'CIA's bastard army ran riot in Balkans' backed extremists'
Special report: Kosovo
By Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday March 11, 2001, The Observer
The United States secretly supported the ethnic
Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in
Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army
fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in
an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European
officers who served with the international
peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as
leading Macedonian and US sources.
They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately
ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across
Kosovo's borders.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews by
The Observer. They emerge as America has been forced
into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian
extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that
would include Albanian communities in Serbia and
Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have
intensified their campaign of attacks in the two
areas, threatening a new war in the region which last
week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans
for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For between
the European and US military missions. European
officers are furious that the Americans have allowed
guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms
and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told The
Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run
riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to
overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US
State Department seems incapable of reining in its
bastard army.'
He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing
frustration with US support for the radical Albanians.
US policy was and still is out of step with the other
Nato allies.'
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in
the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the
National Liberation Army [which has been responsible
for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in
recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation
in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened
when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one.
'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies
have not been honest here.'
The claims were given extra credence from an
unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of
Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent
the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war
inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last
administration. There had now been 'a shift of
emphasis'.
---
For more background information on the CIA's involvement
with the KLA and
the lies and deception which launched NATO's war against
Yugoslavia, check
out the following articles which appear in issue #43 of
the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade's magazine, Press for Conversion!
(Dozens of other articles, summarizing 50 years of CIA
covert activities,
are also included in this issue, on the theme: "A
People's History of the
CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to
Zaire.")
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/>
---
1999, Yugoslavia: KLA, CIA, OSCE and NATO Join Hands
By Peter Stavropoulos
The BBC and Newsweek report that President Clinton
has approved CIA
training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to do
sabotage in Yugoslavia.
According to Newsweek, the CIA will train the KLA in
"age-old tricks like
cutting telephone lines, blowing up buildings, fouling
gasoline reserves
and pilfering food supplies - in an effort to undermine
public support for
the Serbian leader and damage Yugoslav targets that can't
be reached from
the air."
U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger secretly
briefed the
House and Senate Intelligence committees on these plans
the week that
former-General in the Croatian military, Agim Ceku, was
appointed to head
the KLA.
Newsweek says, "Intelligence officials worry it
would be difficult to
control the US-trained rebels once boot camp is over and
they are set loose
on Milosevic." A former chief of intelligence planner for
the US Air Force
said, "I'm afraid they could use their training to carry
out atrocities.
If they think they can rein them in, it's tremendous
naivete."
KLA ranks in Albania swelled. An estimated 10,000
arrived in
Albania, mainly from Germany, Switzerland, France and
Austria. Reuters has
reported that the KLA is also forcing male Kosovar
refugees to join its ranks.
Jane's reported that U.S. military Special Forces
and British SAS
were fighting alongside the KLA inside Kosovo. The French
news agency
Agence France Presse has reported on the deaths of three
French army
paratroop officers killed while commanding a KLA unit
trying to cross into
Kosovo from Albania.
The U.S.-NATO backing to the KLA and Ceku, its new
military leader is
the most telling refutation of the claims made to justify
the war.
Who is the KLA Commander, Agim Ceku?
* Ceku an ethnic Kosovo Albanian, graduated from the
Belgrade Military
Academy; served as an artillery captain in the Yugoslav
army.
* During Yugoslavia's dissolution in 1991, he defected to
the newly formed
Croatian Army to assist its drive to secession. He was
decorated nine
times in battles against Serb forces in both Bosnia and
Croatia.
* Brigadier-General, Croatian Army.
* Mastermind of the "Medak Massacre" (September 1993), a
savage bloodbath
against Serb civilians in which Canadian peacekeeping
troops were compelled
to intervene, killing 30 Croatian militiamen.
* He played a central role in the Croatian Army's
"cleansing" of Serbs from
eastern Croatia's Krajina region, where Serbs had
comprised the majority
for hundreds of years.
* Ceku was "one of the key planners of 'Operation Storm'"
led by the
Croatian Armed Forces against Krajina Serbs in 1995"
(Jane's Defence
Weekly, June 10, 1999). This was supported by the U.S.
and assisted by
NATO bombing of Serb positions. Ceku developed close ties
with U.S.
military officials. (More than 300,000 Croa-tian Serbs
were expelled from
Croatia between 1991 and 1998. Hundreds were murdered,
including many too
old or disabled to escape. Methods included: systematic
and deliberate
bombing of civilians, well-publicized acts of terror to
spread panic, rape,
and arson against homes, farms and other property. It was
the greatest act
of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans prior to the NATO
bombing in Kosovo.
