Was Porter Goss a member of the CIA's secret assassination squad?

[G_j]

CIA NOMINEE IN PIC OF AGENCY'S 60'S ASSASSINATION SQUAD

at http://www.madcowprod.com

THE MAN PICKED by President George W Bush to head America's Central Intelligence Agency is even more of an intelligence insider than has so far been revealed...

The MadCow Morning News has learned that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Porter J Goss of Sanibel Island Florida is a previously undisclosed member of the secret society "Book & Snake" at Yale.

President George W Bush's nominee to head the nation's flagship intelligence agency also appears to be visible in a photograph taken in 1963 in a Mexico City nightclub of members of the CIA's secret assassination squad known as "Operation Forty."

The twin discoveries come as news reports indicate that Democrats have decided not to make a serious issue of Goss's appointment. The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee went so far as to warn fellow Democrats Sunday against trying to block the nomination.

Could the skittishness about scrutinizing Goss be due to a secret past that would have difficulty passing closer scrutiny?

FULL STORY AT:

The MadCowMorningNews
www.madcowprod.com

[tom_paine]

1. Almost certainly. That's why he got out in 1972 to work on the inside

Some may say this is a venemous interpretation but I would counter-argue entirely withing the realm of Standard Bush Operating Procedure back in those days.

Will we ever know for sure? No. That is the Soviet (and now the Imperial Amerikan) dilemna.

My guess if they are planting Goss in there now, they are VERY close to their ultimate goal of Totalitarian Empire (as if we couldn't tell that from the legislation), and he is there not to protect our nation but to protect HIS MASTERS.

[G_j]

2. reportedly, Goss

has his sights set for the post of "Intelligence Czar".
I wonder if that is what Cheney had in mind when he 'picked' Goss.

[tom_paine]

4. I would imagine so.

With the predicatbility of Totalitarianism, it wouldn't surprise me to see him elevated to that position.

He's a real Imperial Family Loyalist, placing the welfare of His Masters well above the welfare of teh Nation, I have no doubt.

[Octafish]

3. These seem to be the traitors that murdered JFK.

Thanks Hopsicker!

http://www.madcowprod.com/new_page_9.htm

The BFEE at play.

Operation 40:

The Kennedy Assassination:
The Nixon-Bush Connection

by Paul Kangas

Note: All references to "George Bush" refer to George Herbert Walker Bush, Father of George "Dubya" Bush who was "elected" pResident by a 5 to 4 vote of the Supreme Court.

A newly discovered FBI document reveals that George Bush was directly involved in the 1963 murder of President John Kennedy. The document places Bush working with the now-famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez, recruiting right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was Bush's CIA job to organize the Cuban community in Miami for the invasion. The Cubans were trained as marksmen by the CIA. Bush at that time lived in Texas. Hopping from Houston to Miami weekly, Bush spent 1960 and '61 recruiting Cubans in Miami for the invasion. That is how he met Felix Rodriguez.

You may remember Rodriguez as the Iran-contra CIA agent who received the first phone call telling the world the CIA plane flown by Gene Hasenfus had crashed in Nicaragua. As soon as Rodriguez heard that the plane crashed, he called his long-time CIA supervisor, George Bush. Bush denied being in the contra loop, but investigators recently obtained copies of Oliver North's diary, which documents Bush's role as a CIA supervisor of the contra supply network.

In 1988 Bush told Congress he knew nothing about the illegal supply flights until 1987, yet North's diary shows Bush at the first planning meeting Aug. 6, 1985. Bush's "official" log placed him somewhere else. Such double sets of logs are intended to hide Bush's real role in the CIA; to provide him with "plausible deniability." The problem is, it fell apart because too many people, like North and Rodriguez, have kept records that show Bush's CIA role back to the 1961 invasion of Cuba. (Source: The Washington Post, 7/10/90).

That is exactly how evidence was uncovered placing George Bush working with Felix Rodriguez when JFK was killed. A memo from FBI head J. Edgar Hoover was found, stating that, "Mr. George Bush of the CIA had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination of President Kennedy. (Source: The Nation, 8/13/88).

