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Date: January 2, 2007 7:33:25 PM PST
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Subject: Wayne Madsen Update -- Link Between the Berezovsky/
Litvinenko Network and 9/11
January 2, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/.
Scaramella-Berezovsky link to World Trade Center security firm
emerges in Italian law enforcement investigation.
Mario Scaramella, the Italian interlocutor for the poisoned
Alexander Litvinenko and Russian-Israeli media/mobster tycoon Boris
Berezovsky, is now under investigation by prosecutors in Rome,
Naples, and Bologna for international arms smuggling, divulging
official judicial secrets, conspiracy, international trafficking in
radioactive materials, and the dumping of hazardous waste through
unauthorized third parties. Scaramella was arrested last month by
Italian police and his offices have been searched by police several
times.
The Italian media is reporting on transcripts of phone
conversations between Scaramella and two former U.S. intelligence
officers. One conversation, reported in La Repubblica, is a January
25, 2006 conversation between Scaramella and a mysterious ex-CIA
agent from California who uses the name "Perry." In the
conversation, Scaramella stresses to Perry that his activities are
not "just my activity, but the activity of the organization.' It is
becoming clear that the "organization" to which Scaramella is
referring is a private and global intelligence organization
involving former members of the KGB and Russian Federal Security
Bureau (like Litvinenko), private military and intelligence
companies, and ex-CIA and British intelligence officers. Scaramella
discussed the political dirty “trick” they are preparing for
Italian center-left leader Romano Prodi and it is clear from the
conversation that Perry gives Scaramella his orders, though
politely. When Scaramella goes into a tangent on his international
activities, Perry merely replies, 'You must work on the Italian
politics.' When Scaramella presents a list of the possible future
options open to him, Perry very curtly suggests, “You could be part
of the cabinet of the minister.” But Scaramella is pessimistic when
he states, “most probably Prodi will win, even if we will launch
our attack…"
The "attack" is key to the conversation. WMR was the first media
outlet to suggest that the Scaramella-Litvinenko affair was a dirty
bomb plot gone bad and that the intelligence services of Russian
President Vladimir Putin may have actually derailed the plot.
Scaramella relates to Perry his conversation with then-Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in which he asked the right-wing and
now-indicted politician for a job, preferably at NATO or the United
Nations. Scaramella claims that he was first offered a seat in the
Italian parliament but declined because he feared a rough political
campaign against him after he had made public his "KGB claims"
against Prodi and that he "preferred a post outside Italy in an
international organization."
The Italian paper Corriere della Sera is also reporting on a
telephone conversation between Scaramella and Paolo Guzzanti, the
Miktrokhin Committee's chairman on 28 January 2006, three days
after the phone conversation between Perry and Scaramella that
Romani Prodi was "cultivated by the KGB" and cited ex-KGB Colonel
Oleg Gordievsky as his source. Guzzanti responds, "in that case he
is our man?" "Yes," replies Scaramella's." "That's enough. I don't
want to know anything else", Guzzanti replies.
It has also been revealed that while talking to Perry, Scaramella
declared that he had obtained taped testimony against Prodi from
Gordievski and that the testimony was given in the presence of "Lou
Palumbo," who has now been identified as a 22-year veteran of the
CIA. Gordievski, who is under the protection of the British
intelligence services, has since denounced Scaramella as a fraud.
It is also clear that Scaramella's mission was to seek out
prominent Russian exiles and defectors in order to trick them into
brining false charges against leftist politicians like Prodi.
Previously, WMR reported that Scaramella was linked by Italian
investigators to Filippo Marino, who is involved in the security
business and founded the Special Research Monitoring Center (SRMC),
claims he was a member of the elite Italian Army 131st Regiment and
member of an Italian law enforcement organized crime task force
targeting the mob in Naples. One of Marino's companies,
Securitydirector LLC, is registered at P.O. Box 190487, Miami
Beach, FL 33119-0487. According to La Stampa, a link has now been
discovered between Marino and Hallandale, Florida-based Incident
Management Group (IMG). Marino has been a senior consultant for
IMG, according to La Stampa. IMG's Managing Partner is none other
than Louis F. Palumbo, Scaramella's task master in the reported
attempt to tarnish Prodi. Palumbo's bio at the IMG website states
that in 1977, he founded the security consulting firm Ackerman &
Palumbo. The Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO)
lists a Louis F. Palumbo at 7980 N. Biscayne Point Cir., Miami
Beach, FL 33141.
