Japanese Yen Gate
Update 8
Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols and 9/11 Attack
Breaking News September 26, 2011
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By Tom Heneghan, International
Intelligence Expert
Sunday September 25, 2011
UNITED STATES of America - It can now be reported that
UBS of Switzerland is facing criminal charges brought by European INTERPOL
accusing UBS of the money laundry of the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols and
using the Federal Reserve and their stooge bankers aka J. P. Morgan, Goldman
Sachs and the Israeli Bank Leumi in massive derivative manipulation of the
Japanese yen as to protect the Asian derivative debt of Bank of America.
P.S. Out of control misfit U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner is busy blackmailing the European Union in regards to writing put
options on the EURO currency and using this aka leverage to create more bogus
derivatives on the Japanese yen as to attempt to 'bail out' on a short term
basis Goldman Sachs and J. P. Morgan's exposure to the Greek banking debacle.
P.P.S. It is time to take direct aim at the corporate-controlled,
fascist, extortion-friendly U. S. media that fails to cover this derivative
crisis, because they, themselves, are being paid DIRECTLY by the corrupt
banking cabal that has destroyed the U. S. economy.
Example: Overweight,
cackling hen Candy Crowley of CNN had the audacity today to state that the American
People WILL accept higher taxes and REDUCE social security benefits if they are
told the truth concerning the massive debt the U. S. faces.
Direct
message to overweight, fat, cackling hen bitch Crowley: The American People are
NOT going to pay higher taxes or reduce social security benefits to 'bail out'
corrupt banks tied to the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate that have looted
the United States Treasury and reduced American to a banana republic.
P.P.P.S. When it comes to CNN and FOX News the American People are tired of
watching right wing neo con Jew news.
This country is not going to be controlled by a sociopath nutcase
neo-Nazi Benjamin Netanyahu who has stated that in an Israeli final solution,
he would direct jihad against the Arab population inside Israel and even go as
far to use the nuclear weapons supplied to him by the United States to target
European capitols who Netanyahu has now decided are all responsible for the
holocaust.
Message to neo-Nazi Netanyahu: The patriotic elements of the American Military
now have you, punk, directly on the radar screen!
Message to NewsMax.com
and sociopath Joseph Farah of Worldnetdaily.com:
The American People are not interested in a sociopath, Zionist lesbian loser,
Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, as president of anything, especially the United
States.
This country has been wrecked by the Bush-Clinton Crime Family
Syndicate and the day will come when there will be payback.
At this hour Albert Gore Jr. remains the duly elected, natural born,
non-inaugurated President of the United States of America.
You have made your opposition to duly elected President Albert Gore Jr. on the
behalf of election-stealer, Constitution shredder, cocaine snorter, U. S.
Treasury embezzler, homosexual in-the-closet, AWOL, war criminal George
W. BushFRAUD personal.
Remember, punk, when it gets personal it is going to get ugly.
American Patriot Ambassador Leo Wanta
Classified:The Wanta
Chronicles,
the Covert Economic
War
BUSH ON 9/11, BARKSDALE AFB, VERY MUCH IN CONTROL....BEFORE THE
ATTACK
Editor's notes: Among the documents
and extensive narrative here is the story of the most classified operations
since World War II. Herein is also included a broad history of a vast international
criminal conspiracy at the heart of the American government. The stories begin
with the criminal prosecution of former Reagan intelligence coordinator, Lee
Wanta.
Charges allege that the 9/11 attacks were planned and
executed in order to cover financial crimes. These crimes and their background
is covered in this document·
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Classified
The Wanta Chronicles the Covert Economic War
AUTHORIZED COVERT ECONOMIC WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION AND
THE 9/11 ATTACK
Breaking
News September 26, 2011
BUSH ON 9/11, BARKSDALE AFB, VERY MUCH
IN CONTROL....BEFORE THE ATTACK
Editors notes: Among the documents and extensive narrative here is the
story of the most classified operations since World War II. Herein is also
included a broad history of a vast international criminal conspiracy at the
heart of the American government. The stories begin with the criminal
prosecution of former Reagan intelligence coordinator, Lee Wanta.
Charges allege that the 9/11 attacks
were planned and executed in order to cover fiancial crimes. These crimes and
their background is covered in this document.
Understandings of the mechanics of
the 9/11 attack itself are largely taken from the Commission Report.
These now prove to differ as much
from the truth as the other aspects of the 9/11 Commission report that this
document challenges.
[Pub.L. 97-200, 50 U.S.C. 421 - 426]
. [1] to intentionally reveal the identity of an agent whom one knows to be in
or recently in certain covert roles with a U.S. intelligence agency, unless the
United States has publicly acknowledged or revealed the relationship.
REVEALED IN DANE COUNTY COURT
TRANSCRIPTS : -
STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT
DANE COUNTY
BRANCH 2
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
PLAINTIFF,
CASE No. 92 CF 683
vs.
LEO E. WANTA,
DEFENDANT.
.
DATES : MAY 8, 9, 10, 11, 1995
.
ALLEGED TAX CHARGES : FAILURE TO PAY CIVIL INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT, OF $14,129.00
RELATED TO DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CONTINUING AND LAWLESS INSISTANCE THAT
DEFENDANT OWED CIVIL STATE TAX ASSESSMENTS_FYI 1982, 1988, HAS A RESULT OF HIS
DEEPCOVER COVERT ACTIONS DURING AUTHORIZED STING OPERATION INVOLVING CERTAIN
TARGETED INDIVIDUALS, ALLOWING THE STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF REVENUES
FALSE AND SPURIOUS ACCUSATIONS TO BE FRAUDULENTLY LEVIED AGAINST SAID
DEFENDANT.
THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE WAS FULLY
AWARE THAT DEFENDANT WAS NOT THE OWNER OF SAID TARGETED CORPORATIONS,
REFERENCING COURT RULINGS :
1. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, EASTERN
DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN, ORDER, C. A. 84-C-359, JOHN W. REYNOLDS, CHIEF U. S.
DISTRICT JUDGE, 7th day of Sept, 1984;
2. STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT
COURT, WAUKESHA COUNTY, CASE No. 83-CV-452, ROBERT T McGRAW, 4th day of April,
1985;
3. STATE OF WISCONSIN, APPEAL
TRIBUNAL DECISION, HEARING NO. 84-40912FG, DECISION 5-11-84;
4. STATE OF WISCONSIN, APPEAL
TRIBUNAL DECISION, HEARING NO. 84-40913FG, DECISION 5-11-84.
A. THE STATE OF WISCONSIN
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE HAD FULL WORKING KNOWLEDGE, THAT
DEFENDANT THROUGH HIS FAMILY ATTORNEY, THOMAS A. WILSON, ON JUNE 3, 1992,
ISSUED ATTORNEY CHECK NO. 6992, IN THE STATE DEMANDED AMOUNT OF $14,129.00 IN
FULL COMPROMISE OF THE FALSE ALLEGATIONS, STATE ACCEPTED IN FULL COMPROMISE AND
SETTLEMENT REFERENCING BANK NOTATIONS : -
4311 02983
STATE TREAS OF WIS.
DEPT OF REVENUE
1ST WI NATL BANK
MILWAUKEE, WI
>075000022<
JUN 24 92
PAID0000012703
06-24-92
097 DOR1033 624924493D $14129..
B. STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT
OF REVENUE
FEBRUARY 18, 1999
THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE HAS NO
RECORD OF A DELINQUENT TAX`ACCOUNT ISSUED TO LEE E. WANTA, SOCIAL SECURITY
NUMBER 3XX-XX-XXX6, FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER DPP#04362 [DIPLOMATIC
PASSPORT].
C. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
KANSAS CITY, MO 64999
APRIL 23, 1991 LTR 2358C
TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER :
3XX-XX-XXX6
TAX FORM : 1040
TAX PERIOD : DEC 31, 1988
BASED ON OUR INFORMATION, YOU ARE
NOT LIABLE FOR FILING A TAX RETURN FOR THIS PERIOD. IF OTHER ISSUES ARISE, WE
MAY NEED TO CONTACT YOU IN THE FUTURE. YOU DO NOT NEED TO REPLY TO THIS LETTER.
DOROTHY O. SMITH, CHIEF, COLLECTION BRANCH
ON LETTER HEAD : D. PUNDER, VOLHARD, WEBER & AXSTER
DENNIS ULLMAN, ESQ.
STATE OF WISCONSIN
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
265 W. NORTHLAND AVE.
APPLETON, WI 54911
FRANKFURT am MAIN
24 MAY 1994
486.0094.92.05.B-tep
HANS LANG, YOUR INVESTIGATION IN
RESPECT OF LEO E. WANTA
DEAR MR. ULLMAN,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TELECOPY OF APRIL
13, 1994. UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE NO INFORMATION ABOUT THE MONEY TRANSFERS TO
AUSTRIA WHICH YOU MENTIONED.
UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION IN RESPECT
OF THE CIVIL LAW SUIT AGAINST MR. KURT PAUL BECKER AND HIS BUSINESS
ASSOCIATES, I ENCLOSE COPY OF THE JUDGMENT OF THE FRANKFURT COURT OF APPEAL OF
MAY 5, 1994 WHICH CONFIRMS THE JUDGMENT OF THE FIRST INSTANCE GRANTING MR.
LANGS CLAIM IN THE AMOUNT OF US$500.000. THE DEFENDANTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO
APPEAL TO THE FEDERAL SUPREME COURT.
FOR REASONS OF PROFESSIONAL
CURIOSITY RATHER THAN FOR THE IMMEDIATE CONCERNS OF MR. LANG, I SHOULD BE
PLEASED IF YOU CAN KEEP ME INFORMED ON THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURES AGAINST MR.
WANTA, PERHAPS BY SENDING ME A PAPER CLIPPING ON OCCASION. ARNDT STENGEL.
JR COLLECTION DENNIS ULLMAN,
TESTIFIED THAT NAMED DEFENDANT WAS AN ASSOCIATE OF THESE GERMAN INDIVIDUALS,
WHEN HE ABSOLUTELY KNEW THAT THIS STATE DEFENDANT WAS WITH THE US DEPT OF
TREASURY UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE DEEPCOVER HAS THESE KNOWN
INDIVIDUALS WERE ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE ELECTRONIC MEMORY CHIPS FROM USA TO
EUROPA, AND PLANNED FOR ACTUAL DELIVERY TO YONGBYON, NORTH KOREA. DEFENDANT WAS
DOMICILED IN WIEN, AUSTRIA AND SINGAPORE, AND FULL FIELD REPORTS WERE SUBMITTED
TO RAC W
L
..S , SA233MS, SA32NV, S-31-IANO [ INTERNAL AFFAIRS NEW ORLEANS ],
ET AL.
COLLECTION AGENT D ULLMAN KNEW AT
ALL TIMES THAT CIA COUNSEL [CAL] J E
S [DIS-BARRED] WAS HOLDING THE TARGETS
US$500.000 IN HIS MITSUI BANK [CAL] ACCOUNT, {
PLEASE NOTE : STATE AGENT ULLMAN
KNOWINGLY IGNORED IN HIS TESTIMONY THAT DEFENDANT HAD NOTIFIED HIS USG
SUPERIORS, AND DISBARMENT PROCEEDINGS PER USG OFFICIAL FILINGS TO CAL SUPREME
COURT, AND WERE CLEARLY DOCUMENTED THAT THE
SMUGGLERS FUNDS WERE NEVER IN
CUSTODIAL/PERSONAL CONTROL OF NAMED DEFENDANT }, [ FUNDS WERE EVENTUALLY
TRANSFERRED TO THEIR PRC - PEKING CUSTODIAL BANK ACCOUNT, AND SUBSEQUENTLY WAS
RETURNED TO THE GERMAN TARGETS [ MEMORY CHIP SMUGGLERS ] , KURT-PAUL BECKER AND
LOTHAR ELSASSER, ET AL. AND- NEVER REMITTED TO SAID STATE NAMED DEFENDANT, AS
FALSELY ALLEGED
.
E. INVESTIGATIVE OPERATIONS
CONTINUED IN S.E. ASIA AS TO SISTER PLANT WETROOM [ NAMED STATE DEFENDANT
FORWARDED ENGINEERING DRAWINGS/SPECIFICATIONS DIRECTLY TO US CUSTOMS SERVICE -
RAC - TN OPERATIONS, ET AL ] AS WELL AS, MANUFACTURING PLANNING FINANCING
WITHIN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE NAMED CORPORATIONS TO DEVELOP/TRANSFER SAID
SISTER PLANT WITH NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS WITHIN YONGBYON, NK UNDER STATE OF
WISCONSIN DEFENDANTS DIRECTION AND AUTHORITY, HAS THIS CIVIL TAX CASE WAS
CLEARLY SPURIOUS, AND LAWLESS, INTER ALIA.
ON LETTERHEAD OF
F. V RAMAKRISHNAN & CO,
ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS, COMMISSIONER FOR OATHS, NOTARY PUBLIC,
VR/YLC/0824/92M, 16th MAY 1992,
M/S BACHMAN, CUMMINGS McKENZIE
HEBBE, McINTYRE & WILSON, S. C.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
211`EAST FRANKLIN STREET
P.O. BOX 1155
APPLETON
WISCONSIN
54912-1155
ATTN: MR THOMAS A WILSON
DEAR MR THOMAS A WILSON
RE : LEO EMIL WANTA
PARA 1
PARA 2
PARA 3
PARA 4 UNFORTUNATELY, THE CHAIRMAN
OF ANEKO CREDIT PTE LTD, MR KOK HOWE KWONG, HAS SUDDENLY PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT
AFTER OUR TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION. OUR CLIENT IS DIRECTLY INVOLVED WITH THE
INVESTIGATION OF ANEKO CREDIT PTE LTD. HE HAS TO BE HERE FOR A WHILE TO ASSIST
IN THE INVESTIGATION OF THE COMPANY.
