Recorded April 23, 2006
REALAUDIO

Fur­ther ana­lyz­ing the fas­cist covert action struc­ture to which the Dalai Lama and his milieu belong, the broad­cast explores the Pan-Turkist move­ment. Born after the First World War, this move­ment sought to restore the lost “glory” of the Ottoman Empire by unit­ing the large num­ber of Turks out­side of Turkey proper into a “Greater Turkestan.” Many of these “Out­side Turks” were in the for­mer Soviet Union. For this rea­son, the Pan-Turkists have his­tor­i­cally allied with anti-communist net­works, includ­ing those main­tained by Nazi Ger­many and the insti­tu­tions that absorbed the residua of the Third Reich’s intel­li­gence sys­tem. The Pan-Turkists are a major ele­ment of the sep­a­ratist move­ment in Xin­jiang province—a move­ment actively sup­ported by the Dalai Lama. Much of the broad­cast con­sists of excerpts from RFA#’s 14 and 21, recorded in 1986. These pro­grams high­light promi­nent fea­tures of the Pan-Turkist move­ment, includ­ing its asso­ci­a­tion with Nazi Ger­many, ele­ments of West­ern intel­li­gence and its involve­ment in the events sur­round­ing the shoot­ing of Pope John Paul II.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Review of the oper­a­tional links between Islamist sep­a­ratist ele­ments in Xin­jiang, Pan-Turkist sep­a­ratist ele­ments in that province, and the milieu of the Dalai Lama; dis­cus­sion of the Bush administration’s clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the Xin­jiang sep­a­ratist move­ment as terrorist—one of the few things it has done right in the “war on ter­ror”; analy­sis of the UNPO, an appar­ent covert action front mas­querad­ing as a human rights orga­ni­za­tion; the Pan-Turkist movement’s asso­ci­a­tion with Nazi intel­li­gence; Pan-Turkist Ruzy Nazar’s ser­vice as a Waf­fen SS offi­cer in World II; Nazar’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations at a 1984 WACL con­fer­ence in Dal­las; Nazar’s asso­ci­a­tion with the CIA; Nazar’s ser­vice with Radio Free Europe (which also employed Pan-Turkist Erkin Alptekin of the UNPO and the Dalai Lama Foun­da­tion); the role of the Pan-Turkist (and fas­cist) Grey Wolves in the shoot­ing of Pope John Paul II.

1. The pro­gram begins with review of a rel­e­vant quote from Christo­pher Hitchens. Address­ing a cog­ni­tive con­sid­er­a­tion cen­tral to grasp­ing the enor­mous gap between the pub­lic per­cep­tion of the Dalai Lama and the unsa­vory real­ity of his polit­i­cal con­nec­tions and reli­gious prac­tices, the broad­cast opens with a telling, rel­e­vant quote from Christo­pher Hitchens. Indeed, the Dalai Lama has his words and actions judged by his rep­u­ta­tion, not the other way around. “ . . . The great­est tri­umph that mod­ern PR can offer is the tran­scen­dent suc­cess of hav­ing your words and actions judged by your rep­u­ta­tion, rather than the other way about. The ‘spir­i­tual leader’ of Tibet has enjoyed this unas­sail­able sta­tus for some time now, becom­ing a byword and syn­onym for saintly and ethe­real val­ues. Why this doesn’t put peo­ple on their guard I’ll never know. . . .”
(“His Mate­r­ial High­ness” by Christo­pher Hitchens; Salon.com; 7/13/1998.)

