siehe auch: Dipl. Med. Meißner zur JOH
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Wayne Madsen: Obama’s CIA Connections, Part I and II
- Special Report: The Story of Obama: All in The Company Part I -
By Wayne Madsen
WMR [Wayne Madsen Report] has
discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to
institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack
Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather.
President
Obama’s own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA
front that conducted seminars with the world’s most powerful leaders and
used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage
activities conducted by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham in
1960s post-coup Indonesia on behalf of a number of CIA front operations,
including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation.
Dunham met and married Lolo Soetoro, Obama’s stepfather, at the
East-West Center in 1965. Soetoro was recalled to Indonesia in 1965 to
serve as a senior army officer and assist General Suharto and the CIA in
the bloody overthrow of President Sukarno.
Barack
Obama, Sr., who met Dunham in 1959 in a Russian language class at the
University of Hawaii, had been part of what was described as an airlift
of 280 East African students to the United States to attend various
colleges — merely “aided” by a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy
Foundation, according to a September 12, 1960, Reuters report from
London. The airlift was a CIA operation to train and indoctrinate future
agents of influence in Africa, which was becoming a battleground
between the United States and the Soviet Union and China for
influence among newly-independent and soon-to-be independent countries
on the continent.
The
airlift was condemned by the deputy leader of the opposition Kenyan
African Democratic Union (KADU) as favoring certain tribes — the
majority Kikuyus and minority Luos — over other tribes to favor the
Kenyan African National Union (KANU), whose leader was Tom Mboya,
Obama’s African family
the Kenyan nationalist and labor leader who selected Obama, Sr. for a
scholarship at the University of Hawaii. Obama, Sr., who was already
married with an infant son and pregnant wife in Kenya, married Dunham on
Maui on February 2, 1961 and was also the university’s first African
student. Dunham was three month’s pregnant with Barack Obama, Jr. at the
time of her marriage to Obama, Sr.
KADU
deputy leader Masinda Muliro, according to Reuters, said KADU would
send a delegation to the United States to investigate Kenyan students
who received “gifts” from the Americans and “ensure that further gifts
to Kenyan students are administered by people genuinely interested in
Kenya’s development.’”
Mboya
received a $100,000 grant for the airlift from the Kennedy Foundation
after he turned down the same offer from the U.S. State Department,
obviously concerned that direct U.S. assistance would look suspicious to
pro-Communist Kenyan politicians who suspected Mboya of having CIA
ties. The Airlift Africa project was underwritten by the Kennedy
Foundation and the African-American Students Foundation. Obama, Sr. was
not on the first airlift but a subsequent one. The airlift, organized by
Mboya in 1959, included students from Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika,
Zanzibar, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland.
Reuters
also reported that Muliro charged that Africans were “disturbed and
embittered” by the airlift of the selected students. Muliro “stated that
“preferences were shown to two major tribes [Kikuyu and Luo] and many
U.S.-bound students had failed preliminary and common entrance
examinations, while some of those left behind held first-class
certificates.”
Obama,
Sr. was a friend of Mboya and a fellow Luo. After Mboya was
assassinated in 1969, Obama, Sr. testified at the trial of his alleged
assassin. Obama, Sr. claimed he was the target of a hit-and-run
assassination attempt after his testimony.
Obama,
Sr., who left Hawaii for Harvard in 1962, divorced Dunham in 1964.
Obama, Sr. married a fellow Harvard student, Ruth Niedesand, a
Jewish-American woman, who moved with him to Kenya and had two sons.
They were later divorced. Obama, Sr. worked for the Kenyan Finance and
Transport ministries as well as an oil firm. Obama, Sr. died in a 1982
car crash and his funeral was attended by leading Kenyan politicians,
including future Foreign Minister Robert Ouko, who was murdered in 1990.
