-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Lesson from Hot Money and the Politics of Debt by R. T. Naylor As regional banker to the dope trade, Nugan-Hand provided a laundromat for domestic distributors, passing the cash through controlled companies. It also arranged international remittances for foreign clients, notably from Chiang Mai, Thailand. There, in the center of the Golden Triangle opium network, Nugan-Hand had its office in the same building, on the same floor, as that of the US DEA. Its Bangkok office included one employee known to be involved in running guns to the Kuomintang forces in the Shan States . . . The bank grew rapidly and spread widely in the late 1970s, in good measure because of the astounding number of formed armed forces and intelligence personel it showcased. Among them was a former Chief of US Naval Planning, who initially headed the Cayman Islands branch and later the overall international organization. The man in charge of the Bangkok office was the former CIA station chief for the city. The former commander of US forces in Thailand became Nugan-Hand's Hawaiian representative. Several other generals, admirals, and top-level spooks figured among its staff and business associates, including William Colby. After he retired as head of the CIA, one of Colby's hobbies was acting as legal advisor to Nugan-Hand, helping it with tax matters and with banking projects in Florida and Panama. The army-and-navy team was still in charge when, in 1980, Frank Nugan performed a "suicide" that was almost as acrobatic as that of Roberto Calvi. The bank and related companies, including its Hong Kong DTC, came crashing down with $50 million missing from its accounts. None of the missing money was ever recovered, nor, curiously enough, did the depositors try to get it back. Also missing were most of the Hong Kong and Sydney records and Michael Hand, who vanished. ===== Barbecued Children Waco Was a Professional Hit Waco Wizard's Magical Fire by Carol Valentine "Fire is so efficient at erasing things, it is very popular as a means of hiding the evidence of murder . . ." --Douglas Ubelaker, Curator of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institute, top consultant to the FBI in Waco, quoted in: "Bones, A Forensic Detective's Casebook," pgs. 140-141. A magician focuses the attention of the audience by twirling the hat in his right hand. His audience is so distracted by the hat, they do not notice his left hand, in plain sight, performing the magic trick. That is what is happening now in the "new revelations" about the inferno that engulfed the Mt. Camel Center in Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993. "Whatever you do, don't look at the fire!" says the magician. "Look here instead, at the debate over pyrotechnic tear gas canisters!" We look. "Outrageous," we say. "Look, the FBI was only trying to get the Davidians to come out, but they used the wrong canisters and caused this huge house fire . . . " And the magician gets away with the trick, yet again. Ever since April 19, 1993, the US has presented the fire at the Mt. Carmel Center as one BIG house fire. Various explanations for the fire were given. Cover story Number One: The Davidians set their own house on fire. Not everybody believed it. Then we heard cover stories 2.0 and 2.5, the Mrs. Murphy and cow explanations: Tanks knocked over kerosene lamps inside Mt. Carmel, the kerosene spilled onto the hay, the hay caught fire and set the house on fire. That story did not sell too well, either. There never was a satisfactory explanation of why the Davidians -- Bible students -- kept hay in their house. Many members of the public smelled bull. All of these explanations, and now the current ones, are designed to deflect the public's attention from the obvious truth. The Mt. Carmel inferno was not a house fire. It was started deliberately by the US military, the Special Operations Command, to cover its murders of the Branch Davidians. The fire at the Mt. Carmel Center was a Special Operations demolition fire, and it was fueled by petroleum. Let's have a look at the evidence. 1. Here are some pictures of the ruins: http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig01.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig03.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig10.jpg Notice that we can not see even the skeleton of the house. The fire lasted 40-45 minutes. It burned with extraordinary intensity. No beams. No rafters. Nada. Nothing. This was no ordinary house fire. Now let's have a closer look at the Mt. Carmel Center before the fire, and note its architectural features. Take a viewpoint facing the front of the building. Notice that the three story residential tower in the center of the structure; notice that immediately behind that tower and to the left there is empty space and a swimming pool. To the right there is a gymnasium. http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/fig/w_fig10.html http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig04.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/fig/w_fig05.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/fig/w_fig17.jpg Now look at this picture of the Mt. Carmel Center during the inferno, and notice that this empty space and swimming pool area immediately behind and to the left of the three story tower is aflame. http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig08.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig09.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig11.