NORTHCOM ran all of our phone numbers through their terrorist data base. “It lit up like a Christmas tree!” The agent exclaimed. NORTHCOM knew that terrorists overseas were calling American phone numbers, but had no idea who they were contacting or why they were calling. Our little telephone company had provided US intelligence with a nearly complete map of every terrorist cell in the USA and abroad that called the Muslim Brotherhood for help.
Despite our regrets, NORTHCOM had to ask the FBI for court authorized search warrants to place taps on the phones and computer terminals of these terrorists supporters. The FBI typically rewrote the warrants as if they had done the investigation. Neither Bill Warner nor I ever received a penny of the promised million dollar reward money. As we feared, someone in the FBI tipped off the terrorists. They all stopped using the cell phones and calling cards we had been tracing. They all went silent at once.
Worse, the FBI closed all investigations by other government agencies into the Florida clan just as they had closed Operation GreenQuest, the Immigration Service’s attempt to trace terrorist funding of Al Arian from the Saudis. The Saudis’ “ International Institute for Islamic Research( IIIR)” is banned as a known funding source for terrorism worldwide, but like the Muslim Brotherhood, it enjoys a strange immunity from the United States Department of Justice.
Agents from the US Secret Service and Customs have told me similar stories of the FBI’s obstruction of money laundering for terrorists in the Tampa, Florida Agency. It got so bad that Private Investigator Bill Warner began to openly “out” terrorist internet sites to the press that Justice and the FBI were simply ignoring. But for six critical months, we had an open window into world terrorism, and had made a map of their cells. Our Muslim Brotherhood Map may be one of the secret reasons why there has not been a single successful terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. Within a year after 9/11, no terrorist in the world could call the Muslim Brotherhood in America for help with finding a car, documents, an apartment, or funding without US intelligence listening. We had found the Rosetta stone of the terrorist communications networks.
But the same old defects in the intelligence community– “stovepiping,” compartmentalization, and lack of a central intelligence index– that prevented the hunt for Nazi war criminals still obstruct the hunt for the second generation Arab Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, things may have gotten worse since 9/11, not better. The Justice Department and State Department are still fighting tooth and nail to conceal and protect the Muslim Brotherhood as a “moderate” network of Sunni Arabs which we can use in a proxy war against the Shiites of Iran. It is as absurd as it is immoral.
The Saudi moneymen behind the Muslim Brotherhood have many ties to the GOP. The Carlisle Group is where the Bush family and the Bin Laden family meet to share financial investments. Carlisle’s clients encouraged Enron’s investments in the Caspian basin, and covered up the shame of Enron’s wildly illegal negotiations with the Taliban for a trans Afghanistan pipeline. To this day, Vice President Dick Cheney’s records of Enron’s Taliban connection are classified. It seems that no one in the Justice Department is willing to prosecute anyone in the Bush administration for anything. The same oil companies that made profits off the Third Reich and were never prosecuted, are now providing the lifeblood of funding for Arab terrorism.
As a former CIA Director told me, Arab terrorism will continue as long as we continue to import Arab oil. A group of us in a privately held company called Liquid Light, are preparing a bit of a shock for the Arabs. We have found a way to manufacture the Holy Grail of Alternative Energy, the Indium Gallium Nitride Solar cell (InGaN). Not only does this InGaN solar cell use 100% of the sun’s bandwidth (as opposed to 20% for existing solar cells), but it can be manufactured so cheaply that an InGaN solar cell can produce electricity at two cents per kilowatt hour versus 10-15 cents per KWH from a carbon based power plant.
One hesitates to predict the future of any new technology, but at such a low cost, it is certainly possible that within a decade, solar cell roof shingles could make most homes in America oil/energy independent. It is not beyond the realm of possibility to predict that InGaN products will allow a homeowner to charge his electric automobiles for next to nothing while selling excess power back through the grid for industrial use. If even a tenth of the predicted successes of our “Liquid Light” corporation takes place, the low cost production of Indium Gallium products will transform the American electronics and energy industries, while driving the Arab financiers of terrorism into bankruptcy.
Whether the Justice and State Departments like it or not, their Arab friends and their wealthy American backers may not be able to purchase political protection and influence in the very near future. The long dark night of corporate corruption of the Justice Department may be coming to an end. Perhaps it is time for President Obama to offer a blanket pardon to every member of the Justice Department (or the Executive Branch) who confesses a part in any criminal activities or cover ups. In the alternative, Congress could establish a South-African style “truth commission” and offer immunity to any member of the Executive Branch who testifies under oath about corruption, obstruction of Congress, or conspiracy to violate the law. It may be too late for Justice, but it is not too late for the truth.
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] In fact, a retired Military Intelligence official told me that the SOD was the unit that at one time served as the principal link between the FBI and military counter-intelligence. Consequently, the bureau had access to the unsanitized CIC files for each of the Byelorussian Nazis as part of the FBI domestic counter-intelligence program. That may explain why the FBI files made only cursory reference to the fact that its informants admitted serving the Germans during the occupation. The FBI had no need to duplicate the voluminous information provided by the SOD. Perhaps coincidentally, several people associated with the SOD had been stationed in Germany on intelligence operations after the war. I never had a chance to interview them, since they retired from the Army or were transferred overseas immediately after the GAO investigation.
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] President Carter’s Director of Central Intelligence did not even know that his own signature appeared on Moghaddam’s paperwork for the 100 Persons Act. It appears that the Justice Department has completely violated Congressional law, and imports alleged terrorists without any checks or balances from other agencies.
