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The following is an electronic reprint, with the author's permission, of Larry
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Abraham's Insider Report of December 1986. Subscriptions to Insider Report are
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THE COUP D'ETAT IN WASHINGTON
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What you are currently witnessing, my fellow Americans, is no mere scandal over
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an arms shipment. Far from it. What is actually taking place is a coup
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d'etat. The visible leader of this coup is Secretary of State George Shultz.
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The planning, strategy, and tactics are all being carried out by his colleagues
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in the Council on Foreign Relations, within and without government. And the
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intended victims are anti-Communists everywhere.
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Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary has as it's third definition of coup d'etat
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"the alteration of an existing government by a small group". In all coups,
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events move fast and furiously. Disclosures are made and heads roll. Then,
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more disclosures are followed by more heads rolling. There are accusations,
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denials, charges, and countercharges. To the uninformed observer, everything
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appears to be one vast state of confusion. But be not confounded, gentle
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reader. This coup is no different from many in the past. As Lord Action said
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of the French Revolution, "amidst the tumult is too much design."
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THE BOTTOM LINE
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Before I get into all the essential background of what is now a created crisis
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of historic importance, let me give you the bottom line. Believe me, you won't
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like it. Here it is: The anti-Communists are being purged from the Reagan
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Administration. One-worlders in the State Department (in effect, the CFR
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foreign ministry) are now in complete control of the U.S. foreign policy.
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This means that anti-Communist efforts throughout the world will now be set up
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for betrayal, collapse, and ultimate destruction. From the high mountains of
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Afghanistan to the jungles of Nicaragua, from the swamps of Laos to the plains
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of Angola, courageous and gallant freedom fighters will be sold into Communist
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slavery.
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Now for some background information that is critical for a proper understanding
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of the coup that has just taken place. Well before the Reagan Administration
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took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, deals were being cut. Once it
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was obvious that Carter was out and Ronald Reagan would soon be in, jockeying
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for position became a way of life inside the beltway.
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The first major deal (and possibly the most fatal) came when Ronald Reagan
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agreed to put George Bush on ticket as the nominee for Vice President. With
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this came all of the Bush baggage--James Baker, Malcom Balderidge, ultimately
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George Shultz, to name but a few.
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THE WHITE HOUSE vs. THE STATE DEPARTMENT
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One of Reagan's most worthwhile early appointments was of Richard V. Allen to
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the post of National Security Adviser. Allen's tenure was short-lived, due to
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a "scandal" contrived and constantly pumped by the Washington Post, over a
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meaningless gift to Allen's wife by an obscure Japanese businessman.
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But it was during these early days of the Reagan Administration that something
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called the Reagan Doctrine was born. Simply stated, the Reagan Doctrine
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supported efforts to free countries now under the yoke of Communist slavery.
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Ever since the end of World War II, the State Department had tacitly supported
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the opposite view--that "once Communist, always Communist." Now, here came
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Ronald Reagan, Richard Allen, and others, saying that a country now under Red
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domination is fair game for reversal.
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At the State Department, the Reagan Doctrine was about as popular as drunk
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jokes at a Baptist convention. But Reagan's first Secretary of State,
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Alexander Haig, was no powerhouse policy maker. He clearly was being rewarded
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for his "good efforts" to protect the Establishment during the final days of
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the Nixon Administration. It quickly became apparent to the Insiders that
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stronger measures and stronger leaders would be necessary to counter the
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anti-Communists in the White House.
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THE LINES ARE DRAWN
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Understand that what we are covering here could encompass volumes, and
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undoubtedly will someday. So let me touch just the highlights. Haig goes out,
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George Shultz comes in; Allen goes out, Robert McFarlane comes in. In the case
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of McFarlane, part of the key Allen staffers remained at their posts--including
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Lt. Oliver North. Ollie believed in the Reagan Doctrine and went to work
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implementing it. He helped plan the Grenada invasion, covert support for the
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Contras on Nicaragua, arms and aid to Jonas Savimbi in Angola, assistance to
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the anti-Communist freedom fighters on Afghanistan, and so on. In other words,
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the National Security Council was actively and effectively pursuing an
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anti-Communist course.
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At the State Department, of course, especially under the ubiquitous George
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Shultz, it was business as usual: undermine our allies and reward our
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adversaries. The State Department had powerful friends helping it, the
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national news media being one of the most important.
