Coup Underway in Turkey

[Peter Lemkin]

In 1987, Fuller was identified as the author of a 1985 study that according to the New York Times was "instrumental" in the decision of the Reagan Administration to secretly contact leaders in Iran and "eventually led to the covert sale of United States weapons to Tehran in what became the IranContra affair."[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] The document suggested that the Soviet Union was in position to influence Iran and that the United States might gain influence by selling arms to the country.[SUP][14][/SUP] According to Fuller, he had revised his opinion as the situation developed, but though he had told Government officials, a written report on the change was not circulated.[SUP][14][/SUP] Fuller denied that the original "think piece" he had prepared with Howard Teicher was "tailored ... to support Administration policy."[SUP][14]
Fuller left the CIA in 1988 for the RAND Corporation [a CIA think-tank], remaining as a senior political scientist until 2000.[SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][10][/SUP] At the RAND Corporation he wrote, among many publications, on political Islam in various countries, and on the geopolitics of the Muslim world.
Fuller is an adjunct history professor at Simon Fraser University.[SUP][10][/SUP] He speaks several Middle Eastern languages as well asRussian and Chinese.
After the Boston Marathon bombing, it was revealed that Fuller's daughter Samantha Ankara Fuller (married Tsarnaev) was married in the 1990s to Ruslan Tsarni (born Tsarnaev), the uncle of the alleged perpetrators Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.[SUP][15][/SUP]They divorced on 26 April 1999, in Orange County, North Carolina.[SUP][16][/SUP] Ruslan Tsarni worked for companies connected to Halliburton. He was also a consultant for a company contracted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) [regularly used as cover for CIA et al. ops] in the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan.[SUP][17][/SUP]
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