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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 94
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
are a newcomer to reading Conspiracy Nation (CN), you will
probably be even moreso in the dark. What follows are lines of
inquiry, "loose threads," in a developing story. For further
background, readers are referred to the CN archives at
ftp.shout.net in sub-directory pub/users/bigred and to Professor
J. Orlin Grabbe's archives. See especially the Grabbe material
available at http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
More background to this story will be provided soon in CN.
Loose Thread #1
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On November 11, 1996, The Washington Weekly
(http://www.federal.com) published a story, based on a recently
declassified National Security Agency (NSA) document, "Vince
Foster Involved in NSA Computer Espionage Issues." It reports on
a May 1993 meeting involving Bernard Nussbaum, Vincent Foster,
Webster Hubbell, John Rogovin, and Supreme Court Justice John
Paul Stevens. The secret meeting was held at NSA headquarters.
The presence of Foster at the meeting, in which cryptology and
intelligence gathering were the topics, shows that Foster was on
the inside of top secret NSA intelligence discussions. Yet,
according to the article from the Washington Weekly, the White
House has tried to conceal Foster's ties to NSA.
Then, by November 18, 1996, The Washington Weekly had obtained
an additional 540 pages of documents from NSA in response to a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The information
showed that the U.S. Embassy in London had been highly interested
in stories, regarding the by now deceased Vince Foster, being
reported in British newspapers. The embassy was sending their
then-secret reports to, among several U.S. agencies, the National
Security Agency.
In "Plot to Spy on Banks Outlined in White House Email,"
Professor Grabbe includes a document declassified by the National
Archives on August 22, 1994. In that document, a memo from David
Wigg to Oliver North, North's connection to the tracking of
"financial flows... through the 400 or so principal banks that
make up the interbank market" is pointed to. In other words, a
plan to spy on banks was in the works.
Oliver North as moneyman is also shown in an article by Gene
Tatum, "A CIA Funding Operation." (See CN 9.93) In that report,
Tatum claims that "North delivered $4 billion in U.S. currency to
Iran. Iran gave North $8 billion in super bills in exchange for
the $4 billion in good U.S. currency. North then delivered the
$8 billion in super bills back to the Banco Nacional de Panama."
Loose Thread #2
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In CN 9.90, I mentioned that I had been contacted by someone
who urged a prompt meeting at the Indiana border. This person
has been previously-mentioned in CN: "Mr. Boderby" (not his real
name.) Working to facilitate the meeting was "Mr. Royce" (not
his real name; see my interview of Joseph Andreuccetti, archived
at the prairienet site, for mention of "Mr. Royce," who dined
with myself, Sherman Skolnick, and Joseph Andreuccetti at a
restaurant in Calumet City, Illinois, in April of 1995. The
relevant material is accessed as follows: (a) telnet
prairienet.org (b) logon as "visitor" (c) "go citcom" (d) look in
the Whitewater sub-menu for "The Andreuccetti Affair.")
Loose Thread #3
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This past week I received via U.S. mail a document, from "Mr.
Boderby," purporting to be an article written by J. Orlin Grabbe,
"The FBI Conspiracy Against Chuck Hayes." *If* Grabbe is the
actual author, the former Wharton professor is saying that "The
highest levels of the FBI are engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct
justice by denying Charles S. Hayes the right to legal
representation, by denying him the right to any discovery
materials, and by denying him the opportunity to prepare a
defense." Hayes is supposedly a deep-level former and/or current
intelligence operative who has been acting as a renegade, working
against government corruption and without the blessing of that
same government. Regardless of unsavoury connections, Hayes is
entitled to the same due process protections as any other
citizen. Or can the government now just deny due process to
whomever it wishes, then ameliorate the outrage by merely leaking
that, "It's O.K. This guy was with the CIA?"
In the document sent to me by "Boderby" and apparently written
by Grabbe, we learn that as of November 22, 1996, Chuck Hayes has
as his legal representative a man named Jim Vassilos. I can't
give the specifics of the connection, but Vassilos *is* connected
to "Mr. Boderby." Another loose thread is Vassilos's connection
to ex-NYPD Vice Squad Detective James Rothstein. In a videotape
of a lecture by Rothstein, he mentions that Vassilos accompanied
him on a trip he made to Oklahoma City with purpose of privately
investigating the April 19, 1995 bombings at the Murrah Building.
