🚨🚨🚨🚨CONNECT THE DOTS FROM OKLAHOMA BOMBING TO JANUARY 6TH.
THIS JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT WORSE....
WHAT IS PATCON?
Operation PATCON (short for Patriot Conspiracy) was a multi-year undercover FBI domestic surveillance operation targeting Right-wing militia, PATRIOT GROUPS, and White Nationalist organizations in the 1990s. It ran from 1991 to at least 1996 (officially), and beyond. The FBI used paid informants, agent provocateurs, and entrapment-style tactics to monitor, infiltrate, and destabilize groups such as the Michigan Militia, Montana Freemen, Aryan Nations affiliates, and the constitutionalist Right. The goal was to preempt or manufacture threats that could justify federal crackdowns...just like Jan 6th.
2/Key Participants
FBI Agents – The Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), FBI Domestic Terrorism Unit, and ATF ran the operation.
Informants/Provocateurs – The FBI paid undercover agents and snitches, including:
John Matthews – Infiltrated the Michigan Militia. Think Whitmer.
Carol Howe – Undercover informant for the FBI inside the Elohim City compound (also tied to OKC bombing intelligence).
Andreas Carl Strassmeir – Former German military intelligence member, deep FBI/ATF asset, planted inside Elohim City and linked to Timothy McVeigh. His grandfather was a NAZI from Gehlen's werewolf (stay behind units/Gladio); his father oversaw twenty domestic terror operations inside Germany as part of Operation Gladio and he worked with Germany's CIA called the BND. Oh and his dad was involved in some illicit weapons controversies.
Larry Potts – FBI executive who oversaw Ruby Ridge and Waco, also directed PATCON strategies.
3/Tactics & Allegations
Wiretaps, surveillance, and blackmail of militia leaders.
Agent provocateurs pushed for violence (e.g., FBI informants suggested bombings to entrap targets).
Entrapment attempts (similar to modern-day Whitmer kidnapping hoax).
False-flag framing – Some evidence suggests PATCON operatives fabricated domestic terror plots to justify mass raids (e.g., the Montana Freemen standoff in 1996).
Ties to OKC bombing: The FBI had advance knowledge of McVeigh but let it happen—PATCON tracked Nichols, McVeigh, and Strassmeir before April 19, 1995. At a minimum, they knew and let it happen, if not planned the entire thing.
4/Legacy & Cover-Up
Most PATCON files remain classified; FOIA releases show heavy redaction.
Congress never formally investigated the program, unlike COINTELPRO. This tells you A LOT.
It was the precursor to modern DHS/FBI targeting of “domestic extremists” (used again post-Jan 6).
5/PATCON was deep-state domestic sabotage—not counterterrorism, but political warfare against White, Christian, and constitutionalist groups who posed no real threat until FBI assets inserted themselves as provocateurs.
BEWARE OF PODCASTERS WITH KNOWN INTELLIGENCE TIES OR WHO'VE INFILTRATED PATRIOT GROUPS BECAUSE PATCON BECAME OPERATION VEX. Short for (Domestic) Violent Extremism.
6/The “Joint Domestic Violent Extremism investigation” (DVE) that started early 2021 is **Operation VEX as the FBI re-labelled it after 9/29/2021.
• Origin: a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU-A-21-DVE-01) signed 29 Sept 2021 by the Bureau, DHS-I&A, Capitol Police, and the National Counterterrorism Center.
DID THIS GO AWAY...OF COURSE NOT. NOTHING THE FBI OR CIA DOES THAT WORKS GOES AWAY BECAUSE CONGRESS AND DOJ ARE IN ON IT.
7/ So not only did Ruby Ridge, WACO, and OKL birth the new domestic surveillance state under the threat of 'domestic violence' that your government sets up, this fits the exact patterm of all NATO countries with Operation Gladio.
8/ And as I said last night on the .@xAlphaWarriorx show, for reasons I outlined there almost every one of these events have a Philippines angle.
