Seeds of Fire: China And The Story Behind The Attack On America - Softcover

Thomas, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893302547 ISBN 13: 9781893302549

Publisher: Dandelion Books, 2001

Synopsis

Argues that China offered weapons and other technology to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden as part of a strategy for becoming the leading enemy of the United States and a major military power with missiles targeted at North America.

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From the Publisher:

Author Gordon Thomas - whose new book, Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America, skyrocketed to 49 in amazon.com sales rank listings in two days, has just learned that Jonathan Pollard - the spy convicted of espionage against the United States 17 years ago - was secretly visited in his U.S. Federal Prison on Monday, January 7 by former Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Natanyahu. Pollard - who is a central figure in Thomas' Seeds of Fire - was convicted of espionage against the United States. "But I am told on the highest authority in Israel that Natanyahu's visit is the first step in persuading the Bush administration to set him free so he can go to Israel, the country for whom he spied," said Thomas. The author is renowned for his contacts in Mossad, the Israeli secret service. His book was the preview bestseller to Seeds of Fire. Titled Gideon's Spies, it took Thomas two years to research and write. Mossad directors and other key officers granted him exclusive interviews. In Seeds of Fire he details how one of those officers, former Operations Chief Rafi Eitan, ranks Pollard as the most effective spy Israel has ever had. Eitan told the author in a taped interview that he would "only wish to have Pollard free again before I die." "His targets were the innermost intelligence secrets of the U.S. He stole more than the Russians ever did," said Thomas. Esther Pollard, the spy's wife, said, "This was a very personal meeting between Bibi and Jonathan. I cannot tell you what Bibi said. But it was an excellent meeting. A very long meeting, and it left Jonathan filled with hope." The ex-Israeli prime minister traveled to Pollard's prison in North Carolina and spent hours with the spy alone, said Thomas. Mrs. Pollard added that her husband has been kept in solitary confinement during his life sentence. She said that previously Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu had tried to secure Pollard's release as part of a package deal with former President Bill Clinton at the Wye talks - but failed. "But CIA chief George Tenet has let it be known that if Pollard is freed it could be a resignation matter for him," said Thomas. "Tenet regards Pollard as a man who nearly wrecked the CIA intelligence gathering operations throughout the globe," said Thomas. "He believes that if Pollard is sent back to Israel he could have something useful to do for Mossad," he added. "Seeds of Fire describes Pollard's never before revealed role in the theft of the most important software in the U.S. intelligence arsenal." Seeds of Fire is backed by over 100 pages of never before published documents that not only show how the theft was carried out - but also how it eventually led to China having a copy of it. "Seeds of Fire shows how China used it to prepare itself to become a new Superpower. Quoting from a CIA Briefing paper - prepared by incumbent CIA director George Tenet for President Bush - Thomas reveals the agency's fear about a coming conflict with China. Hours after Gordon Thomas had revealed exclusive details in Seeds of Fire about the full intent of China's threat, it was confirmed today by the CIA - and followed up by ABC News and the Associated Press. Said Dandelion President Carol Adler: "Not for the first time, Gordon Thomas has set the news agenda with is revelations. There are many more in Seeds of Fire which we believe will find their way into the mainstream news media in the coming days. But remember: you read it here first!"

From the Back Cover:

China will use the current global crisis to launch itself as a new Super-Power and become America's new major enemy, according to Gordon Thomas, an internationally recognized expert on intelligence matters. On September 11, 2001, the same day the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by terrorists, a Chinese Peoples Liberation Army transport aircraft from Beijing landed in Kabul with the most important delegation the ruling Taliban had ever received, says Thomas. He describes the ongoing threat from China in his new book, Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America ($25.95, Dandelion Books) available in bookstores. Hours later, CIA Director George Tenet received a coded ‘red alert' message from Mossad's Tel Aviv headquarters that presented what he called a ‘worst case scenario' – that China would use a ruthless surrogate, bin-Laden, to attack the United States, says Thomas, who has over thirty years of experience as a foreign affairs reporter and investigative journalist. The Chinese delegation had come to sign the contract with Afghanistan that Osama bin-Laden had asked for, that would provide the Taliban with missile-tracking, state of the art communications, and air defense systems in exchange for the Taliban's promise to end the attacks by Muslim extremists in China's north-western regions. China by 2015 will have deployed tens to several tens of missiles with nuclear warheads targeted against the US, predicts a CIA briefing paper to the Bush Administration, according to Thomas. Seeds of Fire contains a large number of official unpublished documents pertaining to China's global take-over strategies. Thomas also exposes the secret dealings between Russia and China. He reveals reasons for the ever-closer relationship developing between Israel's Mossad and China's Secret Intelligence Service that enabled America's ultra-secret plans to be stolen from Los Alamos.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dandelion Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1893302547
• ISBN 13: 9781893302549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 523