Roland Carnaby, a former CIA station chief, at the CIA
Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, gunned down in April 2008 by
Houston police while monitoring Mossad operations.
According to Wayne Madsen, the Mossad has been smuggling American
plutonium for Israeli nuclear weapons through the port of Houston,
as well as preparing the area for a second 9/11-type false flag
attack.
Chapter 30
The Mayday Alert
and the
Assassination of Roland Carnaby
First posted Feb 2010
Last updated 3 Oct 2011
In
this chapter we will explore the possibility that former CIA station
chief Roland Carnaby may have helped prevent a possible false flag
WMD event in the greater Seattle and Houston areas in the April-May
2008 time frame. Carnaby was shot dead by Houston police under suspicious
circumstances in April 2008. High-level
"push-back" has been an important recurring theme in this
series. In Chapter 25 we looked at high level U.S. military in the
summer 2007 B-52 "Loose Nukes" affair, and in Chapter 26
we looked at Russia vs. the New World Order with the Vladimir Putin
trip to Tehran the first day of TOPOFF. In this chapter I will present
strong evidence of a "dual CIA" as well as a "dual
Mossad" and even a "dual U.S. military" with separate
chains of command. According
to Wayne Madsen, Carnaby monitored Mossad efforts to smuggle American
plutonium through the port of Houston to augment Israeli nuclear weapons.
Israel has plutonium production problems and fears a potential "weapons
gap" with Pakistan and possibly Iran; hence its extreme aggressiveness
about finding ways to destabilize and neuter both Islamic countries.
Carnaby
was also on top of quite a few other high level intrigues both at
home and abroad. Madsen claims that Carnaby, who was of Lebanese descent,
was in touch with major factions in Lebanon and helped foil an assassination
plan plotted by Israel in Lebanon to start another Mideast War. He
was also a close personal friend of former CIA Director and U.S. President
George H. W. Bush, who lives in the Houston area. In fact, the Carnaby
family called upon Bush Sr. to
testify about their personal friendship and Carnaby's longstanding
service as a key CIA operative following Carnaby's likely assassination. Carnaby
worked out of an office building in Houston used by the CIA, whose
9th floor comprises the "office of George Bush." After Carnaby
was shot dead, police found in his personal phone roster the home
phone number of former CIA Director George Tenet. All
of this raises another intriguing question, namely whether George
H. W. Bush, working through people like Carnaby, has himself has been
an important source of behind the scenes "push-back." Bush
Sr. certainly has plausible motives to get back at Israel. During
Persian Gulf War I, after America and its allies expelled Iraqis from
Kuwait, Bush Sr. resisted calls to march on Baghdad, even to the point
of allowing major remnants of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard to
escape. According to many sources, Bush Sr. was never been particularly
happy with his son George W's decision to charge into Afghanistan
and Iraq, having the same general fear that Capt. May expressed in
his 12 Aug 1992 Houston Chronicle article "Success
of Desert Storm Being Judged Unfairly" about getting the
U.S. overextended in quicksand wars. Bush
Sr. also blocked an Israeli request to fund more West Bank settlements.
His resistance inspired enough Jewish Lobby wrath to defeat his run
for a second term in the 1992 Presidential election. Last,
but not least, Israelis even tried to kill Bush Sr. In Andrew I. Killgore's
review of the book "The
Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret
Agenda" by former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky, Killgore
states:
Particularly shocking to American readers is Ostrovsky's claim
that a right-wing clique within Mossad decided, unbeknownst to then-Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, to assassinate President George Bush when
the president was in Madrid at the end of October 1991 for the opening
of Arab-Israeli peace talks. Evidence was to be manufactured implicating
the Palestinians. The clique believed that Shamir would have ordered
the assassination himself if he hadn't been gagged by "politics"
because the American president had frozen U.S. loan guarantees to
Israel.
Before
continuing further with Carnaby, Bush, and one part of the "dual
CIA," and strong evidence of their role in thwarting a repeat
false flag attack on U.S. soil, let us first start with the events
that began to unfold in the months just before Roland Carnaby's death.
Despite
the fact that the release of the National Intelligence Estimate in
Dec 2007 took the wind out of the Bush Jr.'s case for war with Iran,
the drums of war started banging hard once again by March 2008, in
line with Capt. May's Dec 2007 prediction covered in Chapter
27. Part
of the renewed Zionist neocon move to war involved weeding out high
level military personnel capable of providing "push-back."
Justin Raimondo, the star columnist for antiwar.com, released on March
12, 2008 his article: “`Fox’
Fallon Fired". (Originally titled: "Fox
Fallon Fired – And we’re f*cked…”):
“If,
in the dying light of the Bush administration, we go to war with
Iran,” says the March Esquire, “it’ll
all come down to one man. If we do not go to war with Iran, it’ll
come down to the same man.” The piece describes this top military
figure as the last obstacle to the Bush administration’s persistent
push for war with Iran: “It’s left to” him and
him “alone … to argue that, as he told al-Jazeera
last fall: ‘This constant drumbeat of conflict … is
not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war,
and that is what we ought to be working [for].’” That
was Adm. William “Fox” Fallon speaking, top U.S. commander
in the Middle East, last of the Vietnam vets in the high command,
and, yes, the very same Adm. Fallon who has just submitted his resignation
as head of Central Command. What makes this particularly ominous
is that, according to former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst
Patrick Lang, Fallon told him, upon taking over at Centcom, that
war with Iran “isn’t going to happen on my watch.”
Lang asked him how he thought he could stop it: “‘I
have options, you know,’ Fallon responded, which Lang interpreted
as implying Fallon would step down rather than follow orders he
considers mistaken.” Do
I really need to draw you a picture to get you to imagine what’s
coming next? This is as clear a signal as any that the Bush administration
intends to go out with a bang – one that will shake not only
the Middle East but this country to its very foundations. In
a statement, Fallon hinted at the reason for his resignation:
“Recent press reports suggesting a disconnect between
my views and the president’s policy objectives have become
a distraction at a critical time and hamper efforts in the Centcom
region. And although I don’t believe there have ever been
any differences about the objectives of our policy in the Central
Command Area of Responsibility, the simple perception that there
is makes it difficult for me to effectively serve America’s
interests there.”
What
“efforts” is he hampering but the effort to drag us
into another war? Fallon
has long been a thorn in the administration’s side: while
in Egypt, on a tour of his Centcom command, he assured President
Hosni Mubarak that there would be no attack on Iran, which leaked
to the Egyptian media. Washington was livid. “I’m in
hot water, again,” he confided to Thomas P.M. Barnett, the
Esquire journalist who accompanied him on his trip. He’s
been in hot water with administration hawks – including the
president, wildest hawk of them all – before. Last fall, he
was quoted by Pentagon insiders as calling Gen. David Petraeus an
“ass-kissing little chickensh*t” for telling the president
what he wanted to hear on Iraq and the “surge”…
Many
insiders believe that the Bush administration has already promised
Israel and the Jewish lobby a war with Iran before it leaves office
in January, 2009. That may be so, and there are strong indicators
that this spring may have been chosen to begin the war. My purpose
in enumerating them is not to predict an attack on Iran this spring,
but only to examine them the possibility of such an attack. Iraq
is deteriorating. General Petraeus will perform for Congress next
week, doing another Pinocchio imitation as he pretends that he is
not a puppet -- or is, at any rate, a puppet without strings attached.
It will be a tough act to pull off, though, as Bush's favorite general
will have to explain just why it is that, after we have maxed out
our military to conduct a surge, the three biggest cities in Iraq
are in turmoil. Mosul, Baghdad and Basra are all exploding -- as
is the US "Green Zone," which has come under heavy fire
in the last week. It will be even more interesting if anyone has
the gumption to ask him how he can call the surge a success when
the Turks are attacking the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Iranian
president is welcomed like a savior in the streets of Baghdad. Petraeus
may be tipping Bush's hand by saying that Iran is to blame for the
crisis in Iraq. Israel
is mobilizing. The Jewish state will conduct the largest domestic
defense exercises in its history beginning April 6 and lasting all
week. Defense exercises can be indicators of offensive intentions,
and an attack on Iran may well be in the works. It's far-fetched
to suppose that the Israelis are worried about an unprovoked Iranian
attack against them, since Israel is one of the world's most potent
military powers. It has plenty of state-of-the-art US equipment
and a nuclear arsenal of around 200 warheads (another little bit
of reality kept from the American people by its leaders). The
hawks are flying. Earlier this month, Dick Cheney flew to the Middle
East to visit Iraq, and then confer with amiable Persian Gulf oil
monarchs before reporting to Israel. The last time Cheney made the
rounds with these Arabian petro princes was just before the invasion
of Iraq. Ominously, the day after his visit to Saudi Arabia, that
country's controlled media reported that its government was making
plans to react to nuclear fallout blowing its way from Iran. John
McCain flew to Iraq for long enough to conflate Iran with Al Qaeda.
He repeated the conflation in Israel. McCain apologists suggest
a string of senior moments, but his comments suggest that Iran is
a target. McCain is an Israeli favorite because he is the son of
Admiral John McCain, the officer in charge of the Navy cover-up
of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS liberty. Israeli airplanes
and patrol boats strafed and torpedoed the Liberty to sink it and
kill all survivors. It was a classic false flag operation, assisted
by the Johnson administration, intended to be blamed on Egypt to
bring us into the 1967 Middle Eastern war. The Israelis may be counting
on the old saying "like father like son." Jewish
Joseph Lieberman chaperoned the fuzzy-brained McCain, and whispered
guidance into his ear from time to time. Lieberman was a key senator
in starting a war with Iraq, and he has thrown his weight behind
those who want to start a war with Iran. The 2000 Democratic vice
presidential candidate enjoys media Teflon treatment for his Neocon-ism,
but much of the Internet alternative media considers him an Israel-firster.
Sense
has been sacked. Bush forced Admiral "Fox" Fallon, the
CENTCOM commander, from command on March 11. Fallon was laudable
for two strong opinions. The first was that Petraeus, his subordinate,
was an odious Bush League sycophant, "an ass-kissing little
chicken sh*t," to be specific. The second was that a war with
Iran was a bad idea, and that the people who are pushing for it
were not considering the national interest -- or at any rate not
the US national interest.
West
Point ethics professor Colonel Ted Westhusing, who in 2005 was nearing
the end of a tour in Iraq as a member of Petraeus' staff, wrote
him a letter accusing him of being a corrupt careerist. Within days,
the colonel died from a gunshot wound to the head, the most senior
military officer to die in Iraq. A shoddy investigation labeled
the devout Catholic a suicide, and Petraeus was soon whisked out
of Iraq and back to the US where he was given another star and groomed
to be Bush's boy in Iraq. He
does have his fans, of course. William Kristol, Neocon publisher
of The Weekly Review, named Petraeus his man of the year
in January. Senator John McCain labels him one of the greatest generals
in American history. Of course, the publisher and the senator are
both diehard supporters of the Iraq war, damn the costs. Paying
lip service to the Bush League boy wonder as a military genius is
the key point in the propaganda war. They need all the help they
can get to hustle the American people into four more years (or maybe
another century) in the quicksand war. To hear them tell it, Petraeus
is the best four-star since Patton, and can walk on water -- or
at any rate can tread water in quicksand. As
far as I can tell, Petraeus is more a devil than a divinity, though
I suppose it's fair to say that this makes him worthy of the Senate
that voted to confirm him by an 81-0 vote. The persistent rumors
that he was involved in Colonel Westhusing's death would tend to
support the logic that a criminal administration needs a criminal
general to conduct a criminal war…. …When
Petraeus comes before the Senate Tuesday he will be giving another
commanded performance, scripted by the White House as a wartime
whitewash. The Senate, mandated by the Constitution to oversee the
executive branch, has already been refused access to an unclassified
National Intelligence Estimate, even though Bush administration
sources are saying that it supports the difficult argument that
Iraq is a success. Look for Petraeus to insist that all efforts
under his watch should be continued, and to imply that Iran is now
the root of the Middle East menace. The British Telegraph
just published a sobering article, aptly titled "British
fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes." It's
more than ironic that the US mainstream media has kept mum on the
nasty possibility of an expanded Middle Eastern war. It should make
us wonder how many other things they are keeping from us -- and
for whom they're really working.
On
7 April 2008 Capt May and I coauthored: “False
Flag Alert — April 7-11” where we reported continued
jockeying and saber rattling since Capt. May’s 31 March article
"Spring Fling in Iran? -- Updating World War III:"
…Top
Bush administration members have held meetings with key foreign
leaders, which may have been used to reach an accord prior to an
attack on Iran:
George Bush met with Russian President Vladimir Putin this weekend.
Dick Cheney recently met top leaders in Saudi Arabia.
Robert Gates visited the Sultanate of Oman.
Numerous
mainstream news articles from mainstream sources support possibility
of war with Iran in the near future. All articles listed below were
written in April:
In
our co-authored 11 April 2008 article “False
Flag Advisory –Bush and Israel,” we noted Bush’s
increasing belligerence towards Iran, which echoed his pre-Iraq war
saber rattling. Bush said:
"The
regime in Tehran has a choice to make: It can live in peace with
its neighbor, enjoy strong economic and cultural and religious
ties, or it can continue to arm and train and fund illegal militant
groups which are terrorizing the Iraqi people and turning them
against Iran. "If
Iran makes the right choice, America will encourage a peaceful
relationship between Iran and Iraq. If Iran makes the wrong choice,
America will act to protect our interests and our troops and our
Iraqi partners .
. . "Iraq is the convergence point for two of the greatest
threats to America in this new century: Al Qaeda and Iran. If
we fail there, Al Qaeda would claim a propaganda victory of colossal
proportions and they could gain safe havens in Iraq from which
to attack the United States, our friends and our allies. "Iran
would work to fill the vacuum in Iraq and our failure would embolden
its radical leaders to fuel their ambitions to dominate the region."
Where
there is smoke, there is fire. On pages 156 and 157 of the last book
of his Barbarians Inside the Gates series, The Black
Widow’s Bite, Col. Donn de Grand Pre noted two highly aggressive
actions by the U.S. They included a thwarted nuclear attack run on
Iran.
U.S. Nuclear Bomber on Iran "Attack Run" Shot
Down
5
April 2008 - The U.S. Air Force shot down one of their own bombers
reported to be on an attack run towards Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant.
The B-1 Lancer, based at Ellsworth Air Force in South Dakota, was
rapidly descending over the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. When
contacted by the U.S.A.F. stationed at Qatar's Al Udeid Air Base
the B-1 nuclear bomber squawked the CIA ID code, and not the correct
code for aircraft over-flying Mideast nations, whereupon it was
ordered to land or face an immediate shoot-down. After
refusing to alter its course, U.S. officials ordered a U.S. F-16
fighter jet to strafe the nuclear bomber, but then a U.S. Naval
Carrier stationed in the Persian Gulf ordered its fighter jets to
attack those of the U.S. Air Force. The
U .S.A.F. commander scrambled more of their fighter, jets against
their own Naval forces. The B-1 was hit by cannon fire, after which
it changed its course for an emergency landing at the Al Udeid Air
Base. Upon
landing, the B-1 Bomber caught fire. All four crew members were
safely evacuated. The Rapid City Journal is confirming
that the B-1 bomber involved in the incident in Qatar was from Ellsworth
Air Force Base near Rapid City, SD. Sec.
