IS THERE A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE?

[Dr. Jai Maharaj]

IS THERE A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE?

By various Free Republic posters
Thursday, October 22, 1998

CONVICTIONS
Webster Hubbell
Jim McDougal
Susan McDougal
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker
Stephen Smith
David Hale
Eugene Fitzhugh
Charles Matthews
Robert W. Palmer
Chris Wade
Neal T. Ainley
Larry Kuca
William J. Marks, Sr.
John Latham
John Haley
Michael Brown (Ron Brown's son)
Eugene Lum
Nora Lum
Johnny Chung
Tyson Foods
Sun Diamond Growers
Richard Douglas
James Lake
Ron Blackley
Smith Barney
Crop Growers Corporation
Brook Keith Mitchell Sr.
Five M Farming Enterprises
John J. Hemmingson
Alvarez T. Ferrouillet, Jr.
Municipal Healthcare Cooperative
Ferrouillet & Ferrouillet
Linda Jones
Patsy Jo Wooten
Allen Wooten
Roger Clinton
Dan Lasater
Bill McCuen
Dan Harmon
Roger Tamraz (Lebanon by default)
Peter Lee
Harold Worden
William McCord (head of Lasater & Co.)
Jack Williams, Tyson lobbyist
Archie Schaefer, Tyson spokesman
Mark Cambiano (plea bargain: drop drug money to DNC for guilty plea on bank
crime)
The Robert Mondavi Corporation
Richard Douglas - additional count of lying to FBI
IBM East Europe/Asia Ltd. (export of computers to a top-secret Russian nuclear
weapons lab)

INDICTMENTS AND TARGETS
Ron Brown (indictment was pending at time of death)
Herby Branscum
Robert Hill
Mike Espy
Henry Cisneros
Charlie Trie
Nolanda Hill
Bruce Babbitt
Ron Carey
Monica Lewinsky
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Roger Tamraz (France)
Alexis Herman
William W. Hamilton, Jr. (Teamsters)
Carmen Lunetta
Susan McDougal (new charges Whitewater)
Susan McDougal (Mehta)
Mayor Richard M. Daley
John and Patti Garamendi
Calvin Grigsby
Neal Harrington
CATIC, the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Company
Don Tyson
Maria Hsia (already indicted for illegal campaign contributions, now also
federal income tax charges.)
Howard Glicken - Indicted Campaign Contributions
Pauline Kanchanalak (24 counts foreign contributions to DNC, etc.)
Duangnet "Georgie" Kronenberg (with Kanchanalak)
Mark B. Jimenez (17 counts illegal contributions to Clinton’s 1996 re-election
campaign and other Democrats)

OTHER CRIMINAL/TERRORIST ASSOCIATES
Jorge Cabrera
Dan Lasater (Pardon by Gov. Clinton)
Roger Clinton (half brother Pardon by Gov. Clinton)
Arthur Coia
Wang Jun
Gerry Adams
Yassar Arafat
Grigori Loutchansky, head of Russian/Austrian joint venture Nordex
Communist revolutionary fronts in Latin America, Africa, Middle East (1982+
Hillary Clinton, New World Foundation philanthropies)
* WorldNetDaily Charles Smith 8/4/98 "…Another scandal revealed by the
new documents from the files of Ron Brown shows that Roger Tamraz was inside
the Clinton administration as early as 1994 -- two years before he met Bill
Clinton in the White House. Tamraz, a Lebanese oil financier, was then wanted
by Interpol for embezzling nearly $80 million dollars from a middle eastern
bank. Tamraz would later give over $300,000 to the DNC via his links to the
Clinton administration. In 1994 Tamraz was authorized by Bill Clinton to
travel with Ron Brown on the Presidential Business development mission to
Russia. Newly declassified documents show that administration officials
arranged a series of meetings between Tamraz and Russian energy officials from
the GAZPROM bureau. The document, a unclassified March 1994 telegram to U.S.
Commerce representatives in Russia, orders them to arrange meetings between
Tamraz and the Russian First Deputy Minister of Fuels and Energy….Another
Brown document for the Russian trip, dated February 1994, lists Tamraz along
with CEO's from Tenneco, Texaco, ARCO, Enron, Conoco, AT&T, Motorola, and
Silicon Graphics. …"
* Weekly Standard 8/31/98 Eugene Methyin "July 24, 1996, in the
historic mahogany-paneled hearing room where grim-faced congressmen once
considered the impeachment of President Nixon, chairman Bill McCollum of the
House Crime Subcommittee gaveled for order. "There will be no photographs
permitted of this witness," the Florida Republican instructed. A hood over his
head, 50-year-old Ronald M. Fino was led to the witness chair, a screen
protecting him from spectators' view. For 15 years, Fino was business manager
of the Laborers' International Union of North America Local 210 in Buffalo,
N.Y., and for eight years, one of the union's national officials. "During this
time, I witnessed the gripping control of the union and its membership by La
Cosa Nostra, and the defilement of its workers' dues and benefit funds," he
testified. For all those years, Fino was also an undercover informant for the
FBI. In more than 4,000 meetings with FBI agents, he detailed the mob's secret
"shadow government" within the union, and how it reached into the Laborers'
Washington headquarters just two blocks from the White House….The Laborers,
under president Arthur A. Coia, had managed to snuggle up embarrassingly
closely to the Clinton administration. Even before Bill Clinton took office,
the Laborers made a $ 100,000 loan to his inaugural committee. Over the next
four years, the union and its political action committee gave various
Democratic groups and candidates $ 4.8 million. Harold Ickes, Clinton's
first-term deputy chief of staff, was a New York labor lawyer whose clients
included the Laborers, its "education trust fund," and its New York-New Jersey
political action committee. Coia was a regular White House visitor. He was
invited to a state dinner for the Japanese emperor, to join the president in
greeting the pope in Denver, and to fly with Clinton on Air Force One to Rhode
Island and Haiti. The House Crime Subcommittee documented more than 120
contacts in three years between Coia and the Clinton White House, including
cash contributions, personal letters, and social-political invitations. The
most important, for Coia, was a meeting in the Oval Office with President
Clinton and Ickes on October 21, 1994. The White House had just asked the FBI
for a "name check" preparatory to naming Coia to a prestigious presidential
commission. The FBI's response was stark: "Coia is a criminal associate of the
New England Patriarca organized crime family." Moreover, the Justice
Department advised that its racket-busters were going to file a suit "within
the next several weeks" that "will accuse Coia of being a puppet of the LCN
[La Cosa Nostra]." Associate deputy attorney general David Margolis, an
organized-crime specialist, repeatedly telephoned warnings to the White House
about Coia. Nonetheless, in the Oval Office President Clinton presented Coia
with a Callaway "Divine Nine" golf club and listened to Coia's complaints
about the "low-level negative response" his union was getting to applications
for federal job-training grants. The president assigned Ickes to look after
Coia's concerns. Altogether, in the four fiscal years 1994-1997 after Clinton
took office, the Laborers received $ 50.5 million in federal grants. The day
after the Oval Office meeting, Coia wrote a check for $ 50,000 as a personal
"soft money" contribution to the Democratic National Committee. He also gave
Clinton a hand-crafted golf club bearing the presidential seal. …Arthur A.
Coia today remains president of the Laborers' International Union of North
America thanks to an unprecedented bargain he struck with the Justice
Department. Two weeks after his 1994 Oval Office meeting with Clinton and
Ickes, Justice Department racket-busters delivered to the union a draft
racketeering complaint, relying heavily on Fino's testimony. Then strange
things happened -- events that are the subject of a House Judiciary Committee
investigation…. The union was allowed to undertake its own house-cleaning,
under Justice Department oversight…. As Coia's hand-picked cleanup man, Luskin
from the start seemed to drag his feet. More than a year elapsed before he
prosecuted Fino's Local 210 in Buffalo, one of the country's most notorious
mob-owned locals. He waited two-and-a-half years to seek a trusteeship over
the equally corrupt Chicago district council, whose top officers -- all of
them gangsters or mob associates -- oversaw 21 Laborers locals, 19,000 union
members, and $ 1.5 billion in health and pension funds. Indeed, Luskin did not
secure this trusteeship until February 9, 1998, two days before the original
three-year term of the Justice Department's oversight agreement expired.
Justice and the union agreed to a belated one-year extension. … Ron Fino and
other critics complain that Coia has survived for nearly four years by
adopting a shrewd damage-control strategy, playing the public role of reformer
while moving chiefly against his rivals in the "shadow government" and
ignoring the mob overlords in his Northeast home base. Indeed, federal
informants report that the Genovese family is now in complete control of the
union. Last November, when the three-year oversight agreement was about to
expire and the Justice Department threatened to take over the union, Luskin
moved finally to oust Coia. The charges: Coia "knowingly associated" with
Mafia members and permitted them to influence the union, breaching his
constitutional and fiduciary duties. Coia also "improperly accepted benefits"
from a union service provider. …Meantime, the Justice Department's effort to
cleanse the Laborers Union of the brutal shadow government Ron Fino so
courageously exposed drags on. A recent issue of Hard Hat Construction
Magazine paid him well-deserved tribute: "Unlike most mob informants, Fino
volunteered. He was not trying to turn in mob associates in exchange for a
lighter prison sentence, and he was not trying to get rich. He tried to do the
right thing, and he has paid the price. He lost his good [union] job, he lost
his family, and the Buffalo Cosa Nostra put a price on his head. He lives on
the run, while many of the mobsters he incriminated are still leading the
plush life." Clinton said in a statement released during his trip to Russia
that Ickes "has been a trusted adviser and a dedicated public servant."…"

BCCI: CURIOUS INVESTIGATION
Pakistani banker Agha Hasan Abedi founded BCCI in 1972, it was incorporated in
Luxembourg and expanded rapidly. By the early 1980s BCCI had become the
preferred bank for such customers as the CIA, Colombian drugs cartels, arms
smugglers and various third world dictators. By the mid-eighties, there was
gathering evidence of financial irregularities, corruption and criminal
involvement - an investigation ensued.

