How intelligence agencies and police do gang stalking and surveillance – My story

By Stefan Fobes

Hello again. This is a continuation of my December 2008 story on how intelligence agencies do gang stalking.

What is happening in my life is not your standard case of gang stalking. The general picture one gets is it is usually community done, but in my case, it seems to be something more sinister.

The people that have done this are a team-up of both cops and feds. This team-up now says to me that the fusion center’s been put on me. They are obsessed with trying to know every little detail of my life — what I eat, how I eat, when I eat, who I eat with, who I talk to, when I go out, what my expression is when I go out, how I react to everything. This ramped up in about 2001 when my mother, Jacqueline Fobes, started working at New York’s One Police Plaza. It seems someone got scared that she would figure out just how pervasive this went, and as a result about 3-4 cars were put outside the apartment where we lived at the time, with her husband/handler Robert Fobes, who I talked about in the other article I’ve written. It was believed I was a police officer in high school and so the local gangs as well as Satanists at Bayard Rustin Educational Complex (also in New York) were mobilized to follow me around and gather information on me. The principal, John G. Angelet was in on it, and himself is tight with the police and is very paranoid. I would say insane, from being in his presence a few times. I heard word there that he loved to submit people’s names to terror watch lists for even the tiniest of things. A couple of the teachers I remember in on it were Mr. Lawson and Dr. Onobugu. The big secret about, at least, New York’s gangs is that they are all intelligence agency controlled with full time liasons. It’s like they say about the Mob and the CIA — the same organization at the highest levels. Same thing there.

It is a 24/7 watch, with spotters up and down the block in their apartments working in shifts. Street and car spotters from the NYPD, homeless community, low income people, mind controlled slaves and intelligence operatives are prepositioned and on call in safe-apartments paid for by the government. Step out, the call goes out for them also to come out. The one thing that links these people together is that they are the lowest elements of society and no pair of Ray-Bans can hide that. They are not psychic, they just are anal about information gathering and correct coordination. They operate on a point to point relay system where one person stands on the street or sits in a car with cellphone, iPhone, BlackBerry, or Verizon 3G in hand and when I pass by one their operator will instantly be notified as to my position. And after that more spotters will fan out covering all four directions from that block where I was. Before they would see me and then go off, talking into their phone, but since I wasn’t too cooperative with being stalked they now stand in place until I reach the spotter after them in line, who then speaks to their operator and the person before them I’ve walked past goes off back home. If the public knew how many safe-apartments the intelligence agencies had, their eyes would be rolling on the floor. It is staggering the amount I have found there to be. Spotters are also on hand to support the ones on the ground up in apartment buildings looking down. If I happen not to be cooperative with the stalking, about a dozen or so of foot walkers will be dispatched with a phone in hand till they find me. Once found, immediately move hand to phone to their ear and start snitching. A new tactic is to wait till I have my back turned and then pull out the headphones for their iPhone and then get on the phone. I guess they saw me looking at their hands too much. So sad. They don’t even know who they’re working for, and many of them wouldn’t even care because so many of them are so desperate for the money and the ego boost. It is also horrible to see people call this paranoid without even using basic logic. They have no idea how real intelligence surveillance and tracking procedures are carried out, just smoky little images that are as far from reality as it gets given to them by the TV.

The NYPD has a tactic where they use plainclothes officers in New York City cabs as lull down props to catch people by surprise. This has been used more than a few times to track me. Ordinary cars also drive by as backup. I am seen as stupid because my mother was ordered by her handlers to try and smash my skull in many times. My body is very stubborn and it hasn’t had the effect they’d like, hence extreme measures are employed by filling up literally a whole city block last Tuesday in the Tudor City part of Manhattan with operatives. They use the pretending to read the paper (in 80 degree weather in a car with no AC on), fake couple act, pretending to recline in a car, pretending to read a book in front of me, all sorts of stuff. So desperate they are to find out where I am, as many as five guys can be used on one block just to make sure I am where I am. I am rumored to hold amazing voodoo powers from my mother who was born in Haiti, as well as psychic ability. They all look the same. The young, skinny police informants, the spooks, the cops. You all have that low aspect about you, the barely disguised looks of murder and hate in your eyes. All obvious criminals and the worst of society. It is like someone cloned them all. They think they are so smart just because people not aware of them are in a box only slightly, slightly smaller than the one they are in.

The spooks with the bags live out of these same knapsacks they carry. They flit from safehouse to safehouse, as they go from job to job.

A big recruiting ground for a lot of things is St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York where a lot of that, and it seems, other nasty activities go on. I’ve never seen more mind controlled people in one small area in my life. How did I see them? Check out Britain’s Princess Beatrice. The eyes are perfectly like that a lot of the time.

Watchful eyes are kept in New York’s homeless community and size up potential recruits in the soup kitchens and elsewhere, I’ve found. They are the perfect spies and can be paid next to nothing to do that.

This is even deeper than I originally thought with the room I sleep in under constant ELF bombardment. I can actually feel it at times like a dark fire burning something around me that’s about two feet from my body that feels like it’s part of me, even though it’s not a part of my physical body. After I wrote So what does the Obama logo mean, anyway? which was my top viewed article at the time, I was told to stop by Robert Fobes. I didn’t. One night shortly after that, I had a strange dream where it was dark and the toilet was flushing while a guy I didn’t know was standing outside it. When I woke up I had the sleep paralysis, and in the morning when I went to post some articles after that, I couldn’t summon up the will to do it. My slight irritation of people not wanting to know the truth and instead viewing fluff stories about Obama birth certificates had turned into a deep contempt for humanity. It was like someone transmitted something straight into my subconscious mind to command me not to write anymore. Later on, I had a sort of “knowing” which told me how to “burn” the compulsion directly out of my mind. It worked. If anyone thinks that the government cannot broadcast ELF transmissions which can alter human mental and emotional processes, then I would direct them to the devices that anyone can buy which send out waves that drive roaches and rats out of their house. It is the exact same type of technology.

There seems to be an additional esoteric aspect to this, with a small subgroup of spotters, who are the lowest of the bunch. If you’ve seen the dessicated looking alcoholic who just looks shabby as hell, the used up looking prostitute, the crazy eyed lady who is avoided by everyone, you will know the type. These people are continually used to just try to talk to me, and always try to get money or items from me. It doesn’t matter what it is, a plastic bag, anything at all. Whenever someone talks to another person, even saying hi, an energetic connection is opened. When money is exchanged, energy is exchanged. When anything is given, energy is also given. These people are literal psychic vampires sent to drain my energy. If everyone went and studied everything they can about psychic vampires, they would find that they have a complete mirror image of how the Illuminati operate. This is no coincidence.

