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By David P Beiter
From: Orlin Grabbe
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying
by J. Orlin Grabbe
Basic instructions:
1) ftp ftp.shout.net
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og001 The Norman Allegations
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og002 Attorney Charles O. Morgan Counter-Attacks
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og003 Follow The Money
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og004 More On Charles O. Morgan
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og005 Intermission
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og006 Bibliography of News Articles Regarding Systematics
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og007 Virtual Realities in the Banking and National Security
Worlds
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og008 Are U.S. Nuclear Secrets for Open Sale on the World
Market?
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og009 Letter to Mr. Wierzynski, Assistant Staff Director,
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Banking
and Financial Services
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og010 The BCCI-Lance-Stephens-Systematics-Hubbell-Clinton
Connection
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og011 Collapse of BCCI Leads To FinCEN, Leads To Artificial
Intelligence, Leads To PROMIS Software
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og012 Cabazon Indian Nation, Wackenhut, PROMIS, Michael
Riconosciuto, and Danny Casolaro
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og013 Computer Virus Enters PROMIS Back Door And Shuts Down
NSA Computers?
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og014 Mellon Bank's Pending RICO Suit May Blow Up The Whole
Laundry Thang -- But Capital's Mobile, Ain't It?
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og015 The World Of Money Laundering, Richard Mellon Scaife,
Ed Meese, and FEMA
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og016 Recent Worms In Government Computers, and Federal
Reserve Pressures Banks Into Banking Surveillance
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og017 Mellon Bank, Sheila Foster Anthony, Lisa Foster, and
the $286,000 Wire Transfer; ALSO: July 1, 1993 to July
23, 1993 Sequence of Events
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og018 Death of Vince Foster Not Satisfactorily Investigated
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og019 The Triangular Trade. Parallels Between Arkansas and
Pittsburgh.
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og020 Geneology of Mr. Grabbe and of the Mellon Family
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og021 Just Pay The Electric Bill, And Hand Me The Keys To
The Mellon Bank
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og022 Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Anthony Are "Astonished and
Incensed", But the Dump Truck Has Sand to Dump on
Their Lawyer
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og023 Did Bush's Plumber Unit Do Dirty Tricks to Perot and
Kill Foster? Did the "Blonde Hairs" Belong to Dee Dee
Myers?
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Date: Tue Aug 08, 1995 9:55 am CST
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part I
by J. Orlin Grabbe
On April 17, 1995, James R. Norman, Senior Editor at Forbes
Magazine, sent the following letter to Michael D. McCurry,
Press Secretary at the White house:
"Dear Mr. McCurry:
"Forbes Magazine is preparing an article for immediate publication.
We would like to offer the White House an opportunity to comment
on the following assertions.
"1.) That Vincent W. Foster, while White House Deputy Counsel,
maintained a Swiss bank account.
"2.) That funds were paid into that account by a foreign
government, specifically the State of Israel.
"3.) That shortly before his death and coincident with the
onset of severe and acute depression, Vincent Foster learned
he was under investigation by the CIA for espionage.
"4.) That this information was made available to him by
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"5.) That while he was White House Deputy Counsel and for
many years prior, Vincent Foster had been a behind-the-
scenes control person on behalf of the National Security
Agency for Systematics, a bank data processing company
integrally involved in a highly secret intelligence effort
to monitor world bank transactions.
"6.) That Systematics was also involved in "laundering" funds
from covert operations, including drug and arms sales related
to activities in and around Mena, Ark.
"7.) That through Systematics' relationship with E-Systems,
Vincent Foster may have had access to highly sensitive code,
encryption and data security information of strategic
importance.
"8.) That both prior to and after his death, documents relating
to Systematics were removed from Vincent Foster's office in
the White House.
"9.) That the meeting at the Cardozo (Landau) estate on the
eastern shore of Maryland on the weekend before Vincent
Foster's death was attended by, among others, George
Stephanopolous.
"10.) That Hillary Rodham Clinton was also a beneficiary of
funds from Foster's Swiss account.
"Thank you very much for your prompt attention to this matter.
Please fax your written response before end-of-business
Tuesday, April 18, to Forbes at 212-620-2417. If you have
questions, please call me at 212-620-2215.
"Respectfully yours,
"James R. Norman, Senior Editor"
The White House did not respond until April 25, 1995. However,
on April 20, 1995, a copy of this letter was leaked by White
House counsel to Mark H. Tuohey IV, an assistant to Kenneth
Starr, a prosecutor leading an "independent" investigation of
events related to Whitewater.
Why was the letter forwarded to a Starr assistant?
Did the White House have reason to believe that the death
of Vincent Foster was related to Whitewater?
Was the letter forwarded to Mark Tuohey so that he could
investigate and comment on the allegations in the letter?
Or was the letter leaked to Mark Tuohey by the White House
because Tuohey is the White House point man for spin control
with respect to any evidence "uncovered" by the investigation?
On April 25, 1995, Michael D. McCurry replied as follows:
"Dear Mr. Norman
"This letter responds to your April 17, 1995 request.
"The allegations contained in your request are outrageous.
Publication of these false allegations will discredit
*Forbes*, maliciously tarnish the reputation of Vincent
Foster, and cause great pain to Mr. Foster's wife and family.
"Should *Forbes* insist on publishing these baseless
allegations, we insist that the Editor of *Forbes* have a pre-
publication meeting with Jane Sherburne of the White House
Counsel's Office and the personal representative of the
President and First Lady, David E. Kendall of Williams &
Connolly. Ms. Sherburne can be reached at (202) 456-5116
and Mr. Kendall's number is (202) 434-5145.
"Sincerely,
"Michael D. McCurry
"Press Secretary"
"cc: Mr. James W. Michaels
Editor, *Forbes*
Mr. Lawrence Minard
Managing Editor, *Forbes*
Mr. William Baldwin
Executive Editor, *Forbes* "
[to be continued]
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part II
by J. Orlin Grabbe
Upon hearing of the alleged connections between Vincent
Foster, the NSA, and its subsidiary Systematics--since
renamed ALLTEL Information Services (4001 N. Rodney Parham Rd.,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72212-2496, phone 501/220-5100)--
ALLTEL Corp. (1 Allied Dr., Little Rock, Arkansas 72202, phone
501/661-8000) hired a San Francisco libel attorney named
Charles O. Morgan (450 Sansome Street, 13th Floor, San
Francisco, CA 94111-3382, phone 415/392-2037) to threaten
journalists who made such allegations.
ALLTEL feared the economic consequences of the charges made
against its private subsidiary: "Banking and financial
institutions are clients of ALLTEL. The irresponsible and false
statements . . . have and will cause my client substantial damage"
(letter from Charles O. Morgan to Agora Inc., March 28, 1995).
Published news articles in the *American Banker* and elsewhere show
that Systematics' (ALLTEL Information Serivces') customers have
included Home Bank, Manufactuers Hanover (now merged with Chemical),
Vboss, Southwestern Bell, various overseas military bases,
City National, California Federal Bank, Federal Home Loan Bank
of San Francisco, Guaranty Federal Savings Bank, River Forest
Bankcorp, First Busey Corp, Decatur Federal Savings and Loan,
Republic National Bank of New York, Anchor Savings Bank, Integra
Financial Corp, Banc One, Nations Bank, Citicorp, Vermont National
Bank, CNB Bancshares, Liberty Bancorp of Oklahoma City, First Union,
First National Bank of Maryland, Amcore Financial, Horizon, Oxford
First Corp, Navy Federal Credit Union, People's National Bank, Drung
Thai Bank Ltd., Bank of Commerce Berhad, Unisys Corp, Corestates
Financial Corp, Novorosiysk Industrial Commercial Ecobank, Royal
Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, United Overseas Bank (Singapore),
Soneri Bank Ltd (Pakistan), Banco National Ultramarino SA
(Macao), BMJ Financial Corp, Security Bank (Arkansas),
Hiberia National Bank, Glendale Federal Bank, First Alabama
Bancshares, Union Bank of Manila, First Pacific National
Bank, Pine Bluff National Bank, Consolidated Bank (Miami),
Citibank of Australia, Savings Bank of the Russian Federation,
Family Bank, Sabine State Bank & Trust, Central Bank, Chemical
Bank, Citibank, Moscow Savings Bank, National Home Mortgage
Company, Barclays Bank PLC, Keycorp, Bank IV Kansas, Borel
of California, Dime Bancorp, and Bellsouth Cellular Corp.
According to John E. Steuri, Chief Executive Officer, President,
and Chairman of the Board of Systematics: "Today, we have
banking, financial services, cellular telephone and hospital
clients in thirty-six (36) countries outside the United States"
(memo from John Steuri to Jim Norman, March 8, 1995, with the
subject listed as "Systematics").
Attorney Charles O. Morgan sent threatening letters to, among others,
Agora Inc., publisher of Strategic Investment (824 East Baltimore
Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-4799), to David Fondiller and Jim Norman
of Forbes (62 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011), and to Bill Hamilton
of Inslaw Inc. (1125 15th St. N.W., #300, Washington D.C.
20005-2707, phone 202/828-8600).
In denying various allegations, Charles O. Morgan makes personal
claims of knowledge that border on the supernatural. For
example, Strategic Investment had written in its March 22,
1995, issue: "Several years ago, investigative reporter Danny
Cassalario [sic] spent many months investigating the Inslaw
case. He told associates that his probe had revealed an
astonishing tale of corruption that he intended to reveal in
a story entitled 'The Octopus.' He was days away from
completing his story when he was found dead, allegedly a
'suicide.' "
In his March 28, 1995, letter to Agora, Inc., Charles O. Morgan
makes the blanket assertion:
"Systematics was not in any way involved in any investigation
by Danny Cassalario [sic]" (page 2).
How could Charles O. Morgan possibly know what topics Danny
Casolaro, a private journalist, was investigating at the
time of Casolaro's death?
Was Charles O. Morgan in close communication with Danny
Casolaro at the time of Casolaro's death?
Did Charles O. Morgan examine Casolaro's papers and notes
following Casolaro's death, to determine if there were any
references to Systematics?
Or did Charles O. Morgan rely on statements by the FBI/Justice
Department regarding the topic of Casolaro's investigations?
If so, he was relying on a biased source, for according to
the "Executive Summary" of a document supplied by Inslaw to
each member of the House Judiciary Committee:
The Office of Special Investigations' (OSI's) "publicly-
declared mission is to locate and deport Nazi war criminals.
The Nazi war criminal program is, however, a front for the
Justice Department's own covert intelligence service,
according to disclosures recently made to INSLAW by several
senior Justice Department career officials. ....
"According to written statements of which INSLAW has obtained
copies, another undeclared mission of the Justice Department's
covert agents was to insure that investigative journalist
Danny Casolaro remained silent about the role of the Justice
Department in the INSLAW scandal by murdering him in West
Virginia in August 1991. INSLAW has acquired copies of two
relevant written statements furnished to a veteran investi-
gative journalist by a national security operative of the U.S.
Government, several months after Casolaro's death. ..."
Finally, did instead Charles O. Morgan simply rely on Sytematics'
assertions that it was not the subject of investigation by
Danny Casolaro? If so, why would Systematics make such an
assertion? Who would suppose there was a connection between
Systematics and the death of Danny Casolaro?
Charles Morgan's denials suggest to me that an important part of
the Kenneth Starr investigation into matters related to Whitewater
should focus on the relationship between the death of Danny Casolaro
and the death of Vincent Foster.
And Kenneth Starr should question Charles O. Morgan with respect
to his personal knowledge of the topics of Danny Casolaro's
investigation which lead to Casolaro's death.
[to be continued]
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Regards, Jim Ray
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the will of the people." Jim Ray, Campaign '92
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part III
by J. Orlin Grabbe
The sequence of events leading the banking software
company Systematics (ALLTEL Information Services) to
hire a libel attorney to deny it was operating on behalf
of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) began more
than a decade ago.
In the early 1980s, the War on (Some) Drugs and the War
on (Some) Terrorists lead to various U.S. government
initiatives to "follow the money."
A Senate subcommittee recommended that the Treasury
Department should work with the "Federal Reserve Board
to develop a better understanding of the financial
significance and use of currency repatriation data as
well as information about foreign depositors' currency
deposits." (U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations, *Crime and Secrecy: The Use of Offshore
Banks and Companies*, U.S. Government Printing Office,
February 1983.)
