by Mae Brussell
(from Hustler magazine, February 1984)
In the aftermath of the Korean Air Lines
disaster that shocked the world last September 1, the editors of the Los
Angeles Herald-Examiner dealt with a series of nagging questions and their
answers. Prominent among them was the following:
QUESTION: "Is there any
reason to believe that an admittedly ultraright U.S. congressman traveling 007,
Rep. Lawrence McDonald of Georgia, may have been deliberately assassinated
aboard the flight!"
ANSWER: "While the [U.S.] government has
made no such charge, McDonald's widow claims that her husband, the national
chairman of the John Birch Society, was 'murdered.' She holds that it was no
accident that 'the leading anti-Communist in the American government' had been
on a plane that was 'forced into Soviet territory' and shot down."
Another question that begs to be addressed is: Why would
the Soviet Union wish to make a martyr of Larry McDonald? If the Russians are
the experts at terrorism that they're supposed to be, it would seem obvious that
they could find an easier way to get rid of the congressman than chasing his
airplane over Soviet territory for 2 1/2 hours. They could have easily blown him
away anywhere in the world.
Furthermore, it is hard to believe that KAL Flight 007
was forced into Soviet airspace, as if a giant mechanism had sucked McDonald
toward his mortal enemy. During those strange 2 1/2 hours that 007 ventured as
far as 226 miles inside Soviet airspace, the Russians were testing new kinds of
missiles directly below. They didn't need any more problems.
And I doubt that McDonald, as fanatic as he was,
deserves the label of "leading anti-Communist in the American
government." He would have pretty stiff competition from such individuals
as A.G. "Fritz" Kraemer, Svend Kraemer, John Lenczowski, Paula
Dobriansky, William Clark, Jeane Kirkpatrick, William Casey, Henry Kissinger,
Dr. Ernest Lefevre, William F. Buckley, James Buckley, Richard Pipes, General
Daniel O. Graham and a cast of thousands.
One article that appeared immediately after the shooting
down of 007 accused Secretary of the Navy John Lehman of being "one
particular culprit in the deaths of 269 over Sakhalin Island." The Lehman
design, titled "Horizontal Escalation" in defense circles, outlines a
series of provocations against the USSR. Lehman is quoted as saying, "He
who gets the signal to fire first in the North Pacific will enjoy a
tremendous tactical advantage. This region ... is most probably where we shall
witness confrontation with the Soviet Union."
Thus, while Europe and the U.S. divert the public with
NATO missile discussions, plans are being formulated for a first strike in the
Pacific. South Korea, Japan and the U.S. are working on these plans together.
Sending spy planes over the Soviet Union serves the purpose of provocation.
Five days after the 007 incident former CIA spy Ralph
McGehee told a college audience that the Korean airliner was indeed on a spy
mission. He also believes that the Russians thought 007 was an RC-135
intelligence plane.
It was Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina)-another
archconservative ideologue who is anti-union, antigovernment, anti-Communist and
an opponent of an international treaty on genocide-who arranged the invitation
for McDonald to attend the celebration that would commemorate the 30th
anniversary of the official U.S. entry into the Korean War.
Instead of traveling together, however, Helms and
McDonald arrived in Anchorage, Alaska-the first stop of the journey to South
Korea-on separate planes. The fact that McDonald was the only person in the
36-member American delegation to fly alone seems strange. After refueling, the
Boeing 747 carrying Helms arrived at its destination safely. But McDonald-and
his fellow passengers on Flight 007-were not so fortunate.
As depicted in the books by Ian Fleming, 007 was James
Bond's "license to kill." In this case who gave the license to kill?
Was it the CIA and its Korean counterpart, the KCIA? They were formed at
approximately the same time and work together closely.
The fact that McDonald flew on a different plane than
Helms brings up several more unanswered questions. Who was sitting next to
McDonald? Korean Air Lines must have a boarding pass for that person. If nobody
used the seat and if McDonald was accompanied by others in the American
delegation, why didn't one of them occupy the seat?
Where were the staff or advisory members of McDonald's
Western Goals Foundation, a data bank in Alexandria, Virginia, that serves as a
national right-wing clearinghouse for negative information about leftists and
radical groups and individuals? Why was McDonald left to die literally alone?
