The Intersection of Amnesty International and the CIA
“Look, just understand, they’re [Amnesty International] penetrated by intelligence agents, U.K., maybe U.S., I don’t know, but you certainly can’t trust them.”
Dr. Francis Boyle Interview with Dennis Bernstein , Covert Action Quarterly, Number 73 Summer 2002, pp. 9-12, 27
Amnesty International is an organization with a reputation for being an advocate of human rights. Amnesty International USA has a presence on many High School and University campuses. Amnesty’s focus is mainly on violations of human rights involving torture. It is a large institution that claims to have “1.6 million Amnesty International members” worldwide. It also has links to several CIA related organizations and fronts namely The Ford Foundation, the Asia Foundation, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, the National Council of Churches, World Vision, Hill and Knowlton, the Peace Corps and Praeger Publishers. AI has received funding from the Ford Foundation for years. The Ford Foundation has been used as a front for covert CIA funding according to the Final Report of the Church Committee.
1. CIA Use of Private Foundations, Pre-1967
The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation grants bestowed upon the recipient the apparent “blessing” of the foundation. The funding pattern involved a mixture of bona fide charitable foundations, devised foundations and funds, “front men” drawn from a list of America’s most prominent citizens, and lawyers representing undisclosed clients.
The CIA’s intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960’s can only is described as massive. Excluding grants from the “Big Three”---Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--- of the 700 grants over $10,000 given 164 other foundations during the period of international activities. In the same period more than one-third of the grants awarded by non-”Big Three” in the physical, life and social sciences also involved CIA funds.
Bona Fide foundations, rather than those controlled by the CIA, were considered the best and most plausible kind of funding cover for certain kinds of operations. A 1966 CIA study explained the use of legitimate foundations was the most effective way of concealing the CIA’s hand as well as reassuring members of funded organization was in fact supported by private funds. The Agency study contended that this technique was “particularly effective for democratically-run membership organizations, which need to reassure their own unwitting members and collaborators, as well as their hostile critics, that they have genuine, respectable, private sources of income.”
---------------The Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities United States Senate
Amnesty is a “partner” of another CIA front the Asia Foundation. Some of Amnesty’s Vietnamese “prisoners of conscience” are linked to the CIA.
“Doan Viet Hoat obtained a BA degree in English from Saigon University in 1965. He then taught English at a high school in the Mekong Delta area of South Viet Nam for a year before becoming personnel adviser at Vanh Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon. In 1967, he gained a scholarship from the Asia Foundation and attended Florida State University in Miami, USA. In 1971, he returned to Viet Nam with an MA and a D Phil in education administration and took up a post as vice-president of administration at Van Hanh“.
Amnesty website does not mention the fact that their Asia Foundation “partner” is linked to the CIA (http://www.asiafoundation.org/Locations/mongolia.html). Once the intelligence angle enters the picture Doan Viet Hoat’s case can be viewed in a whole new dimension, espionage. The Vietnamese government might have concerns about the CIA operating in their nation in light of the Operation Phoenix revelations that have come out through the years. For those that don’t know Operation Phoenix was the CIA’s counter-insurgency effort to thought police the South Vietnamese that tortured and killed thousands.
The CIA Propaganda machine i.e. Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe has Five Hundred Hits on its website search engine for “Amnesty International”. Philip Agee defined Radio liberty/ Radio Free Europe as the “CIA propaganda operation aimed at the Soviet Union” and the “CIA propaganda operation aimed at Eastern Europe” respectively or “grey propaganda” (Philip Agee, INSIDE THE COMPANY, CIA DIARY, pages 65&639). The Church Committee says that Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe was staffed by “CIA officers in the key management positions at the stations”, who, “made all of the important decisions regarding the programming and operations of the stations”. This is the modus operandi of the government they control the body of an organization at its head.
Another Institution that has been named as a CIA asset by the Church Committee that Amnesty International has connections to is the National Council of Churches. Here is a article from the National Council of Churches website:
LINDA HARTKE ELECTED TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA BOARD
NEW YORK – Linda Hartke, Director of Programs and Operations for Church World Service, the humanitarian response ministry of the National Council of Churches, has been elected to the national board of directors of Amnesty International USA.
Amnesty International, recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Peace, works for the release of prisoners of conscience (those who have neither used nor advocated violence) and for the end to torture, executions and "disappearances" worldwide. The group has 400,000 members in the United States.
Hartke was one of six board members (of nine candidates) elected in June through a national balloting process. She will serve a three-year term, through 2002.
