Alex Jones' Handlers - the Jews and his Fat Ego...with notes on Crypto Mossad Agent Adnan Khashoggi

[Yo Mama]

Not so fast. You can't redefine terms. Explicitly show me how the Khashoggi angle has been debunked. Back up your claim with evidence.

What's the substance of your "Khashoggi" claim?  That Khashoggi owned a company called "Genesis Intermedia", headquartered in Florida,  and that this is a very similar name to the company that Ted Anderson owns called "Genesis Communications Network", headquartered in Minnesota?

That's it?  That's your "angle"?  :lol:

You didn't originate this "Khashoggi" claim.  It's not your theory.  You just read it in some article by Daniel Hopsicker and decided to run with it.  You do know that Hopsicker is full of shit and has absolutely no credibility, right?  You do know that Hopsicker just makes stuff up, right?  No, I guess you didn't.   :clap:

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Y.M.  do you want to change the title to "Confirmed Mossad Agent Adnan Khashoggi" and just drop 'AJ' from the title of this?

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Y.M.  do you want to change the title to "Confirmed Mossad Agent Adnan Khashoggi" and just drop 'AJ' from the title of this?

Judging from his latest comments, it seems he wants to take sole credit for exposing AJ, even though many others did long before him.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

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[Yo Mama]

Y.M.  do you want to change the title to "Confirmed Mossad Agent Adnan Khashoggi" and just drop 'AJ' from the title of this?

I think that would be wise, considering there's no evidence linking Adnon Khashoggi to Alex Jones.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Y.M.  do you want to change the title to "Confirmed Mossad Agent Adnan Khashoggi" and just drop 'AJ' from the title of this?

I think that would be wise, considering there's no evidence linking Adnon Khashoggi to Alex Jones.

What's the matter, too lazy to get the other socks going?

[Yo Mama]

What's the matter, too lazy to get the other socks going?

People who constantly accuse other people of using sock puppets are usually the ones using sock puppets.   :roll:

[Wimpy]

People who constantly accuse other people of using sock puppets are usually the ones using sock puppets. :roll:

Yo Mama

Confucius said:

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
 
    Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
 
    Confucius

Respect yourself and others will respect you.
 
    Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
   
    Confucius

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
   
    Confucius

Man who have hole in pocket feel cocky all day.

      Wimpy

[SPECTEC]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Yo Mama]

Wimpee and Timothee - like two turds in a toilet bowl.   :lol:

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Wimpee and Timothee - like two turds in a toilet bowl.   :lol:

Get lost, troll. We all no Wimpy is you.

[Wimpy]

Yo Wimpy.  Yeah, sounds sort of Kentish.

Yo, bout some burgas', Hit you on the backside be Tuesday.  Straight up!, nome sayin'.

[Yo Mama]

Get lost, troll. We all no Wimpy is you.

Yes.  We all "no" Wimpy is me.  :lol:

Hey, Wimpy, how do you feel now that your buddy has accused you of being me?  

[Wimpy]

Get lost, troll. We all no Wimpy is you.

Yes.  We all "no" Wimpy is me.  :lol:

Hey, Wimpy, how do you feel now that your buddy has accused you of being me?  

About the same as you.

[Christopher Marlowe]

Get lost, troll. We all no Wimpy is you.

Yes.  We all "no" Wimpy is me.  :lol:

Hey, Wimpy, how do you feel now that your buddy has accused you of being me?  

About the same as you.

:lol:

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

CSR, you changed the title of this thread based on Yo Mama's comments?

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Hey Tim,
Not really... but after Y.M. pointed it out that the thread was getting split between the Mamser-AJ and the Crypto-Jew Khashoggi -- I thought it might make more sense if this was clarified. Besides I like the current title better.

I'm just waiting for him to try and take on some Christian Identity forums instead of good ole TIU.  Maybe like Christogenea ...? That might get interesting...  

[Yo Mama]

I'm just waiting for him to try and take on some Christian Identity forums instead of good ole TIU.  Maybe like Christogenea ...? That might get interesting...  

Oh boy, don't get me started on those Christian Identity nutjobs.   :crazy:

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Adnan Kashoggi, Zions Bank and the Mormon Illuminati



One man, Adnan Kashoggi, seems to be everywhere you don't want to be.

"Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi was very proud as he stood on the site of the new Triad Center in Salt Lake City with Mormon Apostle Dallin Oaks, Emanuel Floor and his brother Essam Khashoggi on June 7, 1985. This day marked the gala groundbreaking of the twin 43-story towers and other buildings that made up the new master planned business center in downtown Salt Lake City." (Source)

Here is what the completed project was supposed to look like:



Unfortunately, the project was never completed.

"In Salt Lake City, the lenders who financed Khashoggi's Triad Center, an ambitious redevelopment project, are suing for $61 million over (the) collapse of the unfinished project. Khashoggi aides said the project was losing $1 million a month in 1985. In all, more than $150 million in litigation is pending against Triad America, Khashoggi's Utah-based development company." (Source)

The Mormon Church ended up bailing the project out by purchasing the the uncompleted Triad Center through its Deseret Management - Zion Securities. (Source) The uncompleted project is now the home of Church owned media, LDS Business College and BYU-Salt Lake Center (Source)


In 1996, leaders in the highest echelons of the Mormon Church were told to resign their positions on various corporate boards:

"the First Presidency has suggested that General Authorities withdraw from membership on the boards of directors of business corporations. This will include membership on boards of Church-owned corporations, as well as those of a public and private nature." (Source)


One example is Boyd K Packer, the current President of the Quorum of the Twelve:

"Beyond his achievements and recognitions in the academic world, President Packer has had extensive experience in government and corporate roles. As a young man, he served as a city councilman in his native Brigham City. In more recent years he has been a member of advisory committees to the governor of Utah and to both the Interior and Defense departments of the United States. He has served on the board of directors of Zions Bank and the Bank of Utah and as chairman
of the board of four insurance companies, including Beneficial Life." (Source)


Another example is president Thomas S Monson:

"Monson also served for several years on the boards of businesses and organizations not owned by the LDS Church. From 1969 to 1988 Monson was on the Mountain Bell  Board of Advisors. He served as a member of the board of directors of Commercial Security Bank, including as chair of the banks' audit committee for 20 years. In 1993 when the bank was bought out by Key Bank  Monson was made a member of the Board of Directors of Key Bank. This was one of multiple positions that Monson resigned in 1996 when it was decided that General Authorities should leave all business boards of directors, with the lone exception of the board of Deseret Management Corporation. (Source)


One anonymous source claims that numerous General Authorities were serving on the Zion's Bank Board of Directors when they reportedly lent Kashoggi money for the Triad Center.

In analyzing the current owners of Zions Bankcorp, some very prominent Illuminati entities emerge:

1. BlackRock Fund: A Rothschild Financial Concern 6,833,708

2. JP Morgan: Now JP Morgan Chase, a Rockefeller/Rothschild Joint Venture

3. Deutsche Bank: Rothschilds

4. Bank of New York: Rothschilds


In fact, the list of stockholding companies in Zion's Bank reads like a who's who in the Illuminati. (Source)

This would explain why Zion's Bank received a whopping 5.4 billion in TAARP money from the Rothschild/Rockefeller owned Federal Reserve Bank.

"By far, Zions Bancorp and its Zions Bank subsidiary were the biggest Utah-based financial institutions to benefit from the government's actions.

It's no secret Zions Bancorp received $1.4 billion in TARP funds in 2008. The money was used to bolster the regional bank's capital reserves.

But until the Fed released details last week about its loans and other transactions it made under an assortment of programs, it wasn't known that Zions Bank also received 17 loans from the central bank. The aggregate amount was $5.2 billion." (Source)


This could also explain why Zions Bank was fined $8 million dollars for money laundering:

"Two federal agencies have slapped Zions Bank with multimillion-dollar civil penalties for failing to monitor suspicious wire transfers of billions of dollars related to transactions that may have involved drug trafficking and other crimes.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Friday said it imposed an $8 million penalty against Zions for shortcomings in its anti-money laundering controls — violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA Patriot Act." (Source)


It could also further explain why a Muslim outsider by the name of Adnan Kashoggi was given access to the greatest financial resources in the State of Utah, and why the State of Utah never prosecuted him for criminal fraud.

More in the next article.

Article source with live links: http://www.moneyteachers.org/Adnan+Kash ... s+Bank.htm

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Hey Tim... there are some more weird links under this rock called "Khashoggi"...

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The Rothschild-Mormon Legacy

Nathan Rothschild

Nothing screams Satanic Psychopath or Illuminati like the Rothschild name. Interestingly enough, Nathan Rothschild is a member of the Board of Director's of Barrick Gold. The company website has this to say:

The Honourable Nathaniel P. Rothschild
Klosters, Switzerland
Corporate Director
Founder and Co-Chairman, Vallar PLC, Co-Chairman, EN+ Group Limited
Mr. Rothschild has been a Director of Barrick since 2010. (Source)

Consider the Following:

1. Barrick Gold was founded by Adnan Kashoggi. The same Adnan Kashoggi that funded the drugs for money for weapons fiasco known as Iran Contra. Kashoggi, with the assistance of many prominent Utah Mormon Illuminati, was able to bilk investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars through his Utah Triad Development Corporation. Adnan Kashoggi also partnered with Mormon Bishop, Wally Hilliard to purchase the the Flight School in Florida that trained the 911 hijackers.

2. Mormon Bishop Wally Hilliard has also been linked to drug running (for the CIA?):

"The incident involving Wally Hilliard's airplane and the 40 pounds of heroin flown from South America occured coincidentally around the time Mohamed Atta first appeared for his 'flight lessons' at the Venice,Florida Huffman Aviation flight school.Had Jeb Bush or the W.Bush administration revoked Hilliard's license at that time of the heroin incident rather than Jeb Bush helping promote his failed commuter airline, Air Florida,perhaps the tragedy of 9/11 could have been prevented." (Source)


3. Adnan Kashoggi was the founder of Barrick Gold. According to Steve Davis, the company conspired with Leaders within the Mormon Church, Zion's Bank  and then President George Bush, to steal his Nevada goldmine. The goldmine in question has since proven to be Barrick's greatest asset in the United States, producing over 60 billion dollars in gold bullion.

4. According to Steve Davis, the Mormon Church profitted from the theft through a pay-off from Kashoggi's company involving the sale of gold futures against the Nevada mine.

5. George Bush helped Kashoggi acquire the Nevada claim, with the reported help of the Mormon Leadership, and was rewarded with a leadership position with the company after he lost to Bill Clinton.

6. George Bush also ended up as the reported beneficial owner of other mineral rights involving Utah's recently discovered billion barrel oil field. Unfortunately the man who reportedly discovered the oil, a Rothschild employee, was bludgeoned to death with his wife in Brazil. The violent murder occurred in a gated community with video surveillance and the couple's children asleep in the next room. Also, the victim's high valued Rolex watch was not taken, ruling out theft as a motive.

Now, who is Nathan Rothschild?

"38 Years Old

The Right Honourable Nathaniel P. Rothschild, Mr. Rothschild is the Chairman of JNR Limited, an investment advisory business primarily focused on the emerging markets. Mr. Rothschild has co-founded and led companies in the fields of money management and investment, and currently serves as Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Attara Capital LP (the successor manager to the Atticus European Fund). From 1996 to 2009, Mr. Rothschild held various leadership roles at Atticus Capital LP, most recently Co-Chairman.

