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These documents show the lengths to which the government was trying to cover up the truth," said the scientist's son, Eric Olson, who gave them to the San Jose Mercury News. "For 22 years there was a coverup. And then, under the guise of revealing everything, there was a new coverup."

So the claim is that Cheney and Rumsfeld were involved in a cover-up two decades ago that took place under a Republican president (ok, ok . . . I know Ford wasn't really a Republican, he just played one at the polls). Why does the son wait until another Republican president is in place to raise this issue?

Why didn't he get this done during the Clinton administration? The dems would have been more than happy to open any file that would discredit a Republican, and the son could have had access to whatever he wanted.

Eric Olson has contended for years that his father was murdered to cover up his research for the CIA.

So why is this making news at this late date?

Eric Olson says that a former colleague and friend of his father's contacted him last year and described some of the closely guarded work his father conducted.

So the "friend and colleague" was unaware of Eric's contention until last year?

Must be a slow news year in Milwaukee.

Soon after, the family was invited to lunch with CIA Director William Colby, who gave them a file of documents that amounted to the CIA investigation into Olson's death.

DECEMBER 22, 1974 : (WILLIAM COLBY & THE GUTTING OF US COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CAPABILITY -- See SEYMOUR HERSH [See NIGERFLAP]) Exhibit D: Undermining American Counterintelligence Capability
In the wake of Watergate, the [NY] Times and liberal elements in the CIA capitalized on the scandal by using it as a pretext to push for a reorganization of the intelligence community along liberal lines. This push was triggered by a leak from CIA Director William Colby to Seymour Hersh, which resulted in a December 22, 1974 New York Times article titled “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Anti-War Forces”. Although there was a real story of actual abuses to be told here, Hersh’s article and follow-up allegations later proved exaggerated.
But Hersh’s article served Colby’s purpose. Colby used the leak to force the resignation of counterintelligence veteran James Angleton, the bastion of hard-line anti-Communism in the CIA. Meanwhile Congressional contacts of the antiwar movement called for investigations into Hersh’s allegations. These investigations culminated in the recommendation of sweeping reforms of the intelligence community.
The implementation of these “reforms” over 1976 and 1977 took the form of a systematic stripping of US counterintelligence capability. This included abolishing Congressional and Department of Justice bodies assigned to monitor subversive activity, eliminating the internal security branch of the FBI's intelligence division, and dismissing several hundred of the CIA’s experts on Communism. Antiwar leaders such as Ramsey Clark tried to push this even further by promoting legislation which would have virtually eliminated the FBI, but this effort failed.
---------- "Traitors of Record: The Record of the New York Times," By FR's Fedora, Original FReeper Research, 12/19/2005

1974 : (CIA DIRECTOR WILLIAM COLBY PARTICIPATES IN THE FOUNDING CONFERENCE OF THE CNSS[See CNSS HEAD MORTON HALPERIN {See IPS}]) Also in 1974, while still director of the CIA, Colby participated in the founding conference of the CNSS-alongside various Communists and assorted radicals.13 [13 see Martin, D.C., Wilderness of Mirrors, Harper & Row, New York, 1980, pp. 183-184, 217; Epstein, E.J., Deception, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989, p. 100; Story, C., Soviet Analyst 22 (9-10), June 1994, p. 4; Broken Seals, Op cit., p. 17. ]
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1974 : (FUND FOR PEACE ESTABLISHES THE CNSS -- See MORTON HALPERIN, ANTI-INTELLIGENCE LOBBY ) In 1974, the Fund for Peace established the Center for National Security Studies (CNSS), which has worked closely with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in pursuing political and legal challenges against US intelligence. Staff and leadership for the CNSS have been drawn almost entirely from the IPS and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG); the NLG is the American branch of the Soviet-controlled International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), operates as a front of the Communist Party, USA, and publicly supports dozens of terrorist groups ranging from the PLO to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). IPS member Morton Halperin became head of the CNSS.7 [7 Broken Seals, Op cit., passim; 'Outlaws of Amerika,' report of the Western Goals Foundation, Alexandria, VA, 1982, pp. 51-60, passim. ]

Morton Halperin today is Senior Vice President of the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) and Director of the Open Society Policy Center established by eccentric billionaire international financier George Soros. ----------From FrontPageMag.com: