Accused War Criminal, Rockefeller Lackey Named to Head ‘Unbiased’ Sept. 11 Probe

 

Henry Kissinger belongs in jail, not at the head of the only official independent probe into the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

 

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By Christopher J. Petherick

 

President Bush’s appointment of accused war criminal and self-described Rockefeller man Henry Kissinger to head the official independent probe into the Sept. 11 terror attacks can mean one of two things: The White House has the utmost contempt for the American people and has no desire to get to the bottom of the worst domestic terror attack to strike America so far, or that Bush does not understand what he’s doing.

When Bush announced his decision to appoint the former secretary of state, he declared: “Dr. Kissinger and I share the same commitments.”

Most likely that is true. According to more than one informed Washington observer, there is no one in recent U.S. history who is more closely associated with behind-the-scenes schemes, cover-ups and lies than Kissinger.

Born Alfred Heinz Kissinger in Fuerth, Germany, May 27, 1923, the future powerbroker migrated to the United States five years after Hitler took power.

He graduated from Harvard in 1950 with the aid of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for Political Theory.

In his telling biography titled The Price Of Power: Kissinger in The Nixon White House, writer Seymour Hersh notes: Kissinger commenced his infamous career in public service in the early 1950s, when “former intelligence officials recall that the young Harvard scholar had come to the attention of Allen Dulles, Eisenhower’s influential CIA director.”

Throughout his lengthy career, which spans more than a half century, Kissinger has been privy to some of Washington’s most wicked secrets, serving on numerous high-level military and national security boards.

In 1952, he was a consultant to the director of the Psychological Strategy Board, an operating arm of the National Security Council for covert psychological and paramilitary operations. In 1955, he was a consultant to the National Security Council’s Operations Coordinating Board, which was, at the time, the top organization for orchestrating operations against foreign governments.

Currently, Kissinger heads his own global consulting firm, Kissinger & Associates, and sits on the board of numerous international companies, including the CBS television network.

He still travels in some of the most powerful circles as a member of the shadowy, internationalist Bilderberg group, along with the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.

The reason for his appointment rests in his close association to many of those whose actions before and on Sept. 11 should be the target of an independent investigation of what happened on the tragic day.

In the late 1970s, Kissinger, widely regarded at the time as the architect of U.S. foreign policy, served alongside Donald Rumsfeld, who was White House chief of staff. When Rumsfeld moved on to become the secretary of defense in the Ford administration, the current vice president, Richard Cheney, succeeded him as White House chief of staff.

It’s getting harder and harder for the former U.S. official to travel around the world due to the lawsuits and organized protests he faces wherever he lands.

Recently, Kissinger was forced to cut a trip short after he learned that French law enforcement was looking for him regarding a case that involved a French citizen who was killed by the U.S.-backed military ruler in Chile. (Kissinger is an accused international war criminal.)

He has been targeted in several lawsuits which have been filed in Chile and the United States alleging that the former secretary of state played a part in the assassination of Chilean Gen. Rene Schneider, which paved the way for Gen. Augusto Pinochet to seize power.

Author Christopher Hitchens, in his damning book titled The Trial of Henry Kissinger,* has detailed Kissinger’s crimes, citing the former secretary of state for involvement in the following:

• The Middle East: Kissinger backed the rearmament of Israel following the bloody 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Kissinger’s so-called “shuttle diplomacy” was the first stage in the process of inducing Arab leaders to abandon the Palestinians and surrender to the Zionists.

• Greece: The United States, under Kissinger’s diplomatic policy, rubber-stamped the brutal regime of the Greek colonels who seized power in 1967.

• Bangladesh: In 1971 Kissinger was the architect be hind a U.S. policy that backed a bloody military coup in Pakistan by General Yahya Khan which resulted in the violent but unsuccessful attempt to suppress a rebellion by the Bengali people.

• Indonesia: The National Security Archive has made public a Dec. 6, 1975, State Department memo in which then-President Ford and Kissinger approved Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, which led to the slaughter of 200,000 Timorese—many of whom were, in fact, innocent—by military forces.

• Argentina: Kissinger supported a 1976 coup which established a military dictatorship that relied upon disappearances and death squads to maintain its control.

• Operation Condor: Kissinger approved the continent-wide policy of assassinating leftists and communists, in which military juntas in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay actively participated.

• Southeast Asia: It is the crimes orchestrated by U.S. policymakers in southeast Asia that are most associated with Kissinger: the secret bombing of Cambodia and the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam. It has also been reported that Kissinger, to advance his own career, played a pivotal role in Republican efforts “to sabotage the Paris peace negotiations on Vietnam” before the 1968 elections resulting in the needless prolongation of the Vietnam War, costing some 30,000 American soldiers’ lives and more than a million Vietnamese.

When Kissinger left office in 1977, he had all of his State Department and National Security Council papers deposited at the Library of Congress with the provision that nothing would be released to the public until five years after his death.

However, the weight of Kissinger’s crimes over the years seems to be catching up with him.

AFP Correspondent Michael Collins Piper, who has met Kissinger on two occasions, says of Kissinger: “Henry’s a charming character—wickedly so. And that’s precisely why he’s so dangerous. He’s been able to carry off some of the most dastardly crimes of the past 40 years and all the while Henry has smiled and beguiled, all the way to the bank.”

 

* The Trial of Henry Kissinger (#1032, hardcover, 159 pps., $25) is available from FAB, 645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 100, Washington, D.C. 20003. S&H included.