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Samuel had gotten his start through merchant companies like Whittlesley & Alsop of Boston, MA. The Alsops were also major investors in the businesses run by James Monroe Walker, and Russell & Company partner John N. Alsop Griswold was a director of the C,B&Q as well as president of the Illinois Central railroad. Many years later, in the 1960s, Washington Post columnist Joe Alsop, a descendant of the Whittlesley & Alsop owners, convinced President Johnson to create the Warren Commission, which was a cover-up for the assassination of President Kennedy.

In 1828, Russell & Company merged with another drug smuggling syndicate run by John Perkins Cushing. Cushing brought in his cousins, Robert Bennet Forbes and John Murray Forbes. Robert Bennet Forbes was Senator John F. Kerry’s great-grandfather. John Murray Forbes attended school at Phillips Academy in Andover, the alma mater of George H.W. Bush, and his sons Jeb and George W.

John Murray Forbes coordinated much of the US investment of the Russell & Company partners, and he was the one who hired James Monroe Walker. Walker was first hired as Solicitor for the Michigan Central, and later as Solicitor and President of the C,B&Q. While running these railroads, Walker worked with Nathaniel Thayer Jr, a distant relative of George W. Bush, who was general counsel for the C,B&Q and other Russell & Company businesses that Walker was involved in. Walker worked closely with Sidney Bartlett as well, who was another legal representative for the C,B&Q.

At the same time, Bartlett and Thayer were legal representatives for the railroads owned by Edward H. Harriman, including the Union Pacific. Harriman was a director of the Illinois Central, along with Russell & Co partner John N. Alsop Griswold. Harriman is well known for being the father of William Averell Harriman and Roland Harriman, two Skull & Bones members who founded the Brown Brothers Harriman, whose employees included George Herbert Walker and his son-in-law, Prescott Bush. Eugene Delano and his son, Moreau Delano, were partners in Brown Brothers Harriman as well.

The fortunes that Russell & Company invested in US railroads and other infrastructure were the spoils from The Opium Wars, among the most inhumane and socially devastating events in human history.

Skull and Bones

William H. Russell's (Skull & Bones; co-founder-1833) cousin Samuel Russell formally established Russell & Co. on January 1, 1824 for the purpose of acquiring opium and smuggling it to China.
1830 Russell & Company buys out the Perkins opium syndicate, which had created the wealth of the Cabot, Lowell, Higginson, Forbes, Cushing and Sturgis family. Russell makes Connecticut the primary center of the US opium racket. Massachusetts families (Coolidge, Sturgis, Forbes and Delano) joined Connecticut (Alsop) and New York (Low) trafficking families under the auspices of the Russell Company and the British. Britain imports 18,956 chests of opium to China. Opium becomes the largest commodity in world trade.
Forced out of the lucrative African slave trade by U.S. law and Caribbean slave revolts, leaders of the Cabot, Lowell, Higginson, Forbes, Cushing and Sturgis families had married Perkins siblings and children. The Perkins opium syndicate made the fortune and established the power of these families. By the 1830s, the Russells had bought out the Perkins syndicate and made Connecticut the primary center of the U.S. opium racket.

The Washington Post

President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass. Skull and Bones) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.
In 2004, Kerry admitted he is a card-carrying member of the elitist Yale secret society, Skull and Bones. "Kerry is part of the Boston Brahmin Forbes family, historically intermarried with prominent New England families like the Winthrops, Lowells, Cabots, and Emersons. He is a CFR member.

The Church Committee:

Understand that both Bush and Kerry were classmates at Yale and both inducted into the Skull & Bones secret network in the same year, out of only 15 Skull members tapped from Yale yearly and both are CFR members. Now you can start to see that either way you voted the country was stuck under a Skull & Bones and CFR agenda and that agenda overrides their oaths to the country. How a 30-year-old lawyer exposed NSA mass surveillance of Americans—in 1975

WAR IS A RACKET

THE NETWORK
Leaked data reveals how the U.S. trains foreign soldiers and police with little oversight. The Network An investigation mining diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks shows the shadowy network used to train 200,000 foreign security personnel every year.

