Peter Dale Scott and His Contribution to Understanding American

Politics and the Human Condition

By Judyth Vary Baker

Anti-conspiracy writers have long sneered at the many critics who have stepped
forth exhibiting concern over the findings of the Warren Commission and other U.S.
government-sponsored investigations regarding tragic assassinations and the
resultant decline of American civilization into the twenty-first century due to war,
corruption, lies to the public, and sheer, unregulated greed. A common complaint
of Official Version defenders had been that their critics lacked the mental moxie
needed to qualify as such. But astride both centuries stands the Colossus of
American political analysis – Peter Dale Scott – spanning the gap between socio-
political myth and reality, guiding the safe passage of truth to port in these
troubling times.

From his own website:

Biography

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the
University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was
born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of the poet F.R. Scott and the
painter Marian Scott. He is married to Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three
children,Cassie, Mika, and John Scott, by a previous marriage to Maylie
Marshall.

His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in
collaboration, 1976), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate
Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration, 1987),Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and
the CIA in Central America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993,
1996), Deep Politics Two (1994, 1995, 2006), Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
March 2003), The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The War Conspiracy:
JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2008).

His chief poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About
Terror (1989), Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (1992), and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for
the Year 2000. In addition he has published Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994), published in
Canada as Murmur of the Stars. In November 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award. A new book
of poems, Mosaic Orpheus, will appear in Spring 2009 from McGill-Queen's University Press.

An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict
Studies Program at UC Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA).

His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research, the latter of which has centered on U.S. covert
operations, their impact on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to the John F. Kennedy
assassination and the global drug traffic. The poet-critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p. 335) that
"Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long
time."

…This website is dedicated to helping to promote an informed public opinion that is both local and
international. I particularly want to thank those who have sent me supportive or informative emails from 37
countries: Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain,
Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey,
Israel, South Africa, Pakistan, Singapore, China, Japan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand,
Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Canada (plus 3 more from visitors in Ecuador, Bolivia, and
Nepal). Special thanks to the visiting professor in Singapore, who said that he was forwarding this URL to his
friends in China. I wish also to thank friends who have forwarded useful material, such as the important Irish
Times story on bin Laden, the US, and oil, that first reached me via Indonesia from Qatar.

I do believe that international public opinion, when it becomes powerful enough, will become the most
effective restraint to the excesses and follies of particular governments.

From Spartacus, we can obtain the following quotations from Scott’s writings,
showing both his depth of logic and the consistency of his thought:

(1) Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)

At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, Allen Dulles handed out copies of a
book to help define the ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's forthcoming work.
American assassinations were different from European ones, he told the Commission. European
assassinations were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted alone. Someone was
alert enough to remind Dulles of the Lincoln assassination, when Lincoln and two members of his cabinet
were shot simultaneously in different parts of Washington. But Dulles was not stopped for a second: years
of dissembling in the name of "intelligence" were not to fail him in this challenge. He simply retorted that
the killers in the Lincoln case were so completely under the control of one man (John Wilkes Booth), that
the three killings were virtually the work of one man.

Dulles's logic here (or, as I prefer to call it, his paralogy) was not idiosyncratic, it was institutional. As we
have seen, J. Edgar Hoover had already, by November 25, committed his own reputation and the Bureau
to the conclusion that Oswald had done it, and acted alone. Chief Justice Warren knew this, yet said at
the same meeting, "We can start with the premise that we can rely upon the reports of the various
agencies that have been engaged in the investigation." John J. McCloy spoke for the extra-governmental
establishment when he added that it was of paramount importance to "show the world that America is not
a banana republic, where a government can be changed by conspiracy."
(2) Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)

FBI documents released in 1979 show other instances in which key information was either altered before
it reached the Warren Commission, or else withheld altogether. For example, judging from Warren
Commission records, the FBI covered up Jack Ruby's connections to organized crime. The Commission
did not receive an important interview with Luis Kutner, a Chicago lawyer who had just told the press
(correctly) about Ruby's connections to Chicago mobsters Lennie Patrick and Dave Yaras. All the FBI
transmitted was a meaningless follow-up interview in which Kutner merely said he had no additional
information.

Apparently the FBI also failed to transmit a teletype revealing that Yaras, a national hit man for the
Chicago syndicate who had grown up with Ruby, and who had been telephoned by one of Ruby's
Teamster contacts on the eve of the assassination, was about to attend a "hoodlum meeting" of top East
and West Coast syndicate representatives, including some from the "family" of the former Havana crime
lord Santos Trafficante.

