-Caveat Lector- More on Kirk http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nzherald99/story.cfm?theClassification=search&theS toryID=13343 01/09/99 - Clark tells Harvey to forget Kirk theory Labour leader Helen Clark gave a strong ticking-off to party president Bob Harvey yesterday over his claim that the CIA was involved in the death of former Prime Minister Norman Kirk. The claim was dismissed as "a heap of crap" by former Labour deputy leader Bob Tizard, and as "bizarre and sad" by Prime Minister Jenny Shipley. And From http://www.thuntek.net/sumeria/politics/opal.html September, 1974: According to CIA sources, Kirk was killed by the Trilateralists using Sodium Morphate. Rowling's first act as NZ Prime Minister was to withdraw Kirk's Anti-Monopoly Bill and the Petroleum Amendment Bill. Later, Rowling was to be rewarded with ambassadorship to Washington. Incidentally, the Shah of Iran was murdered the same way as Kirk on his arrival in the US. Whitlam and Kirk Mid-1974: Gough Whitlam and Norman Kirk begin a series of moves absolutely against the Mafia Trilateralists. Whitlam refuses to waive restrictions on overseas borrowings to finance Alwest Aluminium Consortium of Rupert Murdoch, BHP and R.J. Reynolds. Whitlam had also ended Vietnam War support, blocked uranium mining and wanted more control over US secret spy bases - e.g. Pine Gap. Kirk had introduced a new, tough Anti-Monopoly Bill and had tried to redistribute income from big companies to the labour force through price regulation and a wages policy. Kirk had also rejected plans to build a second aluminium smelter near Dunedin and was preparing the Petroleum Amendment Bill to give more control over New Zealand oil resources. Kirk had found out that Hunt Petroleum, drilling in the Great South Basin, had discovered a huge resource of oil comparable in size to the North Sea or Alaskan North Slope. Gas reserves alone now estimated at 30 times bigger than Kapuni and oil reserves of at least 20 billion barrels - enough for New Zealand to be self-sufficient for years. Oil companies completely hushed up these facts. To have announced a vast new oil source would probably mean a decline in world oil prices, which would not have allowed OPEC and Onassis plans for the Arabs to eventuate. N.Z. could be exploited at a later date, particularly since the North Sea operations were about to come on stream - Kirk was the last tohold out. We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage ----- Original Message ----- From: Hilary A. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:57 AM Subject: [CTRL] CIA 'may have poisoned ex-PM' > -Caveat Lector- > > > Wednesday, September 1, 1999 > NEW ZEALAND > http://www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-199909010258183 > 63.asp > CIA 'may have poisoned ex-PM' > DAVID BARBER in Wellington > > Former Labour prime minister Norman Kirk was remembered on the 25th > anniversary of his death in office yesterday with a claim that he may have > been poisoned by the CIA. > > The president of the Labour Party, Bob Harvey, called on Prime Minister > Jenny Shipley to ask US President Bill Clinton to hand over Central > Intelligence Agency files on Kirk when they met in Auckland next month. > > Mr Harvey said Kirk, who was 51 when he died of a heart attack, was > unpopular with the Americans after telling them they could not use New > Zealand as a nuclear submarine base if there was a nuclear holocaust in the > northern hemisphere. > > Mr Harvey claimed the CIA had played a role in the removal from office of > Australian Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam and Kirk "may have paid the > supreme price" after challenging the US during the Cold War. > > He suspected he could have been poisoned by the CIA during an overseas trip > before he became Prime Minister in 1972. > > Labour Party leader Helen Clark rejected the president's claim, saying: "I > don't believe there is any substance to rumours which have circulated now > for 25 years that there was some sort of foreign involvement in Mr Kirk's > death." > > Mrs Shipley said Kirk had been loved and respected by many New Zealanders > on both sides of the political spectrum. > > "It's bizarre and sad that the current president of the Labour Party is > making such extraordinary claims on a day when we should be remembering > Norm Kirk's great contribution to New Zealand," she said. > > Bob Tizard, a former Labour deputy prime minister, said Kirk was a big man, > weighing 170kg at one time and had an enlarged heart which was diagnosed in > the 1940s. > > He refused to slow down on becoming prime minister and died from a > progressive deterioration of his medical condition. > > Published in the South China Morning Post. 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