WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 5]

Mena, Arkansas, base of CIA drug importation.

NOTES: I made a few corrections to spellings and grammar.

If you missed previous parts to this part of the WORMSCAN series, you can find it here.

WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 1]

WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 2]

WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 3]

WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 4]

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STATEMENT OF PLAINTIFF TERRY K. REED
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June 3, 1996
RE: LRC 94-634
REED v. YOUNG, et al.

On July 5, 1991, one month shy of 5 years ago, my wife Janis and I mustered up the courage to register ourselves as plaintiffs in a civil law suit that we knew was seeded with political land mines. That original lawsuit, LRC 91-414, filed in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, and later to evolve into case number LRC 94-634, has transformed into an all-consuming endeavor, for not only Janis and me, our team of lawyers, but many concerned American citizens as well.

We knew all along, as well did Little Rock Federal District Judge George Howard, Jr., that this case was not only about the violation of our civil rights, but carried with it the burden of re-educating the Court, the jury, and the American people about a painful period known in the annals of history as Iran-Contra.

Slowly but surely, we and our legal team have been penetrating layer upon layer of government disinformation created for the sole purpose of preventing the truth to surface concerning the Reagan Administration's efforts to assist the Nicaraguan Contras in Arkansas. The Executive branch's by-passing of congressional restraints designed to prohibit or restrict military aid to the Contras through the law known as the Boland Amendment was in great part carried out on Arkansas soil with the full knowledge and complicity of our now-sitting President, Bill Clinton.

Some of the CIA's activities which took place at Bill Clinton's Mena, Arkansas were patriotically driven and justified. Other activities, however, those which included the importation of cocaine and money laundering, can never be justified in the domain of the public. For this reason, there has been a concerted and bi-partisan effort to keep the subject matter known as MENA from becoming legitimized through the court process.

Judge Howard's court has at times condoned our efforts to amass non-partisan evidence to not only prove our case, but to also re-write history and do what Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh either feared or failed to do after conducting a $40 million investigation: to tell the truth about the CIA's activities in Mena, Arkansas in the mid-1980s.

To begin, let me recap our motivations for suing Raymond (Buddy) Young, then a captain with the Arkansas State Police and serving as Bill Clinton's gubernatorial chief of security. Young is now the director of Region 6 of the Federal Emergency Management Authority (FEMA) and based at Denton, Texas. From his position at FEMA he still finds time to protect Bill Clinton by threatening former Clinton bodyguards whenever they come forward with evidence which may embarrass the President or hint of wrong-doing.

We felt then, as we feel now, that Mr. Young was a dangerous and unethical man who should never have been allowed to wear a badge. Yet, there he was in 1987, officing out of the Governor's mansion, drawing from the resources of the state of Arkansas, and behaving as any modern day crime family "enforcer" as he provided "security" for Arkansas' first family, Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton.

Providing security: what does this encompass? That is what this case was destined to expose. Does it include destroying the lives of people who innocently become a political liability to powerful politicians, namely his boss, Bill Clinton?

Well, the senior federal judge in Wichita, Kansas, Frank G. Theis, ruled in 1990 that these "security services" included at least the orchestration of phony criminal indictments against myself and Janis. The question is, why? We wanted to answer that question in Judge Howard's court. We already knew the answer. I had worked at the Mena airport and could connect prominent Arkansan power brokers and politicians to some very nefarious activity. Simply said: Janice and I were liabilities and had to be dealt with.

As Judge Theis clearly saw, Young was not a solo actor as he conducted the despicable deed of trying to wrongfully and illegally cause innocent people to be incarcerated or killed. Theis concluded that Young had at least one accomplice, Tommy Lee Baker, of Little Rock, Arkansas, another former Arkansas State cop and sometimes private detective. Mr. Baker now sells alcohol to some of Little Rock's lower socio-economic groups through his liquor store on East 9th Street.

Judge Theis, the senior federal judge for the 10th circuit district, had witnessed Young and Baker shuffling through his court room on more than one occasion between 1988 and 1990 as they emerged as the star witnesses in a U.S. Government prosecution designed to imprison Janis and myself for 20 years each — for a crime we knew absolutely nothing about.

Yet, Young and Baker, through their own perjurous lips, and manufactured material evidence, had convinced a Kansas U.S. Attorney that Janis and I were drug smuggling airplane thieves who were so "armed and dangerous" that we and our young children could have been shot on sight by any overly wary or trigger-happy law enforcement officer. Young, by his own admission, fabricated and authored a criminal profile that presented us as a modern day Bonnie and Clyde.

But miraculously, by November, 1990, through two and one half years of effort, a lot of money, and a little bit of luck, Janis and I and our criminal defense lawyers were able to set the record straight in Judge Theis' courtroom. The judge exonerated us of *all* alleged criminal wrong-doing by finding me "not guilty" and at the same time lashed out at the government-embraced accusers. In the judge's own written words, sworn statements made by both Baker and Young were "made with at least reckless disregard for the truth."

