DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: BEHIND THE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE ALLEGATIONS
SUBSECTION: THE CAST
Revised 8/20/99
THE CAST
THE CAST
Marsha Scott
Nathan Landow
The Weekly Standard 3/8/99 Matt Labash "…Last year, the man [Nathon Landow] who's raised over $600,000 for Clinton/Gore campaigns stood accused by Paula Jones's attorneys and others of trying to influence Kathleen Willey's testimony about her groping at the president's hands. Among non-administration types…. His name has surfaced on White House coffee lists, on Al Gore's fund-raising call sheets, and in an A1 Hunt column that alleged he attempted to orchestrate a sweetheart real estate deal for the administration's pet convict, Webster Hubbell….At January's end, ABC News and the Washington Post reported that Nate Landow's personal attorney had hired a private investigator to investigate Kathleen Willey--during the period when Willey was a witness in the Paula Jones case…. Reporters first took notice of Landow in February 1998. From the start, he seemed possessed of a Clintonian inability to keep his story straight. … While Stern declines to say whether anyone told him Landow knew of his hiring, sources with knowledge of his grand jury testimony say Stern has asserted that both his boss and Schwartzbach told him Landow knew about it. Likewise, a source with intimate knowledge of the case says that last spring both Miller and Schwartzbach "vigorously" instructed Stern to destroy any records linking Prudential Associates to Landow and Schwartzbach. In addition, says the source, Stern has told investigators that his late boss specified that Landow wanted the records destroyed. If proven, this could be problematic for Landow, who at the time was under subpoena to produce any evidence regarding Kathleen Willey…. The White House has taken care to distance itself from Landow, with aides anonymously portraying him as an A1 Gore lapdog more than a Clinton fixer….. Landow carted around the back-nine with the president during Clinton's 1995 vacation in Jackson Hole. He has been business partners with Vernon Jordan. Vince Foster tried to decompress at Landow's estate over the final weekend of his life. And Landow's son-in-law, Michael Cardozo, headed Clinton's first legal-defense fund…. While no evidence has emerged (other than the private investigator's representations) that Landow served as an agent of the White House in the attempt to silence Kathleen Willey, a source with intimate knowledge of the case notes the convergence of interests between Landow, himself under Starr's magnifying glass for his contacts with Willey, and the White House. …Maybe Landow should be dismissed as just another mercurial mogul. But he has also been linked to more sinister storylines. In 1978, Landow, a big Carter booster, saw his expected ambassadorial nomination torpedoed after the Washington Post ran a lengthy exposé of his business association with three suspected organized-crime figures…. Landow touted his White House connections and those of his friend Peter Knight, a Washington lobbyist and Clinton/Gore '96 campaign manager. Landow negotiated with the tribe [Oklahoma’s Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe with average income of $6000] for an upfront $100,000 payment to Knight's firm, to be followed by a $10,000 monthly retainer. Landow's cut was a hefty 10 percent of any settlement price for development of the land, plus 10 percent of the land's revenue from oil and gas extraction…. According to the Thompson report, both Copperthite and the tribe's attorney, Rick Grellnar, recounted "an abusive, profanity-strewn tirade from Landow, one Copperthite described as 'Teamsteresque.'" Grellnar says Landow went so far as to ridicule the way he was dressed. Grellnar summed up the experience as being "like Bugsy Siegel [putting] your head in a vice. Had there not been a table between us, we felt like we were gonna get hit or something." …."
Terry Lenzer
2/4/99 www.terrlenzer.com site Freeper sunshine ".Lenzner was approached by the Clinton administration regarding the Whitewater, Paula Jones and Charlie Trie cases. In the summer of 1994, IGI received a grant worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State Department. The money allowed the firm to send its president, former New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly, to train Haitian police and supervise international police monitoring there after a military crisis. State Department officials said the grant was made to IGI because the company was Kelly's employer at the time and it was not put up for competitive bidding because of the importance of getting a top lawman to Haiti to supervise the transition of power to local police between September 1994 and March 1995. The Associated Press is reported to have Secret Service logs showing that Lenzner was cleared for White House access four times in one month in 1996... During the committee hearings, Newsweek magazine revealed a memo from Lenzner who testified at the hearings. His memo said his firm would investigate Oklahoma Republican Senator Don Nickles for an Indian tribe unhappy with the Senator's stance against returning tribal land. The proposal, marked "privileged and confidential," was a model of bluntness.. Joseph DiGenova, a former district attorney who has been vocal on cable talk shows in his criticism of the President during the recent scandals, said on 'Meet the Press' that he had been informed by reporters that private detectives from Investigative Group Inc., headed by Lenzner, were digging up dirt on him and his wife. In an MSNBC audio interview, Victoria Toensing, his wife and former Justice Department attorney, says that a lie was spread that she was a Starr informant. .Lenzner testified earlier this year to the Whitewater grand jury about the source of derogatory information regarding several prosecutors in independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office. In a brief interview, TIME says that Lenzner denied that he was probing Starr, but before TIME could ask if he was investigating Starr's lieutenants he said, "I'm not going to answer any more questions," and hung up.."
Conspiracy Nation 2/7/99 Brian Redman ".Terry Lenzner heads Investigative Group International (IGI), a team of about 100 private investigators whose members include former FBI, CIA, and DEA agents as well as "reporters and news producers from ABC, NBC and CBS." [1] IGI, founded in ==1984==, has headquarters in Washington, DC, and offices in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and London.. Lenzner and IGI have been called "the White House secret police" by former Clinton confidant Dick Morris. Ken Starr, the so-called "Independent" Counsel, also has his own team of detectives who dig for dirt on Bill Clinton and associates. Battling private and semi-private detectives lurk in the shadows of the ongoing Washington, DC Scandal- Mania..Among those employed by Lenzner and IGI is LARRY POTTS. Larry Potts "was the supervising FBI official in the siege of Randy Weaver's family." [3] Potts also handled the Waco Massacre which culminated on April 19, 1993. It was Potts, then an Assistant FBI Director, together with FBI siege commander Jeff Jamar, who authorized the "rules of engagement" at the Branch Davidian church and residence. [4]."
Betsy Pond
The Washington Times 2/11/99 Inside the Beltway - John McCaslin - excerpt Freeper Liberty ". Two months ago, Dr. James E. Marvel, an orthopedic surgeon in Stillwater, Okla., wrote a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno saying he was "shocked" that an independent counsel wasn't appointed to investigate the questionable fund-raising activities of Vice President Al Gore. .On January 15, Dr. Marvel got a reply, not from Miss Reno, but the criminal division of the Justice Department. "I appreciate your concern about these matters. Pleased be assured that the Department of Justice is pursuing vigorously every lead. ... Sincerely, Betsy L. Pond, Executive Office." Betsy Pond? The same Betsy Pond who rummaged through White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster's office -- ostensibly to straighten it up, thereby disturbing important evidence -- the morning after Mr. Foster's body was discovered at Fort Marcy Park? The same Betsy Pond who was personal secretary to White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum when he swore he had no idea who hired White House personnel chief D. Craig Livingstone, or how he illegally acquired 900 confidential FBI files of former White House employees? The same Betsy Pond called to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Whitewater? The same Betsy Pond called to testify before committees in both the House and Senate? .."
Dan Lasater
Laura Capps
Freeper zevonfan on Laura Capps "...Laura Capps is the daughter of the late Congressman Walter Capps and Rep. Lois Capps, who won the seat formerly held by husband. Walter Capps died suddenly of a heart attack approximately half way into his term. As a favor to Laura Capps (a former WH intern hired by the WH to work in the West Wing) Clinton came to Santa Barbara to stump for Walter Capps on the eve of the 1996 election. During that visit, the Santa Barbara News Press quoted Laura expressing the thrill of only having one desk(George Stephanopolous') between her desk and the oval office diningroom. Laura Capps is listed on the witness list of the Starr Report. Laura Capps name appears again, in the Filegate Lawsuit by Judicial Watch. Stephanopolous testified that Laura Capps boxed up the documents that he removed from his office when he left the WH. Stephanopolous also testified that Laura Capps was assisted by another WH employee, Emily Lenzner,daughter of Terry Lenzner. Congresswoman Capps office denies that Laura Capps had any was involved in any way with the scandalous behavior in the WH. Laura Capps cannot be reached for comment because she has left her WH job to further her education and is currently out of the country...."
Vic Kamber
The Providence Journal Company. 9/30/96 "…Coia has entrusted his reelection message to skilled professionals. Coia's longtime Washington consultant Vic Kamber uses PR techniques like those of Reagan's backstage genius, Michael Deaver. …" and The Journal-Bulletin on Croia's union: "Since the Laborers were founded in 1903, there had been exactly three general presidents, all from Chicago, all chosen in a secretive ritual overseen by the Chicago Syndicate Coia's union loaned $100,000 to the Clinton inaugural committee, and from Jan. 1 1993, to Dec. 31, 1994, gave $368,000 in "soft money" contributions to the Democratic Party, making the union the party's sixth-leading donor. Much of the soft-money donation was steered to a grass-roots campaign to support first lady Hillary… "If you're invited to the White House, and your calls are returned, and you're quoted in the papers and they print your op-ed pieces, the total of that is to say, 'You're important,' " says Vic Kamber, a Washington labor consultant. "Arthur has helped create that perception, and the perception has become reality." 'Whitewater is not important." By Dean Starkman, with reports from John Mulligan and Mike Stanton Journal-Bulletin staff writers…" and From the Kamber Groups webpage: "…THE KAMBER GROUP WAS RETAINED by the Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays in 1995 and 1996 to publicize and implement its "Project Open Mind," designed to confront head-on the human impact of anti-gay bigotry in six pilot cities across the country. PFLAG had produced a series of ads juxtaposing on-camera anti-gay quotes from Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms against images of gay-bashings and one mother's story about how her son was brutally murdered, and wanted them to run in Tulsa, Houston, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. (for national presence only). A second series of ads was produced for Seattle, Minneapolis and St. Louis…. "
Lewis Merletti
Lewis C. Merletti, Director of the Secret Services, led the Treasury Department's investigation of the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Currently, Merletti is vigorously resisting Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's attempts to have Secret Service agents testify before a Grand Jury.
A veteran uniformed Secret Service officer said of Lew Merletti, the director: "Merletti is perceived to be more political than past directors . He's putting us in a tough position. We don't serve a particular president, we serve the presidency. He thinks he works for the Clinton people and does their bidding. We want to do the right thing, but the message nowadays is clear: step out of line and your career is over."
Podesta brothers
Fox News Wire 1/11/99 Jonathan Salant AP ". The brothers of two top aides to President Clinton have combined forces in a lobbying firm likely to impress clients seeking an inside connection to the administration. Podesta.com, formerly co-owned by White House chief of staff John Podesta, recently bought Ricchetti and Associates, owned by Podesta's new deputy, Steve Ricchetti. Ricchetti's return to the White House, after two years as a lobbyist, left his young firm without its main "rainmaker,'' or generator of business. The buyout allows Ricchetti's brother, Jeff, to join the Podesta firm as a principal, working alongside Podesta's brother, Anthony. The combined firms boast a list of high-tech and communications clients with multiple interests before Congress and federal regulators.."
World Net Daily through Softwar.net 4/13/99 through E-Mail Alert "...Starting in 1994, Russian and Chinese military units began to purchase U.S. made super-computers for nuclear weapons research....In 1995, Tony Podesta, a powerful D.C. based lobbyist and brother of John Podesta - the White House advisor, had a consortium of top U.S. computer CEOs attend secret meetings inside the White House. The meetings were on computer hardware and software exports to China and Russia. The meetings occurred just before Clinton changed super-computer policy. Within weeks, the Russian and Chinese were buying computer power that now surpasses the U.S. Defense Dept.
In 1995, the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) - according to documents from the Commerce Dept. - was represented by Tony Podesta, brother of White House official John Podesta. The CSPP is a group of computer companies, that in 1995 included Apple, AT&T, Compaq, Cray, Data General, Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Stratus Computer, Sun Microsystems, Tandem and Unisys. Officials working for Apple, and Silicon Graphics are documented by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to be very large Clinton donors.
One 1995 secret meeting in the White House was attended by Podesta Associates employee, Ken Kay, the Director of the CSPP. The meeting with Tony Podesta's employee took place while John Podesta was also employed at the White House. John Podesta left the employ of the White House and went directly to work for his brother, Tony Podesta, in July 1995...."
World Net Daily through Softwar.net 4/13/99 through E-Mail Alert "...Former NSA (National Security Agency) Director Admiral McConnell stated that "John Podesta" was the Clinton advisor in charge of computer encryption policy. Various documents from the National Security Council (NSC) and the Commerce Dept. prove that John Podesta was charged with computer policy such as export restrictions. In fact, a December 1993 letter to Secretary Ron Brown from the United States Council for International Business was "cc'd" to John Podesta. White House advisors are prohibited from working on matters in which they have a direct financial interest. This law also prohibits them from lobbying on matters they worked on while in government and prohibits them from lobbying for a period of one year after they have left service. John Podesta and Tony Podesta were engaged in activities that may constitute conflict of interest under USC title 18, sections 203 through 208. John Podesta was employed at the White House and charged with the very same policy that his brother, Tony Podesta, was engaged in lobbying the Government...."
World Net Daily through Softwar.net 4/13/99 through E-Mail Alert "...In 1996, two of the Podesta companies, IBM and Silicon Graphics, sold super-computers directly to Russian nuclear weapons labs Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70 under so-called "commercial" contracts. IBM has since settled for a fine of $8 million on the $7.5 million dollar sale to Arzamas-16. Silicon Graphics, however, has not been charged. The 1996 CSPP computer exports took place under the guise of "commercial" sales. Those exports took place during the period of time when the both companies were represented by Tony Podesta. In 1996, John Podesta was also working for his brother Tony as a lobbyist for Podesta Assocates. Thus, John certainly had a large paycheck tied to his brother's success for IBM and Silicon Graphics.
World Net Daily through Softwar.net 4/13/99 through E-Mail Alert "...The 1996 sales to Russia were not the first exports to foreign military units during Tony Podesta's work for the CSPP. In 1994, CSPP member Tandem Corp. exported computers to China Great Wall Corp., a company owned by the Chinese Army, during a Ron Brown trade trip. A Commerce Dept. 1994 Presidential trade trip document on James Treybig states "Tandem and China Great Wall Industry will announce in August their joint venture". Another document found in the files of former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown states that Treybig "negotiated a $100 million dollar joint venture for Tandem Computers while in China". The Commerce Dept. does not have the authority to authorize export of super-computers to foreign military units such as Russian nuclear weapons labs and PLA owned Great Wall Industries. Transfers of any equipment for the development of nuclear weapons to military units constitutes a "defense service" as per the United States Munitions List (USML) and the International Trade in Arms Regulations ITAR 22 C.F.R. Part 120.9 and is strictly under the authority of the State Dept. and the Defense Dept. Yet, the CSPP and Tony Podesta sought out the Commerce Dept. for access to the White House...."
Gaffney's Web Site 4/99 "...Executive Order 12958, signed by President Clinton on April 17, 1995. E.O. 12958 calls for the automatic declassification by April 17, 2000 of all documents containing historical information that are 25 years or older. While the order allows a few exceptions in the name of protecting national security (notably, an injunction that "nothing in this order shall supersede the [classification requirements of] the Atomic Energy Act of 1954"), the practical effect of the order has been greatly to abbreviate the time and necessarily to diminish the care with which documents are scrutinized prior to their release to the public. What amounted to "pressure [to] release sensitive nuclear weapons information" (to coin a phrase) came not only from then-Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary but from declassification-devotées in the White House like then-NSC staffer Morton Halperin and the current Chief of Staff, John Podesta. Under such pressure, the Administration wound up engaging in the wholesale declassification of papers, including some containing Restricted Data (RD) or Formerly Restricted Data (FRD)....The Senators' [Kyl, Shelby, Smith] concerns prompted them to amend the FY1999 defense authorization act to tighten up procedures for reviewing this material and to require a presidential certification that it is "highly unlikely" RD or FRD material is being released pursuant to E.O. 12958. It is worth noting that Mr. Podesta and the Administration strenuously opposed this amendment and have generally tried to thwart its implementation as intended. Among the senior officials who are said to have contributed to this effort is Rose Gottemoeller, whose controversial nomination to become Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security was recently sneaked through the Senate without any effort being made to examine her role in the unfolding China scandal and other DoE security problems.
www.wired.com 5/25/99 Declan McCullagh "... A new congressional report claiming widespread technological espionage by China will thwart any changes to US encryption rules in the near future, a top White House official predicted Tuesday. The conclusions of the 872-page report will probably result in legislators tightening export controls instead of relaxing them, White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said....."
Drudge 6/7/99 "...The White House is preparing to loosen government controls on the sale of powerful super computers to more than 100 countries only two weeks after a congressional committee charged it with carelessly permitting sales to China, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is planning to report in Tuesday editions. ...The Commerce Department has proposed easing restrictions on sales of supercomputers to "most countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, administration sources said Monday." Gosselin reports that "virtually all restrictions are likely to be lifted on sales to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, which recently became NATO members." The White House's John Podesta, last seen drafting a new Medicare proposal that extends drug coverage to all beneficiaries, has taken charge of announcing the new supercomputer policy. According to Gosselin, first official word that the White House is prepared to ease export limits on the 100 countries could come during a meeting scheduled for Friday between Podesta and a group that includes "IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Louis Gerstner, Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove, Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Scott D. McNealy and Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and President Lewis E.Platt." ..."
Koenig's International News 6/10/99 Charles Smith "...In 1994, Carter corresponded with "Ken" Kay who was then "Director" of the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP), a consortium of powerful U.S. computer makers. According to the CSPP, in March 1994, the CSPP Director "Kenneth R. Kay," was also "a partner in the law firm of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds."..... In 1994, CSPP Director Ken Kay contacted Barry Carter and Ron Brown in an extensive effort to expand computer exports to China and Russia. Kay pressured Ron Brown by issuing an internal report to ease "export control policy" and seek "new thresholds for computers"......By April 1994, Ken Kay left the employ of Preston Gates and took a new position at Podesta Associates, the powerful lobby firm owned by Tony Podesta, brother of White House advisor John Podesta. Kay, of course, took his CSPP clients with him by retaining his executive directorship of the consortium. The shift to Podesta Associates was quickly felt by the CSPP members and the PLA. In August, 1994, CSPP members IBM, Cray and Tandem were invited to participate on a Brown trade trip to China. While on the trip, CSPP member Tandem sold over $100 million in computers to PLA owned Great Wall Industries, manufacturer of the Chinese Army nuclear tipped missiles...."
Julia Hughes Jones
Freeper Rodger Schultz 12/22/98 on Who is Julia Hughes Jones ".A DRUDGE BOMBSHELL: Hardball Guest Sabotaged charges "A mystery woman who was set to appear for the first time on television this week to reveal fresh stories about "Clinton corruption" has been hit with an intimidation campaign, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned! " .. Jeff Gerth February 5, 1992 NEW YORK TIMES: "The state auditor, Julia Hughes Jones, opposed two state pension fund investments that Stephens Inc., arranged in 1987 and 1988, noting that Stephens had represented both the bond issuers and the bond purchasers. In an interview, Mrs. Jones, who is an elected official, said she believed the Stephenses should have given the pension fund more information about what it was doing. She added that outside advisors should have been brought in. And she complained that the Stephenses' fees were excessive, though Mrs. Jones did support subsequent deals after Stephens lowered its fees. Warren Stephens defended the state pension investment deals, saying their "record has been outstanding." The trustees of the pension funds, most of them appointed by Mr. Clinton, did agree to the investments, and Mr. Clinton also gave approval."..The American Spectator 09/95 James Ring Adams ".Former state auditor Julia Hughes Jones -- in 1985 the only statewide elected Republican -- had been warning about the state's lax use of repos for years. But early that year, her staff began to suspect something strange was afoot: Worthen's share of the state repo business suddenly shot up. In 1984, one of the auditor's lawyers noted, Worthen ranked eighth in state repos, placing only $58 million worth. But from mid-January 1985 to the time of the BBS disaster, the bank handled $342 million worth -- more than anyone else in the state."
Arthur Coia
Washington Post 3/10/99 John Mintz "…A top labor union official who has been a leading Democratic campaign contributor was fined $100,000 yesterday for engaging in an improper business investment with a union vendor but was cleared of the more serious charges that he is under Mafia control and will be allowed to keep his job. The ruling, by a union hearing officer, came in the case of Arthur A. Coia, general president of the Laborers International Union of North America. It overturned the recommendation of the union's internal prosecutor, who had urged that Coia be removed, and angered some of President Clinton's conservative and Republican critics, who see it as further proof that the administration has given favorable treatment to a close White House ally. The charges against Coia are a test case of an innovative agreement that the Justice Department reached with the Laborers and Coia in 1995. Rather than take over the mob-tainted union, as the government had done in the case of the Teamsters union, Justice officials allowed the Laborers to try to root out corruption themselves. ….The finding that Coia is not a mob figure undermines a key accusation that Republicans have mounted frequently against one of Clinton's most avid labor supporters. It also conflicts with the stance of Clinton's own Justice Department, which said in 1994 that Coia has "associated with and been controlled by" mobsters. "The public shouldn't have any confidence in the integrity of this process," said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative group. "This is not the way to clean up a union." Boehm said the Clinton administration has shown undue deference to Coia, who oversaw $1.2 million in contributions to Democrats in 1997 and 1998 and has flown on Air Force One. He noted that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed a 1994 Laborers conference in Florida despite Justice Department recommendations that she not do so because of pending criminal investigations of the union…."
Wall Street Journal 7/24/96 "…Arthur A. Coia is president of LIUNA, the Laborers International Union of North America, which represents 700,000 construction workers, brick haulers and asbestos removers. He is also one of President Bill Clinton's most important political allies. His union lent President Clinton's inaugural committee $100,000, and contributed $1.1 million to Democrats in the 1994 elections. Mr. Coia has also served as vice chairman of numerous multimillion-dollar Democratic fund-raisers, including one in May of this year. He sits on the board of the "Back to Business" committee that takes out ads defending the Clintons on Whitewater, and in 1994 attended a White House dinner and an Oval Office meeting at which the President gave him a personal golf club that now adorns his wall. And Hillary Clinton addressed his union's conference in Florida…."
Providence Journal 4/28/99 KEN MINGIS [Arthur Coia] "...FBI agents this morning swept through several city offices, including two offices in City Hall, and arrested two city officials on suspicion of money-laundering, according to Thomas Connell, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office. The two arrested were Joseph Pannone and David Ead, according to a source close to the investigation. Pannone is chairman of the five-member Board of Tax Assessment Review; Ead is vice chairman of the board. Both men were appointed to the board by Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. who stayed at home this morning while federal agents searched the City Collector's office and the Tax Assessor's office in City Hall....."
Strobe Talbott/Shearer
The Washington Times 3/19/99 John Solomon AP "…Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott's brother-in-law received thousands of dollars from an associate of Radovan Karadzic around the time he tried to arrange the accused Bosnian war criminal's surrender in 1997, according to lawyers and government officials. The brother-in-law, Cody P. Shearer, has recently reported receiving mail threats from Bosnian figures who say he took the money in exchange for promises to win leniency for Mr. Karadzic on the war crimes charges. The mail threats demand that he pay Mr. Karadzic's family $1 million or risk "tragedy." Mr. Shearer's attorney denies his client ever promised to win leniency for Mr. Karadzic. He says the money he received was reimbursement for expenses he incurred while helping a Karadzic associate pursue peace in Bosnia. Even before Mr. Shearer reported the threats, the State Department inspector general and the FBI had begun investigating whether he had misrepresented his ties to the Clinton administration in his dealings with the Bosnian figures, several government officials told the Associated Press. The contacts were first disclosed last fall by former GOP congressional investigator David Bossie, who wrote about them in The Washington Times. U.S. officials said then that Mr. Shearer was not acting on behalf of the United States. A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the State Department's current assessment is that Mr. Karadzic tried to use the Shearer connection to claim influence with Mr. Talbott and President Clinton and "sow seeds of discontent" among Bosnian Serbs….Mr. Shearer is the brother of Brooke Shearer, who is married to Mr. Talbott. Mr. Shearer's brother, Derek, was Mr. Clinton's ambassador to Finland…."
The New Yorker (via www.jya.com) 4/5/99 Seymour Hersh "...Last December, after Saddam Hussein threatened to end seven years of United Nations arms-control inspections, President Clinton ordered American attacks on Iraq. Once again, the world watched, on television, as missiles fell on carefully picked targets. The purpose of the attacks, Clinton told reporters, was to "degrade" Iraq's capacity for waging war, and he added, "I gave the order because I believe we cannot allow Saddam Hussein to dismantle UNSCOM and resume the production of weapons of mass destruction with impunity." The President was mistaken. The United Nations Special Commission for Iraq, known as UNSCOM, had already been effectively dismantled, by the shortsighted policies of his own Administration. Then, a few hours after Clinton spoke, William Cohen, the Secretary of Defense, appeared on television. "One thing should be absolutely clear," he told reporters. "We are concentrating on military targets." That, too, was a misstatement, for two of the targets were sites where Saddam was known to entertain mistresses, and they were specifically struck in the hope of assassinating him. Saddam responded to the bombing--and the bungled assassination attempt--by formally ousting UNSCOM and turning anew to Russia, historically his most important trading partner. Today, eight years after the Gulf War, American policy has collapsed in Iraq, and a Cold War mentality has returned. Saddam is unchecked by U.N. inspectors as he pursues his goal of becoming a nuclear power, with the aid of Russian strategic materials. Saddam's ally in these efforts is Yevgeny Primakov, the Russian Prime Minister, a longtime friend who, according to highly classified communications intelligence, received at least one large payment from Iraq--by wire transfer--in November of 1997. The distrust of Primakov throughout the American intelligence community is acute. One former C.I.A. operative told me, "I don't know how many times we had to say this to Strobe"--Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State--"but Primakov is just not a good guy." ..."
Insight on the News 2/22/99 John Elvin "...Despite denials, there do appear to be some curious links that could lead one to assume a certain validity to charges of a "vast left-wing conspiracy" to trash congressional Republicans. Sam Dealey of the American Spectator, writing in the New York Post, sees such a link in pornographer Larry Flynt's comment that he had not seen his friend, Deputy Defense Secretary Strobe Talbott - who also happens to be Bill Clinton's friend - "in years i but he is married to a sister of a very good friend of mine." Well, Talbott's brother-in-law is Cody Shearer, a White House-connected mystery man who was pegged in an extensive Vanity Fair profile of private eye Terry Lenzner as a close Lenzner associate. Lenzner's Washington firm has been dubbed "Clinton's secret police" by insiders. Shearer's primary White House chum is Sidney Blumenthal, often fingered as a conduit to the media for damaging dirt dug up by investigators working for Clinton. Blumenthal denies the role. Shearer's sister, Brooke, is a former Lenzner investigator legendary for her dumpster-diving skills and a longtime friend of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. And then there's brother Derek Shearer, ambassador to Finland as a result of his longtime friendship with Clinton and campaign work on his behalf..... "
Newsweek 8/4/97 Michael Isikoff "...The goal was to show that Nickles was "linked to the oil industry." The memo's author: Terry Lenzner, a former Watergate counsel who now runs a private investigative firm with close ties to the White House. The Democratic National Committee is one of his top clients...How did Lenzner come to target Nickles? The answer goes back to an effort by Oklahoma's Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians to win return of their homelands, snatched by the government a century ago. During the '96 campaign, Democratic Party officials offered to help them -- in exchange for a $ 107,000 campaign contribution. Embarrassed when the incident came to light, the DNC returned the money. Then last spring, a business associate of the tribe's urged them to meet with Cody Shearer, described to them as a Washington "insider" and longtime friend of President Clinton....In May, Shearer advised the tribe the best way to advance their cause was to dig up dirt on Nickles. Like most Oklahoma legislators, Nickles opposes returning the land, which sits beneath a Department of Agriculture research station popular with local farmers and businessmen. Shearer said he knew just the man for the job: his old pal Lenzner, who asked for up to $ 17,000. But when Indian leaders saw Lenzner's memo, they balked, suspecting Lenzner had other political motives. Lenzner said he was just giving the Indians what he thought they wanted. "We're not a bunch of dummies," said James Pedro, a member of the tribe. "We know when we're being used." ...."
MSNBC 5/20/99 J Walls "...Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is going after none other than Bill Clinton. Hersh has signed a $750,000 deal with publisher HarperCollins to write what one source describes as "an explosive exposé" of the Clinton administration. According to one book world insider, the book will focus on the president's foreign policy. One Washington insider who knows Hersh believes the reporter plans to use his friend Cody Shearer as a source for the book. ....."
Los Angeles Times 6/8/99 James Pinkerton "...Quick quiz: Who once sang, "Imagine there's no countries"? You're right if you answered John Lennon. Now how about this: "Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete." Was that the next line of "Imagine," the late Beatle's 1971 utopian anthem? No, those words were written by Strobe Talbott, deputy secretary of State for this particular nation, when he was still a columnist for Time magazine, on July 20, 1992. Yet, even if he can't carry a tune, attention should be paid to Talbott. He is more than a paper-pusher: He was the top U.S. negotiator in the Kosovo peace talks, spending some 50 hours negotiating last week with Russia's Balkans envoy Viktor S. Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari to strike the accord, which as of this writing is still discordant...Talbott has left a plentiful paper trail: In addition to 20 years of work for Time, he has written, co-written or edited nine books about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. One theme runs through most of them: that Ronald Reagan, described in "Deadly Gambits" (1984) as a "befuddled character," deserves most of the blame for the nuclear arms race of the 1980s. Indeed, in 1990, as his magazine dubbed Mikhail Gorbachev "Man of the Decade," Talbott credited Gorbachev with revolutionizing not just the U.S.S.R. but the rest of the planet: "The Gorbachev phenomenon may have a transforming effect outside the communist world, on the perceptions and therefore the policies of the West." ....If nothing else, Talbott expressed himself plainly: "All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances . . . they are all artificial and temporary." He pointed to the then-emerging European Union as a "pioneer" of "supranational" regional cohesion that could "pave the way for globalism." ...."
Harry Thomason/Shearer
Email 3/22/99 Freeper SVTCobra "…[Harry Thomason] is a famous Hollywood TV producer and close friend of Bill….Harry Thomason admits that he discussed Kathleen Willey with HRC, before Willey's 60 Minutes Interview. They discussed the letters that were to be release days later to discredit Willey as part of a White House smear campaign. Hillary knew about the letters ahead of time. These same letters were subpenaed in the Jones case, but never turned over…This means that HRC was part of the Cheryl Mills, Sid Blumenthal, and White House Counsel's Office "nuts and sluts" hit squad…. Derek and Debra Shearer were friends of Harry Thomason from the 1992 Clinton Campaign. Debra may have been with Lindsner's IGI at the time. It is rumored that the Clinton '92 Campaign hired IGI to get dirt on women, like Gennifer Flowers. Cody Shearer is a kind of journalist. But, no one knows what paper he works for. He called Thomason and said his phones were bugged, even though they were not close friends. Remember the Larry Flynt press conference that included revelations about Republican's? Well Flynt admitted that he had a close friend in the Clinton Administration. She was Debra Shearer. Matt Drudge asked that question. BTW Terry Lindsner's daughter was a Clinton Administration White House Intern/Volunteer…. "
Li Ka-Shing
WorldNetDaily 3/23/99 Charles Smith "…Li Ka-Shing owns the vast shipping enterprise, Hutchison Whampoa, Ltd. Li works closely with the official PRC shipping carrier, COSCO. Li and COSCO own both ends of the Panama Canal. Li and COSCO tried to buy the former Navy port at Long Beach. Li financed several satellite deals between Hughes and China Hong Kong Satellite (CHINASAT), a company half owned by the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Li Ka-Shing and the Chinese navy nearly obtained four huge roll-on/roll-off container ships, financed by loans backed by U.S. Treasury notes…… The bio of Li Ka-Shing was forced from the White House by this author during a lawsuit filed in federal court. The Commerce Department claimed the material was withheld for review by another "agency." In fact, the material was secretly sent by Commerce to the real authors, the White House, which is not an agency. The legal "Catch-22" situation was all too obvious to Commerce and White House lawyers who caved in rather than being made to look stupid in front of a Federal Judge…….The reason for the resistance becomes all too clear when Li Ka-Shing's bio is compared to the accompanying materials forced from the grips of the White House. Li was the only so-called "civilian." Li's bio was included by the White House along with the entire leadership of Communist China from Jiang Zemin to the mayor of Shanghai. The Long Beach affair demonstrated that Li Ka-Shing is an agent of Beijing. The White House material clearly shows that Mr. Li Ka-Shing is a member of the Communist government. The Long Beach deal led by Li Ka-Shing was clearly a national security threat. It was canceled after U.S. intelligence sources revealed that Li Ka-Shing's empire is used for PRC espionage. Li Ka-Shing provides fronts for Chinese military operations and "civilian" covers for PLA soldiers to enter the U.S. under "commercial" camouflage…."
www.softwar.net Freeper report "...The Sino-Swearingen plant in West Virginia is a joint project between Texas based Swearingen aircraft, the AFL-CIO, and Sino-Aerospace Investment Corporation. The joint interests of PRC billionaire Li Ka-Shing, a big U.S. union, and Sen. Rockefeller were teamed up to manufacture business jets in the remote mountains of rural West Virginia. The so-called SJ-30 "business" jet is state-of-the-art. The SJ-30 can travel 2,500 miles at nearly the speed of sound and is rated to cruise at 49,000 feet. The SJ-30 is considered to be the leading edge of U.S. commercial aerospace technology and includes all the latest in avionics such as GPS navigation. The immense speed, range and altitude capability of the SJ-30 can be attributed to the twin Rolls Royce/Williams FJ-44 turbofans that power it. The Williams FJ-44 is also used in the Swedish SK-60 military attack trainer and powers the USAF DarkStar stealth robot spy plane. Williams is best known for making the jet engines for U.S. Tomahawk and ALCM cruise missiles....."
The Center For Security Policy 7/2/99 "…On 23 June, Hutchison USA announced its investment of $957 million into the combined telecommunications company of Voicestream Wireless and Omnipoint. Hutchison is already the largest shareholder in Voicestream, owning 24% of the company and its latest investment will increase its ownership to 30% of the newly merged conglomerate….Hutchison USA is a division of the large Hong Kong business conglomerate, Hutchison Whampoa, whose business ventures include real estate, port ownership in Asia, Europe and Panama, retail and manufacturing, and telecommunications and energy projects. Owned largely by billionaire Li Ka-shing, the company has recently initiated an extensive overseas acquisition strategy. Among other companies, Li is also the principal owner of the Panama Ports Company and China Resources Enterprise which collectively control four major ports at the eastern and western entry points to the Panama Canal. In a recent hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on U.S. interests in the Panama Canal, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer (USN, Ret.) raised an alarm over Hutchison's role -- and that of the Chinese government -- in Panama.