(3) Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)

Such an explanation is less plausible for the FBI's interference with leads that appeared to be guiding its
agents to the actual assassins of the President - a case, seemingly, of obstruction of justice, or worse.
How else should one assess the response of FBI headquarters to a report from Miami that Joseph Adams
Milteer, a white racist with Klan connections, had in early November 1963 correctly warned that a plot to
kill the President "from an office building with a high-powered rifle" was already "in the working"? These
words are taken from a tape-recording of a discussion between Milteer and his friend, Miami police
informant Bill Somersett. Miami police provided copies of this tape to both the Secret Service and the FBI
on November 10, 1963, two weeks before the assassination, and this led to the cancellation of a planned
motorcade for the President in Miami on November 18.20

Although an extremist, Milteer was no loner. Southern racists were well organized in 1963, in response to
federal orders for desegregation; and Milteer was an organizer for two racist parties, the National States
Rights party and the Constitution party. In addition he had attended an April 1963 meeting in New Orleans
of the Congress of Freedom, Inc.,
which had been monitored by an informant for the Miami police. A Miami detective's report of the
Congress included the statement that "there was indicated the overthrow of the present government of
the United States," including "the setting up of a criminal activity to assassinate particular persons." The
report added that "membership within the Congress of Freedom, Inc., contain high ranking members of
the armed forces that secretly belong to the organization."

In other words, the deep politics of racist intrigue had become intermingled, in the Congress as
elsewhere, with the resentment within the armed forces against their civilian commander. Perhaps the
most important example in 1963 was that of General Edwin Walker, whom Oswald was accused of
stalking and shooting at. Forced to retire in 1962 for disseminating right-wing propaganda in the armed
forces, Walker was subsequently arrested at the "Ole Miss" anti-desegregation riots. Nor was the FBI
itself exempt from racist intrigue: Milteer, on tape, reported detailed plans for the murder of Martin Luther
King, Jr., whom Hoover's FBI, by the end of 1963, had also targeted for (in their words) "neutralizing ... as
an effective Negro leader."

Four days after the assassination Somerset! reported that Milteer had been "jubilant" about it: "Everything
ran true to form. I guess you thought I was kidding you when I said he would be killed from a window with
a high-powered rifle." Milteer also was adamant that he had not been "guessing" in his original prediction.
In both of the relevant FBI reports from Miami, Somersett was described as "a source who had furnished
reliable information in the past."
(4) Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)

To sum up, it would appear that Bobby Kennedy, consciously or not, had targeted a number of figures,
such as Sam Giancana, James Plumeri, and perhaps even Jimmy Hoffa, who were simultaneously
intelligence assets. Well-placed informants and/or their government handlers have furthermore implicated
members of this intelligence-mob connection in the coalition of forces that retaliated by killing the
President. The House Committee Report, steadfastly refusing to look at Ruby's very pronounced
connection to this intelligence-mob milieu, provided instead a distorted governmental account of "La Cosa
Nostra," from which the intelligence connections had been systematically expunged. But if Blakey was
responsible in repeating the opinion that those who killed Kennedy killed Giancana as well, it becomes
even more important to know who was the "CIA guy," who (according to FBN and DEA informant Charles
Crimaldi) used someone from the underworld to kill Giancana.

After so many years, some of the mob members of this milieu are now notorious - notably John Rosselli,
Santos Trafficante, Carlos Marcello, and Sam Giancana. Others - Barney Baker, Dave Yaras, Irwin
Weiner - have been known for years to researchers.

(4) Peter Dale Scott, The Nation (20th March, 2006)

In the June 1994 Reviews in American History, you published an essay by Max Holland concerning my
book, Deep Politics, which he had already attacked in the Wilsonian Quarterly. His article opens with a
reference to "fantastic conspiracies through innuendo, presumption, and pseudo-scholarship" (p. 191); it
closes with his own innuendo about "palpable, cunningly manufactured falsehoods" (p. 209).

Surely it is gross intellectual cowardice to allege or imply falsehoods without supporting this accusation.
One might have thought that in a 19-page attack on my "opaque prose" and "fevered imagination" (p.
191), there would be at least a paragraph dealing with what I had actually written. I can actually find only
one dependent clause on the penultimate page, referring to "the fantasy that Kennedy was on the verge
of pulling out from South Vietnam" (p. 208). Even this is not very close to what I actually wrote: "that in
late 1963 Kennedy had authorized an initial withdrawal of... troops... to be substantially completed by the
end of 1965" (Deep Politics, p. 24). I went on to note how "time after time... critics, from Leslie Gelb in the
Times to Alexander Cockburn in the Nation, have replaced this verifiable issue of fact by an unverifiable
one: whether or not JFK would have pulled the United States out of Vietnam" (pp. 25-26). Holland, a long-
time Nation editor, has, you will note, once again resorted to this simple trick of devious substitution.

