"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he
cannot believe it exists". -- J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director 1924-1972, quoted in The
Elks Magazine (August 1956). "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from
its [corrupt feudal] government." -- Thomas Paine. "Each of you, for himself, by himself
and on his own responsibility, must speak". -- Mark Twain.  "The money powers prey upon
the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity.  It is more
despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than
bureaucracy.  It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light
upon its crimes.  I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the
bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe." -- President
Abraham Lincoln. "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act." -- George Orwell.

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SNOW JOB: THE CIA, COCAINE, AND BILL CLINTON

Part 2: The Money Trail

How the CIA laundered millions in drug profits from Mena and paid for Clinton's 1992
election campaign.

by John Dee

* * *

In part one of this article, we examined a CIA-supervised
cocaine smuggling operation based during the '80s in Mena, Arkansas. We also detailed
evidence of then-Governor Clinton's role in suppressing evidence, mishandling federal
funds, even blocking a congressional level investigation into the affair. While
Clinton's at-least tacit role in the Mena cover-up continues to this day (he has yet to
authorize any investigation into the charges), behind the scenes are highly secretive,
quasi-independent elements within the US intelligence community who are handling the
actual machinery. In a high level deal between the National Security Council and the
Medellin cartel, millions of dollars were paid to Felix Rodriguez, the CIA's commander
at El Salvador's Ilopango Air Base, and others (including Manuel Noriega) in exchange
for access to the CIA pipeline for Medellin cocaine. In this conclusion, we examine the
secret network which laundered the Mena drug money. We also find that these same covert
bankers, with close ties to BCCI, financed Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. [It
should be noted that since the publication of part one, this writer has learned that
Buddy Young was appointed by Pres. Clinton to head the Dallas Regional Office of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Young was Governor Clinton's chief of
security, and the man who framed Terry Reed for trying to quit the Mena operation. FEMA,
of course, is the agency empowered to sieze control of the country in the event of
martial law.]

HIGH FINANCE
There is one estimate that Barry Seal ran as much as $100 million worth of cocaine a
month--$1.2 billion a year--through the Mena airbase.

Former Mena pilot Terry Reed has testified that large sums of money were being laundered
through leading Arkansas banks and bond brokers (a pattern of investment also being
examined by a federal investigator just as his researches were abruptly terminated).[1]
For a period, he says, satchels containing $10 million in laundered cash were airdropped
weekly at the airfield. These funds did not include other secret bank arrangements.
CBS News correspondant Bill Plante has said that there is trail of "tens of millions of
dollars in cocaine profits [from Mena], and we don't know where it leads. It is a trail
that has been blocked by the National Security Council."[2]
But despite the efforts of the NSC, there actually is a pretty good indication of where
the money went (beside's the Secret Team's pockets). Money from CIA drug smuggling
operations is known to have been laundered through BCCI, a massive transnational
mega-bank set up and run to launder "covert funds" for intelligence and criminal
clients.[3]
Coincidentally, BCCI has extremely deep roots in Arkansas. In fact, President Clinton
has ties with some of BCCI's top shareholders. Most of the money for Clinton's 1992
campaign came from these people. They are the same people who were also raking in
fortunes through companies which were supplying the Mena operation. In plain words,
President Clinton was elected with money from CIA guns-and-drugs operations.

'COMPANY' PROPERTY & BIOWARFARE

One business in the CIA's Arkansas network was Park-on-Meter, or POM Inc. Based in
Russellvile, AR its current annual revenue is estimated at $18 million.[4]
Commercially, it produces parking meters and machine parts. Covertly, it was
manufacturing untraceable custom weapons parts for the Contras and shipping them to
Mena. POM had subcontracted the job from a CIA front called Iver Johnson's Firearms
(now bankrupt), of Jacksonville, AR.[5]
Former CIA scientist Michael Riconosciuto[6] has told reporters that he was closely
involved in these covert arms operations at POM. He claims that he supervised high-tech
equipment transfers to POM, and had developed software to help launder the Mena drug
money.[7]
He also says that POM manufactured external fuel tanks for C-130 transport planes.
This would have allowed the massive cargo planes to travel the long distances to Central
and South America.[8] He also claims to have worked on fuel-air explosives specifically
for use in the Contra war.[9] But Riconoscuito's most disturbing allegations concern his
work in developing chemical and biological weapons in a project connected to POM. He
says that in 1983 the company, in conjunction with the infamous "private" police force
Wackenhut and Stormont Laboratories in Woodland, CA, began production of the delivery
system for the new chemical and biological warfare CBW weaponry for use in the Contra
war.
He claims that POM was to receive chemical agents from the 354th Chemical Company of the
Army Reserve, located on property across from the corrugated barn housing the POM
facilities, for use in small explosive devices made with the same equipment POM used to
produce parking meters.[10]
When contacted by journalist Alexander Cockburn, Stormont Labs acknowledged only
"discussions" with Wackenhut about biological weapons. Wackenhut denied ever working
with POM.
POM pres. Seth Ward admitted that the company had defense contracts, but only for
"re-entry nose cones for the nuclear warheads on the MX missile and nozzles for rocket
engines," not CBW weapons. Ward also falsely denied that POM ever accepted any money
from the ADFA.