Mr. Rothschild is a member of the International Advisory Board of Barrick and of UC Rusal plc, a Hong Kong listed aluminum producer. He is also a director of EN+ Group Limited, a privately-held company which owns a controlling interest in UC Rusal. Mr. Rothschild is a director of the Rothschild Foundation and a member of the Belfer Center's International Council at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution. He holds a master?s of arts degree from Oxford University. Mr. Rothschild is also a director of RIT Capital Partners plc, a publicly-traded investment trust." (Source)


He is also the heir apparent to the Rothschild empire, which includes the United States Federal Reserve Banks, Shell Oil, BP, JP Morgan and their more shadowy operations like the CIA, MI6, and DOPE Inc. The fact that Nathan sits on the board of Barrick gold, which was founded by his puppet, Adnan Kashoggi, should come as no surprise. The fact that Barrick gold, has gone from obscurity to the largest gold mining interest in the world, should also come as no surprise.

I failed to mention that the Rothschild dynasty also controls JP Morgan Chase, HSBC and probably the other Depository institutions that Comex uses to warehouse theire gold and silver.  Their ownership in Zion's Bank (which was fined millions of dollars for money laundering) has also been documented on this website.

The Rothschild's are the Financial Masters for the Illuminati conspiracy and Luciferian New World Order. They are the Merchant Class and 31st degree of Freemasonry. Their organization has written the checks for everything that is wrong with this world of ours. Their money was behind Communism and Fascism, Hitler and Stalin. They underwrote the dictators behind the Iron Curtain and they currently underwrite the United States Congress, Supreme Court and President.

They own the money and they make the laws. The homosexual agenda is their agenda. The Pornography and gambling industries all report to them. The Rockefellers, with their United Nations and Council on Foreign Relations are a Rothschild entity. So is the World Bank, World Court, European Union and any paper currency used by 95% of the nations in this world of ours.

The United States is their Babylon. Their Great Whore that exports their vices to the four corners of the world. We are also their mercenary army, groomed to start the wars that increase their power and fill their coffers. Hollywood is a Rothschild concern. So is Wall Street.

Now it appears that the Mormon Church is also part of the Rothschild Empire. Surely the arguments can be made that:

1. Leading Mormons have played major roles in plundering the assets of the weak and innocent.

2. Mormon Politicians, like Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are Rothschild puppets.

3. Church Leaders actively suppressed evidence of Illuminati infiltration, including but not limited to evidence that Satanic Ritual Abuse was widespread within the organization.

4. Church Leaders have supported and promoted high ranking members that have been exposed publicly, by witnesses and through documentation of their crimes against humanity.

5. BYU is now a globalist tool riddled with Illuminati influence.


The Church is True, the people are not, will be the defining motto of this generation of Mormons. Read the numerous articles on this website and you will find all of the documentation necessary to prove these facts in a Court of Law. Now, a Prophecy on the heads of those that call themselves Saints, but really worship in the synagogue of Satan.

1. I prophesize, in the name of Jesus Christ, that this nation will be broken up by factionalism, war, invasion, civil strife, famine, economic depression, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, plague and pestilence until only a remnant, along with the original inhabitants of the land, remain.

2. That those who call themselves Mormons, who aspire to lead this land through their secret covenants with Secret Combinations, Death and Hell, will be betrayed by those that have flattered them, even as they have betrayed God and the Mormon faithful. That God will take their stewardship and give it unto others, even as they have plundered and murdered honest men and stolen their stewardships.

3. That the blood of their innocent victims will hang over them like a putrid stench both day and night.

4. That their stores of food, gold and silver, which they have set aside for their time of need, and acquired through their fraud, will be taken from them through fraud and deception by those they once trusted.

5. That their families and posterity, which have defended them, and sought to hide their crimes, might be a cursed people, until none of them remain in the land, and their inheritance is given to those who are far more worthy then themselves.

6. That those who have said, we have stolen our peace, will vividly dream of their crimes from this day forward, and will  no longer find peace in this life.

7. That those that once called them "Teacher" will mock them in the day of their desolation.

8.  That the False Prophets will be exposed, and their lies revealed from upon the "housetops".

9. That those that have shown no mercy, will find no mercy in the day of their judgments on this earth.

10. That the day will come when Washington DC, which is the fountain of this great corruption, will eject those that call themselves lawmakers, but who are lawbreakers, and this mighty city, which is the pride of Babylon, will be abandoned and left to fall into ruins. That the cries of the widow and fatherless might cease to come before the the Lord of Sabaoth.

11. That God Himself will govern over the nations with an Iron Rod, and dash these corrupt worldy governments to pieces, that they may no longer glut themselves on the spoils of the poor and oppressed. That they will all, without exception, drink from the cup of His wrath. That they will all be wasted until the inhabitants will bow down and worship Him, not only in word, but in deed.

God will have a pure people on this earth. Even if they have to be purified by great trials. Every evil thing left will be burned by fire and Lucifer, the one that has deceived the nations, must ultimately be bound and cast into hell.

I testify that these things are true, in His Holy Name, Amen.

http://www.moneyteachers.org/Rothschild ... Legacy.htm

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Any links between Ted Anderson and Barrick Gold?

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Any links between Ted Anderson and Barrick Gold?

I haven't seen anything.  

I think this fact should get a second look though.  Adnan Khashoggi looks like he had Turkish Donmeh Jew ancestors just like Fidel Castro.  Likely an Israeli undercover Agent walking between political "worlds" because of money, and lack of identifiable loyalties.
 
If he was meeting with Richard Perle, an architect of 9/11, then Khashoggi may have supplied "identities" or inside info to Perle to fabricate the Saudi "Arab" students on 9/11. This is only an assumption but it would be relevant in light of the timing -- they needed to cover up all "hangout" around the 19 "Arabs".  Khashoggi and his teams could have been in a position of influence to ensure people on the Arab side "don't spill beans" and that Bin Laden was put directly under the lens without the strange connections to his build up by Saudi-CIA intelligence in the 1980s Afghan war. Also, he was to stop any of the Saudi "Arabs" from supporting Iraq in the war build up.  

Another point on Khashoggi, his children were into Scientology, which just means  another fact that they are likely crypto Jews and not "Arab". Same deep angle with the Mormons-CryptoJews.  As for Ted Anderson, he's small fry but I wouldn't be surprised at all if that operation was exposed as funded by Israeli-Zio intelligence.

As always, A.J. is just another example of the "Captive Jew" media in the USA.

--CSR

This "meeting" took place in Jan. 2003 before the Iraq war got going. This article is a good read:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/0 ... z0cttmdIC5
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(Note I don't trust Seymour Hersh but he does provide info on Perle and Khashoggi before 9/11. I get the suspicion after more research that Khashoggi is a "Donmeh" Jew-Arab of some sort:

Khashoggi was born in Mecca, the son of Muhammad Khashoggi, a medical doctor of Spanish, Basque and Turkish ancestry[citation needed] who was King Abdel Aziz Al Saud's personal physician. The family name means spoonmaker (Kaşıkçı) in Turkish. The family moved from the Iberian Peninsula and settled in Saudi Arabia. Adnan Khashoggi's sister Samira Khashoggi Fayed was the mother of Dodi Fayed.


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Lunch With the Chairman
Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
by Seymour M. Hersh

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/0 ... z0cttmdIC5


Perle served as a foreign-policy adviser in George W. Bush's Presidential campaign—he had been an Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan—but he chose not to take a senior position in the Administration. In mid-2001, however, he accepted an offer from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to chair the Defense Policy Board, a then obscure group that had been created by the Defense Department in 1985. Its members (there are around thirty of them) may be outside the government, but they have access to classified information and to senior policymakers, and give advice not only on strategic policy but also on such matters as weapons procurement. Most of the board's proceedings are confidential.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Interesting. It would certainly explain how Jones was able to boldly predict the 9/11 attacks well in advance. Khashoggi was helping Perle with the boogeyman story while simultaneously tipping off Jones—who would use the kosher explanation of the attacks—so that they could position him as the so-called truth teller revealing the "red flag."

In watching Jones' first hit documentary, 911: The Road to Tyranny, he appears to have a strong case of bipolar disorder, bouncing blame for 9/11 on the government, then turning around blaming Arabs, who were apparently aided by the government.

[Yo Mama]

Still waiting for any evidence connecting Adnon Khashoggi with Alex Jones...

 

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Al Martin... always take his word with a small grain of salt since he quotes the Jew Skolnick that started much of the "Queen and Vatican" high level B.S., and he also tosses around the Yakuza-Sicilian Mafia... despite these "smoke screens" much of the scams described below are directly from early NeoCon Jews working in Senior Bush's CIA-Vice Presidency-Presidency.  Keep in mind that Colby winds up dead in 1996 probably because he was attempting to "scuttle" Netanyahu's planning  with NeoCon-AIPAC-Bush insiders for 9/11... with him out of the way... a lot of things then went into high gear under Clinton, like the Israeli penetration of the American Government's communication networks by Mossad Telecom agents. I bet the pardon of Marc Rich was done to prevent more scandal from coming out in the press.  

BTW, Nugan Hand started what we know as "Hedge Funds" today in Australia... a lot of crimes occurred in the White House under Israeli friendly Poppy Bush and Junior Bush...  --CSR

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William Colby, heroin, Israel and child sex abuse
Colby, Scowcroft, Rockefeller

William Colby, heroin, Israel and child sex abuse

On 28th April 1996 William Colby went on a canoe trip at Rock Point in Maryland. His body was found several days later.

Colby may have known too much about 1. The CIA and heroin 2. Israeli attempts to infiltrate and control the CIA 3. child sex abuse scandals and the CIA.

1. William Colby was an officer of the Nugan Hand Bank, 'which was a CIA bank in all but name'. Reportedly, the bank financed drug trafficking, money laundering and international arms dealings. (CIA and Drugs WBLUM)

2. Michael Collins Piper in his book "Final Judgement" wrote (William Colby - The Education Forum) :

The August 20, 1996 issue of The Sun, a supermarket tabloid, carried an exciting 'newsflash' which announced, "Dead CIA Chief Was Set To Finally Blow Lid on JFK Assassination".

The tabloid announced that former CIA director William Colby had been planning to blow the whistle on the truth about the assassination...

....The fact is, that while serving as CIA director, William Colby was considered hostile to Israel's interests, so much so that it was Colby who fired the Mossad's longtime agent-in-place at the CIA, James Jesus Angleton, who has been documented in 'Final Judgement' as the key CIA player in the JFK assassination conspiracy...

According to Wolf Blitzer, longtime Washington correspondent for the Jerusalem Post: 'CBS News back in 1975 reported that Angleton had lost his job in December 1974 because of policy disputes over Israel...

Wolf Blitzer has written about how many high ranking CIA officials didn't share Angleton's enthusiasm for Israel, citing Colby as a specific example...' (...cause Angleton set up Kennedy's Hit--CSR)

In the Spring of 1996, Colby contacted a veteran journalist whom he knew to be friendly with top Arab diplomatic, military and intelligence officials and requested that the journalist arrange for Colby to meet with a certain high-level Arab official....

