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May 15, 2003

Leo Wanta, whose purchase of huge 
sums in Russianrubles is credited with bringing down 
the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

Leo Wanta had worked at the White House, the National 

Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and six 

other govenment agencies.

during his career.

Sarah McClendon
on or about 8-24-97 Sarah McClendon

SARAH McCLENDON'S WASHINTON REPORT

3133 Connecticut Avenue
Suite 215
Washington, D.C. 20008

By Sarah McClendon
Now deceased

Washington, D.C. --- Leo Wanta, whose purchase of huge 

sums in Russianrubles is credited with bringing down 

the Soviet Union in the Cold War, will be put through a 

third party lunacy test in Madison, Wisconsin circuit 

court on Tuesday. He has successfully been declared

of sound mind in two previous lunacy tests under the 

Wisconsin state attorney general's office. His own 

attorney, James Shellow of Madison, Wis., is instituting 

this test. Shellow says that under the rules for 

attorneys in Wisconsin he has to notify the court that 

he thinks the lunacy test should be given. Shellow admits 

to being a former attorney for a deceased Mafia chief in 

Wisconsin named Belistiari.

 Shellow thinks Wanta will be declared sane in the 

upcoming hearing on Tuesday, but Shellow claims to know 

nothing as to how Wisconsin was able to extradite Wanta 

in chains and shackles from Switzerland, where he was 

doing business with Swiss banks after having given up 

his citizenship in Wisconsin. Wanta claims that he had 

just been made ambassador to Switzerland and Canada when 

Wisconsin state officials seized him bodily in 

Switzerland. Wanta claims that they took his briefcase 

from him at that time which contained billions in 

Treasury bills and Promise software technical equipment 

which the U.S. was using to get inside information about 

foreign treasuries.

Although the briefcase was taken by Wisconsin authorities

in 1993, it has never been returned to Wanta nor has he 

any knowledge of what happened to its contents.

The charge is that he owed Wisconsin originally 

approximately $14,000. 

He claims to have paid back that amount in 1992. 

The state attorney general's office seized his house 

worth $120,000 and sold it for $60,000, but there is no 

record of this in the Department of Revenue in Wisconsin 

nor is there any trace of the proceeds from the sale.

Wanta was buying rubles from Russia at the request of 

the President, Ronald Reagan. Wanta had worked at the 

White House, the National Security Council, the Central 

Intelligence Agency and six other govenment agencies 

during his career.

He and President George Bush set up the Ameritrust 

account in the Credite Suisse bank for the U.S. 

government to use in case it needed to counter terrorists

from overseas, according to Pat Cameron, Los Angeles 

attorney for Wanta. Wanta says that when former president

George Bush sought to withdraw funds from the $210 

billion on deposit that Wanta, a co-signer of the account,

refused to give his signature for the withdrawal because 

the funds, he said, belonged to the U.S. government, 

not to an individual.