I remember from when I was younger, Hellali Berlinger Fobes, then his girlfriend and now his wife/handler always asked my half brother Michael Fobes, about the most minute details of my life. She is Israeli and a bloodthirsty Zionist who hates Arabs and Blacks to death. Which is funny because there are Indians and Arabs and Blacks used to spy on me. Apparently word is out that my grandmother on my mother’s side is going to or has given me money. Their jaws are out for it. This person needs to be investigated as well as her masters. Deeply. She was sent in to try to finish the job of wrecking both mine and my half-brother’s life. She is also heavily programmed.

He hates our mother with a vengeance. He thinks that I got the life he should have had. Well, man, perhaps he should have had my life. Perhaps you should have had your head bashed into floors and walls. Perhaps you should have had every one of your toys destroyed to try and shut down your heart and a child’s natural desire to play. Perhaps you should have been kept up studying useless crap for a government kamp (public school) for two days at a time. Hmm? Everything comes at a price, reptile. You are working for the very same people who turned your mother into the person she became, that neglected you as she did. Feel those emotions for them.

As soon as I throw something in a trash can, it is immediately snatched up by one of these pawns. They believe they can drain my energy and open up connections to me through this. I do not rule the possibility of that out. But I have absolutely no faith in their techniques because I know myself and who I am. They think I am an easy mark because I have zero family that I’ve been able to get a hold of so far. Yet, interestingly enough, even now I have an deep, calm feeling that there is absolutely nothing to worry about, the same way I just “know” that the Illuminati don’t have long for this world. It goes beyond mind and beyond logic, even in this, from a physical level, impossible situation.

The pawns are seen as Illuminati property, and any insult to them or taunting of them or standing up for myself is dumbly, by them, seen as a threat. Indeed it is unwise to threaten the Illuminati, because it tells them you are on the same level of consciousness they are and when they see that, they tend to rush in. So I stood up for myself one day to operative all the time/building where I live at superintendent Idriz Hot [also needs serious investigation done on him], and later on in the night, I was sitting on the steps of Mt. Sinai Hospital, and out of nowhere, this guy with jeans comes around the corner in storm of the century type pouring rain with no shirt on to try and choke me to death. I know he was mind controlled. Of course, I got him off, the cops were called, he tried to run from them, was arrested and who knows where he is now. They are quite serious and dedicated about this, and really, I’m even more so. You have to be, in this sort of situation. It is one thing to read about the Illuminati, a whole another dimension living it.

So this is my very strange story. This situation is not the best. Anyone who can offer advice or assistance can reach me at stefanf@ftml.net .

Brief Addendum. Two points I need to make here. Google has deindexed this article and my other article on gang stalking from the search engine. Search for gang stalking, and you won’t be able to find this article there. As I thought about the extent of this operation. Another big secret of the Illuminati which also is rarely discussed is their belief of “entering the frequency.” They believe that if they mimic a person’s every action, and dress like them, they can enter into their personal vibrational frequency and thus predict their every move.

The Silent Massacre, Part 2: Electronic Torture & Mind Control in America and Law Enforcement Complicity

The Silent Massacre, Part 2: Electronic Mind Control in America and Law Enforcement Complicity

3.14.09 / Nicholas Kirtland / Educate-Yourself.org

[ESMC = Electronic Stalking and Mind Control]

Deception

The attackers, or handlers, use deception to reinforce mind control. Many of the physical symptoms that handlers cause in targets are merely deceptions. When a victim is struck with ESMC, he first believes that the objective is to torture him physically. Although the handlers gleefully apply the torture techniques, their real objective is mind control. Through voice-to-skull contact, the handlers can manipulate the target without the target being aware of it.

Local handlers will probably not be highly trained in deception, which means that the handlers are probably not local. If that is the case, the handlers will very likely be employees of national intelligence, the military, or companies, universities, and private labs that provide technology to our government or foreign governments – fulltime and occupational handlers. However, wealthy individuals, religious groups, and other organizations could possibly have gotten access to that secret technology by now. If that is true, the local handlers could possibly be adequately trained.

Quite a few correspondents who have been targeted and who communicated telepathically with the handler perverts stated that the handlers sometimes attempted to convince them to cooperate with them. In several cases, the handlers have tried to convert the targets into good “Christians,” which, considering the cruelty and unlawfulness of those “Christians,” is a real joke. In my case, the handlers often show me holographic pictures of a man in robes who is generally believed by Christians to be Jesus and tell me that I am going to hell. Again, that is total deception.

A whistleblower who worked with the U. S. National Security Agency (NSA) under a defense contract wrote in an internet article:
(http://educate-yourself.org/mc/nsamindcontrolandpsyops20aug99.shtml)

“. . . the subject is unknowingly given hypnosis while the subject is completely awake and is tortured and punished with this hypnosis into a predetermined behavior by the National Security Agency. . . . . the behavior is usually extremely religious, is called ‘reborn’ by the church, with the subject’s life-long goal of ‘a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.’” The NSA uses this technology [electronic torture and mind control] to resocialize (brainwash) the US civilian . . . population.”

That aim may be the link between the government and Fundamentalist preachers. It is worthwhile noting that many Christian churches today receive government grants, an act once believed to violate the principle of separation of church and state, which began in the 1970’s. When I ask TIs to describe their symptoms, when those symptoms began, and their general physical environment, they very often mention that a Fundamentalist minister lives next door, across the street, or very nearby. A law enforcement officer will also often live very close.

I can tell the reader that the handlers themselves are most definitely NOT real Christians and could not possibly be truly religious in any fashion. Yet, they deceptively try to give that appearance. Handlers will also try to convince the targets that they are of particular ethnic groups, e.g., Latinos, East Indians, Afro-Americans. They reinforce that deception through “wrong number” telephone calls posing as persons of those ethnic groups. I continually get “wrong number” calls from black- and Latino-sounding people from various area codes in the United States.

The handlers also deceive through playing “good cop-bad cop.” Often my handlers deride my work efforts and methods as I carry out home improvement projects. They taunt and belittle me as I work. Then, after a few minutes of blustering and disparaging the activity, one of the perverts will make a very complimentary remark about some aspect of the work. I am supposed to warm up to that individual. To an educated target, their psychology is juvenile. I call it “pre-nursery school psychology.”

Impostors

Impostors flood the internet with misinformation on ESMC to throw victims and researchers off track. Every intelligence agency has an operational section whose aim is to spread false propaganda. The propaganda machine spreads misinformation over the internet through several types of “plants” in the media:

(1) Webmaster “plants” working for the perpetrators use the internet to spread erroneous and misleading information. Those liars pretend that they were abducted by aliens, tormented by people who look like lizards, and subjected to rituals performed by Reptilians. They link ESMC with UFOs. One of the favorite lies is that a group of families called the Illuminati seeks to control the world. More recently, the misinformation agents have convinced many targets that they come from a particular genetic strain or blood line and were thus targeted before or from birth. Many of the TIs who actually believe those things are very well meaning and have been convinced of those inaccurate concepts through voice-to-brain emissions. That is exactly why we call that deception “mind control.”