On my day of judgement, November 9, 1990, when I was acquitted, I quietly vowed to bring Buddy Young and Tommy Baker to justice — to expose them for the dregs that they are — simply bad cops hiding behind tarnished badges and taking instructions from corrupt power-brokers and politicians who likewise should be prosecuted and forced from office to an awaiting prison cell.

But that is not going to happen in Judge Howard's courtroom, and not through the five years of sweat and effort that Janis and I have devoted to this uphill and horrendously expensive legal exercise.

Judge Howard, for reasons unexplained but clearly understood, has decided to protect these scoundrels, and in so doing protect those who assigned Young and Baker their "targets". In recent months Judge Howard has gutted our lawsuit and in the process has exposed the strings to which he is attached — strings that are obviously being pulled from Washington, and more significantly, the White House.

So who is Judge Howard protecting? I can't fathom it would be the enemies of civil liberties like Young and Baker. Why is a federal judge, who up until recently appeared to be so sympathetic with civil rights issues, ordering me to *not* put on the evidence we have amassed that can clearly prove WHO was instructing Young and Baker to violate our civil rights?

The judge, by his own order, has specifically forbidden me to introduce the following evidence, evidence my lawyers desperately need to prove motive on behalf of Young and Baker and other unnamed co-conspirators.

ORDER

Pending before the Court is defendants' December 4th motion in limine to exclude the following matters: ....... These general areas will be referred to as the "Mena" evidence or documents.

.......Even if the Court were to find that the complaint adequately states sufficient facts to make the allegations....... relevant to the alleged overt actions of these defendants, the probative value is substantially outweighed by the dangers of unfair prejudice, confusion of issues, the potential for misleading of the jury and considerations of undue delay and waste of time. The following description will control:

Any reference to the plaintiffs' participation in programs, operations or missions sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Central Intelligence Agency or any other agency of the United States government, covert or otherwise, as well as any organization sponsored by or aligned with the United States government specifically including, but not limited to, any programs, operations or missions conducted in southwest Arkansas regarding the training of Nicaraguan nationals, the funding and support for any factions involved in the Nicaraguan conflict and any contact or communications with operatives or officials of the above-named agencies or organizations. Any reference to President or Governor Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton and the Mena or Nella Airports. Any references to Barry Seale [sic] and any alleged drug smuggling operation or other references to the Mena and Nella Airports, or to a business relationship of Barry Seale [sic] and Dan Lasater, Lasater and Company and the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority (ADFA) and ADFA's former Director, Bob Nash.

.......IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 8th day of March, 1996.

George Howard, Jr. [signed]
United States District Judge

Judge Howard, through his own order, has exposed himself. Unwittingly, he and his integrity have now been compromised. By dissecting his order, one can clearly see two things.

1. Judge Howard is eliminating evidence that he has not yet even seen. Most of our 110 witnesses were not deposed prior to trial. The judge, and even worse, the defendants, don't know what our witnesses would say on the stand... and that's the problem, isn't it? Heaven forbid the unadulterated and unedited and unrehearsed and uncensored truth spill out within the walls of a federal court house.

2. Judge Howard is protecting people and government agencies not even named in the lawsuit. This is abundantly clear when one notes the names of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Dan Lasater, Bob Nash, and the Arkansas state agency known as ADFA. Bill, Hillary, Dan, Bob and ADFA are not defendants in the suit. One can only conclude from this judge's bizarre behavior that there has been wrongful, unethical, and illegal communication between the judge and the White House. Otherwise, these names wouldn't appear in the Order — especially that of Bob Nash. Bob Nash has never been officially accused of any wrong doing, although I have knowledge of same, and this would come out in court. And where is Bob Nash? He's in the White House — Director of Personnel.

As a former U.S. Air Force intelligence professional, I am making the following observation: this Democrat appointed judge is running interference for Bill Clinton in this election year. Mena will not be *allowed* to become a political issue in the 1996 race for the Presidency. Judge Howard has been appointed to be our road block to justice. At the same time he is cleverly putting Janis, me and my lawyers in a suicidal posture. We can go to trial, we just cannot put on our evidence.

And speaking of suicide, imagine the forces that are causing judge Howard to fall on his sword. When this is over, surely he will have no judicial integrity or respect. But I guess that is a price one pays when one is securely employed for life.

And what was the judge's response when my law team filed a 20 page motion on April 23, 1996 giving him the alternatives to:
1. Reconsider his March 8th gag order, or
2. Hear oral arguments on our evidentiary dispute, or
3. Allow us to appeal this evidentiary dispute to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals prior to trial

His succinct response was

ORDER

Plaintiffs' April 23rd motion for reconsideration and clarification or, alternatively, for leave to file interlocutory appeal (#55) is denied for the reasons contained in the March 8th order and defendants' May 6th response.

.......IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 10th day of May, 1996.

