WAR STORIES THREE - ARTICLE 22
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND RECRUITING IN 1969-70.
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Recruiting and MI Command
It is clear to me that Sp4 Draftees Personnel clerks that spent only two
whole years in the US Army that preposterously claims they are "experts"
on the US Army, are far too dense and uninformed to understand how a
Recruiting Command Field Station Commander was required to function in a
field recruiting station back in 1969. That duty is clearly far too
complicated and convoluted for Sp4 draftee Personnel clerks like Nigel
Brooks to understand.
Here is some information that has been confirmed by genuine experts on
the US Army (in writing): If no commissioned officer was present at the
field Recruiting Station, then the ranking NCO of the Field Recruiting
Station was titled the "Station Commander" of the entire Station, and
the Station Commander's duties were far greater and much more diverse
than the duties of just a field recruiter.
To complicate a Station Commanders duties even more, if the Station
Commander's Recruiting station was located in a county without any other
U.S. Army installations and that County contained Universities or
Colleges that housed radical fringe terrorist elements, such as the SDS,
the Weathermen, and similar offshoots or smaller radical groups
dedicated to aiding and abetting the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, and
the destruction of the US Army; then a perpetual "Cat and Mouse" game
was constantly in force between Recruiting Command and those terrorist
forces. (SDS =its acronym euphemism is "Students for a Democratic
Society" akin to the NLF or "National Liberation Front)."
Many SDS operatives were sent to Cuba to train as full fledged
terrorists. Moreover, terrorists that joined the terrorist organization
the "Weathermen" such as Mr. Bill Ayers and his Wife Bernardine Dohrn
were trained to not only bomb government buildings, but also to bomb and
target for sabotage US Military Recruiting Stations. (I believe there is
little difference if any between the Weathermen and Al Qaida - other
than the Weathermen are worse because in addition to being terrorists
that attacked American facilities they are also traitors).
My recruiting station command located at that time on Orange St., in
Lancaster Pennsylvania, was a constant SDS target for harassment and
sabotage, and eventually that sabotage was successful. Members of the
SDS broke into an adjoining restaurant and smashed the water pipes that
ran from that building into my building and effectively flooded out our
entire recruiting station. We repaired the damage and moved the Station
in the interim, but still, between the acts of sabotage and SDS members
showing up to disrupt recruiting procedures and disrupt and interfere
with the processing of new recruits, it was a constant battle to obtain
inside information as to the planning and tactics the various local SDS
units were contemplating against my Station.
The US Army, as the account below provides, established a network of
undercover agents that infiltrated the SDS and similar radical student
organizations (these SDS units were sponsored, directed and indirectly
funded by the North Vietnamese and Communist Chinese I might add). The
purpose of the US Army's infiltration was not to spy on American
citizens, but to spy on American groups that were being controlled,
directed and funded by our Foreign enemies.
Station Commanders of Recruiting Stations that were in my position of
having strong and very active SDS organizations in their local
Universities and College's (Millersville and Franklin and Marshall) were
also involved in receiving MI debriefings, and if they were the only
military base in the county, they were also responsible for passing on
directives and generally commanding the local undercover MI agents, who
in my case, were lower rank enlisted men.
At that time there were no computers, and since my station was the only
military station in all of Lancaster County, I received directives and
classified information in respect to these MI operations either by
courier or by teletype, and mostly by special courier. I also was
authorized to direct the operations of the MI undercover agents in the
respect of them determining how the SDS and their fringe groups were
planning to disrupt and sabotage recruiting for Lancaster County, which
was my command responsibility.
Needless to say, all Recruiting Station Commanders in my position were
not provided a new MOS of Military Intelligence, nor were they sent for
special training in that regard. However, the undercover MI operations
became an integral part of recruiting back in 1969 as we had to know
when to process new recruits, and on which days our Station would be
under protest or attack by the SDS operatives.
We also used MI debriefings to identify SDS operative posing as
potential recruits. Sometimes SDS operatives would pose as potential
recruits, and process alongside the new recruits. Then when our new
recruit candidates were bused to the nearest military facility for
testing and their physical examinations (which was located outside of
the county) the SDS operatives would take that op****tunity to beguile,
threaten and even sometimes seduce (women SDS operatives) our recruits
from going through with their enlistment plans. In some cases the SDS
operatives would give our recruits Marijuana or Acid and then they would
of course test positive for drugs when they arrived for their physical.
On other occasions SDS operatives would just show up and stand in front
of our Busses, or block the entrances to our station, or accost and
badger all of the men and women that were entering or leaving our
station.