PARA 5 PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT
THERE ARE FILES IN YOUR POSSESSION RELATING TO LEO AND ONE OF THEM IS CONNECTED
WITH OR RELATED TO REAGAN/GEORGE BUSH CONSPIRACY REGARDING THE CONTRA WAR WHERE
OUR CLIENT ALSO KNOWN AS FRANK INGRAM (FBI) PARTICIPATING AS AN UNDERCOVER
AGENT INTO THE INVESTIGATION WITH THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND THE UNITED STATES
SECRET SERVICES TO PREVENT THE DISCLOSURE OF THE UNAUTHORIZED US$ FUNDING OF
THE CONTRA WAR AS DIRECTED BY THE THEN VICE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH.
PARA 6 -
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE -
DUE TO LAWLESS ACTIONS OF CERTAIN
STATE OF WISCONSIN INDIVIDUALS THE FOLLOWING WRONGFUL DEATHS OCCURRED SERVING
THEIR COUNTRY:
1. HIS EXCELLENCY, KOK HOWE KWONG
SINGAPORE
2. LINO BURYS HONG KONG
3. FREDDIE WOODRUFF, TBILISI
4.
5.
6.
JUST A QUALIFIED REMINDER
a. Rogers Houston Memorandum
b. H. R. 3723
c. Title 18 U. S.C. Section 792
d. 35
e. 241, 242
f. 372 [ , or impede him in
the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both. ]
(The following is an attempt to
present in a compact form the alleged claims made by Dick Eastman, Tom Flocco,
Vina K. Durham, Karl Schwarz and put together in an the article by E.P. Heidner
dated 28th June 2008 to the effect that the September 11th attacks were
intended to cover-up the clearing of the 1991 issuance of $240 billion in
covert securities to fund an economic war against the Soviet Union during which
unknown western investors bought up much of the Soviet industry. A crime
presented by official sources as a terrorist attack and used as an excuse to
attack Iraq.)
September 11
Initially the official designation
of terrorist attacks made it difficult to discern a pattern. However if the destruction
of the World Trade Centre, a segment of the Pentagon, four commercial aircraft
and the loss of 2,993 lives is not considered as a terrorist attack but
rather as a crime with specific objectives, there is a compelling logic to the
pattern of destruction, not only of the buildings but of specific offices
within each building.
If the attack on the Office of Naval
Intelligence in the Pentagon was not random it is reasonable to assume that the
planes that hit the World Trade Centre, and the bombs reported by various
witnesses to have been set off inside the buildings 1, 6, 7, the basement of
the Towers, the vault in the basement of the World Trade Centre were also
deliberately targeted.
Why? What was it that linked these
targets? The destruction of the contents of the basement of the World Trade
Centre less than a billion in gold, but hundreds of billions of dollars of
government securities?
In addition why were specific
brokers from the major government security brokerages in the Twin Towers eliminated?
To create chaos in the government securities market?
To create a situation wherein $240
billion dollars of covert securities could be electronically cleared without
anyone asking questions? Which happened when the Federal Reserve declared an
emergency and invoked its emergency powers that afternoon.
There were three major securities
brokers in the World Trade Center: Cantor Fitzgerald, Eurobrokers and Garbon
Inter Capital. On the morning of September 11, Flight 11 hit the North Tower at
8:46 right below the floors on which Cantor Fitzgerald was situated.
Cantor Fitzgerald as the largest
securities dealer in the US was probably the primary target. Shortly thereafter
a massive explosion went off under the FBI offices in the North Tower on the
23rd floor, Garbon Inter Capital on the 25th floor, and in the basement of
Tower 1.
The explosion caused the 22nd
through 25th floors above to collapse into an inferno. Fires were reported on
the 22nd floor at 8:47. Shortly, thereafter, at 9:03, Flight 175 hit the South
Tower right below the floors on which Euro Brokers was situated.
In all three cases, the explosive,
fiery destruction consumed the offices in the several floors above. At 9:37
Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, targeting one of the few offices that had been
moved in the newly remodeled section of the Pentagon: the Office of Naval
Intelligence, which had been investigating the financial transactions linked to
the securities being managed by those security dealers in the World Trade
Center that were targeted.
41% of the fatalities in the Twin
Towers came from two companies that managed U.S. government securities:
Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers.
31% of the 125 fatalities in the Pentagon were from the Naval Command Center
that housed the Office of Naval Intelligence.
39 of 40 Office of Naval
Intelligence employees died. In the vaults beneath the World Trade Center
Towers, any certificates for bonds were destroyed.
Building 7 was evacuated somewhere
between 9:00 and 9:30. Fires and explosions spontaneously began at multiple
locations inside the building prior to the collapse of either Tower.
This observation contradicts the
official explanation that the fire started when objects from the collapsing
towers caused the fires to ignite. The Building ultimately was destroyed in
what many unofficial observers now believe was a controlled demolition.
Building Seven housed several agencies critical to investigation of financial
crimes.
In the midst of all this, Building 6
was destroyed by explosions from within. Building 6 was home to the U.S.
Customs agency and the El Dorado Task force, which was responsible for
coordinating all major money-laundering investigations in the U.S.
In the immediate aftermath of
September 11, these groups would be redirected to investigate terrorist
financing.
The Office of Naval Intelligence in
the Pentagon, which sustained a direct hit from an airliner that day, was
without a doubt, a target pinpointed for destruction.
The attacking aircraft went through
intricate maneuvers in order to hit the west side of the Pentagon, The flight
path approach shows that the attacking aircraft passed almost directly over the
White House, bypassing what should be considered a primary target for a
terrorist attack instead of a supposedly empty section of the Pentagon.
The planes that hit the South Tower
also maneuvered in the last moments to hit their exact target.
On the same day, (September 11) the
Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency and for the
first time in U.S. history invoked its emergency powers under Securities
Exchange Act Section 12(k) and eased regulatory restrictions for clearing and
settling security trades for the next 15 days. These changes would allow an
estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon
maturity (September 12th) without the standard regulatory controls around
identification of ownership.
While most media reports defer to
the U.S. government contention that Osama Bin Laden was behind these attacks,
foreign media provided reports suggesting that the real power behind Al Qaeda
was unknown.
As shall be seen, the financial
power behind the attack is the same power that created these securities, and
the same power as that which founded Al Qaeda.
The Background
In order to understand why the
ongoing Federal investigations into the crimes funded by those securities
needed to be ended or disrupted by destroying evidence in Buildings 6, 7 and 1,
it is necessary to understand how the $240 billion in covert, and possibly
illegal government funding, could have been created in September 1991 and also
to know the background of 50 years of history of key financial organizations in
the United States, where U.S. Intelligence became a key source of their
off-balance sheet accounts.
The covert securities used to
accomplish the original national security objective had ended up in the vaults
of the brokers in the World Trade Centre, were destroyed on September 11, 2001,
the day before they came due for settlement and clearing.
Either a key group of senior
National Security officials, who had participated in the victory of the
economic cold war in 1991, considered the deaths and destruction as
collateral damage to hide the existence of the covert activities or the
destruction constituted a cover-up of continued lawlessness by a fraternity or
brotherhood of businessmen and criminals that has remained in the shadows ever
since.
The Origins of the World Trade
Centre Attack
Most historians track the history of
September 11th to 1998 when Osama Bin Laden declared a fatwa or jihad against
the U.S., and the terrorist Hamburg Group led by Mohammed Atta reportedly
offered its services to Al Qaeda.
However, the history which defines the
motives for the September 11 attacks goes much further back. The answers to the
questions surrounding the cause of the WTC attack will be found in events
during the presidency of George H.W. Bush and earlier.
Insight into the activities of that
period are cloaked by the Executive Order of George H.W. Bushs son, President
George W. Bush, who on November 1, 2001 issued Executive Order 13233. As a
result public records which might have shed light on the activities of 1990 and
1991 remain shielded from public access. Consequently the reconstruction of
events from the late 1980s and early 1990s is based on news reports, books and
articles.
What the public record suggests is
that with the beginning of the first Bush Presidency in 1989, George H.W. Bush
initiated a programme of covert economic warfare to bring about the collapse of
the Soviet Union.
The name of this programme appears
to be Project Hammer a multi-billion dollar covert operation, whose
investments remain shielded.
There is reason to believe that the
plan was initially formulated by Reagans CIA Director, William Casey. Many of
the programme operatives were probably engaged through official CIA and
National Security channels.
However, as a result of the
experience gained by the Bush cabinet and its private sector counterparts
during the secretive Iran-Contra and Ferdinand Marcos gold operations, the
execution of that programme would be accompanied by a new assumption that the
use of covert and illegal funding for a policy not approved by Congress would
remain acceptable.
The Source of the Funds
Numerous sources have documented
that at the end of World War II, the treasury of the Japanese Empire was
discovered in the Philippines by Edward Lansdale a member of the staff of
General Charles Willoughby, who was General MacArthurs chief of Intelligence.
Lansdale and Severino Garcia Diaz
Santa Romana tortured Major Kojima Kashii, General Yamashita Tomoyukis driver,
until he revealed the sites of the gold.
Then known as the Golden Lily
Treasure, this mass of wealth had been accumulated by the Japanese over fifty
years from the pillaging of Southeast Asia and China by its army and had been
deposited in the Philippines due to the U.S. submarine blockade of Japan.
Reports vary, but documents in the public domain suggest the recovered treasure
was in excess of 280,000 metric tonnes of gold.
Lansdale briefed Assistant Secretary
of War John J. McCloy about the findings, and a U.S. Cabinet-level decision was
made to confiscate the gold and cover-up its discovery.
The gold would be added to the Black
Eagle Trust fund which took its name from the Nazi Black Eagle stamped on the
gold bars confiscated from the Reich and was the original source of funding for
the trust.
Over the years, the significance of
the Nazi gold would pale in comparison to the confiscated Japanese treasure. As
the fund grew, it was distributed in private accounts across the globe in over
100 banks, and administered by General Earle Cocke.
Lansdale and Santa Romana were made
responsible for recovery of the treasure. They fabricated a Communist
Revolution by the Hukbalahak rebels in order to confiscate the land where much
of the gold was buried, and proceeded to mine it.
The Yamashita gold would become the
cornerstone of the Black Eagle Fund, from which many covert operations of the
U.S. intelligence would be funded. Under international law the gold should have
been either returned to the countries from which it was stolen (as was done
with the Nazi gold), or should have been incorporated into the U.S. Treasury.
The U.S. Governments continued efforts to stifle news on this matter provides
prima facie evidence that the confiscation of this gold was illegal.
The men responsible for initiating
and executing the confiscation of Nazi and Japanese treasury gold represent the
most senior Intelligence officers in the U.S. and Britain at the end of World
War II, and the Cabinet of the President of the United States.
The financial institutions
represented by these individuals would become the major financial banks in the
world, along with the Swiss-German banks where they hid their gold.
Lansdales operation in the
Philippines gave birth to most of the common features of modern covert
operations for the U.S.Intelligence and initiated a bond between the US intelligence
organizations and the Israeli intelligence.
He also set precedents for the
Intelligence community to retain the services of organized crime on U.S. soil
and to use drug running as a way of financing activities.
The covert operations funded by the
Black Eagle Trust in the 1960s and 1970s became visible stains on the global
image of the U.S. despite all efforts to keep them under cover.
In an effort to clean house,
President Jimmy Carter would order the retirement of over 800 covert
operatives. Many of these operatives would move into private consulting and
security firms and be employed as subcontractors for covert operations. Thus
began a loose association of private operatives that would be referred to as
the Enterprise in the years to come. George H.W. Bush, having been CIA
Director, had many acquaintances in this group, and would work with them to
restore their influence and control over U.S. foreign policy and the foreign
investment opportunities it created for their benefit.
Meantime Ferdinand Marcos, the
pro-U.S. dictator of the Philippines, continued to discover even more of the
buried treasure. and had started to sell it on the market during the 1970s with
the assistance of Adnan Khashoggi.
US Intelligence operations had been
siphoning off the gold for three decades. However in 1986 Vice President George
Bush took over the gold from Marcos and the gold was removed to a series of
banks, notably Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking
Corporation, UBS and Bankers Trust, and held in a depository in Kloten
Switzerland.
What happened to the Marcos gold
after it was confiscated by U.S. agents in 1986 has never been reported, but
throughout the early 1990s, the world gold market would be befuddled by the
mysterious appearance of thousands of tonnes of gold which appeared to suppress
the price of gold.
In South east Asia operations were
financed through Nugan Hand Bank in Australia which would be one of the many
banks used for transferring the Marcos gold from the Philippines into covert
operations. Frank Nugans family ran the primary supply shipping operation
between the U.S. Navy base in the Philippines and Australia.
Frank Nugans business partner,
Peter Abeles, and Henry Keswick, together with Canadian businessman Peter Munk,
would link with Adnan Kashoggi, Sheikh Kamal and Edgar Bronfmann in a series of
operations which ultimately would evolve into Barrick Gold.