CIA
files indicate that Mboya was an important agent-of-influence for the
CIA, not only in Kenya but in all of Africa. A formerly Secret CIA
“Current Intelligence Weekly Summary,” dated November 19, 1959, states
that Mboya served as a check on extremists at the second All-African
People’s Conference (AAPC) in Tunis. The report states that “serious
friction developed between Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame NNkrumah and
Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya who cooperated effectively [emphasis
added] last December to check extremists at the AAPC’s first meeting in
Accra.” The term “cooperated effectively” appears to indicate that
Mboya was cooperating with the CIA, which filed the report from field
operatives in Accra and Tunis. While “cooperating” with the CIA in Accra
and Tunis, Mboya selected the father of the president of the United
States to receive a scholarship and be airlifted to the University of
Hawaii where he met and married President Obama’s mother.
An
earlier CIA Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, Secret, and dated
April 3, 1958, states that Mboya “still appears to be the most promising
of the African leaders.” Another CIA weekly summary, Secret and dated
December 18, 1958, calls Mboya the Kenyan nationalist an “able and
dynamic young chairman” of the People’s Convention party who was viewed
as an opponent of “extremists” like Nkrumah, supported by “Sino-Soviet
representatives.”
In
a formerly Secret CIA report on the All-Africa Peoples Conference in
1961, dated November 1, 1961, Mboya’s conservatism, along with that of
Taleb Slim of Tunisia, are contrasted to the leftist policies of Nkrumah
and others. Pro-communists who were elected to the AAPC’s steering
committee at the March 1961 Cairo conference, attended by Mboya, are
identified in the report as Abdoulaye Diallo, AAPC Secretary General, of
Senegal; Ahmed Bourmendjel of Algeria; Mario de Andrade of Angola; Ntau
Mokhele of Basutoland; Kingue Abel of Cameroun; Antoine Kiwewa of Congo
(Leopoldville); Kojo Botsio of Ghana; Ismail Toure of Guinea; T. O.
Dosomu Johnson of Liberia; Modibo Diallo of Mali; Mahjoub Ben Seddik of
Morocco; Djibo Bakari of Niger; Tunji Otegbeya of Nigeria; Kanyama
Chiume of Nyasaland; Ali Abdullahi of Somalia; Tennyson Makiwane of
South Africa, and Mohamed Fouad Galal of the United Arab Republic.
The
only attendees in Cairo who were given a clean bill of health by the
CIA were Mboya, who appears to have been a snitch for the agency, and
Joshua Nkomo of Southern Rhodesia, B. Munanka of Tanganyika, Abdel Magid
Shaker of Tunisia, and John Kakonge of Uganda.
Nkrumah
would eventually be overthrown in a 1966 CIA-backed coup while he was
on a state visit to China and North Vietnam. The CIA overthrow of
Nkrumah followed by one year the agency’s overthrow of Sukarno, another
coup that was connected to President Obama’s family on his mother’s
side. There are suspicions that Mboya was assassinated in 1969 by
Chinese agents working with anti-Mboya factions in the government of
Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta in order to eliminate a pro-U.S. leading
political leader in Africa. Upon Mboya’s death, every embassy in Nairobi
flew its flag at half-mast except for one, the embassy of the People’s
Republic of China.
Mboya’s
influence in the Kenyatta government would continue long after his
death and while Obama, Sr. was still alive. In 1975, after the
assassination of KANU politician Josiah Kariuki, a socialist who helped
start KANU, along with Mboya and Obama, Sr., Kenyatta dismissed three
rebellious cabinet ministers who “all had personal ties to either
Kariuki or Tom Mboya.” This information is contained in CIA
Staff Notes on the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, formerly Top
Secret Umbra, Handle via COMINT Channels, dated June 24, 1975. The
intelligence in the report, based on its classification, indicate the
information was derived from National Security Agency intercepts in
Kenya. No one was ever charged in the assassination of Kariuki.
The
intecepts of Mboya’s and Kariuki’s associates are an indication that
the NSA and CIA also maintain intercepts on Barack Obama, Sr., who, as a
non-U.S. person, would have been lawfully subject at the time to
intercepts carried out by NSA and Britain’s Government Communications
Headquarters (GCHQ).
Special Report. The Story of Obama: All in The Company – Part II
By Wayne Madsen
In Part I of
this WMR special report, we revealed the connections between Barack
Obama, Sr. and the CIA-affiliated Airlift Africa project to provide
college degrees to and gain influence over a group of 280 eastern and
southern African students from soon-to-be independent African nations to
counter similar programs established by the Soviet Union and China.
