Board: NEWS BB Topic: WHITEWATER Subject: LOND. TELEGRAPH 10/9 Here's the second story from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the 10/9 London Sunday Telegraph....... "SMUGGLERS LINKED TO CONTRA ARMS DEALS" It is engraved on the consciousness of the world by now that Arkansas is a corrupt one-party state. What is less well known is that it is also a major point for trans-shipment of drugs coming from Latin America and the Carribean. In the mid-1980s it was perilously close to becoming a "narco-republic" - a sort of mini-Colombia within the borders of the United States. Organized crime has long had a foothold in Arkansas, especially in the gambling town of Hot Springs where Bill Clinton spent most of his childhood. and the geography is good for smuggling. Located in the hinterland, the state is safely removed from the microscopic surveillance of the U.S. Coast Guard. Business exploded in the early 1980s, according to sources in state and federal law enforcement. Drugs were flown into airstrips all over Arkansas, and from there transported overland to cities such as St. Louis and Chicago. Basil Abbott, a convicted drug pilot, says that he flew a Cessna 210 full of cocaine in to Marianna, in eastern Arkansas, in the spring of 1982. The aircraft was welcomed by an Arkansas State Trooper in a marked police car. "Arkansas was a very good place to load and unload," he said. But the nerve center of the smuggling operation was at Mena, a small town in the Ouachita mountains of western Arkansas. Aircraft with modified cargo doors would drop their loads over pre-arranged sites, then fly empty into the Mena airport. The legendary smuggler Barry Seal had his base of operations there, storing aircraft at a refitting shop called Rich Mountain Aviation. Seal was probably the biggest importer of cocaine in American history. Between 1980 and his assassination in 1986, his team of pilots smuggled in 36 metric tons of cocaine, 104 tons of marijuana and three tons of heroin, according to a close associate of Seal. The sums of money involved were staggering. At his death, Seal left a number of operational bank accounts. One of them, at the Cayman Islands branch of the Fuji Bank, currently has an interest-bearing balance of $1,645,433,000. There were various attempts to investigate the Mena smuggling ring. All of them were obstructed. The first was a joint investigation by the Arkansas State Police and the U.S. Treasury's Internal Revenue Service. It lasted from 1985 to 1986. The IRS investigator, Bill Duncan, says that there was a cover-up in which crucial evidence was withheld from the federal grand jury. He resigned in disgust from the Treasury. Russell Welch, the investigator for the State Police, suffered a severe illness during the probe. He was hospitalized and diagnosed with anthrax poisoning. The Sunday Telegraph has a copy of his hand-written private notes for the full three years of the investigation, along with supporting documents from FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sources. cont. It is clear that Welch has stumbled on a complex operation in which narcotics trafficking and government covert operations had somehow got mixed up. On June 4, 1985, his diary says that an agent from the DEA "informed me in strictest confidence that it was believed, within his department, that Barry Seal is flying weapons to Central and South America. In return he is allowed to smuggle what he wanted back into the United States". In August 1987 he received a secret teletype from the FBI offices in Chicago advising him that "a CIA or DEA operation is taking place at the Mena airport". The Sunday Telegraph has a copy of the telex. By late 1987 he was deeply disturbed. "I feel like I live in Russia, waiting for the secret police to pounce down. A government has gotten out of control. Men find themselves in positions of power and suddenly crimes become legal. National Security?!" In 1988 the Democratic whip in the U.S. Congress, Bill Alexander, started an investigation through the General Accounting Office. It went nowhere. Alexander then tried again with a joint investigation by the U.S. Congress and the Arkansas Attorney General's Office, but ran into endless obstruction. Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA, a best-selling book published this year, has helped to open up the mystery of what happened at Mena. the author Terry Reed has recounted his role in the drama, and since then other sources have come forward. It appears that the CIA chose Barry Seal and his smuggling operation to be the sub-contractor for its covert scheme to supply arms to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels between 1984 and 1986. The CIA could not use government aircraft or pilots because of a congressional prohibition on aid to the Contras. It was in a desperate hurry to get things started, and Seal was there with an infrastructure already in place - in Arkansas. Seal had ostensibly turned informant and double agent by then. Facing indictment for smuggling, he had convinced Vice-President Bush's drug task force that he could crack open the Medellin cartel as an undercover agent for the DEA, which he did in fact accomplish in a spectacular sting operation. Big snag. He never stopped hauling cocaine for himself. In fact he used the high-tech equipment given to him by the CIA and the DEA to perfect his smuggling skills. "The CIA didn't realize that Seal had synergised their covert operation with the Dixie Mafia. They didn't figure it out until they were in the quicksand, and by then it was too late," said Seal's associate. "In the end, you had a situation where the Dixie Mafia was blackmailing the CIA." The result was a free-for-all in Arkansas. The regional drug cartel thought that it had acquired a sort of federal immunity for drug trafficking, and behaved accordingly. By 1986 there was an epidemic of cocaine, contaminating the political establishment from top to bottom. The nightlife of the Clinton coterie was worthy of Caligula. Dan Lasater, a self-made restaurant tycoon and money-man for Governor Clinton, gave parties at which cocaine would be served like hors d'oeuvres and sex was rampant. Some of this is documented graphically in police records. Bill Clinton was in frequent attendance. Lasater was eventually convicted on federal charges of distributing cocaine to friends. In 1986 he was sentenced to 36 months in jail. In addition, there is a document from the Regional Organized Crime Center in Nashville, dated May 15, 1986, which shows a request for information on Lasater "in reference to narcotics trafficking via aircraft with possible organized crime ties". This was never followed up. The DEA kept a file on Lasater. A memo from March 1984 names Patsy Thomasson, Lasater & Co. executive vice president as a designated passenger on private flights with Lasater to Latin America. Thomasson is now Director of Administration at the White House and a crucial figure in the inner circle of Bill and Hillary Clinton (it was she who removed Whitewater files from the White House office of the late Vincent Foster on the night of his death). On February 8, 1984, she flew to Belize with Lasater to negotiate the purchase of a farm. Lasater is now under investigation by the Whitewater prosecutor. The FBI is trying to determine whether Lasater's brokerage firm used client accounts to launder drug profits. In particular, they are looking at transactions worth $107 million that were put through the account of an unsuspecting court clerk in Kentucky. Also under the microscope is the participation of Lasater & Co. in several hundred million dollars-worth of bond issues by the Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA), an agency created by Bill Clinton in 1985. There have been many allegations that ADFA served as a "laundromat" for dirty money. In December 1988 it wired $50 million to the Fuji Bank in the Cayman Islands. Investigators will be looking for proof that the money - all of it - returned to Arkansas for its intended purpose of building family houses. The more we learn about the circle of people who surrounded Bill Clinton in Arkansas, and the way they conducted business, the more alarming this picture becomes. ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Patriot Archives FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail alex@spiral.org) Perhaps as shocking as the allegation that Bill Clinton was involved in the drug trade in Arkansas is the claim that George Bush was as well. It seems at least as unlikely that Bush and Clinton would agree on something as it does that they'd both be narcotics peddlers. But now that 60 Minutes (a so-called "respected" news outlet) has finally broken the story documenting that the CIA has long been a major player in the cocaine market, perhaps claims like the one below will be taken a little more seriously. ========================================================================= Taken from THE SH@DOW Anarchist monthly Box 20298 NY, NY 10009 ARKANSAS GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH CIA DRUGS FOR GUNS CONNECTION By Paul DeRienzo An independent group of researchers in Arkansas are charging that Governor Bill clinton is covering up an airport used by the CIA and major cocaine smugglers in a remote corner of the Ozark mountains. According to Deborah Robinson of In These Times, the Intermountain Regional Airport in Mena, Arkansas continues to be the hub of operations for people like assassinated cocaine kingpin Barry Seal as well as government intelligence operations linked to arms and drug smuggling. In the 1980's, the Mena airport became one of the world's largest aircraft refurbishing centers, providing services to planes from many countries. Researchers claim that the largest consumers of aircraft refurbishing services are drug smugglers and intelligence agencies involved in covert activities. In fact, residents of Mena, Arkansas, have told reporters that former marine Lt. Colonel Oliver North was a frequent visitor during the 1980's. Eugene Hasenfus, a pilot who was shot down in a Contra supply plane over Nicaragua in 1986, was also seen in town renting cargo vehicles. A federal Grand Jury looking into activities at the Mena airport refused to hand down any indictments after drug running charges were made public. Deborah Robinson says that Clinton had "ignored the situation" until he began his presidential campaign." Clinton then said he would provide money for a state run investigation of the Mena airport. But according to Robinson, the promise of an investigation was never followed up by Clinton's staff. In fact, a local Arkansas state prosecutor blasted Clinton's promise of an investigation, comparing it to "spitting on a forest fire." Clinton's involvement in the drug and arms running goes even further than a mere cover-up of the deplorable activities that went on, and are still going on, at the airport in Mena. A federal mail fraud case against an Arkansas pilot-trainer who participated in illegal arms exports to Central America relied on a key Clinton staffer as a chief witness. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence when the CIA refused to allow the discussion of top secret information about the arms transfers. Terry Reed, a former employee of te CIA's Air America operation in Laos during the Indochina war, claims to have been recruited as a pilot trainer into the Iran operation by Oliver North. In an article written by David Gallis and published last year by Covert Action Information Bulletin, Reed said that in 1983 he had agreed to supply North's operatives with "certain items." In pursuit of the Reagan administration's contra war against the Sandinistas, the CIA had planted mines in Nicaragua's harbors. In 1984, Congress passed the Boland Amendment, which cut off US aid to the Contras. According to Reed, it was during this period that North aided him to become involved in a covert operation called "Project Donation". Reed was told he would be reimbursed for supplying the contras by insurance companies that were linked to North's operation., Shortly afterwards, Reed reported the "theft" of Piper turbo-prop aircraft and he filed a $33,000 claim on which he eventually collected almost $7,000. In late 1985, Red received a phone call from an Air America buddy, William Cooper, a pilot working with Southern Air Transport, another CIA front company. Cooper also was working with soon to be murdered drug kingpin Barry Seal at the same time he was flying re-supply missions for the contras. In 1986, he was shot down and killed over Nicaragua along with co-pilot Wallace Sawyer. The plane's cargo-kicker, Eugene Hasenfus, parachuted into the arms of waiting Sandinista soldiers. Video images of his capture spanned the world and forced an airing of a tiny part of US covert operations. Sandinistas who recovered the downed cargo plane searched Cooper's pockets and found phone numbers linking the re-supply operation with Felix Rodriguez, an associate of George Bush, best known for murdering Che Guevara after his capture in Bolivia. To this day, Rodriguez, who works for the CIA, wears Che's watch as a trophy. Reed says that Cooper told him that the stolen Piper would soon be returned and that he should store it in a hanger at Mena until the Hasenfus mess blew over. "There was a lot of contra stuff going on in Arkansas." said Reed, "it was the hub." Meanwhile, Reed went into business in Mexico with the blessing of Rodriguez, who was overseeing the contra air re-supply operation in El Salvador. Reed's company used Mexico to export arms to the contras, in violation of the Boland Amendment. Reed went down to Mexico and his operation continued for a year after the Iran-Contra story broke. According to Arkansas Committee researcher Mark Swaney, in the summer of 1987, even as the ContraGate hearings were going on in Congress, Terry Reed began to suspect they were using his front company for something other than snuggling weapons. One day, he was looking for a lathe in one of his warehouses near the airport in Guadalajara and he opened up one of the very large air freight shipping containers (they are about 28' long, about 7' high and about 8' wide), and he found it packed full of cocaine. Swaney reports that Reed realized he was in a very precarious situation because he was the only person on paper who had anything to do with the company set up to run guns to the Contras in Nicaragua out of Mexico and there was nobody to say that he did not know anything about what was going on. Reed decided he wasn't going to play the part of a patsy. Swaney says that Reed's contact man for the CIA in Mexico was Felix Rodriguez, whom Reed confronted. Reed said that he hadn't bargained for getting into narcotics smuggling and that he was dropping out all together. Soon afterward, his legal problems began. In a series of mysterious events, Reed was charged with mail fraud for claiming insurance for an aircraft that was used by North's network under Operation Donation. Reed, who was eventually acquitted of the charges, was picked up by the FBI after the missing plane was discovered in the Mena hanger where Reed had put the plane at Cooper's suggestion. The discovery was made by Clinton's security chief Buddy Young. Young testified that his discovery of the stolen plane was coincidental, an assertion federal Judge Frank Thiel said was unsupported by the facts. Reed was charged with mail fraud for collecting insurance on the plane, but the CIA prevented prosecutors from releasing information they called "top, top secret," about the Rodriguez-North, Southern Air Transport connection. In November 1990, the prosecution admitted they couldn't prosecute Reed without the secret documents and Judge Thiel ordered Reed acquitted on all of the charges. Allegations of Governor Bill Clinton's extra-marital sexual exploits originated with a 1990 lawsuit by Larry Nichols, a former Arkansas state employee. Nichols was fired by Clinton in 1988 after reporters discovered Nichols had been lobbying on behalf of the Contras from his office as head of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. The suit claimed that Clinton had lied when he said Nichols was fired because he was phoning the Contras directly from his state office. Nichols claimed he only called Washington to lobby on behalf of the Contras. In the suit, Nichols also revealed the affair between Clinton and office secretary Gennifer Flowers. The suit was dropped by Nichols on January 25, 1992, after Gennifer Flowers went public with her story of the affair. Nichols told reporters that he decided to drop the suit after meeting with Clinton security chief