Why do we find in an academic journal the turgid rant and wildly mixed metaphors ("unfathomable
crossroads," p. 193) of the Nation? Holland demonstrates at the outset that he has done no basic
research on Oswald, whom he believes to be the only person important in the case. He writes that "Prior
to that Friday [November 22, 1963], no one called him Lee Harvey Oswald" (p. 193). In fact he had been
called Lee Harvey Oswald in newspaper accounts of his 1959 defection to the USSR (and 1962 return) in
the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Herald Tribune, Washington Star, Fort Worth Press,
etc. to name only some of those press accounts filed under "Lee Harvey Oswald" by the FBI, ONI, Texas
Department of Public Safety, etc. (It is true that the CIA chose for its own reasons of state to label one of
its three files on Oswald "Lee Henry Oswald," but Holland would be very foolish to adduce this as proof
that to the CIA Oswald was unimportant.) The very first State Department cable from Moscow (1304 of
10/31/59) referred to "Lee Harvey Oswald," and this cable was also filed by other federal government
agencies, as well as reproduced in the Warren Commission volumes (18 WH 105). Holland's theorizing
about the ignored Oswald's supposed "desire to prove his central importance" (p. 199) is based on, and
misled by, perverse secondary sources -- notably Gerald Posner's Case Closed.

Holland also has it wrong when he says that "the FBI and CIA had lied by omission (my italics) to the
[Warren] Commission" (p. 204). Officials of both agencies had lied in much more constructive ways, to the
Commission as well as to each other. The CIA for example supplied a radically falsified version of "Lee
Henry Oswald's" 201 file, which Richard Helms then certified to be accurate and complete. The FBI
falsely denied a pre-assassination contact with Oswald, and compounded possible perjury about this (5
WH 13) with criminal destruction of relevant evidence. (I refer you on this last point to Posner's Case
Closed, pp. 214-16.)

In my view, these undisputed falsifications of the record after the assassination (which I did not even
bother to mention in my book) are much less significant than the misleading games played with the
Oswald files of the CIA and FBI (with innuendos of a possible KGB plot) just before the assassination. I
gave prominent place to these in my book, and Holland, predictably, ignores them. The newly released
documents prove the pre-assassination deceptions to be far worse than I described them. Given these
facts, it is surprising that an academic journal supposedly committed to inquiry, shortly after tens of
thousands of important new documents have been deposited in the National Archives, would publish
Holland's fatuous excuse for not bothering to look at them (they "ultimately will only prove one thing: the
Warren Commission got it right" -- p. 208).

There is only one quotation in Holland's essay about Oswald from an actual Oswald contact: a Dallas
assistant district attorney (Bill Alexander), who complained that Oswald was so smug "I was going to beat
the shit out of him" (p. 201). This quotation is much more revealing than it sounds. It is taken from Gerald
Posner's Case Closed (p. 345), the latest rehash of the Warren Report for true believers. Alexander is not
just a proven liar (as are so many of Posner's preferred sources), he is, only three pages later in Posner's
book, a self-admitted liar!

Posner is a lawyer, and we are quite used to seeing lawyers turn to known liars for facts they cannot
obtain elsewhere. But why is a self-admitted liar quoted as a source in a supposedly reputable academic
journal?

In the first chapter of my book I noted how the Kennedy assassination, and related topics such as
Kennedy's late 1963 authorization of troop withdrawal, had become for many disreputable and
indiscussible topics (pp. 12-16). Even so, I was disappointed to see those who have published me
attacked vigorously for doing so by a major historical journal. I continue to believe that it is the job of the
academy to open minds, not to close them.

These quotations allow us a glimpse of the man behind the prose.

In his typical style –finding subtly attractive ways to destroy the work of solid
researchers and the testimonies of every possible witness in the Kennedy
assassination who might even hint at Oswald’s innocence, John McAdams brings
forth a ‘critic’ to counter the massive impact that the concept of Deep Politics has
had to change American thought about the nature of the Cabal that assassinated
Kennedy.