In 1992, George H.W. Bush served on
the Advisory Board of Barrick Gold. The Barrick operation would create billions
of dollars of paper gold by creating gold derivatives.
A major distribution channel for the
sale of Barricks gold futures would be Enron. Enron would also become the
vehicle by which oil and gas contracts from the former Soviet Union (vehicles
for Soviet money-laundering) were processed.
Barrick, which has no mining
operations in Europe, used two refineries in Switzerland: MKS Finance S.A. and
Argor-Heraeus S.A. both on the Italian border near Milan, a few hours away
from the gold depository in Zurich.
The question that Barrick and other
banks needed to avoid answering is: what gold was Barrick refining in
Switzerland, as they have no mines in that region?
Barrick would become a quiet gold
producing partner for a number of major banks, and its activities became
subject to an FBI investigation into gold-price-fixing. The records on this
investigation were kept in the FBI office on the 23rd floor of the North Tower
which was destroyed by bomb blasts shortly before the Tower collapsed.
The ultimate destination of the
Golden Lily Treasure, and the source of the loaned gold that flooded the
market for 10 years has never been officially explained.
The records of many of those
transactions disappeared when Enron collapsed and the trading operation and all
its records were taken over by UBS, another major recipient of Marcos gold. The
FBI was reportedly conducting an investigation into those transactions, and the
investigation files were kept on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the WTC.
A review of the personal accounts of
September 11 now suggests that office was deliberately targeted with explosives
prior to the collapse of the WTC.
Another key player in the Marcos
gold was Bankers Trust, which was taken over by Alex Brown & Sons, after
Bankers Trust floundered financially on its Russian loans in the mid 1990s.
These Russian loans were facilitated by Enron, starting in August of 1993, and
very possibly were part of the Project Hammer takeover of Soviet industry.
Amongst those brought into the
picture by the involvement of Alex Brown was J. Carter Beese who was Executive
Director of the CIA at the time of September 11.
He was appointed by George H.W. Bush
to the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in
1992. Since 1992, OPIC has provided more than $4.5 billion in finance and
insurance to more than 140 projects in Russia. He was also Chairman of Riggs
Bank and also President of Riggs Capital Partners.
Riggs controlled the famous
Riggs-Valmet consultants who set up the international financial apparatus for
the Russian oligarchs and rogue KGB allowing them to steal the Soviet treasury
and destroy the Russian economy. Carter Beeses death was reported as a suicide
in 2006.
It appears that in September 1991,
George H.W. Bush and Alan Greenspan did indeed finance $240 billion in bonds in
a buy-out of the Soviet Union as part of a broader programme to attack the
economy of the Soviet Union.
In addition President George H.W.
Bush had initiated a number of related covert operations to take over certain
sectors of the Soviet economy.
The covert business dealings with
the Iranians and Israelis which originated with Kashoggi and Kimche in July
1980 in Hamburg under the October Surprise arrangement, would provide an
opening to the Soviet KGB that would allow the U.S. to fund a coup against
Gorbachev in 1991.
It would grow into a larger covert
operation over the years, and be overshadowed by the larger Iran-Contra
operation. Members of Bushs covert intelligence cadre sold weapons to Iran, an
avowed enemy of the U.S., and illegally used the profits to continue funding
anti-Communist rebels, the Contras, in Nicaragua.
The entire Iran-Contra operation
almost fell apart in 1986 and became public when the Nicaraguan government shot
down a U.S. plane carrying weapons to the Contra rebels However the Iran-Contra
team continued to violate the law even while being investigated by Congress.
Emboldened by the lack of
consequences for subverting the U.S. constitution and breaking international
law during the Iran-Contra scandal, the Bush administration group known as the
Vulcans planned a bigger drive to crush Soviet Russia.
The programme also seems to have
lined the pockets of the individuals that executed this policy, at US taxpayer
expense. This was done to the tune of the $240 billion dollars in covert and
allegedly illegal bonds, which appear to have been replaced with Treasury notes
backed by U.S. taxpayers in the aftermath of September 11.
The Vulcans Covert Economic War on
the Soviet Union
In 1988, Riggs Bank, under the
direction of Jonathan Bush and J Carter Beese, would purchase controlling
interest in a Swiss company named Valmet.
In early 1989, the new subsidiary of
Riggs called Riggs-Valmet would initiate contact with a group of KGB officers
and their front-men to start setting up an international network for moving
money out of the former Soviet block countries.
In the first phase of the economic
attack on the Soviet Union, George Bush authorized Leo Wanta and others to
destabilize the ruble and facilitate the theft of the Soviet/Russian treasury.
This would result in draining the Russian treasury of between 2,000 to 3,000
tonnes of gold bullion, ($35 billion at the time).
This step would prevent a monetary
defense of the ruble and thus destabilize the currency. The gold was released
to Singapore in March of 1991, as facilitated and purchased by Leo Wanta, and
signed off by Boris Yeltsins right hand man.
The majority of the leaked reports
from the CIA and FBI suggest the theft of the Russian treasury was a KGB and
Communist party operation, but what those reports omitted was the extensive
involvement of Boris Yeltsin, the U.S. CIA and the U.S. banking industry.
In November 1989 George H.W. Bush
appears to have arranged for Alton G. Keel Jr, a minor player in the
Iran-Contra scandal to go to work at Riggs Bank, which would become the
controlling owner of a small Swiss bank operation known as Valmet.
The Riggs-Valmet operation, would
become the consultants to the World Bank and to several KGB front operations
run by future Russian oligarchs Khordokovsky, Konanykhine, Berezovsky and
Abromovich.
These soon-to-be Russian oligarchs
had been set-up as front men by KGB Generals Aleksey (Alexei) Kondaurov; and
Fillipp Bobkov, who previously reported to Victor Cherbrikov, who worked with
Robert Maxwell, a British financial mogul, an Israeli secret service agent, and
a representative of U.S. intelligence interests, who had been introduced to
George Bush in 1976 by Senator Tower for the sole purpose of using Maxwell as
an intermediary between Bush and the Soviet Intelligence.
Maxwell assisted Cherbrikov in
selling military weaponry to Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras during the course
of the Iran Contra deals, and made hundreds of millions of dollars available to
Cherbrikovs Russian banks.
These two would bring a previously
unknown politician and construction foreman named Boris Yeltsin from the
hinterlands of Russia to the forefront of Russian politics through providing
50% of Yeltsins campaign funding.
In the second phase, there were two
major operations: the largest was coordinated by Alan Greenspan, Oliver North,
and implemented by Leo Wanta, George Soros and a group of Bush appointees who
began to destabilize the ruble.
They are accused of fronting $240
billion in covert securities to support the various aspects of this plan.These
bonds were created (in part or in whole) from a secretive Durham Trust, managed
by ex-OSS/CIA officer, Colonel Russell Hermann.
This war chest had been created with
the Marcos gold.
Shortly before the attempted coup of
1991, Maxwell met Kruchkov on Maxwells private yacht. Shortly afterwards,
Maxwell died mysteriously on his yacht while Senator Tower died in a plane
crash under suspicious circumstances in April of 1991.
In the meantime, Riggs Bank was
quickly solidifying banking relations with two of the old Iran-Contra scandal
participants: Swiss bankers Bruce Rappaport, and Alfred Hartmann. Through this
group George Soros opened a second front assault on the ruble.
It is at this stage of the operation
that three more groups would be brought into the plan by Rappaport and
Hartmann: The Russian Mafia, the Israeli Mossad, and the Rothschild family
interests represented by Jacob Rothschild.
Soros and Rappaport would ensure
that the Rothschild financial interests would be the silent backers for a
number of the undisclosed deals. The Rothschild interests would also be seen on
the board of directors of Barrick Gold.
In the fourth phase of the secret
war, the Enterprise worked on several fronts to take over key energy
industries. On the Caspian front of this economic war, James Giffen was sent to
Kazakhstan to work with President Nazarbayev in various legal and illegal
efforts to gain control of what was estimated to be the worlds largest
untapped oil reserves Kazak oil in the Caspian.
The illegal flow of money from the
various oil companies would reach a number of banks. These same oil interests
would engage Marc Rich and the Israeli Eisenberg Group, owned by one of the
Mossads key operatives, Shaul Eisenberg, to move the oil. (The Eisenberg Group
would at some point own almost 50% of Zim Shipping, which mysteriously and
inexplicably moved out of the World Trade Center a few weeks before the
September 11 attacks.)
Like the other events linked with
Project Hammer, the coup was all about the money. The coup began the
dissolution of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the reign of Boris Yeltsin
and his family of Russian Mafia Oligarchs, and President Nursultan Nazarbayev
of Kazakhstan.
In the final phase, a series of
operatives assigned by President George H.W. Bush would begin the takeover of
prized Russian and CIS industrial assets in oil, metals and defence. This was
done by financing and managing the money-laundering for the Russian oligarchs
through the Bank of New York, AEB and Riggs Bank.
A closer look at other activities
leading up to these phases makes it clear that is was a U.S. orchestrated
intelligence effort from the beginning. The economic war involved Gerald
Corrigan of the NY Federal Reserve Bank, George Soros, an international
currency speculator who was responsible for crashing the British pound a few
years earlier, former Ambassador to Germany R. Mark Palmer, and Ronald
Lauder-financier and heir to the Estee Lauder estate.
Palmer and Lauder would lead a group
of American investors in an Operation called the Central European Development
Corporation, and combine forces with George Soros and the NM Rothschild
Continuation Trust.
This group ending up controlling
Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant, while the Riggs group ended up
controlling Yukos, the oil giant. Ownership for both remains largely hidden
today, while its front men endure the hardships of the Russian wrath by
spending time in prison.
Meanwhile, across the Caspian Sea,
Bush had assigned a wide array of former Iran-Contra operatives to take a role
in Azerbaijan.
Initially, he sent in the covert
operatives Richard Armitage and Richard Secord who worked with their old
colleague from the Mossad, David Kimche, and their old arms running colleagues
Adnan Kashoggi and Farhad Azima to hire, transport, and train several thousand
Al Qaeda mercenaries to fight on behalf of the Azeri freedom fighters!
Osama Bin Laden was reported to have
been part of this mercenary force.
The September 11th Cover-up of the
Black Eagle Trust and Project Hammer
Ten years later in 2001, these
programmes had finally come back to haunt the U.S. policy makers. Most, if not
all of these programmes appear to have stepped outside of the boundaries of the
law.
As a result, investigative agencies
from Britain, Switzerland, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Philippines were putting
pressure on Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice to open up the accounts
in the banks used to finance these covert activities.
Pressure was being put on the Swiss
banking cartel to open its bullion records to public scrutiny. Full disclosure
by these banks during an investigation would have resulted in a major exposure
of U.S. Government complicity in some of the greatest financial frauds of the
1980s and early 1990s as well as 50 years of gold bullion theft by numerous
U.S. and British government agencies.
Moreover, investigation into these
accounts would disclose a National Security secret known as the Black Eagle
fund, and virtually every covert operation since World War II. Bringing an end
to these investigations and preventing this disclosure was the sole objective
for the destruction of the WTC and Pentagon.
These investigative and legal
pressures began to accumulate in 1997, and in February 1998, Osama Bin Laden
declared his fatwa, and Atta started planning the September 11 attacks.
With the bonds out in the market,
they had sat for ten years, like a ticking time bomb. At some point, they had
to be settled or cashed in, on September 12, 2001. The two firms in the U.S.
most likely to be handling them would be Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers
the two largest government securities firms in the U.S.
The federal agency mostly involved
in investigating those transactions was the Office of Naval Intelligence. On
September 11 those same three organizations: the two largest government
securities brokers and the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US took near
direct hits.
What happened inside the buildings
of the World Trade on September 11 is difficult, but not impossible to discern.
The government has put a seal on the testimony gathered by the investigating
911 Commission, and instructed government employees to not speak on the matter
or suffer severe penalties, but there are a number of personal testimonies
posted on the internet as to what happened in those buildings that day.
Careful reconstruction from those
testimonies indicates the deliberate destruction of evidence not only by a
targeted assault on the buildings, but also by targeted fires and explosions.
In the event that either the hijacking failed, or the buildings were not
brought down, the evidence would be destroyed by fires.
Even more revealing would be the
actions of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission
on that day, and in the immediate aftermath. As one of many coincidences on
September 11, the Federal Reserve Bank was operating its information system
from its remote back-up site rather than its downtown headquarters.
The SEC and Federal Reserve system
remained unfazed by the attack on September 11. All of their systems continued
to operate. The two major security trading firms had their trade data backed up
on remote systems.
Nevertheless, the Commission for the
first time invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section
12(k) and issued several orders to ease certain regulatory restrictions
temporarily.
On the first day of the crisis, the
SEC lifted Rule 15c3-3 -Customer ProtectionReserves and Custody of
Securities, which set trading rules for the certain processes. Simply GSCC was
allowed to substitute securities for the physical securities destroyed during
the attack.
Subsequent to that ruling, the GSCC
issued another memo expanding blind broker settlements. A blind broker is a
mechanism for inter-dealer transactions that maintains the anonymity of both
parties to the trade. The broker serves as the agent to the principals
transactions.
Thus the Federal Reserve and its
GSCC had created a settlement environment totally void of controls and
reporting where it could substitute valid, new government securities for the
mature, illegal securities, and not have to record where the bad securities
came from, or where the new securities went all because the paper for the
primary brokers for US securities had been eliminated.
This act alone, however was
inadequate to resolve the problem, because the Federal Reserve did not have
enough takers of the new 10 year notes.
