi en contact avec R.K.Brown et SOF (Brown était lui aussi un vétéran du MACVSOG et coopérait avec la WACL).

https://www.facebook.com/BrighLight/posts/602587543113700

Thomas Drinkard     I knew Fred Caristo quite well. He's one of the few individuals COL (later MG) Jack Singlaub mentions in his book. He was an agent handler in OP-34. One of my counterparts said, "Captain Caristo speaks Vietnamese very well, but it is with female inflections from a certain class of women..." We know where Fred learned the language, don't we?
18 octobre 2013, 18:12 · 1

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John Singlaub parle en effet de Fred Caristo dans son livre "Hazardous Duty" :

http://www.amazon.com/Hazardous-Duty-John-Singlaub/dp/0671792296#reader_0671792296

Un autre extrait du livre de John Singlaub :

Un autre encore :





On voit que John Singlaub était proche de Robert Close (OTAN, IEPS, LIL, "Damoclès", etc)

On apprend aussi que la fille de John Singlaub vivait en Allemagne ...

HERVE a écrit:

Nugan Hand Bank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank

(...)  Nugan Hand Ltd. was founded in Sydney in 1973 by Australian lawyer Francis John "Frank" Nugan (who was reputedly associated with the Mafia in Griffith, New South Wales) and former U.S. Green Beret Michael Jon "Mike" Hand who had experience in the Vietnam War (after which he began training Hmong guerillas in Northern Laos under CIA aegis, an experience alleged to account for his ties to the "Golden Triangle" heroin trade).   (...)


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnuganbank.htm

In 1973 Frank Nugan, an Australian lawyer, and Michael Hand, a former CIA contract operative, established the Nugan Hand Bank. Another key figure in this venture was Bernie Houghton, who was closely connected to CIA officials, Ted Shackley and Thomas G. Clines.

(...)

In 1974 the Nugan Hand Bank got involved in helping the CIA to take part in covert arms deals with contacts within Angola. It was at this time that Edwin Wilson became involved with the bank.

(...)

By 1976 the Nugan-Hand Bank appeared to have become a CIA-fronted company.

(...)


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nugan_Hand_Bank

(...)  Frank Nugan, a drunk, mediocre lawyer from Australia with a wildly exaggerated resume teamed up with ex CIA operative and Green Beret Michael Jon Hand who had experience in Vietnam and with the Hmong guerrillas of Laos. The third major player in the beginning and direction of the bank was a mysterious expatriate from Texas named Bernie Houghton who was much alive in intelligence community.  (...)


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Jon_Hand

(...)  "In 1975 he left Australia and spent a year smuggling arms to US supported rebels in southern Africa, working for Ed Wilson and US Naval Intelligence. Agents of the Eastern Division of the CIA, run by Ted Shackley, were also involved in this shipment. Hand occasionally returned to Australia, and there are allegations he helped forge documents during the Loans Affair to discredit the Whitlam government.

"In March 1976, Hand returned to Australia to set up the Nugan Hand Bank, a ‘legitimate’ bank for black money, which he co-founded with Frank Nugan. Again, it seems to have been Ed Wilson who arranged for Nugan Hand to get a banking licence in the Cayman Islands."  (...)

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(...)

On peut penser ici à la Golf de la fille de Van Camp et son autocollant, volée, repeinte et retrouvée brûlée au Bois de Hourpes...

Et In Arcadia Ego a écrit:

HERVE a écrit:

Nugan Hand Bank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank

(...)  Nugan Hand Ltd. was founded in Sydney in 1973 by Australian lawyer Francis John "Frank" Nugan (who was reputedly associated with the Mafia in Griffith, New South Wales) and former U.S. Green Beret Michael Jon "Mike" Hand who had experience in the Vietnam War (after which he began training Hmong guerillas in Northern Laos under CIA aegis, an experience alleged to account for his ties to the "Golden Triangle" heroin trade).   (...)


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnuganbank.htm

In 1973 Frank Nugan, an Australian lawyer, and Michael Hand, a former CIA contract operative, established the Nugan Hand Bank. Another key figure in this venture was Bernie Houghton, who was closely connected to CIA officials, Ted Shackley and Thomas G. Clines.

(...)

In 1974 the Nugan Hand Bank got involved in helping the CIA to take part in covert arms deals with contacts within Angola. It was at this time that Edwin Wilson became involved with the bank.

(...)

By 1976 the Nugan-Hand Bank appeared to have become a CIA-fronted company.

(...)