(2) Internet blogger “plants” strew erroneous material in their online blogs.

(3) TI “plants” in various internet forums write pedantic emails, oftentimes belittling authentic TIs and refer other viewers to lies disseminated in bogus web sites and other locations. Some of those plants relate convincing stories; however, eventually they trip over their many lies and astute TIs can pick them out of the crowd.

(4) Author “plants” also produce misinformation published in on-line articles, in magazines, and even in books about electronic assault and mind control.

Now, not all of the information spread on the internet, in articles and books, and by internet correspondents is false by any means. Even many of the people who spread misinformation and disinformation are very sincere. I do not pretend to be expert in determining which information is false and which is true; however, I have learned that much of it is utter rubbish. Electronic assault and mind control itself is incredible enough without being compounded by deliberate lies disseminated by the ESMC perpetrators.

Let me be perfectly clear. The perpetrators of mind control are NOT aliens from outer space. NOT members of the so-called Illuminati. NOT men who can change to reptiles and lizards and other paranormal shapes. NOT ritualistic sex lords seeking sex slaves. NOT men seeking to wipe out particular blood lines and genetic groups. NOT members of the Masonic Order. And probably NOT seekers of a New World Order. Targets who believe those deceptions have been successfully manipulated by the perpetrators. Know that electronic and mind control assault is performed by evil-minded, cruel, degenerate, two-legged, walking, sub-human sacks of street garbage working either with the government, with the knowledge of the government, or under the protection of the government. In some cases, the government may even be a foreign country conducting assaults by remote on American citizens and residents.

The power brokers behind electronic torture and mind control fear the targets’ networking over the internet. Many bloggers and persons with web sites who encourage an interchange of ideas about ESMC and who are true TIs have been subjected to internet intimidation by having their blogs and web sites deleted or otherwise compromised. Some have had to change the names of their sites several times because of that interference. Keep in mind, however, that some of those same people may actually be accomplices pretending to be harassed. More deception.

Capabilities of Perpetrators of ESMC

The only fact that we know for certain about mind control is the symptoms, or how ESMC manifests itself to the victim. Targeted individuals are well aware of the capabilities of the assailants, but for those readers who may be reading about electronic stalking and mind control for the first time, here are some of them.

(1) Monitor movements. They not only know one’s vehicular movements but they can also view him and follow his movements on his property and even inside his house. Once they “hook” the target with their equipment, they have ready access to the him at all times. Their torture follows the target wherever he goes, even to other states and abroad.

Cell phones may play a role in monitoring a target’s movements. Many TIs trace the origin of their electronic torture and mind control to the early 2000’s, when cell phone usage was becoming increasingly more popular. Cell phones have to be used in the case of gang stalking, which goes right along with ESMC. In fact, the stalkers could not coordinate their harassment against targets without the use of cell phones or some type of walkie-talkie. Cellular phones may even somehow be used with the device that renders the electronics effects on victims. It is known that cell phones carried on one’s person near credit cards can cause those cards to malfunction and wear out quickly. Credit cards are one of the hundreds of items that operate through the RFID (radio frequency identification).

(2) Hear and record one’s conversations along with those with whom one talks. This can be done even in a moving vehicle or while on foot in a rural area. The harassers occasionally record and play back to the victim excerpts of some of those conversations in his brain. The handlers can also record a person’s voice and then simulate that voice.

(3) See through the victim’s eyes. One’s eyes are controlled by his brain; thus, by controlling the victim’s brain, the handlers can also see whatever the victim sees. Not only that but they can also see what he thinks.

(4) View the victim’s body whether it is clothed or not and zoom in on any part or organ of the body, even in the darkness. EKG, CT scans, and MRIs can be performed by remote. The handlers probably use the GPS with directed sound to see and torture the target’s body by remote. NASA has long used similar telescopic instruments for carrying out delicate space operations.

(5) Inject holographic pictures or images into a victim’s thoughts. In my case, the handlers have shown: my son drowning; pictures of what is believed to be images of Jesus; and pictures of family members and friends, sometimes in suggestive poses, and countless numbers of unknown individuals in induced dreams and thoughts. When I pray for my grandchildren, a girl and a boy, the perverted handlers will sometimes show my granddaughter’s school uniform dress flying upward, showing her little panties and legs. Sometimes the pervs show me old photos in black and white, further evidence that the handlers can communicate through my eyes.

6) Apply a variety of torture techniques to the body. Many of those effects may perhaps be accomplished through the use of silent directed sound and various PC software used over the voice-to-brain communication. Others may be psychological or aided by psychological suggestions through the psychopaths’ subliminal talking and whispering into the target’s brain. Those effects include

A) Sensation of pin pricks in the eyes, shoulders, face, feet, elbows, and other areas. The pin prick can be instantaneous or can be prolonged. In my case, the handlers have long caused an enduring pin prick on the rear of my neck. At first I thought that the sensation was an irritation on the neck caused by shirt labels; however, when it kept hurting in the absence of labels, I knew that it was only one of the perverts’ bag of tricks. In addition, the sensation was not in the same location as the shirt labels. They can also cause the entire lower legs to feel like they are being struck by pins. In recent months, they have pin pricked the depths of my auditory canal in my right ear, causing me to shiver violently

B) Restless legs. A sensation begins in the small of the back and extends into the extremities, causing the “restless legs” syndrome. I can feel that sensation coming on as the handlers apply their vibrations to my body. Sometimes when that happens, the legs will jerk involuntarily.

C) Electrical jolts. These affect the entire body and feel much like the shock that one gets from touching a low voltage electrical fence.

D) Tremors, or vibrations. These can affect the whole body or be focused on specific parts of the body. They can range from very mild to violent. (I believe that the jolts and vibrations may partially be pre-hypnotic suggestions causing the target to think that he feels jolts and vibrations whenever the handlers whisper the code word. In other words, those physical effects may instead be psychological effects resulting in physical reactions. I have asked other people to touch my legs and body when they were vibrating, and they felt nothing.) The vibrations can envelop a large area, e.g., a lawn, including the house, or they can narrow down to a very small area, e.g., a target’s stomach or his nose.

E) Zapping in/on the head. These sound much like sparks from a welder’s torch or like children’s sparklers used as fireworks on holidays.

F) Clicking in the ear. (In my case, it is always in the left ear, never in the right one.)

G) Severe cramping, mainly in the calves of the legs.

H) Numbness in the limbs from the base of the spinal column to the toes.

I) Coughing (I can feel an unnatural scratching in the inside of my throat), and sneezing (likewise, I can feel an artificial tickling in the inside of my nostrils).