Over at the National Security Council, Norman A. Bailey,
an economist who understood the electronic flow of money
through SWIFT, Fedwire, and CHIPS, urged the involve-
ment of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Ft.
Meade-based Defense Department agency for signals
intelligence and communications security.
Bailey "confirms that within a few years the National
Security Agency . . . had begun vacuuming up mountains
of data by listening in on bank wire traffic. It became a
joint effort of several Western governments with the
Israelis playing a leading role, since they were the main
target of terrorism" (James R. Norman, "Fostergate").
The NSA proceeded to jack into Fedwire, CHIPS, and
Swift. Doing so would be a priority if the aim was to
monitor banking transactions. But even while essential,
this in itself would be of limited utility without further
information. What is the use of monitoring interbank
transfers that are DES-encrypted? And even if you break
the code, or have the keys, what remains is a money amount
transferred from one account number at one bank to another
account number at another bank. Who owns the accounts?
One way of finding out was the CIA method: to sneak agents
working under cover as computer hardware or software suppliers
into computer rooms. Sometimes a lowly computer programmer has
more access to banking information than does a senior executive,
so this method could enable one to piece together account names
and customer information with account numbers. But such an
approach is not efficient. Efficient spying implies access at
all times.
The evidence indicates that at some point NSA made the logical
decision that continual access meant the NSA had to become a
major provider of banking software.
James R. Norman, Senior Editor at *Forbes*--in an article
entitled "Fostergate," an article scheduled to appear in
the May issue of *Forbes*, but killed at the last minute by
Steve Forbes, apparently through the persuasive urging of
Casper Weinberger, the former Defense Secretary who is
Publisher Emeritus at *Forbes*--makes specific allegations
about several companies which may have become part of such
an NSA operation, and about the role of Vincent Foster:
"Forbes' sources say that since at least the late 1970s,
Foster had been a silent, behind-the-scenes overseer on
behalf of the NSA for a small Little Rock, Ark., bank data
processing company. Its name was Systematics Inc., launched
in 1967 [ 1968? ] and funded and controlled for most of its
life by Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens, a 1946 Naval
Academy graduate. Foster was one of Stephens' trusted deal-
makers at the Rose Law Firm, where he was partner with
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Webster Hubbell and William Kennedy
(whose father was a Systematics director). Hubbell also
played an overseer role at Systematics for the NSA for
some years according to intelligence sources.
"Systematics has had close ties to the NSA and CIA ever
since its founding, sources say, as a money-shuffler for
covert operations. It is no secret that there were billions
of dollars moving around in 'black' accounts--from buying
and selling arms to the Contras, Iran, Iraq, Angola and
other countries to paying CIA operatives and laundering
money from clandestine CIA drug dealing. Having taken
over the complete computer rooms in scores of small U.S.
banks as an 'outsource' supplier of data processing,
Systematics was in a unique position to manage that covert
money flow. Sources say the money was moved at the end of
every day disguised as a routine bank-to-bank balancing
transaction.... ....
"Systematics' money-laundering role for the intelligence
community might help explain why Jackson Stephens tried to
take over Washington-based Financial General Bankshares in
1978 on behalf of Arab backers of the Bank of Credit and
Commerce International. BCCI's links to global corruption
and intelligence operations has been well documented, though
many mysteries remain.
"According to a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange
Commission, Stephens insisted on having then-tiny Systematics
brought in to take over all the bank's data processing.
Representing Systematics in that 1978 SEC case: Hillary
Rodham Clinton and Webster Hubbell. Stephens was blocked
in that takeover. But FGB, later renamed First American,
ultimately fell under the domination of BCCI through Robert
Altman and former Defense Sec. Clark Clifford. According
to a technician who worked at First American in Atlanta,
Systematics became a key computer contractor there anyway.
"In the 1980s Systematics' business boomed. When it first
sold stock to the public in 1983, revenues were $64 million.
That had risen to $230 million by the time Stephens arranged
Systematics' sale to Alltel Corp., a telephone holding
company which then moved its headquarters to Little Rock.
Last year Systematics sales hit $861 million--a third of
Alltel's total. Stephens now owns more than 8% of Alltel
and wields significant influence over the company. ....
"Another curious company is Arkansas Systems, founded in
1974 by Systematics employee and former U.S. Army 'analyst'
John Chamberlain. Located just down the road from
Systematics, Arkansas Systems specializes in computer
systems for foreign wire transfer centers and central banks.
Among its clients, Russia and China, according to Arkansas
Systems president James K. Hendren, a physicist formerly
involved with the Safeguard anti-missile system. Arkansas
Systems was one of the first companies to receive funding
from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, an agency
created by then Gov. Bill Clinton that is now coming under
congressional scrutiny.
"What does Alltel have to say about all this? 'I've never
heard anything so asinine in all my life,' steams Joe T.
Ford, Alltel's chairman and the father of Jack Stephens'
chief administrative aide."
Charles O. Morgan, on the other hand, claims omniscience
with respect to what did *not* happen with respect to
Systematics.
[to be continued]
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Regards, Jim Ray
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part IV
by J. Orlin Grabbe
In an April 5, 1995, letter to Michael Geltner (10 E Street,
S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003)--an attorney for Agora, Inc.--
Charles O. Morgan asserts;
"6. Webster Hubbell never served as an attorney or in any
other capacity for ALLTEL Corporation, or for any of its
operations or subsidiaries, other than a single instance in
1983, when Systematics, Inc., engaged Mr. Hubbell to pursue
a competitor that was using Systematics, Inc.'s propriety
software without authorization; ..."
In his admirable zeal to defend his client Systematics,
Mr. Charles O. Morgan apparently forgot to do any research
regarding the allegations he was denying. For his denial
is mistaken. Web Hubbell (along with Hillary Rodham Clinton)
represented Systematics in a 1978 lawsuit.
In 1978 Jackson Stephens tried to take over Financial General
Bankshares (FGB) in Washington, D.C. (FGB was later acquired
by BCCI, renamed First American, and run by Robert Altman and
Clark Clifford. Robert Altman was later acquitted of mis-
leading regulators, and the case against Clifford was dropped
due to his age and infirmity.) In the Stephens' takeover
attempt, FGB sued--among others--Systematics. Briefs for
Systematics were submitted by C.J. Giroir, Web Hubbell, and
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The essential details may be found in the article "Who is
Jack Ryan?" (*Wall Street Journal*, Monday, August 1, 1994):
"Attorneys for Mr. Clifford and Mr. Altman included
independent counsel Robert Fiske and Deputy Attorney
General Jamie Gorelick, as well as Robert Bennett,
president Clinton's attorney in the Paula Corbin
Jones case. And, of course, Arkansas investment
banking giant Stephens Inc., which says all connect-
ions with the BCCI front men ended in 1978, does
acknowledge it handled their initial brokerage for the
purchase.
"Indeed, in the early takeover maneuvers Financial
General Bankshares, First American's predecessor
company, brought a 1978 lawsuit naming 'Bert Lance,
Bank of Credit & Commerce International, Agha Hasan
Abedhi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens
Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through
25.' The suit was ultimately settled, but intriguingly,
briefs for Systematics, a Stephens property, were
submitted by a trio of lawyers including C.J. Giroir
and Webster L. Hubbell and signed by Hillary Rodham."
First American was subsequently used by the CIA to manage
and launder money for covert operations. As noted in a
U.S. Senate report:
"After the CIA knew that BCCI was as an institution a
fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it continued
to use both BCCI and First American, BCCI's secretly
held U.S. subsidiary, for CIA operations. ...
"Kamal Adham, who was the CIA's principal liason for
the entire Middle East from the mid-1960s through 1979,
was the lead frontman for BCCI in its takeover of First
American, was an important nominee shareholder for BCCI,
and remains one of the key players in the entire BCCI
affair." (Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown,
*The BCCI Affair: a Report to the Committee on Foreign
Relations, United States Senate*, GPO, December 1992.)
The Arkansas connection to CIA covert operations and First
American may help explain why "independent" counsel Robert
Fiske failed to find much evidence of wrong-doing in his
investigation into Whitewater.
And perhaps it also helps explain why Charles O. Morgan does
such sloppy research, for as we have seen, Web Hubbell
represented his client Systematics Inc. five years prior to
the "single instance in 1983" that Charles O. Morgan claims.
Does Charles O. Morgan have a blind spot where intelligence
activities are concerned?
Surely he has thought about the issue, for in his April 5,
1995, letter to Michael Geltner, Morgan sweepingly asserts:
"4. None of ALLTEL's operations or subsidiaries has ever
had any connection in any capacity with the Central
Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, or any
other similar agency in the United States Government; ..."
How can Charles O. Morgan possibly know this about his client,
given that he *doesn't even know about that Systematics Inc.
was a defendent in a lawsuit brought by Financial General
Bankshares, or that Systematics was involved in a takeover
attempt of FGB/First American even prior to BCCI's?* The
BCCI affair was hardly a minor political story.
So what does Charles O. Morgan deny about Vincent Foster?
James R. Norman, Senior Editor at *Forbes*, writes:
"Vince Foster a spy? Actually, it is much worse than
that, if the CIA's suspicions are confirmed by the
ongoing foreign counterintelligence probe. He would
have been an invaluable double agent with potential
access to not only high level political information,
but also to sensitive code, encryption and data
transmission secrets--the stuff by which modern war
is won or lost. That is because for many years,
according to nine separate current and former U.S. law
enforcement or intelligence officials, Foster had been
a behind-the-scenes manager of a key support company
in one of the biggest, most secretive spy efforts on
record: the silent surveillance of banking trans-
actions both here and abroad." (James R. Norman,
*Fostergate*.)
[to be continued]
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Regards, Jim Ray
"The people will again respect the law when the law again respects
the will of the people." Jim Ray, Campaign '92
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Date: Tue Aug 08, 1995 9:56 am CST
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part V
by J. Orlin Grabbe
But before we continue with the litany of Charles O.
Morgan's denials, it is time for intermission, for soda
and popcorn, for stretching cramped legs. The following
screen fodder is a meditation, an illumination, and
none of it is factual.
*********************************************
BEGIN INTERMISSION
This is *not* a story about who actually pulled the
trigger on Vince Foster. For in any case, Vince
Foster is dead.
This is *not* a story about any specific company, such
as the allegations against Systematics, for if no
such company existed, then the NSA would create one.
Or several.
It is *not* a story about money-laundering in Mena,
Arkansas, because money-laundering doesn't alarm
me. Anyone who has read my essay "The End of Ordinary
Money" (currently in two parts) knows that I think the
money-laundering laws are an odious intrusion into
financial privacy, and should be abolished.
It is *not* a story about Charles O. Morgan. But the
accuracy of Morgan's assertions is relevant to under-
standing what has happened and is happening. Even
though Morgan is a fine lawyer and a man of impeccable
character, his research mistakes could lead some to
erroneously conclude that he is a fool or a paid liar.
This is *not* a story about any particular foreign power:
whether Russia, China, France, Germany, Israel, or the
United Kingdom. But any country that has shit on the
carpet deserves to have its nose rubbed in the evidence.
There are no privileged foreign powers.
This is *not* an attack on the NSA monitoring of foreign
missile and nuclear programs. The acquistion of information
for self-protection is a fundamental human right, and those
who don't exercise this right often end up dead. But I
just want to know what the fuck NSA's doing in my
checking account.
This is *not* a story about Cap Weinberger, BUT HOW AND
WHY DID HE GET JIM NORMAN'S STORY KILLED?
This *is* a story about the uses of propaganda, whereby
appeals to "terrorism," "money-laundering," "child
pornography," and other handy bugaboos are cited by
the Overlords of the Surveillance State as an excuse
to send jack-booted thugs to "protect us," to monitor
our every action to make sure we toe the current
political line, and to create vast financial data
bases to ensure we get taxed to pay for all of the
above.
This *is* a story about hypocrisy, whereby the friends
of Bill Clinton and George Bush may launder millions of
dollars at will, but the hoi polloi are prosecuted for
"structuring" two $7500 cash payments.
It *is* a story about a corrupt and evil judiciary
system that has filled 60 percent of prison space with
minor drug offenders, with a resultant overcrowding causing
early release of murders, rapists, and other violent
criminals in order to make more room for marijuana
smokers.
