Why
Quit, Henry? Is It Acxiom?
Medium
Rare
By Jim
Rarey
12-17-2
- When Dr. K (Kissinger) withdrew as co-chairman of the
commission to investigate the 9/11 terrorist attacks after refusing to
make his client list public, he bitterly asserted his consulting
business represented no foreign companies or governments that would
constitute a conflict of interest with his duties on the
commission.
Although there is no particular reason we should
believe anything Kissinger says, for purposes of this article let's take
that assertion at face value. That would mean if there is a conflict it
must be with one or more of his domestic (U.S.)
clients.
Kissinger's two consulting firms (Kissinger &
Associates and Kissinger-McLarty & Associates) advise a large number
of U.S. companies. Yes, it is that McLarty, Mack McLarty who was Bill
Clinton's chief of staff and is now vice-chairman of the first firm and
partner in the second.
The client lists of the two firms are
closely guarded. However, from time to time some information leaks out.
Although Dr. K has his own share of skeletons in his closet, e.g. his
involvement in the overthrow of an elected government in Chile and the
resulting thousands of deaths that have branded both Kissinger and
Pinochet as war criminals, some of his domestic clients have their own
scandals with which he may not want to be associated.
One that
is, or has been, a Kissinger client is J.P. Morgan Chase, implicated in
the Enron frauds as well as money laundering along with other New York
investment banks. (But that�s only drug money and U.S. taxpayers'
dollars recycled through the Russian KGB/Mafia, not known to relate to
terrorism.) Kissinger sits on the Morgan/Chase International Advisory
Board.
Other examples could be cited but in this writer's
opinion, the association Dr. K is most afraid might be made public is
with the little known company Acxiom.
Hardly a household name (we
will try to change that), Acxiom has been selected the lead company to
provide software and pull together the network to furnish the
information to DARPA's 'Information Awareness Office' (IAO) where John
Poindexter of Iran-Contra infamy will prepare individual dossiers on
every American citizen and the millions of aliens (legal and illegal) in
the country.
The plan calls for the collection of information
from a staggering number of sources e.g. banks, credit unions, health
care organizations, the IRS and Social Security agencies, the INS, the
FBI, grocery chains and any number of other companies and government
agencies (federal, state and local) that have records of individual
transactions.
But even this association might be covered up in
these days of managed news. No, what scares Kissinger the most is the
control and history of Acxiom itself. The company may be more than just
a client. Mack McLarty sits on its Board of Directors, which implies
some kind of investment to protect.
While the name of the company
means nothing to almost all Americans, perhaps a couple of the names
under which it operated earlier will generate a spark of recognition.
Before it morphed into Acxiom, the company was named Alltel. Still
nothing? Then how about its original name, Systematics? Now memories
come flooding back of the PROMIS software scandal and those associated
with it.
The powerful PROMIS software was developed by Bill
Hamilton's company Inslaw. It was virtually stolen by the U.S. Treasury
Department. It was then combined with software from Systematics and
farmed out to the CIA for final modification (installation of a backdoor
feature).
When treasury forced Inslaw into bankruptcy (by
withholding payments due Inslaw) ownership of the software wound up with
a CIA cutout the Hadron Corp. Hadron peddled the software to governments
and financial institutions around the world thus giving the CIA backdoor
access to secret information of a number of governments and
banks.
But it doesn't stop there. The person who controls
Acxiom/Alltel/Systematics is Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens.
Stephens, and those working with him, have been involved in myriad shady
operations too numerous to cite here. We can only hit some of the
highlights.
At Systematics, one of the lawyers Stephens hired to
represent the company was a bright young attorney named Hillary Rodham.
After she joined the Rose law firm (then Hillary Rodham Clinton)
Stephens employed the firm (mainly its partners Hillary, Vince Foster
and Webster Hubbell) in several of his ventures.
Stephens was a
financial angel to both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He gave final
impetus to Clinton�s cash strapped presidential campaign with a large
�loan� from his Worthen bank. Stephens (along with the Harvard
University endowment) rescued one of Dubya�s companies from bankruptcy
with sizeable investments.
Another scandal suppressed by the
'watchdogs of the press' was the cocaine smuggling aspects of the
Iran/Contra affair. In return for arms smuggled to the Contras in
Nicaragua, cocaine was being brought back to the U.S. and dropped off at
a small airport at Mena, Arkansas. Pilot Barry Seal, a CIA asset and
drug runner, was also dropping bales of cash in Mena. The drug money was
laundered (among other channels) through Stephen's Worthen bank and an
Arkansas state agency set up by Governor Bill Clinton (the Arkansas
Development Finance Authority). Overseer of the Iran/Contra operation
was then Vice-President George H.W. Bush as later proved with a memo
from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.
A partner with Stephens
in the Worthen bank was Mochtar Riady, one of the principals in the
Indonesian Lippo Group. The Lippo Group was heavily involved in the
campaign financing scandals of the second Clinton presidential campaign
with links to the Chinese military.
Our final example is perhaps
the most important unfinished investigation of the last forty years. The
Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) was started by a
Pakistani banker ostensibly to service Arab clients in the Middle East.
It quickly became a money laundering mechanism for various terrorist
organizations in the area. It then branched out to London and other
locations and became a repository and laundering channel for a broad
spectrum of organizations including the terrorists as well as Mossad and
the CIA.
BCCI established a branch in Florida and took over the
largest bank in Washington, D.C. (First American) with the assistance of
Stephen�s Worthen bank and the Rose law firm (Hillary, Foster and
Hubbell). When the Florida branch was exposed, it was shut down but the
investigation was limited to Florida.
Later, Assistant District
Attorney Robert Morgenthau in New York launched a comprehensive
investigation into BCCI until it was shut down by Robert Mueller in the
Department of Justice (now FBI Director) and Mary Jo White, Clinton
appointed U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York. White was
held over by George W. Bush long enough to deep six the investigation of
Clinton�s pardon of Marc Rich. She also closed the investigation of
Terry McAuliffe (who was on the verge of being indicted) in the
Teamster/Democratic National Committee campaign money swap
conspiracy.
Yes, Henry, it is understandable why you ducked and
ran when it looked like you might have to disclose your relationship
with Acxiom/Alltel/Systematics and Jackson Stephens.
(In
accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
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Permission is granted to reproduce this article in its
entirety.
The author is a freelance writer based in Romulus,
Michigan. He is a former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a
retired customs administrator and accountant, and a student of history
and the U.S.
Constitution.
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