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"The one objective that I am working deals with increasing justice on planet Earth. That is, I truly believe I am a part of the legacy of Ella Grisby Motley, my mother and that we, my brothers and sisters, are involved in improving the righteousness, justice and peace on planet Earth."
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Would your enterprise do better with added resource that knows both corporate development and business development? If so we are seeking opportunities to Increase Bottom Lines (IBLs) of domestic and transnational companies that want to increase market shares and sales while reducing risk and security issues because TOG provides B2B risk management consulting services. Note we also do staffing and training for jobs and business.
Given our entry into the entertainment industry in 2012, TOG also seeks guest appearances for our President Leutrell Mike Osborne, Sr. whose autobiography, the "Black Man In The CIA" (BMCIA) tells about his experiences as former CIA Spy Manager working in over 30 countries on five different continents. Even though he has had numerous speaking engagements on TV, Radio, Blog talk radio and organizations, he is willing to do more.
Would your enterprise do better with added resource that knows both corporate development and business development? If so we are seeking opportunities to Increase Bottom Lines (IBLs) of domestic and transnational companies that want to increase market shares and sales while reducing risk and security issues because TOG provides B2B risk management consulting services. Note we also do staffing and training for jobs and business.
Given our entry into the entertainment industry in 2012, TOG also seeks guest appearances for our President Leutrell Mike Osborne, Sr. whose autobiography, the "Black Man In The CIA" (BMCIA) tells about his experiences as former CIA Spy Manager working in over 30 countries on five different continents. Even though he has had numerous speaking engagements on TV, Radio, Blog talk radio and organizations, he is willing to do more.
2015
The spook left out in the cold
Gregg Reese | 2/5/2015
http://ourweekly.com/news/2015/feb/05/spook-left-out-cold/?page=3
Other Black C.I.A. employees have had less than pleasant working relationships during their tenures with this venerated organization.
As a 27-year veteran of the C.I.A. Clandestine Service (his tenure ended in 1984), Leutrell Osborne views his career in an overall positive light, although he insists that discrimination was an ever-present hindrance to his advancement, just as it is in contemporary society. Due to the nature of the business, he is reluctant to give details about the manifestation of this racism, though he does recount an abrasive relationship with a Japanese American station chief who felt that Osborne had been given an easier time getting through spy school then the station chief did.
Osborne reached out to Sterling as the latter’s EEO lawsuit was under way, although he never actually testified. Giving the younger man the benefit of his experience, Osborne appeared on CNN along with Mark Zaid, Sterling’s lawyer during his discrimination lawsuit.
Andrew Warren, formerly a rising star who occupied the coveted chief of station position in Algiers, Algeria, fell from grace after his conviction on a battery of charges, starting with his alleged drugging and rape of Muslim women during his posting, then, upon his return to the States, arrested for possession of a Glock semi-automatic pistol during a crack cocaine-induced stupor at a Norfolk, Va. Ramada Inn.
His story was documented in a Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings (“The Spy who cracked up in the Cold,” dated March 28, 2013). Hastings, best known for another Rolling Stone article that provided fodder to relieve NATO Commander Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, died in a fiery collision after his Mercedes Benz crashed into a palm tree in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood, on June 18, just two months after the piece ran on Warren.
Sharon M. Scranage, described as a nice, church-going lady by those who knew her growing up in her native Virginia, eventually earned a post in Ghana as a secretary. As a result of a romantic fling with a native Ghanaian to whom she allegedly turned over sensitive documents, Scranage was tried and convicted in a scandal that resulted in the death of at least one field operative in 1985. Her alleged paramour, Michael Soussoudis, was a suspected intelligence officer and relative of former Ghanaian head of state Jerry Rawlings, who engineered the 1979 coup d’état. Information she leaked eventually reached communist countries in the Soviet Bloc.
“...it (the conviction of Sterling) seems to be a concerted effort to ensure that those who formerly served with them, keep their lips shut tight.”
-Mark Zaid.
“This information in the wrong hands could easily lead to the death of a U.S. citizen and conceivably contribute to the deaths of millions of innocent victims of a foreign nuclear weapons program.”
-Condoleezza Rice
One person who did testify in the espionage trial was Condoleezza Rice. Recalling her days as Bush’s high-profile National Security Advisor (she later served as Secretary of State), she was instructed by Bush to convince Risen’s editors at the New York Times not to run his article on Operation Merlin. The newspaper folded under pressure, and Risen had to wait three years to tell the story, when “State of War” was published.
Discrimination in the workplace is a tedious state of affairs at best.
In Sterling’s case, a seven-foot-tall barrier and other physical amenities were used in the court room to shield witnesses’ identity from spectators, and the witnesses themselves were often listed only by their first names and the initial of their last names. Of the seven men and seven women in the jury, none were African American. Most of the documents presented before them were heavily “redacted,” meaning vast passages were blacked out with no indication of the data withheld.
In a nutshell, the saga of Jeffrey Sterling is a case of racial discrimination, which mushroomed into a convoluted mess by the introduction of national security issues, with the CIA invoking the privilege of state secrets at least partially to prevent further damage to its tarnished reputation.
Meanwhile, Sterling is facing the possibility of decades behind bars.
Sterling’s sentencing date is set for April 24.
Gregg Reese | 2/5/2015
http://ourweekly.com/news/2015/feb/05/spook-left-out-cold/?page=3
Other Black C.I.A. employees have had less than pleasant working relationships during their tenures with this venerated organization.
As a 27-year veteran of the C.I.A. Clandestine Service (his tenure ended in 1984), Leutrell Osborne views his career in an overall positive light, although he insists that discrimination was an ever-present hindrance to his advancement, just as it is in contemporary society. Due to the nature of the business, he is reluctant to give details about the manifestation of this racism, though he does recount an abrasive relationship with a Japanese American station chief who felt that Osborne had been given an easier time getting through spy school then the station chief did.
Osborne reached out to Sterling as the latter’s EEO lawsuit was under way, although he never actually testified. Giving the younger man the benefit of his experience, Osborne appeared on CNN along with Mark Zaid, Sterling’s lawyer during his discrimination lawsuit.
Andrew Warren, formerly a rising star who occupied the coveted chief of station position in Algiers, Algeria, fell from grace after his conviction on a battery of charges, starting with his alleged drugging and rape of Muslim women during his posting, then, upon his return to the States, arrested for possession of a Glock semi-automatic pistol during a crack cocaine-induced stupor at a Norfolk, Va. Ramada Inn.
His story was documented in a Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings (“The Spy who cracked up in the Cold,” dated March 28, 2013). Hastings, best known for another Rolling Stone article that provided fodder to relieve NATO Commander Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, died in a fiery collision after his Mercedes Benz crashed into a palm tree in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood, on June 18, just two months after the piece ran on Warren.
Sharon M. Scranage, described as a nice, church-going lady by those who knew her growing up in her native Virginia, eventually earned a post in Ghana as a secretary. As a result of a romantic fling with a native Ghanaian to whom she allegedly turned over sensitive documents, Scranage was tried and convicted in a scandal that resulted in the death of at least one field operative in 1985. Her alleged paramour, Michael Soussoudis, was a suspected intelligence officer and relative of former Ghanaian head of state Jerry Rawlings, who engineered the 1979 coup d’état. Information she leaked eventually reached communist countries in the Soviet Bloc.
“...it (the conviction of Sterling) seems to be a concerted effort to ensure that those who formerly served with them, keep their lips shut tight.”
-Mark Zaid.
“This information in the wrong hands could easily lead to the death of a U.S. citizen and conceivably contribute to the deaths of millions of innocent victims of a foreign nuclear weapons program.”
-Condoleezza Rice
One person who did testify in the espionage trial was Condoleezza Rice. Recalling her days as Bush’s high-profile National Security Advisor (she later served as Secretary of State), she was instructed by Bush to convince Risen’s editors at the New York Times not to run his article on Operation Merlin. The newspaper folded under pressure, and Risen had to wait three years to tell the story, when “State of War” was published.
Discrimination in the workplace is a tedious state of affairs at best.
In Sterling’s case, a seven-foot-tall barrier and other physical amenities were used in the court room to shield witnesses’ identity from spectators, and the witnesses themselves were often listed only by their first names and the initial of their last names. Of the seven men and seven women in the jury, none were African American. Most of the documents presented before them were heavily “redacted,” meaning vast passages were blacked out with no indication of the data withheld.
In a nutshell, the saga of Jeffrey Sterling is a case of racial discrimination, which mushroomed into a convoluted mess by the introduction of national security issues, with the CIA invoking the privilege of state secrets at least partially to prevent further damage to its tarnished reputation.
Meanwhile, Sterling is facing the possibility of decades behind bars.
Sterling’s sentencing date is set for April 24.
People of the Central Intelligence Agency :
Francis Gary Powers, Klaus Barbie, Tscherim Soobzokov, Bob Barr, William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Overview
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 187.
Chapters:
Francis Gary Powers, Klaus Barbie, Tscherim Soobzokov, Bob Barr, William F. Buckley, Jr., Raymond Allen Davis incident, Valerie Plame, Luis Posada Carriles, Carl E. Duckett, James Jesus Angleton, David Addington, Porter Goss, Samuel V. Wilson, E. Howard Hunt, Michael Scheuer, Larry C. Johnson, Paul R. Pillar, Aldrich Ames, Cofer Black, Mary McCarthy, Philip Agee, Arthur Stratton, Carmel Offie, William Sloane Coffin, William Harding Jackson, William A. Eddy, Robert Baer, Robert E. Cushman, Jr., Abdurahman Khadr, Arthur C. Lundahl, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., Rob Simmons, Charles E. Allen, F lix Rodriguez, Frank Sturgis, Theodore Shackley, William Francis Buckley, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., Billy Waugh, Kenneth Pollack, Charles P. Cabell, Ishmael Jones, Frank Olson, Edwin P. Wilson, Stephen Kappes, Douglas Mackiernan, Frank Wisner, Kyle Foggo, Gary Berntsen, Jose Rodriguez, E. Michael Burke, Thomas Braden, Charles S. Whitehouse, Holden Roberto, Duane Clarridge, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, Lyman Kirkpatrick, Tucker Gougelmann, Johnny Micheal Spann, James Marcinkowski, Ralph McGehee, Bernard Barker, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Lindsay Moran, David Atlee Phillips, Cord Meyer, Luis de Florez, Rick Francona, John Stockwell, Jack Hawkins, A. B. Krongard, Karl Koecher, Vincent Cannistraro, Edward Lee Howard, Kathleen Christison, Robert Seldon Lady, Philip Giraldi, James Pavitt, Ksawery Wyro?emski, Donald Kerr, Sidney Gottlieb, Flynt Leverett, Thomas G. Clines, Victor Marchetti, Robert David Steele, John T. Downey, John Kiriakou, Anthony Poshepny, John L. Helgerson,
Leutrell Osborne, Howard Hart, Frederick H. Fleitz, Huntington D. Sheldon, Michael G. Vickers, Gerry Droller, Willem Smit, Douglas H. Paal, George Kisevalter, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., David Sanchez Morales, Robert Grenier, Milton Bearden, Ronald A. Marks, Edward Sch...