In December 1992, shortly after Clinton was elected, the Committee on Foreign
Relations - US Senate produced a report that pointed out specific problems in
the investigation and gave 20 specific areas which needed additional
investigation (summarized below) The disposition of these issues is unknown.
All that has come to the attention of this list is one settlement for $5
million in February of 1998.

* The extent of BCCI's involvement in Pakistan's nuclear program.
* BCCI's manipulation of commodities and securities markets in Europe
and Canada.
* BCCI’s activitites in India, including its relationship with the
business empire of the Hinduja family.
* BCCI's relationships with convicted Iraqi arms dealer Sarkis
Soghanalian, Syrian drug trafficker, terrorist, and arms trafficker Monzer
Al-Kassar, and other major arms dealers.
* The use of BCCI by central figures in arms sales to Iran during the
1980's
* BCCI's activities with the Central Bank of Syria and with the
Foreign Trade Mission of the Soviet Union in London.
* BCCI's involvement with foreign intelligence agencies
* The financial dealings of BCCI directors with Charles Keating and
several Keating affiliates and front-companies, including the possibility that
BCCI related entities may have laundered funds for Keating to move them
outside the United States.
* BCCI's financing of commodities and other business dealings of
international criminal financier Marc Rich.
* The nature, extent and meaning of the ownership of shares of other
U.S. financial institutions by Middle Eastern political figures
* The nature, extent, and meaning of real estate and financial
investments in the United States by major shareholders of BCCI. BCCI's
shareholders and front-men have made substantial investments in real estate
throughout the United States, owning major office buildings in such key cities
as New York and Washington, D.C.
* BCCI's collusion in Savings & Loan fraud in the U.S. The
Subcommittee found ties between BCCI and two failed Savings and Loan
institutions, CenTrust, which BCCI came to have a controlling interest in, and
Caprock Savings and Loan in Texas, and as noted above, the involvement of BCCI
figures with Charles Keating and his business empire. In each case, BCCI's
involvement cost the U. S. taxpayers money. A comprehensive review of BCCI's
account holders in the U.S. and globally might well reveal additional such
cases. In addition, the issue of whether David Paul and CenTrust's political
relationships were used by Paul on behalf of BCCI merits further investigation
* The sale of BCCI affiliate Banque de Commerce et de Placements (BCP)
in Geneva, to the Cukorova Group of Turkey, which owned an entity involved in
the BNL Iraqi arms sales, among others.
* BCCI's role in China. As noted in the chapter on BCCI's activities
in foreign countries, BCCI had extensive activity in China, and the Chinese
government allegedly lost $500 million when BCCI closed, mostly from
government accounts. While there have been allegations that bribes and
pay-offs were involved, these allegations require further investigation and
detail to determine what actually happened, and who was involved.
* The relationship between Capcom and BCCI, between Capcom and the
intelligence community, and between Capcom's shareholders and U.S.
telecommunications industry figures.
* The relationship of important BCCI figures and important
intelligence figures to the collapse of the Hong Kong Deposit and Guaranty
Bank and Tetra Finance (HK) in 1983. The circumstances surrounding the
collapse of these two Hong Kong banks; the Hong Kong banks' practices of using
nominees, front-companies, and back-to-back financial transactions; the Hong
Banks' directors having included several important BCCI figures, including
Ghanim Al Mazrui, and a close associate of then CIA director William Casey;
all raise the question of whether there was a relationship between these two
institutions and BCCI-Hong Kong, and whether the two Hong Kong institutions
were used for domestic or foreign intelligence operations.
* BCCI's activities in Atlanta and its acquisition of the National
Bank of Georgia through First American.
* The relationship between BCCI and the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.
BCCI and the Atlanta Branch of BNL had an extensive relationship in the United
States, with the Atlanta Branch of BNL having a substantial number of accounts
in BCCI's Miami offices. BNL was, according to federal indictments, a
significant financial conduit for weapons to Iraq. BCCI also made loans to
Iraq, although of a substantially smaller nature.
* The alleged relationship between the late CIA director William Casey
and BCCI.
* Money laundering by other major international banks. Numerous BCCI
officials told the Subcommittee that BCCI's money laundering was no different
from activities they observed at other international banks, and provided the
names of a number of prominent U.S. and European banks which they alleged
engaged in money laundering.

More BCCI Background
Financial General, a Washington D.C.based bank with headquarters a block from
the White House had been acquired in April 1977 by an investor group lead by
William Middendorf II, who was Secretary of the Navy under Nixon and Ford. One
member of the investor group was Jackson Stephens (Little Rock, controlling
interest in Worthen National Bank and Stephens Inc, associated with Riadys and
Clinton)

In November 1977, Stephens introduced BCCI-founder Abedi to Bert Lance,
Carter's Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Financial General
had sold to Lance controlling interest in the National Bank of Georgia in
1975. Abedi introduced Lance to Ghaith Pharaon who proceeded to acquire the
stock of Lance's National Bank of Georgia, a deal consummated on January 5,
1978, a day after Lance's $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of
Chicago was repaid by BCCI London.

Lance and Stephens helped BCCI take over Financial General. A Financial
General lawsuit "Bert Lance, Bank of Credit & Commerce International, Agha
Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens Inc., Systematics
Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through 25." Systematics was represented by C.J.
Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of
Little Rock.

Also involved in the takeover were Clark Clifford (the former Defense
Secretary under Johnson and lawyer for BCCI), Robert Altman (attorney for Bert
Lance and Clifford's partner), and Kamal Adham (the former head of Saudi
Arabian intelligence who was King Faisal's most trusted advisor, and whose
half-sister Iffat was King Faisal's favorite wife).

In a lawsuit filed March 18, 1978, the Securities and Exchange Commission
charged Lance with violations of federal security laws, and BCCI's application
to purchase Financial General Bankshares was denied. Abedi then formed Credit
and Commerce American Holdings (CCAH), Netherlands Antilles. On October 19,
1978, CCAH filed for approval with the Federal Reserve to purchase Financial
General. This application was dismissed on February 16, 1979, but a new
application was submitted later. The Federal Reserve finally approved the
purchase on April 19, 1982, and BCCI renamed the bank "First American" three
months later. Clark Clifford was made chairman and Robert Altman president.
The head of Bank Supervision at the Federal Reserve when BCCI's purchase was
approved was Jack Ryan, who later became head of the Resolution Trust
Corporation, in which role he denied Rep. Leach's requests for documents
related to Madison Guaranty, the Whitewater thrift.

BCCI founder Abedi donated 500 million rupees for the creation of Pakistan's
Gulam Ishaq Research Institute for nuclear development. "Kamal Adham, who
was the CIA's principal liason for the entire Middle East from the mid-1960's
through 1979, was the lead frontman for BCCI in its takeover of First
American, was an important nominee shareholder in BCCI, and remains one of the
key players in the entire BCCI affair" (Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank
Brown, The BCCI Affair: a Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United
States Senate, December 1992).

Stephens and his Worthen National Bank invested in Harken Energy, a Texas
company in which George Bush, Jr., was a board member. "The money Stephens
invested came through the Swiss BCCI subsidiary"

In 1987 First American bought the National Bank of Georgia, formerly acquired
from Bert Lance by Pharaon.
From the American Spectator 8/94 James Ring Adams
"The public has an overwhelming interest in knowing what business networks
have claims on a president and his family. In this context, Hillary's windfall
in the futures market is chilling. … Hillary must still feel grateful to James
Blair and Tyson Foods, Inc., who allegedly steered her to her trades; and to
Refco and its president Thomas Dittmer, which brokered them….And the Clintons'
futures trading may have made them further beholden to the Stephens bond
empire of Arkansas--and entangled them indirectly but significantly with the
Pakistani financiers who brought us BCCI.

… Hillary's trading came to light in mid-March after Lloyd Cutler took over as
White House counsel. In line with his new policy of "openness," the White
House admitted to New York Times investigators that she had plunged $1,000 in
the notoriously choppy futures market in October 1978, when her husband had
emerged as the clear front-runner in his first race for governor. James Blair,
general counsel for Tyson Foods, Inc., was her guide to the market. By the
time she closed her accounts in May 1980, she had cleared $99,540, which
allowed the strapped couple to put up a down payment on their house and buy
tax-exempt municipal bonds….

The First Couple had reason to be embarrassed. Hillary had worked through the
Springdale, Arkansas, office of Refco, a fast-growing Chicago-based
commodities broker. Its Arkansas outpost catered primarily to Tyson Foods, the
nation's largest poultry firm, whose operations give the small Ozark town a
pungent, penetrating odor. Hillary's personal broker was a professional poker
player and 13-year veteran of Tyson Foods named Robert L. "Red" Bone, who had
already compiled a substantial record of exchange rules infractions. Just a
month before he went to work for Hillary, he had completed a one-year partial
suspension on charges of plotting to manipulate the egg-futures market on the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange. (He later received a second, more serious
suspension for violating the first one.)

More significantly, at the end of Hillary's first year of trading, the Chicago
Merc itself suspended Bone for three years for "allocating" trades--letting
favored customers take the winning trades and dumping the losers on the rest.
The action cited "serious and repeated violations of record-keeping functions,
order-entry procedures, margin requirements and hedge procedures." Hillary's
account wasn't specifically at issue, but it fit the pattern: her return on
her first day of trading--more than $5,000 on $1,000 down--would have been
mathematically impossible if Exchange rules were strictly followed.

On October 15, 1979, Hillary's own investment adviser, Tyson counsel Blair,
filed a suit charging Red Bone, Refco, and its president Thomas Dittmer with
systematically taking their customers to the cleaners…. The Merc and the Board
of Trade now run two of the best funded political action committees in the
country. In 1993, the Merc's Commodity Futures Political Fund disbursed nearly
$200,000, making it the eighth most generous finance, insurance, and real
estate PAC….

