Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts
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Monday, May 13, 2019

Part 2 - Obama's Money Laundering: Chinese Global Domination?



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[NYT 09012011 - Matthew Wald]

We recognized the Solyndra debacle was an Obama scam, but, we never quite grasped the depth of the corruption involved, or, how it would eventually tie to the Deep State shift of global control from the United States to China.  While America was distracted by the Russia scandal, which has dominated world news for more than two years, we were distracted from the actual Economic and Military threat from China.  This is a long and convoluted thread; take the time to read it all the way to the end which should open your eyes to the big picture from which the Leftist Media has been distracting us, while China has been subverting us from within.
NSA Map: Chinese Cyber Assaults on US Economy

A secret NSA map shows the Chinese government’s massive cyber assault on all sectors of the US economy, including major firms like Google and Lockheed Martin, as well as the US government and military.

The map's red dots mark more than 600 corporate, private or government “Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage” attacked over a five-year period, with clusters in America’s industrial centers. The entire Northeast Corridor from Washington to Boston is blanketed in red, as is California’s Silicon Valley, with other concentrations in Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, L.A. and Detroit. The highest number of attacks was in California, which had almost 50.

Some of you may recall the Solyndra debacle, in which Obama declared he was promoting private enterprise, and US manufactured Solar Panels, to create jobs.  He invested $527 Million in direct loans from the Federal Financing Bank under the 2009 Stimulus Package to Solyndra -- by-passing the normal scrutiny by the Treasury Department auditors.  Private investors, thinking this was a solid, federally-backed program, invested another $1 Billion.   After all, President Bush had blessed it in 2006, so what could possibly go wrong!

Be sure you deposit $500 Million to my off-shore account


Obama visited the company in 2010, proclaiming it was "... leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future" and had hired 1,100 workers.  Below the radar, though, the OMB watchdogs noted that Obama had "... bypassed key taxpayer protections in a rush to approve the funds."




As federal auditors and investors watched helplessly, Solyndra executives were funneling the cash to offshore banks through bogus invoices to "partner companies" which existed solely to create invoices for future auditor review.

By 2011, the company executives had safely transferred virtually all the cash to a variety of offshore banks; they then decried the Chinese competition as underpriced, and therefore, Solyndra was declaring bankruptcy and firing its 1,100 workers.

A flurry of "investigations" followed, but, with Tim Geithner running the Treasury Department, and Eric Holder at the Department of Justice,  and Bob Mueller heading the FBI, not much progress was made in following up with investigations, much less prosecutions.

So, you say, why reprise this scandal!
The depths of that corruption have already been plumbed, and there's not much to be done about it now except to wring our hands and say, "thank God Obama is out of office!"

But, wait, there's more!

Well, no one ever really created an audit trail on that $1.57 Billion.
But, we do know that Obama entered office with a net worth of less than $250,000, and left with an estimated net worth of several billion dollars.  We are told that he was a frugal man and saved his money, and invested wisely.

So, where did all the money go?

It seems the Solyndra cash, along with many billions of dollars from the stimulus packages were passed through shell companies to a variety of off-shore banks in the Caribbean, China, and elsewhere in the Pacific. [Other monies, directly from the NY Fed were transferred to European and Indonesian banks in 2008 by Tim Geithner - then President of the NY Fed.  
The total that Geithner transferred to China was $15 Trillion, rapidly boosting China's GDP from $6 Trillion to nearly $13 Trillion a few short years.

And, what did Obama do with all that cash? [see comments below for China's spending]
We're slowly unraveling that as reports emanate from Trump's Treasury Department.

Obama's lifestyle at our expense
[house is based on design of a commercial Phuket estate]
As luck would have it, Obama's CIA was managing Intelligence/ Interrogation operations in a remote part of Thailand, and, while visiting, Obama decided he needed a hideaway.

The house, on 400 acres, is in the Northeast section of Thailand, near Ubol Ratchatani, a former USAF air base during the Vietnam War.  USAID had modernized the infrastructure of the area, and it showed growth promise.

Ubol Ratchatani
Obama's Insurgent HQ 






So, Solyndra, using its ill-gotten gains, bought a comfortable house, accessible to a semi-private airport [constructed by the USAF, with other attributes we'll discuss below, to accommodate Obama's international aspirations.

This is a swell spot to vacation, and to manage his Shadow Government if things get sticky elsewhere.  During his time in office, Obama visited Thailand six times, and in 2017, visited there another four times.  It apparently appeals to him.

But, aside from the obvious comfort levels, what else would take Obama to this remote part of the world!


As we've noted frequently in the past, there's more to Obama than meets the eye.

