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by Washington were the biggest crimes ever inflicted upon Americans, but these were crimes that the average person could understand." years. And so it goes. Rodney Stich's life work and his books, especially Defrauding America (subtitled "An Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA and Other Covert Agencies"), are demonstra- tion that the US National Security Act of 1947 must be repealed. Why? Because the secrecy, amorality and degeneracy spawned by the Act has changed the char- acter of not only the United States but the world at large. Worst of all, it has brought about an institutionalised corruption and depravity in America that parallels nothing but the final days of the Roman Empire. brainwashed, trained and armed, engaged in random and indiscriminate killings to destabilise the region and justify US inter- vention... "Freeman was the head of a five-man assassination team ordered by the team's CIA handlers to kill anyone they encoun- tered and leave evidence that another fac- tion had done the killings. Freeman said that for several years his team went on a killing spree, sometimes wiping out an entire small village." In Defrauding America, Stich includes top-secret US documents from 1963 and 1964 confirming the assassination of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem by Freeman's team. In other words, the CIA sets up its puppet rulers, then murders them when it becomes expedient. But there's more. Freeman also has hard evidence proving that his team was ordered by his CIA handlers to a sinate American POWs, and how his team carried out the orders. "Those documents provided sufficient corroboration to make Freeman's descrip- tions believable," Stich reports. "Not that the a ination of American GIs ordered REPEAL OF THE US NATIONAL SECURITY ACT As far as the US is concerned, the National Security Act of 1947 can be con- sidered the root of evil described in Stich's books. It continues to provide an impene- trable shield for the arrogant abuse of power by government officials—namely the National Security Council, which oper- ates under questionable constitutionality, as well as the so-called ‘intelligence’ agencies like the CIA, NSA and NRO. These agencies' Cold War raison d'étre has disappeared into the black hole of the phoney ideological battle known as the ‘capitalism vs communism' scam. Now they remain as the last refuge of criminals and corrupt officials whose illegal practices continue under the guise of so-called national security. Like the old-guard Soviet nomenclatura and its attendant apparatchiks, these agen- cies and the faceless bureaucrats who run them have garnered enormous power— most likely due to the cash flow from the GRASSROOTS GROUPS & PUBLIC AWARENESS What Rodney Stich has documented— criminal behaviour by public officials entrusted with government—can no longer be tolerated. Brave individuals have spo- ken out against this corruption and contin- ue to expose the treacherous conduct of those who have betrayed public trust. Like Amnesty International which works to release political prisoners in repressive regimes, there ought to be locally based grassroots groups for expanding public 88 + NEXUS Spooks, Whistleblowers and Fall Guys Continued from page 87 massive drug trafficking over the last 50 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1998