2. The pro­gram reviews the links of the Dalai Lama and his milieu to var­i­ous intel­li­gence agen­cies and some of the groups that they spon­sor. Review­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented in FTR#547, we note that the Dalai Lama him­self is no stranger to ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence, specif­i­cally the CIA. “ . . .How­ever, through­out the 1960’s, the Tibetan exile com­mu­nity was secretly pock­et­ing $1.7 mil­lion from the CIA, accord­ing to doc­u­ments released by the State Depart­ment in 1998. Once this fact was pub­li­cized, the Dalai Lama’s orga­ni­za­tion itself issued a state­ment admit­ting that it had received mil­lions of dol­lars from the CIA dur­ing the 1960’s to send armed squads of exiles into Tibet to under­mine the Maoist rev­o­lu­tion. The Dalai Llama’s annual pay­ment from the CIA was $186,000. Indian intel­li­gence also financed both him and other Tibetan exiles. He has refused to say whether he or his broth­ers worked for the CIA. The agency has also declined to com­ment. . . .”
(“Friendly Feu­dal­ism: The Tibet Myth” by Michael Par­enti; 7/04.)

3. Gain­ing a broader view of the polit­i­cal milieu to which the Dalai Lama belongs, the broad­cast reviews the fact that the Dalai Lama has col­lab­o­rated with Islamists from among the Uighur pop­u­la­tion of Xin­jiang province of China. The Uighurs–a largely Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion who speak a Tur­kic language—have been agi­tat­ing for inde­pen­dence from China. (The Uighurs refer to Xin­jiang as East or East­ern “Turkestan.”) With Xin­jiang province being rich in petro­leum, the Uighurs have had lit­tle trou­ble obtain­ing sup­port from for­eign intel­li­gence ser­vices. For addi­tional infor­ma­tion about Uighur involve­ment with the Mus­lim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda milieu, see FTR#348 as well as FTR#550. It should be noted that we are a long way from deal­ing with “Bud­dhists” here!! The Dalai Lama’s milieu is part of a larger Under­ground Reich vir­tual state. It is also impor­tant to bear in mind that the milieu to which the Dalai Lama belongs appears to focus on Cen­tral Asia—that part of the “Earth Island” seen by geopoliti­cians as key to con­trol­ling that land mass and, as a con­se­quence, the world. Note that the Uighurs are counted by the Pan-Turkists as among the “out­side Turks” to be included in a “Greater Turkestan”. “India should have rea­sons to be con­cerned over the Dalai Lama’s hob­nob­bing with the pan– Islamic ele­ments in Xin­jiang. One can­not avoid sus­pect­ing that the influ­ence of these ele­ments must have been behind his par­tic­i­pa­tion in a con­fer­ence orga­nized in Chen­nai last year by some ele­ments, which have been act­ing as apol­o­gists for Gen. Per­vez Mushar­raf, the Pak­istani mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor, which was attended by a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Huryiat of J&K and a large num­ber of Pak­ista­nis, some of them retired Pak­istani mil­i­tary offi­cers. The Dalai Lama’s set-up sub­se­quently denied or played down some of the con­tro­ver­sial remarks attrib­uted to him at the con­fer­ence. The Gov­ern­ment of India should con­sider con­vey­ing to the Dalai Lama its unhap­pi­ness and con­cern over his asso­ci­a­tion with pan-Islamic ele­ments in Xin­jiang.”
(“US & Ter­ror­ism in Xin­jiang” by B. Raman; From the web­site of the South Asia Analy­sis Group [an Indian intelligence/national secu­rity think tank]; 7/02)

4. More on the Uighur involve­ment with Al Qaeda: “10. The Islamic Move­ment of Uzbek­istan and the Abu Sayyaf of the south­ern Philip­pines have been des­ig­nated as For­eign Ter­ror­ist Orga­ni­za­tions under the US law of 1996, but not the East­ern Turkestan Islamic Party, though all the three are mem­bers of Osama bin Laden’s Inter­na­tional Islamic Front For Jehad Against the USA and Israel. In ini­ti­at­ing action, either for des­ig­na­tion as a For­eign Ter­ror­ist Orga­ni­za­tion or for action under the UN Secu­rity Coun­cil Res­o­lu­tion No, 1373 in respect of bank accounts, the US and the Euro­pean Union have focused essen­tially on ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions, which are per­ceived by them as inter­na­tional in nature or which are seen as pos­ing a threat to their nation­als and inter­ests. Ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions viewed by them as purely indige­nous have been excluded. These mul­ti­ple yard­sticks have been used vis– a-vis China as well as India.” (Idem.)