During the 1970s, the Merc invented futures trading in foreign currencies and
stock indices and metamorphosed from the bane of Midwest farmers into a major
player in global finance. Credit for the growth goes to Leo Melamed, a World
War II refugee first elected Merc chairman in 1969 and a dominant power ever
since…. Refco, then and now, meant Thomas Dittmer, one of the boldest traders
on the Merc. Dittmer pulled off a number of coups in the early 1980s,
including a panic in soybean prices and a near corner on coffee, but his most
memorable success was the boom in cattle futures that enriched Hillary…

Dittmer used his windfall to make Refco a global player in metal refining,
financial futures, and money management. In 1981, he joined the elite club of
thirty-seven dealers who buy Treasury securities for the Federal Reserve…

…The connection with Refco entangled the Clintons, however remotely, in
another segment of the web of influence-buying that was then being spun across
the world by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. By itself, this
tie might not amount to much, but it takes on added interest from the complex
relations between the Clintons and the Stephens family of Little Rock,
financiers and Arkansas king-makers with their own BCCI entanglement. The role
of Jackson Stephens as financial backer of Governor Clinton has already been
widely reported, as has his service to the BCCI's penetration of the American
financial market (see TAS, November 1992). But almost nothing has been said
about the equally fascinating appearance of Refco in the affairs of the
world's most corrupt bank. Refco and Stephens also maintained business ties,
but it's an open question whether these involved the BCCI. It's also an open
question whether Bill Clinton's brush with this world is influencing the
federal government's efforts, or lack of effort, at getting to the bottom of
the BCCI scandal.

It can definitely be said, however, that Refco's international operations have
attracted the interest of the untanglers of BCCI's affairs. BCCI is not only
the world's largest single bank fraud, but also the most ubiquitous. It was
founded in the Persian Gulf in 1972 by a Pakistani visionary named Agha Hasan
Abedi, who inspired a cult-like devotion from his officers, primarily
Urdu-speaking Pakistanis; he also steadfastly ignored economic reality, and
wound up losing more than $10 billion. Increasingly desperate to cover his
losses, he opened his doors to the world's vast underground economy, and BCCI
became the central bank for terrorists, spies, arms dealers, and drug lords
from Burma to Colombia. At the same time, his agents tried to buy their way
into every political elite they encountered--including the Arkansas
establishment that was watching the rise of the Clintons. In November 1977,
Abedi met in Little Rock with Jimmy Carter's confidant Bert Lance and
investment banker Jackson Stephens, a power above and beyond Bill Clinton. Out
of this meeting came Abedi's celebrated takeover of an interstate banking
chain based in Washington, D.C., patriotically renamed First American
Bankshares and put in the hands of super-insider Clark Clifford.
Coincidentally or not, Dittmer and Refco picked up a new client in the
aftermath.

…The far-sighted Abedi had cultivated Sheikh Zayed well before the
mid-seventies boom in oil prices, taking the avid falconer on lavish bustard
hunts in the wilds of Pakistan. (Abedi's agents also catered to the less
wholesome tastes of the portly Crown Prince Khalifa.) Zayed became the primary
financial backer of the BCCI and still owns its remains. When Abedi decided to
buy the Washington, D.C. bank that Jack Stephens was peddling, he advanced one
of Sheikh Zayed's minor sons as a stockholder, with Darwaish acting as the
boy's agent….The deal apparently whetted Darwaish's appetite for American
investments. Around October 1979, he and several assistants set up a
Panamanian shell corporation to trade in the American commodities markets.
They worked through a Swiss brokerage and placed their orders with Refco.
Through November, they transferred more than $100 million of Sheikh Zayed's
money to America, primarily through BCCI headquarters in London.

… But the biggest loser with Refco was BCCI itself. From 1983 to 1985, the
bank speculated recklessly in the futures market on U.S. Treasury bonds. The
futures were a bet on the direction of interest rates and required
split-second timing; one incredulous auditor found that BCCI was buying
contracts and leaving them in desk drawers. Estimates of the losses reach $860
million…BCCI investigators are currently puzzling over another series of
transactions involving Akbar. In addition to his role at the treasury
department, he ran the bank's Grand Cayman branch….These murky global
currents, apparently so remote from the Clintons, are looking more important
in retrospect. Every new revelation suggests a deeper pattern of relationships
than anyone had previously expected. The repeated appearance of the BCCI and
its assorted fronts suggests that even now we underestimate Abedi's ambitions
for penetrating the American economy. Through Capcom and Refco, his agents had
become players in the Chicago Merc, which was then on its own way to becoming
a major factor in global finance. Through its connections with major figures
in the cable industry, Capcom and BCCI were apparently establishing a
beachhead in American broadcasting. (The hand of the BCCI has been suspected
in a minority investment these businessmen made in Ted Turner's Cable News
Network.)…

At the time, however, Bill and Hillary very likely had almost no inkling about
their benefactors' extensive connections. Everyone concerned is now trying to
minimize their importance. The closest Clinton link to BCCI, Jackson Stephens,
maintains that he was an entirely unwitting tool and only for a short time.
BCCI prosecutors will agree that Stephens probably never met Darwaish or any
other of the nominee shareholders in the takeover that created First American
Bankshares. As the stockbroker who arranged to buy these shares, he acted for
the account of a dissident faction of the bank's board (which included
himself) in an attempt to oust its management…Yet the interconnections
continue to multiply. Stephens Inc., the family brokerage considered one of
the largest outside Wall Street, maintained links with Refco throughout the
1980s. In 1980, it cleared futures contracts through Conti Commodities, the
international futures trader for Continental Grain Company; Conti was
subsequently purchased by Refco. In 1981, Stephens Inc. opened an account with
Refco itself, a relation renewed several times in the 1980s. When Hillary was
trading with Refco, she also opened a commodities account at Stephens Inc. Yet
the Stephens name has not otherwise figured in press accounts….

Beyond these questions is the very urgent matter of the BCCI investigations.
At this writing, the U.S. Justice Department and Manhattan District Attorney
Robert Morgenthau are debating how to handle the biggest BCCI figure yet to
come to justice in the U.S. (Abedi himself, now an invalid in Pakistan, was
recently convicted in absentia in an Abu Dhabi court and sentenced to eight
years. But no one expects that the Pakistani government will deliver him to
the justice of Sheikh Zayed.) In a deal in May, Abu Dhabi turned over Swaleh
Naqvi, Abedi's number two man, to American custody. Since then he has been in
the hands of the federal government, which is negotiating a plea bargain,
while D.A. Morgenthau's more aggressive investigators make no secret of their
frustration at his lack of cooperation. Does the Clinton administration really
have the heart to press Naqvi for all of the BCCI's secrets? The saga of
Capcom and Refco suggests that the embarrassment could start in its own back
yard…."

BCCI: ABU NIDAL
From William Rempel and Douglas Frantz Los Angeles Times 9/30/91 "The Bank of
Credit & Commerce International handled millions of dollars in illegal arms
transactions for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal in an effort to persuade its
wealthy Mideast backers that the bank was staunchly pro-Arab, according to a
former high-ranking bank official. British weapons secretly destined for the
terrorist's arsenal -- some of them for resale to Iraq and elsewhere -- were
financed through BCCI offices here and shipped under export documents that
bank officials knew to be phony, records and interviews disclosed. "During
the Iran-Iraq War, the bank wanted to show to the Arab world that we supported
Iraq, and we did that through support of Abu Nidal for several years," said
Ghassan Qassem, a 17-year BCCI officer who served as Abu Nidal's personal
banker and became a spy inside the bank for Western intelligence agencies.
The bank was a vehicle for transmitting money to Abu Nidal from wealthy Arabs
who supported his work as a matter of political conviction and from
individuals and governments that contributed funds as a form of protection
against terrorist attacks aimed at them."

From BBC Summary Al-Hayat 8/20/98 "'Al-Hayat'has learnt that the Egyptian
security authorities have arrested Sabri al-Banna (Abu Nidal). The security
sources, however, have refused to reveal details of the arrest, in what can be
considered to be the second most important operation after the arrest of
Carlos. It is worth mentioning that Banna is the leader of the first group to
break away from the PLO, that he has been expelled from Syria and from Iraq,
and that he is suffering from health problems. 'Al-Hayat'asked Muhammad
Subayh, Palestine National Council secretary and Palestinian envoy to the Arab
League, about the arrest. He denied any knowledge of it and said that Sabri
al-Banna is wanted by the Palestinian [National] Authority on charges of
murdering several PLO leaders. Subayh said that Banna has been in hiding for
over a year... "

From BBC Summary Al-Hayat 8/21/98 "The Egyptian official news agency MENA
circulated late on the night before last a statement by an Egyptian source
denying reports by the German news agency that Cairo had arrested Sabri
al-Banna (Abu Nidal), leader of Fatah - The Revolutionary Council. President
Yasir Arafat who yesterday met President Husni Mubarak in Cairo also denied
any knowledge of the arrest. 'Al-Hayat'had published reports of his arrest
based on a statement by sources who said that the man is very ill. An
official in the Abu Nidal group in Beirut refused to make any comments on the
report published by 'Al-Hayat' yesterday. He said: " We have no official
comment on the report. If any such comment is issued we will pass it on to
you." However, the Israeli newspaper 'Yediot Aharonot' said, citing " private
sources" , yesterday that Abu Nidal's arrest took place some days ago.
Meanwhile, 'Al-Hayat' has learnt from informed sources that Abu Nidal' s state
of health is deteriorating, and it is said likely that he has contracted a
chronic brain disease. The sources said that his condition is critical and
that he is undergoing treatment. "

From Agence France Presse 8/23/98 "The Fatah Revolutionary Council on Sunday
denied press reports its founder Abu Nidal had been arrested in Egypt and was
in hospital dying of cancer. "Reports that our brother Abu Nidal has been
arrested and that he is seriously ill are completely baseless," the group said
in a statement. "These stories are being spread by intelligence services
hostile to the Palestinian cause and are an attempt to divide our ranks and
help the capitulating leadership" of Palestinian Authority President Yasser
Arafat, it said. "

BCCI: STEPHENS AND RIADY
From the American Spectator James Ring Adams 10/92 "Mike McAlary, the New York
Post's specialist on organized crime, scored a genuine scoop last February:
"Clinton and BCCI candidate's money man linked to scandal bank," the headline
ran. It involved large-scale Arab influence on American politicians of both
parties. It came directly from a sterling source, the office of Manhattan
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, a distinguished Democrat. But no major
paper followed up on the story. The Wall Street Journal even dismissed it in
an article on the Post's savaging of Clinton in the raucous New York primary.
… Although this web seems devoted both to personal enrichment and political
influence, it would be paranoid to call it a criminal conspiracy. Its main
figures are known as upright patriots. Yet their friends, and friends of their
friends, share a startling propensity for financial scandal. Some have
received substantial prison sentences, and these were just for domestic
misdeeds. The foreign involvements stretch from Abu Dhabi and Jeddah to Hong
Kong and Jakarta, and deal extensively with the notorious Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI), the central bank of global corruption. Whatever
one makes of this mix of respectability and rogue banking, Bill Clinton now
offers it another avenue to political power….

