-Caveat Lector- What this article fails to mention is that Bob Strauss was the senior partner of Dallas lobbying law firm, Akin, Gump which hired Clinton's transition chief Vernon Jordan to find people to serve in the new "Democratic" administration. Strauss' law firm had offices in the RepublicBank Building in Dallas before moving across the street, within spitting distance of Dresser Industries. Bruce Rappaport was an insurance tycoon in Waco, Texas, contributing to the state's liberals. His name was mentioned during the Walsh investigation of Iran Contra. It turned out some of the money supposedly deposited into the North/Secord Lake Resources account ended up in Rappaport's numbered account. And if you want more information on Marvin Warner, he was the Cincinnati Democrat that Jimmie Carter appointed to be Ambassador to Switzerland. While Warner was in Switzerland, he left his Ohio banks in charge of a Miami banker, who later moved to Australia to work for Nugan Hand Bank. Does the term "CIA money-laundering" come to mind? Linda Minor http://www.larouchecampaign.org/pages/lhr08289release.html Vice President Al Gore's seminal role in protecting and abetting the kleptocrats and oligarchs who have looted Russia blind over the past seven years has been belatedly noted by the major American media, as a feature of the Bank of New York $15 billion Russian money-laundering scandal. But, to date, the media have failed to report that, long before Al Gore entered into his criminal partnership with former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and others in the Boris Yeltsin Kremlin mafia, then-President George Bush helped usher in the decade of looting of Russia's national patrimony in league with his British nanny, Margaret Thatcher. Nothing more clearly symbolized Bush's commitment to the free market and International Monetary Fund looting of Russia than his June 5, 1991 appointment of longtime Texas Democratic Party fixer Robert Strauss as his ambassador to Moscow, replacing Jack Matlock. Lyndon LaRouche would dub Strauss the "Prince of Thieves,'' the man George Bush dispatched to Moscow to teach the Russians oligarchs how to more professionally loot the country of its raw material wealth, drain its banks of cash, and dismantle its once-powerful military-industrial-scientific complex. Strauss had long-standing ties to the Bush-Baker duo. Indeed, all three men were products of the Brown Brothers Harriman "invasion'' of Texas, a generation earlier. In 1980, while he was running Jimmy Carter's failed reelection campaign, and James Baker III was a central figure in the Reagan-Bush campaign, Strauss and Baker, along with Strauss' son, were co-owners of a California brewery. Strauss and his wife were intimate personal friends of George and Barbara Bush. The two couples spent long hours together at the White House during the height of Bush's early 1991 Desert Storm war against Iraq, when, according to Presidential biographer Bob Woodward, Bush was near nervous breakdown. At the time of his appointment to the Moscow posting, Strauss was the attorney and a board member for Dwayne Andreas' Archer Daniels Midland grain cartel; he held similar positions with RJR Nabisco, the tobacco and food cartel owned by the family of Bush White House general counsel C. Boyden Gray; and he was also a director of Conrad Black's Thatcherite media cartel, the Hollinger Corporation--along with Thatcher and Henry Kissinger. One of Strauss' most pressing missions, during his tenure in Moscow, was to assure that Russia and the other nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States were drawn into the International Monetary Fund--to assure that no measures were taken to interfere with the wholesale looting of Russia. Bush made Russian enslavement to the IMF a major theme of his 1992 State of the Union speech, and a subsequent Washington summit with the newly anointed Russian ruler, Boris Yeltsin. Strauss had arrived in Moscow during the final months of the Soviet Union, and he and Bush were on hand for the imposition of the first "shock therapy'' treatments, by a combination of foreign predators and already-corrupted Russian "reformers.'' Bank of New York's access to the fast and loose Russian financial structures came top down, via one of the most notorious of the Western "bankers'' who had built a "special relationship'' to corrupt elements of the Soviet era "nomenklatura,'' Bruce Rappaport. From 1980, at the latest, BONY had been absorbed into the hot-money empire of the Swiss-based wheeler dealer. First, Rappaport bought an 8% stake in Bank of New York, giving him the largest single stake in the bank. In 1990, Bank of New York purchased 28% of Rappaport's Geneva bank, Inter Maritime, in effect, transforming it into the private banking arm of BONY. In fact, significant portions of the $15 billion in Russian cash laundered into the BONY, first passed through Bank of New York-Inter Maritime in Geneva. Throughout the 1980s, as his ties to Bank of New York were consolidating, Rappaport, in league with Ohio-based savings and loan swindler and Robert Strauss prot�g�, Marvin Warner, set up a string of offshore banking operations in the Caribbean British Crown Colony of Antigua. Warner would see his own banking empire collapse, after U.S. Federal drug agents shut down two of his Miami banks, Great American Bank and ComBank, for laundering Colombian and Venezuelan drug cartel funds. When Warner, who was Jimmy Carter's Ambassador to Switzerland, was later charged with financial fraud in the collapse of his Home State Savings Bank, Robert Strauss personally appeared as a character witness at his trial. Warner's Florida dirty-money operations had been originally set up courtesy of a former top official of White Weld, the Boston and New York banking house of George Bush prot�g�, William Weld, who was the U.S. Justice Department point-man in the mid-1980s railroad Federal prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche and scores of his political associates. Rappaport escaped unscathed from the Warner debacle. He would be called upon by George Bush and the Iran-Contra "guns for drugs'' apparatus, in the late 1980s, to allow his Antigua banking operations to be used in two of the filthiest operations of the Bush "secret, parallel government.'' In 1988, in league with "Republican Party political consultant'' Richard Bond, the former vice chief of staff of Vice President Bush, Rappaport financed the creation of an Israeli-run secret arms-running and mercenary-training facility on Antigua. State Department loan guarantees, arranged by Iran-Contra point-man Elliott Abrams, backed up Rappaport's cash. The project, run by Col. Yair Klein, was originally aimed at raising a mercenary army to overthrow Panamanian Defense Forces chief Gen. Manuel Noriega, who had refused to play ball with Bush's Central American guns-for-drugs operations. In August 1989, the same Klein-Rappaport Antigua operation provided the weapons to the Medellin Cartel that were used to assassinate anti-drug Colombian Presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan. When Klein's Antigua operation was exposed, after the Colombian Army traced the Galan murder weapons back to him, the Israeli colonel fled home. Miraculously, Rappaport's name scarcely emerged in the ensuing scandal. Today, although he lives in Switzerland, Rappaport is Her Majesty's Antiguan Ambassador to Russia. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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