Francis Gary Powers, Klaus Barbie, Tscherim Soobzokov, Bob Barr, William F. Buckley, Jr.
by Source Wikipedia and LLC Books and Books Group
http://www.booksamillion.com/p/People-Central-Intelligence-Agency/Source-Wikipedia/9781156789513#overview
- ISBN-13: 9781156789513
- ISBN-10: 1156789516
- Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
- Publish Date: June 2011
- Page Count: 188
Overview
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 187.
Chapters:
Francis Gary Powers, Klaus Barbie, Tscherim Soobzokov, Bob Barr, William F. Buckley, Jr., Raymond Allen Davis incident, Valerie Plame, Luis Posada Carriles, Carl E. Duckett, James Jesus Angleton, David Addington, Porter Goss, Samuel V. Wilson, E. Howard Hunt, Michael Scheuer, Larry C. Johnson, Paul R. Pillar, Aldrich Ames, Cofer Black, Mary McCarthy, Philip Agee, Arthur Stratton, Carmel Offie, William Sloane Coffin, William Harding Jackson, William A. Eddy, Robert Baer, Robert E. Cushman, Jr., Abdurahman Khadr, Arthur C. Lundahl, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., Rob Simmons, Charles E. Allen, F lix Rodriguez, Frank Sturgis, Theodore Shackley, William Francis Buckley, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., Billy Waugh, Kenneth Pollack, Charles P. Cabell, Ishmael Jones, Frank Olson, Edwin P. Wilson, Stephen Kappes, Douglas Mackiernan, Frank Wisner, Kyle Foggo, Gary Berntsen, Jose Rodriguez, E. Michael Burke, Thomas Braden, Charles S. Whitehouse, Holden Roberto, Duane Clarridge, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, Lyman Kirkpatrick, Tucker Gougelmann, Johnny Micheal Spann, James Marcinkowski, Ralph McGehee, Bernard Barker, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Lindsay Moran, David Atlee Phillips, Cord Meyer, Luis de Florez, Rick Francona, John Stockwell, Jack Hawkins, A. B. Krongard, Karl Koecher, Vincent Cannistraro, Edward Lee Howard, Kathleen Christison, Robert Seldon Lady, Philip Giraldi, James Pavitt, Ksawery Wyro?emski, Donald Kerr, Sidney Gottlieb, Flynt Leverett, Thomas G. Clines, Victor Marchetti, Robert David Steele, John T. Downey, John Kiriakou, Anthony Poshepny, John L. Helgerson,
Leutrell Osborne, Howard Hart, Frederick H. Fleitz, Huntington D. Sheldon, Michael G. Vickers, Gerry Droller, Willem Smit, Douglas H. Paal, George Kisevalter, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., David Sanchez Morales, Robert Grenier, Milton Bearden, Ronald A. Marks, Edward Sch...
INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS BOOKSHELF
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Join #TeamUAM as we discuss this art with our audience and our special guests! This episode is especially important for professionals, entrepreneurs, those seeking to elevate their positions and those who are job searching.
A few of our special guests today will be Mr. Leutrell Osborne, Sr. He is an inspirational leader, entrepreneur, master networker, transformation agent and recognized as a national and international security expert, who was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 26 years. He has distinguished himself as a Counter Intelligence (CI) expert who has supervised CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries and traveled to more than 100 foreign cities in over five different continents. www.LeutrellOsborne.weebly.com
A few of our special guests today will be Mr. Leutrell Osborne, Sr. He is an inspirational leader, entrepreneur, master networker, transformation agent and recognized as a national and international security expert, who was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 26 years. He has distinguished himself as a Counter Intelligence (CI) expert who has supervised CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries and traveled to more than 100 foreign cities in over five different continents. www.LeutrellOsborne.weebly.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leutrell-m-osborne-sr-former-cia-senior-counter-intelligence-officer-appointed-vice-chair-of-ariana-leilani-childrens-foundation-international-239268101.html
Mr. Osborne's skill set is exactly what is required for the delicate situation of Ariana-Leilani, a 10-year old dual German/American citizen with a rare disorder, who is being denied access to life-saving medical treatments. The Foundation's attorney, Mr. Roy Morris, added, "Mr. Osborne brings a fresh perspective into this fight for children's human rights, including those of Ariana-Leilani's. His experience and understanding of the inner workings of the intelligence community and the "dirty tricks" that some of its members sometimes undertake will be essential for our success."
Mr. Osborne's company, The Osborne Group International, improves company cultures and efficiencies for its clients by utilizing teams of skilled risk managers who perform organizational transformations to mitigate difficult business challenges that can arise either from the normal flow of business or from unanticipated contingencies. Stated Mr. Osborne, "We've experienced a lot of challenging situations, similar to Ariana-Leilani's, where everyone knows what they should do, but maneuvering within the system requires a lot of intelligence. That's why I'm looking forward to working with Dr. King and the Foundation. I can bring my expertise, experience, and network of relationships to provide an even higher standard of business, analysis, risk assessment and due diligence support."
About Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr.
Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr. is an inspirational leader and recognized as a national and international security expert, who was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 26 years. He has distinguished himself as a Counter Intelligence (CI) expert who has supervised CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries and traveled to more than 100 foreign cities in over five different continents. Mr. Osborne was the first African American CIA Case Officer (C/O) to desegregate the management in two different CIA entities: the CIA's Near East Asian (NEA) Division in 1982 and the Office of Communication Security Division (COMSEC) in 1976. As the CIA's tenth African American Case Officer, he was the only Case Officer in the history of CIA to also serve more than six years also as a CIA Communications Security (COMSEC) officer after becoming a Clandestine CO).
Mr. Osborne continues to perform as is an inspirational leader and transformation agent, now leading a consulting and staffing company, The Osborne Group, http://leutrellosborne.weebly.com/tog-the-osborne-group.html.
About Ariana-Leilani Children's Foundation International
The Ariana-Leilani Children's Foundation International is inspired by Ariana-Leilani King-Pfeiffer, the "Little Ambassador" -who, through the efforts of her devoted mother, before the age of six had gone to the United Nations meetings, traveled to ten countries, met with President George Bush, and Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu. Ariana-Leilani and her life, set an example that kids lead us in the area of human rights, peace, love, faith and hope and need to be respected, protected and not be treated as property. The Foundation is dedicated to advocacy, education, global adoption and adherence of children's' human rights, based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. For more information, please visit the website, www.ariana-leilanifoundation.org.
SOURCE Ariana-Leilani Children's Foundation International
Mr. Osborne's skill set is exactly what is required for the delicate situation of Ariana-Leilani, a 10-year old dual German/American citizen with a rare disorder, who is being denied access to life-saving medical treatments. The Foundation's attorney, Mr. Roy Morris, added, "Mr. Osborne brings a fresh perspective into this fight for children's human rights, including those of Ariana-Leilani's. His experience and understanding of the inner workings of the intelligence community and the "dirty tricks" that some of its members sometimes undertake will be essential for our success."
Mr. Osborne's company, The Osborne Group International, improves company cultures and efficiencies for its clients by utilizing teams of skilled risk managers who perform organizational transformations to mitigate difficult business challenges that can arise either from the normal flow of business or from unanticipated contingencies. Stated Mr. Osborne, "We've experienced a lot of challenging situations, similar to Ariana-Leilani's, where everyone knows what they should do, but maneuvering within the system requires a lot of intelligence. That's why I'm looking forward to working with Dr. King and the Foundation. I can bring my expertise, experience, and network of relationships to provide an even higher standard of business, analysis, risk assessment and due diligence support."
About Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr.
Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr. is an inspirational leader and recognized as a national and international security expert, who was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 26 years. He has distinguished himself as a Counter Intelligence (CI) expert who has supervised CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries and traveled to more than 100 foreign cities in over five different continents. Mr. Osborne was the first African American CIA Case Officer (C/O) to desegregate the management in two different CIA entities: the CIA's Near East Asian (NEA) Division in 1982 and the Office of Communication Security Division (COMSEC) in 1976. As the CIA's tenth African American Case Officer, he was the only Case Officer in the history of CIA to also serve more than six years also as a CIA Communications Security (COMSEC) officer after becoming a Clandestine CO).
Mr. Osborne continues to perform as is an inspirational leader and transformation agent, now leading a consulting and staffing company, The Osborne Group, http://leutrellosborne.weebly.com/tog-the-osborne-group.html.
About Ariana-Leilani Children's Foundation International
The Ariana-Leilani Children's Foundation International is inspired by Ariana-Leilani King-Pfeiffer, the "Little Ambassador" -who, through the efforts of her devoted mother, before the age of six had gone to the United Nations meetings, traveled to ten countries, met with President George Bush, and Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu. Ariana-Leilani and her life, set an example that kids lead us in the area of human rights, peace, love, faith and hope and need to be respected, protected and not be treated as property. The Foundation is dedicated to advocacy, education, global adoption and adherence of children's' human rights, based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. For more information, please visit the website, www.ariana-leilanifoundation.org.
SOURCE Ariana-Leilani Children's Foundation International
Civil Rights & Social Justice News
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 Leutrell Osborne,
'Black Man in the CIA' calls for 'More Cloak and Less Dagger'
http://civilrightsnewsreleases.blogspot.com/2013/05/leutrell-osborne-black-man-in-cia-calls.html
Thursday, May 30, 2013 Leutrell Osborne,
'Black Man in the CIA' calls for 'More Cloak and Less Dagger'
Black Man In The CIA – Book Review
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by Angela Watkins Thomas on November 29, 2012
The best thing that a mother can give to a child is love, encouragement, time and moral values. This is exactly what Ms. Ella did for her son and children.