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nugan_Hand_Bank

(...)  Frank Nugan, a drunk, mediocre lawyer from Australia with a wildly exaggerated resume teamed up with ex CIA operative and Green Beret Michael Jon Hand who had experience in Vietnam and with the Hmong guerrillas of Laos. The third major player in the beginning and direction of the bank was a mysterious expatriate from Texas named Bernie Houghton who was much alive in intelligence community.  (...)


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Jon_Hand

(...)  "In 1975 he left Australia and spent a year smuggling arms to US supported rebels in southern Africa, working for Ed Wilson and US Naval Intelligence. Agents of the Eastern Division of the CIA, run by Ted Shackley, were also involved in this shipment. Hand occasionally returned to Australia, and there are allegations he helped forge documents during the Loans Affair to discredit the Whitlam government.

"In March 1976, Hand returned to Australia to set up the Nugan Hand Bank, a ‘legitimate’ bank for black money, which he co-founded with Frank Nugan. Again, it seems to have been Ed Wilson who arranged for Nugan Hand to get a banking licence in the Cayman Islands."  (...)

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(...)

On peut penser ici à la Golf de la fille de Van Camp et son autocollant, volée, repeinte et retrouvée brûlée au Bois de Hourpes...

Oui oui on peut penser...sauf que l'autocollant a été placé par la fille Van Camp !

http://www.cwhp.net/

(...)

Soldier of Fortune Magazines and Journal, April 1991, by Mr. Tom Peterson, (page 63) “Even Pathet Lao officials have admitted to the genocide ; one of their common responses to the struggle is, “The war will end when the H’mong are gone.” Mr. Fred Caristo, who worked on the Hmong preservation struggle also stated, “This is a war of both genocide and attrition. The Lao draft the H’mong into the LPA, then put them in units where they know they’re going to get killed, then they take the lowest class of lowland Lao men and marry them off to H’mong women. The result? The H’mong race is bled into extinction.”

(...)

Pa Kao Her et Singlaub se connaissaient ...


Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos ...
Par Jane Hamilton-Merritt





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Voir aussi :

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.hmong/bz3l61nwqFc

(...)  I am who I was. I am now 44 and still standing firm with Chao Fa, In
1980 I was the first Hmong Freedom Fighter who visited the Carter's
Government in Washington D.C., in 1985 the Reagan's administration
sent me to accompany Pa Kao Her from Thailand to attend the First
world Anti Communist in Angola, In September 1985, and
CO-representatives and Speaker of  Hmong-Lao Resistance at the U.S.
18th annual Conference in Dallas, Texas which chair by Major General
Singlaub and U.S. State Department. In 1981 I went to lobby the United
Nations and Un passed. 2 resolutions for Pathet-Lao stop killing Hmong in Laos.

In addition to that  I have met with Thai's Deputy Minister in Bang
Kok, Sdeck Chao Sihanouk,
Prime Minister SonSan of Cambodia, Chinese high officials in D.C. and
Beijing, President Savimbee in Jumba, South Africa Presidential aid in
Jonhasburg, Colonel mulmark, Mr. Casto of Nicaragua , General muiti of
Italy, and In October 20002 I declared Chao Fa  Candidacy for Lao
Presidential to challenge Khamtay Siphandone at the U.S. Congressional
in D.C.

(...)

Bee Moua.

(...)


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http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Anti-Communist-Fighters-Meet-In-Dallas/id-51610c4eb908f8194b80b4bdd953adac

Anti-Communist Fighters Meet In Dallas

AP , Associated Press
Sep. 11, 1985 4:03 AM ET


ADDISON, TEXAS ADDISON, Texas (AP) _ Money and power dominate the shop talk and security is tight as resistance leaders from around the world gather to drum up support and financial aid during the World Anti-Communist League conference.


''Each country has a different way of struggle,'' Bee Moua, who belongs to a group aiding Laotian guerrillas, said Tuesday. ''We hope to share with our friends from other parts of the world and to learn from them.''


Representatives of anti-communist movements in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Mozambique are expected to speak at the five-day conference that began Tuesday at the Registry Hotel. About 300 people are expected to attend the conference, organizers say.


''We've come to show the world what they (Soviets) mean when they talk about peace,'' Afghan rebel Abdul Martin, 20, who recently lost both hands to a Soviet land mine, said through an interpreter.


The league and its American arm, the U.S. Council of World Freedom, hold the annual conference to promote awareness of the ''world communist menace'' and to raise funds, said retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, chairman of both organizations.