Before entering US politics, Obama was reared in an Indonesian Muslim environment, and appears on the rolls as a Muslim student [complete with a UK birth certificate from Kenya (when it was a UK colony].


In  the US with his mother (whom he later ignored and condemned), he was tutored by his Communist "father", Frank Marshall Davis who inculcated young Barack with Communist doctrine.  Once in the US, it seems that Obama's employer, the Ford Foundation, may have prepped him for the US political system, greasing the skids for a Blitzkrieg rise to the Oval Office.
Essentially, Obama is a double edged sword -- as a Communist AND an Islamic radical.

So, what, you might wonder; 
we already knew most of that history.

If you take his background, and his aborted attempts to create a Socialist/Communist state in America, he is likely now on the same path on a global basis.  He has announced he would like to lead the United Nations [probably not a certainty at this point], but, what better background to start tweaking developing countries.

He attempted to create a totalitarian Communist state in the US, populated with Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Iranians, and Communists.  He and Hillary did their best to undermine and overthrow the governments in a number of countries, and was finally outed as a result of Hillary's Benghazi fiasco -- which became a conduit of weaponry for ISIS and al Qaeda.

You may recall that Thailand has been beset by chronic Communist protests throughout the past decade, with a highly critical world Press condemning the Thai Military Government for its aggressive posture against dissidents.

Reportedly, a recent raid on the compound [quickly vacated] produced encrypted laptops,  $200 Million in gold bullion, and dozens of crates of Chinese weapons and explosives.

[The Thai government reportedly confiscated the estate under the provisions of the ASEAN Declaration to Joint Action on Counter Terrorism.]

That is not an aberration in either case, since the Communists have tried to overthrow the Thai Government since the mid-1950s.



NE Thailand Insurgency
Thailand was strengthened as a US ally during the Vietnam War, all the time fighting a Chinese  Communist insurgency supplied via Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the Northeast, and a Muslim insurgency at the border with Malaysia.

So, here, we get a two-fer. 

The insurgency in NE Thailand was headquartered right across the Cambodian border from Sisaket during the Vietnam War, while supplies and cadre crossed the river from Laos [via a North Vietnamese Binh Tram (logistics unit)] to operate near Ubol and Nakhon Phanom [NKP](another US air base)].
Obama's Mansion is strategically positioned
It was a viable and dynamic insurgent movement, with cadre recruited locally and trained in China, from which they would return to the region to recruit local villagers.

Mr Obama's Mansion is/was perfectly located to coordinate future insurgent paramilitary operations in this region already prepped for a renewed political offensive.



While in office as POTUS, Obama appointed Glyn Davies as his Ambassador, who immediately upon arriving, began supporting dissidents and supporting enemies of the Thai state.  This was in tune with the unwelcome UN involvement in Thailand which drew extreme criticism.
[and you'll recall how well UN involvement in the internal affairs of South Africa worked out.]

At the conclusion of the Vietnam War, a few stray bombs released from US F4s found their way across the Cambodian border, setting off more than 300 secondary explosions, incinerating insurgent soldiers, food stores, and weapon/ammunition stocks -- and essentially ending the insurgency.

What we learned later was that Henry Kissinger, in a 1972 letter to Chou en Lai, assured China that the US had no further interest in the region and would not interfere in a Chinese Communist incursion.  At the same time, Henry shut down all existing and clandestine Intelligence networks, some of which dated back to World-War-2 OSS nets.

Without those established nets, it would be difficult to monitor the flow of political activists and insurgent cadre and combatants as they flow in from China to be guided by Obama -- and Soros.

To tie all this information together,
Solyndra used the cash it siphoned from the US federal loans and private investors to acquire a number of real estate properties scattered about in Southeast Asia, valued at over $800 million. 

Given Trump's interest in these matters, we expect him to encourage other Southeast Asian countries to employ the ASEAN Declaration to Joint Action on Counter Terrorism.

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Editorial Notes:
1) I have some relevant knowledge of this situation as I served as the Regional Intelligence Advisor to the Thai Communist Suppressions Operations Command [CSOC (Now ISOC)], coordinating the Counter-Insurgency operations, in another lifetime.

2) Update 1MAY2019]: 

I visited Thailand recently and learned that, after Kissinger [in Nixon's name] ordered all US troops out of Southeast Asia, and simultaneously, shut down all US Intelligence operations [covert and clandestine], his Domino Theory almost succeeded in placing all of Southeast Asia in Communist hands. 

By 1975, virtually all US forces had departed, as had all Intelligence officers, so, an event which could have sparked World War 3 was not reported in Intelligence Circles - although Kissinger was likely fully aware.  


PRC forces from Yunnan assembled in northern Laos
and invaded the Chiang Rai region with infantry, armor,
and combat air support in 1975 - but were defeated.