Sometimes we think that people with wealth or numerous amount of funds are the ones that escalate in achievements but this is not the case with Mr. Osborne.
Now what is so amazing to me is that he went to work for the CIA one month before I was born. So I feel like I have part of history with me and I thanked him for sending me his book.
Mr. Lutrell M. Osborne and Mrs. Ella Grisby were the first Black mother and son duo to work for the CIA.
Mr. Osborne became one of the Who’s Who in Black procurement minority business.
Mr. Osborne loves his country, the United States of America, and would do anything within his power to protect its interest.
His work has covered five continents: Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Africa.
In 1984, Mr. Osborne quit the CIA after 26 years to become an entrepreneur working as an international food broker.
Mr. Osborne is an advocate for justice, righteousness and peace.
During these last 25 years, he has increased his core competency talents, knowing that he can lead both the Central Intelligence and the National Security Agencies (CIA & NSA). toward better solutions. He has developed a third core compentency leading the Small Business Administration (SBA). It is most exciting to Mr. Osborne when he shares his qualifications and watch people react when he asks them what part of his service or services they would like to hire or challenge.
His wife joined his venture, helping him make his life a success as a man, husband, father, productive citizen and spiritual being.
On September 12, 2001, just one day after the 9/11 Attack on the United States of America, Black Entertainment Television (BET) scheduled Mr. Osborne to appear on national television to discuss “The Attack on America.” He appeared with California’s Democrat Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, who is one of his favorite members of the House of Representatives.
While awaiting the twenty minute limousine ride to B.E.T. headquarters from his daughter’s Washington, D.C. home he considered his unique position. His childhood dreams came flowing back as if a curtain was going up on precious memories.
Mr. Osborne had wanted to become a “spy manager” since he was twelve years old. At the age of twelve he never imagined what his future would hold; he would become a pioneering CIA African-American spy manager, rising within the ranks from CIA clerical employee to Case Manager and mentoring others through the system.
Now, he was going to appear on national television, as an authority, to analyze the possible causes and aftermath of the nation’s most devasting national security breaches. The impact on the World Trade Center and Pentagon became metaphors for the deeper impact on society.
His mother enabled him to be born as Leutrell Michael Carlton Osborne, Sr., also known as “Mike” Osborne, inside the CIA for over 26 years.
His mother, Mrs. Ella Grisby Motley and his biological father, Mr. William Mason Osborne provided him the DNA for the confidence, characteristics and skills he needed to grow up in Washington, D.C. as a light skinned Black man. He did not meet his father until 1960 at the age of twenty-one. Two months before Mr.i Osborne was born his father and step-mother had a baby, his half-brother, William Osborne, Jr.
When he was christened in the Roman Catholic Church, the church named him Michael. His mother, formerly was a Methodist, and later converted to Catholicism before he was seven years old.
His mother was what some of us would call a strong “sista” mother who was very independent and a very nurturing mother.
His father was a mulatto, a hybrid of European and African descendant.
In 1946 his mother married a trumpeter, Frank Motley from Cheraw, South Carolina.
His mother and step-father had four children, two boys and two girls: Frank III, Victoria Lillian, Francine Hadaway and Thomas John.
In 1952 his mother was working at the CIA as an overt employee, a clerk in the National Photographic Intelligence Center.
His mother’s nurturing and guidance through his early years contributed to his character, personality and tenacity, creating a desire to make something out of himself before she died.
Ms. Grisby’s personality was shaped in such a way that she gave birth to children who helped changed the world’s perception of Black people, especially in the Intelligence Community.
In 1954 The Supreme Court decision impacted him directly by the opportunity to transfer from a Black High School, Dunbar, to a formerly all White D.C. High School, Roosevelt. Like many other blacks with high I.Q.’s he transferred to participate in D.C.’s grand experiment. To him that experiment never ended.
At Roosevelt High School he met his high school sweetheart. About eighteen months after they met, they were married; they eloped. They now have five children and eight grandchildren.
Mr. Osborne married his wife on September 9, 1957 and the CIA hired him on October 14, 1957. At the age of seventeen years of age he had two passions, Mrs. Rose and the CIA.
Later he discovered that two of his high school classmates were hired by the Agency. He was the only black. The others were a jewish male, Robert Anthony Kogok and a female, Helen Zirnite. Helen was helpful to him in securing an assignment in the Far Northern Country (FNC) in 1963.
They were some sort of Rainbow Coalition. Little did he know that the Civil Rights Movement was about to kick into high gear. Little did he know that he would, in his own way, overcome many of the disadvantages of cultural discrimination within the bowels of the government’s most enigmatic and culturally – biased institution.
The purpose of this book is to encourage others who are fearful to venture and seek employment in the Agency and other secret government organizations.
Blacks in the CIA were looked upon as “people at risk.” The CIA was no different than any other U.S. federal institution. He states when he arrived to the CIA in 1957 it was a “plantation.”
The top leadership in the Agency was non-Black, even though a few other Blacks like him was employed in the bowels of the Agency.
The Black CIA employees had much more freedom, independence and autonomy than most Black employed elsewhere in government. Now they did not make any decisions about anyone future.
When he would travel on public transportation to and from work, he would wait for the Agency shuttle bus at CIA headquarters on E. Street N.W. near the Department of State. They then rode the shuttle bus to the “temp” buildings.
CIA Director Allen Dulles’ chauffeured limousine would pass by him while he waited for the shuttle. He made it his business to look for his long black vehicle. As Dulles’ limousine passed CIA headquarters, he would often see him smoking his pipe and reading the morning newspaper.
His wife focused on being a wife and mother while he focused on executing steps in the CIA that would help him achieve his objective to become a spy manager.
He used his crypto capability to seek a position in the Office of Communications (OC). Knowing that one of the supervisors who was assigned in the DCANG had gained legitimate employment in the OC had inspired him.
So he went and asked for the assignment. To his surprise and dismay he was rejected. It had nothing to do with his qualifications. In 1960 the Office of Communications had a policy of not accepting “Negroes.” This action took him back to his high school days at Roosevelt High School with the run in he had with his biology teacher.
By 1959, he had acquired military and Agency security training. During this time the intelligence terms he had learned began changing.
In October 1963, he was assigned abroad to work as a CIA mail clerk in the FNC (Far Northern European Country).
All was well, except that when they arrived in their new home, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and they didn’t know anything about it for the entire weekend. They were stunned like the rest of the world.
They were not watching television because it had not been converted to European standards. They did not have a radio for they did not have their household goods.
He was able to continue his college education at the local university and was also deeply involved with social activities of the university’s Foreign Students Club.
Horacio Jones, another black from his high school in Washington, D.C., had secured an assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway.
Horacio and Mr. Osborne were both intrigued by the blacks from back home who would show up to talk with them based on the outreach efforts of the Embassy.
Mr. Osborne and his wife were excited when they had the opportunity to attend the Nobel Peace Prize honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Oslo, Norway on Friday, December 10, 1964. Horacio got the word early and engineered their attendance at both the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and the official invitation-only reception given by Ambassador Madame Joy Tibbits in honor of Dr. King.
In the late 60′s there were no more than ten African American families living in Oslo. No more than twenty students from Africa enrolled at the University of Oslo.
Being overseas meant he could not join in and experience first hand some of the major achievements of the Civil Rights Movement.
Mr. Osborne and his wife were able to talk personally with Dr. King and his wife since most of the diplomats and their spouses left early. In his opinion this ruined the reception and also denied Dr. King precious moments to bask in the social spotlight.
Dr. King was calm, cool and collected.
His conversation with Dr. King focused on the Civil Rights Movement, which was progressing back home in the USA.
Dr. King told him about his belief in “non-violence direct action,” a freedom fighting strategy initiated in the early 1900′s during the Indian Struggle for equality in Apartheid South Africa by Mahatma Gandhi, the humble, yet powerful leader.
Dr. King told him, he was disappointed with the white moderates because they talked a good game, but they attempted only weakly to be catalysts for change.
Dr. King told him that the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He explained there were battles among the leaders of the two Civil Rights groups. They fought for turf and were sometimes both bitter and friendly. Much of their activities focused on fund raising, for money is power.
In 1965 Mr. Osborne and his wife had a daughter born in the FNC in May 1965. Her name was Rose Anastasia and one day she was found dead in her crib at the age of eleven months.
Since I have never lost a child I honestly do not know how him and his wife felt. He has stated and my bigmother said when we lost my mother that it was nothing like losing a child.
They received sympathy and condolences from people near and far. U. S. Embassy personnel, U.S. and foreign diplomats and non-diplomats alike showered them with sympathy and condolences. The local Catholic parish was filled to the capacity for the funeral.Their baby brought them much warmth and happiness.
The autopsy revealed Rose Anastasia had an inoperable heart condition and a malformed artery. They shipped her home to Washington, D.C. for burial.
They were returning to Washington in 1966 from the Far Northern European Country.
Mr. Osborne completed the CIA Career Training Program (CTP) in 1969 before he obtained his undergraduate degree from The American University, Washington, D.C. in 1971, his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science.
Mr. Osborne avoided confrontation of CA intelligence operations during his service, he did re-examine them from the side lines because deep down he knew how Covert Action was being used and still is used, adversely affecting people of color.
Blacks at American University in 1970 were few in number but no outward signs of discrimination existed. The University would not allow him to register as a student in the Foreign Affairs Institute. He had to take courses in the Institute and earn his degree from the School of Political Science, with nine of his eleven courses in Latin American affairs.
Some years later, two of their daughters, De Lavay Cabrina Osborne and Monique Therese Osborne attended The American University. De Lavay, registered and received her degree from the same Institute that rejected her dad.
The CIA gave him and his family official orders and assigned them to the Latin American Country (LAC) from 1972 through 1974, after his supervisors received the word from Shackley.
The Latin American County (LAC) where Mr. Osborne went was considered by many to be a “safe” place to send black case officers.
During the first year, Mr. Osborne accomplished a very significant task in that he recruited an intelligence officer of a third world country to work for the CIA.
Mr. Osborne was the first Black Case Officer to prepare and have the Agency disseminate a finished intelligence report derived from a technical source rather than a human source.
The CIA changed from a segregated government organization to one that overcame traditional cultural and ethnic biases.