''We want to develop an awareness of the fact that there are countries whose people have been so abused that they've decided better dead than red,'' Singlaub said. ''Our primary philosophy is that we're pro-freedom. Our greatest concern is the human misery caused in those countries taken over by communism.''


Singlaub retired in 1978 after disagreeing loudly and publicly with President Jimmy Carter's defense and foreign policies. He recently attracted attention when he said White House national security officials advised him on raising money for resistance movements after Congress stopped CIA aid to Nicaraguan rebels.


During the conference, members will participate in workshops and seek ways to aid resistance movements, Singlaub said. ''For example, if a big problem is a lack of understanding in Europe of Nicaragua, the solution might be to sponsor a visit to Europe'' of Nicaraguan resistance leaders, he said.


''If the Afghans say their most serious problem is lack of medicine, the solution might be to ship medicines and even doctors to them.''


Several groups have threatened to protest the meeting, including the Dallas chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador and the World Affairs Council.


Singlaub dismisses the protests as communist-inspired, but Linda Hijek, of the El Salvador group, scoffed at that description.


''We have a responsibility to speak for the truth concerning U.S.-supported aggression against Nicaragua,'' she said.


Security at the hotel is tight. Delegates carry two passport-size photographs as positive identification, and special badges are required to enter the conference.


''There were threats to Dallas police so we wanted to take some form of action,'' Singlaub said.


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http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/95816/1/Vang_umn_0130E_11343.pdf

(...)








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Rollback!: Right-wing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy

Par Thomas Bodenheimer,Robert Gould






(...)






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Singlaub (proche de Robert Close de l'IEPS), dont la fille Elizabeth vit en Allemagne, a rencontré Guillaume Vogeleer et Pa Kao Her (ces deux derniers sont liés, voir le reportage de Youtube sur "Jimmy") ... et on voit aussi apparaître Daniel O Graham (CIA, DIA, Reagan, complexe militaro-industriel ... et IEPS). Il est en outre question de la secte Moon (Alexander Haig, Douglas MacArthur II), liée au WNP (voir le schéma de Libert) ...

Nous savons par ailleurs que Guillaume Vogeleer a rencontré Stefano delle Chiaie (WACL, Aginter Press, ... financièrement aidé par Carlo Pesenti) et Richard J Slott (CIA, State Department, Office of Munitions Control...) ; ces deux derniers se connaissaient (depuis l'Espagne ?)

Le groupe de PKH mangeait à tous les râteliers. Ils étaient soutenus aussi bien par l'extrême-droite internationale et la WACL (donc par Taiwan) que par la Chine Populaire (j'ai des photos où on voit des camps d'entraînements dans le Yunnan, avec PKH et ses hommes vêtus d'uniformes et de casquettes chinoises). Signalons qu'à l'époque Pékin soutenait aussi l'UNITA et Jonas Savimbi (ex agent de la PIDE salazariste, créature de la CIA et du régime d'apartheid sud-africain). Selon John.K.Cooley, la Chine soutenait et armait aussi les mujahidines afghans (Deng Xiaoping a même envoyé une brigade de jihadistes ouighours originaires du Xinjiang, et ceux-ci ont échappé au contrôle des services chinois lorsqu'ils sont revenus, s'empressant de lancer un nouveau jihad, cette fois ci contre leurs anciens patrons, pour créer l'état indépendant du Turkestan Oriental). Dans les années 70 et 80, Washington et Pékin étaient les meilleurs amis du monde et la CIA avait même des stations d'écoute en territoire chinois pour espionner les essais nucléaires en territoire soviétique.

C'est seulement après l'éclatement de l'URSS, et avec la montée en puissance économique de la Chine, que les dynamiques qu'on observe aujourd'hui se sont mises en place dans les relations sino-américaines...Je sais, pas de lien direct avec les TBW, mais je souhaite juste rappeler le contexte international de l'époque.

Un lecteur attentif me signale qu'en réalité, John Singlaub n'a jamais fait le nettoyage de la WACL (exception faite pour les anti-sémites, vu le rôle du Mossad dans IranContra...). A cette époque, il était très lié au général belge Robert Close (IEPS, OTAN, etc).