Loose Thread #4
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In a conversation today (Jan. 5, 1997) with Sherman Skolnick,
the Chicago investigator voiced suspicion of alternative
journalists who suddenly "popped up from nowhere" around the time
of the Oklahoma City bombings. This was in response to my own
question as to Skolnick's assertion that the controversial
Hayes/Norman/Grabbe "Angel of Death" story is just a melodramatic
embellishment of Skolnick's previous material. Skolnick says he
has no private vendetta against either Grabbe, Norman, or Hayes,
but that their embellishment of his story is subtly misleading.
Regarding Mr. Norman, Skolnick thinks that he was a "babe in the
woods" in espionage matters when he was taken in by Hayes's
manipulation. Regarding Grabbe, Skolnick puts him in the
category of those who "popped up from nowhere" around the time of
the OKC bombings. Did Grabbe suddenly appear on Internet right
about that time? I don't recall.
Professor Grabbe will perhaps respond by hinting, as he has to
me in the past, that Skolnick is somehow connected to the Mossad.
Anticipating this reaction, I asked Mr. Skolnick how he would
respond to that. Skolnick pointed out that, just because he is a
traditional Jew, that doesn't necessarily mean he is involved
with the Mossad. He further pointed out that, in the past, he
has been a leading critic of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and
that as far back as 1970 he had identified ADL as a spy operation
with links to the FBI. For its part, according to Skolnick, ADL
contends that the Chicago underground journalist is a renegade
Jew out to damage Israel. ADL has even tried to block his
popular cable television program, says Skolnick. My own thinking
on this is that to label Mr. Skolnick as involved with the
Mossad, based only on the fact that he is Jewish, is something
unworthy of a keen intellect such as Grabbe's.
The "embellishment" of Skolnick's material is summarized by
him as follows. James Norman had been calling Skolnick from time
to time. Among Norman's questions were inquiries as to
Skolnick's "BCCI bribe list" story. Norman reportedly asked
Skolnick, in relation to his publication on Internet of the names
of 22 U.S. Senators allegedly involved, "You've got a story on
the BCCI bribe list with *22* names? Where are the other names?"
Skolnick says he had published an incomplete list of names as a
way to test Norman and others. Norman reportedly read some of
the remaining names. Skolnick's complete list of names *had*
been faxed to The Spotlight in 1991 but Spotlight did not publish
the actual list of names, just the general story itself. It
seems likely that part of the actual list found its way from
there into Norman's hands.
How is the Norman/Grabbe/Hayes "embellishment" of Skolnick's
story misleading? One thing said to be wrong is the assertion
that Hayes and the "Fifth Column" did not keep the appropriated
money for itself, but rather turned it over to a U.S. Treasury
holding account. In an interview I had with retired detective
Rothstein, he also expressed skepticism about that aspect of the
story. Mr. Skolnick's sources contend that no such money was
transferred to a Treasury holding account. But more
fundamentally, the story is partly wrong in that it diverts
attention from the Bank of England and from Cayman Islands
financial nuclei and focuses on Swiss banks. The BCCI bribe list
was reportedly accidentally made available to the public for 30
days (until the mistake of making the list public was rectified)
at the Bank of England. *This*, says Skolnick, is the real
story; that U.S. Congresspersons had been bought off by BCCI,
with many trails of that corruption leading to *London*. It is
widely known that BCCI *did* in fact spread its money around with
said purpose. The widespread retirements by U.S. Senators and
Representatives, with so many saying they have decided they want
to "spend more time with their families," may have been due to
pressure from news outlets knowledgeable about the said "BCCI
bribe list." It appears *that* possibility of imminent exposure
by news outlets, and not a masked "Lone Ranger" (Hayes) and his
helper "Tonto" (Norman), is the real cause of the recent wave of
retirements in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Skolnick says that persons wanting to subtly twist his
stories to their own purposes is not new to him. When he had
begun reporting his stories on Bill Clinton's trip to Moscow
during his student days, Skolnick perceived pressure from Media
Bypass Magazine to play up the angle of "Clinton is a communist."
However Skolnick would not do so, since his view has been that
Clinton's trip to Moscow was at the behest of the CIA.
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