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Issue 2 $1.75 Countersp the Magazine for People Who Need to Know Vol 3, Issue 2 $1.75 COUNTERSp The Magazine For People Who Need To Know Jamaican "Werewolf" Coup Aborted Earthquake Warfare .r She Bugged My Typewriter 1, I By Philip Agee lt(i II 11011,1.1S111 W "Bloody Wednesday" in Bangkok I was born a Ch lean am a Chilean SPECIAL I will die a Chilean. They, the Fascists SUPPLEMENT were born traitors, live as traitors Viet Nam War Atrocities and will be remembered forever CBS Aids as Fascist traitors. Pentagon Cover-Up From Our Readers On the evening of Sept. 10, just away with outside Chile instead of cracy upon which our nation was prior to an overflow rally at the Felt by the "on the spot" murders and founded. Forum in New York on behalf of the "disappearances" which have been In the hearts of his many admirers restoration of human rights in Chile, going on in that tragic country since in this country and Chile, Orlando I chatted with a dear friend and fellow Sept. 11, 1973. Letelier has not died. In history, humanist, Orlando Letelier, former If there is any forthrightness and Letelier, his former president, Salvador Chilean ambassador to the United "Founding Father" greatness in either Allende Gossens, and the many States and an opponent of the junta. of our present presidential candidates, Chilean heroes who worked and died He complained how on that very I believe that now is the time for their with them to bring political and day the Chilean junta had withdrawn platforms to include specific proposals economic freedom to the Chilean his Chilean citizenship. And, in for doing away with this monstrous people will live on forever. The mem- response, I told him how such a terror that is spreading throughout all bers of the junta and those who deprivation, coming from the junta, of Latin America. We now all know it assisted in establishing that junta must should be considered as a great tribute was aided and abetted by deliberate surely, soon we hope, share the fate of to him. He simply smiled and nodded acts of the Nixon administration and Hitler, MussOlini, and all their ilk. his head. We then chatted with mutual the CIA—an attitude that is still AJ. Rosenstein friends and I looked forward to being supported covertly and overtly New Marlborough, MA accepting his invitation to visit him by the Ford administration, and many soon in Washington. in the business world and the banking Later that evening, at the close of community. This growing cancer in his speech to the rally, Letelier emo- the western hemisphere will surely About four years ago I worked with tionally but with the utmost sincerity destroy not only our Latin American the Committee of Concerned Asian declared: "Today is a dramatic day in brothers and sisters, but also our Scholars to write a pamphlet called my life in which action of the fascist America—just as our policy in Vietnam The Opium Trail. In it, we accused the generals against me makes me feel came close to doing. CIA of purposefully aiding the opium more Chilean than ever. Now is the time—now before our heroin trade in order to build the "I was born a Chilean, I am a November election—for our next economic dependence of allied Chilean and I will die a Chilean. They, President to obtain his mandate from mercenary forces and tribal groupings the fascists, were born traitors, live as the American people to correct the in Laos. I talked personally with one traitors and will be remembered evil that we have wrought; to state his ex-green Beret who said he delivered forever as fascist traitors." intent to go before the United Nations CIA gold to village chiefs and loaded How logical then—if monsters can and there openly acknowledge, with opium on Air America planes and claim to use logic—for the junta to all the honesty that should characterize helicopters. He also said he later saw take the next step in eliminating America, our government's part in the same opium (village markings) what they considered dangerous stealing away the Chilean government on the Saigon market. I believe Alan opposition to their cruel and inhuman from the Chilean people and our Ginsberg has names of other G.I.s regime. Thus on Sept. 21, the Chilean anxiety to make amends and enable who had similar experiences. junta, acting through their secret restitution. Around the time I was working on police—DINA—murdered Orlando Our next President should also the pamphlet, I thought of starting Letelier—just as they murdered Gen. commit the United States to support- an organization to research and Carlos Prats in Argentina and many ing all possible U.N. sanctions, includ- expose the CIA. I am very happy to others in Italy and elsewhere who ing the ouster of the present Chilean find you proceeding with much were "graciously" allowed to leave regime from that body, to bring about effectiveness. My best wishes. Thank Chile after months of torture and the regime's downfall; he should you for your