Rather than simply having to match buy
and sell orders, which was the essence of resolving the fail problem, it
appears the Fed was doing more than just matching and balancing it was
pushing new notes on the market with a special auction.
If the Federal Reserve had to
cover-up the clearance of $240 Billion in covert securities, they could not let
the volume of capital shrink by that much in the time of a monetary crisis.
They would have had to push excess
liquidity into the market, and then phase it out for a soft landing, which is
exactly what appears to have happened. In about two months, the money supply
was back to where it was prior to 9/11.
It was the rapid rotation of the
securities settlement fails in the aftermath of September 11th that appears to
have allowed the Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve to engage in a
securities refinancing that resulted in the American taxpayer refinancing the
$240 billion originally used for the Great Ruble Scam.
The reports published by the Federal
Reserve argue that the Federal Reserves actions increasing the monetary supply
by over $300 billion were justified to overcome operational difficulties in the
financial sector.
What appears to be the case is that
the Federal Reserve imbalances reported on three consecutive days in the
aftermath were largely concentrated at the Bank of New York, which is reported
to represent over 90% of the imbalance, suggesting the Bank had been the
recipient of massive fund transfers, and unable to send out transfers.
This supposedly was due to major
communication and system failures.In fact, none of the Bank of New Yorks
systems failed or went non-operational.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
There is every reason to believe
activities in the Bank of New York in the aftermath of September 11th are
worthy of suspicion
.. At one point during the week after September 11, the
Bank of New York publicly reported to be overdue on $100 billion in payments.
It suggests that certain key unknown
figures in the Federal Reserve may have been in collusion with key unknown figures
at the Bank of New York to create a situation where $240 billion in off balance
sheet securities created in 1991 as part of an official covert operation to
overthrow the Soviet Union, could be cleared without publicly acknowledging
their existence.
These securities, originally managed
by Cantor Fitzgerald, were cleared and settled in the aftermath of September
11th through the Bank of New York. The $100 billion account balance bubble
reported by the Wall Street Journal as being experienced by the Bank of New
York was the tip of a three-day operation, when these securities were moved
from off-balance-sheet to the balance sheet.
The above gives an idea of the
intricate activities both to perpetrate and then to cover the crime, which was
then used under its terrorist attack label as an excuse for the attack on
Iraq.
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The
National Programs Office and the drugs-for-arms operation at Mena and other
secured facilities.
What do the
Mena, Arkansas, and Fire Lakes, Nevada, airfields have in common? The answer is
they were both secure facilities run by the highly classified National Programs
Office (NPO). Other facilities were located at Joppa, Missouri, and Iron
Mountain, Texas.
President
Ronald Reagan appointed Oliver North as the secret head of this secret
organization, and sometime in 1983, the NPO, which is organizationally part of
the National Security Agency (NSA), became the effective administrator of a
covert plan called Operation Black Eagle.
Operation
Black Eagle became a network of 5000 people who made possible the export of
arms in the direction of Central America, and the import of drugs from the same
direction. According to Navy Lt. Commander Alexander Martin (ret.), he, as an
assistant to Major General Richard Secord, worked closely with Oliver North,
Richard Secord, Felix Rodriquez, and Jeb Bush (son of Vice-President Bush) in
the operation. Different aspects of Black Eagle were consolidated under the
office of the Vice President.
Martin
himself admits to setting up fraudulent paper "investment projects"
through which the wealthy could donate money to the Contra cause. They would
"invest" in projects that didn't exist, and write off the investment
on a two-for-one basis.
But it is
estimated that only 3 (three) percent of the money actually found its way into
the hands of the Contras. The rest of the money was diverted to other purposes,
and some of it still exists, stashed away in hidden bank accounts in the U.S.
and around the world.
For the next
several years the importation of drugs into the U.S. was largely a U.S.
government monopoly, with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) acting as
the government's enforcer to eliminate any private competition.
Not everyone
who participated in the operation knew the full picture, nor did they approve
of what was going on. I talked to two pilots who used to fly in and out of Mena
airport, among other places.
Pilot A was
appalled when he found out he was transporting cocaine. Among other things,
this was totally contradictory to an apparent "war on drugs". Later
on he grew more cynical, as he came to realize that the "war on
drugs" was precisely what made the whole operation so profitable, as well
as serving as a broad strategy for social control. Later on he was offered a
job transporting cocaine by the producers themselves.
"It was
good money. They would pay a $100,000 a flight. They would send out maybe eight
planes at a time, and if only two of them got shot down, the operation would
still be profitable. So there was some risk involved."
But he
turned the job down. "You can't do business with those people," he
said. "I was used to working in an environment where if you got into
trouble, you kept your mouth shut. But in that environment if anyone got into
trouble, they would inform on anyone and blab about anything they knew about.
That was the risk I couldn't take."
Pilot B let
everyone know in no uncertain terms that he wasn't transporting any drugs,
anywhere, at any time. "They were quite upset with me for not going
along." One day as he was about to fly out of Mena in the direction of
Florida, he became suspicious of the "equipment" cargo he was
transporting. He feared that not only was the cargo really cocaine, but also
that he was being set up to be busted because of his unpopular view of things.
He started prying into one of the wooden crates but was warned off by
Uzi-carrying guards. So he took off, dumping the entire cargo (which was
cocaine) all over the runway in the process, leaving a white cloud behind him.
He headed East and didn't stop till he arrived at CIA headquarters to scream at
Bill Casey.
"They
still complain about the millions of dollars I cost them," he says,
unrepentantly.
Operation
Black Eagle was the basis for the diversion that became known as the
"Iran-Contra" affair, a term invented by Attorney General Ed Meese,
and obediently repeated ad nauseam by the news media. The exposure of the sale
of TOW missiles to Iran, which no one really cared about, was intended to
divert the attention of reporters toward the Middle East and away from the
official government importation of drugs into secured NPO facilities.
In addition
to facilities such as Mena and Fire Lakes which were guarded by the Wackenhut
Corporation, the operation involved sophisticated electronics developed by NSA
contractor E-Systems of Dallas, Texas, to create electronic "holes"
which would allow planes to cross U.S. borders without tripping NORAD's Early
Warning System. Or, if need be, to hide a flight path from U.S. spy satellites.
The monetary
logistics of this operation were overseen in part by Vince Foster of the Rose
Law Firm, using the financial software resources of Systematics, Jackson
Stephen's Little Rock software company. Vince Foster's "NSA
connection" involved an extensive knowledge of the NPO's management of the
flow of men and materials, money and drugs.
Today no one
wants Operation Black Eagle exposed or talked about. And that's one of the
reasons investigations into the death of Vince Foster have been quashed on
every side. You might call it a massive outbreak of National Insecurity.
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Death and
the empire of Jackson Stephens.
There is
something about the explosive smell of money in Little Rock's Ozark air that turns
a young man's thoughts to suicide.
But one
might have believed John Markle, a PhD economist and son of the actress
Mercedes McCambridge, was sitting on top of the world in 1987. He had left
Salomon Brothers eight years earlier to become the one-man futures trading
operation for Stephens Inc. on East Capitol Street.
Markle had a
lot of money to play with. He had no position limits, at least none that he
knew about. "They're at least $800 million, because I once had that much
at risk and nobody stopped me," he told Forbes on March 31, 1987.
He traded
exclusively for the house account--essentially for the personal profit of the
two brothers Wilton R. "Witt" and Jackson T. "Jack"
Stephens, the only stockholders in Stephens Group, which controlled an empire
that included the investment bank Stephens Inc., the multibank holding company
Worthen Banking Corp., the Capital Hotel of Little Rock, the software firm
Systematics, the nursing home operator Beverly Enterprises, the insurance
holding company ICH Corp., and (the crown jewel) the natural gas company
Stephens Production Co.
Witt
Stephens, a former Bible saleman, had long controlled Arkansas politics through
a simple mechanism: those local candidates he didn't support saw all their
funding cut off. Naturally no local candidate could afford to be seen taking
out-of-state money, assuming it was available.
But like
many of the super-rich, the Stephens brothers were neither Republican nor
Democrat. Jackson Stephens, who was a major fund-raiser for Jimmy Carter in
1976 and 1980, would also become one of George Bush's "Team 100"
through $100,000 political donations in 1988 and 1992. The latter was the year
that a Stephens-controlled bank would supply a $3.5 million line of credit to
the campaign of Bill Clinton.
No, these
boys weren't hard-core Democratics. It was Witt Stephens who started the rumor
that Geraldine Ferraro was Benito Mussolini's grandniece, a stunt he found so
entertaining that he repeated it four years later with a story that Michael
Dukakis was Aristotle Onassis' nephew.
Such
international wit was curious for a man who retired weekends to the family
homestead in Prattsville, and boasted that he had left the state of Arkansas
only once in fifteen years. Witt's brother Jack, on the other hand, could more
likely be found on the 6,000-acre plantation that Jack owned in Chittlin
Switch, Georgia, where he might be joined for a weekend of hunting by Wal-Mart
founder Sam Walton, Oklahoma Govenor Henry Bellmon, or Joseph Williams, the
chairman of Williams Cos., of pipeline and telecommunications fame.
Markle,
perched in front of his data screens trading futures, probably didn't know
about the monetary flows generated by Operation Black Eagle and siphoned
through the Stephens' financial institutions. He just knew that the different
parts of the Stephens empire--legally administered by the Rose Law Firm trio of
Webster Hubbell, Vince Foster, and Hillary Rodham Clinton--generated a lot of
cash. ("They have so much money it scares you," a Merrill Lynch vice president
would tell Time magazine a few years later.)
First, there
was Beverly Enterprises, the nation's largest nursing home operator. As
explained by Stephens' executive Jon Jacoby, "In 1968 the Great Society
started the nursing home business, and all you had to do was open the doors and
they filled up." That same year Jack bought into a chain of nursing homes
called Leisure Lodges, and took them over in 1975. Then, after helping Beverly
Enterprises avoid a takeover they didn't want, he sold Leisure Lodges to
Beverly in 1978.
The Stephens
brothers then acquired control of Beverly and turned it into a cash cow. In
1980 the Stephens sold most of their Beverly stock at a handsome profit, but
retained the real estate from Leisure Lodges, which was rented to Beverly, and
also contracted to provide data processing services to Beverly through Jack's
software firm Systematics. The Stephens also remained one of Beverly's primary
bankers.
The Stephens
brothers were thus nicely positioned to make out like a bandit if they could
convince some politician to push through a system of National Health Care,
which would provide a built-in government demand for both health and software
services. The Stephens brothers had always favored the notion of private
enterprise supplemented by government subsidies.
The
Systematics contracts were overseen by Vince Foster and Hillary Rodham Clinton
of the Rose Law Firm. Systematics provided data processing services and
software to track the flows of money through banks, and the flows of people and
money through the nursing home industry. Vince and Hillary represented
Systematics in the Jackson Stephens-Bert Lance-BCCI attempted takeover of First
American Bank in 1978. Hillary also became self-taught in intellectual property
law, important for a software company. Stephens had even picked up some neat
software from Earl "Cash" Brian who had once been influential at
Beverly Enterprises at its Pasadena, California, headquarters.
Jack
Stephens had purchased 49 percent of Systematics for $400,000 in 1968, and it
had since become one of the largest suppliers of retail banking software.
Banking customers could purchase Systematics software to do their back office
data processing (i.e. to transfer money between accounts and between banks), or
they could contract with Systematics to do all their data processing for them
(this was called "outsourcing")--either on the premises, or at remote
locations using telecommunication links.
The
investment bank Stephens Inc. had, with White Weld (whose domestic operations
were later absorbed into Merrill Lynch, while the eurobond operation became
part of Morgan Stanley), underwritten the initial public offering of Wal-Mart
in 1970. Other public offerings included Tyson Foods (which made about one-half
McDonald's Chicken McNuggets), Beverly Enterprises, and Systematics. Jack
Stephens had joined the firm in 1946, and was now its Chairman, while his son
Warren was President.
In 1983 the
Stephens brothers had acquired controlling interest in Arkansas' largest bank
holding company, Worthen Banking Corp. Another major shareholder in Worthen
would be Mochtar Riady, an Indonesian banker closely connected to President
Suharto. Jackson Stephens met Riady in 1976, when Riady wanted to buy into an
American bank. Two years later Riady and Stephens Inc. set up a joint venture,
Stephens Finance Ltd., in Hong Kong to write letters of credit. Later, in 1983,
Stephens and Riady bought Seng Heng Bank in Macao, and in 1984 they bought the
Hong Kong Chinese Bank. Riady also controlled the Bank of Trade in San
Francisco.
Hong Kong
was then the banking center for the heroin trade, just as Panama was the
banking center for the cocaine trade.
Stephens
Link, a customized computer network designed for commercial banks, was launched
in 1986. It tied together bank branches to Stephens Inc. trading and clearing
operations. There were computer terminals in eight states and Panama. The good
citizens of Panama, the home of the Stephens' friends Gabriel Lewis and Manuel
Noriega, could purchase a variety of Stephens financial services and products
without ever having to leave home.
Finally,
there was Stephens Production Co., based in Ft. Smith, which owned perhaps a
trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Arkoma Basin. The property, purchased
in 1953 for $5.4 million, was now worth at least a billion dollars. But the
Stephens brothers valued the property at cost, which led to an understatement
of their ranking among the world's wealthiest individuals.