THE A.D.F.A.

Park-On-Meter was the first company to receive a loan from the Arkansas Development
Finance Authority (ADFA), receiving $2.85 million tax-free with low interest.
Growing out of a program offering low-interest loans for housing construction, the ADFA
was created by the state legislature at Clinton's urging in 1985.
Its ostensible purpose was to attract capital to the state for the purpose of economic
development, offering companies long-term loans financed through the sale of tax-exempt
bonds.[11] The ADFA took over much of the state's bond-issuing power and gave the
governor the ability "essentially to create money". The ADFA has no regulator and no
legislative oversight. The governor appoints the board and has the right to approve or
disapprove every bond issue. There is virtually no limit on the value of bonds that can
be issued. One financial advisor described this scenario as a "prescription for
abuse".[12]
The principle bond underwriter for the ADFA was Lasater & Company, founded in 1983 by
Dan Lasater. In just two years Lasater & Co. underwote $664 million in Arkansas bonds.
A child of poverty born in Indiana, Dan Lasater made his fortune when he founded
Ponderosa, a steakhouse chain that went public in 1971. He then moved to Little Rock,
AR.
Lasater had close ties with Bill Clinton, through his friendship with Clinton's mother
and half-brother, Roger. By the early '80s, Lasater was known throughout Little Rock for
his extravagant parties and fast living. In 1982 he was one of the biggest contributers
to Clinton's election campaign, when he won back the governorship after a term out of
office. When Lasater formed his company in 1983, the firm became a frequent underwriter
of Arkansas municipal bond issues.[13] Then, in 1985 Clinton gave Lasater & Co. the ADFA
plum as a quid pro quo repayment for his campaign debt.
Terry Reed alleges in court documents and his recent book, Compromised:

Clinton, Bush and the CIA, (NY: S.P.I. Books, 1994), that Barry Seal made deposits of
cash from the Mena drug operation directly to Lasater & Co. Reed also says that Lasater
introduced Seal to him once as a client of his, although Lasater's attorney denies the
charge. This drug money laundering was in addition to services ADFA was providing to
channel large amounts of cash to POM and other companies. Former ADFA marketing director
Larry Nichols claims that no one was actually buying these bonds, that they were instead
sold to out-of-state banks, two with connections to BCCI. The losses from these junk
bonds were then mixed into the vortex of vanishing money in the S&L crisis.[14]
Nichols and other witnesses state that ADFA used BCCI branches in Florida and Georgia,
as well as Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago. That bank is partially owned
by indicted congressman Dan Rostenkowsi.[15] Other shady deals known to be made by the
ADFA included the transfer of $50 million into Fuji Bank in the Caymen Islands and using
a trading account belonging to Dennis Patrick to move another $50 million in junk
bonds.[16]
Awash in drug money and good connections, Lasater became a heavy user of cocaine. The
noose tightened when his friend Roger Clinton, who was then working as Lasater's driver,
came under scrutiny by narcotics police. Lasater sent him to his Florida horse-farm to
lie low, but to no avail. The pair were eventually arrested and indicted on drug
charges.
Lasater was charged with "social distribution" of drugs and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in
prison. He served only six months, until Governor Clinton pardoned him. (Lasater is now
back in Little Rock and still active in business. His aptly-named Phoenix Corporation
has been bidding on assets being sold off by the Resolution Trust Company. Some of these
very S&Ls collapsed precisely because of Lasater & Co.'s illegal bond trading.)

THE NAME OF THE ROSE

POM president/co-owner Seth Ward's brother-in-law is Webster ("Webb") Hubbell, who
served on POM's board during the early '80s. Later Webb Hubbell would become a partner
in the Rose Law Firm, the Little Rock firm which employed Hillary Rodham Clinton and is
currently at the center of the Whitewater scandal. While a partner at Rose, Hubbell
served as POM's lawyer on a number of cases, including a failed claim of patent
infringement.
Hubbell co-wrote the documents which created the ADFA in 1985. He also represented
Madison Savings and Loan, owned by McDougal. Later, he served on the Resolution Trust
Corporation during its takeover of Madison. Hubbell neglected to inform the RTC of this
conflict of interest.[17]
Clinton appointed Hubbell as the Associate Attorney General, the number-three position
in the Justice Department (although he was viewed by many as the de facto head). In
December 1993 he ordered a new FBI review of the death of Danny Casolaro and the Promis
software case. Only a month later Hubbell resigned under a cloud because of questions
about his role in Whitewater, and a question about $1 million owned by POM to the Rose
firm.[18] His resignation not only shielded him from other accusations related to
Whitewater, but it also served to get POM out of the headlines.
The names of Hubbell and the Rose law firm appear on the bond issues and loan agreement
papers for the largest contributions to Clinton's presidential campaign. The banks,
which extended several loans of more than $3 million, were all owned by a company named
Stephens Inc., which was also a primary underwriter of ADFA bonds. Stephens Inc. is
owned by one Jackson T. Stephens.