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To understand what is happening now, it is vital to realize that at one and the
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same time, the following had been taking place: Col.North and friends
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(Ambassador Lewis Tambs, Jack Wheeler, Andy Messing, Gen. Jack Singlaub, et
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al.) were drumming up support for the Contras, while the State/Congressional
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"liberals"/media triumvirate were doing everything they could to block them.
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Ollie and friends (Howard Phillips foremost among them) were pushing for vital
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arms to Jonas Savimbi and support to RENAMO in Mozambique. The State
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Department, on the other hand (led by George Shultz, Chester Crocker, and Frank
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Weisner), was delayingarms to Savimbi and giving millions in direct aid to
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Samora Michel in Mozambique.
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I had first-hand knowledge of two of these situations. Working through friends
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in Israel, I became aware of a veritable supermarket of rifles, ground-to-air
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missiles, radar equipment, and so on, that was for sale. We were going to get
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this materiel to Jonas Savimbi and his anti-Communist freedom fighters in
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Angola, if the Stingers and Red-Eyes promised him by President Reagan were
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delayed to a point of uselessness. Fortunately, thanks to Howard Phillips,
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Jesse Helms, and a handful of others, it proved unnecessary.
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Also during the same period of time (late '85 and early '86), I was in direct
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contact with Ollie North, as part of an attempt to supply sophisticated
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communications systems to the Contras on Nicaragua. Even then, Ollie knew he
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was a target, and all conversations were very circumspect. As far back as two
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years ago, trial balloons were being launched by the Washington Post and the
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New York Times over what "undisclosed State Department sources" were calling
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"that rogue operation in the White House." The wolf pack was stalking him, and
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Ollie knew it. It was just a matter of time before they drew blood.
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THE REASON FOR "IRANGATE"
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Now enter, from stage crazy, the Iranian connection. Hunter Thompson once
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said, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." In order to understand
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the weirdos in Iran, the clock must once again be turned back to BR time
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(that's "Before Reagan").
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Had the CFR alliance been working in the best interest of the United States,
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none of what is unfolding today could have happened. How quickly we forget
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that it was the very same State Department/major media axis that toppled the
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dastardly Shah and brought the sainted Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini back from
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French exile.
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Yet in spite of the duplicity, these are now the very same people who are
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screaming to high heaven that "there are no moderates in Iran." There are
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"moderates" in Russia, of course. There are "moderates" in China, Angola,
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Mozambique, Nicaragua, Cuba, even within the PLO. But none in Iran,you are
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supposed to believe. According to major media/State Department logic, even the
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most brutal of Communist regimes have "moderates." Yes, they are Communist, but
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they are moderate Communists --especially if they speak English, cut their meat
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with a knife, and laugh appreciatively at a Gary Trudeau cartoon. These
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"moderates" should be wined, dined, and courted at Park Avenue cocktail
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parties. But never, repeat never, is such a distinction accorded
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anti-Communists.
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Anybody with half an ounce of brains knows that there are people and forces
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inside Iran that are well worth helping, in anticipation of the vacuum which
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will follow upon the death of the Ayatollah. Even within the Khomeini
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loyalists, there obviously exist people and power blocks who are jockeying for
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position. Considering that the Ayatollah is 84 years old, and something less
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than a whirling dervish of administrative capability, is it not logical to
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assume that people within his oligarchy would be looking elsewhere for allies?
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Granted, some are already in the pocket of the Soviets. But isn't that even
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more reason why others might be very amenable to an opening from the West?
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POTENTIAL ALLIES IN IRAN
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I have never been to Iran, and I can't think of one Iranian I know personally.
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But even without such first-hand knowledge, I can think of at least four groups
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who are worth courting within that beleaguered country:
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(1.) The Kurds. This ferocious and independent group rules the northern
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reaches of Iran, and is feared by everyone--including the Israeli general who
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trained and armed them. Brigadier General Tzuri Sagi (now retired) told me two
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years ago when I was in Israel that the Kurds would prove a major obstacle to
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the Communist takover of Iran. Even the Khomeini crazies have never moved
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against them, for they would be shipped back to Teheran in goatskins. The
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Kurds are definitely people worth having on your side!