J) Induced erections, by vibrating very lightly the inside of the urethra and the groin. Those erections usually occur while the handlers whisper the names of friends and relatives, very obviously attempting to cause the target to associate the sexual sensation with those people.

K) Stomach aches and pains, indigestion, nausea, and dizziness.

L) Sodomizing, using some unknown force to probe the anal cavity (perhaps directed sound waves, which cause a strong vibration and can focus on a particular very small area).

M) Lethargy and listlessness. I suspect that many people suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are actually victims of ESMC.

N) Tinnitus. I had never suffered from tinnitus before the electronic stalking began. It hit me the day the stalking became overt, and I have had that condition ever since then. The tone of the ear ringing changes often in a very notable manner.

O) Iinability to urinate or frequent urination. I had two prostate procedures in 2001, although the prostate was not enlarged, because I had the urge to urinate but could not do so. Now I know that it was the work of the perverts who use the ESMC techniques, for since the handlers became overt in 2005, they have continued making the bladder often seem full. Now I can hear them whispering, “Don’t piss.”

P) Cconstipation. Likewise, I often used to have a problem defecating. Since I have developed an ability to “hear” the handlers’ whispers, I hear them saying, “Don’t shit.” The brain learns over a period of time to react to their commands. However, knowing now what causes the constipation, I am no longer affected by it.

Q) Frequent defecation. The handlers constantly probe my anal cavity and whisper for me to “go shit.” According to other victims, this is a very common symptom. Making victims defecate often is psychological as well as physical, as it humiliates victims and keeps them from leaving home. That particular effect, however, has not adversely affected me. I still control my bowel movements.

R) Sleep deprivation. All of this leads to sleep deprivation, which then becomes a symptom itself. This is designed to weaken the victim’s body as well as his mind and cause him to have motor, household, and other accidents. In addition, it makes the victim more vulnerable to mind control. Conversely, the handlers’ device can also make targets incredibly sleepy and actually cause his eyes to close involuntarily. There appears to be a particular form of vibration that will “wire” the target to keep him awake at night.

S) Sensation of crawling insects on the face and neck.

T) Intense itching. This can be any place on the body. They often will make it seem like a mosquito bite or a fire ant bite. The itching is normally on the hands or the feet.

U) Twitching of the fingers. The perverts not only want to annoy you but also convince you that you are developing Parkinson’s disease.

V) Partial loss of sight. The handlers do something to the eyes that make them feel as if a grain of sand is underneath the eyelid. They also cause pin pricks in the eyes. I have lost much sight in my left eye as a result. I do not wear glasses to read or to drive. Until a few months ago, I could read the TV captions clearly. Now I have to be very close to the TV set to see the captions and I often have double vision and blurred vision, especially in the left eye. In addition, the lips and mouths of speakers on TV are not in sync with their words. I also recently discovered while watching Wheel of Fortune on TV that the movements are likewise not in sync. When the participants in that program spun the wheel, the result on my TV (or in my vision) was about two clicks of the wheel off what they should have been.

W) Throbbing in the head. This has something to do with “mining” the brain or it is part of the psychological conditioning to make the target believe that he must reveal his thoughts.

X) Aches and pains in various parts of the body. I am very physically active; thus, the handlers attempt to cripple my knees and my right arm and hand (I am right handed) to keep me from being able to work. They can also cause arthritic-type pain in the hands, pains in the lower back, and extreme pain in the legs by striking the sciatic nerve.

Y) Salivation. The pervs’ device can cause me to salivate at night while I sleep as well as during the day when I am active. For no reason, spittle will sometimes seep from the corner of my mouth.
Z) Tingling vibration focused on the outside of the right side of the nostril (it can, of course, focus on any location). As a result of the vibrations (or perhaps lasering) on that area, a small brown bump has appeared at that location. That bump remains very sensitive and often runs and forms a scab.

AA) Involuntary physical movements. For example, when I type my emails and computer documents, the pervs’ software, which constantly pummels my brain, causes me to reverse certain consonants and vowels, slowing down considerably my typing speed. Other targets have suffered serious falls, when the devices caused their knees to buckle. The handlers’ device can also cause the arms and legs to flail and jerk involuntarily. I have awoken while sleeping when one of my arms flailed into the head board.

BB) Heart flutters and irregular palpitations. In particular, the perverts cause the heart to beat at a far greater than normal rate, or at least they lend the perception that it is beating rapidly through psychological or perhaps post-hypnotic suggestions. The handlers want the target to believe that his heart is overworking and that he may suffer a heart attack, stroke, or chronic heart problems.

CC) Pressure on the bladder, causing the victim to want to urinate very often. Because of that sensation, I underwent two painful and costly prostate procedures with a urologist before I knew the real cause of the problem. The pervs still apply pressure on the bladder; however, now that I know that it is their evil work, it does not bother me.

DD) Sores in various areas. The perverts continually vibrate (or laser) the outside of my right nostril, which remains continually sensitive. That area scabs over, loses its scab, and then scabs over again. A spot has also developed on my chin, where I often feel the tingling of their vibrations (or lasering).

EE) High and sudden temperature rises in the body. Those may be psychologically induced.

The symptoms listed above are some of those that have occurred in my case. Other targeted individuals may have experienced other symptoms, perhaps in addition to those I have listed. Just as the groups of handlers differ, so do the symptoms that those handlers cause.

Curiously, in the 1990’s I discovered one day that the muscles in the calves of my legs pulsed unnaturally. There is absolutely no somatic explanation for that strange occurrence. There seems to be no particular pattern to the pulsing. Moreover, weather and other conditions do not seem to affect the pulsations. Some days there is much less noticeable pulsation than other days. I believe that the strange pulsing, which continues to this day, has something to do with the electromagnetic pulsing or frequencies of whatever device is used by the handlers to connect with my mind.

In the same period, I noticed that the tops of both ears had begun to exude a colorless fluid that became crusty. Likewise, there is no physical explanation for that condition, which still continues whether I use sun screen or not. Other victims have mentioned the fluid coming from the tops of the ears. Also, the top of my nose forms a crust. I remove it with a soapy bath cloth one day and the next day it reappears. Sun screen does not prevent its doing that. I do not have particularly sensitive skin.

More recently, I have noticed a white spot about a quarter of an inch in diameter on my chin. Like my nose and ears, that spot becomes covered with a film, except that instead of feeling crusty, it feels soft. The hairs of my beard are thicker and much more numerous in that small area. As the sociopath handlers focus on particular small areas, they may be trying to cause skin cancer or melanoma.

All of the physical effects described above are intended to cause in the target a feeling of helplessness. The target has absolutely no defense against the torture, and his frustration, anger, and anxiety mounts. Nobody believes him. Law enforcement will not investigate his claims. When that scenario develops, the handlers have achieved what they wanted and anticipated.

