Major Douglas Dickerson

05-Jul-2018

28:22 Guess who else was pulled? Another guy who was handling the Operation Gladio, the Turkish militants in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. This man, his name — at the time, a Major — Major Douglas Dickerson. This is the man, if you have read my book, if you know my case, was the one who was married to the spy in the FBI. Major Douglas Dickerson: he still had one-and-a-half years left. He was working for Marc Grossman in Ankara......................(1)

Have Turkish Agents Penetrated the Highest Echelons of US Government?

..............................Following the 9/11 attacks, Melek Can applied for a translator job at the FBI’s Washington Field Office. In a Justice Department Inspector General report, it is stated that Melek Can failed to list on her application her prior jobs with ATC, ATAA, and the German-Turkish Business and Cultural Association. When FBI translator Sibel Edmonds (a Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbaijani translator who worked with Melek Can) complained publicly about MIT’s penetration of the FBI, Senators Patrick Leahy and Charles Grassley pointedly asked the FBI why no Special Background Investigation (SBI) was conducted on Melek Can.

The FBI’s responded that Melek Can entered the FBI ‘through the backdoor’ with her husband’s Top Secret/SBI being sufficient grounds to grant Melek Can access to FBI classified information. At the same time, the Dickersons were, according to U.S. intelligence sources, working closely with the ATC.

“Edmonds’ charges against the Dickersons were highlighted in a June 2002 Washington Post article. On September 9, 2002, the Dickersons left Washington for Belgium, where Major Dickerson was assigned to the U.S. Air Force NATO office. Soon, there were three separate investigations of Edmonds’ espionage charges against the Dickersons: the Justice Department IG probe, a similar probe by the Department of Defense IG led by Joseph Schmitz, and a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee investigation led by Leahy and Grassley.

“Two weeks after the Dickersons arrived in Belgium, Schmitz sent a letter stating that Major Dickerson’s relationship with the ATC while at DIA was ‘within the scope of his duties.’ The DOD IG terminated the investigation.”

Attorney General John Ashcroft then “invoked the State Secrets Privilege and imposed a ‘gag order’ on Edmonds’ making any further comments to the media about her wrongful termination suit against the FBI, which was prompted by her raising concerns about the Dickersons. The invocation of the State Secrets Privilege by Ashcroft was specifically requested by the Defense and State Departments.

“Upon publication of a Vanity Fair article in August 2005 about the Edmonds case and those of other national security whistleblowers, the Department of Defense and U.S. Air Force opened a joint IG investigation of Major Dickerson and Edmonds’ charges, who was still safely ensconced at the NATO office in Belgium.

“When the DoD/USAF IG investigators asked Major Dickerson once again about the allegations that had re-surfaced against him, U.S. intelligence sources report he told them that he would ‘start talking’ if the investigation proceeded. The DoD/USAF IG investigation of Dickerson was once again quickly terminated. In January 2006, Dickerson was promoted in rank to Lieutenant Colonel and transferred to the U.S. Air Force base in Yokota, Japan, where he was assigned as the 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron’s acting commander.

“U.S. intelligence sources stated that the ‘same people’ who have continually protected Perle and Feith since the 1980s were also protecting Dickerson and Grossman. CIA sources, including those who served in Istanbul tracking nuclear smuggling in the late 1980s, also confirm that the Turkish-U.S. nuclear black marketeering ring was directly tied to the Abdul Qadeer Khan nuclear smuggling ring in Pakistan, an operation that sold sensitive nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.

The ATC and ATAA in Washington are directly tied to and supported by AIPAC and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), reported a U.S. counter-intelligence source. In fact, JINSA is an ‘Aegean’ member of the ATC. The source said that Valerie Plame Wilson was targeting the ATC and Turkey at the height of her counter-proliferation work in 2001, but special interests associated with AIPAC and JINSA, which the source claims control ATC, scuttled Plame Wilson’s operation by exposing Brewster Jennings as a CIA front company........................

AN INCONVENIENT PATRIOT

In Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, December 2, 2001, was fine but cool, the start of the slide into winter after a spell of unseasonable warmth. At 10 o’clock that morning, Sibel and Matthew Edmonds were still in their pajamas, sipping coffee in the kitchen of their waterfront town house in Alexandria, Virginia, and looking forward to a well-deserved lazy Sunday.