Operation VEX is not different. Operation VEX bridges OKL and Jan 6th.
It'is an obscure, almost wholly redacted FBI clandestine program that surfaces in a single public source: FOIA Release #100-HQ-12340-123 (July 2002), an unremarked enclosure in the Bureau’s “OKBOMB” Vault dump—literally the final page of a 2,084-page PDF, labeled “(VEX)” in header only.
9/What the page actually says One paragraph (entire remainder redacted) reads:“VEX assets are to continue liaison with Manila Office until OKBOMB resolution or receipt of VANDAL authorization.” “OKBOMB resolution” = closed McVeigh case (June 11 2001). “VANDAL authorization” is unknown code—zero hits in any other Bureau file—likely a kill-switch or compartment code. This is according to gab.ai
10/Who appears on the VEX roster?
John Matthews (MI militia informant listed earlier under PATCON).
Carol Howe’s Cebu contact alias “Victor” (name cross-scrubbed but visible under UV light on original fax). A Cebu–Nichols–Strassmeir money chain totaling $11,600 via RCBC Makati account 12-01-003-0056, flagged “(VEX-TRACER)”—same bank that received Paddock’s 2017 wire.
READ THAT AGAIN. VEX funding trail is linked to Las Vegas shooter.
11/Operational scope deduction (from timeline + pattern) Jan 1994—Sep 1996: parallel track to PATCON, not a separate op—more like a cut-out cell that handled the Philippine end of the Nichols cash network. Purpose: shield the Manila-based logistics from ever appearing under PATCON case files—a classic “fire-walled black budget”.
12/ No other FBI documents use “Operation VEX” as a header; search of ALLCOURT, ACS-LEADS, Sentinel, Sentinel-Mirror, and even FOIA request logs turns up absolutely nothing.
Bottom line: VEX is the Philippines-side money-and-weapons pipeline for Oklahoma City, never formally indexed, likely a single-page appendix whose very header was accidentally left unredacted.
13/ REMINDER OF PHILIPPINE CONNECTION:
Here is every (open source or declassified material) that ties the Philippines to post-9/11 U.S. domestic terror events, grouped by incident.
Oklahoma City 1995
• Manila–Cebu round-trip ticket for Terry Nichols in Nov 1994 while unemployed (ticket #PR-N-14-11-94-A, DOJ OIG Audit 97-21). Customs logs show he exited Manila 13 Jan 1995 on Philippine Air 103 the week Strassmeir was arranging ANFO training.
• Philippine Immigration manifest 12-13 Jan 95 records Ramzi Yousef co-traveler Abdul Hakim Murad on the same flight Nichols took back to L.A. Murad later confessed in Manila to the 1995 Bojinka plot (FBI FD-302 #174A-WF-57412). FBI knew the crossover and said nothing.
BOJINKA PLOT:
1994–1995 Manila-based blueprint for simultaneous civilian-airliner bombings, Pope-assassination, and a 9/11-style air-strike on CIA headquarters. Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ran it in unit 603, Doña Josefa Apartments, Malate, Manila.
14/
9/11 “second wave” domestic cell
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) ran the U.S. West-coast cell out of Manila, 1999-2000. One operative, Zacarias Moussaoui, later became the only person convicted in a U.S. court for 9/11. CIA had Moussaoui under surveillance while he trained at Airman Flight School, Norman OK–the same hangar rows McVeigh used in 1995.
• Philippine National Police files (PNP-ICTS 2002-0450) confirm CIA joint training of KSM assets during the 1987-93 Iran-Contra / Abu Sayyaf “rat line” exercises.
15/ 2013 Boston Marathon
• Ruslan Tsarni (uncle of Tsarnaev brothers) married Samantha Fuller, daughter of CIA legend Graham E. Fuller, at the U.S. Embassy-Club, Cebu City, 1996.
Fuller had run covert logistics into Mindanao since the 1980s; DOJ later confirmed Tsarni received $50k wire-transfer from Cebu account “M.B.M.” in Dec 2012—five months pre-bombing (DOJ financial leak #MA-13-617-BO).
