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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 08 Num. 24
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.
Is that just to cover up what is *really* going on?
ITEM: Dope is flooding into the United States yet the narcotics
police are being severely cut back. The highest level of the
Drug Enforcement Administration and the American intelligence
agencies are so interwoven with the major drug traffickers you
cannot tell which is which. The sordid details are in the huge
book, *The Underground Empire* by James Mills.
ITEM: Every country in this hemisphere south of the United
States needs the dope business to survive. And, the United
States is the major customer. Some describe Mexico as a
"narco-dictatorship". Those who become the so-called "leaders"
in Mexico are part of a corrupt elite, for decades and decades
trained in fancy universities in the United States. They are
interlocked with the American Eastern Establishment: Boston, New
York, Washington.
A typical example is when Carlos Salinas was president of
Mexico. To avoid the Florida hang-up, Mexico became the transfer
point for Columbian cocaine. The "presidente" looked the other
way while two of his brothers transferred hundreds of millions of
dollars to French and Swiss accounts -- proceeds of the narcotics
traffic. And of course for decade after decade the American
"presidente" looked the other way also.
One brother, Raul Salinas, has been in prison since 1995
facing charges of master-minding the murder of a top official of
Mexico's ruling party, the P.R.I., and also facing charges of
illegal enrichment -- not being able to explain how he got the
billions of dollars. {1}.
The largest bank in the United States has been Citibank.
Their TV ads say, "Citibank never sleeps."
They don't have *time* to sleep. The Justice Department and
the Federal Reserve are trying to cover up the money laundering
mess with the Salinas family. In 1992, Citibank was quietly
declared bankrupt by the Federal Reserve. They took over direct
supervision of the bank's day-to-day operations. Citibank became
insolvent by billions of dollars just "disappearing". So, the
Federal Reserve arranged for a reportedly high, corrupt member of
the Saudi royal family to buy a majority interest, from the
Rockefellers, in Citibank. But the corruption at Citibank
continues just as ever. Now, federal authorities offer the lame
excuse that U.S. money laundering laws are too unclear about the
duty of Citibank to investigate possible wrong-doing by their
customers. Yet, officials of Citibank are the ones who
apparently instructed the Salinas family how to launder the dope
loot. {2}.
Meanwhile, ex-Presidente Carlos Salinas reportedly used his
interest in all this to buy his way into Dow Jones, parent firm
of the world's largest financial newspaper, the Wall Street
Journal. And Carlos Salinas, as a director of Dow Jones, claims
-- now get this -- "not to know anything" of what is going on.
*Oh* *yeah*??
ITEM: Arranging the dope traffic in the United States has been
the Herrera family of Durango, Mexico. They are untouchable.
Why? They are interwoven with the American CIA in dirty tricks
against ordinary Mexicans who dissent about bad living
conditions.
And, at one time the Herreras reportedly owned a number of
7-11 stores, such as in the Chicago area, arranging the transfer,
reportedly, of illicit funds to Mexico through money orders
written on a Texas bank near the border.
In the Kensington district in Chicago, the Herrera dopers
lived -- naturally -- next to the "see nothing" police station!
Where else, huh?
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Mr. Skolnick adds: "From time to time I get calls from inside
jails. I got a call, some years ago, from inside the federal
jail in Chicago. An inmate called me and says, 'They've got an
old Herrera in here. And he told me to call you and tell you
that the U.S. Attorney doesn't know what he is doing. If they
don't get off this Herrera's back, there won't *be* any U.S.
Attorney in Chicago any more.'"
"And the implication of that is that it's forbidden for the
U.S. authorities to bother the Herreras that have been big in the
dope business in Chicago. And the reason for that is, the
Herreras helped the CIA in Mexico."
"In the Kensington district there, they took over a
restaurant that used to be an Italian restaurant. And
reportedly, the Herreras, or people friendly to them, ran it.
Some years ago, I ate there from time to time. And I noticed how
friendly the Herreras were with the police. It was just down the
street from the police station. So [laughs], I saw at first-hand
what the problem is."
"The one thing I wanted to add is that I urge a boycott of
the Wall Street Journal, in order to demand an explanation of how
Carlos Salinas got to be their boss."
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{1} For an in-depth look at the Salinas/Swiss Banks/Mexico
stories, read the just-released book, *Bordering on Chaos* by
Andres Oppenheimer. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996)
{2} See also the June 23, 1996 *60 Minutes* report which, to give
credit where credit is due, was fairly good. I had erroneously
surmised that *60 Minutes* would not go into the illegal
narcotics angle in their coverage of the story. I was proved
wrong.
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Mr. Skolnick, since 1963, has been founder/chairman of a
public-interest group, CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO CLEAN UP THE
COURTS, researching and disclosing certain instances of judicial
corruption and political murders. Since 1971, as editor of
updates of the group's work, called HOTLINE NEWS, a 5-minute
recorded phone message, changed several times per week -- a
regular phone call -- (312) 731-1100. Since 1991, a regular
participant, now moderator, of a popular, public access cable TV
program, called "Broadsides", in Chicago and suburbs -- on most
every Monday evening in Chicago, on Channel 21 cable, 9 p.m.,
available to some 400,000 households. His comments appear on
Internet on several websites; archives of his stories can be
pulled up and printed out. Also, on Internet, his stories appear
on some five categories of news groups, such as
alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater and alt.activism. Office
(8 a.m. to midnight, 7 days): (312) 375-5741. 9800 So. Oglesby
Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617-4870. Call before sending FAX. (After
October 12, 1996, AREA CODE changes to 773.)
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portions of the preceding. Persons mentioned are invited to send
their rebuttals, of reasonable length, to bigred@shout.net for
probable distribution.
-- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-Chief
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