If the Ayatollah Khomeini was an enemy of the United States ruling elite....


..... why did he adopt the CIA's security service?
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Via Mad Mike:

United States

The Iranian Shah meeting with Alfred Atherton, William Sullivan, Cyrus
Vance, President Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1977
Facing a revolution, the Shah of Iran sought help from the United States.
Iran occupied a strategic place in U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle
East, acting as an island of stability, and a buffer against Soviet
penetration into the region. He was pro-American, but domestically
oppressive. The U.S. ambassador to Iran, William H. Sullivan, recalls that
the U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski "repeatedly assured
Pahlavi that the U.S. backed him fully," however these reassurances would
not amount to substantive action on the part of the United States. On
November 4th, 1978, Brzezinski called the Shah to tell him that the United
States would "back him to the hilt." At the same time, certain high-level
officials in the State Department decided that the Shah had to go,
regardless of who replaced him. Brzezinski, and Energy Secretary James
Schlesinger (former Secretary of Defense under Ford), continued to advocate
that the U.S. support the Shah militarily. Even in the final days of the
revolution, when the Shah was considered doomed no matter what the outcome
of the revolution came to be, Brzezinski still advocated a U.S. invasion to
stabilize Iran. President Carter could not decide how to appropriately use
force, opposed a U.S. coup, ordered the Constellation aircraft carrier to
the Indian Ocean, but soon countermanded his order. A deal was worked out
with the Iranian generals to shift support to a moderate government, but
this plan fell apart when Khomeini and his followers swept the country,
taking power 12 February 1979.

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Failed Nojeh Coup
In July 1980, the U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski met
Jordan's King Hussein in Amman to discuss detailed plans for Saddam Hussein
to sponsor a coup in Iran against Khomeini. King Hussein was Saddam's
closest confidant in the Arab world, and served as an intermediary during
the planning. The Iraqi invasion of Iran would be launched under the pretext
of a call for aid from Iranian loyalist officers plotting their own uprising
on July 9, 1980 (codenamed Nojeh, after Shahrokhi/Nojeh air base in
Hamedan). The Iranian officers were organized by Shapour Bakhtiar, who had
fled to France when Khomeini seized power, but was operating from Baghdad
and Sulimaniyah at the time of Brzezinski's meeting with Hussein. However,
Khomeini learned of the Nojeh Coup plan from Soviet agents in
France,Pakistan, and Latin America. Shortly after Brzezinski's meeting with
Hussein, the President of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr quietly rounded up six
hundred officers and executed many of them, putting an effective end to the
Nojeh Coup [2]. Saddam would decide to invade without the Iranian officer's
assistance, beginning the Iran-Iraq war on 22 September 1980.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

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Now this sounds like the same Neocon Plan that is in place in Iraq
today... the only goal being political control of dissident groups at home
and record Oil Company Profits...

If the Ayatollah Khomeini was an enemy of the United States ruling elite,
why did he adopt the CIA's security service?

Historical and Investigative Research - 23 Feb 2006
by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/iraniraq/savak.htm

"In November 1978, President Carter named the Bilderberg group's George
Ball, another member of the Trilateral Commission, to head a special White
House Iran task force under the National Security Council's Brzezinski.
Ball recommended that Washington drop support for the Shah of Iran and
support the fundamentalistic Islamic opposition of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Robert Bowie from the CIA was one of the lead 'case officers' in the new
CIA-led coup against the man their covert actions had placed into power 25
years earlier.


Their scheme was based on a detailed study of the phenomenon of Islamic
fundamentalism, as presented by British Islamic expert, Dr. Bernard Lewis,
then on assignment at Princeton University in the United States.  Lewis's
scheme, which was unveiled at the May 1979 Bilderberg meeting in Austria,
endorsed the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement behind Khomeini, in order
to promote balkanization of the entire Muslim Near East along tribal and
religious lines.  Lewis argued that the West should encourage autonomous
groups such as the Kurds, Armenians, Lebanese Maronites, Ethiopian Copts,
Azerbaijani Turks, and so forth.  The chaos would spread in what he termed
an 'Arc of Crisis,' which would spill over into Muslim regions of the Soviet
Union.


The coup against the Shah, like that against Mossadegh in 1953, was run by
British and American intelligence, with the bombastic American, Brzezinski,
taking public 'credit' for getting rid of the 'corrupt' Shah, while the
British characteristically remained safely in the background.


During 1978, negotiations were under way between the Shah's government and
British Petroleum for renewal of the 25-year old extraction agreement.  By
October 1978, the talks had collapsed over a British 'offer' which demanded
exclusive rights to Iran's future oil output, while refusing to guarantee
purchase of the oil.  With their dependence on British-controlled export
apparently at an end, Iran appeared on the verge of independence in its oil
sales policy for the first time since 1953, with eager prospective buyers in
Germany, France, Japan and elsewhere.  In its lead editorial that September,
Iran's Kayhan International stated:

In retrospect, the 25-year partnership with the [British Petroleum]
consortium and the 50-year relationship with British Petroleum which
preceded it, have not been satisfactory ones for Iran . Looking to the
future, NIOC [National Iranian Oil Company] should plan to handle all
operations by itself.