Barack Obama Sr. was the first African student to attend the University
of Hawaii. Obama Sr. and Obama’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham met in a
Russian language class in 1959 and they married in 1961.
The
African airlift program was administered by Kenyan nationalist leader
Tom Mboya, a fellow Luo tribe mentor and friend of the senior Obama.
According to CIA documents described in Part I, Mboya also served the
CIA in ensuring that pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese African nationalists
were stymied in their attempt to dominate pan-African nationalist
political, student, and labor movements.
One
of Mboya’s chief opponents was Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah,
who was ousted in a CIA-inspired coup in 1966, one year before to Obama
Sr’s son, Barack Obama, Jr. and his mother joined Lolo Soetoro, an
Indonesian who Obama’s mother met at the University of Hawaii in 1965,
when President Obama was four years old.
In
1967, Obama and his mother joined her husband in Jakarta. In 1965, Lolo
Soetoro had been called back from Hawaii by General Suharto to serve as
an officer in the Indonesian military to help launch a bloody
CIA-backed genocide of Indonesian Communists and Indonesian
Chinese throughout the expansive country. Suharto consolidated his power
in 1966, the same year that Barack Obama, Sr.’s friend, Mboya, had
helped to rally pro-U.S. pan-African support for the CIA’s overthrow of Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966.
East-West Center, University of Hawaii, and CIA coup against Sukarno
CIA Links
Ann
Dunham met Soetoro at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii.
The center had long been affiliated with CIA activities in the
Asia-Pacific region. In 1965, the year that Dunham met and married
Soetoro, the center saw a new chancellor take over. He was Howard P.
Jones who served a record seven years, from 1958 to 1965, as U.S.
ambassador to Indonesia. Jones was present in Jakarta as Suharto and his
CIA-backed military officers planned the 1965 overthrow of Sukarno, who
was seen, along with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), as allies of
China.
When Jones was chancellor of the East-West Center, he wrote an article for the Washington Post, dated October 10, 1965, in which he defended Suharto’s overthrow of Sukarno. Jones was “invited” by the Post to
comment on the Suharto coup, described as a “counter-coup” against the
Communists. Jones charged that Suharto was merely responding to an
earlier attempted Communist-led coup against Sukarno launched by Lt.
Col. Untung, “a relatively unknown battalion commander in the palace
guard.”
Jones’s
article, which mirrored CIA situation reports from the U.S. embassy in
Jakarta, continued by stating that the alleged leftist coup on September
30 ”came within an inch of succeeding through the assassination of six
of the top military command. It might well have succeeded had not
Defense Minister Nasution and a number of other senior generals also
maked for assassination acted fast in a dramatic counter-coup.” Of
course, what Jones did not inform the Post’s readers was that the Suharto “counter-coup” had been assisted with the strong help of the CIA.
Sukarno
never blamed the Communists for the assassination of the army generals
nor did the Indonesian Cabinet, where the second= and third-ranking
leaders of the PKI were present. The possibility that the assassination
of the generals was a CIA/Suharto “false flag” operation to affix blame
on the PKI cannot be ruled out. Two days after Suharto’s coup, a CIA
“rent-a-mob” burned down the PKI headquarters in Jakarta. As they
marched past the U.S. Embassy, which was also the site of the CIA
station, they yelled out, “Long live America!”
Untung
later said that when he became aware that Suharto and the CIA were
planning a coup on October 5, 1965 – Indonesian Armed Forces Day
– forces loyal to him and Sukarno moved first. Jones described this as
“typical Communist propaganda.” Suharto moved against Sukarno on October
1. Jones iterated that “there was not an iota of truth . . . in the
accusation that the CIA was working against Sukarno.” History has proven
otherwise. Jones accused the Communists of taking advantage of
Sukarno’s failing health to beat out the other candidates to succeed
him. The goal, according to Jones, was to have PKI boss D.N. Aidit
succeed Sukarno. Sukarno did not die until 1970, while under house
arrest.