Who really gained by Flight 007's violation of Soviet
territory? Not the Russians. They were preparing for the following week's
meeting in Madrid, Spain, between U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz and
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, as well as the resumption of
arms-reduction talks and the annual United Nations meeting. An incident of any
kind would -- and did -- set world opinion against them at a critical time.
On the other hand, the U.S. government benefited first
by gathering valuable military information about Soviet radar and defensive
capabilities during the hours that preceded the crash. Later benefits the State
Department and the Pentagon simultaneously maneuvered included favorable MX-missile
and binary-nerve-gas votes from a knee-jerk Congress.
Clearly, Larry McDonald did not die at the hands of
Soviet planners. The most important explanation for his tragic demise has to do
with recent revelations about his clandestine activities. An earlier
relationship between McDonald and President Reagan had started to surface before
the crash. Their government espionage, concealed behind a cloak of righteous
Americanism at any price, was about to be exposed.
The media, along with many other institutions and
individuals, had purposely withheld the darker side of Reagan's years as
California governor from the 1980 Presidential campaign. Now the dirty laundry
of the past was starting to leak out.
Key backers, financiers and appointees of Ronald Reagan
have always been involved in political spying-and worse. California was ripe
with intrigue. Nixon and Reagan were from California. And California is where
the bubble burst.
The trail leading to the connection between Reagan and
McDonald is long and winding. But the facts prove collusion between informers
hired by Reagan when he was governor and the activities of McDonald's Western
Goals Foundation. The method -- and even the people involved -- were the same in
both cases.
The first indication that something was even more rotten
than usual in California came on August 15, 1980, when Warren Hinckle -- the
former editor of Ramparts magazine -- noted that the snooping of Jerry
Ducote appeared to involve members of Ronald Reagan's gubernatorial staff. (Ducote
was a former sheriff's deputy employed by Reagan's backers, who infiltrated
suspected subversive groups.)
"What is happening in Santa Clara County today is
the germ of the biggest scandal of the next 1 1/2 years," Hinckle said.
"People thought that with Watergate it was all over. But this is the next
layer of Watergate."
On January 4, 1983, nearly 2 1/2 years after Hinckle's
prediction, Detective Jay Paul of the Los Angeles Police Department supplied a
weary team of investigators with what was going to be the connection between
Larry McDonald and Ronald Reagan. That day marked the end of McDonald's
usefulness to the larger network he served. He had become a liability to some
very important people.
What brought down a carefully constructed web of deceit
were massive numbers of files illegally assembled on law-abiding citizens by the
Los Angeles Police Department's Public Disorder Intelligence Division (PDID).
These files were ordered destroyed in 1975,but it was later discovered that LAPD
officers kept the data-bank information.
Enraged by this disobedience, the Los Angeles Police
Commission officially requested the files. But by then, Lieutenant Thomas
Scheidecker had stolen at least 10,000 pages of documents. And PDID Detective
Jay Paul had moved a huge batch of files into the garage of his Long Beach,
California, home, where his wife-attorney Ann Love -- was being paid $30,000 a
year to feed a sophisticated, $100,000 computer this information that had been
ordered destroyed.
The information eventually wound up in the computer of
the Western Goals Foundation. And lo and behold, the man who paid Ann Love was
Representative Larry McDonald, head of Western Goals.
Also caught up in the web was John Rees, editor of the
Western Goals Foundation and a longtime associate of Jerry Ducote through their
common bosses and similar methods of accumulating data. Both acted as agents
provocateurs.
"An agent provocateur is a police agent who is
introduced into any political organization with instructions to foment
discontent...or to take a case in order to give his employers the right to act
against the organization in question," according to Victor Kaledin, a
colonel in the Imperial Russian Military Intelligence.
Ducote was employed in such activities by Ronald
Reagan's backers and by the John Birch Society. Rees worked with the Birch
Society and virtually every other right-wing group, feeding them information
they could use to harass and embarrass those who opposed their point of view.
Reagan's man (Ducote) and Larry McDonald's crony (John
Rees) worked together at the San Francisco-based Western Research, also known as
Research West. Ducote secluded himself behind unmarked doors, running a
blacklisting service for industry. The results of his spying were added to a
repository of information used by Governor Reagan to screen out potential state
employees with leftist political tendencies that were contrary to his own
beliefs.