Mr. Osborne was named to the EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) Advisory Panel and quickly determined that Colby was in this for real.
Mr. Osborne was an advisor to former President Bush’s father at the CIA, and he thanked him for his “great support of him” and his predecessor, William Colby.
Many of the personnel in the CIA are not undercover so their names can safely appear in public documents identifying them as CIA employees without causing any difficulty; Ms. Sharon Parish is one such individual.
Mr. Osborne reconnected with the Directorate of Operations and desegregrated the management in the Near East and Asa (NEA) Division which for the first time enabled him to work Arab countries and adversaries within a few short weeks after Professor Clemon and he had talked.
The CIA assigned Mr. Osborne to the Libyan Branch as Chief Counter Intelligence for Libya. He had to collect information and develop a secret report on Gaddifi at the request of the White House. There were some serious mistakes made by the division. It seemed clear that he was being set up to take “the fall.”
His goals were shifting and he wanted to try his hand at doing business and becoming an international entrepreneur.
It turned out that Mr. Osborne was the first black professional to be assigned to Libya and no one ever with his skills had been assigned in the Libya Station where the show was Covert Action versus Counter Intelligence. He muscled his way into the assignment Libya.
He has good news for everyone when we claim the Spirit of God, we do not lack anything.
He often talks with their five adult children and eight grandchildren about relationships, given his belief we are embodied as a human being with a Spirit. The human body is a temple of the Spirit (I Corinthians 3:16; 6:9).
He shares it is up to us to achieve our genuine Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality and Experiences (SHAPE) given us before we were born. Rick Warren’s writings have significantly influenced him and he accepts that before he was born that his Higher Power and his SHAPE were predetermined.
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Filed in Gather Money Essential
by Angela Watkins Thomas on November 29, 2012
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- The material contained in this book has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent the disclosure of classified information. All statements of fact, opinion or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official positions or views of the CIA or any other U.S. Government agency.
The best thing that a mother can give to a child is love, encouragement, time and moral values. This is exactly what Ms. Ella did for her son and children.
Sometimes we think that people with wealth or numerous amount of funds are the ones that escalate in achievements but this is not the case with Mr. Osborne.
Now what is so amazing to me is that he went to work for the CIA one month before I was born. So I feel like I have part of history with me and I thanked him for sending me his book.
Mr. Lutrell M. Osborne and Mrs. Ella Grisby were the first Black mother and son duo to work for the CIA.
Mr. Osborne became one of the Who’s Who in Black procurement minority business.
Mr. Osborne loves his country, the United States of America, and would do anything within his power to protect its interest.
His work has covered five continents: Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Africa.
In 1984, Mr. Osborne quit the CIA after 26 years to become an entrepreneur working as an international food broker.
Mr. Osborne is an advocate for justice, righteousness and peace.
During these last 25 years, he has increased his core competency talents, knowing that he can lead both the Central Intelligence and the National Security Agencies (CIA & NSA). toward better solutions. He has developed a third core compentency leading the Small Business Administration (SBA). It is most exciting to Mr. Osborne when he shares his qualifications and watch people react when he asks them what part of his service or services they would like to hire or challenge.
His wife joined his venture, helping him make his life a success as a man, husband, father, productive citizen and spiritual being.
On September 12, 2001, just one day after the 9/11 Attack on the United States of America, Black Entertainment Television (BET) scheduled Mr. Osborne to appear on national television to discuss “The Attack on America.” He appeared with California’s Democrat Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, who is one of his favorite members of the House of Representatives.
While awaiting the twenty minute limousine ride to B.E.T. headquarters from his daughter’s Washington, D.C. home he considered his unique position. His childhood dreams came flowing back as if a curtain was going up on precious memories.
Mr. Osborne had wanted to become a “spy manager” since he was twelve years old. At the age of twelve he never imagined what his future would hold; he would become a pioneering CIA African-American spy manager, rising within the ranks from CIA clerical employee to Case Manager and mentoring others through the system.
Now, he was going to appear on national television, as an authority, to analyze the possible causes and aftermath of the nation’s most devasting national security breaches. The impact on the World Trade Center and Pentagon became metaphors for the deeper impact on society.
His mother enabled him to be born as Leutrell Michael Carlton Osborne, Sr., also known as “Mike” Osborne, inside the CIA for over 26 years.
His mother, Mrs. Ella Grisby Motley and his biological father, Mr. William Mason Osborne provided him the DNA for the confidence, characteristics and skills he needed to grow up in Washington, D.C. as a light skinned Black man. He did not meet his father until 1960 at the age of twenty-one. Two months before Mr.i Osborne was born his father and step-mother had a baby, his half-brother, William Osborne, Jr.
When he was christened in the Roman Catholic Church, the church named him Michael. His mother, formerly was a Methodist, and later converted to Catholicism before he was seven years old.
His mother was what some of us would call a strong “sista” mother who was very independent and a very nurturing mother.
His father was a mulatto, a hybrid of European and African descendant.
In 1946 his mother married a trumpeter, Frank Motley from Cheraw, South Carolina.
His mother and step-father had four children, two boys and two girls: Frank III, Victoria Lillian, Francine Hadaway and Thomas John.
In 1952 his mother was working at the CIA as an overt employee, a clerk in the National Photographic Intelligence Center.
His mother’s nurturing and guidance through his early years contributed to his character, personality and tenacity, creating a desire to make something out of himself before she died.
Ms. Grisby’s personality was shaped in such a way that she gave birth to children who helped changed the world’s perception of Black people, especially in the Intelligence Community.
In 1954 The Supreme Court decision impacted him directly by the opportunity to transfer from a Black High School, Dunbar, to a formerly all White D.C. High School, Roosevelt. Like many other blacks with high I.Q.’s he transferred to participate in D.C.’s grand experiment. To him that experiment never ended.
At Roosevelt High School he met his high school sweetheart. About eighteen months after they met, they were married; they eloped. They now have five children and eight grandchildren.
Mr. Osborne married his wife on September 9, 1957 and the CIA hired him on October 14, 1957. At the age of seventeen years of age he had two passions, Mrs. Rose and the CIA.
Later he discovered that two of his high school classmates were hired by the Agency. He was the only black. The others were a jewish male, Robert Anthony Kogok and a female, Helen Zirnite. Helen was helpful to him in securing an assignment in the Far Northern Country (FNC) in 1963.
They were some sort of Rainbow Coalition. Little did he know that the Civil Rights Movement was about to kick into high gear. Little did he know that he would, in his own way, overcome many of the disadvantages of cultural discrimination within the bowels of the government’s most enigmatic and culturally – biased institution.
The purpose of this book is to encourage others who are fearful to venture and seek employment in the Agency and other secret government organizations.
Blacks in the CIA were looked upon as “people at risk.” The CIA was no different than any other U.S. federal institution. He states when he arrived to the CIA in 1957 it was a “plantation.”
The top leadership in the Agency was non-Black, even though a few other Blacks like him was employed in the bowels of the Agency.
The Black CIA employees had much more freedom, independence and autonomy than most Black employed elsewhere in government. Now they did not make any decisions about anyone future.
When he would travel on public transportation to and from work, he would wait for the Agency shuttle bus at CIA headquarters on E. Street N.W. near the Department of State. They then rode the shuttle bus to the “temp” buildings.
CIA Director Allen Dulles’ chauffeured limousine would pass by him while he waited for the shuttle. He made it his business to look for his long black vehicle. As Dulles’ limousine passed CIA headquarters, he would often see him smoking his pipe and reading the morning newspaper.
His wife focused on being a wife and mother while he focused on executing steps in the CIA that would help him achieve his objective to become a spy manager.
He used his crypto capability to seek a position in the Office of Communications (OC). Knowing that one of the supervisors who was assigned in the DCANG had gained legitimate employment in the OC had inspired him.
So he went and asked for the assignment. To his surprise and dismay he was rejected. It had nothing to do with his qualifications. In 1960 the Office of Communications had a policy of not accepting “Negroes.” This action took him back to his high school days at Roosevelt High School with the run in he had with his biology teacher.
By 1959, he had acquired military and Agency security training. During this time the intelligence terms he had learned began changing.
In October 1963, he was assigned abroad to work as a CIA mail clerk in the FNC (Far Northern European Country).
All was well, except that when they arrived in their new home, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and they didn’t know anything about it for the entire weekend. They were stunned like the rest of the world.
They were not watching television because it had not been converted to European standards. They did not have a radio for they did not have their household goods.
He was able to continue his college education at the local university and was also deeply involved with social activities of the university’s Foreign Students Club.
Horacio Jones, another black from his high school in Washington, D.C., had secured an assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway.
Horacio and Mr. Osborne were both intrigued by the blacks from back home who would show up to talk with them based on the outreach efforts of the Embassy.
Mr. Osborne and his wife were excited when they had the opportunity to attend the Nobel Peace Prize honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Oslo, Norway on Friday, December 10, 1964. Horacio got the word early and engineered their attendance at both the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and the official invitation-only reception given by Ambassador Madame Joy Tibbits in honor of Dr. King.
In the late 60′s there were no more than ten African American families living in Oslo. No more than twenty students from Africa enrolled at the University of Oslo.
Being overseas meant he could not join in and experience first hand some of the major achievements of the Civil Rights Movement.
Mr. Osborne and his wife were able to talk personally with Dr. King and his wife since most of the diplomats and their spouses left early. In his opinion this ruined the reception and also denied Dr. King precious moments to bask in the social spotlight.
Dr. King was calm, cool and collected.
His conversation with Dr. King focused on the Civil Rights Movement, which was progressing back home in the USA.
Dr. King told him about his belief in “non-violence direct action,” a freedom fighting strategy initiated in the early 1900′s during the Indian Struggle for equality in Apartheid South Africa by Mahatma Gandhi, the humble, yet powerful leader.
Dr. King told him, he was disappointed with the white moderates because they talked a good game, but they attempted only weakly to be catalysts for change.
Dr. King told him that the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He explained there were battles among the leaders of the two Civil Rights groups. They fought for turf and were sometimes both bitter and friendly. Much of their activities focused on fund raising, for money is power.
In 1965 Mr. Osborne and his wife had a daughter born in the FNC in May 1965. Her name was Rose Anastasia and one day she was found dead in her crib at the age of eleven months.
Since I have never lost a child I honestly do not know how him and his wife felt. He has stated and my bigmother said when we lost my mother that it was nothing like losing a child.