The apparent proof that Washington is protecting a somewhat sinister crew of
political fundraisers has generated disgust with both parties and all
incumbents. The phenomenon of H. Ross Perot had less to do with the virtues of
Perot than with the failings of everyone else. It's ironic that Bill Clinton
stands to reap the ultimate benefit from this disillusionment, for his
campaign has been deeply indebted to a figure who stands as close to this
permanent network as anyone still active in American finance, and who has
acted as an agent for BCCI and its Saudi backers from that bank's first
encroachments in America. Although Jackson Stephens has escaped the network's
criminal entanglements, he clearly deserves the scrutiny the press has so far
failed to provide….The district attorney's leak about Clinton was almost
certainly prompted by a New York Times series on the candidates' campaign
finances.

Without appreciating the significance of the news, Jeff Gerth reported that
Clinton had received about $100,000 in contributions from associates of the
Little Rock financier Jackson Stephens and a $2 million line of credit from
the Worthen Bank of Little Rock, which Stephens substantially controlled.
Stephens's name rings a loud gong with anyone who has investigated the career
of BCCI in the United States. He was one of the crucial figures in opening
American banking to Agha Hasan Abedi, the mystical Pakistani founder of BCCI.
Stephens's bank and his personal lawyer, the former employer of Hillary
Clinton, were separately involved in the local versions of two of the largest
financial scandals of the 1980s. Yet Stephens was always considered either an
innocent bystander or a victim. In all his dealings, his personal prestige has
remained unchallenged…. The relations between the Stephenses and Clinton give
a sharp insight into Arkansas politics, but they become truly notable because
of Mr. Jack's other business ties, especially with T. Bertram Lance….

The election of Jimmy Carter redirected this group's energies from regional
banking to global finance. Jack Stephens found himself dealing with banks from
Pakistan to Indonesia. The immediate cause was Bert Lance's need to divest his
stock in the National Bank of Georgia. Lance had become the director of the
Office of Management and Budget as Carter's first cabinet appointment, and
during his confirmation he promised to sell his NBG stock by the end of 1977.
But he had borrowed heavily to buy it, and a sale at market price would have
wiped him out. While Lance ran into a hot, humid summer of trouble over his
other bank deals, Stephens tried to broker an NBG sale at favorable terms. The
bidders included a business friend of the Butchers, an Indonesian banker, and
a Saudi businessman named Ghaith Pharaon, indicted last year as a front man
for the BCCI. Through the fall of 1977, and Lance's own fall from his
position at OMB (he resigned in September under pressure from the Senate),
Stephens negotiated directly with BCCI's founder and maximum leader Agha Hasan
Abedi….

Abedi's agents quickly snapped up the available stock from Stephens's faction
and in mid-December commissioned Stephens to buy more on the open market. The
BCCI officer running the show in Washington was a Pakistani named Abdus Sami;
by the end of January 1978 he reported to Abedi that he had hired a prominent
Washington attorney to help with takeover suits and filings with the
regulators. The lawyer was Clark Clifford. (Clifford and his young partner
Robert Altman had represented Lance during his Senate troubles. Lance takes
credit for introducing Clifford to BCCI.) …Then the deal blew up in everyone's
face. ….

Although Stephens escaped from the BCCI snare, he continued his foreign
entanglements. The sale of Bert Lance's National Bank of Georgia left the
Little Rock broker with an unusual partner, a very rich Indonesian banker
named Mochtar Riady. Ethnically Chinese but well connected to the highest
levels of Indonesian politics, Riady started his career in a Jakarta bicycle
shop and built up a financial empire called the Lippo Group. He entered the
bidding for Lance's bank in 1977 through the intercession of an international
broker named Robert B. Anderson, who had been secretary of the Treasury under
President Eisenhower. (Anderson died in disgrace a few years ago after
pleading guilty to federal charges of tax evasion and money laundering.) But
Stephens offered Riady an even better deal. The two first joined hands in a
Hong Kong brokerage. Then in 1984, Riady gave his backing to Mr. Jack's most
ambitious venture, an attempt to turn a chain of home-town Arkansas banks into
a world-class financial player. In a busy first quarter of 1984, Stephens and
Riady pumped capital into a statewide chain called First Arkansas Bankcorp,
merged with another group of banks owned by C. Joseph Giroir, Jr., and renamed
it Worthen Banking Corporation. (Remember Joe Giroir's name. As chairman of
the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, he gave Hillary Clinton the job she still
holds. Thanks to him, the University of Arkansas law professor became a
big-time corporate lawyer.)

Riady sent his son James to Little Rock as president of the national bank
subsidiary Worthen Bank and Trust and started to buy out Joe Giroir's shares.
The Arkansas bankers talked of exporting rice to Asia and predicted that their
two-billion-dollar bank would quickly grow to ten billion. Then another
disaster struck….As regulators caught on to the sophisticated fraud, they
discovered that -- lo and behold -- the same thing was happening at Jack
Stephens's Worthen Bank and Trust. A government-securities trading company
from Livingston, New Jersey, called Bevill, Bresler & Schulman went bankrupt
on Easter Sunday, a month after the ESM collapse and the Home State crisis,
leaving Worthen with $52 million in uncollectible loans. (Remarkably, at one
point Bevill, Bresler and ESM had overlapping personnel.) Once again,
however, Jack Stephens persuaded the government that he was an innocent party.
Worthen collected $20 million in insurance on the loss, barely averting
insolvency. But the federal regulators went through its books with heightened
diligence. By the end of the summer, the comptroller of the currency had cited
Worthen Banking Corp. for making "excessive loans at preferential terms" to
companies controlled by the Stephens brothers and Mochtar Riady. This
practice, charged the comptroller, amounted to a violation of federal law. ….

A Worthen spokesman says the bank parted ways with the Riadys several years
later, so that Little Rock had no role in the latest regathering of loose
ends. When BCCI was closed around the world last year, setting off riots at
its Hong Kong branch, a buyer stepped forward, offering a highly favorable
deal for the Bank of Credit and Commerce Hong Kong Ltd.. The would-be rescuer
was Mochtar Riady's Lippo Group…. "

* Wall Street Journal 9/29/98 "... We know that the world's largest
bank fraud can go almost unnoticed, except to Manhattan District Attorney
Robert Morgenthau. We refer, in case you've forgotten, to the Bank of Credit &
Commerce International, which was back in the news in two jurisdictions last
week. In Washington, Clark Clifford and Robert Altman agreed to give up $18.5
million in claims on stock and legal fees connected with First American
Bankshares, the BCCI front they once headed in the nation's capital. In
Luxembourg, BCCI auditors Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young agreed to a
payment of $125 million to the defunct bank's customers; the creditors will
now recover more than half their money--more than quadruple the best estimates
at the time BCCI went under. These people, many of them Pakistani nationals in
Britain, will be mighty glad that Mr. Morgenthau pursued the case when the
Bank of England, the Justice Department and various others ducked. Yet for all
the smoke Mr. Morgenthau uncovered we have only glimmers of the fire that led
to it all. There are still unresolved questions about the political patronage
that has helped shield BCCI principals from a full reckoning, and in
particular about how a crooked Pakistani-Arab bank got control of the largest
bank in Washington, D.C. In this respect, the Altman-Clifford settlement is
particularly striking. At issue has always been whether the two knew that BCCI
was the real owner of First American, of which they were, respectively,
president and chairman…."
* Wall Street Journal 9/29/98 Yet the essential mystery remains.
Doubtless that's just the way many would like to leave it, because the names
that pop up read like some kind of Who's Who. There is, to begin with, a large
Arkansas connection, since Little Rock investment giant Stephens Inc.
assembled the bloc of First American stock for the BCCI front men. Assisting
in these transactions was the now-famous Rose Law Firm, then headed by Joseph
Giroir, more lately a representative of the Riady family of Indonesia and
participant in the notorious September 13, 1995, Oval Office meeting at which
John Huang was dispatched to his fund-raising tasks. Rose Attorney Hillary
Rodham represented a Stephens subsidiary, the Systematics bank-data processing
firm, in a related lawsuit. James Riady made his first appearance in Little
Rock about the time these transactions took place, with his family ending up
with a piece of the Stephens-dominated Worthen Bank. Another player was Bert
Lance, Jimmy Carter's disgraced head of Office of Management and Budget, who
apparently hoped to head First American himself. All of these people deny that
they knew anything crooked was taking place, just a group of smart,
well-connected Friends of Bill stunningly ignorant about the people they were
doing business with. Yet since the mystery has never been cleared up, you
can't blame those of us who followed it from remembering names as they turn up
in today's news. Nicholas Katzenbach, for instance; the former Attorney
General surfaced last week with two of Mr. Clinton's serial White House
counsels, defending the President against impeachment in a New York Times
op-ed. We remember that Mr. Katzenbach replaced Mr. Clifford when the latter
resigned from First American in 1991. Ditto for John E. "Jack" Ryan, who ended
up as head of the Resolution Trust Company and denied Rep. Jim Leach's request
for documents relating to Madison Guaranty Trust, the Whitewater S&L. We
remember that it was under Mr. Ryan's watch as head of bank supervision at the
Fed that BCCI won approval to buy First American…."
Click Here for the full Senate report on BCCI

EXCERPTS FROM NAKED COMMUNIST
From Freeper exton1: Former FBI agent, Cleon Skoussen, in 1958, in his book,
THE NAKED COMMUNIST, revealed among other things, these long term goals of the
communist agenda. The information is in the Congressional Record August 1963
and in the Communist Manifesto:
* U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic
war.
* Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a
demonstration of moral strength.
* Permit free trade between all nations regardless of communist
affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
* Provide American aid to all nations regardless of communist
domination.
* Set up East West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's
promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under
supervision of the U.S.
* Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the United
Nations.
* Promote the United Nations as the only hope for mankind. If its
charter is rewritten, demand that it be set as a one-world government with its
own independent armed forces.
* Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
* Do away with loyalty oaths.
* Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.
* Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American
institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
* Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for
socialism and current communist propaganda. Get control of the teachers
associations.
* Gain control of all student newspapers.
* Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments,
editorial writing, policy-making positions.
* Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
* Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship
and a violation of free speech and free press.
* Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography
and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures and TV.
* Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural
and healthy.
* Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social
religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity
which does not need a religious crutch.
* Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools
on the grounds that it violates the principles of separation of church and
state.
* Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate,
old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation
between nations on a worldwide basis.
* Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching
of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part in the big
picture.
* Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation
of the communist apparatus.
* Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
* Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and
easy divorce.
* Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative
influence of parents.
* Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate
aspects of the American traditions; that students and special interest groups
should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political and social
problems.
Repeat from CURIOSITIES: Hillary Rodham did her post Yale Law school
internship with Robert Treuhalft Esquire in Berkley Calif. He was the lawyer
for the Communist Party of the United States.
7/8/98 Fox News "President Clinton said Wednesday that closing an income gap
between the races could help ease racial tensions in America…"I think that
whenever possible, if you think that there is a class-related or an
income-related element in the difficulties we have with race, we ought to have
income-based solutions to it,'' Clinton said…