Since mid-September, nine days after the 9/11 attacks, Sibel had been exploiting her fluency in Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbaijani as a translator at the F.B.I. It was arduous, demanding work, and Edmonds—who had two bachelor’s degrees, was about to begin studying for a master’s, and had plans for a doctorate—could have been considered overqualified. But as a naturalized Turkish-American, she saw the job as her patriotic duty.

The Edmondses’ thoughts were turning to brunch when Matthew answered the telephone. The caller was a woman he barely knew—Melek Can Dickerson, who worked with Sibel at the F.B.I. “I’m in the area with my husband and I’d love you to meet him,” Dickerson said. “Is it O.K. if we come by?” Taken by surprise, Sibel and Matthew hurried to shower and dress. Their guests arrived 30 minutes later. Matthew, a big man with a fuzz of gray beard, who at 60 was nearly twice the age of his petite, vivacious wife, showed them into the kitchen. They sat at a round, faux-marble table while Sibel brewed tea.

Melek’s husband, Douglas, a U.S. Air Force major who had spent several years as a military attaché in the Turkish capital of Ankara, did most of the talking, Matthew recalls. “He was pretty outspoken, pretty outgoing—about meeting his wife in Turkey, and about his job. He was in weapons procurement.” Like Matthew, he was older than his wife, who had been born about a year before Sibel.

According to Sibel, Douglas asked if she and Matthew were involved with the local Turkish community, and whether they were members of two of its organized groups—the American-Turkish Council (A.T.C.) and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (A.T.A.A.). “He said the A.T.C. was a good organization to belong to,” Matthew says. “It could help to ensure that we could retire early and live well, which was just what he and his wife planned to do. I said I was aware of the organization, but I thought you had to be in a relevant business in order to join.

“Then he pointed at Sibel and said, ‘All you have to do is tell them who you work for and what you do and you will get in very quickly.’” Matthew could see that his wife was far from comfortable: “She tried to change the conversation to the weather and suchlike.” But the Dickersons, says Matthew, steered it back to what they called their “network of high-level friends.” Some, they said, worked at the Turkish Embassy in Washington. “They said they even went shopping weekly for [one of them] at a Mediterranean market,” Matthew says. “They used to take him special Turkish bread.”

Before long, the Dickersons left. At the time, Matthew says, he found it “a strange conversation for the first time you meet a couple. Why would someone I’d never met say such things?”

Only Sibel knew just how strange. A large part of her work at the F.B.I. involved listening to the wiretapped conversations of people who were targets of counter-intelligence investigations. As she would later tell investigators from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (O.I.G.) and the U.S. Congress, some of those targets were Turkish officials the Dickersons had described as high-level friends. In Sibel’s view, the Dickersons had asked the Edmondses to befriend F.B.I. suspects. (In August 2002, Melek Can Dickerson called Sibel’s allegations “preposterous, ludicrous and slanderous.”)

Sibel also recalled hearing wiretaps indicating that Turkish Embassy targets frequently spoke to staff members at the A.T.C., one of the organizations the Dickersons allegedly wanted her and her husband to join. Sibel later told the O.I.G. she assumed that the A.T.C.’s board—which is chaired by Brent Scowcroft, President George H. W. Bush’s national-security adviser—knew nothing of the use to which it was being put. But the wiretaps suggested to her that the Washington office of the A.T.C. was being used as a front for criminal activity.

Sibel and Matthew stood at the window of their oak-paneled hallway and watched the Dickersons leave. Sibel’s Sunday had been ruined.

Immediately and in the weeks that followed, Sibel Edmonds tried to persuade her bosses to investigate the Dickersons. There was more to her suspicions than their peculiar Sunday visit. According to documents filed by Edmonds’s lawyers, Sibel believed Melek Can Dickerson had leaked information to one or more targets of an F.B.I. investigation, and had tried to prevent Edmonds from listening to wiretaps of F.B.I. targets herself. But instead of carrying out a thorough investigation of her allegations, at the end of March 2002 the F.B.I. fired Edmonds..........................

