Ghelen to Chalabi: The Poisoned Well by Werther

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This is a gem! Check out the full text on counterpunch. A decent piece of analysis.


What the CIA's Nazi Files Can Tell Us About Iraq
http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02232005.html

The Poisoned Well
By WERTHER*


<snip>Once hostilities ended, the situation was otherwise than described by Professor Doktor Rice and Kriegsminister Rumsfeld. Compared to the 1,484 dead and 10,487 wounded in Iraq, the few post-VE Day GI homicides principally occurred from black market deals gone wrong or quarrels over a Fräulein. The dynamic of post-war Western Germany, where the population was uniformly terrified of a vengeful Red Army and accordingly seeking protection of the Amis, is a dynamic absent from present-day Iraq.

There are, however, profound lessons to be derived from the occupation of Germany and its integration into the post-World War II American world system. Principal among the institutions which America absorbed into its national security state was German Intelligence, specifically the Gehlen Organization.<snip>

<Dulles's post-World War II partiality towards Nazi war criminals was essentially a continuation of his pre-war activities as a partner of Sullivan and Cromwell, a firm which facilitated transnational business agreements with the German cartels. Dulles's performance in the Bay of Pigs invasion does not suggest a penetrating strategic mind...<snip>

<Does this begin to sound familiar? Why is everything we are supposed to know about "the Greater Middle East" funneled through a foreign power?...>