American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us (31 page)

Lyman Kirkpatrick CIA memorandum:
Foreign and Military Intelligence, Book I, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
, U.S. Senate (April 26, 1976), p. 390.

Holsinger quote: “Slain Congressman to be Honored,”
San Mateo (Calif.) Daily Journal
, November 12, 2008.

Writers looking into “broader conspiracy”: One is Jim Hougan, author of the Watergate classic,
Secret Agenda
, among other books. Hougan wrote a long article, “The Secret Life of Jim Jones: A Parapolitical Fugue,” that came out in a British publication (
Lobster 37
) in Summer 1999. More light was shed by Peter Levenda, in volume two of his
Sinister Forces
series in 2006. And for those who really want to dig deep into the muddy waters, there's
Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment
?, by Michael Meiers, in
Studies in American Religion,
Volume 35 (1988).

Temple assets: John Judge, in a piece about “The Jonestown Banks” (August 1982) wondered: “Was the Jonestown empire built with the same dirty money that came from the Banco Ambrosiano, the Nugan Hand Bank and other international conduits of cash for the men who trade in narcotics, espionage, human flesh and death?”

Body counts:
Sinister Forces, Book Two: A Warm Gun
, by Peter Levenda, TrineDay, Waterville, Oregon, 2006, p. 223.

Cyanide: Ibid., p. 224.

Disappearing samples: “The Secret Life of Jim Jones: A Parapolitical Fugue,” by Jim Hougan,
Lobster 37
, Summer 1999. Also on
www.jimhougan.com
.

Handling of bodies:
New England Journal of Medicine
, “Law-Medicine Notes: The Guyana Mass Suicides: Medicolegal Re-evaluation,” by William J. Curran, J.D., L.L.M., S.M. Hyg., June 7, 1979, cited in Hougan.

Removal of medical tags:
Newsweek
, December 4, 1978. Robert Pastor denied the article's account.

Bracelets and bodies:
Sinister Forces
, p. 224.

Survivors treated at Langley-Porter: Hougan article.

Langley-Porter research:
Mind Wars
, by Ron McRae, St. Martin's Press, 1984, p. 136.

Ryan letter to CIA: October 10, 1978. San Francisco Mayor Moscone was reportedly involved in funding of the rehab program.

Ryan and Vacaville research:
Sinister Forces
, p. 207.

Ryan's investigation: Researcher John Judge was the first to suggest this, in his 1985 article, “The Black Hole of Guyana” (
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/Jonestown.html
).

Jones as informant: Hougan article.

Jones-Mitrione relationship:
Sinister Forces
, p.176.

Jones and 201 file: Hougan article.

Jones and Cuba: Hougan article.

Two Jones passports: Hougan article.

Jones-Mitrione socializing: Autobiographical fragment found at Jonestown.

Jones and Mitrione in Brazil: Ibid.

“suspected CIA conduit” Invesco: Hougan writes: “The firm was owned and operated by men and women whose connections to criminals such as Ronald Biggs [involved in England's Great Train Robbery] and spooks like Fernand Legros—and to gangster-spooks such as Christian David—deserve serious scrutiny.”

Jones's interest in occult: Hougan article.

Temple alliances: Ibid.

“target populations”:
Individual Rights and the Government's Role in Behavior Modification
, 1974 Government Printing Office report.

Jones and Guyana; Reverend Smith:
Sinister Forces
, p. 210.

State Department officer quote: Ibid., p. 214 (Frank Tunniminia).

Larry Layton and father:
Sinister Forces
, p. 195.

Dwyer: Hougan article.

James Adkins: e-mail from Hougan to Dick Russell, June 30, 2009.

Zombie-like killers:
White Night
, by John Peer Nugent, Rawson/Wade Publishers, 1979, p. 197.

Body not matching Jones: Michael Meiers.

Questions about Jones's identification: “The Black Hole of Guyana,” by John Judge.

Holsinger on Jonestown:
www.friendsofliberty.com
.

Survivors' lawsuit:
The Jonestown Genocide
, by Robert Sterling, online page.

Ryan children lawsuit:
Sinister Forces
, p. 227.

Gritz on Jonestown and MK-ULTRA: interview with Adam Parfrey.

Sign at Jonestown: Hougan article.