The Center For Security Policy 7/2/99 "…As Adm. Moorer put it: ...There's far more going on [in Panama] then meets the eye. A company called Panama Ports Company, S.A., affiliated with Hutchinson Whampoa, Ltd. through its owner, Mr. Li Ka-Shing, currently maintains control of four of the Panama Canal's major ports. Now, Panama Port Company is 10 percent owned by China Resources Enterprise, the commercial arm of China's Ministry of Trade and Economic Cooperation….. In their best-selling book, Year of the Rat, Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett III claimed that China Resources "had previously been identified as an associate of Chinese military intelligence." The authors also identified ties between Li Ka-shing and known arms-smuggler Wang Jun, head of Polytechnologies, an enterprise closely associated with the People's Liberation Army.,,,, The Senate [Government Reform] Committee...revealed that Hutchison Whampoa's subsidiary, HIT, has business ventures with the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), which is owned by the People's Liberation Army. COSCO has been criticized for shipping Chinese missiles, missile components, jet fighters and other weapons technologies to nations such as Libya, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. In 1996, the U.S. Customs Service seized a shipment of 2,000 automatic weapons aboard a COSCO ship at the port of Oakland, California. The man identified as the arms dealer, Wang Jun, is the head of China's Polytechnologies Company, the international outlet for Chinese weapons sales. Jun also sits on the Board of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC),(1) the chief investment arm of the Chinese central government. It is also the bank of the People's Liberation Army, providing financing for Chinese Army weapons sales and for the purchase of Western technology. Jun's fellow CITIC Board member is Mr. Li Ka-shing, chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd…."
The Center For Security Policy 7/2/99 "…Li Ka-shing has profound ties to the Beijing regime. Li has invested more than a billion dollars in China and owns most of the dock space in Hong Kong. In an exclusive deal with the People's Republic of China's communist government, Li has the right of first-refusal over all PRC ports south of the Yangtze river, which involves a close working relationship with the Chinese military and businesses controlled by the People's Liberation Army. Li has served as a middle man for PLA business dealings with the West. For example, Li financed several satellite deals between the U.S. Hughes Corporation and China Hong Kong Satellite [CHINASAT], a company owned by the People's Liberation Army. In 1997, Li Ka-shing and the Chinese Navy nearly obtained four huge roll-on/roll-off container ships -- which can be used for transporting military cargo -- in a deal that would have been financed by U.S. taxpayers. A June 1997 Rand report, "Chinese Military Commerce and U.S. National Security," stated, "Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, is also negotiating for PLA wireless system contracts, which would build upon his equity interest in Poly-owned Yangpu Land Development Company, which is building infrastructure on China's Hainan Island." In 1998, Li Ka-shing attempted to issue $2 billion in bonds, through his Hutchison company, in the United States. According to the Dow Jones Newswire, Hutchison revealed that 50 percent of the bonds would be used through a subsidiary known as Chung Kiu Communications Ltd., which had signed agreements to provide cellular services and equipment to joint ventures between the People's Liberation Army and the Chinese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. (Emphasis added.) …"
Excerpts from China's Beachhead at Panama Canal by J. Michael Waller Insight Magazine 7/25/99 "...Hutchison Whampoa is more than a Hong Kong shipping giant. Company chairman Li Ka-shing is an important cog in the economic machinery of the Chinese Communist Party and the PLA. Li is a board member of the Chinese government's main investment arm, the China International Trust and Investment Corp., or CITIC, run by official PLA arms marketeer and smuggler Wang Jun. According to Santoli, Li "has invested more than a billion dollars in China and owns most of the dock space in Hong Kong." Additionally, "Li has served as a middle man for PLA business dealings with the West," financing some of the controversial Hughes Electronics Corp.-Loral Space & Communications deals found to have been conduits for weapons technology to Beijing. He also has been a powerful ally of the Mochtar Riady financial empire of Indonesia -- the Lippo Group family that according to sworn testimony paid off Clinton's friends and political allies on behalf of Chinese military intelligence...."
Excerpts from China's Beachhead at Panama Canal by J. Michael Waller Insight Magazine 7/25/99 "...Hutchison Whampoa's port subsidiary, Hutchison International Terminals, or HIT, which in turn runs the Panama Ports Co., does substantial business with the PLA-owned China Ocean Shipping Company, or COSCO, which has been seeking to take over former naval facilities in Southern California. Some of Hutchison's board members consult to COSCO. China Resources Enterprise, or CRE, the commercial arm of Beijing's Ministry of Trade and Economic Cooperation, owns 10 percent of the Panama Ports Co. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has identified CRE as a vehicle for "espionage -- economic, political and military -- for China."
U.S. officials have been slow to realize the importance of Hutchison Whampoa and its global maritime network in Beijing's strategic planning. "Hutchison is trying to build a commercial empire in the Americas," a senior U.S. official in Panama tells Insight. "If you asked me three years ago, I'd say Hutchison Whampoa was just a business concern. Logic would tell you that the PRC has more opportunity to influence Hutchison Whampoa than before." ...."
Hong Kong Standard 8/14/99 Charles Snyder, Karen Chan and Kevin Rafferty "...``Mr Li Ka-shing . . . is a well-known entrepreneur and has no connection whatsoever with the People's Liberation Army,'' a statement from Hutchison Whampoa said. It added that the Hutchison subsidiary that operates container terminals in Panama was responsible for handling commercial shipping and was not involved in controlling access to or in the operations of the Panama Canal, which links the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans....In the letter, Mr Lott attacked Mr Li Ka-shing as an agent of China and its military. He claimed that with ports on either side of the canal Hutchison's subsidiary, Hutchison Port Holdings, would have a ``choke-point'' and could both block US ships and ``control at least one third of world shipping''. Hutchison said the group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary in the area, operates container terminals in Balboa and Cristobal Ports in Panama under Panama Ports Company (PPC). There is no mainland interest in the company. ``PPC's terminal facilities are designed to only load and unload containers from ships, and does not have involvement in the operation of the canal. ``PPC does not operate or control the pilotage nor does PPC have any influence on vessels transiting the canal,'' the statement added. Mr Lott made his accusations public in the wake of the visit by Panama's Vice President-elect Arturo Vallarino to Beijing for an ``unofficial'' visit. ``US naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots, and could even be denied passage through the Panama Canal by Hutchison Whampoa, an arm of the PLA,'' Mr Lott wrote. ``We have given away the farm without a shot being fired,'' he said. Not so, said the White House. Spokesman David Leavy cited the Neutrality Treaty which protects the security of the canal and the Panamanian law that governs the Hutchison Whampoa contracts that allows open passage. He said he does not know whether Hutchison Whampoa has links to the PLA. Under the treaty transferring control over the canal from the US to Panama, either country has the right to use military force if needed to reopen the canal, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said...."
Wang Jun
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…Federal investigators say Wang, son of a former Chinese vice president, formed at least a half-dozen companies in the Atlanta area with just 20 em ployees. Still, investigators say some of these companies bought, sold and in at least one case smuggled sophisticated weapons, funneled money to suspicious offshore bank accounts, and bought up land across the country….. "There is little doubt that Wang Jun was in this country to acquire sensitive technology," said Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), who headed a Congressional investigation into Chinese espionage….a former Chinese naval intelligence officer who ran Wang's Atlanta operations from offices on East Paces Ferry Road was indicted in 1996 for his alleged role in smuggling 2,000 AK-47s into this country. …The Wang associate, Robert Ma, remains a fugitive and is believed to be in China. Federal investigators suspect he had been tipped off that the indictments were coming. Then there's the treasure chest of arms sale profits stemming from Wang's Atlanta operations that mysteriously ended up in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British West Indies, according to internal company records, court documents and interviews with former employees …."
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…. As the head of Poly, Wang reports directly to the so-called Staff Department of PLA, which oversees China's military intelligence. Wang also runs China International Trust & Investment Corp., a powerful company with interests in industry, finance and trade. Federal investigators believe both companies took part in a plan to station workers at companies throughout the United States to gather sensitive information that would be helpful to the military. Cox and other federal investigators estimate there are as many as 3,000 such "front" companies in the United States……F. Michael Maloof, chief of technology security operations at the Defense Department's U.S. Threat Reduction Agency, has been investigating Wang's activities for more than 18 months. He has no doubt about what Wang has been up to. "Wang Jun's operations are part of an overall Chinese system that is integrated to target and acquire militarily critical technologies," Maloof said….. Congressional committees have requested his appearance to answer campaign fund-raising and espionage allegations for the past two years. They have little hope he will appear. "This guy is bad news," said Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), who sits on the House panel investigating campaign fund-raising misdeeds. "The fact that he has been able to operate with impunity is very disturbing. This fellow has ties that go directly to the Communist Party in Beijing. He is right there, smack in the middle of the campaign finance scandal and (involved with) U.S. corporations that are in the middle of the spy scandal. Apparently this comes as a surprise to our law enforcement officials, and that's a problem. It's outrageous." …"
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…Wang's enterprises eventually stretched across the United States, but they began in Atlanta in 1987 as PTK International Inc., a joint venture with a Smyrna company, Keng Firearms Specialty Inc. Two other companies controlled completely by Wang --- Dynasty Holding Co. and Poly USA Inc. --- soon followed. Four additional companies were incorporated in Atlanta, but never conducted any kind of business. Most of the companies listed the same officers and the same address on East Paces Ferry Road. Wang's companies in Atlanta devoted themselves mostly to importing guns from China and reselling them to dozens of American distributors. But Dynasty bought a lot of commercial property across the country. …. All of the companies were dissolved by the summer of 1996 soon after Ma's gun smuggling indictment, according to Collins, who remains on good terms with his former Chinese employer. ….After several years of discussions, Poly and Keng signed an agreement in Beijing in 1986. Poly would export from China AK-47 assault rifles and SKS semi-automatic rifles to Keng Firearms, which would sell the guns to PTK, the joint venture between Wang's Poly and Keng in Atlanta. PTK then would sell to American distributors. …."
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…In Atlanta federal court, the Kengs and Poly tangled over shipments and legal issues involving their partnership. The court fight soon turned nasty, involving two of the city's biggest law firms --- Long, Aldridge & Norman representing Poly and Alston & Bird representing the Keng family. Court records show a flurry of unusual legal actions….. After much haggling with Poly, Stephenson and his partner, Peter Bassett, went to Beijing in the spring of 1991 to depose Ma and a handful of others. On the third day of their visit, the lawyers said they were accosted by three men at the top of the escalator at the China World Hotel. They warned: "We know who you are, where you are and what you are doing. Watch your step. Beijing is a small place." Stephenson and Bassett were so rattled that they immediately returned to their hotel room and called the U.S. embassy. No answer. They left and walked to the lounge of the Shangri-La Hotel, where they sat in a stunned daze for hours, thinking about what to do next. The men who had accosted them knew too much --- their names and businesses --- to be mere street thugs…..Stephenson and Bassett say their suspicions about the incident were confirmed when a year later they learned from the American Embassy in Beijing that a high-ranking Chinese official had --- the day before their arrival in China --- sent a letter to the embassy, objecting to their taking depositions of potential witnesses…. A few days later, Stephenson told Atlanta federal Judge Charles Moye in court documents that "individuals have been threatened with punishment in the event (Poly) learns of their involvement." He said it would be impossible to call future witnesses, some of them employees of Wang, because he feared that the Chinese government might "subject individuals in China to the danger of retribution." …."
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…Stephenson said Poly abruptly dropped its suit after he started tracing millions of dollars of Dynasty's money to a "mail drop" in the Cayman Islands. Much of that money, Stephenson alleged, accumulated in offshore accounts through an illegal "dual billing" practice to hide gun sale profits from China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations. "They were shipping money from Dynasty to an insurance company in the Cayman Islands, ostensibly for insurance premiums," Stephenson said. "We are talking about a mail slot in a bank. . . . They were expensing these premiums for tax purposes, so they didn't show their full income on their business activities here." …. "
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "… And evidence of espionage continues to grow….. In 1988, Poly asked PTK officials to place a shipment of high-tech computer equipment in brown paper and ship it in unmarked wooden crates to China. Company documents indicate that company officials were asked to draft documents that would conceal the equipment, making it appear that it was actually radio equipment. Memos turned over to investigators show that Poly officials in Beijing wrote memos to Poly employees in Atlanta instructing them in Chinese to ship $19 million worth of militarily sensitive high-tech radar equipment through a state-owned shipping line….. "
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…Wang first caught the eye of congressional investigators when he visited the White House on Feb. 6, 1996, with Charlie Trie, a former restaurateur and friend of the Clintons from Arkansas…. When news of Wang's trip to the White House first surfaced, President Clinton went out of his way to say that it was "clearly inappropriate" for a Chinese arms dealer to appear at the White House. At the time, Clinton aides said they had no prior knowledge of Wang's gun dealing background, nor did they know of his close ties to the Chinese army. But Collins said he gave top White House aides detailed information about Wang at a private White House luncheon in early May 1994. Collins was asked to speak to a small gathering of business leaders at the White House luncheon after escorting Deng Xiaoping's son, Deng Zhifang, to some of America's premier corporate centers. At the gathering, Collins said, were former White House Counsel Thomas "Mack" McLarty and former senior aide Mark Middleton, who later became a target of the campaign fund-raising probe…."
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…After the lunch, Collins said, Middleton called for more details about Wang. Collins said he told Middleton that Wang is the son of former Chinese Vice President Wang Zhen and that his companies were connected with the Chinese military. "He grilled me and grilled me. . . . It's hard to believe that they didn't know who he was," Collins said. If White House aides didn't know then who Wang was, they soon would learn. Wang's visit drew sharp criticism from lawmakers, including some Democrats, who said it was an example of the lengths the White House would go to raise a campaign dollar. If the White House had simply reviewed Poly's annual report, it would have found that the report lists its defense system sales….. However, Wang used Poly to arm Third World countries and funnel American military technology back to China, internal company records and interviews show. "Wang's Poly Group is Communist China's worst worldwide proliferator of deadly weapons, having brokered the sale of cruise missiles to Iran and nuclear weapons to Pakistan," Cox explained. Congressional investigators believe that Poly also sold M-9 nuclear-capable missile technology to Syria and arms to both sides of the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s. Burma was another customer. …"
K.S. Wu and Senator Jay Rockefeller
WorldNetDaily 3/23/99 Charles Smith "…In 1994, "American" businessman K.S. Wu traveled with Ron Brown to Comunist China. Today, Mr. Wu is reported to be dead, and no one in the Democratic Party (Democratic National Committee) wants to talk about him….Wu actually worked for Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing. According to documents provided by the Commerce Department, Wu, Lupberger, Caperton and Brown met with PRC billionaire Li Ka-Shing in Beijing during the 1994 trip.K.S. Wu, CEO of a so-called "American" firm, traveled at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers, to meet his Chinese boss Li Ka-Shing….In 1995, Mr. K.S. Wu of Pacific Century -- a company owned by Li Ka-Shing, teamed with Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia to provide Red China with an airbase only 50 miles from downtown Washington, D.C. According to a January 1996 speech by Gov. Caperton on the Democrats' website, "Mr. Wu was a trusted adviser to Sen. Rockefeller and me. He was instrumental in helping Senator Rockefeller develop the Swearingen aircraft project. He was also extremely helpful in expanding our relationships with China and Japan. We extend to his family our deepest respect and sympathy. His death is a deep loss to West Virginia." Today, Sen. Rockefeller will not comment on either the departed Mr. Wu, or the Li Ka-Shing airbase at Martinsburg, West Virginia. The Jan. 1996 speech by Governor Caperton published on the Democrats' website was removed from the Internet immediately after I submitted a fax copy to Sen. Rockefeller's office in Washington, D.C. Yet, in 1996, Sen. Rockefeller led a delegation of Asian investors to Martinsburg, West Virginia. According to Gov. Caperton, K.S. Wu was instrumental in helping Rockefeller bring the Asian investors to West Virginia…...The Sino-Swearingen plant in West Virginia is a joint project between Texas based Swearingen aircraft, the AFL-CIO, and Sino-Aerospace Investment Corporation…. In 1996, Jay Rockefeller had very close ties to the real money behind the Sino-Swearingen aerospace deal, Li Ka-Shing. Li Ka-Shing is also a known PLA operative. Today, Asian "engineers" roam the hills of West Virginia with a "commercial" cover. The perfect location, complete with jets to test fly and a huge facility constructed to order was paid for by American and Chinese taxpayers…. Softwar has obtained an exclusive interview with former GRU Colonel Stanislav Lunev. Col. Lunev is the highest-ranking member of the former Soviet Union intelligence services to defect to America. He is, to this day, surrounded by FBI agents for his protection. In 1999, I presented the K.S. Wu information to Colonel Lunev for his evaluation. According to Col. Lunev, Russian and Chinese army operatives in the U.S. have created large stockpiles of arms for use in time of war. These communist weapon caches are reportedly hidden all over America. According to Lunev, the Chinese and Russian weapon stockpiles include explosives, nerve gas, anthrax and as many as 120 "suitcase" nuclear bombs! I have confirmed Colonel Lunev's story with several members of Congress. Red China and Russia have pre-positioned nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on American soil with the intent of destroying our nation. President Clinton and Congress are aware that China and Russia have smuggled nuclear bombs into the United States…."
General Wesley Clark
NATO Official Homepage 8/18/97 "…General Clark is a 1966 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated first in his class. He holds a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar (August 1966-August 1968). He is a graduate of the National War College, Command and General Staff College, Armor Officer Advanced and Basic Courses, and Ranger and Airborne schools. General Clark was a White House Fellow in 1975-1976 and served as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He has also served as an instructor and later Assistant Professor of Social Science at the United States Military Academy. Among his military decorations are the Defense Distinguished Service Medal (three awards), Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit (four awards), Bronze Star Medal (two awards), Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), and the Army Commendation Medal (two awards). General Clark was born on 23 December 1944 and grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is married to the former Gertrude Kingston of Brooklyn, New York. He and his wife have one son, Wesley, who lives in California…."
NATO Official Homepage 8/18/97 "…General Wesley K. Clark became the Supreme Allied Commander Europe on 11 July 1997. He is also the Commander-in-Chief, United States European Command. General Clark's last assignment was as Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern Command, Panama, from June 1996 to July 1997, where he commanded all U.S. forces and was responsible for the direction of most U.S. military activities and interests in Latin America and the Caribbean. His previous assignment was as the Director, Strategic Plans and Policy, J5, the Joint Staff (April 1994-June 1996) where he was the staff officer responsible for world-wide politico-military affairs and U.S. military strategic planning. He also led the military negotiations for the Bosnian Peace Accords at Dayton…."
New York Times 5/3/99 Elizabeth Becker "...The American general who is leading NATO's military operation to stop Yugoslav troops from killing and expelling Albanians from Kosovo discovered as an adult that he is the grandson of a Russian Jew who fled his country to escape the pogroms there a century ago. Gen. Wesley Kanne Clark was raised as a Protestant in Little Rock, Ark., where he was brought up by his mother and stepfather, Victor Clark. He was ignorant of his ancestry, which disappeared from his life with the death of his father, Benjamin Jacob Kanne when Wesley was 5. He learned of his ethnic background when he was in his 20s and embraced the discovery, according to several family members....."
Chicago Sun-Times 5/6/99 Bob Novak "...Who is responsible for an air offensive that is building anti-American anger across Europe without breaking the Serbian regime's will? The blame rests heavily on Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander. After 40 days, U.S.-dominated NATO air strikes no longer even pretend to aim solely at military targets. Pentagon sources admit that the attacks on the city center of Belgrade are intended to so demoralize ordinary citizens that they force President Slobodan Milosevic to yield. That has not yet happened, but diplomats believe the grave damage done to American prestige in Central and Eastern Europe will outlive this vicious little war. "The problem is Wes Clark making--at least approving--the bombing decisions," said one such diplomat, who then asked rhetorically: "How could they let a man with such a lack of judgment be [supreme allied commander of Europe]?" Through dealings with Yugoslavia that date back to 1994, Clark's propensity for mistakes has kept him in trouble while he continued moving up the chain of command thanks to a patron in the Oval Office. In the last month's American newspaper clippings, Clark emerges as the only heroic figure of a non-heroic war. Indeed, his resume is stirring: first in his class at West Point, Rhodes scholar, frequently wounded and highly decorated Vietnam combat veteran, White House fellow. He became a full general about as fast as possible in peacetime....Clark is the perfect model of a 1990s political four-star general. Clark's rapid promotions after Dayton --winning his fourth star to head the Panama-based Southern Command and then the jewel of his European post --were both opposed by the Pentagon brass. But Clark's fellow Arkansan in the White House named him anyway. The president and the general are collaborators in a failed strategy whose consequences cast a long shadow even if soon terminated by negotiation..."
London Daily Telegraph 5/11/99 John Keegan Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...the word is that Gen Wesley Clark is not up to the job. He certainly gives no impression of leadership, as Gen Norman Schwarzkopf so strikingly did during the Gulf war. Meanwhile, President Milosevic's stature grows by the day. Given the way Nato has decided to run this war, that is not surprising. Unsuccessful air wars make the target country and its leader look good, while making whoever is launching the bombs look bumbling, if not bullying. That was certainly the effect of Germany's bombing campaign against Britain in 1940, with which analogies can increasingly be drawn. History does sometimes repeat itself, if the same factors apply. The factor of geographical inaccessibility was as important to Mr Churchill's survival in 1940 as it is to Milosevic's today...."
New York Times 5/16/99 MICHAEL R. GORDON ERIC SCHMITT "...In a behind-the-scenes struggle over military strategy and tactics, the Pentagon is blocking a plan by the NATO commander, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, to send Apache helicopters into combat against Serbian troops, Pentagon and NATO officials say. ...."The issue is that Clark is being aggressive, and there is some resistance to doing what he wants to do," a senior American official said. ....Since General Clark first requested them 48 hours after NATO's air strikes began on March 24, the Apaches have been a particularly sensitive matter for the Clinton Administration, which has been reluctant to use combat troops in Kosovo. It took weeks for Washington to agree to General Clark's request to deploy the Apaches. Then it took weeks more to lug the men and supplies for the helicopters and the Army units that accompanied them to Albania. Further, Washington only agreed to send the Apaches and rockets on the condition that they not be used in combat without the formal approval of President Clinton. That approval, which Apache commanders expected by early May, has yet to take place, largely because top Pentagon officials have refused to recommend such a step to the White House, fearing the possible domestic and international consequences if the missions fail. Nor are the Apaches allowed to conduct "live fire" exercises without the Clinton Administration's consent. Such exercises, in which the helicopters fire their guns and missiles, are an essential prerequisite for employing them in combat. ..... But General Clark wants to conduct the "live fire" test by shooting at targets in Kosovo, and he still has not received permission to do so. Two of the helicopters have already crashed during training missions, killing two pilots....."The Army's concern is that this is a very dangerous mission," a Pentagon official said. "The avenues into Kosovo are limited, and the opportunity for shoulder-held weapons is very real. We have to really have all our act together. No one thinks the mission can't be done, but in an age when the American people believe we're in a zero-defects war, there's real apprehension we're going to bring solders back in body bags." ....Another Pentagon objection pertains to barrages of rockets and artillery that would precede the Apache attacks. While the rockets would be aimed at air defenses, there are no NATO ground troops in Kosovo to direct the fire, raising the prospect of civilian casualties....."
International Herald Tribune 5/20/99 William Pfaff Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...America's military, and the U.S. Air Force in particular, are backing away from NATO's war in Yugoslavia. This is a predictable disavowal of failure, but it raises serious questions about future U.S. relations with NATO. ...At NATO itself, interestingly enough, criticism goes in another direction. Critics call General Wesley Clark, NATO's supreme commander in Europe and a friend of President Bill Clinton, a ''political general.''..."
5/24/99 AP Freeper Thanatos "...Gen. Wesley Clark insisted Monday that the NATO forces he commands have the option of using the U.S. Army's Apache attack helicopters in Kosovo, despite signs the plan has been shelved. In his fourth visit to this American base since it was established seven weeks ago, Clark shrugged off suggestions that remarks by President Clinton last week had squelched prospects for the low-flying tank-killers to see action against the Serbs...."
The Rockford Institute 5/24/99 Thomas Fleming "...When Janet Reno sent in the FBI to fry the women and children in the Branch Davidian home, I was in Italy covering the Lega Nord. Stunned by what I read in the Italian press, I told my friends that a turning-point in American history had been reached: if the American people did not rise up and throw the rascals out, if Janet Reno and her colleagues were not put on trial for murder, there would be no hope of restoring the republic. The Italians were not shocked by my remarks: they assumed the worst. Intelligent Europeans were already learning to fear the violence of the new American empire and many people who knew the truth of what the US did in Bosnia compared US air strikes with Waco. But Bosnia was nothing compared with Kosovo, where every day NATO airstrikes are taking out power plants, bombing schools and hospitals, and murdering civilians....During the Waco standoff, apparently, Governor Anne Richards asked Clark, who was then commander of Ft. Hood, for advice. The answer came through his subordinates: take out the leader. Cockburn and St. Clair comment: Certainly the Waco onslaught bears characteristics typical of Gen. Wesley Clark: the eagerness to take out the leader (viz., the Clark-ordered bombing of Milosevic's private residence); the utter disregard for the lives of innocent men, w omen, and children,; the arrogant miscalculations about the effects of force; disregard for law, whether of the Posse Comitatus Act governing military actions within the United States or, abroad, the purview of the Nuremberg laws on war crimes and attacks on civilians...."
WASHINGTON TIMES 6/4/99 BILL GERTZ "... Word inside the Pentagon from the Army operations center is that Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO commander, would like to launch a ground offensive in Kosovo on Sept. 1, if yesterday's promising peace developments fall through. The Army, however, doesn't see any way that the troops and equipment needed for such an offensive could be prepared in time. "No one has told Clark that the emperor has no clothes," said one Pentagon official...."
American Spectator 6/99 John B. Roberts II "...On the morning of March 29, 1999, the sixth day of NATO's bombing campaign against the Serbs, American diplomats throughout the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina received an unusual message from their colleague in Tuzla. It was Foreign Service officer Thomas R. Hutson's last official e-mail to his associates. Hutson's message was a bombshell. He was openly attacking Clinton's Kosovo policy. "My personal reasons for retiring now have only been strengthened by the ill-conceived decision of NATO to bomb the Serbs," Hutson wrote. "This decision has unified the Serbs as no other event I have witnessed in my observation of the area for nearly three decades." "As for its impact on Bosnia and Herzegovina," he warned, "I fear that it has driven a stake into the heart of the Dayton accords." His e-mail closed with a quote from Abba Eban: "Diplomacy should be judged by what it prevents, not only by what it initiates and creates...Much of it is a holding action designed to avoid explosion until the unifying forces of history take humanity into their embrace."...Hutson tried first to shape policy from the inside. During a briefing on resettlement of Bosnian war refugees, Hutson alerted NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark to the difficulties of dealing with the Serbs. Using a Turkish word, inat, to describe the Serb temperament, Hutson told Clark the Serbs could not be bombed into submission. Inat, Hutson says, means irrational. The Serbs' attachment to Kosovo as a symbol of national independence is like a Texan's view of the Alamo. NATO would not easily force the Serbs to allow Kosovo to secede from Yugoslavia and join with Albania, the goal of the Kosovar liberation movement since the early nineties.....When he met with Albright, Holbrooke, and Fuerth in 1995 Hutson may have thought they were simply uninterested in his political solution to preserve the Yugoslav Federation and prevent war. He didn't realize the three were leading advocates of a new and radical use of military intervention around the globe. In the early nineties, when Clinton was still governor of Arkansas, they formed part of a small foreign policy elite convened by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to change U.S. foreign policy after the Cold War. Reports signed by all three recommended a dramatic escalation of the use of military force to settle other countries' domestic conflicts. Ironically, an institution dedicated to "International Peace" set the stage for Clinton's interventionist policies in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, triggering the most widespread deployment of U.S. troops since the Second World War...."
6/14/99 AFP "....In a press conference Clark said: "The bombing was simply a mistake. The target we were seeking was not the Chinese embassy. That building was misidentified. It was just unfortunately an accident."....Clark informed NATO Secretary General Javier Solana in a written report that the Chinese embassy was bombed in error because the Alliance was relying on inaccurate maps of the area, an anonymous NATO source told AFP at the end of May....."
AP 7/20/99 "…Standing by the comments of the Army general who oversaw the campaign in Yugoslavia, Cohen acknowledged that inability to get NATO nations to agree on courses of action and on various targets hampered efforts, at least in the early days of the 78-day air war. Clark, who is the supreme NATO commander, was quoted in Tuesday's editions of The Washington Post as venting frustration with the process, saying he was forced to sacrifice basic logic of warfare to maintain the political cohesion of the alliance…."
The Washington Post 7/28/99 Bradley Graha Dana Priest "...After months of tension with the Pentagon over the conduct of NATO's war against Yugoslavia, Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark was abruptly informed yesterday that his term as the alliance's top commander will end in April. Senior Pentagon officials, disclosing the move, portrayed it as a normal rotation. But the decision to end Clark's term a few months short of three years was unusual, and some military officials said it may be seen by his congressional supporters and among European allies as an affront to the general who led NATO to victory....."
Washington Post 7/29/99 Jim Hoagland "...Washington is a city of careers: Job changes both cause and reflect seismic political events. Such a shift is now underway at the Pentagon, where Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the NATO commander who recently got Slobodan Milosevic to say uncle in Kosovo, was told on Tuesday to look for a new job. Ingratitude, or history on the march? Some of both may be involved. Clark, not given to underestimating his place in history, can take solace in reflecting on the fates of Winston Churchill at the end of World War II or George Bush after Desert Storm. Their victories were also rewarded with eviction notices from electorates ready to move on to new subjects....Ignatieff quotes Clark acknowledging his frustration with "the only air campaign in history in which lovers strolled down riverbanks in the gathering twilight . . . to watch the fireworks" -- until May 24, when heavy munitions destroyed the transformer yards of the Yugoslav power grid and changed the course of the war. Clark, a member of the U.S. negotiating team at Dayton that produced the Bosnian peace accord, brought personal involvement and experience in the Balkans with him to the NATO job. He also brought along a willingness to stand up for his beliefs. That quality helped end a war and save lives. It may also have cost Clark a few months of his tour in one of the world's most important jobs. If so, it was a trade worth making....."
Washington Times 7/30/99 "...We have learned not to expect much by way of gratitude or graciousness from the Clinton White House.... Case in point this week is the dismissal of NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark. Gen. Clark's three-year tour of duty was to have ended in July 2000 -- and could at that time have been extended. Indeed, given that NATO's political leaders all around declared their pride in NATO's air-war victory over Serbia, one might well have expected Gen. Clark to receive commendations and medals. Instead, the general got the pink slip.... It is not just that the Gen. Clark was dismissed prematurely, but also the way it was handled. When Gen. Clark received the call on Tuesday, in the late afternoon, Washington time, he was on business in Latvia. That would be about 10 p.m. Latvian time. Within the hour, reporters started calling for comment, which is evidently how long it took for the Pentagon to leak the story....."
New York Post 8/2/99 Deborah Orin "...U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark - just dumped as NATO's top commander - wanted to seize Kosovo's Pristina airport to bar Russian troops, but was blocked for fear he'd start "World War III," a new report claims. Russia's success in landing and grabbing control of the airport was a major embarrassment to NATO as it began enforcing the peace deal in Kosovo, which didn't plan for Russians at that key site. Clark ordered an airborne assault to beat the Russians to the punch, but NATO's ground commander, British Gen. Mike Jackson, defied the order and told Clark: "I'm not going to start World War III for you," Newsweek reports...."
New York Post 7/29/99 Editorial Board "...Clark committed the crime of honesty, and honesty just can't be tolerated in Clinton-land. As Michael Ignatieff details in this week's New Yorker, Clark was a man with a plan- a plan the administration and NATO were only willing to implement when it became clear they were on the verge of losing the war. From the first, Clark wanted to bomb the electrical grid and communications network that kept Slobodan Milosevic riding high. But it took from March to May for Clark to get the approval. When the strike was finally carried out, it spelled defeat for the Serbs. Clark won a war with his hands practically tied behind his back. He took the heat for the Clinton administration's dithering while arguing all the while for the right thing - a coordinated land and air attack...."
Stratfor 7/30/99 "...The first of the heads responsible for the Kosovo crisis rolled on July 27, when Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Wesley Clark was sacked. Clark was ordered to resign his post in April, three months before the end of his current term, to be replaced by Air Force General Joseph Ralston, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). Officially, Clark's term was shortened because otherwise Ralston, whose term as JCS vice chairman expires in February, would have been forced to retire. Instead, it is Clark who is being pensioned off, though Defense Secretary William Cohen reportedly recommended Clark be offered an ambassadorship..... General Clark was one of four top Clinton advisors most responsible for pushing the U.S. and NATO into a military confrontation over Kosovo. According to a number of reports that emerged during and after the war, Secretary of State Madeline Albright in January 1999 presented the plan under which NATO should threaten air strikes. She was backed up by Clark and by envoys Richard Holbrooke and Robert Gelbard, who argued that Milosevic would buckle under a day or two of bombing, if not merely the threat of air strikes. They, in turn, were backed by a sea of anonymous analysts in the U.S. intelligence agencies who, until the bombing began, repeatedly argued that Milosevic would quickly submit under air attacks. Skeptics included Cohen, Shelton, presidential advisor Sandy Berger, and presumably Ralston...."
Pacific Stars And Stripes 8/13/99 "...A NATO ally apparently leaked secret targeting information to Yugoslav officials during the U.S.-led air war, said Gen. Wesley Clark, the American four-star Army general who heads NATO. Clark, who declined to speculate about who had tipped the Yugoslavs to NATO's targets, said the security breach was "as clear as the nose on your" face. He declined to say what evidence led him to this conclusion or to describe the steps taken to stop the leaks. "I can't go into it," Clark, the supreme allied commander for Europe, said in an interview this week. "I have to just say it apparently happened and we are concerned about this."...."
Reuters 8/13/99 "...General Wesley Clark, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, said Friday he had no evidence the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was behind attacks on Serbs that have occurred since a peace plan was signed in June. Clark, on a visit to the province, said KLA leaders had consistently backed calls for Serbs to remain in Kosovo. ``I'm not going to point fingers at the KLA. The KLA leadership has been very co-operative with us at the top level,'' the U.S. Army general told reporters at the headquarters of KFOR, the NATO-led international peacekeeping force. Several international officials have recently said they suspected the KLA, or rogue elements, must be behind some of the ethnic Albanian revenge attacks which have driven up to 170,000 Serbs from Kosovo in the past few months. But Clark said much of the violence seemed spontaneous or, particularly in southeastern Kosovo, was linked to organized crime...."
Washington Post 8/14/99 Peter Finn "...It hasn't taken long -- eight weeks -- for the bloom to come off liberation. With Kosovo purged of nearly 80 percent of its Serbian population and with many of the remaining Serbs, particularly those in urban areas, now viewing international peacekeepers as their last and only protection, the NATO-led peacekeeping operation is confronting an unexpected phenomenon: ethnic Albanian hostility. The peacekeepers' determination to maintain a multi-ethnic society here has led to violent confrontations with ethnic Albanians bent on revenge against the Serbs or the looting of their property. And the United Nations' insistence on the primacy of its authority has increased tension with the Kosovo Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian militia that is attempting to establish its own parallel system of control in Kosovo, which formally remains a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic. ....The KLA's so-called Minister of the Interior, Rexhep Selimi, was detained by British troops after he waved a gun at them while driving a car with a flashing police light. A later raid on the offices of Selimi -- an uncle of the KLA's former military commander -- produced several weapons and identity cards giving the bearer the right to "to conduct illegal activities, including carrying and using weapons, entering and confiscating property without warning," British troops said....."