According to a former federal security administrator who attended one of the meetings, Colby and his Arab associate 'had shared concerns. Both men knew that their respective Governments were being infiltrated and manipulated by Israeli agents. Following these meetings, Colby agreed to go to work as a confidential advisor to Arab interests'.

It is interesting to note further that Colby's death came at a critical time when the Israeli lobby in Washington was engaged in a major behind-the-scenes effort to substantially expand the power of the CIA and its then director, John Deutch, a Belgian born Jewish refugee and longtime Washington figure known for his close ties to Israeli intelligence...

Colby would have emerged as a very loud and public critic of such proposals.

3. John DeCamp, who had once worked for Colby, investigated the Franklin child sex abuse case.

Shortly before Colby died, Colby warned DeCamp to give up the case.

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/01/w ... child.html

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     George H. W. Bush was Barrick Gold Corp.'s chief lobbyist, a stockholder in Barrick, and honorary senior adviser to Barrick's international advisory board.

     Brian Mulroney was Canadian prime minister (1984-93), Barrick Gold lobbyist and director, and Bush's lieutenant on the Barrick international advisory board.
http://www.members.tripod.com/~american ... shgold.htm

 

     Bank operations of Nugan Hand were transferred to House Hold Bank in Chicago, Illinois, (an alleged CIA front bank) where William Colby would be come the unofficial counsel. There, according to Herman Skolnick, Household Bank would continue the work of Nugan Hand.  Many units of Household Finance were shortly thereafter taken over by Harris Bank, which was then taken over by the Bank of Montreal. The Bank of Montreal would be controlled by the Bronfmann family, which became heavily invested in Barrick Gold Company. It would be Edgar Bronfmann that would cut a deal with the Swiss banking cartel in 1998 that would derail US Congressional and Israeli pressure for an investigation into the Holocaust and Marcos gold accounts.

 

      Bronfmann Sr. was the head of the family business, Seagram Company Ltd. headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and the largest distiller of alcoholic beverages in the world.  His father was a Russian immigrant who in 1924 founded Distillers Corp. in Montreal and ran whiskey across U.S.-Canadian border during Prohibition.    In 1981, Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. was elected president of the World Jewish Congress, the federation of Jewish communities outside of Israel.   On his death at 81, he is allegedly was worth $3.5 billion.

   A confidant of that First National Bank of Cicero, Italy, John Tarullo was once a member of the London Gold Pool and arranged clandestine shipments of stolen gold for the CIA and the traditional mafia, as well as other criminal cartels. He was closely aligned with the Archbishop of Milan and, some say, also the Archbishop of Barcelona. Tarullo was murdered after he publicly talked too much about this .

    Since about 1983, there have been a series of state and federal lawsuits by Joseph Andreuccetti, a Chicago-area caulking contractor. He has contended that First National Bank of Cicero, in combination with other banks and savings & loans, misappropriated tens of millions of dollars of funds, assets, and properties belonging to him. In the process, an extensive real estate development in a western suburb, called Kingspoint Condominiums, owned by him, was stolen by corrupt top IRS officials in the Chicago region, for their own personal benefit and not for the Public Treasury. The Acting Inspector General, Robert Cesca, arranged reportedly to cover it up. Cesca has been described by law enforcement personnel, as "the highest ranking mafia representative in the U.S. government".

    About 1983, a federal agency parked $58.4 million in federal funds with Household Bank and Household International [described by some as CIA front company]. This was to make good Andreuccetti's pending claims. About 1988, $50 million of that disappeared, and was secretly transferred to Little Rock, Arkansas, to try to cover up a$47 million S & L embezzlement for which Bill and Hillary Clinton are subject to federal criminal prosecution and eventual federal prison if they are ever convicted.

    Joseph Andreuccetti, a member of the Giannini Family, contends some in the Family want him silenced because of all the details coming out through his extensive litigation about the financial octopus linked to other Giannini family members, former Vatican Bank Chief and crook Marcinkus, the Giannini-linked First National Bank of Cicero, the merger of two corrupt enterprises, Bank of America and Continental Bank, and the involvement of CIA front company Household International and Household Bank..

    The Vatican has a major interest in a world-wide chain of Hotels and Motels called Ramada. A member of the Giannini family, Steven Belmonte [his mother is a Giannini], has been a top operating official of the chain. According to persistent off the record reports by very well informed law enforcement, Ramada reportedly is in some way implicated in vast money laundering of illicit funds, smuggled gold, and proceeds from the dope and arms traffic. Or, at the very minimum, traffickers and money launders of the same somehow find it convenient if not safe and secure, to meet at various Ramada locations.

    Arriving in the fall of 1999 in the Chicago area, Joseph Andreuccetti contends there had been a "hit" team head closely tracking him.  Known abroad as "The Sweet Assassin" by the way the killer's boss is friendly to his target, kissing the target on the cheek, and then arranging some form of murder.  This top killer had total immunity, US and Italy, and elsewhere, and has coordinated his doings reportedly with the CIA, primarily in Italy, and with the Italian military intelligence service, SISMI.

    In 1984, again sinking, Continental Bank of Chicago had some of its principal owners jump ship about six weeks before its plight become more known. As major owners of its parent holding company, the Vatican and the Queen of England sold their shares before the market price went to almost zero. A major owner of the bank itself, Walter J. Cummings, Jr., prevented hungry litigators from deluging the federal courts with damage suits against the Bank. Cummings was Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals in Chicago.  Off the record, Chief Judge Cummings threatened reprisals against lawyers if they brought a flood of damage suits against his Bank.  After all, Judge Cummings was a "man of trust" for the Vatican, safeguarding their interests in his Bank and in his Court. He did not disqualify himself in related litigation. Guess who won in his crooked Court?

   By the 1970s, Bank America, the holding company, was owned principally by the Vatican and the Jesuits, Pope Paul VI's clever army who occasionally see fit to rebuff the Pontiff. In the 1970s, the ownership broadened out to include the French Rothschilds, wrongly identified by know-nothings as "Jewish bankers", actually very Pro-Vatican into many joint finances not exactly compatible with ordinary Jews or the State of Israel.

    By the early 1990s, Bank America stock was steadily declining. More numerous than the traditional Italian and Sicilian mafia, the Japanese underworld, the Yakuza, bought their way into Bank America, becoming a major joint owner. The Yakuza now owns most every bank headquartered in California. The book Yakuza by Dubro and Kaplan, tells a lot about the Japanese mafia. In Osaka, Japan, the Yakuza is actually an adjunct of the local police. According to a discussion by the authors more than half of the new buildings built downtown  Chicago in the 1980s are owned by the Yakuza. Later in the 1990s, Bank of America and the Giannini family merged their interests publicly with Continental Bank, although the Chicago-based and San Francisco-based money ships had been more or less joined at the hip privately long before that. The office buildings in which are also housed the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, are reportedly bankrupt because of low occupancy but owned reportedly by the Yakuza.

     Those businesses reportedly were money laundries for the dope traffic controlled by the Yakuza in murderous competition with the Mexican dope gang, the Herreras.

    On behalf of the Pope, the Giannini family has operated in the Chicago-area a so-far low-key operation called First National Bank of Cicero. Historically, Cicero has been the mafia enclave adjunct to Chicago's old West Side. A dominant force in with the Gianninis and that Bank has been Bishop Paul Marcinkus, originally running a Catholic Church in Cicero. Marcinkus went on to become head of the Vatican Bank. Marcinkus fled the Vatican and took up refuge in Chicago, late in 1991.

    Shortly after Marcinkus returned to Chicago, a purported asset for Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, in December, 1991, was found murdered, mafia-style, not far from the First National Bank of Cicero. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court auctioneer who corruptly skimmed off funds from Bankrupt Estates to contribute to Israel, Wallace Lieberman tried to shake down the Giannini family, their bank in Cicero, and related others, threatening to expose their role in the corrupt traffic in illicit gold, arms, radioactive materials, and such; that they acted jointly with the CIA, the traditional Italian and Sicilian mafia, and Bank of America.

    The murder of Lieberman was announced in the Chicago Tribune, in their edition for Christmas Day, 1991.  Shortly thereafter, Lieberman's son, Barry, was framed up on U.S. treason charges. Barry Lieberman was supposedly caught in the process of supposedly selling to the State of Israel, certain stolen top U.S. military electronic counter-measure radar secret equipment. Actually, it was equipment abandoned by U.S. forces in the Iraqi and Saudi desert after the short Persian Gulf War.

    With the help of Marcinkus and the Giannini family, an Illinois State Senator, Judy Baar Topinka, from the Berwyn-Cicero area, was elected in 1994, as Illinois Treasurer.  In October 1994, she praised the First National Bank of Cicero and former Vatican Bank Chief Marcinkus who she said she knew. She had previously, in some capacity or another, acted as public relations official for the bank in Cicero. Topinka was re-elected in 1998. So, the former Vatican Bank crook helped install the woman who is in charge of all the State money of Illinois.

http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2001Aug/aug23unv.htm

http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2001Aug/aug20unv.htm

 

      Five Star Trust (bank) has been connected by these informed sources to have originated in 1983, when deposed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, and Vice Pres. George H.W. Bush were allegedly looking for a repository for an estimated $3 billion in looted Philippine gold and gems. Some of the Marcos money was stashed in accounts in the Cook Islands, a dependency of New Zealand that has its own banking and corporation laws. Marcos and Khashoggi created Five Star Trust in 1983.  It was as a means to create a vehicle to use the Philippine wealth to create and funnel fungible assets.

 

     According to US intelligence sources, Vice Pres. Bush authorized a Boeing 747 with a special airlift of several tons of gold bars from Clark Air Force base in the Philippines to LaGuardia Airport in New York.  The gold bars were then transported to the International Diamond Exchange Vaults near Rockefeller Center. The Marcos fortune was the price exacted by Vice President Bush for his being granted asylum in Hawaii. A CIA front company called Oceaneering International of Houston was reportedly involved in airlifting some of the gold from the Philippines, in addition to sea-lifting the remainder to the state of Oregon.     During his Hawaiian exile, Marcos declared that he had given Reagan $4 million in 1980 and $8 million in 1984. (Source:  Lost History: Marcos, Money & Treason, by investigative reporter Robert Parry)

After George W. Bush's victory in 2000, the last of the gold in New York was moved to Union Bank of Switzerland Bank in Zurich.  

