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AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF THE 'WAR ON TERRORISM’ INSIDER'S VIEW THE 'WAR TERRORISM: Mike Vreeland, a ‘discharged' US Navy Lieutenant who spied for the Office of Naval Intelligence, says the United States and several other governments knew well in advance what was planned for September 11. [Note: Just prior to the publication of this article, the From The Wilderness website was hacked for the second time in a month. This hacking—accomplished via sophisticated methods—has been apparently intended to prevent us from publishing the following inter- view. As a temporary measure only, please direct emergency email correspondence to mikeruppert@earthlink.net. FTW will be back up and running in an even more secure manner in the near future. — Michael C. Ruppert, April 5, 2002] f all of its dark alleys could be explored, the case of Delmart Edward Joseph "Mike" Vreeland is one which is worthy of a book that would rival War and Peace. It is a case that has sparked zealous attacks on FTW and me personally, and one which has seriously disturbed many officials in Washington. These attacks are an indication of the threat Vreeland poses to the credibility of the US government. There is only one question of any relevance. How was this man able to write details that described the events of September 11, 2001, while locked in a jail cell, more than a month before the attacks occurred? It matters little to a housewife in Kansas if Mike Vreeland has a very confusing crimi- nal arrest record—some of it very contradictory and apparently fabricated—for a variety of petty criminal offences including fraud. But it might be a matter of the gravest impor- tance for the same housewife if this man knew accurate information about the attacks, tried to warn both the US and Canadian governments about them and was ignored. If a crazy man runs up to you on the street and says that a house is on fire with children trapped inside and you smell smoke, who is the crazy one if you decide not to investigate? The US Navy says that Vreeland—arrested in Canada on December 6, 2000 and cur- rently fighting a US extradition warrant—was discharged for unsatisfactory performance after only four months of service in 1986. But a growing pile of evidence, much of it filed in court records and undisputed by Canadian or US authorities, establishes clearly that Vreeland was exactly what he says he was: a spy. In three previous stories, FTW has described how Vreeland's military records, acknowl- edged to be in excess of 1,200 pages, have been tampered with. We have described how his lawyers, in open court on a speakerphone, obtained direct confirmation from the Pentagon that he was a US Navy officer. We have also reported that, on March 14, 2002, all Canadian charges against Vreeland were dismissed and he was released on bail. He has been granted temporary refugee status by the Canadian government until his battle to beat the US extradition request is settled. Something that Canadian authorities have never disputed is that Vreeland wrote his ominous and hastily scribbled warning a full month before the attacks, and that the warn- ing was sealed away by his keepers, beyond his reach, until September 14, 2001—three days after the attacks. Both Vreeland and his attorneys believe that if he loses his extradition fight, his assassi- nation will occur within days of his return to US soil. Mike Vreeland is not a saint. Covert operatives are not made from such material, and governments do not recruit or screen candidates for saintly qualities. By his own admis- sion in Canadian court documents and in several conversations with FTW, Vreeland says he has done bad things. He has been on probation for petty offences, and he has behaved the way covert operatives behave in the real world, not in Hollywood. Ihave been studying, interacting with and talking to covert operatives for more than 25 years. It is for this reason that I avoid some of the questions being raised by dilettantes by Michael C. Ruppert © April 2002 JUNE - JULY 2002 NEXUS ¢ 13 www.nexusmagazine.com