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(2.) Pahlavi followers. The late lamented Shah still has vast numbers of
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people who must look back at his reign as the "good old days". The Shah's
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eldest son is, I believe, an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Whenever he's
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interviewed he goes to great lengths to tell his listeners about the Pahlavi
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loyalists outside of Iran and within. Isn't it interesting that young Pahlavi
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is completely ignored by our media masters, as they spread the line, "there are
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no moderates in Iran."
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(3.) The Iranian Jews. I have been told by people who keep track of such
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things, that the Jewish population of Iran numbers over 3 million. This is
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indeed a force to be reckoned with, as Israel has clearly acknowledged. As far
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back as October 1982, then-Israeli ambassador to the United States, Moise
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Arens, disclosed in an interview in the Boston Globe, of all places, that
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Israel was routinely selling arms to Iran. You would think that the Washington
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Post would surely admit that among 3 million Iranian Jews, there must be some
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moderates. But to the "liberal" mentality, this dilemma is easily solved.
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When facts get in the way, ignore them.
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(4.) Miscellaneous groups. Within this category are the followers of the
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exiled Bauni Sauder (remember him?), the Suuni Muslims, and those who are
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merely politically ambitious, such as Parliamentary Speaker Ali-Akbar
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Rafsanjani and his adherents.
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If it is true, as the media and George Shultz would have us believe, that
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"there is no one within Iran worth courting," then who in the name of Allah
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made the decision to send the original hostages home to America, on the very
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day Ronald Reagan was being sworn into office in 1981? Obviously somebody,
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including the old Ayatollah himself, felt that with friends like Carter; you
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don't need enemies, but that with Reagan, maybe, just maybe, it might help to
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have access to the "Great Satan" in Washington D.C.
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Finally, on the Iranian aspect of the whole charade, you have Adnan Khashoggi,
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Saudi mega-bucker, joining forces with Manucher Ghorbanifar, and Iranian deal
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doer, and agreeing to face the cameras in an exclusive interview with Barbara
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Wawa. So off she flew to Monte Carlo, where she was informed, in no uncertain
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terms, that the media had really messed up. "Had you stayed out of it," they
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said in so many words, "more hostages would have been released, Iranian access
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would have continued, and Communist elements inside Iran would have been
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outflanked." And I'm sure they were right.
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As Pat Buchanan hammered home (to the delightful consternation of the press),
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if the Iranian initiative was designed to sell arms to Iran, use the markup of
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said arms to help anti-Communists in Nicaragua, and do it all without costing
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the American taxpayers one cent, then God bless Ollie North!
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But--and here's the biggie--none of this contrived controversy has anything to
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do with selling arms to Iran. The arms shipments, regardless of beneficiary,
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served only as a smokescreen, blocking our view of the real purpose of this
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exercise. Remember the bottom line conclusion I presented on page one? The
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real war is the one being fought inside the beltway surrounding Washington D.C.
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THE REAL OBJECTIVE
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As I pointed out at the beginning of this article, George Shultz and his
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minions at State have been looking for a way to put an end, once and for all,
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to anti-Communist activity emanating from the White House. Also, they have as
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their objective final consolidation of all U.S. foreign policy in their grasp,
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just as it was in the halcyon days of yore, when Henry Kissinger held both
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posts, Secretary of State and National Security Adviser.
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Here's how the game was plotted. The Insiders who set it up waited until the
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November election results were in. They waited until they knew that every key
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committee, both in the House and the Senate, would be in friendly hands. They
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waited right up to the moment when it looked as though the rest of the
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hostages' plight were at an all-time high. As any good bridge player knows,
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knowing when to play your cards is as important as what cards you were dealt.
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And these folks are pros.
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The opening gambit appeared in the pages of an insignificant newspaper
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published in Lebanon and written in Arabic. Al Shiraa, an obscure pro-Syrian
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weekly, dropped the first trump card to hit the table, when it revealed details
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of McFarlane's secret trip to Iran. Now, who do you suppose monitors weekly
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newspapers written in Arabic? Well, let me give you a hint: it isn't the
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overpaid, over-drinking, Pulitzer-pursuing pundits of the New York Times and
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the Washington Post. No way. Nor is it Sam Donaldson, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw,
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or the rest of the blow-dried, sweater-wearing, talking heads on network TV.
