From jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU Tue Oct 19 06:26:19 EDT 1993 Article: 32477 of alt.conspiracy Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.latin-america Path: murdoch!hopper!jad From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 2, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizen Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: Part 2, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 11:15:46 GMT Lines: 184 ____ ____ ____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____ ---- ---- ---- T H E P E O P L E'S S P E L L B R E A K E R ____ ____ ____ ---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ---- ---- ---- DATE OF PRINTING PRICE: __ CENTS THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE OF [your territory; example:] WESTERN UTAH * * * * * MORNING EDITION * * * * * EDITOR: John DiNardo PUBLISHER: [your name (optional)] ________________________________________ From the free airwaves of The People's Pacifica Radio Network station: WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 ________________________________________ Part 2, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROSS GELBSPAN: It's clear that many of these secret operations were conducted by private groups that were working with the FBI and exchanging information with the FBI in a privatized manner. Before I run through just a couple of examples of this, let me also say that this whole campaign, against American citizens who were opposed to President Reagan's policies in Central America, certainly revolved around the FBI, but it also involved the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It also involved the United States National Security Agency and several other United States Government agencies who were all mobilized to try to neutralize dissent, to try to subject the American People to propaganda and disinformation in secret ways. In other words, the Reagan Administration basically mobilized all of its law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the notion of promoting its policies which were opposed by many American people and, later, by the Congress. Having said that, let me run through a couple of examples. I'll keep this limited to a couple of minutes, if I can, but just to give listeners a flavor of what we're talking about. My own interest in this subject really began in November-December of 1984 when two break-ins were reported by a church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This church had a Salvadoran trade union in Sanctuary, and it also housed three or four Central America political groups in its basement. In the case of both of these break-ins, files were taken and copied, lists of members and donors were rifled, while items of value were left completely untouched -- typewriters, money, and so forth. I found this to be very disturbing. And again, over the years, we got reports of more than two hundred such events. And let me just give you little thumbnail sketches of several of them. Toward the end of 1984, a religious community in Washington called Sojourners, which was active in opposing the Reagan Administration's support of the Nicaraguan Contras, was also the target of this kind of surveillance. On a Sunday morning in October of 1984, a member of that organiation swung by the office on his way out of town and he found four men dressed in shirts and ties, several of them with cameras. They asked him if this building was the Sojourners headquarters. He answered, "Yes, it is." And he began to ask them what they were doing there on a Sunday morning, and what they wanted; and the men sort of backtracked. They got into a car and drove away. That car's license plate number was traced to the National Security Agency. There was an organizer named Francisca Cabazos[sp], out in Arizona, who visited Nicaragua. She gave an interview with the local press before she went. Shortly thereafter, her landlord reported a break-in in her apartment, and not long after that, it was burned. It was torched by arson. The fire marshal up there felt that it was a case of political arson. There was a church in Evanston, Illinois called The Wheaton Church. It also was a Sanctuary church. It had also taken Salvadoran refugees into its custody, basically. And members walked in there on a Monday morning and they found all of the church's Sanctuary files spread out under a desk with a lamp shining on them. They had been photographed, and clearly, it was left to intimidate the people there. In that same year, in Louisville, Kentucky, Saint William's Church, which was also active in the Central America movement, had supported groups which were opposing President Reagan's policies in El Salvador and also in Nicaragua. That rectory was burgled. Photographic slides taken in Nicaragua were stolen. Again, files were rifled and copied. Interestingly enough, four years later, when six Jesuit priests were slain in El Salvador, that church was AGAIN ransacked, and there was a note left for the pastor of the church, Reverend James Flynn -- a note which was basically a TIME Magazine photograph of the six slain priests, with a note reading: "Jimmy, here are your leftwing buddies. You're next!" Going back to 1987, a large church in downtown Boston, Massachusetts named The Arlington Street Church, was burgled on the night before the minister was going to announce that its congregation had decided to join the Sanctuary Movement -- that is, the movement that gave safe harbor to refugees from El Salvador. In that case, the church had very sophisticated security systems -- police locks. The burglars penetrated the church. They got into the files and they specifically stole the church's Sanctuary files. I'll give you just a couple more brief examples. There is a woman named Glynis Golden of the American Friends Service Committee in Pasadena, California, who had a bunch of files in the back of her car on Central America work. She stopped for twenty minutes in front of her office. When she came back, those files were all stolen, but a watch and an expensive stereo system were left untouched. There was a travel agency in San Francisco, California that, in addition to its normal travel business, also arranged trips to Nicaragua for activists out on the West Coast. When the owners of the travel agency came in one morning, they found the safe opened. Fifteen hundred dollars in cash was left untouched. All the files were left undisturbed except for those files on people who had gone to Nicargua. They were stolen. The most harrowing story occurred in 1987 on the West Coast when a volunteer member of the largest of the groups opposing President Reagan's policies in Central America, a group called CISPES (Committee in Solidarity With the People of El Salvador) .... This woman came out of her office around 5 o'clock in the afternoon. She was abducted by three men, two of whom she said had Salvadoran accents. She was driven around for six hours. They cut her with a knife. They burned her with cigarettes. They raped her with a stick. And all the while, they interrogated her about other activists -- who they were; what they were doing, and so forth. This lasted for about six hours. They dumped her out on a street. Obviously, she was very terrified. The woman thereafter moved into a new apartment with her son and her mother, got an unlisted telephone number, and shortly thereafter, she began receiving death threats on her unlisted telephone. There is a peculiar postscript to that story. About six months later, the woman was finally able to discuss what had happened to her, which was very traumatic, obviously. She came to New York, and I flew down from Boston to interview her in the office of a group called MADRE. MADRE is a group that provides literacy and nutritional aid to Third World women. She and I had an interview for about an hour. At the end of that time, a photographer from the Boston Globe, who was with me, went down the hall to the ladies' room. When she came back, she found a little note squeezed under the door, addressed to this woman, Yanera Corea[sp]. On the note was a photograph of a decapitated baby lying in a pool of blood. There was a note scrawled on it reading: "Do you know where your baby is?" (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As I see it, the best way that you and I can reap a harvest from the seeds of realization that are being planted here is for each of us to join together to combine our individual strengths into one huge arm powerful enough to wield the awesome sword of the law, forged in Constitutionality, against the totalitarian forces who are subverting our Government and gradually herding us all into subjugation. And so I urge you to contact either one of two legal institutes that I know of having the courage, the resolve and the respect for justice necessary to serve as that sword of legality: William Davis Ramsey Clark The Christic Institute International Action Center 8773 Venice Blvd. 39 West 14th St., suite 206 Los Angeles, CA 90034 New York, NY 10011 1(310)287-1556 1(212)633-6646 John DiNardo ~~~ ~~~