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Friday, January 7, 2011

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: “…our schoolchildren should not be mixed up in geopolitical games.”

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: “…our schoolchildren should not be mixed up in geopolitical games.”

“…our schoolchildren should not be mixed up in geopolitical games.”

A memoir by a top former Turkish intelligence official claims that a worldwide moderate Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s.

The memoir, roughly rendered in English as “Witness to Revolution and Near Anarchy,” by retired Turkish intelligence official Osman Nuri Gundes, says the religious-tolerance movement, led by an influential former Turkish imam by the name of Fethullah Gulen, has 600 schools and 4 million followers around the world. [This would include a network of 122 U.S. charter schools.]
In the 1990s, Gundes alleges, the movement "sheltered 130 CIA agents" at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone, according to a report on his memoir Wednesday by the Paris-based Intelligence Online newsletter…
Former CIA operative Robert Baer, chief of the agency’s Central Asia and Caucasus operations