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The only people who indulge in that obscure and tedious function are the
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heavy-lensed and nameless minions at the State Department.
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So how do you suppose that juicy little tidbit about Robert McFarlane made it's
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way from the blasted-out back alleys of Lebanon to the front pages of the New
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York Times and the Washington Post? As Professor Henry Higgins would have
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said, "By jove, I think you've got it."
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So now comes the media blitz--the pointing with pride, the viewing with
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alarm...asking about the who, what, when, and where. Speculation was flying
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thick and fast. "Shultz didn't know." "What didn't he know?" "Donald Regan
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knows." "What does he know?" "Poindexter is responsible." "Responsible for
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what?" The real culprit is Ollie North." "Who the blazes is Ollie North?"
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Blood was starting to appear in the water, and the sharks went into a feeding
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frenzy. Nobody knew just yet bliid it was, but that wasn't important. It was
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seeping out of the White House, and for the liberal media establishment that
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was all they needed to know.
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STOKING THE FIRES
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On November 24, Undersecretary of State, John C. Whitehead, strolled into a
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State Department hearing room and proceeded to place the State Department in
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official opposition to the President and his White House operation. Who is
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John C. Whitehead? You'd better get to know him, for unless things change
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drastically, he is going to have a lot to say about how foreign policy is
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conducted on your behalf.
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John Whitehead went straight from Harvard, where he received his MBA, to the
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financial behemoth, Goldman, Sachs, and Co. By 1955, he was a partner at this
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key Insider institution. And let me tell you, there are few positions in the
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would of international mega-banking more powerful than senior partner at
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Goldman, Sachs.
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Then quietly and without fanfare, in the interest of serving a "higher order,"
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Mr. Whitehead left his esteemed position on Wall Street and moved to
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Washington, to become the number two man at State.
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It's important you understand what all of this means. Here's a man who has
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spent his entire professional life on Wall Street, now in the second-most
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important position in the U.S. foreign policy establishment. What experience
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does he have in statecraft? Just who is he, to take on his own President?
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Well, gentlefolk, the answer is simple: John C. Whitehead is one of "the
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boys". Did I mention that during his Wall Street years, he also became a
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prominent fixture at the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee for the
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Carnegie Corporation? (You remember the Carnegie Corporation; that is where
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Alger Hiss hung his hat when he left the State Department in 1946.)
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You may never have heard of John C. Whitehead before "Irangate" was
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orchestrated for our entertainment. But believe me, among the folks at the CFR
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who have been running your country for the past fifty years, he is well known
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indeed. In the inner sanctums of the New World Order crowd, his credentials
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are impeccable.
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THE PURGE BEGINS
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But back to the coup d'etat. The very next day, November 25, with the lessor
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lights of the press speculating that surely the next act will be George
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Shultz's resignation, now that the State Department had "distanced" itself from
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the President's policy, a very important and very private meeting was held.
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Only two men were present: Secretary of State George Shultz and President
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Ronald Reagan. The off-the-record meeting took place in the morning.
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Then, just an hour or two later (about noon, Eastern Standard Time), Mr.Reagan
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called a news conference to announce the resignation of Admiral John Poindexter
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as National Security Adviser and the sacking of his aide, Lt. Col. Oliver
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North. The President refused to answer questions and turned the microphones
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over to Attorney General Edwin Meese.
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Finally, one week later, on December 2 came the coup d'grace of this coup
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d'etat. President Reagan again took to the microphones of the White House
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briefing room, to reveal that the new Presidential adviser for national
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security affairs would be one Frank C. Carlucci.
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As I watched Ronald Reagan make this announcement, I knew that my worst fears
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had been realized. Not only was Shultz not going to resign; but he had
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consolidated full working control over all aspects of U.S. foreign policy.
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Just in case there was any doubt about this, confirmation came immediately
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after the news conference ended. During the postmortem, the CBS morning
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anchor, Morton Dean, cut to his State Department reporter and asked, "How is
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this appointment being viewed over there?" The answer was immediate and
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unmistakable: "State Department officials are overjoyed with Carlucci's
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appointment. They see him as one of their own."