 

    Union Bank of Switzerland had other connections; it was a joint-venture partner with the notorious BCCI in a Geneva-based bank, and was involved in a scandal surrounding the Nugan Hand Bank, a CIA operation in Australia whose executives were advised by William Quasha, Quasha, a Filipino banker, had been at strong supporter of President Ferdinand Marcos.  Union Bank of Switzerland was also involved in scandals surrounding Panamanian money laundering by BCCI, and Ferdinand Marcos' movement of 325 tons of gold out of the Phillipines.   http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm

 

    William Quasha owned 21 percent of Harken Energy Corporation's stock.  In September 1986, Harken Energy was purchased by a New York lawyer, Alan Quasha who father is William Quasha.  In June 1990, Bush sold two-thirds of the Harken stock he had acquired in the Spectrum 7 deal at $4 a share for $848,560 –$318,430 more than it was worth when he got it.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/081500a2.html

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     Five Star Trust came up in relation to the covert activities of the Nugan Hand Bank.  Five Star entities, active and dissolved, have been discovered in the Isle of Man, the island of Nevis, the Bahamas, Florida, Kentucky, and Texas. Other Five Star-related entities stored large sums of money in the Cook Islands, according to U.S. intelligence sources, and these funds were directly linked to Khashoggi and BCCI. Khashoggi also approached top Nigerian leaders in 1982.

 http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Re ... adsen.html

 

     In 1989, Five Star Trust was officially established in the Isle of Man by a Houston-based attorney who was a close friend of the Bush family.  Since that time, Five Star's accounts are said to funnel more funds from Saudi Arabia as well as cash reserves hidden away in offshore artificial shells by Enron before it collapsed.  "French law enforcement authorities who investigated a major international fraud scheme involving bribes paid to Nigerian officials by Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary (while Dick Cheney was President and CEO) and its TSKJ business partners in return for a Nigerian liquefied natural gas contract, have confirmed that Five Star Trust, an off-shore entity with a presence in the Bahamas and the Isle of Man, and which is linked to the Bush family, is the subject of a major international criminal investigation.

 

     The scandal, known as the TechnipAffair in France, involves French, American, British, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese criminal investigations. Five Star Trust funds were moved illegally into the United States from Nigeria and other off-shore locations through the use of counterfeit "markers" used to secretly transfer large sums of money outside normal (and surveilled) banking networks like SWIFT."

 

     It was such a counterfeit marker, a money order from Canada's Laurentian Bank.
And the intrigue does not end with Fuller and Bush. In the late 1980s, Oceaneering needed to come up with some capital. A New York financial investment manager named James Marquez steered investors into stocks of Oceaneering. He also pushed for Halliburton.   Marquez and his partner Samuel Israel II would later establish the Bayou Management hedge fund. In December 2006, Marquez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud with Israel and was later sentenced to 51 months in prison. In June of this year Israel faked his own suicide in New York but turned himself in to federal law enforcement last month. Israel is serving a 20-year prison sentence for investment fraud.   http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/08/378631.shtml

 

     US intelligence operations had been siphoning off the Marcos gold for three decades. Ferdinand Marcos, however, continued to discover even more of the buried treasure. Marcos had started to sell it on the market during the 1970s in bits and pieces, with the assistance of Adnan Khashoggi.

 

     For some unknown reason, the Enterprise decided they wanted it all in 1986. That reason is now known – to fund a financial war against the Soviet Union. Vice President George Bush ultimately took the gold from Marcos in 1986 when Marcos was forced out of office. It is estimated that Marcos was in possession of 73,000 tons of gold at that time. In removing Marcos from office, the US was supported by his General Fidel Ramos, who defected from Marcos's ranks to support Corazon Aquino. Fidel Ramos was later made a Board member of the Carlyle Group. The Marcos gold was removed to a series of banks, most notably Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, UBS and Banker's Trust, and held in a depository in Kloten Switzerland. Bush administrators involved in the forced departure of Marcos were Richard Armitage and Paul Wolfowitz. Adnan Khashoggi was also involved, helping move the gold. It was at this time that Khashoggi , Shiek Kamal Adham, Khalid bin Mahfouz, and Peter Munk would create a Canadian gold mining company called Barrick Gold.

• Adnan Khashoggi was the international arms merchant that has supported the October Surprise and Iran-Contra deals and helped Marcos sell his gold on the market;

• Sheik Kamal Adham was Chief of Saudi Intelligence;

• Khalid bin Mahfouz was a Saudi investor in several Bush family companies, notably Harken Energy, and a 20% owner of the BCCI criminal banking enterprise.

     Much later, Kashoggi and Adham would be primary investors in a Dubai base company named Oryx. Oryx, along with US investor Wally Hilliard would later be shown to have the backing of the Bush family, Jeb Bush in particular.  Wally Hilliard became owner of Huffman Aviation where Mohammad Atta and several September 11 hijackers would do their flight training.

 

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     For the next decade Iran provided a useful laundering facility and opportunities for the sort of arms deals that secret agents like to engineer on the side. These included the resale of weapons stockpiles left over in Thailand. So while Marcos gold and Chinese flight capital moved through

Australia to Teheran and Beirut, some of the proceeds helped grease the way for new business arrangements.

 

    "Documentary evidence surfaced after Marcos was ousted by a revolution in March 1986. As Marcos's fall neared, Reagan arranged for the dictator to be flown to Hawaii. Marcos's opponents then ransacked government files and found a Feb. 17, 1986, letter signed by a senior Marcos aide, Victor Nituda."

 

     In the letter, Nituda warned Marcos that Reagan's emissary, Senator Paul Laxalt demanded that "sensitive files, including ones listing the 1980 transactions, be turned over to the US before Marcos could go to Hawaii."  Nituda's letter specifically cited accounts set up for Reagan and his 1980 campaign manager (and later CIA Director) William Casey, and that Laxalt demanded "all documents check-listed during his last visit or the deal for a Hawaiian exile is off." Laxalt also demanded files regarding bank loans and donations made to General John Singlaub, who was raising money for the Nicaraguan contra rebels.

(Source: Lost History: Marcos, Money & Treason, by Robert Parry)

   Upon being forced to resign from the Air Force on May 1, 1983, Richard Secord went into business with Iranian-born Albert Hakim, the co-founding Stanford Technology Trading Group International (STTGI). Using a complex web of secret Swiss bank accounts and shell corporations managed by Willard Zucker at Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires (CSF) in Geneva, they built a lucrative Enterprise for covert-operations assigned to them by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North. .

     One of Secord's central purposes in establishing and carrying out the operations of the Enterprise was the accumulation of untaxed wealth in secret overseas accounts. Testimony and records obtained from the Enterprise's Swiss financial manager, Willard Zucker, show that Secord personally received at least $2 million from his participation in the Enterprise during 1985 and 1986, that he set up secret accounts to conceal his untaxed income, and that he later lied and encouraged others to lie to keep it concealed.

Many of these corporations were set up in Switzerland. Some of these were:

(1) Lake Resources, Inc.

(2) The Stanford Technology Trading Group, Inc.

(3) Companie de Services Fiduciaria. (CFS)

 

Other companies were set up in Central America:

 (4) CSF Investments, Ltd.

 (5) Udall research Corporation.

 

Others were set up in the US:

(6) Orca Supply Company in Florida

(7) Consultants International in Washington, D.C.

(  API Distributors:     Ricardo Chavez, the former CIA operative who was co-owner of API Distributors with former CIA officer Thomas G. Clines and Raphael (sic) Rafael Quintero.   Clines earned $883,000 for his services to the Enterprise.

     Albert Hakim was the principal shareholder in Lake Resources, Inc., a Panamanian shell corporation established in May 1985. This corporation was the owner of the account at Credit Suisse Bank in Geneva that was the Enterprise account that received the proceeds from the Iran arms sales.  At the time Hakim entered his guilty plea on November 21, 1989, Lake Resources pleaded guilty to a corporate felony charge of illegally diverting from the US Government $16.2 million in proceeds from the sale of US arms to Iran.

     Willard I. Zucker was the financial manager of the Enterprise's Swiss bank accounts. He was a former IRS lawyer who lived in Switzerland for 20 years.   He establish CSF a tax haven offshore companies to hold funds of clients. Using Panamanian or Liberian companies, Swiss bank accounts, and offshore trust accounts, sold triple layers of secrecy.

    North got contributions from "Country 2 to accounts controlled by Adolfo Calero in Miami. Calero transferred over $11 million to Enterprise Resources Inc.   In April and May 1985, three new companies were established:  Lake Resources, Gulf Marketing and Udall Research Corp. and in Sept. 1985, Albon Values and Dolmy Inc.   Each company was responsible for holding funds for operations in world wide regions:  South America, the Middle-East and Africa.   A Toyco S. A. was a company used to purchase weapons.   Udall Research Corp. was used to run air resupply operations.

     Oliver North's handwritten notes on July 12, 1985, recounted a warning from one CIA officer in the field that "$14M (million) to finance came from drugs."

      Barbara Studley, who worked closely with retired Gen. John K. Singlaub.  In a deposition in a related civil case, Studley testified that "General Singlaub informed me that he had been briefed by Oliver North that the Supermarket had been funded by drug money." Asked if she had heard those allegations from anyone else, Studley responded, "numerous conversations with numerous people, ... this item came up."

    At the European end of this money-laundering scheme, Zucker would make equivalent transfers from North's Swiss bank accounts (containing profits from US arms sales to Iran into the Swiss accounts of the money-launderers. That way, the money-launderers could turn their "dirty" money in the United States into "clean" money in Europe. Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh described these "cash drops" in a brief section of his final report in 1993. Walsh said the cash transfers through Zucker's operation totaled $2.7 million. Walsh's probe found that another $467,000 went in bags from Southern Air Transport's petty cash fund in Miami to pay salaries and buy gas for North's contra air re-supply operations based at El Salvador's Ilopango airport. SAT, a onetime CIA-owned airline, was then reimbursed through money transfers from North's Swiss accounts, Walsh report stated.

    However, newly discovered documents have given a more sinister cast to the SAT-Ilopango operation. As North's pilots were carrying those bags of cash from Miami, a female FBI informant was alleging, in September 1986, that she had witnessed cocaine being loaded aboard SAT planes in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1983 and 1985. The woman, Wanda Palacio, identified a North pilot, Wallace "Buzz" Sawyer, as one crew member loading drugs onto a Barranquilla flight in early October 1985.  The Palacio allegations suggest that participants in North's contra resupply operations were trafficking in drugs and possibly using the secret government operation as a cover to "clean" their money.

    One of the contra contractors, a Costa Rican seafood company called Frigorificos de Punterennas, was created as a cover for drug-money laundering, according to sworn testimony by two of the firm's principals, Carlos Soto and Ramon Milian Rodriguez. Still, in 1986, the State Department put $261,937 into a Frigorificos bank account controlled by Cuban-American Luis Rodriguez.

    In June 1984, North's courier, Robert Owen, passed on information that Cuban-Americans working with the contras are "involved in drugs." Another North aide, Lt. Col. Robert Earl, recalled that in 1986, CIA officers on the ground were worried because these Cubans were knee-deep in "corruption and greed and drugs."  Some DEA officers, including Celerino Castillo, have claimed that their investigations were undermined by senior officials in Washington.

    In one 1989 memo, Castillo summarized his findings, which implicated a half dozen pilots and other drug smugglers who were associated with the contra network at El Salvador's Ilopango military airport. In addition, Castillo's memo on drug trafficking implicated senior Salvadoran Air Force officers who protected North's secret contra operation and sold fuel to North's pilots.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost17.html

 

   You will remember I wrote about Operation Watchtower wherein the US Army Special Forces and CIA were flying drugs up from Latin American into the US from 1973 to 1983.

 

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      Alexander "Al" S. Martin, a retired a Lt. Commander from the US Naval Reserves, went to work into as black operations specialist for the Office of Naval Intelligence. His first assignment was in Peru, where he was tapped for a CIA-sanctioned operation, smuggling American Express cards into Argentina in 1979.

