Barbara Honeggger published the first article, held the first press conference and published OCTOBER SURPRISE, the first book revealing the OCTOBER SURPRISE scandal which alleged that members if the Reagan/Bush presidential campaign negotiated a weapons deal with the IRANIANS in exchange for a delay of the release of the American hostages until after the elections. On Feb. 5th of this year the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES determined that there was a basis to these allegations when they voted to empanel a full congressional investigation of OCTOBER SURPRISE. To this day the name Barbara Honegger remains unmentioned on CBS, ABC and NBC. Instead they refer to the damage control book by former National Security Council Advisor, Gary Sick, (incredibly) also entitled OCTOBER SURPRISE!
Voting strictly along party lines the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES empaneled an investigative committee with open ended time, open ended funding, full subpena power with testimony under oath. The chairman of the committee will be Rep. Lee Hamilton. Rep. Henry Hyde will be the ranking Republican. Now ))) brace yourselves for this ))) the chief council of the OCTOBER SURPRISE committee will be Lawrence Barcella ))) the former hot shot U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia who was responsible for the prosecutions of CIA renegades Edwin Wilson and Frank Turpil!
This goes beyond belief! Without a doubt real life is stranger than any fiction. I would not believe this myself. Readers can not be expected to recognize the names Edwin Wilson, Frank Turpil or Lawrence Barcella since the most fascinating judicial events invariably are subjected to national news black)outs. There are two A +++ books covering the prosecution of Edwin Wislon and Frank Turpil that I implore readers to secure from their libraries or order from their bookstores. These are MANHUNT by Peter Maas and THE DEATH MERCHANT by Joseph C. Goulden. Readers have my guarantee that these non)fiction books will be more chilling than anything written by Robert Ludlum.
Today, Edwin Wilson (prisoner # 08237054) spends his time in a 12 foot square concrete cubicle in a special solitary)confinement corridor of the fortress)like maximum)security U.S. Penitentiary at Marion Illinois. He has served 10 years of a 52 year sentence in total solitary confinement. This isolated cell block holds just 6 prisoners ))) one of them being the former Soviet spy Christopher Boyce (THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN).
Among many other such crimes, Wilson stands convicted of shipping 42,000 lbs of C)4 plastic explosives to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi and contracting with 300 x)Green Berets to train Gaddafi's terrorists. Wilson's defence was that he was only following orders from CIA higher)ups. This claim is believable when our government's long history of building up enemy states is considered. As a result of all the muck stirred up by the Wilson prosecution CIA Director Stansfield Turner fired 800 covert opperatives in October of 1977 ))) the greatest purge in CIA history.
Prominent in this landmark CIA case was a company called EATSCO *)) short for EGYPTIAN AMERICAN TRANSPORT AND SERVICES COMPANY. Readers will have to refer to the above two recommended books for the detailed convoluted affairs of this company. It is simply not possible to do justice to this juicy matter in this short column. In a nutshell, EATSCO was formed in the aftermath of Jimmy Carter's Camp David Accords allegedly by Theodore Shackley (a shadowy figure often mentioned in this column but seldom mentioned elsewhere) his former CIA Deputy, Tom Clines, General Richard Secord (at the time Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for the Middle East) and Erich von Marbod, (former Chief Covert Operations Officer for the United States). The above mentioned patriots for profits created this company to transport 100% of the U.S. weapons to Israel and Egypt that were the payoff for the landmark peace agreement between these two nations.
One would have thought that the monopoly on all this transport would have been more than sufficient to underwrite the retirements of each individual 10 times over but these characters derailed their gravy train by skimming more than $8 million in unearned profits from weapons sales the first year.
White House fixer, Michael Ladeen, is reported to have approached Barcella to ask him to back off the Wilson case ))) that the $8 million was part of a covert operation. Ladeen's arguments apparently were unpersuasive, as Barcella preceded to convictions of both Ed Wilson and Frank Turpil. Turpil is currently avoiding his 56 year sentence by being a fugitive. It is doubtful however, that the U.S. intelligence community does not know where he is. Turpil was last seen leaving Grenada two days before the bloody cabinet coup that overturned the Maurice Bishop government (which was two weeks before the invasion of "Stormin' Norman". An account of this is contained in the appendix of Jonathan Kwitny's book ENDLESS ENEMIES.
While Edwin Wilson was training Gaddifi's terrorists, his close associate Frank Turpil was providing similar services for UGANDA's brutal ruler, Idi Amin. As a scoundrel on the grand stage of history, Turpil surpassed any creation of Ian Flemming. Turpil requested an office in the vicinity of Amin's torture chamber. He claimed that the screams of agony aided his concentration. One of Idi's favorite tortures involved strapping a steel bowl containing a wild rat to a victim's stomach. When a blow torch was applied to the steel bowl the rat would borough through the victims intestines. Idi was Turpil's kind of guy. Today the CIA claims Turpil cannot be found.
Here are a few points of reference. Ted Shackley was number 2 in the CIA when George Bush was number 1. The hostages for weapons deal with the Iranians was first initiated when Shackley approached U.S. government officials with the idea. Lt. Col. James Bo Gritz, the most decorated of all Green Beret Commanders, reported directly to Erich von Marbod as an agent of ISA. Gritz believed General Khun Sa, the heroin overlord of the Golden Triangle, when the general identified Shackley as his biggest customer for heroin.
I expect that readers of this column who do not read MANHUNT and THE DEATH MERCHANT will not believe a word I have written. I equally expect that those who go to this recommended effort will thereafter never view national network news with the same belief.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment