投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 10 月 12 日 02:11:49:
●「Emperor's Clothes」――あえて訳せば“裸の王様”（The
Emperor's New Clothes）といったところでしょうか――という
ニュースサイトに、９・１１米国事変をめぐる興味ぶかい記事
が紹介されていました。
●いわゆる「エシェロン」の大元締めである米国NSA（国家安全
保障庁）については、ジャーナリストのジェイムズ・バムフォード
氏が20年ほど前に徹底的な暴露ルポを書き、それまで存在す
ら殆ど知られていなかったこの出歯亀官庁の実態を世に知らし
めました。このルポ『パズルパレス』は邦訳版で読むことができ
ます。
●そのバムフォード氏が、最近、『Body of Secrets』というNSA
暴露ルポの第二弾を出しました。これは今年の春に発売され
るや、アマゾン・コムでベスト10ランキングに入るほどの人気を
博しました。これはちょっとした枕になるほど分厚くて重たい本
です。私もエシェロンについての翻訳を手がけているので、
発売早々に手に入れましたが、こんなにハードな本がベストセ
ラーになるなんて凄いなと単純に感心しました。エシェロンや
FBIの電子メール監視システム「カーニヴォー」に対する警戒感
が――つまりプライバシー侵害への危機感が――日本よりも
格段に高いのかも知れません。
●このバムフォード氏の新著には、1962年に米国政府がフロリダ
やワシントンで米国の市民や軍人にテロリズムを仕掛け、それを
「カストロの陰謀」だと決めつけて国民の恐怖心を煽り、これを
裏付けにしてキューバにインチキな「報復」攻撃を行なう計画を
練っていたことが暴露されています。ついでに……同書には
やはり1962年に米国政府が「ノースウッド作戦」という怪しからん
計画を練っていたことも暴露されています。これは、ジョン・グレン
宇宙飛行士を載せた人工衛星の打ち上げが万が一失敗したら、
それを「キューバが電波妨害したせいだ」と言い立ててキューバ
攻撃を行なう、という計画だったとか……。
●この本には、NSAが日常的にウサマ（中略）ビン・ラーディンの
行動を盗聴監視している実態も暴露されているのですが、そう
いう能力があったのに、やすやすとウサマ氏に「テロられて」
しまったというのは、まったくイカガワしいと言えるでしょう。
●今や米国では、政府が「アフガンに報復攻撃をかければ
対米報復攻撃は100％確実に起こるだろう」と宣伝し、おかげ
で全米各地では笑止千万なパニックが起きています。
米国で９・１１に起きたのは、「ハイジャックされたとおぼしき
４機の旅客機が、そのうちの２機はツインタワーに、１機は
ペンタゴンに突っ込み、あと１機はペンシルヴェニア州で墜落
した」という事実だけであり、それ以上でもそれ以下でもありま
せん。これら４機が本当にハイジャックされたのかは、まだ確定
できないし、ペンシルヴェニアでの墜落事故も、どういう理由で
落ちたのかは議論の余地があります。（英雄的な乗客が乗っ取
り犯と格闘した、という“伝説”が宣伝されていますが、米軍機
が予防的に撃墜した可能性も否定できません。ペンシルヴェニア
知事が「国内保安担当の新閣僚」に抜擢されたのも、この辺りの
事情と関係があるのかも知れません。）
ところが９・１１事変の直後から、米国のみならずNATO加盟国
や日本など、米国の軍事同盟諸国で、それこそ無数の“オオカミ
が来るぞ”的な脅迫宣伝が繰り返されてきました。その結果、
「NBC兵器テロがいつ起きても不思議ではない」という、ついこの
間までは想像すら出来なかった社会心理が蔓延してしまいました。
これはまさに、主に米国政府による危機アジリと戦争扇動の産物
ですが、言葉の真正なる意味において「テロリズム」とはこういっ
た“恐怖政治”を表しています。つまり、９・１１の（誰がやったか
定かではない）テロ行為よりも、それへの対応をめぐって９・１１
以降に展開している政治状況のほうが、格段にスケールの大き
な「テロリズム」だというわけ。（私はこれを「メタ・テロリズム」と
呼びたいですけど。）
●こうして考えてみると、40年前にカストロに対して計画された
デッチ上げの「報復」攻撃が、いまようやく“実現”したのかもし
れない……などと思えてきますね。 （余談 ： 米国政府で軍事
陰謀を計画する連中ってのは、口ひげを生やした偉丈夫に
病的な嫌悪感でもあるのだろうか？ 【笑】 ひょっとしたら
リンカーンの暗殺事件もこうした“文化的伝統”の発露だったり
して……。）
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●Emperor's Clothes
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/bamford.htm
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U.S. Military Schemes: Ominously Like 9-11
【今明かされる米軍の陰謀：９・１１事変そっくり】
[8 October 2001]
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The 'Baltimore Sun' article posted below discusses James Bamford's new book, "Body of Secrets." The book indicates the NSA knows Osama bin laden has not broken with his tycoon family. In addition, using freedom of information documents, the author reveals that during the 1960s the U.S. government developed plans to stage false attacks - some involving the slaughter of U.S. citizens, including sailors and/or marines - to justify a 'counter'attack against Cuba.
"'We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,' said one document reportedly prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 'We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,' the document says. 'Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation'....
"Another idea was to shoot down a CIA plane designed to replicate a passenger flight and announce that Cuban forces shot it down."
Bamford is not some conspiracy nut. Once an investigative reporter for ABC, he is hailed as a top expert on the National Security Agency (NSA). Here's an excerpt from a "New York Times" review of his earlier book, "The Puzzle Palace:"
"There have been glimpses inside the N.S.A. before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency. The quality and depth of Mr. Bamford's research are remarkable. Through interviews with former N.S.A. officials, scrutiny of thousands of obscure public documents and aggressive use of the Freedom of Information Act, Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director's safe. " (Philip Taubman in the "New York Times Book Review." This excerpt is posted at Barnes and Nobles. To read this and other reviews, go to http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Puzzle+Palace&userid=2IO3GAXJAV Click on "Puzzle Palace" and scroll down.
The 'Baltimore Sun' article follows.
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New book on NSA sheds light on secrets -
U.S. terror plan called Cuba invasion pretext
By Scott Shane and Tom Bowman Sun Staff
April 24, 2001
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WASHINGTON - U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the ouster of Communist leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book about the National Security Agency.
"We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington," said one document reportedly prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," the document says. "Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation."
The plan is laid out in documents signed by the five Joint Chiefs but never carried out, according to writer James Bamford in "Body of Secrets." The new history of the Fort Meade-based eavesdropping agency is being released today by Doubleday.
NSA regularly picks up the conversations of suspected terrorist financier Osama bin Laden, says Bamford, and has monitored Chinese and French companies trying to sell missiles to Iran. He provides new details about an Israeli attack on a Navy eavesdropping ship in 1967, suggesting that the sinking was deliberate. And he reveals the loss of an "entire warehouse" full of secret cryptographic gear to the North Vietnamese in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War.
Bamford, a former investigative reporter for ABC News who wrote "The Puzzle Palace" about the NSA in 1982, said his new book is based mostly on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act or found in government archives. "NSA never handed me any documents," he said. "It was a question of digging."
He said he was most surprised by the anti-Cuba terror plan, code-named Operation Northwoods. It "may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government," he writes.
The Northwoods plan also proposed that if the 1962 launch of John Glenn into orbit were to fail, resulting in the astronaut's death, the U.S. government would publicize fabricated evidence that Cuba had used electronic interference to sabotage the flight, the book says.
A previously secret document obtained by Bamford offers further suggestions for mayhem to be blamed on Cuba.
"We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated). ... We could foster attempts on lives of Cubans in the United States, even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized," the document says. Another idea was to shoot down a CIA plane designed to replicate a passenger flight and announce that Cuban forces shot it down.
Citing a White House document, Bamford writes that the idea of creating a pretext for the invasion of Cuba might have started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the last weeks of his administration, when the plan for an invasion by Cuban exiles trained in the United States was hatched. Carried out in April 1961, soon after Kennedy became president, the Bay of Pigs invasion proved a fiasco. Castro's forces quickly killed or rounded up the invaders.
Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, presented the Operation Northwoods plan to Kennedy early in 1962, but the president rejected it that March because he wanted no overt U.S. military action against Cuba. Lemnitzer then sought unsuccessfully to destroy all evidence of the plan, according to Bamford.
Lemnitzer and those who served with him in 1962 as chiefs of the nation's military branches are dead. But two former top Kennedy administration officials said yesterday that they were unaware of Operation Northwoods and questioned whether such a plan was ever drafted.
"I've never heard of Operation Northwoods. Never heard of it and don't believe it," said Theodore Sorenson, Kennedy's White House special counsel. "Obviously, it would be totally illegal as well as totally unwise."
Robert S. McNamara, Kennedy's defense secretary, said: "I never heard of it. I can't believe the chiefs were talking about or engaged in what I would call CIA-type operations."
Bamford writes that besides the Joint Chiefs, then-Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze also favored "provoking a phony war with Cuba."
"There may be a piece of paper" on Northwoods, said McNamara. "I just cannot conceive of [Nitze] approving anything like that or doing it without talking to me."
The book contains many other revelations in its detailed account of NSA, the biggest U.S. intelligence agency and Maryland's largest employer, with more than 25,000 personnel at Fort Meade, site of its global eavesdropping efforts.
Among them:
In recent years, NSA has regularly listened to bin Laden's unencrypted telephone calls. Agency officials have sometimes played tapes of bin Laden talking to his mother to impress members of Congress and select visitors to the agency.
In the late 1990s, NSA tracked efforts by Chinese and French companies to sell missile technology to Iran, particularly the C-802 anti-ship missile. The eavesdropping led to U.S. protests to the Chinese and French governments.
When U.S. troops evacuated Vietnam in 1975, "an entire warehouse overflowing with NSA's most important cryptographic machines and other supersensitive code and cipher materials" was left behind. It was the largest compromise of such equipment in U.S. history, Bamford writes, but the agency still has not acknowledged it.
When Israeli fighter jets attacked the NSA eavesdropping ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean in 1967, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171, an NSA aircraft was listening in and heard Israeli pilots referring to the American flag on the ship. U.S. officials, including President Lyndon Baines Johnson, decided to forget the matter, Bamford writes, because they did not want to embarrass Israel. To this day, Israeli officials say their forces mistakenly attacked the U.S. ship.
Bamford says the reason for the strike was Israel's desperate effort to cover up its attacks on the Egyptian town of El Arish in the Sinai. The Liberty was sitting offshore and the Israelis feared that the ship would detect the operation, which included the shooting of prisoners.
Yesterday, an NSA spokesperson questioned a point made in the book about the USS Liberty.
"We do not comment on operational matters, alleged or otherwise; however, Mr. Bamford's claim that the NSA leadership was `virtually unanimous in their belief that the attack was deliberate' is simply not true," the spokesperson said.
When he wrote "The Puzzle Palace" in 1982, Bamford was attacked by some NSA officials, who said his revelations gave the Soviet Union and other U.S. adversaries too much information on the secret agency. One former director referred to him as "an unconvicted felon."
With the end of the Cold War, the agency has been less guarded. NSA's current director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has granted a number of interviews. Hayden "cracked the door open a tiny bit," said Bamford, partly to burnish NSA's public image and correct misconceptions.
Copyright (c) 2001, The Baltimore Sun Reprinted for Fair Use Only
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Further Reading:
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'Why Washington Wants Afghanistan' by Jared Israel, Rick Rozoff & Nico Varkevisser at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm
'NATO Buildup in the Balkans: Part of a Deadly Game' by Jared Israel at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/farish.htm
'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to Force Milosevic to Surrender?' By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
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