4 Nov 1952: NSA was established & LTG Ralph J. Canine became first DIRECTOR

Marine Corps
Major General
Smedley Butler

Smedley Darlington Butler

SEE WAR IS A RACKET

The Marine Corps was created on November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by a resolution of the Continental Congress. In 1834 the Marines became part of the Department of the Navy. "War is a Racket" by Smedely Butler the only Marine Officer to win the Medal of Honor twice. Keep in mind, this was when WWI was just the World War. Reading "War is a Racket" is frighteningly similar to what is happening today, except the monetary figures are bigger. He foresaw WWII and all his points are verifiable.
Class Material He has a base named after him, he hated fascism. He fought against it home and abroad.
Perpetual War - Carlyle Group owns Booz Allen Hamilton

Marine Smedley Butler was correct all along . Countries highly dependent on oil ...
Thomas Stalker Butler (1855 - 1928), the father of Smedley Darlington Butler was a lawyer
The Logan Act FDR and put a Fascist state in place. See Smedley Butler the great Marine Hero who spoiled their plan
The CIA’s “Citizen Saboteurs”: Declassified Intelligence Manual Shows How the US “Destabilizes” National Governments
TRUST NO ONE
What it comes to is that when you look at the whole period from 1944 to 1951, the entire Western intelligence effort, which was pretty big, was what you might call minus advantage,” the C.I.A. officer Miles Copeland, Jr.—himself a close friend of Philby’s—said. “We’d have been better off doing nothing.”
ECHELON How the NSA global mass surveillance system was revealed shortly before 9/11 -- which was then used to sweep it away

The Security, Industrial, Complex

The Origins of FISA

2013 The cybersecurity-industrial complex is focused on making money. More than 4.9 million Americans now have government security clearances. Another 1.4 million have "top secret" clearance. Our obsession with preventing terrorist attacks is warping our political debate and threatening basic rights. Federal government pays contractors $300 billion a year, according to the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group. Many are believed to operate in intelligence agencies. "The government workforce has pretty much stayed the same over the last 30 to 40 years," Scott Amey, the group's general counsel, told Reuters on Monday. "But we've supplemented that with a contractor workforce that has grown dramatically."

As if no one in the national “security” world could possibly be a thief found evidence that the CIA and/or members of the Executive branch either disclosed or acted on information about top-secret authorizations of coups.

Stocks in “highly exposed” firms rose more in the pre-coup authorization phase than they did when the coup was actually launched.
A sizeable chunk of big M&A are handled literally by a few handfuls of law firm partners and MS/GS/ML rainmakers. Tap (metadata is all you need) the phone lines/email of these 40 people and their admin. assistants, you’ll have the info to make a fortune. Remember the article about reporters for Bloomberg News getting access to trading data from folks with terminals supplied by Bloomberg’s financial data terminals? The NSA has done a great job at keeping it secret other than keeping it out of the mainstream media which acts as a virtual arm of the intel community.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/06/how-much-are-the-nsa-and-cia-front-running-markets.html

Banks role in Terrorism

Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.

The Military Industrial Complex
Dwight D. Eisenhower exit speech on Jan.17,1961.
Warning us of the military industrial complex.

The revolving door — or what President Dwight D. Eisenhower called “undue influence.” With few regulations and no questions being asked on Capitol Hill, hundreds of former top N.S.A. and C.I.A. officials have migrated from government to the private sector and back again. The poster boy is Michael McConnell, who served as N.S.A. director during Bill Clinton’s first term, then went to Booz Allen for a 10-year stint, became director of national intelligence for George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009, and is back at Booz Allen today.
The first step is to appoint an independent review board — with no contractors on it — to decide where the line for government work should be drawn. The best response to the Snowden affair is to reduce the size of our private intelligence army and make contract spying a thing of the past. Our democracy depends on it. Tim Shorrock is the author of “Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing.”

GOEBBELS

Goebbels ~ "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. it thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its power to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Living the lie "He has told the people of the world and the United States that there is mass unlawful interception of their communications, far beyond anything that happened under Nixon,” Assange said of Snowden. "They want to be able leverage anyone in the country." William Binney NSA whistleblower, on why the NSA is scooping up, well, everything. Blackmail is the name of the game. SOURCE

Anyone who disagrees is a conspiracy theorist. Anyone who breaks ranks is a whistleblower and whistleblowers are domestic terrorists, dysfunctional loners with personality problems and axes to grind. When the truth is vilified, hunted, gagged and goaled, then the State has chosen to go to war with the nation.

HEGEL

Ever since the founding of the Republic, the relationship between Yale and the "Intelligence Community" has been unique. To Hegel, our world is a world of reason. The state is Absolute Reason and the citizen can only become free by worship and obedience to the state.

Hegel called the state the "march of God in the world" and the "final end". This final end, Hegel said, "has supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the state."

Both fascism and communism have their philosophical roots in Hegellianism. Nathan Hale, along with three other Yale graduates, was a member of the "Culper Ring," one of America's first intelligence operations. Established by George Washington, it was successful throughout the Revolutionary War.

The moral labyrinth of secret intelligence operations.