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] Almost all of the rank and file members of the FBI are good and decent people. We did not trust the FBI as an institution for several reasons. They repeatedly tried to recruit Sami Al Arian as an informant. Moreover, the FBI’s Special Agent in Charge of the Tampa Field Office was an open supporter of the Congress of American Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is the propaganda arm of the Hamas Terrorist wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Endnotes
Chapter One
1
For background on Wisner see William R. Corson,
The Armies of Ignorance
(Dial Press, 1977), pp. 306-10; Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), pp. 32-33; obituary in the
Washington Post
, October 30, 1965.
2
Gehlen’s operations are described in E. H. Cookridge,
Gehlen: Spy of the Century
(Random House, 1972).
3
Ibid., pp. 203-04.
4
The best account of the history of Byelorussia is Nicholas P. Vakar, Belorussia: The Making of a Nation (Harvard University Press, 1956).
5
For post-World War I activities in Byelorussia and émigré politics, I have relied upon V. Kalush,
In the Service of the People for a Free Belorussia: Biographical Notes on Professor Radislav Ostrowski
, which was published in Byelorussian in London in 1964. A reliable source indicates that this work is actually an autobiography written by Ostrowsky under a pen name. It will be cited below as Ostrowsky’s biography.
6
Polish oppression in Byelorussia is discussed in Stephan Horak,
Poland and Her National Minorities, 1919-1939
(Vantage Press, 1961), pp. 170-80.
7
According to “Parliament Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej” (
Parliament of the Republic of Poland
)
1919-1927
, edited by Professors Henryk Miscicki and Woldzimierz Dzwonkowski, published by Lucjan Zlotnicki for the Polish Government in Warsaw in 1928, “Sobolevsky was deputy to the Polish Parliament in 1926, representing the Byelorussian Socialist Party and this was a Communist Party.” Ironically, allegations about Sobolewsky’s Communist background were previously known to the FBI. See letter of December 21, 1950, from J. Edgar Hoover to Chief, Security Division, U.S. Department of State.
8
According to Ostrowsky’s biography, pp. 28-29, he was accused of receiving funds from Bolshevik sources to finance subversive activities of the Gramada.
9
The Vilna trials are described in Henryk Frankle’s
Poland: The Struggle for Power, 1772-1939
(Lindsey Drummond Ltd., 1946), pp. 155-56.
10
The Gramada leaders who fled to the Soviet Union were executed on Solovky Island as Polish spies. Union Calendar No. 929, 83rd Congress, Second Session, “Communist Takeover and Occupation of Belorussia,” Washington, 1955, p. 14.
11
For Russian emigré politics in the pre-World War II period see Geoffrey Bailey,
The Conspirators
(Harper & Bros., 1960).
12
For an overview of the SS structure, see Heinz Hohne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
(Coward-McCann, 1970).
13
According to the Nazi historical work
Weissrutheniein Volk und Land by Eugen Freiherr von Engelhardt
(Volk und Reich Verlag, 1943), the leading representatives of the “Byelorussian Union of University Students” before World War II were: Abramchyk, M. (Paris, France); Cherepukan, I. (Chicago, US); Kasmovich, D. (Belgrade, Yugoslavia); Rusak, V. (Prague, Czechoslovakia); Tsikota (Rome, Italy); Vasileuski, K. (Ghent, Belgium); Waronka, J. (Chicago, U.S.); Zakharka, V. (Prague, Czechoslovakia). Over half of the persons on this list became Nazi collaborators during the war.
14
The Self-Help Committee was described by Stanislaw Hrynkievich as an agency that “provided help, mostly financial, for needy White Ruthenian subjects, after they had been investigated and found ‘worthy’ by Nazi standards.”
Interrogation Report, No. 2
, Third Army, May 12, 1945.
15
For an overview of Byelorussia from the SS perspective, see “Tatigkeiten & Lageberichte No. 2651,” pp. 29-34, microfilm frames nos. 226392-397.
16
In his biography, pp. 34-35, Ostrowsky admits that in the summer of 1940 he was already in contact with the Byelorussian committees at Warsaw, Poznan, and Berlin. His biography names the leaders of those various committees, many of them former students of Ostrowsky. In a confidential interview with a Western intelligence agency, Ostrowsky admitted that the work of the committees was secretly funded by the Gestapo.
17
Extensive documentation concerning the role of the SS Einsatzgruppen in conducting mass executions is set forth in Raoul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (Octagon, 1978).
18
Background on Dr. Six is in Cookridge, op. cit., p. 242.
19
A list of the Byelorussian guides and the particular cities to which they were assigned by the SS is contained in interview M-34 (GBV).
Chapter Two
20
For an overview of Operation Barbarossa see Alexander Werth,
Russia at War, 1941-1945
(Dutton, 1964), pp. 131-58. The major work on the German occupation of the Soviet Union is Alexander Dallin,
German Rule in Russia 1941-1945
(St. Martin’s Press, 1957).
21
Ostrowsky’s biography mentions that the Byelorussian National Committee in Warsaw furnished forty members who were assigned to administrative jobs under the Germans. It was Ostrowsky who devised the system of putting them in pairs.
22
The recruitment of pro-German administrators from among the Byelorussian collaborators is described in “Tatigkeiten & Lageberichte No. 1,” National Archives Nuremberg Collection Document No. 265 1.