Transcript of Sibel Edmonds testimony

IN THE MATTER OF: :
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JEAN SCHMIDT, :
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Plaintiff, :
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v. : Case No.
: 2009E-003
DAVID KRIKORIAN, :
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Defendant. :
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Saturday,
August 8, 2009
National Whisteblowers
Center
3238 P Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007

DEPOSITION OF:
SIBEL DENIZ EDMONDS
called for examination by Counsel for the Defendant, pursuant to Notice of Deposition, at the National Whistleblowers Center, located at 3238 P Street, N.W., Suite 690, Washington, D.C., when were present on behalf of the respective parties

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7Q Okay. So when you talk about the 8covert Turkish lobby, what are you referring to there?

10A Activities that would involve trying to obtain very sensitive, classified, highly classified U.S. intelligence information, weapons technology information, classified congressional records, recruiting -- recruiting key U.S. individuals with access to highly sensitive information, blackmailing, bribery. These are some of the ones that just perhaps -- and there are many others that I'm19unable to think of.

20Q Well, by way of example, I think you indicated that Ms. Dickerson -- by the way, is she ever referred to as Jan Dickerson?

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1A Correct. That's how she went at the FBI, and as far as I know, elsewhere she used her middle name in the United States, Jan Dickerson.

5Q Now, I read in some of the reports6about an incident where Ms. Dickerson arrived -- showed up at your home unexpectedly on Sunday.

9 A Correct.

10Q And can you tell us what happened when that -- when she arrived there?

12 A Sure. She came to my house with her husband, who at the time was Major Douglas Dickerson, and he identified himself first as the officer for Air Force, but later said that1 his real task was operations involving records procurements by countries in Central Asia and1 Turkey, and that he directly worked with Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz.

Okay.

21A At the time this would be 2001, December.

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1Q All right, and they came to your home on Sunday morning.

3A Yeah, social visit they said.

4Q And during that discussion, during that visit, did you come to believe that Ms Dickerson was recruiting you?

7A Yes, I did.

8Q For what?

9A They wanted me to joint the American Turkish Council, and they told me that I would be provided with many benefits, both monetary but also prestigious benefits, if I were to enroll with them.

14Q Okay, and did you know at the time that the American Turkish Council was one of the counterintelligence targets?

17A Absolutely, yes.

18Q And did you believe Ms. Dickerson knew that as well?

20A She -- yes, and the fact because her husband associated with American Turkish Council and she worked for them.

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1Q And did you report this effort to recruit you to your superiors?

3A Immediately. The next day I reported it in writing to my direct administrative supervisor, and a few days later to my agent, who was my supervisory agent, but also again in writing to the FBI's Personnel Security Office, because I was obligated for my top secret clearance to report recruitment attempts.

11Q Now, why if you can tell me, why would the American Turkish Council be a counterintelligence target?

14A Certain individuals form that 15organization, American Turkish Council,16certain individuals were involved with other individuals outside American Turkish Council, which includes diplomatic community and Turkish diplomatic community -- sorry -- and other subchapter organizations. I say "subchapter" because even hough it's not known, ATA is not formally

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1 known as American Turkish Council's subchapter, but they do a lot of activities through ATA in various cities and states in the United States, and those individuals were involved in operations that were counterintelligence related, and not -- if they were against the United States interest on security,

9Q Okay. Was there -- let me be sure10I have this correct -- was there a particular11individual at the American Turkish Council who12had connections to the Turkish Embassy in13Washington at that time?

14A There were several people.

15Q And again, just because I don't know, to your knowledge, was the American Turkish Council an organization that was supported by the Turkish government?

19A I don't know directly, but indirectly --

21	MR.	FEIN: That's conjecture.
22	THE	WITNESS: -- I mean --

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1MR. FEIN: Object, object.
Only speak based upon your personal knowledge. Conjecture and speculation otherwise, I move to strike your answer unless it's based upon5personal knowledge.

6	THE WITNESS:	Based on --
7	MR. MARINO:	You can answer the question --
9	THE WITNESS:	Based on my personal --
11	MR. MARINO:	-- just as I asked it.