THE HIGH? ROAD
Roger Clinton, Clinton’s half-brother, a convicted cocaine dealer, is caught
on tape saying, "You should see my brother. He has a nose like a vacuum
cleaner."
Retired FBI agent Gary Aldrich writes of drugs and the White House and
appointees.
Sharlene Wilson talks at length about Clinton's cocaine use, suffers extreme
sentence
Clinton’s insistence that drug use was not bar for security clearance to work
in White House
Clinton refuses to release any medical records, despite every other
presidential candidate in history having done so.
Clinton’s admission of drug use though "didn’t inhale."
Clinton’s utensils picked-up when at a restaurant in England
White House appointee, Patsy Thomasson power of attorney to run Dan Lassater’s
operation while he was in prison for cocaine distribution
Murder of Jerry Parks and theft of his records about cocaine and sex.
Arkansas Development Finance Authority
Jocelyn Elders
* SHARLINE WILSON:" I lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, O.K.? And I
worked at a club called Le Bistro's, and I met Roger Clinton there, Governor
Bill Clinton, a couple of his state troopers that went with him wherever he
went. Roger Clinton had come up to me and he had asked me could I give him
some coke, you know, and asked for my one-hitter, which a one-hitter is a very
small silver device, O.K., that you stick up into your nose and you just
squeeze it and a snort of cocaine will go up in there. And I watched Roger
hand what I had given him to Governor Clinton, and he just kinf of turned
around and walked off…"
* Fiske (former attorney for BCCI and Clifford former head of BCCI and
former Defense Secretary) appointed as first Whitewater IC. Bill Clinton "The
investigation of Whitewater is being handled by an in dependent special
counsel, whose appointment I supported. Our cooperation with that counsel has
been total."
* 10/30/96 Investors Business Daily editorial "..A lot of testimony
has bubbled up. But is it credible? Sally Perdue, a former Miss Arkansas and
Little Rock talk show host who said she had an affair with then-Gov. Clinton
in 1983, told the London Sunday Telegraph that he once came over to her house
with a bag full of cocaine. ''He had all the equipment laid out, like a real
pro.'' Gennifer Flowers says she saw Clinton smoke marijuana and carry joints
with him when he first began visiting her in 1977. Clinton was Arkansas'
attorney general from 1977 through 1979. His first term as governor ran from
1979 through 1981. He was governor again from 1983 through 1992. Two Arkansas
state troopers have sworn under oath that they have seen Clinton ''under the
influence'' of drugs when he was governor. Sharlene Wilson is a bartender who
is serving time on drug crimes and has cooperated with drug investigators. She
told a federal grand jury she saw Clinton and his younger brother ''snort''
cocaine together in 1979. Jack McCoy, a Democratic state representative and
Clinton supporter, told the Sunday Telegraph that he could ''remember going
into the governor's conference room once and it reeked of marijuana.''
Historian Roger Morris, in his book ''Partners in Power,'' quotes several law
enforcement officials who say they had seen and knew of Clinton's drug use. On
a videotape made in 1983-84 by local narcotics officers, Roger Clinton said
during a cocaine buy: ''Got to get some for my brother. He's got a nose like a
vacuum cleaner.'' One-time apartment manager Jane Parks claims that in 1984
she could listen through the wall as Bill and Roger Clinton, in a room
adjoining hers, discussed the quality of the drugs they were taking. R. Emmett
Tyrrell, editor of American Spectator magazine, has tried to track down rumors
that Clinton suffered an overdose at one point. The incident supposedly
occurred after the young politician lost the governorship in 1980 and fell
into an emotional tailspin. Tyrrell asked emergency room workers at the
University of Arkansas Medical Center if they could confirm the incident. He
didn't get a flat ''no'' from the hospital staff. One nurse said, ''I can't
talk about that.'' Another said she feared for her life if she spoke of the
matter. The president himself has helped fuel suspicions of an overdose or
some other drug problem by refusing to make his full medical records
public….These mealy-mouthed explanations and non-denial denials are mirrored
in White House policies that were negligent or worse. The Secret Service
reports that more than 40 staffers brought in by Clinton had such serious (and
recent) drug problems that they had to enter a special testing program for
security reasons…."
* 7/18/96 AP "Some of the Clinton White House employees who were
placed in a special drug testing program had used cocaine and hallucinogens
and were originally denied White House security passes, Secret Service agents
testified Wednesday. The testing program was created as a compromise so the
new administration's workers could keep their jobs, according to Arnold Cole,
who supervised the Secret Service's White House operations. "Initially, our
response was that we denied them passes," Cole background said in a deposition
released by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee….But he was
briefly questioned about the drug issue, which came to light earlier this
week, saying that despite his agency's original concerns about the workers,
"at one point they did receive a pass." Asked who ultimately determined
whether workers who had recently used drugs would be suitable, he answered:
The issue "would be resolved at the highest levels" of the White House.
Another agent's deposition revealed the background checks turned up use of
hard drugs. "I have seen cocaine usage. I have seen hallucinogenic usages,
crack usages," said Jeffrey Undercoffer, when asked to describe the types of
drugs used by employees who were placed in the special programs. The
Associated Press reported Monday that 21 Clinton White House workers had been
placed in the special testing after their background checks indicated recent
drug abuse…"
* Freeper Wright is right! 7/23/98 "…I DID receive an indication this
morning from another source which quotes an MD as saying that the *problem*
Clinton has is continuing…It'll come out in the end. DC sources late last
night who have seen hard evidence call the situation *explosive*. "
* Conspiracy Nation Vol 9 Num 06 "…To those who have read about
Clinton's early days, it is clear that he grew up in a dysfunctional
environment and that later he connected, at least tangentially, with the
cocaine sub-culture. According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, writing in the
London Sunday Telegraph ("Clinton 'took cocaine while in office,'" July 17,
1994), Bill Clinton may have "engaged in regular use of cocaine and marijuana
during his rise to political prominence in Arkansas." Evans-Pritchard bases
his story, in part, on the testimony of Sally Perdue, who claims to have had
an affair with the then-Governor. Clinton, on one occasion, is said to have
had a bag of cocaine from which he prepared a "line" on Perdue's living room
table. Says Perdue: "He had all the equipment laid out, like a real pro."
…This editor has had the pleasure of innumerable conversations with Sherman
Skolnick. While some may question how discerning Mr. Skolnick is regarding
what his various informants tell him, I myself know that he has highly-placed
sources with whom he is in regular contact. Some of these sources are in the
White House. The allegations of a specific "five lines a day" Clinton cocaine
habit were first conveyed to me by Sherman Skolnick earlier this summer.…"
* 7/23/98 Freeper Doug from Upland George Putnam Show "Remember the
guy who didn't inhale? Remember the guy who says he never violated American
drug laws? Remember the guy who tried it once but didn't like it? Remember the
guy who told that an MTV audience that if he had it to do over again he would
inhale? Remember the guy who told a NEW YORK TIMES reporter a week before the
1996 election that he has never used mind-altering drugs? Yes, we remember
him. That is the same man who has had to GO TO REHAB THREE TIMES FOR HIS
COCAINE PROBLEM! … On the George Putnam show today, Larry Nichols chronicled a
meeting he was at with Bill Clinton and Witt Stephens, brother of Jack
Stephens. Larry says that Witt told Clinton that they would give him 100K in
support for another run for the governorship (after he was defeated)but he had
to "dry out on the white stuff." Betsey Wright has admitted to Nichols that on
two other occasions Bill had to go to rehab for cocaine. In discussing this
with Nichols in the past, he has told me that he has been unsuccessful in
locating the place where Clinton was treated. He believed it was somewhere in
Minnesota. .."
* 7/23/98 Jon Dougherty USA Journal Onling "Information passed to a
talk radio program by a reporter for the USA Radio Network late Wednesday
night indicated that Secret Service agents testifying in a Grand Jury hearing
separate from the Lewinsky hearings have alleged drug use within the White
House. According to USA Radio correspondent Jack Christy, the "bombshell"
report was based on other information Christy and others had been gathering on
the issue to the agents' testimony yesterday. "We are hearing allegations that
what the Secret Service is testifying about is drug use within the White
House," Christy said during a phone call to the George Putnam Show on KIEV-AM
in Seattle…Christy also said that the Secret Service agents which have been
compelled to testify before Ken Starr's grand jury "are decent, honorable
people, but they witnessed the president in a compromised position." That, he
said, put them in a very delicate situation. Christy suggested that Starr's
final report to Congress regarding his four-year investigation will be "all
inclusive," and that there may be nothing left for legislators to do "except
impeach the guy, unless he resigns for medical reasons beforehand.""
* 10/31/96 Orange County Register. Letters To The Editor. "After
reading the letter to the president written by Eldon Griffiths in the Register
on Oct.17, I felt compelled to write a letter expressing my views on Bill
Clinton. I retired from the United States Secret Service as the agent in
charge of protection for the Los Angeles area immediately after Clinton was
elected president in 1992. The primary reason I retired was because I had
become disenchanted with the egotistical arrogance of the Clinton staff and
because I saw character flaws in Clinton that I had not seen in the five past
presidents I had protected since 1970. His attention to image and style but
lack of substance and character was evident in private. He was the ultimate
con man…The accumulation of files on the American people and allowing "dopers"
to work as White House staff so offend me that I can no longer remain silent…
I just wish the American people felt values, substance, and character were
important. Ron Williams Huntington Beach "
* Now, with the rumor that the Lewinsky matter will only be about 4%
of Starr's report and the knowledge that 300 pages of the report have already
been written, what kind of information regarding obstruction, witness
tampering, abuse of power will be put forward? And will this story, seemingly
ignored by the mass media and not followed up by the Post, and up being the
nail in the coffin? The New York Post 6/9/98 John Crudele "A KEY figure in the
Arkansas financial community could turn out to be Kenneth Starr's secret
weapon in the investigation of President Clinton. Sources say William McCord,
who took over as head of Lasater & Co. after Clinton friend Dan Lasater went
to jail for drug distribution, signed a plea agreement in May 1995 after being
accused of financing a massive gambling operation…McCord's closeness to
Lasater could fill in a lot of blanks for Starr. And McCord apparently has
been very willing to talk. In fact, he was so helpful to Starr and other
probers that the government asked an Arkansas court to reduce his
sentence…There is no indication in the plea-bargain - a copy of which was
recently found unsealed in an Arkansas courthouse - as to what specific
information McCord has provided. From his background, he could be very helpful
to Starr in the racketeering case he is fashioning against the president.
Starr's team of FBI investigators and prosecutors has been putting together a
case alleging Clinton used financial institutions in Arkansas for his own
benefit in a pattern of organized corruption…Lasater's firm sold bonds for the
state when it needed to raise money for such projects. McCord purchased
Lasater's company soon after Lasater pleaded guilty in 1986 to one count of
conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He served six months of a 30-month prison
sentence before being pardoned by then-Gov. Clinton. When McCord got into
trouble with regulators in 1988, Lasater financed the sale of the company,
which McCord had renamed United Capital Corp., to a concern that later became
a partner of Lasater's. …If all McCord did was give Starr information about
how money was being diverted in Arkansas, that would be a lot of trouble for
the president. But if McCord is able to connect Clinton in any way with
Lasater's drug dealings, the testimony would be devastating."
* Washington Weekly 4/1/96 "On the weekend of September 21, 1991,
Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch met with IRS Investigator
Bill Duncan to write a report on their investigation of Mena drug smuggling
and money laundering and send it to Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh….
Returning to Mena on Sunday, Welch told his wife that he didn't feel too well.
He thought he had gotten the flu….In Fort Smith a team of doctors were
waiting. Dr. Calleton had called them twice while Welch was in transport and
they had been in contact with the CDC. Later the doctor would tell Welch's
wife that he was on the edge of death. He would not have made it through the
night had he not been in the hospital. He was having fever seizures by now. A
couple of days after Welch had been admitted to St. Edwards Mercy Hospital,
his doctor was wheeling him to one of the labs for testing when she asked him
if he was doing anything at work that was particularly dangerous. He told her
that he had been a cop for about 15 years and that danger was probably
inherent with the job description. She told Welch that they believed he had
anthrax. She said the anthrax was the military kind that is used as an agent
of biological warfare and that it was induced. Somebody had deliberately
infected him. She added that they had many more tests to run but they had
already started treating him for anthrax….Even though Welch and Duncan sent
boxes of evidence to Lawrence Walsh in Washington, Walsh never showed any
interest in Mena at all."
* Wall Street Journal Micah Morrison 4/18/96 "…Linda Ives appears to
be a simple housewife--born in 1949, graduated from Little Rock's McClellan
High School, and married to Larry Ives, an engineer on the Union Pacific
railroad. But her tale is one of the most Byzantine in all Arkansas, involving
the murder of her son and his friend, allegations of air-dropped drugs
connected to the Mena, Ark. airport, a series of aborted investigations and,
she believes, cover-ups by local, state, and federal investigators. The case
started nine years ago, when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Today,
with Mr. Clinton in the White House, it is still rattling through the state,
with one of the principal figures making bizarre headlines in the local press
as recently as the last few weeks. Above all, the "train deaths" case opens a
window into the seamy world of Arkansas drugs. The bare facts of the case are
these: At 4:25 a.m. on Aug.23, 1987, a northbound Union Pacific train ran over
two teenagers, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, as they lay side by side, motionless
on the tracks. Arkansas State Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak quickly ruled the
deaths "accidental," saying the boys were "unconscious and in deep sleep" due
to smoking marijuana. "We didn't know anything about marijuana at the time,"
Mrs. Ives says. But when medical experts found the explanation implausible,
"we really began asking questions." The families held a press conference
challenging the ruling, which received wide publicity in Arkansas. This in
turn provoked an investigation by a local grand jury in Saline County, a
largely rural area between Little Rock and Hot Springs. Ultimately the bodies
were exhumed and another autopsy was performed by outside pathologists. They
found that Don Henry had been stabbed in the back, and that Kevin Ives had
been beaten with a rifle butt. In grand jury testimony, lead pathologist
Joseph Burton of Atlanta said the boys "were either incapacitated, knocked
unconscious, possibly even killed, their bodies placed on the tracks and the
train overran their bodies." In September 1988, the grand jury issued a report
stating, "Our conclusions are that the case is definitely a homicide."… The
results of any continuing federal investigation touching on the Ives and Henry
deaths will be presented to Mr. Bank's successor as U.S. attorney for the
Eastern District. So Linda Ives' crusade will end up in the hands of Ms.
Casey, the longtime Clinton ally and campaign worker who recused herself from
Whitewater cases only after making several crucial decisions. President
Clinton appointed her U.S. attorney in Little Rock in August 1993, shortly
after his unprecedented demand for the immediate resignation of all sitting
U.S. attorneys. Mrs. Ives says she is not optimistic about Ms. Casey. "But
then," she adds, "it's not like I'm going to go away, either."
* Wall Street Journal 4/18/96 "…Bill Clinton's gubernatorial
administration assumed a role in the Ives and Henry case shortly after Dr.
Malak's marijuana-induced accidental death ruling. Dr. Malak, an Egyptian-born
physician appointed medical examiner during Mr. Clinton's first term, already
had been buffeted by a number of controversial cases….But when the Saline
County grand jury probing the case attempted to subpoena the outside
pathologists, Gov. Clinton balked. Betsy Wright, his chief of staff, submitted
an affidavit saying she did not "know when the two pathologists will return to
Little Rock" ….Two months later, Gov. Clinton revived a long dormant state
Medical Examiner Commission to handle the Malak controversy. The panel was
headed up by the director of the Arkansas Department of Health, Joycelyn
Elders. In January 1989, the Medical Examiner Commission ruled on the Malak
case. There was "insufficient evidence at this time for dismissal" of Dr.
Malak, Dr. Elders announced. Nine months later, Gov. Clinton introduced a bill
to make the state more competitive in hiring forensic pathologists--by giving
Dr. Malak a $32,000 pay raise; the state Legislature later cut the raise by
half. Ms. Wright says the salary was raised in anticipation of removing Dr.
Malak and attracting a new medical examiner. Dr. Malak was eased out of his
job and given a position as a Health Department consultant to Dr. Elders a
month before Gov. Clinton announced his presidential run…."
* World Net Daily 9/22/98 David Bresnahan "As heads are still spinning
over sex, perjury, abuse of power and security scandals in the White House,
trained dogs brought in by the Secret Service detected drug use in and around
the Oval Office, sources tell WorldNetDaily. While Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr is said to be aware of the drug problems in the White House, no
mention of such problems were in his report to Congress. But reports indicate
as many as 25 percent of the White House staff have a history of illegal drug
use, say the sources…. Several sources have reported independently of each
other that Monica Lewinsky's dress not only had evidence of a sexual encounter
with Bill Clinton, but also traces of cocaine. "There was a significant amount
of cocaine residue," said one source close to the FBI. Another source with
ties to the White House Secret Service confirmed the allegations and was
astonished the Starr report does not mention more about the dress. "The dress
is not the only evidence Starr has regarding drugs in the Oval Office," said
the source…
* London Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 9/24/98 "IN THE interests
of a drug-free world it is perhaps time for Britain and other Western
democracies to consider banning President Clinton from visiting their
countries. After all, President Ernesto Samper of Colombia is now a pariah
because of allegations that he once accepted campaign funding from the drug
cartels - and it is hard to make the case that the hapless Samper did anything
the current incumbent of the White House has not done himself. The allegations
that Clinton dipped into the drug trough while Governor of his own
narco-banana-state in Arkansas are equally persuasive…."
* White House Press Briefing 10/6/98 Joe Lockhart "…MR. LOCKHART: I
don't. I can look into that. I really have no knowledge of how the background
investigations on Cabinet members -- I'm very familiar with White House staff,
who are all subject to an incoming drug test and then random tests. Q Is the
President tested for drugs? MR. LOCKHART: No. Q He's not? MR. LOCKHART: No,
not that I'm aware of. Q Why not? (Laughter.) I mean, he's the Commander in
Chief of the Armed Forces, shouldn't he be tested for drugs if the Armed
Forces are tested? PJ, what about that? (Laughter.) MR. LOCKHART: Next?
(Laughter.)…Q Joe, getting back to this drug situation, why doesn't the
President want to be tested as a good example? I mean, Ronald Reagan certainly
volunteered. MR. LOCKHART: I'm just not aware of that or -- Q The whole
White House staff, you say, is tested for drugs -- MR. LOCKHART: Right. Q --
but not the President. I'm astounded. Doesn't he want to be? MR. LOCKHART:
Well, I have had no discussion with him, nor do I think it's a problem…"
* White House Briefing 10/9/98 Freeper report "…Q: Joe, does the White
House believe that it would be a seperation of powers were Congress--which the
Constitution, as you know,, says shall set the rules for land and sea
forces--if they were to pass a bill requiring that the Commander-in-Chief of
these forces be drug tested like all of these forces and what you revealed as
required of everybody at the White House except the President? Mr. Lockhart:
Thats an interesting constitutional issue, and let me consult with
constitutional experts, and I'll come back to you. Q: What you did on the
platform there. There have been two columns written--one of them in the New
York Post--that deal with the President's firing of the White House doctor and
a number of other drugs and the President questions. And my question- Mr.
Lockhart: Excuse me, what White House doctor? Q: The first one, when he came
here--I believe it's Bell or-- he was fired because he wouldn't inject
something that they didn't tell him what it was. (laughter) Why wouldn't the
President, given all of this problem, wouldn't he be willing to get this
behind us by voluntarily being tested for drugs, as President Reagan did? Mr.
Lockhart: Again, let me look at the first question and I'll come back to you.
Q: When will you come back? Mr. Lockhart: Maybe next week, maybe never.
(laughter) next please...(laughter)…"
* The New York Times 10/11/98 James Bennet " The investigations into
officials of the Clinton Administration continued to yield startling tidbits.
Two black members of President Clinton's cabinet said they had to submit urine
samples, apparently for drug testing, while two white cabinet secretaries said
they did not, according to testimony by Carol E. Browner, the head of the
Environmental Protection Agency. Ms. Browner described the conversation while
testifying in the trial of Mike Espy, the former Agriculture Secretary, who
had to submit a sample. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown also gave one. Joe
Lockhart, the new White House press secretary, said drug-testing policy varied
by agency. White House staff members are tested, he said, but the President is
not…."
* 10/20/98 from Freeper quidam "…Dr. James Y. Suen, (Ethnic Chinese
believed first generation) Chairman of the department of Otolaryngology (ear,
nose and throat disorders) atGeorge Washington University. His office number
in Little Rock (501) 686-xxxx.(I have the real number)He also is a practicing
at the University Of Arkansas "University Hospital"where WJC was reportedly
treated for cocaine abuse (accounts vary one to twooccasions) while he was
Governor. Dr. Suen is suspected of being the attendingphysician.He is
recognized as an authority of on Cancer of the Ear Nose and Throat and
haspublished.He has performed several operations on the President, on his
throat, ears andnose. This is relatively typical for someone that has had
extensive nasal traumadue to cocaine abuse. He has reportedly lost hearing due
to an opportunisticinfection in both ears after having had a "throat"
operation in Dec of 96. The infection lingered and (repeatedly returned) and
damaged the hearing in bothears. This led to WJC having to have hearing aides
installed in both ears in Octof 97. Wife is named Karen, (also Chinese) they
have both been able to stay in theLincoln bedroom--- quidam…"

