Secret Report Reveals Role of Medical Personnel in Torture at CIA Black Sites

by Liliana Segura, AlterNet

The report describes "three principal roles" played by medical professionals, including "monitoring the ongoing ill-treatment" of prisoners.

Medical professionals working for the CIA played a central role in the "ill-treatment" of terror suspects in U.S. custody overseas, according to a previously confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The 2007 report describes interviews with 14 "high value detainees" who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006, revealing the full extent of complicity and participation by medical personnel in a wide and grisly range of torture methods inflicted upon them. Listed in the table of contents of the 41-page report, these methods included "suffocation by water," "prolonged stress standing," "beatings by use of a collar," "beating and kicking," "confinement in a box," "prolonged nudity," and more.

The ICRC report describes "three principal roles" played by medical professionals in the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody. "Firstly, there was a direct role in monitoring the ongoing ill-treatment which, in some instances, involved the health personnel directly participating while certain methods were used."

Secondly, there was a role in performing a medical check just prior to, and just after,each transfer. Finally, there was the provision of healthcare, to treat both the direct consequences of ill-treatment detailed in previous sections, and to treat any natural ailments that arose during the prolonged periods of detention.

According to the report, which was obtained by journalist Mark Danner -- who first published excerpts last month and has now published its full contents on the website of the New York Review of Books -- certain methods required more active participation by medical professions. For example, in subjecting prisoners to "suffocation by water," "it was alleged that health personnel actively monitored a detainee's oxygen saturation using what, from the description of the detainee of a device placed over the finger, appeared to be a pulse oxymeter."

"Mr. Khaled Shaik Mohammed alleged that on several occasions the suffocation method was stopped on the intervention of a health person who was present in the room each time this procedure was used."

KSM, one of the few prisoners who the U.S. government has actually acknowledged having waterboarding, described his experience to ICRC staff.

I would be strapped to a special bed, which can be rotated into a vertical position. A cloth would be placed over my face. Water was then poured onto the cloth by one of the guards so that I could not breathe. This obviously could only be done for one or two minutes at a time. The cloth was then removed and the bed was put into a vertical position. The whole process was then repeated during about 1 hour.

Abu Zubaydah, whose torture has also been widely documented, described it as follows:

I was put on what looked like a hospital bed, and strapped down very tightly with belts. A black cloth was then placed over my face and the interrogators used a mineral water bottle to pour water on the cloth so that I could not breathe. After a few minutes the cloth was removed and the bed was rotated into an upright position. The pressure of the straps on my wounds caused severe pain. I vomited. The bed was then again lowered to a horizontal position and the same torture carried out with the black cloth over my face and water poured on from a bottle. On this occasion my head was in a more backward, downwards position and the water was poured on for a longer time. I struggled without success to breathe. I thought I was going to die. I lost control of my urine. Since then I still lose control of my urine when under stress.

The conclusion by the ICRC was that the interrogation of prisoners at U.S. "black sites" certainly "constituted torture." But additionally, "the alleged participation of health personnel in the interrogation process and, either directly or indirectly, in the infliction of ill-treatment constituted a gross breach of medical ethics and, in some cases, amounted to participation in torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment."

Indeed, the presence of medical professionals seemed itself to augment the psychological torture. "One detainee,who did not wish his name to be transmitted to the authorities, alleged that a health person threatened that medical care would be conditional upon cooperation with the interrogators." Another recalled being told: "I look after your body only because we need you for information."

Liliana Segura is a staff writer and editor of AlterNet's Rights and Liberties and War on Iraq Special Coverage.

Death squad leader ‘was top CIA agent’

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A halálosztagok vezetője

a CIA csúcs ügynöke volt

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Milosevic titkosszolgalati jobbkeze a CIA ügynöke volt...és mindez a Horvátországi és a Boszniai, a szerbek által elkövetett, legnagyobb, legborzalmasabb emberiesség ellenes bűnök idején. A CIA ezt el is ismerte...mármint, hogy az az "ember" aki közvetlenül, főiranyitója volt a hírhedt szerb belügyminisztériumi különleges egységeknek a Vukovari és a Srebrenicai tómegmészárlások idején a Központi Hírszerző Ügynökség önkéntes -azaz ingyenesen szolgáló, ezt maga a Cég ismerte el- munkatársa volt...Szépen állunk...Természetesen, az illető, -ez most derült ki- a béke ügyét szolgálta, és információival szolgálta a háború mielőbbi befejezését...Ha nem zárják be jól a szekrényeket, jó sok csontváz fog meg kiesni belőlük.Mondtam, és írtam is mar jó néhányszor: higgyünk csak a szemünknek. Mert minden, és mindenki más, csak hazudik, lop és csal.