Def. Robert Gates last week ordered a full inventory of all American
nuclear weapons and was no doubt the commander who ordered the shoot-down
of the B-1 nuclear bomber. Gates,
ostensibly, has been long at odds with V.P. Dick Cheney over Cheney's
push for an immediate nuclear strike against Iran.
U.S. Launches Raid on Pakistan Nuclear Plant
8
April 2008 - U.S. Special Forces stationed in Afghanistan launched
an attack against Pakistan's Khushab Nuclear facility. Western sources
confirm an explosion and two deaths at the facility as the U.S.
prepares for its imminent escalation of the Middle East war with
an attack on Iran. The
effect on this new attack by the U.S. against Pakistan is two-fold:
(1) To show the new government of Pakistan the full power and resolve
of US military forces, and (2) Convince Pakistan's new government
that without Musharraf leading them they face certain destruction.
When
I learned that National Level Exercise 2-08, scheduled for 1-8 May
2008, was going to be one of the two largest exercises for the entire
calendar year, I tried to contact USNORTHCOM, DHS, various National
Guard Headquarters, FEMA, and other major agencies to uncover the
exercise scenarios and as many details as possible. My
discovery that Seattle, Washington was a target became particularly
chilling once I connected Lake Washington, Washington, which lies
adjacent to Seattle, to the occult double name pattern involved with
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, New York, NY, and Pentagon City, Pentagon
for completed terror events. We saw the same pattern with what we
believe are thwarted terror targets, namely Chicago River, Chicago
next to the Chicago Sears Tower, Texas City, Texas surrounding the
British Petroleum refinery target, and Oregon City, Oregon near target
Portland, Oregon. On
April 26, 2008 Capt. May, Dr. Fetzer, SFC Buswell, and I published
in the Lone Star Iconoclast our coauthored alert: “Mayday
Alert! Terror Drills Could Go Live!”
Yesterday
an American-flagged ship fired on the Iranian Navy, and now Pentagon
sources say that they have been ordered to prepare attack plans.
Admiral "Fox" Fallon, the Centcom commander who opposed
war with Iran, has been ousted in favor of Bush loyalist General
David Petraeus, who has spent the last month accusing Iran for our
increasing problems with the Iraqi resistance. Saudi
Arabia has been preparing for nuclear fallout from an attack on
Iran since last month, when Dick Cheney paid a visit. Israel has
just finished its largest-ever domestic war drills. Israel and the
Bush administration are insisting that Syria and North Korea are
nuclear collaborators. Syria is preparing for the contingency of
an Israeli attack. Iran is preparing for the contingency of a US
attack. US government insiders speculate that Bush has promised
Israel an expanded Middle East war before he leaves office. The
Neo-Cons are pounding their war drums again, according to Dr. James
H. Fetzer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and he believes
that nothing would help them spread their imperial war in the Middle
East as much as another 9/11…
Domestic Discord
Inside
the US, Bush approval ratings are well below 30%, and approval ratings
for the U.S. Congress and mainstream media are even lower. Over
three quarters of the American people believe that the country is
on the wrong track, and just as many want to end the quicksand war
in the Middle East. The economy is crashing as fuel prices are skyrocketing.
The Establishment is losing its grip on power. It would take another
9/11 to make the nation forget its domestic woes and resume its
lost zeal for the Neo-Con "new American century" of foreign
wars and a domestic police state…. …Should
a major event occur during the drills, the Bush administration is
prepared to implement National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD)
51, which establishes dictatorship "in the event of a man-made
or natural catastrophe." It is an extraordinary measure, and
the White House has stonewalled Homeland Security Committee members
from the House of Representatives who wanted to read it. One of
those members, Oregon's Peter DeFazio summed up the feeling of many
Americans about NSPD 51 when he said "Maybe the people who
think there's a conspiracy out there are right." Fears
that a false flag attack might result in martial law are nourished
by last week's militaristic Operation Sudden Impact, reported by
Infowars.net writer Steve Watson: "Three
States Subjected to Martial Law Sweeps"…
This
alert went on to describe the Seattle exercise scenario. It is worth
covering in some detail here because it helps us visualize how toxic
agents can be used for false flag purposes alongside airplanes crashing
into buildings, nuclear explosions, radiation dispersal devices, and
false flag pandemics (see Chapter
36). On
April 27th, I posted “Is
the primary WMD terror target Seattle, or Portland, Oregon once again?"
(When I say "The Iconoclast," in this alert, I
mean myself as a correspondent):
Webster
Tarpley, author of 9-11 Synthetic Terror: Made In the USA,
counted 25 military exercises running concurrently with the 9-11
inside job. NLE 2-08 will contain nine different exercises. Hence,
we must take this exercise very seriously.
The basic exercise scenario
The
following was pieced together by the Iconoclast after interviewing
different sources: On
1 May 2008 a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device explodes
under the Alaska Way viaduct in downtown Seattle, Washington, collapsing
the bridge and damaging surrounding buildings. Twenty minutes later,
terrorists explode a high-jacked tanker filled with a highly toxic
gas at the Seattle Ferry Terminal. A plume of deadly gas reaches
throughout downtown Seattle. (2006 estimated population 582,174). Police,
firemen, and other first responders are completely overwhelmed by
mass casualties. Through the state government they request three
response waves going up to the highest national level. The
second response wave consists of about 22 chemical warfare specialists
from the Washington National Guard 10th WMD Civil Support Team (CST)
based at Camp Murray, Tacoma, Washington. They assess the threat,
provide expert technical advice, and coordinate follow on support.
The
third response wave consists of a “CERFP”, a collection
of over 100 soldiers from the 420th National Guard chemical battalion
based in Yakima, Washington. They search the incident site, rescue
and decontaminate casualties, and performing medical triage. (In
military acronymal gobbledygook, the “C” in “CERFP”
stands for “CBRNE” or “Chemical, Biological, Radiological,
Nuclear or High-Yield Explosive” and the “ERFP”
stands for “Enhanced Response Force Package”). The
fourth response wave consists of a “CCMRF”, a task force
with a peak strength on paper somewhere around 4 -5,000 military
personnel. In addition to augmenting the functions of the aforementioned
units, it processes human remains, provides major logistical and
air operations support, augments security forces, and performs other
broad spectrum or high-end services. It consists of a rotational
pool of active and reserve units from every branch of the U.S. Armed
Forces. (A "CCMRF" is a "CBRNE Consequence Management
Response Force"). On
May 5th a gas plume erupts from the Umatilla Army Chemical Depot
in northeastern Oregon that stores VX, the most toxic nerve agent
ever synthesized. FEMA describes the accidentally leaked gas as
"chemical agent." On
May 6th, a second high-jacked tanker blows up in Ferndale, Washington.
First responders in the Ferndale-Bellingham area also request the
full response sequence up to the highest national level. A U.S.
Marine detachment from the aforementioned CCMRF previously sent
to aid Seattle is now redeployed to this area.
Tweaking the scenario
I
called public affairs officers with different commands, and was
told many different things by different people, to include some
contradictory stories. This is actually pretty normal for military
exercises. For example, in my article "Noble
Resolve and the Ignoble Whitewash," I mentioned that "To
counter growing public anxiety about nukes, a military spokesperson
interviewed by the Portland radio station KBOO a week before Noble
Resolve 07-02 commenced on Aug. 20, said the scenario was changed
from a nuke to a natural disaster." Since
exercise planners can continually re-massage their hypothetical
scenarios, we quickly reach diminishing returns in trying to uncover
accurate details. For our purposes, the main objective is determine
if the overall pattern of the exercise is rich with opportunities
for corrupt insiders to pull off an actual false flag WMD attack.
I think that the clear answer is "yes." I
was told that the Umatilla Army Depot only stores VX gas, and that
under the original exercise scenario terrorists high-jack two tanker
trucks and blow one up in Seattle on Day One, and blow up the other
in the Ferndale, Washington vicinity on Day Six. Then I was told
by another source that tanker trucks do not hold VX gas very well,
and that in writing a story I should preferably use low-key language
like "toxic industrial gas" for the Seattle, Umatilla,
and Ferndale events and not "VX." One
source told me that he saw a civil defense map that depicted "toxic
gas" enveloping downtown Seattle. Another source said that
he saw the gas blowing out to sea and leaving the downtown area
relatively unscathed. A third source played down Seattle altogether.
In
regard to the latter case, six very credible sources completely
disagreed with him. They told me that Seattle is very definitely
the target for the 1-6 May scenario. I side with them. While
first real-life responders within the Bellingham and Ferndale area
are very much part of the actual play of the exercise, Seattle first
responders have been largely left out. Instead
of moving military personnel through downtown Seattle, the military
will use an urban combat training village called "Leshi Town"
at Ft. Lewis to simulate "Seattle." (Ft. Lewis is about
46 miles south of downtown Seattle). Exercise coordinators will
not bring in a full strength CCMRF (4-5,000 personnel), but rather
about 1,220 to 1,550 individuals from across the nation. They will
be billeted and play out most of the exercise on base. Other
services are involved. As an example, on May 5th and 6th members
of the Minnesota Air National Guard will fly C-130's to McChord
Air Force Base near Ft. Lewis. The PAO for McChord, LtCol Anna Sullivan,
told me that they will practice transporting seventy simulated patients
(mannequins on litters) to the Oregon Air National Guard facility
at Portland International Airport. The
Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) Public Affairs officer, Michael Kucharek,
told me that there will be "numerous aerospace events"
that might include a commercial airliner, military aircraft, and
small aviation aircraft. Previous exercises have involved UAV's
(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). The exercise will test the warning and
control of NORAD, but he could not be more specific about the scenario
than this. The
Northcom PAO also said that his command expects to hold one other
big exercise for this year in addition to NLE 2-08. The next big
exercise will probably be a reincarnated version of TOPOFF that
took place last October. It will probably take place around the
same time of the year, except it will be renamed something like
"NLE 3-08." (Please see my article, "Nation on Edge:
Operation TOPOFF").
False flag indicators
embedded within the exercise
First,
let me make a disclaimer. As a former military officer, I am a great
believer in civilian and military preparedness. I generally support
all honestly conducted exercises. However, Dr. James H. Fetzer is
correct in his article "9-11
and the Neo-Con Agenda" that we are faced with a "crime
syndicate masquerading as an administration." See also my article
"Thomas
Jefferson and the `Incredible Truth' about Bush Cabal Wise Guys
and False Flag Nukes." The
malefactors are still at large. Until they are caught and brought
to justice, we must understand how ordinary strengths of honest
exercises can be high-jacked and perverted by false flag operators.
Most military and civilian communities need to greatly increase
their analysis and detection capabilities in this area. The
following are examples of possible false flag indicators as they
might apply to NLE 2-08. Involvement
of the highest level of command authorities. Part of the
exercise scenario involves a class 4 hurricane sweeping through
the National Capitol Region. Michael Kucharek, public affairs officer
(PAO) for Northcom, told the Iconoclast that this will give anyone
at senior levels an opportunity to “coop and cog” in
the Washington, D.C. area (ie. practice “continuity of ops,
continuity of government”). Please
recollect reports of VP Dick Cheney in the bunker during 9-11, instructing
subordinates to ignore radar blips converging on the World Trade
Center Towers and Pentagon. Please also recall back in 1967 how
President Lyndon Johnson recalled fighters scrambled from a carrier
to save the U.S.S. Liberty from a deliberate attack by Israeli aircraft
and torpedo boats. Involvement
of high level Army and Marine Corps WMD specialists. Lt
Keith Kosik, PAO for the Washington National Guard, and Randy Mitchell,
PAO for U.S. Army North, told the Iconoclast that the exercise
will involve actual members of the Washington National Guard 10th
Civil Support Team, the 420th chemical battalion based in Yakima,
WA, and an actual CCMRF consisting of about 1,220 to 1,550 individuals
drawn from active and reserve units across the nation. They include
a detachment of 125 U.S. Marines. The CCMRF members will probably
play the exercise as if they are part of a full strength task force
of 5,000 personnel. For
Day 6 of the exercise, planners currently visualize sending a detachment
of about 125 Marines on a day trip from Ft. Lewis to Ferndale, WA
and back. The
travel radius from Ft. Lewis to the Bellingham-Ferndale area may
give us an important clue about how far from Ft. Lewis corrupt insiders
might conduct a real strike within a concentric ring on a map. Ft.
Lewis is roughly the same distance to Bellingham and Ferndale to
the north as it is to Portland, Oregon to the south. (According
to one web source, Ft. Lewis to Bellingham is 136 miles, whereas
Ft Lewis to Portland is 130 miles). Captain
May and I believe that Portland has already been fully “prepped”
for a possible false flag terror strike from the TOPOFF exercise
in Oct 2007. We believe that once insiders have prepared areas by
coopting and compromising local officials, they tend to opportunistically
revisit the same sites over and over again like a thief going through
certain neighborhoods checking for unlocked door knobs. (Captain
May elaborates on this point further in "False
Flag Prospects, 2008 —Top Three US Target Cities"). It
is quite possible that the Seattle scenario is a red herring, and
Portland remains the prime target for the Pacific Northwest. Seamless
integration of local first responders with Federal personnel.
Chief Criminal Deputy Jeff Parks for the Whatcom County Sheriff’s
Office told the Iconoclast that “the point of the
exercise is for Federal personnel to work shoulder to shoulder with
local first responders.” Normally,
this would be a good thing for a major emergency, however, in the
bizarro world of the corrupt Bush administration, this can become
a negative. Integration can reduce local independence and the number
of individuals willing to stand up and act as whistle-blowers towards
federal abuse. Federal centralization also gives top insiders greater
control over the flow of information and its interpretation. All
of this becomes ominous as one contemplates scenarios involving
militarization of local police, possible martial law lock-down throughout
America, and mass confiscation of all privately owned firearms.
Surprise
“Injects.” The PAO for USNORTHCOM told the
Iconoclast that the exercise will be characterized by “robust
play,” with “surprise injects” of unanticipated
events where participants are “stretched to the limit”
and have “everything thrown at them except the kitchen sink.”
Normally
elements of uncertainty are a good thing, because it forces exercise
participants to become more flexible, creative, and analytical in
their thinking. However, “surprise injects” also create
greater opportunities for insiders to take an exercise “live.”
In the event of a tragic turn of events, such adjectives might then
take on a macabre new meaning.
Our
Mayday
article wound up becoming one of the most successful alerts we
ever issued. According to Capt. May, within a week it achieved more
than twice the Internet listings compared to the Kennebunkport Warning
described in Chapter
25. Fortunately,
National Level Exercise 2-08 was executed without any false flag hijacking.
However, as usual, subsequent disclosures validated our fears. At
a Campus Progress journalism
conference in July 2008, New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh
described
how Vice President Cheney tried to set up a false flag event in
the Strait of Hormuz:
`“A
meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The
subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’”
according to one of Hersh’s sources.’ Hersh stated,
“There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a
war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we
build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats
that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy SEALs on them with a lot
of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz,
start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because
you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the
kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking
about. Provocation. But that was rejected.”
