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1996 [!] SENATE REPORT CONFIRMS
WORST FEARS OF CHINESE INFILTRATION
The redacted and sanitized version of the Thompson
Committee report that is now being leaked to the press confirms
the long-held suspicion that James and Mochtar Riady of the
Lippo empire "have had a long-term relationship with a
Chinese intelligence agency."
This confirmation, although the supporting evidence has
been excised from the report, adds additional pieces to puzzle
of how the Chinese intelligence penetration of U.S.
government succeeded, and shows how the seeds were planted well
before the 1996 election, even well before the 1992 election.
For it was in 1984 that Mochtar Riady entered Arkansas and
joined a partnership with Jackson Stephens to buy Worthen Bank
and installed his son James Riady as director of the bank.
Worthen bank quickly became the epicenter of Arkansas politics,
hiring as its prime outside counsel the Rose Law Firm where
Hillary Clinton, Webster Hubbell, and Vince Foster worked, and
becoming the primary bank of Systematics Inc., the
Stephens-owned national security contractor and banking software
firm which also retained Rose as outside counsel.
Worthen was the beneficiary of several legislative acts
promoted by then-Governor Clinton, and reciprocated
financially, culminating with a $3.5 million bailout of the
1992 Clinton Campaign at a crucial juncture.
After the death of Ron Brown, Lippo lawyer Mickey Kantor
was named Commerce Secretary by Bill Clinton. Kantor
quickly appointed Lippo executive Charles De Queljoe to a
position in the Commerce department on the request of John Huang.
And who paid hush money to former Worthen lawyer Webster
Hubbell when Kenneth Starr tried to get him to spill the beans?
Lippo and Mickey Kantor, among others.
John Huang, now identified as a Chinese spy, was a vice
president of Worthen Bank and raised campaign money for Bill
Clinton in 1992. When he later infiltrated the Commerce
Department, he used a Washington Office of Stephens Inc. to stay
in contact with his Chinese handlers.
Now that the Thompson Committee has washed its hands
and delivered its final report, the only hope for justice in
the prosecution of Chinese spies is the Justice Department. As of
the last check, the Justice Department had not even interviewed
John Huang.
(Published in the Feb. 16, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly
Copyright 1998 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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The White House "BIG BROTHER" Database, and
How Jackson Stephens Precipitated a Banking Crisis
by J. Orlin Grabbe
Score another coup for Jackson Stephens' Systematics (Alltel
Information Services).
It provided the software for the White House's "Big Brother"
data base system, and now the White House is in a panic that
there may be secret methods of accessing its own computer.
The existence of the White House computer system and data
base--known as WHODB, White House Office Data Base, and
containing as many as 200,000 names--was revealed by Paul
Rodriguez in the Washington Times. Some of the information was
developed by "Insight"'s Anthony Kimery, soon to be managing
editor of the electronic publication SOURCES eJournal. Kimery is
a writer whose articles in The American Banker and Wired were
among the first to report U.S. government spying on domestic
banking transactions. (Kimery was also fired from one magazine
for looking into the death of Vince Foster.)
Now things have come full circle. The chief government
effort to spy on U.S. domestic banking transactions was directed
by the electronic spy agency, the National Security Agency (NSA),
working in connection with the Little Rock software firm
Systematics.
Systematics, half-owned by billionaire Jackson Stephens (of
Stephens Inc. fame), has been a major supplier of software for
back office clearing and wire transfers. It was Stephens'
attempt to get Systematics the job of handling the data
processing for the Washington-D.C. bank First American that lead
to the BCCI takeover of that institution.
Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster represented Systematics in
that endeavor, and later Foster became an overseer of the NSA
project with respect to Systematics.
Working together, the NSA and Jackson Stephens'
Systematics developed security holes in much of the banking
software Systematics sold. Now we face a crisis in banking and
financial institution security, according to John Deutch,
Director of the CIA. "One obstacle is that banks and other
private institutions have been reluctant to divulge any evidence
of computer intrusions for fear that it will leak and erode the
confidence of their customers.
Deutch said 'the situation is improving' but that more
cooperation was needed from major corporations, and said the CIA
remains willing to share information with such firms about the
risks they might face." (The Washington Post, June 26, 1996, page
A19.)