Her CWS post is a senior executive position within an internationally recognized non-governmental organization, which works in more than 80 countries including the United States. CWS works primarily through local partners around the globe, but is operational in a number of countries, including Cambodia – where Hartke was CWS Country Director from 1992 until June 1997. Based in Phnom Penh, it is the largest of CWS’s overseas programs, with a $2.5 million budget and 75 staff.
Hartke is a member of Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in New York City, and has served on national and regional boards of her denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and its predecessor, the Lutheran Church in America.
http://www.ncccusa.org/news/99news78.html#linda
It’s odd but the AI website makes no mention of Hartke’s links to the National Council of Churches:
Hartke, Linda
Member, AIUSA Board of Directors & Member, Administration/Development Committee
Topics: Corporate Accountability, Grassroots Activism
Geneva , AS
Education: BA, Government, Religion and Biblical Literature, Smith College
Languages: French (basic), spoken Khmer (basic)
Biography: Member, AIUSA Board of Directors; Chair, AIUSA Administration and Development Committee; Member, Executive Committee of the AIUSA Board of Directors; Delegate, 2003 Amnesty International Council Meeting. Coordinator of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland. Formerly Deputy Director for Programs and Operations of Church World Service; Country Director of the CWS/Cambodia Program in Phnom Penh; Chief of Staff to US Congressman Chet Atkins (D-MA); Associate Staff Member Budget Committee, US House of Representatives; Associate Staff Member, Appropriations Committee, US House of Representatives. Former Chair of: AIUSA
Crisis Response Task Force, AIUSA Strategic Planning Committee, AIUSA Board of Directors, and NGO Forum on Cambodia. UN Election Observer in Cambodia (1993).
http://www.amnestyusa.org/about/board/personlist.do?personid=92
Many of the CIA fronts have interlocking boards. It’s Strange that a group like AI a human rights organization would take money from an institution like the Ford Foundation that has been used for decades by the CIA, an organization that has murdered millions. Here is a snippet from Philip Agee‘s 1976 paperback edition of CIA DIARY, a man that caused congress to pass a law to stop others that might follow his lead on exposing the CIA:
When I joined the CIA I believed in the need for its existence. After twelve years with the agency I finally understood how much suffering it was causing, that millions of people all over the world had been killed or had their lives destroyed by the CIA and the institutions it supports. I couldn’t sit by and do and so began work on this book.
Even after recent revelations about the CIA it is still difficult to understand what a huge organization the CIA is. It is the biggest and most powerful secret service that has ever existed. I don’t know how big the KGB is inside the Soviet Union, but its international operation is small compared with the CIA’s. The CIA has 16,500 employees and an annual budget of $750,000,000. That does not include its mercenary armies or its commercial subsidiaries. Add them all together, the agency employs or subsidizes hundreds of thousands of people and spends billions every year. Its official budget is secret; it’s concealed in those Federal agencies. Nobody tells the Congress what the CIA spends. By law, the CIA is not accountable to Congress.
In the past 25 years, the CIA has been involved in plots to overthrow governments in Iran, the Sudan, Syria, Guatemala, Ecuador, Guyana, Zaire, and Ghana. In Chile, The Company spent millions to “destabilize” the Allende government and set up the military junta, which has since massacred tens of thousands of workers, students, liberals and leftists. In Indonesia in 1965, The Company was behind an even bloodier coup, the one that got rid of Sukarno and led to the slaughter of at least 500,000 and possibly 1,000,000 people.
Amnesty has many characteristics of an organization that U.S. government intelligence agencies could take advantage of, if they controlled it. First of all it is international which gives it access to information from around the world. “Human Rights Activist” would be a great cover for a agent to operate under especially for Amnesty‘s officers which have contact with the top levels of Washington.
World Vision is another CIA front with a very checkered past that Amnesty International works with in several areas such as diamonds and Child Soldiers. World Vision considering its past is a very strange bedfellow for Amnesty International to be associating with given Amnesty International’s stated Human Rights values. It’s strange that Amnesty issues joint press releases with the organizations that have violated people’s human rights. According to John Judge:
World Vision is one of the notorious non-governmental organizations that function as a de facto arm of US intelligence under current arrangements. Robert Ainsworth's pedigree is impressive: he was a foreign area analyst for the US Department; an advisor in Vietnam during the war there; and chaired an international committee involved in the negotiation of the Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare Treaty of 1973.
The largest contributor to World Vision is the US State Department Agency for International Development (AID), whose program is frankly genocide. Pax Christi, the Catholic human rights organization, has accused World Vision of functioning as a "Trojan horse for US foreign policy.