Palumbo's partners at IMG include Daniel Donohue, a former CIA
clandestine services agent in Southeast Asia and India; Harley
Stock, a "forensic hypnosis" expert with the FBI and US Secret
Service; and, perhaps most intriguingly, Christopher Hagon, a 21-
year veteran of the London Metropolitan Police or "Scotland Yard."
Hagon told La Stampa that Marino did work as a consultant for IMG
as a consultant. In fact, IMG's consultant profiles list Marino as:
"FILIPPO MARINO, SENIOR CONSULTANT, has 10 years of international
experience in the areas of security and environmental crime
prevention. Marino has worked on a variety of security-related
assignments ranging from investigative support of judicial
authorities to personal awareness training and private consulting
worldwide. He is one of the founders of Special Research Monitoring
Center (SRMC) and a founding member of the Permanent
Intergovernmental Conference for Environmental Crime Prevention. He
is currently Director of Security & Operations, for the SRMC.
Marino served as an officer of the prestigious 131st Regiment of
the Italian Army, and is an inspector for a law-enforcement,
environmental task force against organized crime in Naples, Italy.
He holds a magna cum laude B. A. in Behavioral Sciences from San
Jose State University, and has obtained multiple certifications in
security and protection services. He speaks fluent Italian and
German."
Note that Marino's links to Scaramella's ECPP is also cited above.
Also of interest is the listing of a Curtis Perry as an IMG
consultant:
"CURTIS PERRY, SENIOR CONSULTANT, has 27 years experience in
government and private sector security. He served for ten years in
the CIA and was stationed throughout the Far East. Mr. Perry is
fluent in several Chinese dialects and has access to numerous
government agencies in the Philippines and throughout Southeast
Asia. Previously he was employed as a Senior Consultant by the
security firm of Ackerman & Palumbo and was a Managing Director for
Kroll Associates in Manila from 1992 -1996. Mr. Perry has
undertaken numerous investigations for Corporate America –
including those involving kidnappings, extortions and product
contaminations – in the Far East and Australia."
Another IMG consultant is Robert Wager, whose bio claims he manages
security for the US Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. Scaramella claims
to have also worked in Bogota. The bio of another IMG consultant,
Ned Timmons, states, "for two years Timmons directed an
international import/export corporation operating undercover in
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Central America [and] ... He
currently serves as a consultant to the U.S. and Cayman Governments
on drug trafficking matters." There is yet another Colombian link,
"John Stabler, Senior Consultant, has 17 years experience in
security management and consulting profession, with 13 years of
specialization in Colombia. He has designed security for
plantations, mines, pipelines, piers and airfields in hostile
locations in Colombia, Panama, Ecuador and Chile."
Also of interest is another "environmental" link that ties the
various Scaramella-Litvinenko players under the cover of an
international environmental network. An SEC EDGAR search revealed a
stockholders' agreement between Harrison-Kroll Environmental
Services, Inc. of Louisiana and Palumbo Partners, a Delaware
corporation dated December 31, 1992. A Google search also revealed
that former Secret Service Presidential Protective Division agent
Jim Holt served as Training Director for Ackerman & Palumbo and was
"one of the original directors and consultant partners with Palumbo
Partners, Inc., Miami." An office of Harrison-Kroll Environmental
Services is listed at 300 S. Grand Avenue, Suite 1300, Los Angeles,
CA 90071.
Kroll Associates is an enigmatic "security services" company which
has close links to the CIA. Not only is Kroll active in private
military contracting in Iraq but it has long been associated with
dubious U.S. intelligence activities at home and abroad. According
to a knowledgeable source, Jules Kroll, who founded Kroll
Associates in 1972, obtained needed funding for his firm from
Foothill Capital in the 1980s. Foothill was deeply enmeshed in the
Savings & Loan collapses in the 1980s but salvaged itself to become
a part of Wells Fargo Bank. Kroll, who helped Curtis Publishing
(renamed Cadence Industries after a merger) cut waste in the 1970s
(and pilfer the company's pension fund in the process), got his
first big break when he helped locate the stolen millions of
Philippine ex-President Ferdinand Marcos (he would later go after
the off-shore bank accounts of Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier and
Iraq's Saddam Hussein).