New York Times 8/15/99 Carlotta Gall "...The international peacekeeping force in Kosovo is clamping down hard on the Kosovo Liberation Army, seizing arms caches almost daily and confiscating documents and even cash from premises, in what some officials say is a determined effort to break the movement. NATO and United Nations officials maintain that the tougher action is routine, and part of an agreement signed almost seven weeks ago that aimed to dismantle the rebel operation completely within three months. Yet until now, the NATO-led peacekeeping force here has given the guerrillas a fairly wide berth. With the recent crackdown, the NATO force is demonstrating that it will no longer tolerate violations of the agreement and that it expects the rebels to turn over their weapons and come to heel behind NATO and United Nations authorities Members of the Kosovar army and the provisional government of Hashim Thaci, who is the political leader of the movement, are growing increasingly unhappy as many of their aspirations are brushed aside. Those include forming a kind of national guard and being incorporated within any police force for Kosovo, as well as gaining social respect that they feel they have earned...."
The Guardian 8/20/99 "…Nato's top general was fighting an internal battle against member states who tried to limit the alliance's air raids during the Kosovo conflict, it has emerged. General Wesley Clark, Nato's Allied Commander in Europe, effectively "sidelined" wavering states like Germany and Greece, according to a BBC Newsnight special. Appearing to back the claims, General Clark told the programme: "I didn't always defer to those who wanted targets withheld…"
Elizabeth Mann
The Arizona Republic 4/4/99 Jerry Kammer "...The head of the new Chinese Cultural Center wields wide financial influence, has powerful and controversial contacts Elizabeth Mann, Arizona's most important business connection to Beijing, has risen to prominence through mastery of what the Chinese call "guanxi," the cultivation of contacts with powerful people..... Two of Mann's contacts have been linked to major scandals. Another was convicted of bank fraud in Georgia before coming to work for Mann. She herself has been the subject of two criminal investigations. Mann, 46, was known as Ning Yu before she became a U.S. citizen in 1992. She is the top executive in Arizona for COFCO, a corporate giant owned by the Beijing government. It owns the COFCO Chinese Cultural Center on 44th and Van Buren streets in Phoenix.... her circle of financial influence has included: A Chinese vice president's son who became a central figure in the still-swirling allegations that President Clinton sold access to the White House. A former colonel in the People's Liberation Army who was indicted in the United States in 1996 on weapons smuggling charges. A business partner at COFCO's lending arm who came to Arizona after criminal violations at an Atlanta bank led federal authorities to ban him from banking. An officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing who repeatedly violated State Department rules by accepting favors from Mann while he provided visa assistance for her..... Their son, Henry, a senior at Horizon High School, has been nominated to the Naval Academy by U.S. Sen. John McCain and to the Air Force Academy by U.S. Rep. John Shadegg.....Two of the investors Mann brought to Ambanc would become central figures in scandals that strained relations between Washington and Beijing. The first was Wang Jun, the son of Wang Zhen, vice president of China from 1988 until his death in 1993. A New York Times obituary described Wang Zhen as "a general who rose through the Communist ranks to become one of China's most powerful leaders and among the hardest of the hard-liners." In 1996, Wang Jun became a controversial figure after he met with President Clinton at a White House reception for political fund-raisers. Wang's visit caused a furor, not only because of his political pedigree, but because it was arranged by Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie, a Little Rock businessman at the center of allegations that the Chinese tried to use campaign contributions to influence U.S. policy. Clinton's critics suggested that Wang had bought access to the White House, and Clinton later acknowledged that the visit had been "clearly inappropriate." Wang is the head of the Chinese International Trust and Investment Corp., or CITIC. It is China's most powerful financial and industrial conglomerate. Mann had no ties to the White House controversy. She had arranged for Ambanc President Jack McDonnell to meet Wang eight years earlier..... CITIC bought into Ambanc partnerships that purchased an office building at the Scottsdale Air Park, the Cedar Meadows Apartments in Peoria, 1,200 acres of undeveloped land in Sun Valley west of Phoenix and 143 acres at Goldfield Ranch east of Fountain Hills. Cedar Meadows has since been sold. CITIC was one of several Chinese corporations that Mann brought into Ambanc investments. Another, property records show, was Polytechnologies, a business arm of the People's Liberation Army. In 1992, a Polytechnologies subsidiary called Dynasty Holdings became Ambanc's limited partner on apartment complexes in Norwalk, Calif., and Seattle. Those investments, according to McDonnell, were guided by Robert Ma, a Dynasty executive and a former Chinese army colonel who was indicted in 1996 on federal charges of smuggling 2,000 AK-47 rifles into California. Ma fled the country before he could be arrested..... there were other prominent Chinese who were drawn to Arizona through Mann's contacts. One was Andong Zhong, son of the finance minister for China's "paramount leader," the late Deng Xiaoping. Andong directed the firm's entry into the Ambanc partnership that owned the Cedar Meadows apartments for several years. Another was Deng Zhifang, a son of Deng Xiaoping. He worked briefly at Ambanc's office on Tatum Boulevard in the early 1990s..... BNU stands for Beijing and the United States, she said. BNU manages the cultural center and Chinese-owned real estate in Phoenix and Las Vegas. It owns three shoe factories in China, and a subsidiary named COFCO Credit provides automobile loans in Arizona and other Western states. Records filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission show that Mann owns 24 percent of COFCO Credit. Mann said there is nothing unusual about a government corporation sharing ownership with its executives. "It's my incentive from COFCO," she said. "I built this company for them, and I think they are very appreciative of what I have done." ..... On the same day they bought undeveloped land near Sky Harbor International Airport, they sold it to a group of investors from the Chinese city of Zhenjiang at a $385,000 profit. But it was another real estate deal that drew the attention of the state grand jury. The transaction began in late 1994, when the Manns established Vista Capital Management to buy the cultural center site on 44th Street, just south of Loop 202. The Manns planned to buy the land for $3.6 million and sell it to BNU for $6 million, records show. But before the deal could close, a Mann subordinate named Jianwei Ding became suspicious and hired attorneys to look into it on behalf of BNU. On Feb. 15, 1996, five days before the double transaction was to close, one of the attorneys reported his suspicion that Elizabeth Mann had devised a "scheme for personal profit" and had "breached her fiduciary duty" to BNU.... Despite the controversies, Mann remains enthusiastic and determined. She has set a course for ambitious COFCO expansion. At the cultural center's grand opening, Mann said the center would be the model for similar developments across the country. She also interpreted for COFCO President Zhou Mingchen, who called for closer Sino-U.S. business and cultural ties. "If these two countries can really join hands together," Zhou said, "it will be a great force that will help the 21st century." ..."
Arizona Republic 7/29/99 Jeff Barker "...A House committee today will unveil evidence of new favors provided to a former visa official at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing by a Chinese government-owned conglomerate, including a free stay at a luxury Scottsdale suite. Charles M. Parish Jr., the embassy's former visa section chief, accepted a number of previously undisclosed gifts from Elizabeth Mann, operator of a Phoenix real estate company called BNU Corp., which is owned by the conglomerate, according to House Government Reform Committee investigators.
The committee is holding a hearing today with Parish expected to be the lead witness. The Arizona Republic reported in March that Parish, in violation of State Department rules, accepted free lodging at corporate apartments in Las Vegas and Norwalk, Calif., in 1995 and 1996 from China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp. The committee says Parish, who has denied any quid pro quo relationship, was providing visa assistance at the request of Mann and others so that officials of the conglomerate, known as COFCO, could travel frequently to Phoenix and other U.S. destinations. State Department rules forbid embassy officials from accepting gifts from anyone seeking visas or other official action..... The Republic has learned that the new information includes: Mann gave Parish "a number of gifts," a former COFCO vice president, Jay Ding, has told the committee staff. Ding has told the panel's investigators that he saw Mann pass several wrapped boxes and an envelope to Parish while he was dining with COFCO and BNU officials in Beijing and Phoenix. Ding told the committee he didn't know what the gifts were. He said Mann mentioned a gold Rolex watch and $2,000 in casino chips in connection with Parish, but Ding is not sure she gave either to Parish. The committee said Parish stayed free of charge at a COFCO luxury suite in Scottsdale. The address could not be obtained from either the committee or Mann's office. Several e-mails in Parish's office suggest that Parish, at Mann's request, helped Fuli Lin, vice chairman of BNU, obtain a visa, according to the committee..... "The U.S. Embassy in Beijing is one of our most sensitive diplomatic posts in the world," Burton said in a prepared statement. "It is unfathomable that these kinds of activities could go on right under the noses of top embassy officials for a year and a half."..."
The Arizona Republic 8/12/99 Jerry Kammer "...The Arizona Republic reported in March that while Parish was the chief arbiter of visa applications in Beijing, he received blue-ribbon treatment as a guest of COFCO's Phoenix-based subsidiary, BNU Corp. COFCO is the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import & Export Corp. Fortune magazine last year ranked the Beijing-based corporation 309th on its list of the world's 500 largest companies. BNU operates the Chinese Cultural Center in Phoenix, imports shoes from four company-owned factories in China, provides consumer credit and manages property. Parish stayed at BNU apartment complexes in Norwalk, Calif., and Las Vegas as a guest of BNU President Elizabeth Mann, The Republic reported. The committee report added that he also was a guest at an unidentified COFCO property in Scottsdale. Mann, a native of China, is now a U.S. citizen and directs the Chinese Cultural Center in Phoenix. "Mann cultivated a relationship with Charles Parish as a way of ensuring that COFCO officials received visas from the embassy," according to the report. Mann and COFCO on Wednesday sharply denied impropriety. Although they are refusing to respond directly to questions from The Republic, their attorney responded with a written statement defending their acquisition of visas...."
The Arizona Republic 8/12/99 Jerry Kammer "..."Mr. Parish's malfeasance ranges from apparent bribery, to improper receipt of gifts and gratuities, to violation of embassy rules regarding fraternization with Chinese citizens," the report states. The bribery allegations stem from testimony in May by Johnny Chung, an American citizen who has figured prominently in allegations of illegal Chinese contributions to the Democratic Party. Chung testified that Parish received a bagful of cash from an executive of Haomen Beer, one of China's largest brewers, which was seeking to expand its business to the United States. The report also cites information from Phoenix resident and former COFCO executive Jianwei Ding, who once worked under Mann and who has been waging a series of bitter legal battles with her since 1996. The report says Ding "saw Mann pass an envelope and several wrapped boxes to Parish while Parish was dining with COFCO and BNU officials in both Beijing and Phoenix." The report provides no further details. In 1996, Ding blew the whistle on what he said was an insider deal by Mann to buy the Cultural Center site and sell it quickly to BNU at a $2.4 million profit...."
The Washington Times 8/17/99 Audrey Hudson "…A congressional committee is expanding its investigation of bribery and visa fraud at a U.S. embassy in China to include five additional embassies in Central and South America. A committee spokesman says their probe of Charles Parish Jr., former first consul and secretary to the Beijing embassy, has prompted whistleblowers to come forward with new information on illegal activities by other consular officials. "We are getting lots of calls about other State Department problems around the world," the spokesman said. "On more than two occasions Foreign Service officers have told us they have resigned in disgust of the graft and corruption they've seen," he said. "They are seeing what happened with Parish and saying they have the same problems in their embassy and no one is doing anything about it. (The State Department is) sweeping it under the rug because it's an embarrassment," the spokesman said…. The spokesman confirmed that the committee is also examining whether they can hold Mr. Parish in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate….. Embassy officials began complaining in 1995 that Mr. Parish was accepting gifts and issuing visas to unqualified individuals, but it wasn't until 1996 that the embassy began an official inquiry, House investigators say. Despite the accusations, he was given a sensitive assignment in Washington, given a merit pay increase and retired with full benefits, investigators said. Committee documents show Mr. Parish had been under suspicion for visa fraud while serving in Bangladesh and Nepal as early as 1990. Details of Mr. Parish's activities first surfaced when Johnny Chung testified before Mr. Burton's committee of his connection to Chinese officials and campaign contributions he made during the 1996 presidential election. Mr. Chung testified that Mr. Parish provided him with 25 to 30 visas for business associates, and in exchange he provided favors for Mr. Parish. Mr. Chung says he created invitation letters for Mr. Parish's girlfriends to visit the United States. Mr. Chung says he witnessed Mr. Parish accepting a bag full of money he estimated at $15,000 from a Chinese businessman, that included passports to be stamped with U.S. visas. Investigators say Mr. Chung also paid $3,000 for Mr. Parish, along with his girlfriend and sisiter, to attend a Democratic National Committee fund-raiser….."
Robert Suettinger
4/7/99 Freeper Jolly "…National Intelligence Council (NIC) East Asia officer Robert Suettinger, currently with the Brookings Institution. Previously served in the National Security Council as director of Asian affairs from 1994 to 1997. What happened on his watch:
1. Let Chung bring Chinese business men into the White House and get their pictures taken with Clinton. "I don't see any lasting damage to U.S. foreign policy from giving Johnny Chung the pictures. And to the degree it motivates him to continue contributing to the DNC, who am I to complain?" Chung visited the White House 49 times
2. Had problems with Gore's Hsi Lai Temple Fund Raising trip not because the questionable donations, but because he was worried it might offend the PRC.
3. 9/9/95 Hotung After donating $100,000, Eric Hotung privately meets with Robert Suettinger, at Don Fowler's request
4. Let several Tiananmen PLA generals come in and out of the White House while he was at the NSC.
5. During Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1996 Suettinger reviewed the history of "strategic ambiguity" in which successive administrations implied but never said they would defend the island.
6. China helped arm North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan with WMD during this period.
7. Trulock and his team were trying to get the administrations attention on Chinese Spying at Los Alamos. By the time Suettinger left nothing much had been done about the situation at the lab.
8. December 14, 1995 - John Huang is granted a top secret consulting clearance, by the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) in connection with an unsuccessful effort to make Huang a consultant to the Department of Commerce while he worked for the DNC. Due to Huang's existing top secret clearance DISCO did not conduct a separate background investigation of Huang. Huang's DISCO clearance was not taken away until December 1996.
9. Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral, became the largest individual donor to Democrats. An Air Force intelligence analysis prepared by Maj. Gen. John Cosciano - concluded that the report given to Beijing by satellite builders, including Loral, provided rocket guidance improvements under the guise of questions. The questions spelled out directions on how to overcome guidance and control failures.
10. February 2, 1996 The Clinton administration granted Wang Jun's Poly Technologies import permits to flood America with over 100,000 semi-automatic weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition. The Clinton administration had been delaying other arms importers because the president was opposed. * White House documents released last week show that Clinton himself was concerned in April 1995 about the "circulating around" of pictures that showed him meeting with Chinese businessmen whom Chung had brought to the White House to watch the president give a radio address. In addition, Robert L. Suettinger, a China specialist on the staff of the National Security Council staff, cautioned a colleague in a memorandum that month that Chung "should be treated with a pinch of suspicion." "My impression," the memo went on, "is that he is a hustler, and appears to be involved in setting up some kind of consulting operation that will thrive by bringing Chinese entrepreneurs into town for exposure to high-level U.S. officials." Asian Links of a Donor Put Gifts to Democrats in Doubt, The New York Times, CHRISTOPHER DREW, 02/22/97 (China Scandal) But under questioning from Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., and other Republicans, he said he had no reason to believe then or now that Chung was acting as an agent of the Chinese government.Chung takes Fifth but talks to committee, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, MARK SHERMAN, 11/15/97
* "I don't see any lasting damage to U.S. foreign policy from giving Johnny Chung the pictures. And to the degree it motivates him to continue contributing to the DNC, who am I to complain?"-- Robert Suettinger, Director of Asian Affairs for the National Security Council CAS mailing list 11/14/97
*One supporter, Johnny Chung, whose $366,000 in donations qualified him as a "managing trustee" of the Democratic National Committee, made 49 visits to the White House--access that kept the National Security Council's China expert, Robert Suettinger, working overtime. Suettinger warned that Chung was a "hustler" trying to cash in on his White House connections to build a consulting firm....Cash-And-Carry Diplomacy, CNN/AllPolitics/TIME, Nancy Gibbs, 02/24/94
* Another troubling document is an April 1996 E-mail message from NSC's Suettinger that warned Vice President Gore about attending a fund-raising lunch at a Buddhist temple near Los Angeles. Gore's attendance, he said, would appear to give U.S. policy a pro-Taiwan, anti-China tilt at a time of great tension between the two. "My reaction would be one of great, great caution." The State Department expressed similar concerns. The result? Gore went, but there were no Taiwanese flags flying to make for uncomfortable photo ops, and no Taiwanese politicians playing a visible role. The lunch netted the D.N.C. $140,000 and unlimited grief ever since because of multiple fund-raising irregularities. Cash-And-Carry Diplomacy, CNN/AllPolitics/TIME, Nancy Gibbs, 02/24/94
* (On : a letter from the chairman of the President's political party, Don Fowler, thanking Chung for "being a friend and great supporter of the D.N.C." and wishing him success on his China mission.) This time Suettinger made his alarm plain. He wrote to Lake that Chung's mission was "very troubling" because it interfered in a "diplomatically difficult and high-stakes issue." He added, "All we can do is hope the Chinese recognize Chung's credentials are thin and that his message should be treated with caution." Suettinger feared that Chung could "do damage" and recommended that "we be very careful about the kinds of favors he is granted." Cash-And-Carry Diplomacy, CNN/AllPolitics/TIME, Nancy Gibbs, 02/24/94
"In most cases, Chung is not in a position to make much of an impact on U.S.-China relations," wrote Suettinger, the national security aide. "In the Harry Wu case, however, he could conceivably do damage, depending on what he says and how much credibility he carries with Beijing. I recommend that we be very careful about the kinds of political favors he is granted." Clinton and Gore Received Warnings on Asian Donors, The New York Times, Stephen Labaton, 02/15/97 (Suettinger, Chung, Harry Wu)
Nancy Hernreich, Clinton's appointments and scheduling aide, told the committee on Thursday that Clinton "Clinton had expressed displeasure about the presence of the Chinese businessmen at the radio address." A month later the White House asked the National Security Council - according to Hernreich- whether Chung should receive photos from the visit showing Clinton with the businessmen. Suro reports in the article that "Former NSC aide Brooke Darby testified that, based on information from Robert L. Suettinger, then the NSC's China expert, she recommended against giving Chung the pictures." Suettinger told Darby that while giving the picture would cause no "lasting damage to U.S. foreign policy" but warned that Chung was a "hustler" who was trying to advance his business and would become "a royal pain" He [Suettinger] also told the panel that he was able to verify that five of the six Chinese present at the radio address were "legitimate Chinese enterprises." The fifth - James Y. Sun, was described by Chung as a "young entrepreneur and self-made millionaire." "There are relatively few self-made millionaires in the People's Republic of China," deadpanned Suettinger. -Democratic Donor Chung Invokes 5th Amendment, Washington Post, Edward Walsh, 11/15/97 (China Scandal)
* 9/9/95 - day of meeting. An October 1995 e-mail from an NSC staffer informed him that "a request has come in from [White House director of political affairs] Doug Sosnik's office for you to have a five-minute photo-op with Eric Hotung. Sosnik's office got the request from [DNC] Chairman [Don] Fowler. If you don't know Hotung, he's a fabulously wealthy Hong Kong businessman." As it happened, his American wife had promised the DNC a $100,000 donation. Within 10 days of the photo-op, the wife of the "fabulously wealthy" Mr. Hotung made good on her promise. Asked by Sen. Thompson at the campaign-finance hearings about NSC staffer Robert Suettinger's private meeting with Mr. Hotung at his lawyer's office, Mr. Berger seemed indignant at the mere hint of impropriety. "Mr. Suettinger is a career employee in the diplomatic area who's assigned to the NSC, not at all political," Mr. Berger retorted. - SANDY BERGER MUST GO, cont'd, The Washington Times, Editorial, 03/19/99 (Chinese Spies, Nukes, Berger)
National Security Adviser Samuel ''Sandy'' Berger defended the administration against charges that it had traded contacts at the National Security Council for cash in 1995. Questioned whether his office was misused for politics, Berger told senators there were no clear procedures during last year's election for handling Democratic donors seeking White House access. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Republicans noted that Eric and Patricia Hotung, residents of Hong Kong, gave the Democratic National Committee $99,980 soon after Hotung met with NSC staffer Robert Suettinger and had a five-minute ''photo op'' with Berger, who was then deputy national security adviser. A DNC memorandum released at the hearing indicated that the contacts were set up by the DNC. Berger said he was unaware at the time that the Hotungs would be donating money. - White House's Berger Admits: No Process For Election Contacts, Investors Business Daily, 09/12/97 (China Scandal)
* The idea that officials of the People's Republic of China were major contributors to the Democratic National Committee did not strike two members of Clinton's national security staff as a problem. It is against the law for a foreign national to give money to an American political party. It is also against the law for a non-American representative of a foreign government to contribute to an American political party. And China, of course, is not just any foreign government. We are not talking Canada. We are talking the People's Republic of China, the last great communist power in the world, a totalitarian state where power is transferred not by elections but--as we saw this week--from the hands of one dead old communist to another live old communist; a state that in the not-distant past starved 30 million of its citizens to death; that fought America, by proxy and other means, for nearly half a century of cold and sometimes hot war; that jails, tortures and murders its political dissidents; that employs slave labor; that promotes nuclear proliferation; that forces abortion on women; that is committed to challenging the U.S. as the dominant military and economic power in the East. Can it be that, as Suettinger describes them, bona fide (present or former) officials of this regime were, as Darby describes them, major contributors to the DNC? - TRB: CITIC-VIP, The New Republic, Michael Kelly, 02/23/97 (China Scandal)
* The United States, of course, has been spying on China too. "Nations will do that to each other and have done so for centuries," Bob Suettinger, a recently retired CIA official, said last week. Commenting on the current furor over Chinese spying at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Suettinger quipped: "Someone with my background could hardly pretend to be shocked." - U.S. Acquiesced in China Spying, Record Shows, LA Times, Jim Mann, 03/14/99 (Suettinger, Chinese Spies, China-US Policy)
* "Business is less enthusiastic about the China market lately; it just hasn't been the benefit they'd hoped," said Robert Suettinger, a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution, after serving as the national intelligence officer for East Asia. When coupled with security concerns, "nobody is prepared to give China anything at this point," he said. - ZHU LANDS AS TALKS STILL UP IN AIR, Chicago Tribune, Merrill Goozner, 04/06/99 (Suettinger, Chinese Economy, Trade)
* Friday, March 8, was a bitterly cold day in Washington, with nearly four inches of fresh snow and a wind chill below zero. That morning, Lake and Liu -- accompanied by National Security Council aide Robert Suettinger and State Department officials Winston Lord and Jeff Bader -- drove secretly to Middleburg, Va., and the country estate of Pamela Harriman, the ambassador to France...Preparing for dinner at the State Department that night with Liu, Lake asked Suettinger to research the strongest statements ever made to China about Taiwan. Suettinger reviewed the history of "strategic ambiguity" in which successive administrations implied but never said they would defend the island. Lake, Perry and Christopher decided -- and informed the president -- that they should go further. - Tension Over Taiwan Prompted Repair of Ties, Washington Post, Barton Gellman, 06/21/98 (Suettinger, ROC vs PRC)
* In March 1996, Trie sent a letter to Clinton questioning whether his deployment of two aircraft carrier battle groups to the Taiwan Strait at the time would provoke a war with China, an outcome that, Trie warned, could have a "negative outcome" for the President politically, "especially in this campaign year." Clinton responded with a boiler-plate reassurance that the only U.S. intent was to help the two sides peaceably resolve an ongoing dispute over China's military maneuvers in the strait. The letter may not have constituted a big foreign-policy concession, but it burnished a big donor's stature in China, where connections mean everything and where Trie was concentrating his business interests. - Cash-And-Carry Diplomacy, CNN/AllPolitics/TIME, Nancy Gibbs, 02/24/94
Liu Chao-ying
William Norman Grigg 7/6/99 "…Chung allegedly received $300,000 from Lieutenant Colonel Liu Chao-ying of the PLA. Ms. Liu is an official of the China Aerospace Corporation; through Chung, she enjoyed personal access to Mr. Clinton. According to the Times, "At one fundraiser to which Mr. Chung gained admission for her, she was photographed with President Clinton." This occurred, noted the Times, at a time when "President Clinton was making it easier for American civilian communications satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets, a key issue for the PLA and for Ms. Liu's company, which sells missiles for the military and also has a troubled space subsidiary."…Ms. Liu is a textbook example of Red China's "princeling" class - the wealthy offspring of the Communist Party's elite. Her father is General Liu Huaqing, who until his retirement in 1997 was vice chairman of Red China's Central Military Commission and a member of the Standing Committee of the Red Chinese politburo - the Party's apex decision-making body. A graduate of the Soviet Union's Voroshilov Naval Academy, General Liu is a Leninist of the old school, and doubtless is well aware of Lenin's prophecy that the West would sell the rope with which it would be hung. Johnny Chung's admissions, which were made to Justice Department investigators as part of his plea bargain agreement, have established a money trail running from the ruling body of Red China's Politburo directly into Bill Clinton's Oval Office….Michael Kelly of the Washington Post observes, "During the period of Schwartz and Liu Chao-ying's munificence, Clinton ... re-liberalized U.S. policy toward Chinese satellite launches." Kelly assembles the relevant facts into a devastating brief against Bill Clinton, built around "three related significant events": - "In 1995 Schwartz wrote Clinton urging him to shift licensing authority over Chinese satellite launches from the security-minded State Department to the Commerce Department, which promotes American business interests, not national safety. In October, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, backed by the Defense Department, the CIA, and the National Security Agency, ordered State to retain control over the launches. Commerce asked the President to overrule Christopher. In March 1996 Clinton did so, but he delayed implementation - and, importantly, publication - of his order until November 5, 1996, the day he was re-elected." - "On February 6, 1996, Clinton signed waivers for four new American satellite launches in China, despite evidence that China was still exporting nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan and Iran….." - "In February 1998, President Clinton approved a new waiver for Loral allowing the company to transfer more technological assistance to China. He did this although his Justice Department had warned the White House that granting Loral a new waiver to do essentially what it had done in 1996 would amount to ex post facto presidential dispensation of Loral's past actions, and would thereby greatly undercut Justice's case."…"
Washington Times 4/27/99 Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II "...Hovering over next month's espionage hearings to be held by Chairman Dan Burton, Indiana Republican, will be the image Lt. Col. Liu Chaoying, a true Red princess, and Johnny Chung's case officer. A child of secret wealth and privilege in supposedly egalitarian China, she is the daughter of Gen. Liu Huaqing, a Long March veteran, and until 1997 the People's Liberation Army's highest-ranking uniformed officer. Now about 40 and with a taste for expensive clothes, Col. Liu graduated from the Electronics and Computer Department of China's National Defense Technology University in Changsha. Her advanced degree in political economy (Marxism-Leninism) was awarded by the Chinese People's University in Beijing, a major training center for future Communist Party officials. After university, she entered the Chinese intelligence apparatus, first with Chinese Navy intelligence and currently as an officer of the Er Bu, China's equivalent of the old Soviet military intelligence agency, the GRU. In the Chinese system, the Er Bu has at least the equivalent status of the civilian spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, China's KGB. Currently, Col. Liu is vice president of International Trading for China Aerospace Industrial Holdings (CASIL), a holding company for manufacturers of missiles and military electronics. Col. Liu counts for more than a modern high-tech spy; she also is a major arms broker. As a very high-ranking Red princess, she used her father's connections to become the assistant to the presidents of both Great Wall Industries and China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp...."
Washington Times 4/27/99 Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II "...For whatever reason, Lt. Col. Liu was a sloppy spy. She violated two of the cardinal rules of undercover operations: (1) She allowed someone below her in the network (Mr. Chung) to find out who was above her (Gen. Ji). (2) And she bragged about other operations. According to Mr. Chung's December grand jury testimony, she introduced him three times to Gen. Ji, who was working out of Hong Kong under an assumed name. That has allowed the FBI to reconstruct the money pipeline that ran from Gen. Xiong through Gen. Ji, Col. Liu and Mr. Chung right into the Clinton-Gore 1996 re-election effort. At least $300,000 was inserted at the top but due to Mr. Chung's habit of commingling funds, it may be hard to tell how much reached the bottom. It was at least enough for Col. Liu to be invited to two Clinton fund-raisers where she got her picture taken with the president. Reportedly, the Justice Department has the picture and won't release it...."
NY TIMES 5/12/99 TIM GOLDEN and JEFF GERTH "…On June 23, 1997, about six months into the inquiry, Stipano convened from the Justice Department and other law-enforcement agencies to describe its initial findings. "We were not oblivious to the fact that this could be money laundering, that it could be embezzlement, that it could be campaign-finance related," one official said. The inquiry was completed early the next spring. No charges were brought, and no regulatory actions taken. At the time of the June 1997 meeting, Justice Department and FBI officials were already searching for flows of Chinese money into American political coffers. And they were focusing closely on one of Ms. Xu's relatives by marriage, a Chinese military officer and aerospace executive named Liu Chao-ying….Ms. Xu said she was not questioned by federal investigators until almost a year later, and then only briefly. She said the officials asked about her role in setting up a checking account for Ms. Liu in 1991, but dropped the matter after she explained that Ms. Liu was the sister of her younger brother's wife, and that she had no other business involvement with her. They are not my favorite people," Ms. Xu said of her in-laws. "I live in a different world." Several American officials privately questioned that assertion, saying Ms. Liu traveled to China with Ms. Xu at least once, in 1991. Ms. Liu has also used Ms. Xu's identity as an alias on at least one occasion, officials said.
Opening Statement Chairman Dan Burton Committee on Government Reform 5/11/99 "...I think Mr. Chung and his family have probably paid a pretty high price for his mistakes. But he's going to do something today that the other 100 people haven't done. He's going to testify. He's cooperated with the Justice Department. He's cooperated with us. What he's doing today isn't going to be very easy -- he's going to sit in front of this committee, and all of these TV cameras and reporters, and admit that he broke the law. That takes courage....What has Mr. Chung told us? He's told us that General Ji Shengde, the head of Military Intelligence for the People's Liberation Army, gave him $300,000. General Ji would be the equivalent of the head of the CIA here. It was wired to him through Lt. Colonel Liu Chao-Ying of China Aerospace. Mr. Chung has told us that the General told him the following: "We really like your President." "We hope he will be re-elected." "I will give you 300,000 U.S. dollars." "You can give it to your President and the Democrat Party." Shortly after this, Mr. Chung gave $35,000 to the Democratic National Committee...."
Washington Times 5/12/99 Jerry Seper "...A defiant Johnny Chung told a House committee yesterday of cash gifts for President Clinton's re-election campaign, of threats by the Chinese to his family if he didn't keep his mouth shut, and of hush money to defend himself if he did. The exact language of the threats was imprecise and polite, he said, but he got the message loud and clear that he would cooperate with the FBI and the Justice Department only at great risk. "The message was as follows: If you keep your mouth shut, you and your family will be safe," the one-time Democratic fund-raiser said At one point, the FBI believed the threat was serious enough to hide Chung and his family in a California hotel for three weeks.....Chung, who admitted last year as part of a plea agreement to making illegal donations to the Democratic Party, told the committee the threat and the hush money offer for attorneys' fees came from Robert Luu, a Chinese-American he first met in Beijing and whom he later met in Los Angeles -- while the FBI listened on a body microphone he wore and watched on a hidden camera. He said Mr. Luu represented himself as being in touch with a Chinese general who had earlier given Chung $300,000 for President Clinton's re-election campaign. The threat, he said, was veiled. "The Chinese are more polite and indirect, so the words do not precisely translate. . . . Nevertheless, this was how I interpreted the meaning of the words. Essentially, the message that I believe I was given was that me and my family would be safe if I didn't talk, and if I did talk, I could not be *certain what would happen," Chung said. In describing the threat, Chung said Mr. Luu told him he was in contact with "some people from Beijing," that he had received money from Chinese officials "to take care of my legal expenses, and that the lawyer, David Brockway, "was connected and knew the No. 3 person" at the Justice Department. Chung said Mr. Luu also told him that he might be able to get himself a presidential pardon. Chung testified that Mr. Luu said he was connected to Liu Chao-ying, a Chinese aerospace executive and lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army.... "
Hotline 5/25/99 Fox - Carl Cameron Special Report 5/24/99 "....Cameron continues: "Chung's network with Chinese intelligence was well known to Luu. Chung's contact was Lieutenant Colonel Liu Chao-Yang of the Chinese military, she answered to General Ji Shengde, China's military intelligent chief, who provided Chung with $300,000. Robert Luu told Chung never to tell investigators about two U.S. satellite firms, Loral Space and Hughes Electronics, or their relationship with Liu Chao-Yang, who had negotiated their Chinese contracts. Loral and Hughes launch U.S. made satellites on Chinese rockets. They are under federal investigation for illegally helping China improve its missile technology. Sources say China wanted to keep the companies out of the scandal, to protect its business arrangements and its ability to acquire U.S. technology." ..."
5/25/99 Bill Gertz Washington Times "...The report identified two Chinese officials, Wang Jun and Liu Chaoying, as being directly involved in illegal activities in the United States. Mr. Wang is the son of the late Chinese President Wang Zhen and is head of a Chinese company that tried to smuggle 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles into the United States. He also attended a White House "coffee" with Mr. Clinton in 1996 and is connected to more than $600,000 in illegal campaign contributions made by Charles Yah Lin Trie to the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Trie, who pleaded guilty last week to federal election law violations, had a handwritten note in Chinese mentioning Hughes, U.S. government export control licenses, bribery and a government official, according to the report. Liu Chaoying is a People's Liberation Army military officer and the daughter of former Communist Party Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Liu Huaqing, who has used numerous U.S. companies for sensitive technology acquisitions, the report said. Former Democratic Party fund-raiser Johnny Chung told federal investigators he received $300,000 from Col. Liu. The Cox committee determined that Col. Liu's payment to Johnny Chung was an attempt to better position her in the United States to acquire computer, missile and satellite technologies. The report noted that these well-connected Chinese officials present a unique technology transfer threat because their multiple connections enable them to move freely around the world and among the different bureaucracies in China...."