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsinglaub.htm

En cherchant des informations sur Richard J. Slott (selon Chairoff, un contact CIA de Stefano delle Chiaie), on trouve une référence dans le livre suivant :

The United States and Thailand: alliance dynamics, 1950-1985
R. Sean Randolph
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1986 - 245 pages





Eddie W. Schodt

http://www.hillandwood.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=231815&fh_id=10702

(...)  In 1942, after working for a few months with the Office of Facts and Figures in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., and following his marriage to Margaret Birk of Boulder, Colorado the same year, he was inducted into the U.S. Army. He completed basic training at Camp Roberts near San Louis Obispo, California, and subsequently applied for, and was accepted into, the Counter Intelligence Corps of the United States Army.  (...)

Note : quel est le pourcentage de membres de la CIA au sein du Département d'Etat ?


Robert F. Zimmerman

Voir :

Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand
par Robert F. Zimmerman

et

http://www.polsci.chula.ac.th/viengrat/thpolgovt/Zimmerman%20-%20Student%20Revolution%20in%20Thailand.pdf

Student "Revolution" in Thailand: The End of the Thai Bureaucratic Polity ?

Source: Asian Survey, Vol. 14, No. 6 (Jun., 1974), pp. 509-529

ROBERT F. ZIMMERMAN is a former Research Officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bangkok, and is currently on detail to the Political Section of the American Embassy, Bangkok.

http://watch.pair.com/database2.html

[CIA assassinations manager Felix I.] Rodriguez followed his CIA boss Ted Shackley to Southeast Asia in 1970. Shackley and Donald Gregg put Rodriguez into the huge assassination and dope business which Shackley and his colleagues ran during the Indochina war; this bunch became the heart of the "Enterprise'' that went into action 15 to 20 years later in Iran- Contra. Shackley funded opium-growing Meo tribesmen in murder, and used the dope proceeds in turn to fund his hit squads. He formed the Military Assistance Group-Special Operations Group (MAG-SOG) political murder unit; Gen. John K. Singlaub was a commander of MAG-SOG; Oliver North and Richard Secord were officers of the unit. By 1971, the Shackley group had killed about 100,000 civilians in Southeast Asia as part of the CIA's Operation Phoenix. [Chaitkin]

In 1984, Singlaub headed a Pentagon panel called to make recommendations on conducting military activities in Central America. The panel's report urged the U.S. to emphasize nonconventional, counterinsurgency warfare strategies.(9,10) Under the Reagan administration, Singlaub received assistance and guidance from White House and National Security Council (NSC) officials for his "private" contra-supply activities. He identified former NSC aide Oliver North as his liaison to the White House...

(...)

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Sur MEREX, la société de Klaus Barbie, que Stefano delle Chiaie a connu et admiré en Bolivie ... et sur le colonel North, lié à Richard Secord et à John Singlaub (WACL...)


The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today ...
Par Martin A. Lee








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Los Angeles Times


CIA's Purchase of Smuggled Arms From North Aides Probed by Panels


Author: Wines, Michael; Rempel, William C
Date: Mar 31, 1987


Independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh and a Senate committee are investigating the CIA's purchase last fall of $1.2 million in smuggled weapons from Lt. Col. Oliver L. North's two top aides in the Iran-contra affair, U.S. and European sources said Monday.

Working separately, the two offices are questioning whether the CIA made the unusual purchase last September as a financial reward for former Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord and California businessman Albert A. Hakim, North's key associates in the secret Iran arms sales.

They are also seeking to learn whether North or his White House boss, former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter, steered the CIA to the arms deal, the sources said.

New Evidence Possible

Officials reportedly believe that the little-noticed weapons sale could yield new evidence of the financial and personal ties linking the CIA, North and his army of private operatives in the Iran-contra scandal.

Last September, White House computer records show, Poindexter ordered North to pressure then-CIA Director William J. Casey "to make things right for Secord," apparently by awarding Secord a contract to sell or transport arms in return for his supporting role in the Iran-contra operation.

A month later, a Danish freighter chartered by Secord and Hakim unloaded most of a 358-ton cache of Polish AK-47 rifles and Portuguese mines and ammunition at the Pentagon's munitions depot in Sunny Point, N.C. The arms cargo was reported to the U.S. Customs Service as oil drilling equipment, according to customs records released last month.

CIA officials admit privately that the agency purchased the weapons but contend that the CIA did nothing wrong. An internal CIA inquiry has concluded that the agency was unaware that it was buying the 358 tons of Polish and Portuguese arms from Secord and Hakim, one intelligence source said.

Two other knowledgeable U.S. government sources call that explanation "implausible," however. One source said that one-time CIA purchases of smuggled arms almost never occur because the agency uses well-established secret channels for buying and selling foreign weapons.