What Deutch failed to mention was that this "banking crisis"
in large part was itself created by one of the U.S. intelligence
agencies--the NSA in cahoots with Stephens' software firm
Systematics. The Citibank heist by Russian hackers, for example,
took advantage of a back door in Citibank's Systematics software.
(The Russian hackers were apparently aided by the son of one of
Jim Leach's House Banking Committee investigators.) Have any
major banks thought of instituting lawsuits over this deliberate
breach of security on the part of a software supplier?
John Deutch has a proposed solution for this and other
computer security problems: the creation of an "Information
Warfare Technology Center". Guess where he wants to put the
Center: in the National Security Agency itself, naturally. That
is, the government wants money budgeted for a new bureaucracy to
solve the problem another bureaucracy spent money creating. You
have to admire the sheer chutzpah of this kind of con--one which
would also leave the NSA fox guarding the banking chicken coop.
Meanwhile, over at the White House, senior aides are in a
panic. Is the WHODB system related to the PROMIS software? they
want to know. Is there a back door into the system? Have files
been downloaded?
It just goes to show that given the right incentive, even
the White House will begin spouting conspiracy theories.
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SYSTEMATICS INC. DID CONTRACT WORK FOR THE NSA
The Arkansas-based security contractor Systematics Inc.
on September 14 1990 was awarded a $166,000 NSA contract to
build a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility" (SCIF)
in Ft. Gillem, Georgia.
Systematics Inc. is a conglomerate of 14 companies
headquartered in Arkansas. The NSA contract was awarded through
Systematics of Delaware Inc., which uses an address in Herndon,
Virginia.
In a 1978 SEC case, Systematics was represented by Rose Law
Firm lawyers Hillary Clinton and Webster Hubbell.
In 1990, Systematics Inc., which had been founded by
Arkansan Jackson Stephens, was sold to Alltel Corp. Alltel
is now headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Last year, Alltel executive John Steuri scoffed at a
question by reporter Jim Norman asking about any ties to the
NSA. The newly declassified NSA documents reveal, however, that
in 1994 the Alltel subsidiary Alltel Supply was awarded a
$260,000 contract with the NSA.
Jim Norman alleges that in the 1980s Vince Foster and
Webster Hubbell were overseers on behalf of the NSA at
Systematics Inc. The declassified NSA documents show that in
1993, after they both joined the Clinton administration, they
were invited to the NSA to discuss computer espionage issues.
(Published in the Nov. 11, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly
Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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LIPPO SCANDAL UNFOLDS
The White House Indonesia Connection
It is more complicated than Whitewater. The money involved is
(so far) less than the money involved in Whitewater. There are no
dead bodies. Yet it is the scandal that is the talk of the town
in Washington with two weeks to the election. Bill Clinton may
have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act by failing to
register as a paid foreign agent for Mochtar Riady of the
Indonesian Lippo Group. And he has certainly accepted illegal
foreign campaign contributions.
Newt Gingrich last week called it a far, far bigger scandal
than Watergate. "This is the largest scandal to affect the
presidency in the history of the United States."
Bob Dole agreed, saying "In other countries, such habits of
corruption are common. But they must never be allowed to change
and distort our political system. We do not import corruption
from other nations, we export our vision of democracy to the rest
of the world."
"Every day we have a new scandal involving the foreign
corruption of America. Our elections are not for sale to some
foreign influence or some foreign interest. This is the United
States of America."
Hold on. Beneath the surface we find how the Lippo connection
ties into all the previous scandals of the Clinton
administration. These are the undisputed facts:
(*) Mochtar Riady is an ethnic Chinese banker in Jakarta. He
started his financial empire with gun- and drug-running in the
East Indies before World War II.
(*) Mochtar Riday later formed the $6 billion Lippo Group,
headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.
(*) John Huang, a top employee of Lippo Group was named assistant
secretary of Commerce for international economic policy by Bill
Clinton. John Huang last year left the White House to become vice
chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee
(*) Last month, the DNC returned an illegal $250,000 contribution
handled by John Huang after the press revealed that it came from
a South Korean company, Cheong Am.
(*) Republicans are also calling on the party to return $425,000
in contributions from an Indonesian couple, Arief and Soraya
Wiriadinata, with ties to Lippo Group.