13 THE WITNESS: -- knowledge, they were indirectly supporting it, supporting. Turkish government was indirectly supporting he American Turkish Council, certain individuals and operations and projects against.

19	BY MR. MARINO:

20Q Okay, and how were they supplying that support?

22A Without getting into specifics,

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1 it's hard to explain. They could arrange for intermediary business individuals to make payments for certain activities, lobbying activities or intelligence gathering activities or activities involved in weapon procurement deals between Turkey and the United States.

8Q So one of the means, basic means of support would be money, correct?

10A Money when they could, yes.

11Q So if I said that the American Turkish Council, for example, was an organization supported by the Turkish government, that wouldn't be an unreasonable15assumption?

16A Correct.

17Q What about some of these other members of the Turkish lobby that we've talked about? Would I be unreasonable in assuming that those organizations might be receiving support from the Turkish government?

22A They were all receiving -- the

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1 ones that I knew of, yes, theoretically.

2 MR. FEIN: I think the question was -- can I just clarify for my own mind? -- the question was based upon the witness' personal knowledge, she knows that all the6other organizations that were targets, they were receiving money from the government of Turkish.

9 MR. MARINO: Okay.

10 MR. FEIN: Is that the question and answer?

12 MR. MARINO: Mr. Fein is going to have an opportunity, I think, to ask some questions when I'm finished. Maybe now you and I will just have questions and answers.

16	BY MR. MARINO:

17Q So what happened when you reported to your superiors at the FBI that Ms. Dickerson were trying to recruit you for this20organization, American Turkish Council?

21A At the initial stage -- this is for Washington field office before it went all

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1 the way up to the FBI Headquarters -- there was environmental (phonetic) panic. The agent I worked with, Special Agent ennis Sharshar, informed the counterespionage section, department of the FBI; write a letter to the FBI Headquarters, and he also asked for immediate damage assessment because some of the -- our FBI's counterintelligence primary targets -- the targets were graded in different -- they have different rates -- some primary targets were the ones that Ms. Dickerson was working with closely, and she and her husband associating, but that was the initial response.

15Q Okay, and ultimately did they take any action against Ms. Dickerson or her husband?

18A Again, initially during this initial stage, they, I believe, they asked her to take polygraph, and they also -- the FBI's counterespionage unit, they set up the date and time to have some kind of an

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1 interrogation. They called it the surprise interrogation session with her that they set up, but they were prevented from pursuing it later.

5Q And they also had you take a6polygraph test, correct?

7A Correct.

8Q And the polygraph examiners found that you were not deceptive?

10A Yes, I was absolutely truthful.

11Q Okay. Now, in your experience both at the FBI and since then, what is it that the Turkish lobby -- what kinds of issues are they traditionally concerned about in our country?

16A Various issues that I'm aware of. Some, the more overt ones, the foreign policy of the United States. Another, the weapon procurement from the United States and the military aid, and political front is being able to secure grants from United States Congress for their operations or some of them,

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1 joint operations in Central Asia and Middle East, the front companies for construction or road building, et cetera, and to be able to secure these grants from Congress for those front organizations. Armenian genocide and preventing that from ever being brought up or passing Congress or even discussed in the mainstream media is another political objectives that hey pursue very strongly. These are the overt ones. So those are -- these are the overt ones.

13Q All right. In your experience then, these are issues that the Turkish government is concerned about?

16A Not only, yes, Turkish government is concerned, but also other entities with their own special interest who are very concerned about these issues.

20Q Can you identify those?

21A Some of them are business entities. The others are more like clusters

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1 of criminal gangs would be the best way to2describe them that may or may not be3independent from the central government.

4Q You mentioned the Armenian genocide issues. My understanding is that there have been resolutions proposed, introduced, discussed in Congress to recognize8the Armenian genocide, correct?

Correct.

10Q And those have been controversial resolutions over the years?

Correct.

13Q And so when you refer to this Turkish lobby regarding that as an issue, it would be their intent to prevent such a16resolution from being passed by the U.S. Congress, correct?

18A Correct.

19Q Now, am I correct that -- I know you don't work for the FBI now, but would you consider yourself sort of still involved in some of the issues that we've been discussing?

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