The electronic jolts and vibrations also affect domestic animals. My handlers can beam their frequencies (or whatever) in broad waves that cover very wide areas, including my yard and the adjoining pasture. My dog, which is an outside pet, is much affected by the electronic assault methods, despite her being in excellent health and getting regular checkups by the veterinarian. She often trembles violently and appears frightened. At times, she pants heavily, gulping for air, and almost collapses. She very often shakes her head as if she is trying to get something out of or off her head. I’ve taken her to the vet twice for that symptom, and he diagnosed her both times with an ear infection and prescribed her medicine. Despite that, after two and a half years, she still shakes her head. My cat, on the other hand, does not seem to be affected by the electronic effects. Gender could not be a factor, as they are both spayed females.

(7) Cause the target financial problems. Keep in mind that most targets live on fixed incomes and most of them have to live frugally. Yet, the handlers employ a bag of tricks designed to drain the target financially by

A) Making the target spend thousands of dollars on remedies and gadgets that supposedly neutralize or ameliorate the effects of ESMC and causing him to hire detectives to investigate the ESMC.

B) Causing the target to make mathematical errors on his taxes and other documents that result in substantial losses.

C) Affecting the target’s judgment that ends in his making faulty and costly decisions.

D) Destroying expensive household and other items, making targets have to replace them. In my case, they have ruined two printers, two blenders, and other household items. Their device, however, can only affect machines that have small motors or batteries. My coffee makers, which have no motor, are not affected.

E) Distracting the target so that he forgets to pay bills on time, leading to his paying penalties.

F) Creating problems with the electrical system and mechanical devices, especially computers and printers, that make targets have to hire technicians to repair. I have had to hire PC technicians several times at from $75 to $140 a visit.

G) Urging the targets through their voice-to-brain whispers to buy expensive, though needless items.

H) Fomenting personal and other problems that require that targets hire lawyers. A TI correspondent wrote about her taking videos of neighbors overtly harassing her and then being arrested for that action. She had to hire a lawyer to get out of jail and is now awaiting trial. Of course, nothing happened to the harassers. Moreover, now that law abiding citizen has an arrest record that will follow her to the grave.

I) Sending targets to hospital emergency rooms due to physical problems they cause with their devices. One TI correspondent rushed to the ER on at least three occasions when the handlers caused her throat to constrict, keeping her from breathing.

J) Ruining the targets’ credit. The manipulators and their accomplices will steal credit card and other statements from the targets’ mail boxes or “lose” them in the postal system, causing targets to pay late fees; by whispering into the targets’ brains, make them forget to pay bills; and interfere with the targets online payments to cause them bill payment problems.

K) Robbing targets of their time by harassing them continually with electronic assault and mind control, thus keeping them from tending to their business affairs. Very often targets lose their jobs because of the ESMC distractions in their lives. I have spent countless hours taking notes, recording them in my journal, corresponding with other TIs, researching on the internet, and trying objects and ways to neutralize the ESMC effects, time that I could have spent on home improvement projects and other useful activities. I am a very able genealogical researcher, and I used to spend hours a day at that pastime. Now I very seldom do family research because of the many distractions that affect my concentration.

Causing targets financial ruin is one of the aims of the handlers. Many of the targets with whom I have corresponded have depleted their savings and have gone into bankruptcy because of the perverts. Others have become virtually street people. The handlers set out to break targets financially, and they often do.

(8) Knock out and interfere with the function of battery-operated or electrical household items. In my case, the handlers have changed radio stations, caused halogen flashlights to blink and go out, caused the tiny lights in a fingerprint reader used for PC security to quiver, disabled my new printer so many times that it is no longer usable, caused interference in TV programs, made mechanical grasscutters stop functioning, ruined batteries in multiple flashlights, burned out electrical wall outlets, caused microwaves not to function, caused two almost new blenders to quit functioning, burned out watch batteries while the watch was on my wrist, and changed the functions of certain keys on the keyboard of the computer – all by remote. Their device can even cause the ink in pens to congeal or dry up so that the pens will not write. All of this suggests that the pervs use directed silent sound beamed in by a radio frequency and guided by the GPS.

(9) Manipulate the target’s computer and telephones. By hacking the computer and tapping the phones, the handlers are able to interfere with the target’s communication system and thus harm his relationships with family members and friends. One of the chief aims of the handlers is to totally isolate the target from society.

(10) Discredit the target by making him appear insane or demented. They will also spread rumors about the target designed to isolate him. Those rumors will usually suggest that the target is a drug pusher or user, a child molester (one of their favorites), a wife-beater, a common whore, a rip-off artist, a closet drunkard, a white collar thief, and others. In addition to socially isolating the target, the handlers also seek to cause the target anxiety and other psychological problems that drive him to a psychiatrist, who then diagnoses him as schizophrenic. The handlers know that once the target sees a psychiatrist and it becomes a matter of record, the target’s sanity becomes an issue. Afterward, whatever the target says will be treated as suspect. This is important to the handlers, as they know that the target will be discredited if he seeks out law enforcement. The handlers will also send duplicate emails, change words in your emails, and resend emails days after the original to your correspondents to make you appear crazy.

(11) Register the target’s emotions. Their software allows them to use the target’s pulse rate and probably other methods to record emotions such as anxiety, panic, fear, frustration, anger, sadness, loneliness, and others. The emotions actually appear in the form of words that surface in your thoughts, e.g., frustration, loneliness. In addition, the perverts continually whisper those words into your brain to actually cause those emotions. Handlers prepare loop play tapes of whispers whose design is to play on the target’s emotions. (More about whispers later.)

(12) Transmit voices into the brain that only the victim can hear. When I first heard the voices, I was driving in Texas not far from the Mexican border. The radio was turned off, as it normally is when I drive. The voices seemed to come from near the driver’s door side panel. My first thought was that a device, or a bug, had been planted in the vehicle and was somehow being used to project the voices. A sweep of the vehicle by a private detective the following day did not reveal a bug. Still, it took me a couple of more days to realize that the voices were coming through my brain.

The perpetrators of mind control are very methodical and deliberate. Trainers of the handlers must have studied a very detailed training manual. At first, the handlers normally only call the victims ugly names, then they gradually begin to talk directly to the victim. Over time the victim learns that he can also talk to them. Finally, the two parties establish a dialogue albeit in an acrimonious fashion. Once I found out that I could also “speak” to the sickos telepathically, I used that ability to ridicule, taunt, and demean them.

Every target who is electronically harassed by remote wherever he goes is also subjected to mind control, often without his knowledge. Whether the target realizes it or not, his brain is being continually hammered twenty-four hours a day by at least two levels of voices. Those voices may be projected “aloud” (telepathically) or in whispers. One is an underlying loop play tape of recorded voices telling him that he is crazy, making deviant sexual suggestions, and deprecating the victim in many other ways. Another layer of voices are the actual handlers hammering away at the “crazy” theme, telling him lies about family and friends, and attempting to keep him from engaging in any meaningful activities. WITHOUT THE VOICES, MIND CONTROL CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED.