EMPIRE

The names of Jackson Stephens and his companies are virtually
synonymous with the economy of Arkansas, where the family owns a large chunk of more
than a dozen banks,
the most exclusive hotel in Little Rock, and the building that houses Bill Clinton's
Arkansas office.
The Stephens Group[19] is at the center of a multibillion-dollar empire. This includes
Stephens Inc, which is the largest brokerage firm outside of New York City. The
family-owned empire includes "a maze of offshore accounts,"[20] stretching to the Middle
East and Asia, with holdings that include hazardous waste incinerators in Massachusetts
and Ohio, the nation's largest nursing home operator, real estate developments in the
Midwest and South, oil and gas, a savings and loan in New Mexico, an insurance company,
a nationwide group of manufacturing companies, and a management company for entertainers
like Burt Reynolds.[21] Stephens Inc. has long been the major underwriter and seller of
municipal bonds in Arkansas, partially handling (though not managing) more than 70% of
the ADFA bonds alone.[22] It has also provided financing for firms such as Wal-Mart
Stores. Last year, the company acquired the Donrey Media Group for $500 million. This
company owns 53 daily newspapers, 71 non-dailies, outdoor advertising, TV broadcasting
and cable television companies.

Donrey is valued at about $950 million.[23] Thanks to Jackson's 37 year old son Warren,
Stephens Inc. has investment banking offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio,
and Kansas City. Some 240 banks in 21 states, including Wells Fargo & Co. and
Nations-Bank Corp. now turn to the Stephens brokerage services. According to the New
York Times, "for decades he [Stephens] has maintained close ties to Presidential
administrations of both political parties." In fact, Jackson Stephens' Bal Harbor condo
is neighbor to Senator Bob Dole's and former Speaker of the House Thomas P.
O'Neill's.[24] Stephens also has a close personal relationship with Rose senior partner
William H. Kennedy 3d, as well as with Bill and Hillary Clinton. No one else raised more
money for Clinton's presidential bid, one which saw his campaign manager James Carville
married to the Bush campaign manager, Mary Matallan. Amidst such strange bedfellows,
perhaps it should not be so surprising that Stephens had been a life-long top
Republican. He was a major contributor to George Bush and part of "Team 100", a
Republican group where membership required a $100,000 donation to Bush's election
campaign. His second wife, Mary Anne, was the 1988 co-chairman of the Bush for President
drive.[25] (When Stephens divorced Mary Anne in 1991, he succeeded in getting the court
records sealed.[26]) In fact, the Stephens family disliked Clinton, consistently
bankrolling candidates who ran against him as governor. Reportedly, Witt Stephens
(Jackson's brother) habitually referred to Clinton as "that boy." The Stephens clan
evidently had a major change of heart when it appeared that George Bush's presidency was
doomed and That Boy Bill was the likeliest successor. Jackson Stephens was also the main
man behind the deal which secured a huge contract to drill oil in Bahrain for George
Bush's son, George Jr.

The company, Harken Energy, never sank a well and even at the time was millions of
dollars in debt. Although Harken Energy continues to lose money, Bush Jr. and the other
directors of the company receive six-figure salaries and generous stock options.
Stephens was able to convince the Union Bank of Switzerland to invest $25 million in
Harken.[27] In 1984, the company was taken over by Alan Quasha, whose father was deeply
involved in the Nugan and Bank scandal in Australia. The bank was founded and run by a
team of covert operators who laundered billions in profits from CIA drug smuggling out
of Southeast Asia. (See The Crimes of Patriots (Touchstone, 1987) by Jonathan Kwitny.)
Bush Jr. has quite a number of companies through which he somehow makes millions of
dollars even though they never make a profit. Another such company was appropriately
called Arbusto Energy Co.[28] It's initial investor group included Bush family cronies
like James R. Bath and the likes of Saudi financier and BCCI frontman Ghaith Pharaon,
and major BCCI sharholder Khaled bin Mahfouz.
Interestingly enough, Jackson Stephens made a fortune off of BCCI.

BANK OF COKE & CLINTON

Fact: of the known BCCI assets in the US--approximately $60
billion--only $1.9 billion was ever located by investigators.
Fact: Despite pleading guilty to 31 felony counts--and the
missing $58.1 billion--BCCI paid only a simple $15 million fine in the United States, in
a deal offered by Attorney General Richard Thornberg in 1990. (Thornberg was succeeded
by William Pelham Barr, a "retired" CIA employee.)
And you could say Jackson Stephens had close ties to BCCI--he was the one who brokered
the very arrival of BCCI in America in 1977. He is an old friend of former Carter
official Bert Lance and was investment banker to Lance's National Bank of Georgia.
Stephens introduced Lance to Saudi billionaire Ghaith Pharaon (who, fronting for BCCI,
would later buy the National Bank of Georgia) and to BCCI founder Agha Hassan Abedi. SEC
documents show that Stephens also steered Abedi to take over First American Bankshares
in Washington DC.[29]

