A secret government within a government and Team B

October 26, 2005 --The classic case is the "missile gap" of the late
1950s. Air Force Intelligence was estimating that Soviets would
deploy 500 intercontinental ballistic missiles by the early '60s.
The intelligence branch of the Strategic Air Command figured the
Soviets would, or might already, have 1,000 or more. The CIA, on the
other hand, calculated the number at about 50. (By the time John F.
Kennedy took office in 1961, photos from spy satellites revealed
that the Soviets had just four ICBMs.)

Air Force Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. George Keegan, had briefed
officials on the thousands of hidden Soviet missiles back in
the '50s. He later after retirement from the Air Force, became a
member of Team B in the 1970s.

In the 1970s, when President Richard Nixon's policy of detente was
under attack by some former military officials and conservative
policy intellectuals, Ford administration officials Dick Cheney and
Donald Rumsfeld were among those challenging as too soft the CIA's
estimate of Moscow's military power.

Rumsfeld and Cheney wanted to create a "Team B," which would have
access to the CIA's data on the Soviets and issue its own
conclusions. Cheney, as White House chief of staff, and Rumsfeld, as
secretary of Defense, championed Team B, whose members included the
young defense strategist Paul Wolfowitz, who a quarter-century later
would be one of the chief architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Vested interests can be ideological as well as institutional. In the
mid-1970s, a group of well-known hawks, mainly former policy-makers
and retired officers, started clamoring that the Soviets were
acquiring a first-strike capability and that the CIA was gravely
underestimating their prowess and might. President Gerald Ford,
under growing pressure from the right, succumbed to what seemed a
modest demand—to let a team of their analysts examine the same data
that the CIA had been examining and come up with alternative
findings. It was sold as an "exercise" in intelligence analysis, an
interesting competition—Team A (the CIA) versus Team B (the
critics). Yet once allowed an institutional footing, the Team B
players presented their conclusions—and leaked them to friendly
reporters—as the truth, which the pro-detente administration was
trying to hide.

The Team B report read like one long air-raid siren: The Soviets
were spending practically all their GNP on the military; they were
perfecting charged-particle beams that could knock our warheads out
of the sky; their express policy and practical goal was to fight and
win a nuclear war.

Almost everything in the Team B report turned out to be false. Yet
it provided the rallying cry for a movement against detente and arms-
control accords. Its spokesmen became outspoken figures of
opposition during the Jimmy Carter years (most notably, Paul Nitze
and his Committee on the Present Danger) and senior officials in the
Ronald Reagan administration and beyond.

Pres. Clinton found out that from 1980 on, the CIA annual assessment
report of the Soviet Union was being doctored and that essentially
two different reports were being produced. There was a real CIA
document, which was called the Annual Assessment Report of the
Economic and Military Strength of the Soviet Union.

As early as 1979 when Carter was still president, the CIA
assessment clearly indicated that the Soviet Union was beginning to
crumble internally. Its economy was virtually in shambles. What
little export business it had was quickly going down the tubes. Its
infrastructure was falling apart.

Then in 1981, the started CIA sending its annual assessment report
to the White House directly and not to anybody else. (Later in the
1980s Tommy Rheinhardt the CIA liaison officer to Congress lied
extensively about this very same subject matter.) The White House
then would reproduce a whole new CIA report that showed the exact
opposite of what was really happening,

The Bush Sr. Cabal then used this as a justification to embark upon
a policy of enormous defense buildup and the wasteful expenditure
thereunto and the enormous amount of debt necessary to finance said
defense buildup.

The Soviet Union was very close to bankruptcy in 1987 and the Bush
Cabal was scared. They knew that if the Soviet Union fell apart
economically in 1987, the jig was up and people would know they had
lied (about the threat and the corporate welfare) . Everybody would
know that they had lied about the military and economic strength of
the Soviet Union. Therefore the West Germans secretly lent the
Soviets $80 billion and the Japanese secretly under Bush pressure
lent them another $40 billion. However, the money was lent with the
understanding that the US treasury and the people of the United
States would be ultimately responsible for the$120 billion should
the Soviet Union default on said loans.

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CIA Director William Colby rejected the Team B idea and was fired.
Colby's successor as head of the spy agency, George H.W. Bush, the
current president's father, accepted it.

Team B's conclusion that the CIA was indeed soft on the Soviets was
leaked to sympathetic journalists and generated public support for a
new round of military spending, particularly on missiles. Team B's
conclusions turned out, years later, to be false.

