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A Call for Proof on Syria-Sarin Attack
December 22, 2015
One reason why Official Washington continues to insist that Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad "must go" is that he supposedly "gassed his own people" with
sarin on Aug. 21, 2013, but the truth of that allegation has never been
established and is in growing doubt, U.S. intelligence veterans point out.
[Updated on Dec. 23 with new signers.]
MEMORANDUM FOR: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Foreign Minister of
Russia Sergey Lavrov
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Sarin Attack at Ghouta on Aug. 21, 2013
In a Memorandum of Oct. 1, 2013, we asked each of you to make public the
intelligence upon which you based your differing conclusions on who was
responsible for the sarin chemical attack at Ghouta, outside Damascus on
Aug. 21, 2013. On Dec. 10, 2015, Eren Erdem, a member of parliament in
Turkey, citing official documents, blamed Turkey for facilitating the
delivery of sarin to rebels in Syria.
Mr. Kerry, you had blamed the Syrian government. Mr. Lavrov, you had
described the sarin as "homemade" and suggested anti-government rebels were
responsible. Each of you claimed to have persuasive evidence to support your
conclusion.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 30, 2013, claims to have proof
that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on
Aug. 21, but that evidence failed to materialize or was later discredited.
[State Department photo]
Neither of you responded directly to our appeal to make such evidence
available to the public, although, Mr. Lavrov, you came close to doing so.
In a speech
at the UN on Sept. 26, 2013, you made reference to the views we presented in
our VIPS Memorandum, Is Syria a Trap?, sent to President Obama three weeks
earlier.
Pointing to strong doubt among chemical weapons experts regarding the
evidence adduced to blame the government of Syria for the sarin attack, you
also referred to the "open letter sent to President Obama by former
operatives of the CIA and the Pentagon," in which we expressed similar
doubt.
Mr. Kerry, on Aug. 30, 2013, you blamed the Syrian government, publicly and
repeatedly, for the sarin attack. But you failed to produce the kind of
"Intelligence Assessment" customarily used to back up such claims.
We believe that this odd lack of a formal "Intelligence Assessment" is
explained by the fact that our former colleagues did not believe the
evidence justified your charges and that, accordingly, they resisted
pressure to "fix the intelligence around the policy," as was done to
"justify" the attack on Iraq.
Intelligence analysts were telling us privately (and we told the President
in our Memorandum of Sept. 6, 2013) that, contrary to what you claimed, "the
most reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was not responsible
for the chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August
21."
This principled dissent from these analysts apparently led the White House
to create a new art form, a "Government Assessment," to convey claims that
the government in Damascus was behind the sarin attack. It was equally odd
that the newly minted genre of report offered not one item of verifiable
evidence.
(We note that you used this new art form "Government (not Intelligence)
Assessment" a second time again apparently to circumvent intelligence
analysts' objections. On July 22, 2014, just five days after the shoot-down
of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, after the media asked you to come up with
evidence supporting the charges you leveled against "pro-Russian
separatists" on the July 20 Sunday talk shows, you came up with the second,
of only two, "Government Assessment." Like the one on the chemical attack in
Syria, the assessment provided meager fare when it comes to verifiable
evidence.)
Claims and Counterclaims
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, 2013, President
Obama asserted: "It's an insult to human reason and to the legitimacy of
this institution to suggest that anyone other than the [Syrian] regime
carried out this attack [at Ghouta]."
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src="https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/20091204_091204h-
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height="199" />
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Mr. Lavrov, that same day you publicly complained that U.S. officials kept
claiming "'the Syrian regime,' as they call it, is guilty of the use of
chemical weapons, without providing comprehensive proof." Two days later you
told the U.N. General Assembly you had given Mr. Kerry "the latest
compilation of evidence, which was an analysis of publicly available
information." You also told the Washington Post, "This evidence is not
something revolutionary. It's available on the Internet."
On the Internet? Mr. Kerry, if your staff avoided calling your attention to
Internet reports about Turkish complicity in the sarin attack of Aug. 21,
2013, because they lacked confirmation, we believe you can now consider them
largely confirmed.
Documentary Evidence
Addressing fellow members of parliament on Dec. 10, 2015, Turkish MP Eren
Erdem from the Republican People's Party (a reasonably responsible
opposition group) confronted the Turkish government on this key issue.
Waving a copy of "Criminal Case Number 2013/120," Erdem referred to official
reports and electronic evidence documenting a smuggling operation with
Turkish government complicity.
In an interview with RT four days later, Erdem said Turkish authorities had
acquired evidence of sarin gas shipments to anti-government rebels in Syria,
and did nothing to stop them.