* The Croatian Army was trained by a U.S. company called
Military
Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), composed of retired
U.S. military
officers. An MPRI spokesmen described Ceku in Jane's
Defense Weekly (JDW)
as a highly competent and disciplined officer.
* Ceku retired from his Croatian Army post in February,
1999.
* Ceku was appointed KLA chief-of-staff in a
reorganization to more closely
align it with U.S. strategy.
* Ceku is under investigation by the International
Criminal Tribunal for
war crimes against Serbs in Croatia (Sunday Times of
London, October 10,
1999.)
Source: "Former Croatian general has US backing: New KLA
leader was
responsible for ethnic cleansing," World Socialist Web
Service, May 29,
1999.
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/kla-m29.shtml>
---
CIA Training and Advice
By Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty
U.S. intelligence agents have admitted they helped
train the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) before NATO's bombing of
Yugoslavia. This angered
some European diplomats, who said it had undermined a
political solution.
CIA officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and
1999. They gave
the KLA U.S. military training manuals and field advice.
When the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE),
which coordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week
before airstrikes
began, many of its satellite phones and global positioning
systems were
secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that they could stay
in touch with
NATO and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the phone
number of General
Clark, the NATO commander.
Several Americans with CIA links, spoke to makers of
"Moral Combat,"
a BBC2 documentary [Mar.12, 2000], and The Sunday Times
about their
clandestine roles. U.S. diplomatic observers were "a CIA
front, gathering
intelligence on the KLA's arms and leadership," said one.
Another agent,
said he had been "suckered in" by an organization that ran
amok in post-war
Kosovo. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander involved in
destabilizing majority
Albanian villages in Serbia proper, said he met British,
U.S. and Swiss
agents in northern Albania in 1996.
Source: Siol nan Gaidheal, March 2000.
<http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com/ciaaid.htm>
---
William Walker: Mr. Massacre, from El Salvador to Racak
By Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi.
On January 15, 1999, a U.S. diplomat, William
Walker, head of the war
crimes verification team of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), visited the Kosovar village of Racak to
investigate an
alleged Serb massacre of ethnic Albanian peasants. "I do
not hesitate to
describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against
humanity," he said. "Nor
do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of
responsibility."
Washington responded to this by quickly setting the U.S.
military machine
in motion.
Walker's background inspires suspicion about the
entire Yugoslavia
campaign. If William Walker is not a CIA agent, he's done
a very bad job
of not looking like one. He spent most of his foreign
service career in
Central and South America. He began his diplomatic career
in 1961 in Peru.
In the early 1980s, he held the highly controversial post
of Deputy Chief
of Mission in Honduras, exactly the time and place the
Contras were formed.
Walker was promoted, in 1985, to Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
for Central America. He was a special assistant to
Assistant Secretary of
State, Elliot Abrams, who was closely connected to the
"Iran-Contra"
scandal. According to Independent Counsel Lawrence
Walsh's lengthy
indictment of Abrams and Oliver North, Walker set up a
phony humanitarian
operation at an airbase in Ilopango, El Salvador, which
funneled guns,
ammunition and supplies to Contras in Nicaragua.
Although outed in the international press as a
gunrunner, Walker's
diplomatic career did not suffer. In 1988, he became
ambassador to El
Salvador, a state which was still in the grip of
U.S.-sponsored state terror.
In late 1989, when U.S.-trained Salvadoran soldiers
executed six
Jesuit priests and two women, Walker was asked about
evidence linking the
killings to the Salvadoran High Command. He apologized
for chief of staff
Rene Ponce, saying "Management control problems can exist
in these kinds of
situations. I'm not condoning it, but in times of great
emotion and great
anger, things like this happen."
Shrugging off news of eyewitness reports that the
murderers wore
Salvadoran army uniforms, Walker said "anyone can get
uniforms. The fact
that they wore military uniforms was not proof they were
military."
Later, Walker recommended to Secretary of State
James Baker that the
U.S. "not jeopardize" its relationship with El Salvador by
investigating
"past deaths, however heinous." This is ironic, coming
from a man who
later recommended that the U.S. go to war with Yugoslavia
over heinous
deaths.
