STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

In Defense of American Intelligence—HUMINT/CYBER/ SURVEILLANCE-- Overseas!

From the very first days of the founding of America as British terrorist colony,   our founding fathers set up a Committee of Secrecy in order to penetrate British,  French,  Spanish, and Dutch  intelligence and banking institutions.

  What do I mean?

  Both Benjamin Franklin and Robert Morris [financier] set up a secret committee unbeknownst to the other members of the Continental Congress in order to secure valuable intelligence and more importantly,  the requisite finances for the ‘illegal acquisitions’ of muskets and gun powder.

  Please remember,  that our ‘terrorist‘ colony was in a full scale rebellion,   not once,  but twice,  against it’s oppressor,  our present ally,  Britain.

 My point?

  Without Human Intelligence [HUMINT],  Electronic [ELINT],  Signal [SIGINT],  and Cyber intelligence,  the viability of our country as a nation state is highly compromised.    Intelligence is to national security as X-RAYs,  CAT SCANs,  MRIs  are to physicians and surgeons.    No ethical,  efficient physician would dream of executing any invasive procedures without some form of lab tests or other indicators which allow the physician to determine the most efficient and least dangerous cure for the viability of his/her patient.

  That analogy applies to the gathering of FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE by the USG OVERSEAS by any and all  “LEGITIMATE” methods.    Therefore,  the recent complaints by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Francois Hollande of France are at best DISINGENUOUS and at extreme beyond absurd.    Both Germany and France have been some of the top ten intelligence ‘penetrators’ of American society and American intelligence.

  Let me be more specific.

  When I was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia under Bush Sr/Baker,   I was one of the principal architects of the International Peace Conference On Cambodia in 1991.   Most of my time was spent between Thailand,  Singapore,  Cambodia and France.   But which of the aforementioned countries literally ransacked  my personal possessions while I was under DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION?

  If you guessed –FRANCE!!    You hit it right on the nose!
  It may seem counter-intuitive that one of our closest allies—France,   would spend countless hours monitoring my activities in France and abroad.   But that was the proper job of the Deuxieme Bureau or "La Piscine".     Their job was to find out what I knew about a complicated situation regarding the disarming of the French sponsored Khmer Rouge and what I would do about it.   Their ‘attempted penetration’ involved ‘honey trap’,  ‘rifling through my medicine bag’  and ‘monitoring conversations’ on “AIR FRANCE”.     That’s right, folks,  the French,  Germans and Israelis as well as other countries use their stewardesses and electronic equipment to start monitoring  a ‘foreigner’s activities’ the minute they enter the airplane.

  Silly! but true.

Remember,  the most active countries trying to steal American ‘secrets’ are China [to be expected];  Russia [technology secrets];  Israel [they want to know if you are pro or anti-Israel];  Britain [they never stop ‘bugging us’].

 

In other words,  everyone spies on everyone else.

Me thinks that Madame Merkel PROTEST TOO MUCH!

  Let let me tell you what little I may know about her without revealing any ‘deep secrets’.

  First and foremost,  she was born and grew up in East Germany.   That presents a basic problem.   Was she or anyone in her family or friends an East German spy—STASI??

We know that her father,  a brave religious leader,  left West Berlin to go to East Germany to start,   I believe,  a Lutheran Congregation.    That congregation,  decades later, was part of the riots that our covert intel community inspired in order to bring down the BERLIN WALL.

  Do you get what I am getting at?
Merkel family was part of a movement  with collaboration of brave CIA /DIA operatives to instigate agitation propaganda in order to force the ‘take down’ of the Berlin Wall.   Now you can see,   that without US Intelligence working in concert with overseas groups—NGOs;  religious groups; students;  professors etc--- we could never have implemented the strategy that I helped create at the RAND Corporation for the take down of the Soviet Union and East Germany.

  Am I a spy?
 

Technically no!   I  never officially accepted the CIA overtures to join.    But does that mean I did not work with brave men and women of the CIA, DIA, NRO. NSA?     In order to be an effective Senior State Dept official,   one needs the tools provided by the covert operatives of our country.

  What is most important is knowing how to use these covert operatives and their information.

  Unfortunately,   I found that most Civilians in the State Dept and other agencies,  including the White House,  did not really know how to use these operatives and their intelligence.    I saw too many operatives mocked,  derided or abused.    For the most part,   covert operatives in both the military and civilian agencies were at best TOLERATED BY SENIOR OFFICIALS IN the WHITE HOUSE AND STATE DEPARTMENT.    Shameful that many policy people never learned how to use INTEL properly.

  From civilian ignorance arose civilian abuses of Electronic Surveillance of  Americans citizens and a completely unnecessary,  cruel,  ‘drone war’ overseas. 

What are my conclusions?

[1]   We need to reorganize sixteen different intelligence agencies in the USG in order to streamline them and eliminate REDUNDANCY.

[2]   Better and more extensive reliance on HUMINT.

[3]   Develop a more rigorous COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE CAPACITY as more and more Chinese,  Russians,  Europeans,  Israelis,  and others migrate to the USA for permanent residency.

[4]   Never apologize for our overseas intelligence successes.   They usually lead to policy changes,   like the present Obama shift from Saudi Arabia to Iran.    Bravo!!

I will then leave you , my dear readers, with a Old Testament Proverb:

  Moses said onto Aaron when he went on to Canaan to spy:
“Send men that they may spy out the land of Cannan…..every one a prince among them"

 AMEN!!!