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THE
BUSH, KHASHOGGI, HARRIMAN (AND THERESA LEPORE) DATA DUMP.
LePORE, KHASHOGGI, BUSH AND HARRIMAN.
by "Robert " avocadolover@vjmail.com
© 2000
First published by Rumor Mill News list - site: http://www.rumormillnews.com/
The Wall Street Journal of December 1st, 2000 page one states:
"`Madame Butterfly' Theresa Le Pore
wasn't always an embattled Palm Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s she
moonlighted as a flight
attendant on private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan
Khashoggi, a middleman in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran."
Theresa Le Pore designed the infamous Butterfly
Ballot in Palm Beach Florida.
The Plot Thickens as they say, or does it? Time will tell. Pamela Harriman was
married to Randolph Churchill before she married Averell Harriman. Averell
Harriman was the partner in Brown Brothers, Harriman, with Prescott Bush, the
father of former President Bush, & with George Herbert Walker, former
President Bush's grandfather. The "W" in George W. Bush stands for
Walker. Pamela's son was named after his grandfather, Winston Churchill.
Pamela's son, Winston's alleged former mistress was Soraya Khashoggi, who
was the former wife of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Small world isn't it?
Khashoggi was also allegedly deeply involved with former President Bush in the
Iran-Contra Affair. I have not had time to check out all of the links
below but would hope we would all research as well as we can any relationships
between any or all of the parties mentioned. 
Click.
Ms. Le Pore is the designer of the infamous so-called
"Butterfly Ballot" that resulted in 3,000 Gore voters inadvertently
voting for Buchanan in Palm Beach County & 19,000 more Gore voters
mistakenly double punching for both Gore & Buchanan in an attempt to vote
for Gore. I believe those 22,000 votes rightfully belong to Al Gore as do
Florida's 25 electoral votes & the Presidency. We of course were
told that Ms. Le Pore was a Democrat, but in the material below she is found
speaking on Immigration & sounding very anti-immigrant to put it mildly. Click.
Below are some of the many references any search engine
on the internet can take you to regarding Bush & Khashoggi Click.
THE MARWAN MYSTERY. Click.
HILL AND KNOWLTON
AND THE CIA. Click.
KHASHOGGI,
BUSH HARRIMAN SOURCES PART 1.
Sources: The Churchill Society London: Mr Churchill, whose former
mistress Soraya Khashoggi, the former wife of arms dealer Adnan... http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/wscminor.html
The Times Newspaper: 19th February 1997 By Andrew Pierce
& Tom Rhodes. WINSTON CHURCHILL who spent most of his life living in the
shadow of his glamorous mother Pamela Harriman, was left $10 million (6.2
million pounds) in her will it was disclosed yesterday."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/970915/princess.outside_lokin.html.
Outside Looking In: ... to Saudi Arabia. The company took off, and
not long after, al
Fayed married Khashoggi's sister Samira, who gave birth to Dodi in 1955. He
divorced her after" ... "Article24b.htm ... to prove, but Richard Taus,
former FBI agent, states that Al Fayed and Khashoggi were connected to the
Iran/Contra scandal through Castle Securities. Castle ..".
http://paranoiamagazine.com/24Article2.htm
"of Europe. Dodi Fayed, beloved of Lady Diana, is a cousin of Adnan
Khashoggi, a CIA asset involved in sales of arms to Iran-he and Oliver North.
Adnan".. http://www.konformist.com/vault/lady-di/lady-di-notes.txt
Bush book: Chapter -2- ... invasion of Poland, beginning World War II.
The Nazi army had been equipped by Flick, Harriman, Walker and Bush, with
materials essentially stolen from Poland. ... http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
[More results from www.tarpley.net]
R T Mark: Bush and WWII | May 15-May 25 | Letters | GWBush. ... ...
invasion of Poland, beginning World War II. The Nazi army had been equipped by
Flick, Harriman, Walker and Bush, with materials essentially stolen from Poland.
... http://www.rtmark.com/bushhitler.html
http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bush_book.txt
... vehicles were fueled by oil pumped from Baku wells revived by the Harriman/
Walker/Bush enterprise. Three years later, nearly a year after the Japanese
attack ...
http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bush_book.txt
[More results from www.kmf.org]
New Page 2 ... vehicles were fueled by oil pumped from Baku wells revived by the
Harriman/Walker/Bush enterprise. Three years later, nearly a year after the
Japanese attack ... http://www.patrickcrusade.org/new_page_2.htm
[More results from
www.patrickcrusade.org] World Trade
Organization / GATT Bush and WWII page
... invasion of Poland, beginning World War II. The Nazi army had been equipped
by Flick, Harriman, Walker and Bush, with materials essentially stolen from
Poland. ...
http://www.gatt.org/bushhitler.html
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Part 1 of 8
... vehicles were fueled by oil pumped from Baku wells revived by the Harriman/
Walker/Bush enterprise. Three years later, nearly a year after the Japanese
attack ...
http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_1.html
[More results from www.padrak.com]
Elkhorn Document ... the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of
Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert
Walker, and Prescott Bush. .
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3751908d3af4.htm
eGroups : di_state_prov Messages :Message 27 of 31 ... run out of Walker's
office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and
Prescott Bush. . A 1934 congressional investigation alleged ...
http://www.egroups.com/message/di_state_prov/27
[More results from www.egroups.com]
The Elkhorn Manifesto Part V ... run out of Walker's office. The
directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush.
. . . " In a
November 1935 article in ... http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn5.html
[More results from www.wealth4freedom.com]
... issue in 1928 was underwritten by Roland (Bunny) Harriman and Prescott Bush
while GH Walker was president of the WA Harriman firm. Prescott Bush served on
the ...
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lmharvardpart3.htm [More results from
www.newsmakingnews.com] MAI-NOT:
21782 ... Corporation, run out of Walker's office. The directors of this company
were Averell Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush. In a November 1935
article in ...
http://mai.flora.org/forum/21782
SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA ... the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run
out of Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman,
Bert Walker, and
Prescott Bush. . . . ...
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm
[More results from www.emperors-clothes.com]
The Real Reasons Part 3 ... the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run
out of Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman,
Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush. . . . ...
http://www.hemp-cyberfarm.com/htms/conspiracy/conspiracy3.html
eScribe: War and Politics: Message: [W&P] Manchurian ... ... at The
beginning in a sense. Brown Brothers Harriman (the firm Prescott Bush &
George Herbert Walker Bush's grandfather George Herbert Walker had been partners
...
http://www.escribe.com/politics/wap/m17904.html
History of the New World Order in the 20th Century ... that of the
world government." 1924 -- George Herbert Walker Bush born in Milton,
Massachusetts. "Bunny" Harriman brings Prescott Bush into US Rubber
Company ...
http://www.illuminati-news.com/20th_century.htm
The Draheim Report: ... Republican Presidential candidate Bush's
great-grandfather, Bert Walker, helped organize the Harriman investment in the
Hamburg-America Line of ships, of which ... http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr991216.htm
history of new world order ... 1924 -- George Herbert Walker Bush born in
Milton, Massachusetts. "Bunny" Harriman brings Prescott Bush into US
Rubber Company in New York.... http://home.no.net/boreg/Hoax/nwo.htm
Weblog: ... By 1930, Bert Walker (George Bush's Grandfather) and Averell
Harriman helped build Madison Square Garden, Walker had been named New York
State Racing ...
http://www.detours.org/weblog/
NewsFlash! "Skull & Bones" movie opens up Bush's
coffin!! ... It's common knowledge that Skull & Boners like Herbert Walker,
Grandaddy Bush, and Averell Harriman, all backed Adolf Hitler and the Huns in
their bid to ...
http://www.freeworldalliance.com/newsflash178.htm
[More results from
www.freeworldalliance.com]
Chronology, ... Market Operations. 1924 George Herbert Walker Bush born in
Milton, Massachusetts. "Bunny" Harriman brings Prescott Bush into US
Rubber Company in New York. ... http://www.trufax.org/chrono/crc.html
KHASHOGGI,
BUSH HARRIMAN SOURCES PART 2.
The Wall Street Journal of December 1st, 2000 page one
states: " 'Madame Butterfly' Theresa Le Pore wasn't always an embattled
Palm Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s she moonlighted as a flight attendant on
private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a middleman
in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran."
