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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 02
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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RECAP OF AND UPDATE ON THE NORMAN THESIS
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For those who are tuning in late, here is "our story thus far":
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Back around March 4th, 1995, Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
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Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts came out with a story
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about a company called Systematics and alleged high-tech spying
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being done on foreign banks. (This was covered in CN 4.22 and, so
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far as I can tell, Skolnick's phone message, Hotline News at 312-
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731-1100, was first to break the story.)
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Here is how Skolnick's story appeared in Conspiracy Nation:
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A telephone company in Arkansas is called ALLTEL. They have
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a subsidiary called Systematics which is a proprietary
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espionage operation of the National Security Agency [NSA].
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Developed was a highly refined version of the Inslaw
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software called PROMIS. Originally designed to keep track of
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the caseloads of federal prosecutors, it was adapted to be
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used by spy agencies to track people worldwide, by
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satellite. The software has a "trapdoor" built into it. So,
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the NSA arranged to sell it or give it to supposedly
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friendly or other spy agencies: France, Sweden, Israel, and
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others. The "trapdoor" was a sort of "Trojan Horse",
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enabling U.S. espionage to spy on other spy shops.
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Systematics [allegedly] adapted it to be used through low-
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orbit satellites, to spy on the computers of central
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banks...
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Perhaps a better word than "trapdoor" would be "backdoor". The
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software sold or given to the unsuspecting banks is said to have
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had a hidden "door" through which prying eyes could enter
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unannounced. This is worth emphasizing, because some have said it
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would be impossible for a hacker or group of hackers to get into,
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for example, a Swiss bank. What these critics are neglecting to
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factor in is this "backdoor" through which electronic burglars
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possessing the "key" could easily enter. This last has not, to my
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knowledge, been refuted.
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The late White House aide Vince Foster is said to have had about
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$2.73 million stashed away in a Swiss bank account. CIA hackers,
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perhaps taking advantage of a "backdoor" in the bank's software,
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are said to have stumbled across not only Foster's hidden account
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but also hidden accounts belonging to members of Congress and
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other high government officials. This, it seems, is where these
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"public servants" were hiding bribe money they had illegally
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received.
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But apparently it was feared that breaking such a huge scandal
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publicly would cause Grandpa and Grandma USA to fall out of their
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rocking chairs. Yet something had to be done. These
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congresspersons and others could not be allowed to get away with
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their crookedness. While the CIA hackers, known as the "Fifth
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Column", are said to have cleaned out the accounts of the
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offenders, still it was obvious that some punishment was in
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order. Then too, you can't just leave these bribe-takers in
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office -- what's to stop them from accepting more bribes?
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So it is reported by several independent sources that these
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bribe-takers are being told to leave their jobs, or else have
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their alleged rotteness revealed. As former *Forbes* senior
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editor James R. Norman put it in the December 1995 issue of Media
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Bypass magazine (1-800-4-Bypass):
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There has been an unusually large number of veteran
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congressmen and senators announcing their resignations,
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retirements or switching parties... The official
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explanation: It's no fun now that the Republicans control
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Congress.
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But sources claim the real reason is that some of these
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departees have been quietly confronted with evidence that
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they took bribes or payoffs through Swiss or other offshore
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bank accounts. Rumor has it that about 30 current members of
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the House and Senate have been identified as having such
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foreign slush-fund accounts...
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Richard L. Franklin, writing in his monthly newsletter,
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"Franklin's Focus" (Focus Press, 1820 Palisades Drive, Appleton,
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WI 54915), confirms the charges. He reports that he has checked
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with several of his sources and that, "as they say in the trade,
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the story now has legs." According to Franklin, a so-called
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"Angel of Death" is visiting the various congressional
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representatives and informing them that they have just 24 hours
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to announce their retirement.
