Volume 12 | Issue 14 | Number 3 | Article ID 4104 | Apr 06, 2014 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing アメリカの深層国家、深層事件、そして帳簿外資金調達 Peter Dale Scott two levels of historical narrative: official or archival history, which ignores or marginalizes I have been writing about deep politics since deep events, and a second level – called deep 1993, when I gave the example of how the history by its practitioners or “conspiracy United States after World War sent American theory” by its critics – which incorporates mafia figures to fight communism in Italy, them. As an example of an officially ignored or thereby creating a corrupted politics that was distorted deep event, I like to give the example soon out of control – as bad as the influence the of the Royal Canadian Mounted Policy (RCMP) mafia once possessed in cities like Marseille, or detention in 1993 of a major al Qaeda figure, 1 Chicago. Ali Mohamed. In 1993 Ali Mohamed was ordered released by the FBI, freeing him to fly Since then I have written about deep events, by to Kenya where (as the 9/11/ commission report which I mean mysterious events, like the JFK notes) he began the planning of the 1998 US assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11, Embassy bombing. This rather significant event which repeatedly involve law-breaking or was given a good account in Canada’s leading violence, and are embedded in fact in deep newspaper, the Toronto Globe and Mail; but it politics. Some of these may be low-level, as has never been properly reported in any when data is filched from a personal computer, American mainstream newspaper.3 or mid-level, like the murder of Karen Silkwood. But what I have called structural Ali Mohamed deep events are large enough to affect the whole fabric of society, with “consequences My study of the interrelationship between deep that enlarge covert government, and are events has itself deepened over four decades. It subsequently covered up by systematicbegan on a superficial level by noticing the falsifications in media and internal government overlap of apparently marginal personnel records.” We still live in the official state of between the deep events of the John F. emergency imposed after the last great deep Kennedy assassination and Watergate; and event – 9/11; and this has left us in a again between Watergate and Iran-Contra. deconstitutionalized era of warrantless surveillance, warrantless detentions, and I will never forget the New York Times front- militarized homeland security.2 In the page story on June 18, 1972, the day after the remainder of this essay, the deep events I refer Watergate break-in. There were photographs of to will all be structural deep events. the Watergate burglars, including one of Frank Sturgis alias Fiorini, whom I had already I have come to believe that most structural written about two years earlier in my deep events (or SDEs) are interrelated, and unpublished book manuscript about the JFK that the study of any one of them helps assassination, “The Dallas Conspiracy.”4 understand others. Their interrelationship Sturgis was in fact no nonentity: well leads to two levels of history in America, and connected to the mob-linked former casino 1 12 | 14 | 3 APJ | JF owners in Havana, he had maintained frequent dozen common operational modalities between contacts with the U.S. Air Attaché’s office in two outwardly dissimilar events: the JFK Havana after penetrating Castro’s July 26 assassination and 9/11. Among the most Movement in the Sierra Maestra.5 striking are 1) the almost instant identification of what I call the designated culprits, Lee Harvey Oswald and the nineteen alleged hijackers, 2) the hidden intelligence The Watergate Burglars – Frank Sturgis in backgrounds of the designated the Center. Source culprits, and It is alleged that some of the bail money that released Sturgis and the other Watergate 3) the protection by the FBI and burglars was drug money from the CIA asset CIA of the designated culprits in turned drug trafficker, Manuel Artime, and the weeks before the events, to delivered by Artime’s money-launderer, Ramón ensure that they would not be Milián Rodríguez. After the Iran-Contra scandal placed under surveillance or taken 7 went public, Milián Rodríguez was investigated off the streets. by a congressional committee – not for Watergate, but because, in I have written at some length about this in my 2008 book The War Conspiracy, and also support of the Contras, he had managed two elsewhere. But I will repeat a passage here Costa Rican seafood companies, Frigorificos and Ocean Hunter, that laundered drugabout the last item -- protection. money.6 Both the JFK assassination and A more recent example would be that of Ali 9/11 were facilitated by the way Mohamed, the man detained and then released the CIA and FBI manipulated their by the RCMP. In the 1980s Mohamed trained files