Below are some of the many references any search engine on the internet can take
you
To on Bush & Khashoggi George Bush's "Heart of
Darkness"-Minerals and Africa
... arms-for-drugs investigation and other trails leading to Vice President
Bush, Khashoggi became too hot for the Canadian partnership, and the
Khashoggi group's ... http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/bushgold.htm
El Andar: Los Amigos de Bush ... high and mighty including George W. Bush, who
called his father, the president ... associate of Egyptian arms dealer Adnan
Khashoggi, a friend of Razl Salinas, and ...
http://www.elandar.com/bush/amigos.html
Pete Brewton - pp.209-210 & 224-227 ... Prison he wrote a
letter to President Bush dated August 1, 1989, to which ... Tiny Rowland, Ashraf
Marwan and Adnan Khashoggi, his partner, deeply involved in such ...
http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/brewton.html
Diagram of US Policy / Afghanistan http://www.pir.org/gifdir/mds68.html
[More
results from www.pir.org] David Hoffman
Collection ... 6/86 [Chronology of Bush Involvement in Iran-Contra]
[Fuller Deposition] Fuller-"Reconstruction" [empty folder]
[Iran-Contra / Adnan M. Khashoggi] Iran-Contra ...
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/find/Doncol1/hoffman.html
http://www.federal.com/sep25/Is
... by the Washington Weekly supports the involvement of George Bush by linking
him to arms-dealer Adnan Khashoggi, Richard Secord, and CIA asset John Hull,
whose ...http://www.federal.com/sep25/Is
timeline ... and Bush meet. May 8 North informs Poindexter of offer for Contra
aid. May 14 - August Financing the arms deal: Ghorbanifar gives Khashoggi
post-dated ...
http://www.english.schule.de/state_of_the_union/group7/project/timeline.htm
[More results from www.english.schule.de]
Participate
... Brewton's book "The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush"
George Dubya's
dealings ... bank that provided financing to Adnan Khashoggi around
the time of arms for ... http://www.gwbush.com/letsept3.htm
Walsh Iran / Contra Report - Part I Iran/contra: The ... ... and
the Iranians would not reimburse him. Khashoggi and his associates who had
loaned ... in Jerusalem, Nir briefed Vice President Bush on the status of the
Iran ... http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/part_i.htm
[More results from
www.fas.org] Aviation Home Page
... Amer Khashoggi's NAJACO World Flight: World Flight in a Cessna Grand
Caravan, landing ... Tom Claytor
http://www.najaco.com/Aviation/Aviation.htm
Mae Brussell's World Watchers International CD Catalogue: Part ...
... Shadowy network of importance. Nazi links. Bush connections. Shadowy network
of arms ... REAGAN and the SWAMI, SULTAN, KHASHOGGI. 1980 ELECTION STOLEN BY
REAGAN ... http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae's%20CDs%20Part%203.html
Steve's Political Page ... say that the GOP does it, too. Reagan and Bush had
gun runners and money-launderers in the White House, too (anyone remember
Khashoggi?). Is that a defense of ... http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1131/april.html
Participate
... Saem bin Laden, one of Osama bin Laden's relatives) one of the families
owned a Saudi bank that provided financing to Adnan Khashoggi around the
time of arms ...
http://www.gwbush.com/letsept3.htmThe
Consortium ... day as Tillman's call about the "Bush people," Hashemi
boasted to fellow Iranian ... Cyrus Hashemi, Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi and
an Iranian intelligence man ...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile3.html
[More results from
www.consortiumnews.com] ... stay
this simple. For example, the BCCI-Bush- Noriega- connection to drug smuggling
... arms deals. I remember the name Khashoggi. It was about Iran-Contra.'. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/part10.htm
Drug War: SETCO ... Marcello, Beebe, Renda, Mischer, Lyon,
Khashoggi, Murchison,
Helliwell, Hernandez-Cartaya, Charles ... President Bush's Federal
Housing Administration Commissioner ... http://www.drugwar.com/setco.htm
[More results from www.drugwar.com] Arms
Control_Reports: hcrep ... prompted by pressure put on the Bush White House by a
bipartisan grouping ... like the legendary Saudi middleman Adnan Khashoggi or an
amoral freelance broker like ...
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/hcrep.html
http://www.cdi.org/ArmsTradeDatabase/Arms_Industry/Welfare_for_Weapons
_Dealers_The_Hidden_Costs_of_the_Arms_Trade.txt ... prompted by pressure
put on the Bush White House by a bipartisan grouping ... like the legendary
Saudi middleman Adnan Khashoggi or an amoral freelance broker like ...
http://www.cdi.org/ArmsTradeDatabase/Arms_Industry/Welfare_for_Weapons
_Dealers_The_Hidden_Costs_of_the_Arms_Trade.txtArticle24b.htm
... family: Jay Rockefeller and George W. Bush represented their families
respectively.
The other ... in the scandal was Adnan Khashoggi. At the time, Khashoggi,
an ... http://paranoiamagazine.com/24Article2.htm
... a shot-across-the-bow of George Bush's New World Order, and [makes] clear
that ... deals with the likes of Adnan Khashoggi with links to the http://www.mega.nu:8080/conspiracy/sovereignty.html
Web Page Matches (21 - 40 of about 70) http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/celeb.txt
... being married by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (2nd wife) Sources: On
Lamia & Ali ... and a crony of former president George Bush. Of course, it
was Bush's Tax ... http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/celeb.txt
... various business deals, including one with Adnan Khashoggi through which he
ended up owning the ... by the White House because George Bush knew him.
He said that he ... http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a7804.htm
Teflon? The Iran-Contra Scandal (Morgana's Observatory) ... to unravel,
threatening both the Reagan and Bush presidencies in the process. ... Albert
Hakim, and Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. But if the truth proved hard ...
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/reagan.htm
International Man of Mystery: Who Is Maurice Strong? ... various
business deals, including one with Adnan Khashoggi through which he ended up
owning the ... by the White House because George Bush knew him. He said
that he ... http://www.afn.org/~govern/strong.html
NR Feature Article September 1, 1997 ... various business deals,
including one with Adnan Khashoggi through which he ended up owning the ... by
the White House because George Bush knew him. He said that he ... http://www.iahf.com/strong.html
ARCHIVE 4 ... of the Mainland Savings scandal: arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi,
James Bath (a business associate of George W. Bush, recruited to the
CIA by George, Sr,), Martin ... http://www.newsmakingnews.com/archive4,24,4,29,00.htm
INTRODUCTION ... failed Denver S & L where Neil Bush had been an
officer]," he
said. ... on BCCI accounts held for Adnan Khashoggi, and international
arms merchant and factotum for ... http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/last_circle/circle!.htm
[More results from www.lycaeum.org] beebe
... Halper, co-founder with fellow George Bush supporter Harvey McLean of Palmer
National ... HK Beebe; business partner with Adnan Khashoggi; an associate of
John H ... http://www.jailhurwitz.com/beebe.html
[More results from www.jailhurwitz.com]
The Konformist - Daddy's Little Princess ... Allegedly, Khashoggi
funneled $1 million of his funds into Trickie ... state more verified) report
are that George Bush molested her and her daughter while strung ... http://www.konformist.com/jonbenet.htm
FLIGHT 111 - PLANE CRASH - NOVA SCOTIA ... savings and loans
swindles, drugs Bush, Ollie North, etc. ... Also, Adnan Khashoggi's
name has been associated with http://www.greatdreams.com/crash.htm
Archives: Daniel Sheehan Speech ... Iranians? Who is this who
Khashoggi says, is the man who first ... Intelligence Agency in 1976 under
George Bush, when he was the
director of ... http://www.conspire.com/sheehan.html
Public Relationships
... of influence, such as Vice President Bush's chief of staff Craig Fuller, and
... 1986, Saudi Arabian arms broker Adnan Khashoggi hired Hill and Knowlton and
Gray ...
http://mediafilter.org/caq/Hill%26Knowlton.html
Lonrho Hotels Kenya - Ol Pejeta Ranch House ... law, Roussel, and in due course
Adnan Khashoggi, who used the
ranch house as ... 2 swimming pools; Floodlit waterhole; Bush lunches; Riverside
dinners; Bush breakfasts; ... http://www.lonrhohotels.com/pejeta/
The Octopus ... Russbacher who claims to have flown Bush, William Casey-the CIA
chief-and ... House. http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/khashoggi.htm,
the NSA, and ...
http://www.esotericworldnews.com/octopus.htm
eGroups : biosonic Messages :Message 871 of 895 ... transformed during similar
bloodfests, including, "Bush and
his two sons Adnan Khashoggi. http://www.egroups.com/message/biosonic/871
[More results from www.egroups.com] Hill
& Knowlton ... of influence, such as Vice President Bush's chief of staff
Craig Fuller, and ... 1986, Saudi Arabian arms broker Adnan Khashoggi hired Hill
and Knowlton and Gray ...
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/HK/HK2.html
Ol Pejeta Ranch House ... Roussel, and in due course Adnan Khashoggi, who used
the ranch house as ... 2 swimming pools, Floodlit waterhole, Bush lunches,
Riverside dinners, Bush breakfasts ... http://www.classicsafaris.com/Country%20Lodges/oldpejeta.htm
Web Page Matches (41 - 55 of 55) http://www.textfiles.com/humor/top10.txt
...