"World Vision is a far-right evangelical missionary operation that does missionary and "good work" operations in countries where there is a political purpose for it to be there. From its inception, it was rabidly anti-Communist and it focused on refugee populations of people running from countries that had been taken over by Communism. This was from the fifties on.
World Vision had a hand in the movement of the Cubans into the United States and other refugees of revolutionary regimes. When you're a refugee you're cut loose, basically, and pretty much fair game to be manipulated by whoever is willing to give you a hand because you don't have a home or any place to stay and somebody has got to accept you.
World Vision was able to recruit out of these mercenary populations, people who could be politically turned to their intelligence purposes. World Vision served as a penetration force -- not as visible as the military actually going in or the CIA going in -- going in as missionaries and working among the people.
This link between missionary and intelligence for capitalistic infiltration operations goes way back. It was part of the internationalism with the Rockefellers. It's talked about in a book called Thy Will Be Done[4] about Rockefeller, Venezuela, and Latin American Oil, the Summer Linguistic Institute, World Vision and others. But they operated in this way for a long time.
They were paid by the CIA for a long time during the Vietnam War and went into SE Asia -- Cambodia and Laos. Throughout Vietnam they were given U.S. military equipment to use. They still maintain a budget under USAID, which was just (Agency for International Development), which was just a pass-over in order to give the CIA more cover. They ran operations through USAID. The current cover replacing that is the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), which is supposed to be how we're exporting democracy around the world.
But of course, we're exporting exactly the kind of corrupt democracy we have here, which is rigged and manipulated elections and press manipulation in order to keep in power or put in power the people that we want to be in those countries for the purpose of having our investments protected and milking what we can out of the resources and the labor available in any of those countries.
World Vision was part of that scheme and they did some nasty things. They ran the refugee camp in Sabra-Shatilla where the fascist Phalange was allowed in to kill the Palestinians. Moe Dalitz, a Cleveland syndicate mobster, had building operations and construction stuff going on in Miami that the anti-Castro Cubans were hired to take part in. They meld them in -- and so they recruit from them, whoever they can.
They ran the Cuban and Thai refugee camps in the United States. Mark David Chapman -- who eventually shot John Lennon -- worked at the Thai refugee camps out in Arkansas that World Vision operated there. They ran these camps brutally, forcing people into political education against Castro, refusing to feed people, beating people -- by many reports -- and bringing in Alpha 66 and Omega 7 people (the worst of the killing teams -- or murder squads -- of the anti-Castro Cubans in the United States) to run the camps in Florida, Fort Chafey in Arkansas and other places where the Cuban exiles were. These people came in and there were eventually riots in the Cuban refugee camps against their treatment there. This according to legitimate refugee charity workers and organizations that I have spoken to.
Westview Press is another CIA front that has published two Amnesty International’s members.
Some questions for Amnesty International:
I think that we in America live in the most sophisticated and corrupt police state in the world. The Patriot Act legalizes the tactics that the American Gestapo i.e. the FBI used against King. Our government murders dissenters here in the United States. Coretta Scott King in December of 1999 brought a lawsuit against a man named Lloyd Jowers and conspirators unknown. The jury decided that the U.S. government played a role in the assassination King. She was represented by Dr. William Pepper who had been the lawyer for James Earl Ray from 1988 until his death in 1998. In the course of trying to get James Earl Ray a trail Dr. Pepper asked AI to consider Ray a prisoner of conscience, which was rejected. What was AI’s reasoning behind their decision to reject James Earl Ray as a prisoner of conscience?
There is now a undeniable amount of evidence that the U.S. government has been involved in drug trafficking for the past sixty years. In the 1980’s there was a memorandum of understand between the DOJ and the CIA which basically let the CIA deal drugs in this country. This was exposed by reporters like Gary Webb and confirmed by congressional reports INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998). Given the facts that we have millions of people in prison for drug possession and government that on the highest levels imports these drugs. Is there a possibility that AI could consider giving drug offenders in the USA prisoner of conscience status?
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Monday, 11 January 2016
MEXICO'S COLONIAL STATUS IS REAFFIRMED WITH CHAPO'S CAPTURE.
Chapo's extradition to the United States will betray Mexico's lack of sovereignty. There are a number of questions revolving around the Sinaloa Cartel. In particular their connection to the CIA. It looks like Chapo's usefulness is now over. So, the agency is phasing him out. The CIA's operation arm used drug traffickers to fight their Cold War battles.
Mexico is not a sovereign state. They do not control their own destiny. Sean Penn's role in all of this seems more like one of a broker. Penn has the earmarks of being a CIA agent. He is not a case officer. One can only wonder what was said behind the scenes.