Buddy Young- the same man who found Terry Reed's missing Piper aircraft at the Mena airport. According to Arkansas Committee researcher Mark Swaney, Nichols said that Young had told him he was a "dead man." prompting Nichols to drop the suit. In public, Nichols says he dropped the suit because "the media have made a circus out of this thing and it's gone way too far." I court documents recently released by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, it has been revealed that Jackson Stephens, a billionaire banker in Little Rock, Arkansas, and one of presidential candidate Bill Clinton's main supporters, may have played a key role in setting up the illegal purchase by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) of two American banks. Both First American National Bank, the largest bank in Washington DC, and Georgia National Bank, were purchased by BCCI front man and Stephens business associate Gaith Pharon. Stephens' family bank, the Worthern National Bank, recently extended a two million dollar loan to the Clinton campaign. Stephens, who is an avid golfer and chairman of the prestigious Masters Tournament Committee, is named in the court records as having brought Pharon together with Stephens' close friend Bert Lance. Lance was a former cabinet official under President Jimmy Carter who was forced to resign due to a banking scandal. According to newspaper reports, BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi was introduced to Lance by Stephens. Stephens, Lance, and First American Bank director and longtime Democratic party power broker Clark Clifford all maintain that they did not know the group of Pakinstani and Saudi investors headed by Pharon, which they were dealing with, were actually fronting for BCCI. Clinton's staff has refused to comment. Bill Clinton's environmental record has been as dismal as his record in the Iran-Contra scandal. He has supported the incineration of extremely toxic chemicals at a site in the city of Jacksonville, 20 miles from Little Rock, that is reputed to be the most polluted spot in the United States. Jacksonville was the site of Hercules Inc., a company that produced the two components of Agent Orange, 2,4 D, which is still used in agriculture and 2,4,5,T, which was banned by the federal government in 1983 as a carcinogen. Agent Orange was used to defoliate Vietnamese forests during the Indochina war and its production yields the by-product dioxin, the most toxic chemical known on earth. Hercules sold the operation in 1976 to Vertac Inc., which closed the plant in 1987, leaving behind 20,000 barrels of the chemicals. Gov. Bill Clinton supports a plan to incinerate the waste, a plan that is being vigorously opposed by the residents of Jacksonville. In These Times reporter Deborah Robinson says that Clinton has allowed Arkansas to become a dumping ground. "Arkansas" she says, "is still kind of a backwoods state and there's a lot of room for someone to set up whatever they want to set up and Arkansas has been exploited by people who have things they want to do that they might no get away with somewhere else." Robinson adds, "there are a lot of questions about what Somebody like Clinton would do for a country when he couldn't do anything for his own state." ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Patriot FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail alex@spiral.org) "The Mena Coverup" by Micah Morrison; Wall Street Journal p.A18 10/18/94 MENA, Ark. What do Bill Clinton and Oliver North have in common, along with the Arkansas State Police and the Central Intelligence Agency? All probably wish they had never heard of Mena. President Clinton was asked at his Oct. 7 press conference about Mena, a small town and airport in the wilds of Western Arkansas. Sarah McClendon, a longtime Washington curmudgeon renowned for her off-the-wall questions, wove a query around the charge that a base in Mena was "set up by Oliver North and the CIA" in the 1980s and used to "bring in planeload after planeload of cocaine" for sale in the U.S., with the profits then used to buy weapons for the Contras. Was he told as Arkansas governor? she asked. "No, " the president replied, "they didn't tell me anything about it." The alleged events "were primarily a matter for federal jurisdiction. The state really had next to nothing to do with it. The local prosecutor did conduct an investigation based on what was in the jurisdiction of state law. The rest of it was under the jurisdiction of the United States Attorneys who were appointed successively by previous administrations. We had nothing- zero- to do with it. " Unanswered Questions It was Clinton's lengthiest remark on the murky affair since it surfaced nearly a decade ago, in the middle of his long tenure as governor of Arkansas. And while the president may be correct to suggest that Mena is an even bigger problem for previous Republican administrations, he was wrong on just about every other count. The state of Arkansas had plenty to do with Mena, and Clinton left many unanswered questions behind when he moved to Washington. Anyone who thinks that Mena is not serious should speak to William Duncan a former Internal Revenue Service investigator who, together with Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch, fought a bitter lO-year battle to bring the matter to light. They pinned their hopes on nine separate state and federal probes. All failed."The Mena investigations were never supposed to see the light of day, " says Mr. Duncan, now an investigator with the Medicaid Fraud Division of the office of Arkansas Attorney General Winston Bryant. "Investigations were interfered with and covered up, and the justice system was subverted." The mysteries of Mena, detailed on this page on June 29, center on the activities of a drug-smuggler-turned- informant named Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal. Mr. Seal began operating at Mena Intermountain Regional Airport in 1981. At the height of his career, according to Mr. Welch, Mr. Seal was importing as much as 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month. "The Mena Coverup" part 2 By 1984, Mr. Seal was an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency and flew at least one sting operation to Nicaragua for the CIA, a mission known to have drawn the attention of Mr. North. By 1986, Mr. Seal was dead, gunned down by Colombian hitmen in Baton Rouge, La. Eight months after Mr. Seal's murder, his cargo plane, which had been based at Mena, was shot down over Nicaragua with Eugene Hasenfus and a load of Contra supplies aboard. According to Mr. Duncan and others, Mr. Clinton's allies in state government worked to suppress Mena investigations. In 1990, for example, when Mr. Bryant made Mena an issue in the race for attorney general, Clinton aide Betsey Wright warned the candidate "to stay away " from the issue, according to a CBS Evening News investigative report. Ms. Wright denies the report. Yet once in office, and after a few feints in the direction of an investigation, Mr. Bryant stopped looking into Mena. Documents obtained by the Journal show that as Gov. Clinton's quest for the presidency gathered steam in 1992, his Arkansas allies took increasing interest in Mena. Marie Miller, then director of the Medicaid Fraud Division, wrote in an April 1992 memo to her files that she told Mr. Duncan of the attorney general's "wish to sever any ties to the Mena matter -because of the implication that the AG might be investigating the governor's connection. " The memo says the instructions were pursuant to a conversation with Mr. Bryant's chief deputy, Royce Griffin. In an interview, Mr. Duncan said Mr. Griffin put him under "intense pressure " regarding Mena. Another memo, from Mr. Duncan to several high-ranking members of the attorney general's staff in March 1992, notes that Mr. Duncan was instructed "to remove all files concerning the Mena investigation from the attorney general's office. " At the time, several Arkansas newspapers were known to be preparing Freedom of Information Act requests aimed at Mr. Clinton's administration. A spokesman for Mr. Bryant, Lawrence Graves, said yesterday that he was not aware of the missing files or of pressure exerted on Mr. Duncan. In Arkansas, Mr. Graves said, the attorney general "does not have authority" to pursue criminal cases. From February to May 1992, Mr. Duncan was involved in a series of meetings aimed at deciding how to use a $25,000 federal grant obtained by then-Rep. Bill Alexander for the Mena investigation. In a November 1991 letter to Arkansas State Police Commander Tommy Goodwin, Mr. Alexander urged that, at the current "critical stage " in the Mena investigation, the money be used to briefly assign Mr. Duncan to the Arkansas State Police to pursue the case full time with State Police Investigator Welch and to prepare "a steady flow of information" for Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who had received some Mena files from Mr. Bryant. "The Mena Coverup" Part 3 According to Mr. Duncan's notes on the meetings, Mr. Clinton's aides closely tracked the negotiations over what to do with the money. Mr. Duncan says a May 7, 1992, meeting with Col. Goodwin was interrupted by a phone call from the governor, though he does not know what was discussed. The grant, however, was never used. Col. Goodwin told CBS that the money was returned "because we didn't have anything to spend it on. " In 1988, local authorities suffered a similar setback after Charles Black, a Mena area prosecutor, approached Gov. Clinton with a request for funds for a Mena investigation. "He said he would get on it and would get a man back to me, " Mr. Black told CBS. "I never heard back." In 1990, Mr. Duncan informed Col. Goodwin about Clinton supporter Dan Lasater, who had been convicted of drug charges. "I told Tommy Goodwin that I'd received allegations of a Lasater connection to Mena," Mr. Duncan said. The charge, that Barry Seal had used Mr. Lasater's bond business to launder drug money, was raised by a man named Terry Reed. Mr. Reed and journalist John Cummings recently published a book "Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA " -charging that Mr. Clinton, Mr. North and others engaged in a massive conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, export weapons and launder money. While much of the book rests on slim evidence and already published sources, the Lasater-Seal connection is new. (Thomas Mars, Mr. Lasater's attorney, said yesterday that his client "has never had a connection " with Mr. Seal.) But when Mr. Duncan tried to check out the allegations, his probe went nowhere, stalled from lack of funds and bureaucratic hostility. Not all of the hostility came from the state level. When Messrs. Duncan and Welch built a money-laundering case in 1985 against Mr. Seal's associates, the US Attorneys in the case "directly interfered with the process," Mr. Duncan said. "Subpoenas were not issued, witnesses were discredited, interviews with witnesses were interrupted, and the wrong charges were brought before the grand jury." One grand jury was so outraged by the prosecutors' actions that she broke the grand-jury secrecy covenant. Not only had the case been blatantly mishandled, she later told a congressional investigator, but many jurors felt "there was some type of government intervention," according to a transcript of the statement obtained by the Journal. "Something is being covered up." In l987, Mr. Duncan was asked to testify before a House subcommittee on crime. Two days before his before his testimony, he says, IRS attorneys working with the Us Attorney for Western Arkansas reinterpreted Rule 6(e), the grand-jury secrecy law, forcing the exclusion of much of Mr. Duncan's planned testimony and evidence. "The Mena Coverup" Part 4 Mr. Duncan also charges that a senior IRS attorney tried to force him to commit perjury by directing him to say he had no knowledge of a claim by Mr. Seal that a large bribe had been paid to Attorney General Edwin Meese. Mr. Duncan says he didn't make much of the drug dealer's claim, but he did know about it; he refused to lie to Congress. Career in Ruins Mr. Duncan, distressed by the IRS's handling of Mena, resigned in 1989. Meanwhile, the affair was sputtering through four federal forums, including a General Accounting Office probe derailed by the National Security Council. At one particularly low point, Mr. Duncan, then briefly a Mena investigator for a House sub-committee, was arrested on Capitol Hill on a bogus weapons charge that was held over his head for nine months, then dismissed. His prized career in law enforcement in ruins, he found his way back to Arkansas and began to pick up the pieces. Mr. Duncan does not consider President Clinton a political enemy. Indeed, he feels close to the president- a fellow Arkansan who shares the same birthday- and thinks Mena may turn out to be far more troublesome for GOP figures such as Mr. North than any Arkansas players. These days, Mr. Duncan struggles to keep hope alive. "I'm just a simple Arkansan who takes patriotism very seriously," he says. "We are losing confidence in our system. But I still believe that somewhere, somehow, there is some committee or institution that can issue subpoenas, get on the money trail, find out what happened and restore a bit of faith in the system." ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Patriot Archives FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail alex@spiral.org) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 4 JAN. 1995 PRESS LINKS CLINTON TO IRAN-CONTRA DRUGS DEAL BY HUGH DAVIES IN WASHINGTON Allegations of cloak-and-dagger events in Arkansas while President Bill Clinton was governor began surfacing in the mainstream US media yesterday with the *Washington Times* speculating that the `scandal' could `dwarf Whitewater'. [It's *part* of Whitewater, silly - DSO.] Rumors of an `Arkansas connection' in smuggling Colombian cocaine into America have been swirling in the capital for weeks. Famous political names are supposed to be involved in a `cover-up'. So persistent are the charges that the Washington paper decided to go public with its bare-bones version, confessing that accurate particulars remained elusive. Prominent were the names of the retired Marine colonel, Oliver North, and the former Attorney General, Edwin Meese, key figures in the Iran-Contra controversy. The tale centers on a remote airfield at Mena in the Ouachita mountains of Arkansas, allegedly used for Iran-Contra flights that shipped guns into Nicaragua and returned with drugs. A former US air force [CIA - DSO] intelligence officer, Mr Terry Reed, insists that Mr Clinton was aware of the illegal operation and received a 10 per cent cut of the profits. No documentary proof seems to be available and the President has ridiculed the notion. But, the *Washington Times* reported, it is a tale `that won't go away'. *** A report on the Whitewater affair by Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee yesterday accused White House and Treasury Department officials of `serious misconduct and malfeasance' by discussing the case. [Stephanopoulos must go. Anyway, for all the media hype about his being an honest, hardworking genius from a devout Greek Orthodox family, he's quite happy to be dogboy for a lying, cheating, womanising, drug-taking, draft-dodging, power-hungry megalomaniac - DSO.] ************************ FROM THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 1 JAN. 1995 BY AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD More and more Washington insiders are coming to the conclusion that it is hopeless for Mr Clinton now. The first Whitewater indictments have changed the political landscape. Newspapers and television networks that dismissed the scandal as much ado about nothing are scrambling to catch up. The `Mena Airport' story about gun-running and drug smuggling in Arkansas in the 1980s is finally about to break in the grand press, revealing information that is likely to astound the American public. A federal court case that touches on Mr Clinton's involvement in these bizarre underworld activities is coming to a head during the next three months. Some of the best lawyers in the country have joined the case. The witness list has 105 names. Among those to be subpoenaed and made to testify are Oliver North, the former Attorney General Bill Barr and nine Arkansas state troopers. Under current plans the key depositions will be taken in February and March. They will be distributed to the press. And then there is Paula Jones. After a ruling this week her lawyers now have broad `discovery' power to take