1. To the Opera, James. President Bush's Top 10 Gaffes While in Europe ... to
dangerously lower their standards. Adnan Khashoggi's Top 10 Money-Saving Tips -
July ... http://www.textfiles.com/humor/top10.txt
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Peter Dale Scott: Bibliography ... D.109a "Khashoggi a Key
Operative-Irangate Spotlights CIA Network of Influence ... D.130 "George
Bush, the Iran Arms Deals, and Oil." Article for Pacific News ... http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/bib4.html
[More results from socrates.berkeley.edu] The Corporate Web ... and
international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi. Melanie Munk, wife of Barrick
Gold's ... of the United States, George Bush, chairman of Power Corporation,
Paul ...
http://webhome.idirect.com/~rouleau/bcorp.htm
[More results from webhome.idirect.com] FIRM - Discussions - February 6, 2000 -
March 4, 2000
... be back where we were when George Bush was president, that is, hanging in
the ... claims he was offered financing by Adnan Khashoggi, http://www.homevideo.net/FIRM/archives/arch17.htm
[More results from
www.homevideo.net] Records of the
Watergate Special Prosecution Force ... Institution-burglary/firebomb; Buchanan,
Patrick; Bush, George; Buzhardt, J. Fred;
Camden ... Juliana, James [and George Meany]; Khashoggi, Adnan; Kissinger,
Henry; Krogh ... http://www.nara.gov/research/oic/wspf.html
[More results from
www.nara.gov] BCCI, Bank of crooks and
Criminals International ... figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Adnan Khashoggi,
the PLO, and the ... was coined by Robert Gates, George Bush's designated CIA
Director. Three years ... http://www.dcia.com/bcci.html
[More results from www.dcia.com] . When people
like George Bush talk of "a
gentler, kinder nation ... friend. His favorite Uncle was Adan Khashoggi,
the billionaire arms dealer from Saudi ... http://www.plp.org/cd97/cd910.html
[More results from www.plp.org] Secret Agent
Men... who helped support the contras, including Adnan
Khashoggi of Iran-contra fame. ... government. In 1990, then-President George
Bush made Inman his acting chair of ... http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/archives/97/lede-11.5.97-1.shtml
[More results from www.ocweekly.com]US$8.25.
KESSLER, RONALD Khashoggi:
the story of the World's richest man. ... http://freespace.virgin.net/john.o_donoghue/biography.htm
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/10/britain.diana/
"Fayed and the princess are said to have met about 10 years ago, when he
played polo against her ex-husband, Prince Charles, the heir to the British
throne. Fayed's uncle is well-known Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi; his
father, Mohamed Al Fayed, was at the center of a corruption scandal that helped
lead Britain's Conservative Party to defeat in May's election."
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9811/18/elephant.gift/index.html
"U.N. elephant statue draws guffaws for being too long on realism Donors
also included Saudi arms tycoon Adnan Khashoggi, The Friends of L. Ron
Hubbard"
http://msanews.mynet.net/MSANEWS/199709/19970904.3.html
"Subject: MER:
Diana - The Saudi Connection At American University in Washington, D.C., there
is a very large building with the name ADNAN KHASHOGGI writ large for all to
see. Former Arab League Ambassador Clovis Maksoud has his office nearby.
It's also quite an embarrassment however. Once praised as an international
businessman, Khashoggi is now known to have been an international arms salesman
and a swindler working closely with the Saudi Royal family as an intermediary.
Criminal indictments and law suits galore are now associated with his name.
AU
took his money before the crash, and remains stuck with his name, though rumors
abound the university has been looking for some other wealthy patron to make a
new deal with. The family fortune of Emad Mohamed "Dodi" el-Fayed can
be traced not
to Egypt, but rather to the two sources of Muslim cash and unbridled corruption
in our era - the Saudi royal family and the Sultan of Brunei. Indeed, the main
reason Dodi's father has been unable to obtain British citizenship and wasn't
even sure he'd be able to bury his son in England, can be traced back to his
very shady business dealings
where he repeatedly lied about the source of his funds and on whose behalf he
was acting. The connection to the Saudi royal family is through Dodi's mother,
the
sister of Adnan Khashoggi. And irony of ironies, much of the money that
has built the Mohamed Fayed empire and that however indirectly contributed to
the death of
the Princess of Wales, so known in recent days for her anti-land-mines and
humanitarian efforts, began as commissions and profits from arms sales."
The Bush FBI call in which Bush (the former US President) is alleged To
have called the FBI 2 HOURS BEFORE JFK was killed on November 22nd, 1963.
First & most easily you can go to THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: Richard
Case Nagell & the Assassination of JFK Trade Paperback, 824 Pages,
Carroll & Graf Publishers, Incorporated, October 1993 ISBN: 0786700297
Author: Russell, Dick
http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/db2www/search/search.d2w/Details?&m
ediaType=Book&prodID254128 The page # there is page 710 & it states that
George Herbert Walker Bush & James Parrott, the man Named by Bush as
planning to kill JFK in Houston, later that week "were political
enemies", Parrott is Also described in the book above as "an active
member of Houston's Young Republians." Another of many sources for the Bush
call to the FBI 2 hours BEFORE JFK was killed is The July/August 1992 issue of
Spy Magazing, Page 39 ISSN 0890-1759 5 Union Square West, NYC 1003 In that
story, by David Robb Parrott was already known to the Secret Service for similar
threats to JFK as of 1961, yet here was Bush reporting Parrott to the
FBI, 2 hours BEFORE JFK was killed. Some additional
Required Reading on related subjects is listed below Please read 2 very
important books on
Iraq: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/009175
1713/o/qid"2383370/s r=8-3/002-8351151-8562413 REPUBLIC OF FEAR: THE INSIDE
STORY OF SADDAM'S IRAQ by Samir Al-Khalil Paperback (1991) DIANE
Publishing Co; ISBN: 0091751713 SPIDER'S WEB : THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOW
THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN: 0553096508 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/055309
6508/qid"2562139/sr 1-19/002-8351151-8562413
SPANNING THE CENTURY : THE LIFE OF W. AVERELL HARRIMAN, 1891-1986 by Rudy
Abramson ASIN:0688043526
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688043526/qid=930850198/sr=1-8
/002-4147058-1764039 One of the most interesting books I have read is
EVERY SPY A PRINCE : The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence
Community by Dan Raviv,Yossi Melman ASIN: 0395581206
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395581206/qid"0850834/sr=1-4/0
02-4147058-1764039
You can read more about former US President George Bush's father &
grandfather & about the late Averell Harriman in: THE SECRET WAR
AGAINST THE JEWS John Loftus With Mark Aarons
Paperback, 636pp. ISBN: 0312156480 Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Inc. Pub.
Date: April 1997" above from:
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid
3LK6KVG95O&mscssid
LAST INVESTIGATION: A Former Federal Investigator Tells What Insiders
Know About the Assassination of JFK Trade Paperback, 464 Pages,
Thunder's Mouth Press, October 1994 ISBN: 560250798http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/db2www/search/search.d2w/
PLAUSIBLE DENIAL by Mark Lane Our Price: $23.00 Availability:
Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover - 393 pages (December 1, 1991)
Thunder's Mouth Pr; ISBN: 1560250003 Above from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560250
003/o/qid"2390668/sr
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See also a book which presents an abundance of information on the JFK
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STATEMENT
OF THERESA LE PORE, SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju43144.000/hju43144_0f.htm
Ms. LEPORE. Good afternoon.
Mr. SMITH. I apologize in advance, again.
Ms. LEPORE. No problem.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak in favor of H.R.
1428. My name is Theresa LePore. I'm the supervisor of elections in Palm Beach
County, FL, and I've worked in the Palm Beach County elections office for more
than 26 years now. So I understand the importance of the accuracy of the voter
registration records. I'll briefly summarize my testimony, which has already
been entered in the record.
Under Florida law, the only items required on a voter
registration application to be accepted is the name, residence address, date of
birth, and signature of the applicant. The Social Security number and telephone
number, if it is supplied, is not made part of the permanent record for
publication under the Privacy Act.
In the recent legislative session, the Florida
Legislature passed into law a provision for a central voter file to be
administered by the Florida Division of Elections. This will take effect January
1, 1998. It will not be a real-time file, but rather a file that will be updated
by all 67 Florida counties on a periodic basis.
The creation of this central voter file will enable the
Florida Division of Elections to try to determine if duplicate registrations
exist, meaning people that have registered in more than one Florida county, as
well as to cross-check felony records, mentally-incompetent records, and death
records. The Social Security number as an addition to this file would enable
them—will assist in this process.