And Markle,
the futures trader, could put much of this wealth at risk, could bet it on the
rolls of the market dice. Markle liked to think he could predict the future. He
would quote from Michael Talbot's Beyond the Quantum: "The human
biological organism possesses the ability to leap into the future, to actively
tap into information about future events and process that information in the
present."
Luckily, as
is often the case, he was spared the vision of his own demise. He was fired on
Friday the 13th (Nov. 1987). He had been asked, they said, about an
unidentified, out-of-state brokerage account he controlled, and its
relationship to a Stephens corporate account. Rumors would circulate saying
maybe he was putting profitable trades in the secret account, and sticking
Stephens with the unprofitable ones. But that's all they were, rumors. For
Markle himself wasn't talking.
Three days
after Markle was fired, there was a furious thunderstorm in Little Rock, during
which, it is said, John Markle killed his wife, his two young daughters, and
then himself. And to do the job, he used three different handguns. That's what
they said.
Curious
deaths, those. But this was Stephens country, and no one wanted to ask very
many questions. They found it much safer to talk about the violent weather.
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Questions
concerning the death of Vince Foster.
1. Why has
George Stephanopoulos been privately circulating his resume? Is he getting the
ax for playing Hillary against Bill, or is he, like Abner Mikva, just
abandoning a sinking ship?
2. Why
doesn't Stephanopoulos tell us what he knows about that meeting between Webster
Hubbell and Vince Foster at Michael Cardozo's estate the weekend before Vince
Foster died? You were there, weren't you George?
3. Why has
Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr asked San Diego chief medical examiner Dr.
Brian Blackbourne to join Dr. Henry Lee in examining the evidence regarding
Foster's death? Didn't Mike Wallace say that CBS had already answered most of
the questions? Mike, why haven't you sent your answers to Kenneth Starr? And
while you are at it, why don't you explain to us who is making money off your
own little "investigations"?
4. Why did
Mike Wallace refer to James Hamilton as Lisa Foster's "family
lawyer"? Why didn't he tell us that James Hamilton was a personal friend
of Bill Clinton and the Clinton-Gore transition Counsel for Nomination and
Confirmation 1992-3? Why didn't Mike Wallace simply spend fifteen minutes
interviewing Mike McCurry of the White House Press Office, so that he could
better demonstrate the award-winning quality of his journalism?
5. What
happened to the $286,000 (and change) that Sheila F. Anthony had transferred to
her sister-in-law Lisa Foster four days before Vince Foster died? How much of
it ended up in the pockets of James Hamilton?
6. Why did
The New Yorker run a decidedly non-literary, rambling interview with Lisa
Foster? Why did Lisa Foster claim Vince didn't take one-day trips to
Switzerland, when American Express records show he did? Why didn't Lisa Foster
discuss that little $286,000 (and change) payment she received just prior to
her husband's death? Was The New Yorker interview part of a cover-up campaign?
7. Why has
Richard Mellon Scaife been talking to Don Tyson the past couple of weeks? Were
they discussing Chicken McNuggets? Or do they have a common interest in
covering up something? Was their conversation related to that $286,000 (and
change) payment to Lisa Foster that was transferred out of Mellon Bank? Was it
related to a common interest in money laundering? Was it related to a common
interest in the sale of weapons technology?
8. Why has
Wackenhut Corporation been guarding the bus station in Little Rock? If one of
those buses has an accident, will it go BOOM? Wasn't Wackenhut guarding the
facilities of Kennemetal when it was smuggling machine tools to Iraq? Wasn't
Wackenhut guarding the facilities of Westinghouse when it was smuggling nose
cones to Iraq? Isn't there missing plutonium at some of the nuclear facilities
Wackenhut is allegedly guarding? Wasn't Wackenhut guarding the Mena airport
when it was this nation's drug- smuggling center?
9. What was
in those NSA notebooks that Vince Foster kept in Bernard Nussbaum's safe?
Newsweek informs that it was "legal questions about national emergencies,
such as the outbreak of war". Since when does the White House get its
legal advice from the National Security Agency? Does Newsweek think all its
readers are blithering idiots? Was not Vince Foster in fact the Rose Law Firm
lawyer overseeing a Systematics project to spy on banking transactions, on
behalf of the NSA? Was not one of the notebooks blue, thus color-coded to
indicate nuclear matters?
10. What
Systematics document did Webb Hubbell show Vince Foster the night before he
died? Did it show evidence of money transfers? Was it a computer printout
representing high crimes and misdemeanors?
11. Why has
no one interviewed Robert Goetzman about his knowledge of the circumstances
surrounding the death of Vince Foster? Why has no one asked him to explain the
evidential discrepancies at Ft. Marcy Park?
12. Why did
a New York forensic pathologist, recently shown ALL the evidence on Vince
Foster's death, conclude that he died at approximately the moment of
ejaculation? Was this because Vince Foster was set up to be killed by a woman
with blonde/brownish hair? What can you say about a White House that doesn't
even protect its own employees?
13. Why did
three forensic handwriting experts conclude that the Vince Foster note was a
forgery? Who in the White House wants us to think Foster's death was a suicide?
Who in the White House has so much to hide they are willing to commit a
criminal act of forgery of evidence and obstruction of justice?
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AND BANKING TRANSACTIONS SPYING
How to
launder money. The Mossad panics.
So you wanna
launder money! Does the process appear mysterious? It's not. But the only way
to understand money laundering is to think about it in operational terms. What
exactly would you do to get the job done, if your mother told you that you had
to do it?
Okay. Let's
take a simple example. Suppose you had a fried chicken outlet (let's call it
"Tyson's Tasty Tidbits") and you also dealt heroin on the side. In
your chicken business, you fry up Tasty Tidbits, people come in and give you
cash for the chicken, and with the cash you pay your wages and other expenses.
What's left over is profit. In your accounting records you write up an income
statement that says:
profit =
sales - expenses.
So if you
took in $1000 and paid out $800 as expenses, leaving $200 profit, you would
record:
200 = 1000 -
800.
Now in your
heroin business, you sit at the bar of the Capital Hotel during the evening,
and your customers, posing as "friends", come up to chat with you for
a moment. You slip them a packet of smack and they slip you money. (At 35
percent purity no one need bother with those nasty needles anymore, they can
just snort heroin like coke.) It's a good evening, and you sell $800 worth, for
which you paid the heroin wholesaler $600. You have $200 heroin profits.
Next, to
conceal your heroin profits, to "launder" them, you walk back to your
chicken outlet and put the $200 cash in the cash drawer. Remember that equation
that said profit = sales - expenses? Now it reads like this:
400 = 1200 -
800.
Wow, the
chicken business is good! Way over in New York, a company analyst working for
Goldman Sachs looks at the figures and writes: "Due to the amazing
increases in efficiency at Tyson's Tasty Tidbits, profits have doubled (from
200 to 400) while sales have only increased by 20 percent (from 1000 to 1200).
Stock in Tyson's is a recommended buy."
No one is
going to ask any questions where you got the money for that new car, because
everyone knows you earned it fair and square in the chicken business. Your
chicken is lip-smacking good! Your advertiser builds a huge sign depicting a
beautiful girl, happily munching on a drumstick with the caption: "Tyson's
Tasty Tidbits: Smack & Smile!"
Nor will any
bank (the government's new spies) wonder where you got the cash, for yours is a
cash-based business. The Banking Secrecy Act allows your bank to exempt you
from filling out currency transaction reports (CTRs) if your deposits or
withdrawals of currency fall into any of the following categories (see 31
C.F.R. 103.22(b)(2)(1992)):
1) They are
made from an existing bank account, and you are an established U.S. depositor
who operates a "retail type of business". This means that you sell
consumer goods for which payments are substantially in the form of currency,
just as long as you are not an automobile, aircraft, or boat dealer. (Wal-
Mart, for example, can get a bank exemption.)
2) They are
made from an existing bank account, and you are an established U.S. depositor
who operates a sports arena, race track, amusement park, restaurant, hotel, check
cashing service licensed by state or local governments, vending machine
company, theater, regularly scheduled passenger carrier, or public utility.
(The Oaklawn racetrack in Hot Springs, Arkansas, can get a bank exemption.)
3) You are a
local, state or United States governmental agency or instrumentality. (Both the
National Programs Office and the Arkansas Development Finance Authority can get
bank exemptions.)
4) They are
made from an existing bank account, and you are an established U.S. depositor
who regularly withdraws more than $10,000 to pay your employees in currency.
(The paymaster for the pilots at Mena airport can get an bank exemption.)
Also exempt
from CTR reporting are currency transactions made with Federal Reserve Banks or
Federal Home Loan Banks, transactions between domestic banks, or transactions
between commercial banks and nonbank financial institutions.
Pretty neat,
huh? Now I hear you ask: But what can I do if I am just Joe Blow, and I don't
have a bank or a chicken franchise or a sports arena? The answer: "Tough
luck, Buster. The money- laundering regs were written for you."
Modern
techniques of money laundering began back in the 1920s when Americans decided
to rid their fair society of that evil drug Alcohol. Alcohol was destroying the
social fabric of this nation! So we enacted a constitutional amendment and
ushered in the Era of Prohibition. We had solved our problems in the lawyerly
fashion of passing a law saying they weren't allowed to exist! So they all
disappeared! Paradise was at hand!
Some people,
however, saw it as a great opportunity to get rich. Al Capone, for example. And
Joseph Kennedy. And the Bronfman family of Canada.
Exporting
alcohol to the U.S. was not illegal in Canada; it was only illegal to import it
from the U.S. side. Naturally those writing checks to pay for imported Canadian
booze didn't like to be so obvious as to make them out to Bronfman. So the
Bronfmans opened up an account at the Bank of Montreal under the fictitious
name "J. Norton". Since no one knew anything at all about J. Norton,
money could be wired to this account from the U.S. Or U.S. cash or checks could
be used to purchase a bank draft made out to "J. Norton" at any
branch of the Bank of Montreal. These drafts could then be deposited into the
bank account of any Bronfman-controlled company. The company treasurer would
see the name "J. Norton" and credit the payments to the company's
U.S. Booze account.
Modern
laundries are complicated versions of simple structures like that established
by the Bronfmans. The operational head of the laundry is frequently a lawyer,
who deals with the contracts needed to put the structure into place. Donovan
Blakeman, a Toronto lawyer who handled the finances for an international drug
ring in the 1980s, called his structure "the Spaghetti Jungle". It
involved eleven shell companies in the Channel Islands; fifteen other shell
companies in the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, the Netherlands Antilles,
Liberia, and the British Virgin Islands; fourteen secret bank accounts in the
Channel Islands, Liberia, and other places; and real estate developments in
West Palm Beach, Florida; Barrie, Ontario; and Kitchener, Ontario. Eventually
the drug profits would be used to purchase real estate. The money for the
purchases would come from "offshore investors"--one of the many
"Spaghetti Jungle" shell companies ultimately owned by the same drug
ring.
Blakeman
himself would carry currency or monetary instruments to the offshore bank
accounts. But, any way you look at it, carrying large amounts of currency is
inefficient and a pain in the ass. "Wire transfers" are faster and
cheaper. There is no longer any telegraph "wire" involved, of course,
but rather computer telecommunication links through phone lines, fiber optic
cables, and satellite relays. Most money is just data in a computer that looks
like this:
BANK ACCOUNT
AMOUNT
Underwater Mellon XYZ Corp. $1,000,000.
When XYZ
Corp. "wires" $250,000 to Pearly Gates Corp. at Bank of America, the
computer data now looks like this:
BANK ACCOUNT
AMOUNT
Underwater Mellon XYZ Corp. $750,000
Bank of America Pearly Gates Corp. $250,000
Because
money is computer data, getting the money offshore just means incurring a
bigger phone bill. And you can get it offshore without hardly anyone knowing about
it. One way is to "donate" money to charity, along with a side
agreement you get half of it back in the form of an off-shore account. Let's
say your name is Mike Bilk'em and you give $1 billion to the Israeli Children's
Educational Fund. First the check gets deposited in Bank Hapoalim, Chicago:
BANK ACCOUNT
AMOUNT
Bank Hapoalim, Chi Children's Fund $1 billion
Next
one-half of the money is transferred to Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv.
BANK ACCOUNT
AMOUNT
Bank Hapoalim, Chi Children's Fund $500 million
Bank Hapoalim, Tel Av Children's Fund $500 million
Then the
$500,000 in Tel Aviv is transferred to a Bilk'em controlled account called
Lakeside Resources at Credit Suisse in Geneva, Switzerland:
BANK ACCOUNT
AMOUNT
Bank Hapoalim, Chi Children's Fund $500 million
Bank Hapoalim, Tel Av Children's Fund $ 0
Credit Suisse, Geneva Lakeside Resources $500 million
So, at this
point, Bilk'em is not only a world-renowned philanthropist, he has also
achieved political diversification of his assets. Naturally the Children's Fund
person who authorized the transfer to Geneva is not going to talk, because that
would cut off donations to the Children's Fund and she would also lose her
well-paying, cushy job.
Now the
problem with laundering money through banks is those snoopy bank regulators.
Not that they actually mind someone laundering: after all, it gives them
something to investigate, and they need something to do when they are not
busily "solving" the latest banking crisis. But they can look at your
records and muddy up the money cleansing process. In the U.S., for example,
national banks are regulated by a hodge-podgely overlapping structure of the
Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Snoop. Snoop. Snoop. And if you have
publicly-traded stock, you also have SEC reporting requirements, and probably
have to file financial statements audited by some major accounting firm like
Arthur Anderson. All this increases your cost of doing business, especially if
you have to pay off a lot of people to get the job done the way you want it
done.