THE CAST - Newcombe
Freeper SIT-REP 4/15/99 "...When the arms deal was threatened by the Leatherneck sting operation, Downie claims it was sabotaged by Richard P. Siegal, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Cleveland office. Siegal's office maintains the investigation is still ongoing (and will not discuss it). But Downie believes the rot extended upward to the highest reaches of Customs' parent agency -- the U.S. Treasury.... Customs management also refused to release minor funds needed to keep an informant in place in Vietnam and to purchase the West Point ring of an American POW/MIA, which was to be a bonafide to assure Downie of the authenticity of the Vietnamese government's support for the deal. [Thenceforth, Downie was actually instructed by his superiors to avoid any further intelligence concerning the POW/MIA's]. At this point the veteran operative believed that both he and Schwartz were in grave danger, but he attempted to press on with the sting. Three weeks after it was upgraded to the highest level of undercover operation -- Class I, Downie's controlling agent, Frank Caliendo, with whom he had worked closely since the seventies, was suddenly removed from the case with no explanation and against his vehement protests and given a forced transfer to California. But the coup de grace for Leatherneck came when, in the most senstivie phase of the operation, his superiors tried to get him to take the stand and blow his cover in court in a prosecution from a previous sting of a man he had witnessed selling a counterfeit Gucci handbag! As Downie wrote in January 1993 to the Treasury Inspector General's (IG) office: The fact that the individual in question did not meet U.S. Attorney guidelines for prosecution did not seem to matter to Customs management. I believe this was an overt attempt to destroy my twenty year cover and place myself and my family in extreme jeopardy. Unwilling to participate in this dangerous sham, Downie withdrew from the case, and Operation Leatherneck was shut down shortly thereafter...."
Freeper SIT-REP 4/15/99 "... Just who are the nameless, faceless individuals "at the highest levels" of the various corrupt agencies ceaselessly involved in sabotaging sting operations and tipping off the perpetrators? In the case of the Customs Service, the supervising agency is the U.S. Treasury. The office involved in the decision to close down the Leatherneck sting was the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in Washington. A series of offenses committed by its director, Richard Newcombe, were exposed last year by John Solomon (the same Associated Press reporter who picked up the Cosco story). Apparently, Newcombe has a history of tipping off the targets of OFAC investigations, thus allowing them to evade prosecution. He alerted the Standard Charter bank in New York, which, according to Downie, was a key participant in the Leatherneck smuggling operation, by sending a notice to it demanding that is cease and desist from the very activities for which it was being investigated (both the bank and Newcombe refused comment to Solomon, despite repeated inquiries). According to a May 10th, 1996 AP story, the activities include "funneling money from major U.S. corporations to Vietnam in the late 1980's and 1990's" in violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act. This tip-off resulted in the collapse of the investigation, despite the fact that "a subsequent audit verified the transactions". It was not an isolated incident. Newcombe also attended private lunches with representatives of Texaco, even as it was being investigated by OFAC for possible trade embargo offenses in Haiti. He also refused to step aside from the case despite his friendship with a Texaco lawyer...."
Freeper SIT-REP 4/15/99 "...The same AP article revealed serious charges by Stephen Plitman, one of two OFAC agents resisting the shutdown of Leatherneck, who lost their jobs when their Treasury positions were abruptly discontinued. Plitman charged that his boss, Newcombe, met with several times and blatantly tipped off representatives of Mobil Oil, alerting them to the fact that the firm was under investigation for violating the Vietnam trade embargo. An inspector general's report showed that Newcombe even gave Mobil representatives a copy of a subpoena days before it was served to them. Solomon quoted Plitman from documents: "I was completely taken aback". He added that he considered Newcombe's actions to be "nothing less that a tipoff." The allegations of the improper meetings were supported by Secret Service logs and even the recollections of a Mobil representative, who admitted that Newcombe gave them a "passing heads up" on the OFAC probe during a limousine ride provided to Newcombe by the company.... Agent Plitman and is associate, Bob Sheridan's positions at OFAC were discontinued and they later ended up in Customs at lower pay grades. They are now the targets of an internal Treasury Department investigation into their charges against Newcombe -- an action which Mickey Downie descirbes as "Ongoing bureaucratic retaliation". The criminal element in the federal government have honed this method of crushing honest whistleblowers to an exact science. As Downie wryly notes, "When you've done something a few hundred times, you become very proficient at it".
Freeper SIT-REP 4/15/99 "...Furthermore, according to a June 6th, 1996 AP report, also by John Solomon, the Treasury's Newcombe was alleged by his subordinates to have illegally alerted companies being investigated by OFAC for assisting Libyan money-laundering efforts. The two companies were the Arab Banking Corp (ABC) of Bahrain and VISA International, the credit card firm. The ABC bank was allegedly clearing "Libyan funds in the form of VISA checks" through its New York branch in violation of the Libyan embargo placed in retaliation for its terrorist activities. Yet, Newcombe's office discussed in public at a London meeting filled with foreign officilas (some of who had ties to the parties being investigated) that they were investigating the ABC bank for possible Libyan money laundering -- thus tipping off the suspects. The Justice Department and the FBI agents on the case considered that "the integrity of the investigation was compromised" by Newcombe's statements and by other direct warnings given to Bahrainian officials...."
Center for Security Policy (Exerpts from) 9/29/98 Gaffney Web Site: Center for Security Policy "...Ms. Gottemoeller has long been associated with some of the most wooly-headed of denuclearization proposals. For example, Ms. Gottemoeller was one of the authors of a troubling June 1997 report issued by the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Science (NAS). Entitled The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, this study advocated a series of highly controversial actions with respect to the American nuclear deterrent -- steps that, taken together, could have the result effectively of unilaterally disarming the United States…."
Ms. Gottemoeller
Center for Security Policy (Exerpts from) 9/29/98 Gaffney Web Site: Center for Security Policy "... Consider the following: 1. 'De-alerting': Ms. Gottemoeller and Company urged that "the operational and technical readiness of nuclear weapons for use" be degraded as a means of "decreas[ing] the chance of erroneous launch of nuclear weapons or a launch in response to a spurious or incorrectly interpreted indication of impending attack." ...2. 'No-First-Use': Ms. Gottemoeller and her colleagues believe that "the United States should adopt no-first-use of nuclear weapons as its declaratory policy at an early date." Interestingly, the NAS study goes on to observe, almost as an afterthought, the real difficulty with such a recommendation: "Changing to a no-first-use policy will, of course, require consultation with allies to reassure them that the United States will meet, by non-nuclear means, its obligations to come to their aid in the event of a non-nuclear attack against them." ....3. No Missile Defense: Ms. Gottemoeller is an adherent to the theology of American vulnerability to missile attack from all quarters. As her NAS study put it: "The [1972] Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty must remain the 'cornerstone of strategic stability' as it was described by Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin at the conclusion of the Helsinki Summit. The ABM Treaty is by no means a relic of the Cold War thinking as some assert. On the contrary, it remains a logical adjunct of the continuing reality of offense dominance in conflicts involving nuclear weapons." A majority of Senators now recognize what has eluded Ms. Gottemoeller and her fellow arms control ideologues: The post-Cold War world is one in which the United States clearly cannot afford to remain vulnerable to ballistic missile attack, anymore than its allies and forward-deployed troops can. 4. No Nukes: Ms. Gottemoeller's commitment to American vulnerability is all the more astounding in light of her study's embrace of the proposition that there are circumstances under which the "prohibition" of nuclear weapons would, "on balance...enhance the security of the United States and the rest of the world." It is not self-evident that the "continuing reality of offense dominance" would apply should nuclear weapons ever be "prohibited." Interestingly, the contradiction inherent in Ms. Gottemoeller's muddled thinking in this area is even more evident in one of the few sensible passages from her National Academy of Sciences study: "It is not clear today how or when [comprehensive nuclear disarmament] could be achieved...."
Center for Security Policy (Exerpts from) 9/29/98 Gaffney Web Site: Center for Security Policy "...Even the most effective verification system that could be envisioned would not produce complete confidence that a small number of nuclear weapons had not been hidden or fabricated in secret. More fundamentally, the knowledge of how to build nuclear weapons cannot be erased from the human mind, and the capacity of states to build such weapons cannot be eliminated. Even if every nuclear warhead were destroyed, the current nuclear weapons states, and a growing number of other technologically advanced states would be able to build new weapons within a few months or a few years of a national decision to do so." .....Since Rose Gottemoeller (and her NAS co-authors) cannot explain how a total and effective nuclear ban could be achieved, it is dangerous and irresponsible to lend credibility to such a goal. Indeed, under present circumstances, the mere pursuit of that goal calls into question the judgment and realism of its proponents. And it would reflect very badly upon the judgment and realism of Senators were they to agree to place someone who advocates such a dangerous and irresponsible denuclearization agenda in charge of "national security" at the Department of Energy. This was not Ms. Gottemoeller's first run at a confirmable position. In fact, she was widely expected to be appointed last year to the long-vacant position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy -- the Pentagon's top official with responsibility for nuclear weapons policy....."
Robert Rubin
Wall Street Journal 5/12/99 JOHN J. FIALKA "... Treasury Department employees in January destroyed 162 boxes of old records that may have included files subject to a court order in a suit accusing the government of mishandling Indian trust funds. The Justice Department's lead lawyer in the case, Phillip A. Brooks, admitted the destruction in a letter to Judge Royce C. Lamberth of federal District Court here. The court had ordered the Clinton administration to produce trust-fund documents, and earlier this year Judge Lamberth held both Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in civil contempt for repeatedly failing to locate and provide all the documents. The case, scheduled for trial in June, has been pending for more than two years.....The destruction was stopped, Mr. Brooks said, and a check of the remaining 245 boxes showed that at least two boxes were from the Interior Department. "We cannot at this time rule out the possibility" that some of the destroyed documents were subject to the court order, he stated in his letter. Dennis Gingold, a lawyer for the Indians, reacted angrily: "I think Mr. Rubin should go to jail for this. This is criminal contempt.".... Mr. Brooks said the boxes of destroyed records covered payments made by various federal agencies during the first half of this century. Another box from the collection "was apparently mislaid" during a transfer operation in 1996, he wrote. "We have opted to err on the side of caution and bring these matters to your attention immediately," Mr. Brooks said in his letter to Judge Lamberth. There was no immediate reaction from the judge, who has been critical of the government's handling of the case. In two separate rulings Tuesday, Alan L. Balaran, a special master appointed by the judge to enforce his orders for documents, ordered the government to provide e-mail as well as other documents that the Justice Department had argued should be withheld under attorney-client privilege.
USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/ FreeRepublic http://www.freerepublic.com/ 5/12/99 analysis by A WHITEWATER RESEARCHER, REPORTER "....The forced resignation today of disgraced Clinton Treasury secretary Robert Rubin may have been a result of imminent further exposure of a vast array of corrupt activities, from Treasury's attempted coercion of United States Secret Service agents to lie during their Filegate testimony in 1996 and the agents' criminal prosecution as a result of that testimony, to today's New York Times story "CHINA SENT CASH TO U.S. BANK, WITH SUSPICIONS SLOW TO RISE" ....However, the final straw that broke Rubin's back could well have been a brilliant investigative journalism article by the USA TODAY's Tom Lowry on May 3, 1999, "TRUST SCANDAL HAUNTS GOLDMAN/SULLIED BISHOP ESTATE OWNS 10% OF BANK/HIGHLY PAID TRUSTEES FACING ACCUSATIONS, CHARGES", which was excerpted in a May 5, 1999 FreeRepublic article .... Mr. Lowry exhaustively details the utterly corrupt activities of Hawaii's giant Bishop Estate in general, and a highly suspect transaction between the Bishop Estate and the personal financial account of Robert Rubin in particular. Rubin is also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs and whose Treasury department regulates both the Bishop Estate and Goldman Sachs. Rubin apparently operated at Treasury, regulating both the Bishop Estate and Goldman Sachs, will full awareness of his massive conflicts of interest involving his personal investments, the Treasury department, the Internal Revenue Service, Goldman Sachs, and the Bishop Estate..... "...I am a professional stock market investor myself. ...... For those of you with the Black Scholes model, just set the price of Goldman Sachs at 100, set the expiration date at a year from now of a put option with a strike price of 100, and tell me what you get. I bet that put is worth at least 20, or twenty percent of the value of the underlying stock position. In the case of Rubin's Goldman stock holdings in 1993, the at the money, one year put warrant would be worth at least $20 million annually, not $100,000...... THIS WOULD SUGGEST AN "AT THE MONEY ONE YEAR PUT OPTION" ON RUBIN'S 1993 GOLDMAN SACHS HOLDINGS WAS WORTH WELL OVER $20 MILLION!!! With the value of Rubin's Goldman Sachs holdings appreciating in recent years, the value of the Bishop Estate put on $100 million of underlying Goldman value sold to Rubin would decline, but I think it is fair to say that Rubin, via this put maneuver with the Bishop Estate, a charity, may have received illegal gratuities, in 1993 alone, if he paid only approximately $100,000 for his one year, at the money Goldman put warrant which was in fact worth well over $20 million...."
Admiral Prueher
Freeper report 5/17/99 "...Clinton has chosen his new nominee for Ambassador to Red China. He has chosen Admiral Prueher, recently retired as commander of the pacific fleet. Prueher came on board in January 1996 and immediately became involved in the March 1996 "Missile Tests" where the ChiComs sent missiles over Taiwan because Taiwan was having their presidential election....Prueher saw the ChiComs as the good guys for that region keeping stability with us doing it in the rest of the world. What they envisioned back in 96 and tried to get going was a pax Sino-American with us as the two big super powers keeping the peace in the world....."
LA Times 3/10/98 Tom Plate "...Please meet Adm. Joseph Prueher, the commander in chief of all U.S. forces in the Pacific--in charge of all those ready-to-fight Marines, pilots, commanders and sailors. This military man has a non-stereotypical attitude about dealing with a potential foe. He believes that the most prudent policy toward those who might someday have the capability to harm us is to try to understand them now, though without kowtowing to them, to meet them halfway rather than tell them to stuff it, to make diplomatic love, as it were, rather than resort to the cruel finality of war. And, about the need to do this in the case of China, the Nashville-born Naval Academy graduate is passionate and is willing to put his reputation on the line. .....Sailors know that nothing beats being able to see with your own eyes, and this admiral also likes to see things for himself. Since he took command in January 1996, he has been to China four times, and what he has seen is an increasingly capable country quickly modernizing the People's Liberation Army. "PLA soldiers down to the army captain level are outstanding," Prueher says. "The senior leadership is smart, pragmatic and patriotic. And their strategic rocket forces are able and well- funded." The Chinese military returns the compliment by allowing him unique access. During one Chinese training exercise, Prueher viewed new equipment and installations heretofore off-limits. But despite increasing military-to-military contacts between the PLA and the Pacific Command, both here and in China, Prueher accepts that it's always possible that China--or for that matter America--could turn on the powerful nation it now eyes warily across the Pacific. "I try not to get too rosy a glow," he says. "I'm paid to be skeptical." Still, he pointedly disarms pessimists who view future conflict with China as inevitable by saying to them: "You could be right. Maybe they will try to nail us in 15 years. But if you stiff them at every turn between now and then, you guarantee that they may try to do that in 15 years." America, despite its differences with China, must offer true respect or it will get nowhere. "The U.S. is the world's youngest major power; China is the world's oldest major power," he said, diplomatically, in a Beijing speech. "Clearly, there is much we can learn from each other." ...."
LA Times 2/23/99 Tom Plate "...Just before he handed in his Navy retirement papers, and handed over this prestigious command to Adm. Dennis Blair last weekend, Prueher offered us some candid views about Asia. His chief concern remains the tensions in the South China Sea, where China butts egos with its neighbors over disputed islands. "We are trying to create a busy presence in the South China Sea," he says. ... His next worry is unpredictable North Korea: "The North Korean ability to sustain a conflict is not strong. But their ability to inflict pain quickly, over a short period, is great." The admiral is scarcely surprised by China's inability to control North Korea, which last summer unexpectedly launched a test missile over Japan's airspace. Prueher knows that China, with its shaky economy, growing unemployment and burgeoning military might, has its own problems. The admiral, more than most U.S. officials, offers a compelling, nuanced perspective on Beijing that's less condemnatory than carefully comprehending: "We must respect the true national interests of others, even when they are not our own. With China, we are in for a little more difficult time, more difficult than over the past few years." Prueher views China's latest crackdowns on dissidents as symptoms of weakness rather than strength: "Their economic problems are creating a lot of stress. When their leaders lose a bit of stability, or control over an issue, they worry a lot, and it bleeds over to the human rights issue, where we don't see eye to eye. Still, we must respect China's legitimate interests." ...."
J & A Securities
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...What Chung didn't know, however, was where General Ji got the $300,000. Documents obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice in late 1997, which were only turned over to Burton's committee the day that Chung testified in May, show that Chung received a transfer of HKD 2,318,850 ($300,000) from Liu Chaoying's Citibank account in Hong Kong on August 14, 1996. According to one of the U.S. government officials who helped Weldon compile his charts, that money and other contributions to the DNC sent by General Ji to other conduit donors were siphoned off from the Hong Kong accounts of J&A Securities (Hong Kong) Ltd., a subsidiary of the largest securities trading company in Communist China. J&A Securities, based in Shenzhen, was set up in 1992 by the PLA, corporate records examined by TAS show. Its original name, Jun An Securities, conflates the Mandarin characters for "Military" (Jun) and " Security" (An). If these investigators are right, then it is the PLA's secret money tree.
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...Justice Department investigators quizzed Chung on June 12, 1998, about his ties to General Ji and to J&A Securities, whose involvement in the money transfers Chung appears to have ignored. Unbeknownst to Chung, the Justice Department had been contacted by the Chinese government through Interpol, the international police liaison agency in France, in connection with the alleged embezzlement of COSTIND funds by J&A Securities Chairman Zhang Guoqing, a U.S. official said. Zhang was arrested in July 1998 in Hong Kong and taken to Beijing for questioning, according to press reports in Hong Kong and Singapore.
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...As part of his plea bargain with the Justice Department, Chung agreed to wear a body wire in meetings with an emissary sent by General Ji, who went by the name of Robert Luu. Chung first met Luu in China in 1996. Luu resurfaced two years later in California, and warned Chung not to tell U.S. prosecutors about the involvement of General Ji or China Aerospace in the campaign donation scheme.."
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...In a conversation with Luu on June 11, Chung tried to draw him out on the subject of Zhang Guoqing. "Who is Mr. Zhang--mysterious person Mr. Zhang! I never met Mr. Zhang. I don't know who he is. I was well aware of whom I had meals with"--a reference to General Ji. "I'm very clear about where the facts are. Ji Shengde is Mr. Zhang," Chung said ...In fact, what Chung meant is that Ji Shengde's money came from Zhang, the elusive head of J&A Securities in Hong Kong. The same Zhang had recently been arrested by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong, because he knew too much. He disappeared last summer and has not been seen since. Indeed, in one account in a Hong Kong daily, Zhang reportedly told the Ministry of State Security officers who had come to arrest him that they had better consult Beijing before mistreating him. "I have a laser disk in the United States, and the disk data will affect the national image," he reportedly said..."
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...J&A Securities grew from a single brokerage house in Shenzhen in 1992, to more than 3,000 branches throughout China by 1998. It began as a classic PLA operation, with nominees sent to Hong Kong to buy up a shell company with a listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange--Massique Limited--then infusing it with mainland Chinese assets to attract foreign investment. J&A Securities took off with the booming Pacific Rim economy, floating bonds in Chinese state companies and making instruments available for foreign investors to gain a foothold in Chinese state industries. But by July 1995 another, more unusual plan for J&A Securities began to emerge when the Shenzhen parent company, which owned the majority share, transferred its stock to a new front company set up in the tiny South Pacific Island nation of West Samoa. The new company was called J&A Holdings, Ltd. ...West Samoa, which borders the America Pacific territory of Samoa, is the closest non-Western state to the United States, lying some 2,400 miles south of Hawaii..'"
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...The money trail shows there were two driving forces behind the Chinese government's campaign contributions in the United States: the PLA's Military Intelligence Department (Er Bu), and COSTIND, the State Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense. Er Bu reports directly to the General Staff Department, which is controlled by the Central Military Commission, chaired by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. COSTIND reports to the State Council, which is chaired by Prime Minister Zhu Rongji. COSTIND sets the technology requirements for the Chinese military; Er Bu collectors acquire those technologies from foreign sources. The two may be rivals in some ways, but they also work hand-in-hand.
The American Spectator 8/99 Kenneth R. Timmerman "...The key role played by Liu Chaoying shows how this works. Liu's father, General Liu Huaqing, was vice chairman of the Central Military Commission before his retirement in October 1997. This gave Ms. Liu the Er Bu connection she so forcefully demonstrated to Johnny Chung by introducing him to Er Bu Director General Ji. But Ms. Liu also worked for CASIL, which was a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Corporation, which is controlled by COSTIND. Another China Aerospace Corporation with which Ms. Liu was associated, China Great Wall Industries Group, manufactures China's liquid fuel strategic rockets and space-launch vehicles. They have also become the main partner for U.S. aerospace firms seeking to launch satellites in China.
Hogan & Hartson
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Hogan & Hartson Hogan & Hartson is an international law firm lobbying for Russia and Communist China. This firm, the largest in Washington, D.C., is "tight" with the Clinton Administration, being involved in the Clinton/Gore campaigns and the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The firm represents the Democratic National Committee, a reported recipient of funds laundered by Johnny Chung, and is currently representing a friend of the Clintons and Gore - the notorious John Huang. Let's look at the Clinton / Hogan & Hartson connection...."
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Sandy Berger - National Security Advisor and head of the National Security Council..... Mr. Berger was a paid lobbyist for the Chinese Communists while he was a partner at Hogan & Hartson, where he headed the firm's international trade group..... (Berger is still listed as a Partner with Hogan & Hartson.) ..."
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Anthony S. Harrington - Chairman of the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB). .... He is also Vice Chair of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and a member of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community.... (Mr. Harrington is still listed as a senior partner at Hogan & Hartson.)
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Mary Anne Sullivan - General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Energy..... Sullivan has been part of the Clinton Administration team since 1994 when she was named deputy general counsel for environment and civilian and defense nuclear programs... (She is a partner at Hogan & Hartson.)
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Larry Irving - Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Larry Irving was appointed to his present position by President Clinton in the spring of 1993. In this capacity, Mr. Irving serves as a principal adviser to the President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on domestic and international communications issues, oversees the management of the Federal government's use of the radio spectrum, and supervises programs that award grants to extend the reach of advanced telecommunications technologies to under served areas... (Attorney at Hogan & Hartson.)
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Cheryl D. Mills - Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President..... (Attorney at Hogan & Hartson.)
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Christine Varney - Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (1994-1997). Ms. Varney has had an "interesting" career. She started out as an attorney with Hogan & Hartson and Chief Counsel to the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign, and General Counsel to the 1993 Presidential Inaugural Committee. She then moved to the Clinton Administration where she rapidly moved up the ladder: Secretary to the Cabinet; to Senior Advisor to the President; to Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. Then, she returned to Hogan & Hartson as a partner... (Partner at Hogan & Hartson.)
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Daniel Poneman - Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The commission is charged with studying the current organization of the U.S. government, including the intelligence community, to deal with the threat posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to make recommendations to Congress on steps to improve the effectiveness of the U.S. government in dealing with this threat. Prior to 12/17/97, Mr. Poneman served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council, and chaired the Interagency Working Group for Nonproliferation and Export Controls.... (Counsel at Hogan & Hartson.)
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Mara Rudman - Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Legislative Affairs at the National Security Council.... (Attorney at Hogan & Hartson.)
Strategicintel.com 6/12/99 Gretchen Glass "...Ty Cobb and Jack Keeney providing Presidential cover in the Huang case. Cobb and Keeney of Hogan & Hartson represent John Huang...The Washington Post reported: "Cobb was brought into the Huang representation by partner Jack Keeney, who met Huang while doing legal work for the Democratic National Committee." Cobb is one of Hogan & Hartson's leading partners and top litigator, "sitting on the five-member executive committee that runs the firm." ...One of Huang's lawyers is also related to the former head of the Criminal Division for Janet Reno's Justice Department.
Mark Middleton
Salon 6/21/99 David Horowitz "...The Riady relationship extended beyond the Clintons themselves to their friends and to Hillary's associates at Rose, including its head, Joe Giroir, and a White House aide named Mark Middleton, who later invoked the Fifth Amendment when he was called before a congressional committee. It was the Riadys who provided a $100,000 "job" for the indicted Web Hubbell, at the moment when he had indicated to the Starr prosecutors that he might be ready to talk. After the payment from Riady and others, Hubbell changed his mind and chose jail instead.
Opening Statement Chairman Dan Burton Committee on Government Reform 5/11/99 "...He [Chung] said that Liu Chao-Ying told him that Mark Middleton got half a million from a Singapore group. We checked Mark Middleton's bank records. They show that he received over $1.75 million from Asian businesses. One of the payments he received was a half-a-million payment from Indonesia. We don't know what money Liu Chao-Ying was referring to. If we could go to Hong Kong to interview Liu Chao-Ying, maybe we could find out. We have a copy of a letter from Mark Middleton to one of his associates in Singapore. It mentions someone named Liu. It says, and I quote, "Thank you for the update on Ms. Liu. I know that she must be concerned with nepotism but I'm not sure how that affects us." We don't know what Mark Middleton meant in this letter. He's taken the Fifth, so we can't ask him...."
Washington Times 8/5/99 Jerry Seper "...Mark Middleton, former confidant of Charles Yah Lin Trie, John Huang and Johnny Chung, all of whom confessed to making illegal donations during the 1996 presidential election, is the highest ranking administration official to refuse to cooperate in the campaign-finance probe. Mr. Middleton, a longtime Clinton confidant who raised more than $4 million during the 1992 election, was called to appear before the House Government Reform Committee, which will ask him about his ties to Trie, Huang and Chung and his financial connections with the Lippo Group, a $6 billion Indonesian real estate and banking conglomerate controlled by the Riady family -- also Clinton supporters...."
Washington Times 8/5/99 Jerry Seper "...Chung testified before the committee that Liu Chao-ying, a lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army and a China Aerospace Co. executive with whom Chung had a business relationship, told him that Mr. Middleton received $50,000 in PLA funds to do "good things" for Mr. Clinton. Mr. Middleton has denied the accusation.
8/6/99 Susan Roth Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "...Middleton, 36, has been linked with former Little Rock restaurateur Charlie Trie, California businessman Johnny Chung and others indicted by the Justice Department for illegal fund-raising during the campaign. Middleton, who now lives in Little Rock but owns a Washington-based company that arranges international business deals, has acknowledged that he met with some of the major figures in the campaign-finance investigation in 1994 and 1995. He has also acknowledged that investigators could have legitimate questions about these contacts. But he maintains that he did nothing wrong. Chung told the committee in May that a Chinese military official had told him that Middleton had received $500,000 from a Singapore business group to "do good things for China or to benefit China." Middleton has said in a written statement that the allegation was "absolutely false" and that he never received any money directly or indirectly related to the Chinese government...."
8/6/99 Susan Roth Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "...According to committee documents, Middleton received at least $275,000 in retainer fees for unspecified work from July 1995 to April 1997. The money came from the Riady family of Indonesia, which runs the Lippo Group financial conglomerate, has business ties to Arkansas and President Clinton and has been implicated in campaign-finance irregularities. Middleton also met with Trie and Macau financier Ng Lap Seng at the White House many times, according to the committee. Ng has also been implicated in illegal contributions to the 1996 campaign...."
Wall Street Journal 8/6/99 "...Vanessa Weaver had her hearing yesterday. As we noted editorially yesterday, she's the White House aide who made 23 calls to the mysterious fundraiser John Huang and who Bill Clinton just nominated to the Ex-Im Bank. She told the committee that when she called Mr. Huang in October 1996, she didn't know he was a fugitive. Meanwhile, former White House aide Mark Middleton took the fifth Amendment before Rep. Dan Burton's committee. The questioning had to do with weather Mr. Middleton was involved with raising money from the Chinese and other foreign interests for the Democratic National Committee. By coincidence the Ex-Im Bank to which Ms. Weaver aspires counts China among its biggest clients. Somehow these Clinton friends with memory-deficit disorder don't inspire confidence in the way a relatively normal Democratic administration would. Now for a bit of news that has not been reported in the media: Vanessa Weaver's appointment to the Ex-Im bank did not go through! ...."
Washington Weekly 8/9/99 Marvin Lee "...Burton asked Middleton about a statement attributed to Liu Chao-Ying, an agent of the Chinese intelligence, that Mark Middleton got a half-million dollars through a group in Singapore to "do good things for China." "We've received testimony that you were doing something clandestine with agents of the Chinese military -- the daughter of the PLA's most senior general. It was very cryptic. But since you haven't spoken to us, it's all we have to go on," Burton said. What is known is that Middleton was instrumental in buying the silence of Whitewater witness Webster Hubbell with money from China. James Riady and John Huang met repeatedly with Middleton in the White House before wiring $100,000 from a Hong Kong bank partly owned by Chinese intelligence to Webster Hubbell. And when Chinese Triad Mobster Ng Lap-seng entered the U.S. with a suitcase containing $175,000 in cash, he went to see Mark Middleton at the White House. Ng Lap-seng is a friend of Clinton crony Charlie Trie and has been suspected of carrying cash between the Chinese government and the White House. The White House has never accounted for the source of or the spending of these suitcases full of cash, and neither Ng Lap-seng nor Middleton are willing to talk...."
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…Wang first caught the eye of congressional investigators when he visited the White House on Feb. 6, 1996, with Charlie Trie, a former restaurateur and friend of the Clintons from Arkansas…. When news of Wang's trip to the White House first surfaced, President Clinton went out of his way to say that it was "clearly inappropriate" for a Chinese arms dealer to appear at the White House. At the time, Clinton aides said they had no prior knowledge of Wang's gun dealing background, nor did they know of his close ties to the Chinese army. But Collins said he gave top White House aides detailed information about Wang at a private White House luncheon in early May 1994. Collins was asked to speak to a small gathering of business leaders at the White House luncheon after escorting Deng Xiaoping's son, Deng Zhifang, to some of America's premier corporate centers. At the gathering, Collins said, were former White House Counsel Thomas "Mack" McLarty and former senior aide Mark Middleton, who later became a target of the campaign fund-raising probe…."
Atlanta Constitution 8/15/99 Rebecca Carr "…After the lunch, Collins said, Middleton called for more details about Wang. Collins said he told Middleton that Wang is the son of former Chinese Vice President Wang Zhen and that his companies were connected with the Chinese military. "He grilled me and grilled me. . . . It's hard to believe that they didn't know who he was," Collins said. If White House aides didn't know then who Wang was, they soon would learn. Wang's visit drew sharp criticism from lawmakers, including some Democrats, who said it was an example of the lengths the White House would go to raise a campaign dollar. If the White House had simply reviewed Poly's annual report, it would have found that the report lists its defense system sales….. However, Wang used Poly to arm Third World countries and funnel American military technology back to China, internal company records and interviews show. "Wang's Poly Group is Communist China's worst worldwide proliferator of deadly weapons, having brokered the sale of cruise missiles to Iran and nuclear weapons to Pakistan," Cox explained. Congressional investigators believe that Poly also sold M-9 nuclear-capable missile technology to Syria and arms to both sides of the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s. Burma was another customer. …"
The Washington Times: 8/20/99 "…A former White House official invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 28 times yesterday in refusing to testify during a rancorous House committee hearing on campaign finance abuses during the 1996 presidential election. Mark Middleton, an Arkansas lawyer and longtime confidant of President Clinton, steadfastly refused to answer questions by House Government Reform Committee Republicans on whether he conspired with government officials in China or elsewhere to illegally funnel contributions to the Democratic National Committee or the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. …The committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, derided Mr. Burton and other Republicans for what he described as a "malicious and misleading hearing." He said Mr. Middleton was called as a witness by the GOP after he said he would refuse to cooperate only so that he could be "punished." …. Meanwhile, Attorney General Janet Reno yesterday denied that the Justice Department was stalling its campaign finance task force probe to block congressional Republicans from conducting their own inquiries. She said it was "certainly not true" that the department has marked some probes as "ongoing" to halt efforts by the GOP to investigate the accusations…."
The Washington Post Magazine's Inside the Loop: 8/20/99 "…When we last checked, Mark Middleton, a former assistant to former White House chief of staff Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, was being criticized for entertaining his potential business clients from Asia in White House dining facilities long after he left the White House. And House investigators wanted to talk to the native Arkansan and business partner of Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie about Asian campaign contributions--but Middleton, who left the White House in early 1995, took the Fifth. Just a few weeks ago, Middleton, looking very blond and boyish, showed up in--where else ?--Beijing, where he was seen shepherding around officials of a Little Rock investment company called Talisman Capital, including managing director Geoffrey Tirman. We're told they are involved in a deal to invest several million dollars, along with the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post…"
Chang-Lin Tien
Martin Berlin Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chancellor University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 Personal: Born July 24, 1935, China; Naturalized U.S. Citizen...BS, National Taiwan University, 1955 MME, University of Louisville, 1957 MA, Princeton University, 1959 PhD, Princeton University, 1959 ...President's Advisory Board, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1991-); Board of Trustees, Chiang Industrial Charity Foundation, Ltd., Hong Kong (1991-); Board of Directors, Wells Fargo Bank (1991-)...Honorary Professor, twelve leading universities in China since 1981; Honorary Professor and Director, Xi'an Jiaotong University Engineering Thermophysics Research Institute (1987-); Honorary Research Professor, Chinese Academy of Science-Institute of Thermophysics [China] (1981-); Visiting Viola D. Hank Chair Professor, University of Notre Dame (1983); Senior U.S. Scientist Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1980); Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [West Germany] (1979); John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1965)...."
http://minoritiesjobbank.com/ "...Clinton Names Chang-Lin Tien To Serve on Science Board...The President has announced his intent to nominate University of California-Berkeley Professor Chang-Lin Tien, to serve as a member of the National Science Board, along with fellow nominees Luis Sequeira, George Langford, Maxine Savitz, and Joseph Miller.....At age 26 (in 1962) Dr. Tien became the youngest professor to receive the prestigious U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Tien has a master's degree from the University of Louisville, and a master's and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Earlier this year, Chancellor Tien had also been in the running for the position of Secretary of Energy, which finally went to U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson. In that nomination, Tien had been widely supported by scientists and made it to the final round of considerations, inspiring many Asian Americans to hope for future Asian Pacific American appointments that might ensure "a Cabinet that reflected the face of America." At the time, Chancellor Tien had found Richardson a well-qualified choice, and said he stood ready and willing to serve the country in some other capacity should the opportunity arise...."
http://sunsite.lib.berkeley.edu/CalHistory/chancellor.tien.html "...Chang-Lin Tien Chancellor, 1990-1997...Chang-Lin Tien was born in Wuhan, China, and received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1955. He earned an MME degree at the University of Louisville in 1957, and MA and PhD degrees at Princeton in 1957 and 1959. He joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley in 1959, and he served as the chair of the department from 1974 to 1981. He was appointed the seventh Chancellor of the Berkeley campus in 1990. Apart from service as Executive Vice Chancellor at Irvine from 1988 to 1990, his entire career has been spent at Berkeley..... Continuing necessity for fund-raising has been met with outstanding success: extramural research support increased by 35% even in the face of declining federal support, and the level of private gifts to a public university has soared to new records enabling research and academic excellence to remain consistently high..... Tien has been a champion of preserving the excellence of the Berkeley campus in other ways also. He spoke out against the effects of the University's early retirement programs on the makeup of the faculty, and more recently he became the spokesman for retaining affirmative action as a proper means of assuring higher education to all those who deserve it.... "
AsianWeek 4/30-5/6 1998 Sam Chu Lin "...Asian Pacific American leaders across the country are calling on the Clinton administration to name an Asian American to replace outgoing Secretary of Energy Federico Pena. Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, who made the White House finalist list the last time, is again being mentioned, and he says he'll accept--if given the chance..... Those developments haven't dampened the spirits of those who are trying to rally support for Tien. According to Jim Bonham, Matsui's press aide, a letter of endorsement for the former chancellor is now being circulated in the California congressional delegation, and Matsui has signed it.... The professor's supporters also point out Tien has valuable experience and prestige unmatched by other contenders. Henry Manayan, the mayor of the Bay Area city of Milpitas and an American of Chinese, Filipino and Spanish descent, noted that "when I make trade mission trips to the Peoples Republic of China, I have learned Chancellor Tien has tremendous name recognition as a public figure, someone who is very accomplished, and whom they attach a lot of weight."....San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown also knows this first hand. Tien helped to arrange a meeting between Brown and President Jiang Zemin during the mayor's trade mission to China last year. Thanks to Tien's contacts, Brown also became the first major U.S. official to speak at Beijing University since the Tianamen Square incident..... Shortly before the White House announced Pena's nomination to the Energy Department, the Washington Post newspaper reported that Tien had accepted a contribution from the Riadys, the Indonesian family embroiled in the controversy. Tien has said he met Riady only once, and that the contribution was made to the university....."