In Florida, convicted felons cannot be registered to
vote unless their civil rights have been restored, and persons declared mentally
incompetent cannot be registered to vote unless their competency has been
restored.
Now we understand that this would not be a foolproof
method, as persons wanting to fraudulently register to vote could do so and
could provide a fraudulent Social Security number, but this would be a tool for
us to verify, perhaps by checking the INS and Social Security records, if we get
information that this person may not be a legitimate person.
As a county that's considered part of south Florida,
where the immigrant population is on the rise, being able to verify citizenship
status would be a tremendous help. There have been many cases in south Florida
where illegal immigrants have been caught in possession of voter registration
cards, particularly in Dade and Broward Counties, and is moving north to Palm
Beach County, for identification purposes to get in and out of the country.
There has also been a problem with illegal immigrants
using the voter registration card as identification purposes in seeking
employment. Palm Beach County is very diverse. We have very wealthy people along
the coast to middle class in the central part of the county and agriculture in
the western part of the county. In the agricultural section, the sugarcane
fields and farms, they employ a lot of people from Central and South America, as
well as the islands, to come over. A lot of them make an attempt to get a voter
registration card to use as identification on their I–9 forms. So we're not
necessarily saying these people are voting, but it is a strong possibility that
they are.
In 1996, there was a constitutional amendment on the
ballot for the sugar tax. I don't know if you all have heard about that or not,
but we know that the sugar people had registered a tremendous amount of voters
to vote in support of that. Now we don't know if all of those were legal or not.
We'd like to hope that they are, but that was just one point to mention.
I would like to mention a case recently, within the last
few years, in Dade County, FL, which was similar to what has happened in Orange
County, CA, but on a much smaller scale, where absentee ballots were issued to
people that were not U.S. citizens. This particular candidate had gone and had
these people registered to vote under Motor Voter Act because you don't have to
show any identification or anything under that, and gotten absentee ballots, and
it was challenged in court. Now the Dade County supervisor of elections had a
horror story because they did check the records against INS and, as has been
told already to you, the INS records are not accurate records. They do not have
people listed on there that are U.S. citizens born in the United States. So he
had a publicity nightmare where all these people, they were saying, were not
part of the—or were not legally registered to vote when, in fact, they were
naturalized—or they were U.S. citizens by birth. So we must understand that
although this would not solve the problem, it would merely be a tool for the
elections officials to be able to try to verify and maintain accurate records.
Thank you.
[The prepared statement of Ms. LePore follows:]
PREPARED STATEMENT OF THERESA LEPORE, SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS, PALM BEACH
COUNTY, FL
I have worked in the Palm Beach County, Florida,
Supervisor of Elections Office since June 10, 1971. I was elected as Supervisor
of Elections in November of 1996. During my years in the Elections Office, I
have seen the number of registered voters grow from approximately 200,000 in
1971 to 531,735 in January of 1995 to 610,538 in April of 1997. As you can see,
the Palm Beach County voter Registration rolls increased by almost 79,000
registered voters in just over two years, due mostly as a result of N.V.R.A.
Under Florida Law, the following items are required
before the Supervisor of Elections can accept a voter registration application:
Name, residence address, date of birth and signature. The Social Security Number
and other pertinent information is optional. Florida has a prohibition on the
release of the Social Security Number (if supplied by the applicant), telephone
number (if supplied by the applicant), and signature.
In the recent Legislative Session, the Florida
Legislature passed into Law a provision for a ''central voter file'' to be
administered by the Florida Division of Elections which will take effect on
January 1, 1998. This would not be a ''real time'' file, but rather a file that
would be updated by all 67 Florida Counties on a periodic basis. The creation of
the ''central voter file'' will enable the Division of Elections to try to
determine if duplicate registrations exist (voters registered in more than one
Florida County) as well as to cross check the Felony records, mentally
incompetent records and the death records. Although not full-proof, adding the
Social Security Number on the file would assist in this process. (Note: In
Florida, convicted Felons may not vote unless their Civil Rights have been
restored and persons declared mentally incompetent by the Courts may not vote
unless their Competency has been restored.)
As a county that is considered in ''South Florida''
where the immigrant population is on the rise, being able to verify citizenship
status would be a tremendous help. Although it is understood that neither the
Social Security Administration nor the Immigration and Naturalization Service
has a comprehensive record of all current legal U.S. citizens, it must be noted
that this system would not be fool-proof. It would, however, enable
jurisdictions to make an attempt to check the status of voters and potential
voters on an ''as-needed'' basis.
In summary, I feel that it would be beneficial to
require that the Social Security Number be part of the voter's record to assist
elections officials in trying to maintain accurate records. However, in light of
the admittance of the Social Security Administration and the Immigration and
Naturalization Service in not having comprehensive records of all current U.S.
citizens, I would not want either the elections officials nor the public to be
lured into a false sense of security in thinking that this will solve the
''problems'' of fraudulent registrations, especially with regard to non-U.S.
citizens being registered. It would be virtually impossible to obtain the Social
Security Number of all registered voters and match that to the S.S.A. or I.N.S.
files.
Scaliwag ©
There is a whole other level of theory which is personally most attractive to me
but does not necessarily directly include the Super-Establishment or any
security services. It creates an entirely rather different scenario. But each
scenario would be intricately linked. I hope I have established the simple fact
that the British Old Guard had wholly disapproved of both al-Fayed and Diana.
Even if they were not directly responsible for an assassination, it would
have been remarkably convenient to them to dispose of the Princess before she
did what they considered to be further serious damage to British interests. It
is an earnest, if grim, contention of mine that, had they have been aware of an
assassination plot against either the Fayed family or Diana, it would have been
in the interests of the Old Guard to turn a blind eye. It is therefore important
to establish that the tragedy may not have been against the Princess in
particular, but could well have been against the Fayeds themselves.
When, at 17, Dodi first came to live in London his father gave him for his
birthday his own mini-moke - and his first bodyguard. In later life, before the
royal romance, he was never seen without at least two minders. This used to
amuse people at, say, Tramps - the fashionable London night-club - because one
man would always be close to Dodi while the other prowled around looking for
threats of any kind. A table for six at the Ivy - one of his favourite London
watering holes - would always have to be accompanied by at least two more seats
for his minders. When the wars, first between al-Fayed and Tiny Rowland over the
House of Fraser, and then during al-Fayed’s celebrated public fight with the
Tory government, were at their height, Dodi may increase his personal bodyguard
to four or even six. Other friends also noted that if he lost sight of his table
at any time, he would discard all the drinks and order fresh ones. He was
terrified that someone may have spiked his drink. This was the same in Hollywood
where friends would joke about it with him. As an excuse, he would sometimes
say, "my father is involved with some very dangerous things," and once
he referred to a mysterious "kidnap attempt in Egypt when I was
young." The Broccoli family (of James Bond film fame) - close friends for
years - put it down to his "James Bond make-believe fantasies." But
now, no one is so sure.
There is strong evidence to suggest that all the Fayed’s lived in a constant
state of paranoia. Mohamed himself still lives in a series of fortresses,
guarded by a private army of professional minders. Paranoia or not, both
al-Fayed and his son certainly believed there was a constant threat to
their lives. In early 1998 it was alleged by a former top Harrods security man
that all the ‘phones in the store were bugged and anything of sensitivity was
reported back to the boss. It is the same at the Ritz. This is a positive sign
of latent paranoia.
While trawling the net for leads I suddenly came across an item which looked
very familiar. And as I read through it I realised I was the original author. I
remember the story well, but had forgotten (the article was five years old) that
it had a very heavy al-Fayed connection. Enough anyway in this narrative to
diverge somewhat. I had written the article while Scallywag was still confined
to Camden in North London which, as hundreds of thousands of tourists know, has
a huge and cosmopolitan open-air market each weekend. One section is called The
Stables and was once used to house horses overnight which during the day had
pulled the barges along the Regent’s Canal. The Stables had a chequered
history and had changed hands several times. Camden council had virtually given
it away to a collection of artists and craftsmen to set up workshops. By the
nineties the whole market had taken off and the real estate had become almost
priceless. The entire area around the market and canal had become vastly
fashionable and such things as old railway sheds and canal warehouses were being
converted into flats at astronomical profits. At Scallywag we set out to find
out who was making all the money. We established that The Stables had been
ultimately bought by - to us - a mystery Egyptian called Ashraf Marwan.
Virtually nothing was known about him at the time. There were a couple of
innocuous cuttings in newspaper libraries, but no real information. We did a
check at Companies House on the finance company behind the deals called Cabra.