Rózsa Flores Eduardo

The late President Milosevic's secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92.
The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic's inner circle has shocked the region. Stanisic is said to have loyally served his two masters for eight years.

Vukovar, 1991

He is facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
In the terrifying years of Yugoslavia's internecine wars, he acted as the willing "muscle" behind Milosevic's genocidal campaigns in Croatia, Kosovo and Bosnia, including Sebrenica.
According to the charges he faces, Stanisic was "part of a joint criminal enterprise that included former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic and other Serbian politicians".
Dermot Groome, The Hague's chief prosecutor, has specifically accused him of sending in the Serb Scorpion and Red Beret death squads into the states seeking independence from Belgrade. Stanisic has pleaded not guilty.
Like in a Cold War spy thriller, Serbia's secret police chief met his CIA handlers in safe houses, parks and boats on the river Sava to betray his master's action plans. He provided, it is claimed, information on the where abouts of Nato hostages, aided CIA operatives in their search for Muslim mass graves and helped the US set up secret bases in Bosnia to monitor the implementation of the 1995 Dayton peace accord.
This has raised awkward questions for Washington. With Stanisic providing chapter and verse of the genocidal slaughter of Croats, Bosnians and Albanians from the early 1990s, should President Clinton have cut a deal with Milosevic at Dayton, Ohio, ending the Bosnian war on such equitable terms for the Serbs?

Vukovar, 1991

Or, using Stanisic's evidence, should the Americans not have unmasked Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, the then head of Republika Srpska, as genocidal war criminals and demanded their surrender?
From his prison cell at The Hague, Stanisic countered the charges facing him with an aide memoir portraying himself as "a person who had sought to moderate Milosevic and had done a great deal to moderate the crisis".
In an unusual move, the CIA has submitted classified documents to the court that confirm Stanisic's "undercover operative role in helping to bring peace to the region and aiding the agency's work. He helped defuse some of the most explosive actions of the Bosnian war."In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, William Lofgren, his original CIA recruiter and handler, now retired, said: "Stanisic provided valuable information from Milosevic's inner circle. But he never took money from the CIA, worked with the agency on operations or took steps that he would have considered a blatant betrayal of his boss.

Mass grave, Vukovar, Ovcara, Croatia

"Thus the judges at The Hague are having to judge a man who allegedly sent the Scorpion death squads to Srebrenica to "deal" with men and boys fleeing the UN-protected Muslim enclave, while working with the CIA trying to end Milosevic's ethnic wars.
The way the CIA apparently viewed their Belgrade "asset" is revealed in an interview with Balkan Insight, a little known south-east European publication.
The emerging picture is a quaint reflection from a hall of mirrors. Greg Miller of the Los Angeles Times, writing about the links between the CIA and the Serb secret police chief, is quoted as saying: "As I said in the LAT story, the CIA do not see Stanisic as a choirboy. When you talk to people who work in espionage, this is often the case.
"Because of the nature of that job, of that assignment, they are working with people who do not have unblemished records, it would be difficult for them to be effective if they only worked with people who had unblemished records."
People in Belgrade who have been following the career of Jovica Stanisic would say that this was a guy who was an expert in his field; he was ahighly-trained and highly-effective spy. His motivation may have been tha the wanted to know what the United States was up to.
"He did not believe that Milosevic was taking the country in the right direction - so he wanted to influence events. He saw himself as an important guy who could pull strings behind the scenes to make things happen in Belgrade.
"Stanisic apparently did so on his own terms, while trying to remain a loyal Serb. He did not succeed. Now he is having to account for his actions as Milosevic's loyal lieutenantat The Hague.

by Gabriel Ronay
Sunday Herald

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"Secret" Red Cross Report Confirms More Torture at CIA Black Sites

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Posted by Liliana Segura, AlterNet

Prisoners described being put in dog collars, having their heads slammed against walls, and forced inside "coffin-like" boxes.