Saturday, 9 January 2016
ELECTRICITY SHOULD BE A HUMAN RIGHT AND COMPLETELY FREE
If the technology from the Phoebus reactor was applied to a reactor the size of the AP-1000, then the whole of the United States could be powered by 30 reactors. The NERVA was expected to progress to where a 35" diameter by 52" long reactor would produce 4000-MWt. Further development would have pushed it beyond that. This would mean if we applied it a reactor the size of the AP-1000 that we would have a reactor with 120,585 MWt which would create 34,970 MWe.
Saturday, 26 December 2015
A DIFFERENT ANGLE ON THE ASSASSINATION OF THE KENNEDYS
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The Kennedys were murdered in Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles. These cities were home to the air frame contractors for the nuclear airplane Convair and Lockheed respectively. The nuclear airplane program was in reality a cover for the nuclear aerospace program. President Kennedy cancelled this program which was of immense importance to military. He was planning on cancelling the secret or black part of the program known now as the Blackbird. The cancellation of this program led to great losses in the air over Vietnam. The B-70 and the A-12 could not be shot down by the SA-2 missile.
It was through space that American war planners would come to rule the world. The secrecy that surrounds military nuclear technology is even greater than the secrecy that surrounds the CIA. Even the President does not have a need to know everything when it comes to what goes on at places like AREA-51. It was the military that killed Kennedy not the CIA. This is the germ of my theory on what happened to Kennedy.
Thursday, 24 December 2015
TIMELINE
1985
AEOI discover 5000 tones of Uranium ore discovered in Iran
February 1987
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization President expresses the need for Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
1988
Bin Laden founds Al-Qaida.
September 1988
The US gives the go ahead for the development of THAAD.
1989
Soviet Union withdraws their troops from Afghanistan.
Iran-Iraq war ends.
1990
August 1990
Iraq invades Kuwait
1991
Soviet Union is dissolved.
Osama Bin Laden relocates to Sudan.
1991
German police investigate 41 nuclear smuggling incidents.
Iran is reported to have 3 nuclear weapons acquired through Kazakhstan.
August 1991
Russian coup against Gorbachev.
December 1991
The House Republican Task Force reports that Iran has the materials for three nuclear weapons.
December 25, 1991
Gorbachev is forced to resign as President of the U.S.S.R.
1992
158 reports of nuclear smuggling investigated by Germany.
New York Times reports 53 nuclear smuggling incidents.
Iran offered to provide Ukraine with oil in exchange for missile technology.
March
Israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
June
The Russian authorities withdrew all Russian defense personnel and their families from Chechnya.
July 1,1992
Iran and Syria are reported to be engaged in counterfeiting U.S. $100 bills.
August 10, 1992
Tehran, Baghdad and Damascus declared the new AXIS pact.
28 August
Russia and the United States agreed to transfer from Russian inventories 500 metric tons of weapons grade uranium to the USA for dilution into reactor fuel over the next 20 years.
1993
German Police investigate 241 cases of nuclear smuggling.
NYT reports 56 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated.
February 28, 1993
First World Trade Center attack.
September 1993
Moscow news reports that the Chechen republic had paraded SS-20 missiles in a military review in Grozney.
July-December 1993
The Russian Federal Counterintelligence service claim that over 900 thefts of from military and nuclear plants had taken place and 700 thefts of secret technology had occurred.
1994
267 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated by German police.
NYT reports 124 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated 77 of these cases involved Plutonium or uranium.
Osama Bin Laden’s Saudi Citizenship revoked.
Project Saffire- The US buys tons of plutonium and uranium from Kazakhstan.
322 terrorist attacks occur, 66 of these attacks were against US interests.
Late 1994
A ship carrying 200 tons of enriched Brazilian uranium disappeared while en-route to Canada suspected of being diverted to Iran.
1 January 1995
July
The Jewish community center in Buenos Aires is bombed.
September
Marshal Law declared in Chechnya.
November
Russian Interior Minister Yerin report 80 incidents of nuclear smuggling interdiction occurred between 1993-1994.
Dudayev requests special UN troops to come in and protect weapons of mass destruction from attack by Russian forces.
December
Russian Forces enter Chechnya to stop Independence movement.
1995
440 international terrorists attacks 99 attacks against US interests 12 US citizens killed.
Russian media reports that claim that Chechen rebels have obtained Soviet made ADMs.
Bin Laden agreed to finance a Gulf Battalion organized by the Iranian Guardians of the revolution. It was suggested that he had convinced Yemeni fundamentalist leader Shaykh ‘Abd-al-Majid al- Zandani, to position elements of the Gulf Battalion in al-Zandani’s camps in Yemen for deployment in Gulf countries when circumstances permitted.
