This message seems to have been blocked for some time. Trying again. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Ruppert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 9:54 AM To: Leutrell Osborne Subject: RE: Interest and our favorable vote Leutrell and list: Assuming a movie was on the drawing board, with a budget, a script, a director, a producer, a signed cast, a studio and distribution contract and a good director of photography, the assistance of such a person as yourself would be invaluable. So said Mike Ruppert, Cele Castillo, John Carman, Mike Levine, David Sabow, Bill Tyree and maybe twenty other people I have known since 1982. Neither tech advisers nor great characters or great true stories get movies sold. Here are some of the people I have met with over the years who bounced me from meeting to lunch and back to meeting again. If you don't recognize some names they're the producers (the ones that count): Tim Zinneman (Bullitt) Alan Pakula ( All the Prez's Men, Klute + 15 more) David Soul Martin Bregman/Peter Safeer (Serpico) George Roy Hill (The Sting, Butch Cassidy) Gregg Davis - (son of Marvin Davis) Brian Grazier - Partner with Ron Howard in Imagine Entertainment. Been to the house off Mandeville Canyon. Gary Luchesse ( The Murder Mystery with Pacino and Laura Dern in NY - I forget the title) Larry Schiller (many, including the executioner's song, a CIA connected front man in my opinion) David Carradine Marc Levin - Director 1992 Documentary (The Last Party - I was in it with Sean Penn and Robert Downey, Jr.) and Emmy Winner for Bill Moyers', "The Secret Government. I saw Marc on May 6th in New York." The William Morris Agency - (had me signed for four years) David Wardlow (Major Hollywood writer's agent - had me signed for two years) Jan Legnitto, former 60 Minutes Producer who had me optioned for two years Jon Boorstin - (Major Hollywood screenwriter, Associate Producer "All the Prez's Men" two treatments and one draft of a script) Sean Penn - current FTW subscriber. For maybe 6,000 hours of work towards making a movie on the subject I have earned, since 1982, exactly $4,300. Less than a buck an hour not counting the free lunches. I cannot possibly describe how much heartache and disappointment went along with that or how many months were spent (wasted) waiting for the call I was told would come any minute. Sean said it best to me. It was just days after I had confronted John Deutch. I was at a mutual friend's music studio at Venice Beach. Sean was with wife Robin Wright and buddy Ed Begley, Jr. They had just watched the video of me confronting Deutch and Sean was blown away. CIA and drugs was the national topic that night. Hollywood was "buzzing." Sean and I had a moment aside to talk about our mutual friend, a musical genius named Dave Baerwald and Sean said, "Mike, you know that this will never get made into a movie, don't you? The studios are just too scared to touch it." "Yeah, Sean," I answered. "I do know. I didn't know it fourteen years ago when I started. I don't think they did either." Sean's the only one on Hollywood who has ever told me the truth. So y'all will have to forgive me if I do not show enthusiasm for what I consider to be an absolutely Quixotic venture. I haven't got time for the pain. One need only recall that "Panama Deception," which won an Oscar for best documentary, was pulled out of the theaters after a week and cannot be found anywhere in America - not even at Blockbuster. Mike Ruppert www.copvcia.com -----Original Message----- From: Leutrell Osborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 5:15 AM To: RUPPERT MICHAEL; Ruppert GOLDMAN; Catherine Austin Fritts Cc: SARGENT EDWARD Subject: Interest and our favorable vote Mike and David: Would the technical contribution of 42 year counter intelligence officer from the CIA be of any value in attempting to promote and doing the picture? We can begin the picture in early l970's in Panama or closer to Seal's time lines. Seal represents an important person in US Government handling of assets involved in countering narcotics. I am ready to add value to promotion effort and getting the script written using my skills and team of resources including one of my partners: Ed Sargent. We need to demonstrate for the movie how the drugs both heroin and crack are being distributed as well as how the money is handled across international boarders. Michael Levine had to resort to the movies for Deep Cover. When telling my story, I use movies as one of my training aids. For example: The Day of the Condor and Sneakers. Generally any adventure movie with Robert Redford. Steve Uhrig, a friend, who was the key technical writer for Enemy of the State can also be approached by me when we are ready. The Hackman character was modeled after Steve's personality. Message: 