MARC RICH IS CIA RICH
1/26/01 by Sherman H. Skolnick
Some feel old files can be a drag. Whether in original paper form or
non-paper form, they take up space. And only old-timers might know how the
different files interface with one another.
Besides, a super-duper swindler from yesteryear might have disappeared or
never re-appear in the public eye. Specializing in keeping track of big-time
crooks, including Judges and top IRS officials, we, as a group, have a
repository of some one million documents, files, rare books, films, audio and
video tapes, and more. We relish the thought of a big thief somehow showing
up again. It makes keeping old files worth the effort.
The problem? The data thus put together might be falsely described as "tall
stories". Especially by those who grew up sucking on mass media milk. In
other words, in plain talk, college educated know-nothings. Like those who
e-mail us questions on what they call "marshall law". Hey, have dictionaries
become obsolete?
Starting back in 1954 was a brilliant, high-strung, humor-less speculator.
His real name was Marc Reich, but to disguise his foreign-descent past, he
called himself Marc Rich. He knew how to trade a cyclone in usual and unusual
metals, grains, and other items from the earth's crust. And how to make money
and shipments disappear through the dark and tax-neutral and tax-haven hole,
such as the Netherland Antilles. Oil embargoes such as against Iran in
1979-80, because of the U.S. hostage mess, did NOT effect HIM.
To preserve his secrets he apparently never fired any of his underlings.
Supposedly they were paid even when they did not function well anymore. So
the American CIA needed to pay for a domestic or foreign political
assassination? No problem. Marc Rich arranged it through smuggled or stolen
gold bullion. [A similar CIA gold trader living in a Chicago suburb, was
assassinated on the day we fingered him in 1995 on our popular public access
Cable TV Program. Mellow with age, John Tarullo, friend and tool of
Archbishops, and top FBI and CIA officials, talked too much. As a teen-ager,
he was a pilot for Benito Mussolini, the Italian strongman.]
Omitting Marc Rich's espionage role, but otherwise useful for background is
the book, "Metal Men- Marc Rich and the 10-Billion-Dollar Scam" by A. Craig
Copetas, G.P. Putnam's Sons, N.Y., N.Y., 1985. To write the book, the author
became a metal and commodity trader and infiltrated Rich's circle.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her globe-traveling law partner and reputed lover,
Vincent W. Foster, Jr., were implicated in domestic and overseas money
laundering. Secretly a top espionage operative long before his short tenure
in the Clinton White House, Foster traveled with tell-tale government- rate
airfare. He, and Hillary and their crony Webster Hubbell, former Little Rock
Mayor and once Acting Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice, were strategists
for a reputed worldwide spying-on-banks, as against both friend and foe, for
Systematics, in the bank computer software services field. Bank computer
espionage "trap-doors" were their specialty. We were about the first to
finger Systematics, headquartered in Arkansas, and some of their front
stooges tried, with no success, to scare us into silence. The National
Security Agency, NSA, file on Foster and Systematics linked Hillary, Foster,
and others, in many hundreds of pages of documents, but as available to the
public, mostly redacted, blanked out to outsiders.
Marc Rich the commodity bandit and "spook" was so interwoven with the White
House of George Bush The Elder and later, Bill Clinton, you could not hardly
tell whether the White House dirty tricks department was in Washington or
Zug, Switzerland, one of Rich's outpposts. To escape being prosecuted, Rich
did not return from Zug to face the big-time Federal Criminal music in the
1980s. At the time the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
Rudolph W. Giuliani (later N.Y. city Mayor), wanted to put Rich in jail. A
Bush Family confidant, Giuliani nevertheless found out too late that Marc
Rich was the American CIA's laundry man and was immune. When Rudy started to
run for U.S. Senator from New York against carpetbagger Hillary Clinton, in
the year 2000 Election, she was afraid he would mouth off about her and
Foster and Marc Rich. So, Hillary's press agents reportedly launched a
pre-emptive strike planting details publicly of Giuliani's marital troubles.
And so, Rudy side-stepped the whole mess and the Election, by divulging what
he must have already known, that he was ill with cancer.