Iran A secret deal was reportedly signed for Russia to deliver two 400 MW reactors to an underground facility beneath a mountain in Chalus.
General Uzi Dayan gives lecture calling for Israel to bomb Iranian Nuclear power program in order to prevent them from producing nuclear weapons.
March 15, 1995,
Executive Order 12957, President Clinton declared a national emergency with respect to Iran pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Iran, including its support for international terrorism, efforts to undermine the Middle East peace process, and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
19 April
Oklahoma City the Federal building is bombed by a fuel oil bomb in a Ryder truck.
May
Unilateral U.S. embargo of all Iranian Imports.
May
Clinton-Yeltsin summit Iranian centrifuge plant for Uranium enrichment is discussed.
26 June
Assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during his Ethiopian visit.
Summer 1995
U.S. embargo causes a drop in the value in the Iranian Rial.
September
New presidential decision directive to organize even more comprehensive U.S. efforts to secure nuclear material.
October
President Clinton addresses the U.N. general assembly reflects on nuclear proliferation.
15 October
Russian Interior Minister Kulikov, in a television interview stated that, Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev might have radioactive isotopes taken from the Budyonnovsk hospital seized by Chechen rebels last spring.
21 October
Unocal and Delta Oil signed an agreement with the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurad Niyazov, which included a plan to for the construction of a gas pipeline that would cross Afghanistan.
23 November
Russian television reporters discovered a 32kg container, reportedly holding cesium-137, in a Moscow park. The object was part of a hospital X-ray machine.
13 November
Riyadh bombing of the Office of the Program Manager/Saudi Arabian National Guard five US citizens killed.
1996
296 acts of international terrorism 73 were anti-US. 24 US citizens killed.
U.S. officials estimate that with extensive outside help, Iran might be able to produce a nuclear weapon by about the year 2000.
3 February
H.R. 3107 Iran oil sanctions act of 1996 advances through congress.
May
US state department imposes sanctions against entities in both North Korea and Iran for missile proliferation.
Iran built a rail link between Iran and the Central Asian rail system and improved the parallel highway link as well. These links could be used to transfer WMD technology.
Bin Laden is ejected from Sudan.
Mid- 1996
A meeting of various leaders convened by Bin Laden reached a consensus “to use force to confront all foreign forces stationed on Islamic land,” and to form a planning committee; a financing, supply, and mobilization committee; and a higher military committee t o over see implementation of the plan.
31 May
Four Saudis accused in the attack against installations in Riyadh are executed.
25 June
Fuel truck bombing of the US military’s Khubar Towers housing facility near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US citizens and wounding 500 persons.
9 July
The ABL is proposed as weapon system.
23 August
Bin Laden declares war against the US. Says he is planning large attacks against the U.S.
September
Taliban takes over Afghanistan.
September 6
Iraqi incursion into Kurdistan.
November
Gadaffi assassination attempt.
28 November
Russian General Lebed meets with Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Discussion of Russian nuclear security takes place.
1997
Asian financial crisis.
February
Taleban rejects American deal for international recognition in exchange for handing over Bin Laden.
12 February
Clinton warns Russia about assistance to Iran’s missile and unconventional weapons program.
19 March
Assassination attempt on Bin Laden kills more than 50 and wounds 150 destroying a Jalalabad police station. It was one of two attempts on bin laden in early 1997.
May
Iran elects Mohammad Khatami is elected for President.
13 November
4 US citizens killed, employees of Union Texas Petroleum in Karachi, Pakistan.
25 November
APEC Summit, leaders of the 18 Asia Pacific economies endorses a framework to cope with financial crises.
The deadliest terrorist attack ever committed in Egypt occurred, when six gunmen entered the Hasheput Temple in Luxor and for 30 minutes killed fifty-eight tourists.
December
US spy satellites observe Iranian Shihab-3 missile engine test.
1998
February
Bin Laden announced the creation of a new alliance of terrorist organizations, the “World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders.” The Front included the Egyptian al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Harakat ul-Ansar, and two other groups. The Front declared its intention to attack Americans and our allies, including civilians, anywhere in the world. By at least February 1998, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad had effectively merged with al-Qaeda and joined with them to target Americans.
SUMMER
Russian Financial Crisis Breaks
23 July
Iran test fires the Shihab-3 missile for the first time it is a success.