George Howard, Jr. [signed]
United States District Judge

Devastation does not come close to describing our feelings. After years of dragging this case through the federal civil justice system, Judge Howard has manipulated us into the following legal posture: we can go to court but we cannot put on critical evidence, therefore we will lose. That loss, even though we could appeal it (and the appeal would consume at minimum another year of our lives and tens of thousands more dollars), will be interpreted by the Clinton spin doctors as a victory. There will be no mention of the fact our hands were tied, and our mouths were gagged, and the so-called "trial" was a travesty of justice. They will attempt to convince the media, at a critical point in the election process, that Mena is a figment of my imagination, even though the Mena evidence was not allowed to be presented in court.

Proudly being a former member of the U.S. armed services, I was trained to win wars, not lose them. I refuse to repeat my Vietnam experience and not be *allowed* to win.

When we rather naively filed the original complaint, our sons were ages 4, 6, and 8. They are now 9, 11, and 13, and have little or no memory of their parents not being consumed in the efforts to properly litigate this case. For the sake of our children, and the sanity of our family unit, we are making a very difficult and painful decision.

Ruefully, after 59 months of a stressful, tumultuous and at times triumphant struggle, we are being forced to conclude that the subject of Mena will never be presented within the confines of a federal court room, and that Janis and I will not see justice served. Instead, we now cynically view the federal court house in Little Rock as a monument to federal corruption, and a slap in the face to all Americans who believe in the separation of powers provided under the Constitution.

With tears in our eyes, lumps in our throats, and knots in our stomachs, we are instructing our attorneys to non-suit this case.

To the hundreds of people who directly participated in our struggle, we would like to remind them of the many victories achieved throughout the course of our ordeal. In many ways we did win — at least in the court of public opinion. Our numerous depositions, which were funded in great part by public contributions, have clearly established the fact that the CIA's activities at Mena, Arkansas *did* take place, and that prominent politicians from both parties either were complicit in the illegal activities that swirled around this covert operation, or even worse, were directly involved or benefited.

I would like to think that my personal hero, Harry S. Truman, would be proud of our accomplishments, even in the face of overwhelming odds. At times of strife he was encouraged by the average citizen to "Give 'em hell, Harry!" I too have heard voices who backed me shout, "Give 'em hell, Terry!" I hope I've lived up to the task.

And to Raymond (Buddy) Young, Tommy Lee Baker, and those working with the Arkansas political establishment who have successfully undermined my efforts to take this material to trial, I will now quote from another hero of mine, Douglas McArthur: "I will return."

Terry K. Reed [signed] 3 Jun 96
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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:56:15 -0400 (EDT)
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I missed the story that Reed had dropped it.

Was he paid off? Or is he preserving rights to file at a later date where the court will allow his evidence?

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Date: 1 JUN 1996 14:58:25 GMT
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Subject: TERRY REED DROPS HIS LAWSUIT !!!

This is a really big surprise. Anybody hear anything about a settlement? Did Terry run out of money? Was he threatened further? What's the deal?

Jay A.

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Subject: Lawsuit against former Clinton aide dropped
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:00:03 PDT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuter) — A lawsuit against three Arkansas men including President Clinton's former chief of security was dismissed late Friday at the plaintiff's request. Jury selection in the case was to begin Monday, and the plaintiff's motion to dismiss the case was filed only minutes before the close of business Friday afternoon in federal district court in Little Rock.

The suit was filed by Terry Reed, a Missouri resident and self-described CIA operative who said he once trained pilots for the Nicaraguan Contra resistance at a remote Arkansas airstrip. Reed claimed he was targeted for economic retribution after he uncovered evidence of cocaine smuggling.

Reed's suit alleged that Barry Seal, a well-known drug smuggler and government informant who was shot to death in Louisiana several years ago, had a "business relationship" with Dan Lasater, a former Little Rock investment banker with social and political ties to Clinton.

Lasater testified recently before the Senate Whitewater Committee regarding allegations that he received preferred treatment on a bond issue after making contributions to Clinton's campaign for governor of Arkansas in the 1980s. Lasater denied the charge.

Lasater served a prison sentence several years ago on cocaine charges, and he has acknowledged loaning Clinton's younger brother, Roger, $8,000 to pay a cocaine debt. One of the defendants in Reed's suit was Raymond "Buddy" Young, a former captain in the Arkansas State Police who commanded Clinton's security detail while he was governor. After being elected president, Clinton appointed Young a regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Reed's motion to dismiss the suit was filed so late in the day that reporters could not obtain copies of the document, which could indicate his reasons for withdrawing the action and whether a settlement was involved.

Lawyers for President Clinton were watching the case because of the number of individuals with current or past ties to Clinton were either defendants or potential witnesses.

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WHAT IS WHITEWATER REALLY ALL ABOUT?
By Sherman H. Skolnick

The popular press would have us believe that Whitewater was a few real estate mistakes of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Totally no more than 69 thousand dollars or so. Why the press is kidding us may become more clear after considering a few items the press has not seen fit to tell us.

William Jefferson Clinton deems himself a clever man. Recruited by CIA early on, he was in a position to understand counter-intelligence and espionage agencies using different financial entities as a money laundry to disguise covert action funds.