(Companies House is the official register of any British limited company and any
such company is obliged under the law to lodge all their official papers and
accounts there). We discovered a fascinating web of dodgy companies run by
"faces" which put their names to it, but were not the power behind the
throne. Marwan - in hundreds of sheets of financial detail - got a single
cursory mention and his address was given as a firm of accountants. While we
seemed to be getting nowhere, we were getting very interested indeed in Marwan.
Right opposite the Stables, by coincidence, was Checkers, a small café that
specialised in those days in chess between Hampstead intellectuals. It was owned
by a fun-loving and rapacious Egyptian gambler called Ali Amin who had taken to
having an evening pint in the Man in the Moon, virtually next door, which
happened to be our local as well. I don’t know Ali’s full background, but he
did not appear in a hurry to rush back to Egypt and had married a delightful
woman called Polly. When I mentioned Marwan’s name Ali became visibly excited
and came out with a huge spiel about just who he was. Because Ali had been a
leading light at the Egyptian service at the BBC World Service for some time,
and had been a previous Egyptian chess champion, he still had the very best
Egyptian connections in London. Good enough, for example, for him to produce the
files on Marwan from the Egyptian embassy which made riveting reading.
Over the next few weeks he invited a stream of Egyptian ex-pats to Checkers and
we were soon able to build up a fascinating picture of this man and his
activities. It soon emerged that he was a principal player in the Tiny Rowland
-v- al-Fayed war over the House of Fraser which owned Harrods. This war produced
damage of a gigantic nature on both sides. Rowland and al-Fayed both threw
cartloads of dung at each other. At a later stage al-Fayed’s office leaked
further information on Marwan and his involvement to us. It was very high-calibre
intelligence, and we were able to corroborate much of it from our own sources.
Our own further story (after reading the files) originally centred on a trip in
a private Lear jet to Cairo in May 1985. On board were the Libyan Head of
Intelligence, Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi the Libyan
President, and Marwan. Both, according to the Egyptian files, were murderous and
Marwan was known throughout Egypt as "Dr. Death". The mission,
incredibly, was to blackmail the then Egyptian Prime Minister, Husni Mubarak, to
abandon the Camp David agreement. If he did not, the mission was to arrange to
blow up Tahir Square in the luxury Garden City quarter. Even to us it seemed an
incredible plot. But the files dug deeper and became even more fantastic as we
delved on.
Both the men on that jet were sinister and secret players on the London property
stage - and in international arms dealing and terrorism.
By then Marwan had been doing business with Rowland for two years. By December
the year before Marwan had bought into the House of Fraser, eventually to the
tune of £4 million. In the 1984-5 inquiry conducted by John Griffiths QC, he
concluded that Marwan was acting as a front-man for Rowland. At around the same
time, Mrs Salah al-Fayed, Dodi’s aunt, strangely also bought into Fraser - in
her maiden name of Adriana Funera. She and Marwan used the same stockbroker and
seven months later she sold all her shares to Marwan. From here on the names of
Rowland and Marwan become ever more intricately linked in a whole web of
intrigue.
The first time Marwan had done business with Rowland was in 1979 when he
purchased 40% of a company called Tradeswind which was 60% owned by Lonrho,
Rowland’s parent company. Marwan had registered as director, instead of his
own name, the same al-Dam. Other board members were Rowland, and prominent Tory,
Sir Edward Du Cann. Marwan and al-Dam quickly began making profits for
Tradeswind transporting arms from the US to the Lebanon and Libya. The files
showed that they had got round strict US government embargoes by the simple
expedient of bribing two CIA officers (later prosecuted and convicted), called
Ed Wilson and Frank Terpil. When I subsequently put these names to security
contacts, the case was very well known and their eventual confessions showed a
can of worms wholly linked to world terrorism. There is still an arrest warrant
outstanding against Marwan and al-Dam should they ever set foot in the States.
The inquiry into the two CIA officers revealed that Tradeswind, on the outside a
seemingly respectable airline company, was also supplying arms to terrorist
organisations, including the infamous Abu Nidal group.
Through al-Dam, Marwan soon had a close relationship with Gaddafi which was to
prove most lucrative for both. Libya soon invested $12 million in Lonrho-owned
interests and in turn Rowland began investing heavily in the fledgling Libyan
leisure industry, such as seaside hotels. Gaddafi used the government-owned
Lafico oil company to invest in London, especially into the Lonrho Metropol
Hotels Group. Lonrho, in turn invested similar amounts in real estate in Libya.
Both sides used money from the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company. As there
was a strict embargo in trade with Libya, this was a lucrative and convenient
way of laundering funds.
Marwan and al-Dam were whisked regularly to and from Libya in a Rowland-owned
private jet. On behalf of Gaddafi, but not under the auspices of Tradeswind
directly, al-Dam and his equally notorious brother Sayad, the couple became the
principle organisers of virtually all the European terrorist activity, including
supplying deadly C4 plastic explosives to Abu Nidal.
Investigators established that Lonrho’s share of Tradeswind was hidden in a
Liechtenstein-based company called Emery Establishment SA which was a subsidiary
of Marwan’s holding company. Marwan then became the principle mover of arms to
Frelimo in Mozambique because Gaddafi believed the government was being backed
by Israel.
Later, in his notorious fight with al-Fayed, Rowland used a Marwan-owned company
called Octagon which employed a team of private detectives, led by a former top
policeman called David Coughlin, to run a dirty tricks department against
al-Fayed.
I go into such details in some length because it is important to illustrate that
al-Fayed is not just a rather cuddly owner of the Top People’s Store but has
at various stages been contending an almost murderous war with people who would
think absolutely nothing of assassinating him.
In fact, Marwan and al-Fayed were contemporaries in Egypt and both have
rags-to-riches backgrounds, although al-Fayed has always falsely claimed he came
from a wealthy family. Marwan’s astronomical rise to power began when he was a
penniless student in Cairo under Nasser. He managed to get himself close to
Nasser’s favourite daughter, Muna, who fell in love with him. Nasser -
Britain’s great enemy because of Suez - seemed to like the young man and gave
his blessing to a marriage.
Immediately after his wedding day - without so much as a proper honeymoon -
Marwan was appointed as a "roving ambassador". His assignment was to
roam the world on Nasser’s behalf as a sort of playboy-diplomat, a job for
which Marwan showed an immediate aptitude. Evil though he most certainly was,
Marwan was by no means without charm and intelligence. His job, mainly in the
Arab world itself, was to probe governments’ attitude towards Nasser and to
lobby on his behalf. He was adept at showing he was "close to the
throne" and other Arabs were convinced that whatever Marwan said, it was
the voice of Nasser himself. Consequently in these early days, Marwan, was
forging invaluable links through the Middle East. As a sideline, purely for
himself but with a generous Nasser budget, he began amassing his own files on
almost anyone who was anyone in the Arab world, especially in Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia.
It was at this time that Marwan also began, in a small way at first, organising
arms deals. By the time Nasser had died, Marwan had stashed several million
dollars into various European and off-shore banks. As it turned out Nasser’s
death was an advantage because a young, unsure and fledgling Sadat was desperate
to surround himself with key people he thought he could trust. Marwan would
obviously be a deadly enemy if he were not courted. As a result Marwan went from
roving diplomat to Minister Without Portfolio. That innocuous title hid an
awesome power. Marwan kept all his diplomatic privileges, but was now to get
into arms dealing in a very big way. His real power, however, came from the
umbrella which Sadat had created to use Marwan’s talents in many other ways.
He was, in effect, Chief of Staff for Information and Chairman of the Arab
Corporation for War Industries. These two posts alone would represent great and
lucrative power in Sadat’s Egypt. But then Sadat appointed him Head of the
Security Forces. This made him not only the ultimate supremo of the army and air
force, but also the civil and secret police. This was not only unprecedented,
but almost inconceivable. It was this man, don’t forget, who would ultimately
become a principal player against the Fayed family.
Between 1974 and 1978 Marwan masterminded a mass of arrests and created
sophisticated torture chambers, which reflected Sadat’s terrible fear of
assassination. Marwan played on this fear to consolidate his power. His name in
Cairo changed from the "Miracle Child" to "Dr. Death." as
wave after wave of legal terrorism swept the capitol. In his capacity under
Sadat, Marwan managed to stash no less than £340 million, mainly in London
where he was madly buying property. As head of the armed forces and Chairman of
the Arab Corporation for War Industries, he merely awarded himself all the arms
contracts and the millions rolled in. His lifestyle began to reflect his
new-found riches. He bought a luxury apartment in the "most expensive
street in the world" - No. 50 Avenue Foch in Paris (a stone’s throw from
Dodi’s apartment) where he had by then installed Muna. He festooned her with
the most expensive jewels from Cartier. He bought himself a private Falcon jet
to whisk him to and from Paris for dinner at Maxims. The penniless student had
become one of the richest men in the world, within a single decade.
