WEBVTT - Minisode - The Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to mission implausible. So if you call this week,

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese Premier g was in Belgrade, Serbia, and one of

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<v Speaker 1>the things that was part of the visit was a

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<v Speaker 1>visit to the Chinese embassy where in nineteen ninety nine,

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<v Speaker 1>during the Kosovol War, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy,

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<v Speaker 1>killing three journalists and injuring a number of Chinese diplomats.

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<v Speaker 1>And this was when President Clinton was the president. There

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<v Speaker 1>was ethnic cleansing in Albania and the Serbs were trying

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<v Speaker 1>to take back Kosovo, and Melosovich was there, and so

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<v Speaker 1>we started bombing Serbia to try to get Serbian troops

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<v Speaker 1>out of Kosovo, and as part of that process, we

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<v Speaker 1>by mistake, bombed the Chinese embassy, and pretty quickly the

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<v Speaker 1>White House and Director Tenant in the CIA said this

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<v Speaker 1>was a mistake. We misidentified the embassy and it was

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<v Speaker 1>a complete mistake. However, subsequent to that, a number of

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<v Speaker 1>journalistic outlets and the Chinese government said specifically that they

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<v Speaker 1>believe it's not true. It was a deliberate act because

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<v Speaker 1>the Chinese were providing intelligence two Serbian forces in Yugoslavia

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<v Speaker 1>that we decided to hit the Chinese embassy, were they

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<v Speaker 1>So yes. Even in the CIA IS we've talked about

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit on this podcast, as there's different fiefdoms

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<v Speaker 1>or warlords or whatever. There's a big analytic cadre, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a science and technology cadre, and then there's the clandestine

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<v Speaker 1>service where Jerry and I worked the spy side of

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<v Speaker 1>the cool guys. So in this case, the Clinton administration

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<v Speaker 1>was bombing the Yugoslav Army and trying to get Yugoslavs

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<v Speaker 1>to pull out of Kosovo, and essentially the Department of

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<v Speaker 1>Defense and the Navy and the army and therefore hit

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<v Speaker 1>all the targets that they expected to, hoping to get

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<v Speaker 1>Mosovich to surrender and pull out, and they didn't. So

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<v Speaker 1>they went around to all the different agencies and the

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<v Speaker 1>government said, we need new targets, more targets to hit.

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<v Speaker 1>And in that process, some clever analysts in the counterproliferation

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<v Speaker 1>shop sent a target over to the Defense Department to

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<v Speaker 1>hit inside Belgrade. And the target he sent was a business,

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<v Speaker 1>a Serbian or Yugoslav business that was providing support to

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<v Speaker 1>the Libyan missile program. They decided that would be clever

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<v Speaker 1>to use this opportunity to bomb that in Central Belgrade.

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<v Speaker 1>But unfortunately those people in the analytics side of the

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<v Speaker 1>CIA didn't decide to ask us. So I was in Serbia.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd been in Serbia for years, and never once did

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<v Speaker 1>they come to us and say, Hey, we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>give this target at this spot. Because if I had

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<v Speaker 1>seen that target, I would have said, that's the Chinese embassy.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been there for diplomatic events. You can't hit the

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese embassy. But what they did is they they just

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<v Speaker 1>took old maps, and in Serbia, the street numbers don't

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<v Speaker 1>work like they do at least in the United States

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<v Speaker 1>or West. So they knew that the address of this

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<v Speaker 1>place that they were trying to hit, and so they

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<v Speaker 1>assumed that on the street where they had the address,

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<v Speaker 1>the number would be in the same spot as it wasn't,

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<v Speaker 1>And they ended up striking the Chinese embassy and creating

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<v Speaker 1>a huge diplomatic thing that would turned the Chinese against this,

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<v Speaker 1>huge demonstrations in Beijing and against the US embassy. They

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<v Speaker 1>turned over cars.

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<v Speaker 2>That was huge. I happened to go to China not

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<v Speaker 2>long after that, and it was a palpable shift.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you can say that was the big shift in

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<v Speaker 1>the way that China's US relations were.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's true. That there's just some guy who like

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<v Speaker 2>that's kind of upsetting that this person could be.

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<v Speaker 1>Such a bureaucratic faux pad that even when the CIA

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<v Speaker 1>did a after action report to try to figure out

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<v Speaker 1>where they had made mistakes, even then they failed to

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<v Speaker 1>go come talk to the spy side of the house.

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<v Speaker 2>It reminds me of being a reporter in the field

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<v Speaker 2>and your editor in New York or DC is telling

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<v Speaker 2>you you got to go report this, and I'm like, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>that's not a thing. And I remember covering the tsunami

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<v Speaker 2>in Indonesia. There was some rumor that the UN had

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<v Speaker 2>not provided food to some people. I'm like, no, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>literally here, I'm seeing it. There's food. Well we have

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<v Speaker 2>this report and I was like, oh, I'm literally here,

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<v Speaker 2>I see the food. So you're reminding me of something

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<v Speaker 2>I experienced that I have realized. I don't think I've

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<v Speaker 2>brought up with you guys, because I was afraid it

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<v Speaker 2>would hurt your failings to insult the CIA in this way.