sworn depositions from witnesses, even though the actual trial is to be delayed until after Clinton leaves office. This is very bad news for the President. The purpose of Jones's suit all along was to gain `discovery' power in order to investigate the role of state troopers in facilitating sexual trysts for Mr Clinton. Do not be surprised if the White House offers a settlement soon and an abject apology. *************************** THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 1 JAN. 1995 WHITE HOUSE `FORCED CIA CHIEF TO QUIT' BY AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD IN WASHINGTON The turnover at the top of the Clinton Administration is brisk this holiday season. Wily old Texan Lloyd Bentsen has left his post as Treasury Secretary, pleading fatigue. Mike Espy, the Agriculture Secretary, has moved on after being caught taking gifts from Arkansas chicken king Don Tyson. But the change that has tongues wagging in Washington is the announcement by the CIA's director, James Woolsey, that he, too, intends to go his own way. Before Christmas he was telling friends that he was in for the long haul. The official word is that the soft-spoken Rhodes Scholar came to grief because of his handling of the Aldrich Ames affair. Mr Woolsey has been castigated repeatedly by the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and others for failing to clean up his house after it came to light that Ames had sold the `Crown Jewels' to the Soviet Union, exposing at least 10 Soviet intelligence officials working secretly for the US. But the damage was done years ago, long before Mr Woolsey's appointment in 1993. It was Mr Woolsey, in fact, who found the traitor and exposed him. The unofficial word is that Mr Woolsey was squeezed out by the liberal-Left elements in the White House for being too Right-wing, too close to the foreign policy gurus of the Reagan era, even too pro-British. Mr Woolsey set up his own long-range planning group at the CIA. It was treated as a threat by Tony Lake, the head of President Clinton's personal foreign policy team at the White House. The rivalry turned nasty over Haiti. Last year, while the Clinton Administration was trying to drum up support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the CIA was leaking a profile describing Mr Aristide as mentally unstable. The leaks were seen as part of a broader CIA campaign to undercut Mr Clinton's Haiti crusade, a policy that was considered madness at CIA headquarters in Langley. Aristide enthusiasts in the White House were incensed. Since then, Mr Lake has fought tenaciously to prevent the CIA Director from gaining access to the President. By letting this happen Mr Clinton has cut himself off from the best foreign policy adviser in his Administration. Mr Clinton's own relationship with the CIA has been the stuff of rumours since he first emerged as a presidential candidate. A number of journalists and intelligence experts are convinced that he began stringing for the CIA in an informal way during his Oxford days, slipping information to the US Embassy in London on the anti-war movement. The idea is not as absurd as it sounds. Bill Clinton was always searching for ways to promote his career. It would also explain the mystery of how he paid for his trip to Scandinavia and the Soviet Union in 1969, a time when he was perpetually broke. During the 1980s, as Governor of Arkansas, Clinton appears to have had a `you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours' relationship with Ronald Reagan's CIA. There are strong grounds for suspecting that the CIA used the corrupt rural state as a base for a covert supply operation, manufacturing untraceable weapons parts for shipment south to the Nicaraguan Contras, and possibly to the Guatemalan and Peruvian governments. A number of sources involved with the operation have told *The Sunday Telegraph* that Mr Clinton was directly involved, though none have been able to produce documentary evidence. There is also speculation that Arkansas was used by the US intelligence community for other Cold War purposes requiring an arms length `deniability', chiefly in computer software and irregular banking activities, to frustrate Congressional restrictions on CIA work inside the US. The details have been emerging in dribs and drabs. Now the pace is quickening. One of the country's most prestigious newspapers is set to run a long piece giving credence to the allegations on January 8. If the story breaks into the mainstream, it could eventually turn into a first-rate CIA scandal, a sort of Iran- Contra Part II. It is not what the CIA needs at a time when the colossal $28 billion US intelligence budget is already under attack and Senator Patrick Moynihan is questioning whether the US needs an intelligence agency any longer. [Surely it does. Who else is there capable of assassinating US Presidents? Sorry, couldn't resist... :-) - DSO] By getting out now, Mr Woolsey may have spared himself a very unpleasant 1995. ************************ ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Patriot Archives FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail alex@spiral.org) The New Form of Politics: Drug Lords and the Waning of the Nation State (Excerpted from Strategic Investment newsletter, October 26, 1994) "I got a political action committee.. I got an organization called 21st Century VOTE...That's the folks in the projects, the poor people. You got them dope fiends and wineys, we can get the vote out. We got the army." - Larry Hoover, Gangster Disciples leader, and reported power behind 21st-Century VOTE Crook Pac Politics can be a dirty business. The Chicago Tribune and ABC News have illustrated this once again with reports on the activities of 21st Century Vote, a new political action committee, reportedly funded by Chicago dope dealers. Already the committee has paid out more than $114,899 to state and local politicians. [...] Why criminals buy politicians Politicians ultimately control both policing and the judicial process. They determine who is in command of the police department and who becomes a judge. The politicians frequently have a major influence on which crimes and whose crimes are investigated. If drug dealers can control the politicians who select police officials, hire and fire prosecutors and appoint judges, they can make millions, and even billions, unmolested by the law. [...] So it is hardly surprising that drug dealers like Larry Hoover of the Gangster Disciples try to elect their favorite politicians. The bad boys from Chicago's bad neighborhoods have only been doing what comes naturally to drug dealers - buying political influence and protection. What is extraordinary is that they disclosed it. Normally, drug gangs are not detained by the niceties of campaign finance laws. When it comes time to buy politicians, they simply buy them. Cash or a wire transfer to an offshore account is usually the preferred method of payment. Drug dealers tend not to register their payments with election officials in triplicate. [...] For those unwilling to be bought, the drug dealers can offer worse. [...] Murder is a part of their business. Where they cannot buy a police investigator or bribe a witness who has incriminating evidence, the frequently resort to violence. [...] What should be sobering is the realization that these guys are the small-timers. [...] The real drug lords are the wholesalers. If Larry Hoover is dealing with hundreds of millions in the south side of Chicago, the importers and wholesalers are dealing in billions. The real drug lords are not buying aldermen, they are buying governors and congressmen and the leaders of countries. Or shooting them. [Discussion about the recent shooting of Rutz Massieu, secretary- general of the ruling PRI party in Mexico.] The Arkansas Connection [...] By far the most chilling recent news report deals with the wholesale drug trade that flourished in Arkansas when Bill Cllinton was governor. [...] The October 9 issue of the Sunday Telegraph of London published an extensive expose of the activities of Bill Clinton's friends and supporters in importing illegal drugs into the United States during the 1980s. [Lots of specifics about corrupt practices of Clinton & Co., including campaign slush funds, quashed investigations, unusual deaths, coke parties, money laundering, etc.] The Telegraph story ties the money laundering close to Bill Clinton, and his hip pocket bank, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Clinton created ADFA in 1985 just as the drug profits really began to flow. The authorizing legislation was drawn by former assistant U.S. Attorney General, Webster Hubbel, then of the Rose Law firm. ADFA issued more than $1.3 billion of the bonds. In spite of the huge size of these transactions, proper records were never kept. Or if kept, are no longer available. ADFA cannot now account for who bought the bonds or where the money went. Thus the Telegraph comment: "There have been many allegations that ADFA served as a `laundromat' for dirty money. In December 1988 it wired $50 million to the Fuji Bank in the Cayman Islands. Investigators will be looking for proof that the money - all of it - returned to Arkansas for its intended purpose of building family homes." These explosive revelations were not printed in a supermarket tabloid, but in one of Britain's leading newspapers. [...] We have been told that former federal agents who investigated drug trafficking in Arkansas believe that at least one and possibly two large offshore accounts were established for Clinton's benefit under the name of "Chelsea Jefferson." [...] Clinton's FBI [Discussion of how the Justice Department has been neutered.] The current FBI director, Louis Freeh, is highly regarded. He was appointed on the urging of Robert Fiske, who was also highly regarded. Yet Fiske, who was appointed by Janet Reno to investigate Whitewater and the death of Vincent Foster, apparently failed to notice more than 40 clues and contradictions suggesting that Foster did not commit suicide. It is interesting to note that the former FBI director, William Sessions, was fired abruptly the night before Vincent Foster died. [...] FBI field agents in Arkansas are under orders from Washington not to investigate ADFA. [...] It will be difficult, as long as Clinton remains President, to fathom which of his policies are aimed at forwarding the national interest of the United States, and which involve the foreign or domestic policies of the drug lords. His connections to the multi- billion wholesale trade in illegal drugs that flourished in Arkansas during his governorship cannot be ignored, and can no longer be covered up. [...] Much to their regret, the American press will be obliged to report this information. It is already widely disseminated on the Internet, and discussed on many radio talk shows. It will either leach out gradually, the way news used to pass in whispers in the former Soviet Union, or you will wake one morning to find it in the New York Times. [...] The question is whether a quiet resignation will be enough to put the system on a sound footing for the future. I doubt it. I am convinced that this whole issue must be aired in a thorough way, so that the American people have a chance to understand how pervasive the power of the drug lords is. Without that understanding, effective reform is unlikely. And unless it is flushed clean, the American political system in its present form will be lucky to survive. A quiet departure for Clinton, therefore, may not be in the best interest of the country, especially if it leaves persons friendly to the interests of the drug lords in control of the Justice Department and highly placed in law enforcement agencies, and perhaps even the CIA. [Comparison of USA to collapse of decadent Rome.] Hope that Republicans win the Congress While there is evidence of bipartisan involvement and embarrassment in the scandalous activities of the drug dealers, Democrats are totally in control in Washington and in most of the Southern states where the drug dealers are most active in buying political influence, particularly among governors. [Hope is expressed that (1) Republicans will win control of congress and that they will conduct real investigations.] The American system today is more corrupt and therefore vulnerable than we commonly suppose. More than any past President, Clinton has made his compromises with the drug lords. Only he knows precisely how this happened. Perhaps he was ready for it all along. Perhaps he was blackmailed. Perhaps he just slipped into an untenable situation while using drugs and found it difficult to extricate himself. Be that as it may, he has contributed to the growing power of the drug lords. The barbarians are within the gates. They are armed, wealthy and thoroughly ruthless practitioners of the "new form of politics." With every day that passes, their fortunes compound, and therefore their capacity to corrupt the law and bend it to their own ends increases as well. Let them do their work unimpeded for a few more years, and we will learn to our sorrow as we bow that they are not called "Drug Lords" for nothing. Sincerely, James Davidson [Strategic Investment is $109/12 monthly issues, and is well worth it. SI, 824 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21202] ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Patriot Archives FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail alex@spiral.org) Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 77 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- [The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.] Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 Oglesby. Well, both houses of Congress oppose Clinton. Result? Perhaps more incentive to go after Clinton scandals. Examples: 1) The strange death of Clinton White House aide Vincent Foster, jr. He, and his law partner Hillary, arranged some of the gun and dope smuggling through the CIA-linked Bank of Credit and Commerce International [BCCI]. Money was washed, in turn, through the Clinton confederates: the Stephens bond brokers -- largest outside of Wall Street. Savvy folks persist in saying Foster was murdered and the White House covered [it] up as a so-called "suicide"! Involved in the cover-up: illegal financing of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi strongman. 2) Bill and Hillary are really a CIA couple -- two spy agency assets who live together for appearances, each with separate duties. [Bill] really facilitated CIA's gun and dope smuggling through the airport in Mena, Arkansas. Money was washed through Arkansas banks and bond brokers and then, in turn, through the bank owned and operated by Dan Rostenkowski and his gang -- Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago, *and* through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. On the other hand, Hillary's CIA job was to make the arrangements for Clark Clifford's hook-up with the CIA-dominated BCCI, and the bribery of the American government at the highest levels -- Congress, the courts, and federal agencies. 3) Some forget that the state of Arkansas for decades has been owned and operated by the Rockefellers -- the land, the businesses, the bond peddlers and the banks. Remember: Winthrop Rockefeller was Arkansas governor a few years before "Sludge Willy". 4) Arkansas-based businesses, cronies of Clinton: How did they spread out across the nation, huh? Well some suspect that dope laundry money helped Wal-Mart become a giant. *And*, some believe the same is true of Tyson chickens. Now don't bother to ask the Chicago-area headquartered McDonalds hamburgers; they have been among the largest users of re-manufactured Tyson chicken parts -- sold as so-called "chicken sandwiches". *And* Arkansas banks are awash with dope cash, being loaned out at low rates across the country. Arkansas bond brokers, likewise, make such loot appear, disappear, and re-appear, as legal-looking assets and securities. 5) "Sludge Willy's" rise to power was funded by dope money interlocked with George Bush and Ollie North. Hey, is Congress ready to shine the spotlight, huh!? 6) Soon breaking out into the open is a horrendous struggle between the Clinton Justice Department and old-timers at the Treasury [Department]. Justice has tried to keep the lid on a long list of scandals, such as the bribery of the chief judge of the federal appeals court in Chicago -- Judge Richard Posner(sp?) -- *and* the long-standing mess called the Inslaw affair: Bush and Reagan cronies stealing high-level technology and selling it to sworn enemies of the United States. Some in Congress are getting set to accuse Clinton of treason. *But*, Bush and Reagan are likewise guilty. So, it may serve the purpose of the new GOP majority in the U.S. house and senate to stick Clinton to the wall. Yet how can they do it without also dredging up the Bush and Reagan skeletons, huh? As usual, the press fakers are avoiding *real* news and giving us heavy doses of non-political, personal tragedies. In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most Monday evenings. Play it again: The Crooked *Chicago Tribune*. New message Saturday; we change it several times a week. Donations appreciated. 