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Times, December 22, 1990, “Some Blame Rogue Band of Marines for Picking Fight, Spurring Panama Invasion”).

36. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, authorized ed. (New York: Norton, 2004), 261–62.

37. Bamford, Body of Secrets, 301. William Bundy took issue with this judgment, arguing that escalating the war north “didn’t fit in with our plans at all” (Robert McNamara, “The Tonkin Gulf Resolution,” in Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, ed. Andrew Jon Rotter [New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991], 83). But Ball was correct in reporting that bombing fit in with some people’s plans.

38. Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 200, citing John Prados, The Hidden History of the Vietnam War (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995), 51.

39. Porter, Perils of Dominance, 200–201. Cf. FRUS, 1964-1968, vol. 1, 714–15.

40. “Department of Defense Actions to Implement NSAM No. 273, 26 November 1963,” Enclosure D for meeting of Admiral H. D. Felt with JCS, December 11, 1963, NARA #202-10002-10109. The same document points out that “CIA guidance to Saigon Station for intensified planning was dispatched following the Honolulu Conference (CAS 84972, November 25, 1963). As James Galbraith has commented pertinently, “In other words, the CIA began developing intensified plans to implement OPLAN 34A, the program of seaborne raids and sabotage against North Vietnam that would lead to the Gulf of Tonkin incident and eventually to the wider war, one day before President Johnson signed the directive authorizing that action” (James K. Galbraith, “Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK Ordered a Complete Withdrawal from Vietnam,” Boston Review, November 24, 2003, http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.5/galbraith

.html).

41. Galbraith, “Exit Strategy”; cf. John Newman, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power (New York: Warner Books, 1992), 434; Scott, The War Conspiracy, 294.

42. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 294–95.

43. Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, March 13, 1962 (Northwoods Document), NARA #202-10002-10404.

44. Robert J. Hanyok, “Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2–4 August 1964,” Cryptologic Quarterly, declassified in National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 132, http://www.gwu

.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/relea00012.pdf.

45. Ray McGovern, “CIA, Iran and the Gulf of Tonkin,” ConsortiumNews, January 12, 2008, http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/011108a.html.

46. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 132, cf. 67, citing Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 314, 318.

47. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 88, 93–103.

48. “National Security Advisor Holds Press Briefing,” May 16, 2002, http://www

.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html. We now know that on 9/11 there were a number of war games and exercises, including an exercise at the National Reconnaissance Office near Dulles Airport, testing responses “if a plane were to strike a building” (Scott, The Road to 9/11, 215–16; Evening Standard [London], August 22, 2002; Boston Globe, September 11, 2002, http://www.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anniversary/wire_stories/0903_plane_exercise.htm).

49. 9/11 Commission Report, 259, 271; Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Knopf, 2006), 352–54 (FBI agent). After 9/11 another FBI agent was even more bitter: “They [CIA] didn’t want the bureau meddling in their business—that’s why they didn’t tell the FBI. . . . And that’s why September 11 happened. That is why it happened. . . . They have blood on their hands. They have three thousand deaths on their hands” (James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies [New York: Doubleday, 2004], 224).

50. Clarence M. Kelley, Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director (Kansas City, MO: Andrews, McMeel, and Parker, 1987), 268, quoted in Scott, The War Conspiracy, 389.

51. Jefferson Morley, Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008), 196–98; discussion in Scott, The War Conspiracy, 387–88.

52. Wright, “The Agent,” 68; discussion in Scott, The War Conspiracy, 388–89.

53. Particularly conspicuous in the Iran-Contra scandal was, once again, the involvement of its major players—the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the Contras, and Contra supply network—in international drug trafficking. See Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press, 2001), 480, 490–500; Scott and Marshall, Cocaine Politics.

54. Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, 280.

55. Public Law 90-331 (18 U.S.C. 3056); discussion in Peter Dale Scott, Paul L. Hoch, and Russell Stetler, The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (New York: Random House, 1976), 443–46.

56. George O’Toole, The Private Sector (New York: Norton, 1978), 145, quoted in Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, 278–79.

57. Joan M. Jensen, Army Surveillance in America, 1775–1980 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991), 244.

58. 9/11 Commission Report, 38, 326; Scott, The Road to 9/11, 228–29.

59. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 238, 240–41.

60. Alphonso Chardy, “Reagan Aides and the ‘Secret’ Government,” Miami Herald, July 5, 1987; Scott, The Road to 9/11, 241.

61. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 183–87.

62. Republican Senators Heinz and Tower also died in plane crashes but after collisions between two aircraft. Conservative Democrat Larry McDonald died when the civilian airliner KAL 007 was shot down by Soviet interceptors in September 1983.

63. Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996), 201, 206: “In the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor [Reuther]. (Victor believes the attempt against him was intended as a message to Walter.) In each of these instances, state and federal law-enforcement agencies showed themselves at best lackadaisical in their investigative efforts, suggesting the possibility of official collusion or at least tolerance for the criminal deeds. . . . Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. It is a remarkable coincidence that Reuther would have been in two planes with the exact same malfunctioning in that brief time frame. . . . In