     After that he met US Government-sponsored con man Lawrence Richard Hamil   , a Department of Defense shadow player, who taught him the ropes of profitable covert operations.  In 1984, Martin began marketing Hamil's "deals" through his Florida based Southeast Resources, Inc.

     At a meeting with Richard V. Secord and Hamil, Al Martin was briefed about Iran Contra operations and allowed to view voluminous CIA white papers concerning "Operation Black Eagle," the code-name for the Bush-Casey-North program involving US Government-sanctioned narcotics trafficking, illicit weapons deals and wholesale fraud.

    A self-described fourth level player of Iran Contra, Martin has first hand knowledge of the dirty deals, high-level scams, frauds, and treasonous activities of the Bush Cabal.

    When George Bush, Bill Casey and Oliver North initiated their plan of State-sanctioned fraud and drug smuggling, they envisioned using 500 men to raise $35 billion.  When Iran Contra finally fell apart, they had ended up using 5,000 operatives and making $350 billion.

 

     "Hamil was a master of 'The Game,' one of the best in the United States," Martin says. "He's one of the best political manipulators behind the scenes to ever come down the pike. He is not just a simple con man, a government-connected swindler and money launderer, as people seem to think. He was very deeply involved in all sorts of political deals at the same time. In late 1984, Hamil undertook a separate operation. He began dispensing money to House and Senate Republicans, and I don't think anyone else knew this."

     Trinity Oil and Gas Corporation was founded in 1984 by Barry Seal, Lawrence Richard Hamil (aka Larry Hamil or Richard Hamil) and Larry Nichols. Trinity Oil and Gas was designed to be a fraud similar to all other oil and gas frauds at that time. Not unlike Jeb Bush's Gulf Oil Drilling Supply Company and not unlike Larry Hamil's Gulf Coast Investment Group and LRH Associates, etc. Trinity Oil and Gas Corporation was designed as a vehicle to  launder Barry Seal's drug trafficking profits.

 

    A good friend of Clinton from Arkansas, Larry Nichols, was hired by Clinton and had found out that Clinton's firm, "Arkansas Development Finance Authority" laundered drug-money. Cocaine to a value of $10 million a week was flown in from Mena Airport in Arkansas. The money was laundered via ADFA to a bank in Florida, to a bank in Georgia, to Citycorp in New York, and from there it was transferred out of the country.


     Trinity Oil and Gas to get its base of operations, similar to Gulf Coast Investment Group -- purchased a bunch of old, beat out, one or two barrel-a-day oil wells. These were principally in the sand tar pits outside of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Most of the assets that Trinity Oil and Gas
assets were purchased from the old Sterling Oil of Oklahoma and the old Lyric
Energy of Oklahoma.  They were made to appear that they're pumping 400 to 800
barrels a day by the runs and logs. In this case, Hamil, turned to Hess Oil, a division of Marathon Oil, then owned by Armand Hammer. Hammer allowed certain divisions of oil and
gas divisions, suppliers, distributors that he owned to be used to commit fraud.  Allegedly this was his contribution to Iran-Contra and to Republican sources.


     Anyway, as they had done with Gulf Coast Investment Group and with Gulf Oil and
Drilling Supply Company, Hess Oil had given false runs and logs, making it appear that in
fact Trinity Oil was pumping 500 times the oil that it was actually pumping.


     The cash was flowing from Barry Seal through Trinity Oil and Gas accounts to match this fake oil production.  Seal was simply using this as a device to launder money.


     After July-August 1984, Trinity Oil and Gas, under the auspices of Larry Hamil, became something larger, a newer entity to actually defraud people. People who wanted to contribute to "The Cause" as Oliver North referred to Iran-Contra, invested in Trinity Oil and Gas Limited Partnerships,.


     It was very similar to the way monies were siphoned out of Gulf Coast Investment Group and Gulf Coast Oil and Drilling Supply.  All three of these companies tended to use either Hess or Marathon Oil companies as their pickup agents in the field. They also tended to use the infamous Orca Supply Company of Coral Gables, Florida, supposedly to purchase oil well equipment.  Orca Supply Company was a CIA cut-out that had been dormant. It was picked up
again and was run through the Iran-Contra period by the infamous Lt. Col. Jack Terrell, aka "El Flaco."

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

There are several J-Scams in here though the names are not "dropped"---Senior Bush is apparently a Rothschild puppet IMHO..and was coached by Kissinger... --CSR

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Interview with Alfred McCoy
November 9, 1991
by Paul DeRienzo
Alfred W. McCoy is professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Educated at Columbia and Yale, he has spent the past twenty years writing about Southeast Asian history and politics. Mr. McCoy participated in Causes and Cures: National Teleconference on the Narcotics Epidemic Saturday, November 9 1991, at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan.

PD: How did you come to write The Politics of Heroin; CIA Complicity In The Global Drug Trade?

AM: In 1971 I was a graduate student doing Southeast Asian History at Yale University. An editor at Harper & Row, Elisabeth Jakab, read some articles in a volume I had edited about Laos, which made some general references to the opium trade in Laos.

She decided this would be a great idea for a book and asked me to do a background book on the heroin plague that was sweeping the forces then fighting in South Vietnam. We later learned that about one third of the United States combat forces in Vietnam, conservatively estimated, were heroin addicts.

I went to Paris and interviewed retired general Maurice Belleux, the former head of the French equivalent of the CIA, an organization called SDECE [Service de Documentation Exterieure et du Contre-Espionage]. In an amazing interview he told me that French military intelligence had financed all their covert operations from the control of the Indochina drug trade. [The French protected opium trafficking in Laos and northern Vietnam during the colonial war that raged from 1946 to the French defeat in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu.]

The French paratroopers fighting with hill tribes collected the opium and French aircraft would fly the opium down to Saigon and the Sino-Vietnamese mafia that was the instrument of French intelligence would then distribute the opium. The central bank accounts, the sharing of the profits, was all controlled by French military intelligence.

He concluded the interview by telling me that it was his information that the CIA had taken over the French assets and were pursuing something of the same policy.

So I went to Southeast Asia to follow up on that lead and that's what took me into doing this whole book. It was basically pulling a thread and keep tucking at it and a veil masking the reality began to unravel.

PD: What was the CIA's role in heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia?

AM: During the 40 years of the cold war, from the late 1940's to this year, the CIA pursued a policy that I call radical pragmatism . Their mission was to stop communism and in pursuit of that mission they would ally with anyone and do anything to fight communism.

Since the 1920's the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations, and the United States have prohibited opium and cocaine products from legal sale. These products had already emerged as vast global commodities with very substantial production zones and large markets, large demand for those commodities both in the third world and the first.

The historic Asia opium zone stretches across 5,000 miles of Asian mainland from Turkey to Laos along the southern borders of the Soviet Union and the southern border of communist China. It just so happened that one of the key war zones in the cold war happened to lay astride the Asian opium zone.

During the long years of the cold war the CIA mounted major covert guerilla operations along the Soviet-Chinese border. The CIA recruited as allies people we now call drug lords for their operation against communist China in northeastern Burma in 1950, then from 1965 to 1975 [during the Vietnam war] their operation in northern Laos and throughout the decade of the 1980's, the Afghan operation against Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

Powerful, upland political figures control the societies and economies in these regions and part of that panoply of power is the opium trade. The CIA extended the mantle of their alliance to these drug lords and in every case the drug lords used it to expand a small local trade in opium into a major source of supply for the world markets and the United States.

While they were allied with the United States these drug lords were absolutely immune to any kind of investigation. If you're involved in any kind of illicit commodity trade, organized crime activity like drug trafficking, there is only one requisite for success, immunity, and the CIA gave them that. As long as they were allied with the CIA, the local police and then the DEA stayed away from the drug lords.

Finally, if there were any allegations about the involvement of their allies in the drug trade, the CIA would use their good offices to quash those allegations.

This meant that these drug lords, connected with the CIA, and protected by the CIA, were able to release periodic heroin surges, and [in Latin America] periodic cocaine surges. You can trace very precisely during the 40 years of the cold war, the upsurge in narcotics supply in the United States with covert operations.

PD: How does the CIA's policies affect drug interdiction? I've spoken for example to former Drug Enforcement Administration officer Michael Levine, who has expressed anger that he was pulled off cases because he got too close to someone who, while being a big trafficker, was also an asset of the CIA.

AM: Mike Levine speaks from personal experience. In 1971 Mike Levine was in Southeast Asia operating in Thailand as an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA]. At the same time I was conducting the investigation for the first edition of my book.

Mike Levine said that he wanted to go up country to Chiangmai, the heroin capital of Southeast Asia at that point, the finance and processing center and hub of an enterprise. He wanted to make some major seizures. Through a veiled series of cut outs in the U.S. embassy in Bangkok, instructions were passed to his superiors in the DEA, who told him he couldn't go up and make the bust. He was pulled off the case.

He said it wasn't until he read my book a number of years later that he understood the politics of what was going on and he realized why he had been pulled off. All of the upland drug lords that were producing the narcotic, the heroin, were in fact CIA assets. Now he understands it.

That is not just a single incident, so let's go back to basics. What is the institutional relationship between the DEA an the CIA? The Federal Bureau of Narcotics [FBN] was established in 1930 as an instrument of the prohibition of narcotics, the only United States agency that had a covert action capacity with agents working undercover before World War II. During the war when the OSS [Office of Strategic Services] was established, which is the forerunner of the CIA, key personnel were transferred from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics to train the OSS officers in the clandestine arts.

That close institutional relationship between the DEA [direct descendant of the FBN] and the CIA continues up to the present day. The long time head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a man named Harry Anslinger, who headed that bureau from 1930 until his retirement in 1962, was a militant anti-communist who spent a lot of his time in counter-intelligence operations. There's a very close relationship between the two agencies.

During the cold war the main priority abroad for the United States government was anti-communism, and whenever the CIA mounted an operation, every other U.S. agency was subordinated to the CIA's covert operations.

That meant that when the CIA was running one of its covert action wars in the drug zones of Asia, the DEA would stay away. For example, during the 1950's the CIA had this ongoing alliance with the nationalist Chinese in northern Burma. Initially mounting invasions of China in 1950-51, later mounting surveillance along the border for a projected Chinese invasion of Southeast Asia. The DEA stayed out of Southeast Asia completely during that period and collected no intelligence about narcotics in deference to the CIA's operation.

Let's take two more examples that bring it right up to the present. [First] the Afghan operation: from 1979 to the present, the CIA's largest operation anywhere in the world, was to support the Afghan resistance forces fighting the Soviet occupation in their country. The CIA worked through Pakistan military intelligence and worked with the Afghan guerrilla groups who were close to Pakistan military intelligence.

In 1979 Pakistan had a small localized opium trade and produced no heroin whatsoever. Yet by 1981, according to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, Pakistan had emerged as the world's leading supplier of heroin. It became the supplier of 60% of U.S. heroin supply and it captured a comparable section of the European market. In Pakistan itself the results were even more disastrous.

In 1979 Pakistan had no heroin addicts, in 1980 Pakistan had 5,000 heroin addicts, and by 1985, according to official Pakistan government statistics, Pakistan had 1.2 million heroin addicts, the largest heroin addict population in the world.