London was blackmailing and putting enormous economic pressure on the Shah's
regime by refusing to buy Iranian oil production, taking only 3 million or
so barrels daily of an agreed minimum of 5 million barrels per day.  This
imposed dramatic revenue pressures on Iran, which provided the context in
which religious discontent against the Shah could be fanned by trained
agitators deployed by British and U.S. intelligence.  In addition, strikes
among oil workers at this critical juncture crippled Iranian oil production.

As Iran's domestic economic troubles grew, American 'security' advisers to
the Shah's Savak secret police implemented a policy of ever more brutal
repression, in a manner calculated to maximize popular antipathy to the
Shah.  At the same time, the Carter administration cynically began
protesting abuses of 'human rights' under the Shah.

British Petroleum reportedly began to organize capital flight out of Iran,
through its strong influence in Iran's financial and banking community.  The
British Broadcasting Corporation's Persian-language broadcasts, with dozens
of Persian-speaking BBC 'correspondents' sent into even the smallest
village, drummed up hysteria against the Shah.  The BBC gave Ayatollah
Khomeini a full propaganda platform inside Iran during this time.  The
British government-owned broadcasting organization refused to give the
Shah's government an equal chance to reply.  Repeated personal appeals from
the Shah to the BBC yielded no result.  Anglo-American intelligence was
committed to toppling the Shah.  The Shah fled in January, and by February
1979, Khomeini had been flown into Tehran to proclaim the establishment of
his repressive theocratic state to replace the Shah's government.

Reflecting on his downfall months later, shortly before his death, the Shah
noted from exile,

I did not know it then - perhaps I did not want to know - but it is clear to
me now that the Americans wanted me out.  Clearly this is what the human
rights advocates in the State Department wanted. What was I to make of the
Administration's sudden decision to call former Under Secretary of State
George Ball to the White House as an adviser on Iran? . Ball was among those
Americans who wanted to abandon me and ultimately my country.[1][1]

With the fall of the Shah and the coming to power of the fanatical Khomeini
adherents in Iran, chaos was unleashed.  By May 1979, the new Khomeini
regime had singled out the country's nuclear power development plans and
announced cancellation of the entire program for French and German nuclear
reactor construction.

Iran's oil exports to the world were suddenly cut off, some 3 million
barrels per day.  Curiously, Saudi Arabian production in the critical days
of January 1979 was also cut by some 2 million barrels per day.  To add to
the pressures on world oil supply, British Petroleum declared force majeure
and cancelled major contracts for oil supply.  Prices on the Rotterdam spot
market, heavily influenced by BP and Royal Cutch Shell as the largest oil
traders, soared in early 1979 as a result.  The second oil shock of the
1970s was fully under way.

Indications are that the actual planners of the Iranian Khomeini coup in
London and within the senior ranks of the U.S. liberal establishment decided
to keep President Carter largely ignorant of the policy and its ultimate
objectives.  The ensuing energy crisis in the United States was a major
factor in bringing about Carter's defeat a year later.

There was never a real shortage in the world supply of petroleum.  Existing
Saudi and Kuwaiti production capacities could at any time have met the 5-6
million barrels per day temporary shortfall, as a U.S. congressional
investigation by the General Accounting Office months later confirmed.

Unusually low reserve stocks of oil held by the Seven Sisters oil
multinationals contributed to creating a devastating world oil price shock,
with prices for crude oil soaring from a level of some $14 per barrel in
1978 towards the astronomical heights of $40 per barrel for some grades of
crude on the spot market.  Long gasoline lines across America contributed to
a general sense of panic, and Carter energy secretary and former CIA
director, James R. Schlesinger, did not help calm matters when he told
Congress and the media in February 1979 that the Iranian oil shortfall was
'prospectively more serious' than the 1973 Arab oil embargo.[2][2]

The Carter administration's Trilateral Commission foreign policy further
ensured that any European effort from Germany and France to develop more
cooperative trade, economic and diplomatic relations with their Soviet
neighbor, under the umbrella of détente and various Soviet-west European
energy agreements, was also thrown into disarray.

Carter's security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and secretary of state,
Cyrus Vance, implemented their 'Arc of Crisis' policy, spreading the
instability of the Iranian revolution throughout the perimeter around the
Soviet Union.  Throughout the Islamic perimeter from Pakistan to Iran, U.S.
initiatives created instability or worse."

-- William Engdahl, A Century of War :  Anglo-American Oil Politics and the
New World Order, © 1992, 2004.  Pluto Press Ltd. Pages 171-174.