`Once in a Blue Moon'

"That sort of thing happens once in a blue moon. It's highly irregular," that source said.

Investigators for Walsh and the Senate select committee on the Iran-contra scandal went to Denmark this month to interview figures in both the arms deal and North's purchase of a Danish freighter, the Erria, that carried the weapons, European sources said.

While there, FBI agents interviewed Arne Herup, captain of the Erria during the time that it was controlled by North, and officials of Queen Shipping, a Copenhagen firm that acted as a front for North and Secord in the arms deal and the operation of the freighter.

Herup said in an interview that FBI agents showed him pictures of Hakim and Thomas C. Clines, a former senior CIA official who left the agency under pressure in 1978 and since has become an international arms dealer.

Clines, another North associate, made several trips to Portugal arms factories last year at the apparent behest of North and Secord, sources have said. He also was present last April with Hakim during negotiations that led to the purchase of the Erria, apparently with money from a Swiss bank account controlled by North.

Tom Parlow, a Queen Shipping executive, confirmed that he had been interviewed by Senate and FBI investigators but declined further comment. Details of what either man told the U.S. officials could not be learned elsewhere.

Testimony Called Crucial

Their testimony could shed light on the CIA's contention that it was led unawares into a multimillion-dollar weapons deal with Secord and Hakim even as Casey and others worked with the two men on the U.S. sale of arms to Iran.

The agency's internal inquiry, portions of which have been released to other government officials, contends that two unnamed middlemen approached the CIA last summer with offers to sell the 358 tons of weapons but were rejected because the price was too high.

The agency said it finally struck a deal last fall to buy the arms at discount after lengthy talks with the second middleman and sold an unwanted cache of ammunition to a private dealer who helped arrange the sale.

Not until months later, the agency contended, did officials discover by accident that Secord and Hakim were the actual sellers of the arms.

U.S. Customs records, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, show that the ship involved in the arms trade unloaded "8,920 cases (of) machine parts and drilling equipment" at the Sunny Point munitions depot last October. Sources say that the cases actually contained Polish AK-47 rifles, mines and other arms.

Ammunition Delivered

The same Customs Service records show that 3 million rounds of 7.62-millimeter ammunition, the size used in AK-47 rifles, were unloaded from the ship in nearby Wilmington, N.C., and transferred to Merex Corp., at a private address in Savannah, Ga.

No record of a Merex Corp. could be found. However, the Savannah address is occupied by several companies, including Combat Military Ordnances Ltd., a firm apparently controlled by retired military officer James P. Atwood.

Federal sources describe Atwood as a retired colonel and longtime Georgia resident involved in "lots of major arms trades" with international buyers. Atwood refused to return repeated telephone calls seeking details of the arms deal.


Michael Wines reported from Washington and William C. Rempel from Los Angeles.

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Gen. John K. Singlaub was a commander of MAG-SOG; Oliver North and Richard Secord were officers of the unit.

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Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group





Les commandants du SOG furent les colonels Clyde Russell (1964–1965), Donald Blackburn (1965–1966), John Singlaub (1966–1968), Stephen Cavanaugh (1968–1970), et John Sadler (1970–1972), tous étaient des officiers des Special Forces.

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FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery
Par Rodney Stich

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/06/world/ex-us-agents-tell-of-efforts-to-help-barbie.html

EX-U.S. AGENTS TELL OF EFFORTS TO HELP BARBIE

Published: July 6, 1983

LONDON, July 5— Former United States intelligence agents have provided new details about how they hid Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal, from the French authorities and helped him flee Europe in 1951.

In interviews broadcast Monday on a BBC program, the retired agents said they helped hundreds of Nazis who were useful to the United States escape prosecution after World War II.

''We did not have any great pangs of conscience,'' said Eugene Kolb, a former major in the United States Counterintelligence Corps, the principal American intelligence agency in Europe after World War II.

Mr. Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyons from 1942 to 1944, was extradited to France last February from Bolivia, where he had been living since 1951. Twice Sentenced to Death

In the 1950's, France twice sentenced him to death in absentia for war crimes. Mr. Barbie, 69 years old, is awaiting trial on charges of torturing and killing hundreds of people and rounding up thousands more to be shipped to Nazi death camps.

Former United States agents have said American intelligence groups hired Mr. Barbie to provide information about Communist activities in Europe and then helped him escape to Bolivia.