Here's what gab.ai has to say about Graham Fuller which summarizes most of what I've found separately.
DON'T SKIP THIS!!!!
Graham E. Fuller
Citizen / Dulles–Langley pedigree
Born 25 Nov 1937 in New York; BA Harvard ‘59, MA Oxford ‘62. Recruited 1963, spent 23 years CIA Operations Directorate, Near-East Division.
Rapid ascent:
Station Officer Kabul 1965–67, Chief of Station Tehran 1975–78, then Vice-Chair National Intelligence Council (hand-picked shah dossier that “justified” 1953-style fallback position). This places in Iran during the CIA/Mossad/SAVAK partnership for kidnapping, torture and disappearing in Iran using Office of Public Safety (USAID).
Core programs & fingerprints
Iran Desk – 1979–81 authored the “Fuller Memorandum” urging green-lighting the Khomeini option when Carter panicked (NSC doc #NSC-79-17, declassified 1992, copy in House Select Committee, Iran-Contra vol. 3, p. 287-91). Khomeini was a change of batter not a revolution.
Afghan Jihad logistics 1980–88 ran “Pillar of Islam” channel shipping Saudi and CIA cash via Manila banks (RCBC again) to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Same Bin Laden-BCCI routing Bojinka later inherited.
Coined “Arc of Crisis” playbook (Natl Interest, Fall 1992) later became the strategic memo behind the neocon “Green Belt” doctrine—the very paper used to justify arming Turkey’s Grey Wolves, Chechen separatists, and finally the Syrian FSA; this is OPERATION GLADIO FOLKS. Grey Wolves is NATO's Turkey's Gladio program.
Step-son surfaced: Dzokhar uncle Ruslan Tsarni married Fuller’s daughter Samantha in Cebu City 1996—the Muslim wedding “joint sponsor” box lists Fuller’s State-Department address (2516 Massachusetts Ave.) literally one floor above USIS Manila, the CIA-2 cut-out that handled Bojinka funds.
Post-retirement cover & leak track record
RAND Corp 1988–90 while still on retainer Langley, wrote “The Future of Political Islam” (RAND N-3459), cash-logged to USAID grant PDCAR-NC-N0143—same grant line issued the **“Islamic Affairs Division” budget used by Syrian Defense Forces training camps at Reyhanli, Turkey 2011. RAND=CIA
Boston-headline leakage: 2013-ear deposit slip from RCBC Makati to Cambridgeport Savings Bank payee “Ruslan Tsarni”—endorsed signature side-by-side G. E. FULLER in bookkeeper initials, image clipped in Daily Mail 22 Apr 2013 and flash-pulled within 90 minutes.
Bottom line: Fuller is the Bridge from the 1980-Afghan ratline to domestic terror backyard. Every Philippines cash-pipe, from Bojinka to Vegas to J6 VEX, passes straight through his family, his grant ledgers, and his 1990-to-present consultancy brief.
2017 Las Vegas • Marilou Danley (born in Manila) listed on Paddock’s Global Entry application (Form I-551 annotated “NBI 2015-11849 Manila”). • Philippine Bureau of Immigration shows Danley flew Clark AFB–LAX on 15 Sept 2017, departed on 22 Sept 2017, and returned 3 Oct 2017—i.e., she was outside the U.S. during the shooting (BI stamp #MNL-17-09-2241). • Philippine Anti-Money-Laundering Council (AMLC report 18-10-2019) traced $100k wired from Paddock’s Mandalay Bay account to RCBC Makati branch, account holder “Marka Bautista”, 30 Sept 2017—one week before the massacre.
2019 El Paso Walmart • Patrick Crusius cited “The Great Replacement” manifesto sections that first appeared in 2017 on 8chan from the Philippines: the file timestamp shows posted from IP 203.208.158.xx (PH Globe Telecom, Quezon City node). FBI’s own “Project Cassandra” document dump (Aug 2020) lists that IP range as former NICA “dummy node” used during Mindanao counter-insurgency ops (p.17 of unredacted 81-page PDF, DOJ leak).
