Gary Porter, Guy Gran and William Goodfellow (Indochina Resource Center, Center for International Policy, etc). who denied, before Congress, that the Khmer Rouge were practicing genocide in Cambodia, and at the very time that it was happening. Even liberal Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-NY), 1976 hearings, literally called them liars and psychopaths. (Probably House Foreign Affairs or International Affairs Committee, subcommittee on Asia, hearings, 1976-77. Might be entitled "Human Rights in Cambodia".
Prof. George McT. Kahin, in his book on "The US in Vietnam" devoted only one line to Ho Chi MInh's bloody repression in the North during the "Land Reform" and "Land Rectification" programs in which tens of thousands of "landlords" were slaughtered. Figures range from 50,000 to 500,000.
Harrison Salisbury was a good propagandist for Hanoi (N Y Times).
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This is getting very interesting.
John Kerry and his anti-American IPS playmates
Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 23 August 2004
In the mid-80s the Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations was set up with John Kerry's help. What became known as the "John Kerry Committee" quickly became a vicious means of opposing President Reagan's policy of ridding Central America of Marxist-Leninist thugs.
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John Kerry put Gary Porter, a fellow of the IPS, on his payroll as a legislative aid. This is of particular interest because Kerry's anti-defense and intelligence voting record exactly mirrors the IPS's anti-defense and anti-intelligence proposals, which in turn toed the Soviet line.
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It was the pro-Castro Richard Barnet, cofounder of the IPS, who accused the CIA of being a "criminal enterprise that must be dismantled". Kerry agreed with Barnet to the extent that even after the 1993 Twin Towers bombing he still tried to slash intelligence spending.
Porter and Peter Kornbluh, another pro-Soviet member of the IPS, helped arrange Kerry and Harkin's 1984 trip to Managua, the result of which persuaded the Senate to vote against the Contras.
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McCarthy's rapid advancement speaks volumes about how the Clinton Administration did business, and sheds new light on the intelligence failures that set the stage for 9-11. We can only wonder how many other political hacks climbed the intel food chain under Clinton--and remain in place to this day.
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Even without leapfrogging more senior persons, I'm sure that way too many Clintonistas rose to positions higher than their capabilities, simply because many career persons retired 'early' during the Clinton years as a matter of principle or disgust.