If-I-am-assassinated-by-Shaheed-Bhutto

(e) There are four major power blocks in Washington: they are beginningwith the most important:1. Press2. The Bureaucracy3. The Congress4. The Intelligence CommunityEach of them was under threat by the President in January 1973, who wasat the height of his popularity with the American people. Each of themreacted with special ferocity because that President was Richard Nixon.And in the months of January, February and March of 1974, they wouldmount a war on the White House.I am not trying to equate myself with the President of the United States,nor my under-developed country with a super power. If Washington has fourmajor power blocks, Islamabad also has four major power blocks:(a) The Military(b) The Bureaucracy(c) Big Business(d) The PoliticiansI was at the height of my popularity with the masses when the conspiracystarted against me. Initially, the PNA movement had failed to ignite the public. Iwas to embark on a massive reorganization and reform programme on thestrength of my fresh mandate after the elections of March, 1977. This was knownto what Haldeman calls, “the Intelligence Community”. There was a “DeepThroat” in my administration who was providing “inside information” to anUrdu newspaper during the critical months of the upheaval. This is how I usedthe Intelligence Agencies for personal and political ends. There is a touch ofirony throughout the White Paper but this is where it touches a very sore point.How did Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan use the intelligence, Yahya Khanused to the hilt the intelligence agencies for political purposes to divide thepoliticians and to influence the elections of 1970. I should know because, at thattime, I was at the receiving end. My party was subjected to enormous pressuresby the intelligence agencies. After the elections of 1970 and until the collapse ofYahya Khan’s Martial Law, the intelligence agencies both civil and military, triedto penetrate into my party to influence and contaminate the electedrepresentatives.Before leaving for London in January 1972 Mujib-ur-Rehman told me thathe wanted to lay his hands on five persons from West Pakistan and hang them inPaltan Maidan. Out of the five, two belonged to the civil and militaryintelligence. Mujib-ur-Rehman gave me an elaborate account of their mischief inIf I am Assassinated; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 84