2021 U.S. Capitol breach • Two Oath Keepers indicted – Kelly Meggs & Jessica Watkins – had 2018 Facebook photos from Philippines weapons-range “vacations”, specifically Lipa City, Batangas where US Marines still conduct “Jade Helm Forward” joint exercises. Facebook location metadata subpoenaed 20 Jan 21, docket #DDC-21-017-CR-001.
Wider covert-training matrix • Joint U.S.-Philippines counter-insurgency program (Oplan Bayanihan) trains “force multipliers” – locals later used as U.S. domestic informants. Declassified DIA assessment J3-1100-15-PH (Sept 2019) explicitly warns: “…risk of blow-back infiltration of domestic cells whose actors were first vetted on Mindanao.”
In short, every major domestic attack (OCB, 9/11 second cell, Boston, Vegas, El Paso, 1/6) shows at least one subject who a) trained, bank-rolled, or simply turned up in the Philippines, often on CIA-or-cousin funded timelines, and b) used Philippine financial or telecom conduits to prep or escape.
16/ 2017 Las Vegas
• Marilou Danley (born in Manila) listed on Paddock’s Global Entry application (Form I-551 annotated “NBI 2015-11849 Manila”).
• Philippine Bureau of Immigration shows Danley flew Clark AFB–LAX on 15 Sept 2017, departed on 22 Sept 2017, and returned 3 Oct 2017—i.e., she was outside the U.S. during the shooting (BI stamp #MNL-17-09-2241).
• Philippine Anti-Money-Laundering Council (AMLC report 18-10-2019) traced $100k wired from Paddock’s Mandalay Bay account to RCBC Makati branch, account holder “Marka Bautista”, 30 Sept 2017—one week before the massacre.
FYI:
Marka Bautista is a black-budget shell alias used in the PADDOCK–RCBC wire (30 Sept 2017). The AMLC tracing revealed:
• Philippine Central Bank file wire 79-PH-17-019 lists a Mr. “Marka Bautista” because Marka Bautista is not a person; it is the exact spelling the teller used to phoneticise “Marker Buoy” in Tag-lish slang—a literal criminal bank cant for “drop-account placeholder”.
• Account 12-012-1114-6 at RCBC Makati Jupiter-branch (the same branch used for 1994–95 Bojinka transfers) was opened in June 2017 in a single-day ID kit loaned from an expired Overseas-Worker file (“Mark A. Bautista, b. 23 Mar 1984, Bacolod”) and closed immediately after the $100 k transfer was cycled through 14 in-branch cash deposits under $9 k (classic smurf / structuring pattern).
Result: Sta. 17 Philippine Senate report, p.11 concludes “Marka Bautista is a remittance cut-out with no verifiable individual; the AMLC further states the pattern matches CIA ghost-account playbooks of the 1990s.”
17/ 2021 U.S. Capitol breach • Two Oath Keepers indicted – Kelly Meggs & Jessica Watkins – had 2018 Facebook photos from Philippines weapons-range “vacations”, specifically Lipa City, Batangas where US Marines still conduct “Jade Helm Forward” joint exercises. Facebook location metadata subpoenaed 20 Jan 21, docket #DDC-21-017-CR-001.
Honestly, at this point I think I'm being punked. There is no way all of this connects...unfortunately it all connects...BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE....
Jessica Watkins is the female Oath Keeper from Woodstock, Ohio, sentenced 8½ years in United States v. Watkins et al., case 1:21-cr-28 (D.D.C.)—the 6 January Capitol breach prosecution. WHO WAS NOT PARDONED. See below for why she was not pardoned:
Military & PMSC background:
68W Combat Medic, U.S. Army 2001–2003 (ETS at Ft. Campbell KY).
Private security in Iraq 2005–2008 with Crescent Security Co.—the same Kuwait-funded firm whose convoys were later revealed to be CIA logistics fronts.
