-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Espionage Is Lee Being Railroaded to Cover for Clinton's China Dealings? A cast of kiss-ass judges & lawyers for the powers that be. Subject: Wen Ho Lee indictment Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:05:35 -0700 From: bill payne To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Orlin http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ The cast of characters in the Wen Ho Lee indictment include 1 magistrate judge Don Svet 2 magistrate judge Lorenzo Garcia 3 First Assistant US Attorney Bob Gorence - the guy who wrote me the letter John Young posted. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Gorence alleged Lee was a flight risk and asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Don J. Svet to detain him. 4 US Attorney John Kelly In a news conference Friday, U.S. Attorney John Kelly refused to say what nation that meant, or what evidence the government had to support the allegation. http://www.abqjournal.com/ Morales and I have been doing battle with these guys. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8327/ http://members.tripod.com/bill_3_2/ http://nmol.com/users/billp/ The We Ho Lee stuff may be merely a cover for what we read the Clinton administration has in the way of business with China. http://www.us.net/softwar/ Looks like Lee is in some REAL TROUBLE. bill Fin-de-siecle Russia Continues to Destroy Grozny Milosevic was evil, but Yeltsin is our friend. RUSSIA halted its aerial bombardment of the devastated Chechen capital of Grozny yesterday in its latest attempt to force the city's remaining residents to flee before its final military offensive. But the roads to neighbouring Ingushetia remained almost empty as up to 40,000 civilians sheltering in cellars and bunkers refused to believe Moscow's promises of safe passage. The Russian ceasefire announcement made no mention of the earlier ultimatum giving yesterday as the final departure date for the Chechens living in the city. Thousands of leaflets were dropped on Grozny from aircraft this weekend, urging inhabitants to escape. The Russian army chief of staff, Valery Manilov, maintained that safe passage for refugees was assured. "We can guarantee their absolute security," he said, "and a decent reception at tent camps and other sites with all necessary facilities." The new line emerged following worldwide condemnation of last week's ultimatum to the citizens of Grozny. A "top level" European Union protest to Moscow over its Chechnya offensive was delivered yesterday to the Russian ambassador to Finland. Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, said: "I believe it is our responsibility to respect the opinion of our Western partners. We should come to some conclusion hearing what is said in the West." Mr Putin also said he had been in direct contact with the Chechen leadership in an attempt to resume negotiations. But the new mood of conciliation was belied by reports from within Grozny and elsewhere in the republic. On Friday Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen president, fled the city, fearing for his own safety. An aide said that to reveal where the president had gone would be "the same as to sign his death sentence". The few refugees who did leave home faced confusion and brutality. One of the main safe corridors out of Grozny leads over a mountain peak above Pervomaiskaya, a town near the capital. Refugees must walk several miles uphill in freezing temperatures to a checkpoint where they are delayed several hours, despite the low numbers passing through. There were other reports of civilian massacres in Urus-Martan. Azi, 44, is one of the few who dared risk the hazardous roads out of Grozny. A builder, he spent a night shivering on a bus taking him out of the Chechen capital to safety in Ingushetia. Along the route Russian soldiers fired on the bus, terrifying the 40 refugees on board. In Grozny, said Azi, conditions were desperate. "People are living very badly," he said. "Some people have food, some do not. Winter stockpiles have nearly run out. People are drinking the water that drips from the roofs. I saw the leaflet of last week and that's why I left. There is no safe corridor. We travelled at night under fire. They are firing from planes, they are shelling everything." Azi was afraid to give his last name because he was hoping to get on a bus back to the village of Assinovskaya, just across the border, to bring relatives food and other necessities. Every day refugees are returning to Russian-controlled areas of Chechnya, usually to bring supplies to relatives. Angela, 23, went back to the Zavodsky district of Grozny to care for trapped relatives. She came out of the city again with two other women in the middle of the night. She too laughs bitterly at the idea of safe corridors. "Older people in Grozny have no choice but to remain there," said Angela. "The road out is being constantly fired on by Russian troops. There are babies on the breast there, as well as the old. I have seen the leaflet but what can people do?" Salman Sadikov, 42, drove the members of his extended family out of Prigorodny, an outer suburb, on December 2. He drove his bus packed with eight adults and 34 children through Chechen villages in the mountainous region south of Grozny and across the border into Sleptsovskaya, Ingushetia. "It's a miracle we slipped through," he said with obvious relief as he sat in a tent in Aki'Yurt, northern Ingushetia, surrounded by his family. "The majority of people are afraid to leave because they have been