It *is* a story about a "war on drugs" conducted to
increase monopoly profit margins, to provide a cash
flow for widespread political payoffs, and to
provide continuing employment for psychotic law
enforcement officials.
This *is* a story about a political equation which says
"investigative body" = cover-up commission
whereby one conducts a thorough investigation into
the evidence or witnesses that have been left laying around,
so that the evidence can be burned, and the witnesses
silenced or killed.
This *is* a story about the media participation in this
process, whereby promoted stories are referred to as
"well-researched and well documented" while suppressed
stories are labelled "conspiracy theories." In a recent
extreme case, a major news organization elicited witnesses
and video-taped them for "an expose on Mena," then later
killed the story. Meanwhile, copies of the video tapes were
turned over to goons who subsequently killed some of the
same witnesses.
This *is* a horror story that made me toss and turn at
night, until I recalled the words of my friend Jack Wheeler,
who told me: "We created a doctrine to do in the Soviet
empire. And it worked. It's now time to do in the
Washington empire." And reflecting on these words, I fell
peacefully asleep. And I had a dream.
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Date: Tue Aug 08, 1995 9:57 am CST
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part VI
by J. Orlin Grabbe
In February 1995, having heard some of the malicious
rumors regarding Systematics (ALLTEL Information Services),
I posted on the Internet a bibliography of news articles
regarding Systematics, so that researchers could see for
themselves that Systematics was just another hard-working
software company that provided banking software.
In that post I mentioned some of the rumors and
stated:
"Of course these allegations are FALSE. However, for
those who may [be] interested in doing their own private
research on SYSTEMATICS, and verifying for themselves
the utter FALSEHOOD of these malicious lies, I have
compiled a brief bibliography on the company."
But now the heavy-handed tactics of ALLTEL Information
Services (formerly Systematics) have made me reconsider.
Could it be that at least some of the rumors are true?
Why did ALLTEL Information Services, based in Little
Rock, Arkansas, hire a lawyer way over in San Francisco
to threaten journalists who chose to investigate these
rumors? Charles O. Morgan claims that "Banking and
financial institutions are clients of ALLTEL. The
irresponsible and false statements . . . have and will
cause my client substantial damage."
Well, I assert that I know much more about the banking
environment than does Charles O. Morgan. And I assert
that what Charles O. Morgan claims is nonsense.
The banking environment is a communication-based environ-
ment, where rumors about companies spread quickly and die
quickly. Banking people are up to their necks in rumors.
Given the environment, they have to take rumors with a grain
of salt until they have hopped on the phone and spoken with
six colleagues who can help them evaluate the purported facts.
ALLTEL Information Services has nothing to fear from a
bunch of pissant rumors that are false. But if ALLTEL
Information Services has nothing to fear, then WHY HAVE
THEY REPORTEDLY HIRED A NEW YORK-BASED PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE
FIRM CALLED *PROUST AND KILLMAN* TO MONITOR THEIR CRITICS?
If ALLTEL Information Services were to choose to engage in
cheap thuggery, then SUCH ACTIONS MIGHT CALL FORTH AN ARCHIVE
OF DOCUMENTS THAT COULD BURY ALLTELL INFORMATION SERVICES
IN DEEP SHIT WELL INTO THE 21ST CENTURY.
Of course, such an archive probably doesn't exist. But ALLTEL
Information Services can't be too sure of this.
As for myself, I personally could care less what it is that
ALLTEL Information Services didn't do. I just want them to
stop not doing it.
The Systematics bibliography is repeated below. But so
that researchers don't waste their time, I want to
relay some helpful information provided by John Steuri.
John Steuri is CEO of ALLTEL Information Services (formerly
Systematics), and--unlike Charles O. Morgan way over in San
Francisco--is right there in Little Rock, where he can keep
an eye on what's going on. In his memo to Jim Norman, dated
March 16, 1995, titled "Systematics", Mr. Steuri makes the
following statements:
"1. Hillary Clinton was never on ALLTEL's or Systematics
Boards of Directors.
"2. Beryl Anthony was never on ALLTEL's or Systematics'
Boards of Directors. Further, if Mr. Anthony was some-
how related by marriage or otherwise to Mr. Vincent Foster,
I was not aware of it. As I told you, I never met Mr.
Foster. I was introduced to Mr. Anthony once on a trip
to Washington, D.C. to meet with federal bank regulatory
agencies.
"3. Until your inquiry and meeting with Joe Ford and me on
March 1, 1995, we had never heard of Boston Systematics
and/or Systematics Ltd. and Systematics Technology in
Israel. We found them in public Dun and Bradstreet data-
bases after you contacted us. We don't know who they are
or what they do or who they may associate with, and we don't
know their principals who are listed in D&B or others whose
names you've provided me. Simply put, we have no present or
past relationship with or any knowledge of these organi-
zations.
"4. We have no present or prior relationship whatsoever
with any company called E-Systems.
"5. We do not do any 'private bank-to-bank transfers' of
funds or operate or provide any software for wire transfers.
Our clients do transfer normal debit/credit transactions via
the Fed ACH system or via the other networks like SWIFT,
etc., which I listed some of in my fax to you of March 8,
1995.
"6. If Webster Hubbell has called Systematics at least
'twice' since being in Washington to obtain 'data on
foreign companies', I am unaware of any such inquiries,
and I have not learned of anyone here who is aware of or
took any such calls.
"7. If Vincent Foster had 'several Systematics documents in
his files', we are totally unaware of any such documents.
Very likely, if they in fact exist, they may somehow be
related to one of the more than fifty (50) other companies
who use the name 'Systematics' who have absolutely no
relationship whatsoever to our Company. I provided you with
a list of these companies we found in public databases since
you contacted us on March 1, 1995.
"8. I don't know anything about companies named Atlantic
Research or Mitek?(sp). We know of Computer Sciences as
we have on occasion competed with them for bank out-
sourcing projects.
"9. If Systematics is or was in line for any big (or
small) healthcare contracts with the U.S. government as
part of healthcare reform, we are totally unaware of it.
We were never asked to participate in or provide input
to any of the Clinton Administration's healthcare task
forces, study groups, hearings, etc. Your comments and
questions on that front come as a total surprise to us.
"10. We do not request or use the U.S. government or any
officials of same to solicit or assist us in obtaining
favorable consideration of any domestic or foreign contracts
for our banking software (or bank processing services in
the U.S.). If we are required by law to obtain approvals
or export licenses to do business in certain countries, we
will, of course, seek to obtain same from the appropriate
federal agency.
"11. There is absolutely no correlation or connection
whatsoever between any domestic or foreign business or
contracts we've signed and the election of the current
Administration in Washington or any prior Administrations."
Thanks, Mr. Steuri, for the helpful information.
I am a little confused about point #3, however. Is this
the same Boston Systematics which Jim Norman, Senior Editor
at Forbes, alleges is "headed by former CIA officer Harry
C. Wechsler, which controls two Israeli companies that also
use the name Systematics" and from which "Inslaw claims it
got two inquiries in 1987 from Wechsler's Israeli company
seeking marketing data on PROMIS"?
Is this the same Harry Wechsler, whose daughter is also a
Senior Editor at Forbes?
Well, this is all too confusing for me. I think I'll
take a break. I think I'll take my Mellon Bank credit
card and treat myself to a nice dinner.
[to be continued]
*******Repeat of Systematics Bibliography**********
SYSTEMATICS (composed of Systematics Financial Services
Inc. and Systematics Information Services Inc. of Little Rock,
Arkansas, as well as Systematics Telecommunications Services
Inc.of Dallas, Pennsylvania), a private subsidiary of ALLTEL
Corp. (1 Allied Dr., Little Rock, Arkansas 72202, phone
501/661-8000).
SYTEMATICS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
SYSTEMATICS INFORMATION SERVICES INC.
4001 N. Rodney Parham Rd.
Little Rock AR 72212-2496
TELEPHONE: 501/220-5100
SMSA: 4400; Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS: Services: Financial data processing and
computer integrated systems design. Finance: Holding company.
PRIMARY SIC: 7374_Data Processing Services
SECONDARY SIC: 7373_Computer Integrated Systems Design
YEAR FOUNDED: 1968 ULTIMATE PARENT: ALLTEL Corp.
IMMEDIATE PARENT: ALLTEL Corp.
SPECIAL FEATURE: Private subsidiary
EMPLOYEES: 6100 SOURCE: DataSources
REVENUE: $589.5 M TYPE: OPERATING REVENUE SOURCE: DataSources
FISCAL YEAR: 931231
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: John E. Steuri; Chief Executive Officer,
President, Chairman of the Board
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: William A. Hubbard; Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer
HEAD OF MARKETING, SALES: Collins A. Andrews; Executive Vice
President, Business Development
HEAD OF MIS, SYSTEMS: Stephen A. Carns; President and Chief Operating
Officer
PERSONNEL DIRECTOR: James R. Hillis; Vice President, Human Resources
SYSTEMATICS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES INC.
Route 309 N., Bldg. DP-A
Dallas, PA 18612
TELEPHONE: 717/674/5400
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS: Services: Developer of prepacked telephone
management software.
PRIMARY SIC: 7372_Prepackaged Software
PRESIDENT: Drew P. Kelso
1988:
Systematics: big name in facilities management. by
David O. Tyson il v153 American Banker
Jan 6 '88 p1(3)
Software profitable for facilities management
giant; Systematics develops fourth-generation
applications for financial institutions. (part 2) by
David O. Tyson il v153 American Banker Jan 7 '88
p16(1)
Software vendor charges rival 'stole' customer (Florida
Software Services Inc.'s suit against Home Bank in
Signal Hill, California and Systematics Inc.) by
David O. Tyson v153 American Banker March 2 '88
p1(4)
John Steuri of IBM will head Systematics Inc. by David
O. Tyson v153 American Banker Aug 30 '88
p39(1)
Systematics develops loan system at measured pace.
(Asset Management Systems) by David O. Tyson
v153 American Banker Dec 21 '88 p7(1)
1989:
Systematics, Inc. by William Mehlman v14 The
Insiders' Chronicle Jan 9 '89 p3(1)
Hanover converting back-office systems to IBM.
(Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.) (Hanover replaces
NCR mainframes with retail banking software from
Systematics Inc.) by David O. Tyson v154 American
Banker Feb 9 '89 p2(1)
IBM veteran to succeed Smiley as chairman of Systematics.
(Walter V. Smiley; John E. Steuri) by David O.
Tyson il v154 American Banker March 15 '89 p9(1)
Soft dollars. (computer software companies) by
David Churbuck il v143 Forbes May 1 '89 p126(2)
Systematics eyes big Bank market; data processor views
Hanover deal as springboard. (Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Co.) by David O. Tyson il v154
American Banker, June 7 '89 p10(2)
Systematics sets up unit to support IBM AS/400
minicomputer, by David O. Tyson, v154 American
Banker Oct 11 '89 p7(1)
When it's time to go. (Walter Smiley resigns as head of
Systematics) by Michael Barrier il v77 Nation's
Business Nov '89 p74(3)
System processes all jobs with IBM AS/400
computer. (Systematics Inc.) v81 ABA Banking
Journal Dec '89 p70(1)
1990:
System sharpens competitive edge; software architecture
automates product creation. by Karen Gullo i1 v155
American Banker April 26 '90 p3(1)
Systematics plans to acquire Horizon, its AS/400
software. by Jeanne Iida v155 American Banker May 16
'90 p3(1)
A winning idea . (Jack Stephens' Systematics Co.)
(company profile) by Wythe Walker Jr. il v7 Arkansas
Business June 4 '90 p22(2)
Systematics signs pact with Vboss. by Karen Gullo
v155 American Banker July 3 '90 p3(1)
ISDN is convention center's key to efficiency. (Dallas,
TX convention center uses ISDN centrex service
from Southwestern Bell) v27 Communications
News Sept '90 p37(1)
Systematics Inc. to buy mortgage data processor.
