POWER ? SNAKE (eBook)

I AM SEATO. I KNOW THIS.

The period I am talking about, from April 1975 to 1986, left behind a large piecemeal papertrail, known as the ‘Return to Indochine’.8 The third Indochina war may have been well on its way if not for the good foresight of Thailand’s Prime Minister (1988-1991) General Chatichai Choonhavan (1920-1998) who proposed a more lucrative move for all involved by initiating economic developments to turn Indochina ‘from a Battle Field into a Market Place.’9 The succesor of Prime Minister General Chatichai Choonhavan was Asian Institute of Technology’s (AIT) Chairman Dr Anand Panyarachun (1932-).

When I returned to Thailand and Vietnam in the mid 1980s, the amount of previously written papers were carelessly disregarded by the Western organizations and Radio Broadcasting Bureaus. Vietnam War-related documents could be easily obtained in nearly every provincial office, central government agency and formerly-active, privately-owned commercial institutions. These printed documents made very good paper wrappers for the local sandwich called Banh Mi pate. The more Banh Mi pate I chewed through, the more information I digested, largely because the CIA-owned B’nai B’rith garbage collector10 had to leave town early and left the CHAOS behind.

Most importantly by far was the collapse of the Berlin Wall and East Germany on 9 November 1989, which opened-up floodgates of data related to the US-led Vietnam War, especially in relation to the Teheran and Beirut hostage crises, which were both directly interrelated with the Iran/Contra dealings.

Interestingly these mutual hostage situations themselves produced large amounts of previously secret data, extracted from those who were formerly active in Vietnam. Highlighted are the cases of the hijackings in Tehran and Beirut, where station chief William Buckley (1928-1985) was kidnapped in 1984 and secretly whisked through Syria to Iran for the purpose of interrogation.11

Classically, only the playgrounds were different. The rules of the game - or perhaps more accurately the absence of rules - and the actively-involved players remained the same.

GENERAL MARKUS WOLF & GENERAL WERNER GROSSMANN

Thankfully and largely due to the STASI12 archives, tonnes of material were suddenly released without pre-warning. Because of their unexpected and rapid publication, the said materials could not be tampered with, and their content remained unchanged and genuinely unadulterated. Of particular interest were the original HVA13 documents in Lichtenberg, which were meticulously guarded by the world’s two greatest spymasters: General Markus Wolf (1923-2006) and General Werner Grossmann (1929-2022).14 The files were kept untouched largely due to the fact that DDR citizens were interested merely in their own STASI files, but not in the intelligence gathering network’s foreign services.15

Thus these documents provided a perfectly suitable base for triangulation to prove the authenticity of written and orally recorded data, stored separately from western-manipulated databank 16 Multiple squadrons of muted skeletons hidden in dirty closets began to march out into the open on their shaking, clattering, white-washed legs. Dry as a bone, grinding on each other’s joints without the benefit of fatty tissues to cushion their movements produced a screeching, highly unpleasant, deafening sound. The cries from these victims of the past were going to hunt the ones responsible for their mutilation in the future.

Do my fellow readers, especially European ones, really believe that:

• the Oberammergau’s business school17 located close to Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bayern (Bavaria),

• Heidelberg and Ramstein18 HQs of the US Army & Air Force in Europe,

• the deadly aircrash of the youngest Secretary – General of the United Nations, Sweden’s Dag Hammarskjöld19,

• the cowardly execution of Patrice Lumumba20,

• the Krummestrasse 66 in West Berlin21,

• RAF’s (Red Army Faction) Bader-Meinhof Gang,

• Red Brigades22 abducting Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro23,

• TWA flight 847’s odyssey between the Maghreb and the Cedar Republic24,

• Achille Lauro hijacking in the Mediterranean25,

• Nuclear scientist Yahya El Mashad26, bludgeoned to death in the Le Meridien Hotel in Paris in 1980,

• the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme27 in 1986,

• the fully-dressed drawing of West-German top politician Uwe Barschel28 who is an acquaintance of Hitler’s successor Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz29, in the bathtub of the Beau-Rivage Hotel30 in Geneva while throwing in mudslendering accusations against hispolitical rival Björn Engholm31 by intriguent manipulator Reiner Pfeiffer32 and imposter Gert Poster33,

had nothing to do with the US-led Vietnam War, in relation to Iran/Contra? Just because Europe is far away from these initial places of action? Think again… The writing is on the wall.