They received sympathy and condolences from people near and far. U. S. Embassy personnel, U.S. and foreign diplomats and non-diplomats alike showered them with sympathy and condolences. The local Catholic parish was filled to the capacity for the funeral.Their baby brought them much warmth and happiness.
The autopsy revealed Rose Anastasia had an inoperable heart condition and a malformed artery. They shipped her home to Washington, D.C. for burial.
They were returning to Washington in 1966 from the Far Northern European Country.
Mr. Osborne completed the CIA Career Training Program (CTP) in 1969 before he obtained his undergraduate degree from The American University, Washington, D.C. in 1971, his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science.
Mr. Osborne avoided confrontation of CA intelligence operations during his service, he did re-examine them from the side lines because deep down he knew how Covert Action was being used and still is used, adversely affecting people of color.
Blacks at American University in 1970 were few in number but no outward signs of discrimination existed. The University would not allow him to register as a student in the Foreign Affairs Institute. He had to take courses in the Institute and earn his degree from the School of Political Science, with nine of his eleven courses in Latin American affairs.
Some years later, two of their daughters, De Lavay Cabrina Osborne and Monique Therese Osborne attended The American University. De Lavay, registered and received her degree from the same Institute that rejected her dad.
The CIA gave him and his family official orders and assigned them to the Latin American Country (LAC) from 1972 through 1974, after his supervisors received the word from Shackley.
The Latin American County (LAC) where Mr. Osborne went was considered by many to be a “safe” place to send black case officers.
During the first year, Mr. Osborne accomplished a very significant task in that he recruited an intelligence officer of a third world country to work for the CIA.
Mr. Osborne was the first Black Case Officer to prepare and have the Agency disseminate a finished intelligence report derived from a technical source rather than a human source.
The CIA changed from a segregated government organization to one that overcame traditional cultural and ethnic biases.
Mr. Osborne was named to the EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) Advisory Panel and quickly determined that Colby was in this for real.
Mr. Osborne was an advisor to former President Bush’s father at the CIA, and he thanked him for his “great support of him” and his predecessor, William Colby.
Many of the personnel in the CIA are not undercover so their names can safely appear in public documents identifying them as CIA employees without causing any difficulty; Ms. Sharon Parish is one such individual.
Mr. Osborne reconnected with the Directorate of Operations and desegregrated the management in the Near East and Asa (NEA) Division which for the first time enabled him to work Arab countries and adversaries within a few short weeks after Professor Clemon and he had talked.
The CIA assigned Mr. Osborne to the Libyan Branch as Chief Counter Intelligence for Libya. He had to collect information and develop a secret report on Gaddifi at the request of the White House. There were some serious mistakes made by the division. It seemed clear that he was being set up to take “the fall.”
His goals were shifting and he wanted to try his hand at doing business and becoming an international entrepreneur.
It turned out that Mr. Osborne was the first black professional to be assigned to Libya and no one ever with his skills had been assigned in the Libya Station where the show was Covert Action versus Counter Intelligence. He muscled his way into the assignment Libya.
He has good news for everyone when we claim the Spirit of God, we do not lack anything.
He often talks with their five adult children and eight grandchildren about relationships, given his belief we are embodied as a human being with a Spirit. The human body is a temple of the Spirit (I Corinthians 3:16; 6:9).
He shares it is up to us to achieve our genuine Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality and Experiences (SHAPE) given us before we were born. Rick Warren’s writings have significantly influenced him and he accepts that before he was born that his Higher Power and his SHAPE were predetermined.
About the Author (Author Profile) My name is Angela Doreathy Glass Watkins. Book Reviewer, Web Content Provider/Writer/Blogger, Researcher, Former Sunday School Teacher Angela Watkins' Blog: http://angelawatkins57.blogspot.com I will
ATF Death Watch 53: The Truth About Operation Fast and Furious
By Robert Farago and Ralph Dixon on August 8, 2011
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is the agency charged with enforcing federal gun laws. In 2005, the Bureau launched Project Gunrunner. They established the program to stop gun smugglers from buying and exporting weapons from gun dealers to Mexican drug cartels. Project Gunrunner led to the arrest of hundreds of so-called straw purchasers: citizens with clean criminal records buying firearms illegally on the behalf of criminals. The ATF claimed they were stemming an “Iron River” of illegal guns headed south. Despite an Inspector General report condemning the ATF for failing to catch “the big fish,” Congress rewarded the ATF with additional funding. In 2009, Project Gunrunner mutated into something far more sinister: Operation Fast and Furious.
During Project Gunrunner, ATF agents arrested straw purchasers before weapons crossed the U.S. – Mexican border. In Operation Fast and Furious, ATF agents made no attempt to arrest either the original purchaser or the criminal who received the illegally purchased firearms. In some cases, ATF agents hand-delivered weapons to gun smugglers. In all cases, the federal law enforcement agency let the smuggled guns “walk” across the border.
Several American gun dealers (who had not been informed of the sting operation ahead of time) were immediately suspicious of the straw purchasers, many of whom bought multiple guns multiple times. The gun dealers contacted the ATF and requested guidance or intervention. The ATF told the dealers to complete the transactions and let the weapons go.
As expected, straw purchasers smuggled these semi-automatic rifles and handguns across the U.S. border into the hands of Mexican drug cartel members. Hundreds and then thousands of semi-automatic rifles and handguns disappeared into the hands of vicious criminals.
Concerned ATF agents monitoring the sales understood the danger to Mexicans and Americans alike. They begged their superiors for permission to interdict the guns at the U.S. border. All such requests were summarily refused.
Within months, Fast and Furious-enabled firearms began to show up at Mexican crime scenes via the ATF’s eTrace tracking system. It’s not possible to determine how many Mexicans were murdered by cartel members using Fast and Furious firearms. All parties involved admit that the numbers reached into the hundreds.
ATF agents at the sharp end became increasingly disturbed by the notion of drug thugs using Bureau-enabled guns to murder rivals and innocent civilians. They worried that cartel members would use the guns against U.S. law enforcement officials. The agents published their discontent on a website called cleanupatf.org. Gun bloggers David Cordrea and Mike Vanderboegh pursued the story.
Inevitably, the agents’ worst fears were realized. Some of the ATF-enabled weapons found their way back into the United States. When one or more members of a “rip crew” (ripping off drug smugglers) used one of the Fast and Furious guns to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, the ATF’s wall of silence was breached.
With inside info and prodding from pro-gun bloggers, Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley began investigating. The ATF stonewalled their requests for information, refusing to provide key documents. The Bureau threatened retaliation against ATF line agents who raised objections to Fast and Furious—both during and after the Operation.
After zealous digging by the Gun Rights Examiner and The Sipsey Street Irregulars, after three House Oversight Committee hearings and some better-late-than-never coverage by CBS, Fox and others, the details of Project Fast and Furious began to emerge. We now have information about Operation Fast and Furious that Bureau managers withheld from ATF line agents tasked with overseeing its implementation.
We now know that cartel criminals used a Fast and Furious .50 caliber rifle to shoot at a Mexican military helicopter that was subsequently forced to land. Two other Fast and Furious weapons were used by members of the Sinaloa cartel in the kidnapping, torture and murder of high-profile Mexican attorney Mario González Rodríguez, the brother of a state prosecutor in Mexico.
We now know that many of the so-called straw purchasers were paid FBI informants. William Newell, Former ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division, testified before Congress that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Immigrations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were “full partners” in Operation Fast and Furious.
We now know that senior ATF officials in Washington were regularly briefed on Operation Fast and Furious. Agent Newell testified that he discussed the gun smuggling operation with Kevin O’Reilly, a staffer on President Obama’s National Security Council. The White House knew the program’s risks and nevertheless approved of the Operation and its tactics.
We now know that Operation Fast and Furious was not the only ATF gun smuggling program. The ATF ran “Operation Castaway” out of their Tampa office. Hundreds of guns moved from Florida straw purchasers into Honduras, ultimately bound for Mexican cartels. Castaway firearms have been connected to several crimes in Puerto Rico and a murder in Colombia.
Operation Fast and Furious resulted in twenty indictments against low-level gunrunners—most of which were made immediately after Agent Terry’s murder, once the program came to light. Weighed against the deaths of Border Patrol Agent Terry, Mario González Rodríguez and countless others, the operation’s costs seem to heavily outweigh the return.
All of which begs the question: why did the ATF allow the guns to walk? How could such an obviously dangerous program—a “sting” that violated Mexican sovereignty—ever have been implemented?
When Operation Fast and Furious broke cover, gun-bloggers “revealed” the ATF’s motives. The Bureau wanted to create an Iron River. Guns eTraced from the U.S. to Mexico would enhance their power, prestige and budgetary allocation. At the same time, the ATF could use the stats generated by their anti-gun running gun running “sting” to attack the Second Amendment and, thus, usher in legislation to restrict Americans who wish to buy, sell or keep firearms.
From Project Gunrunner to Operation Fast and Furious, “never waste a good crisis” morphed into “never miss a chance to create a good crisis.” Allegedly.
To understand the truth about Operation Fast and Furious, you have to see the bigger picture . . .
Mexico is at war. Rival drug cartels and the Mexican military are fighting a bloody battle for control of the country and tens of billions of dollars worth of illegal income. In the last five years, more than 40,000 Mexicans have died in this internecine conflict. Twice as many people have been tortured. Tens of millions of Mexicans live in fear for their lives, without any civil liberties (including gun rights).
The situation in neighboring Guatemala is even worse. Although not well-publicized, Guatemala’s murder rate is three times higher than Mexico’s. The drug cartels are completely entrenched; less than one percent of crimes are punished.
The horrific, remorseless violence raging in Mexico and Guatemala can be laid squarely at the feet of the drug cartels and their puppets in both governments. Every gang is knee-deep in blood. Every gang bears equal responsibility. Both governments have been infiltrated and corrupted by drug cartels dispensing billions of dollars worth of blood money.
While members of the Mexican and Guatemalan federal governments are doing well from the conflict, the governments themselves are losing control. In Mexico, drug cartels are now in charge of huge swathes of territory, including large cities like Ciudad Juarez. Within their strongholds, cartels own the police, judiciary and prison system. They’ve murdered and tortured the press into silence. They are, literally, a law unto themselves.
One Mexican drug cartel has risen above all the rest: Los Zetas.
