GATES, ROBERT - FILE /  #87 (236 GANG)  / 

CIA-dir.   NSA,   SAIC-board mbr.,  VoteHere-dir.,  
Aspen Institute / Aspen Strategy Group - mbr,   GBSG-mbr,   Fidelity - Chr.-ttee,   Iraq Study Group (ISG)-mbr,   NSC-mbr,  Pres. Texas A&M univ.,  Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. -ttee,  Forum for International Policy - ttee,   NACCO Industries Inc. - board mbr.,  Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) - Dir.,   LucasVarity plc - Dir., TRW Inc. - Dir.,   America Abroad Media - adv. board mbr.,  The National Academies - adv.,  Brinker International Inc. - board mbr.,  Parker Drilling Company- board mbr.,   CFR Co-Chair task Force,  Pres - Nat. Eagle Scout Assoc.

START = 11-10-2006  /  FINISH = ???

COMPLETE CITES

GENERAL

CFR - Council on Foreign Relations
NSC - National Security Council
SAIC - Science Applications International Corporation / CorpWatch searchlist
GBSG - George Bush School of Government
ISG - Iraq Study Group - a.k.a. Baker-Hamilton Commission or Baker Commission
Carlyle Group - CorpWatch search list
VoteHere

Domain Name registration used to be handled by NSF (National Science Foundation).
National Science Foundation has turned domain name registration over to Network Solutions Inc (NSI).
NSI was purchased by Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in May 1995

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Gates
Robert M. Gates
sourcewatch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates
Robert M. Gates
wikipedia

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/congress-bob-gates.html
Robert M. Gates: Confirmation Hearings and Debates - meta resource
ntlworld

http://www.namebase.org/books58.html
Scandals / Iran-contra - meta / booklist - namelist
namebase

http://www.alternet.org/story/44091/
Bush Replaces Rumsfeld with ... Another Rumsfeld
By Joshua Holland
AlterNet
Posted November 8, 2006.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MCG20061113&articleId=3843
Robert Gates-Gate - Character Counts; So Does Integrity
by Ray McGovern
BuzzFlash
Global Research, November 13, 2006
posted at globalresearch

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB208/index.htm
The Robert Gates File - book exerpts
The Iran-Contra Scandal, 1991 Confirmation Hearings, and Excerpts from new book Safe for Democracy
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 208
Posted - November 10, 2006

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406R.shtml
The Carlyle White House
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Tuesday 14 November 2006

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_Applications_International_Corporation
Science Applications International Corporation
sourcewatch

http://www.itaa.org/global/release.cfm?ID=304
International Press Release
Former CIA Chief Gates to Headline Global Information Security Summit
20-Sep-00

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/111406.html 
Blackmail & Bobby Gates
By Robert Parry
November 15, 2006
consortiumnews

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/1444242&tid=25
Defense Secretary Nominee Robert Gates Tied to Iran-Contra
Scandal and the Secret Arming of Saddam Hussein

interview - Melvin Goodman & Robert Perry
democracynow
Thursday, November 9th, 2006

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/RM/RM.gates
Below are extracts from Robert Gates' book, From the Shadows.
general time-line / resource info
spot acorn

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/110906.html
The Secret World of Robert Gates
By Robert Parry
November 9, 2006
consortiumnews

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7889
US: Uncle Sam Keeps SAIC On Call For Top Tasks
by Scott Shane, Baltimore Sun
October 26th, 2003

FABRICATE - CHERRY PICK - DISTORT  - INTELL

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1110-28.htm
Wrong Man to Replace Rumsfeld
by Melvin A. Goodman
Published on Friday, November 10, 2006 by the Baltimore Sun
posted at common dreams

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/071304.html   
The CIA's DI Disgrace
By Robert Parry
consortiumnews
July 13, 2004

http://consortiumnews.com/2005/040205.html
CIA 'Reform' -- or Just Sack 'Em All
By Robert Parry
consortiumnews
April 3, 2005

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806R.shtml
Gates Has History of Manipulating Intelligence
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Wednesday 08 November 2006

http://www.cq.com/public/20061108_homeland.html
Gates’ CIA Past Could Haunt Him in Confirmation Hearings
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
CQ HOMELAND SECURITY – INTELLIGENCE
Nov. 8, 2006 – 6:06 p.m.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story43.html
CIA at 50, Lost in the 'Politicization' Swamp
By Robert Parry
The Consortium
Copyright (c) 1997