National Review On Line 8/5/99 "..."The suspect unfairly tried to use the race card," complained Bill Richardson on Tuesday, in response to Wen Ho Lee's charge on "60 Minutes" that he was fired from his job at Los Alamos because he was the only Asian-American scientist in his weapons-design group. Added Richardson: "He tried to portray himself as a victim after he massively violated our security system." ....Perhaps he's decided, since then, that race has no part in this discussion. If so, good for him. Now he should condemn President Clinton, who played his own race card last week in a truly bizarre forum: a press release issued from Air Force One expressing his "special gratitude" to Chang Lin Tien, former chancellor of UC-Berkeley, for starting work on the National Science Board. "It is intolerable that the patriotism of Asian-Pacific American scientists be questioned in the wake of recent allegations of espionage at one of our national laboratories," said Clinton. "Racism and stereotyping have no place in our One America in the 21st century." ...."
THE WHITE HOUSE: Statement by the Press Secretary, M2 PressWIRE, 7/30/99 "...The President wishes to express his special gratitude to Professor Chang Lin Tien, who begins his service today on the National Science Board. Professor Tien and other Board members help sustain American leadership across the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Professor Tien's rich background, as a world-class engineer and as the former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, provides him with a unique understanding of the important links between science and technology, and education and society. "Asian Pacific American scientists and engineers have long made major contributions to our country, to our national security, and to our unmatched scientific enterprise," the President said. "That is why it is intolerable that the patriotism of Asian Pacific American scientists be questioned in the wake of recent allegations of espionage at one of our national laboratories. Security matters are of the highest priority in my Administration, but history has shown the damage to the lives of our citizens and to our society that results from the destructive grip of prejudice, suspicion and discrimination. Racism and stereotyping have no place in our One America in the 21st century." ...In answering the call to public service, Professor Tien carries on the principles and cherished traditions of Asian Pacific Americans who have helped build and strengthen our nation with diligence and determination...."
Freeper Jolly observes "...Okay we have Clinton making this weird preemptive statement above. We know he has conections with Jiang, and met with the Riady at least once. Now who was he involved with in HK none other then Hambrecht & Quist. This Silicon Harbor idea is somthing that H&Q is the lead investor in... Silicon Harbour `needs hordes' of skilled staff, Hong Kong Standard, 07/22/99 (Chinese Economy, Internet, HK) Excerpt: "He said he does not want to speculate the basis for the recent announcement by Prof Tien Chang-lin, chairman of the Commission on Innovation and Technology. Prof Tien said that several Taiwan companies are interested in investing in design and manufacture of advanced chips at Hong Kong's ``Silicon Harbour'' project. Prof Tien said on the eve of his departure to the US that one of a broad spectrum of high value-added activities that will be supported at Silicon Harbour is design of systems on a chip. His remark was received with reservation in informed circles...."
Another from Jolly "...Yue to head new trouble-shoot unit, Hong Kong Standard, 07/09/99 ....Asked who would succeed Professor Tien Chang-lin to head a standing advisory body to promote innovation and technology, Mr Chau said it was hard to find ``a person as brilliant''. ``Prof Tien is not only a well-known scientist but also has good interpersonal skills,'' Mr Chau said. ``You can see his achievements as principal of University of California at Berkeley for seven years.'' He complimented Prof Tien's contributions to Hong Kong's development of innovation and technology...... He had no comment on whether this person should be a Hong Kong native; or on the number of potential candidates at present being considered....."
Freeper Paul Cruse reports 8/9/99 "...When Tien was running UC-Berserkeley, the Admissions Dept. changed the 'race' of the Chinese applicants to 'white' .....Chinese enrollment at Berserkeley is over 40% now...."
Susan Rice
11/20/98 Executive Intelligence Review "…Susan Rice, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, is reported to have won her post at the U.S. State Department through strong pressure from Roger Winter, executive director of the U.S. Committee on Refugees, who pushed for her candidacy over the appointment of Howard Wolpe, now U.S. Special Envoy to the Great Lakes region, who was also a contender for the post. Her other known patron is Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who has been a life-long friend of Rice and her family, as Albright is quoted in the Washington Post of March 30. She also comes to the administration with the vetting of the neo-colonial apparatus in the British Commonwealth, which is the source of the policies Rice is carrying out. A Rhodes Scholar, she received her masters and doctorate degrees in International Relations at New College, Oxford University. In 1992, she was the recipient of the first annual award given by the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the British International Studies Association for the "most distinguished dissertation in the United Kingdom in the field of International Relations." Her topic was "The Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-80: Implications for International Peacekeeping." In 1990, she had also been awarded the Royal Commonwealth Society's Walter Frewen Lord Prize for "outstanding research in the field of Commonwealth History." Her first job was a management consultant in Toronto, for McKinsey and Company. Her next posting was at the U.S. National Security Council, as director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping in February 1993, and then as Special Assistant to the President and as Senior Director for African Affairs, from March 1995 until May 1997, when she was appointed by President Clinton as Assistant Secretary…."
11/20/98 Executive Intelligence Review "…The poverty of her knowledge of Africa itself has shocked the African diplomatic corps in Washington. Further, is the common complaint, she doesn't want to learn. "Many of my colleagues on Africa have a degree of understanding and expertise that I can't pretend to have," she told the Washington Post; and, says the Post, in its adulatory March 30 profile of her, "While the top brass are enchanted, she has not captured the hearts and minds of the grunts" in the State Department. She is known for not entertaining any views contradictory to the policy that has been set for her to carry out, and for blocking the flow of information that might show that policy's weakness or failure. She brooks no opposition, it is said, even from the U.S. President. When President Clinton, in South Africa, on March 27 had voiced his hopes for Gen. Sani Abacha's moving Nigeria toward democracy, the State Department was asked by a reporter if this did not contradict the policy stated by Rice on March 12, and which policy was correct. After first denying the President's statement, State Department spokesman James Foley stood by Rice's declaration, and stated that any other idea was "wildly hypothetical." "What Assistant Secretary Rice said stands," asserted Foley…."
MSNBC.com 8/29/99 Michael Moran "…THE PROBE was sparked by two MSNBC.com stories earlier this month that detailed an offer by Sudan to turn over to the FBI two men taken off a plane from Nairobi the day after the twin embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Sudanese, who confirmed the offer in earlier interviews with MSNBC, held the men until Aug. 20, the day when the U.S. ordered a retaliatory Tomahawk missile strike on a Sudanese factory outside Khartoum. Sudan then deported the two men to Pakistan. Officials were unable, or unwilling, to describe their whereabouts today. The closed-door probe by investigators of the House and Senate Intelligence committees differ slightly in their scope. Several sources, including one who has answered questions before the two panels, said Congress wants to know why the Sudanese offer was not taken up, where the two men are today and whether inter-agency friction played any part in the missed opportunity….. Two top counterintelligence officials — Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Sheehan and FBI counter-terrorism chief Michael Rolince — were among about a dozen people who have given evidence to investigators over the past two weeks, sources said. Without confirming his appearances, Rolince said Thursday that his working relationship with State Department and other counter-terrorism officials is "rock solid." "There may have been a couple of people who had disagreements with State," he said. "But I’ve been here through the whole ordeal, and we all understand each others’ strengths and weaknesses and we’re very much in synch" with the State Department’s efforts. …."
11/20/98 Executive Intelligence Review "…An EIR team probing the causes behind the genocidal wars that have been ravaging East and Central Africa over the last four years, has uncovered a covert arms and logistical supply network run out of the U.S. State Department, which mirrors precisely the notorious Iran-Contra arms supply operation of the 1980s….. The parallel to the Bush-North operations is precise: Incontrovertible evidence accumulated by EIR demonstrates that the same extra-governmental "assets" used by North in widespread illegal narcotics- and arms-trafficking, are channelling arms and military aid into Central Africa. In this new "Central African" supply operation, standing in for the drug-smuggling gangsters of the Nicaraguan Contra operation, are the African "rebels" fighting the governments of Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and any other Central African nation targetted by British intelligence's leading warlord in the region, Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni.
The two leading operatives who have been caught red-handed in such dirty operations toward Central Africa are U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice, and Roger Winter, executive director of the U.S. Committee on Refugees. EIR has uncovered two, overlapping operations. First, is the covert supply of arms to the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of John Garang, which has waged a totally unsuccessful but nevertheless genocidal war against the Sudan government since 1983. The second involves covert military logistical aid to the so-called rebel forces arrayed against the government of Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an operation being run directly out of the U.S. State Department with the oversight of Rice….The evidence gathered by the EIR team, even if incomplete, tends to confirm the many rumors and allegations circulating throughout Central Africa and among those involved in Africa policy in Europe and elsewhere, that while the U.S. government's public policy to attempt to act as the "honest mediator" in the war around the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United States is, in fact, supporting--with arms, supplies, training, and logistical support--those very forces under the control of Uganda and Rwanda, which violated international law to invade the Congo on Aug. 2, and now hold large chunks of its eastern and central territory. Thus, while Susan Rice was engaging in highly publicized shuttling among Central African capitals, to demand that Congo allies Angola and Zimbabwe withdraw their troops from the Congo, in order to prevent a "wider conflagration," back in Washington, EIR has uncovered, her underlings were in the process of vetting private contractors to give logistical support to the Ugandan- and Rwandan-backed rebels in the Congo….."
11/20/98 Executive Intelligence Review "… In this case, according to a confidential source, under Rice's direction, Ricardo Zuniga, operations officer for the State Department's East African Affairs section, is seeking aid from private contractors to supply and provide an airlift to Museveni's combatants in the Congo. Zuniga is reportedly a middle-level foreign service officer, with previous postings in Mexico and Portugal. Within the State Department, it is widely believed that Rice's closest adviser on Africa is Roger Winter, director of the U.S. Committee on Refugees, who has rammed through the policy of war in Central Africa as the policy of the State Department. In September 1997, Winter, along with John Prendergast of the U.S. National Security Council, declared Rice to be one of their "team" to lead the United States into support of a total war against the government of Sudan, to be waged on the ground by the Ugandan and allied armies. Rice's other key adviser is Philip Gourevitch, a journalist with The New Yorker, who has fashioned a career for himself in the last four years as an expert on the bloodletting in Rwanda in 1994. He is known to be personally close to Rwandan Defense Minister Kagame. Prior to joining The New Yorker, Gourevitch was the New York correspondent for the neo-conservative Jewish weekly, The Forward.[FIGURE 201]
11/20/98 Executive Intelligence Review "…EIR is in possession of more detailed information concerning the operations uncovered than we present in this report. The file is by no means closed, and EIR is continuing to dig deeper, to uncover the real causes behind the terrible slaughter and suffering that have ravaged Africa under the regional leadership of Museveni…."
11/20/98 Executive Intelligence Review "…Rice has used the clout associated with her post to ram through a policy of proxy war against Sudan by the United States through Uganda and Eritrea. She was reportedly a strong advocate of the Aug. 20 U.S. air attack on the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, on the grounds that it was housing a chemical weapons capability--charges for which the administration has not been able to present sound evidence.
In general, Rice came into the office with a policy of attaching the United States to the "new breed" of African leaders first heralded in the Jan. 14, 1997 London Times. This breed centers around Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, and included Eritrean military dictator Isaias Afwerki, Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi, Congolese dictator Laurent Kabila, and Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame. One of this coalition's major aims was to bring down the Sudan government; however, the coalition has fallen to pieces, as war has broken out between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and between Kabila's Congo on one side and Ugandan and Rwanda on the other. Rice's "peace efforts" have come to naught in both cases…."
11/20/98 Executive Intelligence Review "…Rice's animosity toward Sudan is unyielding, as she has stated that "Sudan is the only state in sub-Saharan Africa that poses a direct threat to U.S. national security interests." In her current post, and before that, at the NSC Africa desk, she refused to meet with Sudanese Ambassador to the United States Mahdi Ibrahim Mohamed, despite the ongoing diplomatic relations between the two countries. She has been nearly as extreme in her targetting of Nigeria. In a speech at the Brookings Institution on March 12, Rice enunciated her policy toward Nigeria: "Let me state clearly and unequivocally to you today that an electoral victory by any military candidate in the forthcoming Presidential elections would be unacceptable"--the first time that such a policy had been so stated by Washington. Her father, Emmet Rice, was a former adviser to the Central Bank of Nigeria.To the extent that she has any expertise, it is in peacekeeping and military operations, and Rice has been involved in the details in formulating the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), which calls for the formation of regional armies that would deploy at the behest of supranational organizations, such as the UN Security Council, or the Organization of African Unity.
9/21/98 NY Times "…In May 1996, at the request of the United States and Saudi Arabia, Sudan expelled bin Laden, who moved to Afghanistan. Sudanese officials also say that they sent 100 of his operatives and their dependents to Afghanistan as well. But U.S. officials were convinced that the Sudanese were insincere. "With the exception of the expulsion of Osama bin Laden, which was not followed by any steps to get rid of his financial network, they have not done anything serious," Ms. Rice said. ….In February 1997, Sudanese President Oman al-Bashir sent President Clinton a personal letter. It offered, among other things, to allow U.S. intelligence, law-enforcement and counterterrorism personnel to enter Sudan and to go anywhere and see anything, to help stamp out terrorism. The United States never replied to that letter; the isolaters derided it as a meaningless "charm offensive" by Sudan, in Ms. Rice's words. A senior Sudanese official made a similar offer directly to the F.B.I. six months ago -- send a counter-terrorism team to Sudan, and we will help in any way we can, it said. The F.B.I. wrote back more than four months later, in June, declining the opportunity…."
Wen-Ho and Sylvia Lee
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "... By mid-August 1997, the information compiled by the FBI in support of its FISA application and presented to OIPR included the following: DOE counterintelligence and weapons experts had concluded that there was a great probability that the W-88 information had been compromised between 1984 and 1988 at the nuclear weapons division of the Los Alamos laboratory. It was standard PRC intelligence tradecraft to focus particularly upon targeting and recruitment of ethnic Chinese living in foreign countries (e.g., Chinese-Americans). It is common in PRC intelligence tradecraft to use academic delegations -- rather than traditional intelligence officers -- to collect information on science-related topics. It was, in fact, standard PRC intelligence tradecraft to use scientific delegations to identify and target scientists working at restricted United States facilities such as LANL, since they "have better access than PRC intelligence personnel to scientists and other counterparts at the United States National Laboratories * * *." Sylvia Lee had extremely close contacts with visiting Chinese scientific delegations. Sylvia Lee, in fact, had volunteered to act as hostess for visiting Chinese scientific delegations at LANL when such visits first began in 1980, and had apparently had more extensive contacts and closer relationships with these delegations than anyone else at the laboratory. On one occasion, moreover, Wen-Ho Lee had himself aggressively sought involvement with a visiting Chinese scientific delegation, insisting upon acting as an interpreter for the group despite his inability to perform this function very effectively.
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "...Sylvia Lee was involuntarily terminated at LANL during a reduction-in-force in 1995. Her personnel file indicated incidents of security violations and threats she allegedly made against coworkers. In 1986, Wen-Ho Lee and his wife traveled to China on LANL business to deliver a paper on nuclear weapons-related science to a symposium in Beijing. He visited the Chinese laboratory -- the Institute for Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) -- that designs the PRC's nuclear weapons. The Lees visited the PRC -- and IAPCM -- on LANL business again in 1988. It was standard PRC intelligence tradecraft, when targeting ethnic Chinese living overseas, to encourage travel to the "homeland" -- particularly where visits to ancestral villages and/or old family members could be arranged -- as a way of trying to dilute loyalty to other countries and encouraging solidarity with the authorities in Beijing.
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "...The Lees took vacation time to travel elsewhere in China during their two trips to China in 1986 and 1988. The FBI also learned of the Lees' purchase of unknown goods or services from a travel agent in Hong Kong while on a trip to that colony and to Taiwan in 1992. FBI agents speculated that this payment might have been for tickets for an unreported side trip across the border into the PRC. Though Wen-Ho Lee had visited IAPCM in both 1986 and 1988 and had filed "contact reports" claiming to recount all of the Chinese scientists he met there, he had failed to disclose certain information that the FBI deemed significant.
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "...Wen-Ho Lee worked on specialized computer codes at Los Alamos -- so-called "legacy codes" related to nuclear testing data -- that were a particular target for Chinese intelligence. The FBI learned that during a visit to Los Alamos by scientists from IAPCM, Lee had discussed certain unclassified (but weapons-related) computer codes with the Chinese delegation. It was reported that Lee had helped the Chinese scientists with their codes by providing software and calculations relating to hydrodynamics.
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "...In 1997, Lee had requested permission to hire a graduate student, a Chinese national, to help him with work on "Lagrangian codes" at LANL. When the FBI evaluated this request, investigators were told by laboratory officials that there was no such thing as an unclassified Lagrangian code, which describes certain hydrodynamic processes and are used to model some aspects of nuclear weapons testing.
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "...In 1984, the FBI questioned Wen-Ho Lee about his 1982 contact with a U.S. scientist at another DOE nuclear weapons laboratory who was under investigation. When questioned about this contact, Lee gave deceptive answers. After offering further explanations, Lee took a polygraph, claiming that he had been concerned only with this other scientist's alleged passing of unclassified information to a foreign government against DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations -- something that Lee himself admitted doing. (The FBI closed this investigation of Lee in 1984.)
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "...The FBI, as noted above, had begun another investigation into Lee in the early 1990s, before the W-88 compromise came to light. This investigation was based upon an FBI investigative lead that could reasonably be interpreted to indicate that Lee had provided significant assistance to the PRC. The FBI obtained a copy of a note on IAPCM letterhead dated 1987 listing three LANL reports by their laboratory publication number. On this note, in English, was a handwritten comment to "Linda" saying "[t]he Deputy Director of this Institute asked [for] these paper[s]. His name is Dr. Zheng Shaotang. Please check if they are unclassified and send to them. Thanks a lot. Sylvia Lee."
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "... On December 23, 1998, Wen-Ho Lee took a polygraph test administered by a private security contractor working for DOE, the Wackenhut Corporation. After FBI and DOE officials reviewed these results, LANL removed Lee's access to classified information. On February 10, 1999, Wen-Ho Lee was given another polygraph test, this time by the FBI. Specifically, among the questions in this second test were the following: "Have you ever given any of [a particular type of classified computer code related to nuclear weapons testing] to any unauthorized person?" and "Have you ever passed W-88 information to any unauthorized person?" Wen-Ho Lee failed this polygraph test.
http://www.senate.gov/~thompson/wen-ho.html 8/6/99 Senator Fred Thompson and Joseph Lieberman "...On March 6, the New York Times ran its first story about Chinese nuclear espionage at the DOE laboratories. DOE had continued to employ Lee despite Director Freeh's 1997 warning that there was no longer any investigative need to keep him in position and despite the failed polygraph a month before. It was not until March 8, 1999 that the Department actually fired Lee. (Energy Secretary Richardson has said that it was "strictly a coincidence" that this occurred within 48 hours of the first press accounts.) The FBI still lacked FISA authority to mount surveillance upon the Lees, but in March 1999 it asked and obtained Lee's permission to search his office and his office computer. Upon conducting this search, the FBI discovered that Lee had undertaken certain suspicious activities on his office computer
Miscellaneous
Cantor Fitzgerald, a major US Treasury bond issuer founded by Bernie Cantor who donated to Bill Clinton and partially owned by Iris Cantor a buddy of Hillary Clinton, is the company that brokers environmental pollution credits. Chelsea Clinton received advance issue Carbon Bonds.
Clinton and Livingstone met only twice, once was the day after Livingstone and his men began requesting FBI files 481 files - meeting on December 7, 1993. The White House Counsel's office has surrendered to the FBI over 400 files since June 6, 1996, the day after the FBI began its inquiry into the matter - about 2.5 years later.
Tom Schneider, whose wife is nominated for the post of ambassador to the Netherlands, was a partner to the chief lobbyist for a group of Minnesota Indian tribes opposing the development of a casino by a group of rival tribes in Wisconsin in 1994 and 1995. Local and regional officials with the Bureau of Indian Affairs approved plans for the new casino, but the application for the permit was denied by the Interior Department the day after the Schneider's July 13, 1995 fundraiser. An independent counsel has been appointed to investigate Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt regarding the matter
Al Checci, an associate of Bill Clinton, was scheduled to go on the ill-fated plane flight with Ron Brown but changed flight plans at the last minute.
Jane Sherburne is a former law partner of Lloyd Cutler, former Clinton White House counsel, and James Robertson, the federal judge who just dismissed all of the Webster Hubbell indictments
Jimmy Carter and Jackson Stephens were at Annapolis in the Navy together, according to the Senate BCCI report
From Freeper D14truth - Compare John Crudele remarks on market manipulations (stock future buying at key point in Lewinsky matter) to BCCI buying/selling futures on Chicago Board of Trade
From Freeper D14truth -BCCI Senate Report: Lawyers and Lobbyists--1988 Defending and Advocating for BCCI, including Lawrence Wechsler and Lawrence BARCELLA
From Freeper D14truth ---BCCI Senate Report: Ed Rogers and Kamal Adham. PLATO CACHERIS,criminal defense attorney for Sheik Kamal Adham (1991)
Inside the Clinton Attack Machine 8/4/97 Thomas DeFrank Thomas Galvin "..."Senior White House official Bruce Lindsey, the president's closest aide, worked the angles, calling old Arkansas hands to stand up for the president. ABC was interviewing Federal Emergency Management Administration regional director Buddy Young-who had been the troopers' boss and disputed their assertions- when Lindsey called to instruct him to be sure to tell CNN the same story." ..."
5/97 Freeper JohnGalt on American Spectator "…"Tamraz found an even more direct royal connection in Prince Abdullah bin Musaid bin Abdul Rahman, whose father had helped rescue the kingdom from bankruptcy in a late 1950's stint as finance minister. Another major shareholder was the wealthy (but non-royal) Sheikh Salem bin Ladin, a scion of the kingdom's largest construction contractor. (A renegade relative, Osama bin Ladin, was ostracized by the family after throwing in his lot with religious extremists. See "Terrorism in Our Face," TAS, April 1997.) But the shareholder destined for the most notoriety was a classmate from Harvard Business School named Ghaith Pharaon…."
World Net Daily 3/9/99 Charles Smith "…In 1994, William Hambrecht, a major donor to Bill Clinton, profited directly from advanced military technology sales to the Chinese army. Hambrecht is the financial backer of the Internet magazine Salon. Hambrecht, a very liberal investment banker, owns the firm Hambrecht and Quist (H&Q), based in San Francisco. In 1994, Hambrecht also employed Defense Secretary William Perry as an executive vice president of H&Q Incorporated. Perry joined William Hambrecht and founded H&Q Technology Partners, Inc. in 1985…... Perry was also close to the "matchmakers" of the Galaxy New Technology deal, Professor John Lewis from Stanford, and Hua Di, a Chinese defector, also working at Stanford. "Defector" Hua Di was born into a family of prominent Communist officials. Hua studied missiles in Russia and worked in China's missile program for 24 years. In 1989, Hua fled China after the Tiananmen Square crackdown on student democracy demonstrators. Hua went to work as a researcher at Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control. The center's co-directors are Perry and Lewis. Perry, Hua and Lewis shared more than an academic career at Stanford. In 1992, Chinese Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) Lt. General Huai Guomo contacted Hua Di to start a joint venture called Galaxy New Technology. "Lewis and I were matchmakers," recalled Hua about Galaxy New Technology in 1996. "(General) Huai is my good friend."…. John Lewis and "defector" Hua Di worked together in 1994 on the Hua Mei project using SCM/Brooks. Hua Di located a Madam Nie Li in China to run the project and be co-chair with an American director. Dr. Lewis located Adlai Stevenson III, the former Democratic senator from Ohio, to lead the American side. Of course, Galaxy New Technology head Madam Nie Lie was also the wife of Chinese army General Ding Henggao. Madam Nie is the daughter of Marshal Nie, a close associate of Mao. Madam Nie also has the rank of General in the Chinese army. In 1994, Madam Nie's husband, General Ding Henggao was director of COSTIND, the Chinese Commission on Science Technology and Industry for National Defense. General Ding Henggao was also the boss of Lt. General Huai Guomo, the PLA contact for Hua Di…. Other than Madam "General" Nie, the so-called "civilian" firm was heavily packed with Chinese army officers and experts. One member of Galaxy New Technology management, according to the Defense document, was Director and President "Mr. Deng Changru." Mr. Deng Changru was also Lt. Colonel Deng Changru of the People's Liberation Army, head of the PLA communications corps. Another Chinese army officer in the Galaxy New Technology staff is co-General Manager "Mr. Xie Zhichao." Xie was also Lt. Colonel Xie Zhichao, Director of the COSTIND Electronics Design Bureau….. John Lewis and Secretary Perry still work at Stanford. Hua Di, however, has chosen to return home. In late October 1998, it was announced that Hua Di had returned to China. He met with Chinese security officials in late 1997 and was assured that he would not be prosecuted. On Dec. 31, 1997 Hua returned to China. On Jan. 6, 1998, the "defector" Hua was arrested and charged with passing state secrets to U.S. officials. Stanford officials and Dr. John Lewis have written to the Chinese government appealing for Hua's release. Of course, Hua Di was no defector and he certainly will not return to America. Hua, like Perry and Lewis, was working for the PLA. Hua's arrest was faked. Hua Di was an agent of COSTIND, the espionage unit led by General Ding. Hua served the Communist Party and made a tidy profit in the process. Hua returned to a fat bank account from Hua Mei and a promotion in the Chinese army…."
Washington Weekly 4/5/99 Marvin Lee "...On November 8, 1995, at a presidential luncheon at the "Car Barn" in Georgetown, an unusual constellation of guests were in attendance: Charlie Trie, Ng Lap Seng and Eric Green met Richard Mays and Eric Wynn. Also attending was then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown who addressed the assembled people as "The Trie Team," and said that "big business helps us everywhere." What is "The Trie Team"? We know from Timperlake & Triplett's book "Year of the Rat" that Trie and Lap Seng are members of the "Four Seasons" Triad gang of Chinese organized crime. We also know that Trie is a long-time friend of Bill Clinton. Another long-time friend of Clinton is Richard Mays, a Little Rock lawyer whose name has appeared in the Whitewater and tainted blood scandals as well as the investigation into the death of White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster. He is also a fundraiser for Clinton who has repeatedly solicited money from people reported by the Washington Post to be tied to U.S. organized crime: Eric Wynn and Richard Tienken. Mays has also successfully raised campaign contributions from Charlie Trie. The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee during its Campaign Finance investigation obtained a video tape of the Car Barn event in Georgetown. During a recently released deposition of Richard Mays, David A. Kass, Investigative Counsel for the Committee asked about the Car Barn event. Mays did not seem comfortable testifying about the event that was co-chaired by himself and Charlie Trie, and had no explanation for why participants apparently had tried to hide photos from the event showing President Clinton and several top DNC officials socializing with members of U.S. and Chinese organized crime. Mays admitted during the deposition to giving Eric Wynn "free legal advice." Mays left for Africa when the Committee later subpoenaed him to testify during Campaign Finance hearings....What is the link between U.S. and Chinese organized crime? The Car Barn event may be providing the answer. It was a fundraising event. Could it be that U.S. and Chinese organized crime serve as one of the funnels of cash between the Chinese military and the Clinton administration? The Chinese military - Lt. Colonel Liu Chaoying - Johnny Chung - White House channel could not possibly have paid for all the military technology obtained from the Clinton administration by the People's Liberation Army...."
DOE Press Release 4/9/97 Pena "... "I deeply regret Charlie Curtis' decision to submit his resignation ..... "Mr. Curtis has served as Deputy Secretary since August 1995, and as Under Secretary of Energy since February 1994. As Deputy Secretary, he served as chief operating officer of the Department and had direct responsibility for the management and administration of national security, energy, and science and technology programs. He has helped lead the Department's national security programs out of a Cold War environment into a reconfigured weapons complex focused on maintaining the weapons stockpile without testing and reducing the spread of nuclear materials worldwide. Under his leadership, our national laboratories have moved toward improved management while ensuring the nation remains the world leader in basic and applied science and engineering. Charlie Curtis has had a lasting impact on our nation's energy and national security policies...."
DOE Press Release 4/9/97 Pena "..."I am, however, very pleased with President Clinton's announcement today of his intention to nominate as Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Moler. Ms. Moler is presently Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Prior to joining FERC in 1988, she served as senior counsel to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and worked for the late Senator Henry M. Jackson and for Senator J. Bennett Johnston...."
7/1998 DOE "...Elizabeth ("Betsy") Anne Moler became the Acting Secretary of Energy on July 1, 1998. She also serves as the Deputy Secretary. She was sworn in as Deputy Secretary, the Department's second ranking official, on June 16, 1997, and is also DOE's chief operating officer. Since coming to the Department, Moler has been the principal architect of the Administration's Comprehensive Electricity Competition Act, which was transmitted to the Congress in June 1998. ....She also shares management responsibility for Defense Programs, Nonproliferation and National Security and Fissile Materials Disposition. Moler represents the department at the interagency Nuclear Weapons Council and Security Policy Board meetings..... "
Washington Weekly 4/18/99 Marvin Lee "...One day before the 1984 presidential election, Arkansas State Trooper L. D. Brown drove then-Governor Bill Clinton to the home of Jack Stephens for a meeting with Senator John Glenn. Glenn was considering running for president and was exploring the possibility of having Clinton as his running mate. What was Jack Stephens role in the forging of the alliance between Glenn and Clinton? In his new book , "Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation," L. D. Brown writes that he left the room when matters turned to presidential election strategy. But the meeting has taken on significance in light of the role of the three men in the Chinagate scandal of the late 1990s. It was Jack Stephens who provided Chinese military intelligence a foothold in Arkansas by partnering with Lippo Group which brought John Huang to the U.S. and financed Clinton's presidential campaign. And it was a Stephens Inc. office that John Huang used in Washington when he conducted espionage for the Chinese military while employed in the Clinton administration. And it was Senator Glenn who attempted to obstruct those revelations at the Campaign Finance hearings of the Thompson Committee. Glenn also claimed to represent the interests of John Huang before the Committee...."
2/27/92 The Center for Public Integrity Statement of Charles Lewis, Chairman and Executive Director "...The Center publishes investigative studies which serve as vital reference material for journalists, academicians and policymakers alike. The purpose of the Center is to bring important, sometimes inaccessible information to the attention of the American people..... Governor Bill Clinton has eight advisers who individually or whose firms have worked for overseas corporations or governments. For example, Thomas Hoog has represented the People's Republic of China, and his firm, Hill and Knowlton, represents Hitachi, the Embassy of Japan, the Government of Brazil, the Republic of Turkey, Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., and many other clients. Paul London has represented the Japanese Society of Industrial Machinery Manufacturers. Clinton also has two advisers who are not currently registered at the Justice Department but who have done work on behalf of overseas clients. Paula Stern, who once chaired the International Trade Commission, subsequently has testified before her old agency on behalf of the Japanese Display Industry. Former Carter Administration official Roger Altman is a partner with the New York-based Blackstone Group, which brokered the Sony purchase of CBS Records and Columbia Pictures. We found another interesting thing about Clinton. He is the governor of a state with just one percent of the nation's natural gas. But in this presidential campaign, Clinton has said, "We must rely less on imported oil, and more on cheap and abundant natural gas . . ." Adviser Paul London consults on behalf of the Natural Gas Supply Association; adviser Skip Rutherford in vice president of Arkla, Inc., a Little Rock-based natural gas company partly owned by Jack Stephens, who is a key fundraiser for Clinton. The Stephens family-as Jeff Garth of the New York Times has reported-also owns 38 percent of the Worthen National Bank, which last month approved a credit line that allows the Clinton campaign to borrow up to $2 million....."
Omaha World-Herald 4/20/99 Editorial "....Trulock said two senior Energy Department officials tried to block him in 1997 from briefing the new energy secretary, Federico Pena, about evidence that China had stolen the design of America's most advanced nuclear warhead from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Trulock said he was told that if his claims became public, the lobbying effort for funding Los Alamos and other national laboratories might be damaged. Critics of President Clinton's China policy, he was also told, might exploit such a revelation. Trulock said that in August of 1997, he informed Gary Samore, the National Security Council's senior director for nonproliferation, about lax security at Los Alamos. Samore said the Clinton administration intended to use Los Alamos and other laboratories as "a tool to further its engagement policy with China," Trulock told the Armed Services Committee. Samore said he was not going to allow concerns about Los Alamos to mar the October 1997 visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Trulock testified. According to The New York Times, Samore has said that any comments along those lines were meant as a joke. Some joke...."
Omaha World-Herald 4/20/99 Editorial "...Trulock said that in the summer of 1998, Acting Energy Secretary Elizabeth Moler prevented him from answering a request for a briefing on Los Alamos by members of the House Intelligence Committee. According to Trulock, Moler dismissed the importance of the request by saying that representatives would just make trouble for the president over China policy. Moler, now a lawyer in private practice, told the Armed Services Committee she did not recall such a request. She was asked about a memo to her from Trulock dated July 21, 1998, outlining the request for the briefing. The memo was retrieved from Moler's office safe when she left the Energy Department. "I don't have any rational explanation for this incident," she said. That may have been the most truthful thing she said to the committee...."
4/21/99 Gretchen Glass - "...National Security Advisor: Samuel R. Berger, a paid lobbyist for the Chinese while he was a partner in the international law firm of Hogan and Hartson where he headed the firm's international trade group. Mr. Berger is still listed as an attorney with Hogan and Hartson, therefore, as a partner, he is still receiving benefits, directly or indirectly, from dealings with China and Russia...."
4/21/99 Gretchen Glass - "...Chairman of the IOB [Intelligence Oversight Board]: Anthony S. Harrington, is a senior partner of the international law firm of Hogan and Hartson (with Berger) and, as a senior partner, receives benefits, either directly or indirectly, from dealings with China and Russia. Mr. Harrington is still listed as an attorney with Hogan and Hartson...."
4/21/99 Gretchen Glass - "...Chairman of the PFIAB [President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]: Warren B. Rudman, is a partner in the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison with offices in Communist China and who, as a partner, receives benefits, either directly or indirectly, from dealings with Communist China...."
