2/10/03
THE “OCTOBER SURPRISE” RE-VISITED :
INSIGHT INTO THE WICKEDNESS OF THE BUSH FAMILY, THE CIA, CLINTON, AND
THE VATICAN
By
J. Parnell McCarter
I was still in high school when I read of
allegations of impropriety associated with George Bush and the Iranian hostage
crisis. I was a Republican at the time,
and a non-Christian, so getting to the bottom of the story was not an especial
interest of mine. I was only too ready
to see Carter lose the presidency. But
more recently the story has drawn my attention, primarily because studying it
provides a glimpse into a network of evil far more dastardly than one can
imagine. It is a network that Psalm 2:2
describes regarding the wicked rulers of this world. We have covered that larger story at Puritan News Weekly.
There is a substantial amount of incriminating
evidence available. One sample website
is http://www.freeamerica.com/National/usa3.html . Note there the underground ties and deals between supposed
enemies like Iraq, Iran, Israel, and the USA.
Also note how the USA was responsible for arming Iran and Iraq with
weapons of mass destruction, which is especially ironic given that such WMD are
the supposed basis of the coming US war with Iraq.
Here is more critical information relating to the
“October Surprise” from http://www.io.com/~patrik/october.htm :
“…Ari Ben-Menashe, who worked for the Israeli
intelligence agency, the Mossad, before he surfaced to write a tell-all book,
Profits of War (1991). Ben-Menashe says he was part of a team which worked with
the French to arrange secret meetings between George Bush, William Casey, and
the Iranians. At one particular meeting in Paris, on October 19, 1980, a final
agreement allegedly was concluded: In exchange for a $40 million bribe and
future arms shipments, the Iranians agreed not to release the American hostages
until the January 1981 Presidential inauguration. This, in fact, did happen;
the 52 hostages were released on January 20, 1981.
Barbara Honegger worked for the Reagan
administration in the White House Office of Policy Development. She worked
there for 3 years before she became "the first resignation of conscience
from the Reagan-Bush Administration." She held off from publishing her
book, October Surprise, until 1989, due to a sense of loyalty she felt toward
Ronald Reagan.
Honegger points out that George Bush had been a
Director of CIA and, as such, had plenty of covert connections and know-how
with which to implement secret dealings between the Republicans and Iran. Many
in CIA hated Jimmy Carter for downsizing the Agency and were eager for revenge.
Honegger, like Gary Sick, is cautious; throughout her book she refers to the
October Surprise story as "allegations." Yet her evidence leads
overwhelmingly to the reality of the October Surprise conspiracy.
For example, Honegger points to the many witnesses
who have gone public concerning the affair. While some might consider these CIA
contract agents to be shady characters and therefore not sterling witnesses,
she asks: Why didn't this body of witnesses ever get to tell their stories to
the American people? Writes Honegger: "As an independent journalist, I
believe profoundly in the right of the American public to hear from all parties
who claim to have information on charges as serious as that an
arms-for-hostage-delay deal was made between the Reagan-Bush campaign and
Iran."
So why didn't we hear all sides of the story? After
all, in a democracy it is supposed that the public can think for itself, and do
not need to be shielded from witnesses which some self-appointed authority
decides are "not credible." By what right do the few have such
control over what the many are allowed to hear?
Rodney Stich, in his classic and definitive book on
government corruption, Defrauding America (1-800-247-7389), suggests part of
the reason information is withheld, diminished, or twisted -- The CIA's Media
Wurlitzer.
The CIA has
many media personnel on its
payroll to plant
stories or
discredit charges against the CIA. It
pays out
large sums
of money for articles and books to be written on
the CIA's
behalf. Its control over the
media is like a
Wurlitzer,
orchestrating and manipulating all segments of
the written
or broadcast media. It must be
remembered that
the CIA has
iron-clad control over the establishment
media
in the
United States, and
spends money supporting
journalists
and the media.