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html
The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA - Devising bad intelligence to promote bad policy
Robert Dreyfuss
Volume 13, Issue 22.   December 16, 2002.
the american prospectt

http://www.tompaine.com/print/the_cheneygates_cabal.php
The Cheney-Gates Cabal
Ray McGovern
tompaincommonsense
November 09, 2006

http://www.fas.org/irp/gentry/index.html
A Framework for Reform of the U.S. Intelligence Community - [ full contents ]
http://www.fas.org/irp/gentry/chapter3.html
Chapter 3: Internal Decay -- The Real Reason for Reform - [ specific critique Robert Gates ]
by John A. Gentry
6 June 1995
federation of atomic scientists FAS

http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/RM/RM.cohen-aug
Some info on David Cohen - the Deputy Director for Operations
appointed by DCI Deutch:
Ralph McGehee
CIABASE - [contains critiques Robert Gates]

http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/97cov/NOCS,_OPS,_CLONES_AND_IDEAS_-McGehee
NOCS, OPS, CLONES AND IDEAS /McGehee
id WAA31129; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 22:36:07 -0400
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
source rmcgehee@igc.org  Fri Oct 10 09:05:46 1997
CIABASE - [contains critiques Robert Gates]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/congress/1991_cr/s911107-gates.htm
GATES NOMINATION (Senate - November 07, 1991)
[Page: S16305]
global security

key words - search terms -/ faked / farmed / cherry -picked / politicized / distorted / - intell

(91)  Senate intel committee called on six former CIA analysts to testify in both closed and open sessions
with regard to charges of politicization against Robert Gates in sep/oct confirmation hearings.

Melvin Goodman
Graham Fuller
Hal Ford
Larry Gershwin
Jennifer Glaudemans
Douglas Maceachen

The committee also asked sworn written statements of the following people:

Carolyn Mcgiffert Ekedahl
Kay Oliver
Mark Mathews
Lance Haus
David Cohen
John Hibbits
Thomas Barkesdale
Paul Limberg
John Mclaughlin.

Thomas Barksdale - CIA analyst Iran - wrote memo re. US covert arms sales to Iran

OSAMA BIN LADEN - ISI - FUNDING / CONTACTS / SUPPORT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/9/34541/0328
Robert Gates Promoted and Financed Osama Bin Laden
by LondonYank
Thu Nov 09, 2006 at 12:45:40 AM PST
dailykos

BCCI

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm
BCCI, The CIA and Foreign Intelligence -Introduction
Federation of American Scientists

http://www.apfn.org/APFN/BCCI.htm
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
American Patriot Freinds Network

http://www.apfn.net/dcia/bcci.html
B.C.C.I.: Bank of Crooks and Criminals International
U.S GOVERNMENT ONE OF ITS BIGGEST CUSTOMERS
by Brian Downing Quig
American Patriot Friends Network
   
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973527,00.html
Corruption: Feeling the Heat
As new B.C.C.I. disclosures feed the flames, governments
scurry to control the world's first truly global scandal
By JOHN GREENWALD
Posted Monday, Aug. 5, 1991
time/cnn

http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cached/alqaidasmoneyman-lemonde-cooley-cached-110102
FROM WAR ON TERROR TO PLAIN WAR
Al-Qaida’s elusive money men
By John K Cooley
11-01-2002
le monde

BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) and Iraq - also known as IRAQGATE

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/congress/1992_cr/h920731g.htm
CONCERNS ABOUT FOREIGN BANK REGULATION, BNL LOANS
TO IRAQ, AND BNL LOANS TO IRAQI FRONT COMPANIES

Henry B. Gonzalez, (TX-20)
(House of Representatives - July 31, 1992)
global security

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/congress/1992_cr/h920909g.htm
THE BNL AFFAIR: PROGRESS DESPITE OBSTRUCTION
Henry B. Gonzalez, (TX-20)
(House of Representatives - September 09, 1992)
global security

http://archives.cjr.org/year/93/2/iraqgate.asp
IRAQGATE
The Big One That (Almost) Got Away
Who Chased it -- and Who Didn't
by Russ W. Baker
CJR - Columbia Journalism Review
March/April 1993

http://mediafilter.org/MFF/BushCIAstonewall.html
Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation
by Jack Colhoun
posted mediafilter from Covert Action Quarterly

http://www.merip.org/mer/mer234/gendzier.html
Democracy, Deception and the Arms Trade: The US, Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Irene Gendzier
middle east report

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/11489.php
Bechtel Built Iraq's WMD "Smoking Gun" with US Taxpayer Dollars
From the Oil & Gas Journal's survey of worldwide construction in 1991:
by repost Sunday, Apr. 27, 2003 at 3:45 PM
posted at indymedia

IRANGATE - IRAN / CONTRA

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm
The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On - Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aides
Pentagon Nominee Robert Gates Among Many
Prominent Figures Involved in the Scandal
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 210
Posted - November 24, 2006

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061109&articleId=3776
NeoCon Continuity at the Pentagon: Robert Gates Involved in Iran-Contra Scandal
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, November 9, 2006
globalresearch

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1850
Revisiting Iran-Contra: The Nomination of Robert Gates
Ivan Eland
independent
November 10, 2006

http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh11082006.html
Lies, Cover Ups and Slanted Intelligence - Robert Gates and Iran/Contra
By LAWRENCE E. WALSH
November 8, 2006
counterpunch

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_16.htm
Chapter 16 - Robert M. Gates - Walsh Report
fas