A
CIA paper, formerly classified Secret and undated, states “Sukarno
would like to return to the status quo ante-coup. He has refused to
condemn the PKI or the 30th September Movement [of Lt. Col. Untung];
instead, he calls for unity of Indonesia and asks that no vengeance be
taken by one group against the other. But, he has not succeeded in
forcing the Army to abandon its anti-PKI activities and, on the other
hand, he has bowed to their demand by appointing its single candidate
General Suharto as head of the Army.” Suharto and Barry Obama Soetoro’s
step-father Lolo Soetoro would ignore Sukarno’s call for no vengeance,
as hundreds of thousands of Indonesians would soon discover.
The
mass murder by Suharto of Indonesian Chinese is seen in the CIA paper’s
description of the Baperki Party: “the leftist Baperki Party, with its
major strength in rural areas, is largely Chinese-Indonesian in
membership.” A CIA Intelligence Memorandum, dated October 6, 1966 and
formerly classified Secret, shows the extent of the CIA’s monitoring of
the anti-Sukarno coup from various CIA agents assigned as liaisons to
Suharto’s army units surrounding the Presidential Palace in Bogor and at
various diplomatic posts around the country, including the U.S.
Consulate in Medan, which was keeping track of leftists in that Sumatran
city and, which, in an October 2, 1965, Intelligence Memo, reported to
the CIA that the “Soviet consul-general in Medan has a plane standing by
that could be used for evacuation of Soviet citizens from Sumatra.”
The October 6 memo also warns against allowing Untung from developing a
following in Central Java.
A CIA formerly Secret “Weekly Summary Special Report” on Indonesia, dated August 11, 1967, and titled “The New Order in Indonesia,” reports
that in 1966, Indonesia re-aligned its economy in order to receive
International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance. The CIA reports its is
happy with the new triumvirate ruling Indonesia in 1967: Suharto,
Foreign Minister Adam Malik, and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, who served as
minister for economics and finance. The report also rejoices in the
outlawing of the PKI, but states it “retains a significant following in
East and Central Java,” where Ann Dunham Soetoro would largely
concentrate her later efforts on behalf of USAID, the World Bank, and
the Ford Foundation, all front activities for the CIA to “win the hearts
and minds” of the Javanese farmers and artisans.
A
CIA Intelligence Memorandum, formerly Secret and dated July 23, 1966,
clearly sees the Muslim Nahdatul Ulama party {NU), the largest party in
Indonesia and Muslim, as a natural ally of the United States and the
Suharto regime. The report states that helped Suharto put down the
Communists in the post-coup time frame, especially where the NU was
strongest: East Java, where Obama’s mother would concentrate her
activities, and North Sumatra and parts of Borneo. An April 29, 1966,
formerly Secret CIA Intelligence Memorandum on the PKI states: “Moslem
extremists in many instances outdid the army in hunting down and
murdering members of the party [PKI] and its front groups.”
Dunham and Barry Soetoro in Jakarta and USAID front activities
Dunham
dropped out of the University of Hawaii in 1960 while pregnant with
Barack Obama. Barack Obama Sr. left Hawaii in 1962 to study at Harvard.
Dunham and Obama divorced in 1964. In the fall of 1961, Dunham enrolled
at the University of Washington while caring for her infant son. Dunham
was re-enrolled at the University of Hawaii from 1963 to 1966. Lolo
Soetoro, who Dunham married in March 1965, departed Hawaii for Indonesia
on July 20, 1965, some three months prior to the CIA’s coup against
Sukarno. Soetoro, who served Suharto as an Army colonel, was clearly
called back from the CIA-connected East-West Center to assist in the
coup against Sukarno, one that would eventually cost the lives of some
one million Indonesian citizens. It is a history that President Obama
would like the press to ignore, which it certainly did during the 2008
primary and general election.
In
1967, after arriving in Indonesia with Obama, Jr., Dunham began
teaching English at the American embassy in Jakarta, which also housed
one of the largest CIA stations in Asia and had significant satellite
stations in Surabaya in eastern Java and Medan on Sumatra. Jones left as
East-West Center chancellor in 1968.
In
fact, Obama’s mother was teaching English for the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID), which was a major cover for CIA
activities in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia, especially in
Laos, South Vietnam, and Thailand. The USAID program was known as Lembaga Pendidikan Pembinaan Manajemen.