The book author described him, "Marc Rich, the man whom the United States
Justice Department privately called the most corrupt corporate executive in
America". ["Metal Men", page 13.] After he took refuge in his Switzerland
offices, the oil-soaked monopoly press, protective of high-level swindlers,
agreed to be mostly silent. By 1990, Rich was a key player in the huge,
mostly unpublicized Russian ruble affair, an attack by the American CIA and
worldwide banks fronting for them, against the Soviet currency which led to
the downfall of the Moscow government. The result was the dissolution of the
Soviet Union into fighting-with-each-other provinces, each a fiefdom for
mineral exploitation and speculation, Marc Rich's specialty.
Another George Bush The Elder/American CIA darling was a fellow originally
from Wisconsin, Leo Emil Wanta. He played a key role in the attack on the
Russian ruble to topple the Moscow gang. A CIA-friendly author, the late
Claire Sterling wrote a book, a form of mixed and mixed up report on Wanta.
"Thieves' World- The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime",
Simon & Shuster, N.Y., N.Y., 1994. As she described it, "The fact that
scarecely anyone outside Russia has heard of the Great Ruble Scam may be
explained partly by its seemingly unbelievable details, but partly, too, by
Western reluctance to touch exquisitely sensitive political nerves." (Page
177.)
To protect the CIA, Sterling has a picture of Wanta in the book under which
she has the unfair and not balanced description "Leo Wanta, the American
snake-oil salesman who stormed world money markets to crash the ruble in
1990-91." She conveniently omits that Wanta's cut of the action has been
frozen in Russian banks, some of which were taken over by the Russian
underworld, the mafiya,and the funds disappeared when some of the banks
collapsed. On the other hand, trillions of rubles were successfully siphoned
out of Russia by George Bush the Elder for his personal benefit, some through
dope trafficking and weapons smuggling by the Bush Family as secretly
authorized by Federal Reserve Commissar Alan Greenspan. [Visit our website
series, "Greenspan Aids and Bribes Bush" with attached Federal Reserve secret
wire transfers, authorized by Greenspan, to 25 worldwide secret Bush Family
accounts to launder such illicit proceeds. One such account, as shown, is
jointly with the Queen of England, at the bank she owns, Coutts Bank London.]
An American foreign correspondent based in Italy, Claire Sterling wrote
occasionally for the CIA trumpet, the Washington Post. [The suppressed
original edition of a book goes into that newspaper's CIA links. Named for
Katherine Graham, the long-time straw-boss for the newspaper, "Katherine The
Great" by Deborah Davis.]
Not cheated out of his "commission", Marc Rich stayed shut about himself and
the American CIA, such as with the George Bush family, including the Elder
Bush's sons, Neil, Jeb, and George W. But cheated out of HIS "commission",
Leo Wanta talked openly. So, in 1993, when Wanta went to Switzerland, to
await the expected arrival of Clinton White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W.
Foster, Jr., Wanta fell into a trap. At the behest of Marc Rich, Hillary
Clinton, Vince Foster, and Wanta were working on a money laundering deal
involving the reputed CIA front under the innocent-sounding name "Children's
Defense Fund". Participating behind the scenes was Tommy Thompson, then
Wisconsin Governor, and Donna Shalala, once Chancellor of the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, and later, head of the Department of Health and Human
Services, HHS.{In the alleged "President" George W. Bush administration,
Thompson became the HHS successor to her.]
To shut him up, Wanta was grabbed by so-called "authorities" in Switzerland
and clapped into a dungeon, he says. Foster never arrived. A short time
later, a private "hit" team murdered Foster in or near the Clinton White
House and dumped his body next to American Civil War cannons in the memorial
Fort Marcy Park, Virginia. The true happening of his demise is recorded on
satellite images compiled by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, NRO,
super-secret satellite bosses. The head of the NRO imaging project, Daniel
Potter, was later murdered.
The Foster "hit" team was paid five million dollars of laundered funds
reportedly through Marc Rich/George Bush the Elder. [Some background details
of the Foster murder are in our website series on "Greenspan Aids and Bribes
Bush" Part Four.]
