{"id":1797,"date":"2013-01-02T03:24:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2013-01-02T03:24:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:24:03","slug":"too-strange-for-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Too Strange for Hollywood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headline read, \u201cClinton Injured, US Navy SEAL Killed In Secret Mission To Iran.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Below the headline, we are told the details of a Russian Foreign Ministry intelligence report \u201ccirculating in the Kremlin,\u201d saying that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was injured in the crash of an American C-12 Huron helicopter near the Iranian city of Ahvaz, just inside the border with Iraq.\u00a0 The report also tells us that a US Navy SEAL Commander was killed in the crash.\u00a0 He led a US Special Operations unit specializing in the protection of high-ranking US diplomats traveling in the Middle East and Asia.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the stuff of Hollywood thrillers.\u00a0 But would a secret mission to Tehran by Hillary Clinton be too strange even for Hollywood?\u00a0 Perhaps not.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a look at a bit of covert statesmanship.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon of May 10, 1941, a twin-engine Messerschmitt 110 took off from a runway in Augsburg, Germany, some 120 kilometers west-northwest of Munich.\u00a0 But this was no ordinary Me110.\u00a0 This particular airplane had been customized to be flown by a single pilot, instead of a crew of three; the fuel storage capacity had been increased to provide for hundreds of gallons of extra fuel; and the fuselage had been lengthened to carry a large inflatable dinghy.\u00a0 Nor was the plane piloted by any ordinary Luftwaffe <\/em>pilot.\u00a0 The pilot was none other than Rudolph Hess, Adolph Hitler\u2019s most trusted senior advisor and Deputy Fuhrer of Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

Although the genesis of his mission is still unclear, his destination and the purpose of his mission are not.\u00a0 Hess\u2019s destination was Dungavel House, the Lanarkshire home of the Duke of Hamilton in Scotland, a major headquarters of the International Red Cross.\u00a0 After flying some 900 miles, Hess bailed out, broke his ankle, and was taken into custody by the local constabulary.<\/p>\n

The purpose of Hess\u2019s mission was to discuss an Anglo-German peace agreement.\u00a0 Upon being questioned by British authorities, Hess insisted that the war between Germany and Great Britain was a mistake and that the real enemy of both countries was the Soviet Union.\u00a0 This was the message he wished to convey either to King George VI or to Prime Minister Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n

Was Hess acting alone?\u00a0 Was he under orders of conspirators within the German high command?\u00a0 Or was his bold mission hatched by the British themselves\u2026 as some have suggested?\u00a0 Unless additional documentation is found at this late date, we will probably never know which is true.<\/p>\n

On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, had returned from a secret visit to Peking (now Beijing).\u00a0 Documents in the National Security Archive explain that, \u201cSince the beginning of his presidency in early 1969, and even earlier, Nixon had been interested in changing relations with China, not least to contain a potential nuclear threat but also, by taking advantage of the adversarial Sino-Soviet relationship, to open up another front in the Cold War with the Soviet Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Kissinger\u2019s account in his book, White House Years<\/em>, while on an official visit to Islamabad, Pakistan, he feigned a severe stomachache following a July 8 dinner with Pakistani president Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan.\u00a0 After retiring early, at 10:00 PM, he was awakened at 3:00 AM on July 9, 1971.\u00a0 After a quick breakfast, he and a small traveling party\u2026 three NSC aides and two Secret Service agents\u2026 departed at 4:00 AM, driven to the Chaklala Airport in Pakistani military vehicles, accompanied by Pakistani Foreign Minister Sultan Khan.<\/p>\n

Equipped with a hat and sunglasses to insure that \u201cno stray pedestrian\u201d spotted him, he and his party were driven to a Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 707 parked on the military side of the airport, out of sight of his own US government aircraft.\u00a0 On board were Chinese navigators who had arrived on an earlier test run to Peking.\u00a0 At 4:30 AM they were airborne, the start of a 2,500 mile, four hour and forty-five minute, flight to Peking.<\/p>\n

The Kissinger trip to Peking set the stage for President Nixon\u2019s February 1972 visit to Peking, an event that changed the course of world history.<\/p>\n

In his book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism<\/em>, Prof. Paul G. Kengor, of Grove City College (PA), includes the text of a May 14, 1983 memorandum found in the declassified archives of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

According to the memorandum by Viktor Mikailovich Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee on State Security of the USSR (KGB), to Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, he was visited by former US Senator John V. Tunney (D-CA) on May 9-10, 1983.\u00a0 Tunney was on a highly sensitive mission for his former University of Virginia law school roommate, a close friend and former senate colleague, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA).\u00a0 The purpose of his mission was to enlist the Kremlin leadership in a grand scheme to defeat Ronald Reagan and other Republicans in the 1984 US elections.<\/p>\n

