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tion, not with the consent of the American 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. 0 As American Ambassador to the United Nations and the Bush Administration's champi- Wits pr. IC e of on for compulsory US democracy, Thomas Reeve Pickering cut a dashing figure. Tall 0 and urbane, he looked the perfect statesman as he hurled vitriolic remarks at the countries rg) I | shou Id not 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 b e m Casu ig ed 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 i n U. AY do | I} la rs all of them and many more. He was even in El Salvador during the period the CIA super- (4 vised the 'Death Squads' responsible for the torture, assassination and disappearance of e more innocent people than could be counted. it shou Id be It is possible, though unlikely, that the numbers who died in El Salvador might have 0 exceeded those who died at the hands of the Shah's hated ‘Savak’ secret police in Iran. As m eC a Su red I n with the death squads in El Salvador, Savak had its torture and assassination techniques honed to perfection by the CIA. F: decades the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has coveted global domina- Back in 1974 Victor Marchetti, formerly an Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director ° h uman | I ves! 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 mini-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 that 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, | guess, the moment of truth. What did a busload of burning people have to do with freedom? What right did | have, in the name of democracy and the CIA, to decide that random victims should die? The intellectual game was over. | had to leave." THE MIDDLE EAST Victor Marchetti resigned before the CIA decided to target the Middle East in its THE MIDDLE EAST Victor Marchetti resigned before the CIA decided to target the Middle East in its attempt to shift primary oil production from the Persian Gulf to the Falkland Islands. However, evidence the CIA maintained its vicious determination to murder random inno- cent victims by the thousand was soon to be provided in the 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. Despite the sophistication of reconnaissance satellites, there was no substitute for human beings capable of infiltrating and undermining foreign govern- ments—the Agency's normal method of operation. From the outset, the CIA recognised two countries in particular would be very difficult to undermine easily: Iraq and Libya. The Agency infiltrated the Kurdish population in By Joe Vialls Joe Vialls is an Australian-based: freelance journalist, with thirty years’ direct experience in international military and oilfield operations. 12¢NEXUS DECEMBER 1993 - JANUARY 1994