Casey approach: cited in “The Case for a Conspiracy,” by Joseph E. Persico,
New York Times Book Review
, December 22, 1991.

Hashemi and Carter: “The Ladies' Room Secrets,”
The Consortium for Independent News
, by Robert Parry.

July meeting:
Defrauding America
, p. 202, citing a CIA informant to author Stich.

Bribes: Stich, p. 196.

Bani-Sadr on secret deal: First described it in a letter to the U.S. Congress (December 17, 1992) identifying Reza Passendideh as the Khomeini nephew.

Bani-Sadr letter: cited in “October Surprise: Time for Truth? Part 2,” by Robert Parry,
Consortium News
, 1997.

Carter, hostages, and Reagan leak: “The Election Story of the Decade,” by Gary Sick,
New York Times
, April 15, 1991.

$3 million deposit: “The Ladies' Room Secrets.”

Bush's whereabouts: Stich, p. 201.

Bush airplanes, Ibid., p. 203.

Gary Sick on Bush in Paris: “The Election Story of the Decade.”

Ben-Menashe book: Ibid., p. 199.

Brenneke testimony: Ibid., p. 200.

Russian investigation: “Russia's PM & October Surprise,” by Robert Parry,
The Consortium
, May 17, 1999.

Gates and Iran/Iraq: “The Secret World of Robert Gates,” by Robert Parry,
www.consortiumnews.com/2006/110906.html
. The NSC's Howard Teicher submitted the affidavit in federal court in Miami in 1995.

Bush at CIA: Cited in Peter Dale Scott, “Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection,”
www.globalresearch.ca
.

Iran's shift: Sick article.

Israeli shipment: Ibid.

Banker's claim: Robert Denis and Ernest Backes,
Revelation
$, Les Arénes Publishers, 2001. Backes said copies of his files also went to the National French Assembly.

Bani-Sadr on documents: interview with Barbara Honnegger, cited at Wikipedia, “October Surprise Conspiracy Theory.”

Chardy and Honegger: Stich book, pp. 197-198.

Ben-Menashe arrest and Eitan quote: quoted in
I/F Magazine
, “Israeli Spy Cover-Up Crumbles,” by Jack Colhoun, September-October 1999. Citing Gordon Thomas,
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
.

Ben-Menashe and Israelis: Ibid.

BCCI and Barcella: “October Surprise X-Files (Part 4): The Money Trail,” by Robert Parry,
The Consortium
.

BCCI and Iran:
In These Times
, “For the Record” by Joel Bleifuss, March 8, 1993.

Barcella quote:
In These Times
, “Mr. Fixit,” by Joel Bleifuss, February 22, 1993, citing the book on BCCI,
False Profits
.

House findings: “October Surprise conspiracy theory,” Wikipedia (online).

Donald Gregg: Stich, p. 245.

Andelman testimony: “Fact Finders: U.S.-Iran: 20 Years of Secrets,”
I/F Magazine
, November-December 1999.

Russian report: “Russia's PM & October Surprise,” by Robert Parry,
The Consortium
, May 17, 1999.

Steven Emerson:
www.steveemerson.com
.

Clinton:
I/F Magazine
, November- December 1999 article.

Statistics on prisons: “Will Obama End ‘War on Drugs?', by Sherwood Ross, June 1, 2009,
www.truthout.org
.

Banks and drug money: Chapter by Peter Dale Scott, “Drugs, Anti-Communism and Extra-Legal Repression in Mexico,” p. 187, in
Government of the Shadows
, edited by Eric Wilson, Pluto Press, 2009.

Heroin smuggling: “The Cocaine Connection,” by Vince Bielski and Dennis Berstein,
Covert Action
, Summer 1987, quoting Alfred McCoy, author of
The Politics of Heroin
.

Heroin in bodies: Rodney Stich,
Defrauding America
, p. 296.

Nugan Hand bank: “The Australian Heroin Connection,” by Jerry Meldon,
Covert Action
, Summer 1987.

Reagan and Nicaragua: “Reinventing Reagan?”, by John Lampert, April 29, 2009,
www.truthout.org
.

Memorandum of Understanding: “Hyde's Blind Eye: Contras & Cocaine,”
I/F Magazine
, November-December 1999.