In light of the July 1996 issue of this newsletter
("The Smiling Pope"), it is noteworthy that Ms. Honegger goes into
the Propaganda Due, or P-2, connection. You'll recall that P-2 is a secret,
illegal Masonic lodge founded in Italy by Licio Gelli in 1966. Honegger points
to Alexander Haig, later to become the Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan,
as having been made an "honorary" (non-Italian) member of P-2 prior
to 1980. Honegger further states that Licio Gelli, finance wizard Michele
Sindona, Alexander Haig, and CIA Director William Casey "were also
reportedly members of the Vatican's military order, the Knights of Malta, whose
initiates must take an oath of allegiance to the Pope." Furthermore, P-2
is linked to the Mafia, which also seems to have played a part in the October
Surprise plot; writes Honegger: "A number of press reports, taken
together,
suggest that there may have been a P-2 and Gambino
Mafia connection to the release of the fifty-two American hostages from the
U.S. embassy in Tehran."
(By the way, in light of the July issue of this
newsletter, "The Smiling Pope," I recommend the movie, "The
Godfather, Part 3.")
Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr was president of Iran during
the hostage crisis. As of 1991, he was living in exile, in Paris. In his book,
My Turn To Speak, Bani-Sadr corroborates the October Surprise allegations.
While some may wonder why Iran would have negotiated
with "the Great Satan," i.e., the United States, it now appears that
this rhetoric served mainly to help unite a fractious Iran against a common
enemy. (Such techniques are used here in the U.S., where the government uses
the Big Enemy technique to rally support -- for example, Big Enemies such as
Russia, narcotics, and now, increasingly, supposed omnipresent terrorists.)
Writes Bani-Sadr: "The takeover of the U.S. embassy was wholly in line
with [Ayatollah] Khomeini's strategy of focusing hostility abroad."
Remember too that the U.S. had frozen Iranian funds and had military spare
parts desperately needed by the Iranians.
Former-president Bani-Sadr says he has proof of
contacts between Iran and the Reagan-Bush forces as early as the spring of
1980. He claims that "the sole purpose of [these contacts] was to handicap
Carter's re-election bid by preventing the hostages'
release before the American elections in November
1980."
The late Paul D. Wilcher was a Washington attorney
who investigated the October Surprise charges. In a 100-page letter addressed
to Attorney General Janet Reno and dated May 21, 1993, Wilcher offered her a
comprehensive look at American
"deep politics." (The term "deep
politics," comes from Professor Peter Dale Scott's penetrating look at the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993.) One section of Wilcher's
letter to Reno is entitled, "The 'October
Surprise' Treason & Coup D'Etat." (My thanks to a subscriber for
sending me this disturbing document.) Writes Wilcher:
My
client here is Gunther Karl
Russbacher, a life-long
covert
operative for the CIA and
the Office of Naval
Intelligence ("ONI") who has operated at the highest levels
of both of
these super-secret organizations over
the past
30 and 25
years, respectively.
Because of
his extremely high intelligence, his exceptional
physical
skills, his extensive training, his fluency
in 8
languages,
his proficiency as one of the CIA's top pilots
and marksmen,
and the fact that his father was one of the
original
founders (along with William
Casey, "Wild Bill"
Donovan,
and others) of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
back in
1947, Gunther has always operated
at the highest
levels of
these "intelligence" organizations, and has been
entrusted
with carrying out some of their most difficult,
sensitive,
and top secret covert operations.
[......]
For the
moment, however, I want to focus on
one pivotal
event in
Gunther's career -- the fact that he was
the CIA
pilot who
flew George Bush and others (listed below) to and
from Paris
on this "October
Surprise" weekend, and then
flew George
Bush back to America on the CIA's
hypersonic
spy plane, the SR-71 -- to get him back home
before anyone
would
notice that he was gone.
Russbacher says his passengers on the flight to
Paris during the October 19, 1980 weekend, included George Bush, William Casey,
Donald Gregg (later to become Ambassador to South Korea), Robert Gates (later
to become Director of CIA),
Robert McFarlane (President Reagan's National
Security Advisor), Robert Allen (President Reagan's first National Security
advisor), Earl Brian (of later INSLAW notoriety), Jennifer Fitzgerald
(reportedly one of George Bush's mistresses),
Congressman Daniel Rostenkowski (a.k.a.
