About Kurt Hach  

Setting the Stage for my Story

I was born and raised next to the harbor in Hamburg, Germany.   In civilian life, my grandfather owned and operated a shipyard in the port of Hamburg.   My father was a master stevedore foreman and so as a  child, I lived within sights and sounds off the harbor.   In WWII, both my father and grand father were officers in the German military.

I have forty years of knowledge and experience with harbors and stevedoring and customs, all over the world, even in Africa where I taught harbor management stevedoring and harbor warehouse management.    

As a child, following WWII, I was exposed to the extensive amount of smuggling that occurred in the harbor at Hamburg.    I actually participated in some of it myself and witnessed thousands of smuggling incidences over years.    My father, my grandfather,  and several other family members were major smuggles of food for our family, for our friends and our neighbors.   

As is not well known, as punishment for WWII, the industrial capacity of Germany was intentionally destroyed to prevent Germany from again becoming a powerful nation.   The intent was to make Germany into primarily  an agricultural nation.   As is also not well known,  and  the German people were intentionally deprived of food and clothing by the British following the war.   Without the food my family stole and smuggled, many people would have starved.   Some of my smuggling stories are now in the Holocaust  Museum in Washington D.C.   

In 1986, I learned that my grandmother was Jewish and her identity had been kept secret all these years on order to protect her and my family from the Nazis.     

In civilian life, I  was trained as a foundation engineer.    I built several  underground bunkers and thus, I have knowledge of their locations.    One of Saddam's secret tunnels has still not been found.   I spent years in Iraq building such structures as the power stations at Nadjaf and Zubayr.    I was also third in command of the building of the road between Basrah channel  and Saddam's battleship port Om Qrsr.    Om Qrsr.  is now under the control of Kuwait.    I built the underground  Mig 29 hangers near fertilizer factory number three.   I also advised General  Schwarzkopf, on how to bomb the entrance to this bunker-style hanger.    This prevented the deployment of all the planes.

I have traveled extensively in Iraq.   I speak Arabic, German, French, and English.   I learned Arabic while working in Iraq.   One of my jobs was the retrieval of stolen equipment from government sanctioned thieves in Baghdad, in Syria, and in Beirut, Lebanon.   I even stole my own company car back from Mahmoud Abbbas while he had it parked in front of Arafat's office in Beirut.  

On January 21, 1991,  I was detained in Landau/pfalz, Germany near Kaiserslautern by the American CIA agents and American military police and given an ultimatum.   Provide us with intelligence about Iraq or go to jail.   I chose to offer intelligence.

They demanded my assistance because of my intimate knowledge of Iraq and my extensive military training.   I was trained in Germany's equivalent of the U.S. Special forces.   My specialty was tank warfare.   The training of our Commando unit was led by Colonel Schroeder.     Colonel Schroeder was one of the most skilful and talented trainers in the entire German military.   Shortly after the completion of my training, Colonel Schroeder was promoted to General and became the chief of the military academy in Hamburg, Germany.

As just one example, my first suggested target in the Gulf War was the bombing of Saddam's southern headquarters.   This occurred on January 22, 1991, 4:12 am Iraq time.  During my time as advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf, I providing him with more that 1,200 targets.    Because of my military training, I also offered numerous tactical suggestions.   General Schwarzkopf used my plans to win the war.   Also, my smuggling knowledge and knowledge of how the Iraqis use the back roads in most of their secret activities  provided significant assistance to  General  Schwarzkopf,

Between the start of the war  in Iraq and 2007, I delivered 1,412  pages of positions and suggestions for the Iraq War to  Secretary of Defense office, and/or to the Military Joint Chief of Staff office .   I have fax records to verify delivery. 

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