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29NOV2002 Kissinger to Guard 911 Chickens Asking Henry Kissinger to investigate government malfeasance or nonfeasance is akin to asking Slobodan Milosevic to investigate war crimes. Pretty damn akin, since Kissinger has been accused, with cause, of engaging in war crimes of his own. Moreover, he has been a poster-child for the worst excesses of secret government and secret warfare. Victims' families had to wait for more that a year for an investigation to get underway, and then they get Kissinger as the chief investigator? Kissinger is accused of conniving in repression by brutal former regimes allied to the US such as in Pakistan and Indonesia, and of involvement in setting up Operation Condor - a covert plan by several South American countries to assassinate political opponents (No direct connection to the not-so-fictional prophecy-like Six Days of the Condor by James Grady). Where is the outrage?? [MORE from AlterNet]    VHS 1975 DVDAn Amazon customer in writing a review about Three Days of the Condor (the movie) said, "This is a great New York City film. Its streets, back alleys, and buildings - in particular, the World Trade Center - all play supporting roles. Sidney Pollack makes good use of the then-newly finished twin towers in Condor - which features the main lobby and a top-floor office occupied by the fictional CIA deputy director (Cliff Robertson). Another reviewer of the movie says, "I remember the romantic plot well, tweed and blue-jeaned (Robert Redford) with the beautiful woman (Faye Dunaway), trying to avoid being shot by CIA assassin (Max von Sydow), who portrayed the calmness of old Europe. At the time, the film was unsettling but we did not believe that the US would really go in for an oil grab in the mid-East. Recently, I read in the International Herald Tribune that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Pearle belonged to a neo-conservative group with exactly such a plan.* Unfortunately, those primates have come out of their caves, are in power, and W has given them the green light. So, unfortunately, the film has much to do with what's happening today." The original Six Days of the Condor (the book**), was slimmed down and retitled Three Days of the Condor for the movie. By contrast to the movie which zips right along with plenty of adventure, and which in my opinion is a really well done film; superb story told well, good acting and so on, the Six Days version (also renamed Three Days because of the movie's polularity) moves slower than the movie, and takes place in the author's hometown, Washington, D.C. Within the Six Days, Grady gives us a good tour of the town, with names of actual bars, theatres and familiar Washington street names. Another reason for the slower pace of the Six Days version of the story is due to Grady revealing in meticulously researched and his detailing the nuts and bolts of the CIA and the tactics used by the agency. *Ed. note: Even before the assassination of President Kennedy, and the Bush Family connection to Texas and mideast oil, the CIA and the Republican Party was known, various mideast takeover plans had been in place and implemented to ease the British out and pave the way for a New American Century kind of op. Blood for Oil indicates that one such plan was nixed by Nixon at the beginning of a "story" that takes us up to the Iran/Contra chapter. Fast forward to March 20, 2003, and Day One of the Bush White House war in Iraq. America "Pearl Harbored" By Christopher Bollyn The Real Reaons for Invading Iraq By Jay Bookman - Archived The Real Reaons for Invading Iraq By Jay Bookman Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Download Acrobat Reader version **Both Hardcover and Paperback versions of Six Days of the Condor are out-of-print. There are two e-Book versions available for download; Adobe eBook Reader and Microsoft reader, from Powell's (in Portland), and only the Microsoft reader version from Amazon. |
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