The handlers normally disguise their voices. Simulations can easily be made by computer programs readily available almost anywhere. Moreover, various handlers will alternate using the same voices; thus, causing the target to think that the same three or four voices that he hears are monitoring him twenty-four hours a day. In fact, oftentimes there is only one handler using three or four different simulated voices.

Why they’re still going: Sudan is CIA’s secret spy partner

U.S. relies on Sudan despite condemning it

6.11.07 / Greg Miller & Josh Meyer / LA Times

Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S. has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its suspected role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur.

President Bush has denounced the killings in Sudan’s western region as genocide and has imposed sanctions on the government in Khartoum. But some critics say the administration has soft-pedaled the sanctions to preserve its extensive intelligence collaboration with Sudan.

The relationship underscores the complex realities of the post-Sept. 11 world, in which the United States has relied heavily on intelligence and military cooperation from countries, including Sudan and Uzbekistan, that are considered pariah states for their records on human rights.

“Intelligence cooperation takes place for a whole lot of reasons,” said a U.S. intelligence official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity when discussing intelligence assessments. “It’s not always between people who love each other deeply.”

Sudan has become increasingly valuable to the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks because the Sunni Arab nation is a crossroads for Islamic militants making their way to Iraq and Pakistan.

That steady flow of foreign fighters has provided cover for Sudan’s Mukhabarat intelligence service to insert spies into Iraq, officials said.

“If you’ve got jihadists traveling via Sudan to get into Iraq, there’s a pattern there in and of itself that would not raise suspicion,” said a former high-ranking CIA official familiar with Sudan’s cooperation with the agency. “It creates an opportunity to send Sudanese into that pipeline.”

As a result, Sudan’s spies have often been in better position than the CIA to gather information on Al Qaeda’s presence in Iraq, as well as the activities of other insurgent groups.

“There’s not much that blond-haired, blue-eyed case officers from the United States can do in the entire Middle East, and there’s nothing they can do in Iraq,” said a second former CIA official familiar with Sudan’s cooperation. “Sudanese can go places we don’t go. They’re Arabs. They can wander around.”

The officials declined to say whether the Mukhabarat had sent its intelligence officers into the country, citing concern over the protection of sources and methods. They said that Sudan had assembled a network of informants in Iraq providing intelligence on the insurgency. Some may have been recruited as they traveled through Khartoum.

The U.S.-Sudan relationship goes beyond Iraq. Sudan has helped the United States track the turmoil in Somalia, working to cultivate contacts with the Islamic Courts Union and other militias in an effort to locate Al Qaeda suspects hiding there. Sudan also has provided extensive cooperation in counter-terrorism operations, acting on U.S. requests to detain suspects as they pass through Khartoum.

Sudan gets a number of benefits in return. Its relationship with the CIA has given it an important back channel for communications with the U.S. government. Washington has also used this channel to lean on Khartoum over the crisis in Darfur and for other issues.

And at a time when Sudan is being condemned in the international community, its counter-terrorism work has won precious praise. The U.S. State Department recently issued a report calling Sudan a “strong partner in the war on terror.”

Some critics accuse the Bush administration of being soft on Sudan for fear of jeopardizing the counter-terrorism cooperation. John Prendergast, director of African affairs for the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, called the latest sanctions announced by Bush last month “window dressing,” designed to appear tough while putting little real pressure on Sudan to stop the militias it is widely believed to be supporting from killing members of tribal settlements in Darfur.

“One of the main glass ceilings on real significant action in response to the genocide in Darfur has been our growing relationship with authorities in Khartoum on counter-terrorism,” said Prendergast, a senior advisor to the International Crisis Group. “It is the single biggest contributor to why the gap between rhetoric and action is so large.”

In an interview, Sudan’s ambassador to the United States, John Ukec Lueth Ukec, suggested that the sanctions could affect his country’s willingness to cooperate on intelligence matters. The steps announced by Bush include denying 31 businesses owned by the Sudanese government access to the U.S. financial system.

The decision to impose financial penalties “was not a good idea,” Ukec said. “It diminishes our cooperation. And it makes those who are on the extreme side, who do not want cooperation with the United States, stronger.”

But White House and U.S. intelligence officials downplayed the prospect that the intelligence cooperation would suffer, saying that it was in both countries’ interests.

“The No. 1 consideration in imposing stiffer sanctions is that the Sudanese government hasn’t stopped the violence there and the people continue to suffer,” said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “We certainly expect the Sudanese to continue efforts against terrorism because it’s in their own interests, not just ours.”

Sudan has its own interests in following the insurgency because Sudanese extremists and foreign fighters who pass through the country are likely to return and become a potentially destabilizing presence.

Sudan’s lax controls on travel have made it, according to one official, a “way station” for Islamist militants not only from North Africa, but also from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states.

Some former U.S. intelligence officials said that Sudan’s help in Iraq had been of limited value, in part because the country accounts for a small fraction of the foreign fighters, mainly at lower levels of the insurgency.

“There’s not going to be a Sudanese guy near the top of the Al Qaeda in Iraq leadership,” said a former CIA official who operated in Baghdad. “They might have some fighters there, but that’s just cannon fodder. They don’t have the trust and the ability to work their way up. The guys leading Al Qaeda in Iraq are Iraqis, Jordanians and Saudis.”

But others say that Sudan’s contributions have been significant because Sudanese frequently occupy support positions throughout Arab society — including in the Iraq insurgency — giving them access to movements and supply chains.

“Every group needs weapons. Every group needs a meeting place,” said another former high-ranking CIA official who oversaw intelligence gathering in Iraq. “Sudanese could get involved in the support chain or smuggling channels from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.”

A State Department official said Sudan had “provided critical information that has helped our counter-terrorism efforts around the globe,” but noted that there was an inherent conflict in the relationship.

“They have done things that have saved American lives,” the official said. “But the bottom line is that they are bombing their people out the wazoo [in Darfur]. Dealing with Sudan, it seems like they are always playing both ends against the middle.”

The CIA declined to discuss any cooperation with Sudan.

“The agency does not, as a rule, comment on relations with foreign intelligence organizations,” CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said.

Ukec, the Sudanese ambassador, said “the details of what we do in counter-terrorism are not available for discussions.” But he noted that the U.S. State Department “has openly said we are involved in countering terrorism,” and that the assistance his country is providing “is not only in Sudan.”

In the mid-1990s, the CIA’s relationship with Sudan was severed. At the time, Sudan was providing safe harbor for Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders. But ties were reestablished shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, when the CIA reopened its station in Khartoum.

Initially, the collaboration focused on information Sudan could provide about Al Qaeda’s activities before Bin Laden left for Afghanistan in 1996, including Al Qaeda’s pursuit of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons and its many business fronts and associates there.