A front page story in today's Washington Post reveals that a "secret report" by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the CIA's "black sites" has confirmed that the Bush administration used gross interrogation methods in its overseas prisons that "constituted torture" and violated the Geneva Conventions.

With the exception of five copies of the report that were passed on to the CIA and the White House in 2007, the findings were kept secret by the Red Cross "to preserve the humanitarian group's strict policy of neutrality in conflicts."

But journalist Mark Danner obtained excerpts of the report and has published them in the new edition of the New York Review of Books.

The report draws from Red Cross interviews in 2006 with 14 prisoners held in isolation at foreign CIA prisons, men who "gave remarkably uniform accounts of abuse that included beatings, sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures and, in some cases, waterboarding, or simulating drowning."

"Often using the detainee's own words," writes the Post, "the report offers a harrowing view of conditions at the secret prisons, where prisoners were told they were being taken 'to the verge of death and back,' according to one excerpt. During interrogations, the captives were routinely beaten, doused with cold water and slammed head-first into walls. Between sessions, they were stripped of clothing, bombarded with loud music, exposed to cold temperatures, and deprived of sleep and solid food for days on end. Some detainees described being forced to stand for days, with their arms shackled above them, wearing only diapers."

"On a daily basis … a collar was looped around my neck and then used to slam me against the walls of the interrogation room," the report quotes detainee Tawfiq bin Attash, also known as Walid Muhammad bin Attash, as saying. Later, he said, he was wrapped in a plastic sheet while cold water was "poured onto my body with buckets." He added: "I would be wrapped inside the sheet with cold water for several minutes. Then I would be taken for interrogation."

The report also contains descriptions of the prisoner Abu Zubaida, whose torture has been previously documented.

"Abu Zubaida said interrogators wrapped a towel around his neck and slammed him into a plywood wall mounted in his cell. He was also repeatedly slapped in the face, he said. After the beatings, he was placed in coffinlike wooden boxes in which he was forced to crouch, with no light and a restricted air supply, he said."

"The stress on my legs held in this position meant my wounds both in my leg and stomach became very painful," he told the ICRC.

After he was removed from a small box, he said, he was strapped to what looked like a hospital bed and waterboarded. "A black cloth was then placed over my face and the interrogators used a mineral bottle to pour water on the cloth so that I could not breathe," Abu Zubaida said.

After breaks to allow him to recover, the waterboarding continued.

The Washington Post has more.

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CIA Confirms 12 of 92 Videotapes Destroyed Showed Prisoners Tortured

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By Jason Leopold, TruthOut.org

ACLU: "This new information underscores the need for full and immediate disclosure of the CIA's illegal interrogation methods."

Heavily redacted government documents filed in a New York federal court Friday afternoon say the CIA destroyed 12 videotapes that specifically showed two detainees being tortured.

The documents were filed in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. In December 2007, the ACLU filed a motion to hold the CIA in contempt for its destruction of the tapes in violation of a court order requiring the agency to produce or identify all records requested by the ACLU. That motion is still pending.

On Monday, the Justice Department revealed in court documents that the CIA destroyed 92 interrogation videotapes, which is now the subject of a criminal probe. According to Friday's court documents, 90 tapes relate to one detainee and two tapes relate to another detainee.

In a letter filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Acting U.S. Attorney Lev Dassin said a complete list of summaries, transcripts or memoranda related to the videotapes would be filed with the court by March 20.

"The government is needlessly withholding information about these tapes from the public, despite the fact that the CIA's use of torture -- including waterboarding -- is no secret," said Amrit Singh, staff attorney with the ACLU. "This new information only underscores the need for full and immediate disclosure of the CIA's illegal interrogation methods. The time has come for the CIA to be held accountable for flouting the rule of law."

On March 2, the Justice Department said in court documents the CIA destroyed 92 videotapes -- far more than previously known -- to prevent disclosure of evidence revealing how the agency's interrogators subjected "war on terror" detainees to waterboarding and other brutal methods.

"The CIA can now identify the number of videotapes that were destroyed," said a letter written by Acting U.S. Attorney Lev Dassin and filed in federal court in New York. "Ninety-two videotapes were destroyed."