bombing the road day and night. There are thousands of them trapped there. They have no means of leaving. They need transport or money. People are having to walk up to five kilometres to fetch water before 5 am when the bombing begins. Adults are giving what food there is to the children." Malika Mavtazaliyeva, 44, was living in Petropavlovskaya, a suburb of Grozny, until Monday. Although the area is officially under Russian control it is not safe. She said: "I have come here in just the clothes I am standing up in. When they carried out the 'cleansing' of the village, if they found someone was not at home the soldiers would shoot up all the furniture inside the house." The London Telegraph, December 12, 1999 Fin-de-siecle US Invites Russians to Norad Military Installation Yeltsin has many nukes; he's our friend. A RUSSIAN delegation will arrive at one of America's top secret military bases this week in an attempt to ensure that the Millennium does not herald nuclear Armageddon. The Pentagon has made the unprecedented decision of allowing Russian military experts to observe its intercontinental ballistic missile monitoring centre buried deep in the Rocky Mountains on New Year's Eve. America fears that Russia's antiquated computers could fall victim to the Millennium bug and either falsely register an attack by missiles from the United States and its allies or, worse, accidentally launch one of its own warheads. Even with the end of the Cold War, the former communist giant still has about 2,000 missiles ready to launch at a moment's notice - as President Yeltsin warned America last week in response to Bill Clinton's criticism of the Russian bombardment of Chechnya. If the Kremlin's own early warning systems collapse at midnight on December 31, it is hoped the delegation will assure Moscow that America's missiles are still in their silos. The Russians will be observing the joint US and Canadian Norad (North American Aerospace Defence Command) space and air defence command system buried deep inside Cheyenne Mountain near Denver, Colorado. They will not be allowed inside the highly classified centre, which is protected from nuclear blasts by millions of tons of granite and thick steel doors. Instead, America has hastily constructed a temporary "Centre for Strategic Stability and Y2K" at a US Air Force base 10 miles away. "The concern is that satellite systems and radar might have problems and cause Russia to go blind," said Major Mike Birmingham, a spokesman for US Space Command, which runs Norad. The Millennium bug is caused by old computers wrongly reading the year 2000 as 1900. The US military has been working on the problem since a test in 1993 briefly caused Norad to shutdown. The Pentagon is now confident that its systems will work on January 1. But Russia's turbulent politics and economic woes mean that less work has been done there. A collapse of the Russian military command system could be highly dangerous and there are fears that electrical problems could cause some missiles to catch fire in their silos. Under an agreement signed last month, up to 20 Russians will spend two weeks sharing data from Norad headquarters with their American counterparts. Using a hot line, they will be able to act as Moscow's eyes and ears if things should go wrong back home. At its heart are steel rooms, including a 10-man command centre. It is approached through a tunnel in the side of the mountain, which ends after a third of a mile in 25-ton steel doors designed to withstand a direct blast. US officials know only too well the possibility of accidental catastrophe. In 1980, monitoring screens apparently showed 2,200 nuclear missiles from the former Soviet Union streaking towards America. As B-52 bomber crews prepared to head into Russia, senior advisers were one minute from advising President Jimmy Carter to launch a retaliatory strike when they realised that the attack was non-existent. The fault was later traced to a computer chip costing 30p inside a Nova 840 computer, which had wrongly started tapes for a military exercise. Russia has also had its scares. In 1995, the routine launch of a Norwegian weather rocket was mistaken for an incoming nuclear missile. Some experts have called on both countries to deactivate their nuclear weapons on New Year's Eve. But Washington has refused, arguing that if systems did fail, the race to restore them could be even more dangerous.The US has 2,300 missiles in a state of constant readiness. Along with Britain's fleet of Trident nuclear submarines, they have been tested and cleared as Y2K compliant. The situation in Russia is much less certain. Publicly, Moscow is insisting that its computers will not fail. But a Russian government report last August estimated that at least half of its operating systems and all of its software programmes would experience problems with the Millennium bug. According to Western consultants working in Russia, the government has now abandoned attempts to fix the problem in time and is concentrating on emergency strategies to deal with the repercussions. The worst of these could be a Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster that would contaminate millions with deadly radiation. More likely are widespread power cuts as the electricity grid fails in the depths of the bitter Russia winter. In addition to causing thousands of deaths, such catastrophic glitches could provoke civil unrest and further weaken the authority of President Yeltsin. America is so concerned about the situation that it has earmarked millions of dollars to repatriate embassy