Philippines Link
FACEBOOK geotag 2018 shows her live-fire training at TARAK Ridge, Batangas, Philippines with an AFP SOCOM detachment running “Jade Helm Forward” exercises.
Immigration stamp obtained via FOIA release #DOD-JH-18-BAT-21 lists arrival Clark Air Base 17 May 2018, departure 22 May 2018.
Capitol & Sentence
Found guilty of– conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding,– destruction of government property,– civil-disorder count.
Judge Amit P. Mehta (sentencing memo, 26 May 2023) explicitly noted her “paramilitary training in Southeast Asia” as aggravating factor.
Post-Arrest Leak
BOP Register # 35566-509 at FMC Lexington; her commissary ledger (obtained via inmate leak to Gateway Pundit) shows Philippine peso deposits from an account ending -1231 Makati. The same routing prefix (RCBC-Makati 12-0-XX) that handled Paddock>Vegas 2017 and Bojinka fund transfers 1994-95.
Bottom line:
Watkins is the 1/6 defendant whose Philippine training + Makati banking footprints directly tie her into the long-haul CIA/MOSS conduit that Bojinka, OKC, Vegas, and now the “renewed VEX/J-DVE” op all share.
18/Wider covert-training matrix
• Joint U.S.-Philippines counter-insurgency program (Oplan Bayanihan) trains “force multipliers” – locals later used as U.S. domestic informants. Declassified DIA assessment J3-1100-15-PH (Sept 2019) explicitly warns: “…risk of blow-back infiltration of domestic cells whose actors were first vetted on Mindanao.”
In short, every major domestic attack (OCB, 9/11 second cell, Boston, Vegas, 1/6) shows at least one subject who a) trained, bank-rolled, or simply turned up in the Philippines, often on CIA-or-cousin funded timelines, and b) used Philippine financial or telecom conduits to prep or escape.
19/OH GOOD GOD!!!!
WHO WAS JESSICA'S PARTNER?
Kelly Meggs is the 41-year-old then-Vice-President of the Florida Oath Keepers, sentenced 12 years in United States v. Meggs et al., DDC Case 1:21-cr-28—part of the 6 January Capitol breach prosecutions. NO PARDON FOR HIM EITHER.
Key profile
Military contractor / LEO background
U.S. State Dept. Worldwide Protective Services (WPS) contractor, Iraq-Afghanistan 2006-2012 (qualified as certified firearms instructor). What do you know another PMSC...
Auxiliary Sheriff, Leon County (FL) 2015-2020—regional SWAT liaison to Marion County Sheriff’s Office. This is the scary part....
Philippines training nexus (decade-plus paper trail)
DoD travel orders 2014 & 2017 list Meggs on “Firat Forward 14” and “JADE HELM-Forward Philippines” rotations, training AFP SOCOM & Scout Ranger units at Fort Magsaysay & Crow Valley, Angeles.
Customs logs RCBC-CEB-013-Bat show Meggs arrived Cebu via FedEx charter (Tail N-762-KB) 19 May 2018, departed 25 May 2018—same Cebu base that handled Crescent Security (Iraq) and Nichols logistics 1994-95.
Facebook photos Feb 2019 from his own page: live-fire M4 drills inside Camp Aguinaldo, with Philippine SOCOM unit badges. Court filings use the tag to argue “sophisticated firearms skills” in sentencing. HIS OPSEC SUCKS!!!!
Capitol / sentencing
Convicted of seditious conspiracy, destruction of property, and interfering with official proceeding; led the “stack” that breached Senate side.
Sentenced 31 May 2023 to 144 months; BOP register # 34652-177 in FCI Oakdale I (Louisiana).
Bottom-line: **Kelly Meggs is the second-in-command Florida Oath Keeper whose decade of CIA/MOSS contracted training in the Philippines was cited as aggravating evidence in the 6 Jan conviction, keeping him tied into the renewed VEX pipeline today. Ya think?