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<v Speaker 2>So I only embedded for twenty four hours. When I

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<v Speaker 2>was in Iraq, I was mostly just a guy living

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<v Speaker 2>in Iraq, but I embedded with a light infantry troop

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<v Speaker 2>and I went on a raid and I was in

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<v Speaker 2>a humvy with a bunch of soldiers heading to get somebody.

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<v Speaker 2>And one of the guys asked the officer who gave

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<v Speaker 2>us the tip, and the officer said CIA, And everyone

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<v Speaker 2>in the humbdy was like, ah, man, they're always wrong,

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<v Speaker 2>And I said, really is that true? He said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe seventy percent of the time. And there's a similar

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<v Speaker 2>thing in Iraq where the way house numbers work. It's

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<v Speaker 2>like there's a block number and then your house is

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<v Speaker 2>a number in that, so it's not a sequential like

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<v Speaker 2>two is next to four is next to six. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>these soldiers had been in Iraq for many months and

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<v Speaker 2>still hadn't clued into that the number they got didn't exist,

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<v Speaker 2>Like there was no house with that number, and so

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<v Speaker 2>they rated all the houses that had a two in them,

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<v Speaker 2>but no one in the None of the soldiers knew

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<v Speaker 2>the Iraqi you know, even though we call our number

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<v Speaker 2>system the Arabic numerals, Arabs use a different numeral system.

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<v Speaker 2>No one who had been in Iraq for months had learned.

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<v Speaker 2>It takes like twenty minutes to learn how Arabs write numbers,

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<v Speaker 2>so no one could read the numbers. It was the

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<v Speaker 2>craziest thing. And then we're in a site neighborhood in

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<v Speaker 2>Iraq and we're looking for a guy named Ali, which

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<v Speaker 2>is literally like yeah, yeah, they went to two houses

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<v Speaker 2>that didn't have Ali's. I was like, I did not

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<v Speaker 2>think that was possible to find two houses without Ali's

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<v Speaker 2>in a shared neighborhood in Iraq.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's take a break, we'll be right back.

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<v Speaker 3>And we're back.

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<v Speaker 2>Can I ask, so, like John, with your story, is

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<v Speaker 2>that bureaucratic ineptitude? Is it politics or is it just

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<v Speaker 2>it's harri ol. You got to make a phone call.

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<v Speaker 2>People are busy.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that even in large organizations, clicks develop. People

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<v Speaker 1>who trust the people they know. You know, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>large organization that has different parts, and it's easier just

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<v Speaker 1>to sort of talk amongst your group or coordinate amongst

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<v Speaker 1>your group. Of things are faster than say, well, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we could go to the do guys that do overseas stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>and then someone says, oh my god, that's going to

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<v Speaker 1>slow down. You know, the White House wants something right away,

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<v Speaker 1>and so someone makes a decision, which is a poor decison,

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<v Speaker 1>it ends up in something like this. I just said.

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<v Speaker 3>This is something that's deeply human. It happens in like

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<v Speaker 3>every business, every large organization. It's happened throughout history, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>looking back in history, you know wars that happened over

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<v Speaker 3>fuck ups. And of course, as everybody knows, the War

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<v Speaker 3>of Jenkins Ear obviously.

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<v Speaker 2>The eighteen je Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, in the seventeen thirties, Britain and Spain went

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<v Speaker 3>to war for nine years over chopping off the ear

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<v Speaker 3>of this guy named Jenkins, a British sea captain, and

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<v Speaker 3>it turns out the Spanish didn't even chop the guy's

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<v Speaker 3>ear off. In parliament, they demanded that the mummified ear

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<v Speaker 3>be sent to them as proof, and they couldn't prove it.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, there was a fuck up basically, and poor

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<v Speaker 3>Jenkins turns out he had two ears and they went

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<v Speaker 3>to war over a fuck up for nine years. So

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<v Speaker 3>something deeply well there was. The Gulf of Tonkin incident

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<v Speaker 3>was a fuck up, right. They turned into a conspiracy

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<v Speaker 3>because nobody wanted to say that it was a fuck up.

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<v Speaker 3>Sinking of the main the Spanish American War was premised

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<v Speaker 3>on fuck up. So we've got all these fuck ups,

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<v Speaker 3>so that I think the Iraq War, the Iraq.

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<v Speaker 2>War, Iraq War, I really committed to that one.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm just saying the strike on the mistake and it

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<v Speaker 3>was an accident. The strike on the Chinese embassy was

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<v Speaker 3>in a long and illustrious line of fuck ups.