According to our well-placed source, Ray Steffans (aka diStefano of
New Jersey), Jewish mobster Gideon Chern, and Eddie Baker of
Vanguard Petroleum met in Houston in September 1983 to discuss,
among other items, funding for Kroll. In December 1977, Bernard
Taubenfeld, Gideon Chern and Shalom Goldburd, officials of B'nai
Torah Institute affiliate, Nutrition for Youth, were convicted of
defrauding the government by submitting bills for food that was
never served to poor children in the New York City summer lunch
program. Chern's other organized crime activity in the 1980s
reportedly had an important protector -- former US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani. The former New York
Mayor and prospective GOP presidential candidate reportedly
suppressed a wealth of evidence against Chern.
Litvinenko-Scaramella case now linked to World Trade Center
security firm.
Two days after the Houston meeting, a Jaguar supposedly with the
body of Baker in it was found charred outside of Houston. A fire
investigator later revealed that no body was found in the car at
the time of the fire. Kroll, after Enron's bankruptcy, purchased
Zolfo-Cooper, and thus owned Zolfo-Cooper's Steven Cooper, the
attorney appointed by New York bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez to
run Enron in bankruptcy. In July 2004, Marsh-McLennan bought Kroll
and Associates. Marsh-McLennan is run by Jeffrey Greenberg, son of
Maurice (Hank) Greenberg of AIG. Funny, since Chase and Citibank
notes from Kenneth Lay/Enron were purchased in May 2001 by AIG and
the MacArthur Foundation.
Kroll was responsible for the security of the World Trade Center on
9/11, The firm had hired FBI top counter-terrorism agent John
O'Neill as Director of World Trade Center security upon his
retirement from the FBI. O'Neill dies in the 9/11 attacks. Kroll
also markets Identity Theft Shield, the first time Kroll has
offered its services to individuals as opposed to governments and
companies. As of June 30, 2006, Kroll had amassed over 560,000
customers for its Identity Theft Shield program.
The Chern link brings us back to the Russian-Israeli Mafia
connections of Scaramella and company. Berezovsky's friend, former
Yukos co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, a Russian-Jewish oligarch and former
President of the Russian Jewish Congress who now lives in Tel Aviv
and is wanted by Russia for tax evasion and corruption. As the
Democrats prepare to assume control of Congress, Nevzlin is now in
the United States, protected by the FBI from arrest based on
Russian and Interpol arrest warrants. This is not Nezvlin's first
visit to the United States. In the summer of 2005 he appeared
before the US Congress' Helsinki Committee to criticize the
government of Vladimir Putin. Nevzlin's sponsors were incoming
House International Relations Committee chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA)
and New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith. Nevzlin used the hearing to argue
for the expulsion of Russia from the G-8. Another Nevzlin supporter
is Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, another prospective GOP
presidential candidate.
In a further example of the dubious activities of the Arlington,
Virginia-based Fellowship Foundation, dubbed the "Christian Mafia"
by many local residents, two of Nevzlin's wanted Yukos fellow
shareholders, oligarchs Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Dubov, who were
indicted in Russia on charges similar to those brought against
jailed Yukos former chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, were invited the
have breakfast with President George W. Bush at the February 5,
2005 "National Prayer Breakfast." The annual Prayer Breakfast
contrivance of the Fellowship Foundation is a ruse designed to
provide a series of top level intelligence and organized crime
meetings under the sanctioning smile of "Jesus." The person who
invited Brudno, Dubov, and the jailed Khodorkovsky to the prayer
breakfast was Lantos, whose wife, daughter, and son-in-law are
devout Mormons. Brudno and Dubov, citizens of Israel, were assured
by the FBI that it would ignore the Interpol and Russian arrest
warrants, just as the FBI is ignoring the arrest warrant for
Nevzlin, who is now in the United States, most likely with the
acquiescence of Lantos. Lantos, who has his own connections with
mob-run unions operating at San Francisco International Airport,
does not seem to mind the fact that Nevzlin has been under
investigation by Israeli police for illegally laundering $500
million through a Tel Aviv branch of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's
largest bank. Nevzlin also took over assets of Khodorkovsky's
collapsed bank, Menatep, which was also linked to money laundering
involving the Bank of New York. Former Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev supports Putin's attempt to bring the Russian-Israeli
oligarchs to justice. He told Britain's Sunday Times that it is
believed that the exiled oligarchs have hidden away $1 trillion.