5. Note that both the Islamist ele­ment of the Uighur inde­pen­dence move­ment and its more sec­u­lar Pan-Turkist allies have col­lab­o­rated with the Dalai Lama. “7. Uighurs were found fight­ing with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. We are aware of cred­i­ble reports that some Uighurs who were trained by al-Qaeda have returned to China. . . .24. The sec­ond sim­i­lar­ity relates to the exter­nal causes of aggra­va­tion of the ter­ror­ist vio­lence in Xin­jiang. Just as in J & K, in Xin­jiang too, there are two dis­tinct terrorist/extremist move­ments– –one resort­ing to vio­lence on eth­nic grounds to assert the Uighur eth­nic iden­tity against the per­ceived Han Chi­nese dom­i­na­tion and the other using reli­gious and pan-Islamic argu­ments to jus­tify vio­lence for the estab­lish­ment of an inde­pen­dent Islamic State. While the eth­nic sep­a­ratist ele­ments have been the ben­e­fi­cia­ries of sym­pa­thy and sup­port from the Dalai Lama’s set-up and the Tibetan dias­pora abroad, and the US, Tai­wanese and Turk­ish intel­li­gence agen­cies, the reli­gious fun­da­men­tal­ist ele­ments have been in receipt of sup­port from the Inter-Services Intel­li­gence (ISI)-backed jehadi orga­ni­za­tions in Pak­istan, the Tal­iban and bin Laden’s Inter­na­tional Islamic Front For Jehad Against the USA and Israel.” (Idem.)

6. Accord­ing to the Raman paper, the CIA had close con­nec­tions to Erkin Alptekin, a mem­ber of the board of the Dalai Lama foun­da­tion and a func­tionary of the move­ment to estab­lish Xin­jiang province of China as an inde­pen­dent (Mus­lim) Uighur state—East Turkestan. It should be noted that Alptekin is an oper­a­tive of the Pan-Turkist move­ment, which is dis­tinct from the Islamist ele­ment in the Uighur inde­pen­dence move­ment. The Pan-Turkist move­ment is dis­cussed at length in RFA#’s 14 and 21, avail­able from Spit­fire. “25. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency (CIA) of the USA had built up a net­work of con­tacts with the Uighur sep­a­ratist ele­ments and some of those, who had in the past worked for the Munich-based Radio Lib­erty of the CIA such as Erkin Alptekin, chair­man of the Europe-based East­ern Turkestani Union and a close Uighur asso­ciate of the Dalai Lama, are now in the fore­front of the eth­nic sep­a­ratist move­ment. . . .” (Idem.)

7. In addi­tion to his back­ground with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty—both closely con­nected to U.S. intelligence—Erkin Alptekin is a founder and key mem­ber of the UNPO, about which we will have more to say in weeks to come. Alptekin is also on the board of the Dalai Lama Foun­da­tion. “ERKIN ALPTEKIN is one of the fore­most human rights advo­cates for the Uighur peo­ple of East­ern Turkestan, also known as the Xin­jiang Autonomous Region of the People’s Repub­lic of China. Mr. Alptekin was employed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib­erty from 1971 to 1994. He is one of the founders of the Unrep­re­sented Nations and People’s Orga­ni­za­tion (UNPO), and cur­rently serves as its gen­eral sec­re­tary.”
(Excerpt from the list of the board of the Dalai Lama Foun­da­tion.)

8. Another board mem­ber of the Dalai Lama Foun­da­tion is a mem­ber of the UNPO. Again, the UNPO will be dis­cussed at greater length in FTR#550. “MICHAEL VAN WALT cur­rently serves as Exec­u­tive Pres­i­dent of the Peace Action Coun­cil, and Legal Advi­sor to the Office of H.H. The Dalai Lama. From 1991 to 1998 Dr. Van Walt was Gen­eral Sec­re­tary of UNPO, the Unrep­re­sented Nations and Peo­ples Orga­ni­za­tion. Dr. Van Walt holds law degrees from Europe and Amer­ica, and is cur­rently Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Inter­na­tional Law, Golden Gate Uni­ver­sity School of Law, San Fran­cisco.” (Idem.)

