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FTR #749 Interview with John Loftus

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Intro­duc­tion: In this pro­gram, we review some top­ics cov­ered in pre­vi­ous inter­views with John Lof­tus, as well as some inves­ti­ga­tions that are new to the audi­ence. In his book The Secret War Against the Jews, pub­lished in 1994, John dis­cussed the NSA’s vac­u­um clean­ing of phone calls and elec­tron­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tions, a top­ic that was the focal point of much of the so-called dis­clo­sures “released” by Edward Snow­den. We reviewed that infor­ma­tion, as well as the fact that Ger­many and the oth­er NATO coun­tries do exact­ly the same thing, with few­er safe­guards of civ­il lib­er­ties.

Next, we high­light­ed the Arab Spring. Con­firm­ing the line of inquiry painstak­ing­ly devel­oped in FTR #‘s 733-739, John under­scored that, as he put it, “The Arab Spring is us.” He also affirmed that the bina­ry intel­li­gence sys­tem dat­ing to the end of World War II appeared to be the cause of the pro-Mus­lim Broth­er­hood bias in the cor­ri­dors of pow­er in Wash­ing­ton.

Review­ing anoth­er of his inves­ti­ga­tions that we have detailed in the past, John reca­pit­u­lat­ed his col­lec­tion of meta­da­ta and the sting that he and a col­league arranged to pre­cip­i­tate the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002. Inves­ti­gat­ing Sami al-Ari­an, John helped to uncov­er the ter­ror fund­ing appa­ra­tus that had done much to finance Al Qae­da, Hamas and Pales­tin­ian Islam­ic Jihad. That inves­ti­ga­tion was sub­vert­ed in large mea­sure because of the pro­found con­nec­tions of the indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions raid­ed to the high­est ranks of the GOP and the Bush admin­is­tra­tion.

Touch­ing on the sub­ject of the Boston Marathon bomb­ing in the spring of 2013, John notes that Gra­ham Fuller had found­ed a front orga­ni­za­tion head­ed by the uncle of the bombers, “Uncle Rus­lan”.

Relat­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ry that we have not cov­ered before, John recounts some infor­ma­tion from his book Val­hal­la’s Wake, dove­tail­ing that inves­ti­ga­tion with dis­clo­sures that sur­faced dur­ing the tri­al of James “Whitey” Bul­ger, a Boston-based mob­ster and long­time FBI infor­mant recent­ly con­vict­ed on numer­ous charges.

Deal­ing with the mur­der of a John McIn­tyre, Jr.–a young Amer­i­can who was smug­gling for the IRA and turned fed­er­al infor­mant–Val­hal­la’s Wake was sup­ple­ment­ed by the dis­clo­sure that Whitey Bul­ger killed young McIn­tyre, after the lat­ter’s sta­tus as an infor­mant became known to Bul­ger. The cast of char­ac­ters involved in the con­spir­a­cy embraced peo­ple known to John from his days as an inves­ti­ga­tor for the Office of Spe­cial Inves­ti­ga­tions.

The pro­gram con­cludes with dis­cus­sion of the over­lap­ping phe­nom­e­na of inter­na­tion­al fas­cism and glob­al­iza­tion.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Analy­sis of the OUN/B (a Ukrain­ian fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion used by the U.S. dur­ing the Cold War); Grover Norquist’s lob­by­ing on behalf of Islam­ic ter­ror­ists; Karl Rove’s com­plic­i­ty with some of the ter­ror­ists Norquist rep­re­sent­ed; the role of Free­dom House in the Arab Spring; the role of Frank Wis­ner Jr. advo­cat­ing on behalf of Hos­ni Mubarak dur­ing the Arab Spring; the Webb-Pomerene Act and the post-World War I cap­i­tal­iza­tion of Ger­many; the role of Allen Dulles and Jack Phil­by in ele­vat­ing the Wah­habi sect into pow­er in Sau­di Ara­bia; the World Com­merce Cor­po­ra­tion and its role in re-cap­i­tal­iz­ing the Ger­man “eco­nom­ic mir­a­cle” after World War II.

1. In his book The Secret War Against the Jews, pub­lished in 1994, John dis­cussed the NSA’s vac­u­um clean­ing of phone calls and elec­tron­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tions, a top­ic that was the focal point of much of the so-called dis­clo­sures “released” by Edward Snow­den. We have dis­cussed that in, among oth­er broad­casts, FTR #541 and FTR #706.

2. We also reviewed the fact that Ger­many and all of the oth­er NATO coun­tries do the same thing, with few­er safe­guards on civ­il lib­er­ties! Ger­many is actu­al­ly using the “dis­clo­sures” of Snow­den to ramp up its own spy­ing.

3. Next, we high­light­ed the Arab Spring. Con­firm­ing the line of inquiry painstak­ing­ly devel­oped in FTR #‘s 733-739, John under­scored that, as he put it, “The Arab Spring is us.” Mr. Emory not­ed that the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood did, indeed, come to pow­er in Egypt as he had pre­dict­ed in the pro­grams cit­ed above.

