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Erdogan’s Checkmate: CIA-Backed Coup in Turkey Fails, Upsets Global Chessboard
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Paul B. Henze was a CIA station chief in Turkey who assisted Zbigniew Brzezinski in the U.S. National Security Council under President Carter. After his retirement he became a terrorism expert and was one of a group of right-wing experts associated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies during the 1980s. (2) Paul B. Henze, former CIA and national security specialist, dies at 86 By Emma Brown June 2, 2011
Paul B. Henze, a former CIA and National Security Council specialist in psychological operations who wrote a compelling and provocative book arguing that the Soviet Union had engineered an attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, died May 19 at a rehabilitation center in Culpeper, Va. He was 86 and died of complications after a series of strokes. Mr. Henze was a CIA station chief in Turkey and Ethiopia during the 1960s and ’70s and served in the Carter administration as a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. After retiring from government service near the end of President Jimmy Carter’s term, Mr. Henze became a consultant for the Rand Corp., a think tank. He wrote widely about the history and politics of Ethiopia and Central Asia in mainstream publications and several books. Perhaps his best-known book was his first, “The Plot to Kill the Pope” (1983), an investigation into the 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, who was shot four times while addressing a crowd at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. A Turk, Mehmet Ali Agca, was convicted of the shooting and spent 19 years in an Italian prison. Mr. Henze argued that Agca, who offered several contradicting explanations for his actions, had been part of a conspiracy involving the Bulgarian and Soviet secret police. His conclusion was the result of an exhaustive examination into Agca’s connections with suspected terrorist organizations. Using a wide range of sources across Europe, Mr. Henze, who spoke fluent Turkish, reconstructed the would-be assassin’s journey to St. Peter’s via Iran, Bulgaria and Germany. According to Mr. Henze’s book, Soviet officials saw the Polish-born pope — and his support for Poland’s Solidarity movement and human rights in general — as a threat to the communist empire’s stability. Another book published soon after Mr. Henze’s — “The Time of the Assassins” by American journalist Claire Sterling — made the same argument, though Mr. Henze’s probed deeper into geopolitical analysis. The two volumes played a key role in opening debate about the attempted slaying. (3) (1) http://stopimperialism.org/erdogans-checkmate-cia-backed-coup-turkey-fails-upsets-global-chessboard/
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