9. Next, the pro­gram presents an unin­formed (and unin­ten­tion­ally inform­ing) arti­cle by Wayne Mad­sen, a for­mer intel­li­gence agent him­self. Mad­sen notes that the Bush admin­is­tra­tion clas­si­fied the Uighur inde­pen­dence move­ment as ter­ror­ist. As can be seen above, this is an accu­rate des­ig­na­tion. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion, like the Bush administration’s clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the Bank Al Taqwa as ter­ror­ist, is one of the rel­a­tively few things the Bush admin­is­tra­tion has done right in the war on ter­ror. In the case of the Uighur inde­pen­dence move­ment, the impe­tus to clas­sify the move­ment as ter­ror­ist may well have come from State Depart­ment intel­li­gence ele­ments. In this con­text, one should note that the national secu­rity estab­lish­ment is not mono­lithic. It appears that in the case of the Uighur inde­pen­dence move­ment and Al Taqwa, some ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence were func­tion­ing with effec­tive­ness and accu­racy. As we saw in FTR#’s 513, 514, Bank Al Taqwa was even­tu­ally let off the hook when the United States refused to pro­vide infor­ma­tion to the Swiss, who then dropped much of their inves­ti­ga­tion of Bank Al Taqwa. (For more about Bank Al Taqwa and its chief [for­mer Nazi intel­li­gence agent Youssef Nada] see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 354, 455, 456. For more about the delib­er­ate sub­ver­sion of the inves­ti­ga­tion into Bank Al Taqwa, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 462, 464, 495. For infor­ma­tion about the Bush administration’s pro­found con­nec­tions to the Al Taqwa milieu, see—among other programs—FTR#454, 515, 538.) “Super­man comic book fans will fondly recall the topsy-turvy Bizarro world, a planet shaped like a cube where every­thing hap­pened back­wards and noth­ing made any sense. Wel­come now to the Bush world, where the revered Dalai Lama of Tibet may now be branded by the United States as a ‘fel­low trav­eler’ of ter­ror­ists or, worse yet, an ‘enemy com­bat­ant.’ On August 27, Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Richard Armitage, a shad­owy ex-Special Forces offi­cer who has been linked to every­thing from heroin smug­gling in Burma’s Golden Tri­an­gle to smug­gling weapons to the Iran­ian regime of Aya­tol­lah Khome­ini, met with senior Chi­nese offi­cials in Bei­jing. Accord­ing to Reuters, Armitage, rep­re­sent­ing the world’s sec­ond largest total­i­tar­ian regime, told the lead­er­ship of the world’s largest one that the State Depart­ment had added a new group to its list of for­eign ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions: the move­ment seek­ing inde­pen­dence for west­ern China’s Sinkiang region, an area that Chi­nese Uighur (pro­nounced ‘wee-ger’) Mus­lims regard as East Turkestan or Uighurstan. The only prob­lem with this des­ig­na­tion, obvi­ously designed to please the Chi­nese regime prior to the upcom­ing Octo­ber sum­mit in Wash­ing­ton between Chi­nese Vice Pres­i­dent Hu Jin­tao and Pres­i­dent Bush, is that the new ‘ter­ror­ist group’ is a mem­ber of the same non-government orga­ni­za­tion as the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan government-in-exile, the Unrep­re­sented Nations and Peo­ples Orga­ni­za­tion (UNPO), offi­cially rec­og­nized by the United Nations as an inter­na­tional human rights orga­ni­za­tion. . . .”
(“Bush’s Bizarro World” by Wayne Mad­sen; Coun­ter­punch; 8/29/2002.)