(*) A total of $140,000 were raised at a Buddhist temple in
California by John Huang and Vice President Al Gore. A woman
named Man Ya Shih associated with the temple has told the Wall
Street Journal that she was given $5,000 in cash by a Democratic
activist and asked to write a check for that amount to the DNC.
That is money laundering.
(*) A network of people and companies clustered around the Lippo
conglomerate have contributed $200,000 to Clinton and the
Democrats since 1992.
(*) The president of Lippo Securities, Charles Dequeljoe, was
appointed in December of 1994 by former U.S. Trade Representative
Mickey Kantor to the Investment and Services Policy Advisory
Committee.
(*) In February of 1994, U.S. Trade Representative Kantor
suspended a review of Indonesian human rights violations,
allowing Indonesia to keep its trade privileges, worth over $600
million in sales to Indonesian companies.
(*) The Indonesian government has led a war on East Timor that
has cost the lives of an estimated 200,000 East Timorese.
(*) Two East Timor dissidents won the Nobel Peace Prize a few
weeks ago.
(*) The Clinton administration has just approved the sale of F-16
fighter jets to the Indonesian government.
(*) The Import-Export Bank has issued letters of credit for
$900,000 to James Riady's Lippo Bank. The president of the
taxpayer-financed Ex-Im bank is a Clinton appointee, Maria Luisa
Haley. James Riady has also pushed Ex-Im Bank for U.S.
government financing of a $1 billion project by Lippo to build a
power plant in northern China. The plant constructor is a Little
Rock unit of Entergy Corp.
(*) Maria Luisa Haley is the ex-husband of John Haley who is a
co-defendant of former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker in a case
that involves a cable television franchise in Jarkarta set up by
Rose Law Firm lawyer Joe Giroir and Lippo Group.
(*) Moctar Riady, together with Jacon campaign travel, and was
selected to
take over all White House travel, a scheme that resulted in
Travelgate.
(*) Mack McLarty once worked at Worthen Bank, later worked for
Entergy Corp., and now works in the White House, where he has
been chief of staff.
(*) A co-owner of Worthen Bank at that time was Joe Giroir,
managing partner of the Rose Law Firm. The primary counsel for
Worthen Bank was Rose Law Firm where Hillary Clinton, Webster
Hubbell, and Vince Foster worked.
(*) Joe Giroir, Hillary Clinton, and Vince Foster defended
Stephens Inc. in a case that stemmed from a failed takeover
effort involving the BCCI.
(*) BCCI entered the American bank scene with the help of
Democrat party insiders Clark Clifford and Robert Altman. They
were later defended by Robert Fiske, Robert Bennett, and Jamie
Gorelick. Jamie Gorelick is now in the Clinton Justice Department
and is expected to become the next director of the CIA. Robert
Bennett now defends Clinton against the charges by Paula Jones,
and Robert Fiske was appointed by the Clinton Justice Department
to investigate the death of Vince Foster. He concluded suicide.
(*) Joe Giroir still represents Lippo and has brokered ventures
between Lippo and Tyson Foods to improve sales of Tyson chicken
in the Far East.
(*) The Clinton administration has provided $21 million in
funding for a new, giant airport in a remote, unpopulated area in
Northern Arkansas to be used to ship the Tyson-Lippo chicken.
(*) Between the time that Webster Hubbell resigned as Deputy
Attorney General and the time he was sent to jail, he was paid
$250,000 by the Lippo Group. During the same time frame he was
cooperating with Kenneth Starr who hoped that Hubbell would
implicate Bill Clinton in Whitewater-related crimes. Hubbell did
not. Why should he?
(*) Mochtar Riady created Lippo Finance & Investment Inc., an
SBA-backed lending company in Little Rock with Vernon Weaver as
chairman. Weaver is now Clinton's U.S. representative to the
European Union.
(*) The Riadys owned First National Bank in Mena, a bank that was
used by drug smugglers to launder money.
(*) The Los Angeles-based Lippo Bank has twice received cease-
and-desist orders from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for
violations of money-laundering statutes.
Get the picture? Well, we said it was a complicated scandal.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Some would say that a criminal empire has taken over the
U.S. Presidency ...
(Published in the Oct. 21, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly
Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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