Mr. Kolb said on the BBC public affairs program ''Panorama'' that when American officials first questioned Mr. Barbie in 1947, they knew he was wanted for his Gestapo activities. But Mr. Kolb said they thought Mr. Barbie was wanted for minor crimes.

Another former intelligence officer, Ed Dobringhaus, said American agents set up Mr. Barbie and his family in the southern German town of Augsburg, complete with an office and secretary. ''We went overboard to be nice to that guy,'' he said. ''We went out drinking beer once in a while.'' Questioned and Freed in '47

Earl Browning, who headed the intelligence agency's office in Frankfurt, said he saw Mr. Barbie's name on a list of agents late in 1947 and ordered him arrested. Mr. Barbie was taken to an interrogation center in Oberursel, Germany, questioned and freed a few months later, Mr. Browning said.

Mr. Barbie then went back to work for United States intelligence, and Mr. Kolb recalled him as ''a very shrewd, extremely intelligent, very capable professional.''

Beginning in 1949, France appealed to John McCloy, then United States High Commissioner in Germany, for word of Mr. Barbie's whereabouts. Nothing came of the requests.

In 1951 the United States decided to stop using Mr. Barbie as an agent, but Mr. Kolb said Mr. Barbie was not turned over to the French because it was felt the French intelligence agencies had been penetrated by Communist agents.

In February 1951, the BBC said, Mr. Barbie was placed in the hands of a counterintelligence agency officer, Col. James C. Milano, and taken across the border to Salzburg, Austria, in a United States Army truck.

From Salzburg, the BBC said, Mr. Barbie was sent to Genoa, Italy, where he boarded a ship for South America. Herbert Bechtold, a German-born officer in the counterintelligence agency who became Mr. Barbie's ''handler,'' was asked if he questioned the morality of the hiring a man like Mr. Barbie by the United States. ''I am not in a position to pass judgment on that,'' Mr. Bechtold replied. ''I was just following orders.''


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Comme il est dit dans l'intéressant reportage

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il est dommage que toutes les archives de Oberursel ne soient pas ouvertes aux chercheurs ...

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/26/world/vatican-is-reported-to-have-furnished-aid-to-fleeing-nazis.html

VATICAN IS REPORTED TO HAVE FURNISHED AID TO FLEEING NAZIS

The following article is based on reporting by Ralph Blumenthal and E. J. Dionne Jr. and was written by Mr. Blumenthal. , Special to the New York Times

Published: January 26, 1984

Allegations of Vatican involvement in the escape of Nazi war criminals after World War II have emerged in statements by a French Nazi-hunter and a declassified State Department report.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, a Paris lawyer who has specialized in tracking down fugitive Nazis, Walter Rauff, a former SS colonel wanted for the mass gassing of Jews in mobile death vans, told in 1962 of having been given refuge in Vatican City convents for 18 months after the war.

Chile, which has harbored the 77- year-old Mr. Rauff for more than 25 years, is now facing growing demands for his expulsion. Yesterday Israel made a formal request to Chile for Mr. Rauff's extradition. And Simon Wiesenthal, the Vienna-based Nazi-hunter, and a Los Angeles institute affiliated with him said the State Department had recently taken an interest in the case. Historian Obtains Report

The formerly top secret State Department report, dated 1947 and never officially made public, called the Vatican ''the largest single organization involved in the illegal movement of emigrants,'' including Nazis. The report was obtained by a historian of the Holocaust, Charles R. Allen Jr. of Manhattan, who made it available to The New York Times.

The reported role of Roman Catholic Church officials in helping purported Nazi war criminals escape from Europe has long been the subject of controversy. Catholic officials and others have argued that even if some priests helped Nazis escape from Europe, there is no evidence that these priests acted with the support - or even the knowledge - of the Vatican.

The 1947 report, which was prepared by a Foreign Service officer in Rome, Vincent La Vista, said that ''in countries where the church is a controlling or dominating factor, the Vatican has brought pressure to bear which has resulted in the foreign missions of those Latin American countries taking an attitude almost favoring the entry into their country of former Nazi and former Fascists or other political groups, so long as they are anti-Communist.''

It also said ''the justification of the Vatican for its participation in this illegal traffic is simply the propagation of the faith.''

At the same time, according to other historical sources, Vatican relief groups were also helping many thousands of legitimate refugees. 'It's a Big Issue'

In Rome yesterday the Rev. Romeo Panciroli, the director of the Vatican press office, said he could not comment on the report, adding that he would reply only to a written request and that he would need ''at least a couple of days'' to consult Vatican archives before answering. ''I wasn't here at the time and it's a big issue,'' he said. The Times will make a written request to Father Panciroli's office.

