-Caveat Lector-
> "In 1979 Edwin Wilson and Theodore Shackley formed EATSCO,
> the Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, which
> according to some sources obtained an exclusive and highly
> lucrative Pentagon contract to ship US arms to Egypt. Wilson
> also included in the partnership Richard Secord, Thomas Clines,
> Hussein K. Salem, and Erich von Marbod (at the time Deputy
> Director of the Defense Security Assistance Agency in the
> Pentagon... Can you say, "conflict of interest"?). Secord and
> his partners were indicted in 1983 for $8 million in "billing
> abuses" to the government. Michael Ledeen, at the time a State
> Department advisor, stepped in, suggesting to US Attorney
> E. Lawrence Barcella that the overcharged funds may have been
> used for the funding of black operations (thus rendering them a
> "hands off" proposition for prosecution). Secord retired from
> the Pentagon in 1983, after the EATSCO scandal, then started
> another company, IRANSCO, with Albert Hakim, in order to ship
> arms to Iran." (73)
>
> (73) Honegger, p. 81, 82.
PUTTING A FOX IN THE HEN HOUSE:
Clinton wanted BCCI Lawyer to "Police" Money-Laundering
>>January 15, 1996<<
WASHINGTON -- The Clinton Administration is giving serious
consideration to putting a former BCCI lawyer in charge of
policing drug money-laundering.
One senior administration official told The Consortium that
E. Lawrence Barcella Jr. was "at the top of the list" for the
post of under-secretary of the Treasury for law enforcement.
Barcella is said to have impressed Treasury Secretary Robert
E. Rubin in a job interview.
But the senior official said others in the administration
opposed Barcella's appointment.
In the 1980s, Barcella and his law firm earned more than $2
million from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International for
giving legal advice, lobbying and handling public relations
problems. Barcella denounced as "absurd" press allegations that
BCCI had secretly gained control of First American Bank in
Washington. (The story turned out to be true.) In 1991, BCCI
collapsed amid scandal over its ties to international drug
money-laundering and influence-peddling.
A former assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, Barcella had
close ties to President Reagan's foreign policy team, especially
former national security consultant Michael Ledeen.
Barcella played a minor role in the Iran-contra affair
(advising the Pentagon how to skirt the Arms Export Control Act
and still ship weapons to the Nicaraguan contra rebels).
He also directed the House October Surprise task force.
from The Consortium Archives
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