Andreas von Bülow (born 17 July 1937) is a German politician of the

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(SPD) and writer. He was Minister for Research and Technology from 1980 to 1982. Von Bülow has authored books about

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, including ''In the Name of the State. CIA, BND and the criminal machinations of secret services.'' (german: link=no, Im Namen des Staates. CIA, BND und die kriminellen Machenschaften der Geheimdienste.) and '' The CIA and 11 September'' (''Die CIA und der 11. September''). He holds a

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degree in

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.''

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'', 9 September 2003

Political career

Bülow, a member of the

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, served as secretary of state in the

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(1976–1980) and Minister for Research and Technology (1980–1982), both during the

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administration, and was regarded as a "rising star" of German politics at the time. He served for 25 years as an

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member of the

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(1969–1994). In the late eighties and early nineties, he served on the parliamentary committee on intelligence services ("Parlamentarischer Kontrollausschuss"). This committee supervises German intelligence agencies and has access to classified information. In the early nineties, Bülow also served as SPD ranking member of the Schalck-Golodkowski investigation committee, a task that first led him to inquire into white collar crime in connection with Eastern intelligence services, and later also into what he labels "criminal activities" of Western intelligence services.''

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'', 13 January 2002, contained an interview in which Bülow was asked whether he still kept in contact with old SPD companions like Egon Bahr and Helmut Schmidt, and replied "There are no close contacts anymore. I wanted to go to the last SPD party congress, but I was sick." His first major publication dealing with this realm, ''In the Name of the State'' (german: link=no, Im Namen des Staates) is a heavily referenced and extensive study focusing mostly on the CIA. Since leaving the Bundestag, he has largely left the SPD's political loop.

9/11

Bülow wrote a book called '' The CIA and 11 September'' (german: link=no, Die CIA und der 11. September), in which he implies

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complicity in the

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. :Planning the attacks was a master deed, in technical and organizational terms. To hijack four big airliners within a few minutes and fly them into targets within a single hour and doing so on complicated flight routes! That is unthinkable, without backing from the secret apparatuses of state and industry.

, 13. Jan. 200

At his home in

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, he told an interviewer for ''

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'' : "If what I say is right, the whole

should end up behind bars" and '"They have hidden behind a veil of secrecy and destroyed the evidence – that they invented the story of 19 Muslims working within

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's al-Qa'eda – in order to hide the truth of their own

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Affiliations

He is a member of: * 9/11 Truth Movement#Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. *Axis for Peace Conference.

References

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