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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 24
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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WHAT IS *REALLY* GOING ON?
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By Sherman H. Skolnick
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The press bombards us with White House scandals of various kinds.
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Is that just to cover up what is *really* going on?
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ITEM: Dope is flooding into the United States yet the narcotics
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police are being severely cut back. The highest level of the
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Drug Enforcement Administration and the American intelligence
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agencies are so interwoven with the major drug traffickers you
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cannot tell which is which. The sordid details are in the huge
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book, *The Underground Empire* by James Mills.
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ITEM: Every country in this hemisphere south of the United
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States needs the dope business to survive. And, the United
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States is the major customer. Some describe Mexico as a
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"narco-dictatorship". Those who become the so-called "leaders"
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in Mexico are part of a corrupt elite, for decades and decades
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trained in fancy universities in the United States. They are
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interlocked with the American Eastern Establishment: Boston, New
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York, Washington.
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A typical example is when Carlos Salinas was president of
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Mexico. To avoid the Florida hang-up, Mexico became the transfer
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point for Columbian cocaine. The "presidente" looked the other
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way while two of his brothers transferred hundreds of millions of
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dollars to French and Swiss accounts -- proceeds of the narcotics
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traffic. And of course for decade after decade the American
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"presidente" looked the other way also.
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One brother, Raul Salinas, has been in prison since 1995
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facing charges of master-minding the murder of a top official of
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Mexico's ruling party, the P.R.I., and also facing charges of
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illegal enrichment -- not being able to explain how he got the
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billions of dollars. {1}.
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The largest bank in the United States has been Citibank.
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Their TV ads say, "Citibank never sleeps."
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They don't have *time* to sleep. The Justice Department and
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the Federal Reserve are trying to cover up the money laundering
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mess with the Salinas family. In 1992, Citibank was quietly
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declared bankrupt by the Federal Reserve. They took over direct
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supervision of the bank's day-to-day operations. Citibank became
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insolvent by billions of dollars just "disappearing". So, the
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Federal Reserve arranged for a reportedly high, corrupt member of
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the Saudi royal family to buy a majority interest, from the
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Rockefellers, in Citibank. But the corruption at Citibank
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continues just as ever. Now, federal authorities offer the lame
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excuse that U.S. money laundering laws are too unclear about the
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duty of Citibank to investigate possible wrong-doing by their
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customers. Yet, officials of Citibank are the ones who
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apparently instructed the Salinas family how to launder the dope
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loot. {2}.
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Meanwhile, ex-Presidente Carlos Salinas reportedly used his
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interest in all this to buy his way into Dow Jones, parent firm
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of the world's largest financial newspaper, the Wall Street
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Journal. And Carlos Salinas, as a director of Dow Jones, claims
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-- now get this -- "not to know anything" of what is going on.
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*Oh* *yeah*??
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ITEM: Arranging the dope traffic in the United States has been
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the Herrera family of Durango, Mexico. They are untouchable.
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Why? They are interwoven with the American CIA in dirty tricks
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against ordinary Mexicans who dissent about bad living
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conditions.
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And, at one time the Herreras reportedly owned a number of
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7-11 stores, such as in the Chicago area, arranging the transfer,
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reportedly, of illicit funds to Mexico through money orders
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written on a Texas bank near the border.
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In the Kensington district in Chicago, the Herrera dopers
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lived -- naturally -- next to the "see nothing" police station!
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Where else, huh?
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Mr. Skolnick adds: "From time to time I get calls from inside
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jails. I got a call, some years ago, from inside the federal
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jail in Chicago. An inmate called me and says, 'They've got an
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old Herrera in here. And he told me to call you and tell you
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that the U.S. Attorney doesn't know what he is doing. If they
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don't get off this Herrera's back, there won't *be* any U.S.
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Attorney in Chicago any more.'"
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"And the implication of that is that it's forbidden for the
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U.S. authorities to bother the Herreras that have been big in the
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dope business in Chicago. And the reason for that is, the
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Herreras helped the CIA in Mexico."
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"In the Kensington district there, they took over a
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restaurant that used to be an Italian restaurant. And
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reportedly, the Herreras, or people friendly to them, ran it.
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Some years ago, I ate there from time to time. And I noticed how
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friendly the Herreras were with the police. It was just down the
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street from the police station. So [laughs], I saw at first-hand
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what the problem is."
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"The one thing I wanted to add is that I urge a boycott of
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the Wall Street Journal, in order to demand an explanation of how
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Carlos Salinas got to be their boss."
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---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
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{1} For an in-depth look at the Salinas/Swiss Banks/Mexico
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stories, read the just-released book, *Bordering on Chaos* by
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Andres Oppenheimer. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996)
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{2} See also the June 23, 1996 *60 Minutes* report which, to give
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credit where credit is due, was fairly good. I had erroneously
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surmised that *60 Minutes* would not go into the illegal
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narcotics angle in their coverage of the story. I was proved
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wrong.
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Mr. Skolnick, since 1963, has been founder/chairman of a
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public-interest group, CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO CLEAN UP THE
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COURTS, researching and disclosing certain instances of judicial
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corruption and political murders. Since 1971, as editor of
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updates of the group's work, called HOTLINE NEWS, a 5-minute
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recorded phone message, changed several times per week -- a
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regular phone call -- (312) 731-1100. Since 1991, a regular
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participant, now moderator, of a popular, public access cable TV
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program, called "Broadsides", in Chicago and suburbs -- on most
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every Monday evening in Chicago, on Channel 21 cable, 9 p.m.,
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available to some 400,000 households. His comments appear on
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Internet on several websites; archives of his stories can be
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pulled up and printed out. Also, on Internet, his stories appear
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on some five categories of news groups, such as
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alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater and alt.activism. Office
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(8 a.m. to midnight, 7 days): (312) 375-5741. 9800 So. Oglesby
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Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617-4870. Call before sending FAX. (After
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October 12, 1996, AREA CODE changes to 773.)
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I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with either all or
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portions of the preceding. Persons mentioned are invited to send
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their rebuttals, of reasonable length, to bigred@shout.net for
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probable distribution.
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-- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-Chief
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