Coincidentally, in 1975, the Peoples Republic of China [PRC] invaded northern Thailand from Yunnan Province, via Laos and Burma, near Chiang Rai.  

Thai Defense forces and the Nationalist Chinese [KMT], along with Hmong tribesmen, and a few Australian Military advisors, fought the PRC forces for three years, suffering thousands of casualties [a memorial exists today, with the names of all the casualties, at the site of the battles.

Eventually, the PRC withdrew, and left Thailand, only to support insurgent organizations to undermine the Thai government. 





[As an aside, some may remember the movie "Apocalypse Now" which described the hunt for, and assassination of Colonel Kurtz - whom the DS designated as a devil.  The movie portrays hundreds of bodies hanging from the swamp trees of Kurtz's camp ; those were Khmer Rouge, who had slaughtered, at random, millions of Cambodians merely because they were educated.  

On the positive side, "Colonel" Kurtz, was an advisor to the Mountain People, who were guerrillas fighting to keep Southeast Asia from succumbing to communism.  Watch the embedded video, all the way through the commentary after the Movie extract; it gives you an idea of what war is really like, and how it affects honorable men.]




Currently, the PRC is attempting an economic takeover of all Southeast Asia by investing, with loans to build national infrastructures, constructing dams for hydro-electric power, high speed rail, improving ports -- all with the trillions of dollars funneled to China via Indonesia in 2008 by Timothy Geithner while he was President of the NY Fed [he is currently a financial advisor to the PRC].  

Water remains a critical issue as China's plans for dams to furnish hydro-electric power throughout the region will flood farmland and/or cut off vital water supplies to farmers.  

In Laos, farmers complained that the Chinese routinely open and close dam spillways, sending tidal waves ten to 15 feet high roaring down rivers, inundating farms and wiping out crops.  

Additionally, since dams have been built in a hurry with little or no oversight, several of  have collapsed, causing death and destruction downstream.

Although the improvements are welcome, the governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma) are uncertain how they will repay these loans, which if unpaid, will result in the PRC seizing infrastructure assets and surrounding land.



The Third Prong on this economic threat, Chinese control of ports in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore.  As a part of what is now called the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road [MSR], it is clear that China's expansion strategy focuses on controlling regional ports, as well as those around the world.  




A fourth prong, though little known and yet to be accomplished enterprise is the Kra Canal, which will cross southern Thailand opening a sea lane from the South China Sea to the Andaman Sea, bypassing the Malacca Strait -- a maritime choke point adding enormous distance to maritime traffic between the two seas.  



The canal has considerable merit, 
but the reality is that China will control that conduit at the expense of Thailand, and the rest of Asia.


Global strategists have dubbed China's expansion into these sectors as the "Debt-Trap Diplomacy" - offered up as helping local economies through the "Belt and Road Initiative", but in reality, these huge developmental loans serve little to improve local life, but instead choke national economies with massive debt for unsound projects to secure Chinese access to resources or local markets. 

Cash strapped countries end up turning over their ports, their land, and their resources to China (just as Venezuela turned over its oil industry to China) when they can't meet their debt payments.  

In essence, China uses economic leverage in place of Military force to conquer target countries.  
The strategy is Wei Chi, or encirclement; in this case economic domination of regional and global ports cripples the ability to resist Chinese domination.  

From a military perspective, this high-speed rail could deliver troops and weapons system quickly and efficiently throughout Southeast Asia from Kunming to Singapore in a matter of hours.  Controlling internal waterways through dams allows for domination of the regional agriculture, and, control of ports means China declares what is imported or exported - thus controlling the economies of these countries. 

What the PRC could not seize through Military aggression, they are slowly seizing through economics.  
  
It seems that the Deep State's emissaries [i.e., GHW Bush, Clinton, G W Bush, Obama, and Kissinger] were routinely visiting the region from 1990-2016 to ensure China was not meeting any resistance in its expansion, and they would all profit immensely with China in control.  


Why have we not heard of these issues?  


Well, it's been reported, but the Obama cabal generated a great deal of noise and attention on the Russia, Russia, Russia meme to distract us from the Chinese economic - and Military threat.

Ultimately, the strategy has been to undermine the US to provide the PRC with full control, regionally, and eventually, globally.

Give that some thought as you listen to the Deep State Media continue the hysterics over Trump's alleged connections to Russia, Russia. Russia!







Thursday, October 13, 2016

Great American Ally Dies

King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Personified Thailand as The Land of the Free


We are saddened by the passing of one of history's great monarchs, an average guy, born in America, who was reluctant to take the crown following his brother's assassination many decades ago.