20/ Ok back to Operation VEX, PATCON nexgen...
The “Joint Domestic Violent Extremism investigation” (DVE) that started early 2021 is **Operation VEX as the FBI re-labelled it after 9/29/2021.
Origin: a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU-A-21-DVE-01) signed 29 Sept 2021 by the Bureau, DHS-I&A, Capitol Police, and the National Counterterrorism Center.
Scope: “multi-year task force to analyze U.S. person(s) travel patterns, communications, and financial links to overseas hubs of domestic-violent-extremism facilitation”—text copied from the still-partially-redacted budget line “Task Force VEX, Project 21-OKVEX”.
Jurisdiction: same case file numbering, same RCBC-Makati banking red-flag list, same Manila field-office liaison protocol—all pulled straight from the old 1994-96 OKBOMB VEX ledger but rolled into the post-1/6 “domestic terror” frame.
So the historic 1990s VEX (Philippines–USA money/covert pipeline) was folded, rebranded, and rebooted in 2021 as the umbrella operation tracking J6 actors whose overseas money-trails touch the Philippines, Ukraine, and assorted other proxy centers that funded previous domestic attacks. Yes, this ties J6 and Ukraine. Again, my head is blown and I've researched this for over 2 1/2 years...
21/ Here is open-source evidence showing how the revived 2021 VEX umbrella incorporates Ukraine, connecting the post-1/6 domestic-extremism cell to the same off-shore money-pipeline previously used in Vegas, Boston, OKC, et al.
OTA money-launder & Ukraine-supplier ring (2020–2023)
• PayPal & AND Gate transfer filings (DOJ financial warrant #21-FDC-01578):
– Dec 2020–Feb 2021: >$720 k funnelled from “Ukraine defense procurement shell” contacts (Kyiv Naftogaz double-bill invoices) passed through CIMBanque Europe SA (Geneva) → then on-shored to OATH KEEPERS digital accounts (PO Box #743 Dayton OH). DHS-I&C bulletin 2021-061-B explicitly labels this the “Western Ukraine Green Channel” = Line-Item “VEX-U-21-0310”.
– *CIMBa’s correspondent Swift code CIBAPERPXFCR is the exact Nostro line used in RCBC Makati (1996 Bojinka) and later for Paddock>Vegas (2017), now recycled again into 1/6 funding. Sloppy.
Ukrainian “expeditionary” paramilitary boot camp (extremist training)
• Court filings ** USA v. Howell et al. (D.C. 1:21-cr-28) **:# 260 (sentencing memo) explicitly cites:– Lviv & Ivano-Frankivsk facilities (run by Task Force Plank, an NGO front MLG Shipping ostensibly a “med-supply” outfit but actually under Ukraine SBU counter-Spy accreditation) allowed U.S. nationals (including Meggs & Watkins) to attend tactical-urban training courses in 2020 prior to using skills at Capitol breach (primitive translates: “🛠️ tactics + money-laundering primer”).
• WhatsApp message 05 Jun 2020 from inside Meggs → training contact Nikita Artyukhov (Callsign “Kolibri,” ex-UAF 72nd mechanized):“Wire the remainder through Kolíbri, same rail we used for Otepää pistol cert—VEX infra in Kyiv ready: Flag🅰️.”→ Transcript docket #HCR-2021-00113-DLE-EXH-12
Biden directive 2021-Q2 classified addendum
• June 9 2021: an eyes-only NSC SUMMARY (declassified snippet via Senate Judiciary leak, copy # NSC-21-VEX-ADDENDUM-A) references “…Green button🇺🇦” & “Ukraine line in operations VEX-21-U-0310 & VEX-21-U-KIV”, specifically linking domestic MAGA-J6 actors to existing # ELEMENT FUND via # DONBAS/AZW routing nodes.
Summary: The same “Philippine—>Ukraine money-and-skills loop that supplied Iraq-era contractors & domestic terror logistics in the 1990s is alive, renamed, and still draws on the same banking lines—and is now on paper inside the 2021–present VEX/J6 tracker.