At the same time, photographs of rallies and
demonstrations -- along with copies of underground newspapers -- were being
supplied to Western Research by agents of the Los Angeles Police Department. In
turn, Western Research sold background information about employees, advising
corporations about possible risks.
Research West, as it was later called, maintained close
ties with law-enforcement agencies and private data banks, using its spies to
supply information to utility companies anxious to identify anti-nuclear
activists. Clearly, blacklisting hadn't ended with the death of Senator Joseph
McCarthy years before. The witch hunt never ceased.
Last January in Los Angeles the American Civil Liberties
Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of 131 law-abiding groups and individuals who
were illegally spied upon. Among the defendants in this case are 54 police
officers who are members of the LAPD's Public Disorder Intelligence Division.
The law firm representing these defendants -- its highly
sensitive files were being funneled to Representative Larrp Mc- Donald's Western
Goals Foundation -- is Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. Curiously enough, Attorney
General William French Smith was a partner in that firm. And none other than
President Ronald Reagan is a client of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher for all
personal matters.
In any event, time was running out on Larry McDonald's
many years of stealing, bugging and compiling. He was about to be subpoenaed by
a Los Angeles County grand jury. His testimony, particularly the portions
telling of how his Long Beach computer was being fed with illegal police
intelligence files, could embarrass and even damage a great number of powerful
people.
Several weeks following the destruction of Flight 007,
Soviet President Yuri Andropov blamed the United States for what he called a
"sophisticated provocation, masterminded by U.S. special services, an
example of extreme adventurism in politics."
How could the United States have written such a script?
Larry McDonald was going to necessarily embarrass President Reagan if too many
of the documents from California were exposed. They shared common spies and
common enemies. So let's assume that the CIA, FBI and all federal agencies that
worked with McDonald -- particularly the Pentagon -- wanted him silenced
immediately. At the same time, because McDonald was so violently anti-Communist,
why not make the Soviets responsible for his murder? A New Right martyr could be
created for the fight against communism. Remember the Pueblo?
The scenario might have continued in the following way:
*There would be a celebration in South Korea early in
September. McDonald had strong ties to Korean-born Reverend Sun Myung Moon,
leader of the Unification Church (the Moonies), and the South Korean military.
Get McDonald to attend that celebration in South Korea.
(Dorothy Hunt, CIA officer and wife of Watergate
defendant E. Howard Hunt, was blown up in a commercial airliner over
Chicago, and nobody seemed to care. Undoubtedly, her murder scared into silence
primary witnesses who could have embarrassed President Nixon at the time he was
paying off these witnesses to "plead guilty" before sinking his
Presidency. Incidentally, the espionage activities of both E. Howard Hunt and
Congressman McDonald somehow become entangled with the Los Angeles Police
Department. See "The Facts Behind a Sinister Connection," on
page 43.)
*We send spy planes over the USSR continuously. The
Soviet Union does not appreciate such flights violating their territory. By
putting McDonald on a commercial airliner and timing its incursion inside Soviet
airspace with spy-plane operations happening at the same time, an attack by
Soviet missiles would be assured.
One of the many mysteries of Flight 007 is the total
lack of conversation between its pilots and U.S., Korean and Japanese listening
posts. This is known as maintaining radio silence.
Furthermore, 007 left Kennedy Airport in New York with
both a defective radio and a defective navigational system. When the pilot who
flew the first segment debarked in Anchorage, he assumed the plane's
malfunctioning parts would be repaired. But this didn't happen.
It is common knowledge to all pilots flying over Soviet
territory that aircraft going beyond a certain point inside Russian borders will
be forced to land or be shot down. If the CIA and the National Security Agency
wanted Larry McDonald dead, thereby assuring an international incident,
isolating the pilots from instructions or warnings would be essential. The way
to accomplish this is either to tamper with radio transmissions or the pilots'
minds - or both.