Bill was recruited by Central Intelligence supposedly as a traveling student. In Prague, at the time [of] the Soviets' bloody seizure from the local communists, Bill stayed at the home of the son of a leading communist leader. Those not understanding the use of students as spies and counter-spies might simply label Clinton as a "Red". Actually, Bill was part of a CIA counter-espionage scheme, similar to the role of Allard K. Lowenstein as head of the National Student Association in the 1950s. Lowenstein's operation, somewhat similar to Bill's, was done with foundations acting as conduits for CIA funding. Some journalists, like this writer, began confronting Lowenstein with his CIA links. While plotting to help Ted Kennedy somehow steal the 1980 presidential election, Lowenstein was blown away by a so-called "lone assassin".

Clinton also went to Moscow, again the traveling student with an espionage agenda. He accomplished what his bosses at CIA considered a brilliant move: Clinton stole a secret transcript of a tongue-lashing one Soviet dictator gave to others in their ruling elite. Conveyed by Clinton to CIA, this endeared Bill to the Rockefellers. After all, CIA's worldwide job has been to guard Rockefeller's foreign oil properties.

So Clinton's rise to power has to be understood in this context. After all, Arkansas is a sizeable state with a small population. Is it a secret the Rockefellers own and operate Arkansas? Winthrop Rockefeller was Governor of the State a few terms before Bill. Worthen Banking Group and the Jackson Stephens family — headquartered in Little Rock — are the largest bond brokers and investment bankers outside of Wall Street. They apparently are all fronting for the Rockefellers and the American spy shop.

Hillary Rodham is a CIA darling as well, in some ways separate and apart from "Sludge Willie". In spook parlance, they are a "CIA couple". Yes, they are married and had a daughter. Yet, Bill and Hillary are part of somewhat separate espionage agendas. Hillary understands plenty. She was a key aide during the Watergate investigation whitewash of the role of CIA. Put in a nutshell, Nixon wanted to become an imperial president by blackmailing CIA on their role in the murder of President Kennedy. CIA double agents supposedly working for the Nixon White House arranged to get themselves caught at the Watergate Hotel. Result: the downfall of Nixon, arranged by CIA, and Hillary, early in her career, played her part.

Hillary went on to become board chairman of a CIA foundation instrumental in funding dirty tricks using agents provocateurs. The CIA and their use of foundations, like the one later headed by Hillary, is a story all by itself. This writer once taught a course at a radio/TV broadcast school on the subject of CIA and their foundations and how to research and investigate the same.

An entity much-used by CIA was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International [BCCI]. Foreign espionage agencies, like those of France and Israel, likewise used BCCI. The popular press has given Americans the false understanding that the rogue bank was a purely Arab creature.

There are profound reasons why the mass media are fearful of pushing too hard on the Clintons. The fall-out would damage a few other windows as well.

In 1991, four major news organizations had obtained the bribery list, showing who BCCI had bribed, worldwide, including the United States. By some mystery it was, for thirty days only, a public record at the Bank of England. One of these news groups corroborated that the list was correct as to the United States. According to the details, 108 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 28 U.S. Senators received bribes from BCCI. Part of the scheme involved 6 Chicago commodity brokers, some with offices in London. One of them, Capcom, was reportedly secretly owned by major officials of one of the largest cable companies with purported links to Turner Broadcasting of Atlanta.

BCCI wanted to penetrate the American banking scene in a big way. They did a thing natural to cynical big business: they bought Congress. The details were too shocking for the major news group. So a brave journalist turned over the details to this writer and his associates who further verified the details and wrote exclusive stories in 1991. Reportedly implicated was Wendy Gramm, at the time head of the federal agency regulating commodity brokers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She is the wife of Senator Phil Gramm (R., Texas).

The strange death of Vincent Foster, Jr., Clinton White House aide, is bound up with activities of Foster and Hillary to assist BCCI to penetrate American business.

Records of the House Banking Committee show BCCI was practically a twin of another scandal-ridden operation, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro [BNL], Italy's largest bank, owned in part by the Vatican. The Congressional Committee sought further records of BNL's Chicago branch. A Federal judge in Chicago, close to the Bush White House, issued an injunction to stop the House Banking Committee from using records of BNL Chicago. Involved were huge transactions of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi strongman, and his secret, private business partner. In May, 1991, shortly after the Persian Gulf War, the case ended up to be heard by a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. This writer and his associates were the only journalists attending the hearing. Afterwards, in the back of the courtroom, we did exclusive interviews with some of the participants in the case. They confirmed what we had heard elsewhere from reliable sources: that George Herbert Walker Bush, at the time President, was the secret, private business partner in joint ventures with the Iraqi dictator. Involved in the bank records were tens of billions of dollars of oil kick-backs from various Persian Gulf oil-soaked sheikdoms, shared by Bush and his cronies with Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi dictator was the bully boy of the Persian Gulf and received 25 percent of the proceeds of oil shipped to the West. So, when oil was 20 dollars per barrel, Hussein split the 5 dollar per barrel kick-back with Bush and his bunch. A trillion dollars of oil was shipped from the Gulf in the decade, 1980 to 1990. The corrupt rake-off amounted to 25 billion dollars per year, making Saddam Hussein and Bush the richest men on the planet.