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E-mail alex@spiral.org) Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 75 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- ARKANCIDE II ============ More info on recent "Arkancides", courtesy of CN readers + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Tribune Review, 11/4/94- HOSPITAL WORKERS DISPUTE SUICIDE FINDING IN PAULA JONES-RELATED CASE- Several co-workers of a deceased woman with apparent links to the Paula Jones case have serious doubts as to the accuracy of an official coroner's report which concludes that she committed suicide. Jones is the former Arkansas state employee who is suing President Clinton on charges he sexually harassed her. The deceased woman, Kathy Ferguson, 38, was the ex-wife of an Arkansas state trooper, Danny Ferguson, who is co-defendant in Jones' suit. Jones alleges that it was Trooper Ferguson who asked her to meet Clinton at a hotel room; and that it was he who stood guard at the door as Clinton made sexual advances toward her. Last May, in Sherwood, Ark, Kathy Ferguson was found dead of a gunshot wound in the apartment of her boyfriend who himself, in a bizarre twist of an already strange case, was to die shortly thereafter. Police ruled Ferguson's death a "suicide." But interviews with six hospital colleagues indicate that Arkansas officals seem to have overlooked critical information relating to her wounds. Police say that Ferguson, despondent over a breakup with the boyfriend, Bill Shelton, shot herself while sitting on Shelton's couch. They say that Ferguson's clothing was found packed in shopping bags. According to police reports, Ferguson was found in a sitting position on the couch, slumped slightly to the right. A gun, said to be Shelton's, was found on the floor directly below her right hand, which rested at her side on the edge of a cushion. Just over a month after her death, Shelton 31, a Sherwood police officer, was found dead of a gunshot wound behind the right ear, with his body sprawled across Ferguson's grave. The police say that he too, committed suicide. Ferguson's suspicious death, occurring just four days after Jones filed her lawsuit against President Clinton on May 6, has been the source of much speculation in Arkansas, as well as on the national talk radio circuit. But at Little Rock's Baptist Memorial Medical Center, where Kathy Ferguson worked as a unit secretary, there is much more than idle speculation. On one occasion, three Baptist Memorial nurses and a nurse's aide who worked with Ferguson viewed their colleague's body at Ruson's funeral Home in Sherwood and their observations are in decided conflict with the official ruling: that Ferguson fired a .380 semiautomatic pistol into her right temple, with the bullet exiting her left temple. One nurse, an RN whose almost 15 years experience includes emergency room duty, noted that, curiously, the woman's right temple "was pretty much blown away. Usually exit wounds blow out and entry wounds are clean," she explained. The three nurses were puzzled by what looked to them to be an exit wound in the right temple, since they knew Ferguson to be right-handed. This prompted them to look for an entrance wound on the left side, which they could not find. "It made me go on and look further, and I started looking at her hair," said one of the nurses. She recounted how her concern had led her to roll the corpse's head to the side for verification. Eventually, one of the nurses located the apparent wound. Contrary to the subsequently released offical report, it was directly behind her left ear about midway between the top and bottom of the ear, and was the size of a "quarter and stuffed with cotton." All three nurses, one the RN, the other two, LPNs also clearly saw this cotton-stuffed wound behind Ferguson's left ear. SEE NEXT NOTE CONTD FROM NOTE ONE- At least two other hospital colleagues subsequently visited the funeral home and made the same observation. One such colleague, a trained medical assistant, recalled visiting the funeral home shortly after the family had left. At the time, the mortician, in response to complaints by Ferguson's family, was trying to improve the appearance of the body. "It looked horrible," said the colleague, who told of volunteering to help the mortician in his task. She said she worked on "her hair, dress and everything else" including the right temple area, because of "the large gaping wound filled with pancake make-up that wasn't smoothed out." That's where the bullet came out, she recalled thinking to herself, prompting her to search for the entrance wound. "I saw it behind the (left) ear, plugged with cotton," she said. Yet another colleague, Sherry Butler, then an LPN with four years experience and perhaps Ferguson's closest friend, saw no wound in the left temple. She, however, could not verify that there was a wound behind the left ear since she did not look for it. Still, there are five other hospital employees, three of whom are trained nurses with many years combined experience who examined Ferguson's wounds. All of them were interviewed on tape for this report (and all have requested anonymity, citing concerns for their safety.) They agree there was a small circular wound typical of an entrance wound behind the left ear, and no exit wound in the left temple area, where the autopsy report had it. Such an exit wound on the left side would have been difficult to miss especially to trained professionals. The autopsy report noted that it was a jagged wound of approximately an inch in width and height and almost three inches above her left ear. Ferguson's co-workers recalled that when they learned of her death they were stunned that she had supposedly committed suicide and were confused by the unusual wounds which almost certainly would have to have been administered by a gun held by the left hand. "For her to use her left hand, and then in an awkward place..." said one nurse, her voice trailing off into incredulity. "Kathy had these little delicate hands," said another. "We laughed about her being right-handed. Kathy said she couldn't do anything with her left hand, her curling iron or make- up...she just couldn't do it with her left hand." But what started as confusion has turned to outright fear as Ferguson's colleagues speculate on the why of the apparent inconsistency contained in the autopsy report which has not been circulated until fairly recently. A number of others who knew Ferguson have their doubts about the suicide verdict. "She was in a pretty good mood, very vivacious, upbeat, " said Dr. Samuel T. Houston, recalling the day before Ferguson's death. Houston is a highly respected urologist at Little Rock's Baptist Memorial Hospital. His patient list once included Hillary Rodham Clinton's late father. Houston found the suicide ruling "unacceptable" based on his acquaintance with Ferguson and the knowledge that women who take their own lives don't ordinarily use guns. Vernon Geberth, author of an authoritative police text titled "Practical Homicide Investigations," held to a similar opinion to that of Houston's. "If I have a woman with a gunshot wound to the head, that raises the hair on the back of my neck," he said. "Women will usually not blow their heads up." ALLEGED HARASSMENT "They've seen gunshots, they've gone to nursing school. There is no way they would have missed the wound described on the autopsy as having been on her left temple." [Ruddy/Ruling doubted...PART 4] 11/4/94 While it's unknown why Ferguson died, just before her death she was the center of conversation among her colleagues because of her former husband's work for then-Gov. Clinton and the controversy over Clinton's alleged sexual hijinks, especially the one involving Paula Jones. Houston recalled his last conversation with Ferguson, on the day before she died. "There are times I wish I didn't know as much as I know," he remembers her saying during a discussion of her former husband's work for Clinton. Houston said he had once asked her if she had ever been harassed by Clinton when her former husband served on the governor's security detail. She responded with an account--which is consistent with what other personnel at the hospital say Ferguson told them on separate occasions--of having been "blocked in the kitchen" of the governor's mansion as the then-Gov. Clinton made unwelcome advances on her. Sherry Butler said that Ferguson, in speaking of that same incident to her, had said that Clinton "shoved her against a counter" and wouldn't let her leave the kitchen. Butler added that Ferguson had been firm in her belief in Paula Jones' testimony. "That girl is telling the truth," Butler remembers her friend saying about Jones in the presence of several hospital workers sitting at the cafeteria table. "Don't put anything past" Clinton, Ferguson said. The White House did not return a call for comment on this matter. The Arkansas chief medical examiner's office referred press inquiries to the Sherwood Police Department and the Pulaski County Coroner's Officer. The coroner's office did not return repeated calls for comment. Sgt. John Dodd, a spokesman for the Sherwood Police Department, said the case was initially treated as a homicide--as police procedure calls for in apparent suicides. He said that the investigation revealed there "is no reason to believe it is anything but a suicide." Dodd also said he knew of no "controversy" concerning the wounds and that the police stand by the report. Dodd was irate about suggestions that Ferguson's death had any connection to the Paula Jones case. "Pure and utter b--- s---," he said. "It's just a rumor someone started. So what if she did (know about Paula Jones), she shot herself, in the head." FAMILY REACTS And Ferguson's father, Lorris Carter, acknowledged being skeptical at first because of the nature of the wounds, but that he has subsequently accepted the autopsy report based on an explanation by his son-in-law, who happens to be a pathologist. (Called about this matter, the son-in-law declined to comment.) But despite his acceptance of the autopsy report, Carter said he'll "never be 100 percent satisfied she did kill herself." Carter is bothered by what the police claim was a suicide note. "It's not" a suicide note, he said, "It's just a note." Indeed, the note seems to be simply a few lines written to Shelton telling of her intent to leave the apartment. [PART 5 continued next note=====> Bev] [Ruddy/Ruling doubted...PART 5] 11/4/94 But, notwithstanding the father's ambivalence and the others' denial, almost every person interviewed for this report had the same nagging question: Why would this very beautiful and vain woman kill herself--especially with a gun, when drugs, for instance, were so available to her at the hospital? One colleague who worked with Ferguson throughout the latter's career at the hospital described her as "the most dynamic young woman I ever met in my life...Miss Personality Plus. She had a figure out of this world, her hair was long, never an eyelash out of place; she worshipped her body, exercised daily." Dr. Houston charges that the handling of the case was unbelievable," and that the police reached the conclusion of suicide "at supersonic speed." He faults the police for never having come by the hospital to talk with Ferguson's co-workers, and he finds the police report on the death puzzling. The report notes that the fatal bullet was found in front of Ferguson and the bullet's casing in an ashtray next to her. Houston has difficulty reconciling a bullet that supposedly went from temple to temple winding up in the ceiling, and similar problems with a casing (which flies off to the side of the gun) landing next to the body in an ashtray, given the position the gun would have to have been in when fired. The police report claims that gunpowder was found on Ferguson's right hand and that the fired bullet was found to her left, an indication that she might have fired the gun from her right side. 'KIND OF A MESSAGE' Houston said that in mid-October he made a complaint about the Ferguson case to FBI agents in the office of Kenneth Starr, who is the independent counsel investigating alleged illegal dealings of the Clintons. Along with his complaint, he turned over his notes and other pertinent documents. Several days later longtime Clinton critic Larry Nichols showed up at Houston's office with the very documents Houston had turned over to Starr's office. Nichols said that he had found these documents stuffed into his mailbox. Houston doesn't for a moment think Starr had anything to do with this. "It was kind of a message" from someone in Starr's office, he said. "'We're stuffing it back, screw you.'" Debbie Gershman, a spokesperson for the independent counsel Starr, confirmed that Houston had met with the FBI, but was baffled as to how any of his papers would have been relinquished by her office. She refused to confirm that the Ferguson matter is under investigation. ---- END OF STORY #1 ----- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + [Another Chris Ruddy story coming up as soon as I get some circulation back into my fingers. #2 is about the deaths of those two Arkansas boys found on the train tracks...Bev] P.S. Call Starr's office and put some heat on them about this. He's got a Clinton mole loose in the woodwork... STORY #2 by Christopher Ruddy 11/4/94 in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, p. A1 Suicide disputes common in Arkansas The challenged rulings of suicide, first in the case of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster and now Kathy Ferguson, are not unique in President Clinton's home state. Any informed Arkansan can expound on "the boys on the track"--the unsolved murder of two Salina County boys, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, who had gone out spotting deer with flashlights one August night in 1987 and whose bodies were subsequently found run over by a train. Bill Clinton was then governor of the state. Police told both sets of parents that the boys had committed suicide by deliberately lying on the tracks before an oncoming train. One parent, Linda Ives, found that explanation totally unacceptable. As a result of her protests, the state medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, looked into the case and ruled the death of her son "accidental." He suggested that high levels of marijuana found in the boy's blood indicated he may have been in a stupor before lying down on the tracks. But Linda Ives still wasn't satisfied, and so a grand jury was convened and ordered the boys' bodies exhumed. An autopsy, the second performed, revealed that one boy had been stabbed and that the other's head had been crushed before the train ran over them. Further, the marijuana levels were found to have been exaggerated as a result of an erroneous test. The foreman of that Salina County grand jury said, in an unofficial statement, that he thought the boys' deaths were related to drug trafficking--that perhaps they'd stumbled on something they shouldn't have. As a result of the Henry-Ives ruling and similar ones, Malak came in for widespread criticism. Even the distant Los Angeles Times picked up on his blundering, and in 1992 reported on the Henry-Ives case and one involving an Arkansas man whose body was found with five bullet wounds--but who Malak nevertheless ruled a suicide. Just weeks before Clinton announced for the presidency, Malak was moved into another state job. But the controversy surrounding his rulings continues to swirl. John Brown, a former Salina County detective who investigated the Henry-Ives case--he says he was forced to resign recently "because of official obstruction"--has a sobering view of the case. He suggested that the boys' deaths, along with six other murders that followed, were linked to what is known as the Dixie Mafia. Gangs USA, a reference book on organized crime, describes the Dixie Mafia as an "informal association of white gangsters" that constitutes "one of the largest, most deadly and least-known gang systems in the United States," blanketing 16 southern states. The organization originally specialized in "robbing banks, interstate theft, the corruption of public officials and contract murder," according to the book, but more recently has turned to drugs, money laundering and firearms." [PART 2 SUICIDE DISPUTES next post] Bev [Ruddy/Suicide disputes...PART 2] 11/4/94 A former Little Rock-based FBI official said that the Dixie Mafia, while not as organized and tightly knit as the conventional Mafia, "can be more brutal" than the latter and less restrained and predictable. Meaning that it would be not nearly so inhibited as its more famous northern counterpart about murdering, say, two innocent boys. Gene Wirges, former editor of a rural Arkansas newspaper, is another of those who tend to raise an eyebrow at official declarations of suicides in high-profile cases there. Wirges is author of the 1992 book Conflict of Interests, which chronicled his experiences in trying to expose the pervasive political corruption in Arkansas. "In 1985," wrote Wirges in his book, "a North Arkansas man was fatally shot, and (Dr. Fahmy) Malak ruled suicide; there was four gunshot wounds to the chest. "In a 1986 case, Malak ruled accidental drowning; the family of the victim called attention to a bullet in the victim's skull that was overlooked. "There were (numerous other) 'suicide' rulings (in at least six different counties from 1982 to 1990) and vehement complaints in each instance. "In 1989, Malak ruled accidental death, saying a child had fallen from a porch--13 inches to the ground. Parents insist the child had been beaten to death." Dubious suicide rulings are not, of course, limited to Arkansas; David Zucchino, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, for example, recently uncovered 40 such cases in the military. But, however, deserved or undeserved, Arkansas is rapidly acquiring a reputation for eliciting cynical quips and cynical looks whenever such finding is announced. Prominent homicide expert Vernon Geberth says that staged deaths such as murders made to look like suicides are happening more frequently. "In some parts of the country it's a license to kill," because, Geberth says, inexperienced local authorities can't tell the difference between a real suicide and a murder made to look like one. END OF STORY #2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation." ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like "Conspiracy Nation" sent to your e-mail address, send a message in the form "subscribe conspire My Name" to listproc@prairienet.org -- To cancel, send a message in the form "unsubscribe conspire" to listproc@prairienet.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt. Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 Brian Francis Redman bigxc@prairienet.org "The Big C" -------------------------------------------------------------- "Justice" = "Just us" = "History is written by the assassins." -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Patriot Archives FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail alex@spiral.org) MURDER, BANK FRAUD, DRUGS, AND SEX By Nicholas A. Guarino [List of victims from pamphlet] Victim #1: On September 26, 1993, Luther "Jerry" Parks enjoyed a nice dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Little Rock. On the way home, his car was forced to a stop and he was mowed down by unfriendlies with nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistols. The coroner pulled nine bullets from Jerry's body. I believe we can safely rule out suicide on this one. And it doesn't sound like your standard drive-by shooting, either. In fact, witnesses claim the hit man was a former state trooper who was very close to Bill Clinton. Jerry was the owner of American Contract Services, which supplied the guards for Clinton's presidential campaign and transition headquarters. (Clinton still owed him $81,000.) So he knew a lot about Clinton's comings and goings. As a matter of fact, Jerry had quietly been compiling a major study of Clinton's sexual affairs for about six years. Not quietly enough, though. Shortly before his demise, his home was broken into and the study's backup files -- filled with photos and names -- were stolen, according to his widow, Jane... after the security alarm was skilfully cut. Nothing else was taken. His big mistake: "He threatened Clinton," Jane said, "saying he'd go public if he didn't get his $81,000." And then came the end. The *London Sunday Telegraph* quoted Jerry's son Gary, 23, stating the obvious: "...they had my father killed to save Bill Clinton's political career." After a long investigation, Little Rock police detective Sergeant Clyde Steelman gave his character endorsement: "The Parks family aren't lying to you." But unless you live in Arkansas, you probably never heard about Jerry Parks. If you lived in London (or Nairobi or Hong Kong) you would know more. Whitewater and other Clinton scandals are a *far* bigger story overseas. Many foreign observers feel the Whitewater coverup is the biggest one in the world in fifty or sixty years. [...] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #2: You must understand the central fact about the Whitewater Development Corporation: It was *not* the main crime. Whitewater was only a pretext set up by Jim McDougal and the Clintons to milk millions of dollars from the SBA [Small Business Administration], banks, Arkansas Development Finance Authority, and Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan (which was later bailed out by us taxpayers to the tune of $65 million). The Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC] people eventually figured out that their investigation of Madison wasn't getting anywhere because it was based in Kansas City, where Clinton's people stymied it. So Jon Parnell Walker, a Senior Investigation Specialist in the RTC's Washington office, began a campaign to get the case moved to DC. Soon after, Jon was looking over a possible new apartment in Lincoln Towers in Arlington, Virginia, when reportedly he suddenly decided to climb over the balcony railing and jump. Jon's friends, family, and co-workers all agree on one fact: This man was *not* depressed. Maybe he was just impulsive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #3: You remember the name Danny Ferguson. He is the Arkansas patrolman who once said he brought Paula Jones to Bill Clinton's hotel room. Kathy, 38, his wife at the time, blabbed a lot about such things. She often told friends and co-workers about how Bill had gotten Danny to bring women to him and stand watch while they had sex. (Altogether, Bill had hundreds of women brought to him, sometimes several a day. Young, pretty women pulled over for speeding or whatever would be offered a choice between a jail sentence or a trip to go see Bill.) Part of Danny's job was to make sure that each woman was ready and willing when Bill met her. Kathy told people that Bill was *really* mad when Paula Jones wouldn't "put out." Bill hates to be refused. On May 10, [1994] Kathy was found dead with a pistol in her hand. A suicide, the police said. Only three problems with this: a. Women rarely use guns to kill themselves. b. I can't find anyone who *ever* heard of a nurse shooting herself. (Why should they? They know all the right dosages for pills, and they have access to them.) c. I've talked to three of the six nurses who worked most closely with Kathy at Baptist Memorial in Little Rock. They gave me, in no uncertain terms, a loud message to convey to you: "NO WAY did Kathy Ferguson kill herself." They are irate. Footnote to story: About three weeks later, Danny reversed his story, saying he didn't lead Paula to Clinton's room after all. Second footnote: Bill Shelton, Kathy's new boyfriend (since her separation from Danny), was loudly critical of the suicide story and complained to many people about it. Bill was found dead on June 9. They're calling this a suicide, too. (Perhaps it was. I haven't checked it out yet.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #4: Vincent Foster, who was Clinton's counsel for Whitewater, was the highest government official to meet an untimely death since the Kennedys. He *could* have killed himself on July 20, 1993, as Robert Fiske, Clinton's "independent" counsel claimed. But it's rather doubtful. The story line concocted by Fiske has about 20 major holes in it -- which partly explains his replacement by Kenneth Starr. A few examples: ** Official photos show the alleged suicide gun in Vince's right hand. Trouble is, he was left-handed. (Of course, a hit man wouldn't have known that.) Fiske ignored this in his report. ** Vince went out and hired two lawyers on July 19. As Clinton's man in charge of covering up Whitewater, he had failed badly and could see everything was about to unravel (which it began to do in Arkansas the very next day). Question: Why pay for a lawyer to launch a defense and then shoot yourself a day later? Fiske ignored this. ** After a somewhat hurried lunch in his office July 20, Vince grabbed his jacket and left the White House with the words, "I'll be back." And then we are supposed to believe, apparently, that he picked up a White House beeper, drove to his Georgetown townhouse, got a gun, drove to a lonely park in Arlington, walked 200 yards to a steep slope, went down into some thick bushes, sat down, shot himself and *then* threw his glasses 13 feet away through heavy brush, and wound up lying down supine and perfectly straight, legs together, with arms straight down at his side, the gun *still* in his hand, and trickles of blood running from his mouth in several directions, including uphill. What's wrong with this picture? ** Where's the bullet? None was ever found even after a massive search and excavation. Could it be that the police and FBI looked in the wrong place? Sgt. George Gonzalez (the first paramedic on the scene) and his boss both insisted they found Foster 200 feet from the official spot. If they're right, then why was the body moved? ** Where are the fingerprints on the gun? There were none! ** Where are the skull fragments? None were ever found. Normally, a .38 will blow out a 4" to 5" hole, with blood and brains everywhere. Because of the mess and the noise, most sophisticated hit men today repack their cartridges with a half charge. This explains the tiny, one-inch hole in the back of Vince's head. Fiske skipped this. ** Who is the mystery blonde whose hairs were found on Vince? And why did Fiske not mention that carpet fibers and semen were found on his [Foster's] shorts? In this age of detective movies, how could anyone think such clues unworthy of mention in a serious report? Sadly, the real reason Fiske was sacked by that 3-judge panel was not to preserve an "appearance of impartiality," as the papers said. They were simply tipped off that Fiske was rapidly burying everything he could. For instance, when David Hale's trial judge refused to keep Bill Clinton's name entirely *out* of Hale's testimony, Fiske immediately stopped the trial and changed his charge from a huge felony to a small misdemeanor -- with a vastly reduced sentence! ** Where's the suicide note? Vince [Foster] wrote an unsigned *outline* of a resignation letter, which Clinton's counsel Bernard Nussbaum kept for six days, tore into 27 pieces (without leaving one single fingerprint -- try that!), then changed his mind and let the bright yellow pieces strangely appear in Vince's briefcase, which the police and FBI had already inspected and found to be empty. But this "suicide note" says nothing about suicide, of course. And the final letter is missing. ** Today, thanks to the drug trade, hit men have polished the "staged suicide" to an exact science. If any sign of a struggle remains, the killer has failed his task. The trick is to persuade the victim he'll be OK if he cooperates -- and then shoot suddenly. In the vile jargon of the professional assassins I've had the misfortune of meeting, "Ya gotta butter up a turkey before ya roast 'im." To my utter amazement, neither Fiske nor the Senate investigators knew anything about how hit men work today. ** I could go on and on. Fiske quoted reports -- even an anonymous one -- from visitors to the park [Fort Marcy Park] that day. But some witnesses also saw "a menacing-looking Hispanic man" by a white van with its big door open near Vince's car just before the body was found. Fiske left that out. ** Instead of allowing Vince's office to be sealed after his death, top Clinton staffers Bernie Nussbaum, Patsy Thomasson, and Maggie Williams frantically rifled it for "national security matters" (read: incriminating Whitewater documents) and carted them off to Hillary's closet upstairs. In a stunning show of chutzpah, they even made the park police and FBI agents sit in the hallway for two hours while they did it. And Nussbaum later claimed it was only ten minutes! (An FBI agent disclosed to me that a file was opened for *obstruction* *of* *justice*, but Bill had it closed.) Why would anybody want a nice, gentle fellow like Vince Foster killed and his body dumped in a park? For some excellent reasons, which I detail in my book, *The Impeached President*. [CN -- Apparently available by writing to *The Wall Street Underground*, 1129 East Cliff Road, Burnsville, Minnesota 55337]... But the #1 reason is that Vince knew far too much and he had to go because he was about to crack -- and that would have ended the Clinton presidency right there and then. Suppose, however, it *was* a suicide. Suppose Whitewater was becoming such a horror that suicide seemed better than facing the music. What then? Then the only logical explanation is scenario #2, as follows: ** Vince's Whitewater coverup was coming apart. Facts were popping up in the press and people were talking. For instance, Clinton's partner in Whitewater, Jim McDougal, had gone to Little Rock attorney and 1990 Republican gubernatorial candidate Sheffield Nelson and made a taped statement which I have heard, saying: I could sink it [the coverup] quicker than they could lie about it if I could get in a position so I wouldn't have my head beaten off. And Bill knows that. ** So sensitive was Vince to criticism that he was still bothered about the heat he was getting for his role in Travelgate. In fact, Fiske stated that those close to Vince thought that "the single greatest source of his distress was the criticism he... received following the firing of seven employees from the White House Travel Office." Little did they know the whole story. Vince had to keep Whitewater details bottled up inside -- even at home. ** On the day Vince shot himself, he received a shocking phone call from an attorney at Arkansas' Rose Law Firm saying that FBI Director William Sessions was about to subpoena the documents of Judge David Hale. Hale was a Clinton appointee who charged that Clinton forced him to give fraudulent SBA loans of millions of dollars to Clinton's friends. In the Senate hearings, Clinton's people denied such a call took place, but I know for a definite fact that it did. And I'm backed up by the Rose phone billings and Vince's phone log. Also, Sen. Christopher Bond (R.-Mo.) later confirmed that the call was from "an old friend" at Rose. ** About this time, Clinton fired his FBI Director -- a step so desperate that no President had ever taken it. ** Vince realized that the genie was out of the bottle. He had confided to his brother-in-law, former congressman Beryl Anthony, that he was very worried that Congress itself was about to launch a criminal probe into his affairs. (In this scenario, the "suicide note" was actually the "opening argument for his defense" before Congress -- a defense which Vince told his wife he wrote on July 11.) ** He was sure that in such a probe, the easy-going David Hale would spill the beans and drag in Gov. Tucker, Steve Smith, Madison Marketing, Castle Grande, Whitewater, Vince himself -- and, inevitably, Bill Clinton. He mentally added up the fines and prison terms he would face for concealing Bill's crimes -- many of which he had taken a supporting role in. The totals were horrendous. And the thought of being a central figure in America's first presidential impeachment [CN -- Pres. Andrew Johnson was the first impeachment trial, although he, in the end, was not actually impeached.] was too much for his quiet mind to bear. He told his wife and sister that he was thinking of resigning. (But he still couldn't let on about the Whitewater crisis.) ** He was cracking up. Everyone around him agreed he looked and sounded terrible. The Desyrel prescribed by his doctor didn't help. So when the call came about Hale's subpoena, he had to go home and think things over. But there, alas, he could think of no way out. So he put two bullets in his revolver, drove across the Potomac to the first quiet spot he found, hid himself in some bushes where he could pray in solitude, and pulled the trigger. That's the most probable *suicide* scenario. Unfortunately for Clinton, it's almost as damning as the murder scenario. Today everyone -- from Vince's family to the press to the White House -- professes to be baffled by Vince's death. "How on earth," they wonder, "could such a typical Washington flap as Travelgate cause Vince to be so depressed?" Under either scenario, the plain answer is: It didn't. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victims #5 & #6: Then you have the small-plane crashes, which are fairly easy events to stage. Hit men commonly use any of five quick, simple, techniques. One method was used on the first two victims, C. Victor Raiser II, the former finance co-chairman of Clinton's presidential campaign, and his son, Montgomery. Their plane crashed in good weather near Anchorage, Alaska, on July 30, 1992. I respected Raiser as a man of integrity, but he was caught up in a lot of shenanigans of the campaign -- though he didn't like them. Eventually, he soured on Clinton and thus became a potential major leak and a big threat to Bill's presidency. [CN -- A biographical note seems to be in order: The author of this sketch, Nicholas A. Guarino is editor of *The Wall Street Underground*. Among many other things, he lived for 20 years in Arkansas and personally knew Commander Billy Jeff, Jim Blair, Vince Foster, Jim McDougal, David Hale, Don Tyson, Governor Tucker, "and dozens more of that bunch." He uses his own extensive research as well as "numerous informants" to "warn others of the acute dangers of evil, power-hungry men in positions of influence." Today, he lives "in a scenic, secluded place as far from Arkansas as he can get."] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #7: Herschel Friday was another member of Raiser's committee and a heck of a nice guy. His plane dropped out of site and exploded as he approached his own private landing strip in Arkansas in a light drizzle on March 1, 1994. Herschel was a top- notch pilot and his strip is better than those in most cities. (I know because I almost had to use it once when my own plane's carburetor started backfiring.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #8: Just two days later, Dr. Ronald Rogers, a very vocal dentist from Royal, Arkansas, was on his way to reveal some dirt on Clinton to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a reporter from the *London Sunday Telegraph*, when his twin-engine Cessna crashed with a full tank of gas in clear weather south of Lawton, Oklahoma. His pilot had just radioed that he was having trouble and needed to refuel in Lawton. (I'm 98% sure of the technique that killed both Rogers and Friday; it drops your fuel gauge to "empty," then cuts off your fuel when you tilt forward to land -- and leaves no trace of a clue for investigators.) There have been six other air crash deaths of former Clinton intimates and advisors, but I believe they were true accidents. In fact, in the course of about 50 radio/TV interviews, I've talked with a number of people who blame every accident since the Titanic on Clinton. This foolishness distresses me greatly because it discredits the actual known murders. Yes, there are likely hundreds of deaths among people connected in some remote way to Clinton's scandals, but the probable murders are pretty much limited to those you see in this special report -- and even some of these could be accidents... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #9: But Barry Seal's death was no accident. His story is so exciting that Hollywood made it into a movie (*Double- Crossed*), starring Dennis Hopper and Adrienne Barbeau. Barry made about $50 million as a pilot and plane supplier in Clinton's incredibly elaborate and successful drug-running operation out of Mena, Arkansas. Iran-Contra was conceived as a simple scheme to use the Ayatollah's money to send guns to the Contra freedom fighters. But from that humble, Ollie North beginning, it blossomed into the great Arkansas dream. Virtually every load of Chinese AK-47s (plus light machine guns, grenades, and other small ordnance) taken from Mena to Nicaragua was matched by a return load of dope and cash flown in from Columbia via Panama or the Cayman Islands on "black flights" that Customs officials and air traffic controllers were instructed to ignore. According to an exhaustive, top-selling new book entitled *Compromised*, by Terry Reed and John Cummings (which I found highly accurate), pilots were bringing back and air-dropping over $9 million a week in cash, which was properly laundered and then went into Arkansas industries owned by friends of Gov. Clinton. (*Not* into Clinton's pockets -- he didn't usually do that kind of thing except to pay off campaign debts and favors.) And in case you're wondering why Bill needed his land scams when he had all that drug money available, the answer is, the drug operations came later. Incidentally, the money was laundered through such sterling banks as BCCI [Bank of Credit and Commerce International]. Remember them? I discussed BCCI's involvement extensively with its Panamanian president. Five or six of the CIA subcontractor pilots running the gun-drug loop under Barry Seal have said that Nella (near Mena) was chosen as the base for training Contra soldiers mainly because its terrain and foliage were so similar to Nicaragua. Many local residents still recall camouflaged Latinos holding maneuvers in the countryside -- but they all agree it's not healthy to talk about it too much. Iran-Contra was an impressive operation on both ends. I still remember standing on the deck of a flat-deck, flat-bottom supply boat used to run guns upriver to the Contras in Nicaragua. It was loaded to the gunwhales with Russian-made rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, etc., in Chinese-marked boxes. The captain and his partner, a German arms dealer, invited me to sample the merchandise, so I pried the lids off a couple of wooden cases, took out some AK-47s, and sprayed a few clips around the woods. (Very nice guns, but I wasn't in the market.) In case this begins to sound like a far-right hallucination, you should know that some liberal groups (ever opposed to CIA tricks) concur. For instance, *The Wall Street Journal* said on June 29: There is even one public plea that Special Counsel Robert Fiske should investigate possible links between Mena and the savings-and-loan association involved in Whitewater. The plea was sounded by the Arkansas Committee, a left-leaning group of former University of Arkansas students who have carefully tracked the Mena affair for years. I wish them luck. And good health. The Arkansas Attorney General, the IRS, and the state police have been met for fifteen years with "a wall of obfuscation and obstruction" erected by the Clinton circle of power -- which is EVERYWHERE in Arkansas. According to *Penthouse*, which is not exactly noted for being a far-right magazine: He [Clinton] controlled virtually all the 2,000 handpicked appointees to an array of boards and commissions that effectively rule the state... Anyone seeking to do business with the state -- and that included just about everybody running a business -- learned to expect direct solicitations by Clinton's campaign finance people. Polk County Prosecutor Charles Black, to his credit, once even sat down with Clinton himself and pleaded for a state investigation of Mena! Bill said that "he would get a man on it and get back to me," Black recalls. That was in 1988. Black is still sitting by his phone. (I'm sure Bill got a kick out of that interview. I recall him grinning as he made some comment about "dumb Arkies" one afternoon at the brokerage I owned in Harrison -- one of a dozen or so occasions when we spent time together.) But at the risk of sounding as bad as Bill, I must remind you that, after all, this *is* Arkansas... where: ** One governor before Clinton had every concrete-and-steel bridge in the state insured for fire (yes, fire). Guess who owned the insurance company. ** Another governor, being indicted for fraud, simply canned the judge and replaced him with the town drunk, who then dismissed the grand jury. So just think of Bill as a traditional, Arkansas kind of politician. But I digress. Barry Seal was eventually arrested by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA]. To get off the hook, he turned state's evidence and fingered several big drug dealers. He even managed to take clandestine photographs of major Columbian and Panamanian figures, one of which President Reagan showed proudly in a nationwide TV speech. But in the end, the DEA betrayed the flamboyant Barry by allowing him to be sentenced to a halfway house, where a few days later he was a sitting duck for three Columbian avengers with Uzi and MAC- 10 submachine guns with silencers. The ending wasn't pretty, but it made a hard-hitting movie. Why did the DEA dump Barry? Perhaps because, as Clinton observed to Terry Reed, "Seal just got too damn big for his britches and that scum basically deserved to die, in my opinion..." I'm not saying Bill ran Iran-Contra. He didn't -- not even the Arkansas half of it. But five men in the Mena operation (sorry, I can't reveal their names to you) have affirmed that he provided their cover as governor and "rode herd" on them through the Intelligence Division of the state police. Other high officials helped. Why? Because the Arkansas state bonds program (ADFA) received 10 percent of the net profits -- plus the *use* of 100 percent of the gross in their banks as they laundered it. Quite a boost to the economy! At least that was the deal cut with Clinton. But the Mena operations (code-named *Centaur Rose* and *Jade Bridge* by Reagan's CIA Director Wm. Casey) finally had to be yanked from Arkansas and moved to Mexico under the name Operation *Screw Worm*. Simple reason: Bill and friends just couldn't resist putting Arkansas' hand deeper into the till than they were supposed to. In fact, eyewitness Reed details at length the tense meeting in which William P. Barr -- later President Bush's Attorney General -- breaks the bad news to a very angry Clinton. (Sorry, I must condense the conversation greatly. You've got to read his book!) On a March night in 1986, they met with Reed, Oliver North, and two other CIA men in a musty, poorly-lit World War II ammunition bunker at Camp Robinson outside Little Rock. After several sharp exchanges and traded insults, Barr said, "The deal we made was to launder our money through your bond business. What we didn't plan on was you... shrinking our laundry... That's why we're pulling the operation out of Arkansas. It's become a liability for us. We don't need live liabilities." "What do ya' mean, live liabilities?" Clinton demanded. "There's no such thing as a dead liability. It's an oxymoron, get it? Oh, or don't you Rhodes Scholars study things like that?" Barr snapped. "What! Are you threatenin' us? Because if ya' are..." >From that point on, Barr was able to smooth things out, and he concluded with the most eye-opening passage of the book: You and your state have been our greatest asset. The beauty of this, as you know, is that you're a Democrat, and with our ability to influence both parties, this country can get beyond partisan gridlock. Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you that unless you f*** up and do something stupid, you're No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job you've always wanted [meaning the Presidency]. That's pretty heady stuff, Bill. So why don't you help us keep a lid on this and we'll all be promoted together. You and guys like us are the fathers of the new government. Hell, we're the new covenant. An amazing statement, wasn't it? Especially for 1986. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victims #10 & #11: Kevin Ives and Don Henry, two Bryant, Arkansas, teenagers, apparently were a bit too snoopy about the air drops of dope and cash they had observed in the nearby countryside at night (part of the Mena operation). They were found on the morning of August 23, 1987, having been run over by a train. "They fell asleep on the tracks," according to state medical examiner Fahmy Malak, a Clinton appointee who had earned the anger of the locals by pulling such stunts before. (Remember when Clinton's late mother, anesthesia nurse Virginia Kelley, [allegedly] caused the death of two patients by neglect? Malak was the one who cleared her. Malak once even declared that a decapitated man had died of "natural causes," a ruling Clinton defended as a mere symptom of overwork.) Malak's opinion caused a big ruckus locally. Eventually, the boys' irate parents managed to get a second coroner's opinion, and the official causes of death were changed to being stabbed in the back and getting a crushed skull *before* the train came. At this point... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victims #12 through #17: ...six local people came forward independently, each claiming to have some special knowledge about the deaths of the boys on the track. All were slain before their testimony could do any good. Police involvement is suspected in most cases, but not all: ** Keith Coney had been slashed in the neck and was fleeing for his life when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck. "A traffic fatality," police said. ** Gregory Collins was found shot in the face by a shotgun. ** Keith McKaskle was brutally stabbed at home -- 113 times. (He knew he was doomed, and had told his friends and family goodbye.) ** The burned body of Jeff Rhodes was found in the city dump, shot in the head -- and with his hands, feet, and head partly cut off. ** Richard Winters was killed by a man with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. ** Jordan Ketelson died of a shotgun blast to the head and was found in the driveway of a house in Garland County. "A suicide," the sheriff said. Do you see a pattern here? All in all, after ten years of Mena operations, not one arrest was ever made, an accomplishment that is possible only when someone controls the whole state like a collie controls sheep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #18: Danny Casolaro was a reporter who was investigating the connections between Mena, BCCI, Iran-Contra, Reagan's "October Surprise," Park-O-Meter Co. (which [allegedly] made dope-storage nose cones for the airplanes at Mena), and the ADFA (Clinton's billion-dollar state bonds racket). He affectionately called this network The Octopus. On August 10, 1991, just as he was about to receive information linking Iran-Contra to the Inslaw scandal, Danny was found with his wrists slit in the bathtub of a hotel room in West Virginia. What a coincidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #19: Paul Wilcher, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, was deeply investigating Mena and other scandals. He was scheduled for a meeting with Danny Casolaro's former attorney, but on June 22, 1993, was found dead in his apartment, sitting on his toilet. (The bathroom killer strikes again?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #20: Ed Willey, the manager of Clinton's presidential campaign finance committee who, according to a reliable source in Texas, was involved with shuffling briefcases full of cash, supposedly shot himself on November 30, 1993. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victim #21: John A. Wilson, a ruggedly honest city councilman in Washington, D.C., knew a lot about Clinton's dirty tricks. According to my sources, he was preparing to come forward and start talking about them. But then on May 19, 1993, he just decided to hang himself instead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . There are other possible victims, like Paula Gober, Jim Wilhite, Stanley Heard, Steven Dickson, Timothy Sabel, William Barkley, Scott Reynolds, Brian Hassey, and so on. But my evidence about them isn't convincing, and I refuse to join those who call every Clinton-related death a murder. What *is* convincing is just the sheer numbers of untimely deaths in the Clinton circle of influence -- plus a long string of threats, attacks, beatings, break-ins, wiretaps, and other intimidation. For example: ** Dennis Patrick of Kentucky has survived three attempts on his life so far -- and is now in the federal witness protection program. (Hang in there, Dennis -- and never forget who's in charge of that program!) He was the unwilling customer of Lasater & Company in Little Rock, where tens of millions of dollars were traded (read: laundered) in his account in 1985 and 1986. Only two problems: He never knew what these trades were... and it wasn't his money! (Coincidentally, the trading stopped when Barry Seal was killed on February 19, 1986.) And that's not even the scary part of the story. The fact that may make your hair stand on end is that Dan Lasater is: -- Bill Clinton's second-best friend -- a convicted cocaine dealer -- a noted host of lavish cocaine parties featuring very young women -- the employer of Bill's brother -- and the head of Lasater & Co., which issued all $1 billion of Arkansas' state bonds in the '80s (but only if each bond beneficiary first made a huge donation to Clinton's operations or put Hillary on retainer). It is also alleged that Lasater laundered hundreds of millions of drug dollars through that firm. But the day after Dan's release from prison only six months later, Bill pardoned him! Plus, while Dan was still in detention, he gave power of attorney to run the company to Patsy Thomasson, who was one of Bill's top administrative aides, and Bill *continued* to funnel all the state's bonds through the company -- another $664 million worth! Lasater & Company was the major source of brokered deposits in Madison Guaranty S&L. And Patsy is now director of the White House Office of Administration. God help us all. ** According to a sophisticated journal called *Heterodoxy*, journalist L.J. Davis spent a week nosing around some sensitive areas in Arkansas last February [1994]. Then on the 14th, as he entered his Little Rock hotel room to dress for dinner, he was knocked cold. When he awoke on the entry floor four hours later, his wallet was intact, but his notebook and skull weren't. And there was no furniture within falling distance to account for the darning-egg-size lump over his left ear. Three weeks later, he sent a draft of his story to *The New Republic* BY MODEM. Three hours after that, his phone rang. A rich baritone voice began, "What you're doing makes Lawrence Walsh [, the investigator into Iran-Contra,] look like a rank amateur." "Who *is* this?" Davis demanded. "Seems to me, you've gotten your bell rung too many times. But did you hear what I just said?" (*click*) Says Davis now, "I used to laugh at things like this -- until I ended up on the [expletive] floor." If all this sounds like tabloid trash to you, you're absolutely right. And there's a very good reason: The people behind these crimes *are* tabloid trash. ** Then there's the arson stuff. A nasty little blaze broke out in the Little Rock offices of Peat Marwick, way up in the fourteenth floor of Worthen Tower at midnight, January 24, 1994, just four days after Fiske's start as a Whitewater investigator. It wasn't a *bad* fire, you see, just bad enough to consume the area that held their 1986 audit of Madison Guaranty. A former Peat Marwick executive tells me that the word came down from Clinton, and they were most definitely *forced* to destroy the documents. And remember the flap about the medical records that Bill refused to release? Word is, all that cocaine finally destroyed his nasal passages. ("Allergies," Bill says.) He spent huge amounts of time flying around the country with Dan Lasater in his cocaine-laden jet and went to numerous parties thrown by Lasater and others, some of which featured "blizzards of cocaine," according to participants. Brother Roger recently admitted doing six to eight grams a day (and being a dealer for Lasater), but Bill's usage was probably much less. Alas, we'll never know now. His doctor's office files went up in flames. (Tsk, tsk. Those medical offices. You *know* what a firetrap they are.) Speaking of drugs: Sally Perdue, a former Miss Arkansas and popular talk show hostess, has told the London *Sunday Telegraph* that during her 1983 affair with Gov. Clinton (verified by state trooper L.D. Brown), Bill would usually smoke (*and* inhale) two or three ready-made marijuana joints drawn from his cigarette case in a typical evening. On one occasion he pulled out a baggie of cocaine and prepared a "line" right on her table. "He had all the equipment laid out like a real pro," she recalls. (A mid- level Democratic Party leader warned Sally, before a witness, that if she didn't keep quiet, he "couldn't guarantee what might happen" to her "pretty little legs" when she went out jogging.) She also told her stories to Sally Jessy Raphael, but in a rare move, the producers strangely decided not to broadcast the videotaped program. I've also talked with others who say they "got high with Bill" *many* times -- including his personal drug supplier, who is now being held in prison incommunicado in Leavenworth by Janet Reno. When the time comes, they will all speak out. In fact, the main problem may be half of Arkansas trying to get their names in the headlines! ** For a change of pace, here's an incident that's non- violent -- but does include the President himself. Little Rock attorney Cliff Jackson, an acquaintance of Bill's from his Oxford days, was approached in July, 1993, by Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, two former members of Bill's Arkansas security detail. They wanted to discuss blowing the whistle on his sex escapades. (Other troopers backed up their stories.) As told to *New American* magazine, Jackson was discussing their stories on the phone in August with another attorney, Lynn Davis (not related to [L.J. Davis]), when... ...he became suspicious that the phone had been tapped. He suggested to Davis that they meet in a nearby restaurant. "The whole time we were there, this suspicious-looking guy kept his eye on us," Jackson recalls. "After we left, we were followed by this dark Suburban with darkened windows and a Texas license plate." Davis noted the vehicle's license plate number and ran a check on it; no such license number was listed. You've heard of unlisted phone numbers? Welcome to the phantom surveillance world of unlisted license plates! Just a few days later, the troopers received phone calls from both Clinton and Buddy Young, former head of Gov. Clinton's security detail. You can hear the borderline tone of Young's calls in this sample from his tense call to Roger Perry, as he reported it: I represent the President of the United States. Why do you want to destroy him over this? ... This is not a threat, but I wanted you to know that your own actions could bring about dire consequences. Clinton's calls were no big secret, either. For instance, journalist Gwen Ifill noted in the *New York Times*, It turns out that some of the calls that were overworking the White House switchboard operators [in the fall of '93] were going not to Capitol Hill but to Arkansas state troopers [to discuss] potentially embarrassing charges about his marital infidelity. The troopers related that Bill asked about the pending allegations and offered them plush jobs. I think what he wanted most was the kind of loyal silence and amnesia he gets from people like Buddy Young, whom he appointed to a $93,000- a-year FEMA job (not a bad promotion for a cop). Indeed, there was a lot to be silent about. In addition to numerous one-night ladies, Bill had long-term affairs with six. One was a real bell-ringer: The *Los Angeles Times* sifted through thousands of pages of state phone bills and found 59 calls to her, including eleven on July 16, 1989. On one government trip, he talked to her from his hotel room from 1:23 a.m. to 2:57 a.m., then was back on the phone with her at 7:45 that morning. Bill's fallback defense is always that, as he claimed on National Public Radio, "The only relevant questions are questions of whether I abused my office, and the answer is no." Well. What do *you* say? ** By far the unluckiest guy in Arkansas is lawyer Gary Johnson, 53, who was peacefully living at Quapaw Towers in Little Rock when Gennifer Flowers moved in next door to him. Now, Clinton denied on *60 Minutes* that he ever visited Gennifer. But Gary had a home security system that included a video camera pointed at his door. Unfortunately, it also covered Gennifer's door, and after awhile he had several nice visits on tape, showing Bill letting himself in with his own key. Either Bill finally noticed the camera, or the grapevine told Bill's aides about it, because on June 26, 1992, three weeks before the Democratic nomination, Gary got a loud knock at the door. It was three husky, short-haired state troopers, and they slugged him as they barged in, demanding the tape. Gary promptly gave it to them, but they continued punching him, breaking both his elbows, perforating his bladder, rupturing his spleen so badly that doctors had to remove it, beating him unconscious, and leaving him to die. Now, here's a good question for you: Do you think Bill Clinton actually picked up a phone and initiated this attack? And here's a better question: *What* *difference* *does* *it* *make*? For obvious reasons of liberal loyalty, no one in the major media wants to stick his neck out and be the first to do a major piece that pins all these murders and attacks on the President of the United States. But sooner or later, the dam will break. The weight and scope of the crimes are just too massive. Even if only *half* these incidents turn out to be accidents or true suicides, Bill will find it impossible to wiggle out of being implicated in the rest. When some indicted hit man or functionary sees the evidence piling up against him, he will sing like a sparrow to save his own tail feathers... How to Make $2 Million Developing a God-Forsaken Tract of Land Without Selling One Square Foot of It When the media folk told you about Whitewater, they left out a few amusing details. So in a spirit of altruistic service and public education, I'm going to let you in on the secrets of how to pull off a land scam. Pay attention, because you've never heard this before. A. Real estate developing is more fun when you can borrow all your capital without having to pay it back... or even sell any land. So to get started, you need two friends: one an appraiser, one a banker. B. Next, you find some dirt-cheap dirt. Anywhere in the boondocks will do. In the Whitewater case, it was 230 acres of land along the White River for about $90,000. (Some housing tract! It was fifty miles to the nearest grocery store.) C. Then you get your appraiser friend to do a bloated appraisal. Hey, what are friends for? Let's say he pegs it at $150,000. D. You go to the bank and get the usual 80% loan. [CN -- e.g., 80% of $150,000 with the land as collateral] You now have $120,000, so you pay off the land [($90,000)], and you still have $30,000 in your pocket. You're on a roll. E. You pay $5,000 to subdivide it and bulldoze in a few roads. (Or if you know the ropes, you get the state to do it, as Bill did to get a $150,000, two-mile access road.) F. Voila! You now are the proud owner of a partly-developed luxury estate community. So you call up your appraiser friend again, and he re-evaluates it at a cool $400,000. G. You hustle back to the bank [run by your friend McDougal] and get a new 80% loan based on the new value. (Nothing out of line so far. An 80% loan is standard, right?) H. You draw up plans for some fine houses (which will never be built.) I. You get a new appraisal. J. You get a new loan. K. You make two or three phony homesite sales to friends. You shuffle the funds around among your shell corporations and bounce it back to your friends -- plus a little extra for their help. L. You get a new appraisal. M. You get a new loan. N. You do a "land flip," selling the whole thing to Company X for $800,000, which sells it to Company Y for a million, which sells it back to you for $1.25 million. (All these companies are your friends.) And yes, this kind of thing *did* happen in Whitewater and Madison. In fact, Whitewater figures David Hale and Dean Paul once flipped Castle Grande back and forth from $200,000 to $825,000 in *one* *day*! O. You get a new appraisal. P. You get a new loan. Q. Finally, your development corporation declares bankruptcy, and the bank has to eat your loans because the money is all gone, and since the record-keeping is so poor, nobody knows where it went. But weep not for the bankers. You pay them nicely -- perhaps a third of the $2 to $3 million you skim off. Weep for the taxpayer who bails out their banks. Which is to say, in the case of Whitewater, weep for yourself. -+- Does This Actually *Work*? -+- Whitewater was just the first of a series, like a pilot for a sitcom. Using Whitewater as a prop, Bill and his partner Jim McDougal milked -- by my rough estimate -- several million dollars from the SBA [Small Business Administration] and at least five or six banks and S&Ls, starting with the Bank of Kingston. But their later ventures, bringing in Steve Smith and now-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, did even better. Campobello started with about $150,000 in property and squeezed over $4 million in loans from banks in about two years. Castle Grande began with $75,000 worth of swamp land and cleared over $3 million. It never built anything. The only human artifacts on it today are a few old refrigerators and mattresses. Why do I have information you haven't seen before? Because my firm had $10 million in Madison Guaranty S&L, and I was thinking of buying the Bank of Kingston. (I was already worth millions by that time.) When I saw Kingston's financial statement, however, I ran like a scalded cat. And Madison was worse. You didn't have to be a Philadelphia CPA to spot their money laundering, dead real estate liabilities proudly listed as assets, huge amounts of 24-hour deposits from brokers, and $17 million in insider loans. It was a nightmare. Whitewater Development Corp. had at least an appearance of sincerity. It even had TV commercials, starring Jim's [McDougal's] striking young wife, Susan, in hot pants, riding a horse. Another one showed her behind the wheel of Bill's restored '67 Mustang. But after Whitewater, the deals began dropping their frills like a hooker in a hurry to get things over with. The RTC criminal referral that Bill suppressed during his presidential campaign cites such later corporations as *Tucker-Smith-McDougal*, *Smith- Tucker-McDougal*, and *Smith-McDougal*. Catchy, eh? If it were me, I would have called them *Son of Whitewater*, *Whitewatergate*, and *Whitewater & Ponzi, L.P.* -+- Short Report -+- On their 1979 income tax, Hillary valued Bill's used undershorts -- donated to charity at the end of their action-studded tour of duty -- at two dollars a pair. Plainly, we are dealing here with a couple that gives loving attention to detail in matters of deductions. As you may recall, however, Clinton has proclaimed over and over that he simply "forgot" to deduct the $68,900 he claims he lost on Whitewater. Commentators have been mystified by the paradox. But it's no mystery to me. The reason is obvious: Bill didn't deduct the $68,900 because he didn't lose a dime on Whitewater, and he didn't want to do time for tax fraud. Period. Jim McDougal put up all the money except for $500 -- and Bill borrowed even *that*. But weep not for Jim. Not only was he Bill's partner in Whitewater, but he owned Madison Guaranty S&L, which was the designated milk cow that provided most of the inflated loans. Weep instead for the taxpayers -- like you and me -- who picked up the $66 million tab when Madison folded. -+- The Paperless Office Is Pioneered -+- by the Rose Law Firm Will Bill and Hillary go to jail for masterminding all the land deals that fall under the label *Whitewater*? I expect they will [CN -- Don't bet on it.] -- not because of existing documents, but because of the testimony of subpoenaed people. The few remaining documents will play a supporting role, but frankly, friend, there aren't many left. According to grand jury testimony: On February 3, 1994, right after Fiske became special counsel for Whitewater, the nice folks at the Rose Law Firm fired up their high-speed Ollie-o-Matic paper shredder and ordered courier Jeremy Hedges to slice 'n dice his way into the history books by destroying twelve (12) cartons full of Whitewater documents. As far as anyone knows, Rose now has no more Whitewater records than you do. Actually, a lot of the usual documents were never created in the first place. For instance, there was no written partnership agreement (don't try this at home). No transactions were written up, even though Clinton's real estate agent says there were $300,000 in sales. No deeds were ever recorded. And if any interest was paid on bank loans, the payment checks are missing. Plus, after Whitewater, Bill got very smart and kept his name completely out of every subsequent deal he cut. But the Whitewater monies, probably several million, ricocheted from shell company to shell company like the basketball in a Harlem Globetrotters warmup drill, and every dollar wound up in the proper pocket. Beneficiaries included many of the biggest names in Arkansas -- like Gov. Tucker, Seth Ward, and some very powerful executives from outfits like Wal-Mart and Tyson's Chicken -- Clinton campaign backers all. (Campaign records for 1982 and 1984, the two most suspicious years, have also been studiously shredded.) And Bill, who entered public office with nothing but debts, and who never made over $35,000 a year as governor, is now worth about four to five million. A real rags-to-riches, American success story, isn't it? Kind of puts a lump in your throat. But there's one other reason for Bill's success. In a word, Hillary. Prepare to be shocked as you learn... -+- Why the Feds Settled for $1 Million -+- on $60 Million in Debts You'll find this one hard to believe, so read carefully. ITEM: When Madison Guaranty folded, it was somewhere between $47 and $68 million in the hole. The tab has settled at $65 million. ITEM: One of the biggest defaults was $600,000 in loans to one of Madison's own directors, Seth Ward, who is the father- in-law of Webb Hubbell. Webb happened to be Hillary's law partner and until April [1994] was the No. 3 man at the Justice Department -- and assigned to investigate Whitewater! ITEM: When the RTC cleanup crew took over Madison, Hillary had been on retainer to Madison [Guaranty S&L] for many months. Got it so far? O.K. Now, the RTC lawsuit sought $60 million from Madison Guaranty's debtors. But here's what happened: 1. Hillary negotiated the RTC down *from* *$60* *million* *to* *$1* *million*. What a talker! 