CONTINUED...

http://www.sumeria.net/politics/kennedy.html

[G_j]

5. interesting

I remember during Iran/Contra the 'rumors' were that it all led back to Bush. I think most of the people who alleged this aren't around any more. :think:

[Octafish]

6. These FBI memos indicate Poppy Bush involved in JFK assassination.

This is why the photo depicting Porter Goss and Operation 40 scares the BFEE. It shows a direct link to the traitors who killed JFK to the Bush Organized Crime Family. These documents do likewise.

The first indicates "Mr. George Herbert Walker Bush" called the FBI within minutes of the assassination to report a "James Parrott" may've been involved. Gee. How patriotic, let alone convenient.



This one indicates a "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" didn't think any of the anti-Castro Cubans had anything to do with JFK's murder. Gee. How convenient, let alone patriotic.



SOURCE:

http://www.internetpirate.com/bush.htm

PS: Sorry if this is old news. These documents need to be seen and spread around as much as possible.

[Octafish]

7. C'mon DU! Keep this important story KICKED. Check out the photo!

The photo, thanks to some trick, won't pop open. You have to visit the link. Check out the BFEE Who's Who in Murder, Inc., including Porter Goss!

http://www.madcowprod.com/new_page_9.htm

From Hopsicker's article:

The Mexico City nightclub photo reveals a mixed group of apparent Cuban exiles, Italian wise guys, and square-jawed military intelligence types. It was discovered among keepsakes kept in the safe of the widow of CIA pilot and drug smuggler Barry Seal (third from left). It appears on the cover of “Barry & ‘the boys:’ The CIA, the Mob & America’s Secret History” (MadCow Press, Eugene OR. 2001).

Goss appears second on the left. He is seated between notorious CIA pilot and drug smuggler Barry Seal (third left) and the equally-notorious CIA assassin Felix Rodriguez (front left), a Cuban vice cop under the corrupt Mob-run Batista regime who later became an Iran Contra operative and a confidant of the first George Bush (not in Mexico City for THIS party).

The only one of the spook celebrants displaying any hint of tradecraft (seated on the other side of the table covering his face with his sport coat) is Frank Sturgis, most famous as one of the Watergate burglars.

CONTINUED...

http://www.madcowprod.com/

[G_j]

8. here is the photo

[Pallas180]

9. Whose the guy second in from right covering up?

Martinez? the guy running for office and endorsed by dimson ?

[Octafish]

12. Believe that's the infamous Frank Sturgis.

In "Plausible Denial," JFK assassination author Mark Lane makes a compelling case Sturgis ran one of E Howard Hunt's Dallas hit teams. Hunt, it seems, worked for Nixon...or Poppy Bush?



SOURCE:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.subliminal.org/mugbook/thugs/sturgis.html&h=219&w=200&sz=9&tbnid=hcRuAeqG93cJ:&tbnh=101&tbnw=93&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfrank-sturgis%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

EDIT: Found a pic of Frank.

[Pallas180]

19. Okay, let's compare the two pics & see if there's a match

hairlines may change, but eyebrows and eyes rarely do, also placement of ears are a clue:








hmmm. Right eyebrow and deep set eye matches, and ears flat to head,
and volume of hair, although hairline different...but very different
lighting isn't helpful

[Pallas180]

20. Wasn't sturgis one of the plumbers?

?

[Octafish]

22. Plumbers sank Nixon.

Funny how Bush is always around when a President goes down: JFK, Nixon, Reagan. What do all three have in common? They tried to make peace with the Commies: USSR/Cuba, China, USSR/ICBMs. Bush, though, comes up smelling like the oil-soaked turd he is.

[Octafish]

23. Anther shot of the guy.

Plus a "resume" down below. Some CV.

If he wasn't suspected of what he's suspected, Sturgis would be an interesting person. As things stands, he's a suspect.