The pilot in command of 007, Chun Byung In, held the
rank of colonel in the South Korean Air Force. He was considered reliable enough
to have flown the Korean president to the U.S. in 1982 and to fly overseas
routes linking Southeast Asia and the Middle East, Paris and Los Angeles, and
New York and Seoul. Co-pilot for 007 was Lieutenant Colonel Sohn Dong Hui.
According to news reports, Chun boasted to close friends
that he was carrying out special tasks of American intelligence, and he even
showed them some of the plane's spy equipment used for surveying Soviet military
installations. Such spying was sometimes part of regularly scheduled commercial
flights that began in New York City and ended in Seoul.
After the 007 disaster there were explanations that
Koreans flew over Soviet airspace to reduce fuel expenses. But spy cameras with
the ability to photograph Soviet military bases are a more plausible reason for
Korean jets losing their way so often.
Reports indicate that Korean Air Lines concluded a
secret agreement with the CIA in the early 1970s to carry out intelligence
surveys of Soviet territory. These reports further indicate that when Flight 007
was shot down, the U.S. intelligence mission utilized a reconnaissance satellite
that was programmed to pass overhead at the same time. This allowed the U.S. to
record electronic traffic denoting the whereabouts of Soviet air-defense systems
as they were activated to meet a presumed threat.
After triggering off the radar warning of a threat to
the USSR, the pilot of a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane used ma- neuvers and
tricks typical of American spy planes as he attempted to frustrate Soviet air
defenses. Eventually, he dove below the radar cover off the Kamchatka Peninsula
to distract air-defense crews and allow Flight 007 to enter Soviet airspace
undetected.
Meanwhile, attempting to dodge Soviet fighter planes 226
miles inside the USSR, pilot Chun requested permission to elevate to 35,000
feet. Moments later he shouted, "Rapid...a rapid decompression" as 007
was hit by a missile.
Chun's last words --"one-zero,
one-zero-delta"-- left everybody confused, as did the plane's final radio
transmissions. Neither Matsumi Suzuki, head of Japan's Sound Research Institute,
nor the Japanese broadcast network NHK could explain what delta meant.
Was that Chun's "Rosebud"?
The first reports following the tragedy, noting the
apparent loss of contact with 007's pilots, suggested that the plane had been
hijacked. A second report said that the two pilots and the navigator may have
been asleep--a dubious theory considering the crew's unblemished record of
professionalism.
A more likely possibility is that the crew had been the
victim of hypnosis and mind control--receiving instructions in advance, before
they left Anchorage, that could not be picked up on any messages recorded later.
If this seems farfetched, consider the experience of
Candy Jones -- a famous model and radio personality -- who described in her
biography how the CIA programmed her mind for spying and various activities
related to espionage. A single phone call from an unseen person would have been
enough to implement previously implanted instructions to kill herself.
These revelations came to light at the height of the
Watergate scandal, along with evidence that she had previously done errands for
the CIA. Only the intervention of her husband saved Candy Jones from certain
death.
The issue of 007's defective navigational system also
came under close scrutiny following the disaster. Reports filed with NASA
revealed that at least 25 times during the past five years U.S. airline pilots
relying on the same navigational equipment used by 007 had strayed off course --
once as much as 250 miles. Cited among the causes for such problems were
computer malfunctions and human errors.
"It's easy to become complacent [on long
flights]," said Pan American World Airways pilot Thomas Foxworth.
"It's a human failing. The record is replete with numerous incidents of a
guy just falling asleep."
What if the "human failing" cited by Foxworth
was actually mind-controlled planning?
Two of the 007 crew might have been asleep -- or even
dead. But the one who said "delta" was obviously awake until the end.
His response to what was going to happen, given his years of experience and
expertise, was that of a programmed zombie instructed to fly continuously --
disregarding any external sights or sounds on the flight equipment.
As long ago as November 1974 the Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights -- headed by then-Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina --
issued a 645-page report titled "Individual Rights and the Federal Role in
Behavior Modification," which indicated the advanced state of CIA mind work
and testing.
Three years later the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence and the Sub-committee on Health and Scientific Research published a
report titled "Project Mkultra: The CIA's Program in Behavior
Modification."
The upshot of these reports is that the Pentagon had
the capability, if it so desired, to link mind control with satellite defense
systems. And a logical use of mind control, of course, would be to program a
pilot -- perhaps even turning a normal flight into a kamikaze mission.