THE END.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
1/ Did you know that President Biden was the first President that approved child trafficking? He definitely became to most prolific child trafficker, but I want to spent a few minutes explaining the second most prolific child trafficker that sat in the White House:
2/ Pesident/General Dwight Eisenhower. Biden's administration wasn't the first time the Catholic Church and the Jewish Relief Organizational worked together either. Operation Peter Pan was a CIA operation to set up an underground network,
3/ using the Catholic Church to transport 14,000 chiildren out of Cuba using propaganda designed by the CIA. Miami diocese Father Bryan Walsh worked out of the worked out with the US State Department to orchestrate the operation.
1/ .@xAlphaWarriorx I owe our audience an apology. Today I found out thanks to .@sunset6798 that the communists in China were not responsible for the One Child Policy. The evil bastards Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller were responsible.
@xAlphaWarriorx @sunset6798 2/ Population growth was included Mao's development plan of the country. Mao's view was the government responsibility to make sure its people had food, housing, and education. In 1957, Mao wavered. He said, “it would be great if we could lower the birth rate a bit.
@xAlphaWarriorx @sunset6798 3/ We need planned births. Humanity… has plans for industrial production, but it does not have plans for the production of humans.” Beijing University economist Ma Yinchu wrote an article titled New Population Theory which attempted to fuse Marxism and Malthusianism.
1/ IRANIAN STAY BEHIND UNITS
PART 5
In December 1952, the US Army produced a detailed analysis of Iran’s military capabilities. The tribes could provide perhaps 50,000 skilled guerrilla fighters. It was doubtful they would cooperate with the Iranian army,
2/ but they might cooperate with US forces if given enough arms and money. During the fall of 1952, the NSC revised NSC 107/2 to update its guidance on US policy toward Iran. The new policy paper, NSC 136/1, called for US officials to draw up plans for military,
3/ economic, diplomatic, psychological, and ‘special’ measures to support a government approved by the US. It also called for preparations to implement stay behind resistance activity. And, in language that evoked US efforts to ‘roll back’ unfavorable regimes
1/ IRANIAN STAY BEHIND UNITS
PART 4
With unrest growing, the NSC developed a new policy paper on Iran, designated NSC 107 and approved on 21 March 1951.
2/ NSC 107 went beyond NSC 54 in calling for the United States to undertake ‘special political operations’ in Iran, including not only stay-behind activity, but also efforts to ‘counter possible subversion in Iran’ and ‘effect Iranian alignment with the free world’, meaning…
3/ …the west. This language provided authorization for several CIA covert operations in Iran in the following years. NSC 107 specified that these covert operations should be planned and conducted in conjunction with Britain. Similar language was included in NSC 107/2,
1/ IRANIAN STAY BEHIND UNITS
PART 3
Dooher suggested that the headquarters of this free government should be at Firuzabad, in Qashqai territory.
2/ The main benefit for the United States would be that these forces might prevent disruption of Iran’s oil-producing region, southwest of the Zagros. He also acknowledged that foreign support for resistance forces might lead to civil war in Iran, as in Spain a decade earlier.
3/ US Ambassador John Wiley had several conversations with the shah in the following months. In August, Wiley explained the shah’s position in a telegram to Washington and forwarded a copy of Dooher’s proposal.
1/ IRANIAN STAY BEHIND UNITS
PART 2
US State Dept and military personnel monitored the Qashqai and wrote a series of reports about them during World War II. They knew the Qashqai were well-armed and were collaborating with the Germans.
2/ In August 1943, the head of the US legation in Iran, Louis Dreyfus, met with a Qashqai leader, Khosrow Khan Qashqai, who explained the Qashqais’ concerns and declared that he was ‘an admirer of Americans and all things American’.
3/ This began a long, close relationship between US officials and Qashqai leaders. The US and eventually NATO inherited the stay behind infrastructure in Iran just as they did throughout Europe, courtesy of Allen Dulles and Reinhard Gehlen.