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig13.jpg http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig14.jpg Same image as above, reduced : http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig14a.jpg Notice the height of those flames! Such magic! Surely only the most gifted magician could get empty space to burn like that! But, no, Josephine. Swimming pools and bare ground don't burn unless someone applies a flammable agent. Now go through those photos again and look at the color of the smoke. Yes, the smoke--all of it -is pitch black. Even the smoke coming from the burning, empty ground immediately behind and to the left of the three story tower . . . Black smoke is characteristic of a petroleum fire. Click on a page in oil-well fire fighter Red Adiar's web page: http://www.redadair.com/thriller.html "Kuwait was stripped and set on fire by the retreating Iraqi troops during the final days of the Gulf War. Black smoke filled the sky . . . " Read that? B-L-A-C-K smoke . . . Now here is another dead giveaway on the cause of the fire. Look at this fireball: http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig07.jpg Military experts say that this explosive phenomena is characteristic of Special Operations demolitions, effected by detonating 55-gallon drums of jet fuel. When the Justice Department issued its report on Waco some years ago, the text on the fire did not even mention this fireball. (see section "The Fire," pgs. 295 304). Such an oversight. Isn't that curious? *Special Operations Sets The Stage* Let's look at the pamphlet "Doctrine for Joint Special Operations," dated 28 October 1992. It says that because of "political sensitivities," many special operations "especially in peacetime" demand "thorough and accurate" public affairs programs be developed in advance of operations and undertaken before the operations are effected. The purpose is to "integrate accurate representation of the mission to domestic audiences . . . " (Chapter V, paragraph 8.) With this in mind, we discover that Francis X. Leahy, described as an "independent religious researcher" submitted a 40-page analysis on the Waco siege to the FBI on April 8, 1993, just eleven days before the inferno. On page 39 of the report, Leahy's predicts: "The standoff, as it now exists, will end after Sunday, April 18th, which will complete the seven week cycle for tribulations. At the completion of that cycle an angel of the Lord is to give an analysis of the situation, and tell David what to do. It must be a fiery ending, and David and a number of his followers must die. "Whether it be on the Sunday marking the beginning of the eighth week, or a day or two later, there will be some aggressive action by the Federal law enforcement officials. Suicide is not written in the book. David and his followers must be slain. That means something must be set up, even if the final conflagration is caused internally, it must be because of some act of the law enforcement officials . . . " News of Leahy's remarkable prediction was published in the Dallas Morning News on April 22, 1993. http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/doc/w_doc01.gif Boy, talk about clairvoyant! Leahy predicted a fire on April 18, 19, or 20, and he was right on the money. He predicted a fire after some "aggressive action" by the US, and he was right about that, too. Leahy is an "independent religious researcher"? Why? Not too many of us need an "independent religious researcher." Making a living at that must be tough. But many of us need a competent fortune teller. Leahy could make his own fortune in the business. Coincidentally, Francis X. Leahy was married to Joyce Sparks, the Child Protective Services social worker who investigated the child abuse charges against the Davidians . . . So here, in Leahy's "prediction," we see Special Operations public relations at work, preparing "thorough and accurate" public affairs program (prediction of fire) in advance of the operation (fire) to "integrate accurate representation [a-hem] of the mission to domestic audiences . . . ". But why did they have Leahy deny the Davidians would commit suicide when the FBI went on record saying that they did commit suicide? It is a dictum of public relations that the public relations practitioner must design messages to address diverse audiences and their mind sets. Not all members of the public are stupid enough to believe cover story Number One, "the Davidians set themselves on fire." Therefore other cover stories had to be developed. And because many Americans believe government workers are incompetent and negligent, it was/is easy to construct a whole range of very believable alternate cover stories. The September 2, 1999 front page story in the Washington Post ("Marshals Seize FBI Waco Tape") gives us the latest variant of the "Golly gee, we are so incompetence and negligent" cover story. Initially, on the morning of April 19, non-incendiary CS cartridges were fired, "But those cartridges had no effect . . . " and a Hostage Rescue Team member asked "for permission to use military tear gas cartridges that are incendiary." Of course, the FBI just happened to have incendiary *military* tear gas cartridges on hand. And of course permission to use them was granted. The only question that remains unanswered is this: Why was "tear gas" that was flammable packed in cartridges that were incendiary? Are we believing this? The magician is getting us to focus on his right hand by waving his hat, while his left hand is doing the trick. Chapter II of the Special Operations manual puts it in military terms: the duty of Special Operations is to "divert the hostile power's attention and resources from the main battle area." In this case, discerning Americans are the hostile power. Our attention is being diverted to yet another cover story. The battle area that our attention is being diverted from is the nature of the April 19 inferno that destroyed much of the evidence of a ghastly mass murder. *What's Behind the Wizardry?