4. Not­ing the “bina­ry” CIA and State Depart­ment that evolved at the end of World War II, John affirmed that State Depart­ment ele­ments were work­ing against the pro-democ­ra­cy forces in Egypt. Specif­i­cal­ly, he men­tioned Frank Wis­ner, Jr. (son of Frank Wis­ner, head of the OPC), who went to Egypt and urged Hos­ni Mubarak to stay in pow­er.

5. Review­ing anoth­er of his inves­ti­ga­tions that we have detailed in the past, John reca­pit­u­lat­ed his col­lec­tion of meta­da­ta and the sting that he and a col­league arranged to pre­cip­i­tate the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002. Inves­ti­gat­ing Sami al-Ari­an, John helped to uncov­er the ter­ror fund­ing appa­ra­tus that had done much to finance Al Qae­da, Hamas and Pales­tin­ian Islam­ic Jihad. That inves­ti­ga­tion was sub­vert­ed in large mea­sure because of the pro­found con­nec­tions of the indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions raid­ed to the high­est ranks of the GOP and the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. We reviewed the roles of Grover Norquist and Karl Rove in ele­vat­ing Islamist and Al Qae­da-relat­ed ele­ments in this coun­try.

6. Touch­ing on the sub­ject of the Boston Marathon bomb­ing in the spring of 2013, John notes that Gra­ham Fuller had found­ed a front orga­ni­za­tion head­ed by the uncle of the bombers, “Uncle Rus­lan”.

7. Relat­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ry that we have not cov­ered before, John recounts some infor­ma­tion from his book Val­hal­la’s Wake, dove­tail­ing that inves­ti­ga­tion with dis­clo­sures that sur­faced dur­ing the tri­al of James “Whitey” Bul­ger, a Boston-based mob­ster and long­time FBI infor­mant recent­ly con­vict­ed on numer­ous charges.

8. Deal­ing with the mur­der of a John McIn­tyre, Jr.–a young Amer­i­can who was smug­gling for the IRA and turned fed­er­al infor­mant–Val­hal­la’s Wake was sup­ple­ment­ed by the dis­clo­sure that Whitey Bul­ger killed young McIn­tyre, after the lat­ter’s sta­tus as an infor­mant became known to Bul­ger.

EXCERPT:. . . . [for­mer Bul­ger asso­ciate Kevin] Weeks said John McIn­tyre was killed after Bul­ger heard he may have spo­ken with author­i­ties about a failed bid to send guns to the Irish Repub­li­can Army. He said McIn­tyre was chained to a chair and inter­ro­gat­ed by Bul­ger, who held a machine gun.

After McIn­tyre admit­ted he was coop­er­at­ing with law enforce­ment, Bugler wrapped a rope around his neck and tried to stran­gle McIn­tyre, Weeks said. The rope was too thick and the pres­sure caused McIn­tyre to vom­it, he said.

“Jim says to him, ‘Do you want one in the head?’ and he said, ‘Yes, please,’ ” Weeks said.

Bul­ger then shot him in the head, Weeks said. When that did­n’t kill him, Bul­ger shot him sev­er­al more times, Weeks said. . . .

“Bul­ger, Pro­tege Have Angry Exchange in Court” [AP]; Yahoo News; 7/9/2013.

8. Detail­ing the sto­ry con­tained in Val­hal­la’s Wake, John high­lights the activ­i­ties of John McIn­tyre, Sr. and his son, John McIn­tyre, Jr., the man killed by Whitey Bul­ger. McIn­tyre, Sr. worked with Gen­er­al Rein­hard Gehlen, of whom we have spo­ken at great length over the years. McIn­tyre, Jr. had been bust­ed for drugs while in the U.S. Army.

9. A for­mer Army attorney–Dick Sullivan–covered up McIn­tyre, Jr.‘s drug bust and recruit­ed him to work for the IRA. Even­tu­al­ly, McIn­tyre, Jr. got dis­gust­ed with what was going on and turned fed­er­al infor­mant.

10. In one of the most fas­ci­nat­ing details of the sto­ry, John relates that Dick Sul­li­van obscured the Sichereitsdienst/Gestapo back­ground of Miko­la Lebed of the OUN/B. This per­mit­ted him to be legal­ly employed by CIA. Sul­li­van then used Lebed to pen­e­trate U.S. intel­li­gence on behalf of the IRA!

11. The pro­gram con­cludes with dis­cus­sion of the over­lap­ping phe­nom­e­na of inter­na­tion­al fas­cism and glob­al­iza­tion. John reviewed and high­light­ed both the Webb-Pomerene Act and the World Com­merce Cor­po­ra­tion.

12. John’s cur­rent efforts include writ­ing anoth­er book, which will be self-pub­lished and writ­ing for Ami Mag­a­zine, an online Jew­ish peri­od­i­cal.

 

 

 

 

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