23 July
"If Iran has successfully developed and tested a weapon with a range of at least 800 miles, what is to stop them from developing the means to deliver such a weapon upon the United States or any of our allies? The time for the United States to develop and deploy a national missile defense system is now. I simply cannot believe that the Clinton Administration refuses to acknowledge the need that has existed for some time, and most certainly exists now."
August
U.S. embassy bombing in Africa occurs killing 12 Americans.
20 August
Operation Infinite Reach the United States bombs Bin Laden’s facilities in Sudan and Afghanistan.
31 August
North Korea launches Taepodong missile over Japan.
September 4, 1998
the Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of launch announcement claimed that what had been though to have been a missile launch which had caused international comment on August 31 had actually been their first satellite launch. The three-stage launch vehicle is said to have been flown from Musudan- ri, Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province (estimated to be approximately 41 deg N, 130 deg E) at an azimuth of 86 deg (which implies an orbital inclination close to 41 deg) and "correctly put the satellite into orbit" after four minutes 53 seconds. The launch vehicle's first stage separated 95 seconds after the launch: the second stage "opened the capsule" (possibly meaning the separation of the payload shroud) 144 seconds after launch and separated at 266 seconds: the third stage is claimed to have put the satellite into orbit 27 seconds after the separation of the second stage.
September 5, 1998
Israeli intelligence officials believe Iran is developing a spy satellite as part of its ballistic missile program. Analyzing Iranian television video, they spotted a satellite launcher and what could be the basis for a spy satellite that could cover the entire Middle East, including Israel.
17 September 1998
"The actions and policies of the Government of Iran continue to present an extraordinary and unusual threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States," President Clinton said in a September 17 letter to Congress.
23 September 1998
HOPES FOR A THAW IN RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN RECEIVED A SETBACK THIS WEEK WHEN IRANIAN PRESIDENT MOHAMMED KHATAMI DENIED TEHRAN IS READY FOR A DIPLOMATIC OPENING WITH WASHINGTON.
29 September 1998
IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KAMEL KHARAZZI, MONDAY REJECTED AN INVITATION BY THE UNITED STATES TO START A POLITICAL DIALOG AIMED AT NORMALIZING RELATIONS.
16 April 1999
AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES ARE STEPPING UP THEIR CALL FOR AN END TO THE U-S EMBARGO AGAINST IRAN, SAYING THAT IT HURTS U-S INTERESTS AND GIVES AN ADVANTAGE TO FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES.
July
Clinton cuts off all commercial contact with Afghanistan.
October 1999
The Russians and Chechens both claim that the other side was preparing chemical weapons for use in the conflict.
15 October
U.N. Security council demands that the Taleban hand over Bin Laden to authorities in a country (U.S.A.) to stand trial.
14 November
U.N.S.C. decides that all states shall freeze funds and prohibit take offs and landings of Taliban owned aircraft unless or until they hand over Bin Laden. The Taliban refused so the sanctions took effect.
10 December 1999
Russian Military claim that Chechen Separatists exploded canisters of toxic agents in a village on the out skirts of Grozney.
January 2000
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth meets with Taliban Ambassador Amir Khan Muttaqi in Pakistan.
AEOI discover 5000 tones of Uranium ore discovered in Iran
February 1987
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization President expresses the need for Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
1988
Bin Laden founds Al-Qaida.
September 1988
The US gives the go ahead for the development of THAAD.
1989
Soviet Union withdraws their troops from Afghanistan.
Iran-Iraq war ends.
1990
August 1990
Iraq invades Kuwait
1991
Soviet Union is dissolved.
Osama Bin Laden relocates to Sudan.
1991
German police investigate 41 nuclear smuggling incidents.
Iran is reported to have 3 nuclear weapons acquired through Kazakhstan.
August 1991
Russian coup against Gorbachev.
December 1991
The House Republican Task Force reports that Iran has the materials for three nuclear weapons.
December 25, 1991
Gorbachev is forced to resign as President of the U.S.S.R.
1992
158 reports of nuclear smuggling investigated by Germany.
New York Times reports 53 nuclear smuggling incidents.
Iran offered to provide Ukraine with oil in exchange for missile technology.
March
Israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
June
The Russian authorities withdrew all Russian defense personnel and their families from Chechnya.
July 1,1992
Iran and Syria are reported to be engaged in counterfeiting U.S. $100 bills.
August 10, 1992
Tehran, Baghdad and Damascus declared the new AXIS pact.
28 August
Russia and the United States agreed to transfer from Russian inventories 500 metric tons of weapons grade uranium to the USA for dilution into reactor fuel over the next 20 years.
1993
German Police investigate 241 cases of nuclear smuggling.
NYT reports 56 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated.