* The truth is that the Davidians who allegedly died on April 19 in the CS attack and fire were long since dead--murdered by Special Operations and/or their agents. See: http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/death.html The fire and CS attack were a cover to provide a (semi-) plausible explanation for the Davidian deaths. Those Davidians who allegedly survived the fire did NOT of course survive the fire: They had been extracted before the event. That is why we get the wacky, contradictory, and discrediting stories about Davidian behavior that morning. The stories are not true. The Davidians who were injured "during the fire" received their injuries earlier. That is why there were no smoke inhalation cases (or CS inhalation cases) among the "survivors." The injured Davidian "fire survivors" were treated at Parkland Hospital during March and April. Those treatment records are sealed, as are the records of the payments the feds made to Parkland for the care of those Davidians. Allow me to wrap up with a recent e-mail from a member of the US military. To protect my source, I have removed the e-mail address and omitted specific references to military units and locations: === Beginning of message === "To whom it may concern, "I am very concerned by the evidence your museum puts forward. Frankly, it scares the bejeezus out of me. I am a member of the U.S. Army, and I am familiar with many of the terms in your discussions. I am in the [delete unit] at [delete location]. ". . . the tactics used in Waco are textbook military. To begin, your assumption that the initial assault was designed to fail is absolutely certain. An objective is NEVER breached during the daytime. The advent of night-vision technology has rendered unnecessary, as the risk is greatly reduced when your opponents are blind and you are not. Also, any planned attack is not conducted without COVER or CONCEALMENT. Also, surprise is key, and security of that element NEVER breached. To understand this, one would have to have an understanding of the overall Military mentality, especially in the combat arms. Loose lips could get you or your buddies killed, so you never mention an upcoming operation. "Next, the siege. The light and noise were most certainly more than just psychological operations on the Davidians (though that must have been a good testing ground for new equipment). The noise and light probably hid the activities of the actual killings, days before the fire. How could anyone make out the sound of gunshots and explosions amidst all of that chaotic din? Then the clean-up would have to be enacted, and though the Armed Forces are organized, they are anything but quick. It probably took several nights of hard work to cover up the evidence of any wrong doing. "There were probably more dead in the initial assault . . . The plan is never to just assault from one side. No doubt there was a rear assault . . . [Text deleted.] "Thank you for the museum," === End of message === By the way, please feel free to do your own fire research at your local level. Next time you pass your firehouse, stop in. Ask the firemen how many fireballs like this they have seen in a house fire: http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fig/f_fig07.jpg ;-) === Carol A. Valentine President, Public Action, Inc. Copyright, September, 1999 May be reproduced for non-commercial purposes Have you seen the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum? See what they did to the mothers and children-- http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter "In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell Land of Mochtar Riady UN Prepares to Send 7000 Troops to East Timor Now we can have peace there also. UNITED NATIONS staff are drawing up plans to send a lightly armed 7,000-strong force to restore law and order in East Timor, under the command of Australia but with contributions from its Asian neighbours. Canberra's armed forces are on 24 hours' notice to move and the Ministry of Defence in London has ordered the frigate Glasgow, exercising in the South China Sea, to steam towards the region. Britain's contribution to any military operation in East Timor is likely to remain small, however, if only because the Armed Forces are stretched in Bosnia, Kosovo and the Gulf. The decision to rely on the UN to co-ordinate the force represents a rehabilitation of an organisation that only six months ago was not trusted by the Western allies to run the Kosovo mission. With that lesson apparently forgotten, the UN is considering a lightly armed force that, just as in Bosnia, will be sent only with the consent of the host government - this time Jakarta. This is in spite of repeated reports that members of the Indonesian armed forces are supporting the murderous militias in their attacks on supporters of East Timorese independence. Though the referendum on the future of the territory produced overwhelming backing for independence, Jakarta is still legally in control so will have to give its blessing to any peace mission. Western governments that were so scathing about the UN's ability to organise a meaningful military operation appear to accept that this is the only realistic option. Rather than an intervention force of more than 40,000 capable of a full range of military functions - similar to KFOR in Kosovo - the force for East Timor is envisaged as being considerably less capable. Australia, which is less than 400 miles away, is ready to send 2,000 troops, New Zealand has committed 350 and Malaysia and Thailand have both indicated a willingness to contribute forces. Britain will not send troops but Glasgow might be used in co-ordinating refugee movements. With only 13 British passport holders (three journalists and 10 members of the civilian UN mission) on the island, there is no purely consular reason for British military deployment. Nevertheless, Britain does have specialist troops nearby in the form of the SAS jungle training team, which is based in Brunei and can be moved rapidly to East Timor if a critical kidnap or siege develops. Under the Australian plan, the 7,000 or