The federal trial judge had ordered the Banking Committee to return the records and enjoined their disclosure and use. After the appeals court hearing, the Bush Justice Department leaked details to certain journalists, that one of the 3-judge panel had taken bribes, known to the Justice Department, in eight other unrelated cases. In that context, the end result became obvious. The appeals court panel ordered the BNL Chicago case to be removed from the courthouse, a way of hushing the matter up.

The press, other than small publications, will not say a single word about the case of Bank Lavoro's Chicago branch. And not a single committee of the House or Senate will utter a single word about the Chicago mess. Congress and the press have discussed a federal case involving BNL's Atlanta branch. Some 5 billion dollars was secretly diverted to Iraq — a paltry sum by comparison to BNL Chicago. Disguised as Agriculture Department loans, the funds were diverted for Iraq to buy weapons from American companies.

The press and Congress have omitted some key details about Iraq and BNL Atlanta. The deal was arranged and strategized by Hillary Rodham Clinton in conjunction with her law partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, namely, [Vince] Foster. Part of the Iraqi weapons money reportedly was washed through the banks of Clinton's cronies, Jackson Stephens and the Worthen Banking Group.

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By Sherman H. Skolnick

[...continued...]

Almost all in the press ignored the story that the Federal Reserve was investigating Hillary and Foster in respect to money laundering [of] illicit funds through foreign bank arrangements.

Were the deals with BNL Chicago and BNL Atlanta arranged by and through CIA? With the aid of former CIA Director George Bush and CIA darling Hillary? A host of circumstantial details, enough to fill several books, tend to prove that.

Then there is the case of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the mysterious fifty million dollars. Some background gives the context.

Pending since 1984 have been a slew of state and federal cases in the Chicago area that together have come to be called the Andreuccetti Affair. Named for Joseph Andreuccetti, a west suburban caulking contractor pushed, he says, into *involuntary* bankruptcy by massive fraud of several banks and savings and loans. One such S&L [was] taken over by Household International, parent of Household Bank, together successors to the CIA-linked Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. (See: Jonathan Kwitny's book, *The Crimes of Patriots*.)

Because of large, pending claims by Andreuccetti against the defunct S&L, the federal bail-out machine, Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC], set up a 58 million dollar fund parked with Household. One of Joe's [Andreuccetti's] attorneys more or less supervised the fund, John E. Gierum. In January, 1994, Gierum, of suburban Park Ridge, confessed to this writer, in the presence of Andreuccetti, about Gierum's troubles. Gierum has been a close crony of Hillary's family (originally from Park Ridge), the Rodhams. The White House, Gierum confessed, is trying to frame Gierum for the secret transfer of 50 million dollars of that contingency fund. The fund was transferred to Little Rock, to make good some 47 million dollars gone from Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan; some federal sources blame the President and First Lady for the missing 47 million dollars, talking darkly of misappropriation or bank embezzlement.

Gierum knew this writer from a probe of the Andreuccetti Affair by a court reform group headed by this writer. Gierum said he did not think he could prevent from getting "framed" for the mysterious 50 million dollar transfer.

"You're a skilled lawyer, you should be able to defend yourself," Gierum was told. The attorney explained mournfully that the powers that be, that is, the Clinton White House, have the matter set up, and the usual defense of the law and the facts cannot help Gierum.

Reliable federal sources told us some 32 bookkeepers were unable to locate or figure out how the 50 million dollars disappeared from Household and RTC Chicago. By the way, is it just coincidence? Former CIA pilot Terry Reed, in his book, *Compromised*, telling how he flew CIA dope into the airport at Mena, Arkansas, also mentions a mysterious 50 million dollars.

Other senior federal sources contend part of the 50 million dollars was funneled to the Grand Cayman Islands, with the reported help of Fuji Bank, and then, on to Switzerland. A Swiss bank reportedly has part of the money, mixed in with other illicit funds gathered for Clinton, part of it reportedly dope loot, under the code name "Chelsea Jefferson" — "Chelsea" being the name of Clinton's daughter, and "Jefferson" being Bill's middle name.

In the Andreuccetti cases, the details of Hillary's crony Gierum's confession are a matter of court record. Gierum was served a copy and he did not dispute the same.

RTC investigators have known about the 50 million dollar fund secretly disappearing and secretly transferred to Little Rock, to cover up the reported Clinton embezzlement. One RTC senior investigation specialist was looking too deep into the matter: Jon Parnell Walker. He was "suicided", that is, murdered, by being thrown off a building in Arlington, Virginia. His friends, family, and co-workers all agree on one fact: Walker was not depressed; maybe just impulsive. In any case, Walker's demise was to show other RTC people it is unhealthy to look into such things as the 50 million dollar mystery.