Several SDS operatives used to follow me and some of my recruiters
constantly. And one day when I was having lunch in a restaurant, one of
them walked up to me, and before I could stop him he picked up my
military dress hat that was sitting on the table and proceeded to rip it
apart. What I did next became somewhat infamous in our local military
community, and I won't mention what I did to that SDS operative at that
time - other than to mention I was not charged with any crime by the
local constabulary.
Obviously, knowing the plans of the SDS became an essential part of
recruiting in 1969 in areas such as mine. Hence Recruiting Commands'
involvement with covert Military Intelligence operations. At times, my
command responsibilities became more attuned to gathering intelligence
information from our MI undercover operatives than it did actually
directing recruiting. Without those MI undercover operatives, recruiting
at that time would have been almost impossible in the County I was
assigned to command.
In respect to the US Army placing undercover agents in hundreds of
Universities to infiltrate the SDS and the Weathermen terrorists, there
were no laws violated whatsoever. The revelation of exactly how deep the
US Army MI had infiltrated into civilian organizations was not even
revealed until I had already left the US Army. And even then, there was
a legal basis (some said legal loophole) which allowed the US Army to
perform its MI functions on civilian campuses, and that legal loophole
was not closed by Congress until long after my discharge.
One of the main legal reasons the US Army was authorized to use
undercover agents on Campus was because there was a very real and
necessary need for the US Army to help co-ordinate the operations of the
National Guard and Regular Army troops. These troops were regularly
called to control and counteract SDS and Weatherman operations on
various campuses. If the National Guard could not control the "protests"
(the protests were in fact well-organized propaganda marches directed by
the North Vietnamese and funded by third-party entities that were
receiving their funding from the Communist Chinese and from the USSR)
then the Regular Army was to be called in to assist the National Guard.
Hence this was one of the many legal reasons the Army had for using
undercover agents on College campuses, and of course its legal right to
protect US Army property and functions, such as its recruiting stations
and recruiting processes.
There is no doubt in my mind the less informed and child like minds that
operate a smear and defamation gang on this newsgroup will not be able
to comprehend the magnitude nor the reasons for my involvement in MI
command issues, but the following article should clear up any confusion
on their part once and for all. And if it does not, then they are not
interested in the truth and facts.
I also have nothing but utter contempt for any Veteran that would
condone or defend the actions of the SDS or Weathermen terrorist groups.
I believe these home-grown terrorist organizations did more to kill
American soldiers and our Vietnamese allies than any other terrorist
group in history, including Al Qaida. I firmly believe the SDS and the
Weathermen helped to prolong the Vietnam war by years, and their
propaganda and sabotage certainly beguiled and convinced wide-eyed kids
and idiots that Communism was a very necessary way of life for the
Vietnamese people, not to mention their preposterous (yet somewhat
successful) propaganda the Vietnamese people preferred Communism to
Democracy.
Doug Grant (Tm)
SEE EXCERPTS BELOW:
http://tinyurl.com/4mx98t
Excerpts from the above URL:
"In July 1969, the Department of Defense opened a new war room in the
basement of the Pentagon. Staffed by some 180 people and packed with all
the latest equipment -data processing machines, closed circuit
television, teletype networks, elaborate situation maps-the new
operation was a marvel of military technology. The most striking aspect,
however, was not the imposing technology, but the purposes that were
being served. This was not a regular command center but a very special
operation-a "domestic war room," the headquarters of the Directorate for
Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations. It was the coordinating
center for the Pentagon's domestic war operations.
The office, now known as the Division of Military Services, played a
central role in the military's widespread intelligence operations
against the American people, a sweeping campaign of civilian
surveillance which ultimately affected more than 100,000 citizens. In
the fall of 1968, there were more Army Counter-intelligence Analysis
Branch personnel assigned to monitor domestic citizen protests than were
assigned to any other counter-intelligence operation in the world,
including Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War.' In the later part of the
1960s and early 1970s, 1,500 army plainclothes intelligence agents with
the services of more than 350 separate offices and record centers
watched and infiltrated thousands of legitimate civilian political
organizations. Data banks with as many as 100,000 entries each were
maintained at intelligence headquarters at Fort Holabird, Maryland, and
at Fourth Army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
As with the FBI and other intelligence agencies, citizens and
organizations singled out by military surveillance were those who
exercised their right to speak out: the oppressed minorities, advocates
of reform, and those on the political "left." The growth of the army
intelligence bureaucracy paralleled the growth of dissident protest
movements through the 1960s. Military intelligence undercover agents
focused on the civil rights movement of the early 1960s, and then moved
to the New Left anti-Vietnam War coalitions of later years. No political
gathering, no matter how small, was considered insignificant. No
distinction was made between groups preaching violent action and those
advocating peaceful dissent. Even the most established and nonviolent
groups such as the NAACP and the American Friends Service Committee
became targets of military surveillance."
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