"Rosty," now in jail), Congressman Dan Burton, Senator Robert Byrd,
Senator John Tower, Senator John Heinz, and other prominent Members of Congress.
Wilcher's letter describes who got what: The gist of
these negotiations (and deal) was that Bush and Casey delivered to the Iranians
$40 million in cash (it started out as $62 million, but by the time many of the
Americans had dipped their hands into the
till, only about $35 million was left to give to the
Iranians), basically as bribe money, plus the promise of $5 billion more in
illegal arms sales and spare parts... in exchange for the Iranians' agreement
not to release the 52 American hostages captured in Tehran on November 4th,
1979, until after the November 4th, 1980, U.S. Presidential election -- in
order to guarantee the humiliation and defeat of then-President Jimmy Carter,
and the victory of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. The important point to
remember about this flight, and all those who were participating in it, is that
the entire exercise was a carefully planned, and well executed CIA covert
operation -- which had been ordered and sanctioned at the highest levels of the
"Shadow Government" -- specifically for the purpose of taking back
control of the federal government from the Democrats, and returning it to the
CIA and the "Shadow Government." In other words, this entire
operation was -- and was specifically designed to be -- a treasonous coup
d'etat, to take back control of the federal government from Jimmy Carter and
the Democrats...
Paul Wilcher, by the way, is numbered among the
so-called "Clinton Body Count" -- persons connected to Bill Clinton
who have died mysteriously and/or violently. The story of the Clinton Body
Count was first brought to light by Indianapolis attorney
Linda Thompson. She described how the information
was first intimated to her, by a purported CIA agent, on the February 3rd, 1994
broadcast of Chuck Harder's "For the People" radio show:
CHUCK
HARDER: Now, Linda, you were talking
[about]... The
Clinton
Body Count. You say 25 people that have
surrounded
Bill
Clinton, with some type of a
personal relationship
with
him.....
LINDA
THOMPSON: Uh-huh. [Affirmative]
CHUCK HARDER:
.....have turned up
dead within
approximately the last 12 months.
LINDA
THOMPSON: Right.
CHUCK
HARDER: Can you name them
"off the top of your
head,"
to the best of your ability?
LINDA
THOMPSON: Sure.
CHUCK
HARDER: And who were they, and how come,
and that
sort of
thing.
LINDA THOMPSON:
C. Victor Raiser
was Bill Clinton's
campaign finance chairman, and his son, who was also very
active in the campaign, Victor Raiser, Jr., were
killed in
a plane
crash, enroute to
Alaska, in July of '92. Now
that's
where the body count begins. And it
begins there...
I almost
didn't include them because I was going to
divide
it up into post-Presidency and
pre-Presidency. The fellow
that had
called me and suggested that I
do this was CIA.
And he
said, you know, "Do
a body count around Clinton."
And I said,
"What?!" [He answered,]
"Just do one. Do one
before he
became President and do
one after he
became
President." Because I would
not have thought of this on my
own. I really...
It would never
have occurred to me to
even think
of doing this.
Besides Wilcher and Raiser, other names amongst the
still-growing Clinton Body Count are: Paul Tully, DNC political director, heart
attack; Paula Gober, worked as Clinton's interpreter for the hearing-impaired,
car crash; Jim Wilhite, friends with Mack
McLarty and Bill Clinton, skiing accident; Vincent
Foster, Jr., deputy White House counsel, "suicide"; Luther
"Jerry" Parks, owner of a security service which supplied guards for
Clinton during his 1992 presidential campaign, murdered by multiple
gunshots; Jon Parnell Walker, RTC Senior
Investigation Specialist looking into wrongdoing at Madison Guaranty S&L,
supposedly jumped to his death while apartment hunting; Kathy Ferguson, wife of
Danny Ferguson who said he brought
sex-accuser Paula Jones to Bill Clinton's hotel room
at which time Clinton is alleged to have sexually harassed Jones,
"suicide" by pistol; Herschel Friday, a member of C. Victor Raiser's
(see above) finance committee, plane crash; Ed Willey, manager of Clinton's
presidential campaign finance committee, supposedly shot himself on November
30, 1993; John A. Wilson, a Washington, D.C. city councilman about to go public
with information on Bill Clinton, "suicide" by hanging; Ron Brown,
the late Commerce Secretary, killed in a suspicious plane crash.