so troops would be airlifted to Dili, the capital, to protect facilities and sites used by UN staff. The RAF might make cargo aircraft available for this. At present the few remaining unarmed UN staff are all gathered in the compound in Dili. This would be the initial target for the peace force, which would secure its perimeter and then, in theory, fan out across the island to bring peace and security. John Moore, the Australian defence minister, said the first troops can be in East Timor within 24 hours of any UN security council resolution being passed. But defence experts say there is no chance that a large, heavily armed force would be sent there. "No force is going to fight its way in, that much is clear," said Damon Bristow, head of the Asia programme at the Royal United Services Institute. "At the moment there is just no appetite for that." The plan is being presented to the Indonesian government by a UN mission that includes Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Britain's UN ambassador, which arrived in Jakarta yesterday. Another consideration that makes a large force impossible is that China, already incensed by the Western allies' action over Kosovo, will never give its backing. The only type of force that might be mandated, therefore, will effectively be a weak one. The London Telegraph, September 8, 1999 Japanese Economy Buy Japanese War Bonds! er . . ., I mean buy Japanese government bonds. Japan's Ministry of Finance is to appeal to ordinary savers for the additional money it needs to try to wake the comatose economy. As borrowing spirals to the highest among leading industrial countries, bureaucrats plan to launch a special "buy Japanese government bonds" campaign. Advertisements in newspapers, railway stations and on the internet will extol JGBs as an investment for savers. To achieve its aim, the ministry will be appealing to investment logic - while Japanese bond yields are extremely low by international standards, it will point to the fact that, for instance, two-year JGBs now yield 0.4 per cent compared with a two-year bank deposit rate of a miserly 0.125 per cent. The government has traditionally relied on banks and the national post office to absorb its rising tide of bonds. However, reforms will sharply reduce the ability of public sector institutions to absorb JGBs. This has fuelled fears that yields on 10-year bonds, now 1.8 per cent, could surge. The ministry hopes private investors could fill the gap, since at present just 1.5 per cent of household savings is directly invested in bonds. "If we explain the attractions more people will buy," said a ministry official, who said market research has showed 30 per cent of consumers did not want to buy JGBs because they did not know enough about them or know how to find them. The move comes as the ministry is also preparing to announce soon that JGB issuance will rise to a record ¥80,000bn ($54bn) in fiscal 2000, sharply higher than the ¥71,000bn in 1999. It is expected to push the budget deficit to more than 10 per cent of gross domestic product. However, projected issues will probably rise even higher, since they do not include the additional stimulus package the government is expected to announce soon. The size of this package is likely to depend on the strength of second quarter GDP, which will be announced tomorrow. Data yesterday showed capital spending had fallen sharply in recent months, suggesting the GDP data may be weak, and that would raise the pressure for more stimulus spending and bond issues. The Finance Ministry has been banned from publicising JGBs since 1993, because the government told the public that it was cutting the national debt. And the last time the ministry urged people to "buy JGBs" was in 1975, when it issued its first debt financing bonds. Then advertising posters played on patriotic loyalty by declaring "I like Japan because it is where I was born". Not this time: "I don't think we could use the red and white flag," says one official. Instead the ministry will appeal to "modern" consumer investment sense. "We think that what would work (these days) is telling people that they can make personal gains." The Financial Times, September 8, 1999 Spy vs. Spy What's a Little Spying Between Friends? The tentacles of Echelon (September 6, 1999 12:39 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - You are not supposed to spy on your friends. As details emerge of U.S. intelligence agencies eavesdropping on the e-mail, faxes, and phone calls of European businesses, politicians in Europe are calling for better ways to safeguard industrial secrets. The most contentious source of trenchcoat contretemps among trans-Atlantic allies: Internet encryption. The United States is trying to persuade the European Union to allow only Internet codes for which law enforcement and national security agencies would have a "key." That would help to combat terrorists and drug smugglers. But it would also give U.S. officials potential access to the commercial secrets of foreign companies. "Unless we have guarantees of safeguards, controls over who listens to whom and what for, Europe is not going to leave the key under the doormat so that the Americans can walk in and steal the family silver," says Glyn Ford, a member of the European parliament. But with no communist threat to occupy them, Western intelligence agencies in the 1990s appear to be devoting more of their time and resources to industrial espionage against each other. And, says Michael Hershman, chairman of DSFX, the world's largest private investigative agency, "Industrial espionage is going up steadily" because of "globalization and increased competition." Before the end of the year, the European Parliament is due to discuss a series of reports detailing the manner in which the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts international electronic communications. The