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/
FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Volume I: - Investigations and Prosecutions
Lawrence E. Walsh - Independent Counsel
August 4, 1993 - Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

key words  - search terms  iran / contra / nicaragua / walsh

William J. Casey - iran/contra inquiry - chap15
Oliver North - Lt. Col
Robert C. McFarlane
John M. Poindexter - Vice Adm
Richard V. Secord - ret. Air Force Maj. Gen
Albert Hakim
Richard R. Miller
Carl R. ``Spitz'' Channell
Thomas G. Clines - ret. CIA earned $883,000 helping Richard V. Secord & Albert Hakim w/operations of The Enterprise
National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty (NEPL)
International Business Communications (IBC)
Heritage Foundation
The Enterprise

ELECTIONS - SAIC - VOTEHERE

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/45174.html
Rumsfeld replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting company
by BEV HARRIS
Founder of Black Box Voting
11-8-06

http://www.counterpunch.org/leopold09022003.html
Ghosts in the Machines -The Business of Counting Votes
By JASON LEOPOLD
September 2, 2003
counter punch

http://www.infowars.com/print/misc/blackbox.htm
Patriot Act Being Used to Harrass BlackBoxVoting.org website
Bev Harris
BlackBoxVoting.org

http://www.prisonplanet.com/090803votefraud10.html
We've Got A Problem' - Black Box Voting Secrets
Bev Harris
posted at prison planet
090803

http://www.democracymeansyou.com/article215.php
George W. Bush Was Elected President...and I have a bridge for sale...
democracymeansyou

http://www.opednews.com/landes_voting_machine_fiasco.htm
Voting Machine Fiasco:
SAIC, Bohemoth Military Contractor, Wants to Be inside Every Voting Machine;
Three Way Scam on Diebold Review?
by Lynn Landes
OpEdNews.Com

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Election_Reform/Voting_Machines_Wild.html
Voting Machines Gone Wild
by Mark Lewellen-Biddle
In These Times magazine
January 2004

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09262003.html
Vanishing Act -"Disappearing" the Republic at the Push of a Button
By CHRIS FLOYD
counter punch
September 26, 2003

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/72/27771.html?1148018348
Defense Contractors, Jim Baker, Voting
Mike Copass - BBV Action Crew - Username: Votes_with_paper
black box voting
Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 04:05 pm: 

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
Diebold, Electronic Voting and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
by Bob Fitrakis
Published on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 by the Free Press, Columbus, Ohiio

key words - search terms - vote fraud - election fraud - electronic voting machines

January 1, 2001, Accenture was known as Andersen Consulting, a part of Arthur Andersen - counted DOD votes
American Information Systems (AIS) - now ES&S
Sen. Chuck Hagel owner, chairman, CEO of AIS
Michael McCarthy - owner & director ES&S - campaign director to Sen. Chuck Hagel
Todd Urosevich - owner ES&S, founder AIS
Bob Urosevich - Pres. Diebold
Walden O'Dell - CEO Diebold
Bobby Ray Inman - board SAIC - Dir.NSA - dep. Dir. CIA - Vice Dir. DIA - Mbr. National Foreign Intelligence Board - #106 (236 Gang)
Retired Adm. William Owens - Vice Chr. JCS - Mbr. Defense Policy Board - Pres. & CEO & Vice Chr. SAIC - Chr. VoteHere - #164 (236 Gang)
Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Election Systems and Software (ES&S)
Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Sequoia Voting Systems
VoteHere
Diebold
R. Doug Lewis - Exe. Dir Election Center - art1 - art2 - art3 - art4

US CIVIL RIGHTS / CONSTITUTION / HABEAS CORPUS /

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/113006.html
Bob Gates & Locking You Up Forever
By Robert Parry
December 1, 2006
consortiumnews

CONTROL / RESTRICTION  / MONITORING /  INTERNET - SAIC


http://mediafilter.org/caq/internic
Networking With Spooks
The internet is changing from a public resource to a lucrative
operation influenced by spooks and former pentagon officials.
covert action quarterly

CIA NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING

OCTOBER SUPRISE - HOSTAGES/CARTER

http://www.aiipowmia.com/other/iranhstgcrss80a.html
Creating a Task Force to Investigate Certain Allegations Concerning the Holding of Americans as Hostages by Iran in 1980
House of Representatives
House of Representatives - February 05, 1992
[FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, APR. 15, 1991]
PART II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy
October surprise conspiracy
wikipedia

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/102506.html
The Original October Surprise
By Robert Parry
October 25, 2006
corsortiumnews

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/091106_b_Gates.htm
1980: Robert Gates Prevented Iran Hostage Release
Daily Kos
Thursday, November 9, 2006
posted at prison planet

BUSINESS INTERESTS / FINANCIAL INTERESTS / CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gates2dec02,0,2079095.story?coll=la-home-nation
Defense nominee's business ties raise concerns
Robert M. Gates' affiliations have some watchdogs worried about
a revolving door between the private sector and government.
By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Times Staff Writer
December 2, 2006

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