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Within the G7 group where we worked there was a great deal of outrage. I was particularly outraged as I had spent four years following these individuals and, at the moment of our greatest intelligence coup against them, a uninformed GS level had pooh-poohed our work and cost the lives of two US diplomats. I demanded to confront this person (a rather naive desire I must admit) and find out why she had done this. After some effort by my supervisor, a Navy Officer, I was told that the choice was mine: Shut up or lose my clearance and get ready for Fleet Oiler duty within 48 hours. I gave in.

Over the next week, we awaited the arrival of the field intercept tapes and transcriptions. At least we would be able to gain valuable insight into this terrible affair and maybe even someday help punish those responsible. We waited. Finally I remember asking when would the tapes arrive? I was puzzled by the answer: Oh, they've been looked at and there isn't much there. !!!!!????? Wait a minute. Then, how could the field guys have given us all this detailed information that we based the warning message on and which in fact occurred two days later? Something was not right. In addition, our folders with all our materials of the hostage crisis were never returned to us from the higher levels to which they had gone during the crisis. We in effect had nothing now of this affair.

The cover-up had started. And it would last 27 years. I should have gone to Congress 27 years ago and I do so belatedly now. I was a supporter of the Nixon Administration and to this day do believe that Mr. Nixon's foreign policy skills were far superior to any other potential political rival at that time. However, we must all face the fact that he and his advisers were fearful of scandal. And this would have been a major one if it were to see the light of day. One could only imagine the headline in the Washington Post: State Dept Fails to Warn Embassy, Ambassador, Assistant Dead!. No, that could not happen.

I now make the following charges:

1.That the existence of the Warning message was covered up in order to prevent embarrassment to the State Department and the White House.

2. That all evidence that the warning message was based upon was collected at NSA and removed from the normal analytical departments were it would normally have been analyzed.

3. That all existing copies of cable sent belatedly to US Embassy Khartoum were collected and destroyed at US Embassy Khartoum per instructions at high level of Department of State or the White House. There would be no embarrassment due to discovery of the delayed warning.

4. That for thirteen years no prosecution or political penalty could be extracted of Yasser Arafat and his subordinates due to the need to keep this warning hidden from any scrutiny. Any public acknowledgement of the existence of the tapes made before, during and after the murders would have inevitably led back to the delayed warning message. That when, in 1985 and 1986, Congress requested then Attorney General Meese to investigate the matter of Yasser Arafat's direct complicity in these murders, the cover-up was continued to protect those who had initiated it thirteen years before.

5. That subsequent administrations have, in fact, been appraised of the authenticity of Arafat's voice on the tapes and have chosen, for political reasons, to turn a blind eye to the direct guilt of Yasser Arafat in the cold blooded murders of Cleo Noel and George Moore.

6. That not only did more than one United States intercept site copy conversations between the terrorists in Khartoum and the Fatah office in Beirut but that at least two foreign intelligence agencies did in fact copy said communications and turn them over to the United States government at the time of the affair.

After twenty-seven years I can come to no other conclusion for the lack of interest by the government of the United States in holding Yasser Arafat at least politically liable, if not legally, than that there was a cover-up due to the delayed, bungled delivery of the warning message.

In over two months of talking to actual principals in the affair, to those who have written the definitive books on the incident, to those in Congress who took testimony on this tragic event, not one, not one solitary person has acknowledged any knowledge of a warning message.

But we have a source. Those who participated with me in the writing of this message still live. You will be able to finally find the truth if you will subpoena them to come before your committee. I will give you their names in secret.

Next I believe I know the name of the State Department Watch Officer who downgraded the message. I will supply that name to you also.

Members of Congress, it is now up to you. I have given you what I believe are the keys to unlock the puzzle of why Yasser Arafat walks the halls of the White House with impunity in spite of everyone's belief in his personal guilt. Follow this trail and you will find the true answer.

Respectfully,
James J.Welsh

Dear Friends: I want to also read you part of a letter written by James J. Welsh to Victoria Toensing, a Justice Department Attorney:

"What has disturbed me most are the repeated comments from State and Justice Departments that the evidence of Arafat's involvement was inconclusive and inadmissible as evidence. Those types of statements are the reason for my writing you this letter. Those statements were not true. I know it is not unusual that intelligence agencies fail to tell the truth to other bodies outside the intelligence community. But those types of protectionist policies do not always have the impact that disinformation has now had on the world scene.

If in 1986, Arafat's taped voice (three days worth) had been released to the American public, I do not think that the current mess that Israel is now in would have happened. Arafat would have been a persona non grata as far as the United States was concerned. Acts do have consequences, and unfortunately the decision to withhold from the Committee the truth of these tapes may be one of the reasons that Arafat was able to re-invent himself.


I tried to make contact with you several months ago. I don't expect that you will reply to this letter, but I felt it necessary to inform you that if you were acting in good faith in conveying to the committee the Justice Department position, you had been used by those in much higher positions to mislead a Senate committee. The tapes were made, National Security Agency possessed them, and there never was any doubt when I was there, that it was Arafat's voice directing the operation from initial intercept on February 28 (the day before!) to its end on March 2.

So now you know. It was a long time ago, but this man did order the deaths of two US diplomats. We taped his words. I guess there is nothing that can be done now, but I often wonder why Yasser Arafat's image and continued presence on the world scene is more important than simple justice for two dedicated diplomats who were murdered twenty-eight years ago. It just makes you wonder." James J. Welsh

The State Department, and the National Security Agency, and the CIA, and Colin Powell continue to protect their dirty little secret. Yes, unfortunately, foul-ups do happen, and it is natural for human beings to try to protect themselves.

However, the great immorality comes in when Colin Powell and the State Department, knowingly consort with this murderer, and push President George W. Bush, a believing Christian, into advocating a PalestinianState on BibleLand, knowing that this will become an Islamic state of terrorists. Has President George W. Bush been told the truth about Arafat's past and present killing of Americans?

THE IMMORALITY of hiding Arafat's murder of our diplomats, Cleo Noel and Curtis Moore, to further the State Department's and Colin Powell's political agenda is beyond description.

When you make pacts with the devil, there will always come a day of reckoning.
* Yasser Arafat was not punished for killing Ambassador Cleo Noel and G. Curtis Moore in 1973.
* Yasser Arafat was not punished for his part in the murder of 241 American Marines in Beirut in 1983.
* Yasser was not punished when he helped plan the first WorldTradeCenter bombing in New York in 1993.
* He has never been punished for his part in the murder of Americans killed on his orders, while living or traveling abroad.