Since then, Sudan has moved beyond sharing historical information on Al Qaeda into taking part in ongoing counter-terrorism operations, focusing on areas where its assistance is likely to be most appreciated.

“Iraq,” a U.S. intelligence official said, “is where the intelligence is going to have the most impact on Americans.”

In 2005, the CIA sent an executive jet to Sudan to fly the country’s intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Salah Abdallah Gosh, to Washington for meetings with officials at agency headquarters.

Gosh has not returned to Washington since, but a former official said that “there are liaison visits every day” between the CIA and the Mukhabarat.

CIA hiring swarms of Pakistani informants in Britain, in “anticipation” of new Mumbai type strikes

CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US

Barack Obama has been warned by the CIA that British Islamist extremists are the greatest threat to US homeland security.

2.7.09 / Tim Shipman / The Telegraph

The CIA has told President Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US

American spy chiefs have told the President that the CIA has launched a vast spying operation in the UK to prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks being launched from Britain.

They believe that a British-born Pakistani extremist entering the US under the visa waiver programme is the most likely source of another terrorist spectacular on American soil.

Intelligence briefings for Mr Obama have detailed a dramatic escalation in American espionage in Britain, where the CIA has recruited record numbers of informants in the Pakistani community to monitor the 2,000 terrorist suspects identified by MI5, the British security service.

A British intelligence source revealed that a staggering four out of 10 CIA operations designed to thwart direct attacks on the US are now conducted against targets in Britain.

And a former CIA officer who has advised Mr Obama told The Sunday Telegraph that the CIA has stepped up its efforts in the last month after the Mumbai massacre laid bare the threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group behind the attacks, which has an extensive web of supporters in the UK.

The CIA has already spent 18 months developing a network of agents in Britain to combat al-Qaeda, unprecedented in size within the borders of such a close ally, according to intelligence sources in both London and Washington.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who has advised Mr Obama, told The Sunday Telegraph: “The British Pakistani community is recognised as probably al-Qaeda’s best mechanism for launching an attack against North America.

“The American security establishment believes that danger continues and there’s very intimate cooperation between our security services to monitor that.” Mr Riedel, who served three presidents as a Middle East expert on the White House National Security Council, added: “President Obama’s national security team are well aware that this is a serious threat.”

The British official said: “The Americans run their own assets in the Pakistani community; they get their own intelligence. There’s close cooperation with MI5 but they don’t tell us the names of all their sources.

“Around 40 per cent of CIA activity on homeland threats is now in the UK. This is quite unprecedented.”

Explaining the increase in CIA activity over the past month, Mr Riedel added: “In the aftermath of the Mumbai attack the US and the UK intelligence services now have to regard Lashkar-e-Taiba as just as serious a threat to both of our countries as al-Qaeda. They have a much more extensive base among Pakistani Diaspora communities in the UK than al–Qaeda.”

Information gleaned by CIA spies in Britain has already helped thwart several terrorist attacks in the UK and was instrumental in locating Rashid Rauf, a British-born al-Qaeda operative implicated in a plot to explode airliners over the Atlantic, who was tracked down and killed in a US missile strike in November.

But some US intelligence officers are irritated that valuable manpower and resources have been diverted to the UK. One former intelligence officer who does contract work for the CIA dismissed Britain as a “swamp” of jihadis.

Jonathan Evans, the director general of MI5, admitted in January that the Security Service alone does not have the resources to maintain surveillance on all its targets. “We don’t have anything approaching comprehensive coverage,” he said.

The dramatic escalation in CIA activity in the UK followed the exposure in August 2006 of Operation Overt, the alleged airline bomb plot.

The British intelligence official revealed that CIA chiefs sent more resources to the UK because they were not prepared to see American citizens die as a result of MI5’s inability to keep tabs on all suspects, even though the Security Service successfully uncovered the plot.

MI5 manpower will have doubled to 4,100 by 2011 but many in the US intelligence community do not think that is enough.

For their part, some British officials are queasy that information obtained by the CIA from British Pakistanis was used to help target Mr Rauf, a British citizen, whom they would have preferred to capture and bring to trial.

Sensitivities over the intelligence arrangement formed a key part of briefings given to Mr Obama, since they are central to what is often called “the most special part of the special relationship” and could complicate his dealings with Gordon Brown.

Tensions in transatlantic intelligence relations which were laid bare last week during the High Court battle over Binyam Mohamed, the British resident held in Guanatanamo Bay. British judges wanted to publish details of the torture administered to Mr Mohamed, an Ethiopian national, in US custody. But key paragraphs were blacked out after American officials threatened it could damage intelligence sharing between the two countries.

Intelligence experts said that a trusting intelligence relationship, in which one country does not publish intelligence data obtained by the other, is vital to both countries’ national security.

Patrick Mercer, chairman of the House of Commons counter-terrorism sub-committee, said: “The special relationship is a huge benefit to us. It clearly works to our advantage and helps keep the people of the UK and the US safe.

“There is no doubt that a great deal of valuable intelligence vital to British national security is procured by American agents from British sources.”

Mr Riedel added: “The partnership between the two intelligence communities is dynamic; it is one of great intimacy. We overuse the term special relationship, but this is an extraordinarily special relationship.

“Since September 11 the philosophy on both sides has been to err on the side of telling each other more rather than less. It is in everyone’s interests that that continues.”

Renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes special forces assassination ring

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes ‘executive assassination ring’

3.11.09 / Eric Black / Minneapolis Post

REUTERS/Fadi Al-AssaadJournalist Seymour Hersh speaking in Doha at an Al Jazeera forum on the media in 2007.

At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”

Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.

In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were “an honest response to a question” from the event’s moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.”

Hersh didn’t take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be “effective…that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical.”

The evening of great conversation, featuring Walter Mondale and Hersh, moderated by Jacobs and titled “America’s Constitutional Crisis,” looked to be a mostly historical review of events that have tested our Constitution, by a journalist and a high government official who had experience with many of the crises.

And it was mostly historical, and a great conversation, in which Hersh and Mondale talked about the patterns by which presidents seem to get intoxicated by executive power, frustrated by the limitations on that power from Congress and the public, drawn into improper covert actions that exceed their constitutional powers, in the belief that they can get results and will never be found out. Despite a few references to the Founding Fathers, the history was mostly recent, starting with the Vietnam War with much of it arising from the George W. Bush administration, which both men roundly denounced.

At the end of one answer by Hersh about how these things tend to happen, Jacobs asked: “And do they continue to happen to this day?”

Replied Hersh:

“Yuh. After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.

“Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command — JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. …

“Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

“Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.

“It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.

“In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.

“I’ve had people say to me — five years ago, I had one say: ‘What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don’t get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee?’

“But they’re not gonna get before a committee.”