INVESTING IN CHINA
Motorola, over $1 billion, state-of-the art cellular network originally
designed for military use with Beijing Telecom Great Wall, partly owned by a
company run by the People's Liberation Army.
Lucent Technologies, cellular network
Prodigy, Internet service provider, $50 million with Norinco, a leading
producer of tanks and machine guns as well as motorcycles that was accused of
trying to smuggle AK-47s into the United States two years ago. (Prodigy quit
but a nearly complete Internet system is in place for Norinco.)
Computer Associates, software computer anti-virus technologies with China
Jinchen Security Technology Industry and Commerce Corp., a commercial arm of
the Ministry of Public Security.
Federal Express, express transport with Public Security-backed EAS, as agents.
6/22/98 Lucent Technologies, three contracts, $62 million with China Telecom,
transmission equipment and optical cable
6/22/98 Motorola, four contracts, $346 million with China Eastern
Communications (Eastcom), GSM digital cellular infrastructure equipment and
expanded cellular network in Zhejiang and Shanxi
6/21/98 General Motors, new money to $230 million project, to build pickup
trucks and sports utility vehicles in northern China.
Oxbow Power and Sith Energies, $415 million with Chinese partners
Unknown, $1.5 billion, joint venture power plant on the Southern island of
Hainan
Motorola and Lucent, $400 million, telecommunications
Boeing, $800 million 17 aircraft (1997)
Boeing,$400 million 10 aircraft (1998)
American International Group, Inc. - insurance
Aetna Inc. - insurance
General Electric, $161.7 million - steam turbine system - China Huaneng Group
Phoschem, Cargill, Hydro Farmland - Phosphate fertilizer, $400 Sinochem
IBM, $76.84 million joint venture with China's Great Wall Computer Shenzhen Co
Ltd and Shenzhen Kaifa Technology Co Ltd (Shenzhen Hailiang Storage Products
Co Ltd)
Atlantic Richfield Co and Philips Petroleum Co, $30 million, exploration
coalbed methane

IRIDIUM!
* 8/28/98 DAWN (Pakistan) Masood Haider "The brother of Osama bin
Laden is a director of a US telecom giant, Irridium LLC, according to reports.
Although the Clinton administration has made Osama the world's most wanted
man, the rest of the family does millions of dollars in business with the US,
reports say. Sheikh Hasan bin Laden, one of Osama's many brothers in a Saudi
family of immense wealth and far-flung enterprises, is listed by the
Securities and Exchange Commission as a director of Iridium LLC, the New York
newspaper Daily News said… Irridium, which plans to put the first global
network of cell phones and pagers into operation next month, has launched
satellites four times aboard China's Long March rockets. The launches by
Irridium, Hughes Electronics and Loral Space and Communications triggered a
furore in Congress this summer amid allegations that China picked up missile
targeting know-how from its arrangements with the US firms. Irridium confirmed
that Hasan bin Laden is a director of the Irridium Middle East Corp subsidiary
and that the Saudi bin Laden Group, the family's investment arm, has put money
into the global phone link firm…."
* Mr. Mondale, nephew of the former vice president, was the first
employee of Iridium and is the Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning for
Iridium LLC. Before joining Motorola, he was a Vice President at Fairchild
Space and Defense Corporation where he was responsible for the international
and commercial activities of Fairchild Space from 1989 to 1990. Prior to
joining Fairchild, Mr. Mondale was Legal Counsel to the then Space Division of
Matra, S.A. (now Matra-Marconi Space, N.V.), based in Paris, France, following
several years of private legal practice in Washington, D.C. Mondale has guided
the marketing, strategic planning, and government affairs disciplines within
the company since its inception.
* DR. EDWARD F. STAIANO Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Iridium LLC and Chairman, Iridium World Communications, Ltd. before joining
Iridium LLC was a 23-year veteran of Motorola credited with growing Motorola's
General Systems Sector to record levels. The sector is composed of cellular
infrastructure, cellular equipment, computer, and network management
businesses.
* Iridium has ties to late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and the
Democratic party. Leo Mondale and Motorola executive Edward Staino hired four
of Brown's former employees with high level security clearances to help run
Iridium's project on worldwide telecommunications. In May of 1995 a former
assistant secretary of Commerce, Lauri Fitz-Pegado, a long-time friend of
Brown and special adviser to the chairman of the DNC, became vice president of
the Iridium division called Global Gateway Management. Her responsibilities at
Iridium include coordinating meetings and trips with international investors.
She was joined there by her former Commerce assistants Pilar Martinez,
Charlotte Kea and Andrew Balfour, who was a director under the executive
secretary for Commerce.
* ROBERT W. KINZIE Chairman, Iridium LLC before joining Iridium was
the Director of Strategic Planning for the International Telecommunications
Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) - the 121 member-country international
organization, which owns and operates the global commercial communications
satellite system. Mr. Kinzie also has over 20 years experience in the
satellite communications industry with the Communications Satellite
Corporation (COMSAT). From 1962 to 1965, Mr. Kinzie was an economist at the
U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He also held positions at the U.S.
Bureau of the Census and was on the staff of a United States Congressman.
* While at Commerce, Sockowitz, a 1992 Clinton/Gore fundraiser, held a
top-secret clearance and kept classified files in a safe. After being
transferred to the SBA (without a debriefing) he came back to Commerce and
remove 136 files. After he left the SBA he was not debriefed. He now works for
the Strategic Planning Group in Bethesda, Md., an international business
consulting firm. Justice stopped looking into the security breach matter in
December '96 without ever talking to Sockowitz, or his boss whom he followed
to SBA, Ms. Lew. Nolanda Hill told Judge Lamberth in March of 1998 that Brown
worried that Sockowitz might have ''funneled information to others.''
Documents include satellite encryptions from Hoyt Zia, chief counsel for
Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration. Zia is a former Democratic
National Committee fund-raiser and close friend of Huang. Also in the
Sockowitz files were memos, notes, and file folders from Commerce and the
National Security Council on encryption or decoding software, exports and
policy options; Satellite-project information; "Space Launch;" "Uranium from
Russia;" A CIA report on Russian economic development; and Biographies on
foreign political leaders in Bosnia, Croatia, India, Turkey, and Russia.
* Insight 9/1/97 Tim Maier concerning Sockowitz "… "He knew what he
was doing," says one congressional investigator. "He had to. He held one of
the highest level of clearance - top secret with code word." … "He is another
Craig Livingstone," says one congressional investigator, referring to the
bouncer and political operative who became White House security chief and
resigned after supervising the illegal acquisition of 900 FBI files on Reagan
and Bush appointees. Congressional investigators believe Sockowitz zeroed in
on these files because they were a hot commodity in an explosive high-tech
market. So hot were they that in November the CIA "blocked access" and
prevented House investigators from viewing the documents taken by Sockowitz
even though the investigators had all the proper clearances… "
* Motorola took part in Brown trade-mission trips.