Scott’s Deep Politics concept established exactly what New Orleans District
Attorney Jim Garrison had desperately attempted –but failed--to give to the
American people via the trial of Clay Shaw. Garrison knew that the webwork
involving the Kennedy assassination and its immediate cover-up activities was
complex.it seemed that ‘everyone’ was involved. In a sense, we now that was true.
“Everyone’of importance in the case was compromised or involved in such a way
that cooperation among them all was necessary, lest ‘anyone’ (except for Oswald)
might be blamed. Oswald had the misfortune to be associated with a number of
agencies. Any agency admitting such a relationship with Oswald couldlead to
embarrassing and possibly deadly revelations.
The concept of “Deep Politics” demonstrates to the intelligent, unbiased reader
exactly how a wide webwork and network of associated insiders were impelled to
cooperate, or perish. Scott’s work defined the nature of the beast, leaving it to
others to connect the dots.

That, predictably, was not enough for the pedantic and predictably biased John
Mcadams, who managed to dredge up someone with a sufficiently-developed
vocabulary to be able to complain (with a tinge of pseudo-intellectualism) of Scott’s
refusal to hang himself out to dry in the desert of our discontent: Scott, it was
declared, blamed ‘everybody’ for the assassination, not allowing himself to be
pinned down:

The “critic” wrote—

“Scott's Deep Politics and the Death of JFK is a fully-researched

document citing deep connections concerning Vietnam, Lee Harvey
Oswald, Jack Ruby, and the plot and cover-up of President Kennedy's
assassination. Scott's failure occurs as throughout the entire book, and
even in his conclusion (titled "Who Killed JFK?"), he cannot simply label
even one large and all-inclusive unit, like the government, as being
responsible for JFK's death.”

Note the false criterion: Scott was required to label ‘one large and all-
inclusive unit…as being responsible…”

“He continually swings back and forth, all in the name of deep political
analysis, and seems to draw not one conclusion but several
contradictory ones. Repeatedly at the end of the book, he also calls
attention to the JFK assassination's connections to the murders of
Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy as well as to McCarthyism,
Watergate, and Contragate. Simply summarized, everything in the
political sphere, as well as in the national and international spheres,
has been connected to the Kennedy assassination on November 22,
1963, in some way. The reader leaves Scott's Deep Politics with
much more confusion than he began with and no idea of how to
live in a world or an America which is so completely based on
corruption and suspicion. My answer: Scott's analysis is not worth
giving that much credit to.”

==oops! I’ve emphasized the diction problem and the ‘to’ to provide a
glimpse into this lady’s ability to write truly good English, let alone apply
good logic, though Mark Twain, I’m sure (who liked prepositions at the end of
sentences) would disagree with my noting ‘to’ as something I should take
umbrage to.

Who is this lady?

Finding Ms. Weber’s CV has proven difficult (I have posted Dr. Scott’s at the
end of this article – he has made it freely available for inspection by all).
McAdams chose an apparent unknown to criticize Scott’s magnificent book.
It might have been one of his students, steeped in the contrivances of the
Official Version, doing her patriotic duty to God, and country, hoping for an
“A” grade from her professor. Or not.

Fortunately for us, Scott’s Wikipedia biography has apparently not been invaded by
vandals or by McAdams, who, in my own Wikipedia biography, inserted a section
named “Killers and the Women Who Love Them” which, however, was only about
“Me & Lee.” Protests to have such offensive material removed from my biography
ultimately resulted in the biography, which had been online almost six years and
did have some accurate information in it, erased from Wikipedia by persons
associated with the Wikipedia conspiracy theory damage-control editor “Gamaliel”
(such as “Shutterbun” who posts at McAdams’ newsgroup), first under the claim
that I did not exist, and, when we proved that indeed I existed, and had a
documentary, international art clients, and a book out there, that I was,
nevertheless, a fraud. Now I’m listed under “conspiracy theories” where the reader
is directed to John McAdams’ screed about me. May such a fate never happen to a
man of the caliber of Peter Dale Scott.

The material from Wikipedia (just below) seems to be more accurate than that posted about me under
“Killers and the Women Who Love them,” so I assume McAdams has not yet inserted his manly acumen
into this biography:

“Scott has researched and written several investigative books about the role of the "deep state"
(as opposed to the "public state"). However, Scott rejects the label of "conspiracy theory" and has
used the phrase "deep politics" to describe his heavily-footnoted political writing. The investigative
bent has spilled over into his works of poetry, some of which must contain marginal notes to
explain to readers which documents or real-world news events are being referred to. His most
recent book, The Road to 9/11 from the University of California Press, deals with historical and
geopolitical context of the events of 9/11, and describes "how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s
has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the
catastrophe of 9/11."