WMR
has learned from its Middle East intelligence sources that a leak
from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office resulted
in the last minute scuttling of an Israeli intelligence operation
in Beirut that would have started a series of events that would
have likely resulted in the outbreak of warfare between Israel and
Lebanon, Syria, and possibly, between Iran and the United States. Israel's
Mossad planned an April 25 assassination, likely by its favorite
method, a massive car bomb, of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan
Nasrallah. Because the assassination would have triggered the "perfect
storm" for the outbreak of war in Lebanon, with the involvement
of Israel, the United States, Syria, and Iran, an official in Olmert's
office leaked the assassination plan. When it became apparent that
there was a leak, Mossad scuttled the entire operation. The
plan was immediately known by the CIA and Hezbollah. It is known
that retired CIA officer and contractor Roland Carnaby, a Lebanese-American,
had close contact with all of Lebanon's various factions. On April
29, four days after the planned assassination of Nasrallah by Mossad,
Carnaby was killed in broad daylight by Houston police. WMR previously
reported that Carnaby had successfully penetrated a Mossad ring
active in the Houston area. It
is clear that Israel would not have carried out the Nasrallah assassination
without the knowledge and approval of the neocon cell operating
from Vice President Dick Cheney's office and extending to elements
of the U.S. Air Force, CIA, and other federal agencies. Nasrallah's
assassination by Israel would have resulted in a massive Hezbollah
strike on Israel and, possibly, through Moqtada al Sadr's forces
in Iraq, on U.S. troops in that country. The outbreak of massive
violence between U.S. and Sh'ia forces in Iraq may have laid the
groundwork for a U.S. strike on alleged training camps in Iran and
other targets of opportunity. WMR
has also obtained a copy of the civil suit filed by Carnaby's widow,
Susan Carnaby, against the City of Houston for the wrongful death
of her husband.
The
shooting death of Roland Carnaby in Houston became an important focal
point of Dr. James Fetzer’s May
7th interview with Capt. May and myself on the Dynamic Duo
talk show:
Maj Fox: …what [New Jersey talk show host]
Hal Turner reported was really quite sensational. His headline on
May 1st was "CIA
Agent Chasing Israeli `Suitcase Nuke' in Houston, Killed by Police!"
Then he has a subtitle "Radiation Detectors Were Tripping As
Chase Reached 122 mph In Houston; Cops Shot CIA Agent, Nuke Got
Away." According to Turner, "Federal sources close to
this case have told me CIA Agent Roland Carnaby had proof a `suitcase
nuke' had arrived inside the U.S. from Israel on Tuesday. He was
chasing the device and the Israelis who had it. As local law enforcement
was called-in, for some unknown reason cops allegedly began chasing
the CIA Agent instead of the Israelis and ultimately shot the CIA
agent dead!"
Turner's
story is particularly interesting for two reasons. If true, then Carnaby
tried to foil some kind of Israeli nuclear plot. On the other hand,
if it is not true, then we must ask who planted this disinformation
and why? Unfortunately
at the time of writing this chapter I do not have any additional hard
evidence to confirm Turner's story one way or the other, except to
say that Turner himself is the target of increased suspicion. This
is the same Hal Turner, incidentally, who I covered in Chapter
2regarding his interview with Capt. May about the Battle of Baghdad
Cover-Up. On
June 2008 the FBI arrested Turner for threatening a federal judge
on the air. I subsequently wrote "Capt.
May and Hal Turner: Comparable Hate Criminals?" that examined
the first Amendment issues involved in this case. On 28 July 2009
Kurt Nimmo posted at Infowars "Hal
Turner Admits He Worked for the FBI." Nimmo stated: "In
a lame attempt to save his hide and stay out of prison for allegedly
threatening to kill federal judges, the racist talk show host Hal
Turner has admitted in court that he is an FBI informant, the Chicago
Breaking News Center reports today." For
the moment, let us consider an alternative, "conventional"
viewpoint on Carnaby offered in the online article "CIA
Spook Roland Carnaby Gunned Down by Intolerance" by Bill
Conroy. This describes what happened within the last hour of Carnaby's
life consistent with the brief
police report and many television news reports:
Carnaby photo provided to media by family
The
end of Carnaby’s life started... Tuesday afternoon, April
29, after he was stopped for speeding along State Highway 288 by
a Houston cop intent on arresting him for something. Carnaby, a
Lebanese American, had made the fatal mistake of telling that police
officer that he worked for the CIA. The traffic cop also would learn
after running a check on Carnaby that he had a concealed firearms
permit. That apparently was too much for the police officer to take
in: a middle-aged, well-heeled man of Arab descent with guns who
claimed to be a spook. After
all, this is the post-911 world and Houston is home to a seaport
that is the nation’s nerve center for the oil industry. Surely
this was the police officer’s catch of a lifetime: a real
live terrorist. So,
after checking out Carnaby’s background via his squad car
radio and computer, and failing to confirm Carnaby’s tall
story, the police officer returned to the black Jeep and asked Carnaby,
52, to step out of his vehicle, with an arrest imminent, for something,
which would be determined later (maybe failure to show the cop his
concealed gun permit, or maybe impersonating a federal agent). But
Carnaby was not going to go easy, on this day. Instead, he sped
off, leaving the cop empty handed and precipitating a high-speed
chase (approaching speeds of 120 mph) that ended some 50 minutes
later with a bullet in Carnaby’s back. Once
Carnaby’s Jeep had come to a stop on the freeway feeder road
and was surrounded by a phalanx of HPD squad cars, two cops, officers
Cecil Foster and Andrew J. Washington, pumped up with adrenalin
and anger from the heat of the chase, rushed the Jeep. Moments later,
as Carnaby was exiting his vehicle, they unloaded their service
revolvers, with the fatal shot blasting a hole in Carnaby’s
back. The
cops would later say they thought Carnaby was reaching for a “shiny
object,” which they feared was a gun. It turned out to be
a Blackberry PDA, or maybe nothing at all. Only
after Carnaby’s jeep was impounded would the police find the
three weapons in his car (which he had a legal right to have in
his possession) — none of which were in Carnaby’s hand
at the time he was gunned down. It
was time for the HPD to close ranks, to get the story straight.
The fact that two Houston cops had just shot an unarmed man in the
back (the 10th fatal shooting by cops in the Houston metropolitan
area so far this year) had to be downplayed in this case to avoid
the expensive consequences of legal liability.
Helicopter photo
of Roland Carnaby after he was shot in the back and then handcuffed.
According
to this article, the police hovered over Carnaby for fifteen minutes
as he was lying face down (many TV news stories said 12 minutes),
hand-cuffed, and bleeding to death before an ambulance arrived. According
to ABC 13 News, police failed
to give him first aid even though they are all trained in first
aid measures, to include CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation). Instead
of taking Carnaby to the nearest emergency room, the ambulance instead
took him on a ten mile trip through busy Houston traffic to a different
hospital where he was pronounced dead. According to the ABC 13 News
report provided below, police officials claimed they were hesitant
to touch Carnaby to stop the bleeding because they lacked the latex
gloves necessary to prevent the risk of getting infected with AIDs
from untested blood. In
the police video of the killing (provided below), we see a police
officer holding a gun come around the front of Carnaby's halted vehicle.
The very instant that the police officer works his way around Carnaby's
opened driver's door in order to be able to sees Carnaby, he shoots
him in the back as he is stepping outwards out of his car. This
video has a slow motion segment. Watch carefully and ask how the police
officer could see that Carnaby was "reaching for something"
before he shot him. In
addition, one might wonder if Carnaby was so dangerous that he needed
to be shot immediately, why did a policeman first bash in his passenger
window to his right and then work his way around the front of the
car. Wouldn't he be afraid that Carnaby could shoot him through the
windshield?
KPRC-2 News report that shows a helicopter video angle
on Carnaby getting shot. First, police bashed
in the passenger window to the right of driver.
ABC-13 News report, which provides a CIA disavowal of
Carnaby. This also has a police explanation about why they refrained
from giving first aid because they lacked latex gloves to prevent
possible blood infection.
According
to Wayne Madsen, in the days following Carnaby's death, "the
Houston
Chronicle
and other major media reported that Carnaby may have been a fake."
In addition, the CIA Office of public affairs issued the
following statement to ABC 13 TV news:
While
we do not as a rule publicly deny or confirm employment, I will
tell you that in this case that Mr. Carnaby was not an employee
of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was never a CIA officer.
In this TV news report, both the CIA and FBI denied that
Carnaby worked for them, despite later evidence demonstrating
that he was under contract with multiple agencies and had been
a longstanding CIA station chief in key areas.
Wayne Madsen explains how the Houston police department
disposed of evidence despite a court order. Carnaby
carried a personal business card of CIA Director George Tenet
with his home phone number.
In
his video interview, Madsen notes that Carnaby was very concerned
about port security for Houston, which is the largest foreign tonnage
port for the United States. He wanted human intelligence increased.
He did not want more physical intelligence (surveillance cameras)
because he felt is is much less effective for guarding such a large
port complex compared to human intelligence. Consistent
with Capt. May's distrust of DHS described in Book I, Madsen claims
that Carnaby was wary of "The Homeland Security Department under
Michael Chertoff --who he had no time for, I might add, he also had
no time for Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, he had real problems
with these two individuals and their senior people. He was rebuffed
at every turn when he tried to have human intelligence beefed up."
Madsen
also noted that "I am always suspicious about the FBI because
they always seem to be more interested in covering things up than
investigating anything. I am not talking about agents in the field.
I am talking about the higher ups, just like the higher ups in the
CIA whom Carnaby had trouble with. You know Hayden, and Muller over
at the FBI have been promoted, but they were both on duty, at the
helm, on 9/11. They never were fired. They have just been promoted
and kept in their present jobs." Please
recall how Capt. May reported the exact same difference between field
agents and headquarters staff based upon his own personal experiences
in Chapter
10. In
my interview with Dr. James Fetzer, I described evidence provided
by Wayne Madsen that the government's official story just did not
hold water:
Maj. Fox: ...Turning to the Wayne Madsen Report,
we see for example that on May 5th the title of a story was "Carnaby's
CIA Status Confirmed." According to Madsen, "Although
two CIA spokesmen have stated that Roland Carnaby, the retired CIA
agent who ran a private intelligence firm in Houston contracted
to the CIA, was not an employee of the agency, a Middle East source
with close connections to the CIA's clandestine service has told
the Wayne Madsen Report that Carnaby was, in fact, a long time CIA
agent with an extensive network in the Middle East and Europe."
Also in the Madsen Report on May 7th the title of another report
is "Professional Take on Carnaby Shooting; It was an Assassination."
It starts by saying "The shooting death by Houston police on
April 29th of retired CIA agent and CIA contractor Roland V. Carnaby
is being called an `assassination' by many intelligence professionals
who knew him and his past work for the CIA. These include veteran
intelligence officers who have seen their fair share of covert operations,
including political assassinations. Attention is also being focused
on the statement made to the press made by the Houston Police Department
Homicide Captain Steve Jett who said that the Houston police officers
who stopped Carnaby were told to `find something' on which to hold
Carnaby. Investigators wanted to know who issued that order and
why. Foreign intelligence elements who wanted Carnaby silenced may
have infiltrated the Houston Police Department at a high level and
issued an order to `hold' Carnaby on any charge." Then getting
back to some details on the actual incident, just a few more comments
may be in order here. Dr. Fetzer: Sure. Maj Fox: OK, on April 30th, the Madsen Report says
"Fred Platt, the Vice President of the Houston AFIO Chapter,"
that is the Association For Intelligence Officers, "..said
Carnaby's job was so classified, Houston police homicide detectives
will come up blank when they run his name. Platt said Carnaby's
job involved homeland security and it involved Houston's airports
and the port of Houston. It was said that, "Carnaby was said
to travel frequently for his job. Carnaby used two different UPS
Store mailboxes as addresses for his driver's license and his Jeep
registration. Houston police reported that Carnaby was shot by two
Houston police officers Tuesday morning around 11:30 AM after a
high speed chase by the Houston police. The Chronicle reported
that Carnaby sped off after being stopped for a routine traffic
stop and after officers learned that Carnaby has a concealed weapons
permit. The Houston police said they fired after they saw Carnaby
reach under his seat. They said they feared for their lives. Platt
said Carnaby was engaged to be married and had no reason to run
from the police. Police said they initially found no weapons in
Carnaby's Jeep but said later they found two pistols and a shot
gun and one was within reach of the subject. Wayne Madsen Report
has learned from US intelligence sources in Houston that the weapons
were planted in Carnaby's Jeep after the vehicle was impounded by
Houston police." Dr. Fetzer: That is so easy to do. I mean, I don't
think that death is the usual fine for speeding or even for evading
an arrest. That is rather stunning that they would have gone out
of their way to kill him. It is certainly suspicious.
Wayne
Madsen traveled to Houston in the May-June 2008 time frame to accumulate
first hand information. He issued a series of reports that I will
reproduce below that validated Roland Carnaby as very important CIA
figure with major international contacts who monitored Mossad operations.
Note
in the 16 June report Madsen’s comment: “After an extensive
investigation, WMR has learned that those who ordered the `hit’
on Carnaby were part of a team, including smugglers tied to the Russian-Israeli
mob, who were involved in terrorist planning activities in the greater
Houston area.” Please
also note in the 16 June report that Madsen also validates what I
said in Chapter
9, namely that the Mossad runs “ground floor” criminal
operations on an ongoing basis in the Houston area that can include
Iranian patsies. “…better HUMINT would also result in
the arms, drugs, and auto theft activities of the Russian-Israeli
mob, Israeli intelligence assets, and their allies in the pro-Mojahedin
e Khalq (MEK) Iranian expatriate community in Houston being identified
by federal authorities.” I
have decided to reproduce Madsens' reports verbatim so that I do not
lose any of his details and nuances. But more than that, as a former
Naval Intelligence Officer and NSA employee who is completely independent
of Capt. May, Madsen helps validate the general thrust of Capt. May's
work detailed in Books I and II of this series. I
have presented the reports in chronological order, with the last November
2009 report containing the "punchline" about Israeli operations
to smuggle American plutonium through the port of Houston. This last
report also provides important insights into Israel's grand strategy.
May
15, 2008 -- CIA agent was monitoring Israeli finances
WMR
has learned that Roland V. Carnaby, the longtime CIA veteran and
President of the Houston chapter of the Association for Intelligence
Officers (AFIO), was involved in monitoring Israeli firms moving
money and goods in and out of Israel… Carnaby
was also working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Houston,
as well as the CIA's Counter-terrorism Center (CTC) in attempting
to beef up security for the Port of Houston. Carnaby, WMR has learned,
was involved in conducting security surveys of the port and discovered
that the Department of Homeland Security had tolerated gaping holes
in port security. Carnaby
and Houston intelligence and law enforcement personnel were also
investigating the presence of "Middle Easterners" who
were conducting surveillance of the Port of Houston. The "Middle
Eastern" designator is the term used by the FBI for Israelis
in order to avoid "political" problems with superiors.
The
word from the federal agents who were involved in identifying weaknesses
in Houston port security is they did not want to see "another
9/11-type part false flag." WMR
has also learned that Carnaby was a longtime player in Houston area
intelligence matters and had established a close relationship with
former President George H. W. Bush. However, WMR has also learned
that the elder Bush's mental acuity is being affected by the early
stages of Alzheimer's Disease. WMR
has also learned that Carnaby's Lebanese family, which used the
original spelling of Karnabe, is very well-respected by different
political and religious factions in the country. WMR has also learned
that Carnaby had stumbled across some significant intelligence impacting
the overall situation in the Middle East and that at the time of
his death Carnaby wanted the intelligence to personally reach CIA
director Michael Hayden without delay. WMR has been asked for assistance
by US intelligence sources in Lebanon to assist in conveying the
critical intelligence to Hayden. WMR has been told that the CIA
and FBI have been infiltrated by gatekeepers that are ensuring that
critical intelligence does not reach top U.S. policy makers in intelligence
and law enforcement.
May
16-18, 2008 -- Was CIA agent's computer compromised?
WMR
has discovered that the story proffered by the Houston Police Department
that the CIA was sending someone from Virginia to Houston to check
on the validity of CIA contract agent Roland Carnaby's CIA identification
card was a ruse to cover up the fact that the police had impounded
Carnaby's lap top computer and cell phone along with his Jeep Commander.
Carnaby's ID card was already known to be authentic by CIA Headquarters
in Virginia. The
CIA was concerned that details of Carnaby's classified and covert
work for the CIA in the Port of Houston, as well as his non-official
cover Carnaby Shipping Company Ltd. and American Global Enterprise
contacts in the United States and Lebanon may have been compromised
to Israeli Mossad agents who have infiltrated the Houston Police
Department primarily through blackmail techniques. The Israeli Consulate
General in Houston is reportedly at the center of the Israeli influence
and intelligence ring in the fourth largest city in America and
the home to the largest port for imports in the United States. WMR
has also been informed that Carnaby worked out of one the CIA's
offices in Houston. A physical examination of the building also
revealed that the entire ninth floor is occupied by the "Office
of George Bush," the former President. The office building
was once the headquarters of the Resolution Trust Corporation, the
entity tasked with cleaning up the Savings and Loan fraud of the
1980s, a scandal that involved Bush's sons, particularly Neil and
Jeb. Carnaby
was gunned down by Houston police on the 610 feeder road in the
West/Hidden Oak neighborhood of Houston. The location is around
the corner from the building housing George H. W. Bush's office.
WMR has also learned that Carnaby was trying to call the local CIA
office before he was shot by the police. WMR
has been told by individuals familiar with Houston Police practices
that after a police shooting the practice of the police is to "demonize
the victim." Carnaby has not only faced such a barrage from
the police but a concerted effort by Israeli-influenced media to
paint Carnaby as a fraud. The
chief purveyor of the disinformation campaign has been the Houston
Chronicle and particularly one of its senior reporters, Mike
Tolson who even referred to a known fraud by the name of Alan Premel.
WMR previously reported that CIA sources have told us that Carnaby
never knew Premel and that media references to their past "association"
are forgeries designed to harm Carnaby's image and reputation. Tolson
refers to "conspiracy blogs" reporting that Carnaby had
infiltrated a local Mossad ring. In fact, it is the Chronicle,
a Hearst paper that is living up to its corporate parent's long
tradition of offering up yellow journalism, a history that began
with the fake stories used by founder William Randolph Hearst to
push the United States into war with Spain. Carnaby's
exact time of death is expected to be released in the next few days
when the full autopsy report is completed. Carnaby was carrying
between $7,000 and $10,000 in cash on him when he was shot by the
police. Reliable sources told WMR that the money was often used
to pay off contacts and sources. We have also learned that Carnaby's
concealed permit weapons were spotted earlier in the morning of
April 29, but it has not been determined if these are the same weapons
later "discovered" by police after Carnaby's vehicle was
impounded.
May
19, 2008 -- SPECIAL REPORT. EXCLUSIVE TO WMR. Assassinated CIA station
chief was kidnap victim in Lebanon
Roland
V. Carnaby, the one-time Houston CIA station chief who was gunned
down by Houston police on April 29, had been a kidnap victim of
Hezbollah in Lebanon where he served in the 1980s as a clandestine
CIA officer. Carnaby was fluent in Italian, French, English, and
Arabic. According
to knowledgeable sources, Carnaby had been taken hostage before
the kidnapping of his boss, CIA Beirut station chief William F.
Buckley. Carnaby was later exchanged in a swap of prisoners between
Hezbollah and the Lebanese government. Buckley was not so fortunate.
On March 16, 1984, Buckley was kidnapped by Hezbollah, held by Islamic
Jihad, and was later tortured and executed in 1985 by his captors.
Buckley's remains were found in a plastic bag in 1991 on a road
to Beirut airport. On
a recent visit to Washington, DC, Carnaby visited Buckley's grave
at Arlington National Cemetery and broke down in tears, according
to a reliable source. Carnaby
reportedly expressed great joy at the February 13, 2008 car bombing
assassination of top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mugniyah
in Damascus. Carnaby was aware of the means of Mugniyah's assassination,
a triggering device placed in the spring cushion of Mugniyah's automobile
while it was being "repaired." On
February 13, 2008, WMR reported: "Mugniyah's car exploded at
around 10:30 pm in the up-market Tantheem Kafer Souseh neighborhood
of Damascus. WMR has learned that the car bombing of Mugniyah was
to be timed with the February 9th birthday of President Ronald Reagan,
a gesture by Shawkat to the Americans, but the specially designed
Mitsubishi seats containing the bombs were installed late, resulting
in the February 12 assassination." In
addition to Buckley, Mugniyah was reportedly behind the kidnapping
and execution of Marine Corps peacekeeper Lt. Col. William Higgins.
It was Carnaby's friendship and loyalty to Buckley that prompted
him to name the Houston chapter of the Association for Intelligence
Officers (AFIO), headed by Carnaby at the time of his assassination,
for Buckley. Carnaby
also had former CIA director George Tenet's personal telephone number
in his personal phone book. Carnaby regularly dined with the former
FBI Houston Assistant Special Agent-in-charge Don Clark. On the
morning Carnaby was being chased by Houston police, the FBI phoned
the Houston police and pleaded with them to call off the pursuit
of Carnaby. According to FBI sources, the Houston police refused.
There
is also reason to believe that Carnaby was tailed by police into
Houston from Brazoria County. WMR has learned that the Brazoria
County Sheriff's Department contacted the Houston police to inform
them that Carnaby was en route to Houston from Brazoria County.
The rear of Carnaby's Jeep Commander was riddled with bullet holes,
an indication that he was being shot at while driving. WMR
has also learned that one of Carnaby's best friends was the late
FBI counter-terrorism chief agent John P. O'Neill. O'Neill investigated
a series of terrorist attacks against the United States, including
the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Aden. The US ambassador
to Yemen, Barbara Bodine, later expelled O'Neill and his team from
Yemen for getting too close to the real perpetrators of anti-U.S.
attacks -- Saudi Arabia and Israel. In
August 2001, a few weeks before 9/11, O'Neill was put under an FBI
investigation for "losing" a briefcase containing classified
counter-espionage and counter-terrorism in New York City. The briefcase
was stolen while O'Neill was attending a seminar in Florida. The
case was returned some 90 minutes later but the incident was leaked
by someone in the FBI to the media. O'Neill's friends contend he
was the victim of a smear campaign, the same type of campaign now
being directed against Carnaby and from the same usual suspects.
O'Neill was offered and took the job as director of security for
the World Trade Center. He died on September 11, 2001 while assisting
people evacuating the towers.
Caption by Wayne Madsen: "Roland Carnaby, gunned down
by Houston police, kept a laminated funeral mass card [front
side above, back side below] for his close friend John O'Neill
in his wallet. O'Neill was killed on 9/11."
In
March of this year, a Woody Allen "Zelig"-type character
named Alan Premel began a sophisticated Internet operation designed
to place him as a CIA colleague of Carnaby's. Not only did Premel
out Carnaby as a CIA agent but he claimed to have worked with him
in clandestine operations, even claiming that they wrote a book
together and appeared at a book signing at a Barnes and Noble bookstore.
A U.S. intelligence source said that Premel was "created to
be in place until he was needed." Premel's postings about his
fake CIA background first appeared on the web in January 2007. WMR
has learned that Premel was fired as a FedEX driver for stealing
I-Pods, has restraining orders against him by his ex-wife and a
porn movie star he knew, and lives at home with his parents. Carnaby
was incensed at Premel's Internet postings. Carnaby contacted CIA
headquarters in Langley, Virginia and asked his colleagues, "What
is this guy trying to do to me?" Carnaby was always careful
about his true identity being revealed and for reasons now known
by WMR. These details will not be published by WMR due to the sensitivity
the disclosure of the information may have on clandestine CIA activities
abroad and the danger that could be faced by covert operations personnel.
However, there is a possibility that Carnaby's laptop computer files
may have been compromised to a hostile foreign intelligence service
when it was impounded by Houston police. The Houston police has
been heavily infiltrated by Israeli intelligence agents who operate
freely with the knowledge of top Houston city and police officials. Although
Carnaby hosted a number of AFIO Houston events he was careful about
who took his photo. In one case, some French news photographers
attempted to take Carnaby's picture. He told them is perfect French
that if they tried to take his picture he would jam their camera
"up their asses." A
conservative Republican who was very close to former President George
H. W. Bush, Carnaby was not shy about his feelings about Vice President
Dick Cheney. He blamed Cheney for steering George W. Bush into the
Iraq fiasco and told a close friend that he "feared for his
country" and was worried about a U.S. war with Iran. Encountering
Carnaby by surprise in a Houston restaurant, the elder Bush embraced
him warmly as only old friends would do, according to a source close
to the slain CIA agent. Carnaby was described as more loyal to the
senior Bush than to George W. Bush. It is also known that Carnaby
privately supported Ron Paul over John McCain in the GOP primary
race. A
source who knew Carnaby well said the former CIA station chief "knew
what was about to happen with Iran" and that he "connected
all the dots and knew what was going on." Carnaby was also
incensed at the forced retirement of US Central Command (CENTCOM)
chief Admiral William Fallon, an opponent of U.S. military action
against Iran. Carnaby
grew increasingly skittish in the weeks before his death. While
at a Houston restaurant, Carnaby was approached by a man who appeared
"tipsy" with an open bag used for to-go orders. He greeted
Carnaby and asked how he was doing. Carnaby responded by telling
him he did not know him. The man said he was sorry but Carnaby had
already reached for his concealed hand gun. Following the man out
of the restaurant, Carnaby discovered the man getting into a car
with diplomatic plates -- plates assigned to the Israeli Consulate
General in Houston, which is located in Greenway Plaza, and is the
third largest Israeli consulate in the United States.
Wayne Madsen caption and photo: "Houston's Greenway
Plaza office complex: the location of Israel's Consulate General
and espionage activities in the greater Houston area."
Carnaby
maintained a close relationship to Israelis in Houston and regularly
spoke to Israel by phone. However, he told a colleague that he kept
his close contacts with Israelis and because he believed in "keeping
his friends close and his enemies closer." After his death,
Carnaby has been the subject of a vicious smear campaign from web
sites connected to Jewish and Israeli interests. It is also known
that Carnaby was livid over the Department of Homeland Security's
failure to adequately secure the Port of Houston from terrorist
attacks and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. Carnaby
also told a friend that he was incensed over the treatment of the
administration of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister Tariq Aziz. Aziz, an Iraqi Christian, went on trial today
in Baghdad. Carnaby said that Aziz's imprisonment is no way for
"the government to treat one of its assets." Asked
why CIA director Michael Hayden allowed Carnaby's name to be dragged
through the mud after his assassination in Houston, a US intelligence
source commented, "someone is telling him [Hayden] how to run
his shop." When asked who the "someone" is, the source
confided that a "general only gets a fourth star if the President
and Cheney say so."
May
20, 2008 -- Carnaby had access inside the Israeli Prime Minister's
office
Roland
Carnaby, the one-time CIA Station Chief for the Southeast Region,
headquartered in Houston, had sources inside the office of Israel's
Prime Minister…. Carnaby
maintained close links to Israeli intelligence and sponsored and
vouched for a number of Israeli security contractors who wanted
to provide services to the George Bush International Airport in
Houston. However, it is now clear that Carnaby obtained knowledge
about Israeli and Bush administration plans to start a Middle East
conflagration that was enough for elements inside the Bush White
House, Israeli intelligence, and their contacts inside the Houston
Police Department to have him assassinated…. ….WMR
has learned from CIA sources in Lebanon that Carnaby maintained
a close link to retired Lebanese General Michael Aoun, a major Christian
leader who has allied his party to Hezbollah and its leader Hassan
Nasrallah. Aoun was once considered an ally of Israel but broke
his ties after Israel's devastating sneak attack on Lebanon in 2006. It
is likely that Carnaby was the nexus that served to pass the leak
from Olmert's office to Aoun and then to Nasrallah. It was the plan
for a U.S. and Israeli assault on Lebanon following Nasrallah's
assassination that prompted the Hezbollah leader to carry out a
show of force against the pro-US government of Prime Minister Fuad
Siniora. Plans by the United States and Israel to attack Lebanon
would have been coordinated with a military assault on Syria and
eventually, Iran. Carnaby
was very close to former President George H. W. Bush, who WMR has
been told is adamantly opposed to any U.S. military strike on Lebanon,
Syria, or Iran. Although the senior Bush is beginning to suffer
symptoms associated with Alzheimer's, it is also known that he has
worked behind the scenes to stop further U.S. military attacks in
the Middle East. Carnaby
was so close to the elder Bush that while at a Houston restaurant,
the elder Bush, after spotting Carnaby at the bar having a drink
with a friend, jumped up, ran over to Carnaby, and warmly embraced
him. Bush is also reportedly incensed at Carnaby's shooting by the
police and he has blamed the neocons who have infiltrated his son's
administration for the death of his friend. The
elder Bush resents the heavy hand dealt by Vice President Dick Cheney
to Syria's President Bashar Assad. Bush still recalls that it was
Assad's father, Hafez Assad, who contributed troops for Operation
Desert Storm against Assad's fellow rival Baathist Saddam Hussein.
Bush also was appreciative that Bashar Assad's intelligence chief
helped take out Hezbollah's military commander Imad Mugniyah in
a Damascus car bombing in February. Mugniyah was blamed for the
kidnapping and torture execution of CIA Beirut station chief William
Buckley in 1985. Buckley was Carnaby's boss in Lebanon and Bush,
as Vice President, was coordinating America's counter-terrorism
program. WMR
has also discovered that before the planned assassination of Nasrallah
on April 25, Carnaby was talking on his cell phone at a Houston
restaurant. The patrons of the restaurant were startled to hear
the mild mannered Carnaby began shouting in the phone, yelling "Who
the hell ordered that?" and pounding the table. Those who knew
Carnaby thought it was out of character but also knew that something
serious was going on. It
is also known that Carnaby, fearful of a U.S. war with Iran, wanted
to leave the CIA. He was reportedly very nervous, behavior described
by a friend as "skittish," during the week before his
death. WMR has also learned from a reliable source that Carnaby
had information that he was trying to get to Washington the morning
that he was killed. The Houston police impounded Carnaby's laptop
computer, which contained details on a CIA non-official cover (NOC)
network tasked with protecting U.S. and foreign ports from terrorist
attacks and the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
That network, like Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings &
Associates non-official cover firm that tracked the proliferation
of WMDs, may have been compromised to Mossad, which is considered
by the CIA to be a hostile intelligence agency that seeks to damage
U.S. national security.