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts while his father was enrolled in the Public Health Program at Harvard University. His name translates to Strength of the LandIncomparable Power, and was in self-imposed exile to distance himself from the political turmoil in Thailand.  He had studied -- and partied in Europe, and was attending Harvard University as a music major, and played saxophone in a local band when he was notified he was the new King of Thailand.

King Ananda 


He was completely Americanized, spoke little of the Thai language, and was upset when four Thai Military officers showed up at his door to escort him back to Bangkok -- against his protests; his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, had been assassinated, and Thailand needed a King.



Once in Bangkok, newly-crowned King Bhumidol underwent an intense tutorial to learn to speak Thai and to adopt Thai cultural customs so he could play the royal role.


Thai Longboat   [Photo by Adrian Evans]


Once installed, he gradually became the leader the country needed, and, in the midst of another coup attempt, was smuggled out of the country by his American advisor and protector at the bottom of a long-boat.







He reestablished his position as national leader and developed rapport with a faction of patriotic Army officers who managed the affairs of the country and brought it stability; they overcame a series of coup attempts throughout the King's reign with the assistance of a unique intelligence system created by the King's OSS advisor to monitor his advisors - actual, and potential.

Over the decades, King Bhumibol became an astute student and knowledgeable of world affairs, and maintained a close alliance with the US, recognizing the threat that Communism posed.  He was especially concerned when the US abandoned Southeast Asia in 1975 at the direction of Henry Kissinger, leaving the region open to the fulfillment of the Domino Theory in which Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fell to the Communists; Thailand remained the sole survivor as its Military was able to sustain its strength in spite of the withdrawal of US forces.

[Thailand's post-1975 survival resulted from a highly effective counter-insurgency effort by US Intelligence; Kissinger discounted the Domino Theory because Thailand did not fall -- although he had done his best to ensure that it would fall to the Communist Insurgency based in Laos and Cambodia.]

The King's closest advisor -- and guardian, during his reign was a former OSS officer who had earlier smuggled him out of the country during the coup attempt.  With that support, the King became a powerful arbiter of the political factions, and the country has been at relative peace for decades.




His son, the probably new King,
Maha Vajiralongkorn,
has his work cut out for him as he assumes the role of leader of a nation steeped in political turmoil, in the midst of Communist effort to assume power.

 We wish him well.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Watergate Revisited



The Watergate - Political Stage       (USG Photo)

We have made a few editorial updates to this 2012 post from since it appears 
Mr Kissinger is still not dead and continues to influence US foreign policy
 at the highest levels.  We had presumed he had been permanently
 removed from this arena, but apparently, some in the 
Trump Administration regard him as credible.  
We regard him as the major representative of the DEEP STATE!

Click here for related story [Washington Post]


The Washington Post, losing readership faster than Mr Obama is losing his Democrat supporters, is revisiting Watergate, perhaps to distract voters from the gaffes, corruption, scandals, and Intelligence leaks of their beloved incumbent President.

Haldeman, Mardian, Parkinson, Ehrlichman, Mitchell

In this feature story, Woodward and Bernstein declare that Nixon was evil incarnate and, they were not only right in their coverage, they underestimated what a bad guy he really was!


They obviously want to relive the glory of their singular, if orchestrated, investigative reporting.

But, was it a real event, or a Byzantine black op?






Apparently, neither reporter ever realized that Watergate was a Kabuki Drama, and that they were merely performers being guided by a highly skilled group of Intelligence officers, with the plot orchestrated by the greatest spook of all:  Vernon Walters, the invisible Director of Central Intelligence.


So, if Watergate was a political orchestration, what was the real purpose, and why go through such a convoluted process?

In short:
The goal was to dislodge Henry Kissinger, perhaps the greatest threat to US national security in the 20th Century.

To understand this goal, a background scenario is necessary:
[we'll keep it as short as possible]

Nixon felt his place in history was to normalize relations with China.

He brought Kissinger, the Little Professor, on board based on Henry's academic credentials, his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, staff consulting with the NSC, and, he was a protege of Nelson Rockefeller [who had his own ambitions for the White House]; Henry played the part of pontificating intellectual to Nixon's naivete and ambition. 

Kissinger was Nixon's well-connected political Einstein.  Nixon gave Kissinger free rein, and chose not to challenge his unilateral decisions in pursuing Nixon's China Policy -- even though Kissinger's personal decisions and actions were systematically undercutting the US Military and destroying US intelligence operations around the world - as part of the Deep State.

Nixon dreamed of open relations with the People's Republic of China to

1) Neutralize the PRC as a US potential adversary
2) Enhance the PRC as a USSR potential adversary
3) Create a viable trading partner for US goods and
     services benefiting both countries




The vulnerability of the process was that Nixon turned over the negotiations for these goals to Kissinger, whose reputation and ego far exceeded his actual capacity.