An interesting aspect of Scott's work that combines both his investigating interests and his poetry
is illustrated by The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.”
If I have succeeded in holding your attention thus far, you have passed the test. You are
intelligent enough – and care enough --to read, appreciate and enjoy the important poem
below—“The Tao of 9/11” – a masterpiece written by Peter Dale Scott. “The Tao of 9/11”
reveals the thought of a good and great man to the terrors besetting us in today’s uncertain,
hard and ruthless world, contrasted with what I consider a dwindling hope for peace:

The Tao of 9/11

At the First Emperor’s Tomb

the Chinese People’s Republic
shows you a preliminary movie
in which this monument of empire

is seen through the eyes of peasants

who rose up in rebellion
and smashed the terra cotta statues
we have come so far to see.

I tried asking whether the government

is more in favor of the tomb
or of its being smashed? The guide answered
Both! We think the tao of history

contains both the bright yang of order

and the dark yin of revolt.
So I said, Does that mean
that in the present phase of history

the yin is the Falun Gong?

A short silence. Then
You must understand that in China
there are some things we do not think about.

I know why I’m remembering this.

There are things we don’t think about in America
things I don’t want to think about myself
like this flood of emails from Russians

whom I have never met

about Far West Ltd.
a meta-group almost unknown
and yet so powerful

it is said to manipulate states

for the ends of the drug traffic
spreading violence in an organized route
from Afghanistan and Kosovo to New York
Scott ‘05
a group which brought its partners —
a Venezuelan close to FARC Colombian Revolutionary
Armed Forces
an Israeli advising Thaçi chief KLA
commander
and a Turk close to al-Qaeda

to meet in the villa of Khashoggi

once the richest man in the world
Kessler 12
whom the Senate BCCI Report listed
among the principal agents of the U.S. Kerry-Brown
Report 299

and arms seller to the Medellin Cartel DIA

Report
with Voloshin (Berezovsky’s man
under Yeltsin in the Kremlin)
and one of the Chechen Basaevs

who then blew up Moscow buildings

as described by John Dunlop
Dunlop
shortly after the U.S. and the KLA Kosovo
Liberation Army
took over Kosovo Scott
‘05

Dunlop is reputable
Why did he present the meeting
as a mere plan for a Russian 9/11
at the behest of Yeltsin’s Kremlin
Dunlop

ignoring the role at the villa

of men like Sosnaliev and Tsveiba
from Abkhazia which now has become
a key heroin transiting point? Sida/Cornell
Caspian ‘02

Why did he suppress what his source

said about Surikov and Fritz Ermarth
the Turk and the CIA
the Israeli and the KLA?

Was it because just like myself

he did not want to think
about who was involved in opening
the new Kosovo drug route

after the mad dash of Russian troops

one month before the meeting June
11, 1999
to seize the Pristina airport in Kosovo Judah
279, 284-85
without (it is said) the knowledge of Yeltsin Shevtsova
285, fn. 11

just as Al McCoy and myself

both promptly forgot about the vet
who refused to talk to us
after they firebombed his Jag McCoy xii, Scott ‘89 147-
48, Scott ‘04 38-40

not wanting to face what it means

that you can sell drugs in a DEA sting
and still be released when you tell them
you are a CIA informant. Scott ‘92, 129;
Levine 35-36

Two kinds of businesses:

those which flourish from peace
and the strengthening of law
and those which require the opposite

zones of incessant chaos

like Chechnya Colombia Afghanistan
where drugs can be grown or trafficked
under the watch of PMCs. private military
companies

The CIA knew what it was doing

when in 2001
they brought back “Mr. Ten Percent” Haji
Mohammed Zaman
at the top of the heroin trade

from Dijon to
Jalalabad Smucker 9
and arranged for the release
of Haji Ayub Afridi from prison
Raman
(the same men who in the ‘80s

had organized the heroin trail

to the Soviet troops
i.e. to the clique who became Far West
with the blessings of the CIA)
Raman

thus restoring the Afghan

opium economy
after two years of prohibition
under the Taliban. Scott ‘03 33,
43-44

and pushing America and Russia

still further down the path
of increasing superwealth
and declining average income

(my starting salary in

‘61 $7250.00
could buy a third of a good Berkeley house
a starting salary today
paying perhaps a twentieth)

increasing income disparities

the sign our state is declining
the homeless we no longer support
and have grown used to not thinking about

as we step across them

towards our ATMs
what Sallust and Arnold discerned
in Rome and Victorian London

privatim opulentia
publice egestas Sallust,
Arnold
until the republic is suborned
by these forces we cannot see

for which the intellectual price

is a shrinkage of our culture
towards the trivialities
of narcotic distractions undecipherable poets

and expansion of empire

with help from al Qaeda
until now there are American troops
from Kyrgyzstan to Kosovo.