In 1996, Walker hosted a ceremony in Washington
honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought secretly in El Salvador. While Walker
was Ambassador
there, the official U.S. story was that only 50 U.S.
military advisors in
the country (Washington Post, May 6, 1996).
"Ambassador Walker's record certainly does
compromise his reliability
as an objective witness," said James Morrell, research
director, Center for
International Policy, Washington.
There is a widespread belief that Walker's role in
Racak was to
assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre to be used
as an excuse for
military action. French national TV and two major French
newspapers ran
exposes on the Racak incident. They cited inconsistencies
in Walker's
version of events. Even the Los Angeles Times ran a story
suggesting the
Racak massacre was faked. The theory behind these expos?s
is that the KLA
gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their
uniforms, put them
in civilian clothes and called in the observers. Walker,
significantly,
did not see the bodies until 12 hours after Serb police
left the town. As
Walker knows, not only can "anybody have uniforms," anyone
can have them
taken off, too.
Source:
<http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm> Aug.10, 2000.
---
Who is William Walker?
(1935 - )
U.S. Foreign Service officer:
* Peru (1962-1964)
* Japan (1964-1967)
* Brazil (1969-1972)
* El Salvador (1974-1991)
* Honduras (1980-1986)
* Panama (1985)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Honduras (1980-1982)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Bolivia (1982-1984)
* Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America,
Office of
Inter-American Affairs; worked with Ollie North and was
special assistant
to Eliot Abrams, helping arm the Contras (1985-1988)
* Ambassador, El Salvador (1988-1992); invited death squad
leader Roberto
d'Aubuisson to U.S. embassy's July 4 party (1989)
* Vice Pres., National Defense Univ., Wash., D.C.
(1994-97)
* hosted a Washington ceremony honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought
secretly in El Salvador (1996)
* Special Representative of Secretary General, heading UN
Transitional
Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (return E.
Slavonia to Croatian
control) (1997-1998)
* Head, Kosovo Verification Mission, Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe (1998-1999)
Sources:
<http://alpha.ddm.uci.edu/zotmail/archive/1999/19991109101.html>
<http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gyedb/STILE/Email0002026/m4.html>
<http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1992/92050804.html>
<http://www.moravian.edu/NewsInfo/NewsReleases/NR174.htm>
<http://www.pir.org>
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Special report: Kosovo
By Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday March 11, 2001, The Observer
The United States secretly supported the ethnic
Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in
Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army
fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in
an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European
officers who served with the international
peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as
leading Macedonian and US sources.
They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately
ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across
Kosovo's borders.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews by
The Observer. They emerge as America has been forced
into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian
extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that
would include Albanian communities in Serbia and
Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have
intensified their campaign of attacks in the two
areas, threatening a new war in the region which last
week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans
for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For between
the European and US military missions. European
officers are furious that the Americans have allowed
guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms
and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told The
Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run
riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to
overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US
State Department seems incapable of reining in its
bastard army.'
He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing
frustration with US support for the radical Albanians.
US policy was and still is out of step with the other
Nato allies.'
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in
the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the
National Liberation Army [which has been responsible
for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in
recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation
in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened
when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one.
'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies
have not been honest here.'
The claims were given extra credence from an
unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of
Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent
the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war
inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last
administration. There had now been 'a shift of
emphasis'.
---
For more background information on the CIA's involvement
with the KLA and
the lies and deception which launched NATO's war against
Yugoslavia, check
out the following articles which appear in issue #43 of
the Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade's magazine, Press for Conversion!
(Dozens of other articles, summarizing 50 years of CIA
covert activities,
are also included in this issue, on the theme: "A
People's History of the
CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to
Zaire.")
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/>
---
1999, Yugoslavia: KLA, CIA, OSCE and NATO Join Hands
By Peter Stavropoulos
The BBC and Newsweek report that President Clinton
has approved CIA
training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to do
sabotage in Yugoslavia.
According to Newsweek, the CIA will train the KLA in
"age-old tricks like
cutting telephone lines, blowing up buildings, fouling
gasoline reserves
and pilfering food supplies - in an effort to undermine
public support for
the Serbian leader and damage Yugoslav targets that can't
be reached from
the air."
U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger secretly
briefed the
House and Senate Intelligence committees on these plans
the week that
former-General in the Croatian military, Agim Ceku, was
appointed to head
the KLA.
Newsweek says, "Intelligence officials worry it
would be difficult to
control the US-trained rebels once boot camp is over and
they are set loose
on Milosevic." A former chief of intelligence planner for
the US Air Force
said, "I'm afraid they could use their training to carry
out atrocities.