Another mess involving Hillary and Foster involves the Chicago operation of RTC. For several years, RTC's major outside attorneys were the Chicago-based firm of Hopkins & Sutter. So important was the law firm, RTC's offices were actually *inside* Hopkin's Chicago office. Hopkins & Sutter, for RTC, arranged for two members of a distant law firm, namely Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vincent Foster, Jr., of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, to work the clean-up details of a defunct savings and loan of a west suburb of Chicago. The S&L, owned by former Illinois Governor Dan Walker, sr., went under in part because of corrupt bond deals done with the Clinton business crony, Dan Lasater. Part of the fall-out resulted in Dan Walker, Sr., going to prison.

Hillary and Foster did a cover up job. And, is it just another coincidence that Hopkins & Sutter partner, Jay Steinberg, is also the bankruptcy trustee in the Andreuccetti Affair; Steinberg himself reportedly involved in the mysterious 50 million dollar transfer to Little Rock?

Hillary and her law partner Foster were also reportedly implicated in arranging the transfer of illicit funds resulting from the cocaine shipments by CIA pilots into Mena. Here is how it reportedly worked:

1. The dope loot was washed through the Arkansas Development Finance Authority [ADFA], a state creature originated by Bill Clinton as Governor.

2. From there, the dope funds were transferred, in part, to Arkansas banks and bond brokers who transferred the loot to Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. That is a small, closely-held bank; the owners include:

*** Dan Rostenkowski, owner for more than 20 years of the bank; for more than 30 years a Congressman; now a scandalized former Congressman;

*** Dan Shannon, once board chairman of that bank; he and his family closely linked to the illicit financial operations of Mayor Richard J. Daley, who ran Chicago City Hall for 21 years, and his son Richie, Chicago mayor since 1989;

*** And, the most important owner, reportedly, as to this context, Hugh Rodham, Hillary's brother who went to law school with Gierum and is the White House connection.

Federal investigators contend they have been investigating the Garfield Ridge Bank for the last 2-and-a-half years, as to the dope money trail from Arkansas.

> From that bank, the dope loot was reportedly transferred, in part, to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange which also helped cover up Hillary's mysterious 100 thousand dollar windfall on commodity speculations. Several traders on the "Merc", although contending they are not personally involved, admitted to this writer that they expect a horrendous scandal because of the washing on the "Merc" of Mena dope money.

> From the "Merc", the dope loot, in turn, was reportedly washed through offshore accounts, reportedly, again, by Fuji Bank, for the benefit of the Clintons.

Some of the Arkansas dope loot was disguised as fraudulent or non-existent "loans" of the U.S. Small Business Administration [SBA]. Although the Chicago regional office of SBA does not include Arkansas, the funds were washed through Chicago. Is it just another coincidence that White House crony John E. Gierum has also been senior litigation attorney for the Small Business Administration?

As more and more details pile up, you can see why Gierum's undisputed confession takes on such significance.

What were some of the purposes of the dope money? Some 18 sizeable businesses have reportedly been financed this way, including, reportedly, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt Trucking, and Wal-Mart. We understand that Wal-Mart officials vigorously deny dope funds played any part in the spreading out of their Arkansas-based firm, nationwide. Perhaps someone never told them.

State and federal law enforcement authorities contend that Tyson Foods and Don Tyson, the boss until recently, have long been implicated in dope trafficking. Is Don Tyson, who stepped down as head of the firm, evading a federal grand jury subpoena by way of his extended vacation to the Cayman Islands? Some think so.

Then there is the circumstance of San Jacinto Savings & Loan, once located in a Texas town with the same name. Federal investigators contend somewhere between 15 and 150 million dollars disappeared, by way of non-existent home loans to Arkansas, and that Hillary is involved. A senior federal bank investigator, returning from his work in Texas, said cryptically, "Hillary is going to prison."

Unanswered questions:

1. Did Bill and Hillary Clinton benefit from all the apparent embezzlement of savings & loan and other funds?

2. Did they only partly benefit personally?

3. Were they, either together, or each in a different project, fronting for CIA covert fund activities, such as at Mena?

4. Is the really big secret about all this — Mena, Little Rock, Chicago, Atlanta — that the illicit activities of the Clintons overlapped the covert and illicit doings of George Bush and Ollie North? And that this is what is causing both Democrats and Republicans to be hung up, not wanting to really finger the Clinton White House?

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"Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America,"
Biography by Roger Morris

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Published in Washington, D.C. June 24, 1996 "America's Newspaper"

Book says Clinton had CIA ties

By George Archibald
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Was Bill Clinton, as a graduate student at Oxford, a boy spy for the CIA?

One of the intriguing mysteries of Mr. Clinton's life at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar during the Vietnam War, is how a young man of relatively modest means from a small town in Arkansas managed a luxury tour of Moscow at Christmas 1969. The president himself has never offered a full explanation.

 A new biography of the president and the first lady, by Roger Morris, who resigned from Richard Nixon's National Security Council to protest the Vietnam War, offers a startling solution to the mystery:

The young Bill Clinton was an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency, paid to spy on his friends and classmates, reporting anti-war activities in London.

