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Sibel Edmonds vindicated? FBI reveals
investigation continues
25.10.2006
By John Stanton |
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October 25, 2006
On October 10, FBI spokesman Bill Carter confirmed
that matters raised by Sibel Edmonds and shielded
form public view by the invocation of the US States
Secret privilege were still under internal
investigation by the bureau.
“Due to the fact that the allegations of Sibel
Edmonds reflect internal administrative and
investigative matters it would not be appropriate to
respond to your inquiry. I will point out that the
DOJ Office of the Inspector General has reviewed
this matter and released a public report. I would
refer this report to you for your review. The
Inspector General's report concluded that the FBI
did not adequately investigate allegations Ms.
Edmonds made regarding a co-worker. After the OIG's
initial classified report, the FBI conducted further
investigation into Ms. Edmonds' allegations. That
investigation is continuing.”*
Back in March of 2002, Edmonds was released from the
FBI over her discovery of an array of espionage
activities. Looking back, and with the benefit of
new information from the FBI and elsewhere, it
appears that the government of Turkey was
spectacularly successfully in compromising FBI, CIA,
DEA, DIA and DOS operations, and was also able to
mount other espionage programs that allowed Turkish
interests to obtain assorted military and WMD
technology know-how, and garner US and Israeli
military support for its bloody internal struggle
against its significant and much maligned Kurdish
population/opposition.
The Turks: Masters of Espionage
The Turks would not have been successful in staging
what may be recorded as one of history’s finest
intelligence coups had it not been for many
sympathetic US military personnel, bureaucrats and
politicians who, whatever their egotistical reasons,
believed themselves to be acting in the USA's best
interests. Certainly, no one can accuse them of not
effectively representing their powerful Turkish
clients whether in defeating US congressional action
recognizing the Armenian Genocide or ensuring that
US corporations close lucrative deals in Turkey.
The sympathizers names are now overly familiar:
Douglas Feith, Brent Scowcroft, William Cohen,
Richard Perle, Michael Leeden, Bob Livingston, Marc
Grossman, Paul Wolfowitz, Eric Edelman, Richard
Armitage, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Dennis
Hastert, et al. Rather than rehash their
affiliations and track records here, visit
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ to find out more
about their linkages to each other and Turkey
(Israel, too).
The Turks knew it would take lots of cash to pull
off such a scheme and sustain it. The illicit drug
trade provided an endless source of funds to pay for
WMD components, US defense technology, politicians,
money laundering schemes, counterterrorist
operations, safe interrogation houses, and dozens of
front companies. Given Turkey's solid reputation as
a key refining point/middleman for opium coming out
of Afghanistan (it is ultimately transported into
the Balkans and on to Europe and the USA), it is no
surprise that the Turkish government always seems to
have a steady supply of cash to spread around.
Perhaps it is just coincidence, but under the
watchful eyes of the Pentagon and US law enforcement
and intelligence agencies, opium crop production in
Afghanistan has increased over the last decade. The
profits from refining and distribution of the
product have flooded the black market -- the
playground for intelligence operatives and assorted
criminal enterprises.
Joltin' Joe Ralston
Desmond Fernandes, has recently published an
extraordinary piece, titled "Turkey’s US Backed War
on Terror: A Cause for Concern?". The information
provided in this publication shows the lengths to
which the US and Turkey (and Israel) will go to keep
some very nasty activities quiet. One of the more
interesting bits of news in the report is that, at
the invitation of the Turkish government, US and
Israeli forces are assisting the Turkish government
in military operations against the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PPK) and the Kurdish people and their
culture. The US is ostensibly engaged in
counter-narcotics operations with the Turks.
Joseph Ralston, former USAF general and now Lockheed
Martin employee and American Turkish Council
principal, is the special envoy/coordinator for
US-Turkey anti-Kurdish operations. In October 2006,
the US Congress approved the sale of 30 of F-16
combat aircraft worth $2.9 billion to Turkey.
The world has seen the effects of similar alliances
on persecuted people, most notably the tragic one
between the US and Israel. That template will now be
applied in Turkey to manage the Kurds. It’s their
turn to be abused and pushed from their homelands by
the same methods and equipment used against the
Palestinians (and now the Iraqis). American leaders
sanctioned the elimination of the Palestinian
leaders and their people, even groups freely elected
like Hamas. With eager US approval, Israeli military
operations continue unabated in Gaza and the West
Bank into late 2006. US support for Israel's
destruction of the Shia population in Lebanon during
the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict in 2006, along with
decades of unswerving support in the United Nations
and the US Congress is notoriously legendary. All
this bodes ill for the Kurds.
And so it begins. According to kurdmedia.com, “the
PKK -- the most prominent Kurdish freedom movement
-- declared a unilateral ceasefire that went into
effect on Sunday, 1 October. It still remains
unilateral - the entire Turkish establishment, from
top general, Yasar Buyukanit, to Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has rejected it, clearly
stating their determination to continue the war . .
. Joseph Ralston spoke for the US government when he
indicated that “a ceasefire sort of implies an act
that is taken between two states, two actors, to do
that. And I don’t want to confer that kind of status
on the PKK by saying a ceasefire . . ."
According to Fernandes, “General Joseph W. Ralston,
the US government’s Special Envoy who is responsible
for countering the terrorist PKK and coordinating
actions and eliminationist strategies with the
Turkish and Iraqi states . . . [He] . . . just so
happens to be a member of the Board of Directors of
Lockheed Martin, the same corporation whose deal for
the sale of 30 F-16s [to Turkey] sits in the
venerable halls of Congress at this very moment.”
