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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 33
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
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[...continued...]
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So, again, he [Pottinger] is being investigated in
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connection with... That is to say, W. Stanley Pottinger,
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longtime paramour of Gloria Steinem (9 years, to be exact),
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is being investigated in connection with an arms smuggling
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case, which in turn is connected with a possible attempt to
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seek the release of the American hostages in Iran in 1980.
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It certainly isn't conclusive, obviously, because, first of
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all, Pottinger's only being investigated in connection with
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the case. But that his name should turn up at all... And
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I understand from broadcast news reports on the subject
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(there haven't been many in print), apparently his voice
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was on wiretaps of the Hashemi's, the Iranians involved in
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this arms smuggling scam and also the attempt to obtain the
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release of the hostages from Iran.
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Well, of course, arms smuggling is a major focus of
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intelligence activity. And Iran, of course, has also been
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a major focus of intelligence activity for many years. And
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among the many people who crop up in connection with
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attempts to obtain the release of the American hostages,
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Frank Turpel(sp?) and former congressman John
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Jenrette(sp?), who went out in the ABSCAM convictions, were
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among the many names that crop up in connection with
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various attempts to win the release of the hostages.
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And of course that whole crisis, the Iranian hostage
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crisis, in many ways is viewed by many people as having
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brought President Reagan into power.
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So, again, we have Gloria Steinem, associated with the
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Independent Research Service, a documented CIA domestic
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funding conduit. We have her making statements about the
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"fact" that the CIA is a liberal and far-sighted
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organization. And we have her attempts, through attorneys
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and major stockholders in Ms. [magazine], to attempt to
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suppress the information concerning her affiliation with
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Independent Research Service. In addition, she's
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9-years-involved with one of the Nixon/Ford
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administration's Assistant Attorneys General, this one in
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charge of civil rights, whose name crops up in connection
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with a major arms smuggling scam. So, nothing conclusive,
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but very interesting indeed.
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That concludes the tape segment.
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Now one of the things that's intriguing about Steinem's
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association with Pottinger concerns the fact that Pottinger was
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not only possibly involved in an arms smuggling scheme to Iran.
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What is very intriguing is the fact that J. Stanley Pottinger was
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involved, while working for the Nixon/Ford Justice Department,
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not only in helping to block the investigation into the
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assassination of Martin Luther King, but also in operating in
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connection with former Director of Central Intelligence and
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current Vice-President of the United States [1981-89] George Bush
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in covering up the assassination of Orlando Letelier, a dissident
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Chilean diplomat who was blown up (as many of you, I'm sure, here
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know) in the middle of Washington, DC. Although U.S.
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intelligence has disclaimed any involvement in that, that claim
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has been destroyed by a number of different books. One of those
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is an excellent book we've used before on this program. It's
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called *Death In Washington*, co-authored by Donald Freed and
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Fred Landis. It was published in hardcover by Lawrence Hill &
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Co. and it was copyrighted 1980.
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And of J. Stanley Pottinger's role in blocking the investigation
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of Martin Luther King [assassination], when it began to lead in
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the direction of the FBI, Freed and Landis write as follows in
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*Death In Washington*:
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At the Department of Justice, J. Stanley Pottinger and
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Michael Shaheen(sp?) were working overtime to blunt the
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charge that the Federal Bureau of Investigation might have
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murdered Dr. King and certainly had not investigated the
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crime.
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Pottinger was not only involved in blunting the investigation
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into the assassination of Martin Luther King, but he also was
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involved in a milieu that helped block the investigation, not
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only block the investigation into the assassination of Orlando
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Letelier, but to deflect it into the direction of the Chilean
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left.
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Some of the people involved in not only setting up the [Letelier]
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assassination but covering it up are names that we've used here
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before. The two names here, Frank Turpel and Edwin Wilson, are
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going to be "front and center" here. Specifically, Frank Turpel
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supposedly met with (according to this account here) James
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Buckley, in New York City, shortly before the Letelier
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assassination. And according to Landis and Freed, some of the
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explosives used in the Letelier assassination were provided by
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Edwin Wilson and Frank Turpel. Of course, we've looked at the
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fact that Turpel and Wilson were by no means ex-CIA agents when
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they worked with Moammar Khaddafi in Libya. And certainly, since
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this took place before that, they were not ex-CIA agents at this
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time too.
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So what we have is, Turpel and Wilson, George Bush, and J.
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Stanley Pottinger, as well as James Buckley (and later, William
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F. Buckley), working not only to assassinate Orlando Letelier,
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but to cover it up and deflect blame for the crime in the
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direction of the Chilean left.
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Again, reading from *Death In Washington* by Landis and Freed.
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(The "Townley" referred to here was Michael Vernon Townley(sp?),
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the man actually convicted, along with a couple of anti-Castro
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Cubans, in performing the Letelier assassination.)
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Townley met with Frank Turpel one week before the Letelier
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murder, on the same day that he met with Senator James
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Buckley and aides in New York City. The explosives, sent
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into the United States on Chilean airlines, were to replace
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explosives supplied by Edwin Wilson, according to a source
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close to the office of U.S. Attorney Lawrence
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Barchella(sp?), Jr. Barchella had worked with Eugene
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Propper(sp?) on the Letelier/Moffit(sp?) case.
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Each increment of American involvement in the crime leads
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to the threshold question: What did George Bush and the
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CIA know, and when did they know it? On October 4th, 1976,
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Director of Central Intelligence Bush met with Eugene
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Propper and J. Stanley Pottinger, and promised cooperation
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in exchange for FBI caution in any national security
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matters. Then, on November 8th, Bush flew to Miami on the
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pretext of "a walking tour of Little Havana." Actually, he
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met with FBI Special Agent in Charge Julius Matson(sp?) and
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the chief of the Anti-Castro Terrorism Squad. According to
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a source close to the meeting, Bush warned the FBI against
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allowing the investigation to go any further than the
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lowest-level Cubans. This was a secret meeting, but
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publicly, Bush was selling headlines like, "Left Is Also
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Suspect In Slaying Of Letelier," to Jeremiah O'Leary and
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the Washington Star [newspaper].
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And just the week before, on November 1st, the Washington
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Post had quoted both Bush and Kissinger to the effect that
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the [Chilean] Junta was not involved.
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This is obstruction of justice, and misprision of a felony
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at the least. Why would the Director of the American
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Central Intelligence Agency violate the law in the
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interests of the Chilean Junta?
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Well I think that the reasons are fairly obvious, because of the
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involvement of the CIA in installing and preserving that very
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Junta are a matter of public record.
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So again, Michael Vernon Townley cooperating not only with Frank
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Turpel and Edwin Wilson on the actual assassination of Orlando
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Letelier, but interestingly enough, he meets with Senator James
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Buckley on the same day he meets with Frank Turpel. And both the
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Buckleys were involved in helping to circulate the myth that the
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Chilean left had been involved in killing Orlando Letelier.
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[...to be continued...]
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