Source: http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/misc/frank-sturgis/

Source: http://216.97.42.106/doc_276-300/doc0286.html

[Pallas180]

32. Octa, you're right. Same guy as in nightclub picture covering

his face with his coat. close ears, eyes as in the "jail " picture
and eyebrows ...

funny how certain things don't change..the fat in your face may but
certain characteristics dont.

[Octafish]

11. Thanks, G_j!

"We had been operating a damn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean." -- ex-President Lyndon B. Johnson.

http://groups.msn.com/sailorsunitedforselfdefense/navykillsschindler.msnw

[TeeYiYi]

16. Comparison images . . .

TYY:kick:

[bobthedrummer]

10. Hopsicker is pretty good on the Florida part-of course it's MIAMI STATION.

Not only did the FBI abort their investigations in Florida, however.
The national security classification system has been abused to cover crimes.

These folks have names too.

Porter Goss has historic ties with Pakistan's ISI:grr:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO407A.html

This is the Internet.

[Octafish]

17. Porter's apparent link to JM/WAVE and the Castro assassination team...

... should give most BFEE followers pause. Here's an outstanding resource (the links!) maintained by friends of freedom in the UK:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKjmwave.htm

[bobthedrummer]

18. OMG-he's a Batista puppetmaster and in bed with ISI simultaneously!

:mad:

[Octafish]

21. They are worse than we have imagined.

Not even Ian Fleming figured the fucking NAZIs -- the BFEE, the War Party, the party of Death, the fucking monsters -- could take over the US government. But they did. And that's why we fight!

[Pallas180]

30. there's no question they are the nazi sympathizers from the 30's

the same group which tried to do in FDR. They just pass it down from
generation to generation, like "son, this is your goal in life", to further my dream-

[G_j]

24. excellent site

you are right about the links, you could spend a long time exploring here. :thumbsup:

[starroute]

13. Bob Woodward was also Book and Snake

I don't know if there's any significance to that, but the name jumped out at me.

http://www.webcom.com/ctka/pr196-woodward.html

The staunchly conservative Bob Woodward grew up in Wheaton, Illinois. A good student at Yale, he was ultimately one of fifteen seniors "tapped" for one of that university's secret societies, Book and Snake, a cut below the more infamous Skull and Bones, but the top of the second-tier fraternities. Woodward had his first journalistic experience working for the Banner, a Yale publication. In his 1965 yearbook he was referred to as a "Banner mogul." Havill writes,

Certainly, with the CIA encouraged to recruit on the Yale campus, particularly among history majors and secret societies, it is more than reasonable to assume Bob may have been one of those approached by the agency, or by a military intelligence unit, especially after four years of naval ROTC training. Although it would answer a lot of questions that have been raised about Bob Woodward, at this point one can only speculate as to whether he was offered the chance to become a "double-wallet guy," as CIA agents who have two identities are dubbed.

[Octafish]

25. Bob "Double Wallet" Woodward. The moniker fits perfectly.

Offline Illumination

Dick: Clueless at Watergate

by Uri Dowbenko

EXCERPT...

CIA operative Frank Sturgis, for example, is quoted in Hougan's book as saying that he "went to see Burt Lancaster in Scorpio. It's funny. The movie's about this CIA guy who's betrayed by the agency. Sorta like what happened to us, you know. I mean it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Watergate was a CIA setup. We were just pawns." (p. 219)

Also according to Hougan Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, author of All the President's Men (1974), has a strong Old Boys Network background. He is the son of a Republican judge and a Yale graduate with a stint in the Navy as a liaison officer for the Task Force 157, an Office of Naval Intelligence operation. This ONI Task Force, using the top secret SR-1 channel, coordinated communiques between the CIA, NSA, DIA, NSC, and the State Department. Most likely Woodward continued his spooky work, while writing for the Washington Post, a cover which quite frankly would be hard to beat.

Woodward himself said that "Watergate was about covert activities involve the whole US intelligence community and are incredible. Deep Throat refused to give specifics because it is against the law. 'fhe cover-up has little to do with Watergate, but was mainly to protect the covert operation." (p. 371)

SNIP...