Hersh, the best-known investigative reporter of his generation, writes about these kinds of issues for The New Yorker. He has written often about JSOC, including, last July that:

“Under the Bush Administration’s interpretation of the law, clandestine military activities, unlike covert C.I.A. operations, do not need to be depicted in a Finding, because the President has a constitutional right to command combat forces in the field without congressional interference.”

(“Finding” refers to a special document that a president must issue, although not make public, to authorize covert CIA actions.)

Here is a tape of the full Mondale-Hersh-Jacobs colloquy, a little over an hour, without the audience Q and A. If you want to look for the Hersh statement quoted above, it’s about at the 7:30 mark.

[Have to go to source website to hear]

The rest of the evening was, as expected, full of worry and wisdom and quite a bit of Bush-bashing.

Jacobs walked the two elder statesmen through their experiences of:

• The My Lai massacre, which Hersh first revealed publicly and which he last night called “the end of innocence about us and war.”
• The Pentagon Papers case, which Mondale called the best example of the “government’s potential for vast public deception.”
• Henry Kissinger’s secret dealings, mostly relating to the Vietnam War. (Hersh, who has written volumes about Kissinger, said that he will always believe that whereas ordinary people count sheep to fall asleep, Kissinger “has to count burned and maimed Cambodian babies.”)
• The Church Committee investigation of CIA and FBI abuses, in which Mondale played a major role. (He talked about the fact that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover not only spied on Martin Luther King but literally tried to drive him to suicide.)
• The Iran Contra scandal. (Hersh said the Reagan administration came to office with a clear goal of finding a way to finance covert actions, such as the funding of the Nicaraguan Contras, without appropriations so that Congress wouldn’t know about them. Mondale noted that Reagan had signed a law barring further aid to the Contras, then participated in a scheme to keep the aid flowing. Hersh said that two key veterans of Iran-Contra, Dick Cheney and national security official Elliot Abrams, were reunited in the George W. Bush White House and decided that the key lesson from Iran-Contra was that too many people in the administration knew about it.)
• And the Bush-Cheney years. (Said Hersh: “The contempt for Congress in the Bush-Cheney White House was extaordinary.” Said Mondale of his successor, Cheney, and his inner circle: “they ran a government within the government.” Hersh added: “Eight or nine neoconservatives took over our country.” Mondale said that the precedents of abuse of vice presidential power by Cheney would remain “like a loaded pistol that you leave on the dining room table.”)

Jacobs pressed both men on the question of whether the frequent abuses of power show that the Constitution fails, because these things keep happening, or whether it works, because these things keep coming to light.

Mondale stuck with the happy answer. “The system has come through again and again,” he said. Presidents always think they will get away with it, but eventually reporters like Hersh bring things to light, the public “starts smelling this stuff,” the courts and the Congress get involved. Presidents “always, in the long run, find out that the system is stronger than they are.”

Hersh seemed more troubled by the repetitions of the pattern. The “beautiful thing about our system” is that eventually we get new leaders, he said. “The evil twosome, Cheney and Bush, left,” Hersh said. But he also said “it’s really amazing to me that we manage to get such bad leadership, so consistently.”

And he added that both the press and the public let down their guard in the aftermath of 9/11.

“The major newspapers joined the [Bush] team,” Hersh said. Top editors passed the message to investigative reporters not to “pick holes” in what Bush was doing. Violations of the Bill of Rights happened in the plain sight of the public. It was not only tolerated, but Bush was re-elected.

And even Mondale admitted that one of his greatest successes, laws reforming the FBI and CIA in the aftermath of the Church Committee, were supposed to fix the problem so that “we would never have these problems again in the lifetime of anyone alive at the time, but of course we did.”

Israel now resorting to assassination of key people involved in Iran’s nuclear program

‘Israel assassinating Iranian officials’

2.17.09 / JPOST.COM STAFF

Israel has launched a covert war in an effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program, the British Daily Telegraph quoted US intelligence sources as saying.

According to the article published on Tuesday, sabotage, front companies and double agents, as well as the assassination of top figures involved in Iran’s atomic operations, were being used to interrupt the program.

“Disruption is designed to slow progress on the program, done in such a way that they don’t realize what’s happening. You are never going to stop it,” a former CIA officer on Iran told the Telegraph. “The goal is delay, delay, delay until you can come up with some other solution or approach. We certainly don’t want the current Iranian government to have those weapons.

“It’s a good policy, short of taking them out militarily, which probably carries unacceptable risks.”

The newspaper quoted Reva Bhalla, a senior analyst with Stratfor, a US private intelligence company with strong government security connections, as saying that the strategy was to assassinate key figures.

“With cooperation from the United States, Israeli covert operations have focused both on eliminating key human assets involved in the nuclear program and in sabotaging the Iranian nuclear supply chain,” she said. “As US-Israeli relations are bound to come under strain over the Obama administration’s outreach to Iran, and as the political atmosphere grows in complexity, an intensification of Israeli covert activity against Iran is likely to result.”

The paper went on to cite a rumor that the Mossad was responsible for the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran’s Isfahan uranium plant, who reportedly died from gas poisoning in 2007. It also mentioned other recent deaths of figures connected to Iran’s nuclear program that have reportedly been the result of Israeli hits.

“Israel has shown no hesitation in assassinating weapons scientists for hostile regimes in the past,” the paper quoted an anonymous European intelligence official as saying. “They did it with Iraq and they will do it with Iran when they can.”

The former CIA operative also revealed to the Telegraph how Israeli and US intelligence cooperated with European companies working in Iran to obtain photographs and other confidential material about Iranian nuclear and missile sites.

“It was a real company that operated from time to time in Iran and in the nature of their legitimate business came across information on various suspect Iranian facilities,” he said.

Israel has also apparently used front companies to infiltrate the purchasing network that the Islamic Republic uses to get around United Nations sanctions and obtain so-called “dual use” items – metals, valves, electronics and machinery – for its nuclear program. According to the report, the businesses first supply legitimate material, winning Teheran’s trust, before delivering faulty or defective items that sabotage the country’s atomic activities.

Mossad and Western intelligence operations have also infiltrated the Iranian nuclear program, “bought” information from prominent atomic scientists and leaked details to its allies, the media and United Nations atomic agency inspectors, the paper went on to say.

On one occasion, said the report, Iran destroyed a nuclear facility near Teheran after its existence was revealed to UN inspectors, fearing overwhelming UN pressure for tougher action.

The report also claimed that Iran had become so concerned about penetration of its program that it has announced arrests of alleged spies in a bid to discourage double agents.

Former CIA counter-terrorism chief Vince Canastraro, however, doubted the effectiveness of the alleged covert operations. “You cannot carry out foreign policy objectives via covert operations,” he said. “You can’t get rid of a couple of people and hope to affect Iran’s nuclear capability.”