Another run at controlling the CIA was taken when then-President
Ronald Reagan appointed businessman William Casey CIA director with
a mandate to ride herd on supposed agency liberals. Casey set up the
irregular, covert operation led by Marine Corps Col. Oliver North,
which eventually ended in the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal.
Likewise, when Reagan's Secretary of State George Schultz wanted to
secretly back Saddam Hussein against the Iranians, Schultz bypassed
the CIA and sent Rumsfeld, then a businessman, to Baghdad to seal
the deal.

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A secret government within a government

In his landmark historical study, Operation Mind Control, author
Walter Bowart describes the cryptocracy as "a secret bureaucracy
still supported by all the power of the federal government, but
which operates outside the chain of government command."

Former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams called it "a
shadow government in the United States." A Lt. Commander from the US
Naval Reserves, Al Martin's own words, it's a "Government Within a
Government, comprising some thirty to forty thousand people the
American Government turns to, when it wishes certain illegal covert
operations to be extant pursuant to a political objective."

Bowart describes the cryptocracy as "a technocratic organization
without ideology, loyal only to an unspoken, expedient, and
undefined patriotism... Its funds are secret. Its operational
history is secret. Even its goals are secret."

One of Al Martin's roles was acting as a fundraiser for the "War
Against Communism" in Nicaragua. His expertise as a finance and
corporate securities specialist served "The Cause," as Oliver North
called the enterprise of raising cash for secret illicit operations.

At a meeting with General (Ret) Richard V. Secord and Lawrence
Richard Hamil, the US Governments own con man, Martin was briefed
about Iran Contra operations and allowed to view CIA white papers
on "Operation Black Eagle," the code name for the illegal George
Bush/Bill Casey/Oliver North program of government-sanctioned
narcotics trafficking, illicit weapons deals and wholesale fraud.
http://www.almartinraw.com/book.html

When the George Bush, Bill Casey and Oliver North State-sanctioned
fraud and drug smuggling, Iran Contra, finally fell apart, they had
ended up using 5,000 operatives and making $350 billion.


After he retired as from the Navy, Al Martin's life went into
the fast lane as a black ops specialist and an Office of Navy
Intelligenc (ONI) officer..

Because of his failing health, Al Martin has decided to go
public and tell the whole story of the Iran-Contra Conspiracy. His
book The Conspirators is a secret history of the late 20th
century. He tells the facts that have been ignored, ripping off
the covers of the sleaziest secrets of the Washington.

He says while working as a black operations ONI agent he learned
that Peru would become a staging area for CIA cocaine production and
trafficking. The CIA Deputy Station Chief in Lima at the time, the
famous Buzz Barlow, Eugene 'Buzz' Barlow.

http://www.almartinraw.com/uri1.html

AWOL Bush's Team B
F. Michael Maloof, a former aide to Richard Perle, head a secret
intelligence unit, named the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, or
the "Wurmser-Maloof" project. The four- to five-person unit, a "B
Team" commissioned by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, uses
powerful computers and software to scan and sort already-analyzed
documents. Wurmser is a known advocate of regime change in Iraq,
having expressed his views in a 1997. David Wurmser, the director
of Middle East studies for the American Enterprise Institute, to
serve as a Pentagon consultant.

F.Michael Maloof, a former journalist. Maloof was also reportedly
involved in a bizarre scheme to broker contacts between Iraqi
officials and the Pentagon, channeled through Perle, in what one
report called a 'rogue [intelligence] operation' outside official
CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency channels." He was twice stripped
of his high-level security clearances.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004272/posts

A secret government within a government (aka Team B)

This is the power that hides behind the open face of democratic
government that some have called the "Octopus." Activities include
high level narcotics trafficking, illegal transfers of ultra high-
tech weaponry, money laundering on a massive scale

Tatum states it was in 1981 that "President Reagan signed National
Security Decision Directive Number 3 (NSDD-3), which authorised the
vice president to chair the Special Situation Group (SSG). The
Special Situation Group was a division under the national Security
Council (NSC). One entity formed to support the SSG was the
Terrorist Incident Working Group (TIWG). TIWG was formed in April
1982, by authority of President Reagan in NSDD-30. This group
consisted of representatives of the following: Director of Central
Intelligence, Department of Defence, FBI, NSC staff and others as
required.

As a deep cover (allegedly) CIA and DIA operative, Gene "Chip" Tatum
(aka Major Gene Duncan) saw or participated in a remarkable series
of covert operations. Foremost in his mind are the years 1986-92,
when he operated for a group he called Pegasus. This group operated
on behalf of the US and other governments undertaking tasks that
ranged from narcotic smuggling to assassinations.

In a very real sense, Chip Tatum's story has now gone full circle.
In March 1996, Tatum wrote to former Director of Central
Intelligence, William Colby. Readers will recall that it was Colby
who originally recruited Tatum into the CIA in 1971, and set him on
his career as a covert intelligence operator. Since that time, Tatum
had developed a fondness for the super-spook and Colby, in turn,
played the role of mentor.