Previously, the CIA had disclosed that it had destroyed two videotapes and one audiotape of harsh interrogations of detainees. The tape destruction has been the subject of a yearlong criminal investigation by John Durham, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was appointed special prosecutor last year by Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

In the March 2 filing, Dassin noted that a stay of a contempt motion filed by the ACLU seeking release of the tapes was allowed to expire on February 28 without a request for a continuation -- signaling that Durham's investigation is now complete.

In January, Durham had indicated in a court filing that he expected to wrap up his probe by the end of February. The CIA has asked the court to give the agency until Friday to produce a list of all destroyed records, any memos relating to reconstruction of those records, and identification of witnesses who may have watched the videotapes before they were destroyed.

Dassin's letter said some information sought by the ACLU may be classified or "protected from disclosure, such as the names of the CIA employees who viewed the videotapes."

Dassin said the CIA "intends to produce all of the information requested to the court and to produce as much information as possible on the public record to the plaintiffs."

The videotaped interrogations, which were also withheld from the 9/11 Commission, were destroyed in November 2005 after The Washington Post published a story exposing the CIA's use of so-called "black site" prisons overseas to interrogate terror suspects with techniques that were not legal on U.S. soil.

The Zubaydah Case

The Post's story focused on alleged al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah and the harsh methods that the CIA used on him and other detainees. Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan on March 28, 2002, and was reportedly whisked to a secret prison site in Thailand for interrogation.

Initially, Zubaydah was somewhat cooperative, but later became tight-lipped when asked about alleged terrorist plots against the United States and the whereabouts of high-level al-Qaeda operatives.

In July 2002, a meeting was convened at the White House, where former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, Justice Department attorney John Yoo, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's attorney David Addington, and unknown CIA officials discussed whether the CIA could interrogate Zubaydah more aggressively in order to get him to respond.

It was at this July 2002 meeting that Yoo, Gonzales and Addington gave the CIA the green light to use a wide variety of techniques, including waterboarding, on Zubaydah and other detainees at several secret prisons to "break" them and force them to cooperate with interrogators, according to an account published in Newsweek in late December 2003.

Less than a month after the meeting, on August 1, 2002, Yoo drafted a memo to Gonzales that was signed by Jay Bybee, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel. That memo declared that President Bush had the legal authority to allow CIA interrogators to employ harsh tactics to extract information from detainees.

Yoo's memo -- often called the "torture meme" -- said Congress "may no more regulate the President's ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability to direct troop movements on the battlefield."

Michael Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department's criminal division, reportedly advised the CIA General Counsel Scott Muller and his deputy, John Rizzo, that the August 1, 2002, legal opinion protected CIA interrogators from prosecution if they used waterboarding or other harsh tactics.

In February 2005, during his Senate confirmation hearing to become Homeland Security secretary, Chertoff said he provided the CIA broad guidance in response to its questions about interrogation methods, but never addressed the legality of specific techniques.

Bush Fixated

In the book The One Percent Doctrine, author Ron Suskind said Zubaydah was not the "high-value detainee" the CIA had claimed. Rather, Suskind wrote, Zubaydah was a minor player in the al-Qaeda organization, handling travel for associates and their families.

However, "Bush was fixated on how to get Zubaydah to tell us the truth," Suskind wrote. Bush asked one CIA briefer, "Do some of these harsh methods really work?"

Zubaydah was strapped to a waterboard and, fearing imminent death, he spoke about a wide range of plots against a number of U.S. targets, such as shopping malls, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Yet, Suskind wrote, the information Zubaydah provided under duress was not credible.

According to Suskind, Zubaydah's captors soon discovered that their prisoner was mentally ill and knew nothing about terrorist operations or impending plots. That realization was "echoed at the top of CIA and was, of course, briefed to the President and Vice President," Suskind wrote.

Still, in public statements, President Bush portrayed Zubaydah as "one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States" and added: "So, the CIA used an alternative set of procedures" to get Zubaydah to talk.

The President did not want to "lose face," because he had stated Zubaydah's importance publicly, Suskind wrote.

Last year, Mukasey appointed U.S. Attorney Durham as special counsel to investigate whether the destruction of the CIA videotapes violated any laws, but did not give Durham the authority to probe whether the interrogation techniques themselves violated anti-torture laws.