June 10-11, 2008 -- Houston police disposes of critical evidence
in Carnaby shooting
The
city of Houston's counsel revealed in open court on May 23, 2008,
that it disposed and dispersed critical evidence in the case of
the April 29, 2008 shooting death by two Houston police officers
of one-time CIA Southeast Region station chief Roland "Tony"
Carnaby. Among the items is Carnaby's Mac laptop computer, which
Houston's counsel said was turned over to the U.S. Secret Service.
However, WMR has learned that the Houston police took back possession
of the laptop from the Secret Service. A
motion to amend the evidence
preservation order and inventory documents and items in Carnaby's
possession at the time of his death was filed by Randall Kallinen,
the attorney for Susan Carnaby, the slain CIA agent's widow, who
is suing the city of Houston and the two police officers in federal
court for the wrongful death of Carnaby. In a June 2, 2008, letter
from L. A. Teehan, Senior Assistant Houston attorney to Kallinen,
the city refuses to abide by the plaintiff's request to preserve
Carnaby's property as evidence. On June 9, 2008, US Judge Keith
Ellison ordered
the city to respond within 10 days to the motion by Mrs. Carnaby's
attorney. Kallinen's
motion also cites the city's failure to preserve "videotapes
and audiotapes of the chase and shooting, records of the phone call"
Carnaby "made after the chase ended and the critical CIA evaluations
of Carnaby's CIA identifications." The
motion also states:
"During
daylight hours on April 29, 2008, the Houston Police Department
stopped Roland Carnaby, 52, for speeding in the south of Houston,
Texas. In his vehicle Roland had sensitive information in his
laptop computer and elsewhere regarding his national security
interest investigations. Roland showed the officer his identification
and the officer checked Roland’s background via the HPD
squad car computers. The officer at the scene learned Roland’s
address and that Roland had passed the rigorous requirements to
obtain a Texas concealed handgun permit and that Roland had never
been convicted or even arrested for a crime and had no warrants
for his arrest. The officers at the scene were told by an HPD
superior to arrest Roland 'for something' which would entail impounding
the vehicle and its contents including the laptop computer with
the sensitive security data entrusted to Roland. Roland
knew that arrest means jailing without the ability to communicate
to anyone for many hours and that vehicle contents are often stolen
from impound lots and police property rooms. Roland then drove
off and a police chase ensued. Despite the knowledge of Roland’s
exemplary background and home address HPD chased Roland at high
speeds through Houston’s streets and highways endangering
any man, woman or child that they passed. At no time during the
pursuit did Roland display a weapon or attempt to hit any police
officer with his vehicle. During
the chase the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted HPD, confirmed
Roland Carnaby’s status and asked HPD to call off the chase.
HPD refused. Roland came to stop. With full knowledge of Roland’s
background as set forth above police attacked the vehicle with
nightsticks and weapons drawn shouting for Roland to get out smashing
in the passenger window. When Roland complied by getting out of
the SUV an officer slammed Roland with the SUV door. Two Houston
Police officers, Cecil Foster and Andrew J. Washington, shot at
Roland Carnaby striking him in the lower back when they were not
in objectively reasonable fear of their lives or the lives of
another. Instead of administering any aid to the gunshot wound(s)
the HPD officers handcuffed Roland and left him lying face down
on the street. When Houston paramedics arrived at least twelve
minutes later they did not take Roland to the nearest emergency
room--Roland was fully covered by medical insurance --but to Ben
Taub Hospital ten miles away through busy Houston streets."
WMR
has learned that the Houston police official who refused to call
off the chase after the FBI confirmed Carnaby's CIA status is under
investigation by federal authorities and is suspected of being an
Israeli intelligence mole within the Houston Police Department.
WMR
has learned from U.S. intelligence sources who worked with Carnaby
that he was "going after the alternate U.S. military chain-of-command"
that WMR previously reported was attempting to launch the United
States into a war with Iran last August when nuclear cruise missiles
were ordered moved to the Middle East theater but aborted by the
Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff. More recently, the alternate
chain of command attempted an assassination of Lebanese Hezbollah
leader Hassan Nasrallah, another move that was aborted before it
would have touched off a widespread regional war in the Middle East
involving Israel and the United States against Hezbollah, Syria,
Shia forces in Iraq, and Iran. Carnaby's
colleagues told WMR that Carnaby was frustrated by "gatekeepers"
preventing him from getting critical intelligence concerning the
alternate chain of command to top levels of the CIA. WMR was told
by a Carnaby CIA associate in Lebanon that he was also being blocked
by a Marine Corps officer "gatekeeper" in getting critical
intelligence to CIA director Michael Hayden. The source in Lebanon
said that Carnaby's assassination by the Houston police and Israeli
moles in the department was part of a drastic operation that could
affect the national security of the United States and the outcome
of the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Carnaby, WMR has learned,
was concerned that those elements that he opposed were going to
make their move before "Bush left office."
June
11-12, 2008 -- New details emerge about assassinated CIA agent in
Houston
WMR
has learned that one-time CIA Southeast Region station chief Roland
"Tony" Carnaby, gunned down by the Houston police on April
29, had strained relations with CIA director General Michael Hayden.
Carnaby, who was a close friend of former CIA director George Tenet,
complained about Hayden's stewardship of the CIA. When Carnaby was
shot by the Houston police, Hayden made no effort to provide intelligence
cover for the slain agent, permitting dubious media stories, including
a number in the Houston Chronicle, to advance the notion
that Carnaby was a phony CIA officer lacking legitimate bona fide
credentials. There
is a widespread feeling throughout the Intelligence Community that
when Defense Secretary Robert Gates realized there was a second
chain-of-command operating through the aegis of the Air Force he
fired two of its principals, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and
Air Force Chief of Staff T. Michael "Buzz' Moseley and has
targeted other military and civilian officials for dismissal. However,
there is one Air Force General whose own role in the alternate chain-of-command
has largely escaped scrutiny, General Hayden at the CIA. WMR has
learned rather than having Hayden resign he has been ordered to
officially retire from the Air Force and remove his uniform effective
July 1. It is believed that Hayden will be less prone to carry out
orders from Vice President Dick Cheney's office if he is no longer
on active duty and subject to the military chain-of-command. WMR
has also discovered additional information about Carnaby's CIA past.
In addition to "Tony" Carnaby, he used two other aliases,
"Tony Montana" and "Tony Luciano." In addition
to Tenet, Carnaby was often seen socializing in Washington, DC with
the late FBI Assistant Director John O'Neill, killed in the collapse
of the World Trade Center on 9/11. One of their favorite hangouts
was the "back bar" at Old Ebbit's Grill on 15th Street
in Washington, across from the Treasury Department and a block from
the White House. Carnaby and O'Neill were well known to the bartenders
at Ebbit's. During
an intelligence-related meeting at a hotel in Tyson's Corner, Virginia,
Carnaby was warmly greeted by a number of top CIA officials, including
an old friend, the CIA's director of recruitment who was called
out of retirement after 9/11. It
has also been learned that US Judge Keith Ellison is growing increasingly
suspicious of the behavior of the Houston police in the civil lawsuit
brought by Carnaby's wife, Susan, against the city and the two Houston
police officers who shot Carnaby. Ellison wants to know why the
Houston police returned the two police officers to active duty and
they were given back the very same guns used to shoot Carnaby, weapons
that should be treated as protected evidence in the case.
June
13-15, 2008 -- Carnaby was master of Arabic dialects and disguises
Roland
V. "Tony" Carnaby, the CIA agent killed by Houston police
on April 29, was a frequent user of the CIA disguises designed and
developed by Antonio (Tony) and Jonna Mendez, both of whom served
as the CIA's "masters of disguise." The husband and wife
team are co-authors of the book "Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise
Reveal the Tools & Operations That Helped Win the Cold War."
They also spoke at the Association for Intelligence Officers gala
event in Houston on Sept. 1, 2007, an event presided over by Carnaby.
Tony, known as "Q" within the CIA, and Jonna were close
friends of Carnaby. Carnaby,
according to US intelligence sources, was a user of the Mendezes
disguises, particularly in the Middle East. On one occasion, Carnaby
was dressed as a Jordanian street cleaner in Amman while surveilling
a target. Carnaby spoke the Jordanian dialect of Arabic perfectly.
A few hours later, the "street cleaner" was clad in a
blue blazer and sun glasses in Amman, operating under U.S. intelligence
cover. In
addition to speaking Arabic dialects, including Levantine, Egyptian,
and Yemeni, Carnaby could also speak fluent Hebrew and he maintained
close links to Israeli intelligence agents and assets abroad and
in Houston. He was concerned that as with "two CIAs,"
there was also "two Mossads" in operation, one official
and the other a dangerous rogue operation. WMR
has also discovered that Carnaby's Texas Concealed Handgun License
denoted the category "SA," meaning "Special Agent,"
a code that appears on the permits of law enforcement and intelligence
officers in Texas, including CIA, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) agents. The Houston police who stopped Carnaby clearly saw
this code on his permit. We
have also learned that Carnaby worked in Laos during the Indochina
conflict with long-time CIA clandestine agent Ted Shackley. It is
believed by some of his CIA colleagues that Carnaby's age was older
than his reported 52. It is common for CIA agents to claim different
ages to avoid identification from public records.
June
14-15, 2008 -- Carnaby was on to something very big
Now
that this editor successfully traveled to Houston and is now safely
en route back to Washington, successfully bypassing the illegal
searches of Michael Chertoff's Washington, DC-based agents, I can
report that a sense of fear permeates Houston about the vulnerability
of the metropolitan area's ports, ship channel, and airports. Slain
retired CIA agent Roland "Tony" Carnaby and his Association
for Intelligence Officers (AFIO) colleagues, some of whom I met
and spoke to in Houston and are, like Carnaby, ex-CIA, are convinced
that the Houston area is vulnerable to another 9/11-like incident,
definitely before George W. Bush leaves office and possibly around
the time of the upcoming Independence Day holiday weekend. Carnaby
was shot by the Houston police after a high-speed chase on April
29. And for the first time, WMR can report that Carnaby's and his
colleagues' concerns about the security of Houston and a "false
flag" attack are shared by former President George H. W. Bush
and his closest ex-intelligence community colleagues. Story developing.
June
16, 2008 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Another 9/11 waiting to happen
Roland
"Tony" Carnaby, the one-time CIA station chief for the
Southeast Region slain by Houston police on April 29, was an advocate
of increasing "HUMINT" resources in and around the sprawling
Houston port complex, from Houston to Galveston. Houston is the
largest port in the United States for foreign tonnage. Carnaby
had in his possession the morning of April 29 information that someone
wanted and wanted badly enough to order the Houston police to treat
the well-known former CIA clandestine agent and president of the
local chapter of the Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO)
as a dangerous armed criminal. After an extensive investigation,
WMR has learned that those who ordered the "hit" on Carnaby
were part of a team, including smugglers tied to the Russian-Israeli
mob, who were involved in terrorist planning activities in the greater
Houston area. Carnaby
and his intelligence and federal and county law enforcement associates
were concerned about the potential for a "9/11-like" false
flag attack on either Houston's port facility, airports, or all
of them in and around the Memorial Day and Independence Day weekends.
WMR
has learned that at a meeting of tugboat captains last week in Houston,
the possibility of an imminent terrorist attack on the Houston port
was discussed. Carnaby's
belief in HUMINT as a determinant of terrorist plans likely caused
him to believe that Houston was in imminent danger for an attack.
WMR spoke to Carnaby's intelligence and law enforcement colleagues
who share his concerns. Suspiciously,
the Houston police, in violation of US Judge Keith Ellison's order
to preserve all evidence related to Carnaby's shooting by the Houston
police, admitted that it disposed of the evidence. Moreover, after
having secured Carnaby's Blackberry, which is known to contain contact
numbers for CIA and other federal agents, as well as their informants,
was returned to the custody of the Houston police by Secret Service
Special Agent R. Jennings, the reported SAC (Special Agent in Charge)
of the Houston office. Jennings
has been accused by Carnaby's colleagues of cooperating with the
very same elements, including individuals connected to Israeli intelligence
activities in the Houston area and their well-placed moles inside
the Houston Police Department, who wanted access to Carnaby's contacts
and other information. The compromise of Carnaby's information represents
a potentially devastating compromise of national security and are
in direct violation of the National Security Act of 1947, according
to Carnaby's colleagues. It
still remains unknown what happened to Carnaby's Mac laptop computer
as well as a number of other cell phones, including an I-Phone and
a Bang and Olufsen mobile phone in Carnaby's possession at the time
of his shooting. Carnaby's colleagues revealed that Carnaby possessed
a number of cell phones because some were dedicated to activating
video and camera systems placed in strategic locations in and around
Houston's ports and airports and downloading images to his phones
and eventually to his laptop. At least three phones in Carnaby's
possession on the morning of April 29 were used to activate cameras
and download photos and videos from sites in and around Houston.
One mobile phone number was reportedly used for this surveillance
activity -- 713 208-0000 .
Wayne Madsen caption: "The spot on Houston's West Loop
where CIA agent Roland "Tony" Carnaby was gunned down
by Houston police in a pre-planned "hit" on April
29. The shooting of Carnaby took place close to former President
George H. W. Bush's Tanglewood residence."
On
May 16, 2008, WMR reported: "The CIA was concerned that details
of Carnaby's classified and covert work for the CIA in the Port
of Houston, as well as his non-official cover Carnaby Shipping Company
Ltd. and American Global Enterprise contacts in the United States
and Lebanon may have been compromised to Israeli Mossad agents who
have infiltrated the Houston Police Department primarily through
blackmail techniques. The Israeli Consulate General in Houston is
reportedly at the center of the Israeli influence and intelligence
ring in the fourth largest city in America and the home to the largest
port for imports in the United States." The
evening before Carnaby was shot, a man approached Carnaby and two
friends at Houston's Capital Grille, a favorite meeting spot for
Houston's business elite. A man, pretending to be inebriated, went
up to Carnaby and acted as though he was an old friend. He was carrying
an open bag, the type in which "to go" food orders are
usually placed. Carnaby reportedly reached for his concealed handgun
and told the man he had never seen him or met him before. The man
apologized, quickly left the restaurant, and drove off in a car
with diplomatic license plates. Carnaby's associates now believe
the man was assigned to the Israeli Consulate General in Houston. The
I-Phone and Mac in Carnaby's possession were officially owned by
American Global Enterprise. Carnaby's American Global cover firm
operated a warehouse in the Houston port area, a reported center
from which traffic from the port into Mexico and outbound via the
ship channel was monitored. The actual security for the Port of
Houston is maintained not by the Houston Police Department but by
the Harris County Sheriff. The jurisdictional problems affected
Carnaby's relationship with both agencies. Whereas the Harris County
Sheriff's office was usually cooperative, the Houston Police was
generally not as willing to work on increasing the security of the
port.