[1][1] In 1978, the Iranian Ettelaat published an article accusing Khomeini
of being a British agent.  The clerics organized violent demonstrations in
response, which led to the flight of the Shah months later.  See U.S.
Library of Congress Country Studies, Iran.  The Coming of the Revolution.
December 1987.  The role of BBC Persian broadcasts in the ousting of the
Shah is detailed in Hossein Shahidi.  'BBC Persian Service 60 years on.'
The Iranian.  September 24, 2001.  The BBC was so much identified with
Khomeini that it won the name 'Ayatollah BBC.'


[2][2] Comptroller General of the United States.  'Iranian Oil Cutoff:
Reduced Petroleum Supplies and Inadequate U.S. Government Response.'  Report
to Congress by General Accounting Office.  1979.

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Also:
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/author/marrs/carter.shtml

Jimmy Carter's attempted assassination by Lee Harvey and Osvaldo
What really is in a name?

5/25/2000

If one lives long enough and keeps a close eye on news events, eventually things turn up that present a very different view of the world than that portrayed on the nightly news.

Take for example the attempted assassination of President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Nothing much was said about it at the time by the mass media, subsequently, hardly anyone remembers this incident today.

Furthermore, like many news items heard, this event becomes much more sinister when placed into a context of what happened both before and after the incident.

Toward mid-1979 Democrat Carter was being chastised by critics within the media, as well as by the Republicans, as being wishy-washy on a variety of issues. They said his was a mediocre presidency. The mass media were already focusing on conservative California Gov. Ronald Reagan as the man of the hour. His nomination as GOP presidential candidate for the 1980 election seemed assured.

Carter asked for and was granted a national television spot during prime time and many media pundits predicted that he was about to announce sweeping changes in government as well as new initiatives which would move his upcoming presidential re-election campaign off high center.

But before his televised appearance, Carter journeyed to California where he was to address a Hispanic crowd in Los Angeles.s Civic Center Mall celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican Independence Day.

A few days later, a handful of newspapers carried a small story stating that a "grubby transient" had been arrested there and was being held on suspicion of the attempted assassination of the president. A Secret Service spokesman downplayed the arrest stating the incident was about as "nothing as these things get."

However, a few days later, another news item appeared which reported that the 35-year-old Anglo suspect was being held in lieu of $50,000 on charges of conspiring to kill the president.

Finally, a one-time story in the May 21, 1979, edition of Newsweek revealed more details of the incident.

It seems that the suspect was arrested after Secret Service agents noticed him "looking nervous." A .22-calibre, eight-shot revolver was found on the man along with 70 rounds of blank ammunition. A short time later, the suspect implicated a second man, a 21-year-old Hispanic who also was taken into custody and subsequently held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

The second suspect at first denied knowing the other man, but finally admitted that the pair had test fired the blank starter pistol from a nearby hotel roof the night before Carter.s appearance. Both men said they were simply local street people who had been hired by two Mexican hit men. They were to create a diversion with the blank pistol and the two hit men were to assassinate President Carter with high-powered rifles.

Lending credence to their story, both suspects led authorities to the shabby Alan Hotel located near the civic center. Here investigators found an empty rifle case and three rounds of live ammunition in a room rented under than name Umberto Camacho. Camacho apparently had checked out the day of Carter.s visit. No further trace of the hit men could be found.

The Anglo suspect was Raymond Lee Harvey and his Hispanic companion was Osvaldo Ortiz. This oddity of their names prompted Newsweek reporters to state, "References to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were unavoidable."

"But it was still far from clear whether the authorities had a real conspiracy or a wild goose chase on their hands," they added.

No further news stories appeared and the disposition of the case against Lee Harvey and Osvaldo apparently has never been made public.

What did happen was that President Carter canceled his national TV speech and went into seclusion at Camp David, MD. After seeking advice from a lengthy line of consultants, including the Rev. Billy Graham, Carter was reported to have said, "I have lost control of the government."

It is historical fact that no serious policy changes were made and no sweeping changes were made in government. Carter remained indecisive in the public eye and by mid-November the following year, the United States took a conservative turn under the leadership of Ronald Reagan. Reagan's victory was due, in large part, to a failed military rescue attempt and the collapse of negotiations in mid-October 1980. Both concerned the release of American hostages seized at the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, after Carter allowed the deposed Shah to enter the United States for medical treatment.

Later, it was alleged that Reagan.s running mate, George Bush, along with CIA Director William Casey had privately cut a deal with Iranian leaders to hold the hostages until after the November election, thus assuring a Reagan victory. Despite testimony confirming this "October Surprise" from several people involved, including the Iranian Foreign Minister, no action was taken by the Reagan-Bush administration. Yet it is a fact that on January 20, 1981, just minutes after Reagan was sworn into office, the American hostages were released and within weeks, military supplies which Carter had withheld from Iran began moving to that nation.

To any astute observer of national affairs, there is activity happening behind the scenes, which is rarely reported by the .watchdog. media.

And never mind calculating the odds of two men named Lee Harvey and Osvaldo being identified in a conspiracy to assassinate an American president. This information alone should be enough to cause any thinking person to ponder the hidden machinations which may be taking place in this nation to control government leaders through fear and intimidation.

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