(Computer Dynamics Inc.) by Matt Barthel v155 American
Banker Oct 30 '90 p3(1)
Upgraded system on the way for overseas military
bases. (Systematics Inc.) by Matt Barthel v155
American Banker Nov 13 '90 p3(1)
Systematics set to market bank statement software. by
Matt Barthel v 155 American Banker Dec 13 '90
p3(1)
City National outsources data processing
operation. by Matt Barthel v150 American Banker
Dec 20 '90 p3(1)
Home Bank renews contract with Systematics. v155
American Banker Dec 26 '90 p3(1)
C-Tec Corp. (to sell C-Tec Information Services
Co., C-Tec Management Information Services Inc. to
Systematics Inc.) (Brief) 1 col in. v140 The New York
Times Dec 29 '90 p17(N) p31(L) col 1
1991:
Off-the-shelf software for Ahmanson. (Home Savings
of America) by Matt Barthel v156 American Banker Jan
22 '91 p3(1)
Systematics Inc. to operate First NH Banks' data
center. (Technology/Operations News) by Karen Gullo
v156 American Banker Feb 11 '91 p3(1)
An emerging giant; $1.6-billion Alltel and
Systematics are positioned for corporate greatness:
can they pull it off? (merger of Alltel Corp. and
Systematics Inc.)(includes history of Systematics
Inc.) (Cover Story) by Rex Nelson il v8 Arkansas
Business April 8 '91 p18(4)
Systematics, LaserAccess in pact. (Systematics Financial
Services Inc., Laser Access Corp.) by Jean Iida v156
American Banker May 23 '91 p3(1)
CalFed to farm out processing, joining trend by
big institutions. (California Federal Bank
F.S.B.)(Technology/Operations News) by Karen Gullo il
v156 American Banker June 14 '91 p1(2)
Co-op of small N.Y. banks signs pact with
Systematics. (Systematics Information Services
Inc.)(Technology/Operations: A Weekly Feature) by Matt
Barthel v156 American Banker Sept 11 '91 p3(1)
Systematics, home loan bank in pact. (Systematics
Information Services Inc., Federal Home Loan Bank of
San Francisco)(Technology/Operations) by Matt Barthel
v156 American Banker August 16 '91 p3(1)
Giant thrift outsources. (California Federal Bank
F.S.B.) (Operations Briefs) (Brief Article) v83 ABA
Banking Journal August '91 p57(1)
Guaranty Federal renews processing pact; River
Forest and First Busey also conclude outsourcing
agreements. (Guaranty Federal Savings Bank, River
Forest Bancorp Inc.)(First Busey
Corp.)(Technology/Operations) by Karen Gullo v156
American Banker August 26 '91 p3(1)
Country cousin. (Alltel Corp. enters telephone
equipment manufacturing, long distance telephone
services, information services, and cable television
markets) by Gary Slutsker il v148 Forbes Sept 30 '91
p42(2)
EDS, Systematics, Fiserv thriving; earnings rise;
IBM outsourcing unit leads in volume.
(Technology/Operations: A Weekly Feature) by Matt
Barthel il v156 American Banker Nov 6 '91 p3(1)
Decatur signs Systematics for processing. (Decatur
Federal Savings and Loan, Systematics Financial
Services Inc.)(Technology/Operations: A Weekly
Feature) (Brief Article) by Matt Barthel v156 American
Banker Dec 4 '91 p3(1)
CPI sold because Merill Lynch wanted out (Computer Power Inc.
Merilly Lynch Capital Partners) by Jane Hirsch v7 Jacksonville
Business Journal Dec 13 '91 p3(1)
IBM veteran Stephen Carns finds a slot at Systematics.
(People in the News) by Matt Barthel v 156
American Banker Dec 31 '91 p2(1)
1992:
Systematics strengthens consolidation trend.
(Systematics Information Services acquires Computer
Power Inc.) il v102 United States Banker Jan '92
p51(1)
CalFed trims Systematics contract; regulators objected
to capital outlays required. (California Federal Bank
Systematics Financial Services) by Matt Barthel
v157 American Banker Feb 7 '92 p3(1)
CalFed, victim of weakness. (US Office of Thrift
Supervision forbids CalFed Inc. to enter any long-
term, big-ticket arrangements) il v102 United States
Banker March '92 p70(1)
Outsourcing just a fad? Not at Republic. (use of outside
sources, Republic National Bank of New York) by
John M. Scopaz v157 American Banker March 17
'92 p4(2)
Anchor, Systematics sign processing pact. (Anchor
Savings Bank F.S.B.; Systematics Information Services
Inc.) (Technology/Operations) by Matthew Barthel v157
American Banker April 10 '92 p3(1)
Anchor Bank outsources IS (to Systematics Information
Services) by Nell Margolis v26 Computerworld
April 13 '92 p4(1)
Systematics buys equity stake in Treasury Services Corp.
(Systematics Information Services Inc.) by Matt Barthel
v157 American Banker April 29 '92 p3(i)
Image-based item processing: a cost-efficient approach. by
Stephen A Carns v177 The Bankers Magazine
May-June '94 p34(4)
Systematics buys processing unit (from Federal Home Loan
Bank of New York) by Matt Barthel v157 American
Banker May 22 '92 p3(1)
Integra renews data-center pact with Systematics for 5 to
10 years. (Integra Financial Corp.; Systematics
Financial Services Inc.) by Jeanne Iida v157 American
Banker June 4 '92 p3(1)
Systematics Information Services Inc. (The Datamation 100)
Company profile by Elizabeth Lindholm v38 Datamation
June 15 '92 p138(1)
Federal lender sells item processing business.
(Federal Home Loan Bank of New York sells business to
Systematics) (Brief Article) v84 ABA Banking Journal
July '92 p71(1)
Integra merger helps Systematics. (Integra
Financial Corp.; Systematics Information Services
Inc.; banking industry) by Barton Crockett v157
American Banker August 7 '92 p3(1)
NationalsBank hires Systematics for retail consolidation
effort. by Matt Barthel il v157 American Banker
August 31 '92 p1(2)
Banc One taps EDS for Texas processing. by Jeanne
Iida il v157 American Banker Oct 8 '92 p1(2)
Manufacturers Bank in Systematics deal. v157 American
Banker Oct 19 '92 p26A(1)
Retail banking megadeal. (NationsBank Corp. signs
contract with Systematics Information Services Inc.)
(Brief Article) v84 ABA Banking Journal Nov '92 p70(1)
City National selling unit to Systematics. (City
National Bank, Systematics Information Services Inc.)
by Jeanne Iida v157 American Banker Dec 18 '92 p1(2)
Citicorp shifting to Systematics: software deal is
part of overhaul seeking big cost cuts. (Brief
Article) by Jeanne Iida v157 American Banker Dec 22
'92 p3(1)
1993:
NationsBank unit hires Systematics. (NationsBank Military
Banking Div.) v158 American Banker Jan 4 '93 p18A(1)
Vermont National in license pact. (Vermont National Bank,
Systematics Financial Services Inc.) v158 American
Banker Jan 4 '93 p18A(1)
CNB outsourcing with Systematics. (CNB Bancshares Inc.)
v158 American Banker Jan 19 '93 p15A(1)
Citicorp Data System to use Systematics. v158 American
Banker Jan 19 '93 p14A(1)
Liberty sees integration of systems as key to survival. (Liberty
Bancorp of Oklahoma City) by Brian Hellauer il v158
American Banker Jan 19 '93 p3A(1)
Systematics software for First Union. v158 American Banker
Feb 1 '93 p17A(1)
Maryland Bank signs with Systematics (First National Bank
of Maryland) v158 American Banker Feb 1 '93 p16A(1)
CVB to drop service deal and do its own processing. (CVB
Financial Corp) by Barton Crockett v158 American Banker
Feb 8 '93 p3(1)
Systematics wins Amcore contract. (Amcore Financial)
v158 American Banker Feb 16 '93 p19A(1)
Systematics inks licensing pact. (Horizon software license)
v158 American Banker March 1 '93 p15A(1)
Systematics signs licensing pacts. (Management Strategies)
v158 American Banker March 29 '93 p MS15A(1)
Systematics' Steuri is highest-paid executive. by Dave
Smith il v10 Arkansas Business April 5 '93 p18(1)
Systematics signs Oxford First Corp. v158 American
Banker April 12 '93 p15A(1)
Systematics inks two pacts in Va. (Navy Federal Credit
Union, People's National Bank) v158 American
Banker April 12 '93 p14A(1)
Major Thai bank taps Systematics. (Drung Thai Bank Ltd.)
v158 American Banker April 12 '93 p14A(1)
Malaysian bank taps Systematics (Bank of Commerce Berhad)
v158 American Banker April 26 '93 p13A(1)
Sytematics to use deposited-check imaging; installation
at firm's N.J. center would be the first by an outsourcer.
(Systematics Financial Servicess Inc., Unisys Corp.) by
Barton Crockett v158 American Banker May 19 '93
p3(1)
Systematics Information Services Inc. (One of 100
company profiles of North American companies in the
Datamation 100 special issue) (Company Profile) by
Elizabeth Lindholm il v39 Datamation June 15 '93
p100(1)
Republic signs up with Systematics for check
processing. (Republic National Bank of New York;
Systematics Information Services)
(Technology/Operations News) by Jeanne Iida v158
American Banker August 6 '93 p16(1)
CoreStates turns to Systematics. (Corestates Financial
Corp., Systematics Financial Services Inc.) by
Matt Barthel v158 American Banker August 13 '93
p 17(1)
Systematics inks two agreements. v158 American Banker
August 30 '93 p16A(1)
Systematics sees opportunity beyond bank outsourcing. by
Hellauer il v158 American Banker Sept 3 '93 p16(2)
Two's a trickle, three's a trend? (bank check
processing contracts) v103 United States Banker Sept
'93 p64(1)
Systematics gets Republic contract (Republic National Bank
of New York) v158 American Banker Oct 12 '93 p14A(1)
Systematics signs a Russian bank. (Systematics Financial
Services Inc.; Novorosiysk Industrial Commercial
Ecobank) v 158 American Banker Oct 25 '93 p 17A(1)
Systematics signs bank in Trinidad (Royal Bank of Trinidad and
Tobago) v158 American Banker Oct 25 '93 p15A(1)
Systematics signs a Canadian bank v158 American Banker
Nov 8 '93 p13A(1)
Horizon available at L.A. data center (financial processing
software) v 158 American Banker Dec 6 '93 p19A(1)
Systematics signs bank in Singapore (United Overseas Bank)
v158 American Banker Dec 6 '93 p20A(1)
Systematics signs bank in Pakistan (Soneri Bank Ltd.) v158
American Banker Dec 6 '93 p19A(1)
Systematics inks a bank in Macao (Banco National Ultramarino SA)
v158 American Banker Dec 6 '93 p19A(1)
1994:
B.M.J. converted to item imaging. (BMJ Financial Corp converts
check processing to system from Systematics) v159
American Banker Jan 3 '94 p16A(1)
Systematics mentioned in Hogan Systems Inc.--Company
Report by J. H. Adams The Principal/Eppler, Guerin
& Turner Jan 13 '94 15 pages.
Arkansas's Security Bank signs with Systematics (Systematics
Financial Services' Horizon software is leased) v159
American Banker Jan 31 '94 p12A(1)
Systematics gets Hibernia contract as bank drops IBM by
Matt Barthel v159 American Banker Jan 14 '94 p16(1)
Systematics wins Glenfed data contract (Glendale Federal
Bank) by Karen Gullo v159 American Banker Feb
11'94 p16(1)
Systematics loan software for First Alabama.
(Systematics Information Services Inc.; First Alabama
Bancshares) (Brief Article) by Jeffrey Zack v159
American Banker Feb 23 '94 p16(1)
Systematics signs Union of Manila (Systematics Financial
Services Inc., Union Bank of Manila) v 159 American
Banker Feb 28 '94 p16A(1)
1st Alabama adds Systematics tools. (First Alabama
Bancshares, Systematics Information Services Inc.)