By Mr. Morris' telling in "Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America," Mr. Clinton's connection to the CIA continued through his tenure as governor of Arkansas. Mr. Clinton, he writes, once encouraged his favorite security officer to work for the CIA in support of a program of flying aid to the Nicaraguan Contras out of the airport at Mena, a small town nestled in the dense forests in the Ouachita Mountains of remote western Arkansas.

— Continued from Front Page —
The White House declined to respond to specific allegations in the book. Mark Fabiani, the president's special associate counsel, said in a terse statement released through a spokeswoman that the allegations are "bizarre and they speak for themselves." CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said: "It's our long-standing policy not to comment on allegations of affiliation with the agency."

Mr. Morris writes that several CIA officers he knows do not believe that Mr. Clinton became an agency "asset" during the Vietnam era. But others, whom he believes to be "more plausible," say he was. His chief source had made a record of Mr. Clinton's listing within the CIA as an informant for "Operation Chaos" in the late 1960s. The CIA purged the files during the 1970s, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under the late Sen. Frank Church, Idaho Democrat, investigated CIA spying activities.

Mr. Morris describes the source as "a retired [CIA] officer who had been in many foreign postings as well as in the agency in Washington."

"This was a man who was on the operations side, I gather would have been under some degree of cover when he was working abroad, [and] had been in several different stations in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe," he continues.

This agent was with the CIA for 20 or 25 years "and had not been purged or, I gathered, was not let go" when he left the agency during the 1980s. "He had served out a normal tenure, but had come to be one of those people who later became very critical of the intelligence operation in a very discreet way."

Among the book's other explosive revelations and conclusions:

* The Mena operation was a major conduit for cocaine shipments from Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, and its distributors in Arkansas included Roger Clinton, the governor's half-brother, whose drug trafficking helped support a decade-long "four-gram-a-day" cocaine addiction. Mr. Morris describes the Mena operation as "a multibillion gun-running, drug-smuggling and money-laundering operation, an enormous criminal traffic carried on for at least five years with what the U.S. government's own documents secretly recorded as the collusion of organized crime, the CIA, and other Washington institutions."

* Mr. Clinton, fully aware of his brother's addiction and drug peddling, received cocaine from Roger Clinton, who described the governor on a police surveillance videotape as having "a nose like a vacuum cleaner." Roger Clinton also supplied cocaine to Dan Lasater, an investment broker with operations in Arkansas and Florida who was among the most generous contributors to Mr. Clinton's campaigns.

* In early 1984, undercover police filmed Roger Clinton telling a drug contact he needed $10,000 "for my brother to take care of EPA regs and other environmental oversight problems" involving a land development project owned by Mr. Lasater. Arkansas police forwarded the surveillance evidence to the Justice Department's criminal division to investigate Mr. Clinton for corruption, but no action was taken.

* Mr. Clinton persuaded Mr. Lasater to hire his brother and send him to Florida to get him out of Arkansas. But Roger Clinton was indicted in August 1984, was convicted the following January and served a reduced two-year prison sentence after agreeing to testify against Mr. Lasater, who in December 1986 also received a 30-month prison sentence for cocaine distribution and conspiracy.

Though once the governor's favorite security agent and bodyguard, state Trooper L.D. Brown fell from favor after he told Mr. Clinton that Barry Seal, a CIA contract pilot, was running arms for the Contras from Arkansas to Honduras and returning to Arkansas with cocaine. Barry Seal was later shot dead on a street near his home in Baton Rouge, La., in a hit believed to have been ordered by the Colombian cartel.

Mr. Morris, who is now a history professor at the University of New Mexico, says his 526-page book is the result of a three-year investigation, based on almost 300 separate interviews of law enforcement, political, business and media sources in Arkansas, and friends and colleagues of the president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Much of it had first been reported in The Washington Times.

"It's very much like a jigsaw puzzle, it's very much a matter of fitting pieces together from different angles," he says in an interview. "It wasn't meant to be a collection of muck or of smut. It was intended to be what I hope it is — a serious dual biography of these two people and a serious look at the American political system." Mr. Morris, who holds a doctorate in government from Harvard, served as a Foreign Service officer and as an aide to President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Vice President Walter F. Mondale.

Most of his key sources asked anonymity for fear of political retaliation, he says in an interview.

"Presidents Johnson and Nixon had a reputation for being tough and ruthless and smearing their opponents," he says, "but I don't think either one of them hold a candle to the Clinton campaign. ... The Clintons have this reputation of being young and congenial and much more modern. They're very old-fashioned in their retaliation."

In a 28-page chapter detailing sources, he writes that he "followed the historian's rule of requiring documentary support for every major assertion of fact or state of mind and at least two and usually three verifying sources for any quoted statement."

Mr. Morris, who is the author of an acclaimed biography of the 37th president, "Richard Milhous Nixon, The Rise of an American Politician," says that he believes Mr. Clinton has a "deeply flawed" character like Richard Nixon's, and, like him, may also be forced to resign the presidency in disgrace. "I think that probably he'll be re-elected and probably Kenneth Starr's investigation will be a slow-drip undoing of this administration which, I think, is going to be a crisis for the country. It's a sad prospect."