Starting in 1998
Surikov, the Venezuelan, and the Turk
had their own company Far
West http://www.pravda.info/news/2695.html
connected with the secured transport

of commercial shipments from Afghanistan

Filin ‘05
and with representatives in the Emirates,
Afghanistan, Colombia,
Kosovo http://www.pravda.info/news/2695.html
as well as contracts with Halliburton
Yasenev, Lysenko

(Far West’s leader Vladimir Filin

the suspected chief narcobaron
Kaledin ‘03
confirmed that “a well-known American corporation
is a co-founder of our agency”
Filin ‘05

and after I quoted this

it was reported that Filin cleared
the Pristina dash in advance
with Thaçi and Haradinaj
Surikov 2006

described by the London Observer

as a drug-trafficker and the key
US intelligence asset in Kosovo
Observer, 9/10/00
who is now on trial at the
Hague London Times, 3/8/05

while Filin and Far West

worked on the Georgian project,
financed by KBR Halliburton, apparently
with the approval of CIA)
Yasenev

and with Diligence Middle East a PMC

(with success in securing contracts
from Neil Bush, the President’s brother) Financial
Times, 12/11/03
headed by Joe Allbaugh Financial Times,
12/11/03;
Asia Times,
5/20/04
who in 2000 organized
both the Bush-Cheney campaign
and the “19th floor riot” that
stopped the recount in Miami-Dade County
Floridagate

and then was made head of FEMA

the agency that with Cheney and Rumsfeld Mann 139;
Bamford 72
had developed “Reagan’s Secret Coup Plans”
in the 1980s “Reagan’s Secret
Coup Plans”,
Progressive
Review, June 2004
the plans for COG Continuity of
Government
the plans for an anti-constitutional takeover
in a time of crisis Progressive Review, June 1998. Cf. New
York Times, 11/18/91
which were implemented on 9/11 9/11 Report
38; Bamford 66

with Cheney’s two orders — the first

one still unexplained
ten minutes before Flight 77
is supposed to have hit the Pentagon Griffin
219-23

and then a shoot-down order

before the President’s plane took
off Clarke 8
when the only hijacked plane remaining
was Flight 93. Scott
‘07 ch. 13

Both after Bush had entrusted

Cheney, FEMA, and Allbaugh
to set up a terrorism task force
to deal with terrorist attacks Houston Chronicle, 5/9/01;
Ruppert, 412-18

which is said to have changed the rules

making it far more complicated
to deal with hijacked planes 9/11 Report, 17; cf.
fn. 101, 458
just weeks before 9/11 Ruppert,
412-18

and required FEMA to

holdexercises www.fema.gov/pdf/library/appi.pdf.
planned for September 12 in New York
so that one day before
WTC-7 collapsed World Trade
Center 7

without being hit by al-Qaeda Griffin

25-32
FEMA had already moved out
into a larger temporary headquarters
from which the New York clean-up was directed.

It is too much. I think of Petrov

blown up in his car in Cape Town
after taping his quarrel with Surikov
at the Hotel Bristol in
Vienna Petrov ‘04

and I think of Indira Singh

who lost her job at J.P. Morgan
after she notified the FBI
about Ptech the hi-tech Islamist firm

with contracts at FAA

the White House the Secret Service
and links to the local Al Kifah al Qaeda
support group
followed by a Treasury raid

on Ptech and then the immediate Boston Globe, 12/7/02;

WBZ4, 12/9/02
firing of Paul O’Neill. Secretary of
the Treasury
Singh spoke publicly about Ptech NPR
Radio, 12/8/02
adding as an aside

when I ran into the drugs

I was told that if I mentioned
the money to the drugs around 9/11
that would be the end of me. Indira Singh
testimony

So much to wonder about

so much to be grateful for!
the enormity of the suppressed
should not let us forget the obvious

like Havel’s gratitude to Congress

for the liberation of eastern Europe
which Noam found silly and repugnant Chomsky,
Cockburn ‘95 149-51
not having lived there himself

Like the times in a bad marriage

good times flash back with pain
so in the midst of preemptive war
I remember loving this country

that even the CIA

helped Milosz start life anew
back when defectors were still
being kidnapped in the
streets. Illg 17