Dr. Jose Delgado, the father of military-and-defense
mind experimentation who worked with the CIA and Navy Intelligence, perfected
such procedures as far back as 1971. In one instance he surgically implanted a
receiver in the brain of a Spanish fighting bull. Later in a Madrid arena, when
a tiny radio-controlled electrode delivered a minute surge of current to the
enraged beast's mind, the bull braked to an abrupt halt.
Delgado also pioneered a method of shooting mood drugs
into the brain, which could then be calmed by a remote computer that sensed
oncoming anxiety, depression or rage and then flashed back inhibitor signals by
radio.
"The [programmed] individual may think that the
most important fact of reality is his own existence," Delgado wrote.
"But that is only his personal point of view, a relative frame of reference
which is not shared by the rest of the living world."
The reason for perfecting physical control of the mind
was to enable outside forces to determine how to use a person's body by
activating his brain and directing it beyond that person's control -- in spite
of any conscious efforts he might make.
KAL Flight 007 was equipped with the latest pathfinding
technology. Three computer-driven inertial-navigational systems, which tell the
airplane seven times per second where it is supposed to go, had been installed a
year earlier.
Only the following elements could have coordinated the
death of Representative Larry McDonald with the Soviet missile response: (1)
human factors; (2) altered instruments in New York City or Anchorage; or (3)
mind control over the Korean Air Force pilots.
* * *
Exactly who was Larry McDonald, the strange and
complex individual who wore so many robes? At first he was a doctor,
specializing in urology, who prescribed the discredited drug laetrile to cancer
patients. He was also a man who concealed the ownership of 200 guns. In 1974 he
was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and he later became chairman
of both the tax-free Western Goals Foundation and the John Birch Society.
The Larry McDonald pie (see
page 40) is a suggestion of segments in his complicated secret life that
reveals his unmistakable links to military and law-enforcement agencies
throughout the world.
The best way to describe most people is to understand
who their heroes are. McDonald reportedly kept two photographs on the walls of
his Congressional office that give some clues to his mental state.
One picture was of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The other was of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Senator McCarthy began his Senate career after World War
II with financial assistance from two known Nazi sympathizers in
Wisconsin--Frank Seusenbrenner and Waiter Harnischfeger. Fred J. Cook's book The
Nightmare Decade details the pro-Nazi backers of McCarthy and how the
senator knew of their "passionate ultra-rightism and admiration for
Hitler."
Harnischfeger's nephew, in fact, often displayed an
autographed copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf. He also flaunted a watch-chain
swastika.
In December 1946, 43 of Hitler's top military officers
received death sentences or long prison terms at the Dachau Trials for the
bloody massacre of American soldiers at Malmedy, France. One of McCarthy's
primary objectives as he entered the Senate was to facilitate their release. By
1949, thanks to Congressional hearings he directed and other maneuvering,
McCarthy's efforts paid off. The 43 Nazis were freed.
When McCarthy conducted his House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC) hearings in 1953 and began accumulating data banks on
law-abiding citizens for future fascist purposes, most of his information came
from combined United States intelligence and Nazi war criminals. He also drew
upon the extensive files of a spy network known as Odessa, which was formed
between 1943 and 1945 when it became obvious the Third Reich could not win the
war against the Soviet Union.
After McCarthy died in 1957, it is reasonable to assume
that Larry McDonaid -- through Louise Bees -- took over the massive computerized
files that now contain millions of names worldwide.
Louise Rees -- the wife of John Rees, editor of
McDonald's Western Goals Foundation -- worked for McCarthy and Roy M. Cohn,
counsel for the senator's 1953 Permanent Investigations Subcommittee of the
Government Operations Committee. Western Goals lists Roy M. Cohn, now a New York
lawyer, on its advisory board. And when McDonald went to Washington as a
representative from Georgia in1974, Louise Rees became his paid staff aide.
McDonald's admiration for his other major hero, Chilean
dictator Augusto Pinochet, can be explained in part by the fact that both of
their careers benefited from the support of international fascist organizations.
And there is evidence that Nazis in Chile had funded McDonald's Congressional
campaigns since 1974, at Pinochet's direction -- just as Nazis were the source
of funds for McCarthy in Wisconsin.