In 1990, another BCCI investor, Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, doubled his stake in Stephens'
Worthen National Bank to a $10 million share. Worthen National is a Stephens-owned bank
which extended a $3 million line of credit (at a lucrative rate of interest) to
Clinton's presidential campaign in January 1992. (The Stephens family itself donated
$100,000 to the Clinton campaign.) Later, Worthen became the Clinton campaign's
depository for $55 million in federal campaign funds.
Last year Worthen National and Stephens Inc. were under investigation by the Federal
Reserve last year for federal banking and antitrust violations. The investigation
centered in part around misleading documents filed to the Fed in 1984 by William H.
Kennedy 3d. Kennedy is now associate White House counsel and formerly the head of the
Rose law firm.
And when former Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske showed up in Little Rock,
Worthen had a mysterious fire in which important documents related to the case were
lost.

BCCI & THE CIA

The congressional Iran-Contra committee noted that then-CIA
director William Casey wanted to establish an offshore entity capable of conducting
operations in furtherance of US foregin policy that was "stand-alone"-- financially
independent of appropriated funds, and, in turn, congressional oversight.
Casey got his wish. The CIA was used BCCI and a complex offshore
financial system to set up its own unregulated, private, foreign policy apparatus.
In this way, it could ignore Congress and carry out its own political objectives
throughout the world.
There is no question that BCCI was intimately involved in
covertly funding the decade's most heinous secret wars. "Black funds" travelled through
BCCI for the Contra war, the Iranian-Israeli payoffs, and large covert wars in
Afganistan
and Angola.[30]
Since its inception in 1972, BCCI was born and bred to move
billions of dollars of blood money with no one seeing it. Time magazine wrote of the
bank, "Superlatives are quickly exhausted: it is the largest corporate criminal
enterprise ever."
Even enemies were apparently welcome at the trough. A 1987 intelligence report by the
French security services, later supported by US Congressional findings, stated that
"BCCI had commercial links with Abu Nidal and front companies set up to finance his
radical Palestinian group. The report also said Kuwaiti embassy officials paid $60
million into Nidal's BCCI account in London in 1987.[31] (This would have been around
the time of the first Persian Gulf "Crisis", when Kuwaiti ships were reflagged as
American and escorted by US warships.) The bank also maintained "cozy relations" with
Libya, Syria, Iraq, and the PLO.

BCCI shareholder/frontman Abdul-Rouf Khalil is known to have
Saudi CIA connections, and frequents the office of the CIA station chief in Saudi
Arabia.
The chief attorney for BCCI's powerful legal team was Clark
Clifford, a former Secretary of Defense and advisor to four presidents. His influence
stretched even into the Federal Reserve. When Clifford was tried and convicted for his
role in BCCI, Clinton himself pardoned him, ostensibly out of concern for the old man's
health.
Perhaps most significantly, the US Senate has investigated the role
in BCCI of former Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms. Helms aided the 1978
takeover attempt of First American Bank on behalf of BCCI Ltd, Georgia (Stephens' bank
deal).[32]
Richard Helms was the Deputy Director of (covert) Operations at the CIA in the 1960s,
under Nixon. Not surprisingly, his projects included the Laos operation, which first
brought together the Secret team which would later wreak such havoc in the '80s.
Helms conducted the CIA's Chile campaign, climaxing with the assassination of Salvador
Allende and the installation of Pinochet's fascist military state.
Helms was then CIA Director in the '70s. He later served as the US Ambassador to Iran.
He joined the Shah's payroll and declared himself an agent of a foreign government after
retiring.[33]

FULL SERVICE BANK

Not surprisingly, the sprawling BCCI transnational bank network
has been directly
linked to the laundering of CIA drug money.
John Blum, a former chief special counsel for the Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee's investigation of BCCI chaired by John Kerry, disclosed that the US Dept. of
Justice "failed to act" on substantial evidence of money laundering, including a Chicago
operation that dated back to 1985.[34] Blum also said that in 1988 he met BCCI employees
in Florida who detailed drug-money laundering activities by the bank. He said the Senate
knew about the use of BCCI by Manuel Noriega to launder large sums of cash.
As part of the CIA drug network, Noriega received millions of dollars in kickbacks from
the Medellin cartel, laundering $90 million of it through BCCI.
His credit was such that BCCI executives routinely took him and his mistress out for
extravagant nights on the town, running up tabs of $100,000.[35]
According to Congressional testimony by Jose Blandon, the CIA had actually advised
Noriega to use BCCI as his bank. They themselves were paying an additional $200,000 a
year into his account there.
BCCI's Panama branch, in the words of Time magazine, also "systematically helped Noriega
loot the national treasury."[36]