The General Prosecutor in the Turkish city of Adana opened a criminal case,
and an indictment stated "chemical weapons components" from Europe "were to
be seamlessly shipped via a designated route through Turkey to militant labs
in Syria." Erdem cited evidence implicating the Turkish Minister of Justice
and the Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation in the
smuggling of sarin.
The Operation
According to Erdem, the 13 suspects arrested in raids carried out against
the plotters were released just a week after they were indicted, and the
case was closed - shut down by higher authority. Erdem told RT that the
sarin attack at Ghouta took place shortly after the criminal case was closed
and that the attack probably was carried out by jihadists with sarin gas
smuggled through Turkey.
Small wonder President Erdogan has accused Erdem of "treason." It was not
Erdem's first "offense." Earlier, he exposed corruption by Erdogan family
members, for which a government newspaper branded him an "American puppet,
Israeli agent, a supporter of the terrorist PKK and the instigator of a
coup."
In our Sept. 6, 2013 Memorandum for the President, we reported that
coordination meetings had taken place just weeks before the sarin attack at
a Turkish military garrison in Antakya just 15 miles from the Syrian border
with Syria and 55 miles from its largest city, Aleppo.
In Antakya, senior Turkish, Qatari and U.S. intelligence officials were said
to be coordinating plans with Western-sponsored rebels, who were told to
expect an imminent escalation in the fighting due to "a war-changing
development." This, in turn, would lead to a U.S.-led bombing of Syria, and
rebel commanders were ordered to prepare their forces quickly to exploit the
bombing, march into Damascus, and remove the Assad government.
A year before, the New York Times reported that the Antakya area had become
a "magnet for foreign jihadis, who are flocking into Turkey to fight holy
war in Syria." The Times quoted a Syrian opposition member based in Antakya,
saying the Turkish police were patrolling this border area "with their eyes
closed."
And, Mr. Lavrov, while the account given by Eren Erdem before the Turkish
Parliament puts his charges on the official record, a simple Google search
including "Antakya" shows that you were correct in stating the Internet
contains a wealth of contemporaneous detail supporting Erdem's disclosures.
Mr. Kerry, while in Moscow on Dec. 15, you said to a Russian interviewer
that Syrian President Assad "has gassed his people I mean, gas hasn't been
used in warfare formally for years for and gas is outlawed, but Assad used
it."
Three days later The Washington Post dutifully repeated the charge about
Assad's supposed killing "his own people with chemical weapons." U.S. media
have made this the conventional wisdom. The American people are not fully
informed. There has been no mainstream media reporting on Turkish MP Erdem's
disclosures.
Renewed Appeal
We ask you again, Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov, to set the
record straight on this important issue. The two of you have demonstrated an
ability to work together on important matters the Iran nuclear deal, for
example and have acknowledged a shared interest in defeating ISIS, which
clearly is not Turkish President Erdogan's highest priority. Indeed, his
aims are at cross-purposes to those wishing to tamp down the violence in
Syria.
After the shoot-down of Russia's bomber on Nov. 24, President Vladimir Putin
put Russian forces in position to retaliate the next time, and told top
defense officials, "Any targets threatening our [military] group or land
infrastructure must be immediately destroyed." We believe that warning
should be taken seriously. What matters, though, is what Erdogan believes.
There is a good chance Erdogan will be dismissive of Putin's warning, as
long as the Turkish president believes he can depend on NATO always to react
in the supportive way it did after the shoot-down.
One concrete way to disabuse him of the notion that he has carte blanche to
create incidents that could put not only Turkey, but also the U.S., on the
verge of armed conflict with Russia, would be for the U.S. Secretary of
State and the Russian Foreign Minister to coordinate a statement on what we
believe was a classic false-flag chemical attack on Aug. 21, 2013,
facilitated by the Turks and aimed at mousetrapping President Obama into a
major attack on Syria.
One of our colleagues, a seasoned analyst of Turkish affairs, put it this
way: "Erdogan is even more dangerous if he thinks that he now has NATO
license to bait Russia, as he did with the shoot-down. I don't think NATO is
willing to give him that broader license, but he is a loose cannon."
FOR THE STEERING GROUP, VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY
Graham E. Fuller, Vice-Chair, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)
John Kiriakou, Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer
Edward Loomis, NSA, Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst
(ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East,
National Intelligence Council (ret)
Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (Ret.)
Scott Ritter, former Maj., USMC, former UN Weapon Inspector, Iraq
Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal
Counsel (ret.)
Robert David Steele, former CIA Operations Officer
Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret.)