Obama’s mother, painted as a free spirit and a “sixties child” by
President Obama and people who claimed they knew her in Hawaii and
Indonesia, had a curriculum vitae in Indonesia that contradicts the
perception that Ann Dunham Soetoro was a “hippy.”
Dunham
Soetoro’s Russian language training at the University of Hawaii may
have been useful to the CIA in Indonesia. An August 2, 1966,
formerly Secret memorandum from the National Security Council’s
Executive Secretary Bromley Smith states that, in addition to Japan,
Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the Philippines,
the Suharto coup was welcomed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern
European allies because its created a non-aligned Indonesia that
“represents an Asian counterweight to Communist China.” Records indicate
that a number of CIA agents posted in Jakarta before and after the 1965
coup were, like Dunham Soetoro, conversant in Russian.
Dunham
Soetoro worked for the elitist Ford Foundation, World Bank, Asian
Development Bank, Bank Rakyat (the majority government-owned People’s
Bank of Indonesia), and the CIA-linked USAID while she lived in
Indonesia and later, Pakistan.
USAID
was involved in a number of CIA covert operations in Southeast Asia.
The February 9, 1971, Washington Star reported that USAID officials in
Laos were aware that rice supplied to the Laotian Army by USAID was
being re-sold to North Vietnamese army divisions in the country. The
report stated that the U.S. tolerated the USAID rice sales to the North
Vietnamese since the Laotian Army units that sold the rice found
themselves protected from Communist Pathet Lao and North
Vietnamese attack. USAID and the CIA also used the supply of rice to
force Laotian Meo tribesmen to support the United States in the war
against the Communists. USAID funds programmed for civilians injured in
the war in Laos and public health care were actually diverted for
military purposes.
In
1971, the USAID-funded Center for Vietnamese Studies at Southern
Illinois University in Carbondale was accused of being a CIA front.
USAID-funded projects through the Midwest Universities Consortium for
International Activities (MUCIA) — comprising the Universities of
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan State — were
accused of being CIA front projects, including those for “agricultural
education” in Indonesia, as well as other “projects” in Afghanistan,
Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Thailand, and South Vietnam. The charge was made
in 1971, the same year that Ann Dunham was working for USAID in the
country.
In a July 10, 1971, New York Times report,
USAID and the CIA were accused of “losing” $1.7 billion appropriated
for the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS)
program in South Vietnam. CORDS was part of the CIA’s Operation Phoenix
program, which involved CIA assassination and torture of South
Vietnamese village elders and Buddhist clerics. USAID money was also
directed to the CIA’s proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, Air
America. In Thailand, USAID funds for the Accelerated Rural Development
Program in Thailand were actually masking a CIA anti-Communist
counter-insurgency operation. USAID funds programmed for public works
projects in East Pakistan in 1971 were used for East Pakistan’s
military fortifications on its border with India, in the months before
the outbreak of war with India, in contravention of U.S. law that
prohibited USAID money for military purposes.
In
1972, USAID administrator Dr. John Hannah admitted to Metromedia News
that USAID was being used as a cover for CIA covert operations in Laos.
Hannah only admitted to Laos as a USAID cover for the CIA. However, it
was also reported that USAID was being used by the CIA in Indonesia,
Philippines, South Vietnam, Thailand, and South Korea. USAID projects in
Southeast Asia had to be approved by the Southeast Asian Development
Advisory Group (SEADAG), an Asia Society group that was, in fact,
answerable to the CIA.
The
U.S. Food for Peace program, jointly administered by USAID and the
Department of Agriculture, was found in 1972 to be used for military
purposes in Cambodia, South Korea, Turkey, South Vietnam, Spain, Taiwan,
and Greece. In 1972, USAID funneled aid money only to the southern part
of North Yemen, in order to aid North Yemeni forces against the
government of South Yemen, then ruled by a socialist government opposed
to U.S. hegemony in the region.
One
of the entities affiliated with the USAID work in Indonesia was the
Asia Foundation, a 1950s creation formed with the help of the CIA to
oppose the expansion of communism in Asia. The East-West Center guest
house in Hawaii was funded by the Asia Foundation. The guest house is
also where Barack Obama Sr. first stayed after his airlift from Kenya to
Hawaii, arranged by the one of the CIA’s major agents of influence in
Africa, Mboya.