Nevzlin's and Berezovsky's activities with Litvinenko are the tip
of a huge iceberg of private intelligence intrigue that involves a
number of wanted Russian exiles, including Nevzlin, Berezovsky, ex-
Russian media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Chernoy, Roman
Abramovitch, and Chechen "Foreign Minister" Akhmed Zakayev.
Berezovsky's [and Litvinenko's] spokesman, Russian exile Alex
Goldfarb, freely operates out of both London and New York. All are
involved in various efforts to destabilize Russia with the help of
neo-cons in the Bush administration and the government of Israel.
However, the Israel Lobby's pressure on the U.S. media, most
notably the Associated Press, New York Times, and Washington Post,
ensures that the Russian exiles' links to Israel and organized
crime are studiously ignored.
Alexander Litvinenko not the only Russian poisoned by Russian-
Israeli mafia gangsters.
In another full circle between Tel Aviv and Italy, Menatep's former
chief for investment management Alexei Globuvich said, after his
arrest last Spring in Italy, that Nevzlin may have tried to poison
him and his family after mercury was found in his office, home, and
car. Globuvich said he was a threat because he knew where Yukos and
Menatep assets were located. Shortly thereafter, a Scotland Yard
officer handed over to the British security firm ISC Global plans
by the British government to extradite a number of Russian-Israeli
exiles in Britain to Russia. ISC Global had been part of Menatep
and Nevzlin was one of its chief customers. The London offices of
ISC Global, now known as RISC Management, were visited in November
2006 by Litvinenko and Russian businessmen Andrei Lugovoi and
Dmitry Kovtun and traces of polonium-210 were discovered there.
According to the Sunday Times of London, Russian police are also
investigating whether the poisoning of Litvinenko and the attempted
poisoning of Globuvich are connected to the radiation poisoning
death two years ago of Roman Tsepov, a former bodyguard of Putin
when he was deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg. Tsepov was involved in
the Russian government's tracking of Yukos assets. Also of interest
are connections to the June 2004 assassination of Forbes Russian
edition editor-in-chief Paul Klebnikov, a U.S. citizen who wrote a
damaging expose of Berezovsky. Three Chechen contract killers were
charged in Klebnikov's murder. The same Russian-Israeli mob ring is
also being looked at in the investigation of the assassination of
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of Novaya Gazeta as a way to
embarrass Putin.
Forbes Russian edition editor Paul Klebnikov murdered in 2004 by
Chechen contract killers. Russian-Israeli tycoon Boris Berezovsky
claims to be the godfather of the Chechen rebellion. Klebnikov
wrote an anti-Berezovsky book.
The connection of Nevzlin to the polonium and the receipt of
classified British secrets is more of a reason for Russia's
Prosecutor General's office to seek his extradition -- but the FBI
refuses to cooperate due to the orders coming from people like
Lantos, McCain, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and others who do the
bidding of the Russian-Israeli mob and their Italian mafiosi
underlings.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's office has stated, "“A version is
being looked at that those who ordered these crimes [polonium
poisoning, etc.] could be the same people who are on an
international wanted list for serious and very serious crimes, one
of whom is ... Leonid Nevzlin."
The connections now discovered by Italian and Russian investigators
between the Russian-Israeli-Italian-British-US private intelligence
network of former intelligence agents and billionaire mobsters
suggest that the "serious crimes" committed may be more than the
poisoning of Litvinenko and others with radioactive materials.
The investigators are wise to pursue the links to U.S. security
firms and former CIA personnel involved in pre-9/11 protection
functions. The FBI cannot or will not investigate the actual
perpetrators of 9/11. However, the Italian and Russian law
enforcement professionals are beginning to get very close. It is a
shame that American law enforcement is not interested in pursuing
real leads in the biggest crime in American history.