Los Zetas was founded by a group of former Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (Special Forces Airmobile Group), deemed to be among Mexico’s military elite. Los Zetas drafted-in former federal, state, and local police officers as well as “ordinary” soldiers. They’ve formed an alliance with Guatemala’s jungle warfare specialists Los Kaibiles.
Los Zetas and their Kaibiles allies have the organization, training and discipline to destabilize an entire hemisphere. They have unlimited funds, unlimited access to weaponry (including fully automatic rifles, grenade launchers and grenades) and an army of more than ten thousand loyal members.
Both Robert Plumlee, a former CIA pilot and Phil Jordan, a former CIA operative and DEA director, claim Los Zetas have stockpiled thousands of weapons to disrupt and influence Mexico’s national elections in 2012. Los Zetas end game: a seat at the government table. Guatemala also elects its national leaders in 2012. In both countries, there’s a very real chance that Los Zetas could subvert the political process completely and stage a successful coup d’etat.
All that stands between Los Zetas’ leaders and complete hegemony: the governments of Mexico and Guatemala and their “friendly” drug cartels. Just last week, Mexico completed operation Lince Norte (“Northern Lynx”), a 20-day attack on Los Zetas by 4,000 Mexican troops. The Mexican military boasted they’d killed Nuevo Laredo’s Zeta boss and the arrested a cartel financial manager.
The Mexican and Guatemalan governments remain under siege. Neither has enough trustworthy forces to be assured of victory against Los Zetas.
The United States is assisting Mexico’s fight against Los Zetas every way it can. Last year, the U.S. State Department’s Direct Commercial Sales Program doled-out some $416.5 million worth of weapons and equipment to the Mexican military. U.S. taxpayers have stumped up more than a billion dollars to fund the so-called Merida Initiative, providing equipment and training to Mexico’s security agencies.
Despite all that time, effort, material and money, the situation in Mexico continues to disintegrate. Whatever help the U.S. has given to Mexico, it hasn’t been enough. And that includes Operation Fast and Furious.
The ATF’s claim that they created Operation Fast and Furious to to bust the Mexican cartels’ “big fish” strains credulity. The guns weren’t tracked. In fact, they were un-trackable. The ATF has no jurisdiction in Mexico. Mexico’s law enforcement and military are suffused with cartel spies and allies. The Mexican government was never informed about the program in the first place. There was no way of closing the supposed trap.
If the ATF intended to create a program that was designed to fail, it could not have done a better job than Operation Fast and Furious. But it wasn’t and they didn’t. Operation Fast and Furious was created to funnel weapons from American gun stores to anti-Zeta cartel members on the border. In this it was successful.
From its inception in the fall of 2009 to its termination roughly a year later, ATF-enabled smugglers walked at least 2000 weapons across the border. Because of the murders of Agent Terry and Agent Zapata, the Operation Fast and Furious never hit its stride. Had not sunk of its own weight, Operation Fast and Furious would still be funneling thousand of weapons into Mexico.
In retrospect, it seems clear that the federally licensed firearms dealers who filled the straw purchasers’ trucks with weapons were supposed to be the fall guys, should Operation Fast and Furious come to light. That ploy has failed. The ATF has been left holding the bag, with a Congressional committee hard at their heels.
Operation Fast and Furious’ disintegration and the ATF’s attempt to sweep it under the rug in no way implies that the ATF set the wheels in motion. On the contrary, the Bureau never had a “Plan B” if Fast and Furious went off the rails. Can they really be that stupid? Unlikely.
Since 2009 or before, the American intelligence community has feared that Mexico was becoming politically and thus militarily unstable. The U.S. military quietly but not secretly stepped up its training of Mexican security forces. Meanwhile, the CIA added Mexico to their watch list, right up here with al-Qaida.
The CIA should know. The relationship between the CIA and the anti-Zetas cartels goes back some twenty years. The former Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico’s top narco traffickers in the 1980s, was protected by Miguel Nassar Haro, Chief of Mexico’s Dirección Federal de Seguridad. Haro was a CIA asset. Most of the territory formerly dominated by the Guadalajara Cartel was taken over by the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels, both blood enemies of Los Zetas.
Yesterday’s New York Times reported that the U.S. is now sending “new” CIA operatives and retired military personnel to Mexico to help the federal government fight Los Zetas. Uncle Sam’s also looking at deploying private security contractors. Clearly, in the run-up to that Mexico’s national elections, the U.S. federal government’s concerns about the Mexican government’s survival are increasing.
Between these two events: Operation Fast and Furious. TTAG’s contacts tell us that the CIA is behind the ATF’s decision to let guns walk from American gun stores. The Agency saw Fast and Furious as a way to arm anti-Zeta cartels. Specifically, the Sinaloa cartel. They worked with the ATF, killing two birds with one stone: increasing the ATF’s credibility in Washington and countering Los Zetas’ power.
As for the involvement of the FBI, DEA, ICE, DHS (Department of Homeland Security), CPB (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) and the U.S. State Department, think Murder on the Orient Express. A CIA-originated and orchestrated anti-Zetas gun smuggling program gave everyone a piece of the action.
It explains the fact that the federal agencies in charge of patrolling the Mexican border failed to intercept a single “Gunwalker” gun. It explains Mexico’s silence about the ATF’s violation of their sovereignty. (President Felipe Calderon keeping a lid on the CIA’s role in Mexican politics lest The Company reveal his cronies’ connection with the Sinaloa cartel.)
It explains the ATF big-wigs’ high-fiving when Operation Fast and Furious guns were recovered at a crime scene; they were celebrating when Sinaloa cartel members used a Fast and Furious gun to kill Zetas. A practice suggests that the ATF’s top bureaucrats knew Operation Fast and Furious’ real goal, even if their front line agents did not.
The so-called Gunwalker scandal proves that America’s multi-billion dollar “War on Drugs” is an utter sham. Our government was (is?) involved in a drugs for guns conspiracy. The scandal also highlights the fact that America’s Mexican border is all but completely porous. If the Sinaloas can fly a 747 filled with cocaine into the U.S. with official approval, what’s to stop them bringing in something worse?
All this and more to stop Los Zetas from taking control of Mexico (and Guatemala).
Strange to say, a Mexican military-style dictatorship might force America to seal our southern border. No drugs and illegal immigrants in. No guns out. (Unless we sold weapons to the junta.) Meanwhile and in any case, one wonders if Congress will explore the CIA connection to Operation Fast and Furious or let sleeping dogs lie in the interest of “national security.”
Former CIA case manager Leutrell Osbourne warned of that steep price in an interview he did with Narco News in 2009.
Osborne, who oversaw spies and assets for the CIA in more than 30 countries on three continents during his 27 years with the agency, says if he if he could tell President Barack Obama anything, it would be to focus the CIA and other U.S. intel agencies on counterintelligence and to do away completely with covert action, which is defined as anything involving dirty tricks — assassinations, state-sponsored terrorism, drug running, weapons trafficking, coups, psy-ops propaganda, etc.
“I’d like to get to Obama and help him, to let him know what he needs to cut out,” Osborne said.
The reason covert operational tactics need to be eliminated, Osborne explains, is because they are not effective and have been the source of most of the CIA’s problems over the years. He says the blowback against the United States from those covert operations is always more damaging than any benefit attained.
And for Mexico, that blowback can come, as it did in Central America, and Colombia, decades earlier, in the form of an institutionalizing of these death squads and a broadening of their targets to appease the paranoia and power aspirations of corrupt leadership and economic interests. The very soul of Mexico is at stake.
Stay tuned…..
By Robert Farago and Ralph Dixon on August 8, 2011
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is the agency charged with enforcing federal gun laws. In 2005, the Bureau launched Project Gunrunner. They established the program to stop gun smugglers from buying and exporting weapons from gun dealers to Mexican drug cartels. Project Gunrunner led to the arrest of hundreds of so-called straw purchasers: citizens with clean criminal records buying firearms illegally on the behalf of criminals. The ATF claimed they were stemming an “Iron River” of illegal guns headed south. Despite an Inspector General report condemning the ATF for failing to catch “the big fish,” Congress rewarded the ATF with additional funding. In 2009, Project Gunrunner mutated into something far more sinister: Operation Fast and Furious.
During Project Gunrunner, ATF agents arrested straw purchasers before weapons crossed the U.S. – Mexican border. In Operation Fast and Furious, ATF agents made no attempt to arrest either the original purchaser or the criminal who received the illegally purchased firearms. In some cases, ATF agents hand-delivered weapons to gun smugglers. In all cases, the federal law enforcement agency let the smuggled guns “walk” across the border.
Several American gun dealers (who had not been informed of the sting operation ahead of time) were immediately suspicious of the straw purchasers, many of whom bought multiple guns multiple times. The gun dealers contacted the ATF and requested guidance or intervention. The ATF told the dealers to complete the transactions and let the weapons go.
As expected, straw purchasers smuggled these semi-automatic rifles and handguns across the U.S. border into the hands of Mexican drug cartel members. Hundreds and then thousands of semi-automatic rifles and handguns disappeared into the hands of vicious criminals.
Concerned ATF agents monitoring the sales understood the danger to Mexicans and Americans alike. They begged their superiors for permission to interdict the guns at the U.S. border. All such requests were summarily refused.
Within months, Fast and Furious-enabled firearms began to show up at Mexican crime scenes via the ATF’s eTrace tracking system. It’s not possible to determine how many Mexicans were murdered by cartel members using Fast and Furious firearms. All parties involved admit that the numbers reached into the hundreds.
ATF agents at the sharp end became increasingly disturbed by the notion of drug thugs using Bureau-enabled guns to murder rivals and innocent civilians. They worried that cartel members would use the guns against U.S. law enforcement officials. The agents published their discontent on a website called cleanupatf.org. Gun bloggers David Cordrea and Mike Vanderboegh pursued the story.
Inevitably, the agents’ worst fears were realized. Some of the ATF-enabled weapons found their way back into the United States. When one or more members of a “rip crew” (ripping off drug smugglers) used one of the Fast and Furious guns to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, the ATF’s wall of silence was breached.
With inside info and prodding from pro-gun bloggers, Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley began investigating. The ATF stonewalled their requests for information, refusing to provide key documents. The Bureau threatened retaliation against ATF line agents who raised objections to Fast and Furious—both during and after the Operation.