Who were the manufacturers? They were all either military factions connected with Pakistan intelligence, CIA allies, or Afghan resistance groups connected with the CIA and Pakistan intelligence. In May of 1990, ten years after this began, the Washington Post finally ran a front page story saying high U.S. officials admit that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar [leader of the Hezbi-i Islami guerilla group], and other leaders of the Afghan resistance are leading heroin manufacturers.

This had been known for years, reported in the Pakistan press, indeed in 1980 reported in McClean's magazine. In fact in 1980 a White House narcotics advisor, Dr. David Musto of Yale University, went on the record demanding that we not ally with Afghan guerilla groups that were involved in narcotics. His advice was ignored and he went public in an op-ed in the New York Times.

Another example: Let's take the cocaine epidemic. In 1981 as cocaine began surging north into the United States, the DEA assigned an agent named Tomas Zepeda, in June 1981, to open up an office in Honduras. By 1983 Zepeda was collecting very good intelligence indicating that the Honduran military were taking bribes to let the aircraft through their country to come to the United States.

Zepeda was pulled out of Honduras and that office was closed by the DEA. They didn't open another office in Honduras until 1987 because Honduras was a frontline country in the contra war. If Zepeda's reports about involvement of the Honduran military had been acted upon, the DEA would have been forced to take action against the Honduran military officers who were working with the CIA to protect the contras.

In short, there was a conflict between the drug war and the cold war. Faced with the choice, the United States government chose the cold war over the drug war, sacrificing a key intelligence post for the DEA in Honduras.

The same thing happened in Afghanistan. During the 1980's from the time that heroin trade started, there were 17 DEA agents based in Pakistan. They neither made nor participated in any major seizures or arrests. At a time when other police forces, particularly Scandinavian forces, made some major seizures and brought down a very major syndicate connected with former president Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan.

PD: What is the role of banking in the heroin trade? What, if any, are the connections to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal.

AM: There have been three times in the past 15 years in which the CIA's money transfer activities have surfaced. The first came in the late 1970's when the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS, investigated a Nassau bank called the Castle Bank. It's a very interesting bank. It was set up by a man named Paul Helliwell, a very senior CIA operative who had retired from the agency. He set up this bank and it grew into a Latin American network of banks. It was used by the CIA to launder money.

In essence, what appears to emerge from the investigation of the Castle Bank in the late 1970's, was that the CIA did not want to move operational funds for covert operations through normal banking channels, where they could be uncovered, either by the United States or abroad, where they could come to the knowledge of opponents of the agency.

They preferred to work through allied banks. Banks that were secure, that were a little bit loose in their accounting procedures. When the Castle Bank was uncovered, the IRS announced a major investigation of the bank's money laundering activities. Suddenly the IRS cancelled the investigation and the Wall Street Journal was told by informed sources in the IRS that the CIA had blocked the investigation.

As soon as Castle Bank collapsed, a small merchant bank based in Australia, operating offshore between Australia and southeast Asia, suddenly mushroomed into a global network of banks, acquiring Latin American and European structures that had belonged to Castle Bank. This bank in Australia called the Nugan-Hand Bank began very quickly in the late 1970's, to acquire a board of retired U.S. intelligence officials, either CIA or various military intelligence services.

The most prominent example, the former Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby, became the legal council of Nugan-Hand Bank. The bank was founded by Frank Nugan, an insecure and incompetent Australian lawyer, and by Michael John Hand, a man with a high school degree who had gone to Vietnam with the Green Berets. He had served in Laos in the 1960's as a contract CIA operative, fighting with three of the people who became very prominent in the CIA's privatized operations, Thomas Clines, Theodore Shackley and Richard Secord, all very big names in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Michael John Hand was the one who worked with William Colby as legal counsel. One of their big operations was to buy a former U.S. naval base in the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean. Australian police investigators who examined that contract, drawn up by William Colby for Michael John Hand, concluded that the plausible explanation they could discover for that contract was to establish a way-station for cocaine smuggling between Colombia and the United States.

We do know the bank was pioneering in the smuggling of heroin between Southeast Asia and Australia. In the late 1970's Australia had very strict banking laws, and anytime you got foreign exchange you had to account for it. The Nugan-Hand Bank helped Australian organized crime figures get their money overseas so they could buy heroin and ship the heroin back to Australia.

The Australian police investigators documented that Michael John Hand worked very closely with Australia's top criminal drug traffickers to finance the first shipments, the pioneering shipments, of heroin to Australia from Southeast Asia.

In 1980 that bank went belly-up and it collapsed, Frank Nugan committed suicide, and then a really amazing event occurred. Thomas Clines, the former CIA chief of station from Laos, a man of great prominence in the Iran-Contra scandal, flew to Sydney, Australia and exfiltrated Michael John Hand, who disappeared in the United States and was never seen since.

Then we come to BCCI. Although we haven't gotten to the bottom of it by any means, we haven't even begun to ask the questions, much less get the answers. BCCI mushroomed in the 1980's and seemed to serve as a similar conduit as Castle Bank and Nugan-Hand Bank. The Manchester Guardian published an expose saying that the CIA paid its operations in the United Kingdom through BCCI, and it's known that the CIA paid the Afghan guerrillas, who were based in Pakistan, through BCCI.

There's one rather large question that nobody is asking about BCCI. It's a Pakistani bank, it booms during the 1980's, in exactly the same period that Pakistan emerges as the world's largest heroin center. We know the Pakistan military officers involved in the drug trade had their accounts with BCCI. There's a three way relationship that really cries out, screams, demands, a congressional investigation.

The relationship between BCCI and the CIA operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan; how much money was the CIA moving through those accounts? Secondly, the relationship between the Pakistan military connected with that operation and BCCI. Thirdly, the relationship between the booming heroin trade of Pakistan and BCCI. I think what we'll possibly discover is that the CIA was shipping its funds into Pakistan through BCCI, protecting BCCI thereby from serious investigations elsewhere in the world. That the Pakistan military were in fact banking their drug profits, moving their drug profits from the consuming country back to Pakistan though BCCI. In fact the boom in the Pakistan drug trade was financed by BCCI.The interrelationship between the Afghan resistance and the CIA and the Pakistan drug trade can all be seen through the medium of BCCI, the banker to both operations, the resistance and the drug trade.

PD: What are the alternatives to the drug war?

AM: In the 1980's, indeed over the last 20 years, society has been given two choices in the drug war. The escalating repression against the drug trade by Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush while the media gave airtime and space to only one sustained critique.That critique put forth by the Drug Policy Foundation argues that the drug war wasn't working and therefore we should pursue a policy of legalization. Simply turn the whole policy of repression on its head, instead of trying to wipe out the drug trade we legalize it.

Let me first of all review the drug war. Is it working? No it's not. The current drug war budget is $11 billion, a very large amount of money. Of that $11 billion, 86% is devoted to the suppression of cocaine trafficking between the United States and Colombia and cocaine trafficking in the U.S. as well. However, while we're devoting 86% of our drug war budget to cocaine, use of cocaine has gone up by 15 percent. Every single indicator shows cocaine addiction is rising at the same time we are fighting this drug war.

The White House is claiming victory in the drug war, William Bennet, the drug czar who retired several months ago, claimed a victory, President Bush has alluded to a victory in the drug war, and so has the current drug war czar, Mr. Bob Martinez. What they claim as a victory is a victory over casual drug use. Well let's face it casual drug use doesn't count, if some kid tries drugs and doesn't like it that's nice but that's not the problem.

The problem is repeated use, and every single indicator says repeated use is up. The drug war is not working. It's filling up our prisons. The prison population doubled under President Reagan, and we now have over 400 prisoners per 100,000 population versus 35 per 100,000 in Holland. We have the largest prison population per capita in the world and it's going up. At the same time our heroin use is going up and our cocaine use is going up.

The reason why is because our effort in the drug war has been concentrated in interdicting the supply of drugs in the United States and over the last 20 years we have fought this drug war on a bilateral basis. The United States in 1972 went into Turkey and said "wipe out your opium trade" and in the 1980's they went into Colombia and said "wipe out your cocaine processing industry". In the early 1980's the U.S. went into Bolivia and said "wipe out coca cultivation in the western part of your country". This is bilateral interdiction, where the U.S. as a sovereign power deals with another sovereign state and applies pressure on that sovereign state to get action on drugs.

There is a misperception about the nature of heroin and cocaine. These are not petty vices, these are complex global commodity trades involving vast areas of production and enormous consumption. It's a commodity comparable in every respect to coffee or tea.

When you bring down the baton of law enforcement on a complex global commodity trade something curious and something paradoxical, something almost magical happens. The genius of capitalism, its magic, its alchemy, transform the lead of repression into the gold of stimulus. Every time we apply repression upon narcotics production on this bilateral basis we stimulate production, and ultimately we stimulate consumption because of the law of supply and demand.

In 1972 President Richard Nixon wiped out the Turkish opium crop with his first drug war, the grandmother of drug wars. This grandmother of drug wars totally wiped out Turkish opium production, and for a while it disrupted the French connection between Turkey, which had supplied French labs in Marseille, which in turn supplied New York.

It looked like victory until you see what really happened. Turkey only grew 7% of the worlds opium. Across the 5,000 mile band of mountains from Turkey in the west to Laos in the east lay the rest of the worlds opium production, the other 93 percent.

Turkey had a shortfall of production, that meant there was a shortfall in supply of illicit opium. So the price went up as would always happen, short supply and the price goes up. That meant farmers elsewhere in the opium zone, from Iran, Afghanistan increased their production as happens every single time. The repression creates a shortfall in supply which raises price and then stimulates production everywhere around the world.

What then is the solution to the problem? Somewhere between the poles of repression and legalization there is an alternative strategy which I call regulation. I don't think we should really fool ourselves to consider legalization. It's politically impractical, it's never going to happen.

If we legalize the drug we are not going to legalize it for kids, this is a country that just raised the drinking age for the socially acceptable drug, alcohol from 18 to 21. You give me the name right now of one legislator who is going to stand up and say "I favor crack for kids, vote for my bill," nobody will ever introduce such a bill. Even if by some miracle you got a legalization bill it would exclude 21 year olds and it would mean that the big drug, crack cocaine would have 89% of its clientele excluded from legalization.

I favor regulation because if cocaine and heroin are commodities let's deal with them as such. You don't repress commodities, you regulate them. Accept the fact that there is no quick fix to this trade, it's been around for 200 years as a major global commodity, as an illegal commodity it's been around for 70 years and it's likely to be around for another 70, maybe 200 years.

Recognizing that you then cancel your bilateral interdiction efforts and transfer your funds to the multilateral effort being run by the United Nations. The multilateral effort by the United Nations actually does reduce production slowly, painfully over a period of decades.

Ultimately we're going to have to seek an amelioration, not a solution, on the streets. We're going to have to address the complex of causes as to why people use drugs. That is where we have to concentrate our money.

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Rothschild, Bush Sr crony, lines up Yukos takeover scam
   
Widely reported in the UK press this weekend, Poppy's (GHW Bush)  scam partner from the 1980s Lord Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild is preparing his great mastermind gambit to control troubled Russian oil giant Yukos, after its boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky was busted in Siberia by prosecutors last week and slung in the slammer on charges of fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, corruption, etc. This move made it easy for the Russian state to freeze large chunks of the company's assets making trading virtually impossible and causing widespread panic on the Moscow stock exchange.