Vice President Ford accurately pegged him as a pretentious little twit with a phony accent [Kissinger's brother, a cab driver, spoke harsh Brooklynese]; Pentagon and State Department officials regarded him as a loose and dangerous cannon.  But, Nixon backed him, which gave him all the power he needed to get things done, no matter what the cost.
And, Kissinger used his position to block access to Nixon, and to impose "Presidential Directives" on all elements of the Intelligence and Military Communities -- without the knowledge of Nixon.

Kissinger launched his personal diplomatic campaign in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War, to open discussions with China, bypassing -- but not unmonitored by -- the CIA and the State Department.  Kissinger chose not to use existing CIA or State Department contacts, assets or special resources to initiate discussions, but fumbled around trying to connect via "friends of friends" at foreign embassies -- thus becoming the laughing stock of international diplomatic circles. 

His amateurish maneuvers squandered a century of State Department inroads and expertise, and CIA's direct linkage to Mao's inner circle which dated back to a World War II OSS operation
[Operation Dixie Cup -- in which US officers advised both Mao and Chiang figuring the US would be pals with whomever ended up in power].  [As luck would have it, that OSS officer's son [Willis Bird, an Army Intelligence agent], was the escort of Kissinger during the historic visit to China.]

Henry, you are indeed a naive simpleton!
China had mastered diplomacy over a millennium and was light years ahead of Kissinger.

Eventually, Zhou en Lai, tiring of Kissinger's clumsy and amateurish efforts at diplomacy, contacted him and opened discussions -- in which Taiwan was deemed an expendable ally, and Viet Nam and all of Southeast Asia was declared by Kissinger [in a subsequent letter to Zhou]  to be of no further interest to the United States. 

Kissinger, not a skilled diplomatic negotiator, but apparently feeling he was the reincarnation of Machiavelli, gave away the farm and got nothing more in return than what Zhou was already willing to offer for free.  Zhou wanted revenue from international commerce, and normalizing relations with the US would serve that purpose.

Recently released National Archive documents recorded Kissinger's unilateral concessions to Zhou on 22 June 1972:

In Kissinger's words:
"... the US respects its Hanoi enemy as a 'permanent factor' and probably 'the strongest entity in the region'.  And, we have no interest in destroying it or even defeating it."
[underline added for emphasis]

Note:  
This was well over a year before Congress, via the Case-Church Amendment, declared the end to US Military involvement in Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia in August 1973 --  and nearly three years before Saigon was turned over to North Viet Nam in 1975.

In the interim, more than 1,000 US troops were killed -- fighting and dying for no purpose. 

[Particularly annoying was my brief status as a POW in Laos during August 1973 -- well after Henry had sold out the US Military to the Chinese.]

Zhou would have been perfectly content to simply open trade relations with the US.
Had Kissinger consulted the CIA or the State Department, he would have learned the PRC commercial link with the West had been thriving for years via Hong Kong.  Zhou, of course, could not pass up the opportunity to exploit Kissinger's obeisance, extracting as many concessions from Kissinger as he could, and enjoying every minute of the charade.

All of these negotiations were monitored by US Intelligence -- to the great frustration of Richard Helms [DCI] and William Rogers [Secretary of State].

Kissinger offered all of SEA to the PRC

Among the needless concessions, Kissinger agreed to not only turn over Southeast Asia [including Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore] to Communism, he also agreed to shut down all US Covert intelligence operations 
-- to include agent nets throughout the region which had been accurately reporting on military and political issues since World War II.

At the time, we had fully functional and reporting agent nets throughout Indo-China, to include penetration operations throughout the North Vietnamese Army, agents inside the Chinese training camps in Burma, and penetrations into the mainland Chinese training camps which fed the insurgency in Thailand and Malaysia. 

In February 1974, Kissinger directed that all such operations would cease immediately {by order of the president - an order not created by Nixon}; he ordered all Intelligence operational personnel immediately from the region. 


He used the Church Committee directives as his justification, but those required only that the Intelligence Committees be briefed on the existence of such operations -- not that they be terminated; termination was Kissinger's unilateral decision!

CIA's Guerrillas [a Group Mobile]
Not only did Kissinger close down all these highly productive clandestine and covert operations, he did so with the startling proviso that there would be no attempts to maintain any sort of contact or means of reconstructing the nets in the future -- by  "Order of the President" 
[an edict of which Nixon was unaware].

Such actions were unheard of in the history of diplomacy and espionage, and they put the US at a major political and military disadvantage both in the region as well as on a global basis -- from which the US has never recovered.


No country unilaterally gives up its intelligence advantage and can expect to survive. 