HEROIN IN THE GOLD CRESCENT

BCCI's drug dealings stretched also into the Middle East.
Pakistan's finance minister, Sartaj Asis, revealed that local branches of BCCI had
laundered drug money for the CIA, channelled covert CIA aid to the Afghan resistance,
and also managed a multi-million dollar "slush fund" for covert operations.[37]
The CIA's Afghan effort was one of the largest of the post-WWII era.
Coincidentally, Afghanistan and Pakistan are two of the largest producers of heroin and
opium in the world. (As is the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.) Thus they became part of the
CIA's global drug supermarket.
Even the Colombians showed up.
In what has been described as a "typical operation", a container ship from Colombia
docked at night in Karachi, Pakistan. On one particular night in April 1989, "black unit
operatives" paid $100,000 in bribes to Pakistan officials and then directed the
unloading of massive crates. Using cranes, the crates were put onto trucks and taken to
a secure airport where they were loaded onto an unmarked 707 jet. The loading was
supervised by an American CIA officer.[38]
From Karachi the plane flew to Czechoslovakia, electronically disguised as a Pakistan
International Airlines commercial flight. From Czechoslovakia the drug laden plane flew
into the United States.[39]

The network which supported these routine missions thus moved heroin from the "Golden
Crescent" and cocaine from South America through Europe and into the United States. The
routes closely parallel those used by the CIA since the 1950s to move heroin from the
Corsican mafia. The famous French Connection was a small fragment of the huge
international network set up in a deal between the CIA and gangster Lucky Luciano.
(For a superb history of the early days of CIA drug running, see The Great Heroin Coup
[South End Press, 1980] by Henrik Kruger.)

CONCLUSION

While Clinton is clearly a mere cog in the secret network, close examination of his
friends and backers repeatedly betrays their deep connections in some of the most
heinous covert operations in modern history. These include the smuggling of cocaine into
the US by government officials, the theft of billions of dollars through bank and S&L
fraud, top-secret bio-chemical warfare conducted against the civilian population of
Nicaragua, and campaigns of terror, framing, and even assassination.
Furthermore, there is evidence which points pretty clearly to CIA's rigging of the US
election in an operation which makes the October Surprise look like a game of tiddly
winks. Using drug profits and money stolen from BCCI and other corrupt banks, the CIA
and its co-conspirators actually paid for the election of a man ostensibly their rival.
They have gone from merely sabotaging US elections to installing their own to appear as
a rival.

The revelations of connections to the Casolaro "Octopus" are also profoundly disturbing.
There are, in fact, surprising similarities between the apparently unrelated scenarios,
all the way down to the fortuitous deaths of key witnesses and investigators, most of
whom showa surprising propensity for dying within Treasury Dept. jurisdiction.
This story is far from being fully told. It is this writer's opinion that the United
States is amidst a silent crisis which threatens to annihilate any vestige of
constitutional government, freedom, and privacy. The government's use of the Promis
software means that they have had the ability to track dissident populations--within the
US and abroad--to a degree previously left only to the most laughable science fiction.
This story, and the tentacles it could only touch upon, describes a nation--the most
powerful on earth--which has successfully been seized by a small army of blood thirsty
pirates. It is a coup d'etat of astounding proportions and astonishing efficiency, one
which begs a whole new definition of the word.
This is a story which makes one view the world through new eyes.
The question that remains: is Clinton a part of the Directorate, or is he himself a
mere--perhaps unwitting--pawn in an incredibly cynical plan to destroy democracy as we
know it this country?

SIDEBAR TO ARTICLE

L.J. DAVIS 'ASSAULT' A HOAX!

In part one of this article, we reported claims by _New Republic_ journalist L.J. Davis
that he was bludgeoned into unconsciousness and important papers related to his
investigation of Whitewater and Mena stolen. Davis, with the help of such high-profile
cheerleaders as the Wall Street Journal, claims his assault was part of a massive
campaign to silence (even murder) those who might be able to expose alleged high-crimes
committed by Clinton.
But new evidence has surfaced which thoroughly discredits Davis' story. Lies of Our
Times, in its June 1994 issue, reported:

According to reporting by Richard Fricker[1] in the New York
Observer on April 4, Davis had been drinking that night ("Off
the Record," p. 6). The Arkansas Democrat Gazette quoted the
bartender at Davis's hotel saying that Davis had been in the
bar for the four hours he claimed to be face down in his room
(Noel Oman, "Hotel Records, Writer's Claims Don't Jibe," April
11). Far more important than Davis's sobriety, however, Davis
himself told Fricker that the pages of his notebook were partially
torn, not missing. "I could have done it myself when I stuffed the
damn thing back in my shoulder bag," Davis told Fricker. Thus, even
if Davis were assaulted, the evidence for a political motive simply doesn't exist.

Similar tales of mysterious assaults against reporters
investigating Clinton have come from the likes of Gary Lane, reporter for Pat
Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network (CBN). CBN has documented ties to intelligence
and propaganda operatives of the CIA. At this writing, no further information about
Lane's alleged trauma has emerged. Indeed, journalists are not the only ones involved in
the Mena story with interesting friends and connections. Former ADFA employee Larry
Nichols has proved to be a tireless barker of all manner of outrageous claims against
Clinton, including L.J. Davis' hoaxed assault. As reported in Part 1, Nichols never
officially left the CIA. It is quite possible that he is a CIA disinformation agent
acting under secret orders to implicate Clinton in crimes real or imagined.