Consider
poor Christopher Drogoul at Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Atlanta,
Georgia. He found a money machine in making guaranteed loans to Iraq. One day
Continental Grain came to him and said, How would you like to loan money to
Iraq, so they can buy some of our grain? It turned out the U.S. was gung-ho in
getting food and arms to the Iraqis, and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
said, We'll guarantee the loans. If Iraq defaulted, the CCC would pay BNL 98
cents on the dollar (the 98 cents coming, naturally, from the American
taxpayer). Hey, this was great! Drogoul had entered the world of international
lending, and there was virtually no risk involved! He kept lending more and
more until one day he gave the Iraqis a CCC-backed $556 million line of credit
that the bank head office in Italy hadn't approved. They denied approval when
asked.
Instead of
reneging on the loan, Drogoul simply made it disappear. At the end of the month
when he submitted his report to headquarters, he simply took the loan (and its
funding source) off the books. The next day, the loan went back on the books.
He called this "skipping". But the unapproved loans kept getting
bigger, until Drogoul took them off the bank's books entirely, and put them in
a separate set of "gray books" kept in a closet. The gray books were
a sort of separate "bank within a bank". When auditors were scheduled
to visit, the gray books were removed out of the building entirely. Eventually
BNL, Atlanta, was able to amass $2.1 billion in "agricultural" loans
to Iraq.
Calling them
"agricultural" loans allowed for CCC guarantees, but in fact loan
proceeds can be laundered just like money. The transshipment point for goods
going to Baghdad was the port of Aqaba in Jordan. The port was controlled by
the Jordanian commodity trader Wafai Dajani, and he would simply swap the grain
for weapons, electronic goods, or whatever else Iraq was in the market for.
(Other purchases would simply be mislabeled, such as the "300 tons of
yarn" that Entrade shipped to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission.)
Well, this
all came crashing down on Drogoul's head because of his inability to continue
to conceal information about his "bank within a bank" from bank
regulators. What was needed was a better system. What was needed was a system
for setting up a bank within a bank that even the bank's managers didn't know
about. What was needed was a whole network of banks to launder money in such a
way that the banks concerned wouldn't even know what was going on. If ignorant,
they couldn't say the wrong thing to the regulators or the auditors. If
ignorant, they couldn't say no to the laundry.
You would
then be in the right position to provide laundering services to drug dealers,
arms smugglers, and the covert agencies of the U.S. and foreign governments.
The provision of services to covert agencies was a very important aspect of the
process, because when you got into trouble you could quash the investigation
with appeals to "national security".
What was
needed was a laundry controlled by computer software. What was needed was
Jackson Stephens' software firm Systematics to sell and install a network of
interlocking banking software, and a Rose Law Firm management team to
ultimately oversee the process--people like Vince Foster, Webster Hubbell, and
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The
"back offices" of banks are the guts of the monetary system. It is
here that the actual money "flows", as money is switched between
accounts and between banks. Systematics supplied software to banks either for
them to do the operation themselves, or for Systematics to do back office
processing on their premises ("on-site outsourcing"), or for
Systematics to process transactions from remote locations ("remote
outsourcing").
Was Jackson
Stephens really interested in money laundering? Well, first of all, he helped
engineer the BCCI takeover of First American Bank, thereby giving it a foothold
in the United States. Jackson Stephens' first foreign bank purchase (with
Mochtar Riady) was Seng Heng Bank in Macao, the "Oriental Las Vegas",
where gambling is the primary source of government revenue. Systematics also
supplied software to the Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the cashier and treasury
bank of the Macao government and the bank that issues the local currency. Macao
is conveniently located less than 40 miles from Hong Kong, the center of the
heroin trade. Add to this Stephens Panama connections, and his effective
control of Arkansas' largest bank-holding company, Worthen Banking Corp., with
its provable involvement in the money-laundering process, and draw your own
conclusions.
Why would he
think he could get away with it? Because he had covert agencies running
interference. The National Security Agency is that Great Whore who recently
tried to impose the "clipper chip" for encrypted communications as a
way of ensuring it could access all private American conversations. Systematics
operated its "bank within a bank" operations on behalf of the NSA.
The NSA also runs the secure facilities of the National Programs Office where
weapons flow out of the U.S. and drugs flow in (not only at Mena in the 1980s,
but also at other locations in the 1990s).
Mena began
as the brain-child of CIA's Bill Casey, operated by CIA pilots flying out of
NSA-controlled facilities. But the process became an NSA institution, a vast
money-making enterprise by the nation's largest, best-financed intelligence
agency. And they've been making too much money to stop.
No, the
Systematics project overseen by Vince Foster wasn't just a matter of NSA spying
on U.S. domestic transactions (the data turned over to analysts at FinCEN). It
was a vast project that also involved the oversight of money for covert
operations, and the laundering of the proceeds of drugs and arms sales. When
Vince Foster spooked, the NSA was one of several parties who had a good reason
to want him dead.
Is that why
when Vince Foster left the White House at approximately 1 p.m. on July 20,
1993, approximately two hours before his death, he met with a man whose
Arkansas license plates were registered to a company that builds signals
collection facilities for the National Security Agency?
Why did the
Rose Law Firm begin shredding files upon hearing of the death of Vince Foster?
What was Foster involved in that made it necessary to destroy the files? Why
did two Rose Law Firm lawyers show up at Foster's house and remove
approximately eight boxes of records? What happened to those records? Why did
Foster keep them in his basement? What was in the envelope addressed "eyes
only, not to be opened, William Kennedy" that Deborah Gorham testified
Vince Foster kept in Bernard Nussbaum's safe?
Why have the
U.S. Park Police been guarding the grave of Vince Foster in Hope, Arkansas? Have
they done the job with the same bungled skill they demonstrated at Ft. Marcy
Park? Or are they there simply to keep the Wackenhut Corporation from stealing
the body?
Why has
someone reportedly put out a murder contract on Lt. Com. Alexander Martin? Who
would have an incentive to see him dead? Is NSA's National Programs Office
involved? Is an ex-Vice- President of the United States involved? Does it have
to do with a little company he has an interest in common with General Secord?
Why is the
Mossad, like the White House, in panic mode over the reopening of the
investigation into Foster's death? What is it they don't want the U.S. public
to find out? Why did the operating code for a new computer developed by
NSA-subcontractor E-Systems of Dallas, Texas, end up in the hands of the
Israelis within one month? Did Vince Foster sell it to them? Why are two LAKAM
representatives offering a fee of $75,000 plus 1 percent of the proceeds to
recover money from Swiss Bank Corporation? Is it because Vince Foster is not
around to release it for them? Or did the armed raid on Mossad headquarters by
U.S. contract agents within the past year create so much confusion someone just
forgot the authorization codes?
If Bill
Clinton resigns, will the sealed indictment against Hillary Rodham Clinton for
espionage become public information?
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AND BANKING TRANSACTIONS SPYING
Mossad
agents forced to leave the country after putting out a contract on a Foster
investigator.
Is the death
of Yitzak Rabin the final nail in the coffin of the cover-up of the murder of
Vince Foster?
Perhaps,
because the agents of Ariel "the Butcher of Beirut" Sharon are said
to be in disarray. Will there be a changing of the Mossad guard?
For years
Sharon has been the pre-eminent spymaster conducting espionage against the United
States. Sharon ran Rafai Eitan who ran the Jonathan Pollard spying operation.
More recently, Sharon ran agents who interacted with Hillary Rodham Clinton and
Vince Foster.
Whether
these agents were actually involved in the hit on Vince Foster is a matter
still under investigation. But there is no question of their active
participation in the cover-up of Foster's murder.
An
undocumented Israeli driving a stolen truck recently attempted to run one
Foster investigator off the road. Fortunately, someone shot out the truck's
front tire, and it jackknifed across the interstate. The Israeli driver ended
up with a broken neck while the investigator was unscathed.
The Mossad's
most valued asset in the U.S., Sharon's man in Chicago, is said to have fallen
down and scratched his knee. The Mossad's man in Brooklyn, who normally orders
the hits, is said to have received a visit describing the advantages of
returning to Israel. The Mossad's man in Miami spontaneously departed on a long
vacation.
Which brings
us to the subject of the Mossad team, three men and one woman, all identified,
who were recorded on video-tape exiting the front entrance of Vince Foster's
Washington apartment the afternoon he died.
ALLEGATIONS REGARDING VINCE FOSTER, THE NSA,
AND BANKING TRANSACTIONS SPYING
The
Mossad team in Vince Foster's apartment, and Foster's final movements.
If we wanted
to construct a chronology (or time-scale) of Vince Foster's movements the
afternoon he died, there are four known events around which to fill in the time
gaps.
#1: The exit
of Vince Foster's car from the White House parking lot. Prior to Foster's exit,
a Secret Service agent placed a concealed transponder on his car. This
transponder was reportedly working when the car left the parking lot and
jurisdictional responsibility passed from the Secret Service to the FBI.
But the FBI
subsequently lost track of Foster's car. This is in itself hard to comprehend.
Was the transponder deactivated in some unknown manner? Or was there FBI
complicity in "loss" of the signal? When the car was later recovered,
the transponder was missing.
Complicating
the picture is the apparent destruction of evidence by someone in the White
House. Firstly, the videotapes showing the attachment of the transponder
(Secret Service dogs were used to sniff the car for bombs as a diversionary
cover while this was done) are missing. The tapes could have been removed by
anyone with access to the room where the videotapes are stored. Secondly,
however, movement in and out of the storage room is itself videotaped. But the
tape which recorded access to the storage room is blank.
#2: The
entry into Vince Foster's apartment at [address temporarily withheld] by Foster
and a woman with brownish-blonde hair. That this apartment is Foster's is
confirmed both by the landlord and by banking records of Foster's rental
payments. The front entrance to Foster's apartment was being videotaped as part
of an on-going national security investigation into espionage by members of the
White House. The woman in the tape has been identified as an Israeli agent.
#3: The exit
from Vince Foster's apartment by the woman with brownish-blonde hair, along
with a three-man Mossad search team. Entry into the apartment by the team is
not recorded (suggesting a back entrance into the apartment), nor is Foster's
subsequent exit. This suggests several possibilities.
Foster may
have been killed in the apartment, and the body subsequently removed, or Foster
may have left the apartment by the back exit and been killed elsewhere.
It is
natural to speculate that the Mossad team killed Foster in the apartment. But
it is not clear they did so. The individuals in the team have been identified,
and their skills are believed to lie more in the rifling of apartments, rather
than in assassination.
It is also
natural to speculate that the woman entering the apartment with Foster was the
woman whose hair samples were later found in Foster's shorts. However, this
does not appear to be the case. The blondish hairs in Foster's shorts instead
match those of a member of the White House press office who was subsequently
arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated (and whose quality blowjobs
were known to some members of the White House).
If we add to
this evidence the conclusion of a New York forensic pathologist (who does work
for the CIA) that Foster died at approximately the moment of ejaculation, it
would thus appear there may be as many as three women who show up in the
evidence pertaining to Foster's final day: 1) a woman working in the White
House who engaged in oral sex with Foster, possibly earlier in the day; 2) an
Israeli agent who was taped entering Foster's apartment with him; 3) a woman
who was with Foster at the moment he died.
The
"three" women become two if we assume that the Israeli agent who
entered Foster's apartment with him was also present at the time of his death,
implying she set him up for the kill. But if so, then who took the body to Ft.
Marcy Park? The "three" women also become two if the White House
staffer was with Foster when he died. (She is not currently a suspect in his
death.)
#4: The
receipt of a 911 report of a body in Ft. Marcy Park by Dispatcher Marion White
of the Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center at 5:59.59 p.m. It is
probable that the people who dumped Foster's body at Ft. Marcy Park were also
responsible for his death, and it is possible that they were somehow involved
with the FBI's losing of Foster's movements despite the placement of a
transponder on Foster's car. Nullifying the transponder signal might require
special electronic skills, such as those possessed by the National Security
Agency. Otherwise, complicity to "lose" the target by someone in the
FBI is a possibility.
A thorough
search of Ft. Marcy Park by an FBI team using x- ray scanners to detect lead
either in tree branches or in the ground surface failed to turn up a bullet.
The obvious explanation is that Foster's body was transported there from
another location.
Why did
Hillary Rodham Clinton call 202-628-7087 at 10:41 p.m., Little Rock Time, on
July 20, 1993, the evening following Vince Foster's death? The number is a CIA
number, one that by- passes control, and that is intended to be used only in an
emergency. Who was Hillary talking to at CIA and why? Unlike Bill Clinton, who
was recruited for the CIA by Cord Meyer while Bill was in London, Hillary was
never a CIA employee. Why would she have the number in her possession,
and--more importantly--who was she talking to?
Why has CIA
director John Deutch personally intervened to promote a cover-up of the
circumstances of Vince Foster's murder? Did he make a Faustian pact with Bill
Clinton to provide protection from investigatory bodies in return for a free
hand in enhancing the value of his defense industry investments? What is the
meaning of "national security" when the national security apparatus
is directed by a White House that has engaged in nuclear espionage on behalf of
a foreign power?
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AND BANKING TRANSACTIONS SPYING
Mike
Wallace accepts a $150,000 bribe from the DNC to debunk the notion Vince Foster
was murdered.
