-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy.spy ----- As always, Caveat Lector. For your perusal. Om K ----- <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy.spy:856">Who Finances Oliver Stone?</A> ----- Subject: Who Finances Oliver Stone? From: Michael Collins Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Mar 6, 1999 3:25 PM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Israeli-born Hollywood producer who financed Oliver Stone's JFK assassination epic has been linked to Israel's nuclear weapons intrigue. Imagine if it had been an Arab arms dealer who had financed the movie! Oliver Stone is widely known as the creative genius behind the controversial motion picture, JFK. However, the film's executive producer--the man who actually put up the money to make the movie--is little known outside Hollywood's inner circles.His name is Arnon Milchan. And although he's now a major player in the film industry, the Israeli-born Milchan was described in the May 18, 1993 edition of The Nation as one Israel's llargest arms dealers In 1985 Milchan's name popped up in a United States federal criminal inquiry into covert efforts by Israel to obtain U.S. nuclear weapons technology. A Huntington Beach, California, computer engineer, Richard K. Smyth, was indicted by the Justice Department on charges that he had illegally exported 800 electronic timing devices (known as "krytons") that can be used to trigger nuclear bombs. The recipient of the illegal exports was Milchan's Heli Trading Co., based in Israel. Smyth, a former advisor to NATO and the U.S. Air Force, told investigators that he was involved with Milchan in a joint venture, Milco (based in Huntington Beach), that had shipped the nuclear devices to Heli Trading. According to Smith, the Israeli government had provided "encouragement" to the endeavor. Milchan, however, said he had nothing to do with the Milco company (the company name notwithstanding) and that he knew nothing about the alleged kryton exports.Milchan said further that all Heli business was in the hands of its Israeli managers. Milchan's hands were clean.According to Milchan:"At the end of the day, [a moviemaker like Milchan] can't be expected to read scripts, go to marketing meetings and still worry about everything else" Despite Milchan's denials, Robert Mainhardt, one of two nuclear scientists on Milco's board of directors, contradicted Milchan's claims about having no knowledge of Milco's affairs In a 1993 interview with NBC, Mainhardt, who had been involved in the development of the hydrogen bomb, said that he (Mainhardt) quit Milco after Milchan asked him to obtain nuclear reactor designs and a uranium compound needed for Israel's nuclear bomb-making program.NBC also unveiled coded Milco records that revealed the sales of other classified items to Israel and reported that one source said that Milchan's company had sold Israel enough rocket fuel to propel all of Israe's long-range missiles. Perhaps to mitigate the scandal, the Israeli government returned 460 of the 800 nuclear devices saying that the materiel had nothing to do with Israel's nuclear bomb program, which, of course, then (as now) was officially denied by the Israelis. According to the Israelis, the krytons were to be used only for development of conventional weapons .In the end, before he could be brought to trial, Milchan's partner, Smyth, disappeared. According to NBC, citing U.S. authorities, Smyth had taken refuge in Israel in the high-toned Tel Avia suburb of Herilya Pitua.NBC also conducted an interview with Arthur Biehl, a former director of hydrogen bomb design at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, who told NBC that he had gone to the FBI after Milchan introduced him to an Israeli official who wanted to gain access to nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons without going through official [i.e. U.S. government] channels. Oliver Stone had excuses for his relationship with Milchan. "I've heard the rumors," Stone told The Los Angeles Times, "but, then, I've always had a penchant for larger-than-life pirates. If Arnon comes from an arms or defense background, well, so did Rhett Butler. If those stories are true, I'm sure Arnon sees himself as a patriot Somebody should tell Mr. Stone (who may be confusing reality with his motion pictures) that Rhett Butler, the swashbuckling Confederate arms smuggler in Gone With the Wind, was a fictional character. Milchan's arms deals, however, were very real, Stone's typically artistic explanation notwithstanding. And by the way, has anyone bothered to find out what happened when Jim Garrison's family sued these big Hollywood types after they were bilked out of the profits that Milchan and company made from JFK. To coin a phrase, just a thought.--MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. 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