After zealous digging by the Gun Rights Examiner and The Sipsey Street Irregulars, after three House Oversight Committee hearings and some better-late-than-never coverage by CBS, Fox and others, the details of Project Fast and Furious began to emerge. We now have information about Operation Fast and Furious that Bureau managers withheld from ATF line agents tasked with overseeing its implementation.
We now know that cartel criminals used a Fast and Furious .50 caliber rifle to shoot at a Mexican military helicopter that was subsequently forced to land. Two other Fast and Furious weapons were used by members of the Sinaloa cartel in the kidnapping, torture and murder of high-profile Mexican attorney Mario González Rodríguez, the brother of a state prosecutor in Mexico.
We now know that many of the so-called straw purchasers were paid FBI informants. William Newell, Former ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division, testified before Congress that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Immigrations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were “full partners” in Operation Fast and Furious.
We now know that senior ATF officials in Washington were regularly briefed on Operation Fast and Furious. Agent Newell testified that he discussed the gun smuggling operation with Kevin O’Reilly, a staffer on President Obama’s National Security Council. The White House knew the program’s risks and nevertheless approved of the Operation and its tactics.
We now know that Operation Fast and Furious was not the only ATF gun smuggling program. The ATF ran “Operation Castaway” out of their Tampa office. Hundreds of guns moved from Florida straw purchasers into Honduras, ultimately bound for Mexican cartels. Castaway firearms have been connected to several crimes in Puerto Rico and a murder in Colombia.
Operation Fast and Furious resulted in twenty indictments against low-level gunrunners—most of which were made immediately after Agent Terry’s murder, once the program came to light. Weighed against the deaths of Border Patrol Agent Terry, Mario González Rodríguez and countless others, the operation’s costs seem to heavily outweigh the return.
All of which begs the question: why did the ATF allow the guns to walk? How could such an obviously dangerous program—a “sting” that violated Mexican sovereignty—ever have been implemented?
When Operation Fast and Furious broke cover, gun-bloggers “revealed” the ATF’s motives. The Bureau wanted to create an Iron River. Guns eTraced from the U.S. to Mexico would enhance their power, prestige and budgetary allocation. At the same time, the ATF could use the stats generated by their anti-gun running gun running “sting” to attack the Second Amendment and, thus, usher in legislation to restrict Americans who wish to buy, sell or keep firearms.
From Project Gunrunner to Operation Fast and Furious, “never waste a good crisis” morphed into “never miss a chance to create a good crisis.” Allegedly.
To understand the truth about Operation Fast and Furious, you have to see the bigger picture . . .
Mexico is at war. Rival drug cartels and the Mexican military are fighting a bloody battle for control of the country and tens of billions of dollars worth of illegal income. In the last five years, more than 40,000 Mexicans have died in this internecine conflict. Twice as many people have been tortured. Tens of millions of Mexicans live in fear for their lives, without any civil liberties (including gun rights).
The situation in neighboring Guatemala is even worse. Although not well-publicized, Guatemala’s murder rate is three times higher than Mexico’s. The drug cartels are completely entrenched; less than one percent of crimes are punished.
The horrific, remorseless violence raging in Mexico and Guatemala can be laid squarely at the feet of the drug cartels and their puppets in both governments. Every gang is knee-deep in blood. Every gang bears equal responsibility. Both governments have been infiltrated and corrupted by drug cartels dispensing billions of dollars worth of blood money.
While members of the Mexican and Guatemalan federal governments are doing well from the conflict, the governments themselves are losing control. In Mexico, drug cartels are now in charge of huge swathes of territory, including large cities like Ciudad Juarez. Within their strongholds, cartels own the police, judiciary and prison system. They’ve murdered and tortured the press into silence. They are, literally, a law unto themselves.
One Mexican drug cartel has risen above all the rest: Los Zetas.
Los Zetas was founded by a group of former Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (Special Forces Airmobile Group), deemed to be among Mexico’s military elite. Los Zetas drafted-in former federal, state, and local police officers as well as “ordinary” soldiers. They’ve formed an alliance with Guatemala’s jungle warfare specialists Los Kaibiles.
Los Zetas and their Kaibiles allies have the organization, training and discipline to destabilize an entire hemisphere. They have unlimited funds, unlimited access to weaponry (including fully automatic rifles, grenade launchers and grenades) and an army of more than ten thousand loyal members.
Both Robert Plumlee, a former CIA pilot and Phil Jordan, a former CIA operative and DEA director, claim Los Zetas have stockpiled thousands of weapons to disrupt and influence Mexico’s national elections in 2012. Los Zetas end game: a seat at the government table. Guatemala also elects its national leaders in 2012. In both countries, there’s a very real chance that Los Zetas could subvert the political process completely and stage a successful coup d’etat.
All that stands between Los Zetas’ leaders and complete hegemony: the governments of Mexico and Guatemala and their “friendly” drug cartels. Just last week, Mexico completed operation Lince Norte (“Northern Lynx”), a 20-day attack on Los Zetas by 4,000 Mexican troops. The Mexican military boasted they’d killed Nuevo Laredo’s Zeta boss and the arrested a cartel financial manager.
The Mexican and Guatemalan governments remain under siege. Neither has enough trustworthy forces to be assured of victory against Los Zetas.
The United States is assisting Mexico’s fight against Los Zetas every way it can. Last year, the U.S. State Department’s Direct Commercial Sales Program doled-out some $416.5 million worth of weapons and equipment to the Mexican military. U.S. taxpayers have stumped up more than a billion dollars to fund the so-called Merida Initiative, providing equipment and training to Mexico’s security agencies.
Despite all that time, effort, material and money, the situation in Mexico continues to disintegrate. Whatever help the U.S. has given to Mexico, it hasn’t been enough. And that includes Operation Fast and Furious.
The ATF’s claim that they created Operation Fast and Furious to to bust the Mexican cartels’ “big fish” strains credulity. The guns weren’t tracked. In fact, they were un-trackable. The ATF has no jurisdiction in Mexico. Mexico’s law enforcement and military are suffused with cartel spies and allies. The Mexican government was never informed about the program in the first place. There was no way of closing the supposed trap.
If the ATF intended to create a program that was designed to fail, it could not have done a better job than Operation Fast and Furious. But it wasn’t and they didn’t. Operation Fast and Furious was created to funnel weapons from American gun stores to anti-Zeta cartel members on the border. In this it was successful.
From its inception in the fall of 2009 to its termination roughly a year later, ATF-enabled smugglers walked at least 2000 weapons across the border. Because of the murders of Agent Terry and Agent Zapata, the Operation Fast and Furious never hit its stride. Had not sunk of its own weight, Operation Fast and Furious would still be funneling thousand of weapons into Mexico.
In retrospect, it seems clear that the federally licensed firearms dealers who filled the straw purchasers’ trucks with weapons were supposed to be the fall guys, should Operation Fast and Furious come to light. That ploy has failed. The ATF has been left holding the bag, with a Congressional committee hard at their heels.
Operation Fast and Furious’ disintegration and the ATF’s attempt to sweep it under the rug in no way implies that the ATF set the wheels in motion. On the contrary, the Bureau never had a “Plan B” if Fast and Furious went off the rails. Can they really be that stupid? Unlikely.
Since 2009 or before, the American intelligence community has feared that Mexico was becoming politically and thus militarily unstable. The U.S. military quietly but not secretly stepped up its training of Mexican security forces. Meanwhile, the CIA added Mexico to their watch list, right up here with al-Qaida.
The CIA should know. The relationship between the CIA and the anti-Zetas cartels goes back some twenty years. The former Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico’s top narco traffickers in the 1980s, was protected by Miguel Nassar Haro, Chief of Mexico’s Dirección Federal de Seguridad. Haro was a CIA asset. Most of the territory formerly dominated by the Guadalajara Cartel was taken over by the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels, both blood enemies of Los Zetas.
Yesterday’s New York Times reported that the U.S. is now sending “new” CIA operatives and retired military personnel to Mexico to help the federal government fight Los Zetas. Uncle Sam’s also looking at deploying private security contractors. Clearly, in the run-up to that Mexico’s national elections, the U.S. federal government’s concerns about the Mexican government’s survival are increasing.
Between these two events: Operation Fast and Furious. TTAG’s contacts tell us that the CIA is behind the ATF’s decision to let guns walk from American gun stores. The Agency saw Fast and Furious as a way to arm anti-Zeta cartels. Specifically, the Sinaloa cartel. They worked with the ATF, killing two birds with one stone: increasing the ATF’s credibility in Washington and countering Los Zetas’ power.
As for the involvement of the FBI, DEA, ICE, DHS (Department of Homeland Security), CPB (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) and the U.S. State Department, think Murder on the Orient Express. A CIA-originated and orchestrated anti-Zetas gun smuggling program gave everyone a piece of the action.
It explains the fact that the federal agencies in charge of patrolling the Mexican border failed to intercept a single “Gunwalker” gun. It explains Mexico’s silence about the ATF’s violation of their sovereignty. (President Felipe Calderon keeping a lid on the CIA’s role in Mexican politics lest The Company reveal his cronies’ connection with the Sinaloa cartel.)
It explains the ATF big-wigs’ high-fiving when Operation Fast and Furious guns were recovered at a crime scene; they were celebrating when Sinaloa cartel members used a Fast and Furious gun to kill Zetas. A practice suggests that the ATF’s top bureaucrats knew Operation Fast and Furious’ real goal, even if their front line agents did not.
The so-called Gunwalker scandal proves that America’s multi-billion dollar “War on Drugs” is an utter sham. Our government was (is?) involved in a drugs for guns conspiracy. The scandal also highlights the fact that America’s Mexican border is all but completely porous. If the Sinaloas can fly a 747 filled with cocaine into the U.S. with official approval, what’s to stop them bringing in something worse?
All this and more to stop Los Zetas from taking control of Mexico (and Guatemala).
Strange to say, a Mexican military-style dictatorship might force America to seal our southern border. No drugs and illegal immigrants in. No guns out. (Unless we sold weapons to the junta.) Meanwhile and in any case, one wonders if Congress will explore the CIA connection to Operation Fast and Furious or let sleeping dogs lie in the interest of “national security.”
Former CIA case manager Leutrell Osbourne warned of that steep price in an interview he did with Narco News in 2009.
