71. Kommersant-Ukraina, Kiev, July 17, 2007, 3, as reported by BBC Monitoring Kiev Unit, July 18, 2007.
72. “X-55 Long Range Cruise Missile,” GlobalSecurity.org, http://www.globalsecu
rity.org/wmd/world/iran/x-55.htm. Cf. Financial Times, March 18, 2005.
73. Moisés Naím, Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy (New York: Anchor, 2006), 279–80.
74. “US Companies Linked to Vice-President Cheney Supervised the Transfer of Ukrainian WMD to Iran,” Burtsev.ru, http://left.ru/burtsev/ops/novyiregion.phtml.
75. PravdaInfo, November 16, 2005, reported in English by Left.ru, “‘Consulting’ Agency Far West, LLC Paid $3 Million Bribe to Ukrainian Official for Illegal Arms Deals with Syria and Iran,” Left.ru, February 18, 2006, http://www.left.ru/burtsev/ops/lysenko.phtml. According to Left.ru, Filin’s admission was in response to an article by Ivan Demidov in the Ukrainian journal Obkom. Demidov accused two of Filin’s Far West partners, Ukrainian Generals Leonid Kosyakov and Alexei Likhvintsev, and the Russian billionaire Vyacheslav Kantor, adviser to Yushchenko, of seeking to obtain control over two Ukrainian seaports, in Odessa and Ilyichevsk. Demidov’s article (“Who Squeezes Juice from ‘Drug-Injected Oranges’”) hinted that under the guise of fertilizers to be exported to South America by Kantor’s company Akron, the group planned to transport drugs. It also reprinted a letter from a Ukrspetsexport official listing Far West’s business partners: KBR Halliburton (United States), Diligence Iraq LLC (Kuwait), and Meteoric Tactical Solutions (South Africa). And according to
Left.ru, Demidov’s article “alleges that Fritz Ermarth, formerly high ranking official in the CIA, NSC, and NIC, plays the role of the ‘supervisor’ of this GRU group on the part of the FWL’s chief partner: KBR Halliburton and the Dick Cheney circle.”
76. Editorial staff of burtsev.ru, http://www.left.ru/burtsev/ops/bolivia.phtml, citing Vladimir Filin, PravdaInfo, July 29, 2005, http://www.pravda.info/news/3377
.html. Cf. Financial Times, March 18, 2005. The relocation followed Filin’s announcement that Far West had paid bribes paid to Ukrainian officials. Cf. Boston Globe, February 12, 2006, A1.
77. Natalia Roeva, PravdaInfo, February 24, 2006, partially translated. Roeva is herself a partner in Far West.
78. Far West has planted destabilizing rumors to discredit both the United States and Russia. Ruslan Saidov has “accused the high ranking officer of US military intelligence (DIA) Colonel Caleb Temple and his colleagues of running a heroin operation in the Near East and using the hawala money-transfer system for money laundering” (http://left.ru/burtsev/ops/hawala.phtml). In August 2009, Vladimir Filin claimed that the recently hijacked ship the Arctic Sea, under the cover of a load of Finnish timber, was delivering a shipment of weapons to Iran via Algeria (Cristina Batog, “The Truth Is Adrift with the Arctic Sea,” Asia Times, August 26, 2009, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KH26Ag01.html); cf. J. R. Nyquist, “Never Ask the Wolves to Help You against the Dogs,” GodlikeProductions.com, August 21, 2009, http://www.godlike
productions.com/bbs/reply.php?messageid=869607&page=1"e=13460278.
79. DIA Report of September 23, 2991, “Subj: (U) IIR [DELETED]/Narcotics—Colombian Narco-Trafficker Profiles,” http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB131/dia910923.pdf. Cf. New York Times, August 2, 2004.
Chapter 9: 9/11 and the American Tradition of Engineered Deep Events
1. James G. Hershberg, “Before ‘The Missiles of October’: Did Kennedy Plan a Military Strike against Cuba?” in The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited, ed. James A. Nathan (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 242.
2. Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Courses of Action Related to Cuba (Case II),” Report of the J-5 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 1, 1963, NARA #202-10002-10018, 21, http://www
.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=167&relPageId=21.
3. John J. Farmer, The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America under Attack on 9/11 (New York: Riverhead, 2009). 9/11 Commissioner Tim Roemer also told CNN on August 2, 2006, that “we were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting.”