(Brief Article) by Valerie Block v159 American Banker
March 14 '94 p7A(1)
Hibernia signs with Systematics. (Hibernia National Bank)
by Valerie Block v159 American Banker March 14 '94
p. 6A(1)
First Pacific renews processing pact with
Systematics. (First Pacific National Bank; Systematics
Information Services Inc.; data processing contract)
(Brief Article) by Jeffrey Zack v159 American Banker
March 15 '94 p15(1)
Systematics has check imaging for small banks. (Systematics
Financial Services Inc.) by Karen Gullo v159 American
Banker March 24 '94 p16(1)
Arkansas Systems inks in-state bank. (Pine Bluff National Bank
contracts with Systematics Financial Services Inc., includes
info on First Pacific National Bank contract renewal) v159
American Banker March 28 '94 pA11(1)
Miami's Consolidated Bank signs pact with
Systematics for data processing. (Systematics
Information Services) (Brief Article) by Daniel
Strachman il v159 American Banker April 7 '94 p16(1)
Citi Australia switching vendors of profit software (Citibank
Australia contracts with Treasury Services Corp and
Systematics Financial Services Inc.) by Daniel Strachman
v159 American Banker April 20 '94 p18(1)
IBM, Systematics in deal with major Russian bank (Systematics
Financial Services Inc., Savings Bank of the Russian
Federation) by Brian Tracey v159 American Banker
April 25 '94 p15(1)
Consolidated of Miami joins Systematics fold (Consolidated Bank
of Miami signs outsourcing contract with Systematic
Financial Services Inc) v159 American Banker May 9 '94
p12A(1)
Systematics signs 3 community banks. (SFS, Guaranty Bank and Trust
Co., Denver Colorado, Family Bank, Hallandale, Florida, Sabine
State Bank and Trust Co.) by Daniel Strachman v159 American
Banker May 12 '94 p18(1)
Financial data processor get set to set up in L.A. (Systematics
Financial Services Inc.) by Liz Mullen v16 Los Angeles
Business Journal May 16 '94 p11(1)
IBM, Systematics ink Moscow Bank (computer software for
Savings Bank of the Russian Federation) v159 American
Banker June 6 '94 p14A(2)
Systematics signs a Louisiana Bank. (Systematics Financial
Services Inc. will license software and services to
Central Bank) (Management Strategies) v159
American Banker June 6 '94 p14A(1)
Systematics in software pacts with Chemical and
Citibank. (Systematics Information Services, Chemical
Bank, Citibank Singapore) (Brief Article) by Deidre
Sullivan v159 American Banker June 3 '94 p16(1)
Russian bankers visit Systematics, LR; Alltel
subsidiary to revamp antiquated Moscow bank.
(Systematics Information Services Inc.; Moscow Savings
Bank) by Kris Hunter il v11 Arkansas Business June 27
'94 p20(1)
Systematics to manage mortgage firm's data (outsourcing
contract with National HOme Mortgage Corp. of San
Diego, CA) v159 American Banker, July 1 '94 p17(1)
Systematics signs 3 long-term deals (software systems for
banks) v159 American Banker July 5 '94 p16A(1)
Barclays to install Systematics loan software. (Barclays Bank
PLC, Systematics Financial Services Inc.) by Deidre
Sullivan v159 American Banker July 11 '94 p16(1)
Keycorp enlists Systematics for back-office conversions
by Karen Epper v159 American Banker July 27 '94 p7(1)
Systematics wins Barclays contract (Barclays Bank PLC) v159
American Banker August 1 '94 p16A(1)
Systematics wins renewels from three foreign banks by Deidre
Sullivan v159 American Bank August 3 '94 p16A(1)
Bank IV to use Systematics' International software. (Bank IV
Kansas) (Brief article) v 159 American Banker August
22 '94 p15(1)
Systematics signs 3 foreign banks v159 American Banker
August 29 '94 p16A(1)
Systematics to handle Naitonal Home Mortgage's processing
v159 American Banker August 29 '94 p15A(1)
Borel of California in Systematics fold. v159 American Banker
Sept 12 '94 p16A(1)
Illinois bank sold on outsourcing, but not
outsourcer. (Heritage Financial Services) by Jeffrey
Zack il v159 American Banker Sept 22 '94 p15(1)
Systematics renews pact with 16 banks. by Deidre Sullivan
v159 American Banker Oct 28 '94 p19(1)
Systematics buys medical data firm. (Systematics
Information Services Inc. acquires Medical Data
Technology) by Karen Epper il v159 American Banker Nov
4 '94 p27(1)
Systematics renews deals with California, Oregon banks v159
American Banker Dec 5 '94 p16A(1)
Consolidation of industry takes toll on
Systematics. (Systematics Information Services Inc.)
by Brian Tracey v159 American Banker Dec 19 '94 p1(2)
Dime, Anchor pick Systematics for merged core
deposit system. (Dime Bancorp Inc. to use software
from Systematics Information Services Inc.) (Brief
Article) by Matt Barthel v159 American Banker Dec 27
'94 p15(1)
1995:
Bellsouth Cellular Corp. (BSCC) chooses Systematics
(Systematics Telecommunications Corp.)
as Technology Partner for Billing System Efforts.
PR Newswire Jan 11 '95
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part VII
by J. Orlin Grabbe
It has come time to talk of Vince Foster and virtual
realities.
1. One type of virtual reality immersion takes place every
evening with respect to network news. One sits in a familiar
chair, and watches familiar faces on familiar channels telling
soothing or alarming things about other parts of the world--other
realities--of which the viewer has no experience, all of it
demonstrated by reality-simulating sound bites and video clips.
The virtual reality construction is good if the story sounds
plausible. That is, after all, the job of a TV reporter:
to tell a plausible story and to entertain our eyes by looking
good while telling it.
The pulp magazine reporter, on the other hand, must tell
a plausible story and keep it lurid enough to grab our
imagination. Take the allegedly important question of "child
porn on the Internet," recently paraded forth by *Time*
magazine. To the computer-impaired, pedophilia might serve
as a plausible explanation why anyone would sit for hours in
front of a computer screen. Never mind that the neighborhood
Internet-user says differently: you can't take the word of a
pedophile can you?
The Internet-user, on the other hand, may believe that rock
videos are a more reliable guide to reality than *Time*
magazine. And even if he were actually interested in porn,
he might find life easier by going to the local video store
where a single video tape could store as much graphical infor-
mation as could be stored on 2000 digital compact disks.
2. Another type of virtual reality is found in the banking
world. Money is data stored in a computer. This money
is "transferred" place to place by changing the ownership
labels associated with the data. Once the computer receives
the proper transfer authorization codes, the money can be
"launched" from one bank to another, from one account to
another. All that is necessary is that one properly
emulate the reality that is important to the bank computer.
If you include all the right digital indicators that make it
plausible to the computer that you are the authorized transfer
person for, say, the account owned by C. Jefferson, the computer
will believe you. It won't care about non-virtual reality--what
C. Jefferson looks like, or what her tastes in clothes are--
nor will the computer have metaphysical doubts to cause it to
hesitate in its actions before sending the money on its way.
"You" are nothing more than a preselected set of codes.
In the version of Jim Norman's article *Fostergate* published in
*Media Bypass* (August 1995), it is stated:
"For months, a small cadre of CIA computer hackers known as the
Fifth Column, armed with a Cray supercomputer, had been monitoring
Foster's Swiss account. . . . Foster was just one of the first
of scores of high level U.S. political figures to thus have their
secret Swiss accounts looted of illicit funds . . . . Over the
past two years . . . more than $2 billion has been swept out of
offshore bank accounts belonging to figures connected to the
U.S. government with nary a peep from the victims or their
banks."
Where did the money in the accounts come from? Jim Norman doesn't
say. I assert that some of this loot is defense and arms dealing
payola; some of it is drug dealing profits or payola; and some of
it is payola from the floating fortune left by a forgotten oil man--
whose money moves from bank to bank in a merry-go-round to keep
its location hidden from the potential heirs.
And some of the loot was paid in an attempt to allow one nation
to become a VIRTUAL NUCLEAR POWER.
3. Missile launches take place in a virtual reality. Given
the proper launch code, the missile will attempt to go to its
programmed destination without further theological debate.
A country possessing the launch codes and also targeting infor-
mation for *another* country's nuclear missiles could become a
virtual nuclear power. (The targeting information would be as
important as the launch codes. For before you launched a missile,
you would first want to know where it is going. After all, it
could be aimed at you.) Getting your nuclear arms this ways would
have obvious economic advantages: someone else would foot the
military bill.
Jim Norman states in *Fostergate*:
"According to a heavily-redacted New Mexico FBI counter-
intelligence report, Maxwell was apparently allowed to sell
two copies of PROMIS back to the U.S. weapons labs at
Sandia and Los Alamos, for what Inslaw claims was a hugely
inflated price of $87 million. That would have allowed
Pollard, if he was using the rigged program, to obtain U.S.
missile targeting data long before Israel had its own
satellite capability, thus making it a real nuclear threat
to the Soviet Union."
Well, yes, it could make Israel a real threat to the Soviet
Union. But not from Israel's own puny missile program.
Rather, Israel could be a threat to the Soviet Union because it
would be able to launch our (U.S.) missiles at the Soviet Union.
Being a virtual nuclear power would mean not having to say you
are sorry. If a U.S. missile were launched at Russia, the defense
system of Russia would, in its virtual view of the world, see the
missile as coming from the U.S. It would launch a retaliatory
strike against the U.S., because in its reality only the U.S. could
be responsible. It wouldn't be programmed to recognize "Missile
from U.S. not U.S.-intended action."
Being a virtual nuclear power means you could *blackmail people
in both directions*: you could blackmail the targeted city or area.
More importantly, you could blackmail the U.S. If the U.S. doesn't
go along with your demands, why, you could involve it in a nuclear
war in which you would be a spectator, not a participant. The
U.S. would know it has more to lose than you do, so it would give
in to your demands.
Vince Foster's NSA connections wouldn't give him access to such
launch codes and targeting data. Not even with the help of Jonathan
Pollard. It would take the cooperation of a small circle of
friends--friends with Defense and Intelligence connections.
People with access. People with authority.
Would any of the U.S.'s own Defense Department or Intelligence
personnel in the 1980s or the 1990s, people other than Jonathan
Pollard, have been involved in such a transfer of information to
a foreign power--whether to Israel or to anyone else?
Surely not anyone connected to the account numbers KPFBMMBODB
or KPFBMMBODE held at the Union Bank of Switzerland? Please,
say it ain't so.
For if they were, the U.S. may now be facing its greatest
National Security threat since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And
that's why everyone has an interest in covering up the various
threads connected to the death of Vince Foster. Some are scurrying
around, hoping no one will realize how bad things are before
the mess can be cleaned up. Others are scurrying around, just
covering their asses. It's showdown time, with no space for
killing all the remaining witnesses or burying all the remaining
evidence. It's showdown time, and the money people thought they
had for ammo is missing from their Swiss accounts.
The levels of disinformation have already been prepared. The
first level says Vince Foster was just a political flack who
committed suicide. The next one says, yeah, he was into some
nasty stuff like money laundering, but had no intelligence
connections. The next one beyond that allows him to work for
the NSA, but not for long or in a very important position.
The next one allows Foster to sell some nuclear secrets to
Israel, but that was just to accelerate their own nuclear program,
as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. And anyway, Foster acted
alone. And so on, spin control all the way. Foster, being
dead, will have nothing to say about his many potential roles.
But underneath all this the Powers That Be have begun to
comprehend that some of their own have threatened their very
survival. And the Powers That Be are going to clean house with
a vengeance.
[To be continued]
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part VIII
by J. Orlin Grabbe
Did our former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger,
like Vince Foster, have a Swiss Bank account? Does he still?
Is his name on account number KPFBMMBODE at the Union Bank
of Switzerland? Was that why Caspar Weinberger, Publisher Emeritus
at *Forbes*, became so gung-ho to get Jim Norman's article
*Fostergate* killed?
What is the relationship between Caspar Weinberger and Vince
Foster?
What does Ron Perelman, an equity owner of *Forbes* and Revlon,
have to say about all this? (Is there lipstick all over the Pentagon?)
Don't get me wrong. I think the Swiss banking system is the
finest in the world, and we should ALL have Swiss banking accounts. We
should ALL have the right to hide our assets from prying eyes. Just as
long, of course, as those assets were fairly earned--and they don't
represent payola from public defense projects. Or proceeds from the
sale of *bona fide* national security secrets. Or payola to keep the
knowledge of such sales secret.
Were Caspar Weinberger's Swiss assets simply savings from his
paycheck and profits from his investments?
Are U.S. nuclear secrets for open sale on the world market
from one of our alleged "allies"?
Bobby Ray Inman graduated from the Naval War College in 1972,
became Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence of the Pacific Fleet
in 1973, Director of Naval Intelligence in 1974, Vice Director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency in 1976, Director of the National Security
Agency in 1977, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence under Ronald
Reagan in 1981. He left that post in March 1982. In December 1993 he
was nominated by Bill Clinton to be Secretary of Defense.