Last summer a Vatican spokesman in Rome, the Rev. Pierfranco Pastore, was reported as having dismissed as ''absolutely absurd'' an article in the magazine Reform Judaism written by Mr. Allen that was based on a copy of the State Department report. Father Pastore was quoted as having told The Associated Press: ''It doesn't even merit a denial. Absolutely.'' But yesterday Father Pastore denied that he had made these comments ''on the record'' and said he could not comment publicly.

The report named a ''notorious'' smuggler of Nazis, Dr. Willi Nix, as one who operated under ''the benevolent protection of the Vatican'' and who ''fled to the Vatican'' minutes before he was to be apprehended by the Italian authorities. It went on to list the names of 22 clerics it linked to the illegal emigration. The report also documented an ''underground railroad'' by Jewish groups smuggling supporters to Palestine and other illegal emigration operations by Hungarians and Communist intelligence rings.

The National Archives has confirmed the authenticity of the report, but a State Department spokesman, Joseph W. Reap Jr., said he had no information on it.

The secretary of the new Papal Embassy in Washington, the Rev. Nicholas Halligan, said he was not familiar with the matter and could not comment.

Efforts to find Mr. La Vista were unavailing. State Department personnel and retirements offices said their records did not reflect any address for Mr. La Vista now. An organization of retired Foreign Service officers in Washington also said it had no record of him. Lack of Information Noted

The Rev. Antonio Weber, who during World War II headed the Vatican's organization for emigration aid, Opera San Raffaele, said his office had helped many people, including some 20,000 Jews fleeing Hitler, without in many cases knowing their real identities.

''We didn't know if they were or weren't war criminals,'' Father Weber said in an interview. ''Even if these war criminals came with their real names, who knew at the time they were war criminals? We could only believe what they told us.''

As efforts stepped up to gain Mr. Rauff's expulsion from Chile, the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Yeshiva University in Los Angeles said it had sent a telegram to Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, calling for American pressure on the Chilean Government.

In Paris last week, Mr. Klarsfeld issued the text of a statement that Mr. Rauff made in December 1962 to the Supreme Court of Chile. Mr. Klarsfeld's wife, Beate, is in Santiago, the Chilean capital, seeking the extradition of Mr. Rauff so he can stand trial for war crimes in West Germany or Israel. Chile declined to extradite Mr. Rauff in 1963 on the ground that its statute of limitations on the crimes with which he was accused had expired. Arrested by U.S. Troops

In the statement, Mr. Rauff is quoted as saying he was arrested by American troops on April 30, 1945, in Milan. He was held until the end of 1946, when he escaped and went to Naples.

''There, I was helped by a Catholic priest to go to Rome where I stayed more or less 18 months, always in convents of the Holy See,'' Mr. Rauff said.

According to Mr. Wiesenthal, who spoke from Vienna, Mr. Rauff escaped from the Rimini detention camp with the help of a German prioress who then hid him in a Franciscan monastery.

''I was given a job as a teacher of French and mathematics in an orphanage called Via Pia in Rome,'' Mr. Rauff's account continued. ''With the help of the Catholic Church, my family was able to escape from the Russian- occupied zone in Germany and come to Rome.''

After being reunited with his family, Mr. Rauff moved to Damascus, where he worked for the Syrian Government. In 1949 he and his family moved to Ecuador and nine years later went to Chile. Mr. Rauff still lives in Chile, though he does not have Chilean citizenship and travels on a German passport.

Mr. Klarsfeld said he doubted that Mr. Rauff's reference to ''convents of the Holy See'' was simply another way of saying Roman Catholic convents. Mr. Klarsfeld also said he was skeptical that Mr. Rauff would either lie or exaggerate before the Chilean court. Pope's Role Discussed

''He made his declaration in a Catholic country,'' Mr. Klarsfeld said. ''The judicial authorities would have checked it and it would have been a very bad thing for him if he had said something untrue.''

Mr. Klarsfeld said he did not think the Pope at the time, Pius XII, was aware Mr. Rauff had been given refuge in Vatican-connected facilities.

''I don't believe that,'' he said. ''But I don't believe that the Pope was that strongly against this. If he had been strongly opposed, it wouldn't have happened. He may have been misinformed and the priests who wanted to do this went ahead on their own.''

