In
this first-hand account, Thomas reveals America's and the West's betrayal of
the children of China, who, for a brief moment in history, brought democracy to
their homeland. Thomas takes the reader into the inner sanctums of the Oval
Office, the CIA headquarters at Langley, and the private compounds of the
leaders of China as they debated and fought over the great revolt. And finally,
it shows in dramatic detail how the supreme leader, Deng Xiaoping, gave orders
for the execution of the students.
The inside story about China that no one can afford to ignore. Using his unsurpassed contacts in Israel, Washington, London and Europe, Gordon Thomas, internationally acclaimed best-selling author and investigative reporter for over a quarter-century, reveals information about China's intentions to use the current crisis to launch itself as a new Super-Power and become America's new major enemy.
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. They 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. Hours later, CIA Director George Tenet received a coded "red alert" message 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.
By 2015 China will have deployed tens to several tens of missiles with nuclear warheads targeted against the United States, mostly more-survivable land and sea mobile missiles. It will also have hundred of shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles for use in regional conflicts. Some of these shorter-range missiles will have nuclear warheads; most will be armed with conventional warheads.
That prediction is from a CIA briefing paper to the Bush Administration. It is one of almost 100 pages of never-before published official documents in Seeds of Fire that also include redacted documents concerning the Inslaw "largest global software theft in history," MK ULTRA, and the link between newspaper magnate, Robert Maxwell and Los Alamos.
GORDON THOMAS is the author of thirty-eight books. They have achieved total sales of 45 million copies in 36 countries. Seven of his books have been made into major motion pictures, including the five-times Academy Award-winning Voyage of the Damned. Currently his series of best-selling David Morton novels are being filmed by IAC International for a 22-hour television series to be screened internationally in 2002. Gideon's Spies is also in the process of being filmed by Helkon International Media. Gordon Thomas's next book, Mindfield, has already been pre-sold around the world. He is a daily commentator for TV-3 of Ireland and the UK and his up-to-the-minute reportage appears throughout Europe in major independent and syndicated newspapers. He lives in Ireland with his wife, an interior designer, and his two children.
357 pages, 6 x 9", soft cover