It is
sometimes said that journalists are whores. Of course the statement is false:
just as some whores write best-selling books, so are some journalists paid
propagandists. Which brings to mind the relationship between the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) and Mike Wallace with respect to the Vince Foster
story.
As first
reported in Part 17 of this series, four days before Vince Foster died, his
sister Sheila Foster Anthony effected a $286,000 (and change) transfer from an
account at Mellon Bank to Vince Foster's wife Lisa Foster. Sheila Anthony was
at the time a top Justice Department official, an Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legislative Affairs, where her duties included liaison with Congress,
clearance of bills before they were forwarded to the Office of Management and
Budget, and help in selecting nominees for the positions of U.S. Attorney, U.S.
Marshall, and Federal Judge. What was not reported in Part 17 was the identity
of the account holder from which the transfer was made (information I wasn't
able to obtain). Well, here it is: the funds came from an account controlled by
the DNC. (The evidence of the $286,000+ transfer was given to Kenneth Starr
shortly after being reported in Part 17.) This transfer occurred the same day,
July 16, 1993, that Sheila Anthony called a psychiatrist, who later told the
FBI that Anthony said Vince Foster was working on "Top Secret" issues
at the White House and "that his depression was directly related to highly
sensitive and confidential matters".
Not coincidentally,
Sheila Anthony's husband is Beryl Anthony-- former congressman from Arkansas,
former President of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a lawyer
for Winston and Strawn, one whose recent clients have included the Hong Kong
Trade Development Council, as well as Systematics, renamed Alltel Information
Services (whose involvement in an NSA bank spying project was the starting
point of this series).
Does the DNC
maintain a slush fund account for political bribery? One suspects the answer is
"Yes," but hesitates to draw this conclusion based solely on the
$286,000+ transfer to Lisa Foster, before knowing what Lisa Foster did with the
money.
The evidence
with respect to Mike Wallace is less ambiguous. In a CBS 60-Minutes episode
telecast on October 8, 1995, Mike Wallace claimed to lay to rest most of the
doubting questions concerning Vince Foster's alleged "suicide". Much
of the program was devoted to attacking Chris Ruddy, a reporter first for the
New York Post, then for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, who specialized in
pointing out the discrepancies in the official story that Vince Foster killed
himself in Ft. Marcy Park on a slope near one of the civil war cannons. In
claiming to clear up most of the questions, Wallace forgot to mention that Ft.
Marcy Park was then closed while an FBI team (using X-ray scanners) looked for
the bullet that allegedly killed Foster. Wallace interviewed James Hamilton,
whom he called the "Foster family lawyer", forgetting to mention that
James Hamilton was also the Clinton-Gore Transition Counsel for Nomination and
Confirmation 1992-3, and a long-time Democratic political fixer. It has since
become known that Hamilton was the author of a memo urging that the Whitewater
Investigation be stonewalled: ``If politically possible Janet Reno should stick
to her guns in not appointing an independent counsel for Whitewater,'' Hamilton
wrote President Clinton in a January 5, 1994, letter. Hamilton was recently
appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
Now sources
who over time have proven totally reliable have confirmed the following item
that Mike Wallace also forgot to report: Mike Wallace was paid $150,000 by the
DNC to do the CBS 60-Minutes hatchet job on those questioning the official
story of Foster's death.
Hey, Mike.
Now that we know what you are, would you accept $15 to do a complete
retraction?
Have a nice
New Year, Mike. That $150,000 should purchase a lot of champagne.
Try not to
get a headache.
ALLEGATIONS REGARDING VINCE FOSTER, THE NSA,
AND BANKING TRANSACTIONS SPYING
Allegations
Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transaction Spying.
Shortly
after finishing The End of Ordinary Money, Part II, I received phone calls from
Jim Norman of Forbes Magazine, Bill Hamilton of Inslaw, and Gregory Wierzynski,
Assistant Staff Director of the House Committee on Banking and Financial
Services. They were all interested in my references to money-laundering
activities in Arkansas financial institutions, as well as to the use of the
stolen PROMIS software in tracking financial transactions.
Jim Norman
was a Senior Editor at Forbes Magazine whose article entitled Fostergate had
been killed by Malcolm S. ("Steve") Forbes. Forbes had done so at the
urging of Caspar Weinberger, the former Reagan Secretary of Defense who was
Chairman of the Board of Forbes, Inc. Norman was interested in my references to
an NSA project to spy on banking transfers, because he had information that
Vince Foster, a Rose Law Firm partner, oversaw such a project at Jackson
Stephens' software firm Systematics. He also wanted to get Fostergate published
elsewhere, and I promised to bring it to public attention through the Internet.
Not all of the material in the article was familiar to me, but those parts that
were had merit-- and in any case I didn't believe in military censorship of
information presented in civilian financial publications. (I discovered soon
enough, however, that most of the senior staff of Forbes Magazine had ties to
the intelligence community, so perhaps Norman's experience was not all that
uncommon.)
Bill
Hamilton of Inslaw had been pursuing a case for years to collect from the U.S.
government the value of Inslaw's PROMIS software that had been stolen by the
U.S. Department of Justice. In its original form, the PROMIS system was used
for federal case management. Another version had been converted for
intelligence use in tracking agents, operations, and movements. A CIA agent
named Michael Riconosciuto had worked on this version, and--in connection with
Bobby Inman of the National Security Agency--had created code that would cause
the computer hardware to give off signals, disguised as noise, when the program
was running. (The standing waves emitted can be modeled by mathematical
functions called "Walsh functions".) The program was then marketed
around the world by another CIA agent named Earl Brian, who set up a company
for that purpose. One of Earl Brian's sales, made to the government of Brazil,
was observed by another CIA agent named Chuck Hayes. Hayes had testified to
this sale before a Chicago grand jury, but his testimony had been redacted
under the National Security Act. These software sales were not only profitable
to Brian's company, but they also allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to access
the intelligence data of the foreign country running the software. The signals
given off by the computer hardware could picked up by nearby vans or, often, by
satellite.
Another
modification of the software had shown up at the World Bank in 1983, where it
was being used to track wire transfers, apparently in connection with a money-laundering
operation that went from BCCI London through the World Bank and into Caribbean
institutions. This was of considerable interest to me, because I had learned in
banking circles that the NSA was spying on banking transactions, and that this
apparently included domestic financial transactions in certain instances.
Gradually I had learned that the NSA seemed to be working through a Little
Rock-based company called Systematics, which was controlled by Jackson
Stephens, a principal financial backer of Bill Clinton, and a person connected
with the BCCI purchase of First American Bank in Washington, D.C. In early 1995
I published on the Internet a bibliography of Systematics' banking deals, and
in that context mentioned the name of Web Hubbell as being associated with the
NSA project--but I did not yet know of Vince Foster's greater involvement. This
bibliography had apparently been used by Norman and also by others pursuing the
same story.
Gregory
Wierzynski was interested in money laundering. When I met with him and Stephen
Ganis, Counsel to the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, they
were interested in any information I knew of that connected Vince Foster to
money- laundering in Arkansas. I told them I had no non-public information, and
gave them a copy of Fostergate, which Jim Norman had sent to me only a few days
before. "Why would Steve Forbes kill it?" Wierzynski wanted to know.
He knew Steve Forbes because Forbes, like Wierzynski, had once served as head
of Radio Free Europe. As time passed, I became increasingly convinced that
Wierzynski was more involved in covering up than in actual investigation.
(Wierzynski's boss, Jim Leach, was overheard saying to Newt Gingrich about the
investigation, "If we don't do something, this thing is going to get out
of hand." This gave me little confidence Leach was going to conduct an
aggressive search for the truth.) As best I could tell, Wierzynski had been
booted out of the Pentagon after his son was caught hacking into Defense
Department computers.
Shortly
after this meeting in June 1995, however, I began my series of Vince Foster
posts ("Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the National Security Agency,
and Banking Transactions Spying") on the Internet, and sent copies along
to the House Comittee on Banking and Financial Services. A few days later Jim
Leach wrote to the Director of the National Security Agency asking about the
allegations:
"July
11, 1995
"Vice
Admiral John McConnell, USN
"Director, National Security Agency
"Ft. George Mead, MD 20755
"Dear
Admiral McConnell:
"I am
writing to seek your agency's help in verifying or laying to rest various
allegations of money laundering in Arkansas in the late 1980s. For that
purpose, I would request a briefing from NSA's Inspector General on Friday,
July 14 before 1:00 p.m.; if that is not possible, sometime on Monday, July 17,
would also be convenient.
"The
reports I have in mind have appeared in the general press and, sometimes in
sensational form, in more narrow- gauged outlets, including the Internet. They
speak of secret foreign bank accounts held by prominent people in Arkansas,
special software to monitor bank transfers, and similar tales. I would like to
determine whether there is any substance at all to these stories.
"Specifically,
I would like your Inspector General to tell me whether the Agency:
"(1)
knows of any secret bank accounts held by U.S. citizens domiciled in Arkansas
at any time between 1988 and now;
"(2) is
aware, directly or indirectly, of any efforts by computer hackers,
U.S.-government related or otherwise, to penetrate banks for the purpose of
monitoring accounts and transactions;
"(3)
knows of or has participated, directly or indirectly, in efforts to sell
software--notably versions of a program in use at the Justice Department called
PROMIS--or clandestinely produced devices to foreign banks for the purpose of
collecting economic intelligence and information about illicit money transfers;
"(4) is
cognizant of any attempts by Systematics Inc, an Arkansas-based electronic data
processor that is now a division of Alltell [Alltel], to monitor or engage in
the laundering of drug money or proceeds of other illegal activities, notably
those conducted through Mena, Arkansas;
"(5)
can produce information about Charles Hayes, a businessman in Nancy, Kentucky,
who claims to have been a CIA operative in Latin and Central America, among
other places;
"(6)
knew of or was involved in, directly or indirectly, any covert activities by
the U.S. government or any private parties (the so-called "private
benefactors") in or around Mena in the late 1980s;
"(7)
had any contractual or other relationship with the late Adler Barriman
"Barry" Seal in the 1980s or knew about his activities in connection
with Mena.
"I would
appreciate your help in shedding light on these matters.
"Sincerely,
"James A. Leach
"Chairman"
ALLEGATIONS REGARDING VINCE FOSTER, THE NSA,
AND BANKING TRANSACTIONS SPYING
Chuck
Hayes investigates drug-money laundering, while the House Committee on Banking
kisses NSA butt.
What answers
Jim Leach's House Committee on Banking and Financial Services received from the
National Security Agency's (NSA's) Inspector General is not known, but
apparently the NSA stonewalled the investigation. On July 23, 1995, Gregory
Wierzynski emailed me, asking "Do you have suggestions on how we could
verify some of the elements in the Norman story? I've talked to Chuck in
Kentucky and am still in touch with him. But his stories have not panned out,
even partially. I would be most interested in your ideas." I found this
statement remarkable, and knew that Wierzynski was being deliberately obtuse.
Moreover, neither I--nor anyone else of my acquaintance--had told Wierzynski
that I was talking to Chuck Hayes in Nancy, Kentucky.
Jim Norman
had first suggested that I call Hayes-- had even implied that Hayes wanted me
to call--but initially I had been reluctant to do so. There were enough people
trying to get me off the Internet, and I was dubious of the motives of an
ex-intelligence operative. But when I finally did so, we spent a hour and
twenty minutes on the phone in a wide-ranging conversation about money-
laundering. I jumped around from topic to topic, bringing up numerous obscure
connections between the intelligence community and banking. In each case Hayes
was right there with me, adding details to what we were discussing. From time
to time I would make deliberate mis-statements to see if Hayes would catch the
discrepancies. He did. By the end of the conversation it did not matter to me
whether Chuck Hayes was just a hillbilly Kentucky junk dealer or an ex-member
of CIA's division D. His knowledge spoke for itself. He had an intimate
acquaintance with banking wire transfers, bank computer operations, and
banking-intelligence connections, as well as detailed insights into current hidden
money-laundering channels.
Hayes was
already familiar with my article The End of Ordinary Money. He said he had
gotten his copy from the CIA library. The CIA had apparently either downloaded
it from the Internet, or perhaps had obtained it through Robert Steele. Eric
Bloodaxe, a.k.a. Chris Goggans, an ex-Legion of Doom member who edited a hacker
publication called Phrack, had suggested I sent copies to Winn Schwartau of
Information Warfare fame, and to Robert Steele, whose company Open Source
Solutions, Inc., published a newsletter entitled OSS Notices, which advocated
some radical changes to the process of intelligence collection. Steele had
reviewed them as follows: "J. Orlin Grabbe has produced the first two in a
series of three papers on digital cash, and I found them both educational and
provocative. . . . He approaches the matter from a civil libertarian/civil
disobedience perspective, and I find his perspective on the history of U.S.
policy and technology, as well as the alternatives, well-worth review. This is
a thoughtful popular perspective on issues of electronic privacy which bears on
both the protection of intellectual property and electronic civil defense"
(OSS Notices, vol. 3, issue 5, May 31, 1995).
Chuck and I
had some differences, to be sure. Hayes was spending much of his time tracking
drug- money laundering through the U.S. financial system. I looked at the War
on Drugs from an economic perspective: supply restriction leading to vast
profit margins, with concomitant political payoffs and political corruption,
while in the meantime prisons were being over-crowded with casual drug users.