February 28, 1993
First World Trade Center attack.
September 1993
Moscow news reports that the Chechen republic had paraded SS-20 missiles in a military review in Grozney.
July-December 1993
The Russian Federal Counterintelligence service claim that over 900 thefts of from military and nuclear plants had taken place and 700 thefts of secret technology had occurred.
1994
267 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated by German police.
NYT reports 124 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated 77 of these cases involved Plutonium or uranium.
Osama Bin Laden’s Saudi Citizenship revoked.
Project Saffire- The US buys tons of plutonium and uranium from Kazakhstan.
322 terrorist attacks occur, 66 of these attacks were against US interests.
Late 1994
A ship carrying 200 tons of enriched Brazilian uranium disappeared while en-route to Canada suspected of being diverted to Iran.
1 January 1995
July
The Jewish community center in Buenos Aires is bombed.
September
Marshal Law declared in Chechnya.
November
Russian Interior Minister Yerin report 80 incidents of nuclear smuggling interdiction occurred between 1993-1994.
Dudayev requests special UN troops to come in and protect weapons of mass destruction from attack by Russian forces.
December
Russian Forces enter Chechnya to stop Independence movement.
1995
440 international terrorists attacks 99 attacks against US interests 12 US citizens killed.
Russian media reports that claim that Chechen rebels have obtained Soviet made ADMs.
Bin Laden agreed to finance a Gulf Battalion organized by the Iranian Guardians of the revolution. It was suggested that he had convinced Yemeni fundamentalist leader Shaykh ‘Abd-al-Majid al- Zandani, to position elements of the Gulf Battalion in al-Zandani’s camps in Yemen for deployment in Gulf countries when circumstances permitted.
Iran A secret deal was reportedly signed for Russia to deliver two 400 MW reactors to an underground facility beneath a mountain in Chalus.
General Uzi Dayan gives lecture calling for Israel to bomb Iranian Nuclear power program in order to prevent them from producing nuclear weapons.
March 15, 1995,
Executive Order 12957, President Clinton declared a national emergency with respect to Iran pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Iran, including its support for international terrorism, efforts to undermine the Middle East peace process, and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
19 April
Oklahoma City the Federal building is bombed by a fuel oil bomb in a Ryder truck.
May
Unilateral U.S. embargo of all Iranian Imports.
May
Clinton-Yeltsin summit Iranian centrifuge plant for Uranium enrichment is discussed.
26 June
Assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during his Ethiopian visit.
Summer 1995
U.S. embargo causes a drop in the value in the Iranian Rial.
September
New presidential decision directive to organize even more comprehensive U.S. efforts to secure nuclear material.
October
President Clinton addresses the U.N. general assembly reflects on nuclear proliferation.
15 October
Russian Interior Minister Kulikov, in a television interview stated that, Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev might have radioactive isotopes taken from the Budyonnovsk hospital seized by Chechen rebels last spring.
21 October
Unocal and Delta Oil signed an agreement with the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurad Niyazov, which included a plan to for the construction of a gas pipeline that would cross Afghanistan.
23 November
Russian television reporters discovered a 32kg container, reportedly holding cesium-137, in a Moscow park. The object was part of a hospital X-ray machine.
13 November
Riyadh bombing of the Office of the Program Manager/Saudi Arabian National Guard five US citizens killed.
1996
296 acts of international terrorism 73 were anti-US. 24 US citizens killed.
U.S. officials estimate that with extensive outside help, Iran might be able to produce a nuclear weapon by about the year 2000.
3 February
H.R. 3107 Iran oil sanctions act of 1996 advances through congress.
May
US state department imposes sanctions against entities in both North Korea and Iran for missile proliferation.
Iran built a rail link between Iran and the Central Asian rail system and improved the parallel highway link as well. These links could be used to transfer WMD technology.
Bin Laden is ejected from Sudan.
Mid- 1996
A meeting of various leaders convened by Bin Laden reached a consensus “to use force to confront all foreign forces stationed on Islamic land,” and to form a planning committee; a financing, supply, and mobilization committee; and a higher military committee t o over see implementation of the plan.
31 May
Four Saudis accused in the attack against installations in Riyadh are executed.
25 June
Fuel truck bombing of the US military’s Khubar Towers housing facility near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US citizens and wounding 500 persons.
9 July
The ABL is proposed as weapon system.
23 August
Bin Laden declares war against the US. Says he is planning large attacks against the U.S.
September
Taliban takes over Afghanistan.
September 6
Iraqi incursion into Kurdistan.
November
Gadaffi assassination attempt.