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It is beyond dispute that a record number of Senators and
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Representatives are suddenly announcing their respective
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retirements from public office. What is more, the Norman article
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which appeared in the December 1995 Media Bypass is on record as
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predicting many of these retirements *before* they actually
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occurred. If Jim Norman's name was Jean Dixon or Irene Hughes, he
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would be everywhere on the talk shows by now, hailed for his
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amazing "psychic" abilities. Yet we hear nary a word of this
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remarkable story in our "free" press. To me, the very fact that
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this story is not being allowed into the public dialogue -- that,
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in itself, says something. Aren't the networks at least hungry
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for ratings? Why won't they draw in viewers with these intriguing
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and widely-believed allegations? Why too aren't members of
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Congress furiously demanding the opportunity to defend their
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impugned "honor"? The silence is deafening.
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Reporting on the phenomena of the disappearing Congress critters,
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the Washington Times, National Weekly Edition (Jan. 8-14, 1996)
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declares that "Congress is going through a shakeout." There have
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been, says the Times, 49 announced retirements or resignations
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since the November 1994 elections. And, it adds, a dozen of them
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have bowed out just recently, since Thanksgiving. Well, Times,
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here are two more names to add to your "trickle that has grown
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into a stream" of retirements: Associated Press reports ("Clinger
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to Retire", Jan. 15, 1996) that Rep. William Clinger "said Monday
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he will leave Congress after serving 18 years." The AP story
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adds, as if it is an afterthought, that Rep. Pat Williams,
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Montana Democrat, announced retirement plans on Saturday, Jan.
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13th. Clinger says, "It's probably time for me to move on." Says
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Williams, "he's homesick." The AP article also notes that the
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high number of congressional retirements is the "most in a
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century."
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So that's the story thus far. Now, thanks to an east coast source
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whom I will call "Mr. Mercedes", I have received an audio tape of
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Jim Norman's recent appearance on New York radio station WBAI,
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marked on the cassette as having been January 10, 1996.
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Says Mr. Norman: "This country is in a *major* political crisis."
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According to the ex-*Forbes* senior editor, it is "unfolding
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right before our eyes."
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"For many years," he says, "[Vince Foster] had been a behind-the-
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scenes go-between between the NSA, the National Security Agency,
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and a company in Arkansas called Systematics -- a bank and data
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processing company now owned or controlled by a telephone
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conglomerate called ALLTEL... He may have had access to very
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high-level code, encryption [and] other kind of computer
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intelligence systems."
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According to Norman, "More important than that: when [Foster]
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arrived in the White House he -- according to sworn testimony by
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his executive assistant, Deborah Gorham(sp?) -- somehow or other,
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he came to have possession of at least two, inch-thick ring
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binders from the NSA, from the White House offices, which my
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sources tell me would have been *extremely* sensitive code
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materials -- probably the codes, and more important than that,
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the protocols, by which the President authenticates himself when
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he calls up the Pentagon and says, 'Let's go nuke somebody.'"
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"Plus the fact," adds the controversial but respected journalist,
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"that we have documented evidence of Foster making periodic, one-
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day trips to Geneva. Over every 6 or 8 months he had been making
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a one-day trip to Geneva. And multiple sources have confirmed
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that he had at least one, if not several, Swiss bank accounts."
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Mr. Norman charges that Vince Foster, *and* *Hillary* *Clinton*,
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were both under surveillance for espionage at the time of
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Foster's so-called "suicide". Norman wonders, "Where would Foster
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have gotten access to these very sensitive documents [e.g. the
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ring binders with the authentication codes] within the White
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House?"
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This last rings true when it is recalled that Foster and Mrs.
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Clinton had been widely reported as being lovers.
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According to Mr. Norman, *significant* national security issues
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are lurking beneath the surface of the otherwise dropsical
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Whitewater hearings. "Vince Foster, as problematic as his death
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is, it's small potatoes compared to what we discovered... In
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fact, former intelligence people who have been involved in
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computer surveillance of foreign accounts have found *hundreds*
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of Swiss, [Grand] Cayman [and] other off-shore bank accounts,
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coded bank accounts, maintained on behalf of high-level U.S.
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political figures. Both parties. *Many* members of Congress.
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Elected officials. Appointed officials. Military officers.
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Intelligence community big-shots. Wall-streeters. Bankers."
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"There's a massive scandal here, about to blow up. And, in fact,
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we're already starting to see it."
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[...to be continued...]
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