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Reflections on Khadafy’s Death

COMMENT: With Khadafy’s death, a focal point of research in the archives has died. I seri­ous­ly doubt that the more impor­tant aspects of his reign will ever be ful­ly explored.

In AFA #4 [1], we exam­ined evi­dence that Khadafy’s ter­ror­ist cadre was trained by ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence, oper­at­ing through the “ex” CIA agents Edwin Wil­son and Frank Ter­pil. (Cour­tesy of Joe Tren­to, we now know that the net­work over­see­ing this oper­a­tion was known as The Safari Club [2].)

The bomb­ing of Pan Am 103 over Locker­bie Scot­land was pinned on Khadafy, despite evi­dence that impli­cat­ed ter­ror ele­ments [3] linked to the under­bel­ly of the Iran-Con­tra covert Oper­a­tions.

Libya was also the site of the mur­der of Sil­van Beck­er [4], a Ger­man intel­li­gence agent in Libya research­ing Islam­ic extrem­ists, appar­ent­ly against the mur­der of his supe­ri­ors. The killers appear to have been part of Osama bin Laden’s net­work. One of the killers had the same name as a sus­pect in the 9/11 attacks.

Do not expect any of this to be exam­ined in the wake of his pass­ing.

Like­wise, we should­n’t expect to hear of the devel­op­ment of Khadafy’s intel­li­gence ser­vice, formed under the tute­lage of SS offi­cers assem­bled by for­mer Gestapo chief Hein­rich Mueller.

In Mar­tin Bor­mann: Nazi in Exile [5], Paul Man­ning dis­cussed the role of the Mueller/Skorzeny team in form­ing Khadafy’s intel­li­gence agency.

When Colonel Nass­er became pres­i­dent of Egypt, he asked the
CIA for assis­tance in estab­lish­ing a sim­i­lar orga­ni­za­tion in his
coun­try. The CIA did not wish to become involved, and so
referred him to Gen­er­al Gehlen, then chief of the West Ger­man
fed­er­al intel­li­gence orga­ni­za­tion, which was in fact main­tained
by the CIA. But Gehlen ducked the request, sug­gest­ing
that for­mer SS Gen­er­al Otto Sko­rzeny, son-in-law of Hjal­mar
Schacht, one-time Min­is­ter of Finance for Hitler, should be
approached. Sko­rzeny, who made his head­quar­ters in Spain, did
not want the assign­ment either, for he was doing too well as an
engi­neer and busi­ness­man in Spain, and was also own­er of a
large farm­ing estab­lish­ment out­side of Dublin. But, urged by
Schacht, he had Hein­rich Mueller in Brazil send him a team of
secret police spe­cial­ists, who all arrived in Cairo as a Ger­man
mis­sion led by Sko­rzeny, who prompt­ly returned to Spain after
intro­duc­tions had been made. Mueller’s team estab­lished such
an effec­tive intel­li­gence ser­vice for Nass­er, known as the Gen­er­al
Intel­li­gence Ser­vice, that Colonel Qad­hafi of Libya, then
the new rev­o­lu­tion­ary leader of his coun­try, asked Nass­er to
make the Ger­man team of advi­sors avail­able to him also. This
was done, and upon arrival the Ger­mans start­ed with a thor­ough
house­clean­ing of the Libyan secret police hired by the
pre­vi­ous ruler, King Idris. Two thou­sand Libyan police were
put in jail and con­tin­ue to lan­guish there today, and the Ger­mans
rebuilt from scratch. . . .

Mar­tin Bor­mann: Nazi in Exile by Paul Man­ning; p. 212. [5]

In FTR #152 [6], Paul Man­ning relat­ed his encounter with Gen­er­al Mueller in Libya, an event that prompt­ed Man­ning to leave that coun­try prompt­ly, after chang­ing his air­line reser­va­tions.