10-12-2018, 12:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-12-2018, 07:44 PM by Anthony Thorne.)
Just as an aside, an interesting CNN article from 1997.
EXPERTS PREPARE FOR 'AN ELECTRONIC PEARL HARBOR'
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9711/07/terror...structure/
Some of the names mentioned have very interesting linkages to neocon personnel. John Hamre had been running the Pentagon reconstruction project at one point. And, at the time of the articles publication, Zelikow's study group into Catastrophic Terrorism had been running about a week.
New to me recently. There were a number of terrorism study groups and conferences - gatherings of recurrent personnel and linked figures - running throughout that year. It wasn't just Zelikow's large scale effort that had been looking at the issue. The earliest was the 'Coping with NBC Terrorism: Policy and Technology Approaches Conference' run by CSIS at Harvard, and other centers at the Monterey Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. And, acting as an umbrella throughout the period of those conferences, another research group into imminent terrorism worked concurrently in the UK, ran for 18 months, began the same month that the first (earlier, February) 1997 conference commenced in the US, and finished the same month in 1998 when Zelikow's Harvard study finished. This later research project was undertaken at Paul Wilkinson's Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in the UK, was financed by a grant provided by the Airey Neave Trust, and is referenced in a 1997 article by Wilkinson's associate Bruce Hoffman. Wilkinson is the guy who met with Oliver North in 1984 when North was working on Continuity of Government planning for the Iran Contra participants, and who then denied the meeting when evidence of it was revealed during congressional hearings.
Hoffman provides the forward to a March 2001 book, THE TERRORISM THREAT AND U.S GOVERNMENT RESPONSE, with various political researchers, think tank members and the Vice President of SAIC offering contributions. Among them is Peter Probst, a CIA/Pentagon employee who had 'served on the advisory board of the Middle East Forum to advocate and lobby for American intervention in the Middle East'. And Douglas Menarchik, who contributed the final chapter, ORGANIZING TO COMBAT 21ST CENTURY TERRORISM, oversaw a 1993 Pentagon study describing how 'an airplane could be used as a missile to bomb national landmarks'.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usaf...m_book.pdf
This second link for the book contains a longer biographical study of the contributors.
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=438964
EXPERTS PREPARE FOR 'AN ELECTRONIC PEARL HARBOR'
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9711/07/terror...structure/
Some of the names mentioned have very interesting linkages to neocon personnel. John Hamre had been running the Pentagon reconstruction project at one point. And, at the time of the articles publication, Zelikow's study group into Catastrophic Terrorism had been running about a week.
New to me recently. There were a number of terrorism study groups and conferences - gatherings of recurrent personnel and linked figures - running throughout that year. It wasn't just Zelikow's large scale effort that had been looking at the issue. The earliest was the 'Coping with NBC Terrorism: Policy and Technology Approaches Conference' run by CSIS at Harvard, and other centers at the Monterey Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. And, acting as an umbrella throughout the period of those conferences, another research group into imminent terrorism worked concurrently in the UK, ran for 18 months, began the same month that the first (earlier, February) 1997 conference commenced in the US, and finished the same month in 1998 when Zelikow's Harvard study finished. This later research project was undertaken at Paul Wilkinson's Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in the UK, was financed by a grant provided by the Airey Neave Trust, and is referenced in a 1997 article by Wilkinson's associate Bruce Hoffman. Wilkinson is the guy who met with Oliver North in 1984 when North was working on Continuity of Government planning for the Iran Contra participants, and who then denied the meeting when evidence of it was revealed during congressional hearings.
Hoffman provides the forward to a March 2001 book, THE TERRORISM THREAT AND U.S GOVERNMENT RESPONSE, with various political researchers, think tank members and the Vice President of SAIC offering contributions. Among them is Peter Probst, a CIA/Pentagon employee who had 'served on the advisory board of the Middle East Forum to advocate and lobby for American intervention in the Middle East'. And Douglas Menarchik, who contributed the final chapter, ORGANIZING TO COMBAT 21ST CENTURY TERRORISM, oversaw a 1993 Pentagon study describing how 'an airplane could be used as a missile to bomb national landmarks'.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usaf...m_book.pdf
This second link for the book contains a longer biographical study of the contributors.
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=438964