DR RED – RETIRED EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

I, myself, was educated at the Asian Institute of Technology - in short AIT - the former SEATO’s Graduate School of Engineering. I studied and lectured under the personal guidance of legendary football coach Dr Red34 - whose initials stand for ‘Retired Extremely Dangerous’ – a former national soccer association (NSA) sensation.35 Despite similarities with ‘RED’ he’s not to be mixed up with Red Robert Jantzen the CIA station chief in Bangkok from 1959 to 1966, who represented Nugan Hand Bank in Thailand but never got caught red-handed having his hands in the nougat-balls jar.

NSA36 is also, not only by chance and not incredibly surprisingly, a highly sophisticated electronical bigboy-gametoy operator that knew the precise time, place and emotional condition of Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi37 while he flushes with excitement his bidet, anywhere between Benghazi, Sirte38 and Tripoli. Colonel Ghaddafi once wisely said that all great prophets come from the desert and were uneducated: “Mohammed, Jesus, and myself.”

NSA answered in time, and in fact uninvited, that all of them are most probably to be found somewhere between Fort Meade39 and the rest of the world, the UpperWorld, the UnderWorld, WaterWorld, SafariWorld as well as any OuterWorld, including any known or unknown Black Holes of the entire mighty, unexploited, mysterious Universe stretching to the Milky Way®, supposedly owned by Mars® Inc. Put it less cryptically, that means any important or completely unimportant strategic place and deserted trash-hole near and far from the star-spanked banner that D.C. considers at one time or another as important is not very difficult to pinpoint.

DR MAD – MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION

Ajan Red is a renowned world expert on the academic subject of the MAD40 theory, which forbate him by the security and silencing act of the Universal Recording Studio and Theater of RaW operators41 from providing me with any relevant and non-relevant information on the subject of the darkest secrets42 of the Vietnam War, largely conducted in Laos, extended unnecessarily into Kampuchea and its murderous prolongation into Angola and The Congo followed by Iran/Contra. If he did he would have to kill me.

I didn’t ask, so he didn’t have to answer. We kept a good friendship over those many years and most importantly I stayed alive. I was also able to write extensively and in great details, like any other sophisticated academic and missing-in-action, non-active practitioner, on what I didn’t know. Yogi43 said: “In theory, there is no difference between Theory and Practice but in practice, there is.”

Institutionally, AIT is the successor of the famous Bangkok based SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization)44 Graduate School of Engineering, defind as the de-facto military alliance of the Western-led free World protecting its values against the profileration of Communism in South East Asia. The congressional hearings of 1963 on foreign assistance appropriations and related agencies recorded that dependency was greatly skewed towards the military, but efforts were to be made to get the SEATO people into the picture.

SEATO’s mission was simple: prevent communism from taking hold in Asia. Here’s a quote from Richard K. Betts (2004), US National Security Strategy: Lenses and Landmarks, at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on page 16: “The Eisenhower administration celebrated the formation of SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, as Indochina was partitioned after the French defeat 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. Today, SEATO sounds like a footnote in history… In contrast to NATO, however, none of these other military organizations proved very significant. Or if they were significant as SEATO was supposed to be, they were not successful. By 1975 SEATO was defunct.”

AIT - ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

The only survivor that remains from the legendary SEATO is AIT: the Asian Institute of Technology whose famous Chairman is Dr Anand Panyarachun. I have the greatest respect for Professor Dr Anand Panyarachun, the President of AIT and twice Prime...