The list contains many more names than the above. I
may write a more detailed account in the future. Readers familiar with the many
violent and/or mysterious deaths of potential witnesses connected to the JFK
assassination will be familiar with the pattern
suggested by the Clinton Body Count. For now, add
one more name to the list of suspicious deaths connected to Bill Clinton:
Susann Coleman. As documented in the book, Clinton Confidential (by George
Carpozi), Ms. Coleman, said to be pregnant
by Bill Clinton, died by "suicide" on
February 15, 1977. Writes Carpozi, "Coleman is purported to have put the
muzzle of a shotgun into her mouth and pulled the trigger."
But how does October Surprise lead to the Clinton
Body Count? The October Surprise coup d'etat led to the 12-year Reagan-Bush
Administration. During that time, the illegal Contra war in Nicaragua was
funded in part by CIA gun- and drug-smuggling via Arkansas, condoned by
then-Governor Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, according to Roger Morris, author of
Partners in Power, is a long-time CIA agent. The Arkansas smuggling operation
was under the command of George Bush, himself a former Director of CIA and
long-time agent of that roach hotel. So how does October Surprise lead to the
Clinton
Body Count? Well, as we all know, roaches multiply.
Robert Parry has worked for Associated Press,
Newsweek magazine, and the PBS program, "Frontline." He has been an
investigative reporter for over 20 years. Parry has continued to look into the
October Surprise story, has had a book published on the subject (Trick or
Treason), and recently came up with some startling information which he
published on Internet.
Following a Congressional task force report which
debunked the October Surprise allegations (a report which, writes Parry, rests
on "an elaborate set of alibis"), Parry sought access to the task
force's files. He obtained permission to examine
unclassified papers, stored in a Rayburn building
sub-basement, in a converted Ladies' washroom now used for storage. To Parry's
surprise, "Not only did I find unclassified notes and documents about the
task force's work, but also 'secret' and even
'top secret' papers..." Parry's study of these
documents led him to believe, more firmly than ever, that the October Surprise
plot had indeed occured.
Among the confidential documents that Parry lucked
onto was a six-page Russian report, sent in response to a query by Rep. Lee
Hamilton (D-Ind.) According to Parry, the "Russian report stated, as fact,
that Casey, George Bush and other Republicans
had met secretly with Iranian officials in Europe
during the 1980 presidential campaign. The Russians depicted the hostage
negotiations that year as a two-way competition between the Carter White House
and the Reagan campaign to outbid one another for Iran's cooperation on the
hostages. The Russians asserted that the Reagan team had disrupted Carter's
hostage negotiations after all, the exact opposite of the task force
conclusion."
Still don't believe the October Surprise
machinations occured? Tell that to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
who, when asked in May of 1993 if there had been an October Surprise,
responded, "of course, it was." Tell that to senior representatives
of Iran's current government, who, writes Parry, are "amused at how wrong
the House task force had been." Tell that to veteran White House
correspondent Sarah McClendon, who, when I stated to her in late August of
1995, "So you agree with the story of the 'October Surprise,'"
responded:
Oh definitely.
There definitely was. And Bush
has denied it all along.
And people have seen him in Paris
at the time he claims he
wasn't there. They saw him there
and they know he went to the meeting.
And I definitely think the agreement was made there.
An "October Surprise" has also come to
have a generic meaning. According to William Safire, writing in the New York
Times on or about August 20, 1996, "An 'October Surprise,' in political
parlance, is the making of big news to affect a November election." Safire
points to two events which, he says, are "in the pipeline" -- a
possible indictment of Hillary Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice,
and a possible punitive strike against Iran in retaliation for allegedly
masterminding the recent bomb
attack against a military barracks in Saudi Arabia.”