Caption and photo by Wayne Madsen: "Pasadena, Texas
liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Houston ship
channel, where LNG tankers are loaded and off-loaded. This
area is one of the most vulnerable targets in the Houston
port complex and is located next to San Jacinto Battlefield
Monument and Park, also the location of the battleship USS
Texas."
Carnaby's
fear about lax port security was borne out when this editor easily
gained access through the main gate into the Port of Houston in
a rental car. Although containers in bound and out bound from the
port are x-rayed and checked for radioactive materials, the overall
security is poor and that prompted Carnaby into calling for a better
HUMINT program. However, better HUMINT would also result in the
arms, drugs, and auto theft activities of the Russian-Israeli mob,
Israeli intelligence assets, and their allies in the pro-Mojahedin
e Khalq (MEK) Iranian expatriate community in Houston being identified
by federal authorities. For
example, WMR learned from US intelligence and customs agents that
the 1998 terrorist bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya
and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania had a Houston connection. The terrorist
attacks were blamed on Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The two trucks
used in the two East Africa bombings were stolen vehicles that were
shipped from Houston via Guatemala. In addition, the bombs used
passed though the same Guatemalan smuggling route. In 1998, Israel's
Mossad and Guatemala's intelligence services continued to enjoy
a close relationship and the Central American nation's successive
military juntas could count on the support of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and other Israeli lobbying organizations
in Washington. Carnaby
also had under surveillance a widespread vehicle smuggling ring
that operated out of Houston, location of one of the largest vehicle
import port facilities in the United States. One of Carnaby's law
enforcement colleagues revealed that a network of body shops in
Houston have been used to strip and smuggle stolen vehicles out
of the United States, mostly to Mexico. Some of the theft operations
operate under cover of "import-export" businesses and
one operation has laundered $250 million in proceeds from the vehicle
thefts. These illegal enterprises have been linked to Middle East
expatriates linked to Israeli intelligence operations, including
the Iranian MEK terrorist group and far right Lebanese Phalangists
allied with Israel who are supported by the Israeli Lobby in Washington.
Wayne Madsen photo and caption: "Houston's vulnerable
ship channel. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
is opposed to increasing HUMINT collection in this area lest
the operations of his Israeli friends become exposed. In one
Emergency Rapid Deployment exercise carried out by the US
Coast Guard, an unmarked Zodiac raft with an outmoded machine
gun with two US Coast Guardsmen on board, sailed up the ship
channel from Galveston to Houston without anyone challenging
them. Chertoff wuold prefer to keep "security" for
Houston this way, but for what purpose?"
One
of WMR's colleagues, German journalist Jurgen Cain Kulbel, has been
imprisoned in Berlin for reporting that the UN chief investigator
of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri,
Detlev Mehlis, was once employed by the Israeli intelligence front
organization, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).
Mehlis steered UN investigators away from the real assassins of
Hariri, Israeli intelligence who hired a number of rogue agents
from Syrian intelligence, Lebanon's Druze and Christian Phalangist
communities, and Palestinian refugees. Kulbel's imprisonment is
a direct result of pressure from Washington and Jerusalem on the
German government. Some
of Carnaby's associates were also critical of the security contract
for the Houston that involved ex-British commando Tim Spicer, whose
Aegis Defense Services, the recipient of a number of private military
contracts from the Defense Department and the former U.S.-run Coalition
Provisional Authority in Iraq. Spicer, in 2002, managed to convince
Per Christiansen, a retired Norwegian naval officer whose Hudson
Maritime won a Homeland Security Department to secure various American
ports, including Houston, to bring him on as a partner. Thus was
born Hudson Trident (the Trident being Spicer's interest in the
firm). However, Spicer's work on Houston's port security was soon
criticized by the government, including Carnaby and his associates.
Spicer, who had previously received a port security contract in
Haiti around the time of the U.S.-sponsored coup against democratically-elected
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a coup that saw a number of weapons
enter Haiti's ports illegally. Spicer's lack of performance on the
Houston port security contract soon saw him lose out on similar
port contracts for Morocco and Chittagong, Bangladesh, according
to sources with whom WMR spoke in Houston. A U.S. intelligence source
in Houston said, "Spicer fucked up the ship channel contract,"
adding, "this guy merely did plausible deniability work for
MI6 and MI5," Britain's foreign and domestic intelligence services,
respectively.
Wayne Madsen photo and caption: "A closer view of Pasadena's
LNG terminal. An attack here would have devastating and deadly
results and bottle up the ship channel, affecting the entire
United States."
It
is clear that a number of Carnaby and his intelligence colleagues
are skeptical about the "official version" of 9/11 and
fear another such attack, possibly during the upcoming Fourth of
July holiday. WMR can also report that a close friend of former
President George H. W. Bush has taken a keen and supportive interest
in our reports on the Carnaby shooting. Bush is the honorary president
of the Houston William Buckley Chapter of AFIO, for which Carnaby
served as president at the time of his death. Carnaby was also close
to the former President, who has reportedly been outraged at the
wanton killing of his friend. Carnaby was also reportedly close
to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has made no
public comment on the death of Carnaby.
---- Note:
It is clear that WMR's reporting on the Carnaby shooting is irritating
certain "quarters," also known as the "usual suspects"
and the "amen corner." WMR's contacts with Carnaby's friends
has resulted in a number of other doors on "cold cases"
being opened. They extend from Dallas in November 1963, to the fate
of the US merchant vessel "SS Poet" in 1980, Mena, Arkansas
and Nicaraguan contra drug smuggling in the 1980s, and the back
doors used to corrupt the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
and North American Defense Command (NORAD) computers and networks
on the morning of 9/11. WMR will continue to report on these and
other stories regardless of the pressure that is being exerted,
mostly not from the right-wing but from the usual "left-wing"
gatekeepers and their dubious web sites. The very same gatekeepers
who have been keeping the wool over the eyes of the American people,
most notably, since the events of 9/11.
June
20-22, 2008 -- Mossad has official and unofficial presence in Houston
WMR
has learned from U.S. intelligence sources that Israel's intelligence
service, the Mossad, operates under both official and unofficial
cover in Houston. Former CIA station chief in Houston Roland "Tony"
Carnaby, slain on April 29 by Houston police, kept the Israeli intelligence
presence under close surveillance. The
official Mossad presence is at the Israeli Consulate General in
the Greenway office complex. Mossad's "secret station,"
as it is called by the CIA, operates under the cover of a security
firm based in Houston. A CIA source told WMR that the Mossad often
buys into foreign companies and then uses them as secret stations
for its operations. Mossad's
secret Houston station works closely with other Mossad secret stations
in Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East and maintains
close liaison with the Houston Police Department, the Port of Houston,
George H. W. Bush International and Hobby Airports, the Department
of Homeland Security and its Transportation Security Administration
(TSA), US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the
State Department.
June
27-29, 2008 -- FBI on wild goose chase in Houston
WMR
has learned that the FBI is not only dragging its feet in its investigation
of the April 29 shooting death by Houston police of one-time CIA
Houston station chief Roland "Tony" Carnaby but is making
excuses for the Houston Police Department's unprofessional handling
of evidence in the case. The FBI in Houston feels that the violation
by the Houston Police of federal Judge Keith Ellison's court order
to preserve all evidence in the civil law suit brought by Carnaby's
widow against the Houston Police is merely the result of "sloppy"
police work. At
a recent hearing before Ellison, the Houston police failed to list
Carnaby's CIA badge and his cell phone communications after his
first stop by the police on a list provided to the court. It is
known that Carnaby had contacted Houston Police Internal Affairs,
the CIA, and FBI to have them intercede with the police officers
who stopped and chased him. The FBI tried unsuccessfully to have
the Houston Police call off the chase. When
the absence of the ID badge and the cellular communications was
noticed by the plaintiff's attorney, the Houston Police said they
erred and would add the items to the list. The Houston Police have
failed to list Carnaby's lap top computer, seized by the police
along with its classified national security information, on the
inventory of evidence, even though the FBI in Houston has confirmed
that the lap top computer was in Carnaby's car when it was impounded
by the police. WMR has also learned from reliable sources that the
police videotapes of the shooting incident have been destroyed.
The
police inventory list also contains a Glock, said to be in Carnaby's
car when impounded by the police. However, sources who worked closely
with Carnaby said he never carried a Glock and did not like the
weapon. On
June 25, 2008, WMR reported that the FBI's investigation of the
Carnaby shooting got off to a slow start. The recent word from Houston
is that the investigation remains stagnant. At least was supervisory
agent and a possible trainee have been assigned to the case, which
has been designated by the FBI as a "national security matter."
The
FBI agents involved are avoiding investigating Carnaby's past and
post-retirement work for the CIA. Ironically, there is a national
security dimension to the Carnaby case that has not interested the
FBI's "national security investigation." On the evening
of April 28, the night before Carnaby was gunned down in the Galleria
section of Houston, he was approached at the Capital Grille restaurant
in Houston by a man with what appeared to be a "to go"
food order bag. The man approached Carnaby and said, "You gotta
see what's in this bag." Carnaby responded, "I don't know
you." The man, still insistent that Carnaby look into the bag,
caused Carnaby to reach inside his jacket for his pistol. The man
then quickly departed the restaurant and got into a vehicle with
diplomatic plates. There is reason to believe that the vehicle and
diplomat were from the Israeli Consulate General in Houston. When
informed of this incident involving Carnaby the night before his
assassination, the FBI showed little to no interest. The
FBI is investigating a Ford Crown Victoria and a Dodge Aspen in
connection with the "national security case," but it is
not known what significance these two vehicles play in the case. In
addition, the CBS 48 Hours spin on the story from individuals in
Houston who have been interviewed is closely following the FBI line
-- that the Carnaby case is a national security matter but there
is little interest in his actual shooting by the Houston police. This
eye is blind when it comes to the Carnaby shooting and the involvement
of Israeli intelligence agents.
August
8-10, 2008 -- Houston refuses to turn over evidence to widow in Carnaby
assassination unless secrecy order invoked
The
Houston Chronicle reported yesterday on new developments
in the civil case brought against the city of Houston by Susan Carnaby,
the widow of slain retired CIA Houston station chief Roland "Tony"
Carnaby. Carnaby was shot to death by Houston police on April 29.
The city is trying to convince U.S. Judge Keith Ellison, who is
trying the civil case, to order Susan Carnaby not to make public
the "homicide report," the police internal investigation
report of the shooting incident, 911 emergency phone call transcripts,
or police dispatch tape transcripts to be made public if the city
provides such material to her. Susan Carnaby, in an affidavit to
the court, said she believes the public has a right to know about
the details of the incident, especially since the "police department
is investigating itself." She also said that her late husband
would have wanted the investigation "open and not hidden."
Recently,
a Harris County grand jury declined to prosecute Houston police
Sgt. Andrew Washington and officer Cecil Foster for murder in the
shooting death of Carnaby. However, the Houston Chronicle,
for the first time, referred to a "homicide report" in
the incident. The
references to 911 emergency calls is the first indication that someone
other than Carnaby may have called the police to report details
of the shooting incident. WMR has learned from knowledgeable Houston
sources that Carnaby was on the phone with an FBI supervisor when
police surrounded his vehicle on the 610 West Loop in the Galleria
section of Houston. Carnaby had apparently been stopped earlier
by police for speeding but someone in the Houston Police Department
ordered the retired CIA agent stopped again and arrested for anything
the police could nail him on. Contrary
to earlier reports that police chased Carnaby through heavy traffic
before they made their second stop, WMR has learned that Carnaby's
vehicle ran out of gas when police surrounded it. The shooting was
captured on local TV news helicopter video. The Houston police violated
Judge Ellison's order to preserve all evidence in the case. The
Houston police disposed of police dashboard video tapes of the incident,
audio tapes of phone calls, and the evidence gathered from Carnaby's
vehicle, including his laptop computer, cell phones, and other items.
August
13, 2008 -- Port of Houston security in hands of Israeli firm
WMR
previously reported that slain retired CIA station chief in Houston,
Roland "Tony" Carnaby, gunned down gangland-style on April
29 by Houston police after his vehicle ran out of gas, not after
a "high-speed chase" as alleged by Houston police, had
a tepid and wary relationship with Israeli intelligence operatives
in Houston. Carnaby was contracted to the Port of Houston, as well
as the two Houston area international airports, to provide security
consultative services. An
Israeli firm, Orsus, is currently installing an integrated security
monitoring system that will link video surveillance, visitor control,
and police dispatch systems to a 24-hour Port Coordination Center.
It is known that Carnaby used a number of cell phones to dial into
port video cameras to turn them on, stop them, and download captured
video data. The Israeli firm was scheduled to begin installation
of its system this month. The
financial backers of Orsus include ComSor Venture Fund LDC, a joint
operation of Comverse Technology, which includes its subsidiary
Verint Systems, and Soros Fund Management's Quantum Industrial Holdings
Ltd. Other investors in Orsus include Israel's Koor Industries,
the leading shareholder of Tadiran, the Israeli defense electronics
firm; Cial Industries and Investment, an Israeli holding company;
the Cedar Fund, an "Israeli-related" venture capital firm;
Israel Infinity Venture Capital Fund; and Poalim Capital Markets,
a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's largest bank. Some
of Orsus' backers have faced legal problems stemming from dubious
activities, not least of whom is George Soros, the international
financier who conducted a "hostile takeover" of the Democratic
Party in 2004 and has muted the message from the progressive media
by pouring cash into various magazines, publishers, and web sites
to control the message, ensuring the message does not include any
criticism of Soros or his questionable activities, including his
manipulation of democratic institutions abroad, including in the
Republic of Georgia. Soros'
ComSor partner, Comverse, saw its CEO Jacob "Kobi' Alexander,
arrested in the Namibian capital Windhoek in 2006 for manipulating
Comverse's stock options. Alexander is facing extradition to the
United States but he has managed to buy off a number of Namibian
politicians in order to extend his exile in Namibia, a country that
hosts a number of Israeli diamond poaching firms and traders. The
list of Soros' dubious associates does not stop with Alexander.
James Marquez, a former Soros assistant, and co-founder of the Bayou
Group hedge fund, was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors
of $350 million. The manager of Bayou, Samuel Israel III, faked
his own suicide in June before turning himself in for defrauding
his investors. Bank Hapoalim was investigated under Israel's new
and relatively weak Prohibition of Laundering Law for exiled Russian-Israeli
tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak.
Soros
managed to derail any effort by the so-called "progressive media"
sites he funds to properly investigate the shooting death of Carnaby.
The reasons now appear quite apparent. We will revisit Jewish-American
meddling in Georgia in Chapter
32 and corrupt and tyrannical Jewish power on Wall Street in Chapter
33.