10. Madsen’s strik­ing naivete (if that’s what it is) con­cern­ing Alptekin, the Dalai Lama and the UNPO exem­pli­fies the dynamic noted by Christo­pher Hitchens in para­graph #1. “ . . . In fact, Erkin Alptekin, East Turkestan’s exiled leader serves as Sec­re­tary Gen­eral of UNPO, and thus, rep­re­sents the Dalai Lama and other eth­nic and tribal lead­ers of 52 mem­bers of the orga­ni­za­tion. The Direc­tor Gen­eral of UNPO, hardly a ter­ror­ist, is Karl von Hab­s­burg of the for­mer Austro-Hungarian royal fam­ily. Last Sep­tem­ber 12, Alptekin, America’s newest ‘ter­ror­ist,’ stated in a let­ter to Pres­i­dent Bush, ‘UNPO is greatly shocked and sad­dened by the immense destruc­tion, injury, and loss of life which have occurred in New York, Wash­ing­ton DC and else­where in the United States, as a result of deadly acts of ter­ror­ism.’ But now Alptekin’s move­ment has been tossed into the same cat­e­gory as Al Qaeda and Hamas and its Tibetan and Chechen allies now risk sim­i­lar treat­ment at the hands of a U.S. admin­is­tra­tion that could be legit­i­mately ruled by any psy­chi­a­trist as clin­i­cally insane.” (Idem.)

11. Note that Mad­sen him­self (for what­ever rea­son) gave money to the UNPO!! Another impor­tant point to note here is the fact that the Lakota are among the “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples cham­pi­oned by the UNPO. In FTR#550, we will exam­ine the pos­si­bil­ity that the Lakota may be tar­geted for some type of covert oper­a­tion, per­haps even the desta­bi­liza­tion and/or geo­graph­i­cal dis­so­lu­tion of the United States itself!! “East Turkestan is rep­re­sented inter­na­tion­ally by a num­ber of orga­ni­za­tions, now being linked by Armitage to ter­ror­ism. They include the East­ern Turkestan National Con­gress, based in Munich, Ger­many, and affil­i­ated groups in Istan­bul, Turkey; Bishkek, Kyr­gyzs­tan; Almaty, Kaza­khstan; and New York. With Armitage’s announce­ment, all these Uighur groups face sanc­tions and depor­ta­tion. Under the terms of the USA Patriot Act and other U.S. crim­i­nal statutes, the State Department’s arbi­trary des­ig­na­tion of a group as a ‘for­eign ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion’ has severe ram­i­fi­ca­tions. Peo­ple who con­tribute to such orga­ni­za­tions and finan­cial insti­tu­tions who han­dle trans­ac­tions for such orga­ni­za­tions can face crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion. Any­one who con­tributes money, lodg­ing, expert assis­tance, trans­porta­tion or other ‘mate­r­ial sup­port’ to such orga­ni­za­tions can face long prison terms and seizure of their assets. Res­i­dent aliens in the United States can be deported, or worse, be declared enemy com­bat­ants and wind up on a one-way flight to Guan­tanamo Bay, Cuba. In fact, this writer once con­tributed money to UNPO. [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s.] . . . . Even native Amer­i­cans are no longer safe from renewed Fed­eral sub­ju­ga­tion. One of the mem­bers of UNPO is the Sioux Lakota Nation, the scene of past bloody bat­tles between encroach­ing Fed­eral troops and FBI agent and the Sioux. [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s.] . . .” (Idem.)