The Iridium system is backed by nineteen strategic investors from around the
world. Seventeen of the investor partners also participate in the operation
and maintenance of 12 ground station "gateways" that link the Iridium system
to the public switched telephone networks:
Iridium Africa Corporation Iridium Africa is associated with Mawarid Overseas
Company Limited.
Iridium Andes-Caribe is a consortium of private Venezuelan investors
Iridium Brasil is a diversified Brazilian corporation
Iridium Middle East Corporation is owned by Mawarid Overseas Company Limited
(see Iridium Africa), and Triniford Investments S.A., which is affiliated with
the Saudi Binladin Group. Binladin is among the largest industrial groups in
Saudi Arabia.
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center A leading aerospace
engineering and manufacturing company in the Russian Federation
Lockheed Martin Corporation A world leader in defense and space systems
technology
Iridium Canada, Inc. BCE Mobile Communications, Inc. and BCE Telecom
International, Inc. - both of which are affiliated with BCE Inc., Canada's
largest telecommunications company
Iridium China (Hong Kong) Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of China
Aerospace, a major diversified industrial group in China and also the parent
company of China Great Wall Industries Corporation.
Iridium India Telecom Limited is a consortium of Indian financial institutions
that initially invested in Iridium LLC through infrastructure Leasing &
Financing Services, Ltd..
Iridium italia S.P.A. is an affiliate of Telecom Italia,
Raytheon Company is one of the world's leading companies in the conception,
development, manufacture, and sale of electronic systems, equipment, and
components for government and commercial use.
SK Telecom Affiliated with Korea Telecommunications Corporation
South Pacific Iridium Holdings Limited is a subsidiary of PT Bakrie &
Brothers, an Indonesia-based diversified holding company.
Sprint Iridium, Inc. is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprint
Corporation, which is a diversified telecommunications company.
Thai Satellite Telecommunications Co., Ltd. is affiliated with United
Communications Industry Co., Ltd., which is the second-largest cellular
telecommunications provider in Thailand
Motorola, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of wireless
communications and electronic equipment, systems, components, and services.
Nippon Iridium (Bermuda) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon
Iridium Corporation, which is a consortium formed in Bermuda by DDI
Corporation
o.tel.o A subsidiary of VEBA AG and RWE AG, two of the largest corporations in
Germany
Pacific Iridium Telecommunications Corporation (PITC) is a subsidiary of
Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd., a diversified international
corporation.

* Repeat: Iridium Middle East Corporation is owned by Mawarid
Overseas Company Limited (see Iridium Africa), and Triniford Investments S.A.,
which is affiliated with the Saudi Binladin Group. Binladin is among the
largest industrial groups in Saudi Arabia
* In 1993, Lockheed Martin (an investor) made one political
contribution. In 1995-96, the company made 576 contributions - both to
Republicans and Democrats, including $1.6 million in political action
committee, or PAC, gifts. Sockowitz walked out with the classified information
on the billion-dollar satellite deal that Lockheed entered into with the
Khrunichev Space Center in Russia - which is part of the Iridium deal.
* Russia's ministry of Atomics (an investor) was allowed to obtain
supercomputers capable of designing nuclear weapons. A Russian organized crime
figure, Clinton White House guest Grigor Loutchansky, is a player in Iridium's
telecommunication plan. Loutchansky is suspected of trafficking in nuclear
materials. Sockowitz had a folder called "Uranium from Russia," which may have
contained details on US efforts to purchase left over weapons-grade uranium
from Russia and revealed where 1,000 tons of such uranium may be stored.
* Beijing (an investor) obtained special export waivers. In 1994, AT&T
was allowed to send video-conferencing and sophisticated remote command and
control systems to a Beijing based company HUA MEI, whose board of directors
are members of the People's Liberation Army, or PLA. In 1996 RSA Data Security
signed a distribution and development agreement with China's Ministry of
Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Graduate School Laboratory of Information Security, which trains Chinese
intelligence agents. RSA had been courting a relationship with China ever
since the company attended an encryption conference in Beijing in 1995. The
company toyed with selling its encryption patent to the federal government but
never did. Indeed, it obtained a special waiver for sales to Beijing at a time
when competitors were being prosecuted for selling similar encryption
technology overseas. Sockowitz had the files on RSA and its patented
encryption technology. Iridium's Chinese partner, Iridium China (Hong Kong)
Ltd., is managed by mainland-born Wang Mei Yue. Wang Mei Yue also happens to
be head of China Aerospace International Holdings Ltd. (CASIL) in Hong Kong.
CASIL is part of China's defense industrial complex, and is also where Liu
Chaoying, the daughter of a top Chinese military official, was employed as a
vice president; she is the figure who allegedly funneled money to the
Democratic Party. According to the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong,
three officials from CASIL sit on the board of Iridium China. China did not
have MIRV capability before the Iridium launch.
THE CAST
For sources and details, see postings by Freeper BubbaBasher

Marsha Scott
Deputy Assistant to the President for Political Affairs
Grew up privileged in Little Rock, daughter of a beauty queen and a
Philadelphia Eagles halfback
Cheerleader, tree-hugger and flower child from the 60’s
Life long friend of Clinton
Dinner guest at White House every Tuesday night
Had an affair with Clinton
Clinton/Hubbell Messenger, visiting Hubbell in prison
Clinton/Hubbell Messenger, visiting Hubbell in Little Rock
Wanted Travel Office Space
In charge of the Filegate Computer Database
Testified against Dolly Kyle Browning’s concerning the High School reunion
incident, falsely per Ms. Browning
Designed plans for new White House database system, for political purposes
Schoolmate of Bruce Lindsey and Webb Hubbell
Met with Vince Foster for 2 hours behind closed doors the day before his
death, couldn’t remember what they talked about
Given the task to find a job for Monica Lewinsky in the White House after she
was transferred to the Pentagon
President’s trouble shooter, special assignment to keep the inner circle
united
Liaison to the gay community
Assures that friends of the president who are being considered for appointment
are "qualified, and the best qualified" for those jobs
Referred to Justice for "…unlawful conversion of government property to the
use of the DNC and the campaign through the diversion of data and resources…"
Patsy Thomasson
Director of White House Office of Administration
Former aide("top lieutenant") to convicted drug dealer Don Lasater (pardoned
by Gov. Clinton)
Got her security clearance 13 months into her job
Participated in ransacking Vince Foster’s office the night of his death
David Watkins memo on the first lady’s involvement in Travel Gate, was found
in her files - seven months after a House committee launched its
investigation
Testified to the Grand Jury about the placement of Monica Lewinsky in the
Pentagon
Testified to Congress that "there was no reason for concern that White House
aides lacked permanent passes because they nonetheless had gotten ‘requisite
security’ approval
Referring to the "mole" who perpetrated the Kremlin's most successful
penetration of the CIA discovered to date, she said "We don't think we have
any Aldrich Ameses at the White House. But we certainly could."
When Aldrich asked the Office of Administration for a copy of the "secret"
phone list, as director she responded "Screw the FBI! To hell with the FBI!
They're not getting this list!"
Congress requested a Special Counsel to investigate her for two possible
violations of 2 U.S.C. Section 192 and 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 -
misrepresentations or false statements to Congress concerning Health Care Task
Force
The SEC investigated her as the head of a group of Arkansas investors for
insider trading on the Tyson 1992 purchase of Arctic Alaska
Was one of Gov. Clinton’s top administrative aides
Was recommended to Lasater by Clinton when she was an Arkansas highway
commissioner
Vice President of Lasater’s bonding company
Hired Clinton’s half brother, Roger, as a limo driver
When Lasater was convicted and was in jail, she took over as head of the firm
with Lasater’s power of attorney
While she was in charge, Gov Clinton continued to funnel all the state’s bonds
through the company, $664 million
Her name turned up on one Drug Enforcement Administration document detailing a
passenger manifest of persons flying with Lasater from Latin America.
Reassigned to State Department, in charge of embassies, has diplomatic
immunity
Handled the sale of the Clinton/Lasater connected Angel Fire (Phoenix) to
Sangre de Cristo
President of Phoenix Group
When she appeared before Starr’s Grand jury on the travel office firing, 6 FBI
agents searched her apartment that night
Buddy Young
Former Arkansas Police Captain
Bill Clinton's head of security
Reported to have been Barry Seal's contact at the Governor's mansion.
On the day following Vincent Foster's murder, promoted to a senior position
with FEMA and moved out of Washington D.C. to the Denton. Texas FEMA office.
Has now returned to Washington DC. as the number 2 man at FEMA.
In 1993 Clinton appointed him to a $92,000-a-year federal post
Two former Arkansas state troopers say Young warned them not to talk to
reporters about Clinton's sex life
Smeared the reputation and questioned the credibility of Larry Patterson (re:
Jones v Clinton lawsuit)
William Henry LaRoche Jr. says he talked to him during the Iran-Contra
operation in 1984
State policeman told Jerry Park’s widow that 5 men who moved in his social
circle conspired the murder of her husband, they flipped coins
Reported that Webb said '"Let me tell you, Vince. This Celeni situation: if
you don't shut your f**king mouth,' he said, 'Buddy Young will make sure
you're horizontal.'"
Larry Nichols testified that he dug up dirt on Clinton’s opponent and turned
it over to him

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Updated and reposted for newcomers, from the Downside Legacy list,
draw your own conclusions…
Posted by: Alamo-Girl (emailname) 10/22/98 09:51:31 PDT

> To: Alamo-Girl

A criminal enterprise? Well, maybe. But remember, it was
in the pursuit of good for Our Children.

> From: Lou Sander (LSand...@aol.com) 10/22/98 10:19:11 PDT

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