Then the world stage changed as Sadat was being wooed towards Camp David. Marwan
quickly saw the writing on the wall, and fled to Paris. Sadat was furious and
immediately withdrew Marwan’s diplomatic status. It was resumed only days
after Sadat’s assassination. It is not known, but widely assumed, that Marwan
was the brains behind the assassination.
When his status was restored, Marwan left Muna in Paris and, with almost
unlimited funds and important contacts throughout the Arab world, he was ready
for his formidable assault on London.
He operated under the parent company, Cabra, and within a decade he would buy
and sell among much else (and sometimes as a broker for other Arabs), the
Playboy Club, Chelsea and Fulham football grounds (Fulham is now owned by
al-Fayed). He purchased significant sections of Mayfair, Bloomsbury and the West
End of London, including a theatre. If he had kept to property alone he could
have become a billionaire in his own right, but he met Adnan Khashoggi, whom he
had known in Saudi. Despite the fact that Adnan was al-Fayed’s former
brother-in-law and therefore an uncle of Dodi, Khashoggi did not seem to have
the slightest allegiance to the Fayeds. In turn, Khashoggi introduced Marwan to
the Muktoum brothers, of racehorse fame, who subsequently introduced him to Tiny
Rowland.
At that stage there was no reason at all why Marwan should have the slightest
personal animosity towards al-Fayed. But the Muktoums did - there had developed
almost a feudal war between them - and so did Tiny Rowland.
This feud between the Muktoums and al-Fayed remains a mystery to me and al-Fayed
is still evasive about it. It seems to be a family matter. It could be that the
Muktoums, through their strings of racehorses, enjoy a unique relationship with
the Queen. It could be because of old bad feelings between Dubai and Brunei. It
could be a purely Arab feud because of an early insult. It could be business. Or
arms trade, or simply because the Muktoums put in their lot with Fayed’s sworn
enemy, Tiny Rowland.
Suffice it to say that a strong working relationship between Rowland, Marwan,
the Muktoums, Gaddafi, and al-Dam would have made a formidable and powerful
cocktail which could have unleashed almost unlimited venom.
Through Marwan, they all set up Octagon which would mastermind the dirty tricks
against al-Fayed. As usual the actual ownership of Octagon would be shrouded in
a whole network of other companies which were mainly off-the-shelf and
non-operative.
Since then, however, Rowland and al-Fayed have, on the face of it, made their
peace and it seems very unlikely indeed that Rowland would now be interested in
any plot to actually kill Diana. Again, however, Rowland was a man possessed, to
whom the death of a Fayed would have been a great convenience. It would have
settled the ultimate score of revenge. I cannot trust a man who openly cavorts
with terrorism masterminded by Gaddafi. If he did so, which is provable, then
anything can be believed of him.
There was one other thing of enormous significance. Al-Fayed had a long-standing
relationship with the Sultan of Brunei and it was an accusation Rowland had made
to the DTI that the Fayed family were not of substance and had been
"sponsored" by the Sultan. Even on Arab oil standards, the Sultan is
preposterously rich, billed as the richest man in the world. This was an
allegation, of course, set up by Octagon.
At some stage in the past decade Marwan was trying to pull a confidence trick on
the Sultan, with a view of changing his allegiance to the Muktoum camp and away
from al-Fayed. Because of al-Fayed’s equally high level of intelligence, he
was able to spike this plot and in so doing he made an immediate and bitter
lifelong enemy of Marwan. The feud between the Muktoums and the Fayeds is more
mysterious. Octagon also employs the notorious al-Dam, controlled by Gaddafi. It
is a most unholy and dangerous alliance, and none of these players would care
one iota about Diana.
There is no doubt in my mind, that a plot by these people to kill al-Fayed
himself was highly probable and possible. When these plans were frustrated, it
is by no means inconceivable that they should go for his eldest son. It is very
much how the mind of Marwan and al-Dam would work. We are back in the Bedouin
tent. An eye for an eye. But this time there wasn’t even a nuance of Bedouin
diplomacy. We don’t positively know how the mind of Gaddafi really works, but
we do know that he has shown strains of eccentricity bordering on insanity, and
that because of his relationship with Tiny Rowland, he was firmly and
dangerously in the anti-Fayed camp. Even if he was not a direct conspirator, he
could have supplied the sophisticated intelligence equipment needed to carry out
an undetectable assassination. He would not have needed to finance it. Between
them, these would-be conspirators had more than enough funds to buy up anything
they needed. Also, Paris was very much home ground to Marwan and al-Dam. Marwan,
in the Avenue Foch, was almost a neighbour of Dodi off the Champs Elysées. Even
if the Muktoums were not in the conspiracy they would have been very pleased
with the death of Dodi.
None of the players in this particular scenario are amateurs. Marwan himself is
a former head of intelligence and terror squads, and al-Dam still is. Both have
irrefutable terrorist backgrounds and both have never given a toss for human
life.
As we go on later to examine the circumstances of the actual accident, it will
become obvious that this faction was entirely capable of carrying out such an
operation.
My main question is simple. How was a man like Marwan able, for two decades now,
to operate terrorist activity from the UK and France with complete impunity? It
is absolutely impossible that he could have evaded the interest of the
whole world’s intelligence services, including MI5, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, all
the Arab states, France, and, because of his strong connections with Rowland -
who had vast interests in Africa - most of Africa as well, without ever being
molested or restrained in any way. As a friend of Gaddafi, for example, he would
automatically have been an enemy of Israel. He faces immediate arrest in the US.
Why not in the UK? Why has the US not tried for extradition proceedings?
If ourselves and the al-Fayed team were easily able to identify him as an
organiser of terrorism, and as Top Secret files in, at the very least, the
Egyptian embassy in London were undoubtedly available to the CIA and MI6, how is
it that he has never been apprehended?
If CIA files in the US, concerning the connivance of two of their top agents in
terrorism, showed adequately enough that Marwan was involved in supplying arms
to terrorists (enough anyway to issue an arrest warrant), how come Britain and
France have seemingly never taken an interest? Tradeswind was fully covered in
inter-office CIA files and formed the basis of the agents’ prosecution. Why is
it still trading?
How was it that Gaddafi’s cousin and his brother - both infamous international
murderers - and Nasser’s former political henchman (Marwan), could move freely
in and out of London, Paris and Tripoli, when there were global sanctions
against Gaddafi? How was it, come to that, that despite the sanctions, Rowland
himself was able to openly launder money for the Gaddafi regime?
Al-Fayed’s painstakingly-constructed files have now been widely circulated to
the whole gamut of the "Middle-Establishment" - the police, MP’s,
newspapers and so on. Our own observations, fully backed by huge and authentic
documentation, have been published in full (the whole series eventually ran to
30,000 words). This means that for at least ten years now there has been widely
published material on Marwan and Co.’s covert activities. No one has ever so
much as questioned him officially. The media also have steered ominously clear,
despite much hectoring from the Fayed camp. Yet even with our own slender
resources, often working on a shoestring budget with a largely inexperienced
staff, we were able to supply irrefutable evidence that Ashraf Marwan was a
complete undesirable to these shores.
The fact is that it is so very inexplicable that one can really only come to one
conclusion: That Ashraf Marwan, must have been so useful to the
Super-Establishment (in particular the secret agencies and the Foreign Office)
that it was prudent and expedient of them to either turn a blind eye - or to use
him for their own ends.
Being a trained espionage agent himself, Marwan would have been very well placed
to play both sides against the other for his own gain and protection. If nothing
else he has been a supreme survivor in a very murky world.
It is established fairly generally that professional espionage agencies are well
versed in using their supposed enemies as agent provocateur in
sophisticated political games. (Just look at the CIA’s involvement with the
drug cartels of Columbia). By using the Marwan set-up they could have closely
monitored Gaddafi’s thinking and motives; Abu Nidal’s terrorist intentions
(among others); plots against the Camp David accord; arms dealing generally; the
Egyptian political scene - and, come to that, the French; had a close link to
the Muktoums, and therefore Dubai; kept a wary eye on Tiny Rowland; and, to
boot, almost incidentally, al-Fayed.
Cold journalistic logic brings one to the inevitable conclusion that Ashraf
Marwan made the most perfect double agent for nearly all of the Mid-eastern and
Western espionage agencies. It simply stands to reason. And the strong
circumstantial evidence is that Marwan could not possibly have moved
freely in London or Paris (in the particular activities he was known to be
engaged in) unless he enjoyed absolute immunity, or, at the very least, official
protection. I simply defy anyone to argue against this.
It is possible that the files produced by the Fayed PR and investigative machine
were biased against the Rowland machine - in fact, there is little question -
but his profiles on Octagon and Marwan were all irrefutably documented. Our own
completely independent investigation tied in almost exactly with the conclusions
of his high-powered and well-financed team.