Among the consequences were the loss of all intelligence feeds on insurgent operations emanating from China targeting Thailand and Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines,
as well as the loss of continuous reporting on American POWs held in Laos, Cambodia, and Viet Nam after the Viet Nam War.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Kissinger became Nixon's personal ambassador to the Shah of Iran, with the objective of manipulating the world oil market -- and its pricing, and increasing Israel's stature in the region, thus upsetting the Arab world and undermining Middle East regional stability.

The Shah, pre-Carter

Kissinger again by-passed both the State Department and CIA in his manipulations, and, pandering to the Shah,  shut down all US unilateral intelligence operations in Iran, exposing US operations, methods and sources, and forcing the CIA to work solely in bilateral operations with Savak -- Iran's Intelligence organization known for its brutality.

By shutting down the CIA in Iran, and curtailing all negative reporting on Iran from other US intelligence organizations, the US became isolated and singular in its ignorance of the growing revolutionary forces within, and without.

Aside from alienating the Intelligence Community, Kissinger cut a deal with the Shah by posing no objection to the Shah's abruptly doubling the price of a barrel [BBL] of oil.  In Kissinger's words to Iranian diplomat Ardeshir Zahedi
"Tell the Shah 'you can push [us] as much as you want [on oil prices]".
[Kissinger later claimed this concept was all Nixon's idea, when it was, in fact, his own version of foreign policy to influence Middle East oil flow, and to protect Israel.]

The US had no clue about the Ayatollah's political power
-- thanks to Kissinger




Thus, the growing popularity of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran went virtually unnoticed and unreported, and Khomeini's international support was downplayed - by Savak, which filtered all US reporting on Iran. 






The result:
 
The US was the only country surprised by the overthrow of the Shah and the Revolution which brought in the Ayatollah, changing the balance of power forever in the Middle East, and opening the door to political power for radical Muslim Mullahs and radical Islamists -- a political dilemma which may lead to a global war. 

The unforeseen consequence of this diplomatic blunder was the displacement of the Shah, who would then be replaced by Saudi Arabia as the dominant force in the Middle East. 

[Jimmy Carter, after promising the Shah a US Safehaven, would later covertly offer to return the Shah to Iran for trial in exchange for release of US hostages; interestingly, Noriega wire-tapped Carter's negotiations with the Iranians, alerted the Shah, and offered him safety in Panama. (that's another story)]

The Director of Central Intelligence [and CIA] {DCI}, Richard Helms, was by-passed by Kissinger, who succeeded in excluding Helms from the National Security Council and access to the Oval Office.  A series of leaks -- believed to be via Kissinger -- regarding CIA activities and operations, made their way to the Media - resulting in Media-hyped scandals leading to a series of Congressional investigations. 

To help maneuver Helms out of the way, Kissinger brought in as Deputy DCI (DDCI), Vernon Walters, the affable Military Attache' in Paris who had smuggled Kissinger into Paris for his secret meetings with North Vietnamese officials; in the absence of Helms, Walters became the acting DCI.  As DDCI, Walters could manage the CIA while Helms was distracted by Kissinger's political intrigue.

Kissinger assumed the position of Secretary of State after forcing the resignation of the highly skilled diplomat, William Rogers.  The Intelligence Community recognized that Kissinger's elevated status would give him unprecedented power to destroy intelligence and subvert National Security.  He had succeeded in displacing both the Director of Central Intelligence as well as the Secretary of State, thus becoming Nixon's principal foreign policy advisor and his only link to the international community.

Ultimately, the Church Committee established Congressional oversight over CIA's operations, severely restricting the capabilities of the US Intelligence Community -- albeit with only a few positive reforms.  

With Helms disgraced by the flood of leaks about the CIA, Kissinger persuaded Nixon to demote Helms and reassign him in 1973 as Ambassador to Iran -- where Kissinger, as Secretary of State, could control him.  
[Kissinger had also ordered the termination in Iran of all HUMINT and NSA operations, removing all early indicators of the growing influence of the Ayatollah whose rise to political and religious ascendency would disrupt Iranian stability and eventually would force the Shah to abdicate]

That left a gap in CIA leadership - filled by LTG Vernon Walters.

This was the basis for the Watergate Conspiracy, which was already well underway.

Kissinger was completely insulated since he could, and did, as Nixon's Gatekeeper, limit access to the President, so any attempt by anyone outside the White House to persuade Nixon of Henry's destructive actions would be short-stopped, and the messenger would be terminated.  

The Washington Leadership [political, Intelligence, and Military, all recognized that Kissinger was succeeding in an ultimate power-grab in which he would control the State Department, CIA, and the Oval Office - manipulating Nixon.  And, the only way to neutralize Kissinger was to dislodge Nixon.