"The purpose of TIWG is to provide SSG with direct operational
support. TIWG then recommended to the President that a Terrorism
Task Froce be formed and chaired by the head of SSG (the vice
president). Reagan approved NSDD-138 in April 1984, which extended
TIWG's arm and ability to form sub-groups. As a result of NSDD-138
was the formation of the Operation Sub-Group. The subgroup was a
select NSC-DOD-CIA-FBI-Foreign Intelligence Agency which operated so
as to by-pass the regular operations of intelligence/military/law
enforcement agencies. OSG was formed in February 1986."

Having revealed the framework of the authorising Presidential
Directives necessary for the conduct of these covert operations,
Tatum then details the nitty-gritty of the OSG. "I was an operative
for OSG from April, 1986 through January, 1992. When I was operating
under the authority of the OSG I would report directly to the OSG,
not to the CIA or DIA. This `secret government' apparatus, built by
Bush from 1981 to 1986, was able to draw upon assets from the CIA,
the DOD Special Operations Units, and the private sector. Using the
private sector clause, Don Gregg, VP Bush's National Security
Advisor, included a representative from British Intelligence and
Israeli Intelligence. To date I have called this group Pegasus in an
attempt not to divulge it's true identity until I was on safe
ground. Although most of the missions performed by OSG-2 are
classified, the existence of the organisation is now declassified."

Until Tatum forwarded these details, the existence of more than one
Operations Sub-Group (OSG) were unknown. In fact, Tatum has now
revealed the existence of three OSGs. OSG-1 was headed by Ted
Shackley and was "our anti-narcotics group.' OSG-2 was the anti-
terrorism group and OSG-3 was "our `alignment' group." Tatum was
originally posted to OSG-2 which was commanded by Col. Oliver North.
The third group, OSG-3 was commanded by Richard Secord. Following
the exposure of Oliver North's role in Contragate in 1987 he
resigned as head of OSG-2, and his spot was taken over by Secord.
Tatum moved up to command OSG-3 at the same time.

All three OSG's answered to those individuals who sat on the TIWG.
General Colin Powell, represented the Department of Defence, William
Casey the CIA, Donald Gregg for the National Security Council. "FBI
guys rotated in and out…" Tatum says. "It was like they couldn't get
anyone," he concludes. Representing British Intelligence was Sir
Colin Figure. Formerly head of MI6, Sir Colin

transferred in 1986 to become "Security Co-ordinator" one of the top
slots at the Cabinet office, under the Premiership of Margaret
Thatcher. He retired in 1989. Amiram Nir represented Israeli
interests until his assassination by an "Archer" team led by Tatum -
at the request of high level Israeli individuals - in 1988. Any of
these six could "call a mission." In addition, George Bush could do
likewise. Of significance too, was the occasional representation on
the TIWG of Lord Chalfont. The British lord was an adviser on "Mid-
East affairs" between 1986 and 1990.

From the moment Tatum was recruited to the OSG, he was posted to up
state New York where he established a number of cover businesses.
Tatum's up-state New York operation was also involved in shipping
the most sophisticated weapons across the border to Canada. Not
least are the known connections between Oliver North's related gun-
running operations that saw dirty money being laundered through the
British Channel Islands and the London based BCCI bank. Money
laundering was one of the principal activities of Col. Oliver North.

Tatum has stated that it was routine for all the OSG operatives to
establish their own businesses as "covers." Funding was provided as
a line of credit with the Key Bank of Central New York, Watertown,
New York state by Republican Harry Hyde. The company was formed by
attorney, Ben Whitaker. Legal representation was through O'Hara and
Crough in Syracuse, NY. Tatum also operated through a number of
other similar "fronts."

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/the_pegasus_file-part2.htm

Tatum would be tasked by Mr. Bush with the neutralization (kill) of
a Mossad agent in 1988, an army Chief of Staff in 1989, the
President of a third world country in 1989, and the leader of a
revolutionary force in Central America in 1991.

o Ami Nir was killed in 1988.

o General Gustavo Alverez was killed in 1989.

o Enrique Bermudez, Contra leader and overseer of the cocaine
kitchens, was killed in 1991.

In 1992 I was tasked to neutralize an American citizen (Ross
Parot) . I refused. I decided that day to leave the Black Operations
unit. When I told Mr. Colby of my decision, he told me that one
can't just walk away. I explained to him that I understood the fate
of those who walk away. For that reason, I began documenting my
activities on film, on audio tapes, and with copies of documents,
all of which I compiled through the years. I explained that the film
and tapes were placed in strategic locations around the world to
insure my safety.

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