18. Stephen G. Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 107.
19. In the single month of March 1962, the Secret Army Organization (OAS) set off an average of 120 bombs per day (“The Generals’ Putsch,” http://countrystudies
.us/algeria/34.htm).
20. Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop, DST, Police Secrète (Paris: Flammarion, 1999), 174.
21. Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 14, 181–82, citing Fabrizio Calvi and Frédéric Laurent, Piazza Fontana: La Verità su una Strage (Milan: Mondadori, 1997), 109.
22. James Bamford, Body of Secrets (New York: Doubleday, 2001), 82.
23. Gareth Jenkins, “Susurluk and the Legacy of Turkey’s Dirty War,” Terrorism Monitor, May 1, 2008, http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php
?articleid=2374142.
24. Nicholas Birch, Irish Times, November 26, 2005, http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2005/1126/1908792893FR26TURKEY.html. Former Turkish president and prime minister Suleyman Demirel later commented on this incident that “it is fundamental principle that there is one state. In our country there are two. . . . There is one deep state and one other state . . . . The state that should be real is the spare one, the one that should be spare is the real one” (Jon Gorvett, “Turkey’s ‘Deep State’ Surfaces in Former President’s Words, Deeds in Kurdish Town,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2006, http://www.washington-report
.org/archives/Jan_Feb_2006/0601037.html).
25. Jenkins, “Susurluk and the Legacy of Turkey’s Dirty War.” A Google search on June 7, 2008, for “Semdinli + PKK” in major world English-language publications yielded 157 results. Of these, only two were from the United States. Of these one (Washington Times, December 6, 2005) did not mention the deep state’s involvement in the incident at all. The other (Newsweek, November 28, 2005) defined the deep state without mentioning its underworld involvement. A similar search for “deep state” revealed the same paucity of coverage in the U.S. media.
26. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 4–7, 14–17.
27. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 121–22, 124–27, 163–69.
28. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 139–42, 150–60; Peter Lance, Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI—And Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him (New York: Regan/HarperCollins, 2006).
29. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 153, citing Toronto Globe and Mail, November 22, 2001. It is no accident that the mainstream U.S. press have been silent concerning not only this important fact but also the two books recording it: Lance’s Triple Cross and my own The Road to 9/11. Triple Cross finally got mentioned by name in the New York Times but only because its publisher, Judith Regan, was dismissed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (New York Times, December 19, 2006).
30. I have argued elsewhere that the FBI was possibly not informed for the same reason that the CIA, in October 1963, withheld important information from the FBI about Lee Harvey Oswald—namely, that all three had already been selected as designated culprits for an ensuing disaster so that it was important that the FBI not interfere with their movements. See Scott, The War Conspiracy, 354–57, 387–91.
31. Lawrence Wright, “The Agent,” New Yorker, July 10 and 17, 2006, 68; discussion in Scott, The War Conspiracy, 388–89.
32. “The CIA believed that Jordanian physician Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi would help it infiltrate Islamist extremist groups—even find Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s elusive No. 2. But this informant, it turned out, was also an assassin, whose Dec. 30 suicide bombing of an Afghanistan CIA base killed seven agency employees” (Claire Suddath, “Brief History: Double Agents,” Time, January 25, 2010, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1953712,00
.html#ixzz0ccXO8nJI).
33. I include Laos in this list because of the staged charade in which Joseph Alsop, after being shown four villagers, one with a leg wound, then proclaimed that Laos had suffered a “full-scale artillery-backed invasion from Communist North Viet-Nam” (see chapter 4).
