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Date:
Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:42 PM
Subject: FW: Woodiwiss:
Organized Crime and American Power
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 9:26 PM
To: Catherine
Austin Fitts
Subject: Re: Woodiwiss: Organized Crime and American
Power
Catherine, Amazing. Remember that Frank G. Wisner is the
SON of the "person
in charge" of the Clandestine Unit - Operations area of
the CIA, and Kermit
was his #2 man.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:57 PM
Subject: FW: Woodiwiss:
Organized Crime and American Power
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>
> -----Original
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> From: Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:56 PM
> Subject: FW: Woodiwiss:
Organized Crime and American Power
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>
>
> >From Page
378 on the project in India in which Enron had an 80% interest.
> The book
covers the violence and intimidation, arrests, threats and
> detentions
used against the community and then says:
>
> Amnesty
International's report was the first to detail the abuses of
> corporate
as well as government power. The US ambassador in New Delhi,
Frank
> G.
Wisner, put pressure on the Indian government not to terminate
the
Enron
> project, before retiring and taking a seat on the Enron
board.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:53 AM
>
>
>
> Last
night, I started Michael Woodiwiss's book, Organized Crime
and
American
> Power, which was just published by University of Toronto
Press. Woodiwiss
> teaches at the University of the West of England.
I met him in London on my last trip.
>
> Several of his chapters
cover the War on Drugs and why the WOD has
> been ---as I would say ----so
successful in supporting the growth of
> narcotics trafficking, organized
crime and greater centralized control. I
> recommend it for drug
reformers. He picks up some important aspects that are
> not covered in
the books that I have recommended. The sources he uses so far
> are often
the ones I found to be the best, Naylor, Chambliss, etc.
>
> Here is
a quote from the introduction:
>
> In the US, organized criminal
activity has never been a serious threat to
> established economic and
political power sructures, but more often a
fluid,
> variable, and
open-ended phenomenon that complemented those structures.
This
> book
emphasizes the importance of collaboration as much as confrontation
>
between government and criminals and criminals behaviour within,
rather
that
> criminal infiltration of, the various law enforcement,
criminal justice,
> business, and political systems that make the US
work.
>
> Woodiwiss is taking an important step forward by
presenting a serious
> academic effort to integrate organized crime within
the US governance
> structure.
>
> You may want to add to your
list, if only to skim the chapters on the WOD.
>
> Catherine Austin
Fitts
> Solari
>
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