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MORE ON FRANK CARLUCCI
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As to Carlucci's curriculum vitae, I shall try to be brief. Princeton '52,
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Harvard '56. Joined the State Department in 1956, right from Harvard. Served
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in various African stations, including Johannesburg, until 1971, when, presto
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chango, he metamorphosized into an economic expert and became associate
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director of the Office of Management and Budget. In case you have forgotten,
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the sitting President was Richard Nixon, and Carlucci's immediate boss, the
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Director of OMB, was none other than George Shultz.
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But Mr. Carlucci's first love was in foreign affairs, so in 1975, under Gerry
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Ford, and until 1978, under Jimmy Carter, Frank Carlucci was U.S. Ambassador
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to Portugal. Seems harmless enough, doesn't it--until you remember that
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1975-1978 were the critical years in the post-Salazar era of Portuguese policy.
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Under Gen. Salazar and his successors, Portugal had been combating the
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Communist-supported revolutionaries in Angola and Mozambique. It was during
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Carlucci's tenure as Ambassador to Portugal that the U.S. State Department,
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first under Kissinger (during Ford's presidency) and later under Muskie (with
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Carter as president), supported "independence" for Portugal's former
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possessions. Of course, what this really meant was that Marxist-Leninist
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cut-throats soon controlled both strategic former colonies flanking South
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Africa.
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Next, the multi-talented Carlucci took up his new assignment in the Carter
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Administration as Deputy Director of the CIA. (That's right. Ronald Reagan's
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new National Security Adviser was Jimmy Carter's number 2 man at the CIA. I
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hope this isn't making you as sick to read as it is for me to write.) In 1982,
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Frank Carlucci ventured forth to make his fortune as president of Sear's World
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Trade, Inc., but like all CFR members, when duty calls, back to government you
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go. I can almost hear his former and about-to-be new boss, George Shultz,
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saying, "Frank, have I got a job for you."
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So there you have it. The coup is complete, and the mop-up operation is
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underway. How are things going to be run now? Let me quote it straight from
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the horse's mouth. Here is how New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis
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described the new realities. In his syndicated column of December 5, Lewis
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said of the President: "His leadership would have to be of a different kind,
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collaborative, not royal. Centrist, not driven by ideological obsession."
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Understand that by "ideological obsession" Lewis means anti-Communist
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activities, and you'll understand what he is signaling.
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Continuing, Lewis says "...he appointed a respected professional, Frank
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Carlucci, as his National Security Adviser. One wonders who helped bring the
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President back from the brink?" C'mon Anthony, spend $95 for a subscription to
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Insider Report, and you'll know whodunit. Oh, I forgot; you'er a reporter for
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the New York Times, you've won the pulitzer prize, you already know.
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Further on in his column, Lewis indicates that just appointing Carlucci ins't
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enough. Or as he puts it, "other professional changes cannot be avoided if the
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President hopes to work with Congress." Then Lewis concludes by delivering the
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following unmistakable warning: "The collaboration with Congress depends on
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the substance of policy as well as respect for those who carry it out. There
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can be no collaboration if the President insists on ideological crusades."
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Lewis doesn't care what the boobs in Biloxi make of this column. He knows it
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will be understood where it really counts--in the power centers of Washington
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and the financial centers of New York. There will be no collaboration with the
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new Congress unless the President toes the mark and does exactly as he is told,
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especially as regards to U.S. foreign policy.
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As I write this, the other fatalities in this coup d'etat are starting to come
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thick and fast. The anti-Communist, highly respected and brilliant Ambassador
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to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, has resigned his post. Now, Ambassador Faith Ryan
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Wittlesey, a devout anit-Communist and great patriot, is under fire because she
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too is a friend of Ollie North. And you can be certain that the carnage will
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continue.
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But it doesn't have to be this way!
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LET'S TAKE THE OFFENSIVE
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Let me turn from this solemn and somber review, and present instead a positive
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plan that would strike a devastating blow against our would-be masters, and
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serve the cause of freedom very, very well.
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Let me offer our own game plan, which of put into effect immediately could
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wrestle the offensive out of the hands of George Shultz and his media
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collaborators. Admittedly, what I'm about to propose is audacious. But we
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live in a time when only bold measures can capture the imagination of a nation
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whose people are mesmerized by television and who grow easily bored by anything
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which can't be presented in predigested bites.
