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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 92
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE LEO WANTA STORY
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Like a long-dormant volcano, ex-Wharton professor J. Orlin Grabbe
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has again erupted, this time with a story on Leo Emil Wanta.
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(Story by Grabbe at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/) The Wanta story
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is complicated. He is said to have played a part in the collapse
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of the Russian ruble. According to veteran White House reporter
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Sarah McClendon, Wanta was working at the request of Ronald
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Reagan, part of a plan to destabilize the economy of the Soviet
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"evil empire." Grabbe claims that Wanta was a sometime
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"travelling companion of Vernon Walters and supplier of machine
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guns to Bill Casey." (Casey was Director of CIA under Reagan;
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Walters was a Deputy Director of CIA and served as an acting
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DCIA.)
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Wanta may be a national hero. (If he did help collapse the
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ruble, through currency trading, that means he played a decisive
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part in helping the West win the Cold War. Then again, if you are
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familiar with the ideas of Father Malachi Martin, it might be
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that we did *not* win the Cold War. See Father Martin's book,
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*The Keys of this Blood*.) So what happened to Wanta? He was in
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Switzerland, but the ever-vigilant state of Wisconsin said he
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owed them $14,000 in taxes. The long arm of Wisconsin reached
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into Switzerland and grabbed Wanta. He was brought back to
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Wisconsin and stood trial. Wanta was sentenced to *22* *years*
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in prison.
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Grabbe says that, in the past, Wanta had been visiting then-FBI
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Director William Sessions. Apparently also present was a Mr. Jim
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Moody. That name rings a bell. Is it the same Mr. Moody who
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later married the widow of White House Deputy Counsel Vince
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Foster? Recall that Foster's widow's step-son, Neal Cooper
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Moody, died in 1996 in a supposed "car crash." And why would
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Wanta go to Switzerland and make $250,000,000 available to the
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Children's Defense Fund? Grabbe says this was done at the
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request of Vince Foster. Unstated but implied is that Foster was
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under orders from his reputed lover, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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According to legendary Chicago investigator Sherman H. Skolnick,
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Wanta had been in touch with him by telephone. Wanta seems to be
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one of the sources for a series of documents faxed to Skolnick,
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relating to covert financial activities of the late Vince
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Foster. (See CN 10.82, "Foster's Documents" by Sherman H.
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Skolnick. I am told that copies of some of these documents can
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be viewed at http://feustel.mixi.net) Some of the documents faxed
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to Mr. Skolnick, he says, came via "Europa Fax." Friends of
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Skolnick checked on Europa Fax and say that it is a front for
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French Intelligence.
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Here are excerpts from an interview of Wanta broadcast on Tom
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Valentine's program, *Radio Free America*, several years ago.
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(Valentine's program still airs, on Sunday evenings, 9 to 12 pm
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EST, 5.745 Mhz shortwave.)
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TOM VALENTINE: Mr. Wanta, you are listed here as a former
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ambassador.
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LEO WANTA: No sir, I still am. I am still appointed, and it's
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legal.
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TOM VALENTINE: You were involved with some heavy-duty financial
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transactions.
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LEO WANTA: I was asked, in October of 1992, by the Bush
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Administration, to procure and to deliver prime bank guarantees
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-- which are bank debentures.
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TOM VALENTINE: And you represented a company called Ameritrust?
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Or did you act as a go-between?
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LEO WANTA: First of all, the Bush Administration wanted to run
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it through MiApollo Investments, Ltd. (Hong Kong). But when it
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got down to the real, final, contract, from the SEC [Securities &
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Exchange Commission], they wanted it to be an American
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corporation. So we used Ameritrust Corporation. And that way,
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all the taxes and everything else would be done here in the
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United States and not over in Hong Kong.
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TOM VALENTINE: Who were some of the people you dealt with when
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you were doing this?
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LEO WANTA: U.S. Attorney Sandro Fordi(?), very close to Janet
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Reno: he wrote the contracts. And with Richard Breeden, who was
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then the chairman of SEC. Chemical Bank. Chase Manhattan. And
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Citicorp.
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TOM VALENTINE: How did the state of Wisconsin get involved?
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LEO WANTA: They claim that, because my wife lives in Appleton,
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Wisconsin, and because my son is studying to be a doctor in
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Wisconsin, that I'm a resident. (I haven't lived in the United
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States for 6 years.) And if I have all this money, I should
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report it and file taxes on it in the state of Wisconsin!
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TOM VALENTINE: You fear for your life -- is that correct?
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LEO WANTA: Quite a few of our group have died. Yes.
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TOM VALENTINE: Where does Vincent Foster come into this?
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LEO WANTA: The contract was signed by "Uncle Sam" and all of us
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on the 15th of January, 1993, because George Bush had not been
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expected to lose the election. When we received all of the pay
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orders from Credit Suisse and the other banks, we wanted to
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confirm (now that the George Bush Administration was no longer in
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charge) who at the Clinton Administration wanted to receive the
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money. And they came back, through Vince Foster, to pay Laura
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D'Andrea Tyson and Leon Panetta (who at that time was the OMB
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Director.)
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TOM VALENTINE: Vincent Foster was the counsel that you had to
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deal with. And he told you to sign the money over to Laura
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D'Andrea Tyson who, she's the head of finance or something,
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somewhere.
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LEO WANTA: She's in some Council for...
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TOM VALENTINE: ...Economics. Yeah.
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LEO WANTA: Also, Leon Panetta. Vince Foster was joining us on
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July 7th (no later than July 8th) at Hotel Bellafont(sp?), and
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we'd already paid in advance for his entourage.
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TOM VALENTINE: And what day was Foster killed?
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LEO WANTA: On July 20th, 1993. And the remarkable thing: the
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Swiss guard comes in [Wanta was in a Swiss prison], and he says
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he's got a message from the FBI, "that Vince Foster was now dead,
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on my daughter's birthday." Now how do they know that my
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daughter is born on July 20th!? Why is it important to them? Or
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was it their way to tell me, "You ought to get quiet pretty
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quick?"
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TOM VALENTINE: Now you were in a Swiss jail at this time...
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LEO WANTA: Swiss prison. I'd rather go to a Swiss jail. I was
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in a Swiss prison. I had no radio, no TV, no phone, no letters,
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no nothing.
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TOM VALENTINE: How long were you in that Swiss prison?
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LEO WANTA: From July 7th, until November 17th, when they flew me
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back to New York. And New York threw the case out of court; said
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it was garbage. The federal judge called it s-u-b-t-e-r-f-u-g-e
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by the State Department and the state of Wisconsin. She said,
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"This is absurd and bizarre that Ambassador Wanta is held."
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TOM VALENTINE: I took a piece of information that came to me
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from the co-ordinator of the Fully Informed Jury Association, a
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bulletin, "Association of American Sovereigns Alert: Bulletin
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#94-1" (it's the first one, out of 1994), and I never heard of
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"Association of American Sovereigns." There's a fascinating
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story in the bulletin about the fellow we have on the phone: Leo
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Wanta.
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You said you had a trial in New York.
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LEO WANTA: On November 19th the U.S. Attorney made a quick
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dismissal with prejudice, to get me out of that courtroom as fast
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as he could walk.
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TOM VALENTINE: And what judge was that?
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LEO WANTA: Allyce Ross, in the Eastern District of New York.
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[CN: Not clear at this point is how Wanta went from dismissal
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with prejudice in New York, to a prison in Wisconsin.]
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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http://feustel.mixi.net
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