12. Alptekin is part of the Pan-Turkist move­ment. The fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I saw the birth of a revan­chist move­ment that sought to unite Turks and “Turkic-speaking” peo­ple liv­ing out­side of Turkey proper into a “Greater Turkestan.” [Mr. Emory mis­pro­nounced the Uighur term for Xin­jiang as “East Turk­menistan.” Turk­menistan is the coun­try that evolved from a for­mer Soviet repub­lic. “Turkestan” is the myth­i­cal state envi­sioned by the Pan-Turkists. Many of the so-called “Out­side Turks” lived in the for­mer Soviet Union. For this rea­son, anti-communist net­works such as the pre-World War II Promethean League enlisted the coop­er­a­tion of these “Out­side Turks” in order to defeat and dis­solve the for­mer Soviet Union. In this regard, anti-communist confederations—including those work­ing for Nazi Ger­many and Cold War net­works that absorbed the residua of the Third Reich intel­li­gence apparatus—looked to the “bas­machi” upris­ing of “Out­side Turks” as inspi­ra­tion. (One should note that these Turks were Mus­lims. This is not to say that the Pan-Turkist move­ment is Islamist. Both Islamist and [rel­a­tively] sec­u­lar sep­a­ratist ele­ments are present in the milieu work­ing for the seces­sion of Xin­jiang province of China. Again, it is this milieu of which the Dalai Lama is part. This same milieu is a major ele­ment of the UNPO, which will be dis­cussed at greater length in FTR#550. The “bas­machi” upris­ing is dis­cussed at length in FTR#550 as well.)

13. Next, the pro­gram excerpts RFA#14, recorded in Jan­u­ary of 1986. RFA#14 is the first of two broad­casts about the for­mer World Anti-Communist League or WACL. [For more about WACL, use the search func­tion at the top of this page. FTR#529 is a recent pro­gram deal­ing with the ABN.] One of WACL’s cen­tral ele­ments, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) was essen­tially a re-naming of the Com­mit­tee of Sub­ju­gated Nations, formed by Hitler in 1943. Com­prised of fas­cist orga­ni­za­tions allied with Hitler, such as the Orga­ni­za­tion of Ukrain­ian Nationalists/Bandera or OUN/B and Hun­gar­ian Arrow Cross, the ABN advo­cated an anti-communist approach that not only favored the rolling back of Soviet influ­ence from East­ern Europe, but the dis­so­lu­tion of the Soviet Union into its con­stituent republics. A polit­i­cal goal of the Third Reich, the even­tual res­o­lu­tion of events in the man­ner favored by ABN wasn’t acci­den­tal. (RFA #‘s 36 & 37 doc­u­ment the role of ABN ele­ments in the desta­bi­liza­tion of the for­mer Soviet Union.) One of the ele­ments rep­re­sented in the ABN is the Pan-Turkist move­ment. Allied with Nazi Ger­many in World War II and fas­cist in nature, the Pan-Turkists had long sought to carve up the Soviet Union and restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire. The main con­tem­po­rary vehi­cle of pan-Turkism is the National Action Party and its youth wing, the Grey Wolves. Founded by Alparslan Turkes (who advo­cated a war-time alliance between Turkey and Nazi Ger­many), its best-known mem­ber is Mehmet Ali Agca, con­victed of shoot­ing the Pope. An asso­ciate of the National Action Party, Ruzy Nazar, rep­re­sented the ABN at a WACL con­fer­ence in Dal­las in 1984.

14. In an excerpt from RFA 21 (recorded on 5/29/1986), Nazar’s ser­vice as an offi­cer in a Waf­fen SS unit dur­ing World War II. Nazar is alleged [by the late Turk­ish jour­nal­ist Ugur Mumcu] to have worked for the CIA. Nazar was very close to for­mer CIA sta­tion chief [in Istan­bul] Paul Henze, with whom he worked at Radio Free Europe. NOTE THAT NAZAR’S BACKGROUND IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE DALAI LAMA’S CLOSE ASSOCIATE ERKIN ALPTEKIN, WHO ALSO WORKED FOR RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY! RFA#’s 17–21 deal with the events in and around the shoot­ing of Pope John Paul II. Pan-Turkist ele­ments fig­ured promi­nently in that event. Lis­ten­ers who would like to know more about this event should order RFA#’s 17–21 from Spit­fire. Ref­er­ences to “Stibam” and “Bekir Celenk” can be explored at length in RFA#20. Bekir Celenk—a Turk—was the alleged pay­mas­ter for the shoot­ing of the Pope. He was part of the Stibam arms-for-drugs ring, which also involved many Turks. For dis­cus­sion of the Grey Wolves and their involve­ment in numer­ous intelligence-related scan­dals, use the search func­tion.