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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 18


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 18
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First, regarding Haiti: A CN reader recommends *The 1994 PROJECT 
CENSORED Yearbook* for info on Haiti. And indeed, turning to the 
table of contents we find, "10. Haiti: Drugs, Thugs, The CIA, And 
The Deterrence of Democracy". Turning to page 79, we find:
 
[Excerpts only]
 
Few Americans are aware of our secret involvement in Haitian 
politics.
 
Some of the high military officials [in Haiti]... have been on 
the CIA's payroll from "the mid-1980s at least until the 1991 
coup..."
 
Further, the CIA "tried to intervene in Haiti's [1988] election 
with a covert-action program that would have undercut the 
political strength" of Aristide.
 
Next, a confidential Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) report 
revealed that Haiti is "a major transshipment point for cocaine 
traffickers" who are funneling drugs from Columbia and the 
Dominican Republic into the United States. The DEA report also 
revealed that the drug trafficking... is taking place with "the 
knowledge and active involvement of high military officials and 
business elites."
 
The revelations offer a disturbing look into CIA and State 
Department policy toward Haiti. [Patrick Elie, Aristide's anti- 
drug czar,] stated that he was constantly rebuffed by the CIA 
when he tried to alert it to the military's drug trafficking... 
Elie reported how the CIA-created Haitian National Intelligence 
Service (NIS) -- supposedly created to combat drugs -- was 
actually involved with narcotics trafficking, and "functioned as 
a political intimidation and assassination squad."
 
The Clinton administration's silence on the Haitian drug flow has 
led some congressional critics... to suggest that this silence 
reflects de facto support for the drug-trafficking Haitian 
military and a reluctance to substantively support the 
democratically-elected Aristide.
 
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CN -- It may be that Clinton has inadvertently crossed swords 
with the CIA by sending troops to Haiti. I have theorized that 
the recent crash of the Cessna aircraft beneath Clinton's White 
House bedroom window may, in fact, have been a "message" to 
Clinton from the CIA. Dave Emory, in a talk given by him (and 
posted via Conspiracy Nation) has theorized that the CIA sends 
its own sorts of "messages" to the President. So, for example, we 
have Emory pointing out:
 
  One thing I really noted, it got very little publicity, but 
  he [Jimmy Carter] said "We are going to have to go all the 
  way back to the assassination of president Kennedy to get 
  this country right." That was an extraordinary thing for a 
  seated president to say.  No sooner was Jimmy Carter doing 
  that than in May, it actually began before the summer of 
  1979, but on a trip to Los Angeles there was an aborted 
  attempt on Jimmy Carter's life.  Two gunmen that had come up 
  from Mexico, named Ray Lee Harvey and Oswaldo Ortiz, in other 
  words, Ray as in James Earl Ray and Lee Harvey as in Lee 
  Harvey Oswald and Oswaldo Ortiz were arrested for stalking 
  Jimmy Carter with a rifle. They just seem to have 
  disappeared.  There was no follow-up on the prosecution or 
  anything like that.  I suspect that a message was being sent 
  to Jimmy Carter, and I wonder, and I am not saying this is 
  the case, but among the questions I have, I never..the e-coli 
  outbreak at Jack-in-the-Box.  I just wonder if Bill Clinton 
  might be getting told something today.  "Listen Bill, you 
  know, lot of kids eat at fast-food restaurants and if you 
  don't want anything to happen to Chelsea, you know, or 
  something to happen to Hillary, or something to happen to 
  you, you better shape up."
 
 
We have Clinton, perhaps unknowingly, taking on a CIA-backed 
regime. Motive? Perhaps part of it is that Clinton hopes to boost 
his ratings in the polls. Carter, with dismal polls of his own, 
launched his infamous October Surprise raid on Iran, hoping to 
rescue U.S. hostages. Again, at least part of the motive could 
have been to boost Carter's ratings for the upcoming election.
 
What happened to Carter's plan? The helicopters crashed in the 
desert.
 
Clinton begins sending troops to Haiti. *At this same time* a 
Cessna crashes into the White House. Name of the pilot? Frank 
Corder. Corder. Sounds like Carter. Message? Your plan to boost 
your ratings will fail, Billy Boy, just like Carter's plan 
failed.
 
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>From the *New Federalist*, September 19, 1994:
 
WAS CESSNA CRASH AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT?
 
Sept. 13 (EIRNS) -- "Statistically, Bill Clinton is one of the 
most targetted Presidents," wrote Alexandra Farkas, New York 
correspondent for Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, in a 
feature today accompanying coverage of the Sept. 12 Cessna 
penetration of White House airspace, when a single-engine Cessna 
150, piloted by Frank Corder, crashed on the White House lawn, 
killing the pilot.
 