But as for 9/11 and drugs

the 9/11 Report denied the connection 9/11
Report 171
ignoring the drug money for Ramzi Yousef
from an I.S.I. agent in the Philippines

for a plot covered up

according to an Embassy security official
by high-ranking officers
of the CIA and Secret Service Alexander
Cockburn, Ressa 33

or the speech by Bonner of Customs

on the Jafar organization out of Detroit Bonner; cf.
Farah 171-72
(shipping hash and heroin to the United States
for almost half a century) Goddard and
Coleman 24

Khalid Jafar’s bag (said NBC)

was placed on Pan Am 103
without passing through inspection
as part of a DEA undercover operation
Guardian 11/1/90

I remember the defeat and fear

in the face of Allan Francovich
the last time he contacted me
via a cut-out a mutual friend

one year before Allan dropped dead

while going through U.S.
Customs Independent 4/28/97
whose film on Pan Am 103 and Jafar
could be shown in Britain but not this
country Ganser 49

though he has since been posthumously vindicated

by a police chief’s signed statement
that key evidence in the Lockerbie trial
was planted by the
CIA; Scotsman 8/28/05

and what happened to Danny Casolaro Goddard and

Coleman 352-55
on the trail of the so-called Octopus Beaty and
Gwynne 224-25
until he was “suicided” in West Virginia Buffalo
News 8/27.93
with my name and number in his notebook.

Forgive me if I do not want to think

of how they destroyed L
(the Republican businessman
whose mistake was to tell the FBI

about the Nicaraguan drug lord

who picked up the dinner tab
at the fundraiser in San Francisco
L had arranged for the Contras,

after which L got a death threat

over the phone while waiting
in Senator Kerry’s outer office
for a secret rendez-vous).

And should I now be trusting V

this Russian whose reports on Far West
are corroborated only by Filin’s admission
that he himself went to Kosovo?
Surikov 2006

It is hard to know whom to trust

as I learned back East at a Center
International Center
researching for Senator Kerry’s investigation for
Development Policy
into Contra support operations and drugs.

I think of the secret memo in two copies

I had my secretary a student volunteer
hand-deliver from the Center
to Brian Barger and Bob Parry cf. Terrell 297-
324, Parry 15

who phoned back furious

(Don’t write these things down in Washington!)
and somehow Secord’s lawyer got it
Richard Secord
to file as a Court Exhibit in the Christic case

and what about Jack Terrell at the Center

a man intimate with the mercenary “community”
Nation 8/15/87
who knew about the military coup in
Fiji Nation 8/15/87
that night before anyone in the press.

Jack was shown to have told the truth

about the Contra cocaine operation
disguised by imports of frozen fish Kerry Report, 438, Scott
and Marshall 131
in the memo prepared for Senator Kerry
which was stolen for the Reagan Justice Department Scott
and Marshall 151
after which Oliver North
called Terrell a “Terrorist Threat” Terrell 463, Scott and
Marshall 142-43
and our Center was put under FBI surveillance. Scott and
Marshall 148ss,
cf. Kerry Report 163,
Terrell 384
So later when Jack said he wanted
to bring his wife to the United States
I (knowing his childhood story
of how when fourteen he had stolen a car

and on the instruction of his father

was sentenced to 18 years in an adult prison) Scott and
Marshall 127
gave him the money he needed
for return airfare to Manila

after which a call came from the Center:

Why did you finance Terrell’s scheme
to destroy Manglapus (who had been expected Philippine
Foreign Secretary
to succeed Cory in the Philippines)? Aquino, cf. Time
10/28/91, Terrell 424-32

In this way my naïve good will

implicated me in the defeat
of the one candidate committed to removing
the U.S. military bases.

Still later Jack invited me

to think he might have been the “Carson”
who tricked Bill Pepper with the lie
discrediting his book on Martin Luther King
Pepper 368, 426-30

so that we still do not know for certain

who was behind King’s murder
any more than about the Kennedys’
or who Jack was really working for

though he claimed that he was told by phone

to penetrate North’s Contra support effort
by Donald Fortier and the NSC. National Security
Council, Terrell 38
Oh Jack! Though I knew enough

never completely to trust you

I still thought of you as my friend cf.
Terrell 455-60
and that like me you were fighting drug traffickers
not just that upstart Oliver North.

The American dilemma: to heal this world

we must become intimate with it
but the search for political truth
will lead one deeper and deeper into falsehood

so we all end up like the good Germans

not thinking about who caused the Reichstag Fire
or the hundreds of people we do not know
taken off to secret camps or distant countries.