As such, if there was a well-organised Libyan-based plot to do harm to the
Fayeds, then Mossad and the British security agencies simply had to know
about it. One can only conjecture that if they had blown Marwan, they would have
blown the cover of one of their most valuable double agents.
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Public Relationships:
Hill & Knowlton, Robert Gray,
and the CIA
by Johan Carlisle ©
From the Spring 1993 issue of CAQ (Number44)
[INLINE] Public relations and lobbying firms are part of the revolving
door between government and business that President Clinton has vowed
to close. It is not clear how he will accomplish this goal when so
many of his top appointees, including Ron Brown and Howard Paster, are
"business as usual" Washington insiders. Ron Brown, who was a lobbyist
and attorney for Haiti's "BabyDoc"Duvalier, is Clinton's Secretary of
Commerce. Paster, former head of Hill and Knowlton 's Washington
office, directed the confirmation process during the transition period
and is now Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the White House.
After managing PR for the Gulf War, Hill and Knowlton executive Lauri
J. Fitz-Pegado became director of public liaison for the inauguration.
The door swings both ways. Thomas Hoog, who served on Clinton's
transition team, has replaced Paster as head of H&K's Washington
office.
Hill and Knowlton is one of the world 's largest and most influential
corporations. As such, its virtually unregulated status, its
longstanding connections to intelligence agencies, its role in shaping
policy, and its close relationship to the Clinton administration
deserve careful scrutiny.
In Turkey, "in July 1991, the same month President George Bush made an
official visit there, the body of human rights worker Vedat Aydin was
found along a road. His skull was fractured, his legs were broken, and
his body was riddled by more than a dozen bullet wounds. He had been
taken from his home by several armed men who identified themselves as
police officers. No one was charged with his murder." De- spite
hundreds of such "credible reports" acknowledged by the State
Department, documenting use of "high-pressure cold water hoses,
electric shocks, beating of the genitalia, and hanging by the arms,"
Turkey reaps the benefits of U.S. friendship and Most Favored Nation
status. "Last year Turkey received more than $800 million in U.S. aid,
and spent more than $3.8 million on Washington lobbyists to keep that
money flowing." Turkey paid for U.S. tolerance of torture with its
cooperative role in NATO, and its support for Operation Desert Storm;
it bought its relatively benign public image with cold cash. Turkey's
favorite Washington public relations and lobbying firm is Hill and
Knowlton (H&K), to which it paid $1,200,000 from November 1990 to May
1992. Other chronic human rights abusers, such as China, Peru, Israel,
Egypt, and Indonesia, also retained Hill and Knowlton to the tune of
$14 million in 1991-92. Hill and Knowlton has also represented the
infamously repressive Duvalier regime in Haiti.
On October 10, 1990, as the Bush administration stepped up war
preparations against Iraq, H&K, on behalf of the Kuwaiti government,
presented 15-year-old "Nayirah" before the House Human Rights Caucus.
Passed off as an ordinary Kuwaiti with firsthand knowledge of
atrocities committed by the Iraqi army, she testified tearfully before
Congress:
"I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital...[where] I saw the Iraqi
soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where
15 babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the
incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor
to die."
Supposedly fearing reprisals against her family, Nayirah did not
reveal her last name to the press or Congress. Nor did this apparently
disinterested witness mention that she was the daughter of Sheikh Saud
Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. As Americans were
being prepared for war, her story- which turned out to be impossible
to corroborate -became the centerpiece of a finely tuned public
relations campaign orches- trated by H&K and coordi- nated with the
White House on behalf of the government of Kuwait and its front group,
Citizens for a Free Kuwait.
In May 1991, CFK was folded into the Washington-based Kuwait-America
Foundation. CFK had sprung into action on August 2, the day Iraq
invaded Kuwait. By August 10, it had hired H&K, the preeminent U.S.
public relations firm. CFK reported to the Justice Department receipts
of $17,861 from 78 individual U.S. and Canadian contributors and $11.8
million from the Kuwaiti government. Of those "do- nations," H&K got
nearly $10.8 million to wage one of the largest, most effective public
relations campaigns in history.
From the streets to the newsrooms, according to author John MacArthur,
that money created a benign facade for Kuwait's image:
"The H&K team, headed by former U.S. Information Agency officer
Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado, organized a Kuwait Information Day on 20
college campuses on September 12. On Sunday, September 23, churches
nationwide observed a national day of prayer for Kuwait. The next
day, 13 state governors declared a national Free Kuwait Day. H&K
distributed tens of thousands of Free Kuwait bumper stickers and
T-shirts, as well as thousands of media kits extolling the alleged
virtues of Kuwaiti society and history. Fitz-Pegado's crack press
agents put together media events featuring Kuwaiti "resistance
fighters" and businessmen and arranged meetings with newspaper
editorial boards. H&K's Lew Allison, a former CBS and NBC News
producer, created 24 video news releases from the Middle East, some
of which purported to depict life in Kuwait under the Iraqi boot.
The Wirthlin Group was engaged by H&K to study TV audience reaction
to statements on the Gulf crisis by President Bush and Kuwaiti
officials. "
All this PR activity helped "educate" Americans about Kuwait-a
totalitarian country with a terrible human rights record and no rights
for women. Meanwhile, the incubator babies atrocity story inflamed
public opinion against Iraq and swung the U.S. Congress in favor of
war in the Gulf.
This free market approach to manufacturing public perception raises
the issue of:
whether there is something fundamentally wrong when a foreign
government can pay a powerful, well-connected lobbying and public
relations firm millions of dollars to convince the American people
and the American government to support a war halfway around the
world. In another age this activity would have caused an explosion
of outrage. But something has changed in Washington. Boundaries no
longer exist.
One boundary which has been blurred beyond recognition is that between
"propaganda"-which conjures up unpleasant images of Goebbels-like
fascists-and "public relations," a respectable white collar
profession. Taking full advantage of the revolving door, these
lobbyists and spinmeisters glide through Congress, the White House,
and the major media editorial offices. Their routine manipulations--
like those of their brown shirted predecessors--corrode democracy and
government policy. H&K's highly paid agents of influence, such as Vice
President Bush's chief of staff Craig Fuller, and Democratic power
broker Frank Mankiewicz, have run campaigns against abortion for the
Catholic Church, represented the Church of Scientology, and the
Moonies. They have made sure that gasoline taxes have been kept low
for the American Petroleum Institute; handled flack for Three Mile
Island's near-catastrophe; and mishandled the apple growers' assertion
that Alar was safe. They meddle in our political life at every turn
and apparently are never held accountable. Not only do these PR firms
act as foreign propaganda agents, but they work closely with U.S. and
foreign intelligence agencies, making covert operations even harder to
control.
In the 1930s, Edward Bernays, the "father of public relations,"
convinced corporate America that changing the public's opinion--using
PR techniques--about troublesome social movements such as socialism
and labor unions, was more effective than hiring goons to club people.
Since then, PR has evolved into an increasingly refined art form of
manipulation on behalf of whoever has the large amounts of money
required to pay for it. In 1991, the top 50 U.S.-based PR firms billed
over $1,700,000,000 in fees. Top firms like Hill and Know- lton charge
up to $350 per hour.
PR firms manipulate public and congressional opinion and government
policy through media campaigns, congressional hearings, and lobbying.
They have the ability and the funds to conduct sophisticated research
for their clients and, using inside information, to advise them about
policy decisions. They are positioned to sell their clients access and
introductions to gov- ernment officials, including those in
intelligence agencies. Robert Keith Gray, head of Hill and Knowlton's
Washington office for three decades, used to brag about checking major
decisions personally with CIA director William Casey, whom he
considered a close personal friend.
One of the most important ways public relations firms influence what
we think is through the massive distribution of press releases to
newspapers and TV newsrooms. One study found that 40 percent of the
news content in a typical U.S. newspaper originated with public
relations press releases, story memos, or suggestions. The Columbia
Journalism Review, which scrutinized a typical issue of the Wall
Street Journal, found that more than half the Journal's news stories
"were based solely on press releases." Although the releases were
reprinted "almost verbatim or in para- phrase," with little additional
reporting, many articles were attributed to "a Wall Street Journal
staff reporter."
While some PR campaigns are aimed at the general pub- lic, others
target leadership, either to persuade them or to provide them with
political cover. On November 27, 1990, just two days before the U.N.
Security Council was to vote on the use of military force against
Iraq, while the U.S. was extorting, bullying, and buying U.N.
cooperation, Kuwait was trying to win hearts, minds, and tear ducts.