("Bibliography of Bobby Ray Inman," Office of the Press Secretary,
The White House, December 16, 1993.)
"After Admiral Inman's announcement that he would not serve
as Clinton's Defense Secretary, the Hebrew press devoted a fair amount
of space to the implications of that affair for Israel. . . . Most
important among these writings were the articles by Amir Oren
(*Davar*, January 28) and Yoav Karni, published the same day in the
newly founded weekly *Shishi*. . . . Oren's article in particular
stressed the incompatibility between Inman's past policy
recommendations and Israeli political aims, especially in regard
to nuclear developments. Both authors, who usually are mildly
critical of Israel's policies but never of its nuclear build-up,
were emphatic in their hostility toward Inman. Furthermore, Oren
discussed in depth Pollard and Israeli espionage in the U.S. as
having something to do with Israeli objections to Inman as a
person and to his policy recommendations." (Israel Shahak,
"Involvement of the pro-Israel lobby in the Inman affair,"
Report No. 133, February 11, 1994.)
Shahak goes on to note that: "When Yoel Markus (*Haartez*,
December 31, 1993) spoke of the recent 'courtship' of Israel
by various states, he concluded that 'this courtship has nothing
to do with the peace process . . . When the U.S. is being ruled
by an administration as favorably disposed to Israel as the present
one, conviction spreads in every state that the only way to America's
purse leads via Israel.' "
A chief objection to Inman was he might implement U.S.
inspections of the Israeli nuclear production process at Dimona:
"Oren mentions a number of reasons why Israel loathed and
feared Inman. But as the main of those reasons Oren projects the
Israeli expectation that, if appointed the U.S. Defense Secretary,
Inman would be able to put into effect independent American
inspections of Israeli nuclear armaments and their production
process in Dimona. It needs to be recalled that by virtue of a
secret agreement with the U.S. reached during the first year of
John F. Kennedy's term of office as president, the U.S. to this
day receives only such information about Israeli nuclear power
as Israel is pleased to convey. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco
Kennedy needed the support of the 'Jewish lobby'. In order to
get it, he okayed this curious agreement." (Israel Shahak)
Shahak cites evidence that much of Israel nuclear capability
had been acquired through espionage directed against the U.S. (The
following reference to "Critical Mass" is to a book called *Critical
Mass* by William E. Burrows and Robert Windrem.)
"*Yediot Ahronot*'s correspondents Tzadok Yehezkeli and Danny
Sadeh (January 30), write in their review of the book "Critical
Mass" . . . that 'Israel solicits money from wealthy Jews from all over
the world for financing its nuclear weaponry programs. This fundraising
drive is directed by a committee comprised of 30 Jewish millionaires'.
. . . .
"[Tzadok Yehezkeli and Danny Sadeh] write that 'Israel is ever ready
to launch its nuclear missiles on some 60 to 80 targets. Those targets
include the sites in the Gulf, the capitals of all Arab states, some nuclear
bases on the territory of the former USSR and some sites in Pakistan'.
(I am convinced this is accurate.) It means that Israel must very much
want to obtain the U.S. satellite information about the entire targeted
area, a not so negligible part of the earth's surface. The existence of a
so formidable nuclear power in Israel's hands can not be convincingly
attributed to its own Research and Development efforts nor even to its
role as a tool of American policies. On the contrary, a nuclear power of
that magnitude must be presumed to run counter to U.S. imperial interests.
The only plausible explanation is that Israel has acquired its nuclear
power with at least some help of its 'Jewish friends' in the U.S.
Yehezkeli's and Sadeh's information about 'the nuclear bases on the
territory of the former USSR' fits well with what Geoffrey Aronson,
relying on State Department sources, reveals about the Pollard affair
("The Christian Science Monitor", January 27). He writes that according
to 'unanimous response' from these sources, what Pollard has been always
said to have betrayed, were 'this country's most important secrets',
namely the 'information relating to U.S. targeting of Soviet nuclear and
military installations and the capabilities and defenses of these sites'.
This seems to accord with Israel's global aspirations based on its nuclear
power. Aronson also quotes his sources to the effect that much of
intelligence passed on by Pollard 'was unusable to the Israelis except as
bargaining chips and leverage against the United States and other countries'
interests'. In view of this fact Aronson conjectures that Pollard's
intelligence was used by Israel for deals with Moscow consisting of
'trading nuclear secrets for Soviet Jews'." (Israel Shahak)
Shahak goes on to quote Oren with respect to Jonathan
Pollard: ". . . 'a Navy Intelligence employee, Jonathan Pollard,
was caught red-handed while passing on to Israel precisely this kind
of information which Inman had decided to withhold from Israel. . . .
And interpreted likewise as coincidental were the links connecting
Rafi Eitan, then the chief of the 'Office for Scientific Contacts'
(LEKEM), who employed Pollard, with the [Israeli] Defense minister,
Ariel Sharon, who had appointed Eitan and who rushed to Washington
in order to complain against Inman and his orders.'.... Eitan ran
Pollard with the explicit approval of four Defense ministers and
Prime Ministers, concretely Arens, Rabin, Shamir and Peres.'"
Rafi Eitan's reward for the Pollard affair? "After helping
sell Iraqi oil all over the world, he now oversees the Israeli trade
with Cuba" (Shahak).
Let me ask again: Are U.S. nuclear secrets for open sale on the
world market from one of our alleged "allies"?
Are U.S. nuclear secrets for open sale by the Defense Department
personnel who allegedly guard them?
Why did Mike McCurry, Press Secretary on the White House, spent time trying
to convince Sarah McClendon, veteran White House journalist, that Jim Norman
is a
fruitcake?
If Jim Norman is a liar or a fruit cake, why did an editor at *Insight*
magazine
receive a visit from the Pentagon? Why was Jim Norman's in-progress
interview with Jack Christie on the USA Radio Network today (July 23, 1995)
interrupted for reasons
of "national security"? If lying is a national security problem, what is
Bill Clinton doing
in the White House?
Why is it that the sale of *bona fide* national security secrets is
tolerated, even rewarded with lucrative payments to Swiss accounts, while
journalistic reports about THE LOOTING AND SALE OF U.S. NUCLEAR SECRETS are
quashed as "national security"? Is
the Pentagon run by lunatics and thieves?
"We have put our faith in the bomb, and it is the bomb which
will answer our prayers."--Henry Miller, *The Time of the Assassins*
[To be continued]
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transaction Spying, Part IX
by J. Orlin Grabbe
July 23, 1995
Gregory Wierzynski
Assistant Staff Director
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Banking and Financial Services
2129 Rayburn Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
202-225-7502
Dear Mr. Wierzynski:
Thank you for email letter, a copy of which is attached.
I am not sure why you think my quoting selections from Mr. Jim Norman
necessarily implies endorsement or acceptance of them on my part. I have,
of course, quoted many, many selections from Mr. Norman, so perhaps you
could be more specific with respect to the ones you are concerned about.
Perhaps I could be of assistance to your inquiries among the spooks, if
only you could describe to me which points you have investigated, and how
you have investigated them. I certainly wouldn't want to promote anything
that, as you say, "flied in the face of facts."
On the other hand, I am greatly concerned about the use by Alltel
Information Services (formerly Systematics) of a libel attorney,
Charles O. Morgan, in an attempt to intimidate journalists and destroy
the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
And I am also gravely concerned about the possible leak of U.S. codes
and nuclear secrets to a foreign power, which is an issue of *real*
national security concern to the U.S. (Of course you and I both know
that "national security" is often used to hide the truth about sell-outs
of national security from the American people, by clamping a lid on
the discussion or reporting of things that are common knowledge among
U.S. military and security agencies, and even common knowledge to the
general public of the foreign power to which these secrets have been
compromised.)
Before reading my email, and your letter, I sent you a copy of "Part VIII:
Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transactions
Spying". There you will see from the quotes that the theft of U.S.
nuclear secrets by Israel is openly discussed in Israeli newspapers, so
I am sure that this is not one of the "off-the-wall" issues to which
you are referring. (With respect to that issue, I suggest that you do
some investigation in Tel Aviv.)
With respect to money laundering I am not concerned, for reasons I have
indicated in my essay "The End of Ordinary of Money", Parts I and II,
a copy of which I previously provided the Committee. The money-laundering
laws ought to be abolished, but in the meantime I do find the selective
enforcement of these laws troubling.
With respect to "Chuck in Kentucky", I know more than one Chuck in Kentucky,
so perhaps you could be more specific which Chuck you refer to. What stories
did he tell you, and how is it that they didn't pan out?
Since you have already spoken to both Jim and Chuck, I am taking the liberty
of sending a copy of this letter (and your letter) to Jim Norman, and to one
possible Chuck you may be referring to, so that perhaps they can explain to
me their failing to satisfy you as to the accuracy of their information.
Now, Mr. Wierzynski, I would like to bring up an issue about your Committee's
behavior that is troubling me. I am sure that there is an innocent
explanation that I am missing. You will recall the meeting that I had with
you and Mr. Stephen Ganis, the Counsel to the Committee, at the Four Seasons
in Georgetown on Monday, June 12, 1995. Two days previously I had been
playing volleyball in the Mall with Dana Rohrbacher and Jack Wheeler and some
others, and I had pulled most of the muscles in my right ankle. So I
asked everyone I was meeting to come over to the hotel, and you and Mr. Ganis
graciously consented. We met in the Four Seasons lounge, where I was the
only person not wearing shoes.
You told me that, more than money laundering in Mena, Arkansas, you were
interested as to whether there were any documents connecting Vince Foster
to Systematics, or whether I knew the name of any Systematics programmers
that may have worked to modify the PROMIS software to spy on banking
transactions. I told you I couldn't recall seeing any such documents, and
that I had come across the name of one programmer, but I had subsequently
forgotten it. It was a pleasant meeting, so to be helpful I gave you a
copy of Jim Norman's *Fostergate* that had been spiked from *Forbes*.
"Why would Steve Forbes kill the article?" you asked. I said I didn't
know, but that--since you appeared to know Steve Forbes--you should call
him yourself.
Now, much to my surprise, I find that the following happened: Just as
*Media Bypass* was about to run Jim Norman's article *Fostergate*, they
received a letter from Charles O. Morgan, indicating grave consequences
if they were so foolish as to print the article. Mr. Morgan claimed to know
what was in the article, because, he said, he had received a copy from Mr.
Stephen Ganis of your Committee!
I am bothered by the fact that while you alleged to me you were investigating
Systematics that at the same time you are passing along information to
Systematics. I am sure there is an innocent explanation. But consider this:
what if I had given you Foster-related documents and the names of Systematics
programmers? Would these have been passed along to Mr. Morgan also? As you
know, a number of people connected to this whole business have died violent
deaths in Arkansas. (Of course, I understand some of them had already been
paid off to keep their mouths shut, and didn't, and so--under any standard of
morality--deserved what they got.)
Well, things are never what they appear, so perhaps you can clear things up
for me. Please pass along my concern to Mr. Ganis, and tell him I will be
glad to sit down with him and have a drink, or share a line, and have a frank
discussion about this issue. (I have nothing against the use of any drug, if
used in moderation, and in the appropriate context.)
Regards,
Orlin
Attachment: Your letter to me
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Orlin --
We're reading your stuff with interest. Thank you for including me in your
list of recipients; I pass the material on to my boss and my colleagues on
the Committee.
I am somewhat surprised, however, that you accept the Norman piece without
raising any questions about its sources. We've talked to Jim and tried to
check out the sources he thought he could share with us. We have also done
a fair amount of investigating on our own using the resources available to
us--by which I mean officials inquiries to the spooks. So far we draw a
complete blank. Worse, the preponderance of the evidence suggests that
Jim's piece is pretty much off-the-wall. Worse still, it appears to fly in
the face not just of facts, but simple logic as well.
I haven't, by any means, given up on this subject, but pursuing a trail
grown cold is difficult to justify when you're paid by the taxpayer.
Do you have suggestions on how we could verify some of the elements in the
Norman story? I've talked to Chuck in Kentucky and am still in touch with
him. But his stories have not panned out, even partially. I would be most
interested in your ideas.
Best regards.