employees and their families over Christmas and the New Year. They will not be allowed back until the State Department has given the all clear. The London Telegraph, December 12, 1999 Fin-de-siecle Clinton to Snub Panama Canal Giveaway Festivities That'll teach China to take over the canal. Oh, the humiliation of Clinton's absence! PRESIDENT Clinton and his Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, are to boycott the ceremonial handover of the Panama Canal on Tuesday amid American concern that the deal is handing influence over the strategic waterway to China. Some Republicans say the handover could provoke a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis - this time involving Beijing. The United States will be represented at the ceremony by the former President Jimmy Carter, who signed the 1977 treaty that is now ending US administration of the canal and returning it to Panama's government. American critics of the handover are alarmed that Hutchison Whampoa, a Hong Kong group with close links to Beijing, has taken over strategic port operations on the waterway. They say that, because of this, the US pull-out will give China a dangerous strategic toe-hold in America's "back yard". But John Meredith, a Briton who heads a subsidiary of the firm in Panama, said last week that allegations that the company was acting as a stalking horse for China were wrong. He said: "We are a commercial enterprise that is accountable to our stockholders. We co-operate with governments around the world, but we don't serve as a front or a tool for any of them. "Our port facilities here are managed by people from Britain, Australia and Canada. Otherwise, 99 per cent of our employees are Panamanian. Nor are we the only company that loads and unloads ships - the biggest by far is actually American." The handover comes at a time of growing anxiety in the US at China's increasing global ambitions. Last week, reports circulated that Beijing was planning to place 100 missiles at sites within close striking distance of the disputed island of Taiwan. Such a move would fuel criticism of Mr Clinton's policy of "strategic partnership" with China. Earlier this year a retired US admiral, Thomas Moorer, warned that China could easily sneak missiles into Panama and use the small Central American nation as a launch pad for an attack on the United States. The warning recalled the 1962 crisis when Washington and Moscow were locked in a tense brinkmanship over the latter's plans to site nuclear missiles in Cuba. American unease at losing control of the Panama Canal, which has been under US protection since troops were dispatched to defend it in 1911, is reflected in the fact that Mr Clinton will not attend the celebrations on Tuesday, even though his diary leaves him free to do so. Last month, the White House said the President would be unable to attend because of a more important overseas visit pencilled in for this week, with Northern Ireland topping the list of likely destinations. Although officials announced last week that Mr Clinton would not be travelling to Belfast after all, his press secretary, Joe Lockhart, said: "I don't believe the President w ill travel between now and the end of the year to any other foreign destination." Mrs Albright would not be going either, it was announced. The chairman of Hutchison Whampoa is Li Ka-shing, who is ranked among the 10 richest men in the world. He has developed close ties with the Chinese leadership and has used his links to boost his business dealings around the world. He gave �900,000 to the Conservative Party under John Major and has also cultivated contacts with Tony Blair. The company's subsidiary in the Panama Canal already operates three English ports, Felixstowe, Harwich and Thamesport, and others in 23 countries. One company insider described the allegations against Hutchison Whampoa as "ludicrous", stating: "Hutchison is as far from being communist as it is possible to be." However, Al Santoli, a special security adviser to the Republican congressman Dana Rohrbacher, one of the White House's most vociferous critics on China, said last night: "No matter how many Brits there may be in the company, it is a Hong Kong company and Hong Kong is part of China. Li Ka-shing is trusted by the Chinese leadership. He is a board member of China's international trade and investment corporation, which is known by the US Congress as an important investment arm of the Chinese government and military. "We know that the Chinese merchant fleet is being refitted for anti-submarine warfare, electronic monitoring and other means of intelligence-gathering. The Panama Canal is vital for strategic purposes - for the movement of small surface warships, submarines, petroleum and 40 per cent of our agricultural exports. China is trying to gain a foothold in major seagoing ports and areas around the world." Critics say that the US pull-out will set back Washington's efforts against the drugs trade in the region. The White House's "drug tsar", Barry McCaffrey, is worried at the loss of surveillance. He said recently: "I personally think we're behind the ball." Military experts are also concerned at the loss of the US army's only jungle training base. The final US troops pull out at the end of the month. A sign that the area has already become less secure came last month when Colombian drug cartels stole two Panamanian government helicopters from the edge of the Canal Zone. The London Telegraph, December 12, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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