Hitz report:
The Consortium
, October 26, 1998.

Levine and Castillo: “Hyde's Blind Eye”

Reagan statement on Contras: “U.S. Concedes Contras Linked to Drugs, But Denies Leadership Involved,” Associated Press, April 10, 1986.

Reagan Administration report: April 17, 1986. North memo: quoted in “Hyde's Blind Eye.”

Wanda Palacio testimony: “Congress Puts Contra-Coke Secrets Behind Closed Doors,” by Robert Parry,
I/F,
July-Aug. 1999.

Kerry quote: “Cocaine Connection,”
Covert Action
, Summer 1987.

Anti-Drug Abuse Act:
CounterPunch
, June 15-30, 1998.

Kerry report: April 13, 1989, Government Printing Office.

Times
and Kerry report: “CIA: We Knew All Along,”
CounterPunch
, October 15- 25, 1998. The series was written by Keith Schneider.

Post
and
Time
: “R.I.P. Gary Webb—Unembedded Reporter,” by Jeff Cohen, December 13, 2004,
www.commondreams.org
. The
Time
correspondent was Laurence Zuckerman.

Stone and Noriega: “A Talk with Manuel Noriega,”
The Nation
, January 24, 1994.

Noriega: Stich,
Defrauding America
, p. 307.

Seal smuggling billions: 1986 letter from the attorney general of Louisiana to U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Mena, Arkansas and Seal: “The Crimes of Mena,” by Sally Denton and Roger Morris, online at
www.theforbiddenknowledge.com
. Barry Seal's story became the subject of an HBO film in 1991 called
Doublecrossed
.

Gary Webb series: Ibid. See also Webb's book,
Dark Alliance
.

Pincus and CIA: “WaPo Covered for CIA in Iran-Contra Crack Scandal,”
Huffington Post
, June 29, 2009.

LA Times
slant: Cohen article.

Gates comment: Stich book, p. 400.

Gates and BCCI:
www.historycommons.org
. Complete 9/11 timeline: BCCI. Citing article in London's
Financial Times
in 1991.

Pakistani president and drugs: Report by Alfred McCoy.

Kerry investigation and cooperation: “with the key exception of the Federal Reserve,” Senator Kerry later told the Foreign Relations Committee.

Largest Islamic bank: Owned 77% at the time by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nayhan, president of the United Arab Emirates.

Bin Laden:
www.historycommons.org
, BCCI timeline, citing United Press International story March 1, 2001.

Peter Dale Scott: “Afghanistan: Heroin-Ravaged State”, May 8, 2009, on Global Research Web site.

Pentagon refusal to bomb drug labs: Pakistani journalist and best-selling author Ahmed Rashid.

Karzai's brother: “Brother of Afghan Leader Said to be Paid by C.I.A.,”
New York Times
, October 28, 2009.

Marshal Fahim and drugs:
New York Times
, August 27, 2009, “Accused of Drug Ties, Afghan Official Worries U.S.”

Expert: Loretta Napoleoni.

Traffickers targeted:
New York Times
, August 10, 2009, “Drug Chieftains Tied to Taliban are U.S. Targets.”

Peter Dale Scott: chapter in
Government of the Shadows
, p. 173.

Haro bust: Scott, p. 176.

Honduran supplier: Scott, p. 184.

Mexico corruption: Ibid.

Salinas, Citibank, Lehman: Scott, p. 186.

Profits flowing south: “Obama Targets Mexican Cartels,”
Washington Post
, April 16, 2009.

Drug war deaths: “Vast U.S. Illegal Drug Market Fuels Mexican Cartels,” by David Crary, Associated Press, May 26, 2009.

Guns from U.S.: Truthout Web site, June 19, 2009.

Plan Mexico: “U.S.-Trained Death Squads?”,
Mother Jones
magazine, July- August 2009.

Obama effort: “Obama Targets Mexican Cartels.”

Obama policies: “Will Obama End ‘War on Drugs?'” by Sherwood Ross, June 1, 2009,
www.truthout.org
.

Drug figures: “Vast U.S. Illegal Drug Market Fuels Mexican Cartels.”

Marijuana on public lands: “High Sierras,”
Mother Jones
magazine, July-August 2009.