4/21/99 Gretchen Glass - "...Inspector General of the DOJ: Michael R. Bromwich who is/was a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Mayer, Brown & Platt. The firm has offices in Moscow and Beijing, with emphasis on Communist China. If he is still a partner, on leave of absence or not, he is benefiting from the firm's dealings with China and Russia..."
WorldNetDaily,sm 4/23/99 John Doggett in 1992 "...Strobe Talbot, who is now Clinton's No. 2 National Security Advisor, said the idea of a nation-state didn't make sense anymore..."
Softwar.com 4/27/99 Softwar.com (Charles Smith) "...In 1994, Chinese General Ding Henggao announced a new project to modernize the People's Liberation Army. In 1994 General Ding Henggao was the head of COSTIND (Chinese Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense). General Ding introduced the world to the red Army "16 Characters Slogan" or "military production first" project. The General's new project showcased a joint U.S./Chinese commission, co-chaired by Ding and U.S. Defense Secretary Dr. William Perry. According to an article published in Aviation Week and Space Technology, a Pentagon spokesman stated the Commission was "not going to be selling arms to China" (AW&ST page 62, March 21, 1994). ...According to documents forced from the Clinton administration in Federal Court, Perry had just returned from an October 1994 trip to Beijing. In October, 1994, Perry promised PLA General Ding a "Cray supercomputer to be used by the Chinese nuclear weapons establishment to help design newer and safer nukes." In addition, according to the Commerce Dept. documents, PLA Generals openly discussed with the Clinton officials a wide array of military technology including the main functions of the Army unit COSTIND, "1) Aerospace, 2) Aviation, 3) Electronics, 4) Ground Force Military Equipment, 5) Shipbuilding,[and] 6) Nuclear". .."
Softwar.com 4/27/99 Softwar.com (Charles Smith) "...PLA General Ding Henggao led a delegation of Chinese Army officers to Washington, D.C. in November, 1994. The mission to Washington included a closed meeting at the U.S. Commerce Dept. with Defense Secretary William Perry. Ding, of course, was not alone on his visit to Washington, D.C. The meeting at Commerce included some of the highest ranking PLA officers to travel outside of China. General Ding brought his trusted aide, and second in Command at COSTIND, Lt. General Huai Guomo. In addition, Ding brought Maj. General Fu Jiaping, and Maj. General Chen Kaizeng. Ding even brought one of the top spies in the Chinese Army, Major General Hou Gang, Deputy Director of the Intelligence Department of the PLA General Staff Headquarters. Nor was Perry alone on the American side at the D.C. Commerce Dept. meeting. The official U.S. government delegation included several familiar Pentagon faces such as Ken Bacon, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and Major General David Mcilvoy from the office of the Joint-Chiefs of Staff. The meeting also included Commerce Deputy Undersecretary Barry Carter, Dr. Eden Wong from the office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant for White House Affairs, Margaret Sullivan. In addition, Perry was also assisted by his trusted friend, Dr. John Lewis. Perry appointed Lewis to the Defense Policy Board. Lewis, however, is listed at the 1994 PLA meeting as "Stanford University, Civilian Consultant to SECDEF." According to the Commerce documents, Dr. Lewis was a paid consultant for the Dept. of Defense and a "consultant" to Dr. William Perry. Ironically, PLA General Ding, PLA General Huai, Secretary Perry and Dr. Lewis also shared a joint business deal. In fact, their "joint" business sold advanced, secure, communications equipment to the Chinese Army.
Softwar.com 4/27/99 Softwar.com (Charles Smith) "...In 1994, Dr. Lewis, Dr. Perry and General Ding helped form a U.S./China joint venture called Galaxy New Technology that included the U.S. company SCM/Brooks Telecommunications. This venture led to the direct export of advanced, secure, fiber-optic communications systems to a Chinese Army unit. A 1996 report from the Department of Defense shows that Dr. Lewis was being paid three times for the same meeting in 1994. First, Lewis was paid by the Chinese Army as a member of the Galaxy New Technology project. Second, Lewis was paid by the Pentagon for serving on the U.S. Defense Policy Board. Finally, Lewis was paid by Secretary Perry as his personal defense contractor.....According to these documents, in 1994, Defense Secretary Perry personally pushed for the Galaxy New Technology deal and personally lobbyied against NSA objections. Perry hired one of the two key "matchmakers" of the Galaxy New Technology deal, Professor John Lewis from Stanford as his personal contractor. Perry brought Lewis to the meeting with General Ding and Lt. General Huai.
Washington Times 4/27/99 Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II "...At the top of the pipeline sits Gen. Xiong Guangkai, the PLA's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, China's premier spy-master. Gen. Xiong attained notoriety in 1996 when his threat to incinerate Los Angeles made its way into the New York Times, but he has a history of bad behavior. In 1989, his agents ran provocation operations against the Chinese students in an effort justify the ensuing massacre at Tiananmen. Despite his record, Gen. Xiong has been a frequent honored visitor to Washington and perhaps the Oval Office. Under Gen. Xiong is Maj. Gen. Ji Shengde, commander of the Er Bu. Gen. Ji, like Lt. Col. Liu, is the child of a former high-ranking Communist Party official. He is generally thought of as something of a lightweight who attained his position on the basis of family connections, not ability. It would be interesting to know if the rumors of his secret visit to Washington this month are true...."
Cosco Home Page "...COSCO now owns over 70 wholly-owned companies, joint ventures and representative offices abroad with 2000 foreign staff members. COSCO has established its transnational operational network stretching to different directions, covering Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, America and Europe with Beijing as its home base. Now all major ports on the globe receive COSCO container transporting ships everyday. To review the path we traveled in the past and the achievements we have made, we owe all these to the Party and the government as well as friends of all circles at home and abroad, especially to the concern shown by President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng. We also owe much thanks to our senior advisers: Ms. Chen Muhua, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Sir Edward Health, former British Prime Minister, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of State, Sakuranchi Yoshio, former speaker of the House of Representative of the Diet of Japan, Mr. Bo Yibo, Gumu, Ka-Thing Li and C.H. Tung.,,,"
Commentmax.com 4/29/99 Tony Snow "...What did the administration do when it learned of the worst security lapse since Pearl Harbor? It yawned. Notra Trulock, then the intelligence director at the Energy Department, has testified that he issued specific warnings to his then-superior at the department, Elizabeth Moler, CIA directors John Deutsch and George Tenant, FBI Director Louis Freeh, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. The president hasn't disciplined his security team. Just the opposite: Cohen reportedly wants to reward Moler, who first muzzled Trulock, with the job of secretary of the Air Force...."
Washington Times 4/27/99 Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II "...In our research, we uncovered at least 10 conduits of money from the PLA or Chinese intelligence sources in 1996 into the Clinton-Gore system. The Chung connection is only one of them. Reportedly, when Mr. Chung, now a U.S. citizen, got queasy about betraying his new country, Col. Liu told him not to worry because they had other operations going of the same nature. From the hints she [Liu Chaoying] dropped, Mr. Chung took this to mean the John Huang and Ng Lapsing/Charlie Trie money conduits. Mr. Huang recently took the Fifth Amendment 419 times when asked by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch about his espionage career at the Commerce Department and his fund raising for the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Ng runs a high-class brothel in Macao and has a separate company that acquires Thai women to work as prostitutes in other establishments. He also has extensive business dealings in China with PLA-associated companies and Chinese intelligence in Macao. Mr. Ng was the source of most of Mr. Trie's illegal campaign contributions. Ted Sioeng is another partner in Mr. Ng's prostitution ring and he, in turn, is the business associate of Cambodia's most prominent narcotics trafficker. Combining all their probable illegal contributions to the DNC in 1996, it would amount to something close to $2 million. All three of them had frequent Clinton-Gore contacts, including the usual grinning photographs with the president, vice president and first lady. Mr. Ng and Mr. Sioeng have fled the country and Mr. Trie is under indictment for minor offenses. We believe the emerging evidence indicates that Gen. Xiong was directing precisely what Sen. Fred Thompson, Tennessee Republican, described as a plan to increase China's influence over the U.S. political process. This plan was lubricated with millions of dollars, and the Chung conduit was only one avenue of many leading to a common purpose: The re-election of the Clinton-Gore team and the defeat of the Republican ticket. There was no real effort to hide the aim here; Gen. Ji told Mr. Chung explicitly that Beijing wanted Bill Clinton and Al Gore re-elected. Nor should there be any surprise at Beijing's choice. John Huang also took the Fifth Amendment when asked if he got his Commerce Department job through the personal intervention of the first lady and he took the Fifth again when asked if he had transferred American military secrets to China.
The Chinese connection to the Galaxy New Technology venture was a defector also working at Stanford. "Defector" Hua Di was born into a family of prominent Communist officials. Hua studied missile engineering in Russia and worked inside China's missile program for 24 years. In 1989, Hua fled China after the Tiananmen Square crackdown on student democracy demonstrators. In America, Hua went to work as a researcher at Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control. The Center's co-directors were William Perry and John Lewis. In 1992, Chinese Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) Lt. General Huai Guomo contacted Hua Di to start a joint venture called Galaxy New Technology. The very same Lt. General Huai who attended the November 1994 meeting with PLA General Ding, Defense Secretary Perry and Dr. Lewis. "Lewis and I were matchmakers," recalled Hua about Galaxy New Technology in 1996. "(General) Huai is my good friend." .....In late October 1998, it was announced that Hua Di had returned to China. Hua Di met with Chinese security officials in late 1997 and was assured that he would not be prosecuted. On December 31, 1997 Hua returned to China. On Jan. 6, 1998, Hua was arrested and charged with passing state secrets to U.S. officials. Stanford officials and Hua's business partner, John Lewis, have written to the Chinese government appealing for Hua's release. The Clinton administration, Dr. Perry and the mainstream press remain strangely silent about imprisoned defector Hua Di. Hua Di passed false missile information to the west, obtained secure communications for the Chinese Army and penetrated into the Clinton White House through the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Hua Di served his party, and comrade General Ding. In the end, Hua arranged for his two employers, General Ding and William Perry, to profit in a deal to harden and secure Chinese military communications. Hua Di returned home to a hero's welcome and a fat bank account made on profits from the Galaxy New Technology deal. Hua Di was no fool - nor was he a dissident. Hua Di was a spy. One of many in a network of spies run by Chinese mastermind General Ding. In a single stroke, Dr. Perry and the Clinton administration sold Ding far more than his spies could ever steal in a decade of espionage. In the process, the Marxist General Ding and his American partners, Perry and Lewis included, also made a tidy profit
Newsmax 4/29/99 Wesley Phelan "...On Tuesday, April 27, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) issued letters to Department of Energy employees Elizabeth Moler and Notra Trulock, asking them to make arrangements with his office to take polygraph tests relating to their April 12 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Moler became Deputy Secretary of Energy in June of 1997, and served as Acting Secretary of Energy from July 1 to August 1, 1998. Trulock was in charge of counterintelligence for the department from 1994-98. In his sworn testimony before the committee, Trulock stated that Moler denied his repeated requests to brief Congress about Chinese espionage that his division began uncovering at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1996. Prior to Moler's appointment the counterintelligence division briefed Congress on a regular basis about the emerging Chinese espionage scandal. After Moler's appointment the briefings were terminated. In 1998, Representative Porter Goss (R-FL), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, requested a briefing from Trulock while his committee was considering DOE's counterintelligence budget request. A few days later, on July 21, Trulock sent a memo to Moler recommending that Goss be briefed. At a subsequent meeting Moler allegedly said, "You don't want to do that because Congress would only use what you say to undermine President Clinton's China policy." ...When asked what would happen if one of the witnesses was found to be willfully telling a lie, Hoitsma said, "that sort of thing could be referred to the Justice Department for a perjury prosecution. Or it could go to the Inspector General of the Energy Department since these are Energy Department employees." ..."
AP 4/28/99 David A. Lieb "....Four current or former Arkansas lawmakers, including the most powerful member of the Arkansas Senate, are accused of taking kickbacks and arranging government contracts for personal benefit. The federal racketeering indictment named state Sen. Nick Wilson and nine other people on charges of mail fraud, obstruction of justice and money laundering....Also indicted were state Sen. Mike Bearden, former state Sens. Mike Todd and Steve Bell - all Democrats like Wilson - two former directors of the state Education Department, three lawyers, and a Little Rock businessman. ...."
The Washington News Letter 5/3/99 Marvin Lee "...The London Sunday Times, in its May 2 edition, confirms allegations made by former Clinton employee L. D. Brown in his new book "Crossfire." The allegations, first reported in last week's Washington Weekly, reveal a covert operation to channel money to one side of the Northern Ireland conflict, the IRA. The Times spoke to a left-wing member of the British Parliament named by L. D. Brown as a consultant to the scheme. Ken Livingstone, Labour MP, "did corroborate key parts of Brown's story about the project," write Phelim AcAleer and Kevin Dowling. The Times also cites a written job offer from T. John McBrearty, who sought to involve L. D. Brown in the project and offered him $300,000 for his cooperation with the Clinton administration at a time where L. D. Brown was a witness in multiple investigations of the President. "What we are looking at here is jobs for the boys in exchange for a ceasefire, the peace process and a diplomatic triumph for the US," quotes the Times. "The Clinton White House had agreed to put up between $100m and $150m. The link with them was [Nancy] Soderberg. It was made clear there would be no problem getting money from the White House," Livingstone told the Times. Nancy Soderberg was identified to L. D. Brown as the White House contact person for the covert Northern Ireland operation. She was at the time Deputy Staff Director at the White House National Security Council and Clinton's main advisor on Ireland...."
The Center for Security Policy 4/26/99 No. 99-D 48 "...Lately, it seems that scarcely a day goes by without some new revelation about serious security problems at the Department of Energy (DOE) -- or the Clinton Administration's lack of seriousness about addressing them competently. Less obvious, but no less troubling, are the steps the Administration is taking to punish conscientious DOE employees who have been raising alarms about these problems. Much of the blame for the present mess appears to lie with President Clinton's first Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary.(1) Mrs. O'Leary made no secret of her hostility to her Department's most important function -- maintaining the Nation's strategic deterrent and the thermonuclear weaponry that underpins it. While she has mercifully been gone from office for three years, the legacy of the gaggle of anti-nuclear activists O'Leary recruited to staff senior DOE positions and the "denuclearization" and "openness" policies that she and they promulgated together linger on. In fact, just last month, the current Secretary of Energy, Bill Richardson, succeeded in sneaking through the Senate the nomination of an advocate of the abolition of nuclear weapons to serve as Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security. This dark-of-night operation is all the more outrageous in light of the mounting evidence that this appointee, Rose Gottemoeller,(2) is implicated in a number of the security scandals now coming to light -- and the personnel actions being taken against the whistle-blowers....Two further O'Leary "openness" initiatives contributed to the circumstances under which the penetration of U.S. nuclear facilities by Communist China, among others, has occurred during the present administration. ....First, Mrs. O'Leary banned personnel badges that clearly indicated whether the bearer had a security clearance and, if so, how high. Her reasoning: Such badges were discriminatory. And second, she ended the practice of requiring reports to DOE headquarters about foreign nationals from "sensitive countries" who visited the unclassified areas of the Nation's nuclear weapons laboratories....."
The Center for Security Policy 4/26/99 No. 99-D 48 "...On 17 April 1995, President Clinton lent his authority to an "openness" initiative championed by Mrs. O'Leary, the current White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta, and then-NSC staffer Morton Halperin(3) with his signature of Executive Order 12958. This order called for the automatic declassification by 17 April 2000 of all documents containing historical information that are 25 years or older......"
WorldNetDaily 5/4/99 David Bresnahan "...The Chinese have greater power and control in Washington than the Republicans with their majority in Congress. President Bill Clinton, with the help of the Chinese, has built his power base to a point where he has nearly taken complete control. The reality is that Clinton controls virtually everything and everyone. Every federal agency, every bureaucracy, and the military are under the total control of Clinton. The country is run by bureaucrats, not by Congress, and the bureaucrats are controlled by Clinton. The Republicans may feel some satisfaction that they have a majority in Congress, but in reality that does not make a single bit of difference in relation to how the country is actually run. Clinton now has almost total control of the government based on his word alone.....Janet Reno was appointed as Attorney General. Her unquestioning loyalty would bring complete control of the Department of Justice, a most critical requirement for complete success in the Clinton plan.... The FBI reports directly to the Department of Justice and the Intelligence Oversight Board, which in turn reports to the Department of Justice and the President. Executive Order 12863 was issued on September 17, 1993. It went virtually unnoticed, particularly by a Congress too caught up in political battles to pay attention to such things. EO 12863 revoked EO 12537 which established the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and also revoked EO 12334 which formed the Intelligence Oversight Board. Clinton did not have sufficient control and needed to juggle things around. The new executive order reorganized the Intelligence Oversight Board as a committee of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. The Intelligence Oversight Board is no longer a threat to the President, or anyone else unless they are a threat to Clinton. If the Intelligence Oversight Board discovers activities which may be against the law, or which violate an executive order or presidential directive, it can report the violation to Attorney General Reno, or not report anything at all based on their own agenda. They have total discretion to do as they wish. By controlling the Chairman of the Intelligence Oversight Board, along with the National Security Council Advisor, Clinton has total discretionary control over what issues come before the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. ...."
WorldNetDaily 5/4/99 David Bresnahan "...Who are some of these people now in charge of these critical intelligence organizations? National Security Advisor, Samuel R. Berger, was a paid lobbyist for the Chinese while he was a partner in the international law firm of Hogan and Hartson. He headed the firm's international trade group, and because he has not left his partnership in the firm, Berger is still receiving benefits, directly or indirectly, from dealings with China and Russia. Intelligence Oversight Board Chairman is Anthony S. Harrington. He's also a senior partner in the same law firm with Berger. He too is directly compensated from dealings with China and Russia. Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Warren B. Rudman, is a partner in a different international law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. They not only represent Communist China, they maintain an office there. Rudman continues to receive financial benefit from dealings with China. Michael R. Bromwich was a partner with Mayer, Brown, and Platt before he was appointed as Inspector General of the Department of Justice. That law firm has offices in both Communist China and Russia. Even though he is listed as being on leave of absence from the firm, as a partner he still receives financial reward based on dealings with those countries. Another example is the appointment of William J. Perry, first as Deputy Secretary of Defense and then as Secretary of Defense. It was the presence of Perry which helped transfer control of high technology exports from the Pentagon to the Department of Commerce. Previous to his political appointment, Perry was a computer industry executive in Silicon Valley. He was a vocal supporter of the removal of export controls. John M. Deutch was known to have voiced similar views, and was soon appointed as Director of the CIA..... William S. Daley, Secretary of Commerce, apparently knows how that works. Based on press reports, it appears that Daley, Clinton's 1992 Illinois Campaign Manager, was involved in questionable activities in the Chicago area involving fraud, the IRS and the FBI. The legal action against Daley and his firm Daley and George, which dragged on from 1992 to 1997 was suddenly dropped just one month after he was sworn in as Secretary of Commerce on January 30, 1997. Nice deal. Not surprisingly, Daley was a partner in Mayer, Brown, and Platt with offices in Moscow and Beijing. Daley continues to benefit financially from those dealings.... "
www.realmensch.com 5/6/99 William Westmiller Freeper laz "...Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has presided over one of the worst foreign policy disasters in United States history. Assuming the mantle from a distracted President, the Secretary has abandoned the principles of a critical international treaty, committed the United States to an offensive military adventure, and seriously jeopardized our moral standing with nations around the world...."
Augusta Chronicle 5/07/99 Editorial Freeper newsman "... It's bad enough the GOP-controlled Senate was asleep at the switch when DOE Secretary Bill Richardson recently snuck through the appointment of a notorious nuclear disarmament advocate, Rose Gottemoeller, to serve as his assistant secretary for Non-proliferation and National Security. What's worse is that this is the same left-wing she-wolf who demoted DOE chief of intelligence Notra Truluck...."
Time 5/17/99 Walter Isaacson "...She helped push the U.S. into Kosovo. It was part of the assertive, moralistic new world role she is urging for America. ... What's at stake here is the principle that aggression doesn't pay, that ethnic cleansing cannot be permitted." ....The Kosovo conflict is often referred to, by both her fans and foes, as Madeleine's War. In a literal sense, of course, that's not true these days. Now that it's become an armed conflict, she plays a supporting role to the President, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Defense Secretary Bill Cohen and the military brass. But more than anyone else, she embodies the foreign policy vision that pushed these men into this war. And she is the one most responsible for holding the allies--and the Administration--firm in pursuit of victory. To Albright, a stable Europe is central to our interests. Opposing ethnic cleansing is central to our values. And because of the world view bred into her bones and seared into her heart growing up, she believes that America's interests cannot be easily separated from its values. "We are reaffirming NATO's core purpose as a defender of democracy, stability and human decency on European soil," she says. Her critics argue that this has never been NATO's core purpose. For 50 years, it's been a defensive alliance, one that never before waged war against another European nation, no matter how lacking in democracy, stability or human decency. They see Madeleine's War as the latest example of an incoherent foreign policy driven by moral impulses and mushy sentiments, one that hectors and scolds other nations to obey our sanctimonious dictates and ineffectively bombs or sanctions them if they don't.....It was early in Clinton's first term, back when she was U.N. ambassador during the first showdown with Serbia over Bosnia, that Albright showed her stripes on foreign policy. At a 1993 meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell--who gave his name to the doctrine that the military should be used only after a clear political goal has been set, and then only with decisive force--she challenged the general: "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" As Powell later recalled, "I thought I would have an aneurysm." Thus arose the Albright Doctrine that has held sway since her ascension to Secretary of State: a tough-talking, semimuscular interventionism that believes in using force--including limited force such as calibrated air power, if nothing heartier is possible--to back up a mix of strategic and moral objectives. In an Administration that grew up gun-shy by reading and misreading the lessons of Vietnam, she's the one who grew up appeasement-shy by learning in painfully personal ways the lessons of Munich...."
NY TIMES 5/12/99 TIM GOLDEN and JEFF GERTH "…Ms. Xu told banking regulators that much of the money consisted of Chinese loans to small investment companies that she and Hwang had established in California, documents show. Yet a detailed report on the matter written last year by investigators for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cast doubt on that explanation, concluding that the money was probably being hidden for Chinese officials…..Neither Hwang nor Ms. Xu were obvious partners for Peoples' Bank of China, as the country's central bank is called…..Henry Hwang helped start Far East National Bank in 1974 with $1.5 million in capital and a single branch office in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles…. The key to his success was Nan Nan Xu. Ms. Xu (pronounced "shoo"), 48, came to the United States in 1987 with a student visa and plans to learn some English…. Ms. Xu was made a senior vice president in 1993, a managing director in 1994 and, according to Hwang, was its highest-paid executive after himself at one point before she left the bank in 1997 a consulting firm. ….As Far East National's China business was starting to flourish, the bank was also quietly taking in huge deposits of Chinese government money….
NY TIMES 5/12/99 TIM GOLDEN and JEFF GERTH "…In late November of 1992, Far East National received the first $5 million in a series of wire transfers from the Peoples' Bank of China, from one of its apparent subsidiaries, and from another state bank. ….In January 1993, Ms. Xu incorporated her own California shell company, Four Earth Investment and Trading Corp., and over the next 32 months, it absorbed a flood of Chinese money. Another $40 million came from the central bank. The China Construction Bank wired $5 million. More than $42 million came from United Wide Investments, a Hong Kong concern that American regulators believe was controlled by the Chinese Government. Officials said one of Ms. Xu's accounts also received an early deposit of almost $50,000 from a Chinese military company that manufactures and markets advanced weaponry. ….Government documents show the regulators found many of her transactions suspicious…. As far as the investigators could determine, $10 million was never repaid to the Peoples' Bank of China. Some of the activity in Ms. Xu's accounts, like some of her business in China, points to an influential Chinese official whom she described to regulators as an old friend: Chen Yuan, a former deputy governor of the central bank and the son of a powerful Chinese official of the 1970's and '80's…."
Washington Times 5/12/99 May 12, 1999 "...A modest amount of pressure is building in the Senate to get on with the confirmation of Richard Holbrooke as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Despite the fact that it was a Justice Department investigation of Mr. Holbrooke's finances that put a brake on his nomination last summer, the onus is now being placed on Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms to get hearings under way. President Clinton himself has called Mr. Helms, only to find to his dismay that the White House had failed to dispatch the proper paperwork to the committee. Someone apparently is eager to get the job filled, and in a hurry.. .....No wonder then that the State Department went ballistic over the front-page story in The Washington Times last Wednesday, which reported that Mr. Holbrooke had apparently left his post as chief negotiator in the Balkan crisis twice during critical periods last year to give two speeches for which he was paid $40,000. The story in The Times was based on a source one would think credible -- Mr. Holbrooke's own Public Financial Disclosure report, dated Jan. 26, 1999. According to his own statement, on June 27 last year Mr. Holbrooke received $15,963 for speaking to Forum De Crane Montana (since he left for Athens on June 26, The Times concluded that the speech took place in Athens) and $24,000 for a speech on Oct. 13 to Siemens AG in New York. At both times, negotiations with Albanians and Serbs in Pristina and Belgrade were at highly sensitive stages, and the notion that Mr. Holbrooke would leave the bargaining table would seriously call into question his judgment as a diplomat. As it is, Mr. Holbrooke's cozy relations with Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic during the Dayton negotiations has already earned him critics aplenty....."
Investor's Business Daily 5/19/99 John Berlau "...The road from Beijing to the White House appears to take many detours through Arkansas. It was there, as attorney general and governor, that Bill Clinton met Indonesian businessmen Mochtar and James Riady and restaurant owner Charlie Trie, key figures linked to the Chinagate scandals. But more recently, another possible connection has emerged - through the $7.5 billion Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. In the past few years, the ATRS has invested in companies linked to Chinese intelligence.... At least four companies the ATRS has invested in - the China Ocean Shipping Co. (Cosco), China North Industries (Norinco), China Resources Enterprises and China Travel - ''historically and currently have been used by Chinese military intelligence,'' Timperlake said..... A year earlier, a Cosco ship was caught smuggling 2,000 automatic weapons destined for Los Angeles gang members into the port of Oakland, Calif. Even so, according to the American Spectator, ATRS added $500,000 in Cosco shares after the ship's capture. The Washington Times has reported that Cosco also delivered nuclear weapons components to Pakistan and Iran..... Norinco. The ATRS has also invested at least $334,000 in Norinco, the company that made the automatic weapons that were seized in Oakland. One month after Norinco officials were arrested, one of Norinco's partners attended a coffee at the White House..... Pension fund documents obtained by Investor's Business Daily show that in 1997, the ATRS invested at least $748,000 in China Resources and held shares in China Travel. Both companies are used as cover for spying operations, China experts say. In his book ''Chinese Intelligence Operations'' (Newcomb Publishing, 1998), Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Nicholas Eftimiades wrote that at least one vice president of China Resources is typically a military officer who ''coordinates the collection activities of other intelligence personnel under (the company's) cover.'' Former Arkansas State Auditor Julia Hughes Jones recalls that in 1993, Charlie Trie gave her the card of a woman who headed China Travel in Beijing. Jones says she found it odd that Trie wanted her to use China Travel for official Arkansas business inside the U.S. Jones said she now believes Trie -whose trial started this week - was promoting China Travel because he was ''trying to get in good with the (Chinese) military.' Both companies are also partners of the Riadys in various China ventures...."
Insight Magazine Vol. 13, No. 17 5/12/97 By Timothy W. Maier ". . . . China analysts and national-security officials say the operating officer at the heart of Beijing's master plan to seize hegemony over Taiwan, Japan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Guam and the Philippines is Wang Jun - Clinton's Feb. 6, 1996, coffee-klatsch guest who has taken advantage of corporate greed by persuading American investors to pour billions of dollars into joint-venture projects that allow Wang to tap into the U.S. bond market, borrowing millions from American mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies to support the war chest. . . . . Wang chairs both PolyTechnologies, or Poly, the arms-trading company of the PLA, and China International Trust and Investment Corp., or CITIC, a $23 billion financial conglomerate that Wang says is run by China's government, or State Council. His dual control of CITIC and Poly (the PLA company caught last year allegedly smuggling 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles to U.S. street gangs) makes it difficult for American firms to know whose hand they are shaking. "He's a master of muddying the waters," says James Mulvenon, a China researcher at California-based Rand Corp. "American companies are playing a shell game.". . . . Not surprisingly, CITIC officially has controlled Poly. The relationship dates back to 1984 when the PLA created Poly for arms trading and structured it under the ownership of CITIC in part to conceal Poly's link to the PLA, according to Western analysts. Wang is the son of Red China's late vice president and Long March veteran Wang Zhen. The president of Poly is Maj. Gen. He Ping, son-in-law of the late Deng Xiaoping. A former defense expert for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, He Ping is director of PLA arms procurement and chairs CITIC-Shanghai. A second major subsidiary of CITIC is CITIC-Pacific in Hong Kong, chaired by Rong Yung, son of China's vice president, Rong Yiren, who founded CITIC. In short, this is a high-level operation of the Beijing government directly connected to the men in charge...."
Insight Magazine Vol. 13, No. 17 5/12/97 By Timothy W. Maier " . . With the help of CITIC-Beijing, He Ping engineered the billion-dollar sale of Chinese arms that included missiles to Saudi Arabia and short-range cruise missiles to Iran during the mid-1980s. That deal was assisted by the government-controlled China Northern Industrial Corp., or Norinco, which now is under investigation in the West for selling chemical-weapons materials to Iran for weapons of mass destruction, according to April testimony before a Senate Governmental subpanel. China's sale of nuclear and chemical weapons to the Middle East all are part of a strategic plan to spread out deployment of the U.S. Navy so the PLA can concentrate on the South China Sea, according to intelligence and diplomatic officials.....Wang's ability to mask Poly by showcasing CITIC has paid off handsomely for his other enterprises on behalf of Beijing's war plans. In particular, the U.S. bond market already has been an attractive target for CITIC to the tune of $800 million in borrowing. That, of course, begs the question: Why is the high-level Beijing operative Wang Jun allowed to borrow huge sums from Americans when President Clinton says it is "clearly inappropriate" even to meet with this PLA arms dealer?...... Yet, there is no national-security screening of foreign borrowers in U.S. securities markets from which huge sums are being allowed to float into China's war chest...."
Investor's Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial "... Asked if Hillary was a client, Lenzner refused to answer in a May 1998 deposition by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group suing the Clinton administration on several fronts, including campaign finance irregularities and FBI files on Republicans. He cited attorney-client privilege...."
Investor's Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial "... Cody Shearer worked as a subcontractor for IGI on at least one case, Milton says. In 1992, he was charged with digging up dirt on President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. (Shearer is reportedly close to Vice President Al Gore's fund-raiser pal, Peter Knight.) On CNBC's ''Rivera Live'' last week, Lenzner denied Shearer ever worked for him. But under oath during his May 1998 Judicial Watch deposition, Lenzner admitted Shearer ''was a subcontractor on one job for us.'' ..."
Investor's Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial "...Not long after the 1992 campaign, private investigator Terry Lenzner met with Clinton aide Harold Ickes in the White House. Lenzner runs Investigative Group International, a Washington-based detective agency. Soon after, IGI was doing work for the Clintons' legal defense fund. Later, Clinton's personal lawyer, David Kendall, hired Lenzner's group to dig up dirt on Paula Jones, prosecutors on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's staff and GOP lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, among others, says author Joyce Milton in her new book, ''The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton.'' IGI agents didn't stop there, Milton says. They also reportedly snooped into the backgrounds of Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and Willey...."
Investor's Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial "... Estranged Clinton campaign guru Dick Morris fingers IGI as ''the White House secret police.'' That's not a stretch, Milton said, ''judging by the revolving door between IGI and the administration.'' Those who jumped from IGI to the administration include: Raymond Kelly, who became Clinton's Secret Service chief. Ricki Seidman, who joined the Justice Department. Brooke Shearer, who joined Hillary's staff and ran a White House intern program before moving to a job at the Interior Department. Even Lenzner's daughter. She became an intern to former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos. Meantime, those who left the administration for IGI include: Former FBI General Counsel Howard Shapiro, who has signed on as Lenzner's lawyer. Shapiro was supposed to get to the bottom of the Filegate scandal. Instead, he did damage control for the White House, sneaking officials a peek at FBI agent Gary Aldrich's manuscript to ''Unlimited Access.'' Former FBI official Larry Potts (of Ruby Ridge fame), who's now an IGI executive...."
Investor's Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial "...In 1992, Hillary's law partner, Vince Foster, was tasked with hiring private detective Jerry Parks to further probe Clinton's affairs, says British reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in ''The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.'' (Parks was killed in 1993.) What's more, Hillary in 1992 helped enlist a private security agency to snuff a rumor that Clinton had sex with a black prostitute, Milton says. They weren't the only private dicks hired. The Clinton-Gore campaign had two more on retainer to smash ''bimbo eruptions.'' One was Anthony Pellicano of Los Angeles and the other was Jack Palladino of San Francisco. More than likely, bringing Lenzner into the White House fold was also Hillary's idea. She and Lenzner go way back. They worked on the Watergate hearings. They also served on the board of Legal Services Corp. and have a mutual friend in Mickey Kantor, another Legal Services veteran...."
Investor's Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial "...But Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton points out that Lenzner had no problem naming other clients. What's more, Hillary's friend Brooke Shearer left IGI, where she worked as one of Lenzner's operatives, to join Hillary's staff. Shearer is married to Strobe Talbott, Clinton's old Oxford roommate, an ex-Time magazine writer and now the State Department's top official dealing with Russia...."
AP 5/20/99 H Josef Hebert "...Intelligence experts were worried three years ago about the possible theft of secrets about America's nuclear arsenal and believed the Los Alamos weapons lab was the most likely source, an Energy Department intelligence officer told a Senate panel Thursday.... "What was done, in short was nothing,'' Notra Trulock, acting deputy of the Energy Department's Office of Intelligence, said of the concerns expressed by intelligence experts in early 1996 about potential loss of the top-secret computer codes. Lawmakers have applauded Trulock for raising alarms as early as 1995 about the possible theft of nuclear secrets from weapons labs, including information in the 1980s about a sophisticated warhead known as the W-88......Trulock, appearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, described repeated attempts in early 1997 to bring his concerns about espionage and lax security at weapons labs to then-Energy Secretary Federico Pena. He said that he was repeatedly thwarted by senior DOE officials, including Pena's deputy, Elizabeth Moler, and that Pena knew nothing of the espionage concerns for about six months. Trulock in the past also has accused Moler of muzzling him when he tried to testify before Congress..... Trulock, who was director of the Office of Intelligence from 1994 into early 1998, said his concerns about espionage at the labs were viewed in 1997 with skepticism and "outright denial'' among senior DOE officials. They were dismissed as views of "Cold War warriors,'' said Trulock..... Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, the committee chairman, derided the "cavalier attitude about security'' described by Trulock and suggested that senior administration officials should not be let off the hook..... Attorney General Janet Reno announced on Thursday that a veteran prosecutor, Randy Bellows, would head a Justice Department investigation into whether Justice or the FBI made any mistakes in the Wen Ho Lee investigation, dating to 1996...."