Another excellent treatment of this history is a book called Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (1991) by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. In the foreword, scholar-journalist Roger Morris calls the book "an excavation of some vital hidden history, of a national scandal within a scandal, and of a literary-joumalistic atrocity of revealing while concealing."

"A distinguishing mark of the American coup is that it should remain concealed from its victims and history even after its successful execution," he continues. 'It was -- and has been -- a cruel hoax to pretend that the most powerful institutions of the media did not have the wherewithal to uncover this story, not to mention the train of putative historians and writers who have rehearsed the fiction since."

CONTINUED...

http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/offline8.htm

[starroute]

14. Shackley, Clines, and Wilson

From the MadCow article: "More famous names: Thomas Clines, the notorious Edwin Wilson and "Blond Ghost" Ted Shackley, Mr. Spook himself… all involved with Operation Forty, as was Barry Seal."

Michael Ruppert mentioned these same three names when reporting on the Congressional hearings on CIA drug trafficking in LA in the 90's: "J. Porter Goss - Republican Congressman from So. Florida. Chair of the House Intelligence committee (HPSCI) charged with conducting hearings on Volume II. Retired CIA case officer who worked in South Florida with Shackley, Clines and Wilson. (Can you say "Conflict of Interest?")

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/witness_list.html


Goss's association with these others isn't speculative -- they were all part of the same JM/WAVE anti-Castro operation in Miami in the early 60's. And the names of Shackley, Clines, and Wilson keep popping up in a trail of later operations, most of them involving drug-smuggling and arms-trading, extending from Vietnam through Iran-Contra:


Narrator: “Whether there is actually an organized secret team, or simply a loose association of individuals, it is clear that there are a number of people who have been working actively behind the scenes in these covert operations. Some of the names are Theodore Shackley, who was Assistant Deputy Director of Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency as of 1976 under George Bush, who was CIA Director at the time. Thomas Clines, who worked as a case officer under Shackley in Miami and in Laos. General John Singlaub, who worked with Shackley and Clines in Vietnam and was in charge of the CIA’s special operations over the border into Laos. General Richard Secord, who supervised the air operations into Laos and was later assigned to the Pentagon where he was put in charge of arm sales to Iran. Albert Hakim, who was a salesman for the U.S. weapons companies and a middle man in the Iran-Contra Affair.”

http://www.addictedtowar.com/coverup.htm


Thomas Gregory Clines first met Richard Secord during the "secret war" in Laos. Clines, as CIA Base Chief in Long Tieng, supervised the creation of a secret army of Hmong tribesmen to fight the communist Pathet Lao forces. The Hmong were traditionally opium growers. With the CIA's help, General Vang Pao, leader of the Hmong army, became a major supplier of opium. Secord's air wing flew tactical raids against the Pathet Lao, which also had the effect of destroying Van Pao's competition. Air America, the CIA's airline, trasported the opium from Laos to Thailand. The CIA's secret Laotian operations were partially financed by opium profits.

Clines and Secord teamed up again in the Middle East during the mid-1970s. The Pentagon awarded Clines' company, EATSCO, a contract worth over $1 billion, to ship arms to Egypt. According to renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson, Secord, who had helped to secure the contract, was also a silent partner in EATSCO, as was Theodore Shackley. This blatant conflict of interest led to Secord's early retirement from the military. Clines pleaded guilty in 1983 to overcharging the Pentagon $8 million, for which he paid fines of $110,000.

http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/chris.holt/home.informal/bar/corsair.afdq/contra.cards/22.html


Theodore (Ted) Shackley (the CIA station chief in Laos and Saigon), Thomas Clines and retired general Richard Secord later became shadowy figures in the contra war and there were allegations that they were involved in drug and arms trafficing. Clines and Secord were friends of Edwin O. Wilson, a former CIA employee who was convicted of selling C4 explosive and detonators to Maummar Qaddafi.

http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/backfire.htm


One of the CIA officials Wilson claims were involved in the Libyan situation was Thomas Clines. Thomas Clines is named in Col. Cutolo's affidavit by Wilson as being in charge of Operation Watch Tower. Thomas Clines was recently named in the Iran-contra affair for his failure to declare monies earned in that affair.

http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/neri.html

[Octafish]

26. It's almost strange how these guys get away with treason.

Then I remember they're all tied to George Herbert Walker Bush, the feller who gives "Get Out of Jail Free Cards" away to those sinister types who cut him in on the action. Take Michael Ledeen, please.