In December 2008, Bush and Cheney both admitted in exit interviews that they authorized the waterboarding of Zubaydah and two other detainees.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers proposed expanding the scope of Durham's investigation in January, to include a broader review of the Bush administration's interrogation policies.

Conyers said he urged Attorney General Eric Holder to "appoint a Special Counsel or expand the scope of the present investigation into CIA tape destruction to determine whether there were criminal violations committed pursuant to Bush administration policies that were undertaken under unreviewable war powers, including enhanced interrogation, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless domestic surveillance."

The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Democrat Dianne Feinstein, will soon conduct a secret investigation into the CIA's interrogation program to determine whether the methods used against detainees worked, according to published reports.

Ilich Ramirez Carlos levelet irt Barack Obamának

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Múlt heten Carlos parancsnok jelezte Marwi elvtársunknak, hogy szándékában áll levelet írni Barack Obamának, a frissen választott amerikai elnöknek, hogy gratuláljon annak, a Guantanamoi kínzási központ bezárása miatt. Ugyanakkor érdeklődni kívánt, egyik harcostársa sorsa felett, aki a CIA egyik titkos börtönéből tűnt el véglegesen.
Bruno Bréguet Suiza rendkívül furcsa körülmények között tűnt el 1995 november 12-én egy, Ancona (Olaszország) és Igoumenitsa (Görögország) között közlekedő, ferry fedélzetéről.
Carlos parancsnoknak nincsenek illúziói ennek a militáns forradalmár sorsa felől, aki ellen Izraelben, 1971-ben, 15 évre szóló bírósági ítélet született mert bizonyítás nyert, robbanóanyagokat szállított a palesztin harcosoknak.
„Nem hivatalosan azt a tájékoztatást kaptunk, hogy Bruno véletlenül (balesetből) halt meg egy kihallgatás során az USA egyik bázisán, dél-Magyarország területén”
Levelében, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, arra kéri Obamát, hogy a palesztin ügy eme hősének holtestét adják vissza családjának, amely Ticinoban él, Svájc olasz kantonjában.

Ilich Ramírez escribe a Barack Obama para interesarse por un camarada desaparecido

La pasada semana, el comandante Carlos le adelantó a nuestro camarada Marwi que iba a escribir al recien elegido presidente de EEUU Barack Obama para felicitarle por su decisión de cerrar el centro de tortura de Guantánamo, y para interesarse por un camarada desaparecido, hace años, en una de las cárceles secretas de la CIA.
Bruno Bréguet Suiza, uno de sus compañeros de lucha, desapareció misteriosamente el 12 de noviembre de 1995 a bordo de un transbordador, haciendo la conexión entre el puerto italiano de Ancona y Igoumenitsa, Grecia.
El Comandante Carlos no se hace ilusiones sobre el destino de este revolucionario militante, condenado en 1971 a quince años de prisión en Israel por el transporte de explosivos para la causa palestina. "Se nos ha informado extraoficialmente que Bruno fue muerto accidentalmente durante un interrogatorio en una base de EE.UU. en el sur de Hungría". En su carta, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez pide a Obama que el cuerpo de este héroe de la causa palestina sea devuelto a su familia, que vive en el Ticino, el cantón italiano de Suiza.
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Ilich Ramirez Carlos hivatalos web-oldala
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Levél Belovai István alezredestől