Dunham
would also travel to Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Thailand
working on micro-financing projects. In 1965, Barack Obama Sr. returned
to Kenya from Harvard, with another American wife. The senior Obama
linked up with his old friend and the CIA’s “golden boy” Mboya and
other fellow Luo politicians. The CIA station chief in Nairobi from 1964
to 1967 was Philip Cherry. In 1975, Cherry was the CIA station chief in
Dacca, Bangladesh. Cherry was linked by the then-U.S. ambassador to
Bangladesh, Eugene Booster, to the 1975 assassination of
Bangladesh’s first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and members of his
family.
The
hit on “Sheikh Mujib” and his family was reportedly ordered by
then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Bangladesh was also on the
micro- and macro-financing travel itinerary of CIA-linked Ann Dunham.
CIA banking and Hawaii
Meanwhile,
Dunham Soetoro’s mother, Madelyn Dunham, who raised young Obama when he
returned to Hawaii in 1971 while his mother stayed in Indonesia, was
the first female vice president at the Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Various CIA front entities used the bank. Madelyn Dunham handled escrow
accounts used to make CIA payments to U.S.-supported Asian dictators
like Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, South Vietnamese President
Nguyen van Thieu, and President Suharto in Indonesia. In effect, the
bank was engaged in money laundering for the CIA to covertly prop up its
favored leaders in the Asia-Pacific region.
One
of the CIA’s major money laundering fronts in Honolulu was the firm of
Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong (BBRDW). After the CIA
allowed the firm to collapse in 1983 amid charges that BBRDW was merely
a Ponzi scheme, Senator Daniel Inouye of the US Senate Intelligence
Committee said the CIA’s role in the firm “wasn’t significant.” It would
later be revealed that Inouye, who was one of the late Alaska Senator
Ted Stevens’s best friends in the Senate, was lying. In fact, BBRDW was
involved heavily in funding covert CIA programs throughout Asia,
including economic espionage against Japan, providing arms for Afghan
mujaheddin guerrillas in their war against the Soviets and covertly
supplying weapons to Taiwan. One of BBRDW’s principals was John C.
“Jack” Kindschi, who, before he retired in 1981, was the CIA station
chief in Honolulu. BBRDW’s chairman Ron Rewald had a counterfeit college
degree certificate provided for the wall of his office by the CIA’s
forgery experts and his name was inserted in university records as an
alumnus.
A
false history for BBRDW was concocted by the CIA claiming the firm had
operated in Hawaii since it was a territory. President Obama is
currently plagued by allegations that he has fake college and university
transcripts, a phony social security number issued in Connecticut, and
other padded resume items. Did Hawaii’s fake BBRDW documents portend
today’s questions about Obama’s past?
BBRDW
conducted its business in the heart of Honolulu’s business district,
where the Bank of Hawaii was located and where Obama grandmother Madelyn
Dunham ran the escrow accounts. The bank would handle much of BBRDW’s
covert financial transactions.
Manchurian Candidate?
Obama/Soetoro and the “years of living dangerously” in Jakarta
It
is clear that Dunham Soetoro and her Indonesian husband, President
Obama’s step-father, were closely involved in the CIA’s operations to
steer Indonesia away from the Sino-Soviet orbit during the “years of
living dangerously” after the overthrow of Sukarno. WMR has discovered
that some of the CIA’s top case officers were assigned to various
official and non-official cover assignments in Indonesia during this
time frame, including under the cover of USAID, the Peace Corps, and the
U.S. Information Agency (USIA).
One
of the closest CIA contacts for Suharto was former CIA Jakarta embassy
officer Kent B. Crane. Crane was so close to Suharto after
“retiring” from the CIA, he was reportedly one of the only “private”
businessmen given an Indonesian diplomatic passport by Suharto’s
government. Crane’s company, the Crane Group, was involved in supplying
small arms to the military forces of the United States, Indonesia, and
other nations. A foreign policy adviser to Vice President Spiro Agnew,
Crane was later nominated as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia by President
Ronald Reagan but the nomination was dead-on-arrival because of Crane’s
dubious links to Suharto. The ambassadorship would instead go to John
Holdridge, a close colleague of Kissinger. Holdridge was succeeded in
Jakarta by Paul Wolfowitz.