about [designated culprits in] the CIA-backed mujahedin in Afghanistan. He each event (the alleged hijackers then trained some of those who bombed the Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al- World Trade Center in 1993, before arranging Hazmi in the case of 9/11). Part of for the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in this facilitation was the decision on Kenya. October 9, 1963 of an FBI agent, Since 9/11 my study of structural deep events Marvin Gheesling, to remove has progressed from such overlaps of personnel Oswald from the FBI watch list for to three deeper levels, which I call the surveillance. This was shortly after operational, by which I mean a common modus Oswald’s arrest in New Orleans in operandi, the institutional, by which I mean a August and his reported travel to shared agency of implementation, and the Mexico in September. …. financial, by which I mean a common source of Gheesling’s behavior fits very funding. neatly with the CIA’s culpable withholding from the FBI, in the I was myself startled to recognize more than a same month of October, 2 12 | 14 | 3 APJ | JF information that Oswald had alternative emergency communications 10 allegedly met in Mexico City with a network. suspected KGB agent, Valeriy Kostikov. This also helped ensure This alternative network played a central role that Oswald would not be placed in Iran-Contra, when Oliver North, arranging under surveillance. Indeed, former for the arms shipments to Iran that eventually FBI Director Clarence Kelley in his cost him his job, used the nation’s top secret memoir later complained that the COG communications network. North’s CIA’s withholding of information network, known as Flashboard, “excluded other was the major reason why Oswald bureaucrats with opposing viewpoints…[and] was not put under surveillance on had its own special worldwide antiterrorist November 22, 1963…. computer network, … by which members could communicate exclusively with each other and 11 Before 9/11 the CIA, in 2000-2001, their collaborators abroad.” North was also again flagrantly withheld crucial actively developing plans, which originated evidence from the FBI: evidence with Hoover, for emergency detentions on a 12 that, if shared, would have led the large scale. FBI to surveil two of the alleged hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and So, before him, was James McCord, famous for Nawaz al-Hazmi. This sustained having participated in the burglary that withholding of evidence provoked precipitated the 1972 Watergate crisis. an FBI agent to predict accurately in August, 2001, [three weeks McCord was a member of a small before 9/11] that “someday Air Force Reserve unit in someone will die.”… The CIA’s Washington attached to the Office withholding of relevant evidence of Emergency Preparedness (OEP); before 9/11 (which it was required assigned “to draw up lists of by its own rules to supply) was radicals and to develop 8 matched in this case by the NSA. contingency plans for censorship of the news media and U.S. mail in time of war.”His unit was part of On the institutional level, it is striking that in the Wartime Information Security every structural deep event since the JFK Program (WISP), which had assassination we find some role played by the responsibility for activating National Communications System (NCS), the “contingency plans for imposing shadow network created to ensure continuity of censorship on the press, the mails government (COG) in the event of an atomic and all telecommunications attack. The NCS was formally established by a (including government JFK Presidential Memorandum on August 21, communications) [and] preventive 1963. By 1969 at least $175 million had been detention of civilian ‘security spent “to increase the survivability of national risks,’ who would be placed in communications resources” in a nuclear 13 military ‘camps.’” attack.9 In June 1979 the system was tested under Carter, in the first known instance of the COG exercise GLOBAL SHIELD. By the Reagan (Since I first advanced the hypothesis that the era the NCS had mushroomed into an $8 billion COG communications network was involved in communications and logistics program for an all our structural deep events, I have found 3 12 | 14 | 3 APJ | JF further corroborations for it. For example, John budgets are now outsourced to Dean, perhaps the central Watergate figure, private companies like Booz Allen had participated in COG activities when serving Hamilton (owned by the Carlyle 14 as the associate deputy attorney general. And Group) and SAIC, the company an army reserve officer, Norman Katz, revealed that, as I wrote in American War in October 2013 that, because of his work in Machine, helped get the US to COG communications, he was summoned to fight in Iraq) Washington in November 1963, in connection 15 with President Kennedy’s trip to Dallas.