CPP/Ang Bayan: Where is Meiring?

Propaganda article from the English language edition of Ang Bayan posted to the CPP Website (Feb 21): Where is Meiring?

In May 2002, the Davao City police arrested Michael Terrence Meiring, an active agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), after a bomb he was making exploded in his room at the Evergreen Hotel.

Contrary to his claims that a grenade had been lobbed at him, the police found two metal cases containing explosives inside his room and an identification card purporting that he was a member of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Meiring had been a frequent traveller to the Philippines for the past ten years. In 1992, he was posted with the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila.

It is believed that Meiring had been planning to bomb the hotel that day to create terrorist hysteria in Davao and put the blame on the MNLF and other Moro groups. Balikatan 01-1 was then being launched, which at first was confined to the island of Basilan. (It eventually included Zamboanga, after the US had pinpointed Abu Sabaya’s location).

The police were still preparing to charge him when agents from the US National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation whisked Meiring out of the hospital where he was confined after the “accident.” The US agents quickly brought him back to the US despite the warrant of arrest and hold departure order that had been issued against him. In 2004, a television network was able to trace his whereabouts to Houston, Texas where he had been blissfully living with his wife, using the surname Van de Meer.

[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines and is issued by the CPP Central Committee. It provides news about the work of the Party as well as its analysis of and views on current issues. Ang Bayan comes out fortnightly and is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Ilokano, Waray, Hiligaynon and English.]

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20150221/where-is-meiring