Bush & a CIA Power Play

EXCERPT...

Connally's False Alarm

Still, regardless of what did or didn't happen in Paris, Bush was jittery on Oct. 27, 1980. If Connally was right, Carter might have offered Iran a deal so sweet the mullahs couldn't refuse. But as it turned out, Connally's news was garbled. It was true that Israel had shipped military spare parts by air to Iran a few days earlier. But the shipment had been in defiance of Carter, not part of a solution to the hostage crisis.

In 1992, ex-President Carter told the congressional investigators that Israel's Likud government had opposed his re-election. According to other notes I found in the storage room, Carter said that from April 1980, "I felt Israel cast their lot with Reagan." Carter sensed a "lingering concern Jewish leaders that I was too friendly with Arabs."

But the House task force had little interest in pulling strings that might unravel a nasty national security scandal. Luckily for the CIA, the chief investigator, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr. was a favorite of the intelligence community and had worked closely with many of the figures implicated in the October Surprise affair.

For instance, BCCI paid Barcella and his law firm more than $2 million to fend off charges of corruption and money-laundering. At that time, Barcella's senior law partner was former Sen. Paul Laxalt, Reagan's finance chairman in 1980 who allegedly had covered up secret payments to the 1980 campaign from the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos. (See The Consortium, Jan. 15)

Barcella was also close friends with Michael Ledeen. The two men shared a housekeeper and socialized together. In 1982, when Barcella was the lead prosecutor in the Edwin Wilson case, Ledeen visited Barcella's home one night to urge that the prosecutor drop Shackley from the investigation.

CONTINUED...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile7.html

[starroute]

15. Relevant section of "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"

http://www.tarpley.net/bush8b.htm

A lot here on JM/WAVE, George Bush, the Bay of Pigs, Howard Hunt, Felix Rodriguez, the Kennedy assassination, and Watergate, all in one connected package. Goss was just a young squirt and doesn't rate a mention in the Tarpley book, but he was definitely there:

In 1962 Goss joined the Central Intelligence Agency. Over the next few years he was based at the JM/WAVE, the CIA station in Miami where he worked with people such as Ted Shackley, David Sanchez Morales, Edward Lansdale, William Harvey and Tracy Barnes.

After the Bay of Pigs disaster President John F. Kennedy sanctioned what became known as Operation Mongoose. Robert Kennedy took overall control of the operation and Edward Lansdale was appointed project leader and was given the responsibility to "use our available assets to help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime." Goss was one of the 400 CIA officers who was employed on the project.

Goss spoke Spanish and this was very useful as the JM/WAVE station ran 2,200 Cuban agents. Recently, Vince Cannistraro, a CIA agent at JM/WAVE claimed that Goss was involved in paramilitary activity against the Cubans: "I know he was involved in the Bay of Pigs operation, he worked out of Miami with Cuban exiles... and took part in... attempts to overthrow Castro".

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgoss.htm

[Octafish]

27. Poppy and Operation 40

Ol' Daniel Sheehan (of Christic Institute fame, nee the Dennis Kucinich campaign) pegged these turds. From a 1990 speech that provides a darn good overview of the BFEE:

Ollie North and The Operation

by Daniel Sheehan

EXCERPT...

Indeed, Richard Nixon was the point man responsible for establishing inside the National Security Council a secret committee that was to be responsible for mounting a contra- like war against Cuba. They had determined that they did not like the politics or the economics of the Cuban government, and therefore, they were going to secretly recruit the ultra right-wing supporters of the dictator Batista, train them at a military base in Southern Florida -- in the Cays -- and set up another military training base in Guatemala.

