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The Frankenstein Chronicles are a series of letters written by me on
March 03, 2003, as letters to the editor and submitted to the Conway
Daily Sun. The War started shortly after I sbmmitted them and they were
not published. I am now posting them as Web Research Documents (WRD) and
hope that they elicit a response, from web users, as a topic of interest
deserving of further research and action.

To the readers of the Sun 03/03/03

FRANKENSTEIN’S FRANKENSTEIN

Or How The C.I.A. Created The Taliban

Since 1978, when I purchased a painting of "Mt. Washington from
Frankenstein" by Godfrey Frankenstein for whom Frankenstein cliff was
named, I have been researching this fascinating name and the
phenomenology around it. I have given presentations at Boston college,
the Appalachia Mountain Club, the New Hampshire Educational Media
Association and been featured on New Hampshire Crossroads, also
historical societies, schools and libraries. I have a web site titled
Frankenstein Art and Legends, many educational sites have linked to my
site. This letter is not about me but about certain information that has
come to my attention, information I stumbled upon as a result of my
research on the Internet.

In 1994, I would drive to U.N.H. to use their computers to do research
on Frankenstein, at that time you could do a word search and not be
overwhelmed with the results. When I keyed the name Frankenstein a few
hundred sites would be listed, today it would be thousands. On one
occasion, in 1995, I keyed the word Frankenstein in the address box,
what came up was a bit shocking. It was the official site of the
Afghanistan government, their address was Afghanistan/Frankenstein. It
featured tourist attractions and general information to attract
tourists. A few months before 9-11, I visited the site to show a friend
who had returned recently from a research sabbatical in Afghanistan. We
were both amazed at how advanced the site was, you could visit an
ancient ruins and scroll 360 degrees in real time animation. After 9-11,
I called authorities to point out that there was no logical reason for
the site address to contain the name Frankenstein except that it could
be easily found by keying that word alone in the address box. This
feature would be handy if you weren’t fluent in English or how to find a
specific site on Internet.

Recently I did a word search for Frankenstein Afghanistan, and was
surprised and shocked at the results. The results showed titles like "
We Must Face the Frankenstein of Afghanistan", this article was written
in 1998 by Benazir Bhutto, leader of the opposition Islamic Republic of
Pakistan. It is a prophetic heartfelt plea and warning to the world
community. It begins with the following lines. " The Cold War created a
Frankenstein in Afghanistan. The luxury of ignoring it, however, has
come to an end." It offers five constructive criticism’s and the fifth
criticism is as follows. "Lastly, Washington should not and can not look
blindly to the Frankenstein created during the cold war with American
know how, training and dollars. As Prime Minister of Pakistan, I
cautioned the Western leadership to beware their support of the
extremists within Afghanistan, regardless of how well the extremists may
have performed on the battlefield. For, eventually, someone would win
the Afghan war." ...."As well, it is a cold Irony that last months
American air strikes against terrorists bombed the very training camps
created by C.I.A. Dollars not a decade ago". The letter deserves to be
read in it’s entirety and I found it to reveal a humane, compassionate
and articulate plea from the heart of Islam.

An article written by Praveen Swami titled "America’s Frankenstein"
offers the analysis, that in 1979 the socialists Afghan government
decision to make education for woman mandatory inflamed the Mujahideen
to attack the socialist government, the Russians sent troops to support
the Afghan government. By 1982 the C.I.A. was training and supporting
the Taliban in their religious crusade now involving the Russians. The
article is lengthy and contains many names of terrorists appearing in
the newspapers today and details of the C.I.A. involvement. I recall
that immediately following 9-11 Admiral Turner clarified that the
Pakistan financial support of the Taliban was our money being funneled
through Pakistan.

Another article is titled " Frankenstein the C.I.A. Created" by Jason
Burke in 1999, this contains a story of a hospital technician from New
Jersey who went to fight and train with the Mujahideen and after he
returned he was arrested for conspiring a series of explosions in
Manhattan and sentenced. to 35 years in jail. The connections with his
case and the information in other articles of the C.I.A. involvement
with the Mujahideen are consistent. These articles are too numerous to
detail let alone read. But one thing is clear, that like the Bay of
Pigs, the Vietnam War, Cambodia, Panama, the C.I.A. is covertly carrying
out foreign policy like the Mafia. It is a Frankenstein that is creating
more Frankensteins.

Several months ago I was watching C-Span, it was a conservative luncheon
with George Tenet the current head of the C.I.A. featured. When
introducing him they noted that when he talked their previously he
warned of an impending terrorist act, and even speculated it could be
the twin towers, they gave him a standing ovation. It appears to me that
the he should have known, because the "company" had created the
situation for the 93 and 9-11 attacks and trained the terrorists who did
it. This is about 9-11 and not Iraq, or the relationship the C.I.A. had
with Saddam Hussein before Kuwait. The reason for the long reign of
terror of the C.I.A. is that people cannot accept the unacceptable, the
C.I.A. was and is a rogue agency. It is the very thing that Pres.
Eisenhower warned in his final speech as president. After the Bay of
Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Pres. Kennedy was going to dismantle
the CIA’s involvement in Vietnam and his brother was going to dismantle
the Mafia.Strong Thurmond sid that "Kennedy’ biggest mistake was in not
listening to the military" during his 100th birthday. I would add the
military industrial complex spearheaded by the C.I.A. The peace movement
may have shortened the Vietnam war but the root cause was not addressed.
There will be no peace as long as men like George Tenet and for that
matter Donald Rumsfeld are in positions of power. The C.I.A. must not be
allowed to carry out hard foreign policy in Americas name like the
Mafia, it is Old Europe. In the final analysis the name Frankenstein in
the Afghanistan Governments Internet address is logical.

"The American foreign policy is the policy of the American people" Colin
Powell

PS
This content is dated but when compared to Millers NY Times articles written around the same period, I would argue that this is not as well written but more accurate. I also submitted it to the NY Times in March of 03. My critique of the CIA should have stressed the influance of the Bush’s administrations in not following, or cooking the advice of the CIA concerning Afghanistan and now Iraq.