U.S.
intelligence sources have told WMR that the actual reason why Israel
is gearing up for an attack on Iran's nuclear sites is because Israel
fears that while its own nuclear weapons are degrading, Iran stands
a chance of acquiring more potent weapons. Intelligence
sources report that since Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona in
the Negev Desert was damaged in a fuel rod explosion during a refueling
operation, its ability to reprocess plutonium for its nuclear weapons
stockpile has been severely diminished. The accident occurred because
the Israelis overstressed their Fast Breeder Reactor unit, causing
it to become unstable. In 1997, a judge in Tel Aviv ordered the
government to pay the family of Haim Itah, a worker at Dimona, NIS
2.5 million, because of cancer he contracted due to radiation leaks
at the facility. The leaks were reported to have involved at least
one accident at Dimona. The court decision also cited the "negligent
safety" policies of Dimona's top management. Israel
has also been forced to quietly re-establish its global nuclear
smuggling operations, rampant during the 1960s when it was working
to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor capabilities
have always been clouded in maximum secrecy. However, the claim
that Dimona was upgraded to a 75-megawatt reactor from its original
25-megawatt design came from Seymour Hersh's book The Samson
Option. In actuality, Israel's 25-megawatt power reactor produces
up to 75-megawatts of thermal heat or steam due to inefficiencies
in heat exchangers and turbine losses. A reactor of this size can
only produce about one to two 30-kiloton size bombs per year with
a maximum core/pit life, before reprocessing, of six to fourteen
years. If the reactor has been operating for about 40 years, then
the maximum number of weapons produced would be no greater than
sixty 30-kiloton sized weapons. The maximum number of times that
a nuclear core/pit can be reprocessed is about two to three times,
due to plutonium losses when the core is re-manufactured. This is
determined by the purity of the metal, its alloy content, and its
designed detonation size. One single 25-megawatt nuclear reactor,
during its lifetime, can only maintain approximately thirty to sixty
30-kiloton sized plutonium warheads per reactor. WMR
has learned that the diminished capabilities of the Negev Nuclear
Research Center prompted Israel, in the 1990s, to actively smuggle
nuclear materials, including enriched plutonium, to Israel. The
smuggling operations immediately became known to the CIA's Counterproliferation
Division and its non-official cover (NOC) Brewster Jennings &
Associates operation headed up by Valerie Plame. U.S.
intelligence has learned that the Israelis are worried about a nuclear
weapons gap with both Pakistan and Iran. Although there is no evidence
to suggest that Iran has re-started its nuclear weapons development
program since ceasing it in 2003, as reported by CIA, if Iran were
to re-establish its program, the math has Israel concerned. The
Iranian reactor was originally an American designed 100-megawatt
power/300 megawatt thermal reactor provided to the Shah's regime
in 1975. The reactor at Bushehr on the Gulf was built by the Germans
and completed by the Russians. If it were re-engineered for weapons
development, the reactor has the ability to produce up to eight
30-kiloton plutonium weapons per year or about a total of 96 nuclear
weapons in a fourteen year cycle before plutonium reprocessing would
be necessary. As the Israeli weapons age, their total stockpile
will be reduced to less than 30 weapons within fourteen years, while
the Iranian stockpile would grow to 96 weapons of equal explosive
size. Thus, a nuclear weapons gap would exist between Israel and
Iran. The Israelis are in a panic because they are losing the nuclear
race with Iran and Pakistan. Therefore, through its influence with
the United States, Great Britain, and France, Israel is seeking
to destabilize both Iran and Pakistan. In the case of Pakistan,
Israel also has the assistance of India. The security and future
of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is reportedly, and ironically, on
the agenda of talks in Washington between President Obama and Prime
Minister Indian Manmohan Singh, even as the United States cements
a nuclear cooperation pact with New Delhi, which, like Pakistan
and Israel, has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT). Iran is a signatory of the NPT. Israel's
search for replacement enriched plutonium hit pay-dirt when its
intelligence service discovered that the Pantex nuclear facility
near Amarillo, Texas, stores enriched plutonium fuel that is 99
percent pure plutonium that does not require reprocessing for another
60 to 90 years. However, the Department of Energy has plans to store
much of the nuclear fuel now at Pantex at the very secure Yucca
Mountain storage complex within the Nevada Test Site. WMR previously
reported that Mossad agents are extremely active at military and
nuclear sites in Nevada, including the Nevada Test Site. However,
Israeli scientists may have already penetrated the security at the
Nevada Test Site through a joint operation with the United States.
WMR has learned that U.S. and Israeli scientists are co-testing
newer electromagnetic core/pit compression techniques that does
not use conventional explosives as the weapon detonator. Instead,
the fuel is magnetically compressed. The technique overcomes the
plutonium aging issue while allowing for the development of micro-nuclear
weaponry. For example, 650 grams of force per square centimeter
is all that is required to compress a plutonium core into a critical
state. 750 grams is the minimum amount of plutonium that is needed
in order to produce a nuclear explosion. One kilogram of plutonium
produces an explosive yield equal to one kiloton of TNT. The
Israelis discovered that only U.S. nuclear cores composed of plutonium
alloys were ripe for theft at Pantex. The 99 percent plutonium fuel
was more well-guarded. Because the older plutonium cores required
refrigeration to keep them cooler than 150 degrees, the Israelis
used refrigeration trucks to move the cores through the port of
Houston and into refrigeration containers loaded on board ships
belonging to Zim-American Israeli Shipping Company, a firm with
close links to the Mossad. From Houston, the plutonium alloy cores
were shipped to Israel and Dimona. One
individual who had the port of Houston under close scrutiny was
CIA contractor/informant/source Roland "Tony" Carnaby.
Carnaby had set up a number of video surveillance cameras at the
port of Houston and routinely uploaded the stored videos from the
camera units to his Macintosh computer. In April 2008, Carnaby was
shot to death by two Houston police officers after what was reported
to have been a high-speed chase by police. After he was killed,
the Houston police took possession of Carnaby's Macintosh computer.
WMR previously reported that Carnaby kept Israeli intelligence assets
and agents under close scrutiny in Houston and that he had a strange
encounter with an Israeli Consulate General official the evening
before he was shot. WMR also previously reported on Mossad's penetration
of the Houston Police Department and the Harris County Sheriff's
Office. Harris County Sheriff Adrien Garcia has visited Israel and
is considered close to the Israeli intelligence operation in Houston.
Garcia's overall agenda was also never trusted by Carnaby, according
to our sources in Houston. Conveniently, security for the port of
Houston comes under Harris County and Garcia. Radiation detectors
routinely scan containers at Houston for the presence of nuclear
materials, hence, it is important for the Mossad to counteract security
at the port. On
August 13, 2008, WMR reported: "WMR previously reported that
slain retired CIA station chief in Houston, Roland 'Tony' Carnaby,
gunned down gangland-style on April 29 by Houston police after his
vehicle ran out of gas, not after a 'high-speed chase' as alleged
by Houston police, had a tepid and wary relationship with Israeli
intelligence operatives in Houston. Carnaby was contracted to the
Port of Houston, as well as the two Houston area international airports,
to provide security consultative services. An Israeli firm, Orsus,
is currently installing an integrated security monitoring system
that will link video surveillance, visitor control, and police dispatch
systems to a 24-hour Port Coordination Center. It is known that
Carnaby used a number of cell phones to dial into port video cameras
to turn them on, stop them, and download captured video data. The
Israeli firm was scheduled to begin installation of its system this
month.The financial backers of Orsus include ComSor Venture Fund
LDC, a joint operation of Comverse Technology, which includes its
subsidiary Verint Systems, and Soros Fund Management's Quantum Industrial
Holdings Ltd. Other investors in Orsus include Israel's Koor Industries,
the leading shareholder of Tadiran, the Israeli defense electronics
firm; Cial Industries and Investment, an Israeli holding company;
the Cedar Fund, an 'Israeli-related' venture capital firm; Israel
Infinity Venture Capital Fund; and Poalim Capital Markets, a subsidiary
of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's largest bank." Carnaby
was, reportedly, working with the FBI on the Israeli nuclear smuggling
issue and the FBI office in Houston requested that the Houston police
call off their chase of Carnaby. WMR has also learned that one of
the Israeli agents involved in the Pantex smuggling is the agent
known as "Stinky" by FBI surveillance teams. He is called
"Stinky" because of his obeseness and sloppy eating habits.
"Stinky" was linked to the clubbing death of CIA missile
expert William Bennett in Landsdowne, Virginia, near Leesburg, in
March of this year and the assassination of weapons developer Gerald
Bull in 1990 in Brusssels. Bennett had uncovered evidence that Israel
had shared with or sold to China and Russia classified U.S. Patriot
missile and stealth technology with China and Russia. Stinky
has been seen in the Amarillo area with a crew from New Jersey and
he is believed to have re-entered the United States, after the hit
on Bennett, on a false Canadian passport.
Wayne
Madsen's September 2011 update links the Carnaby case with a very
different side of international intrigue, namely involving the likely
Mossad Stuxnet virus attack on the Japanese Fukushima reactors on
3-11-2011 and the September 12th explosion at the Marcoule nuclear
power plant in France.
Israel,
working with deeply-embedded intelligence moles in the United States,
including within the U.S. government and "off-the-books"
intelligence front companies, has been pilfering spent U.S. nuclear
fuel from American nuclear arms caches at a phenomenal rate over
the last several years. U.S. and foreign intelligence sources have
confirmed that much of the nuclear fuel has been shipped to Israel
and other locations via the port of Houston. The
illegal smuggling of spent highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium
fuel from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities is the same outbound Houston
shipping pipeline used by Bush-influenced Carlyle Group and the
firm's front companies in Spain and France to ship precursor nerve
gas chemicals to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s, according to
one Pentagon intelligence source. The
nuclear smuggling is a major back story to a September 8 Government
Accountability Office (GAO) report titled "Nuclear Nonproliferation:
U.S. Agencies Have Limited Ability to Account for, Monitor, and
Evaluate the Security of U.S. Nuclear Material Overseas." The
most serious finding in the GAO report states:
"DOE [Department of Energy], NRC [Nuclear
Regulatory Commission], and State are not able to fully account
for U.S. nuclear material overseas that is subject to nuclear
cooperation agreement terms because the agreements do not stipulate
systematic reporting of such information, and there is no U.S.
policy to pursue or obtain such information. U.S. nuclear cooperation
agreements generally require that partners report inventory information
upon request, however, DOE and NRC have not systematically sought
such data. DOE and NRC do not have a comprehensive, detailed,
current inventory of U.S. nuclear material--including weapon-usable
material such as highly enriched uranium (HEU) and separated plutonium--overseas
that includes the country, facility, and quantity of material.
In addition, NRC and DOE could not fully account for the current
location and disposition of U.S. HEU overseas in response to a
1992 congressional mandate. U.S. agencies, in a 1993 report produced
in response to the mandate, were able to verify the location of
1,160 kilograms out of 17,500 kilograms of U.S. HEU estimated
to have been exported. DOE, NRC, and State have established annual
inventory reconciliations with five U.S. partners, but not the
others it has transferred material to or trades with."
The
report also states that a nuclear cooperation agreement between
the United States and Israel was allowed to lapse. The GAO report
also states: "DOE's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
removes U.S. nuclear material from vulnerable facilities overseas
but can only bring back materials that have an approved disposition
pathway and meet the program's eligibility criteria." WMR has
been informed that because of the amount of HEU and plutonium smuggled
from the United States outside of "approved disposition pathways,"
there is no way for the United States to know exactly where HEU
and plutonium has been distributed, especially to unauthorized end-users
who have been using the spent nuclear material in violation of the
nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) or U.S. export control laws.
Countries that fall into this category, according to our sources,
include Japan, Israel, South Korea, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, India,
Syria, Iran, Burma, Egypt, Turkey, Taiwan, and Pakistan.
The major reason behind the nuclear material smuggling from the
United States stems from Israel quietly re-establishing its global
nuclear smuggling operations, rampant during the 1960s when it was
working to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor
capabilities have always been clouded in maximum secrecy but it
is known that the facility suffered a major equipment failure in
the 1990s that impacted on Israel's ability to re-process nuclear
fuel. The diminished capabilities of the Negev Nuclear Research
Center prompted Israel, in the 1990s, to actively smuggle nuclear
materials, including enriched plutonium, to Israel. The smuggling
operations immediately became known to the CIA's Counterproliferation
Division and its non-official cover (NOC) Brewster Jennings &
Associates operation headed up by Valerie Plame Wilson's. It was
a major reason why Vice President Dick Cheney, his counsel Scooter
Libby, State Department Undersecretary for Political Affairs (and
President Obama's current envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan) Marc
Grossman, and others within the Bush administration exposed the
Brewster Jennings operations. Israel's
search for replacement enriched plutonium hit pay-dirt when its
intelligence service discovered that the Pantex nuclear facility
near Amarillo, Texas, stores enriched plutonium fuel that is 99
percent pure plutonium that does not require reprocessing for another
60 to 90 years. Israel gained access to the classified details of
the Pantex operation by tapping into classified government communication
networks through the Israeli-owned communication company AMDOCS. The
Israelis discovered that only U.S. nuclear cores composed of plutonium
alloys were ripe for theft at Pantex. The 99 percent plutonium fuel
was more well-guarded. However, the older plutonium alloy cores
were unstable and the shipment of the cores through the port of
Houston required refrigerated containers to keep them cooler than
150 degrees.The Israelis used refrigeration trucks to move the cores
through the port of Houston from Amarillo and into refrigeration
containers loaded on board ships belonging to Zim-American Israeli
Shipping Company, a firm with close links to the Mossad. The plutonium
cores were shipped to Israel and Dimona. One
individual who had the port of Houston under close scrutiny was
CIA contractor/informant/source Roland "Tony" Carnaby.
Carnaby had set up a number of video surveillance cameras at the
port of Houston and routinely uploaded the stored videos from the
camera units to his Macintosh computer. WMR has learned from intelligence
sources that Carnaby possessed a major secret about the smuggling
operation: much of the nuclear material being shipped through Houston
by Israel, more than its needs, was being re-sold by Israel on the
international black market. On April 29, 2008, Carnaby was shot
to death by two Houston police officers after what was reported
to have been a high-speed chase by police. After he was killed,
the Houston police took possession of Carnaby's Macintosh computer.