"Walls of the [U.N.] Council chamber were covered with oversized color
photographs of Kuwaitis of all ages who reportedly had been killed or
tortured by Iraqis. ...A videotape showed Iraqi soldiers apparently
firing on unarmed demonstrators, and witnesses who had escaped from
Kuwait related tales of horror. A Kuwaiti spokesman was on hand to
insist that his nation had been `an oasis of peaceful harmony' before
Iraq mounted its invasion." This propaganda extravaganza was
orchestrated by Hill and Knowlton for the government of Kuwait. With
few exceptions, the event was reported as news by the media, and two
days later the Security Council voted to authorize military force
against Iraq.
THE INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION The government's use of PR firms in
general, and Hill and Knowlton in particular, goes beyond ethically
dubious opinion manipulation. It includes potentially illegal proxy
spying operations for intelligence agencies. "H&K recruited students
to attend teach-ins and demonstrations on college campuses at the
height of the Vietnam War, and to file agent-like reports on what they
learned," according to author Susan Trento. "The purpose was for H&K
to tell its clients that it had the ability to spot new trends in the
activist movement, especially regarding environmental issues." Richard
Cheney (no relation to former Secretary of Defense Cheney), head of
H&K's New York office, denied this allegation. He said that H&K
recommends that its clients hire private investigative agencies to
conduct surveillance and intelligence work. But, Cheney admitted, "in
such a large organization you never know if there's not some sneak
operation going on."
Former CIA official Robert T. Crowley, the Agency's long-time liaison
with corporations, sees it differently. "Hill and Knowlton's overseas
offices," he acknowledged, "were perfect `cover' for the
ever-expanding CIA. Unlike other cover jobs, being a public relations
specialist did not require technical training for CIA officers." The
CIA, Crowley admitted, used its H&K connections "to put out press
releases and make media contacts to further its positions. ...H&K
employees at the small Washington office and elsewhere, distributed
this material through CIA assets working in the United States news
media." Since the CIA is prohibited from disseminating propaganda
inside the U.S., this type of "blowback"- which former CIA officer
John Stockwell and other researchers have often traced to the
Agency-is illegal. While the use of U.S. media by the CIA has a long
and well-documented history, the covert involvement of PR firms may be
news to many. According to Trento:
"Reporters were paid by the CIA, sometimes without their media
employers' knowledge, to get the material in print or on the air.
But other news organizations ordered their employees to cooperate
with the CIA, including the San Diego-based Copley News Service.
But Copley was not alone, and the CIA had `tamed' reporters and
editors in scores of newspaper and broadcast outlets across the
country. To avoid direct relationships with the media, the CIA
recruited individuals in public relations firms like H&K to act as
middlemen for what the CIA wanted to distribute.
This close association and dependence upon the intelligence community
by reporters has created a unique situation which has shielded PR
executives and firms from closer scrutiny by the media and Congress.
According to Trento, "These longstanding H&K intelligence ties and
CIA-linked reporters' fears that Gray might know about them might
partially explain why Gray has escaped close media examination, even
though he was questioned about his or his associates' roles in one
major scandal after another during his long Washington career."
Over the years, Hill and Knowlton and Robert Gray have been implicated
in the BCCI scandal, the October Surprise, the House page sex and drug
scandal, Debategate, Koreagate, and Iran-Contra. In October 1988,
three days after the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring with the Medellin
Cartel to launder $32,000,000 in illicit drug profits, the bank hired
H&K to manage the scandal. Robert Gray also served on the board of
directors of First American Bank, the Washington D.C. bank run by
Clark Clifford (now facing federal charges) and owned by BCCI. Gray
was close to, and helped in various ways, top Reagan officials. When
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's son needed a job, Gray hired
him for $2,000 a month. "And when Gray's clients needed something from
the Pentagon, Gray and Co. went right to the top." Gray also helped
Attorney General Ed Meese's wife, Ursula, get a lucrative job with a
foundation which was created by a wealthy Texas client, solely to
employ her.
ROBERT KEITH GRAY- PRIVATE SPOOK? Robert Keith Gray, who set up Hill
and Knowlton's important Washington, D.C. office and ran it for most
of the time between 1961 and 1992, has had numerous contacts in the
national and international intelligence community. The list of his
personal and professional associates includes Edwin Wilson, William
Casey, Tongsun Park (Korean CIA), Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Anna Chennault
(Gray was a board member of World Airways aka Flying Tigers), Neil
Livingstone, Ro- bert Owen, and Oliver North.
"Most of the International Division [of Gray & Co.] clients," said
Susan Trento, "were right-wing governments tied closely to the
intelligence community or businessmen with the same associations."
In 1965, with Gray's help, Tongsun Park, had formed the George Town
Club in Washington. According to Trento:
Park put up the money and, with introductions from Gray and others,
recruited "founders" for the club like the late Marine Gen. Graves
Erskine, who had an active intelligence career. Anna Chennault became
a force in the club. Others followed, and most, like Gray, had the
same conservative political outlook, connections to the intelligence
world, or `congressional overtones.' Gray's ties to right-wing Asians
like Chennault and Park had deep roots. Gray had been critical of
Eisenhower [when he was appointments secretary for Eisenhower] for
never being partisan enough. Perhaps that is why Gray embraced
wholeheartedly the powers behind the China Lobby. One reason Gray was
attached to the lobby was that they had long been behind the funding
of Richard Nixon's various campaigns.
Tongsun Park was an "agent of influence," trained by the Korean
intelligence agency, which was created by and is widely regarded as a
subsidiary of the CIA. The George Town Club has served as a discrete
meeting place where right-wing foreign intelligence agents can
socialize and conduct business with U.S. government officials.
Robert Gray has also been linked with former CIA and naval
intelligence agent Edwin Wilson, although Gray denies it. In 1971,
Wilson left the CIA and set up a series of new front companies for a
secret Navy operation-Task Force 157. Wilson says that Robert Gray
"was on the Board [of Directors]. We had an agreement that anything
that H&K didn't want, they would throw to me so that I could make some
money out of it, and Bob and I would share that."
THE GRAY AREA BEHIND HILL & KNOWLTON Gray's connection to Iran-Contra
has never been fully examined. Notably, the Tower Commission, Reagan's
official 1986 investigation, all but ignored it. In 1983, Texas
Senator John Tower had declined to seek reelection thinking he had a
deal with Reagan to become Secretary of Defense. After Weinberger
decided to stay on in the second Reagan term, Tower found himself
without a job. In 1986, his friend Robert Gray offered him a position
on the board of directors of Gray and Co. Shortly thereafter, Tower
was asked to head the presidential inquiry. Not suprisingly, the Tower
Commission kept Gray and Co. out of the investigation, in spite of the
facts that several key players in the scandal had worked for Gray and
Co., and Gray's Madrid office was suspected of involvement in the
secret arms shipments to Iran.
Despite large gaps in the official inquiry, it has been established
that Robert Owen, Oliver North's messenger and bagman, worked for Gray
and Co. after leaving then-Senator Dan Quayle's staff in 1983. Owen
worked primarily with Neil Livingstone, a mysterious figure who claims
to be a mover and shaker in the intelligence world but who is
described as a "groupie." Livingstone worked with Ed Wilson, Air
Panama, and as a front man for business activities sponsored by the
CIA and Israeli intelligence. Owen and Livingstone traveled frequently
to Central America to meet with the Contras in 1984. An interesting
footnote to Iran-Contra is that in 1986, Saudi Arabian arms broker
Adnan Khashoggi hired Hill and Knowlton and Gray and Co. to milk
maximum publicity out of his major donation to a $20.5 million sports
center, named after him, at American University.
THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT The pattern of influence peddling and
insider abuse is clear. The potential for real reform is less obvious.
Despite his stated intention to restrict the influence of lobbyists
and PR manipulation, Clinton's reforms are viewed with cynical
amusement by those in the know. Although newly restricted from
directly lobbying their former agencies, retiring government officials
can simply take jobs with PR firms, sit at their desks, and instruct
others to say "Ron, or Howard, sent me." Nor does the updated Foreign
Agents Registration Act have real teeth. The act-legislated in 1938
when U.S. PR firms were discovered working as propagandists and
lobbyists for Nazi Germany-is rarely enforced. While it requires
agents of governments to register, it omits requirements for agents of
foreign corporations, who often serve the same interests.
And if loopholes for lobbying are comfortably large, public relations
activities remain totally unregulated and unscrutinized by any
government agency. Given the power and scope of PR firms, their track
records of manipulation, their collusion with intelligence agencies,
and their disregard for the human rights records and corporate
misdeeds of many of their clients, this lack of oversight endangers
democracy. Careful regulation, stringent reporting requirements, and
government and citizen oversight are essential first steps in
preventing these giant transnationals from functioning as a virtual
fourth branch of government.