former CIA Director Robert Gates will take over at the Pentagon
Interesting info and tidbits about Robert Gates:

IRAN CONTRA:

Polgar, Tom. "Gates: The Wrong Choice to Head the CIA." Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 1-7 Jul. 1991, 24. Op-Ed piece from former CIA station chief and staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Iran-Contra: "My objections to [Robert M.] Gates center on his performance during the Iran-contra affair.... Throughout it, Gates acted as if he was in a complete fog or was interested primarily in keeping the truth from being aired in public or from reaching Congress." http://intellit.muskingum.edu/cia_folder/ciadcis_folder/dcisgates.html

Webster Tarpley wrote:
Bush relented, but then announced to his dismayed and exhausted staff that his second and non-negotiable choice for Langley was Robert Gates, the former CIA deputy director who had been working as Scowcroft's number two at the National Security Council. The problem was that Gates, who had already dropped out of an earlier confirmation battle for the CIA director's post, was about as thoroughly compromised as Don Gregg. But at that point, Bush's could not be budged a second time, so the name of Gates was sent to the senate, bringing the entire Iran-contra complex into full public view once again. As it turned out, the Bush Democrats in the Senate proved more than willing to approve Gates. http://www.tarpley.net/bush23.htm

...the collective approval by 64 U.S. Senators of Robert Gates to head the CIA, in the face of "unmistakable evidence that Gates lied about his role in the Iran-Contra scandal" (*52) http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/P...ockingbird.html

Illuminati and Vatican:

Gates is a graduate of elitist College of William and Mary home of illuminati Phi Beta Kappa:
... a small public university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. It is the second oldest institution of higher education in the United States. William and Mary was founded in 1693 by a Royal Charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II of England. It has educated U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Tyler as well as other leaders important to the development of the nation. It has a strong academic reputation and is notable in higher education for the founding of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_and_Mary

The fraternity known as Phi Beta Kappa was organized in 1776 by students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia (the second oldest in the country, founded in 1694), as a secret debating club. It was later infiltrated, and used to introduce Illuminati principles to America. http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com...php/Freemasonry


William Casey [Cardinal Spellman protege, sovereign Knight of Malta, George Bush's campaign manager and "authorized" Clintons bid for the White House ...] was named in a class action law suit in Southern California (case no.99-02603) along with Robert Gates, John Deutch, George Tenet, estate of William French Smith, Edwin Meese, Richard Thornburgh, Janet Reno and others; CIA and US Department of Justice] responsible for the 1980's crack cocaine epidemic and resulting social and economic devastation of inner city communities. http://members.foothills.net/ricefile/JesVat.htm

Actually the Head of CIA, Robert Gates, announced that there was a secret agreement between the US and the Vatican during the Cold War . "We fight against communism with Pope John Paul the Second" said Gates. Thus, the cooperation between the Vatican and the Central Intelligence Service during the Cold war was proven. The ex-head of the service Gates confessed that they cooperated with the Vatican after Polish Pope John Paul the Second got the throne. In the book "The Man who Changed History", which was published in Italy, Gates says that we were sharing information with the Vatican and we were fighting against communism on the same front. As a matter of fact, the dissolution began in Poland in the 80s. http://www.diplomaticobserver.com/news_read.asp?id=1429


In this context it is important to consider that Gates spent a long time at the main Jesuit power center of the USA, Georgetown University, where he his received his PH.D- in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University in 1974.

Eric Jon Phelps: Washington is controlled by the Jesuits from Georgetown. The capital of the United States is at Georgetown University, not the White House. And if you go into the president's office at Georgetown, you will see a picture of Bill Clinton, kneeling at the grave of Timothy Healy [past president of Georgetown], while the present president, Donovan, who is on the Walt Disney Board, is standing behind him. http://www.whale.to/b/pope.html

Hi ov3rkomer - nice to see you again
Thank you for this - you've linked to some very interesting articles here; I'm reading through them just now.
Good to have you on board.

Mairi

Hi Mairi, I'm glad to be here and hope you're doing well

Some more articles on Robert Gates:

Lies, Cover Ups and Slanted Intelligence, Robert Gates and Iran/Contra, By LAWRENCE E. WALSH
November 8, 2006 - Counterpunch

Fiers testified that Gates was an exceptionally gifted operator and that his meteoric rise had aroused jealousy among some older colleagues. Fiers said that Gates was very smart, very capable, although "sort of on the make." According to Fiers, Gates had understood "the universe" of the Contra-supply operation-that it had been run out of the White House, with North as the quarterback-but had not been given extensive detail.

Back to Iraq, By George Friedman
November 8, 2006 - Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.): Geopolitical Intelligence Report

The appointment of Gates is of particular significance because he was a member of the Iraq Study Group (ISG). The ISG has been led by another member of the Bush 41 team, former Secretary of State James Baker. The current president created the ISG as a bipartisan group whose job was to come up with new Iraq policy options for the White House. The panel consisted of people who have deep experience in foreign policy and no pressing personal political ambitions. The members included former House Foreign Relations Committee chairman Lee Hamilton, a Democrat, who co-chairs the group with Baker; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican; former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan; Leon Panetta, who served as White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration; former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry; former Sen. Chuck Robb, a Democrat; Alan Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming; and Edwin Meese, who served as attorney general under the Reagan administration.
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We expect the ISG, therefore, to make a military and political recommendation. Militarily, the panel will argue for a halt in aggressive U.S. security operations and a redeployment of forces in Iraq, away from areas of unrest. Security will have to be worked out by the Iraqis — or not. Politically, the ISG will argue that Washington will have to talk directly to the other major stakeholder, and power broker, in Iraq: Tehran.

The Co-Chairs of the Iraq Study Group:
former Secretary of State James Baker
- with ties with to the Saudis and the Bush Family
- May 27, 1989, Vatican City, Audience with Pope John Paul II

former House Foreign Relations Committee chairman Lee Hamilton
- in the CFR who was a member of the 9/11 Whitewash Commission

The Secret World of Robert Gates, By Robert Parry
November 9, 2006 - consortiumnews

Teicher described Gates’s role as far more substantive than Rumsfeld’s. “Under CIA Director [William] Casey and Deputy Director Gates, the CIA authorized, approved and assisted [Chilean arms dealer Carlos] Cardoen in the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to Iraq,” Teicher wrote.
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Ben-Menashe also placed Gates in a 1986 meeting with Chilean arms manufacturer Cardoen, who allegedly was supplying cluster bombs and chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein’s army. Babayan, an Iranian exile working with Iraq, also connected Gates to the Iraqi supply lines and to Cardoen.

ex-CIA Director Robert Gates, now Secretary of Defense, also was lobbyist for the Election Industry

Robert Gates...
....was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids."

Great research ov3rkomer