Mr. Starr, the independent counsel, he says, is "a very methodical and cautious, careful man. I don't think he's driven by any election calendar. I don't know him personally, but if you look at his track record, it's a very careful and conservative record. He doesn't take risks and he's not very political at all in his approach. I think he'll be very documentary and very methodical. I think the heart of his case will be financial."

Mr. Clinton's bodyguards in Arkansas, who say they overheard many conversations involving Whitewater and other disputed financial matters, will provide important supportive evidence as they did in the writing of his book, he says.

"The state troopers, who have been vilified so much and attacked on all sides for their credibility, I think proved to be accurate 99 percent of the time ... about the Clintons and the events, the incidents, on sworn statements and depositions. ... Since they deal often with criminal matters, they were liable to have been called up to a grand jury on perjury issues." He credits the troopers' revelations, first reported in the Los Angeles Times and the American Spectator magazine, as "the expose that led indirectly to the media and legal inquiries into Whitewater."

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Published June 24, 1996, in The Washington Times
Copyright) 1996 News World Communications, Inc.

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QUOTES FROM the BOOK: "Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America."
By: Roger Morris

Espionage, drugs among the topics

Roger Morris, National Security Council aide for Presidents Johnson and Nixon and author of an acclaimed critical biography of Richard Nixon, writes in his dual biography of Bill and Hillary Clinton that not since Watergate "has a White House been so under suspicion for acts of wrongdoing both before and during the presidency." The following are excerpts from "Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America."

> Bill Clinton, CIA informant?:

"'Bill Clinton's ties to the intelligence community go back all the way to Oxford and come forward from there,' says a former government official who claims to have seen files long since destroyed.... [T]he Central Intelligence Agency's infamous Operation Chaos of the 1960s had been directed at uncovering some discredited foreign hand in antiwar activities at home and abroad, to the point of recruiting American student informants and placing provocateurs among the demonstrators....

"One more CIA retiree would recall going through archives of Operation Chaos at the Langley headquarters — part of an agency purge amid the looming congressional investigations of the mid-1970s — and seeing Bill Clinton listed, along with others, as a former informant.... 'He was there in the records ' the former agent said 'with a special designation.' Still another CIA source contended that part of Clinton's arrangement as an informer had been further insurance against the draft."

> Bill Clinton and drugs:

"Roger Clinton had begun using cocaine in the late 1970s and . . . eventually was slave to a four-gram-a-day habit. He supported the addiction and a rakish life-style by dealing drugs himself with contacts in New York winding all the way to the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia.... On one of the 1983-84 videotapes filmed by lo Gal narcotics officers, Roger Clinton was said to tell a supplier jauntily, 'Got to get some for my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner.' ;;

> Cash payoffs to the governor:

"According to the local narcotics officers who made the tapes video surveillance footage showed Roger discussing various payoffs of $30,000 to arrange government approval of sewer lines for a large development that was an interest of a close Clinton friend and major contributor, multimillionaire bond broker and later convicted drug dealer Dan Lasater.

"'I need $10,000 for my brother to take care of EPA regs and other environmental oversight problems,' the officer quoted Roger as saying on the tapes, which were turned over to the state police, never to be presented at trial. City police officers who shot the tapes were told the portions dealing with imputed involvement of the governor had been forwarded to the Public Integrity office of the Justice Department in Washington early in 1984, but then they heard no more."

Roger Clinton's drug-trafficking conviction: "[Dissident state police] managed to get details of the case to Hillary Rodham Clinton as well, counting on her to force the governor to keep his hands off as a political precaution. By the dissidents' account, the first lady reacted exactly as they hoped, rushing to Clinton with her own report on Roger and ordering that he do nothing to warn his half-brother or stave off the arrest, actions that might be exposed and used against them in the 1984 re-election campaign or later.

"'I don't think she ever knew how much coke Bill had snorted with Roger or how many girls they'd done together, said one state policeman, 'but we knew she'd tell him to feed ole Roger to the feds for the sake of his career, and that's what he ended up doing.'"

> Mrs. Clinton and Vincent W. Foster Jr.:

"There would be several sources — including a former U.S. attorney, sometime aides, a number of lawyers, social friends, and many of the same troopers who testified about the governor's illicit acts — who described the first lady's affair, dating to the mid-1980s, with Rose partner Vince Foster.

"A relationship evident in the semi-private kisses and furtive squeezes at parties and dinners described by the security guards, it was also an intimate professional bond between two attorneys who worked together on some of their firm's most sensitive cases....

"Foster was known to treat her with the dignity, respect, and abiding love she was missing in her marriage. 'He adored her,' said a fellow lawyer. Under other circumstances, it might have been one of those relationships that remained private and without any relevance to the Clinton presidency. What set it apart was that, once in the White House, the Clintons would install the first lady's confidant in one of the nation's most Sensitive positions as deputy counsel to the president, where he would handle controversial matters stemming from their Arkansas past as well as highly classified presidential affairs."

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