It is a dilemma: part of me
needs to agree with the left
that we have to wake up America
that knowledge will make us free

the idea being that truth

unites us in thinking together
even though these truths of darkness
have been known to destroy

those who have published them Gary Webb,

Independent 10/8/05
and I myself can share with no one
except those who like myself
have become distanced from the crowd

so that I hate to go on
transmitting the testimony
of witnesses like Steve Carr
who predicted correctly they would be murdered Scott and
Marshall 155

Scott ‘05
and it is a struggle to keep in mind
that by seeking the truth
from the hidden sphere of life
in its hidden openness Havel
57, Schell 197

I have not in fact been alone:

there have always been strangers
some in scattered parts of this land
or in countries unvisited

others though the great chain

of the centuries
who without ever meeting
it is possible to trust

in the truth of yin

that is always gentle
like water flowing
to the lowest places Tao Te
Ching viii

the Tao where the soft and gentle

overcome the hard and strong Tao Te
Ching xxxvi
because truth being that which is
can never be destroyed Gandhi
2:389, Schell 206

and reminds us that America

the land of nonviolence violence
snake handlers peace workers baseball movies
sweat lodges genealogists and stock car races

is undefinable
from the jazz of Ledbelly
and concerts of the Grateful Dead
to the Wiffenpoof song

from Whitman’s hopes for the unwritten

to the New Yorker poets
with a toad in their lawn mower
or snake in their burning brush pile

the land which Reiko aged eighteen

refused to leave
when her parents returned
to tradition-bound Japan.

Uncertain as always
whether this republic is past saving
or whether some of us still tread
the perilous path of the future

part of me just meditates

on the new and more flourishing wildlife
that is improving Point Reyes
ten years after the Mount Vision fire. San Francisco
Chronicle 10/2/05

From the glories of the Tang Dynasty

I recall only one date: the year
the usurper An Lushan
drove both Wang Wei and Du Fu
 far from the corrupt court
into the mountains
where for the first time they were free
to write the only poems we remember.

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 Peter Dale Scott His website is http://www.peterdalescott.org/

PETER DALE SCOTT: CURRICULUM VITAE

Born Montreal, January 11, 1929. Married (1) Mary Elizabeth Marshall, June 16, 1956 (divorced, 1993):
three children (Catherine Dale, Thomas, John Daniel). Married (2) Ronna Kabatznick, July 14, 1993. A
Canadian citizen.

Education and Teaching:

B.A. (McGill University, Montreal), 1949. First Class Honors in Philosophy, Second Class Honors in
Political Science.
Studied six months at Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris; and two years at University College, Oxford
(1950-1952).
Ph.D. in Political Science (McGill), 1955. Dissertation on The Social and Political Ideas of T.S. Eliot.

1952-1953. Teacher at Sedbergh School, Montebello, Quebec.

1955-1956. Lecturer, Department of Political Science, McGill University.
1961-1966. Speech Department, University of California, Berkeley: Lecturer (1961); Acting Assistant
Professor (1962); Assistant Professor (1963).
1966-1994. English Department, University of California, Berkeley: Assistant Professor (1966); Associate
Professor (1968); Professor (1980). Retired 1994.

Professional Service

Foreign Service Officer, Canadian Department of External Affairs, 1957-1961: Twelfth and Thirteenth
Sessions, United Nations General Assembly, 1957, 1958; Canadian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland (1959-
1961); United Nations Conference on Statelessness (Geneva, 1959); United Nations Conference on
Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities (Vienna, 1961)
Senior Fellow, International Center for Development Policy, Washington, D.C., June-November 1987.

Fellowships

Canadian Social Sciences Research Council, 1956-57. Guggenheim Fellow, 1969-1970.

Honors and Awards

International Center for Development Policy, Freedom Award, 1987.

Finalist, Canadian Governor-General's Award for Poetry, 1988.
Reed Foundation Poetry Chapbook, Dia Art Foundation, 1989.
Writer in Residence, University of Toronto, Fall 1992.
Honorable Mention, Mencken Awards, Best Book, 1992.
Sylvia Meagher Award, Coalition on Political Assassinations, 1996.
JFK Pioneer Award, JFKLancer, 1997.
Resident, Bellagio Study Center, Aug.-Sept. 1997.
Lannan Poetry Award, 2002 (with Alan Dugan).
Lannan Writing Residency, Marfa, TX, March-April 2004
Honoree at Symposium and Seminars, Open Center, New York City, March 13-20, 2010.

Two journal issues devoted to his poetry: Chicago Review, Fall 1998; Agni, 31/32 (1990).