28 November
Russian General Lebed meets with Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Discussion of Russian nuclear security takes place.
1997
Asian financial crisis.
February
Taleban rejects American deal for international recognition in exchange for handing over Bin Laden.
12 February
Clinton warns Russia about assistance to Iran’s missile and unconventional weapons program.
19 March
Assassination attempt on Bin Laden kills more than 50 and wounds 150 destroying a Jalalabad police station. It was one of two attempts on bin laden in early 1997.
May
Iran elects Mohammad Khatami is elected for President.
13 November
4 US citizens killed, employees of Union Texas Petroleum in Karachi, Pakistan.
25 November
APEC Summit, leaders of the 18 Asia Pacific economies endorses a framework to cope with financial crises.
The deadliest terrorist attack ever committed in Egypt occurred, when six gunmen entered the Hasheput Temple in Luxor and for 30 minutes killed fifty-eight tourists.
December
US spy satellites observe Iranian Shihab-3 missile engine test.
1998
February
Bin Laden announced the creation of a new alliance of terrorist organizations, the “World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders.” The Front included the Egyptian al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Harakat ul-Ansar, and two other groups. The Front declared its intention to attack Americans and our allies, including civilians, anywhere in the world. By at least February 1998, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad had effectively merged with al-Qaeda and joined with them to target Americans.
SUMMER
Russian Financial Crisis Breaks
23 July
Iran test fires the Shihab-3 missile for the first time it is a success.
23 July
"If Iran has successfully developed and tested a weapon with a range of at least 800 miles, what is to stop them from developing the means to deliver such a weapon upon the United States or any of our allies? The time for the United States to develop and deploy a national missile defense system is now. I simply cannot believe that the Clinton Administration refuses to acknowledge the need that has existed for some time, and most certainly exists now."
August
U.S. embassy bombing in Africa occurs killing 12 Americans.
20 August
Operation Infinite Reach the United States bombs Bin Laden’s facilities in Sudan and Afghanistan.
31 August
North Korea launches Taepodong missile over Japan.
September 4, 1998
the Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of launch announcement claimed that what had been though to have been a missile launch which had caused international comment on August 31 had actually been their first satellite launch. The three-stage launch vehicle is said to have been flown from Musudan- ri, Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province (estimated to be approximately 41 deg N, 130 deg E) at an azimuth of 86 deg (which implies an orbital inclination close to 41 deg) and "correctly put the satellite into orbit" after four minutes 53 seconds. The launch vehicle's first stage separated 95 seconds after the launch: the second stage "opened the capsule" (possibly meaning the separation of the payload shroud) 144 seconds after launch and separated at 266 seconds: the third stage is claimed to have put the satellite into orbit 27 seconds after the separation of the second stage.
September 5, 1998
Israeli intelligence officials believe Iran is developing a spy satellite as part of its ballistic missile program. Analyzing Iranian television video, they spotted a satellite launcher and what could be the basis for a spy satellite that could cover the entire Middle East, including Israel.
17 September 1998
"The actions and policies of the Government of Iran continue to present an extraordinary and unusual threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States," President Clinton said in a September 17 letter to Congress.
23 September 1998
HOPES FOR A THAW IN RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN RECEIVED A SETBACK THIS WEEK WHEN IRANIAN PRESIDENT MOHAMMED KHATAMI DENIED TEHRAN IS READY FOR A DIPLOMATIC OPENING WITH WASHINGTON.
29 September 1998
IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KAMEL KHARAZZI, MONDAY REJECTED AN INVITATION BY THE UNITED STATES TO START A POLITICAL DIALOG AIMED AT NORMALIZING RELATIONS.
16 April 1999
AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES ARE STEPPING UP THEIR CALL FOR AN END TO THE U-S EMBARGO AGAINST IRAN, SAYING THAT IT HURTS U-S INTERESTS AND GIVES AN ADVANTAGE TO FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES.
July
Clinton cuts off all commercial contact with Afghanistan.
October 1999
The Russians and Chechens both claim that the other side was preparing chemical weapons for use in the conflict.
15 October
U.N. Security council demands that the Taleban hand over Bin Laden to authorities in a country (U.S.A.) to stand trial.
14 November
U.N.S.C. decides that all states shall freeze funds and prohibit take offs and landings of Taliban owned aircraft unless or until they hand over Bin Laden. The Taliban refused so the sanctions took effect.
10 December 1999
Russian Military claim that Chechen Separatists exploded canisters of toxic agents in a village on the out skirts of Grozney.
January 2000
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth meets with Taliban Ambassador Amir Khan Muttaqi in Pakistan.
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