Wanta was brought back to the U.S. on alleged charges of mis-stating 14
thousand dollars in supposed taxes. Who wanted him silenced and jailed? CIA
darling Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and his dirty bird crony George
Herbert Walker Bush, once head of America's secret political police. Notice
the different standards of so-called Justice. Wanta, complaining loudly about
the freezing of his "commission" on the Russian ruble scam, has been put in
jail, and he says, mis-treated. He says he keeps reporting to his jailers, to
no avail, his medical ailments which require attention.
On the other hand, CIA darling/reputed assassination facilitator, Marc Rich,
running from Switzerland a worldwide massive CIA proprietary money laundry,
is pardoned in the final hours of the stinky Clinton administration. For
Bill's benefit, Marc Rich conveyed for use by Hillary and eventually Bill,
somewhere between 30 and 100 million dollars. Our sources say it is closer to
30 million dollars. Gold experts and such on their website on 1/24/01 say
quoting a knowledgeable source, "The White House provided no reasons for
Rich's pardon and I understand that the commodity crowd in New York
speculates that Clinton ended up with a minimum of $100 million in his pocket
somehow, somewhere as a payoff from Rich for the pardon. No one could corner
or manipulate a market better than Mark Rich. I wonder if he has been part of
the Gold cartel all this time?" http//www.LeMetropoleCafe.com Website of the
Gold Anti-Trust Committee which contends the Federal Reserve and others are
in a worldwide cabal that forced down the price of gold below the cost of
production in order to save the paper-money gang.
The Marc Rich reputed bribe to the Clintons is parked, escrowed as it is
called, at a Caribbean dope-haven money-drop, the former Dutch-possession St.
Maartens Island. Owned by current, recently current, and former top IRS
officials is an ocean-going money-laundry boat, disguised as a floating
gambling casino, that comes and goes from St. Maartens and then crosses the
Atlantic to Spain and Portugal. [See a picture of the boat and details in our
website series, "IRS Officials Face Exposure".]
Leo Wanta is one of a very few real experts on the Russian mafiya. The
Russian underworld bloomed following the downfall of the Moscow government.
Former cut-throats of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, were out of work, so
they formed a help-themselves situation, becoming or already had been,
experts in superior quality countefeit U.S. and other currency, stolen U.S.
credit cards, supplying young men and women for prostitution in the U.S. In
large cities like Chicago, if you become knowledgeable about all this influx
of Russian mafiya to America, and seek to report it to the local office of
FBI, guess who gets "investigated"? YOU, not the mafiya. The FBI know the
Russians have superior methods and the FBI does not wish to tangle with them.
With complete immunity, as we have described in earlier website stories,
Cong. Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) reportedly runs a strip joint in an
unincorporated area near Chicago. Used are Russian naken women as dancers,
brought to America under false pretenses that they are going to work in
"offices". All this, in apparent open violation of laws regarding the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service, INS. Also, Hyde reportedly keeps no
records as required by the State Revenue and the IRS. And, ha! ha! Hyde has
become head of the Foreign Relations Committee. [To paraphrase the Old
Testament, Tabernacles of Gangsters Prosper, and Those That Curse Heaven Are
Secure. A sad and cynical thought that troubles reformers.]
As savvy court observers long have noticed, dirty, corrupt politics are what
counts not the law and the facts. Wanta, to fight being framed, had a lawyer
working for him that reportedly understood the CIA tricks against those who
the spy agency wants to throw away. On the other hand, notice what was said
about the Marc Rich pardon by Clinton "Rich's attorneys had ties to the
former president Jack Quinn, co-founder of Quinn Gillespie & Associates, was
a Clinton White House counsel and a chief of staff to Vice President Gore,
and Arnold & Porter has represented the Clinton legal defense fund since it
was created in 1998." "Pardon Bypassed Procedures", Washington Post, 1/24/01,
page A01.
Wanta has positives, some possible negatives in the viewpoints of some.
