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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 94
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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LOOSE THREADS
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You may not understand all this. *I* certainly don't. If you
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are a newcomer to reading Conspiracy Nation (CN), you will
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probably be even moreso in the dark. What follows are lines of
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inquiry, "loose threads," in a developing story. For further
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background, readers are referred to the CN archives at
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ftp.shout.net in sub-directory pub/users/bigred and to Professor
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J. Orlin Grabbe's archives. See especially the Grabbe material
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available at http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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More background to this story will be provided soon in CN.
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Loose Thread #1
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On November 11, 1996, The Washington Weekly
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(http://www.federal.com) published a story, based on a recently
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declassified National Security Agency (NSA) document, "Vince
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Foster Involved in NSA Computer Espionage Issues." It reports on
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a May 1993 meeting involving Bernard Nussbaum, Vincent Foster,
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Webster Hubbell, John Rogovin, and Supreme Court Justice John
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Paul Stevens. The secret meeting was held at NSA headquarters.
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The presence of Foster at the meeting, in which cryptology and
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intelligence gathering were the topics, shows that Foster was on
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the inside of top secret NSA intelligence discussions. Yet,
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according to the article from the Washington Weekly, the White
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House has tried to conceal Foster's ties to NSA.
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Then, by November 18, 1996, The Washington Weekly had obtained
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an additional 540 pages of documents from NSA in response to a
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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The information
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showed that the U.S. Embassy in London had been highly interested
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in stories, regarding the by now deceased Vince Foster, being
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reported in British newspapers. The embassy was sending their
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then-secret reports to, among several U.S. agencies, the National
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Security Agency.
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In "Plot to Spy on Banks Outlined in White House Email,"
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Professor Grabbe includes a document declassified by the National
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Archives on August 22, 1994. In that document, a memo from David
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Wigg to Oliver North, North's connection to the tracking of
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"financial flows... through the 400 or so principal banks that
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make up the interbank market" is pointed to. In other words, a
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plan to spy on banks was in the works.
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Oliver North as moneyman is also shown in an article by Gene
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Tatum, "A CIA Funding Operation." (See CN 9.93) In that report,
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Tatum claims that "North delivered $4 billion in U.S. currency to
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Iran. Iran gave North $8 billion in super bills in exchange for
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the $4 billion in good U.S. currency. North then delivered the
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$8 billion in super bills back to the Banco Nacional de Panama."
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Loose Thread #2
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In CN 9.90, I mentioned that I had been contacted by someone
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who urged a prompt meeting at the Indiana border. This person
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has been previously-mentioned in CN: "Mr. Boderby" (not his real
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name.) Working to facilitate the meeting was "Mr. Royce" (not
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his real name; see my interview of Joseph Andreuccetti, archived
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at the prairienet site, for mention of "Mr. Royce," who dined
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with myself, Sherman Skolnick, and Joseph Andreuccetti at a
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restaurant in Calumet City, Illinois, in April of 1995. The
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relevant material is accessed as follows: (a) telnet
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prairienet.org (b) logon as "visitor" (c) "go citcom" (d) look in
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the Whitewater sub-menu for "The Andreuccetti Affair.")
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Loose Thread #3
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This past week I received via U.S. mail a document, from "Mr.
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Boderby," purporting to be an article written by J. Orlin Grabbe,
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"The FBI Conspiracy Against Chuck Hayes." *If* Grabbe is the
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actual author, the former Wharton professor is saying that "The
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highest levels of the FBI are engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct
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justice by denying Charles S. Hayes the right to legal
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representation, by denying him the right to any discovery
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materials, and by denying him the opportunity to prepare a
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defense." Hayes is supposedly a deep-level former and/or current
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intelligence operative who has been acting as a renegade, working
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against government corruption and without the blessing of that
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same government. Regardless of unsavoury connections, Hayes is
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entitled to the same due process protections as any other
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citizen. Or can the government now just deny due process to
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whomever it wishes, then ameliorate the outrage by merely leaking
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that, "It's O.K. This guy was with the CIA?"
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In the document sent to me by "Boderby" and apparently written
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by Grabbe, we learn that as of November 22, 1996, Chuck Hayes has
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as his legal representative a man named Jim Vassilos. I can't
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give the specifics of the connection, but Vassilos *is* connected
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to "Mr. Boderby." Another loose thread is Vassilos's connection
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to ex-NYPD Vice Squad Detective James Rothstein. In a videotape
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of a lecture by Rothstein, he mentions that Vassilos accompanied
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him on a trip he made to Oklahoma City with purpose of privately
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investigating the April 19, 1995 bombings at the Murrah Building.