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Kedves Eduardo,

Megnéztem Kepes filmjét rólad.
Gratulálok, igaz magyar ember vagy, te legalább tettél is valamit a szabadságért, a magyarokért.
A harcok során megöltél x számú ellenséget.
Légy büszke rá, hogy te túlélted és nem ők lőttek le téged.
Felejtsd el azokat a képeket, amelyek kellemetlenek neked és azokat lásd, akiket megmentettél.
A te hozzáértésed, meg személyiséged segített téged abban, hogy az egész háborút túlélted.
NEKED CSAK NE LEGYENEK ÁLMATLAN ÉJSZAKÁID, TE LEGYÉL CSAK NYUGODT, TÉGED MEG AKARTAK ÖLNI, DE TE ÜGYESEBB VOLTÁL.
Közben nemes célokért harcoltál.
HAGYD MEG A LÉLEKTANI PROBLÉMÁKAT AZOKNAK, AKIK GYENGE IDEGZETŰEK, AVAGY HÁT NEM BÍRJÁK ELVISELNI KÖNNYEN A SZÖRNYŰSÉ-GEKET.
TE CSAK LÉGY BÜSZKE, HOGY TÚLÉLTED AZ EGÉSZET ÉS BECSÜLETESEN HARCOLTÁL.
Ha én annak idején Magyarorszságon éltem volna, bizos ott lettem volna a horvátoknál és harcoltam volna a függetlenségért.
Azt gondolod, hogy az Iszlámban megtaláltad lelki békéded, egyensúlyodat?
Biztos tudod, EGY AZ ISTEN.
Nincs külön minden vallásnak más Istene.
Így tehát az Isten tiszteletének módjában, formájában és tartalmában van eltérés a vallások között.
Ha te az Iszlámmal jösz ki legjobban, akkor ezzel kell élned.

Ismétlem: nagyszerű ember vagy, helyesen tetted, amit tettél, hazánkért is harcoltál.

Baráti Üdvözlettel,
Belovai István

Belovai István Honlapjából:

1985. július 10-én Belovai István alezredest (ekkor 46 éves), korábbi londoni katonai és légügyi attaséhelyettest Budapesten letartóztatták. Ezzel véget ért rövid, de intenzív együttműködése a CIA-jel. Belovait életfogytig tartó fegyházra ítélték, majd a kommunista rendszer magyarországi összeomlása után a Magyar Köztársaság Elnöke kegyelemben részesítette. Ez szerepelt a hírekben 1990. szeptember 7-én.

Én voltam az első magyar katonai hírszerző tiszt, aki vette a bátorságot és harcolt a Szovjet Birodalom terjeszkedése ellen. Az Egyesült Államok kormányának felfedtem a Nyugat-Németországban állomásozó amerikai erők állományába tartozó legnagyobb áruló, Clyde Lee Conrad amerikai őrmester és kémbandájának tevékenységét. Conrad a Magyar Katonai Hírszerző Szolgálat részére kémkedett, hatalmas mennyiségű amerikai és NATO titkos és kozmikus szigorúan titkos anyagot szolgáltatott a Magyar Katonai Hírszerzésnek, a számlát a magyarok fizették dollárban. Ezek a titkos anyagok azonnal mentek tovább a Szovjet Katonai Hírszerzéshez, a GRU-hoz.

Az 1980-as évek elején a Szovjet Katonai Hírszerzés rendelkezett az összes alapvető hírszerzési adattal az Európában állomásozó amerikai és NATO erőkről. A Vörös Hadseregnek megvolt az a képessége, hogy az európai NATO erők ellen sikeres támadást hajtson végre. Háború esetén a NATO erőknek csak két lehetőségük lett volna: a kapituláció, vagy az atomfegyverek bevetése a Varsói Szerződés országai ellen. Elhatároztam, hogy megakadályozom a lehetséges szovjet agressziót, így 1984-ben, amikor mint katonai és légügyi attaséhelyettesként teljesítettem szolgálatot Londonban, tájékoztattam az amerikai kormányt Conrad kémgyűrű tevékenységéről.

A Conrad kémbanda tagjait letartóztatták, az Egyesült Államok és a szabad világ elleni igen veszélyes kémtevékenység megszakadt. Tevékenységemmel jelentősen hozzájárultam ahhoz is, hogy Magyarországon bekövetkezzen a kommunista rendszer megszűnése. 1990. december 23-án elhagytam hazámat és az Egyesült Államokba települtem át, 1992-ben megkaptam az amerikai állampolgárságot.

A Vörös Birodalom ellen folytatott háborúmnak vége, de maradt még egy harcom, amelyet meg kell vívnom. 1997-ben harcot kezdtem azért, hogy a magyar Legfelső Bíróság semmisítse meg az ellenem felhozott összes kémkedési vádat. A CIA-jel történt együttműködésem során, azáltal, hogy minden anyagai ellenszolgáltatás nélkül, alapvető fontosságú, szóbeli információt szolgáltattam a Conrad kémbandáról, kiemelkedő jelentősségű hozzájárulást nyújtottam a Szovjet Birodalom összeomlásához. Hazám ellen nem folytattam kémtevékenységet.

