From jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU Wed Oct 20 16:07:05 EDT 1993 Article: 32510 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 3, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: Part 3, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 10:25:38 GMT Lines: 181 ____ ____ ____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____ ---- ---- ---- 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:] MONTANA * * * * * 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 3, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROSS GELBSPAN: This is an example of some of these types of harrassments that came to my attention. Many of them came to the attention of the Center for Constitutional Rights [Washington, D.C.] which is sort of a clearing house for such events. But because of the intimidating nature, we have a strong feeling that only a small portion of these events were reported. GARY NULL: Alright. Now, why would the FBI be participating and helping to give resources, information, funding or training to organizations and individuals who were conducting these activities. And let's be clear on this when I suggest that the FBI is complicitous in this. If you were to go and commit a crime, and a person providing you with the car, the gun and the get-away route was caught, that person would be EQUALLY culpable for that crime. The fact that the FBI did not actually turn a key and torch a room -- if they provided everything else that allowed that to occur, and they were aware of it, in the eyes of the law, they are EQUALLY guilty. ROSS GELBSPAN: Well, they are. And they deny that they had such a relationship. On the other hand, a lot of the files that were stolen, a lot of the material that was taken, did turn up in FBI files. That much we do know. Why did the FBI do this? Why did the FBI accept this material? It's interesting. Every time I learned of one of these events and reported them, first of all, I would check with the local police to confirm that they happened. In the case of this woman, Yanera Corea, I spoke to her doctor to confirm [the existence] of her wounds. So we certainly did verify every report that we wrote about. I would call the FBI and say: "Did you folks participate in this?" And they said: "Absolutely not." And I asked the next question which is: "In the face of what is clearly an inter-state conspiracy to deprive people of their civil liberties, why are you not launching a national investigation?" And they said: "Oh, jee -- these are just local events, and they're events that are under the jurisdiction of the local police. This is really not our business." When we later learned what the scope of this whole operation was, which was MUCH larger than just these harrassments, I understood better their reluctance to investigate. But, basically, to answer your question: "Why would they do this?" the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a national police force which is basically charged with combatting inter-state crime and various types of Federal crime. What the FBI allowed itself to do during the Reagan Presidency was to be used in the service of Reagan Administration policies to deprive people of their First Amendment rights. This happened clearly during the 1960s in their campaign against civil rights groups. It happened in their campaign against anti- Vietnam War groups. These groups were doing nothing illegal. In fact, in THIS particular case -- in the Central American groups' case -- the FBI had an investigation that involved all of its fifty-nine field offices around the country. This involved millions and millions of man-hours of work and thousands and thousands of pages of files. Yet, this investigation did not result in one arrest for illegal activity. There WERE no "terrorists." There WAS no violence. There were no laws broken, by [the findings of] their investigations. Why did they do this? They did this because, basically, they were, I believe, in this case, used by and ordered to do this by William Casey who was the Director of Central Intelligence. Bill Casey had a very large vision, from what we do know of the Iran-Contra Scandal. Bill Casey had no regard for civil liberties. Bill Casey was going to pull out all the stops to do anything necessary to ensure the success of President Reagan's policies. And that is clearly a blatant and flagrant misuse of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's power. GARY NULL: Well, it seems that Bill Casey had a particular predilection for taking it upon himself to decide what national policies should be used in thwarting any effort of anyone who would challenge those policies. Let's go to some specifics. President Ronald Reagan, in a 1981 executive order, EXPLICITLY authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use covert actions, ranging from private groups and individuals, to augment the FBI's political intelligence gathering and to conceal its arrangements with those groups. It involved an EXTENSIVE collaboration with foreign security forces -- in this case, the National Guard of El Salvador -- to target United States citizens. ROSS GELBSPAN: .... through which the FBI had a back-channel relationship. GARY NULL: Now, let's go into that in detail so that people can see that this National Guard of El Salvador -- which, itself, was notorious for its illegal acts and brutality and its murderous death squads -- let's take a look at that type of association and see what came from that. ROSS GELBSPAN: What we know about that relationship comes, basically, from a man named Frank Borelli. Frank Borelli is a Salvadoran-born man. He is now a United States citizen. His father was a very prominent man in the Salvadoran Security Forces. His father was the Director of the Military Training Academy. He was the Director of the Salvadoran National Police. He was the Minister of the Interior of El Salvador, which means that he basically sat atop all of the security forces. Borelli came to the United States in 1980. He was put in touch with the FBI. The FBI told him that they wanted to set up an investigation of Salvadoran terrorists. Remember that, during this period, we began to have an influx of refugees across the border, coming to the United States to escape the violence in El Salvador. The FBI told Borelli that they needed his help and that they needed the help of the National Guard of El Salvador to identify people coming up here, to make sure that they were not armed left-wing terrorists. THAT is their surface agenda. That agenda certainly seems legitimate, given the FBI's mandate to counter terrorism. However, it became apparent, after the operation got going, that that was really a cover. What they really wanted to do was to enlist the help of the National Guard of El Salvador to provide information that the FBI could use to prove that North American groups -- groups like CISPES [the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador], groups like [the Christian] American Friends Service Committee, all manner of groups that sprung up in opposition to Reagan Administration policies -- were connected to armed left-wing terrorists in Central America. (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 ~~~ ~~~