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12·NEXUS Fr decades the US Central Illtelligence Agency (CIA) has coveted global domina tion, not with the consent of the AmericllD people but rather by directing the actions of the American President as a child pulls the strings of a limp puppet. The term 'New World Order' was coined back in the late -sixties by the CIA, not by a democratically elected leader of the American people. With'the collapse of the USSR, the CIA saw its chance and pushed for global domination by manipulation of world oil resources. Its prime objective of developing the vast but little-known oil reserves in the British-domi nated Falkland Islands had! been frustrated since the early 1980s by oil prices too low to finance expensive Falklands exploration. Intending to 'bounce' oil prices high enough by forcibly reducing Middle East oil production, all the CIA needed was an excuse, which was 'miraculously' provided! in 1990 by President Hussein of Iraq. As American Ambassador to the United Nations and the Bush Administration's champi on for compulsory US democracy, Thomas Reeve Pickering cut a dashing figure. Tall and urbane, he looked the perfect statesman as he hurled vitriolic remarks at the countries of the Middle East. There is little doubt that after sustained exposure, most television viewers believed Pickering's carefully structured UN presentations. Enter 'Thomas Reeve Pickering' into any counter-intelligence computer and the machine groans with agony as it struggles to flood the screen with an overwhelming mass of data. Tanzania? Jordan? Washington's war on Nicaragua? Pickering was around for all of them and many more. He was even in Ell Salvador during the period the CIA super vised Ute 'Death Squads' responsible for the torture., assassinat.ion an.d disappearance of more innocent people than could be counted. It is ,possible, thO]lgh unlikely, that the numbers who died in HI Salvador might have exceeded those who died at the hands of the Shah's hated 'Savak' secret polLee inlran. As with the death squads in El Salvador, Savak had its torture and assassination techniques honed to perfection by the CIA. Back in 1974 Victor Marchetti, formerly an Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA, wrote of the 'New Order' then being planned at Langley headquarters. He explained in chilling terms why resignation was his only honourable choice: "And there was a diabolical invention that might be called a mi_ni-cannon... There were a number of uses for the mini-cannon, one of which was demonstrated to us using an old army school bus. It was fastened to the gasoline tank in such a fashion Ithat the incendiary projectile would rupture the tank and fling flaming gasoline the length of the bus interior, incinerating anyone inside. It was my lot to show the rest of the class how easily it could be done. It worked, my God, how it worked. It was, I guess, the moment of truth. What did a busload of burning people have to do with freedom? What right did I have, in the name of democracy and the CIA, to decide that random victims should die? The intellectual game was over. I had to leave." THE MIDDLE EAST Victor Marchetti resigned before the CIA decided to target the Middle East in its attempt to shift prrrnCJY oil production from the Persilln Gulf to th-e Falkland Islands. However, eviden.ce the CIA maintained its vicious determination to murder random inno cent victims by the thousand was soon to be provided ill Ithe Middle East with sickening massacres in both Iraq and Kuwait. The CIA's first priority was 'putting men on the ground' in the Middle East as Intelligence operatives. Desp,ite the sophistication of reconnaissance satellites, there was no substitute for human beings $apable of infiltrating a.nd 1JJlgermining foreign govern ments:-the Agency's normal method of operation. From the outset, the CIA recognised two countries in particular woul'd be very difficult to undermine easiFy: Iraq and Libya. The Agency infiltrated the Kurdish population in DECEMBH 1993 -JANUARY 1994