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Let's use this whole sordid mess to demand something that is long, long
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overdue--namely, investigate the State Department! Here is how we can take the
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offensive on this one:
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(1.) Ollie North would choose a sitting committee of the Senate, disregard the
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advice of his lawyers to invoke the Fifth Amendment, and tell the whole truth
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of what he and his fellow anti-Communists were doing. I suggest that this
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committee be the one chaired by Sen. Jeremiah Denton.
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But make no mistakes about it. If Ollie North announced that he had dismissed
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his lawyers and was prepared to appear before this committee, each and every
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member would come scurrying back to Washington as though his life depended on
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it. Furthermore, Ollie could pick the time--say 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,
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or what the media pros call "prime time". Every network, regardless of
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scheduled programming, would be there, cameras fixed, klieg lights on,
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breathlessly waiting for every word. It would be a media event unlike anything
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our side has had before or may ever have again.
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In a prepared statement, Lt. Col. Oliver North, in full uniform and armed
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with the truth, would tell the American public just why it was he had to do
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what he had done. The President wouldn't, and didn't, trust his own State
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Department to implement the Reagan Doctrine of rolling back Communism. "If the
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president can't trust his State Department," Ollie could conclude by saying,
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"why should we?" Therefore, I call on my fellow citizens to demand, and the
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members of Congress to form, a special committee to launch a full-scale review
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and investigation of State Department Policy and the actions this policy
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fostered."
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What would happen? Why, the left would go absolutely crazy! The media would
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scream "Mccarthyism." In short, all hell would break loose. But isn't it time
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as Shakespeare said in Julius Caesar, to "cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of
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war." For indeed we are at war. A contemporary of the great bard, Sir John
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Harrington, said in a brilliant epigram: "Treason doth never prosper, what's
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the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." It is high time to
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call treason by its proper name.
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(2.) The next day, with conservatives across America taking the lead, we swamp
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the Senators and Congressmen with telephone calls, telegrams, and letters,
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demanding an investigation as called for by Ollie North. Pat Robertson, Jerry
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Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, Marlin Maddoux, and other right-thinking Americans
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would take to the airwaves with the cry, "Investigate the State Department!"
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There are TV and radio evangelists and conservative talk-show hosts in every
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part of this country who would rally to this effort. It's time we employed
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those assets.
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(3.) Then, to make sure that a liberal whitewash wasn't engineered under the
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new Congress, Pat Buchanan (now the only man in the Executive Branch we can
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truly trust) would resign his position as White House Director of
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Communications and offer the chair to an independent panel of distinguished
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citizens and honest scholars, to prepare and present to the President their own
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findings on U.S. foreign policy and its failures.
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The cover-up crowd have had their own special commissions on everything from
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Pearl Harbor and the JFK assassination to the failure of the shuttle launch.
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It's time honest and patriotic Americans had a commission that would ask the
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right questions and look in the right closets.
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(4.) Finally, all across America, from state houses to Rotary clubs, from
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classrooms to boardrooms, petitions would be prepared and circulated, demanding
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"Investigate the State Department!" What if the names were computerized, and
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every person who signed was sent a copy of the commission report, detailing the
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treasonous duplicity carried out by the CFR/State Department cabal?
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Could this plan work? Of course it could. Would it change things? Without a
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doubt. Will it happen? Frankly, the answer to that question depends totally
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on the response of the key players: Ollie North, Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson,
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and so on. They must ask themselves, as President Reagan himself said so
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effectively, "If not us, who? If not now, when?"
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And as for the President, let's face facts. He has become a captive of forces
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around him that he does not even understand. This is a battle that must be
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fought without him...or even in spite of him.
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At another time in our history, when the future of the country hung in the
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balance, a man rose to implore his fellow citizens to action. The date was
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March 23, 1775. The place, Richmond, Virginia. The man, Patrick Henry. Hear
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him now: "We are not weak if we make proper use of those means which the God
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of nature has placed in our power...the battle, sir, is not to the strong
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alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave...it is vain, sir, to
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extenuate the matter. The gentlemen may cry, peace, peace,'but there is no
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peace. The war has actually begun."
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We've been at war for years. You know it, and I know it. Now we have the
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chance to make sure the American people know it, too--and to learn why so many
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of our "leaders" keep shooting the good guys in the back!
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