Ludwig Braeckeleer Questions Wikipedia
While researching my next article about the Lockerbie bombing, I
witnessed an incident that made me wonder whether intelligence
agents had infiltrated Wikipedia.
Anyone who knows the universal success of Wikipedia will immediately
grasp the importance of the issue. The fact that most Internet
search engines, such as Google, give Wikipedia articles top ranking
only raises the stakes to a higher level.
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Lockerbie And It's Propaganda
In the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, the finger of
suspicion quickly pointed to a Syria-based Palestinian organization
-- the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General
Command (PFLP-GC) -- hired by Iran. The terrorist group was created
by a former Syrian army captain, Ahmed Jibril, who broke away from
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1968.
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Does The Hoax Of Entebbe Flow To Lockerbie
I had learned from a recently released U.S. National Archives
file that Shin Bet, the Israeli Security Agency, had infiltrated the
PFLP and helped the Entebbe hijackers (Israeli commandos rescued the
hostages in Uganda in 1976), so I wanted to learn more about the
link between the PFLP and the PFLP-GC. I also wanted to learn more
about allegations made by David Colvin, the first secretary of the
British Embassy in Paris, concerning the rather bizarre
collaboration between the PFLP and the Shin Bet.
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Wikipedia Erases The Shin Bet Relationship
As I could not locate the article in which I had learned about
the allegations, I consulted the article on the Entebbe Operation on
Wikipedia, where I knew the story had been noted. To my surprise, I
found that all references to the alleged collaboration between the
PFLP and the Shin Bet had been suppressed. Moreover, it is no longer
possible to edit the page.
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False Flags And Disinformation
Conducting false flag operations and planting disinformation in
the mainstream media have long belonged to the craft of the spies.
In the months preceding the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister
Mohammed Mossadegh, U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies used both
techniques abundantly.
A copy of the CIA's secret history of the coup surfaced in 2000.
Written in 1954 by the Princeton professor who oversaw the
operation, the story reveals that agents from the CIA and SIS (the
American and British intelligence services) "directed a campaign of
bombings by Iranians posing as members of the Communist Party, and
planted articles and editorial cartoons in newspapers."
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A Compliant Media Is Needed
The section of the report concerning the media speaks volumes:
"The CIA was apparently able to use contacts at the Associated Press
to put on the newswire a statement from Tehran about royal decrees
that the CIA itself had written. But mostly, the agency relied on
less direct means to exploit the media.
"The Iran desk of the State Department was able to place a CIA study
in Newsweek, using the normal channel of desk officer to journalist.
The article was one of several planted press reports that, when
reprinted in Tehran, fed the war of nerves against Iran's prime
minister, Mohammed Mossadegh," the document said.
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Bush Wants The Pentagon As A Disinformation Source
Half a century later, the technique of disinformation is as
important as ever to intelligence agencies. In the aftermath of the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Pentagon set up the Defense
Department's Office of Strategic Influence with a mission "to
provide news items and false information directly to foreign
journalists and others to bolster U.S. policy and the war on
terrorism."
The new office attracted so much criticism that the Bush
administration eventually shut it down in February 2002. Even
defense officials publicly denounced the dangers of such a program,
which could have left the department without a shred of credibility.
"We shouldn't be in that business. Leave the propaganda leaks to the
CIA, the spooks [secret agents]," a defense official said.
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Is Wikipedia Harboring a Secret Agent?
According to clues accumulated by ordinary citizens around the
world, it could be that the CIA and other intelligence agencies are
riding the information wave and planting disinformation on Wikipedia.
If so, tens of thousands of innocent and unwitting citizens around
the world are translating and propagating their lies, providing
these agencies with a universal news network.
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The Salinger Investigation of the Pan Am 103 Bombing
Pierre Salinger was White House press secretary to Presidents John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Salinger also served as U.S. Senator
from California and a campaign manager for Robert Kennedy.
But Salinger is also famous for his investigative journalism. Hired
by ABC News as its Paris bureau chief in 1978, he became the
network's chief European correspondent in 1983.
During his distinguished career, Salinger broke important
stories, such as the secret negotiations by the U.S. government with
Iran to free American hostages in 1979-80 and the last meeting
between U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie and Saddam Hussein in 1990,
during which she led the Iraqi president to believe that the U.S.
would not react to an invasion of Kuwait.
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Salinger Investigates Pan AM 103
Salinger, who was based in London, spent a considerable amount of
time and energy investigating the bombing of Pan Am 103 over
Lockerbie. He and his collaborator, John Cooley, hired a young
graduate, Linda Mack, to help in the investigation.
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The Farce In The Netherlands
"I know that these two Libyans had nothing to do with it. I know
who did it and I know exactly why it was done," Salinger said during
his testimony at the Zeist trial, where one of the Libyans was
convicted of murdering the 270 victims.
"That's all? You're not letting me tell the truth. Wait a minute; I
know exactly who did it. I know how it was done," Salinger replied
to the trial judge, Lord Sutherland, who simply asked him to leave
the witness box.
"If you wish to make a point you may do so elsewhere, but I'm afraid
you may not do so in this court," Lord Sutherland interrupted.
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Salinger's Assistant Is Wikipedia's Primary Editors
Slim Virgin
had been voted the most abusive administrator of Wikipedia. She
upset so many editors that some of them decided to team up to
research her real life identity.
Attempts to track her through Internet technology failed. This is
suspicious in itself as the location of normal Internet users can
easily be tracked. According to a team member, Slim Virgin "knows
her way around the Internet and covered her tracks with care."
Daniel Brandt of the Wikipedia
Review and founder of
Wikipedia-Watch.org patiently assembled tiny clues about Slim
Virgin and posted them on these Web sites. Eventually, two readers
identified her. Slim Virgin was no other than Linda Mack, the young
graduate Salinger hired.
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Salinger's Other Assistant Chimes In
John K. Cooley, the collaborator of Salinger in the Lockerbie
investigation, posted the following letter to Brandt on Wikipedia
Review, which has been set up to discuss specific editors and
editing patterns and general efforts by editors to influence or
direct content in ways that might not be in keeping with Wikipedia
policy:
She claimed to have lost a friend/lover on pan103 and so was anxious
to clear up the mystery. ABC News paid for her travel and expenses
as well as a salary'
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Linda Mack Pointed Everything At Libya
Once the two Libyan suspects were indicted, she seemed to try to
point the investigation in the direction of Qaddafi [Libyan
President Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi], although there was plenty of
evidence, both before and after the trials of Megrahi and Fhimah in
the Netherlands, that others were involved, probably with Iran the
commissioning power. [In 2001, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was
convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison; Lamin Khalifah
Fhimah was acquitted.]
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The Wikipedia Watch Dog Group
Salinger came to believe that [first name redacted but known to
be Linda] was working for [name of intelligence agency redacted but
known to be Britain's MI5] and had been from the beginning; assigned
genuinely to investigate Pan Am 103, but also to infiltrate and
monitor us.
Soon after Cooley wrote to Brandt, Linda Mack contacted him and
asked him not to help Brandt in his efforts to expose her. All
doubts about Slim Virgin's true identity had vanished. Today, Linda
Mack is rumored to reside in Alberta, Canada, under the name of
Sarah McEwan.
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