(edit title) Deserter Hemler Helped Deepest Plot to Sink USSR Kept Alive False Claims Soviets Behind Hårsfjärden Options

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

O, no problem, still working on Hemler, NSA Directors General Lincoln Faurer and William Odom, and Iran-Contra.

Just have more immediate concerns right now - especially NSA's involvement in sabotaging that Sukhoi airliner - what caused all the problems for Bureau SA Steve Ivens and film director Tony Scott.

Find Hemler's explanation of his desertion - giving up allegiance, support and responsibility to the United States -quite unconvincing since he joined the Air Force when Roll-Back Ronnie and his goons became President, and did it when the process was really going ahead. Hemler's explanation of why he did it, especially the Air Force's treatment of him when he allegedly just wanted to get out, is quite dubious.

Think he deserted to convince the Swedes that he was telling the truth about himself, and what the US government was really up to when it came to intruding into Swedish waters. When his boss, Faurer, found out that the US was serious about ending the USSR with some kind of surprise war, he quit being NSA's Director, leaving Hemler in a most precarious position, especially when Washington went ahead with it at statsminister Olof Palme's expense.

When Iran-Contra broke, NSA was in the most exposed position because of all its intercepts before and after the assassination - what all the conspirators went to the greatest lengths to destroy, and cover up what bits still remained.

Hemler seems to have been left in a similar position to NSA's John C. Wobensmith who gave all those KY-40 encrypting lap-tops to Ollie North's people, thanks to Director Odom's direction. This meant that all their communications could not be traced.

Wobensmith was made the scapegoat of it when Special Counsel Lawrence Walsh learned about it.

Think Hemler fears he would be treated even worse if he ever returned to the US.

For Palme's assassination being the core of what had to be covered up, it's interesting to note what General Odom had to say when he departed NSA, comparing its work to the Agency's then: "The CIA is good at stealing a memo off a prime minister's desk, but they're not much good at anything else." (Quoted from James Bamford, Body of Secrets, p. 474.)

Odom was speaking about Palme's list of subjects to discuss with the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and it included a nuclear weapons free Scandinavia - what North's operators used as a justification of killing him. The memo was stolen in October 1985 by MI6's E. D. 'Mack' Falkirk at the encouragement of CIA's resident here in Stockholm, Jennone Walker.

Of course, there was no need to kill Palme because there was no chance that Norway nor Denmark would go along with the aim, and Odom was just rubbing in at the Agency's expense how much trouble it had created for everyone else, especially NSA's, for no good purpose.

More on Hemler if I ever get back to it, but given the crap we are currently getting from the loons running Washington, London, and other European capitals, it doesn't look as if it will be any time soon.

[Jamtjim]

O, no problem, still working on Hemler, NSA Directors General Lincoln Faurer and William Odom, and Iran-Contra.

Translation from Trowish:

Still working on: Fabricating fictional nonsence.

Just have more immediate concerns right now - especially NSA's involvement in sabotaging that Sukhoi airliner - what caused all the problems for Bureau SA Steve Ivens and film director Tony Scott.

Case in point!

[Fishtank]

As the OP is huge one can anybody tell me in few lines what is this all about?? Tack!