THE POWER OF SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SHAPE OUR FUTURE

2016 THIS MAP TRACKS WHERE GOVERNMENTS HACK ACTIVISTS AND REPORTERS

Where state-sponsored malware campaigns target members of civil society, in an effort to show how governments use digital intrusions to control and disrupt their enemies around the globe. A starting point for people to get an understanding of what is going on…how countries are employing technologies to repress dissent. The Digital Freedom Alliance’s map also shows the location of companies selling surveillance technology, as well as the resellers of those tools, in an effort to map out the shady supply chain of targeted spying. That data, Guarnieri says, is sourced from surveillance tracking projects like BuggedPlanet.info and WikiLeaks’ Spy Files. The country with the most listed surveillance vendors, unsurprisingly, is the United States, though Guarnieri admits the list’s definition of “surveillance vendor” is rather loose: It includes not only the creators of the malware documented in the group’s map, but also other potentially nasty technologies like passive data collection tools and internet filtering software.
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/map-tracks-governments-hack-activists-reporters/

2016 HOW THE CIA WRITES HISTORY

How the CIA makes history — by erasing it.

The Cram and Applewhite papers were removed from public view in the spring of 2015, according to one Georgetown employee. Playing dumb is a CIA art form, so I contacted the Georgetown library’s chief archivists, seeking to know the date when the agency took possession of the papers and how I might better describe the materials for the CIA. Langley’s sleight of hand. Georgetown spokesperson John Kenchelian informed me via email that “the CIA has not taken possession of the documents, they are still in Georgetown’s possession.” That means the Freedom of Information Act does not apply, and thus I have no legal avenue for pursuing the material. I can’t sue the CIA for the Cram and Applewhite papers, because they are not in the hands of the government. “The CIA will be reviewing the documents at a yet to be determined time and date for potentially classified material,” Kenchelian added.

Angleton (“The Spider”) is one of America’s archetypal spies. In real life, Jim Angleton was a formidable intellectual and canny bureaucrat who helped shape the ethos of the Central Intelligence Agency we have today. His doctrine of counterintelligence was widely influential, not only in the CIA but in the intelligence services of all the English-speaking countries. He pioneered pre-digital techniques of mass surveillance via an illicit mail-opening program called LINGUAL. He fed the intel to J. Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO operatives at the FBI who used it to harass, disrupt, and discredit leftist, antiwar, and civil rights groups from the 1950s to the 1970s. His close liaison with the Mossad in the 1950s and 1960s helped forge a wide-ranging U.S.-Israel strategic relationship that has been central to U.S. foreign policy ever since. He believed that secret intelligence agencies controlled the destiny of mankind. During his 27-year career at the CIA, from 1947 to 1974, he acted as if the CIA and the KGB were struggling over the future of civilization itself — which, of course, they were. Espionage techniques — mass surveillance, disinformation, targeted assassination, and extrajudicial detention — remain with us.

SNOWDEN

2013 surveillance apparatus "kept in check by nothing more than policy." ~ Edward Snowden

Key things we know now thanks to Edward Snowden

Job Title "Infrastructure Analyst" Key to Inner Access Held by Snowden
It is a title that officials have carefully avoided mentioning, perhaps for fear of inviting questions about the agency’s aggressive tactics: an infrastructure analyst at the N.S.A., like a burglar casing an apartment building, looks for new ways to break into Internet and telephone traffic around the world. That assignment helps explain how Mr. Snowden got hold of documents laying bare the top-secret capabilities of the nation’s largest intelligence agency, setting off a far-reaching political and diplomatic crisis for the Obama administration. Edward Snowden may be the last of the human spies
In future, the public may never be alerted to NSA-type revelations because surveillance is fast becoming automated 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/29/edward-snowden-last-human-spies

10/2/14 William Binney, Retired NSA Technical Director

Explains Snowden Docs provided context for some of the published documents released by former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden. THINTHREAD, STELLARWIND, FAIRVIEW, STORMSBREW, BLARNEY, OAKSTAR, RAPMART, WINDSTOP, BULLRUN, PRISM, UPSTREAM
Access Cables – Corporate, Foreign, Unilateral and they have over 50,000 implants in the switches and servers around the world on the internet. That means they own the internet. It's all done under one -- Executive Order 12333.