From The Sunday Times:


Rothschild is the new power behind Yukos


A SENIOR MEMBER of the Rothschild banking family has emerged as the key figure in the battle for control of Yukos, the Russian oil giant.

The Sunday Times can identify Lord (Jacob) Rothschild as the secret holder of the large stake in Yukos that was previously controlled by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oil company's chairman. Khodorkovsky, reputed to be Russia's richest man, was last week arrested by Russian prosecutors on charges of fraud and tax evasion. His imprisonment has triggered a trustee agreement he put in place with Rothschild a few months ago. Rothschild, 67, now controls the voting rights on a stake in Yukos worth almost £8 billion. This places him at the centre of a dispute with the Russian state. It is widely believed that the charges being brought against Khodorkovsky are a response to his political ambitions to succeed Vladimir Putin as Russia's president. Russian prosecutors tried to freeze a 44% stake in Yukos on Thursday. Their move highlighted the previously unknown arrangement that allowed voting rights to be transferred to an unnamed foreigner — Rothschild — should Khodorkovsky be unable to "act as a beneficiary" of the shares. It is thought that Khodorkovksy, 40, took this precaution when he realised he was facing arrest. The shares are held via the Gibraltar-based Menatep Group.

Khodorkovksy has known Rothschild for years through their mutual love of the arts and their support for Russian development via the Open Russia Foundation. Rothschild is a multi-millionaire in his own right, with a fortune estimated at £400m. He has not been involved with NM Rothschild, the City investment bank, since walking out during a furious row 22 years ago. Rothschild went on to build his own investment empire through firms such as RIT Capital Partners, St James's Place Capital and J Rothschild Assurance. It is thought that Khodorkovsky could remain in prison until at least the end of the year. He is accused of illegally obtaining $1 billion through fraud and tax evasion. If convicted, he could face 10 years in jail.
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That 'walkout' from NM Rothchilds 22 years ago followed massive family losses connected with assets held in Switzerland when Banco Ambrosiano folded and 'God's Banker' Roberto Calvi was found murdered in London. Rothschild is now preparing a spectacular 'comeback' with this Yukos scam and must think he hold an impressive hand of cards to be able to take on Putin's prosecutors in this particular version of financial strip poker.

The Yukos affair has provoked a crisis in Russia's fledgling capitalist system. Russian shares fell heavily last week and the value of Yukos slumped by a third as foreign investors fled the market. Khodorkovsy broke an agreement that Putin's government would not investigate the controversial circumstances in which the oligarchs made their money as long as they stayed out of politics. Instead, Khodorkovsky funded opposition parties.

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More info on the Al-Queda-Bush-Heroin-Jew Scams.... from fine site "History Commons"...

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1976: CIA and Other Intelligence Agencies Use BCCI to Control and Manipulate Criminals and Terrorists Worldwide


Agha Hasan Abedi.Agha Hasan Abedi. [Source: Terry Kirk / Financial Times]Investigative journalist Joseph Trento will later report that in 1976, the Safari Club, a newly formed secret cabal of intelligence agencies (see September 1, 1976-Early 1980s), decides it needs a network of banks to help finance its intelligence operations. Saudi Intelligence Minister Kamal Adham is given the task. "With the official blessing of George H. W. Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed a small Pakistani merchant bank, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a world-wide money-laundering machine, buying banks around the world to create the biggest clandestine money network in history." BCCI was founded in 1972 by a Pakistani named Agha Hasan Abedi, who was an associate of Adham's. Bush himself has an account at BCCI established while still director of the CIA. French customs will later raid the Paris BCCI branch and discover the account in Bush's name. [Trento, 2005, pp. 104] Bush, Adham, and other intelligence heads work with Abedi to contrive "a plan that seemed too good to be true. The bank would solicit the business of every major terrorist, rebel, and underground organization in the world. The intelligence thus gained would be shared with 'friends' of BCCI." CIA operative Raymond Close works closely with Adham on this. BCCI taps "into the CIA's stockpile of misfits and malcontents to help man a 1,500-strong group of assassins and enforcers." [Trento, 2005, pp. 104] Soon, BCCI becomes the fastest growing bank in the world. Time magazine will later describe BCCI as not just a bank, but also "a global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad. Operating primarily out of the bank's offices in Karachi, Pakistan, the 1,500-employee black network has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder. The black network—so named by its own members—stops at almost nothing to further the bank's aims the world over." [Time, 7/22/1991]

Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Safari Club, Agha Hasan Abedi, George Herbert Walker Bush, Raymond Close, Kamal Adham


1979-1991: Criminal BCCI Bank Repeatedly Saves Pakistan from Financial Ruin
 

By 1979, Pakistan's economy is on the brink of collapse. Pakistan owes large debts to international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but lacks the money to pay off its loans. The criminal BCCI bank led by Agha Hasan Abedi comes up with a scheme to save Pakistan's economy. In 1979, the IMF says that if Pakistan increases its hard currency reserves by at least $50 million for 90 days, Pakistan's State Bank can raise the lending limits for commercial banks. With banks able to make more loans, the economy will be able to perform better. BCCI secretly loans the State Bank the hard currency until the 90 days are over and then takes it back. Having established this system, BCCI helps Pakistan's State Bank numerous times in subsequent years to avoid financial limitations placed on Pakistan. BCCI will finally collapse in 1991 (see July 5, 1991). [Beaty and Gwynne, 1993, pp. 292-293]


May 1979: CIA Begins Working with Hekmatyar and Other Mujaheddin Leaders Chosen by ISI

As the US mobilizes for covert war in Afghanistan (see 1978 and July 3, 1979), a CIA special envoy meets Afghan mujaheddin leaders at Peshawar, Pakistan, near the border to Afghanistan. All of them have been carefully selected by the Pakistani ISI and do not represent a broad spectrum of the resistance movement. One of them is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a drug dealer with little support in Afghanistan, but who is loyal to the ISI. The US will begin working with Hekmatyar and over the next 10 years over half of all US aid to the mujaheddin will go to his faction (see 1983). Hekmatyar is already known as brutal, corrupt, and incompetent. [McCoy, 2003, pp. 475] His extreme ruthlessness, for instance, his reputation for skinning prisoners alive, is considered a plus, as it is thought he will use that ruthlessness to kill Russians. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 267-268]


December 8, 1979: Soviet Forces, Lured in by the CIA, Invade Afghanistan


Soviet tanks entering Afghanistan in late 1979.Soviet tanks entering Afghanistan in late 1979. [Source: Banded Artists Productions]The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. The Russians were initially invited in by the Afghan government to deal with rising instability and army mutinies, and they start crossing the border on December 8. But on December 26, Russian troops storm the presidential palace, kill the country's leader, Haizullah Amin, and the invitation turns into an invasion. [Blum, 1995, pp. 342] Later declassified high-level Russian documents will show that the Russian leadership believed that Amin, who took power in a violent coup from another pro-Soviet leader two months before, had secret contacts with the US embassy and was probably a US agent. Further, one document from this month claims that "the right wing Muslim opposition" has "practically established their control in many provinces... using foreign support." [Cooley, 2002, pp. 8] It has been commonly believed that the invasion was unprovoked, but the Russians will later be proven largely correct. In a 1998 interview, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, will reveal that earlier in the year Carter authorized the CIA to destabilize the government, provoking the Russians to invade (see July 3, 1979). [Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris), 1/1998; Mirror, 1/29/2002] Further, CIA covert action in the country actually began in 1978 (see 1978), if not earlier (see 1973-1979). The US and Saudi Arabia will give a huge amount of money (estimates range up to $40 billion total for the war) to support the mujaheddin guerrilla fighters opposing the Russians, and a decade-long war will ensue. [Nation, 2/15/1999]

Early 1980: Pakistan Turns to Islamic Fundamentalism after Invasion of Afghanistan

Muhammad Zia ul-Haq.Muhammad Zia ul-Haq. [Source: Associated Press]General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq seized power in Pakistan in a 1977 coup and declared himself president. The US stopped all economic and military aid to Pakistan as a result of the coup and Zia ruled cautiously in an attempt to win international approval. But immediately after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan (see December 8, 1979), the US allies with Zia and resumes aid. This allows Zia to use Islam to consolidate his power without worrying about the international reaction. He passes pro-Islamic legislation, introduces Islamic banking systems, and creates Islamic courts. Most importantly, he creates a new religious tax which is used to create tens of thousands of madrassas, or religious boarding schools. These schools will indoctrinate a large portion of future Islamic militants for decades to come. [Gannon, 2005, pp. 138-142] Zia also promotes military officers on the basis of religious devotion. The Koran and other religious material becomes compulsory reading material in army training courses. "Radical Islamist ideology began to permeate the military and the influence of the most extreme groups crept into the army," journalist Kathy Gannon will write in her book I is for Infidel. [Gannon, 2005, pp. 138-142] The BBC will later comment that Zia's self-declared "Islamization" policies created a "culture of jihad" within Pakistan that continues until present day. [BBC, 8/5/2002]


Early 1980 and After: Bin Laden Serves as Middleman between Saudi Intelligence and Afghan Warlords

Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. [Source: BBC]As Osama bin Laden gets involved with the mujaheddin resistance in Afghanistan, he also develops close ties to the Saudi intelligence agency, the GID. Some believe that Saudi Intelligence Minister Prince Turki al-Faisal plays a middleman role between Saudi intelligence and mujaheddin groups (see Early 1980). Turki's chief of staff is Ahmed Badeeb, and Badeeb had been one of bin Laden's teachers when bin Laden was in high school. Badeeb will later say, "I loved Osama and considered him a good citizen of Saudi Arabia." Journalist Steve Coll will later comment that while the Saudi government denies bin Laden is ever a Saudi intelligence agent, and the exact nature of his connections with the GID remains murky, "it seems clear that bin Laden did have a substantial relationship with Saudi intelligence." [Coll, 2004, pp. 72, 86-87] The GID's favorite Afghan warlord is Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, while Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is the Pakistani ISI's favorite warlord. Bin Laden quickly becomes close to both Sayyaf and Hekmatyar, even though the two warlords are not allies with each other. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 268] Some CIA officers will later say that bin Laden serves as a semi-official liaison between the GID and warlords like Sayyaf. Bin Laden meets regularly with Prince Turki and Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naif. Badeeb will later say bin Laden developed "strong relations with the Saudi intelligence and with our embassy in Pakistan.... We were happy with him. He was our man. He was doing all what we ask him." Bin Laden also develops good relations with the ISI. [Coll, 2004, pp. 72, 87-88] Bin Laden will begin clashing with the Saudi government in the early 1990s (see August 2, 1990-March 1991).

