A long-forgotten Rolling Stone interview about Syria | Intrepid Report By Wayne Madsen Buried in the recesses of the CIA’s archives is a long-forgotten interview by Rolling Stone of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and CIA veteran Miles Copeland. Copeland, who was once in charge of the CIA’s “dirty tricks” department as the chief of the agency’s Political Action Staff, came to the attention of Rolling Stone because his three sons were active in rock music: Miles Copeland III, was manager of the Police, Ian Copeland founded the music booking agency called FBI, and Stewart Copeland was drummer for Curved Air and later for the Police. In his interview with Robert Eringer, which was published in the January 16, 1986 edition of Rolling Stone, Copeland admitted that he once worked for the notorious Frank Wisner, Sr., originator of the CIA’s “Mighty Wurlitzer” media propaganda and infiltration operations. [ ... ] Copeland’s actions in Syria and the Middle East in the 1950s have directly influenced the problems of Syria today. Not only did Copeland usher into power a series of Syrian dictatorships but he helped establish the first liaison between the CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood in 1955 to defeat Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and like-minded pan-Arab socialists in Syria, Lebanon, and other countries of the Middle East. Barack Obama has almost carried out the CIA’s plans to eliminate the last vestiges of pan-Arab socialism with the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the overthrow and assassinations of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and members of his family, and the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen. [ ... ] Copeland also related a story about how Indonesian President Sukarno’s after shave lotion was doctored by the CIA. Copeland: “One of Sukarno’s best, most electrifying speeches, I understand, was made after one of his assistants, a CIA agent, doctored his shaving lotion. The agent simply forgot that Sukarno’s wildest ramblings were made when he was cold sober and that a hallucinogen could only make for an improvement!” [ ... ] Copeland’s interview also delves into the perfidy of Israel and the United States in maintaining a strategy of tension and violence in the Middle East. Copeland: “The Israelis went into Lebanon and killed tens of thousands of people. They say, ‘That’s exaggerating, we didn’t kill but 5,000 people.’ Okay, let’s say they only killed 2000 people, which is a very modest estimate. But they destroyed Lebanon. They then set up groups against each other, made chaos ten times worse than it already was. Instead of helping the Shiites—the Shiites welcomed the Israelis in—we, the United Stares, gave a billion dollars to the Israelis. One billion we gave because it costs a lot of money to destroy someone else’s country. We gave peanuts—Red Cross supplies—to the Shiites. ... intrepidreport/archives/10854
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:29:36 +0000
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