----
[1] Last year, Fricker wrote an excellent article for _Wired_ magazine which detailed
the Inslaw/Promis/Casolaro/Octopus story: "The INSLAW Octopus-- Software Piracy,
Conspiracy, Cover-Up, Stonewalling, Covert Action: Just another decade at the Department
of Justice."

ENDNOTES:

[1] Alexander Cockburn, "Chapters in the Recent History of Arkansas", Beat the Devil
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scandals of little importance, such as internal oral sex, Whitewater and the ridiculous
travel office "scandal", while ignoring much more significant dirt, such as the
Hillary's $100,000 commodity profit from a $1,000 investment, and murky but more
substantial affairs such as the  <http://www.realchange.org/clinton.htm#mena#mena> Mena,
Arkansas contra supply and drug operation.

And no one (save a few voices on the left) are protesting
<http://www.realchange.org/favors> Clinton's hugely successful fundraising and favors
for people who have provided it, including the Tyson Chicken empire. Running against Bob
Dole, this isn't likely to be an issue, but it is a major fault of the President.

White House Suppresses Skeleton Closet

In a shocking blunder, the White House successfully put pressure on Hotwired Magazine to
stop linking President Clinton's name to this very web page. This was all done behind
the scenes -- we had no idea until we read
<http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/96/18/campaign_dispatch1a.html> Brock Meek's Netizen
column of April 30th.

The White House official involved, David Lytel, was in charge of creating the popular
Clinton White House web site. He recently left the White House, and is working for a
private web page consultant. At a conference, he attacked Netizen for being cynical and
unfair, citing the Skeleton Closet link. Meeks, in response, noted that Hotwired had
removed the link after receiving official pressure from the White House. In
<http://www.hotwired.com/cgi-bin/interact/replies_all?msg.15204> Hotwired's "Threads"
discussion, another Hotwired employee admitted that they had been "intimidated" by
receiving email from the "whitehouse.gov" domain early in Netizen's infancy, and said
she regretted that they caved in.

Lytel's argument -- that it was "dishonest" to link Clinton's name to a page criticizing
him -- is silly of course. Apparently, he thinks the only "honest" link is one that goes
to a person's own web page, no matter how self- serving it is. More to the point, this
is a terrible precedent. As far as we know, it is the first attempt by any American
government to squelch part of the Internet for nakedly political reasons. (The attack on
adult material online, while obviously political, has legitimate issues -- or at least a
reasonable excuse -- behind it.) And doing it privately, behind closed doors, makes it
even worse.

If we were simply seeking publicity, we'd run to Republican politicians (who desperately
need an issue) and hope they try to use it. But that would be hypocritical. It's exactly
that kind of partisan misuse of legitimate scandals that we are trying to make obsolete
here -- because it muddles legitimate issues (like White House censorship of critics) in
stupid, partisan manipulation. We're trying to contact the White House directly, to get
them to disavow Lytel's actions. We'll let you know what happens.

Update: White House Backs Down, Sort Of.

We challenged the White House to confirm or deny that Lytel pressured Hotwired, to
disavow his actions if true, and commit to a policy of avoiding this type of censorship.

Within two days, they replied as follows:

"Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 17:06:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: WEBMASTER (WEBMAS...@a1.eop.gov)
Subject: RE: White House WWW Comments
To: webmaster (webmas...@realchange.org)
Posting-Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 17:09:00 -0400 (EDT)

It is our policy not to interfere with the content of other WEB sites."

We'll take that as an admission that Lytel was out of line, and a solid commitment to
doing the right thing in the future. Of course, they didn't live up to that policy
before, and words are cheap.

  _____  

And now, on with the Clinton's Skeleton Closet page.

What can we say about Bill and Hillary that hasn't been said before? Clinton's scandals
are covered in such loving detail by his enemies that we are providing you with links to
various Clinton scandal pages. At one point I thought I would have time to sift through
ALL of the stuff on Clinton and scandals and sort out the solid stuff from partisan
attacks. HA! It would take years. So enjoy the links, take them with a grain of salt,
and  <mailto:resea...@realchange.org> email us any better links you know of.

Mena, Arkansas: Contra & Drug Smuggling Center?

Even though this issue has been adopted by the conspiracy nuts, there does really seem
to be something behind it. Unlike almost every other Clinton scandal, this one in
non-partisan -- it actually began with Bush and Oliver North, and still seems to
implicate them much more than the President.

In a nutshell, it's pretty well established that both weapons for the Contras and
cocaine were smuggled through the small, obscure airport in Mena, Arkansas during the
1980s and late 1970s. But other than the fact that Clinton was governor during part of
this time, there really isn't much of a link to him. There is a lot of drug smuggling in
Florida, but no one assumes that Florida Governor Jeb Bush is connected to it. The
Contra operation of course was run by the Reagan/Bush White House.

