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Today's Lesson From Tao Te Ching
by Lao-tsu
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have, the less self-reliant people will be.
Therefore the Master says:
I let go of the law, and people become honest.
I let go of economics, and people become prosperous.
I let go of religion, and people become serene.
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as
common as grass.
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Your Banker Is a Snitch
Swiss Freeze Milosevic Assets
We won the war: therefore you are the war criminal.
SWITZERLAND froze Slobodan Milosevic's assets yesterday, along with
those of four other indicted war criminals.
The Swiss police agency said: "As a precautionary measure, the Federal
Police Agency ordered that assets of the Yugoslav head of state,
Slobodan Milosevic, and the four other people charged be frozen."
The agency said it was acting at the request of the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, which is based in
The Hague. It asked Switzerland on May 28 for help in its prosecution of
the Yugoslav leaders for alleged atrocities in Kosovo. When asked what
the outcome of the order would be on Milosevic, a tribunal spokesman
said: "An impoverished old age."
On May 10 the European Union formally adopted political and economic
sanctions against Belgrade, which also called for an extension of the
freeze of Yugoslav assets held abroad by individuals linked to
Milosevic. A Foreign Office spokesman said last night that Britain had
already complied with the order in full.
The order means that the five suspects' property in Switzerland must be
reported immediately to the Swiss authorities and cannot be transferred.
It is not known how much money Milosevic, Milan Milutinovic, the Serbian
president; Nikola Sainovic, the Yugoslav deputy prime minister;
Dragoljub Ojdanic, the Yugoslav armed forces chief of staff, and Vlajko
Stojiljkovic, the Serbian interior minister, have in the banking haven.
The sequestration order came into effect immediately the men were
indicted as war criminals.
The London Telegraph, June 24, 1999
Financial Scams
Missing Financier Went on Shopping Spree
Please call home. The FBI will be listening.
THE reclusive American stockbroker who vanished with nearly �2 billion
went on a �650,000 shopping spree in Rome and Manhattan just before the
collapse of his pyramid bond-buying empire.
Martin Frankel, 44, who was rarely seen outside his closely guarded
mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, also spent extravagantly on luxury
hotel breaks for himself and business associates. He ran up a �300,000
fuel bill for a private jet, though the FBI can find no record of him
owning an aircraft.
The FBI believes that Frankel disappeared on May 5 with �600 million
that his home-based, unlicensed brokerage operation obtained from a
dozen insurance companies, plus �1.2 billion missing from a charity he
set up in the British Virgin Islands and which is now thought to have
been a front for fraud.
Financial records show that in March - little more than a month before
his disappearance - Frankel spent �39,000 at the jewellers Harry Winston
in New York and Bulgari in Rome, �28,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, and
�13,500 at Tiffany.
The FBI is mounting a worldwide search for Frankel, who operated under a
number of aliases after his stockbroking licence was suspended seven
years ago. His sister Amy, 53, who lives in Frankel's home town of
Toledo, Ohio, said yesterday: "We are so worried. We just want him to
get in touch."
The London Telegraph, June 24, 1999
Spy vs. Spy
Spook Says He Questioned Chinese Embassy Target
Oh, shut up and go prepare an "accident" report.
A mid-level intelligence officer assigned to the CIA persistently
questioned the targeting of a building that turned out to be the Chinese
Embassy in Yugoslavia, but his concerns went unheeded inside the spy
agency and at the U.S. military's European Command, a senior U.S.
intelligence official said yesterday.
"I'm not sure that's the right building," the senior official quoted the
analyst as saying.
Although NATO war planners say they meant to strike the Yugoslav Federal
Directorate of Supply and Procurement, American B-2 bombers instead
destroyed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on May 7, killing three
Chinese civilians, wounding more than 20 others and causing strains in
U.S.-Chinese relations that still have not been repaired.
Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering traveled to Beijing last week
and gave the Chinese government a formal, detailed explanation of how
the building was mistakenly targeted. But Chinese officials, who have
suggested that the United States deliberately bombed the embassy, called
aspects of Pickering's explanation "not logical" and the failure to
detect errors "inconceivable."
The analyst's warnings are noted in a classified internal report by the
CIA's inspector general, which has not been made public but has been
given to some members of Congress.
According to the senior intelligence official, the analyst had "some
familiarity" with the Directorate of Supply and Procurement � an arms
purchasing agency � and was not sure that his colleagues had correctly
located it on a map.
"He was concerned, raised some questions, and they didn't get resolved,"
the senior official said. Another intelligence officer said the analyst
"raised his doubts with working level counterparts" at both the CIA and
the European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, but the questions "were
never raised to senior levels before the strike took place."
The officials noted that the CIA is not usually involved in selecting
targets during a military campaign. But because of a constant demand for
new targets during NATO's 11-week bombardment of Yugoslavia, they said,
the agency received a special request for assistance. Once the CIA had
developed its list of targets, the officials said, that "target set" was
vetted by the intelligence arm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the
Pentagon and by the European Command, which managed the U.S. role in
NATO's airstrikes.
According to a high-ranking State Department official, an intelligence
officer got the correct address of the Yugoslav arms procurement agency
from the Internet but then used the numbering of buildings on parallel
streets to mistakenly identify a spot on a map of Belgrade. He took that
map to an expert in aerial photography who determined coordinates for
the building. The bombs accurately hit those coordinates, which turned
out to be the Chinese Embassy. A cross-check of various databases
listing sensitive sites, such as schools, hospitals and embassies,
failed to catch the error because the data had not been updated after
the Chinese Embassy moved in 1996.
David C. Leavy, spokesman for the National Security Council, declined to
comment on the CIA inspector general's report, referring questions to
the agency.
Pickering spent yesterday briefing leading members of Congress on his
trip to Beijing. But the chairmen of both the House and Senate
intelligence committees are far from satisfied with what they have been
told by government investigators, and they have decided to seek a
further probe by the Defense Department's inspector general, according
to congressional sources.
Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) and Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) want a
separate Pentagon probe, sources said, because the CIA inspector general
left so many military-related questions unanswered.
Goss, responding to China's demand that the United States "severely
punish the perpetrators," said that disciplinary action is "exclusively
our business, if any is warranted at all."
Clinton administration officials have promised to inform the Chinese
government of the results of the investigations. "There will be some
outcome as far as accountability," said one official. "There will be no
sweeping under the rug."
At CIA headquarters, meanwhile, analysts and case officers involved in
erroneously targeting the Chinese Embassy expressed concern that their
actions could be unfairly judged and their careers jeopardized if
policymakers hunt for scapegoats.
At least one veteran CIA case officer with a military background has
retained a lawyer. "We are concerned because there is a great deal of
political pressure to blame someone, to blame an individual," said
attorney Roy W. Krieger, who declined to identify his client but said he
was "involved in the chain of command in the accidental targeting of the
Chinese Embassy."
Krieger took strong exception to statements issued by the Chinese
government last week summarizing Pickering's explanation of the embassy
bombing. Among other things, the Chinese quoted Pickering as saying that
a U.S. intelligence officer used techniques that are "totally
inappropriate for precision targeting for air attacks."
A senior State Department official confirmed the accuracy of that part
of the Chinese account.
Krieger responded that his client had acted appropriately in the absence
of "operational rules" for targeting and had followed a standard U.S.
military procedure for pinpointing targets on street maps. But Krieger,
who has been granted a security clearance to represent CIA employees,
said agency lawyers have prohibited him from publicly discussing the
procedure.
"Clearly the means of identifying the building was inappropriate,
flawed," one administration official said. "The system of checks and
balances didn't work."
The Washington Post, June 24, 1999
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