Vernon Walters
[Meet the REAL Deep Throat]


Walters was one of the most respected officers in the Military as well as in the Intelligence Community,  having been a key operative in the OSS during WW2, and notable for creating operations which remain classified even today.

[NOTE: I worked for General Walters (directly and indirectly at the State Department) while he was President Reagan's Ambassador at Large. He was a major force in later helping me to create the Defense Clandestine Service.]

Kissinger presumed Walters to be an ally since Walters commiserated with Kissinger on CIA problems.  Once installed as acting DCI, Walters was accepted at the Oval Office, and the White House advisors liked and admired him because of his jocularity and intellect. 


Hoover
Beloved by No-One


Coincidentally, J Edgar Hoover died, conveniently (he had been in excellent health but succumbed to a Breitbart-style heart stoppage), a month before the break-in, thus he was unavailable to lead an FBI investigation into the Watergate event.

At the suggestion of Helms' Deputy Director, Nixon appointed L Patrick Gray, an inexperienced DOJ lawyer, by-passing Mark Felt [who would later  be dubbed (mistakenly) as Deep Throat].  



As acting Director [DCI] of all US Intelligence agencies, Walters ensured that the FBI was kept out of any meaningful investigative role in Watergate; instead, he personally provided a programmed feed to the FBI's new Director Gray. 

What no one realized was that Walters was orchestrating the entire Watergate debacle with Washington Post Editor, including the leaks to Bob Woodward, and even to Mark Felt.

The anomalies of the scandal, though crystal clear to Intelligence officers, never got in the way of the Washington Post reporting - orchestrated by Walters, and Ed Bradley, the Managing Editor of The Washington Post.

[Note:  Much later, Woodward (hyping his book) appeared as a guest speaker at the National Press Club (where I co-chaired the National Journalism Awards).  I took the opportunity to introduce myself while he paraded around with the guests; so I took the opportunity to ask him if he continued his relationship with Vernon Walters after the Watergate Sting was concluded.  Oddly, his face turned bright red and he stormed out of the Press Club, and I did not receive an answer to my question.

The Event [aka: The Sting]:

On 17 June 1972, five men were arrested for breaking and entering the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex. 

    a.  They were discovered after a well-meaning but inept building security guard found the
         door to the office repeatedly propped open with tape -- which he removed, each time
         re-locking the door, and each time, the tape was replaced and propped open again
         -- guaranteeing their discovery.

    b.  Cash found on the burglars was somehow connected by the FBI to a GOP Reelection
         Committee Slush Fund. 
        [Interesting forensics there, even for today's experts and technology.]

    c.  The burglars' expertise included senior career intelligence officers notable for their
         experience in second story Black Ops, to include weapons, demolitions, surreptitious entry,
         PsyOps, special security, money laundering, espionage, and assassinations.
         
[Why were highly skilled, senior level intelligence operatives involved in a simple break-in?]
         
         These guys were all highly experienced spooks, e.g.,
     
        (1) G Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, directed "The Plumbers"
               to break in to the DNC Watergate office.
G Gordon Liddy
         (2) James McCord had been an FBI security expert and
               also headed CIA security;  
         (3) Frank Sturgis, with 30 years experience, had served as
               a Marine in WWII, operating behind enemy lines. He ran
               covert operations in Communist Berlin, and infiltrated
               Fidel Castro's inner circle.
        (4)  Bernard Barker, was a veteran of Operation 40,
               the Bay of Pigs, and Cuban Secret Police.

   d.  Nixon commented, upon learning of the event:
       "It sounded preposterous.   
       The whole thing made so little sense.  Why in such a
       blundering way?  Anyone who knew anything about 
       politics would know that national committee headquarters 
       was a useless place place to go for inside information
       The whole thing was so senseless and  bungled that it 
       almost looked like some kind of set-up."

Cub Reporters 
Breaking News
  e.  Two Washington Post cub reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, just happened to be assigned to Night Court to witness the five burglars being charged.  

        1) Interestingly, Woodward had recently been released from US Naval Intelligence as a junior officer)

       (2) Oddly, the intelligence operatives, who had lived both covert and clandestine existences and were completely used to subterfuge, cover identities, arrests, torture, and lying their way out of similar situations, immediately blurted out in Night Court that they worked for the CIA. 

      (3) Standard procedure in this type of situation would have been a quick phone call, a release in anonymity -- and then to disappear forever.

      (4) Instead, trained, experienced professional spooks spilled their guts in front of two cub reporters, without any prompting, much less an inquiry by the judge.