According to the Chebrikov memorandum, Kennedy was convinced that the chilly relations between our two countries were due to Reagan\u2019s unwillingness to modify his strategic plan to win a final Cold War victory over the Soviets.\u00a0 As Tunney described Kennedy\u2019s frustration with the state of American politics, Reagan was able to rely on the results of his highly successful \u201cReaganomics\u201d policies \u2013 reduced inflation, reduced taxes, increased productivity, a healthy business climate, and declining interest rates \u2013 to support his political standing with the American people, making it difficult for Democrats to attack him on foreign policy issues.<\/p>\n

As Tunney described Kennedy\u2019s view to the Soviet spymaster, the only possible threat to Reagan was rooted in issues related to war and peace and Soviet-American relations.\u00a0 With help from the Soviets, those issues could become the most important of Reagan\u2019s 1984 reelection campaign.\u00a0 As Chebrikov wrote to Andropov, \u201cKennedy believes that, given the current state of affairs\u2026, it would be prudent and timely to undertake the following steps\u201d to counter Reagan\u2019s policies:<\/p>\n

First, Kennedy asked Andropov to consider inviting him (Kennedy) to Moscow for a meeting in July 1983.\u00a0 The primary purpose would be to provide the Soviets with \u201ctalking points\u201d related to\u00a0 nuclear disarmament so that they\u2019d be \u201cmore convincing during appearances in the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Kennedy felt that it would be helpful to have Chairman Andropov submit to a series of interviews with American TV networks.\u00a0 Tunney assured Chebrikov that Kennedy and his allies would take the necessary steps to have representatives of major U.S. networks contact Andropov to schedule interviews.\u00a0 Specifically, he suggested that the head of ABC, Elton Raul, as well as television columnists, such as the late Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters, could visit Moscow.<\/p>\n

Tunney explained that, since Kennedy had decided not to run for president in 1984, his speeches would be taken without prejudice, \u201cas they are not tied to any campaign promises.\u201d\u00a0 Tunney said that Kennedy wanted to run for president in 1988 and suggested that, during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party \u201cmay officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans\u2026 and elect their candidate president.\u201d<\/p>\n

The use of the Soviet Union and the KGB to assist Democrats in winning American elections did not originate with Kennedy.\u00a0 The methodology is outlined by veteran journalists, Robert Moss, former editor of Foreign Report<\/em>, and Arnaud de Borchgrave, former chief foreign correspondent for Newsweek<\/em> magazine, <\/em>in their fact-based novel, The Spike <\/em>(Crown Publishers, 1980).<\/em><\/p>\n

On March 16, 1984, Lt. Col. William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by the Islamic terror group, Hezbollah.\u00a0 According to reports, approximately seven months after his kidnapping, his appearance was described as follows: \u201cBuckley was close to a gibbering wretch. \u00a0His words were often incoherent; he slobbered and drooled and, most unnerving of all, he would suddenly scream in terror, his eyes rolling helplessly and his body shaking… \u00a0The CIA consensus was that he would be blindfolded and chained at the ankles and wrists and kept in a cell little bigger than a coffin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three weeks after Buckley\u2019s abduction, President Reagan signed the National Security Decision Directive 138, saying, \u201cGet those men out of there.\u201d \u00a0The directive, drafted by National Security Council aide, Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, outlined plans to win the release of our hostages in Iran while providing arms and supplies to the Contra guerillas in Nicaragua.\u00a0 The directive culminated in what came to be known as the \u201cIran-Contra\u201d affair. \u00a0But it came too late for Col. Buckley.\u00a0 On October 4, 1985, Islamic Jihad<\/a> announced that it had executed William Buckley.<\/p>\n

One month later, on Tuesday, November 4, 1986, CBS reported that Reagan\u2019s National Security Advisor, Bud McFarlane, along with his aide, Lt. Col. Oliver North, were being held captive in Tehran.\u00a0 In the days to follow we would learn the reason for their presence there.\u00a0 They were there to negotiate the release of the remaining Americans held in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Yes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.\u00a0 Could it be that Obama sent Clinton on a secret mission to Tehran?\u00a0 Hollywood might find it a bit strange, but so much of what we know about Obama and his administration is strange, bordering on the incredible.\u00a0 So who knows?\u00a0 If Hillary really has a blood clot, as reported, maybe she did bang her head in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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