5 Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:48:43 -0400 From: David Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Iran-Contra and the Movies I am curious as to whether any has ever been able to approach big name producers like Oliver Stone about the drug issues. In an age where the American masses can often only be reached through the medium of entertainment, could it be possible that some maverick producer like Stone, of JFK fame, could become interested in a movie plot full of intrigue etc. tying in Barry Seal, Iran-Contra, etc. in a "historical novel" type film like JFK? The first one could start in the Golden Triangle, the second in Latin America, etc. etc. It would reach many more people than talk radio or other media....... David Goldman ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:03:58 -0400 From: David Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New Laundering Techniques....... May 15, 2000 - 08:05 PM Experts: Underworld Smuggles Cash Overseas for Laundering By Jeffrey Gold Associated Press Writer NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Stiff financial reporting requirements for banks and other institutions have forced many criminals to find other ways to move their ill-gotten cash. In recent years, they've tried to hide it in truck transmissions, battery chargers and even candy wrappers. Those are just a few of the ways the underworld employs to smuggle tons of cash - billions of $5, $10, $20 and $100 bills, many from street drug sales - out of the United States, according to law enforcement officers. The cash often goes into banks in South America or the Caribbean. Once "sanitized," it can be wired back into the U.S. banking system - the final leg of the "Black Market Peso Exchange," they said. Northern New Jersey and New York, with bustling airports and shipping docks, along with the Texas-Mexico border, are among the nation's busiest areas for bulk cash movement. John C. Varrone, Custom's acting deputy assistant commissioner, told a congressional hearing here on Monday that most of the favored smuggling areas fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Customs Service, which has seized more than $256 million being smuggled in cash over the past four years. But smugglers can use a route that Varrone said his agents cannot touch without a warrant: U.S. mail bound for other countries. A single 4-pound letter-class parcel, the maximum weight for non-Canadian addresses, can hold about $180,000 in $100 bills, Customs officials said. As a result, the agency would like to see legislation that would allow such searches when officers have "reasonable cause" to suspect cash (or drugs or weapons of mass destruction) is in international mail. They already have authority for warrantless searches on incoming international mail and goods. Rep. Marge Roukema, R-N.J., who convened Monday's hearing as chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, said that provision would be considered. She has introduced a bill aimed specifically at bulk cash smuggling, which officials described as a clumsy but integral part of the drug trade. The small-denomination bills used to pay for 700 pounds of cocaine on the street yield more than a ton of cash, Varrone said. That cocaine would bring some $26 million on the street, Customs said. The money laundering task forces that combine officers from federal, state and local law agencies have turned more attention to bulk smuggling. The biggest cash seizure at Port Newark came in June 1998, when Customs agents, acting on a tip, searched a 20-foot cargo container on a ship bound for Venezuela. A mobile X-ray uncovered $11.2 million hidden in truck transmissions, Varrone said. Currency also has been found stuffed into other objects being exported, including battery chargers and candy wrappers. Cash handlers for drug dealers have turned to buying gold with their proceeds, melting it into various objects, such as nuts and bolts, which are then painted to disguise their value, Varrone said. Last week, Customs inspectors checked all passengers boarding a flight to Venezuela from Newark International Airport. They found one carrying $460,000. Travelers can legally carry cash out of the country, but must declare it on a form as they leave. The passenger had not declared the cash. Leutrell M. Osborne, President of Paragon Asset Management Company (PAMCO). Please visit our web site located at http://www.khpra.com/PAMCO/ learn more about PAMCO's business security, business financial, business development and business representational services. Then call us at 301 445-5850 (o). Thanks for learning about us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to table saws. http://click.egroups.com/1/3020/5/_/475667/_/958498947/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