If they think they can rein them in, it's tremendous
naivete."
KLA ranks in Albania swelled. An estimated 10,000
arrived in
Albania, mainly from Germany, Switzerland, France and
Austria. Reuters has
reported that the KLA is also forcing male Kosovar
refugees to join its ranks.
Jane's reported that U.S. military Special Forces
and British SAS
were fighting alongside the KLA inside Kosovo. The French
news agency
Agence France Presse has reported on the deaths of three
French army
paratroop officers killed while commanding a KLA unit
trying to cross into
Kosovo from Albania.
The U.S.-NATO backing to the KLA and Ceku, its new
military leader is
the most telling refutation of the claims made to justify
the war.
Who is the KLA Commander, Agim Ceku?
* Ceku an ethnic Kosovo Albanian, graduated from the
Belgrade Military
Academy; served as an artillery captain in the Yugoslav
army.
* During Yugoslavia's dissolution in 1991, he defected to
the newly formed
Croatian Army to assist its drive to secession. He was
decorated nine
times in battles against Serb forces in both Bosnia and
Croatia.
* Brigadier-General, Croatian Army.
* Mastermind of the "Medak Massacre" (September 1993), a
savage bloodbath
against Serb civilians in which Canadian peacekeeping
troops were compelled
to intervene, killing 30 Croatian militiamen.
* He played a central role in the Croatian Army's
"cleansing" of Serbs from
eastern Croatia's Krajina region, where Serbs had
comprised the majority
for hundreds of years.
* Ceku was "one of the key planners of 'Operation Storm'"
led by the
Croatian Armed Forces against Krajina Serbs in 1995"
(Jane's Defence
Weekly, June 10, 1999). This was supported by the U.S.
and assisted by
NATO bombing of Serb positions. Ceku developed close ties
with U.S.
military officials. (More than 300,000 Croa-tian Serbs
were expelled from
Croatia between 1991 and 1998. Hundreds were murdered,
including many too
old or disabled to escape. Methods included: systematic
and deliberate
bombing of civilians, well-publicized acts of terror to
spread panic, rape,
and arson against homes, farms and other property. It was
the greatest act
of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans prior to the NATO
bombing in Kosovo.
* The Croatian Army was trained by a U.S. company called
Military
Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), composed of retired
U.S. military
officers. An MPRI spokesmen described Ceku in Jane's
Defense Weekly (JDW)
as a highly competent and disciplined officer.
* Ceku retired from his Croatian Army post in February,
1999.
* Ceku was appointed KLA chief-of-staff in a
reorganization to more closely
align it with U.S. strategy.
* Ceku is under investigation by the International
Criminal Tribunal for
war crimes against Serbs in Croatia (Sunday Times of
London, October 10,
1999.)
Source: "Former Croatian general has US backing: New KLA
leader was
responsible for ethnic cleansing," World Socialist Web
Service, May 29,
1999.
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/kla-m29.shtml>
---
CIA Training and Advice
By Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty
U.S. intelligence agents have admitted they helped
train the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) before NATO's bombing of
Yugoslavia. This angered
some European diplomats, who said it had undermined a
political solution.
CIA officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and
1999. They gave
the KLA U.S. military training manuals and field advice.
When the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE),
which coordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week
before airstrikes
began, many of its satellite phones and global positioning
systems were
secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that they could stay
in touch with
NATO and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the phone
number of General
Clark, the NATO commander.
Several Americans with CIA links, spoke to makers of
"Moral Combat,"
a BBC2 documentary [Mar.12, 2000], and The Sunday Times
about their
clandestine roles. U.S. diplomatic observers were "a CIA
front, gathering
intelligence on the KLA's arms and leadership," said one.
Another agent,
said he had been "suckered in" by an organization that ran
amok in post-war
Kosovo. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander involved in
destabilizing majority
Albanian villages in Serbia proper, said he met British,
U.S. and Swiss
agents in northern Albania in 1996.
Source: Siol nan Gaidheal, March 2000.
<http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com/ciaaid.htm>
---
William Walker: Mr. Massacre, from El Salvador to Racak
By Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi.
On January 15, 1999, a U.S. diplomat, William
Walker, head of the war
crimes verification team of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), visited the Kosovar village of Racak to
investigate an
alleged Serb massacre of ethnic Albanian peasants. "I do
not hesitate to
describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against
humanity," he said. "Nor
do I hesitate to accuse the government security forces of
responsibility."
Washington responded to this by quickly setting the U.S.
military machine
in motion.
Walker's background inspires suspicion about the
entire Yugoslavia
campaign. If William Walker is not a CIA agent, he's done
a very bad job
of not looking like one. He spent most of his foreign
service career in
Central and South America. He began his diplomatic career
in 1961 in Peru.
In the early 1980s, he held the highly controversial post
of Deputy Chief
of Mission in Honduras, exactly the time and place the
Contras were formed.
Walker was promoted, in 1985, to Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
for Central America. He was a special assistant to
Assistant Secretary of
State, Elliot Abrams, who was closely connected to the
"Iran-Contra"
scandal. According to Independent Counsel Lawrence
Walsh's lengthy
indictment of Abrams and Oliver North, Walker set up a
phony humanitarian
operation at an airbase in Ilopango, El Salvador, which
funneled guns,
ammunition and supplies to Contras in Nicaragua.
Although outed in the international press as a
gunrunner, Walker's
diplomatic career did not suffer. In 1988, he became
ambassador to El
Salvador, a state which was still in the grip of
U.S.-sponsored state terror.
In late 1989, when U.S.-trained Salvadoran soldiers
executed six
Jesuit priests and two women, Walker was asked about
evidence linking the
killings to the Salvadoran High Command. He apologized
for chief of staff
Rene Ponce, saying "Management control problems can exist
in these kinds of
situations. I'm not condoning it, but in times of great
emotion and great
anger, things like this happen."
Shrugging off news of eyewitness reports that the
murderers wore
Salvadoran army uniforms, Walker said "anyone can get
uniforms. The fact
that they wore military uniforms was not proof they were
military."
Later, Walker recommended to Secretary of State
James Baker that the
U.S. "not jeopardize" its relationship with El Salvador by
investigating
"past deaths, however heinous." This is ironic, coming
from a man who
later recommended that the U.S. go to war with Yugoslavia
over heinous
deaths.
In 1996, Walker hosted a ceremony in Washington
honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought secretly in El Salvador. While Walker
was Ambassador
there, the official U.S. story was that only 50 U.S.
military advisors in
the country (Washington Post, May 6, 1996).
"Ambassador Walker's record certainly does
compromise his reliability
as an objective witness," said James Morrell, research
director, Center for
International Policy, Washington.
There is a widespread belief that Walker's role in
Racak was to
assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre to be used
as an excuse for
military action. French national TV and two major French
newspapers ran
exposes on the Racak incident. They cited inconsistencies
in Walker's
version of events. Even the Los Angeles Times ran a story
suggesting the
Racak massacre was faked. The theory behind these expos?s
is that the KLA
gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their
uniforms, put them
in civilian clothes and called in the observers. Walker,
significantly,
did not see the bodies until 12 hours after Serb police
left the town. As
Walker knows, not only can "anybody have uniforms," anyone
can have them
taken off, too.
Source:
<http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm> Aug.10, 2000.
---
Who is William Walker?
(1935 - )
U.S. Foreign Service officer:
* Peru (1962-1964)
* Japan (1964-1967)
* Brazil (1969-1972)
* El Salvador (1974-1991)
* Honduras (1980-1986)
* Panama (1985)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Honduras (1980-1982)
* Deputy Chief of Mission, Bolivia (1982-1984)
* Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America,
Office of
Inter-American Affairs; worked with Ollie North and was
special assistant
to Eliot Abrams, helping arm the Contras (1985-1988)
* Ambassador, El Salvador (1988-1992); invited death squad
leader Roberto
d'Aubuisson to U.S. embassy's July 4 party (1989)
* Vice Pres., National Defense Univ., Wash., D.C.
(1994-97)
* hosted a Washington ceremony honoring 5,000 U.S.
soldiers who fought
secretly in El Salvador (1996)
* Special Representative of Secretary General, heading UN
Transitional
Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (return E.
Slavonia to Croatian
control) (1997-1998)
* Head, Kosovo Verification Mission, Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in Europe (1998-1999)
Sources:
<http://alpha.ddm.uci.edu/zotmail/archive/1999/19991109101.html>
<http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gyedb/STILE/Email0002026/m4.html>
<http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1992/92050804.html>
<http://www.moravian.edu/NewsInfo/NewsReleases/NR174.htm>
<http://www.pir.org>
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