So when you read about Barry Seal or Kevin Ives and Don Henry (two teens apparently
killed because they knew about drug deals), the charges are partly true but mostly
unconnected. Yes, these guys all were killed because they got too close to drug
smugglers, but there is no evidence connecting any of it to Clinton. Clinton-haters try
to make hay out of his brother's personal cocaine habit, or Bill's admitted pot smoking,
but that's ridiculous.

We sure haven't unraveled the whole mess, and I don't think anyone really has. Smugglers
don't keep very good records. The best we can do is give you
<http://www.realchange.org/clinton.htm#menalinks#menalinks> links to as many of the
respectable sources (ie newspaper articles) on the subject as possible.

Dave Feustel used to provide a great resource of newspaper article reprints, many from
the Arkansas Gazette which is not in that many libraries around the country.
Unfortunately, he has removed them from his web site, which also moved to Netcom; not
because of the CIA or whatever your favorite conspirator is, according to email he sent
us, but because of copyright problems. It's a shame. Here is the list of articles
anyway, in case you can look them up:

First Wall Street Journal article on Mena, April 22, 1987
Hasenfus plane once owned by Seal, Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, October 10, 1986
Overview, Arkansas Gazette, June 26, 1987
Lots of Barry Seal details, Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate, April 10, 1988
Jack Anderson's first column, SF Chronicle, 2/2/89
Jack Anderson - changes after Seal's death, SF Chronicle, 3/1/89
SF Chronicle, IRS involvement, July 28, 1989
House hearings, Arkansas Gazette, July 25, 1991
Washington Post article, October 22, 1994
Clinton's statement on Mena, Arkansas Gazette, September 11, 1991
Sally Denton and Roger Morris story, spiked at the Washington Post, ran in Penthouse,
July 1995
Mena & Bobby Seal: Arkansas Gazette, December 22, 1990
Demo Congressman vows to find answers, Arkansas Gazette, December 22, 1990
Mena overview, Associated Press, September 24, 1991

These links still work:

 <http://www.accessone.com/~rivero/POLITICS/ARCHIVE/CRIMES_OF_MENA.html> Arkansas Times
update, August 25, 1995
 <http://www.assumption.edu/WebVAX/Nation/Cockburn24Feb92.html> Column by lefty
Alexander Cockburn, February 24, 1992
 <http://www2.sjmercury.com/drugs/> The San Jose Mercury News' series on CIA involvement
in drug smuggling
 <http://www.assumption.edu/WebVAX/ProRe/CIA12Oct96.html> Progressive Review on
CIA/Cocaine story, October 12, 1996
 <http://www.assumption.edu/WebVAX/Nation/Parry21Oct96.html> The Nation on CIA/Cocaine
story, October 25, 1996
 <http://www.assumption.edu/WebVAX/Nation/Cockburn25Oct96.html> Cockburn on the
CIA/Cocaine story, November 11, 1996
 <http://www.assumption.edu/WebVAX/ProRe/FAIR19Dec96.html> FAIR analysis of CIA/Cocaine
coverage, December 19, 1996

Clinton's Body Count:

Almost everyone on the Internet has received an email listing various dead folks under
the heading "Clinton's Body Count." The number of dead has varied considerably over the
years we've seen this; it's actually lower than it used it be, more often around 60
compared to 80 in some versions a couple of years ago. There is never any documentation
or proof, just a lot of suspicious sounding coincidences.

We're pretty skeptical about the list as a whole, mostly because Clinton just doesn't
seem that competent. If the guy can't cover up 10 blowjobs from a girl who loves him,
how could he cover up scores of political murders while being investigated by Ken Starr
and several other hostile, well-funded prosecutors and committees? Starr himself ruled
Vincent Foster's death a suicide, and Starr had custody of James McDougal, who died of a
heart attack in prison. So unless you think Ken Starr is in on Clinton's murderous
conspiracy, these deaths don't make sense.

Some of the entries are even more absurd. One version of the list includes someone who
died in a one-man skiing accident. So what is Clinton supposed to have done, planted the
tree 20 years earlier? And the list has grown to include random deaths popular among
conspiracy fans, such as Danny Casolaro (an investigative reporter who targeted George
Bush much more than Clinton) and William Colby (CIA director under Nixon and Ford). Only
the most tenuous of threads connect either to Clinton, while each had much more obvious
(and effective) enemies.

On the other hand, there are some legitimately questionable deaths of people with at
least some connection to Clinton. The best known would be Ron Brown, Clinton's Commerce
Secretary who was under active investigation at the time of his death. The official
version of his plane crash is reasonable and could well be true, but you don't have to
be a conspiracy nut to want to know more. There are also a couple of murders of people
on the list that are not solved; while there's nothing particular pointing to Clinton,
there are some questions worth looking at.