Although a Wisconsin resident, he has credentials, which appear to be
genuine, naming him as an Ambassador to Switzerland from the East Africa
nation of Somalia. Such diplomatic authority should have spared him his
troubles with Tommy Thompson, etc. Sarcastic folks, however, surmise the
credentials could have been covertly arranged by his one-time mentor Bush the
Elder through the CIA, to assist in laundering sums through the reputed CIA
front, the Children's Defense Fund. Cynics chuckle that Wanta may simply have
just bribed someone in Somalia, or elsewhere to be named an ambassador from
that nation with their purported rule by a robber baron, military junta.
(Really that different from the U.S.?) Against his wish, have Wanta's former
cronies kept him in jail, like a number of other CIA covert operatives, as a
cheap way to protect him from his enemies, at government expense? Enemies
such as George Bush the Elder and his sons.
As part of a cover-up, various high-level persons have an interest to have
some CIA operatives no longer useful (most likely including Wanta)
discredited and even falsely jailed. In the Russian ruble caper, 1990-91,
Federal Reserve Commissar Alan Greenspan and then president Bush the Elder
reportedly arranged to siphon off funds of the former Soviet banking system
for their personal benefit and that of their cronies. This required getting
in bed with the Russian mafiya. Thousands of tons of the Soviet gold treasury
disappeared and ended up with top-level Dutch criminals operating as the
Algemene Bank Nederland, now called ABN-Amro. Thus enriched has been ABN's
American flagship, La Salle National Bank of Chicago which used the purloined
gold to set up branches in 15 American cities,gobbling up other banks in the
process, secretly paying for them with stolen Soviet gold.
Questions, of which in our various website series we have made partial
answers Q- How many foreign and domestic political assassinations has Marc
Rich reportedly arranged and financed, disguised as metals and grain deals?
See some of the details previously posted about Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade dirty business. Are these
events occurring through the aid of Rahm Emanuel, managing director of
Wasserstein Perella & Co.? We think so. And Rahm is reportedly linked to Marc
Rich and the Red Chinese Secret Police operating IN THE UNITED STATES.
Q-Does Marc Rich's ex-wife, who reportedly directly contacted Clinton asking
for a pardon, and Marc's/her hotshot lawyers have any knowledge of his
high-level crimes on behalf of the bloody American CIA? We think so.
Q-Did Bill/Hillary Clinton use Marc Rich to come up with the loot to pay for
the private "hit", as mentioned, on their crony Vincent W. Foster, Jr.,
because Foster was engaging in treason and was imlicating them? Some
background "Greenspan Aids and Bribes Bush" part four, our website series.
Q- Is it true that Rahm Emanuel, for six years having been on and off Clinton
White House Senior Advisor, has been, in effect, Deputy Director for North
America, of the Mossad, Israel's spy agency? And was Rahm an instrumental
part of Marc Rich's dirty, bloody business for the American CIA? [Rahm
Emanuel went on to become a managing director of Wasserstein Perella & Co.,
now merged with Germany's Dresdner Bank A.G., all reportedly tied to the Red
Chinese Secret Police.] Q-Is it true that the spy-riddled, oil-soaked
monopoly press has suppressed stories, known by them to be true, that Marc
Rich has had unholy deals with Bishop Paul Marcinkus, originally from the
Chicago-area mafia enclave of Cicero, who went on to become head of the
Vatican Bank, linked to the mafia and the American CIA? In numerous items on
our website, we discussed Marcinkus' role in dominating the First National
Bank of Cicero which to get the stink off themselves have changed their name
now several times.
Q-Is Marc Rich, apparently now having bribed Bill/Hillary Clinton to get a
presidential pardon, returning to the United States, to assist the American
CIA on American soil with money laundering and reportedly
facilitating/financing political assassinations, foreign and domestic? We
expect to post more details of Marc Rich is CIA Rich. Stay tuned.
Since 1958, Mr.Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since 1963,
founder/chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, disclosing
certain instances of judicial and other bribery and political murders. Since
1991 a regular panelist, and since 1995, moderator/producer, of
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