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The tag 'Iran-Contra' is associated with 79 posts.

German Intelligence, The National Socialist Union and 9/11

Two inves­ti­ga­tions may well dove­tail. We’ve cov­ered the 9/11 attacks for years, begin­ning with analy­sis well before the events them­selves. We note, also, our recent posts about the intelligence-linked National Social­ist Union neo-Nazi group in Ger­many. Ger­many Watch has pre­sented a work­ing hypoth­e­sis that NSU’s mur­ders were covering-up oper­a­tional ele­ments in the attacks.


Graham Fuller Helped Start the Iran-Contra Affair

“Ex” CIA offi­cer Gra­ham E. Fuller gets around. The for­mer father-in-law of the Boston Marathon bombers was a key advo­cate of the U.S. “turn to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood,” as well as a defender of the Fetul­lah Gulen orga­ni­za­tion against charges of involve­ment with the CIA. Now, it emerges that he was piv­otal in set­ting in motion the machi­na­tions that have become known as the Iran-Contra scandal.


Reagan’s Nazis

After the death of Mar­garet Thatcher, Amer­i­cans are being treated to hagiogra­phies of her polit­i­cal ally Ronald Rea­gan. Reagan’s admin­is­tra­tion was a front for the Under­ground Reich, incor­po­rat­ing the GOP Nazi “eth­nics” who had been imported into the US fol­low­ing World War II. Rea­gan, him­self, had a long his­tory of asso­ci­a­tion with unsa­vory ele­ments, includ­ing orga­nized crime.


“It’s Easier to Develop a Child than to Rehabilitate an Adult,” Part 2

The Jerry Sandusky/Penn State child molesta­tion case appears to have polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions beyond what has come to light so far. Endorsed by the elder George Bush, the Sec­ond Mile Foun­da­tion served as the vehi­cle for sys­tem­atic molesta­tion of young boys. The late Joe Paterno’s choice of coun­sel is sig­nif­i­cant. He chose J. Sedg­wick Sollers, who once rep­re­sented George H.W. Bush in the Iran-Contra affair. A cover-up may involve mur­der. After inves­ti­gat­ing San­dusky et al, the late Ray Gricar dis­ap­peared from the face of the earth–his body has never been found.


Roberto Calvi Linked to Pablo Escobar

It is now rel­a­tively well known that the late Pablo Esco­bar and the asso­ci­ated Medellin Car­tel were heav­ily involved with the Iran-Contra cocaine traf­fic of the 1980’s. Press accounts have now sur­faced in Italy and the UK about Esco­bar hav­ing banked some of his pro­ceeds with Roberto Calvi’s Banco Ambrosiano. Found mur­dered in Lon­don in late 1982, Calvi was the adviser to the IOR, hav­ing suc­ceeded the late Michele Sin­dona in that regard. (Like Calvi, Sin­dona was a mem­ber of the Licio Gelli’s P-2 Lodge.) Dis­clo­sure of the Calvi/Escobar link sug­gests another link between the Iran-Contra affair and the Stibam arms for drugs ring that heav­ily over­lapped the milieu of the P-2, Vat­i­can Bank and the Banco Ambrosiano.


The Iran-Contra Scandal, the Killing of Judge Vance and the Don Siegelman Case

The vic­tim of a GOP polit­i­cal frame-up cour­tesy of Karl Rove and com­pany, for­mer Alabama gov­er­nor Don Siegelman’s legal trou­bles actu­ally had their gen­e­sis with the cover-up of the Iran-Contra scan­dal and the Chris­tic Institute’s suit against some of the con­spir­a­tors. Accord­ing to Way Mad­sen Report and the Leg­tal Schnau­zer blog, Siegel­man began inves­ti­gat­ing some of the intel­li­gence community’s drug and arms smug­gling air­lines in the early 1980’s while serv­ing as Alabama Attor­ney Gen­eral. A cur­rent fed­eral fed­eral judge, Mark Fuller, was allegedly hired to keep the lid on the oper­a­tion.
Cen­tral to this analy­sis is the mail-bomb assas­si­na­tion of Judge Robert Vance, Siegelman’s for­mer law partner.


Cannonshot II: “Hughes on First” at Bain Capital?

The cast of char­ac­ters at Romney’s Bain Cap­i­tal heav­ily over­laps that from the lat­ter stages of Howard Hughes’ career, a period in which the late billionaire’s exis­tence was inex­tri­ca­bly linked with covert oper­a­tions and the machi­na­tions of some truly dark inter­ests. What does this tell us about Romney?


No Surprise Here, Either: DEA Laundering Profits from Mexican Cartels

Some ele­ments of DEA long known to be com­plicit in drug traf­fick­ing. Is this laun­der­ing REALLY to help fight the drug traffic?


Thompson Agonistes: The Dissent and Subsequent Disappearance of A CIA Officer

Jim Thomp­son, CIA offi­cer who openly crit­i­cized the Agency’s pol­icy in Asia dis­ap­peared from the face of the earth.


Reflections on Khadafy’s Death

Khadafy’s death will eclipse many impor­tant inves­ti­ga­tions into lethal intel­li­gence abuses, includ­ing Pan Am 102 bomb­ing, oper­a­tions of Edwin Wil­son and Frank Ter­pil, Iran-Contra scandal.