Even in these cases, though, the "Body Count" lists twist the truth. Take the case of
Mary Mahoney, a former White House Intern who was working at a Washington Starbucks when
she and two co-workers were shot by unknown attackers. The case is unsolved, but Michael
Rivero's version of the story claims that she was killed because Michael Isikoff (the
Newsweek reporter who broke the Lewinsky story) had dropped hints about a "former White
House intern whose name begins with 'M." The story is stupid anyway, but now in
hindsight we know it's ridiculous. If Clinton was behind the murder, how could he have
killed the wrong "M" intern? I think it's safe to say he knew which one he was having
sex with, even without hints from Michael Isikoff.

So here are some links to versions of the list, and at least one attempt to actually
research these cases and see if any are reasonable. (All but a couple weren't, it turns
out.)

 <http://www.naciente.com/madsoc05.htm> A list of "Dead Clinton Friends" lists
 <http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/clinton.htm> An investigation of the list, with
dates, facts and hotlinks, from Barbara Mikkelsen's Urban Legends page. The report is
fair and admits when a death might be questionable.

Political Favors for Campaign Contributors

Though his administration floundered at first, Clinton has quickly learned one aspect of
Washington -- how to raise money from business interests. He has set records in
fund-raising, eclipsing even Dole's huge haul (though not by much.) Of course, if Dole
was President he would no doubt regain the lead.

And some contributors seem to think their money is well spent. For example,
<http://www.realchange.org/clinton.htm#adm#adm> Clinton raised over a quarter million
dollars from ADM, Bob Dole's major benefactor, and pushed through a regulation
benefiting them mightily.

On the other hand, 2 Arkansas firms that formerly bankrolled Clinton (and received help
from his administration) have switched their support to Dole -- both Tyson Chicken and
Stephens investment brokers apparently figure Dole gives a better return per
contribution dollar, or is more likely to win.

Money and Favors: Archer Daniels Midland

For example, he has received at least $270,000 from Archer Daniels Midland corporation,
the agricultural giant famous for spreading money among various influential people, from
Bob Dole to National Public Radio. Just days after Clinton received a $100,000 check in
June 1994, his administration ordered that 30% of gasoline sold in American's 9 most
polluted cities contain ethanol based additives by 1996 (as opposed to cheaper
methanol.)

Archer Daniels makes 60% of US ethanol for gas, and none of the methanol. Bob Dole, who
receives even more money from Archer Daniels and its president, actually supported the
Clinton Administration's mandate, even while arguing against Clinton's health care
proposal for nearly identical federal mandates. (Courts have block Clinton's 30% rule,
saying he lacked power to favor ethanol over methanol.)

$100,000 for Hillary from an Educational Foundation

This allegation just came out January 10, so bear with us on it's sketchiness. New York
state's new Attorney General Dennis Vacco (a Republican) is investigating a $100,000 in
payments to Hillary or the Rose Law Firm from the National Center on Education and the
Economy, a charity that was in Rochester New York and has since moved to Washington, DC

Hillary was on their board, as were Mario Cuomo and Ira Magaziner, but no other board
members were paid. The justification is that Hillary was paid to carry out some
programs. When this story came out a month ago, Vacco announced he was asking for
contracts with Hillary or the Rose Law Firm and a description of any work she actually
did. Nothing more has come of it, which -- in an election year - indicates that nothing
substantial has turned up.

  _____  

Try these links, but use a grain of salt; some of the sources are pretty marginal, and
most are openly partisan.

 <http://www.zpub.com/un/un-bc.html> The Unofficial Clinton Page This is an excellent,
nonpartisan page.
 <http://www.arktimes.com/news.htm> Arkansas Times newspaper's Whitewater archive Scroll
down a little to "WhiteWater Chronicles."

<http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Political_Issues/Clinton_Adm...
ater_Scandal/> Yahoo's Whitewater Scandal Page
 <http://www.thenation.com/extra/starr/starr.htm> Prosecutor Starr has some scandals of
his own

  _____  

Quotes

"I'm someone who has a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.' " -- Bill
Clinton, 1996

"I don't think [Bill Clinton] is fooling around anymore. Nor do I think he will. I read
that Hillary threw a lamp at him. ... You know something? I think she did." -- Ann
Landers

Sources

"Primary Colors", by 'Anonymous', 1996

Wall Street Journal, in general, and in particular:
....January 12, 1996 pA14
....January 8, 1996 pA1
....December 18, 1995 pA16
....December 29, 1995 pA1
....March 23, 1995 p A1
....February 22, 1995 p A1
....January 13, 1995 p A12

"The Mena Coverup", Micah Morrison, Wall Street Journal, October 18, 1994 p A18

"The Real Cost of Ethanol" and "Dwayne's World", Dan Carney,
<http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/JA95/ethanol.html> Mother Jones, January, 1995

"Aides Saw Political Threat In Clinton Loans From '90", Jeff Gerth, New York Times, May
6, 1995 p7

"Ann Landers Repents For Slurring The Pope", Associated Press, December 1, 1995

"Blocking the Box", Rick Marin, Newsweek, March 11, 1996

"NY Official Probes Payment to Mrs. Clinton", Associated Press, January 12, 1996

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