     (5)  The only conclusion, from an intelligence perspective, is that these Plumbers had purposely made a series of highly visible blunders and left a paper trail that a Cub Scout/Reporter could have followed, creating a highly visible story for them to report.

[But, that would not have eliminated Kissinger, and fortunately, 
the naive Woodward and Bernstein were artfully manipulated by Walters and Bradlee.]

Spookdblog debriefing
"WaPo Editor" Ben Bradlee 

at the National Press Club
Thus, the bait was set, Woodward and Bernstein ran with it, Ben Bradlee blessed it [in collusion with Walters] and the story grew legs.

[Bradlee was well acquainted with the Intelligence Community and despised Kissinger, and was only too happy to assist.]

Each time the story got stale, our erstwhile reporters were fed some new tidbits and leads by Bradlee, who was fed by Walters - who would then meet covertly with reporter Woodward. [Bradlee told me he regarded Woodward and Bernstein as Useful Idiots.



Meanwhile Congressmen and Senators were urged into outrage and action, until finally, Nixon was forced to resign.

[As a sidelight, the Impeachment investigation included Hillary Clinton's Obstruction of Justice in which she concealed exculpatory evidence from Chief Counsel Zeifman; so, it seems her political corruption record goes back to Watergate]

Kissinger, a Deep State/Shadow Government operative, who had managed the demise of a number of developing countries for the Deep State, was the intended target of this scheme, nimbly exited the Oval Office "Conspiracy Group" to the safety of the Seventh Floor of the State Department, where he could claim ignorance of the alleged plot and crime.

Although Kissinger escaped removal from White House power, his true power base, Nixon, was neutralized.  In the final analysis, the Deep State/Shadow Government succeeded in removing both Kissinger and Nixon, and replacing Nixon with Ford, who was a willing stooge for the Deep State and the Shadow Government.  

Even so, Kissinger continued to influence foreign policy, but he was not afforded special status by President Ford, who made it a point to regard Kissinger as nothing more than a bothersome popinjay.  Kissinger also found himself exiled from the National Security Council.

Such events, once set in motion, are subject to the Law of Unintended Consequences.

The CIA was not spared its dismantling and the gutting of the Directorate of Clandestine Services, first by Kissinger, and then by his successor and protege, Zbigniew Brzesinski; and finally, Carter's DCI, Stansfield Turner, who delivered the coup de grace by firing 800 Clandestine Service operatives, world-wide.  By the time Reagan took office, the US Human Intelligence capability had been virtually destroyed.

Footnote: 

There are those who believe that Nelson Rockefeller played a role in manipulating the situation to dislodge Nixon and open a path through which he could take to the Oval Office [i.e., as Vice President].  There may be some truth to that premise, but, Ford did not win re-election, closing that door to Rockefeller, who later died unexpectedly of "heart stoppage"-- perhaps of the Breitbart Syndrome.

Predictably, Kissinger continued to pontificate on foreign policy and influences the Media, though most experienced policy-makers regard him as a buffoon.  At the first hint of an international crisis, he was been known to show up at local TV stations, demanding that they interview him.  Many now ignore him.  

[Update: unfortunately, he apparently has advocates in the Trump Administration, which throws us into a panic!]

Kissinger's legacy:
1)  The Domino Theory  fulfilled, to include the Communization of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia 
      -- notably the Killing Fields leaving millions of dead and suffering in Cambodia.
2)  Following Kissinger's removal of US Military and all Intelligence operations in Asia, 
     he sent a letter to Chou en Lai, advising the US would not object if China were to 
     "expand its influence into Southeast Asia", Chinese troops invaded northern Thailand in 1975 
     from Laos [but were defeated by troops from Thailand, Taiwan, and Burma].  
2)  Middle East turmoil immersed in Muslim extremism which is spreading throughout the 
     Middle East and Muslim countries around the world.
3)  Destruction of the US strategic capability in clandestine and covert Human Intelligence

     eliminating predictive intelligence in the Middle East and the Far East.  
Grigori Rasputin
[Reincarnated as Kissiinger?]

4) There are those who speculate that Kissinger is the reincarnation of 
Grigori Rasputin, the confidant of the Tsarist family, and acting "Tsar"with Empress Alexandra while Emperor Nicholas was leading his Military in World War 1.  

    Rasputin was loathed by all [except the Empress]; 
    he essentially disrupted and destroyed the Tsarist government,
    leading to the Bolshevik [communist] overthrow of the
    Romanov dynasty. [Bolsheviks were also active in the US].

    Comparisons of Kissinger with Rasputin seem quite accurate
    in that both manipulated their way into the most senior levels
    of power and influenced the erosion of both power structures.






The KGB could not have been more effective in 
destroying the US Intelligence capability
 if they had hired Kissinger themselves