There they would train these people to constitute a "contra" guerrilla force, and they would undertake attacks into Cuba, riding on Swiss boats. They would blow up bridges, burn crops, poison materials to be exported from Cuba -- all to destroy their economic infrastructure. This operation began in late 1959 and it was code- named "Operation 40." But not satisfied with that, the then-vice president, Richard Nixon, received communications from a man by the name of Santos Trafficante.

SNIP...

One was a man by the name of John Roselli. The other man was a man by the name of Sam Giancana, the don of the mafia in Chicago. THese two men were designated by Santos Trafficanted to meet with representatives of Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon selected a man with whom he had maintained an extraordinary secret contact. This man was the head of the empire of Howard Hughes, a man by the name of Robert Maheu.

Because the secrecy of their ongoing relationship was long established, he was selected to undertake this super- secret communication. This meeting took place at the Fountainbleau Hotel in early 1960. And there, Richard Nixon, through his representatives, agreed to set up a sub- organization inside Operation 40 which was a professional assassination unit. This unit was given the responsibility for carrying out the political assassination of Fidel Castro, his brother Raul Castro, Che Guevara, and five other men in the leadership of the Cuban government. This group was recruited out of the Operation 40 people, known only to Richard Nixon and a limited number of people. They were trained in a secret base down in Mexico. This particular group had in it a number of very interesting people who you are coming to hear about every day that we live.

One of the men on this secret team -- this assassination unit -- was a man by the name of Felix Gomez. You know him as Felix Rodriguez and you know him as Max Gomez, the man who was named by Hasenfus as the man who directed the Ilopango airlifts into Nicaragua. Another man on this secret assassination team in early 1960 was a man using the name of Ramon Medina, whose real name is Jose Posada Carriles, who was the second man running the Ilopango airlift into Nicaragua. Another man in this group was a man by the name of Rafael "Chi Chi" Quintero. He was the man who supervised the construction of the secret air strip in Costa Rica that you've heard so much about of late.

CONTINUED...

http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/oln123ha.html

[G_j]

28. kick

amazing stuff, Daniel Sheehan is good.

[starroute]

29. There's a cluster of people and events that all group together

The same names keep turning up involved in similar activities over the last 50 years. It's like a relay race, in which the senior figures die or retire but the junior figures move up to take their place.

It starts as early as 1954, when Allen Dulles's CIA overthrew Arbenz in Guatemala on behalf of United Fruit. Howard Hunt was part of that operation, and this may have been when George Bush's connection with the CIA began as well.

It continued in the late 50's with CIA-endorsed heroin-running by the Mob via Cuba and money-laundering through the CIA's Castle Bank. When Batista was overthrown, it turned into anti-Castro operations, including the Bay of Pigs, and was probably connected in some way to the Kennedy assassination.

In the early 70's, some of the figures who had come out of the Cuba operations were involved in Watergate, while others were off in Southeast Asia, running drugs and trading arms. Through the Carter administration, these people found one thing and another to occupy their time, but Iran-Contra brought the old gang back together in a big way. By then, personal enrichment had been added to drugs and arms as a main feature of the program. The pattern turns up again in Azerbaijan during the Bush I administration, with some of the same people running an Iran-Contra-like operation to help that country in the war over Nagorno-Karabakh in defiance of the official US tilt towards Armenia.

It isn't possible to prove that Porter Goss kept in touch with his old pals for all these years -- and most of the people he was directly involved with 45 years ago are now out of the picture. But his active role in covering up or pooh-poohing every CIA-related scandal since the mid-90's LA cocaine investigation suggests that his assigned role has been to run interference from within the government -- a role that his appointment as director would certainly cap.

[bobthedrummer]

31. Things were very bad during the 1960's MH CHAOS era

I wonder what Porter Goss was doing in August 1969?

Operation CHAOS domestic suppression of US political dissidents links:
http://www.cia-on-campus.org/surveil/chaos.html

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CensorsBooks_SecretsCIA.html