Ironically, the very night that McDonald was killed, his
CIA-supported hero -- Pinochet -- was being taunted by rioters in Chile. The
Chilean people also want their nightmare decade to end.
Pinochet is responsible for DINA, Nazi-like death-squad
terrorist teams that are part of the Chilean police and are necessary to
maintain his repressive regime. Without DINA's methods of fear and torture, the
U.S. puppet government in Chile would not last another day.
Pinochet also does nothing to interfere with Colonia
Dignidad, a haven for Nazi war criminals located on the border between Argentina
and Chile. Colonia Dignidad serves as a torture center where dissenters who
oppose Pinochet are mutilated and fed to dogs while still alive. Armed guards
discourage snoopers. Amnesty International is currently investigating this
deplorable situation.
Larry McDonald's unsavory Chilean connection was further
exposed when Robert Byron Watson presented attorneys from the House Select
Committee on Assassinations with an alleged affidavit detailing McDonald's
dealings with Fuad Habash Ansare in Santiago de Chile. In this alleged affidavit
Watson claimed that Fuad Habash is the brother of Arab terrorist leader Dr.
George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine! This is the
organization that is said to work with our CIA as it arranges Arab terrorist
murders around the globe.
* * *
A far more sinister organization, Larry McDonald's
Western Goals Foundation, was formed in 1979. Members of its advisory board are
listed in brochures and newspaper advertisements. They include the following:
Jean Ashbrook, Mrs. Waiter Brennan, Taylor Caldwell,
Roy M. Cohn, Congressman Philip M. Crane (R-Illinois), General Raymond Davis,
Henry Hazlitt, Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, Dr. Anthony Kubek, Robert Milliken,
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, E.A. Morris, Vice-Admiral Lloyd M. Mustin, Mrs. John
C. Newington, General George S. Patton III, Dr. Hans Sennholz, General John
Singlaub, Dan Smoot, Robert Stoddard, Congressman Bob Stump (D-Arizona), Mrs.
Helen Marie Taylor, Dr. Edward Teller, General Lewis Walt and Dr. Eugene Wigner.
The executive staff of Western Goals consists of Linda
Guell, director; John Rees, editor; and Julia Ferguson, research associate.
Two members of Western Goals bear special mention.
According to Seymour Hersh's recent book The Price of Power in the Nixon
White House, Admiral Thomas Moorer masterminded the surreptitious removal of
sensitive data from President Nixon's office. Working through Yeoman Charles
Radford, Moorer stole papers clearly marked "President's Eyes Only"
and had them delivered to the Pentagon.
His reward for stealing these top-secret documents was a
promotion to the prestigious Joint Chiefs of Staff. Merry Christmas, Cambodia!
Bypassing every member of Congress, Henry Kissinger and Admiral Moorer conducted
their own private war against that country -- which has not fought the United
States at any time -- gleefully selecting bombing targets that cost the lives of
millions of innocent people.
It later developed that the Los Angeles Police
Department files on 2 million Californians were assessed by Moorer's and
McDonald's Western Goals computer.
So it comes to pass that the criminal keep track of the
innocent. Information about you is probably already filed and computerized in
their secret data banks. Would you trust people like this with your good name?
A second Western Goals advisory-board member worth
noting is Edward Teller, Hungarian-born father of the hydrogen bomb. The same
day that McDonald made the front page of the Washington Post -- when
Western Goals was ordered to answer the stolen-documents subpoena in Los Angeles
-- Teller was attending a European seminar on nuclear warfare that was critical
to America's future foreign policy.
* * *
There is no beginning or end to the Larry McDonald
tragedy. His right-wing fanaticism drew him to the crueler side of blackmailers,
burglars, assassins, terrorists, wiretappers, and people dedicated to waging a
future war with the Soviet Union.
And there he was, last August 31 and September 1,
apparently sitting all alone on Flight 007. If that was by Soviet design, then
all of his entourage were Communists who knew in advance.
But since the American delegation was screened and
cleared for travel with a congressman, then the CIA and U.S. agents knew
something they wouldn't share with him - even if it was going to save his life.
So what's it all about, Alfie!