(associate VIPS)
Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA
Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret.); Foreign Service Officer (resigned)
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One reason why Official Washington continues to insist that Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad "must go" is that he supposedly "gassed his own people" with
sarin on Aug. 21, 2013, but the truth of that allegation has never been
established and is in growing doubt, U.S. intelligence veterans point out.
[Updated on Dec. 23 with new signers.]
MEMORANDUM FOR: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Foreign Minister of
Russia Sergey Lavrov
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Sarin Attack at Ghouta on Aug. 21, 2013
In a Memorandum of Oct. 1, 2013, we asked each of you to make public the
intelligence upon which you based your differing conclusions on who was
responsible for the sarin chemical attack at Ghouta, outside Damascus on
Aug. 21, 2013. On Dec. 10, 2015, Eren Erdem, a member of parliament in
Turkey, citing official documents, blamed Turkey for facilitating the
delivery of sarin to rebels in Syria.
Mr. Kerry, you had blamed the Syrian government. Mr. Lavrov, you had
described the sarin as "homemade" and suggested anti-government rebels were
responsible. Each of you claimed to have persuasive evidence to support your
conclusion.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 30, 2013, claims to have proof
that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on
Aug. 21, but that evidence failed to materialize or was later discredited.
[State Department photo]
Neither of you responded directly to our appeal to make such evidence
available to the public, although, Mr. Lavrov, you came close to doing so.
In a speech
at the UN on Sept. 26, 2013, you made reference to the views we presented in
our VIPS Memorandum, Is Syria a Trap?, sent to President Obama three weeks
earlier.
Pointing to strong doubt among chemical weapons experts regarding the
evidence adduced to blame the government of Syria for the sarin attack, you
also referred to the "open letter sent to President Obama by former
operatives of the CIA and the Pentagon," in which we expressed similar
doubt.
Mr. Kerry, on Aug. 30, 2013, you blamed the Syrian government, publicly and
repeatedly, for the sarin attack. But you failed to produce the kind of
"Intelligence Assessment" customarily used to back up such claims.
We believe that this odd lack of a formal "Intelligence Assessment" is
explained by the fact that our former colleagues did not believe the
evidence justified your charges and that, accordingly, they resisted
pressure to "fix the intelligence around the policy," as was done to
"justify" the attack on Iraq.
Intelligence analysts were telling us privately (and we told the President
in our Memorandum of Sept. 6, 2013) that, contrary to what you claimed, "the
most reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was not responsible
for the chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August
21."
This principled dissent from these analysts apparently led the White House
to create a new art form, a "Government Assessment," to convey claims that
the government in Damascus was behind the sarin attack. It was equally odd
that the newly minted genre of report offered not one item of verifiable
evidence.
(We note that you used this new art form "Government (not Intelligence)
Assessment" a second time again apparently to circumvent intelligence
analysts' objections. On July 22, 2014, just five days after the shoot-down
of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, after the media asked you to come up with
evidence supporting the charges you leveled against "pro-Russian
separatists" on the July 20 Sunday talk shows, you came up with the second,
of only two, "Government Assessment." Like the one on the chemical attack in
Syria, the assessment provided meager fare when it comes to verifiable
evidence.)
Claims and Counterclaims
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, 2013, President
Obama asserted: "It's an insult to human reason and to the legitimacy of
this institution to suggest that anyone other than the [Syrian] regime
carried out this attack [at Ghouta]."
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Mr. Lavrov, that same day you publicly complained that U.S. officials kept
claiming "'the Syrian regime,' as they call it, is guilty of the use of
chemical weapons, without providing comprehensive proof." Two days later you
told the U.N. General Assembly you had given Mr. Kerry "the latest
compilation of evidence, which was an analysis of publicly available
information." You also told the Washington Post, "This evidence is not
something revolutionary. It's available on the Internet."
On the Internet? Mr. Kerry, if your staff avoided calling your attention to
Internet reports about Turkish complicity in the sarin attack of Aug. 21,
2013, because they lacked confirmation, we believe you can now consider them
largely confirmed.
Documentary Evidence
Addressing fellow members of parliament on Dec. 10, 2015, Turkish MP Eren
Erdem from the Republican People's Party (a reasonably responsible
opposition group) confronted the Turkish government on this key issue.
Waving a copy of "Criminal Case Number 2013/120," Erdem referred to official
reports and electronic evidence documenting a smuggling operation with
Turkish government complicity.
In an interview with RT four days later, Erdem said Turkish authorities had
acquired evidence of sarin gas shipments to anti-government rebels in Syria,
and did nothing to stop them.