operation, which uses an international network of listening posts and supercomputers known as "Echelon," was described last year as "an intolerable attack against individual liberties, competition, and the security of states" by Martin Bangemann, outgoing European commissioner for industry. The latest report, issued earlier this summer, described how the top-secret system scoops up electronic signals from satellites, undersea cables, and microwave relay stations all over the world and scans them for key words of interest to participating intelligence agencies. Echelon includes Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the United States, in a grouping called UKUSA. "There is wide-ranging evidence" the report found, that Washington is "routinely using communications intelligence to provide commercial advantages to companies and trade." The report cited a number of examples, including the NSA's interception of phone calls in 1994 between the French firm Thomson-CSF and Brazilian officials concerning a $1.4 billion satellite surveillance system for the Amazon jungle. The eavesdropping allegedly revealed that the company was bribing Brazilian officials. Washington informed the Brazilian government, and Lexington, Mass.-based Raytheon Corp. won the contract instead. The U.S. government is also said to have used communications intelligence to ferret out Tokyo's positions during past trade talks, and to help Seattle-based Boeing beat out the European Airbus consortium in a 1994 battle to sell $6 billion worth of airplanes to Saudi Arabia. "There are serious allegations in the report ... that need investigating," says Ford. The NSA refuses to comment on the claims. "We will not confirm or deny the existence of any system called Echelon," says NSA spokeswoman Judy Emmel. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) denies that it engages in industrial espionage. "We are not in the business of spying for private firms," said then-CIA director James Woolsey in January 1995. "We assess international economic trends ... and support trade negotiations." That is presumably what CIA agents were doing in Paris a month later, when they were expelled by the French government for spying. The agents had been seeking information on the French position at international telecommunications negotiations. They also illustrated one of the major drawbacks to economic espionage. "The main problem is you don't want to get caught with accusations of espionage against your friends," says Adm. Stansfield Turner, CIA chief under President Jimmy Carter. A Turner launched a program to hand over to the Commerce Department such CIA intelligence as might be useful to U.S. firms bidding for international contracts - such as the value of opposing bids - but his successors have insisted the agency now gathers only general economic information with which to brief U.S. policy-makers. Intelligence experts say that all major governments engage in economic espionage of one sort or another. Some even boast about it: In his 1993 memoirs, a former French spy chief claimed his agents discovered the United States was about to devalue the dollar in 1971, allowing Paris to make a large profit by currency speculation. Certainly, Washington is worried by the threat of foreign industrial spies. In 1996, President Clinton signed the Economic Espionage Act, the first nationwide U.S. statute prohibiting the theft of trade secrets. Eleven cases have been brought under the act so far, and a Taiwanese businessman has been convicted. The Justice Department is preparing other cases, some of them against foreign governments, according to knowledgeable sources. The Clinton administration has attached especial importance to economic intelligence, setting up the National Economic Council (NEC) in parallel to the National Security Council. The NEC routinely seeks information from the NSA and the CIA, officials say. And the NSA, as the biggest and wealthiest communications interception agency in the world, is best placed to trawl electronic communications and use what comes up for U.S. commercial advantage. The European Parliament reports have sparked Continent-wide anger. Questions have been raised by officials in Denmark, Germany, Norway, and Holland, while the Swedish government has launched an investigation into whether Swedish companies have been victims of covert NSA surveillance. In Italy, a Rome deputy district attorney has opened an inquiry to determine whether NSA activities violate Italian privacy law. More important, perhaps, the reports encouraged France and Germany to lift their restrictions on the use and sale of strong encryption software, which Washington has been trying to limit. Arguing that strong encryption will allow international criminals to conduct electronic business unhindered, Washington has long been seeking to persuade European governments to regulate the use of such software. Specifically, the United States has demanded that Europe should adopt a "key escrow" system, whereby a third party would have a "spare key" to all code systems. The recent revelations of the NSA's activities have only deepened European suspicions that this demand has more to do with U.S. intelligence needs than law enforcement. "The reports provide another argument to confirm our position that high-level encryption should be freely allowed to protect perfectly legal confidential messages," says Joachim Kubosch, spokesman for - Bangemann. "I am in favor of using all these technologies to catch people like the Oklahoma bombers," adds Ford. "But we cannot allow the United States to use them to steal tens of thousands of jobs from Europeans." The Nando Times, September 6, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris 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. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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