Suharto’s
cronies, who included Mochtar and James Riady of the Lippo Group, would
later stand accused of funneling over $1 million of illegal foreign
contributions to Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.
President
Obama has twice postponed official state visits to Indonesia, perhaps
fearful of the attention such a trip would bring to the CIA connections
of his mother and Indonesian step-father.
In
the 1970s and 80s, Dunham was active in micro-loan projects for the
Ford Foundation, the CIA-linked East-West Center, and USAID in
Indonesia. One of the individuals assigned to the U.S. embassy and
helped barricade the compound during a violent anti-U.S. student
demonstration during the 1965 Suharto coup against Sukarno was Dr.
Gordon Donald, Jr. Assigned to the embassy’s Economic Section, Donald
was responsible for USAID micro-financing for Indonesian farmers, the
same project that Dunham Soetoro would work on for USAID in the 1970s,
after her USAID job of teaching English in Indonesia. In a 1968 book,
“Who’s Who in the CIA,” published in West Berlin, Donald is identified
as a CIA officer who was also assigned to Lahore, Pakistan, where Dunham
would eventually live for five years in the Hilton International Hotel
while working on microfinancing for the Asian Development Bank.
Another
“Who’s Who in the CIA” Jakarta alumnus is Robert F. Grealy, who later
became the director for international relations for the Asia-Pacific for
J P Morgan Chase and a director for the American-Indonesian Chamber of
Commerce. J P Morgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon is being mentioned as a
potential replacement for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whose
father, Peter Geithner, was the Ford Foundation’s Asia grant-selector
who funneled the money to Ann Dunham’s Indonesian projects.
CIA Black Projects and Hawaii
While
in Pakistan, Dunham’s son Barack visited her in 1980 and 1981. Obama
visited Karachi, Lahore, and Hyderabad, India during his south Asia
visits. It was during the time period that the CIA was beefing up its
anti-Soviet operations in Afghanistan from Pakistan.
A
January 31, 1958, heavily-redacted formerly Secret NOFORN [no foreign
dissemination] memorandum for CIA Director Allen Dulles from the Deputy
Assistant Director of the CIA for Research and Reports [name redacted]
reports on a fact-finding mission to the Far East, Southeast Asia, and
the Middle East from November 17 through December 21, 1957.
The
CIA Office of Research and Reports (ORR) chief reports a meeting with
the staff of retired Army General Jesmond Balmer, a senior CIA official
in Hawaii, about requests by the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC)
for “a number of detailed, time-consuming research studies.” The ORR
chief then reports about a CIA “survey of students at the University of
Hawaii who have both Chinese language and research ability.” The ORR
chief also reports that at a South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Counter Subversion Seminar at Baguio, Philippines held from November
26-29, 1957, the Economic Subcommittee discussed an “economic
development fund” to combat “Sino-Soviet Bloc subversive activities in
the area and a consideration of possible counter-measures which might be
employed.”
The
Thailand and Philippines delegations were pushing hard for U.S. funding
for an economic development fund, which may have provided the impetus
for later USAID projects in the region, including those with which Peter
Geithner and Obama’s mother were intimately involved.
Although
CIA geo-political covert operations at the University of Hawaii are
well-documented, the agency’s darker side of research and MK-UKTRA type
operations has not generally been associated with the University of
Hawaii.
A
series of formerly Confidential CIA memoranda, dated May 15, 1972,
points to the involvement of both the Defense Department’s Advanced
Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the CIA, and the University of Hawaii
in the CIA’s behavioral science program. The memos are signed by
then-Deputy Director of the CIA Bronson Tweedy, the chief of the
Intelligence Community’s Program Review Group (PRG) [name redacted], and CIA Director Richard Helms. The subject of the memos is “ARPA Supported Research Relating to Intelligence Product,” The
memo from the PRG chief discusses a conference held on May 11, 1972,
attended by Lt. Col. Austin Kibler, ARPA’s Director of Behavioral
Research. Kibler was the chief for ARPA research into behavior
modification and remote viewing. Others mentioned in the PRG chief’s
memo include CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence Edward Proctor, the
CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology Carl Duckett,
and Director of the Office of National Estimates John Huizenga.