Osborne, who oversaw spies and assets for the CIA in more than 30 countries on three continents during his 27 years with the agency, says if he if he could tell President Barack Obama anything, it would be to focus the CIA and other U.S. intel agencies on counterintelligence and to do away completely with covert action, which is defined as anything involving dirty tricks — assassinations, state-sponsored terrorism, drug running, weapons trafficking, coups, psy-ops propaganda, etc.
“I’d like to get to Obama and help him, to let him know what he needs to cut out,” Osborne said.
The reason covert operational tactics need to be eliminated, Osborne explains, is because they are not effective and have been the source of most of the CIA’s problems over the years. He says the blowback against the United States from those covert operations is always more damaging than any benefit attained.
And for Mexico, that blowback can come, as it did in Central America, and Colombia, decades earlier, in the form of an institutionalizing of these death squads and a broadening of their targets to appease the paranoia and power aspirations of corrupt leadership and economic interests. The very soul of Mexico is at stake.
Stay tuned…..
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LIES A SIXTH GRADER WOULD NOT ACCEPT by Michael C. Ruppert From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. 8 April 2004 www.globalresearch.ca 11 April 2004 The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP404A.html
IZVESTIA, PUTIN AND THE CIA = RICE PUDDING
Even more damaging to Rice and the Bush administration is a story published in Russia's Izvestia which came into this writer's possession thanks to former CIA counter-terror case officer, Leutrell Osborne (see above). The story had been brought to his attention by his Russian-speaking son and had fortunately been saved in its original form before it was sanitized of several key sentences.
FTW has posted a translation and copy of the original Russian story online at:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html.
Portions of the story in bold indicate sentences that were removed from the Izvestia web site by late September 2001. We posted the full story in May of 2002 after commissioning a professional translation.
Here is the unedited story:
September 12, 2001 (14:15) Yesterday at the headquarters of Central Intelligence Service in Langley a confidential meeting between one of the Deputy Directors of CIA and a special messenger of Russian Intelligence Service took place. According to NewsRu sources he delivered to his American colleagues some documents including audio tapes with telephone conversations directly relating to terrorist attacks on Washington and New York last Tuesday. According to these sources, Russian Intelligence agents know the organizers and executors of these terrorist attacks. More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation to these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.
Russian Intelligent Service states that behind the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York stand the organization of Usama ben Laden, Islamic movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban government. According to our intelligence agents among terrorists there were at least two Uzbeks, natives of Fergana who arrived in the USA on forged documents about ten months ago. A terrorist group which realized actions against the USA consisted of at least 25 people. All of them had a special training on the territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan including piloting of an aircraft.
Besides, Russian Intelligence Service warns White House that present terrorist attacks are only the beginning of the wide-scale action. Ben Laden has the plans to attack nuclear units on the territory of the USA. Among Islamic targets are space objects and large financial centers of the USA.
The organization of the International Terrorist, according to Russian Intelligence Service agents had been planning an operation against the USA more than a year and a half. Russian Intelligence Service insists that Usama ben Laden has about 400 fanatics who are ready any minute to realize attacks against the USA all around the world.
[NOTE: The scan of the Izvestia story presented… is of the story that was originally presented by Izvestia. The story that they currently have on their website has omitted the first paragraph completely. We wonder why...]
Izvestia Story
[Ed. Note: May 31, 2002 - After commissioning a professional translation of a Russian news story used as a source in FTW reportage, we discovered the word "suicide" was not contained in warnings to the Bush Administration from Russian intelligence. Although the word "suicide" was not in the story by Izvestia, the fact remains 25 pilots training for hijack missions and attacks in the U.S. could have meant nothing other than suicide missions.]
Here is the English translation of the Izvestia Story, the original Russian story is below it.
September 12, 2001 (14:15) Yesterday at the headquarters of Central Intelligence Service in Langley a confidential meeting between one of the Deputy Directors of CIA and a special messenger of Russian Intelligence Service took place. According to NewsRu sources he delivered to his American colleagues some documents including audio tapes with telephone conversations directly relating to terrorist attacks on Washington and New York last Tuesday. According to these sources, Russian Intelligence agents know the organizers and executors of these terrorist attacks. More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation to these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.
Russian Intelligent Service states that behind the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York stand the organization of Usama ben Laden, Islamic movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban government. According to our intelligence agents among terrorists there were at least two Uzbeks, natives of Fergana who arrived in the USA on forged documents about ten months ago. A terrorist group which realized actions against the USA consisted of at least 25 people. All of them had a special training on the territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan including piloting of an aircraft.
Besides, Russian Intelligence Service warns White House that present terrorist attacks are only the beginning of the wide-scale action. Ben Laden has the plans to attack nuclear units on the territory of the USA. Among Islamic targets are space objects and large financial centers of the USA.
The organization of the International Terrorist, according to Russian Intelligence Service agents had been planning an operation against the USA more than a year and a half. Russian Intelligence Service insists that Usama ben Laden has about 400 fanatics who are ready any minute to realize attacks against the USA all around the world.
[NOTE: The scan of the Izvestia story presented below is of the story that was originally presented by Izvestia. The story that they currently have on their website has omitted the first paragraph completely. We wonder why...]
LIES A SIXTH GRADER WOULD NOT ACCEPT by Michael C. Ruppert From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. 8 April 2004 www.globalresearch.ca 11 April 2004 The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP404A.html
IZVESTIA, PUTIN AND THE CIA = RICE PUDDING
Even more damaging to Rice and the Bush administration is a story published in Russia's Izvestia which came into this writer's possession thanks to former CIA counter-terror case officer, Leutrell Osborne (see above). The story had been brought to his attention by his Russian-speaking son and had fortunately been saved in its original form before it was sanitized of several key sentences.
FTW has posted a translation and copy of the original Russian story online at:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html.
Portions of the story in bold indicate sentences that were removed from the Izvestia web site by late September 2001. We posted the full story in May of 2002 after commissioning a professional translation.
Here is the unedited story:
September 12, 2001 (14:15) Yesterday at the headquarters of Central Intelligence Service in Langley a confidential meeting between one of the Deputy Directors of CIA and a special messenger of Russian Intelligence Service took place. According to NewsRu sources he delivered to his American colleagues some documents including audio tapes with telephone conversations directly relating to terrorist attacks on Washington and New York last Tuesday. According to these sources, Russian Intelligence agents know the organizers and executors of these terrorist attacks. More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation to these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.
Russian Intelligent Service states that behind the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York stand the organization of Usama ben Laden, Islamic movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban government. According to our intelligence agents among terrorists there were at least two Uzbeks, natives of Fergana who arrived in the USA on forged documents about ten months ago. A terrorist group which realized actions against the USA consisted of at least 25 people. All of them had a special training on the territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan including piloting of an aircraft.
Besides, Russian Intelligence Service warns White House that present terrorist attacks are only the beginning of the wide-scale action. Ben Laden has the plans to attack nuclear units on the territory of the USA. Among Islamic targets are space objects and large financial centers of the USA.
The organization of the International Terrorist, according to Russian Intelligence Service agents had been planning an operation against the USA more than a year and a half. Russian Intelligence Service insists that Usama ben Laden has about 400 fanatics who are ready any minute to realize attacks against the USA all around the world.
[NOTE: The scan of the Izvestia story presented… is of the story that was originally presented by Izvestia. The story that they currently have on their website has omitted the first paragraph completely. We wonder why...]
Izvestia Story
[Ed. Note: May 31, 2002 - After commissioning a professional translation of a Russian news story used as a source in FTW reportage, we discovered the word "suicide" was not contained in warnings to the Bush Administration from Russian intelligence. Although the word "suicide" was not in the story by Izvestia, the fact remains 25 pilots training for hijack missions and attacks in the U.S. could have meant nothing other than suicide missions.]
Here is the English translation of the Izvestia Story, the original Russian story is below it.
September 12, 2001 (14:15) Yesterday at the headquarters of Central Intelligence Service in Langley a confidential meeting between one of the Deputy Directors of CIA and a special messenger of Russian Intelligence Service took place. According to NewsRu sources he delivered to his American colleagues some documents including audio tapes with telephone conversations directly relating to terrorist attacks on Washington and New York last Tuesday. According to these sources, Russian Intelligence agents know the organizers and executors of these terrorist attacks. More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation to these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.
Russian Intelligent Service states that behind the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York stand the organization of Usama ben Laden, Islamic movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban government. According to our intelligence agents among terrorists there were at least two Uzbeks, natives of Fergana who arrived in the USA on forged documents about ten months ago. A terrorist group which realized actions against the USA consisted of at least 25 people. All of them had a special training on the territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan including piloting of an aircraft.
Besides, Russian Intelligence Service warns White House that present terrorist attacks are only the beginning of the wide-scale action. Ben Laden has the plans to attack nuclear units on the territory of the USA. Among Islamic targets are space objects and large financial centers of the USA.
The organization of the International Terrorist, according to Russian Intelligence Service agents had been planning an operation against the USA more than a year and a half. Russian Intelligence Service insists that Usama ben Laden has about 400 fanatics who are ready any minute to realize attacks against the USA all around the world.
[NOTE: The scan of the Izvestia story presented below is of the story that was originally presented by Izvestia. The story that they currently have on their website has omitted the first paragraph completely. We wonder why...]
http://treason123.blogspot.com/2008_05_18_archive.html
By 1977, some 125 “former” CIA officers had been infiltrated into the DEA at every level of the organization, especially in intelligence units, making everything possible— from black market arms exchanges, to negotiations with terrorists, to political assassination. It also put the CIA in total control of targeting.
Leutrell Osborne, a former CIA case officer, told Narco News essentially the same thing when he conveyed his concern about the merging of spook and law enforcement agendas.
“Law enforcement and intelligence operations have become one and the same,” Osborne says. “We as citizens are all affected by this because it has a major impact on civil and human rights.”
[email protected]
By 1977, some 125 “former” CIA officers had been infiltrated into the DEA at every level of the organization, especially in intelligence units, making everything possible— from black market arms exchanges, to negotiations with terrorists, to political assassination. It also put the CIA in total control of targeting.
Leutrell Osborne, a former CIA case officer, told Narco News essentially the same thing when he conveyed his concern about the merging of spook and law enforcement agendas.
“Law enforcement and intelligence operations have become one and the same,” Osborne says. “We as citizens are all affected by this because it has a major impact on civil and human rights.”
[email protected]