2. Hillary then got the RTC to forgive the $600,000 debt Seth Ward owed the RTC -- every penny of it -- thus leaving the RTC with $400,000 [out of the $60 million owed.] 3. But wait! Hillary did these two deeds *as* *the* *counsel* *for* *the* *RTC*, not Madison. Incredible as it sounds to those of us who have to live in the real world, Hillary got herself hired by the RTC, and in *that* position, from the GOVERNMENT side, she talked them down to $1 million. 4. Her fee for the RTC job was (pure coincidence) $400,000. Which left the government with $400,000 minus $400,000... or in technical accounting terms, zippo. 5. And who do you suppose was the mastermind who conned the RTC into hiring Madison Guaranty's own Hillary to prosecute Madison Guaranty? None other than the late Vince Foster! When he made his pitch to the RTC, he neglected to tell them about Hillary's retainer with Madison Guaranty. In fact, he even wrote them a letter stating that the Rose Law Firm didn't represent thrifts! Vince and Hillary were, by the way, very, uh, close. Not only were they partners at Rose, but there's no shortage of people who saw them hugging and smooching in public. Arkansas troopers say that when Bill took a trip on state business, Vince was often at the mansion gates within minutes -- and would stay till the wee hours. They also spent a few weekends together at the Rose vacation cabin in the mountains. And when Hillary filed for divorce from Bill in 1986, Vince was right there at her side. (She withdrew the suit [later on].) -+- 178 Years in Club Fed -+- Nobody ever accused Bill Clinton of being stupid. As proof, look at the Congressional hearings. What a hoot! Bill had them stacked so that fully 99% of all Whitewater crimes were off limits! This left our dignified Congressmen sternly chasing the remaining 1% of petty misdemeanors with hardly a mention of fourteen years of felonies: shell games, killings, break-ins, coverups, threats, bribes, thefts, check kiting, payoffs, arson, money laundering, fraud, influence of testimony, tampering with witnesses, you name it... And Bill managed to focus 100% of the attention on [Roger] Altman, [Bernard] Nussbaum, [Lloyd] Cutler and others, with none of it on himself. You have to admit, that's pretty smart maneuvering. In February, *The American Spectator* added up two pages of Bill's alleged crimes, and the total potential penalties came to $2.5 million in fines and 178 years in prison. And *they* just listed the piddly stuff, like tax fraud and soliciting bribes; they didn't even mention the heavier incidents I listed above! (They did include a short roster of Hillary's much lighter penalties, totaling only $1.2 million and 47 years.) Is such punishment excessive? I think not. Even if you ignore the mayhem, the Clinton economic damage has been severe. Counting Clinton's Arkansas Development Finance Authority, which never awarded a bond grant without a major campaign contribution and Bill's signature, he sucked over a billion dollars from state and federal taxpayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please forgive me for sounding dramatic, but this is a dark day for the republic. I apologize for giving you such an avalanche of appalling news. God knows, I've tried to keep my tone somewhat light, but I realize that you are probably still alarmed. Unfortunately, I must now go on to tell you about the impact all this is going to have on your own financial future, and that could be the worst news of all -- by far. But unlike all the depressing matters you've just read, there is a bright silver lining to it. Yes, I do think it's the darkest day for the republic since World War II. [CN -- Guarino goes on from here to state that "the troubles ahead" will ironically give you a great opportunity to improve your finances. He tells the reader to open "the enclosed envelope" which I, unfortunately, do not have because I received this pamphlet from someone else.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Footnote: I [Nicholas A. Guarino] serve notice that I am not depressed in the least, and that if anything happens to me, I publicly accuse Bill Clinton and his circle of power. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + CN -- There ends Mr. Guarino's narrative. For the record, I also "serve notice" that I am looking forward to the denouement of the Clinton mysteries and therefore if anything happens to me I would miss the final curtain -- a circumstance I would much regret. Brian Francis Redman bigxc@prairienet.org "The Big C" -------------------------------------------------------------- Coming to you from Illinois -- "The Land of Skolnick" -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Patriot Archives FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail alex@spiral.org) THE CLINTON BODY-COUNT The following is a partial list of a large number of persons who have recently met their demise in suspicious circumstances who appear to have some connection to the Clintons. The information was compiled from several sources, and some of it is more complete and detailed than other parts, and there may be some innacuracies. But it is the length and breadth of the list that is the most disconcerting. It beyond credibility that every single one of these cases is mere coincidence. ================================================================= Bill Shelton - Arkansas state trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson died: 6/94 - allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at the gravesite of his fiancee - Officer Shelton was the fiancee of Kathy Ferguson, who was the ex-wife of Trooper Danny Ferguson. Kathy Ferguson also committed "suicide" last month when she shot herself in her living room. Oddly, next to the body were her packed bags, as if she was expecting to be going somewhere. Danny Ferguson is a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in Paula Corbin Jones's sexual harassment suit. His ex-wife was reported as a corroborating witness for Ms. Jones. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- C. Victor Raiser II - National Finance Co-Chairman, Clinton for President Campaign Montgomery Raiser - Son of Victor Raiser II died: 7/30/92 - Both men died in a private plane crash in Alaska, en route to a fishing expedition. No cause was ever determined. Five others not connected to Clinton died with them. - DeeDee Meyers described Raiser as a "major player" in the Clinton organization. Victor raiser was also chairman of Mobile Telecomm Technologies Corp., whose subsidiary, SkyTel Corp. is an international paging company used by federal police agencies such as the FBI. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paul Tully - Democratic National Committee Political Director died: 9/24/92 - Found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock Arkansas of "unknown causes." - Described by Clinton as a "dear friend and trusted advisor. Tully authored several key strategies for Clinton and the party. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paula Grober - Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf died: 12/9/92 - Died in a one-car accident with no known witnesses. - Traveled extensively with Clinton from 1978 until her death. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jim Wilhite - Vice Chairman, Arkla, Inc. died: 12/21/92 - Died in a one-person skiing accident. - Wilhite had extensive ties with Clinton and Mack McLarty, with whom he visited by telephone just hours before his death. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Maj. Gen. William Robertson - Deputy Commanding General, V Corps, Europe Col William Densberger - V Corps Chief of Operations and Plans Col. Robert Kelly - V Corps Chief of Intelligence Spec. Gary Rhodes - Crew Chief died: 2/23/93 - All were killed when their helicopter crashed in Weisbaden, Germany. No cause was ever determined. - V Corps figured prominently in the US Bosnia-Serbia peacekeeping operations, along with the carrier Roosevelt. These men, and 8 others associated with Clinton's visit to the Roosevelt all died within 4 months of each other. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Steve Willis - Clinton bodyguard Robert Williams - Clinton bodyguard Conway LeBleu - Clinton bodyguard Todd McKeehan - Clinton bodyguard died: 2/28/93 - "executed" by gunfire in the Waco, Texas assault on the Branch Davidians. - All four were examined by a "private doctor" and died from nearly identical wounds to the left temple, so-called execution style. According to Linda Thompson, videotapes and other evidence indicates that none died from guns fired by Branch Davidians. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Five Navy aviators - Clinton bodyguards/escorts (names not determined) died: 3/26/93 - all died in a crash of an E-2C Hawkeye in Italy. The crash occurred shortly after the plane was "waved off" from a landing attempt on the Carrier Roosevelt, due to a "foul deck". - All five men had been Clinton's escorts during Clinton's visit to the Roosevelt 2 weeks prior. Three other men, who had flown Clinton to the Roosevelt for that visit also died later in a helicopter crash. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Staff Sgt. Brian Haney - Clinton bodyguard Marine Sgt. Tim Sabel - Clinton bodyguard Maj. William Barkley - Clinton bodyguard Capt. Scott Reynolds - Clinton bodyguard died: 5/19/93 - All four men died when their helicopter crashed in the woods near Quantico, Va. - Reporters were barred from the site, and the head of the fire department responding to the crash described it by saying, "Security was tight," with "lots of Marines with guns." A videotape made by a firefighter was seized by the Marines. All four men had escorted Clinton on his flight to the carrier Roosevelt shortly before their deaths. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paul Wilcher - Washington attorney investigating government corruption died: 6/22/93 - Found dead on a toilet in his Washington apartment. No cause of death was ever determined. - At the time of his death, he was investigating connections between the "October surprise" during the 1980 federal election campaign and drug and gun-running out of Mena, Arkansas, as well as the BATF assault on the Waco, Texas Branch Davidians. Was planning on producing a television documentary on his findings. He had delivered a 99-page affidavit to Janet Reno three weeks before his death. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Vincent Foster - White House Counsel died: 7/21/93 - Found dead in Ft. Marcy Park in Washington, DC, of a supposed suicide by gunshot. A suicide note was supposedly found a fews days later, torn into several pieces, in his briefcase, after his office had been entered by WhiteHouse staff and materials removed. The gun which he supposedly used to kill himself was reported to be still in his hand, but the person who first found the body reports that there was no gun at that time. Many irregularities surround the death and the investigation of it. - Foster was also from Hope, Ark., like Clinton, and also worked for the Rose Law firm. Foster had intimate knowledge of the Clintons' personal finances. Foster was involved in an investigation of their finances, and reportedly made a phone call to Hillary Clinton, in Little Rock, just hours before his death. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stanley Heard - Chairman, National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee Steve Dickson - Counsel to Mr. Heard died: 9/10/93 - Both died in a plane crash outside Dulles airport, after their aircraft, rented after Heard's personal craft developed troubles, crashed while attempting an emergency landing after reporting a fire on board. - Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton's advisory council, also personally treated Clinton's mother, stepfather, and brother. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Luther Parks - Head of Clinton's Guberntorial security team in Little Rock. died: 9/26/93 - Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. - His family reported that shortly before his death, they were being followed by unknown persons, and their home had been broken into. Parks had been compiling a dossier on Clinton's illicit activities. The dossier was stolen. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ed Willey - Real Estate Attorney, Clinton Fund Raisor died: 11/30/93 - Died of gunshot to the head. Body found in deep woods in Virginia. Ruled a suicide, no note was found, nor was any motive identified. - Intimately involved in several Clinton fund raising events. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The following items are a bit less complete than the previous items, but still noteworthy. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hershell Friday - Attorney and Clinton fund raiser. died: ??? - Killed when his plane exploded. Cause unknown. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- James Bunch - Influential Texan died: ??? - Died from a gunshot suicide, similar to Vince Foster. - Was discovered to have a "little black book" containing the names of many influential persons in Texas and Arkansas who visited certain prostitutes. Connection to Clinton not proven. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Wilson - Former Washington DC Council member died: 5/18/93 - Found dead from an apparent hanging suicide - Suicide appears suspicious due to an unusual number of reports made to the media concerning his "depression". Was reported, but not proven, to have ties to the Whitewater affair. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- the ex- Mrs. Danny Ferguson - Ex-wife of Trooper Danny Ferguson died: circa 5/94 - Died of a supposed gunshot suicide in her living room. There was a suicide note found by the body. However, friends were surprise at having noticed nothing wrong previously. And even more curious, found nearby were several packed suitcases, as if she expected she was going somewhere. - She was the former wife (since changed her name) of Trooper Danny Ferguson, who is the Arkansas State Trooper alleged to have escorted Paula Corbin Jones to the hotel room for her alleged episode of sexual harrassment by then-Governor Clinton. Ferguson's wife was reported as a possible corroborating witness for Ms. Jones. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- attorney for Mr. Lassater - Attorney representing Mr. Lassater (name unknown) in a case concerning alleged financial misconduct. died: circa 5/94 - Died in an alleged suicide by jumping out of a window of a multi-story building. - Mr. Lassater was a close associate of Gov. Clinton, and was later indicted on drug related charges, among other things. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- And the list goes on......