Softwar.com 5/25/99 "...On February 6, 1996, Bill Clinton met in the White House with the CEO of a major gun manufacturing company. The same gun maker flooded the U.S. market with over four hundred thousand assault rifles in 1994. Only a few months after the meeting with Clinton in 1996, the same gun dealers tried to smuggle over 2,000 machine guns to U.S. drug gangs...... Bill Clinton's close relationship with POLY TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Poly Tech), an arms company wholly owned by Chinese Generals, brought great profits to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and large contributions into Democrat coffers. Poly Tech also exports the most popular gun in the world. Poly Tech manufactures and sells the infamous AK-47. The AK-47, and its familiar banana shaped magazine of bullets, has adorned the shoulders of terrorists who hijack planes, and graced the flags of radical nations. Many an American has died from the AK-47 7.62 x 39 bullet. According to documents forced from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce by a Federal lawsuit, Poly Tech made great profits in America thanks to Bill Clinton. "Poly Tech," states the 1997 report, "sold hundreds of millions of dollars of largely surplus arms around the world, exporting to customers in Thailand, Burma, Iran, Pakistan, and the United States... These sales peaked in 1987, when Poly sold more than US$500 million in weapons." Poly Tech's prime U.S. subsidiary, PTK International of Atlanta, Georgia, was run by Chinese princeling Baoping "Robert" Ma. Robert Ma's family business included "importation and distribution of semi-automatic rifles for the U.S. domestic market... Between 1987 and 1993 PTK sold more than US$200 million worth of these guns in the United States." ..."
Softwar.com 5/25/99 "...According to the report, Poly Tech took advantage of Clinton's 1994 executive order banning assault weapons, including a ban on gun imports from the Chinese Army. "Loopholes allowed importers to bend the rules," states the report. "Specifically, Congress exempted weapons in transit post hoc. The U.S. Treasury initially estimated this exemption would cover 12,000 weapons, but importers actually brought in 440,000." In 1994, President Clinton and the Democrat controlled Congress gave the PLA their greatest gun sales spree in America with a "loophole." Poly Tech officials crammed Chinese flag carrier (COSCO) ships bound for America with every weapon they could scrape from their massive inventory, selling them at inflated prices brought by Clinton's ban. In a single stroke of Clinton's pen, the PLA made over $100 million in wind-fall profits...."
Softwar.com 5/25/99 "...Poly Tech was founded in 1985 as a subsidiary of China's powerful central bank, CITIC (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). In 1996, the Chinese HQ of Poly Technologies was run by Wang Jun and his "princeling" friend, the powerful He Ping, son-in-law of Deng Xiaoping. Wang was not only Poly Tech CEO but also a Director of CITIC. Thus, the PLA "commercial" arms outlet Poly Tech also provided CITIC credit to customers. The curious mix of communism, capitalism and corruption ended in August, 1996, when Poly Tech's U.S. operations were closed by a U.S. Customs sting operation. Allegedly, Poly Tech's man in America, Robert Ma, conspired with China North Industries (NORINCO) representative, Richard Chen, to import 2,000 fully automatic AK-47s into the United States to Customs Agents posing as Miami drug smugglers...."
Softwar.com 5/25/99 "...However, according to the 100 page Federal indictment from one of the key undercover agents, Chen and Ma had to call back to PLA Headquarters in Beijing to obtain the 2,000 machine guns. According to the Custom agent's deposition, Chen and Ma had difficulty in getting the "barrels" because they required "higher-level permission". Yet, Poly Technology Executive Director, Xie Datong, stated on the record that the machine gun transfer did not require permission from the Chinese General Staff. Xie Datong, also a corporate officer of Poly's American subsidiary PTK, claimed the weapons were transferred from stockpiles from the General Logistics Division of the PLA. Whether Chinese Generals attempted to smuggle machine guns into America may never be answered. Ma and company fled the country. Gun runner Robert Ma, and all of the Chinese executives that served Poly Tech, escaped the grasp of the inept Janet Reno and Louis Freeh. Ma was reportedly one step ahead of FBI agents who had a warrant for his arrest. Clearly, the Chinese Generals made a profit from illegal gun smuggling. President Jiang Zemin certainly has no incentive to return Robert Ma into the hands of U.S. justice, nor has Bill Clinton made any attempt to ask his "strategic" partners in Beijing...."
Softwar.com 5/25/99 "...However, the Poly Tech story goes deeper than just a few Chinese Generals and a princeling or two. According to another document obtained from the Commerce Dept., the 2,000 machine guns were to be transferred to the Long Beach port in California onboard the COSCO ship, the Princess Bride. However, "a leak from the State Dept alerted the company, which then canceled the delivery." "COSCO," according to Defense Department intelligence officials "operates a fleet of ELINT (electronic intelligence) trawlers for the PRC government... When China delivers missiles or chemical agents to the Middle East, specially outfitted COSCO ships deliver them."
Softwar.com 5/25/99 "...Feinstein's financial ties to the communist Chinese and COSCO include her husband, Richard Blum. Blum is reported to be heavily tied to the PRC through his far east investment firm, Newbridge Capitol Corp. Blum's partner at Newbridge, Peter Kwok, also served as a consultant to COSCO, and COSCO Hong Kong Holdings, a company owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing. In 1989, Kwok helped CITIC and Li Ka-Shing raise $120 million to buy a HUGHES built communications satellite for a company also part owned by Chinese Generals. Senator Feinstein is far closer to red China than a few business ties to her husband. The Los Angles Times reported in 1997 that Blum and Feinstein have visited with communist Chinese officials three times. Blum reportedly accompanied the Senator at his own expense and met with President Jiang Zemin and other top communist party officials. In January 1996, Feinstein and Blum were honored as the first foreigners to stay at Mao Tse-tung's former residence. One Feinstein document that screams out for further investigation is a letter dated Nov. 1, 1994, from a million dollar Democratic donor to President Clinton. Investment banker and Democratic fund-raiser Sanford R. Robertson wrote a "thank you" note to Clinton for a Ron Brown trade mission to China. Robertson complimented Brown's "diplomatic skills" in a meeting with Chinese dictator Li Peng. Robertson wrote that Secretary Brown "deftly navigated the human-rights issues by obtaining an agreement on further talks and then moved directly into the economic issues at hand: helping Chrysler, Sprint and others with their 'joint ventures.'" The Robertson letter closes with a smoking-gun postscript: "(Treasury Secretary) Bob Rubin came to our home on Thursday for a Dianne Feinstein dinner, which raised over $100,000 for her campaign. Bob, of course, turned out the financial community and Silicon Valley." The honorable Senator Feinstein was never asked by her colleagues on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating the China connection about Robertson, her husband or the returned $12,000. There has never been any investigation of COSCO or Poly Tech. Bill Clinton has never answered detailed questions on Ron Brown, Wang Jun, Charlie Trie and John Huang. ..."
NewsMax.com 5/25/99 "... Three years ago reports emerged of a then-unidentified Chinese official who warned that Los Angeles would be nuked if the U.S. interfered with China's plans to "reunify" with Taiwan. Two months later China lobbed an unarmed nuclear capable M-9 missile over Taiwan's capital, Taipei. Almost three weeks ago bigtime Democrat donor Johnny Chung told congressional investigators that General Ji Shengde, head of Chinese military intelligence, had given him $300,000 to donate to President Clinton's re-election campaign. Gen. Ji told Chung, "We like your president." Now Jennifer Hickey, reporting in the June 7 issue of Insight Magazine, has noticed a startling connection between the two events after combing through Chung's testimony before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. The generous Gen. Ji, who likes our president, was the very same Chinese official who threatened L.A. with nuclear incineration in 1996...."
7/16/98 AP Tom Raum "President Clinton's nominee to be Air Force secretary lied to the Senate when he said he voluntarily stopped flying F-16 fighters, his former squadron commander testified Thursday. Actually, nominee Daryl Jones was grounded as an unsafe pilot, Col. Thomas A. Dyches told the Senate Armed Services Committee. ``I believe there are serious questions about Daryl Jones' personal integrity,'' Dyches testified."
New York Post 7/20/98 "Col. Thomas Dyches, U.S. Air Force, took his career in his hands on Thursday and told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Florida state Sen. Daryl Jones should not be secretary of the Air Force. Dyches' willingness to jeopardize his future means that the Senate ought to give his negative view of the man who would be his boss great weight. President Clinton nominated Jones to be the top civilian in the Air Force last year. At first, Jones must have seemed like an ideal candidate: Air Force Academy graduate, fighter pilot, lawyer, elected official and an African-American. Easy confirmation by the Senate was widely predicted. After a number of shaky flights, in which Jones nearly ran out of gas, flew in the wrong direction and damaged his plane twice in one day, Dyches says he stripped Jones of his flying privileges in 1991. Jones claims he voluntarily stopped flying. That isn't the only discrepancy in Jones' story. Republican senators cited instances in which he had exaggerated his number of flying hours, continued accepting flight pay for several years after he stopped flying, described himself on his resume as an F-16 pilot after he had been grounded, and wore "command pilot" wings to which he was not entitled. ..More bizarre still, several former squadron mates claim that Jones was openly selling Amway products on the base in violation of Air Force regulations.."
John T. Kotelly, and attorney with Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP was prevously lead prosecutor on ABSCAM. Recently he defended Jack Williams, a Tyson Foods lobbyist, who was convicted of lying to federal investigators about buying a $1,000 airline ticket for Espy's girlfriend so she could attend a Dallas Cowboys game Kotelly's wife, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was nominated to a Federal Judgeship by Clinton on 7/7/97 and was confirmed 3/20/97. Kollar-Kotelly chaired the Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Bias and the Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts. These task forces at the federal level have become so controversial because of their politically-driven agenda that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit voted to reject the findings of its task force and the Judicial Conference of the Untied States no longer supports them. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has reversed Kollar-Kotelly numerous times and strongly criticized her rulings. These cases include where Kollar-Kotelly would have made it easier to sue police officers.
WorldNetDaily 6/1/99 Charles Smith "...The Cox report notes some very interesting parties helped John Huang stay in touch with his boss. According to the Cox report, "Huang maintained contact with representatives of the Lippo Group while he was at the Department of Commerce." "During the 18 months that he was at Commerce," states the report, "Huang called Lippo Bank 232 times, in addition to 29 calls or faxes to Lippo Headquarters in Indonesia. Huang also contacted Lippo consultant Maeley Tom on 61 occasions during the same period. Huang's records show 72 calls to Lippo joint venture partner C. Joseph Giroir." The one key fact missing from the Cox report is that "Maeley Tom" is also an employee of the powerful beltway lobbyist company, Cassidy Associates. In 1994, Cassidy Associates sent Democratic National Committee donor Maeley Tom to Indonesia on a Ron Brown trade mission. The same mission included DNC donors Charlie Trie, Pauline Kanchanalak and Nora Lum. Why no mention of the D.C. lobbyists? The answer may be that Cassidy Associates also made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to both Republicans and Democrats. In fact, Cassidy Associates made a total of over 2,500 political contributions between 1991 and 1998, nearly one donation every two days...."
WorldNetDaily 6/1/99 Charles Smith The JL-2 explains why the Chinese were so interested in American space contractor, Hughes, upgrading PLA rockets with "nose-cone" or "shroud" technology. The Cox report details Chinese Lt. Gen. Shen Rougjun and his penetration of Hughes through his son, Shen Jun. In May 1994, Shen, was second in command at COSTIND -- the Chinese Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Shen served underneath the PLA spy-master, Gen. Ding Henggao. In 1994, COSTIND Gen. Shen attended several business meetings with Hughes. During a 1994 visit, Shen's son, Shen Jun, attended a business lunch with his father and Frank Taormina of Hughes. Taormina later assisted Shen Jun in obtaining a job at Hughes. The Cox report details "son" Shen played a significant role in the interaction between his PLA general-father and the highest of Hughes executives, including CEO Michael Armstrong. In 1994, Hughes executives were scrambling to avoid a major expense. Hughes helped PLA engineers after the failure of a PLA Long March rocket carrying a Hughes-built satellite. Hughes, anxious not to see a hike in their satellite insurance rates, eagerly pinned the failure on the PLA nose-cone "shroud" design and not on their satellite. The help included Hughes proprietary software for nose-cone design and analysis derived from years of ballistic missile tests in America. Although, Shen Jun was hired at Hughes in August of 1994, according to the Cox report, "a division of Space Systems/Loral was also considering hiring Shen for a position that would have allowed him access to classified information." In August 1994, Lt. Gen. Shen also met and consummated a series of satellite deals with Bernard Schwartz, the CEO of Loral. The Beijing meeting was arranged by President Clinton and included Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. The technology obtained from Loral is also detailed by the Cox report, including rocket guidance and encrypted satellite telemetry systems...."
Center for Security Policy 6/1/99 No. 99-D 64 DECISION BRIEF "...Worse yet, one of the heads on the chopping block belongs to Ed McCallum -- an individual who has done more than practically anyone else at the Department of Energy to raise alarms about an environment that Richardson now acknowledges to be replete with "communications breakdowns...incompetent acts...[where] security was not considered important." Indeed, with Secretary Richardson's blessing, a senior official deeply implicated in the aforementioned insecurity practices -- Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security Rose Gottemoeller(3) -- has already put McCallum, the Director of DOE's Office of Safeguards and Security, in bureaucratic limbo. On 19 April, she placed the retired Army lieutenant colonel on indefinite administrative leave (with pay) on the basis of what ten Members of Congress have described in a letter to Richardson as "trumped up and insupportable accusations that he has violated rules for handling classified information." On 26 May, these Congressmen -- among them, the Number 3 man in the House Republican leadership, Majority Whip Tom Delay -- correctly described Mr. McCallum as "one of the few high-ranking DOE employees who has vigorously striven to implement and enforce a safeguards policy for DOE and the National Laboratories." They declare that this conscientious public servant is being harshly "repaid for his unfashionable commitment and inconvenient effectiveness in doing his job" in exposing and counteracting "the systematic and flagrant disregard for security issues that has thrived in the highest levels of [DOE] for several years." Richardson's response to this letter was astoundingly contemptuous. According to the Chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Rep. Dan Burton, the Secretary of Energy declared in a meeting with McCallum that the letter "doesn't intimidate me, this isn't [expletive deleted]. These guys are my basketball buddies." In a letter to Richardson dated May 28, Congressman Burton said the Secretary seemed to be suggesting that "you had the ability to dissuade Members of Congress who might be inclined to pursue matters brought to our attention by Mr. McCallum." ...."
Center for Security Policy 6/1/99 No. 99-D 64 DECISION BRIEF "...In the absence of a comparable public platform, Lt. Col. McCallum is suffering one indignity after another. In addition to having to retain a lawyer at his own considerable expense to defend himself against Richardson-Gottemoeller's "trumped-up" charges, he has been given an ultimatum: Accept banishment to a DOE facility in Albuquerque, acknowledge a security infraction and agree to have an official reprimand placed in his personnel file -- to put it mildly, a career-blighting deal -- or face unspecified, but dire, consequences. Even more Kafkaesque, Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller reportedly last week held a meeting in which she indicated that McCallum's Office of Safeguards and Security may lose 10% of its budget....To his credit, Chairman Burton last week served notice on Secretary Richardson that he intends to have Mr. McCallum testify before his committee in the near future. This hearing should not only put a spotlight on the witness' years of heretofore unrecognized efforts to protect the Nation's nuclear secrets. It should also make clear that substantial responsibility for the egregious insecurity at DOE facilities and the national laboratories in recent years rests with senior policy-makers -- whose disdain for time-tested physical, information and personnel security practices appears to rival Mr. Richardson's apparent contempt for Congress
Freeper abwehr updates on 6/3/99 "...I am still trying to find out what happened to the Dragonfire prosecutions. Perhaps Ed and Bill could help. Hammond Ku, so far as I've been able to tell, has NEVER been sentenced. His sister Linda Huang had the charges against her dropped. A dozen others get indicted and the cases, along with the US Attorney who indicted them just vanish? This week I asked Reynolds Holding the San Francisco Chronicle reporter if he knew. He said he hasn't followed the story! Well why not. Peter Tran and Curtis Debord got prosecuted and big time for their role in this scheme. But they were bringing weapons in from Vietnam but they were small fry partners of Hammond Ku and Robert Ma. Dai Xaiomin ( a major Riady partner) shows up at a June dinner at Dianne Feinsteins house with the President, John Huang and that Filipina girl who was asked to donate her $50,000 to the TEAMSTERS boss Ron Carey's reelection. Dick Blum says he personally collected all the money except later remembers he didn't get the $50,000 from Dai. He said DNC Finance boss Richard Sullivan got that. Sullivan says no way. Where did it go? Then there are the cases of Chong Lo and George Chu. I followed these but like so much of this treason/DNC finance stuff it flares up then disappears into the maw of the PRC or Reno's DoJ. Maeley Tom gets hired by Cassidy Associates, travels with Ron Brown to Indonesia, gets appointed to the executive committee of the DNC where she writes Clinton for John Huang to be given his job at Commerce and another Lippo exec, Charles DeQueljoe to get a post at the NSA ( mercifully denied) yet Tom is never called before Congress, is ignored in the Cox report and only Charles Smith and I pay her any attention. Pretty discouraging...."
Freeper abwehr updates on 6/3/99 "...Michael Yamaguchi, the US Attorney who indicted the Dragonfire defendants and then was nominated for a federal judicial appointment by Feinstein, which for some very strange reasons he declined, negotiated a plea bargain with Ku, dropped all charges against his sister then resigned as US Attorney. He has since become, in the best Soviet tradition a non entity. Searching the Chronicle and Examiner the last reference to Michael Yamaguchi, who at one time was like Rudi Giuliani and other major metropolitan area US Attorneys, a news celebrity, was a reference to him as a real dud. It seems that he was such a dud, despite his many years as US Attorney in San Francisco that Barbara Boxer has recommended that the ACTING US Attorney, a guy named Mueller, be nominated by Clinton for the permanent position. What's bizarre about this? Muellar is a REPUBLICAN, big time. Now why would Boxer, the Clinton inlaw and noted practioner of bipartisan politics, give such a plum patronage post to a GOPer? She sure moved with alacrity to sabotage Charles LaBella's promised post as US Attorney for the Southern District of California....."
Severnside adds 6/3/99 "...[second hand story but all I have] Regarding Dragonfire, very good reporter told me that US Attorney in SF claims one of the stories [NYT or LAT] was word for word what he had briefed to the State Dept. What seems to have sent them over the edge and forced them to shut down is when David Sanger of the NYT arrived on the scene. If you check the Chinagate stories of fall 1996, you will see he is not on the side of the Cause. My working theory [based on not much knowledge] is that SOMEBODY didn't want that case going the distance. If you read the major documents, you'll see that the perps claim the PRC government was behind all of it. Recall we're talking about the spring of 1996 when a lot was going on...."
6/7/99 David Horowitz "....Just as the government prepared to release the Cox Report, which would reveal that the communist regime in Beijing had stolen design information for every advanced nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal, the Democratic National Committee announced the appointment of a longtime communist sympathizer, Carlottia Scott, as its new "political issues director." Scott is a former mistress of the Marxist dictator of Grenada, and was an ardent supporter of America's communist adversaries during the Cold War. The timing of the DNC's announcement was appropriately ironic, in that this appointment tells us volumes about the roots of the nation's growing security crisis: the dramatic erosion of America's military credibility in an ill-conceived war, and the theft of its nuclear arsenal by an adversary the administration claims is a "strategic partner." Carlottia Scott was for many years the chief aide to Rep. Ron Dellums, a Berkeley radical who, with the approval of the congressional Democratic leadership, was appointed first to the Armed Services Committee and then to the chair of its subcommittee on military installations, which oversees U.S. bases worldwide....Among the government documents retrieved when the Marxist government in Grenada was overthrown were the love letters of Dellums' chief aide, Carlottia Scott, to its anti-American dictator, Maurice Bishop. Scott wrote: "Ron has become truly committed to Grenada ... He's really hooked on you and Grenada and doesn't want anything to happen to building the Revolution and making it strong ... The only other person that I know of that he expresses such admiration for is Fidel."...."
6/7/99 David Horowitz "....Bishop and Fidel were not the only communists in the Americas favored by Dellums and his aide. About the time these letters were retrieved, Dellums was opening his congressional office to a Cuban intelligence agent who proceeded to organize support committees in the United States for the communist guerrilla movement in El Salvador. Yet, when Dellums' retired, the Clinton administration's secretary of defense, William S. Cohen, bestowed on him the highest civilian honor the Pentagon can award "for service to his country." ..."
6/7/99 David Horowitz "....After Dellums' retirement, Scott became the chief of staff to his successor, Berkeley leftist Barbara Lee. In the 1970s Lee was a confidential aide to Huey Newton, the "minister of defense" of the Black Panther Party, whose calling card was the "Red Book" of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong. Among the documents liberated from Grenada were minutes from a politburo meeting attended by Lee and the Marxist junta. The minutes state that "Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with her a report on the international airport done by Ron Dellums. They have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem necessary. They will be willing to make the changes." The airport in question was being built by the Cuban military and, according to U.S. intelligence sources, was designed to accommodate Soviet warplanes. The Reagan administration regarded the airport project as part of a larger Soviet plan to establish a military base in this hemisphere, and administration officials invoked its construction as a national security justification for the invasion that followed....."
6/7/99 David Horowitz "....Despite this betrayal, and with the approval of her Democratic colleagues in the House, Lee is now a member of the House International Relations Committee, which deals with issues affecting the security of the United States. With equal disregard for national security, the DNC has now made Scott -- an abettor of these treacherous schemes -- its political issues director. When I asked a leading Democratic political strategist, who is not a leftist, how it was possible that the leaders of the Democratic Party could appoint someone like Scott to such a post at such a time, he replied: "You have to understand that in the 1960s these people (the party's leaders) were chanting, "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF Is Gonna Win!"...."
From the COX Report: Freeper Rhammm 6/7/99 "...The key organizations in the PRC's drive to acquire dual-use technology include: COSTIND, which acquires dual-use technology for PRC institutes and manufacturers by assuring foreign suppliers that the technology will be used for civil production. COSTIND uses overseas companies to target U.S. firms for acquisition of dual-use technology for the military. The Ministry of Electronics Industry...The Ministry of Post and Communications...PLA-operated import-export companies, which also import dual-use technologies for military modernization...Polytechnologies...The Aviation Industries Corporation of China (AVIC), and its subsidiary, China National Aero-Technology Import-Export Corporation (CATIC), which have sent visitors to U.S. firms to discuss manufacturing agreements for commercial systems that could be used to produce military aircraft for the PLA. AVIC is one of five PRC state-owned conglomerates that operate as "commercial businesses" under the direct control of the State Council and COSTIND. Several incidents highlight CATIC's direct role in the acquisition of controlled U.S. technology. One clear example was CATIC's role as the lead PRC representative in the 1994 purchase of advanced machine tools from McDonnell-Douglas, discussed more fully later in this Report. Another possible example of the PRC's exploitation of civilian end-use as a means of obtaining controlled technology was CATIC's 1983 purchase of two U.S.-origin CFM-56 jet engines on the pretext that they would be used to re-engine commercial aircraft. Although the CFM-56 is a commercial engine, its core section is the same as the core of the General Electric F-101 engine that is used in the U.S. B-1 bomber. Because of this, restrictions were placed on the export license. However, the PRC may have exploited the technology of the CFM-56. When the U.S. Government subsequently requested access to the engines, the PRC claimed they had been destroyed in a fire. CATIC has, on several occasions reviewed by the Select Committee, misrepresented the proposed uses of militarily useful U.S. technology. The Clinton administration has determined that the specific facts in these cases may not be publicly disclosed...."
Freeper enough is enough 6/11/99 reports "...John Dalton, SECNAV resigned on June 8, 1998. He was a Clinton appointee. Before serving as NAVSEC he was president and CEO of a failed S&L institution that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. He was fired as a result. Dalton, as NAVSEC prevented an investigation of Peter Lee, an nuclear laboratory employee indicted for Chinese espionage. Dalton said an investigation would jeopardize naval secrets. He prevailed despite the fact that previous cases were successfully investigated without disclosing secrets. Consequently, Lee was tried and convicted under a lesser charge and was recently released after serving one year in a half way house...."
Koenig's International News 6/10/99 Charles Smith "...According to Defense Secretary Perry, the U.S. contact for PLA General Ding was Barry Carter, Commerce Deputy Undersecretary of Export Administration. According to Federal Election Commission records, Barry Carter is a DNC donor and currently a Professor of Law at Georgetown University. In 1994, Carter worked at the Commerce Dept. under Ron Brown. Barry Carter exchanged correspondence with several major China-Gate players including PLA Lt. General Huai Guomo, PLA Major General Deng Yousheng, Ken Kay, a lobbyist for Sun Computers, and Eden Woon of the Washington State China Relations Council. The 1995 PLA list given to Carter is part of a series of letters between the Commerce Dept., various Chinese Army officers and anxious U.S. vendors. The 1995 list provided to Carter included "China YuanWang (Group)" and several other well know Chinese Army owned companies such as "NORINCO", "China National Nuclear", "China State Shipbuilding" and "China Aerospace." Carter also included his own personal touch to the list, by providing the phone, fax and address for his PLA contact in Beijing, "Lieutenant Colonel Wang Zhongchao", and his contact at the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., "Colonel Xu Cunyong." Carter provided the list of PLA companies and contacts to Eden Woon, donor to U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Executive Director of the Washington State China Relations Council (WSCRC) and Director of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce..... In December 1995, Eden Woon and the WSCRC hosted a delegation of Chinese Army representatives from PLA owned companies. Woon took them on a tour of the Washington state companies anxious to do business with the Chinese Army. The 1995 delegation to Washington state included "Feng Hui, Staff officer" of the COSTIND "Foreign Affairs Dep't." Feng Hui is better known as Major Feng Hui of the Chinese Army. Major Feng was accompanied by other officers from the PLA unit COSTIND, and a host of engineering specialists from various PLA owned companies, including "Chengdu Aircraft plant", the "Jiangnan Shipyard" and "No. 614 Institute", a PLA institute staffed by weapons experts. There is a clear reason why Major Feng trusted Eden Woon to help the Chinese Army do business in Seattle and beyond. Woon's radical views of U.S./Sino relations do not include a free Taiwan. In 1997, Woon and the Washington State China Relations Council sponsored a conference that included U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA). On October 14, 1997, at the close of the conference, the participants issued a report that states, "The U.S. should ensure that Taiwan understands that if conflicts arise (especially if apparently provoked by Taiwan), it cannot necessarily count on the U.S. coming to the rescue." ..."
Salon 6/21/99 David Horowitz "...The book [Year of the Rat] begins with the authors' observation that the No. 1 funder of the Clinton-Gore 1992 campaign was an Arkansas resident and Chinese banker named James Riady, who has been a friend of Clinton's for 20 years. Riady is the scion of a multibillion-dollar financial empire that is a working economic and political partnership with China's military and intelligence establishment. The Riadys gave $450,000 to Clinton's presidential campaign and another $600,000 to the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties. But the importance of the Riadys to Clinton's ascent is far greater than even these contributions suggest, and not merely because the Chinese network, in which the Riadys are only one important factor, extends through thousands of companies and individuals whose contributions no one has as yet attempted to track. Without the Riadys, Clinton would not have won the Democratic nomination in the first place, and would not have been in a position to benefit from their later largesse. In the presidential primaries of 1992, in fact, the Riadys were the absolutely crucial factor that stood between Clinton and defeat. After losing the New Hampshire primary, the candidate faced a crucial test in New York. But he had also run out of money. At this critical juncture, James Riady stepped in to arrange a $3.5 million loan to the Clinton campaign. New York proved to be the last real competition that Clinton faced on his path to victory. When the Arkansas governor stepped onto the national scene, Clinton and Riady were not new acquaintances. They had met in 1978, when Clinton was attorney general, and had not yet become governor of the state. They were introduced by Clinton's chief political backer, Jackson Stephens, the head of Stephens Inc., one of the largest private investment firms outside of Wall Street. "Thus began a friendship," in the words of Timperlake and Triplett, "that has lasted 20 years, and has spread a web of intrigue, financial corruption and foreign influence into American government." Riady had begun his American banking career earlier in the '70s as an intern at Stephens. Later, they became partners in the Worthen Bank of Little Rock, the very same institution that subsequently experienced a mysterious fire that destroyed records being sought by Kenneth Starr and other Whitewater investigators in their inquiries into Hillary Rodham Clinton's Rose law firm activities. It was through the Worthen bank that Riady arranged the $3.5 million credit to Clinton's failing primary campaign...."
Salon 6/21/99 David Horowitz "...A central figure in the economic track of Chinese activities was the vice president and Far-East area manager for the Worthen Bank, a Chinese-born American named John Huang, who was a friend of Bill from Little Rock days. Triplett and Timperlake make a strong case that it was through the personal intervention of Hillary Clinton that in 1994 Huang was made a top official in the Commerce Department, where he had access to all the information an agent would need to strip America of the supercomputer technologies vital to the development of advanced weapons systems. Huang also inexplicably retained his top security clearance in the Commerce Department when he left the government. The decision to leave the government for a position at the Democratic National Committee was made for Huang at a meeting in the Oval Office attended by the president, Huang, Riady, Riady partner and former Rose law firm head Giroir and presidential aide Bruce Lindsey. This meeting took place three days after the president had decided on a strategy to rescue his failing political fortunes, which had reached a nadir following the Democrats' historic defeat in the congressional elections of 1994 and Newt Gingrich's ascension to the speakership of the House. It was the first Republican majority in the House in 48 years. Designed by the president's new political advisor, Dick Morris, the strategy involved a massive television dvertising campaign, directed against Gingrich and the Republican House. The campaign has been directly credited with turning the political tide and ensuring the reelection in 1996 of the Clinton team. The chief fund-raiser for this campaign was John Huang. It should be evident from these facts (and they could easily be amplified with many more) that the alliance Clinton has made with the Riadys and their China network is the pivot of his political career, and the absolute key to his survival. It has had consequences for American politics and security so vast that no brief summary can begin to describe them...."
Newsmax 6/17/99 Stanislav Lunev "... With thousands of years of tradition, Chinese intelligence has been operating in the U.S. for about four decades. Inheriting old China's intelligence experience, Red China modernized its spy machine with help from the well-known Soviet KGB and the little-known Soviet GRU in the 1940s and 1950s and developed its own operations against America since the formation of Communist China...."
Newsmax 6/17/99 Stanislav Lunev ".... There are two main Chinese intelligence services: political intelligence/foreign counterintelligence from the Ministry of State Security and military intelligence, directed from the Second Directorate of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff. The chief intelligence officer, General Ji Shengde, is well known in America because of his direct involvement in illegal money transactions during the last presidential election campaign in August of 1996. These services are under the tight control of the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party(CCP), through his deputies in the ministries of national defense and state security. Thus the main policies, directions and targets for intelligence collection are established by secret decisions of the Politburo, which lays out primary strategy, keeps the intelligence community working in the necessary directions and concentrates efforts against the most important targets. Most practical issues are handled directly in the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the CCP, in charge of supervising the entire Chinese military machine, including military-industrial institutions and organizations. This commission collects, analyzes and summarizes the needs of Chinese industry for foreign technologies, foreign production and proprietary information. It receives requests from Chinese industry and directs the intelligence community to act upon those requests...."
Newsmax 6/17/99 Stanislav Lunev "... The CMC is supervised by General Liu Huaqing, father of Liu Chaoying, a Chinese aerospace executive and lieutenant colonel in the PLA, who was directly involved in the U.S. fund-raising scandal. The CMC provides each year a top-secret "tasking list," delivered to all intelligence units in the field on a regular basis. The list includes information about foreign leaders who might influence current affairs and state policy. This list also includes specifications for particular items, and quantities, needed for military production. This unified command enables Chinese leadership to organize effective cooperation among different intelligence services in order to fulfill strategic operations, the most important concerned with the development of mass-destruction weapons...."
Newsmax 6/17/99 Stanislav Lunev Dozens of these native Chinese specialists were delivered by Chinese intelligence agencies from the U.S. to the PRC in the 1950s and 1960s, and Chinese nuclear and missile programs were based on American technology and Soviet machinery and equipment. In the 1980s and 1990s the basis shifted fully toward the U.S. as China used American technology, machinery and equipment, received by China legally or illegally from the U.S. and other Western countries...."
WorldNetDaily 6/28/99 Charles Smith "...Wang Jun's fellow CITIC board member is Li Ka Shing, chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. Li is so close to the Chinese government that the Clinton White House included his bio along with Chinese President Jiang Zemin to the CEO of Loral Aerospace, Bernard Schwartz, just prior to the 1994 Ron Brown trade trip to Beijing. According to documents provided by the Commerce Department, Brown and Schwartz were to meet both Li and Gen. Shen Rougjun of COSTIND. Serving as a middleman for PLA satellite purchases, Li has financed several satellite deals between the U.S. Hughes Corporation and China Hong Kong Satellite, a company owned by the PLA unit, COSTIND. Besides trying to buy satellites for the PLA, in 1997, Li and the Chinese navy nearly obtained four huge roll-on/roll-off container ships from America. These ships were intended to transport PLA military cargo. The ships were part of a multi-million dollar deal that would have been financed by U.S. taxpayers. A man with considerable clout, Li has invested more than a billion dollars in China and owns most of the dock space in Hong Kong. In an exclusive deal with the People's Republic of China's communist government, Li has the right of first refusal over all PRC ports south of the Yangtze River. Furthermore, Li currently owns both the Pacific and Atlantic ports on the Panama Canal. And it was Li who attempted to purchase the military port of Long Beach, Calif. for COSCO and the Chinese navy...."
WorldNetDaily 6/28/99 Charles Smith "...A June 1997 Rand report ("Chinese Military Commerce and U.S. National Security") stated, "Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing, is also negotiating for PLA wireless system contracts, which would build upon his equity interest in PLA arms company Poly Tech-owned Yangpu Land Development Company, which is building infrastructure on China's Hainan Island." In 1998, Li attempted to issue $2 billion in bonds in the U.S. through his Hutchison company. According to the Dow Jones Newswire, Hutchison revealed that 50 percent of the bonds would be used through a subsidiary known as Chung Kiu Communications Ltd., which had signed agreements to provide cellular services and equipment to joint ventures between the PLA and the Chinese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In June 1999, Li and his PLA partners bought their way into the communications grid of northeast America, bringing PLA signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations inside the United States. Hutchison Telecom and the PLA are now major players in the American mobile-phone business with the recent investment of nearly $1 billion into VoiceStream Wireless.....The $957 million deal, the PLA biggest investment yet in America, will allow funding of VoiceStream's merger with Omnipoint. Omnipoint provides a service to more than 100 million subscribers, predominantly in the northeastern cities of the U.S., including critical military, commercial and diplomatic sites in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The opportunity for PLA profits and communications espionage now spans the massive East Coast of America...."
boston.com dailyglobe 7/2/99 Charles Sennot John Donnelly "...America's triumphant general in the Kosovo war received less than a hero's welcome yesterday from US senators, who criticized the lack of readiness for a ground invasion, poor intelligence estimates, and the now open-ended mission of American peacekeepers. In his first extensive public assessment of NATO's 11-week air war, General Wesley K. Clark, the alliance's supreme allied commander in Europe, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that his troops believed the war was a ''very just cause.'' He called the battle ''a testament to political unity and the will of NATO members to stand up to the humanitarian tragedy'' inflicted on ethnic Albanians by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. But the four-star general said the future of the Balkans depends on whether Milosevic remains, and his assessment was the Yugoslav leader retained ''formidable power.' In his review of the lessons of the war, Clark underscored what he described as potential difficulties when politicians interfere with generals. In perhaps the most dramatic example, Clark disclosed that political leaders prevented NATO forces from intercepting about 200 Russian troops who seized control of the Pristina airport on June 11, causing a diplomatic and military impasse...."