WMR previously reported that Carnaby kept Israeli intelligence assets
and agents under close scrutiny in Houston and that he had a strange
encounter with an Israeli Consulate General official the evening
before he was shot. WMR also previously reported on Mossad's penetration
of the Houston Police Department and the Harris County Sheriff's
Office. Radiation detectors routinely scan containers at Houston
for the presence of nuclear materials, hence, it was important for
the Mossad to counteract Carnaby's security systems at the port. It
is known that Carnaby used a number of cell phones to dial into
port video cameras to turn them on, stop them, and download captured
video data. However, an Israeli firm, Orsus, was scheduled to begin
installation of its own surveillance at the port, putting Carnaby's
surveillance operations in jeopardy. The financial backers of Orsus
include ComSor Venture Fund LDC, a joint operation of Comverse Technology,
which includes its subsidiary Verint Systems, and Soros Fund Management's
Quantum Industrial Holdings Ltd. Other investors in Orsus include
Israel's Koor Industries, the leading shareholder of Tadiran, the
Israeli defense electronics firm; Cial Industries and Investment,
an Israeli holding company; the Cedar Fund, an 'Israeli-related'
venture capital firm; Israel Infinity Venture Capital Fund; and
Poalim Capital Markets, a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's
largest bank." Carnaby
was, reportedly, working with the FBI on the Israeli nuclear smuggling
issue and the FBI office in Houston requested that the Houston police
call off their chase of Carnaby. It was too late for Carnaby. He
was marked for assassination by Mossad and its friends in Houston
area law enforcement because of his knowledge of the nuclear smuggling
program. Israel was also concerned that Carnaby, a Lebanese-American
with close ties to some of Lebanon's political groups opposed to
Israel, might leak details of the operations to his Lebanese friends,
information that would soon end up in the hands of Iranian and Syrian
counter-intelligence. One
of the countries that received re-sold American plutonium fuel from
Israel was Japan. However, the Japanese soon discovered that the
plutonium for which they were paying the Israelis top dollar was
too old and provided only short-life usable nuclear weapons. Japan
decided to go it alone on their nuclear weapons development but
not before they planned to blow the whistle on the Israeli and American
smuggling operation to the International Atonic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Before the Japanese could act, the super-quake struck Japan, along
with the devastating tsunami. At that point in time, Israel and
the Americans programmed their Stuxnet computer virus to trigger
the nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, the major site for Japan's
nuclear weapons development program. Stuxnet, developed to disrupt
Iran's nuclear program, is also effective against the nuclear power
generation systems of other nations using standard supervisory control
and data acquisition (SCADA) software, including the plutonium MOX
fuel processing operations at Fukushima. Stuxnet can be used to
blackmail recipients of the smuggled plutonium material, including
MOX fuel, into silence. The Fukushima disaster destroyed physical
evidence of the Israeli smuggling operation to Japan. However, Japanese
intelligence possesses other evidence of the Israeli smuggling operations. The
recent explosion at a MOX fuel plutonium processing facility at
the French Marcoule nuclear power plant was a warning to France,
courtesy of Stuxnet, not to support Palestine's bid for UN membership.
It is not yet clear whether the MOX being used at Marcoule was developed
from the unstable and old American plutonium cores smuggled and
re-sold by Israel. However, U.S. intelligence has evidence that
Israel has re-sold some of its stolen plutonium material to India
in return for that nation providing Israel with missile systems
and related technology. The
disassociation of the CIA and FBI from interest in Carnaby's murder
in Houston was directly linked to the power of the Israel Lobby
in Washington, which will stop at nothing to ensure that Israeli
crimes and intelligence activities in the United States remain unexposed
and unpunished.
Japanese
journalist Yoichi Shimatsu provided an additional perspective on the
"Japanese connection" in his 2
Oct 2011 articleSecret
US-Israeli Nuke Transfers Led To Fukushima Blasts, Rense.com.
One might infer that if Dick Cheney and other associates high within
the Bush administration had authorized the use of Israeli assets to
smuggle plutonium through Houston to Japan, this probably encouraged
the Mossad to feel that it had a free hand in orchestrating the murder
of Carnaby:
Sixteen
tons and what you get is a nuclear catastrophe. The explosions that
rocked the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant were more powerful than
the combustion of hydrogen gas, as claimed by the Tokyo Electric
Power Company. The actual cause of the blasts, according to intelligence
sources in Washington, was nuclear fission of. warhead cores illegally
taken from America's sole nuclear-weapons assembly facility. Evaporation
in the cooling pools used for spent fuel rods led to the detonation
of stored weapons-grade plutonium and uranium. The
facts about clandestine American and Israeli support for Japan's
nuclear armament are being suppressed in the biggest official cover-up
in recent history. The timeline of events indicates the theft from
America's strategic arsenal was authorized at the highest level
under a three-way deal between the Bush-Cheney team, Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and Elhud Olmert's government in Tel Aviv.
Tokyo's Strangelove In
early 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney flew to Tokyo with his closest
aides. Newspaper editorials noted the secrecy surrounding his visit
- no press conferences, no handshakes with ordinary folks and, as
diplomatic cables suggest, no briefing for U.S. Embassy staffers
in Tokyo. Cheney
snubbed Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma, who was shut out of confidential
talks. The pretext was his criticism of President George Bush for
claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The more immediate
concern was that the defense minister might disclose bilateral secrets
to the Pentagon. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were sure to oppose White
House approval of Japan's nuclear program. An
unannounced reason for Cheney's visit was to promote a quadrilateral
alliance in the Asia-Pacific region. The four cornerstones - the
US, Japan, Australia and India - were being called on to contain
and confront China and its allies North Korea and Russia.. From
a Japanese perspective, this grand alliance was flawed by asymmetry:
The three adversaries were nuclear powers, while the U.S. was the
only one in the Quad group. To
further his own nuclear ambitions, Abe was playing the Russian card.
As mentioned in a U.S. Embassy cable (dated 9/22), the Yomiuri Shimbun
gave top play to this challenge to the White House : "It was
learned yesterday that the government and domestic utility companies
have entered final talks with Russia in order to relegate uranium
enrichment for use at nuclear power facilities to Atomprom, the
state-owned nuclear monopoly." If Washington refused to accept
a nuclear-armed Japan, Tokyo would turn to Moscow...
. . .The Texas Job BWXT
Pantex, America's nuclear warhead facility, sprawls over 16,000
acres of the Texas Panhandle outside Amarillo. Run by the DoE and
Babcock & Wilson, the site also serves as a storage facility
for warheads past their expiration date. The 1989 shutdown of Rocky
Flats, under community pressure in Colorado, forced the removal
of those nuclear stockpiles to Pantex. Security clearances are required
to enter since it is an obvious target for would-be nuclear thieves. In
June 2004, a server at the Albuquerque office of the National Nuclear
Security System was hacked. Personal information and security-clearance
data for 11 federal employees and 177 contractors at Pantex were
lifted. NNSA did not inform Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman or his
deputy Clay Sell until three months after the security breach, indicating
investigators suspected an inside job. While
Bush and Abe met at Camp David, 500 unionized security guards at
Pantex launched a 45-day strike. Scabs were hired, but many failed
to pass the entry exam, according to the Inspector General's office
at DoE. The IG report cited witnesses who said: "BWXT officials
gave passing grades to some replacement guards even though they
actually flunked tests," and "contractor officials gave
correct answers to those that failed the tests." Although the
scene was nearly as comical as the heist in "Ocean's Eleven",
Pantex is not some Vegas casino. At stake was nuclear Armageddon. At
an opportune moment during the two-month strike, trucks loaded with
warhead cores rolled out of the gates. Some 16 metric tons of nuclear
cores packed in caskets were hauled away in refrigerated containers
to prevent fission. At the port of Houston, the dangerous cargo
was loaded aboard vessels operated by an Israeli state-owned shipping
line. The radioactive material was detected by port inspector Roland
Carnaby, a private contractor working under the federal program
to interdict weapons of mass destruction. The
intelligence community is still buzzing about his shooting death.
On April 29, 2008, Houston police officers pursued Carnaby on a
highway chase and gunned him down. His port monitoring contract
was later awarded to the Israel-based security firm NICE (Neptune
Intelligence Computer Engineering), owned by former Israeli Defense
Force officers. Throughout
the Pantex caper, from the data theft to smuggling operation, Bush
and Cheney's point man for nuclear issues was DoE Deputy Director
Clay Sell, a lawyer born in Amarillo and former aide to Panhandle
district Congressman Mac Thornberry. Sell served on the Bush-Cheney
transition team and became the top adviser to the President on nuclear
issues. At DoE, Sell was directly in charge of the U.S. nuclear
weapons complex, which includes 17 national laboratories and the
Pantex plant. (Another alarm bell: Sell was also staff director
for the Senate Energy subcommittee under the late Sen. Ted Stevens
of Alaska, who died in a 2010 plane crash.)
An Israeli Double-Cross The
nuclear shipments to Japan required a third-party cutout for plausible
deniability by the White House. Israel acted less like an agent
and more like a broker in demanding additional payment from Tokyo,
according to intelligence sources. Adding injury to insult, the
Israelis skimmed off the newer warhead cores for their own arsenal
and delivered older ones. Since deteriorated cores require enrichment,
the Japanese were furious and demanded a refund, which the Israelis
refused. Tokyo had no recourse since by late 2008 principals Abe
had resigned the previous autumn and Bush was a lame duck. The
Japanese nuclear developers, under the Ministry of Economy, Trade
and Industry, had no choice but to enrich the uranium cores at Fukushima
No.1, a location remote enough to evade detection by nonproliferation
inspectors. Hitachi and GE had developed a laser extraction process
for plutonium, which requires vast amounts of electrical power.
This meant one reactor had to make unscheduled runs, as was the
case when the March earthquake struck. Tokyo
dealt a slap on the wrist to Tel Aviv by backing Palestinian rights
at the UN. Not to be bullied, the Israeli secret service launched
the Stuxnet virus against Japan's nuclear facilities...
If
the Rothschild/City of London/MI-6/BP/Mossad-CIA "true axis of
evil" has been crazy and vicious enough to launch a Stuxnet attack
that will likely cause the early deaths of tens
of millions of Japanese, not to mention millions of Americans
affected by fallout
over North America -- not to mention committing earlier evils
such as the deliberate
poisoning of millions of Americans with the highly toxic dispersant
Corexit during the BP-Gulf Castrophe of 2010, or gunning down a major
CIA operative in suburban Houston in broad daylight in 2008 -- why
would it hesitate to explode a nuke in the greater Houston area or
at the BP plant in Texas City if it thought it could achieve some
kind of tactical advantage and get away with murder? As
a summary note for this chapter, on March 5, 2008, W. Leon Smith,
owner of the Lone Star Iconoclast, published " Time
To Investigate Houston Is Now." It is telling that despite
the massive accumulation of evidence that much is rotten in Houston
(as well as Denmark, as they say), so far no Congressmen have taken
up Smith's call, to include Congressman Ron Paul. We
welcome any form of continuing public activism to keep this request
fresh and in front of public officials.
Time to Investigate
Houston Is Now
by W. Leon Smith Publisher The Lone Star Iconoclast March 5, 2008
W. Leon Smith
Every time there is a disaster or "mistake" involving the petrochemical industry, gasoline prices shoot up. And, daily, the federal government assures the American public that gasoline prices are going to continue to rise. In fact, recent official predictions suggest $4-a-gallon gasoline this summer. Thus lies the basis for governmental predictions of continued disasters and, ultimately, of an impending new 9/11. They say it's not if, but when. The powers that be -- including senators running for re-election or a higher office and a lame president -- have chosen to embrace the series of oil incidents as accidents. It wouldn't be in their personal self interests to focus an investigation upon these continued "once-in-a-lifetime" events, for there are profits at risk. Besides, what better way to impose an indirect tax upon the American public? The candidates tout "change" in their speeches. In reality, "change" would be the removal of these parasites from the federal government. "Change" is not imbedding them deeper. These so-called public servants sprinkle upon themselves the image of a ruling class, when in reality they are merely useless employees who have blatantly plundered the public for their own personal gain. They are not patriots. They are thieves. Patriots by now would have taken appropriate actions to investigate why these incidents continue to occur and then do something about it. This neglect makes them players. And profiteers. For five years Captain Eric H. May, our military correspondent, has been warning the Houston area, dense with petrochemical targets, that it is the the nation's foremost terror target. In this issue of THE ICONOCLAST he turns his attention to the curious campaign of an ultra-secretive naval intelligence officer, Commander Brian Klock, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Texas Congressional District 22, which is the heart of the terror targets zone that Captain May has long identified. Captain May was the first military expert to analyze the Houston area as the target for "911-2B," the "next 9/11" that official sources and major media constantly remind us is going "to be." Captain May has asserted that the real danger to the Houston area is not from a contrived terror threat called Al Qaeda, but from sources inside our own government. In his trenchant analyses over the past five years, he has anticipated the dismal course of the Iraqi war at a time when retired officers senior to him were boasting of a war that was already won, or soon to be won. He has been right on the biggest issues before, and in the face of the most highly touted experts. In the two years that he has been a writer for THE ICONOCLAST, this newspaper has been intimately aware of his analyses and predictions. Two years ago he predicted to us a major petrochemical event in the Houston area for July 1, 2006. He was accurate to within one day, given the explosion of the Exxon Mobil refinery in the Houston suburb of Baytown, which drove oil to record prices. In October 2007, THE ICONOCLAST published his "The Texas Triangle: Terror and Treason," in which he detailed the process by which he issued a red alert to southeast Texas just hours before the Oct. 18 explosion of a Dow Chemical pipeline in Port Arthur, which had been hosting military/police exercises simulating just that scenario a few days earlier. THE ICONOCLAST staff was directly involved in that emergency alert. Captain May's notes and articles, provided to THE ICONOCLAST, back up his claims to have issued the information to the use of FBI and local media that brought about a terror alert to southeast Texas on March 24, 2004. His prediction day for a major petrochemical incident was March 31, and he was off by one day again. The BP refinery in Texas City exploded on March 30, resulting in record profits for big oil. In early July 2005, he predicted a July 27 event, and was contacted by the FBI as the day approached. Yet again, he was accurate to within one day, as the BP refinery in Texas City exploded on July 28, yet again result- ing in record profits for big oil. In mid January of 2006, he predicted the attempt of a nuclear attack on Texas City on Jan. 31. On Feb. 1, area residents were highly alarmed to find a U.S. military nuclear team on the Galveston beaches just south of Texas City. Citizens went on record with their belief that Captain May's alert had interdicted what was to be a false flag attack. Five news articles, three of them written before Jan. 31, offer invaluable insights on how and why he issued the alert, and what would have happened if he had not. [cf. "The 1/31 Nuke: Proof for Ron Paul" by Capt. May] The rhymes are the "official" stories. The reasons lie in the profits garnered from a hidden agenda masked by a knowing and enabling force holding office. THE ICONOCLAST exhorts local and national political, military, and police leaders -- if any with a conscience remain -- to look into Captain May's results in predicting petrochemical incidents in southeast Texas. Their unwillingness to investigate so far does not argue that this highly trained military intelligence officer is a mere conspiracy theorist, but rather that there is an official conspiracy to attack petrochemical targets in southeast Texas to induce oil profits at will, and perhaps to inflict mass casualties on American citizens.
-- W. Leon Smith
Update References:
2012-01-25 Israeli
Assassinations and American Presidents by Alison Weir
2010-08-23 Mossad
in America by Philip Giraldi, American Conservative.
Mossad brazenness rises to a new level: "...U.S.S.
Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California
by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government
representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both
him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty
story. Tourney was approached in a hotel lounge, and it is not completely
clear how the Israeli was able to identify him. But he knew exactly
who Tourney was, as the official referred to the Liberty, saying that
the people who had been killed on board had gotten what they deserved.
There were a number of witnesses to the incident, including Tourney’s
wife. The threat has been reported to the FBI, which is investigating,
but Tourney and Glenn believe that the incident is not being taken
seriously by the bureau. FBI
sources indicate that the increase in Mossad activity is a major problem,
particularly when Israelis are posing as U.S. government officials,
but they also note that there is little they can do to stop it as
the Justice Department refuses to initiate any punitive action or
prosecutions of the Mossad officers who have been identified as involved
in the illegal activity."
2009-10-21 Israeli
spies busy in the US – journalist "The U.S.
air force and Department of Energy are being targeted by the Israeli
intelligence service, according to investigative journalist Wayne
Madsen. He says the Mossad is busy at work in Nevada."