Entity Tags: Turki al-Faisal, Steve Coll, Pakistan Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Ahmed Badeeb, Saudi General Intelligence Directorate

1980s: Much US and Saudi Aid Meant for Afghan Fighters Goes to ISI and A. Q. Khan Network

Much of the billions of dollars in aid from Saudi Arabia and the CIA to the Afghan mujaheddin actually gets siphoned off by the Pakistani ISI. Melvin Goodman, a CIA analyst in the 1980s, will later say, "They were funding the wrong groups, and had little idea where the money was going or how it was being spent." Sarkis Soghanalian, a middleman profiting from the aid, will later say, "The US did not want to get its hands dirty. So the Saudis' money and the US money was handled by the ISI. I can tell you that more than three quarters of the money was skimmed off the top. What went to buy weapons for the Afghan fighters was peanuts." Sognhanalian claims that most of the money went through various accounts held at the notoriously corrupt BCCI bank, then was distributed to the ISI and the A. Q. Khan nuclear network. [Trento, 2005, pp. 318] Robert Crowley, a CIA associate director from the 1960s until the 1980s, will also refer to the aid money going to Khan's network, commenting, "Unfortunately, the Pakistanis knew exactly where their cut of the money was to go." An early 1990s congressional investigation led by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will also come to the same conclusion. [Trento, 2005, pp. 314, 384]


1981 and After: BCCI Charity Front Funnels Money to A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Program


Pakistani finance minister Ghulam Ishaq Khan (left) and A. Q. Khan.Pakistani finance minister Ghulam Ishaq Khan (left) and A. Q. Khan. [Source: Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clarke]In 1981, the criminal BCCI bank sets up a charity called the BCCI Foundation. Pakistani Finance Minister Ghulam Ishaq Khan grants it tax-free status, and it supposedly spends millions on charitable purposes. Khan serves as the chairman of the foundation while also running the books for A. Q. Khan's Kahuta Research Laboratories. Ghulam Ishaq Khan will be president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 126-127] BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi announces that he will donate up to 90% of BCCI's profits to charity through the foundation, and he develops a positive reputation from a few well-publicized charitable donations. But the charity is actually used to shelter BCCI profits. Most of the money it raises goes to A. Q. Khan's nuclear program and not to charitable causes. For instance, in 1987 it gives a single $10 million donation to an institute headed by A. Q. Khan. Millions more go to investments in a front company owned by BCCI figure Ghaith Pharaon. [Beaty and Gwynne, 1993, pp. 290-291] An investigation by the Los Angeles Times will reveal that less than 10% of the money went to charity. [Los Angeles Times, 8/9/1991] BCCI uses other means to funnel even more money into A. Q. Khan's nuclear program (see 1980s).


1982: Pakistani ISI Begins Recruiting Arab Fundamentalists to Fight in Afghanistan


Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, begins its program to recruit Arab fundamentalists fighters from across the Arab world to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. [Rashid, 2001, pp. 129]


1982-1989: US Turns Blind Eye to BCCI and Pakistani Government Involvement in Heroin Trade

CIA covert weapons shipments are sent by the Pakistani army and the ISI to rebel camps in the North West Frontier province near the Afghanistan border. The governor of the province is Lieutenant General Fazle Haq, who author Alfred McCoy calls Pakistani President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq's "closest confidant and the de facto overlord of the mujaheddin guerrillas." Haq allows hundreds of heroin refineries to set up in his province. Beginning around 1982, Pakistani army trucks carrying CIA weapons from Karachi often pick up heroin in Haq's province and return loaded with heroin. They are protected from police search by ISI papers. [McCoy, 2003, pp. 477] By 1982, Haq is listed with Interpol as an international drug trafficker. But Haq also becomes known as a CIA asset. Despite his worsening reputation, visiting US politicians such as CIA Director William Casey and Vice President George H. W. Bush continue to meet with him when they visit Pakistan. Haq then moves his heroin money through the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). A highly placed US official will later say that Haq "was our man... everybody knew that Haq was also running the drug trade" and that "BCCI was completely involved." [Scott, 2007, pp. 73-75] Both European and Pakistani police complain that investigations of heroin trafficking in the province are "aborted at the highest level." [McCoy, 2003, pp. 477] In 1989, shortly after Benazir Bhutto takes over as the new ruler of Pakistan, Pakistani police arrest Haq and charge him with murder. He is considered a multi-billionaire by this time. But Haq will be gunned down and killed in 1991, apparently before he is tried. [McCoy, 2003, pp. 483] Even President Zia is implied in the drug trade. In 1985, a Norwegian government investigation will lead to the arrest of a Pakistani drug dealer who also is President Zia's personal finance manager. When arrested, his briefcase contains Zia's personal banking records. The manager will be sentenced to a long prison term. [McCoy, 2003, pp. 481-482]


February 11, 1982: CIA Is Given Green Light to Take Part in Illegal Drug Trade in Afghanistan

CIA Director William Casey gets a legal exemption sparing the CIA for a requirement that they report on drug smuggling by CIA officers, agents, or assets. Attorney General William French Smith grants the exemption in a secret memorandum. On March 2, Casey thanks Smith for the exemption, saying it will help protect intelligence sources and methods. [Cooley, 2002, pp. 110-111] There are allegations that in 1981 President Reagan approved a covert program to weaken Soviet soldiers fighting in Afghanistan by addicting them to illegal drugs (see February 1981 and After). A book cowritten by two Time magazine reporters will even allege that "a few American intelligence operatives were deeply emeshed in the drug trade" during the war. [Scott, 2007, pp. 124-125] President Clinton will rescind the exemption in 1995. [Cooley, 2002, pp. 111]

1983: Pakistani Government Allows Drug Traffickers to Deposit Profits in BCCI Bank

According to Alfred W. McCoy, author of The Politics of Heroin, in 1983 Pakistani President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq allows Pakistani drug traffickers to deposit their drug profits in the BCCI bank without getting punished. The criminal BCCI bank has close ties to the Pakistani government and the US funding of the Afghan war. It will be shut down in 1991. BCCI also plays a critical role in facilitating the movement of Pakistan's heroin money. By 1989, Pakistan's heroin trade will be valued at $4 billion a year, more than all of Pakistan's legal exports. [McCoy, 2003, pp. 480]


1983-1987: CIA Assets in Afghanistan Push Agency's Interests within ISI

According to Mohammad Yousaf, director of the Pakistani ISI's Afghan Bureau during this period, the CIA has many paid assets among the Afghan mujaheddin during this period. One function of these CIA assets is to lobby the ISI for the CIA's policies, especially with regard to weapons procurement. [Yousaf and Adkin, 1992, pp. 91-92]


1984: Bin Laden Develops Ties with Pakistani ISI and Afghan Warlord (via CIA agents at the time --CSR)

Bin Laden first works for Maktab al-Khidamat from this building in Peshawar, a former British government guesthouse.Bin Laden first works for Maktab al-Khidamat from this building in Peshawar, a former British government guesthouse. [Source: PBS]Bin Laden moves to Peshawar, a Pakistani town bordering Afghanistan, and helps run a front organization for the mujaheddin known as Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), which funnels money, arms, and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war. [New Yorker, 1/24/2000] "MAK [is] nurtured by Pakistan's state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA's primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow's occupation." [MSNBC, 8/24/1998] Bin Laden becomes closely tied to the warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and greatly strengthens Hekmatyar's opium smuggling operations. [Le Monde (Paris), 9/14/2001] Hekmatyar, who also has ties with bin Laden, the CIA, and drug running, has been called "an ISI stooge and creation." [Asia Times, 11/15/2001] MAK is also known as Al-Kifah and its branch in New York is called the Al-Kifah Refugee Center. This branch will play a pivotal role in the 1993 WTC bombing and also has CIA ties (see January 24, 1994).

1984 and After: BCCI Dominates Supply Chain of CIA Supplies and Weapons Meant for Mujaheddin
 

By 1984, huge amounts of arms and ammunition for the mujaheddin fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan are pouring into Pakistan. These weapons are funded by the CIA and Saudi government, and generally come into the port of Karachi. The criminal BCCI bank has an enforcement arm nicknamed the "Black Network." Time magazine reporters Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne will later describe it as "a Karachi-based cadre of bank operatives, paramilitary units, spies, and enforcers who handled BCCI's darkest operations around the globe and trafficked in bribery and corruption." By 1984, BCCI and its Black Network takes effective control of Karachi's port, dominating Pakistan's customs service there with bribery and intimidation. BCCI is thus in a position to dominate the flow of supplies to the mujaheddin. Pakistan's military handles the flow of weapons from Karachi to the Afghan border, but once there the supplies have to be carried by mules to reach the mujaheddin fighting in remote Afghan mountain ranges. BCCI controls this part of the supply chain as well. Sometimes BCCI personnel simply transport the supplies across Afghanistan to Iran and then sell them there for a profit. [Beaty and Gwynne, 1993, pp. 66, 315-316] The US government is aware of BCCI's support role and cooperates with it. For instance, in 1987 USAID asks BCCI to buy 1,000 more mules to help the mujaheddin. [Los Angeles Times, 9/3/1991] At almost every step of the way, BCCI takes a cut of the profits and often steals some of the supplies. [Beaty and Gwynne, 1993, pp. 66, 315-316]


1984-March 1985: US and Pakistan Begin Training Afghans to Attack Inside Soviet Union

Following a March 1985 directive signed by President Reagan that sharply escalates US covert action in Afghanistan, the Pakistani ISI begins training Afghans to launch strikes directly into Soviet territory. Apparently the idea originated with CIA Director William Casey who first proposed harassing Soviet territory in 1984 (see October 1984). According to Graham Fuller, a senior US intelligence official, most top US officials consider such military raids "an incredible escalation" and fear a large-scale Soviet response if they are carried out. The Reagan administration decides not to give Pakistan detailed satellite photographs of military targets inside the Soviet Union. [Washington Post, 7/19/1992] Mohammad Yousaf, a high-ranking ISI officer, will later claim that the training actually began in 1984. "During this period we were specifically to train and dispatch hundreds of mujaheddin up to 25 kilometers deep inside the Soviet Union. They were probably the most secret and sensitive operations of the war." He notes that, "By 1985, it became obvious that the United States had got cold feet. Somebody at the top in the American administration was getting frightened." But, he claims, "the CIA, and others, gave us every encouragement unofficially to take the war into the Soviet Union." [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 286-287] Casey will approve of such attacks and the first attack inside the Soviet Union will take place in 1985 (see 1985-1987).

1985-1987: US Helps Afghan Allies Launch Attacks into Soviet Union

In 1985, the CIA, MI6 (Britain's intelligence agency), and the Pakistani ISI agree to launch guerrilla attacks from Afghanistan into then Soviet-controlled Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, attacking military installations, factories, and storage depots within Soviet territory. Some Afghans have been trained for this purpose since 1984 (see 1984-March 1985). The task is given to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan warlord closely linked to the ISI. According to an account in the Washington Post, in March 1987, small units cross from bases in northern Afghanistan into Tajikistan and launched their first rocket attacks against villages there. [Washington Post, 7/19/1992; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/23/2001] However, Mohammad Yousaf, a high-ranking ISI officer at the time, will later write a well regarded book about the Soviet-Afghan war and will give a different account. He will claim the attacks in the Soviet Union actually begin in 1985 and are much more numerous. He says, "These cross-border strikes were at their peak in 1986. Scores of attacks were made across the Amu (River)... Sometimes Soviet citizens joined in these operations, or came back into Afghanistan to join the mujaheddin... That we were hitting a sore spot was confirmed by the ferocity of the Soviets' reaction. Virtually every incursion provoked massive aerial bombing and gunship attacks on all villages south of the river in the vicinity of our strike." [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 286] By all accounts, these secret attacks are strongly backed by CIA Director William Casey and come to an end when he dies later in 1987. [Washington Post, 7/19/1992; Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 285-286]



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