American Lawyer News Service 5/12/97 Benjamin Wittes "…Lum, a Democratic activist who ran a clothing store in Hawaii, became close to Ron Brown during his tenure as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Lum, along with her husband, Eugene, moved to California and raised money for the Democrats during the 1992 campaign. In early 1993, Brown became commerce secretary. A few months later, Lum and W. Stuart Price founded Dynamic Energy, an oil and gas company. From the beginning, Dynamic Energy enjoyed an unusually cozy web of relations with the upper echelons of the Commerce Department that worried some ethics watchdogs. Lum gave 5 percent of the stock in the company to Michael Brown, at the time a lobbyist in the Washington office of Miami's Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff and Quentel. In addition to having an ownership interest, Michael Brown also lobbied on behalf of Dynamic Energy. Brown served briefly as the company's acting president, though he lived in Washington, far from the company's Oklahoma base. In addition to the stock gifts, the company gave him a $60,000 golf club membership, a seat on Dynamic Energy's board of directors and $160,000 in consulting fees. Michael Brown wasn't the only one with a Commerce connection to work at the little gas company, Dynamic Energy hired Commerce official Gilbert Colon, who served as the head of the Minority Business Development Agency early in the Clinton administration. And Lum also gave stock to the mother of Melinda Yee, a former aide to Ron Brown both at Commerce and in his earlier capacity as chairman of the DNC. According to the Associated Press, Dynamic Energy even paid for travel by Yee, now an aide to San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Meanwhile, Lum's daughter, Trisha Lum, went to work at the Commerce Department and accompanied Ron Brown on a trade mission to China. Nora Lum has also had extensive access to the White House, according to press reports. She has been present at exclusive Commerce trade meetings an has even attended a state dinner…. The center was also concerned about Dynamic Energy's support of Kennedy's 1994 re-election bid, although it did not name the Kennedy campaign as a respondent….. FEC records hint at just how extensive was Dynamic Energy's support for Kennedy. Lum herself gave $10,000 to the Kennedy/DSCC Victory Fund, a Kennedy fund aided by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. And all told, Dynamic Energy officials, their employees, and their families gave a total of at least $39,000 to Kennedy's campaign and the Victory Fund, according to FEC records…."
The Associated Press 6/17/99 Larry Margasak "…Richard Holbrooke, nominated as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, faces a battering from conservative Republicans as confirmation hearings begin with a session on his ethical conduct….Today's proceeding, the first of three days of committee sessions on Holbrooke, is focusing on the ethical issues that have hounded him for the past year - and delayed his formal nomination for eight months. Holbrooke agreed to pay $5,000 to settle Justice Department civil charges that he violated federal ethics laws when he contacted U.S. officials in 1996 on behalf of his private employer. On a separate issue, the State Department inspector general cleared him of allegations that he improperly accepted private speaking fees last fall while trying to broker a peace deal on Kosovo for the Clinton administration. Holbrooke admitted no wrongdoing when he settled the Justice Department case. He went to work for Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. after resigning from the State Department, contacting the federal officials just months after quitting his job as assistant secretary of state. Former government officials are not allowed to deal with their old colleagues on business matters for a year after leaving office. However, the Justice Department said there was no willful violation of the law. The contacts were clouded by Holbrooke's post-retirement role as a special government employee, advising U.S. diplomats…."
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 6/18/99 Kimberly Gillespie "...A panel of three judges in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis is considering, without oral arguments, former Prosecuting Attorney Dan Harmon's appeal of extortion, racketeering and drug convictions. Its decision in the case will be arrived at on the basis of briefs submitted by attorneys from both sides, according to U.S. Attorney Paula Casey. Four federal drug-related convictions against Harmon were affirmed by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court in January. The court was to hear arguments today in an appeal of earlier charges -- two counts of racketeering, one count of conspiring to commit extortion and one count of conspiring to distribute marijuana -- but set aside arguments about two weeks ago. Harmon was convicted in June on those five charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison. A federal judge also ordered him to pay $16,000 in restitution to victims of two extortion schemes and a $25,000 fine. Harmon's attorney, Lea Ellen Fowler, contended in briefs submitted in January that there was not enough evidence to convict Harmon of racketeering or extortion. She also argued that anyone who testified against Harmon in exchange for a plea bargain was in violation of the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct. The rules prohibit lawyers from offering or promising "anything of value for the testimony under oath." "The government's case against Dan Harmon was presented through it's conventional parade of convicted felons, drug offenders and career criminals," she wrote in a brief filed in December 1998. The racketeering charge related to his using his office as 7th Judicial District prosecuting attorney as an illegal crime organization to obtain money and drugs...."
Worldnetdaily 6/22/99 Charles Smith "...During the first four years of the Clinton administration, People's Liberation Army Gen. Ding Henggao, along with his top two PLA assistants, Lt. Gen. Huai Guomo and Lt. Gen. Shen Rougjun, raided U.S. technology on a scale never before imagined..... Some of these fantastic exploits against the Clinton administration are documented in the Cox report, dealing with the theft of nose cone technology from Hughes -- largely Shen's handiwork. Likewise, some of Huai's handiwork can be found in a 1996 General Accounting Office report on the transfer of an advanced AT&T fiber-optic network to a PLA-owned company called Galaxy New Technology. However, few details on the direct relationship between their commander, Gen. Ding and top Clinton officials are covered in the Western press. Some of these lesser-publicized facts include the fact that in 1994 Bill Clinton began a program to transfer American military technology directly to the PLA. One such documented transfer began in an August 1994 meeting between the PLA warlords and Clinton administration officials in Beijing. The Chinese army side of the August 1994 meeting included top PLA officers such as Ding and Huai, who were accompanied by Gen. Deng Yousheng and Maj. Gen. Hou Gang, the deputy director of the Intelligence Department, Headquarters of General Staff of the PLA. The August 1994 PLA meeting also included an exclusive club of U.S. academia, selected by the Clinton administration to join a "U.S./Chinese Defense Conversion Commission," then run by Defense Secretary Dr. William Perry and Gen. Ding. Some of the other U.S. invitees included Commerce Deputy Undersecretary Dr. Barry Carter, a former law professor from Georgetown University, Dr. Eden Woon, the Executive Secretary for DOD Secretary Perry, and Dr. John Lewis, listed as a "Stanford University Civilian Consultant to SecDef."
Worldnetdaily 6/22/99 Charles Smith "... Woon left America in May 1997 to become the Director of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, a position in which he currently represents over 2,000 businesses located in China and Hong Kong. Eden Woon is an American citizen, a former officer in the U.S. military, former advisor to Secretary of Defense Perry and former Chairman of Washington State China Relations Council...."
Worldnetdaily 6/22/99 Charles Smith "...According to Woon, "there was a lot of criticism back in the states about how this was helping the PLA. All the controversy started and some, frankly, dishonest reporting came up, which was not true, linking Dr. Lewis or Dr. Perry in ways that are, frankly, not correct." John Lewis, said Woon, "was invited to come because he was interested in defense conversion. He (Lewis) got Dr. Perry started on this. When we went to China to sign the first agreement for the first cooperation, Dr. Lewis was invited." Of course, by August 1994, Lewis had teamed with Ding's wife, Madam Nie Li in a very profitable joint "business" venture called "Hua Mei." (Interestingly, Madam Nie Li is, like her husband, also a PLA general.) Lewis ran the U.S.-China venture that led to the transfer of an advanced, encrypted, fiber-optic communications system being sold directly to a company owned by the PLA. Lewis was a paid consultant to the U.S. Defense Department, while also being executive director of the U.S. side of the "Hua Mei" joint venture. Thus, Lewis earned income from both the Chinese and U.S. Army -- at the same time. Yet, Dr. Woon also noted that there were several others in the U.S. delegation not listed on the official attendance. "Also invited on the same trip and same status was Chas Freeman," said Woon. "(Former) Assistant Secretary of Defense, one of the first or perhaps the first to revive the military relationship after Tiananmen. He left government before October 1994. He was also invited to come back as an observer." ...."
Worldnetdaily 6/22/99 Charles Smith "...Interestingly, according to a letter sent to Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Col. Blasko, Carter noted that Woon had suggested the letter to Huai. Woon, according to Carter's fax to Blasko, reviewed the letter and approved its content....The 1994 letter to Blasko was copied to Eden Woon by Carter in a following fax transmission. Carter wrote to Woon on the copy attachment, "Eden -- FYI. Here is what I faxed to Lt. Col. Blasko last week. ... My Best, Barry." By June 1995, Dr. Woon would leave Dr. Perry and the Defense Dept. However, he remained in direct contact with PLA generals and Dr. Barry Carter. In June 1995, Carter would officially provide a list of PLA companies and contacts to Dr. Eden Woon, Executive Director of the Washington State China Relations Council (WSCRC) and Director of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. WSCRC includes major corporate sponsors such as Northwest Airlines, Boeing, Microsoft and the law firm of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. By December 1995, Woon and the WSCRC would host a delegation of Chinese army representatives from PLA-owned companies. Woon took them on a tour of the Washington State companies anxious to do business with the Chinese army. ....The 1995 delegation to Washington State included "Feng Hui, Staff officer" of the COSTIND "Foreign Affairs Dep't." Feng Hui is better known as Maj. Feng Hui of the Chinese army. Feng was accompanied by other officers from the PLA unit COSTIND, and a host of engineering specialists from various PLA-owned companies, including "Chengdu Aircraft plant," the "Jiangnan Shipyard" and "No. 614 Institute," a PLA institute staffed by weapons experts..... In 1997, Woon and WSCRC sponsored a conference that included U.S. Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash. On October 14, 1997, at the close of the conference, the participants issued a report that states, "The U.S. should ensure that Taiwan understands that if conflicts arise (especially if apparently provoked by Taiwan), it cannot necessarily count on the U.S. coming to the rescue." ..."
The Center For Security Policy 6/25/99 "...In today's Washington Post, Walter Pincus -- the Administration's preferred outlet for its heavily spun damage-control efforts on the China/nuclear scandal -- reports that: "The top Energy Department official in charge of the Nation's nuclear weapons complex, Victor H. Reis, may quit or be fired in a dispute with Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, sources said yesterday." One of Pincus' unidentified sources at DoE is quoted as saying: "It is no secret that Secretary Richardson has not been satisfied with the emphasis given counterintelligence and security at the labs, and Vic Reis has been the person in charge for the last six years." (Emphasis added.) In other words, as Wonderland's Duchess might have put it, "Off with his head." If this statement were not so pernicious, it would be hysterical. In fact, for at least the past two years, responsibility for "counterintelligence and security at the labs" -- and elsewhere in the nuclear weapons complex -- has actually been vested in somebody else, Rose Gottemoeller. Ms. Gottemoeller is a proponent of radical anti-nuclear proposals who, thanks to Secretary Richardson's machinations, was stealthily elevated earlier this year to the status of Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security....."
The Center For Security Policy 6/25/99 "...It has been Ms. Gottemoeller, not Vic Reis, who has had responsibility for such scandals as: the declassification of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data in violation of the Atomic Energy Act and job action against a senior DoE bureaucrat who had the temerity to alert Congress to this breach of security and the law the demotion of Notra Trulock ...the effective firing of Lieutenant Colonel Ed McCallum...."
The Center For Security Policy 6/25/99 "...Instead of holding accountable those actually responsible for the various aspects of this travesty, he [Richardson] appears determined to use the demands for "heads to roll" to purge those who have opposed past and present Clinton political appointees' efforts to destroy the nuclear weapons program and complex. .... Still, there is little doubt but that, had it not been for his [Vic Reis] efforts, the damage done to date by the Clinton-O'Leary policy of "denuclearization" would have been even worse than has actually transpired. ...Reports reaching the Center suggest that the nuclear lab directors and other senior professionals in the weapons complex are also unwilling to tow the Administration's line on DoE reorganization....Perhaps the Secretary will have to fire all of them as well in order to find toadies who will support his position, seemingly born of nothing more than personal egotism and the reflexive, if petty, turf-protectionism of any bureaucrat, i.e, that no further improvement to the Department of Energy is necessary....."
Washington Weekly 7/5/99 L D Brown "...In Arkansas, Bill was forced by her highness [Hillary] to make the political appointments she wanted. Friend-of-Bill and freshly re-convicted felon Web Hubbell is a prime example. When the Chief Justice position on the Arkansas Supreme Court became vacant and subject to a gubernatorial appointment, Bill was as bewildered as I to hear Hillary rant and rave until Bill appointed Web, Hillary's close friend and law partner, to the post...She has demanded her place in the sun during the Clinton presidency as well. The health care debacle, the travel office firings -- all of Hillary's making..... "
The American Spectator, page 22 7/99 Kenneth Timmerman "... a recent review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) found that some of the money has helped the Russians develop better nuclear weapons, missiles, and biological weapons--and that many civilian projects financed with U.S. taxpayer money have direct military applications. Even worse: Some of the U.S.-funded scientists and institutes are developing weapons for Iran and Libya. Despite these warnings, the Clinton administration now proposes to spend an additional $600 million to launch a massive public works project in ten Russian "nuclear cities." Although these sites are ostensibly closed to outsiders, Iranian visitors have in the last five years been spotted at some of Russia's most sensitive weapons labs, including Vector and Obolensk, where scientists have genetically engineered human and animal viruses to produce the most deadly biological weapons known to mankind. The GAO concluded in February that the Nuclear Cities Initiative is "likely to be a subsidy program for Russia for many years rather than a stimulus for economic development," and recommended that it be scaled back. It also said the Department of Energy (DOE), which will oversee the program, should more vigilantly check the backgrounds of Russian scientists slated to benefit from U.S. taxpayer largesse, in order to ensure that weapons designers do not enter classified U.S. facilities and do not use U.S. funds to subsidize new weapons development. Heading the Nuclear Cities program at DOE is Assistant Secretary of Energy Rose Gottemoeller, the same official who fired the department's head of security programs because she suspected him of leaking information to Congress on the disastrous state of security at DOE nuclear storage plants and at the national labs ("Nuclear Security Meltdown," TAS, June 1999). In her academic writings, Ms. Gottemoeller has urged the U.S. to abandon its long-standing policy of strategic ambiguity by declaring publicly that the U.S. will not be the first to use nuclear weapons. But Rose Gottemoeller is not just any anti-nuclear academic: In 1993 she became National Security Council director for Russia and the other Soviet successor states. Since then, she has presided over policies that advanced the career of former KGB Director Yevgeni Primakov, turned a blind eye to Russia's nuclear and missile transfers to Iran, and supported President Boris Yeltsin at the expense of democratic reformers, plying him with political favors and cash that went directly into off-shore bank accounts. Although she has no hands-on managerial experience, Gottemoeller inherits a program crippled by poor management and lack of oversight, which seems destined to have precisely the opposite effect of its stated intention of helping wean Russia away from nuclear weapons...."
Drudge Report 7/3/99 "..." A former U.S. law enforcement official on Friday was chosen as the lead candidate to head Interpol, the global law enforcement organization. Ron Noble, former Treasury undersecretary for enforcement, was named during an executive session at Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. Noble, 42, best known as the chief investigator of the failed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, is the only person the United States has ever nominated to head Interpol in the 75-year history of the organization. Attorney General Janet Reno personally picked Noble for the position. ..."
Investor’s Business Daily 7/8/99 "… Richardson pushed out the wrong assistant secretary. He should have fired Rose Gottemoeller, who heads Energy's Office of Nonproliferation and National Security. She suspended whistle-blower Ed McCallum, who was in charge of lab security. Since 1995, he has complained of security lapses and a surge in foreign visitors. McCallum was frozen out of the agency three days after he cooperated with the Rudman Commission, which found that U.S. nuclear secrets are still not safe. Gottemoeller was also involved in the demotion of another whistle-blower -Notra Trulock, who headed Energy's intelligence office. Who is Gottemoeller? An anti-nuclear activist who favors steep, unilateral cuts in the number of U.S. nuclear warheads. She also wants the U.S. to pledge ''no first use'' of nuclear arms. In the role of guardian of the nation's nuclear secrets, Gottemoeller has directed technical exchanges between U.S. and Chinese labs. It's one of ''our most important international activities,'' she gushed in a January budget paper. She also boasted of ''declassifying millions of DOE documents.'' This is who Richardson's left in charge of fixing leaks? …"
WorldNetDaily 7/13/99 Charles Smith "…The newly released information includes a detailed bio of COSTIND General Huai Guomo, a personal letter to COSTIND commander, General Ding Henggao, and a letter from U.S. defense contractor, Allied Signal Corporation, seeking help for a jet engine transfer to the Chinese "Harbin" aerospace company. According to materials sent to Commerce Secretary Ron Brown by Chinese Army General Ding, "HARBIN" is owned by the Chinese Army. Harbin currently manufactures fighters and bombers for the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and for export to Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Iran. The detailed documents included two pages of information on Chinese General Huai Guomo in both English and Chinese. Huai Guomo, according to the Clinton administration, is "a career administrator in China's defense industrial complex" and the very model of a modern Chinese General. General Huai's credits include joining the Chinese communist party in 1953 and working in the PLA "nuclear industry". Huai reportedly "impressed" his U.S. Defense "counterparts" over the years as a "competent, professional as well as a cordial individual to work with."…"
American Spectator 7/99 Kenneth Timmerman "…Since 1994, the Clinton administration has been spending taxpayer dollars to employ Russian nuclear scientists and weapons designers in civilian projects, with the laudable goal of seeking to prevent them from selling their talents to rogue states such as Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Libya. But a recent review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) found that some of the money has helped the Russians develop better nuclear weapons, missiles, and biological weapons--and that many civilian projects financed with U.S. taxpayer money have direct military applications. Even worse: Some of the U.S. -funded scientists and institutes are developing weapons for Iran and Libya. Despite these warnings, the Clinton administration now proposes to spend an additional $600 million to launch a massive public works project in ten Russian "nuclear cities." Although these sites are ostensibly closed to outsiders, Iranian visitors have in the last five years been spotted at some of Russia's most sensitive weapons labs, including Vector and Obolensk, where scientists have genetically engineered human and animal viruses to produce the most deadly biological weapons known to mankind…… Heading the Nuclear Cities program at DOE is Assistant Secretary of Energy Rose Gottemoeller, the same official who fired the department's head of security programs because she suspected him of leaking information to Congress on the disastrous state of security at DOE nuclear storage plants and at the national labs ("Nuclear Security Meltdown," TAS, June 1999). In her academic writings, Ms. Gottemoeller has urged the U.S. to abandon its long-standing policy of strategic ambiguity by declaring publicly that the U. S. will not be the first to use nuclear weapons. But Rose Gottemoeller is not just any anti-nuclear academic: In 1993 she became National Security Council director for Russia and the other Soviet successor states. Since then, she has presided over policies that advanced the career of former KGB Director Yevgeni Primakov, turned a blind eye to Russia's nuclear and missile transfers to Iran, and supported President Boris Yeltsin at the expense of democratic reformers, plying him with political favors and cash that went directly into offshore bank accounts. Although she has no hands-on managerial experience, Gottemoeller inherits a program crippled by poor management and lack of oversight, which seems destined to have precisely the opposite effect of its stated intention of helping wean Russia away from nuclear weapons…."
WorldNetDaily 7/9/99 Larry Klayman "…The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce, a 331-page manifesto and brainchild of Associate White House Counsel Jane Sherburne and the DNC, was circulated to select reporters in a tortured effort to describe how the "right wing" conveyed "fringe" stories into mainstream American media. In essence, this document was an effort to "alert" friendly journalists that such a "conspiracy" was being promulgated by certain groups dissatisfied with the moral lapses of the Clinton White House. In short, it was an enemies list. …In December 1994, Associate White House Counsel Sherburne prepared a memorandum that outlined strategies to use against individuals and organizations perceived to be adversaries of the Clinton Administration. The memo also assigned staff members to carry out these strategies -- and specifically identified the Western Journalism Center for having investigated Foster's death. WJC was the only news organization targeted for action. ….Over the course of the investigation of WJC, nearly 20 conservative organizations -- including the Heritage Foundation, NRA and Citizens Against Government Waste -- felt the close, touch of the Clinton audit machine. Even more oddly, the media who knew of the Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce never saw any pattern developing that would signify an orchestrated White House effort -- much less actually troubled themselves to report it. Meanwhile, the WJC's offices were being broken into, with, mysteriously, nothing stolen. Their phone messages were apparently being monitored, and some of these developments happened to coincide with WJC breakthroughs in Clinton investigations. The scrutiny of the WJC by the IRS lasted nine months. WJC employees lost their jobs and livelihoods. Finally, in October 1996, Farah exposed these corrupt practices in a piece in The Wall Street Journal, and the tide began to turn. Margaret Milner-Richardson, IRS commissioner and close friend of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, abruptly resigned. The New York Post attributed her departure to political audits of conservative organizations. Some began to probe these rampant abuses, and the audit of the Western Journalism Center was "concluded" -- a verdict of "no wrongdoing" rendered in May 1997. Under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights enacted by Congress, Farah requested his case file from the IRS so he could review its contents. In keeping with the Clinton Administration standard practice, these rights were trampled in a terse refusal to turn over the documents -- the IRS frivolously citing "government privilege" as a means of keeping Mr. Farah from seeing justification for what had nearly bankrupted his organization…."
Newsmax.com 7/15/99 Carl Limbacher "…How did WGBH allow itself to become the Democrat's taxpayer funded boiler room operation? As Michael Dukakis, one of Boston's own, used to say--the fish stinks from the head down. In this case the fishhead in question may turn out to be Diane Blair. Diane Blair is a former political science professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. But the credential that won her a six year appointment to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a friendship with both Clintons that goes back to the '70s. Diane Blair worked as a senior campaign researcher for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential bid and became a senior advisor for the 1996 re-election effort. In September 1997 Blair herself was elected unanimously by CPB's nine member governing board to serve a one year term as its president….. Jim Blair was counsel to Tyson Foods during Clinton's governorship and as such he was in a unique position to guide Arkansas' first lady through the treacherous world of commodity investing. Blair hooked Hillary up with suspect commodities broker Red Bone and within months the miracle of the cattle futures began to unfold. In December 1992 Blair "loaned" a destitute Jim McDougal $1,000 so McDougal could pretend to buy the Clintons out of their Whitewater investment. McDougal would later tell reporters that the Tyson attorney used threats to keep him quiet about Clinton misdeeds. It was also Jim Blair who in 1994 warned the Clintons that Webb Hubbell's criminality would soon become apparent and that they should distance themselves from their old buddy before the cash their Chinese friends had been shoveling Hubbell's way began to look too much like hush money…"
Softwar 7/20/99 Charles Smith "…Zvezda, a Russian weapons maker known to sell missiles to Algeria and India, is also working with Boeing to obtain a U.S. Navy super-sonic target missile contract. The Zvezda Navy missile deal is reported to have a built in "28%" kickback for the Russian Generals. Typically, Zvezda is heavily involved with an arms dealer and a known Clinton backer. The Russian maker Zvezda-Strela is backed by Gore supporters, Cassidy Associates and IBP International. Cassidy Associates is a Washington D.C. based lobby firm that has made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to the Clinton/Gore campaign. According to FEC records, Cassidy Associates made over 2,500 political contributions between 1991 and 1998. Cassidy Associates was also linked to the Ron Brown trade missions. Cassidy Associates sent Maely Tom, a radical-leftist and DNC donor, to the far east on a Ron Brown trade mission to Indonesia. The same mission included Charlie Trie, Pauline Kanchanalak and Nora Lum. Lum has already been convicted of illegal campaign contributions. The other Zvezda supporter is IBP International, a firm based in London and McClean Virginia run by Gore backer Judith De Paul…..According to Aviation Week, IBP International is reported to have already leased facilities to install the Zvezda K-36 ejection seat for the F-22 project. Western seat makers, such as Martin-Baker, are openly complaining they are being shut out by the "political" process even before the selection has been made.
Investor's Business Daily 8/4/99 Paul Sperry "...President Clinton's appointee to a critical seat on the board of the Export-Import Bank has close ties to a crooked fund-raiser linked to China. China is Ex-Im Bank's second-largest customer. During the Clinton years, the bank has given more than $5.5 billion in loans to China to help it buy U.S. technology and equipment for power plants and other projects. The loans were OK'd despite proof that China sold nuclear-related equipment to Pakistan and other countries that worry U.S. security experts. The White House hopes the Senate will quickly confirm D. Vanessa Weaver to fill one of three vacant seats on Ex-Im's five-member board. The lack of quorum is holding up $2.3 billion in loans. As a Clinton aide, Weaver often was in touch with Democratic Party fund- raiser Jian-Nan ''John'' Huang when he worked at the Commerce Department....Weaver and Huang exchanged at least 26 phone calls over a 17-month period in 1994 and 1995, records show. Weaver also reached out to Huang in October 1996 when he hid from U.S. marshals for a week to avoid testifying in a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch Inc. The public-interest law firm claims that Huang was involved in an illegal scheme at Commerce to sell seats on trade trips for Democratic donations. ''She (Weaver) called my wife in California,'' Huang testified after authorities finally caught up with him. ''As a courtesy, I returned her call to her home.'' Huang explained that Weaver and he are just ''good friends.'' Asked about her again in another Judicial Watch deposition in April, Huang took the Fifth...."
Prophezine 7/2/99 Drudge "...A former U.S. law enforcement official on Friday was chosen as the lead candidate to head Interpol, the global law enforcement organization. Ron Noble, former Treasury undersecretary for enforcement, was named during an executive session at Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. Noble, 42, best known as the chief investigator of the failed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, is the only person the United States has ever nominated to head Interpol in the 75-year history of the organization. Attorney General Janet Reno personally picked Noble for the position. The move marks a shift in U.S. policy, and comes as American's celebrate Independence Day....."
Wall St. Journal 8/5/99 "...One appointment in particular that should be setting off alarm bells right now is that of White House aide Vanessa Weaver, nominated by the White House for the five-member board of the Export-Import Bank. Ms. Weaver's rushed confirmation hearing takes place this afternoon before Senator Phil Gramm's Banking Committee. An article in yesterday's Investor's Business Daily noted that before Ms. Weaver replaced fellow Arkansan Patsy Thomasson as deputy personnel director at the White House in 1997, she was a senior adviser on personnel. The Thompson hearings on the 1996 campaign scandals established that in 1994 and 1995 she made at least 23 White House calls to John Huang while he worked at a sensitive Commerce Department job for 16 months. Incidentally, John Huang, long of the Lippo Group, qualifies as another typically weird appointment..... Mr. Huang has said he and Ms. Weaver are "good friends." That may stem in part from his friendship with her father Vernon, who for 15 years was head of the Washington office of the Arkansas-based Stephens Inc. financial empire. The two men were sufficiently close that Mr. Huang used a Stephens suite at the Willard Hotel as a "satellite office," even though it was only 150 yards from the Commerce Department. Mr. Huang would use the office to pick up overnight packages, make phone calls and fax materials, often shortly after receiving classified briefings. Mr. Weaver's secretary has testified before the Senate that her boss gave her orders to conceal the arrangement with Mr. Huang. Mr. Weaver made at least 27 calls to Mr. Huang during his stint at Commerce. An Arkansas native, Mr. Weaver was later appointed by President Clinton as ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. A congressman well versed in the details of the Huang case told us the timing and pace of the Weaver family's contacts with him were "highly suspicious" and may have involved campaign fundraising.. .
World Net Daily/AP/Billings Gazette 8/11/99 "...Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders advocated legalized prostitution and frank sexual education at an appearance here Monday, the same type of talk that made her controversial during her brief tenure as the nation's chief health officer. Elders was in Butte as part of a series of events to promote the restoration of the Dumas Brothel. ....."
Freeper bets 8/16/99 "…Winthrop Rockefeller: Arkansas State Police Commission - Police Commission appointee - Republican appointee to State Police Commission. 1985 Police Commission voted to award bond underwriting contract Raney/Hutton/Lasater group, competitors to Stephens Inc. who was political oponent to Gov. Clinton. (Lasater was a fundraiser for Clinton in 1984 and contributed to Gov Clinton campaigns in '82,'84, and '86.)
Winrock Enterprises (Jay Dickey Contributor), Little Rock - Contrib 2/96 $1,000 2/96 $250. The first private activity bond issued by the new ADFA in 1985 provided $750,000 for Planters Lumber Co. of North Little Rock, a division of Winrock, the Rockefeller family holding company. Win Paul has also drawn heavily from the ATRS. He held a half interest in the Bale Chevrolet-Honda auto dealership, financed by a $6.3 million mortgage from the teachers.
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation -Sponsor of Southern Development Bancorporation - Hillary Clinton on Bd of Dir.
Wintrop Paul Rockefeller: Carlisle Bancshares, Inc., Little Rock - Chm/CEO - Holding Co. for FirstBank of Arkansas, Brinkley (formerly Worthen Banking Corp.). 3 Member Banks: FirstBank/Brinkley, Citizens Bank & Trust/Carlisle, Hazen First State Bank/Hazen. Dan Horton is either Pres., Chm, Dir, CEO Scy of: First Community Bank of S.E. Ark, Caddo First Nat'l Bank, Carlisle Bancshares Inc., First Community Banking Corp, Citizens Bank & Trust, FirstBank of Ark, Hazen First State Bank, Dermott Bancshares Inc., First National Bank in Mena, The Bank of Montgomery County. Edwin Horton is Dir of Boatmen's Nat'l Bank of S.Ark (formerly Worthen Nat'l Bank of S.Ark).
Worthen Bank - William Cravens - former CEO - Worthen invested and owned Wide World Travel - selected on no bid basis to replace the fired Travel Office staff (Travelgate). Major contributors to Gov. and Pres Clinton political campaigns in excess of $250,000. 6/6/95 Jackson Stephens owned 4,159,814 shares of Worthen Bank at $34/share and 16,627,920 shares of Alltel at $24/share. Riady and Stephens owned Worthen Bank. Stephens started Systematics, now Alltel. Cravens is current CEO of Alltel.
Worthen Bank - Moctar Riady - former owner - Riady and Jackson Stephens owned Worthen Bank. Moctar Riady was a major contributor to Gov. and Pres. Clinton political campaigns (in excess of $250,000). 3/85 Juang named VP at Lippo and Hongkong Chinese Bank; becomes Worthen's VP for the Far East. 10/85 Bill and Hillary Clinton meet Huang during Ark/Asian trade mission. 3/93 writes Clinton asking to normalize trade relations w/Vietnam, extend most-favored-nation to China, and strengthen trade ties w/Indonesia.
Worthen National Bank of Arkansas, Little Rock - Jackson Stephens - formerly Worthen Bank & Trust Company, N.A. 3/91 - 1992 bank loaned the Clinton campaign several million dollars. Worthen invested and owned Wide World Travel - selected on no bid basis to replace the fired Travel Office staff (Travelgate). Major contributors to Gov. and Pres Clinton political campaigns in excess of $250,000. 6/6/95 Jackson Stephens owned 4,159,814 shares of Worthen Bank at $34/share and 16,627,920 shares of Alltel at $24/share. Riady and Stephens owned Worthen Bank. Stephens started Systematics, now Alltel.
Worthen National Bank of Hot Springs, Hot Springs - formerly First National Bank of Hot Springs 3/91 - Worthen Bank loaned the Clinton 1992 campaign several million dollars.
Worthen National Bank of South Arkansas, Camden - formerly Worthen National Bank of Camden 1/94
Worthen-Camden, Jay Dickey Contributor, Camden - Edwin Horton - Contrib 8/95 $250. Dan Horton is either Pres., Chm, Dir, CEO Scy of: First Community Bank of S.E. Ark, Caddo First Nat'l Bank, Carlisle Bancshares Inc., First Community Banking Corp, Citizens Bank & Trust, FirstBank of Ark, Hazen First State Bank, Dermott Bancshares Inc., First National Bank in Mena, The Bank of Montgomery County. Edwin Horton is Dir of Boatmen's Nat'l Bank of S.Ark (formerly Worth Nat'l Bank of S.Ark)…."
Los Angeles Times (reprinted in WP) 12/9/97 Glenn Bunting David Rosenzweig "...Carrying envelopes stuffed with bundles of $50 and $100 bills, a slightly built man with a stringy mustache left his hotel room in Monterey Park, Calif., on an unusual quest: He was looking for volunteers to accept $10,000 in cash. Antonio Pan's trip on Aug. 15, 1996, took him through several middle-income Asian American communities in the Los Angeles area, where he stopped at businesses and called on distant acquaintances. He found one taker at a scrap-metal export shop. He located another at a used-car lot. Within three days, Pan had dispensed most of his $80,000 in cash. In exchange, he allegedly collected a small packet of personal checks made out to the "DNC," or Democratic National Committee -- an entity that some of the check writers had never heard of....Pan is no stranger to the White House or Democratic Party. Records show that he visited the executive mansion at least eight times from August 1995 to October 1996 and was in frequent contact with DNC finance personnel. Pan was an associate of Trie and Democratic fund-raiser John Huang. Pan and Huang were former executives of the Indonesia-based Lippo Group, whose owners, the Riady family, were longtime supporters of Clinton. Pan also was executive director of Trie's America-Asia Trade Center Inc. ..."
The New American 8/3/99 William Norman Grigg "…On three occasions, Schwartz was on the short list of candidates for the position of Secretary of Defense. Given the extent of Loral’s intimate business dealings with Beijing, it is likely that Senate hearings into a Schwartz nomination would have been disastrous for the Administration. But Loral is burdened with other baggage as well. In a May 30th Boston Globe column, business analyst John Ellis of the Rasky/Baerlin Group reported that in December 1989 Loral Corporation pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government, filing a false statement regarding a contract with the Air Force to build radar equipment, and conversion of U.S. government property. As a result, Loral paid a $1.5 million fine and was put on a "watch list" for national security officials. However, Loral’s fortunes improved dramatically when Bill Clinton came to power in 1993. "In the early summer of 1994, Loral Chairman Bernard Schwartz made a ‘soft-money’ contribution to the Democratic National Committee in the amount of $100,000," continued Ellis. "Two months later, Schwartz jetted to China on a trade mission with the late Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown and 23 other executives." During that trade mission, Brown "publicly praised Loral’s Globalstar cellular telephone system before an audience of Chinese telecommunications officials. Shortly thereafter, Loral secured a $250 million cellular phone deal with the Ministry of Telecommunications...." It was during the same trade mission that Schwartz cut a deal with Shen Rong-jun, vice chairman of China’s Commission on Science Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). That deal involved the use of highly sensitive encryption technology, which can be used to control satellites. COSTIND "is one of China’s secondary intelligence organizations," noted a 1996 Congressional Research Service report. Its primary function is "acquiring advanced technology with military applications," and "members of CONSTIND have attempted to steal foreign, especially American, technology for military applications."…."