Greg
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part X
by J. Orlin Grabbe
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* I received a call from Mr. Stephen Ganis, counsel to the House *
* Committee on Banking and Financial Services, who assures me that *
* he did NOT provide Jim Norman's article to Mr. Charles O. Morgan, *
* attorney for Alltel Information Services, but rather called Mr. *
* Morgan *after* the *Media Bypass* article had appeared, to get *
* Morgan's side of things. Mr. Morgan was apparently not aware *
* that the article had been published, and that was the only *
* information he received from Mr. Ganis. Mr. Ganis assures me *
* that his group is NOT passing any information to Alltel, but is *
* in fact carefully keeping all sources and information confidential. *
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What do nuclear weapons, money laundering, covert operations,
money management, clandestine payments of payola and kickbacks, and the
systematic monitoring of bank loans and bank wire transfers have in common?
The answer begins with BCCI: the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International. BCCI connects the Israeli bomb to the Pakistani bomb to
suppliers of banking software like Systematics, and to a very dead money
launderer named Vince Foster.
Don't misunderstand the latter statement: I believe we should all
have the right to "launder" money. The money-laundering laws are a
frightening, Big-Brotherly intrusion into financial privacy (see J. Orlin
Grabbe, "The End of Ordinary Money, Part II: Money Laundering, Electronic
Cash, and Cryptological Anonymity").
But why is there one standard of legislated "morality" that applies,
say, to a LEADING OFFICIAL OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, and another
standard that applies to everyone else?
In 1972 Pakistani banks were nationalized by President Bhutto. One
of these banks was United Bank, whose president was Agha Hasan Abedi.
Abedi subsequently joined with Sheik Zayad, ruler of Abu Dhabi and patron
of the PLO, to found BCCI. To prevent nationalization, BCCI was chartered
in Luxembourg. In 1975 it split into two entities, one remaining in
Luxembourg and the other established in the Cayman Islands. The Cayman
Islands part became a "bank within a bank." While the legal registration
was in Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, the actual operational head-
quarters was moved to London.
In 1976 John Heimann, New York superintendent of banking, turned down
BCCI's attempt to buy Chelsea National Bank in New York. (Shareholders in
the bank included former Mayor Robert Wagner and the Finley, Kumble law
firm.) The actual purchase attempt was made by one of the Gokal brothers
of shipping fame, Abbas Gokal, using a loan from his sister. Banking
experience was to be provided by BCCI, but Heimann refused to approve the
purchase, despite several meetings with Abedi. Abedi realized that BCCI
would not be able to enter the U.S. market under its own name.
Abedi's attention was then brought to bear on Financial General, a
Washington D.C.-based bank with headquarters a block from the White House.
The bank had been acquired in April 1977 by an investor group lead by
William Middendorf II, who was Secretary of the Navy under Nixon and Ford.
One member of the investor group was Jackson Stephens. Stephens then send
salemen from his Little Rock firm *Systematics* to talk to Middendorf
about providing banking software for Financial General, but they were firmly
rejected. Stephens decided to wrest control of the bank from Middendorf.
Jackson Stephens is a billionaire from Little Rock who owns the
controlling interest in Worthen National Bank as well as in Stephens Inc.,
one of the largest privately owned investment banks outside Wall Street.
In November 1977, he introduced BCCI-founder Abedi to Bert Lance, Carter's
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, whom Stephens had met
through Jimmy Carter, his old roommate from Naval Academy days. (Lance and
Stephens, two Southern Baptists, had hit it off.) Lance also knew the
people at Financial General, for it was Financial General that had sold
to Lance controlling interest in the National Bank of Georgia in 1975.
Abedi in turn introduced Lance to Stanford-and-Harvard-(and Colorado
School of Mines)-educated Ghaith Pharaon. Pharaon proceeded to acquire the
stock of Bert Lance's National Bank of Georgia, a deal consummated on January
5, 1978, a day after Lance's $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank
of Chicago was repaid by BCCI London. Pharaon was apparently acting on
behalf of Abedi in the acquisition, at least in part.
By then Lance had left the Carter administration, and he and Jackson
Stephens joined together to help BCCI take over Financial General. A
Financial General lawsuit filed on February 17 named "Bert Lance, Bank of
Credit & Commerce International, Agha Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger,
Jackson Stephens, Stephens Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1
through 25." Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell,
and Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock:
"The suit was ultimately settled, but intriguingly, briefs for
Systematics, a Stephens property, were submitted by a trio of
lawyers including C.J. Giroir and Webster L. Hubbell and signed
by Hillary Rodham" ("Who is Jack Ryan?" *The Wall Street Journal*,
August 1, 1994).
This BCCI-Lance-Stephens-Systematics-Hubbell-Clinton connection will
continue to reappear in our story.
Edwin McAmis, an attorney for Financial General, deposed Lance in
connection with the stockholder civil suit, and turned up a mysterious loan:
"The loan could have been for as much as $3.4 million . . . and
came from London's Bank of Credit & Commerce International, on
whose behalf Lance had approached Financial General with a bid
for control. . . . Lance said he used it last January to pay off
his celebrated $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of
Chicago . . . The latest loan, he said was arranged by Agha Hassan
Abedi, an energetic Pakistani who heads B.C.C.I.
"Collateral? None.
"Documents? Well, no, though Lance's lawyer, Robert Altman,
says some are being drawn up now."
(quoted from "Another 'Loan' for Lance," *Time*, April 3, 1978.)
Bert Lance had approached Financial General on behalf of BCCI London
with a bid for control of the bank. Lance was also was responsible for
introducing BCCI founder Abedi to Jimmy Carter, and for bringing Clark
Clifford in on the take-over attempt. Ghaith Pharaon was another investor
in the deal.
Also involved in the successful BCCI takeover were Clark Clifford
(the former Defense Secretary under Johnson and lawyer for BCCI), Robert
Altman (attorney for Bert Lance and Clifford's partner), and Kamal Adham
(the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence who was King Faisal's most
trusted advisor, and whose half-sister Iffat was King Faisal's favorite
wife). Kamal Adham and Ghaith Pharaon had built the Hyatt hotel in Riyad,
and Adham had originally introduced Pharaon to Abedi.
Adham and Pharaon (along with Faisal al-Fulaij and Abdullah Darwaish)
owned KIFCO, the Kuwaiti International Finance Company (James Ring Adams &
Douglas Frantz, *A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around the
World*, Pocket Books, 1992, p. 52).
In a lawsuit filed March 18, 1978, the Securities and Exchange
Commission charged Lance with violations of federal security laws, and
BCCI's application to purchase Financial General Bankshares was denied.
Abedi then formed a new takeover vehicle, Credit and Commerce American
Holdings (CCAH), based in the Netherlands Antilles. The largest investor
in CCAH was Kamal Adham, who put up $13 million of his own money On October
19, 1978, CCAH filed for approval with the Federal Reserve to purchase
Financial General. This application was dismissed on February 16, 1979,
due to opposition from Financial General's Maryland subsidiary, but a new
application was submitted later.
The Federal Reserve finally approved the purchase in on April 19,
1982, and BCCI renamed the bank "First American" three months later. Clark
Clifford was made chairman and Robert Altman president. The head of Bank
Supervision at the Federal Reserve when BCCI's purchase was approved was
Jack Ryan, who later became head of the Resolution Trust Corporation, in
which role he denied Rep. Leach's requests for documents related to Madison
Guaranty, the Whitewater thrift.
What was the point of BCCI's takeover of First American?
" 'They wanted an important stake across the street from the White House,'
says one Washington banking executive, adding, 'Some people might think it
is important to know about the outstanding loans and balances of Government
officials'" (*Time*).
Abedi used his new-found connections to Jimmy Carter to publicize
BCCI to heads of state around the world. Abedi made his personal 727 jet
available to Carter, and accompanied the former President to Thailand,
Tibet, Hong Kong, and the Soviet Union, among other places. Carter
introduced Abedi to many heads of state, from Den Xiaoping in China to
James Callahan in the U.K. Abedi donated a half million dollars to
establish the Carter presidential library, and a public policy institute
at Emory university.
In the meantime BCCI founder Abedi was committed to the development
of an *Islamic atomic bomb*, even donating 500 million rupees for the
creation of Pakistan's Gulam Ishaq Research Institute for nuclear
development.
BCCI was in some sense seen by Abedi as the financial competitor to
the "committee of 30" that worked on behalf of Israel. (According to Israeli
correspondents Tzadok Yehezkeli and Danny Sadeh: "Israel solicits money
from wealthy Jews from all over the world for financing its nuclear
weaponry programs. This fundraising drive is directed by a committee
comprised of 30 Jewish millionaires" [review of book *Critical Mass* in
*Yediot Ahronot*, January 30, 1994].)
But while BCCI founder Abedi had intended BCCI to finance the
development of a Pakistani nuclear bomb, this effort was compromised at
the start by the presence of Kamal Adham, who through CCAH was the
controlling power behind First American, and who had asked Clark Clifford
to head up the bank. For Adham was both a CIA and a Mossad asset. Adham,
in addition to being Faisal's most trusted advisor and the former head of
Saudi intelligence, had attended CIA training school with the head of the
Mossad.
"Kamal Adham, who was the CIA's principal liason for the
entire Middle East from the mid-1960's through 1979, was
the lead frontman for BCCI in its takeover of First American,
was an important nominee shareholder in BCCI, and remains one
of the key players in the entire BCCI affair" (Senator John
Kerry and Senator Hank Brown, *The BCCI Affair: a Report to
the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate*,
December 1992).
Perhaps that is why Pakistani's efforts to develop their own
nuclear bomb met with repeated compromises, such as the following:
"In 1983 a Dutch court convicted Dr. Abdul Qader Khan, head
of Pakistan's nuclear program, on charges of stealing the
blueprints for a uranium enrichment factory. . . . Kahn's
lawyer was paid by BCCI.
"In 1984, three Pakistani nationals were indicted in Houston
for attempting to buy and ship to Pakistan, high-speed
switches designed to trigger nuclear weapons. The trio
offered to pay in gold supplied by BCCI.
"In 1987 two Americans, Rita and Arnold Mandel, together with
Hong Kong businessman Leung Yu Hung, were indicted by the
U.S. Attorney in Sacramento, California, on charges of illegal
importations of $1 billion worth of oscilloscopes and computer
equipment for Pakistan's nuclear program. . . . BCCI facilitated
[some of the shipments]"
"In 1987 in Philadelphia, Ashad Pervez, a Pakistani-born
Canadian, was indicted for conspiring to export restricted
specialty steel and metal used to enhance nuclear explosions.
... He . . . paid high prices with money delivered to the
Toronto BCCI branch from BCCI London" (Rachel Ehrenfeld,
*Evil Money*, HarperCollins, 1992).
BCCI became a important conduit for CIA intelligence, and also
a ready target for the tenacles of the NSA. When Norman Bailey at the
National Security Council urged NSA to "follow the money" as part of the
"wars" on terrorism and drugs, the NSA had BCCI as one obvious banking
target. The CIA was there also to assist in the monitoring of BCCI-related
money flows of other intelligence and criminal enterprises. For BCCI had
become a giant laundry machine, and the CIA made use of BCCI for their own
covert money transfers.
One example involves Manuel Noriega, who was recruited by the
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 1959, who went on the CIA payroll in
1967, and who became head of Panamanian military intelligence in 1968,
where he was in a strategic position to supply both information and drugs
to the United States, and later on arms to the contras in an operation
based in Panama, Mexico, and Mena, Arkansas. CIA money was paid to
Noriega through the Panamanian branch of BCCI. The CIA and U.S. Army
only acknowledge paying Noreiga $322,226 between 1955 and 1986 (*The
New York Times*, January 19, 1991). Be that as it may, Noriega
deposited $33 million in his account (under the name of the Panamanian
Defense Forces) at the Panamanian branch of BCCI. The head of this branch
was the son of a former director of intelligence in Pakistan.
The CIA also used BCCI branches in Pakistan to launder payments
to the Afghan rebels, and Pakistani officials used the same bank to
launder heroin profits. The finance minister of Pakistan, Sarti Asis,
confirms that the bank did launder CIA contributions to the Afghan
rebels, but claims it was "not even handling 1 percent of total drug
money" (*Financial Times*, July 25, 1991).
The amount the CIA recalls paying Noriega is too small. Noriega
had much earlier gotten into trouble with the State Department because of
his drug dealing. But this changed when his support was needed in
the negotiations for a new Panama Canal Treaty.