F-16s it must be remembered, were needed during
Turkey’s genocidal War on Terror during the 1990s
because of their usefulness in obliterating Kurdish
settlements, killing civilians and terrifying
Kurdish civilians.
It is widely known that the Turkish military used
Lockheed Martin F-16s to assist with the destruction
of Kurdish villages in North Kurdistan during the
1990s Dirty War, with the facts well documented by
human rights groups. In 1995, Human Rights Watch
documented arms sales to Turkey, along with related
violations of the laws of war by that state . .
."[It] included the many gross abuses that Turkey .
. . perpetrated against the Kurdish people [with]
the F-16 fighter jet figure[ing] prominently . . .
In a report ordered by the [US] Congress, the State
Department admitted that the abuses included the use
of US Cobra helicopters, armored personnel carriers,
and F-16 fighter bombers. In some instances, critics
say, entire Kurdish villages were obliterated from
the air.
"This proposed [new multi-billion dollar] sale in
2006, the [Pentagon] has claimed, will enhance the
Turkish Air Force’s ability to defend Turkey, no
doubt against its internal Kurdish threat in [the
Kurdish] colony in the southeast, and its external
one in southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq . . . [The
aircraft will be used to patrol the] nation’s
extensive coastline and borders against future
threats and to contribute to the Global War on
Terrorism and NATO operations . . . With this in
mind, you should ask yourself what, exactly, General
Ralston is coordinating. We all know the real deal,
don’t we? We all know who have been the targets of
those F-16s . . ."
Lt. Col. Dickerson: Human Hot Potato . . . Plame &
Wilson: Spies Like Us
On Monday, October 2, Captain Warren Comer (USAF,
374AW/PA, Yakota Japan) indicated that the USAF
could provide no further information about
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Dickerson, a central
figure in the Edmonds’ matter. “Looking at your
request, the only information that I can confirm to
you is what is written in the Fuji Flyer newspaper
that you read. For any other questions on this
subject, please refer to the FBI or the US State
Department.”***
Taking Captain Comer’s advice, the US State
Department was contacted. On Tuesday, October 3, Ms
Nancy L. Beck (US DOS, PACE) indicated that
“Responding to your inquiry, this is not a matter
for the US Department of State. Recommend you direct
your question to the FBI or Department of Justice.”
Dickerson was recently deployed to the Iraqi theater
of operations where he heads up logistics matters
for an element of the USAF. His handlers in the
intelligence community apparently are happy about
that and so must be the public affairs personnel who
don’t want anything to do with him.
In 2002, Dickerson and his spouse, Melek Can, left
the country for Belgium and a quiet post with NATO
after Edmonds exposed them as Turkish operatives or,
perhaps, US counterintelligence operatives.
Dickerson and his wife’s activities remain a
mystery. According to various reports, they were
once stationed in Ankara, Turkey, in the 1990s, and
had contact with Douglas Feith and Marc Grossman.
Another report indicated that in 1995, while in
Turkey, Dickerson was the subject of investigation
for accepting money from foreign agents, whereupon
he was abruptly transferred to Germany. In 1999,
Major Douglas Dickerson returned to the United
States. His wife, Melek Can Dickerson, started to
work for the American Turkish Council (atc.org) and
related Turkish American business groups.
In 2001, Dickerson was apparently given a position
in the weapons systems acquisition arena with the
Pentagon and US Department of State. Dickerson’s
areas of responsibility supposedly included Turkey,
Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
He also had dealings with Eric Edelman, formerly US
Ambassador to Turkey and now with the Pentagon’s
Policy Organization. Dickerson was also active with
ATC and Scowcroft. He and his wife associated with
several Turkish and American individuals from the
Turkish Embassy and the ATC. Many of these folks
were targeted by FBI counterintelligence for
criminal activity. But thanks to the Turkish
government’s penetration of the highest echelons of
the US political / military / intelligence /
corporate apparatus, the Pentagon and US State
Department forced the FBI to back off any criminal
investigations that may expose criminal activity,
and untidy and covert operations.
Finally, there’s the perplexing case of Valerie
Plame and Joe Wilson. According to dozens of media
reports, Valerie Plame was introduced to Joe Wilson
by Brent Scowcroft at an ATC function. Shortly
thereafter, the pair was invited to a Turkish
Embassy function. Quickly after that, Plame’s CIA
WMD operation (Brewster Jennings) was exposed by
then Under Secretary of State, Richard Armitage.
Coincidently, Dickerson was in close proximity to
Plame and Wilson in the 1999-2002 timeframe and the
Pentagon and US State Department. It seems likely
that only a Turkish operative located somewhere in
the US government/intelligence community would have
uncovered that information and disclosed it to the
Turks and their US sympathizers. Was it Wilson?
Dickerson? Armitage?
More fallout is to come from the Edmonds’ matter and
the word in the Washington, DC-Metro is that it will
involve some individuals named in this piece.
References
* Email to FBI PA Bill Carter from John Stanton.
Thanks to Mir Carter and the FBI, plus the reference
to usdoj.gov/oig/special/0501/index.htm. The
CIA, DOD-IG, DEA and Turkish Intelligence did
respond.
** From the October 2006 electronic edition of
Variant: Cross Currents in Culture, No. 27, Winter
2006 variant.randomstate.org and from Chapter 5 of
the book by Desmond Fernandes and Iskender Ozden
(2006) US, UK, German and NATO ‘Inspired’
Psychological Warfare Operations Against The Kurdish
‘Communist’ Threat in Turkey and Northern Iraq (Apec
Press, Stockholm)
*** www.yokota.af.mil/BaseNews/FujiFlyer/2006/Sept%2008.pdf
John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing
in national security and political matters. Reach
him at cioran123@yahoo.com
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