According to the Sept. 13 Washington Times, "The number of 
threats on the President's life has surged," rising to 
proportions reminiscent of the period before the assassination of 
John F. Kennedy.
 
There have been 10 recorded incidents or threats against Clinton 
since 1993, according to Farkas. While most American press have 
played the Cessna episode as the work of a suicidal individual 
[a.k.a. "lone nut"], the Italian press is openly concerned at the 
threat to Clinton's life. The lead article of the Sept. 13 La 
Republica is headlined, "Fear for Clinton" and subtitled, "Maybe 
it was an attempt."
 
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More info on Haiti from the October 3, 1994 *The Nation*
 
THE EAGLE IS LANDING
by Allan Nairn
[Excerpts only]
 
According to documents and extensive conversations with U.S. 
military and intelligence planners, no matter how Lieut. Gen. 
Raoul Cedras is removed -- whether through invasion, coup or deal 
-- the United States intends to contain Haiti's popular movement, 
by force if necessary.
 
The occupation scenarios being discussed involve elements from 
the very Haitian armed forces and police who are today the 
ostensible U.S. adversary.
 
[After the main occupying force is withdrawn,] a host of U.S. 
military, C.I.A., and civilian advisers are slated to stay 
behind, participating in Haitian affairs more deeply than they 
have in years.
 
The United States has long demonstrated its aversion to mass 
politics in Haiti. Jean-Claude Duvalier, for example, was 
toppled, according to a colonel who helped do it, in an attempt 
to stave off "massive internal uprisings." Col. Steven Butler, 
the former planning chief for U.S. armed forces in the Caribbean, 
says, "In terms of maintaining the military as an institution, 
Duvalier had to be eased out."
 
Washington had backed Duvalier even though, according to Butler, 
U.S. radar had detected that his ranch was being used to run 
cocaine into the United States. Only when it looked as if the 
populace might sweep the system aside did Washington decide that 
he had to go. Likewise, it backed the military plotters who 
ousted Duvalier even though Butler says they too wanted a share 
of the drug trade. In both cases the United States preferred 
criminals to a spontaneous popular force.
 
In early September, speaking on background, one of the Pentagon's 
senior occupation policy-makers said that joint patrols between 
U.S. troops and "the rump of the Haitian police" will probably be 
used to maintain order in the event that "somebody from the hills 
decides to start an insurgency."
 
One U.S. Psy Ops official who specializes in Haiti predicts that, 
if there is an invasion, initially people will cheer the ouster 
of Cedras, but that "anti-U.S. sentiment" -- indeed, popular 
attacks on U.S. forces -- could be expected within a four-week 
period. This would be less likely if Aristide were to come back 
fast, but even then, he said, the danger of uprising would remain 
if popular expectations were not met soon.
 
A contractor who works for the State Department said that the 
naval task force now standing off Haiti has replaced its stocks 
of anti-armor weaponry with crowd-control gear including shields, 
gas masks and clubs. He said fears were running high in Haiti 
about the possibility of U.S. troops confronting organized slum 
dwellers, an encounter that would have "obvious consequences" for 
the unarmed Haitians.
 
[It is widely held that] Aristide's old reformist economic 
program had now passed into history and would probably not be 
permitted to be revived. If Bill Clinton had tried a minimum-wage 
hike the magnitude of Aristide's (from $2 to $4 per day)... 
"they'd be hanging him in Congress." The blunt fact is that "if 
you want to compete you do it the old-fashioned way: You have 
cheaper labor than Mexico, cheaper than Santo Domingo and the 
Caribbean... You've got to take advantage of what asset you have, 
and in Haiti that happens to be cheap labor."
 
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A CN reader points out the following anomalie:
 
Here is our governments untenable 2 point position re: Haiti.
 
1. Haitian boat people are economic, not political, refugees. 
   Therefore we must deny almost all requests for asylum.
 
2. The current regime in Haiti is a brutal murderous dictatorship.
   Therefore we must commit 20 warships and 20,000+ troops to 
   ensure that democracy and human rights are restored.
 
I have not heard a single news report that points to this fallacy.
 
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And, from another CN reader:
 
Strangest thing I've read about Haiti was the 2,000 zombies which 
Genl Cedras says he has readied for battle against the US.  Maybe 
they'll try to take over a shopping mall.
 
(Reported in the Irish Times a few weeks ago)
 
The Irish Times for Sat. Sept. 10, 1994, in an article on Haiti: 
"In Jerusalem, the Haaretz and Maariv dailies reported that Mr. 
Clinton briefed the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, by 
telephone on Thursday night on US plans to invade Haiti."
 
That would have been Thursday, September 8th.
 
What business is this of the Israelis?  Were I very 
conspiratorially minded I might assess that Clinton was asking 
permission from his Masters!
 
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