efforts! imprisonment. insist that this regime be succeeded C. Knight With the cynicism typical of their by a caretaker body in the hands of Cambridge, MA rule, they promptly denied any the democratically elected Popular involvement in Letelier's murder. Unity party and that early elections Moreover, with crocodile tears they be held under U.N. supervision and the Your Spring 1976 issue is just great; even "lamented" the assassination of constitutional laws that prevailed a man for whom they so recently congratulations on your good work. prior to the 1973 putsch, and he One little addendum to the infor- issued a decree depriving him of his should pledge our willingness to help mation on Larry McDonald: I was Chilean citizenship. Obviously, in their a democratic Chile recover from its traveling from Miami to New York diabolic reasoning they feel they can ',resent state of economic chaos. in early May and noticed an item in more easily escape indictment for the By taking such a stand, this country either a Georgia (Athens) or Tennessee deaths and disappearance of the Mild once again demonstrate to the (also Athens) paper that he remarried, former democratically elected leaders iorld community of nations that and his new wife, whose name I forget, and members of the Popular Unity .1rnerica is still capable of exercising from Glendale, California, is a long- party if these individuals are done the high ideals and purposes of demo- ..1111■■ COUNTER The Magazine For People Who Need To Know PY "Should the practice COMMENT of Spydom become universal farewell to all TRENDS domestic Confidence and happiness." Feedback on Reeses / Border Harassment Continues / IRS Spies on Own Workers / HUD Refuses to Give Up Workers List London Times / Bugging Aliens / Green Berets Train Local Cops / U.S. Narcs Christmas 1859 Accused of Assassination Program / Are You an Interpol Victim? / Gangs Linked to Police / Military Retreat / Framed Tokyo Ros? / Sensory Deprivation Report / Torture Survey / Publisher Levi Threatens US. • Fifth Estate Publishing Company' ADEX;' The FBI's Hit List. Exclusive expoie of FBI "Adminis- ' ,Senior Editors irative Index." Julie Brooks DEATH ON EMBASSY ROW Winslow Peck . Ellen Ray' CIA Covers Up Murder Web- of 'Chilean Gestapo By Winslow Peck Chile's Secret Police / Fascist Cancer in Chile / CIA Henchmen Associate Editors TIP: TERRORIST INFORMATION PROJECT , Philip Agee Police Arrest Nazi Bomber- / Klan Organizes Prison Guards / Robert Friedman Chicago- Nazis, Compete With Klan / Vietnamese Reactionaries Organize . Contributing Editors Sidney Lens RENDEVOUS IN GENEVA Edgar Lockwood Philip Agee exposes the woman who bugged his typewriter , D. Gareth Porter Anthony Russo 22 BOOKS: MOMENT OF URGENCY • William Turner Edgar Lockwood examines the Kissinger Study of Souther. Philip Wheaton Africa Correspondents In Bangkok, Berlin , Copenhagen, 'HIT IV RUN Frankfurt, Havana, West German Revolutionary Ulrike Meinhof Found Raped, Hong Kong, Undon, Luanda, Hanged in Cell Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, Rome, San Juan P.R., 26 EARTHQUAKE WARFARE A Preliminary Report on the Penta- Stockholm, Sydney, Toronto, gon's Unthinkable Plans By Robert' Friedman and the U.S. 27 CIA AROUND. THE WORLD CounterSpy Magazine,Vol- 28 Plan Mercurio; Round Up For Political Exiles By Philip ume 3, Number 2,• Deoember . Wheaton 1976, published by Fifth 34 Revelations from CIA's Former Korea Chief By Steve McGuire Estate Publishing Company, a 36 CIA and Local Gunmen Plan Jamaican Coup. By Ellen Ray District of Columbia not-for- 49 Bloody Wednesday in Bangkok By D. Gareth Porter profit corporation, P.O. Box 647, Ben - Franklin Station, 42 CONFIDENTIAL U.N..MEMO Discloses U.S. Covert Actions Washington, DC 20044, tele- Against Namibian Indipendence and UN. Commissioner phone (202) 466-3424. All for Namibia rights reserved; copyright © 53 TECHNOFASCISM 1976, by" Fifth Estate. Pub- lishing•Company. Technology News' Briefs Cover graphic by Johanna 54 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Vogelsang of Art for People, Indochina War Crimes / CBS Aids Pentagon Cover Up / Military Typography by Art for People, Documents Verify War Crimes Charges of Col. Anthony Herbert and Myrna Zimmerman. By John Kelley and Winslow Peck . and Us Readers of. CounterSpy will notice some changes, beyond the lateness of this issue. We have decided to attempt . an expansion; we want to reach more people. We have incorporated, increased production, and modified our re- sources to present tighter, more comprehensive coverage. Our staff has changed , somewhat, with some former Them . members of the old Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate , going on to other things. Now we will draw on the vast Throughout the last five administrations, the State De- skills and knowledge of our contributing editors and advisors, , partment and the Central Intelligence Agency, have been at as we havedone in this issue.
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