In
1973, after CIA Director James Schlesinger ordered a review of all CIA
programs, the CIA developed a set of documents on various CIA programs
collectively called the “Family Jewels.” Most of these documents were
released in 2007 but it was also revealed that Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the
CIA’s director of MKULTRA, the agency’s behavior modification,
brainwashing, and drug testing component, had been ordered by Helms,
before he resigned as CIA director, to be destroyed. Duckett, in one
memo from Ben Evans of the CIA to CIA Director William Colby, dated May
8, 1973, conveys that he “thinks the Director would be ill-advised to
say he is acquainted with this program,” meaning Gottlieb’s drug testing
program under MKULKTRA.
Senior
Gerald Ford administration officials, including Chief of Staff Dick
Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, ensured that after the
production of the “Family Jewels” documents, no CIA revelations were
made about CIA psychological behavior-altering programs, including
MKULTRA and Project ARTICHOKE.
The
May 15, 1972, set of memos appears to be related to the CIA’s initial
research, code named SCANATE, in 1972 into psychic warfare, including
the use of psychics for purposes of remote viewing espionage and mind
control. The memo discussed Kibler from ARPA and “his contractor,” which
was later discovered to be Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo
Park, California.
In
a memo from CIA Director Helms to, among others, Duckett, Huizenga,
Proctor, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which
later inherited reote viewing from the CIA under the code name GRILL
FLAME, Helms insists that ARPA had been supporting research into
behavioral science and its potential for intelligence production ”for a
number of years” at “M.I.T., Yale, the University of Michigan, U.C.L.A.,
andUniversity of Hawaii and other institutions as well as in corporate research facilities.”
The
role of the University of Hawaii in CIA psych-war operations continues
to this day. The chief of research for DIA’s Defense
Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC) Behavioral
Sciences Program, Dr. Susan Brandon, who was reportedly involved in a
covert program run by the American Psychological Association (APA), Rand
Corporation, and the CIA to employ “enhanced interrogation” techniques,
including sleep and sensory deprivation, intense pain, and extreme
isolation on prisoners held at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and other
“black prisons,” received her PhD in Psychology from the University of
Hawaii. Brandon also served as assistant director of Social, Behavioral,
and Educational Sciences for the Office of Science and Technology
Policy in the George W. Bush White House.
The
CIA’s close connections to the University of Hawaii continued to the
late 1970s, when the former President of the University of Hawaii from
1969 to 1974, Harlan Cleveland, was a special invited speaker at CIA headquarters on May 10, 1977.
Cleveland served as Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965 and Lyndon Johnson’s ambassador
to NATO from 1965 to 1969 before taking up his position at the
University of Hawaii.
A
CIA Director of Training memo dated May 21, 1971, reports on the active
recruitment of a U.S. Marine officer who was entering graduate school
at the University of Hawaii.
The Family of Obama and the CIA
There
are volumes of written material on the CIA backgrounds of George H. W.
Bush and CIA-related activities by his father and children, including
former President George W. Bush. Barack Obama, on the other hand,
cleverly masked his own CIA connections as well as those of his mother,
father, step-father, and grandmother (there is very little known about
Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who was supposedly in the
furniture business in Hawaii after serving in Europe during World War
II). Presidents and vice presidents do not require security background
checks, unlike other members of the federal government, to hold office.
That job is left up to the press. In 2008, the press failed miserably in
its duty to vet the man who would win the White House. With the ties of
Obama’s parents to the University of Hawaii and its links to MKULTRA
and ARTICHOKE, a nagging question remains: Is Barack Obama a real-life
“Manchurian Candidate?”
- Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He has written for several renowned papers and blogs.
Madsen
is a regular contributor on Russia Today. He has been a frequent
political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also
appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. Madsen
has taken on Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television shows.
He has been invited to testifty as a witness before the US House of
Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism
investigation panel of the French government.
As
a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security
programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National
Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State,
RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Madsen
is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ),
Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO), and the National Press
Club. He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker. -
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