It was an exercise in insanity. Nor was I a fan of the DEA, with its record of
civil rights violations. Hayes, by contrast, liked the DEA for their street
smarts, which contrasted with the desk- level bureaucrats he was somewhat
contemptuous of at the CIA. But Hayes was gunning for the people at the top of
the drug-dealing and money-laundering pyramid, and this was fine with me. There
was a close association between those administering the War on Drugs, and those
profiting from it. In the case of money-laundering, it was even more blatant:
it was hard to differentiate the money launderers from those that administered
the money- laundering laws. I did not approve of the money- laundering laws
themselves with their invasions of personal financial privacy. But on the other
hand, hoisting government junkies on their own petard did not perturb me. Over
a period of time, Hayes and I developed an information-sharing arrangement.
Hayes was at
the moment following the financial flows through Arkansas financial
institutions, as well as through Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. Also involved were
New York banks, some members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and at least
one important official at the Federal Reserve. On the Arkansas front, Hayes was
quite open in telling me he was going to nail Jim Guy Tucker to the wall, and
over the following year I watched him do just that. One might assume from such
a statement that Hayes was a Republican, out to get Democrats. But in fact
Hayes' father had been a local Democrat party official, and Hayes had been a
friend and admirer of John Kennedy. Hayes was not political in that sense, any
more than I was.
Some people
have a strange habit of trying to interpret everything in political terms. When
I first spoke to Sarah McClendon, she asked me, "Why are people saying all
these things about Clinton, and they aren't saying anything about George
Bush?" I refused to bite. I told her I didn't give a shit about the
difference between Republicans and Democrats--that this was about criminality,
not about partisan politics. Some people-- Republican or Democrat--are honest,
and some are not. Sarah herself kept referring to the Clintons (Bill and Hill)
as "virgins," which amused me to no end. But my interest was not
partisan, and never has been.
In a
contrary vein, Jack Blum, who recently joined Jim Leach's House Committee on
Banking as an investigator (and who quickly recommended they drop their Mena
investigation), told Marianne Gasior that I was a right-wing nut because of
what I had written about Bill and Hillary Clinton. Marianne said, "I don't
think so," and read off my resume. Blum's response: "You're
kidding." Gasior was politically a liberal Democrat, and when she was
pursuing a case against Kennametal, which had done business with Iraq during
the Gulf War, she received some support from Democrat politicians, because the
issue was embarrassing to Republican interests. Time Magazine did a write-up of
her efforts ("A Matter of Honor," June 21, 1993). But when she began
to ask questions about what Hillary Clinton was doing on the board of Lafarge
Corporation, which was part of the same smuggling network, Democrat support for
her research quickly evaporated (see "Whatever Happened to
Iraqgate?", The American Spectator, November 1996.) To the average
political hack, partisanship always takes precedence over the search for truth.
In
Wierzynski's case, while supposedly investigating money-laundering for the
House Committee, he seemed to be actually serving other interests--perhaps the
Pentagon's, perhaps someone else's. Hayes had come up with financial records
showing that fifty to seventy million dollars a day of drug-related money was
being laundered through the institutions he was looking at. Wierzynski couldn't
understand how such a thing was possible. He wanted "proof" in a neat
little package, say a memo entitled "Today's Money-Laundering
Report". He seemed to expect to ask a few questions, and then voila!-- the
darkest secrets of American political life would be exposed. So it is not
surprising that Wierzynski's investigation had gone nowhere before Jack Blum
arrived to call the whole thing off. Meanwhile, Wierzynski's son, in school in
England, had been indicted for supplying information to a group of Russian
hackers in St. Petersburg, who had pulled off a heist of Citibank funds.
Both
Wierzynski and Stephen Gannis, the Counsel for the House Committee on Banking
and Finance, were in touch with a San Francisco attorney named Charles O.
Morgan. Systematics (now a subsidiary of Alltel) had hired Morgan to lie about
its relationship to the NSA, and Morgan proceeded to do just that. In an April
5, 1995, letter to Michael Geltner, an attorney for Agora, Inc., Morgan wrote:
"None of ALLTEL's operations or subsidiaries has ever had any connection
in any capacity with the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security
Agency, or any other similar agency in the United States Government; . . ."
But recent documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The
Washington Weekly from NSA show that, for example, that "The
Arkansas-based security contractor Systematics Inc. on September 14, 1990 was
awarded a $166,000 NSA contract to build a 'Sensitive Compartmented Information
Facility' (SCIF) in Ft. Gillem, Georgia" (The Washington Weekly, Nov. 11,
1996).
Morgan
similarly denied any connection between Web Hubbell and Systematics, writing,
"Webster Hubbell never served as an attorney or in any other capacity for
ALLTEL Corporation, or for any of its operations or subsidiaries, other than a
single instance in 1983, when Systematics, Inc., engaged Mr. Hubbell to pursue
a competitor that was using Systematics, Inc.'s propriety software without
authorization; . . ." But it is a matter of public record that when in
1978 Jackson Stephens tried to take over First American bank (later acquired by
BCCI), that the bank sued Systematics along with BCCI, Bert Lance, and Jackson
Stephens. Filing briefs for Systematics were Webster Hubbell, along with C.J.
Giroir and Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Hubbell subsequently went to the Justice
Department, and then to jail, after receiving a $500,000 payment for
unspecified legal services from Indonesia's Lippo Group. C.J. Giroir left the
Rose Law Firm and set up a consulting firm to arrange deals between the Lippo
Group and Arkansas-based firms. Hillary Clinton recently declared her
friendship for ex-Lippo employee and Democrat fund-raiser John Huang, and was
also indicted by grand juries in Little Rock and in New York in October 1996.
These indictments have not yet been made public.)
But the
non-pursuit of the drug-money laundering trail by the Leach Committee was not
surprising. It stepped on too many toes. Hayes and I agreed that the U.S. was
being rapidly transformed into a narco-republic. The drug cartels had
penetrated the highest levels of the Justice Department and the FBI, elements
of the intelligence community, and were additionally bribing a broad assortment
of state and federal government employees and politicians. Even more alarming,
the cartels were now making inroads into the White House. And the Clinton
administration, with lax security stemming largely from a variety of
drug-related issues, along with a pre-existing legacy of political corruption
in Arkansas, had created a free-for-all playground for foreign agents.
Everything was for sale, from trade policy to nuclear codes. Moreover, Bill
Clinton (or perhaps those he surrounded himself with, while he partied on the
side) was making rapid progress in turning the FBI and the Secret Service into
a private political police force--a Gestapo whose duty was to investigate and
harass (and even kill) his political opponents, and to cover up evidence of his
own bad deeds.
Extraordinary
times required extraordinary measures. Enter the Fifth Column.
[To Be
Continued]
http://www.american-buddha.com/orlin.vince.1.htm
ALLEGATIONS REGARDING VINCE FOSTER, THE NSA,
AND BANKING TRANSACTIONS SPYING
by J. Orlin Grabbe
Table
of Contents:
- Part
I Jim Norman sends a memo to the White House, which leaks it to a Starr
assistant.
- Part
II Charles O. Morgan threatens to sue anyone who says Systematics has a relationship
with the NSA.
- Part
III Vince Foster oversaw covert money laundering by Systematics.
- Part
IV Hillary Clinton and Web Hubbell represented Systematics during the BCCI
takeover of First American.
- Part
V Philosophical musings on the meaning of this investigation.
- Part
VI The curious tenacles (and strange denials) of Systematics.
- Part
VII Virtual realities in the media and banking. Israel as a virtual
nuclear power.
- Part
VIII Caspar Weinberger's Swiss account. Israel's nuclear spying.
- Part
IX Cover-up by House Banking Committee investigators.
- Part
X BCCI, money laundering, and the nuclear weapons programs of Pakistan and
Israel.
- Part
XI Money laundering and the intelligence community.
- Part
XII The Cabazon Indian reservation, PROMIS, BCCI, and the death of Danny
Casolaro.
- Part
XIII NSA's PROMIS virus, Mellon money laundering, and Vince Foster's blue
NSA notebook.
- Part
XIV Letter of advice to the Pittsburgh-based nuclear network.
- Part
XV What role is really being played by Richard Mellon Scaife?
- Part
XVI The NSA worm. Federal Reserve money laundering.
- Part
XVII Sheila Foster Anthony effects a $286,000 wire transfer to her
sister-in-law Lisa Foster four days before Vince Foster's death.
- Part
XVIII Gaping holes in the investigation of the death of Vince Foster.
- Part
XIX The modern triangular trade, the parallels between Arkansas and
Pittsburgh, and why Jim Norman is in trouble.
- Part
XX Genealogy--mine and the Mellons.
- Part
XXI The Meadors hearing and the problems of Mellon bank.
- Part
XXII James Hamilton doesn't get a chance to deny the $286,000 wire
transfer by Sheila Anthony.
- Part
XXIII Bush spies on Perot. The blonde hairs found on Foster's body.
- Part
XXIV The Foster hit appears unprofessional, and to have taken the White
House by surprise.
- Part
XXV The global money laundering operation.
- Part
XXVI Abner Mikva resigns. Did Foster have knowledge of too many felonies?
- Part
XXVII Earl Brian, who sold the PROMIS software around the world, is under
indictment in California.
- Part
XXVIII SIOP: the Single Integrated Operational Plan for Nuclear War.
- Part
XXIX How Jackson Stephens brought the Global Laundry to America.
- Part
XXX The National Programs Office and the drugs-for-arms operation at Mena
and other secured facilities.
- Part
XXXI Death and the empire of Jackson Stephens.
- Part
XXXII Questions concerning the death of Vince Foster.
- Part
XXXIII How to launder money. The Mossad panics.
- Part
XXXIV Mossad agents forced to leave the country after putting out a
contract on a Foster investigator.
- Part
XXXV The Mossad team in Vince Foster's apartment, and Foster's final movements.
- Part
XXXVI Mike Wallace accepts a $150,000 bribe from the DNC to debunk the
notion Vince Foster was murdered.
- Part
XXXVII Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking
Transaction Spying
- Part
XXXVIII Chuck Hayes investigates drug-money laundering, while the House
Committee on Banking kisses NSA butt.
Jim Norman sends a
memo to the White House, which leaks it to a Starr assistant.
On April 17,
1995, James R. Norman, Senior Editor at Forbes Magazine, sent the following
letter to Michael D. McCurry, Press Secretary at the White house:
"Dear
Mr. McCurry:
"Forbes
Magazine is preparing an article for immediate publication. We would like to
offer the White House an opportunity to comment on the following assertions.
"1.)
That Vincent W. Foster, while White House Deputy Counsel, maintained a Swiss
bank account.
"2.)
That funds were paid into that account by a foreign government, specifically
the State of Israel.
"3.)
That shortly before his death and coincident with the onset of severe and acute
depression, Vincent Foster learned he was under investigation by the CIA for
espionage.
"4.)
That this information was made available to him by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"5.)
That while he was White House Deputy Counsel and for many years prior, Vincent
Foster had been a behind-the- scenes control person on behalf of the National
Security Agency for Systematics, a bank data processing company integrally
involved in a highly secret intelligence effort to monitor world bank
transactions.
"6.)
That Systematics was also involved in 'laundering' funds from covert
operations, including drug and arms sales related to activities in and around
Mena, Ark.
"7.)
That through Systematics' relationship with E-Systems, Vincent Foster may have
had access to highly sensitive code, encryption and data security information
of strategic importance.
"8.)
That both prior to and after his death, documents relating to Systematics were
removed from Vincent Foster's office in the White House.
"9.)
That the meeting at the Cardozo (Landau) estate on the eastern shore of
Maryland on the weekend before Vincent Foster's death was attended by, among
others, George Stephanopolous.
"10.)
That Hillary Rodham Clinton was also a beneficiary of funds from Foster's Swiss
account.
"Thank
you very much for your prompt attention to this matter. Please fax your written
response before end-of-business Tuesday, April 18, to Forbes at 212-620-2417.
If you have questions, please call me at 212-620-2215.
"Respectfully
yours,
"James
R. Norman, Senior Editor"
The White
House did not respond until April 25, 1995. However, on April 20, 1995, a copy
of this letter was leaked by White House counsel to Mark H. Tuohey III, an
assistant to Kenneth Starr, a prosecutor leading an "independent";
investigation of events related to Whitewater.
Why was the
letter forwarded to a Starr assistant?
Did the
White House have reason to believe that the death of Vincent Foster was related
to Whitewater?
Was the
letter forwarded to Mark Tuohey so that he could investigate and comment on the
allegations in the letter? Or was the letter leaked to Mark Tuohey by the White
House because Tuohey is the White House point man for spin control with respect
to any evidence "uncovered" by the investigation?
On April 25,
1995, Michael D. McCurry replied as follows:
"Dear
Mr. Norman
"This
letter responds to your April 17, 1995 request.
"The
allegations contained in your request are outrageous. Publication of these
false allegations will discredit Forbes, maliciously tarnish the reputation of
Vincent Foster, and cause great pain to Mr. Foster's wife and family.
"Should
Forbes insist on publishing these baseless allegations, we insist that the Editor
of Forbes have a pre- publication meeting with Jane Sherburne of the White
House Counsel's Office and the personal representative of the President and
First Lady, David E. Kendall of Williams & Connolly. Ms. Sherburne can be
reached at (202) 456-5116 and Mr. Kendall's number is (202) 434-5145.
"Sincerely,
"Michael
D. McCurry
Press Secretary
"cc:
Mr. James W. Michaels
Editor, Forbes
Mr. Lawrence
Minard
Managing Editor, Forbes
Mr. William
Baldwin
Executive Editor, Forbes"
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