The General Prosecutor in the Turkish city of Adana opened a criminal case,
and an indictment stated "chemical weapons components" from Europe "were to
be seamlessly shipped via a designated route through Turkey to militant labs
in Syria." Erdem cited evidence implicating the Turkish Minister of Justice
and the Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation in the
smuggling of sarin.
The Operation
According to Erdem, the 13 suspects arrested in raids carried out against
the plotters were released just a week after they were indicted, and the
case was closed - shut down by higher authority. Erdem told RT that the
sarin attack at Ghouta took place shortly after the criminal case was closed
and that the attack probably was carried out by jihadists with sarin gas
smuggled through Turkey.
Small wonder President Erdogan has accused Erdem of "treason." It was not
Erdem's first "offense." Earlier, he exposed corruption by Erdogan family
members, for which a government newspaper branded him an "American puppet,
Israeli agent, a supporter of the terrorist PKK and the instigator of a
coup."
In our Sept. 6, 2013 Memorandum for the President, we reported that
coordination meetings had taken place just weeks before the sarin attack at
a Turkish military garrison in Antakya just 15 miles from the Syrian border
with Syria and 55 miles from its largest city, Aleppo.
In Antakya, senior Turkish, Qatari and U.S. intelligence officials were said
to be coordinating plans with Western-sponsored rebels, who were told to
expect an imminent escalation in the fighting due to "a war-changing
development." This, in turn, would lead to a U.S.-led bombing of Syria, and
rebel commanders were ordered to prepare their forces quickly to exploit the
bombing, march into Damascus, and remove the Assad government.
A year before, the New York Times reported that the Antakya area had become
a "magnet for foreign jihadis, who are flocking into Turkey to fight holy
war in Syria." The Times quoted a Syrian opposition member based in Antakya,
saying the Turkish police were patrolling this border area "with their eyes
closed."
And, Mr. Lavrov, while the account given by Eren Erdem before the Turkish
Parliament puts his charges on the official record, a simple Google search
including "Antakya" shows that you were correct in stating the Internet
contains a wealth of contemporaneous detail supporting Erdem's disclosures.
Mr. Kerry, while in Moscow on Dec. 15, you said to a Russian interviewer
that Syrian President Assad "has gassed his people I mean, gas hasn't been
used in warfare formally for years for and gas is outlawed, but Assad used
it."
Three days later The Washington Post dutifully repeated the charge about
Assad's supposed killing "his own people with chemical weapons." U.S. media
have made this the conventional wisdom. The American people are not fully
informed. There has been no mainstream media reporting on Turkish MP Erdem's
disclosures.
Renewed Appeal
We ask you again, Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov, to set the
record straight on this important issue. The two of you have demonstrated an
ability to work together on important matters the Iran nuclear deal, for
example and have acknowledged a shared interest in defeating ISIS, which
clearly is not Turkish President Erdogan's highest priority. Indeed, his
aims are at cross-purposes to those wishing to tamp down the violence in
Syria.
After the shoot-down of Russia's bomber on Nov. 24, President Vladimir Putin
put Russian forces in position to retaliate the next time, and told top
defense officials, "Any targets threatening our [military] group or land
infrastructure must be immediately destroyed." We believe that warning
should be taken seriously. What matters, though, is what Erdogan believes.
There is a good chance Erdogan will be dismissive of Putin's warning, as
long as the Turkish president believes he can depend on NATO always to react
in the supportive way it did after the shoot-down.
One concrete way to disabuse him of the notion that he has carte blanche to
create incidents that could put not only Turkey, but also the U.S., on the
verge of armed conflict with Russia, would be for the U.S. Secretary of
State and the Russian Foreign Minister to coordinate a statement on what we
believe was a classic false-flag chemical attack on Aug. 21, 2013,
facilitated by the Turks and aimed at mousetrapping President Obama into a
major attack on Syria.
One of our colleagues, a seasoned analyst of Turkish affairs, put it this
way: "Erdogan is even more dangerous if he thinks that he now has NATO
license to bait Russia, as he did with the shoot-down. I don't think NATO is
willing to give him that broader license, but he is a loose cannon."
FOR THE STEERING GROUP, VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY
Graham E. Fuller, Vice-Chair, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)
John Kiriakou, Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer
Edward Loomis, NSA, Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst
(ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East,
National Intelligence Council (ret)
Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (Ret.)
Scott Ritter, former Maj., USMC, former UN Weapon Inspector, Iraq
Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal
Counsel (ret.)
Robert David Steele, former CIA Operations Officer
Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret.)
(associate VIPS)
Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA
Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret.); Foreign Service Officer (resigned)
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