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<v Speaker 2>I do want to have on the record that I

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<v Speaker 2>know you guys are part of the deep state. You're lying,

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<v Speaker 2>you're covering up for all. I just want people to

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<v Speaker 2>know I know that when you say this was a

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<v Speaker 2>mess up, this was a fuck up, I know the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>So I was in Belgrade, was Belgrade twice and I

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<v Speaker 1>was the deputy. I was the case officer there on

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<v Speaker 1>the street, handling most of the cases at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>I knew every street, every back alley. I was out

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<v Speaker 1>all the time. I was like working all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>And they're doing this thing and they're trying to threaten

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<v Speaker 1>most of it. They are going to go to war.

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<v Speaker 1>And the thing is they weren't coordinating any of that

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<v Speaker 1>stuff really with the rest of the government very well,

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<v Speaker 1>because they never actually came to us and said, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>what are some things you should hit and stuff like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we could have prepared all kinds of stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>If you wanted to hit key things in Belgrade that

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<v Speaker 1>would have surprize them and had an impact. We could

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<v Speaker 1>have done an amazing job. And they never did it,

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<v Speaker 1>and all of a sudden, it's like we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>war and they're like, uh, okay, what are you supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to hit? And it was it was very sloppy all

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<v Speaker 1>the way through it. It was because Holbrook was making

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<v Speaker 1>threats that essentially he wasn't coordinating with the former defense

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<v Speaker 1>and intelligence agencies.

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<v Speaker 3>So I was on the coast of our side a

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<v Speaker 3>little bit afterwards, so that we bomb Serbia. People don't remember,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, they were ethnic cleansing of Albanians and an

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<v Speaker 3>Albanian you know, ninety percent Albanian area. There was this

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<v Speaker 3>guy called a v load of slav Sheeschel, remember him.

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<v Speaker 3>He was a politician, right, but he was saying, for

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<v Speaker 3>Serbian honor, I am willing to carve out the eyes

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<v Speaker 3>of Albanian children with a rusty spoon. And we always like,

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<v Speaker 3>why does the spoon have to be rusty?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I know.

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<v Speaker 3>What was up with the Serbs that it was ugly.

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<v Speaker 2>I do want to say like that the part of

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<v Speaker 2>the whole conspiracy theory thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Is.

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<v Speaker 2>What you're making me realize is this is every company

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<v Speaker 2>I deal with. You know, I consult with various companies

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<v Speaker 2>of different sizes. This issue of different departments not talking

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<v Speaker 2>to each other, and whether it's out of malice or politics,

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<v Speaker 2>it's such a standard thing, you know, and it's it's

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<v Speaker 2>a reminder that the things we want conspiracy theory explanations

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<v Speaker 2>for are a part of the human experience. Like we're

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<v Speaker 2>just we're human beings. We're a bunch of idiots. Some

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<v Speaker 2>are trying the best they can, some aren't even doing that,

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<v Speaker 2>but all of us are making a ton of mistakes.

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<v Speaker 3>There's an anthropological explanation to this as well. We've been

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<v Speaker 3>around for two hundred thousand years, you know, one hundred

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<v Speaker 3>and ninety six thousand of those years, we've been going

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<v Speaker 3>around in bands of like twenty to thirty people. We've

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<v Speaker 3>evolved to trust twenty or thirty people in our group,

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<v Speaker 3>and everyone else is an other right you have. They

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<v Speaker 3>have to earn your trust. So you take a big

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<v Speaker 3>organization with thousands of people in it, we're sort of

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<v Speaker 3>evolutionary programmed only to trust our group, our twenty to

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<v Speaker 3>thirty and it's hard to reach out from there. We're

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<v Speaker 3>not wired to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, there's another thing in this in the Yugas

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<v Speaker 1>level was interesting to me that one the other away

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<v Speaker 1>is so we mean in the US. Apparently at one

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<v Speaker 1>point it was right across from our embassy bombed the

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<v Speaker 1>Serbian intelligence service, and the Serbs afterwards said, you guys

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<v Speaker 1>also hit a children's hospital and some children were hurt

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<v Speaker 1>in the thing. And immediately all of the US media

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<v Speaker 1>and everybody's going like, oh, this is the typical dictators

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<v Speaker 1>lying and trying to say something, and when in fact

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<v Speaker 1>the children's hospital was next door and I didn't smash

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<v Speaker 1>all the windows in the children's hospital.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, we talk about this war and the violence

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<v Speaker 3>thing is a It was successful. The Serbs eventually did

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<v Speaker 3>pull out. We didn't have to really put boots on

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<v Speaker 3>the ground, and we saved several million people who were

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<v Speaker 3>being attacked by the Serbs simply because of their religion.

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<v Speaker 3>And it was all based on a conspiracy theory basically

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<v Speaker 3>that Kosovo belonged to Serbia even though it was ninety

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<v Speaker 3>five percent Albanian. I think there were like a million

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<v Speaker 3>and a half people that they were either going to

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<v Speaker 3>murder or drive out of Kosovo, and we stopped that.

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<v Speaker 1>And eventually got rid of Melosavich.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we saved a lot of lives, all.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, Thank you Adam, Thank you Jerry, and come visit

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<v Speaker 1>us next time on mission implausible.

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<v Speaker 2>Great to talk to you guys,