According to Mr. Klarsfeld, Mr. Rauff is ''one of the most wanted Nazi criminals'' living outside Germany. Mr. Klarsfeld equated Mr. Rauff with the Nazi ''doctor'' Joseph Mengele, who is believed by many to be living in Paraguay, and Alois Brunner, whom the Klarsfelds located in Damascus in 1982.

Mr. Klarsfeld said that Mr. Rauff had been head of the team responsible for the preparation and equipping of the mobile killing units, as well as for the creation of the mobile gas vans used to put Jews to death before Hitler's death camps were completed. 200,000 Killed in Vans

An estimated 200,000 Jews in the Soviet Union, Poland, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia were killed in the vans, which were often disguised with Red Cross emblems.

Colonel Rauff himself is said to have signed a secret report on July 5, 1942, noting that since the previous December ''97,000 have been processed.''

In his statement to the Chilean court, as translated by Mr. Klarsfeld's office, Mr. Rauff acknowledged that ''I helped organize the truck service'' and that ''I was the head of the technical groups at the security police headquarters.''

''Those so-called special trucks were destined for not only the extermination of Jews; also those who had been sentenced to death,'' he said.

''I must stress,'' Mr. Rauff continued, ''that although the technical office under my orders had to do with the special trucks used to produce death by asphyxia, the mission of this office was only related to the technical aspects and had nothing to do with the execution of people. So I didn't know if these trucks were used to kill Jews.''

He added, ''In this matter, I did not operate on my own authority but on superior orders.'' 'Under a Military Regime'

At another point, Mr. Rauff said: ''I should add that the group where I served was under a military regime as was all the police. It would have cost me my immediate death had I not followed orders.'' Klaus Barbie, who was head of the Gestapo in Lyons between 1942 and 1944, was assisted in getting papers to travel in the name of Klaus Altmann to Bolivia by both the United States Government and a Catholic priest, the Rev. Stefano Dragonovich. Mr. Barbie, whom the Klarsfelds helped identify, was sent back to France last year by Bolivia after a change in Bolivia's Government. Mr. Barbie awaits trial in Lyons for ''crimes against humanity.''

Eugene J. Fisher, executive secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic- Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Tuesday that he had reviewed the La Vista report last summer when Mr. Allen first wrote of it. Dr. Fisher said that Mr. La Vista gave no basis for his conclusions on Vatican policy. ''He extrapolated beyond what he investigated,'' Dr. Fisher said.

The La Vista report saw official Vatican sponsorship behind the largest illegal emigration movements in and through Italy.

Mr. La Vista wrote that he had visited and talked with most of the clerics and illegal operatives named in his report, with the exception of ''the notorious Dr. Nix,'' who was head of the Free German Committee in Italy and was aiding escaped German prisoners of war. But Dr. Nix, according to the La Vista report, was also receiving money from ''Communist-Yugoslav elements'' and might have been linked to Soviet espionage. Missed Arrest by Minutes

''After a very cautious investigation,'' the report went on, ''this writer was able to learn that several weeks ago, the Italian Government, after a secret investigation, had ordered the arrest of Dr. Nix.'' Yet, it went on, ''only a matter of minutes before Dr. Nix's actual apprehension, he was able to learn of his imminent arrest and fled to the Vatican where he is now residing. It has always been suspected that Dr. Nix was operating under the benevolent protection of the Vatican. His flight and present sanctuary in Vatican City is positive proof of this fact.''

The report continued: ''The Vatican of course is the largest single organization involved in the illegal movement of emigrants,'' followed by Jewish agencies and Hungarian and displaced persons groups. The Jewish underground, it said, was dedicated to smuggling Jews into Palestine and Egypt. All these groups, it said, used the passport services of the International Red Cross. An examination of Red Cross records in Geneva, Mr. La Vista predicted, ''would reveal startling and unbelievable facts.'' Mr. Allen wrote that other American documents showed the matter was later taken up with the Red Cross.

Saying that the Vatican's justification was propagation of the faith, Mr. La Vista went on: ''It is the Vatican's desire to assist any person, regardless of nationality or political beliefs, as long as that person can prove himself to be a Catholic. This of course from the practical point of view is a dangerous practice. The Vatican further justifies its participation by its desire to infiltrate, not only European countries, but Latin American countries as well, with people of all political beliefs as long as they are anti-Communist and pro-Catholic Church.''

The report described how Mr. La Vista followed the trail of 20 German prisoners who had broken out of the Rimini detention camp where they were being held in 1946. It said the trail led to a Carlo Haas, a former Nazi security officer, and to priests in Rome.