2015 Seymour Hersh breaking his biggest blockbuster story of the Obama Era.

The Killing of Osama bin Laden Seymour M. Hersh debunking the official heroic White House story about how Navy SEALs took out Osama Bin Laden in a daring, secret nighttime raid in the heart of Pakistan.
Hersh's press colleagues tried smearing Seymour Hersh's bombshell reporting on CIA domestic spying program 40 years ago. The 1974 exposé of the CIA’s massive, illegal domestic spying program, MH-CHAOS, which targeted tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of Americans, mostly antiwar and leftwing dissidents. Hersh is better known today for his My Lai massacre and Abu Ghraib exposés, but it was his MH-CHAOS scoop, which the New York Times called “the son of Watergate,” that was his most consequential and controversial — from this one sensational exposé the entire intelligence apparatus was nearly taken down. Hersh’s exposés directly led to the famous Church Committee hearings into intelligence abuses, the Rockefeller Commission, and the less famous but more radical Pike Committee hearings in the House.
It was Pike’s committee that got the first ever admission—from CIA director William Colby—that the NSA was routinely tapping Americans' phone calls. Days after that stunning confession, Pike succeeded in getting the head of the NSA, Lew Allen Jr., to testify in public before his committee—the first time in history that an NSA chief publicly testified. It was the first time that the NSA publicly maintained that it was legally entitled to wiretap Americans’ communications overseas, in spite of the 1934 Communications Act and other legal restrictions placed on other intelligence and law enforcement agencies. It was also the first time an NSA chief publicly lied to Congress, claiming it was not eavesdropping on domestic or overseas phone calls involving American citizens. SOURCE

CIA IN TEXAS

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Friends & Colleagues

The United States Intelligence Community was in Austin last week for their second visit of 2014. In May it was primarily an NSA show. This time a combined National Intelligence/CIA show with a dash of the Pentagon – but no DIA. Led by General James Clapper, who gave the keynote speech, the all-star cast included several prominent figures from the post 9/11 era. That was appropriate since the occasion was the anniversary of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004's passage. As a result the meeting had something of an alumni reunion flavor. There was much serious reflection about institutional issues and methods; very little about concrete security problems (IS got 47 seconds by my watch) and nothing about civil liberties issues. No critics or skeptics were among the participants. That omission added to the eerie sensation that this was a conclave of the "deep state."

Clapper set the tone with a smug exposition of how the IC had mastered its GWOT brief. It was patronizing to absent critics – including Congress, supremely self-satisfied, and righteous. He had the air of a winner who had earned a deserved triumph. Clapper had reason to be confident. As he confided to the audience, the move to rein in the NSA's electronic spying had run out of steam. Personally, he had escaped unscathed despite perjuring himself. That's all true. Legislation proposed to tinker with data collection procedures, already watered down, is lost in the maze of Congressional election year maneuvering; the president is exposed as an active collaborator with his aggressive intelligence agencies – including the campaign to bury the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA mendacity and failings; and the media have shied away from any follow-up reporting. Even the documented account by James Risen of the White House orchestrated plot in the wake of 9/11to circumvent (indeed, ignore) legal restrictions on domestic wire-tapping has not crossed the threshold of public attention. (Pay Any Price 2014)

A conspiracy of pivotal leaders in the three branches of government to violate the Constitution is not "fit to print" –as its predecessor story wasn't in 2004. The politically attuned bureaucrats who run the intelligence establishment may not be very good at providing policy-makers with valid and valuable analysis; however, they clearly are virtuosos at playing the multi-layered political game.

The one sour note was an undercurrent of whining about the straightened financial circumstances that were crimping the intelligence agencies. This was the contrapuntal theme to repeated plaintive notes that the world had gotten to be a much tougher place to understand. In "the good old days of the Cold War," we knew the enemy, things changed only incrementally and we could count the Soviets' missiles and tanks. Nowadays, there are multiple threats; some very strange people like Vladimir Putin and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; we have to struggle to figure out their personalities and thinking; Snowden alerted our enemies that Uncle Sam was actually after them; and events move quickly. That means the IC is expected to foresee a suddenly arriving future – and we all know how notoriously uncertain the future is. All this on a shoe string budget. Hope was in the air, though, since the past 14 years have shown that virtue brings more than its own reward.

Here is the URL access to the main segments of the program (copy attached) that include Clapper, remarks by Admiral William McRaven, former chief of the United States Special Operations Command and newly appointed Chancellor of the University of Texas system, and the luncheon talk by former National Security Adviser Steve Hadley – which is quite instructive on process in the Bush White House.

http://www.clementscenter.org/ Click: Intelligence Reform Conference

Donations can be sent directly to General James Clapper at:

Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington, DC 20511

Make checks payable to the Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Trust. Donations are tax deductible.

Cheers

Michael Brenner

mbren@pitt.edu

P.S. A couple of intriguing facts:

60% of all current IC employees were hired between 2002 and 2013

In 1991, the CIA had a total of 12 Humint agents in training