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Loose Thread #4
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In a conversation today (Jan. 5, 1997) with Sherman Skolnick,
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the Chicago investigator voiced suspicion of alternative
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journalists who suddenly "popped up from nowhere" around the time
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of the Oklahoma City bombings. This was in response to my own
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question as to Skolnick's assertion that the controversial
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Hayes/Norman/Grabbe "Angel of Death" story is just a melodramatic
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embellishment of Skolnick's previous material. Skolnick says he
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has no private vendetta against either Grabbe, Norman, or Hayes,
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but that their embellishment of his story is subtly misleading.
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Regarding Mr. Norman, Skolnick thinks that he was a "babe in the
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woods" in espionage matters when he was taken in by Hayes's
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manipulation. Regarding Grabbe, Skolnick puts him in the
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category of those who "popped up from nowhere" around the time of
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the OKC bombings. Did Grabbe suddenly appear on Internet right
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about that time? I don't recall.
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Professor Grabbe will perhaps respond by hinting, as he has to
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me in the past, that Skolnick is somehow connected to the Mossad.
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Anticipating this reaction, I asked Mr. Skolnick how he would
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respond to that. Skolnick pointed out that, just because he is a
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traditional Jew, that doesn't necessarily mean he is involved
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with the Mossad. He further pointed out that, in the past, he
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has been a leading critic of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and
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that as far back as 1970 he had identified ADL as a spy operation
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with links to the FBI. For its part, according to Skolnick, ADL
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contends that the Chicago underground journalist is a renegade
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Jew out to damage Israel. ADL has even tried to block his
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popular cable television program, says Skolnick. My own thinking
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on this is that to label Mr. Skolnick as involved with the
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Mossad, based only on the fact that he is Jewish, is something
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unworthy of a keen intellect such as Grabbe's.
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The "embellishment" of Skolnick's material is summarized by
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him as follows. James Norman had been calling Skolnick from time
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to time. Among Norman's questions were inquiries as to
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Skolnick's "BCCI bribe list" story. Norman reportedly asked
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Skolnick, in relation to his publication on Internet of the names
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of 22 U.S. Senators allegedly involved, "You've got a story on
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the BCCI bribe list with *22* names? Where are the other names?"
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Skolnick says he had published an incomplete list of names as a
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way to test Norman and others. Norman reportedly read some of
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the remaining names. Skolnick's complete list of names *had*
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been faxed to The Spotlight in 1991 but Spotlight did not publish
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the actual list of names, just the general story itself. It
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seems likely that part of the actual list found its way from
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there into Norman's hands.
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How is the Norman/Grabbe/Hayes "embellishment" of Skolnick's
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story misleading? One thing said to be wrong is the assertion
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that Hayes and the "Fifth Column" did not keep the appropriated
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money for itself, but rather turned it over to a U.S. Treasury
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holding account. In an interview I had with retired detective
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Rothstein, he also expressed skepticism about that aspect of the
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story. Mr. Skolnick's sources contend that no such money was
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transferred to a Treasury holding account. But more
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fundamentally, the story is partly wrong in that it diverts
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attention from the Bank of England and from Cayman Islands
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financial nuclei and focuses on Swiss banks. The BCCI bribe list
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was reportedly accidentally made available to the public for 30
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days (until the mistake of making the list public was rectified)
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at the Bank of England. *This*, says Skolnick, is the real
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story; that U.S. Congresspersons had been bought off by BCCI,
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with many trails of that corruption leading to *London*. It is
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widely known that BCCI *did* in fact spread its money around with
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said purpose. The widespread retirements by U.S. Senators and
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Representatives, with so many saying they have decided they want
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to "spend more time with their families," may have been due to
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pressure from news outlets knowledgeable about the said "BCCI
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bribe list." It appears *that* possibility of imminent exposure
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by news outlets, and not a masked "Lone Ranger" (Hayes) and his
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helper "Tonto" (Norman), is the real cause of the recent wave of
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retirements in Washington, D.C.
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Mr. Skolnick says that persons wanting to subtly twist his
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stories to their own purposes is not new to him. When he had
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begun reporting his stories on Bill Clinton's trip to Moscow
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during his student days, Skolnick perceived pressure from Media
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Bypass Magazine to play up the angle of "Clinton is a communist."
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However Skolnick would not do so, since his view has been that
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Clinton's trip to Moscow was at the behest of the CIA.
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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