Politikai-jogi fejlemények rehabilitálásom kapcsán:

- A Magyar Köztársaság kikiáltása után a magyar politikusok, így az egymást váltó kormányok is, eddig szinte teljes közömbösséget tanúsítottak azon cselekedetem iránt, miszerint a Conrad kémgyûrû felszámolásában való részvételem egy háborút akadályozott meg Európában, így mentettem Magyarországot is a bekövetkezhető pusztulástól. Conrad kémügy kapcsán a Magyar Hírlap 1990. január 24-én hírt adott arról, hogy Kovács László, az MSZP-SZDSZ kormány jelenlegi /2004/ külügyminisztere, a Németh-kormány külügyminiszter-helyettesként bocsánatkérés kapcsán többek között ezt mondta az Egyesült Államok budapesti nagykövetének: „A magyar kormány a korábbi politikai és katonai vezetés hibás, az ország nemzeti érdekeivel nem kellően számoló politikája részének tekinti azt az ügyet, amelynek főszereplője Clyde Lee Conrad, az Európában állomásozó amerikai erők őrmestere...” Ennek logikus előzménye, hogy Belovai István korábban felismerte a magyar kormánynak az ország érdekeivel nem kellően számoló politikáját és határozott lépéseket tett a bekövetkezendő háborús katasztrófa megakadályozásáért. A magyar politikusok közömbössége és magatartása az ország lakosságának, anyagi javainak mentésére irányuló cselekményem teljes tagadását jelenti.

- Magyarország 2000. március 12-e óta a NATO, 2004. május 1-je óta pedig Az Európai Unió tagja.

- 2000. december 7-én a köztársaság elnöke ismét kegyelemben részesített, ennek során mentesített a büntetett előélethez fűződő hátrányok alól. Tíz éven belül ez a második alkalom, amikor Magyarország legmagasabb közjogi méltóságai politikai és jogi elismerésben részesítettek.

- A magyar politikusoknak a nemzet létéért és jövőjéért tett cselekedetem elismerésének tagadása azt eredményezte, hogy jogi úton keressem teljes mentesítésem megoldását. 2004. március 8-tól a "politikától teljesen mentes" Legfelsőbb Bíróság zárolta az összes Belovai-aktát, beleértve a vádiratot és az ítéletet /ez utóbbi kettő még soha nem volt a kezembe/, így ezekbe sem én, sem az ügyvédem nem tekinthet bele, következésképpen perújrafelvételt sem tudok indítani, mert a peranyagok nem állnak rendelkezésemre. A "politikamentes"Legfelsőbb Bíróság szigorúan politikai megfontolásokból törvénytelen módon akadályoz abban, hogy jogaimnak törvényes úton szerezzek érvényt. A jelenlegi törvénytelenségre sem a Rákosi, sem a Kádár rendszerben nincs példa.

- A magyar Legfelsőbb Bíróság akadályoz abban, hogy alapvető emberi jogaimat gyakoroljam, ezért beadvánnyal fordulok a Strasburgban székelő Emberi Jogok Európai Bíróságához, kérve, hogy szerezzenek érvényt annak, hogy élhessek alapvető emberi jogaimmal Magyarországon.

- Vannak jó példák, hogy a szovjet megszállók elleni tevékenység elismeréseként a szülőhaza nem marad hálátlan fiai iránt, így például Kuklinszki lengyel ezredest, Pacepa román tábornokot és a korábbi szocialista országokban több volt, Nyugatnak segítő ügynököt rehabilitáltak. Kivétel Magyarország.

- Magyarország a NATO tagja lett. A Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal, a Katonai Felderítő Hivatal állományából sokan tanultak és tanulnak a korábban gyűlölt vezető kapitalista országokban, köztük az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban, Németországban és Nagy-Britanniában. A magyar politikusok és katonák örvendeznek, hogy NATO tagok lettünk, ennek ellenére azt a Belovait nem rehabilitálják, aki ténylegesen tett is azért, hogy a szovjet megszállás megszűnjön, és hazánk belépjen a demokráciát kedvelő népek táborába.

Kérek minden magyart a világon, támogasson életem utolsó harcában, hogy rehabilitáljanak Magyarországon.

Köszönöm,
Belovai István

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