"By 1976, Noriega was fully forgiven. CIA Director George
Bush arranged to pay Noriega $110,000 a year for his services,
put the Panamanian up as a houseguest of his deputy CIA
director, and helped to prevent an embarrassing prosecution
of several American soldiers who had delivered highly
classified U.S. intelligence secrets to Noriega's men.
. . .
"If Carter needed friends in Panama to smooth the way for
a canal treaty, Reagan (who strongly opposed that treaty)
needed them to support the Contra cause. . . . CIA payments
to Noriega resumed when Reagan took office in 1981, starting
at $185,000 a year. At their peak, in 1985, Noriega
collected $200,000 from the Agency. The CIA deposited the
money in Noriega's account at the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International, two of whose units later pleaded guilty to
laundering drug money. CIA Director William Casey frequently
met with Noriega alone in Washington" (Peter Dale Scott and
Jonathan Marshall, *Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the
CIA in Central America*, University of California Press, 1991).
That Noriega was necessarily used as an NSA asset also follows from
the fact that Panama served as the listening post to much of South America.
The Bush-Noriega-BCCI-Mena connection continued. Barry Seal, who
flew money, drugs, and arms out of Mena, Arkansas, acquired his job through
George Bush. After Seal was indicted in Ft.Lauderdale, Florida, in 1983 for
a shipment of 200,000 Quaaludes, he tried in vain to make a deal with the
DEA. He found a more sympathetic audience in the Vice President:
". . . in March 1984, while out of jail on an appeal bond, 'Seal flew his
Lear jet to Washington and telephones Vice President Bush's office'; and he
spoke on the street to staff members of the vice president's South Florida
Task Force" (Scott and Marshall).
How did Jackson Stephens react to all this activity in his back
yard? Well, among other things, Stephens and his Worthen National Bank
invested in Harken Energy, a Texas company in which George Bush, Jr., was
a board member. "The money Stephens invested came through the Swiss BCCI
subsidiary" (Rachel Ehrenfeld).
What about Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas? Ex-CIA agent
Cord Meyer has privately confided to a friend of mine (to whom Meyer has
no reason to lie) that he recruited Clinton through the London station
while Clinton was a student in England. This Clinton was hardly ignorant
of CIA activity or devoid of CIA contact.
In 1987 First American bought the National Bank of Georgia, formerly
acquired from Bert Lance by Pharaon. Another BCCI-First American connection
was Robert Gray, a First American director, and head of the Washington
office of the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton. Gray represented
BCCI and did favors for Caspar Weinberger, among others.
"In October 1988, three days after the Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) was indicted by a federal
grand jury for conspiring with the Medellin Cartel to
launder $32,000,000 in illicit drug profits, the bank hired
H&K [Hill and Knowlton] to manage the scandal. Robert Gray
also served on the board of directors of First American
Bank, the Washington D.C. bank run by Clark Clifford (now
facing federal charges) and owned by BCCI. Gray was close
to, and helped in various ways, top Reagan officials. When
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's son needed a job,
Gray hired him for $2,000 a month" ("Hill & Knowlton,
Robert Gray, and the CIA," by Johan Carlisle, *Covert Action
Quarterly*, #44, Spring 1993).
It was also Hill & Knowlton, you will recall, who later brought us
the staged melodrama in the House Human Rights Caucus. The production
starred the tearful "Nayirah"--in fact daugher of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to
the U.S. She told of Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators and
leaving them on the cold floor to die. (Someone later alleged that her
follow-up story about Iraqi soldiers roasting Belgian babies, using bayonets
as spits, had to be dropped when it was discovered that there were in fact
no Belgians in the Middle East.) George Bush was to repeat this concocted
story a dozen times in the next few days, in the process of whipping up war
fever against his old business associate, Saddam Hussein.
BCCI was closed down by the Bank of England, acting in conjunction
with others, on July 5, 1991. When BCCI closed, many of its money-management,
money-laundering, and monetary-intelligence duties were transferred to
FinCEN, a newly created unit of the U.S. Treasury.
The Mena connections to Clinton and Bush have now, through Jackson
Stephens, been extended to Robert Dole. Jackson Stephens (along with Tyson)
has recently thrown his support behind the Dole campaign. In this regard it
is perhaps useful to note that:
"On November 27, 1987, an Arkansas State Police detective
received a call from a reporter for information about an
investigation into an aircraft maintenance firm named Rich
Mountain Aviation. Located at a small airport in the little
town of Mena, which stands virtually alone in the far west
of Arkansas near the Oklahoma border, Rich Mountain was at
the center of secret operations including cocaine smuggling
in the name of national security. The reporter was seeking
confirmation that the drug network operating out of Rich
Mountain was part of Lt. Colonel Oliver North's network.
He believed this group was smuggling cocaine into the US
through Mena and using the profits to support the Contras
as well as themselves.
"Arkansas State Police Detective Russell Welch . . . was
called by an Arkansas sheriff six weeks later who related
that he had information indicating that US Senator Robert
Dole was concerned about the Rich Mountain investigation.
In particular, the sheriff's informant stated that Dole was
worried that the investigation might in some way harm
George Bush" (Alan A Block, "Drugs, Law, and the State,"
Hong Kong University Press, 1992).
By contrast to Pakistan's ultimately inept attempt at nuclear
weapon construction, Israel's nuclear warfare system had thrived. Parts
of this system included the national military command center, the Bor,
located beneath Tel Aviv; the subterranean strategic air command post on
the edge of the Negev at Nevatim Air Base; the nuclear fuel reactor at
Dimona; the nuclear weapons laboratories at Nahal Soreq; the missile test
range at Yavne; the underground factory at Be'er Yaakov where the
Jericho long-range missiles are manufactured; the nuclear weapons
design lab (Division 20) and missile design development lab (Division
48) and weapons assembly plant at Rafael; the nuclear weapons bunkers in
the Negev at Tel Nof Air Base; and the Jericho missiles in bunkers west
of Zekharyeh in the Judean hills.
"By marrying atomic bombs first to long-range aircraft in the
Black Squadrons and ultimately to intercontinental ballistic missiles,
Israel become the first Third World country to post a strategic threat to
a superpower. That development was not lost on the Kremlin. Following
the test in September 1989 of an advanced Jericho-2 ballistic missile,
whose range covered the oil fields at Baku and could possibly reach the
port of Odessa as well, a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman said that
'Israel is known to possess a technological basis necessary for the creation
of nuclear weapons. The availability of delivery systems makes Israel
a source of danger, far exceeding the boundaries of the Middle East
region'" (William E. Burrows and Robert Windrem, *Critical Mass*, Simon
& Schuster, 1994).
Where did the money to pay for all this come from? In the beginning
it was a simple matter of collecting donations. "In 1960, a Committee of
Thirty (Jewish millionaires) was asked to quietly raise funds for the nuclear
weapons project. It collected $40 million for the construction of the
reactor and the adjoining, fabulously expensive, underground plutonium
separation plant at Dimona" (Burrows and Windrem).
But life did not stay this simple. For example, the BCCI-Bush-
Noriega-Mena connection to drug smuggling was matched by an similar Israeli
connection to arms and drug dealing and money laundering. Anything went in
the holy crusade to built the bomb and the associated missile delivery
systems. Just as the pension funds controlled by Robert Maxwell were
looted to pay for Mossad operations in Europe (Victor Ostrovsky,
*The Other Side of Deception*, HarperCollins, 1994, p. 203), so were
American S&Ls in effect looted (or burdened with debt) by the financial
machinations of the "Committee of Thirty" to help generate the vast
funds needed to maintain and expand Israel's defense industry. Some of
these funds found their way into offshore accounts held by U.S. politicians
and defense personnel as bribes, kickbacks, "campaign" contributions,
and payment for stolen secrets.
That, for example, Noreiga was a Mossad, as well as CIA, asset
follows from the fact his closest confidant and advisor was Michael Harari,
formerly number three man in the Mossad, who specialized in assassination.
Harari had fouled-up a case and had the wrong man killed, and was transferred
to Mexico where he became station chief for Latin America. After allegedly
retiring, Harari went to Panama as a security advisor to Noreiga, where
he trained UESAT, Noriega's elite personnal bodyguards. During the U.S.
invasion of Panama, the U.S. helped Harari escape back to Israel.
On the Central and Latin American money-laundering side, Scott
and Marshall relate, in a long footnote:
"One of the most intriguing reports of an Israeli-Colombian
drug connection was the story in *Hadashot* that the Cali
cartel 'employs Israelis, especially in transferring funds
from drug sales in the U.S. to the bank accounts of the heads
of the cartel in Colombia and Panama. They are also assisted
by banking services in Israel' (September 1, 1989). The
newspaper alleged that the Cali cartel is run by Colombian
Jews; actually, they are only involved in its money-laundering
operations. Jews who emigrated from Europe in the 1930s
established banking and money-channels exploited by the drug
entrepreneurs in the 1970s and 1980s (interview with a federal
agent, November 15, 1989). One of the chief Cali money
launderers was Isaac Kattan, a drug associate of both Alberto
Sicilia-Falcon and Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros (Mills,
*Underground Empire*, 168; Kerry report, 286-88). Kattan
boasted that he invested his millions in Israel bonds
(*Newsweek*, July 20, 1981). Kattan had connections to
Nicaraguans through the cocaine-trafficking Espinosa brothers
(*New York Times*, February 28, 1981) and the Popular Bank
and Trust, owned by a prominent Nicaraguan exile and used as
a conduit for Contra and State Department humanitarian funds
(*Miami Herald*, June 14, 1987; *Village Voice*, July 1, 1986).
In 1988, federal authorities broke up a nationwide money-
laundering ring serving the Cali cartel. It was run by two
Israelis who won the cooperation of a network of Hassidic
Jews and a former Israeli Air Force captain by claiming
they were moving the money on behalf of Mossad to finance
'anti-Communist guerrillas in Central America,' presumably
the Contras. (Ibid; *Kol Ha'ir*, April 14, 1989; *Northern
California Jewish Bulletin*, January 13, 1989; United Press
International, March 17, 1989.)
Nuclear weapons. Money laundering. This juxtaposition leads
us back to BCCI and a body in Virginia. The death of investigative reporter
Danny Casolaro was, like that of Vince Foster, alleged to be "suicide" in
the face of all contrary evidence. Three days before his murder at the
hands of hut-dwelling wackos, Casolaro showed a friend some checks drawn
on BCCI:
"Ben Mason [an old friend] arrived at Casolaro's about
3:30 P.M. 'I was really hungry and anxious to go get
something to eat,' he recalled, 'but he was taking his
time, as usual. He took me downstairs, pulled out a box,
and showed me some pages. Five separate pages, spread
them out on the floor. The first had something to do
with some arms deals. I remember the name Khashoggi.
It was about Iran-Contra.'
"The second and third pages were photocopies of checks,
made out for $1 million and $4 million; they were
photocopies of checks drawn on BCCI . . . accounts
held by Adnon Khashoggi, the international arms merchant
and factotum for the House of Saud, and by Manucher
Ghorbanifar, the arms dealer and Iran-Contra middleman."
(James Ridgeway and Doug Vaughan, "The Last Days of Danny
Casolaro, *The Village Voice*, October 15, 1991).
[To be continued]
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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part XI
by J. Orlin Grabbe
While Agha Hassan Abedi carried on a crusade to develop a Pakistani
nuclear capability through the tentacles of his global bank--the Bank of
Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)--BCCI itself played a key role in
U.S. intelligence gathering. It did so by providing financial services to
arms dealers and associated terrorists. Financial information about who
was paying whom, presented a fairly clear picture about what was taking
place in the purchase and movement of armaments and strategic technology.
If, for example, a check was drawn on the Sitico account at BCCI
Luxembourg and deposited in, say, Raytheon's account at Bank XYZ in Dallas,
then this information could be combined with the knowledge that Sitico was
an Iraqi front company, and an analyst might conclude that Iraq was purchas-
ing spare parts for the HAWK. Of course, few (if any) financial transactions
would be this straight forward, so considerable effort would be needed to
trace the flow of money. (This was especially true considering that some of
BCCI's accounts were kept in longhand and written in Urdu.)
But, looking forward, the loss of BCCI did considerable damage to
the process of intelligence collection for:
"The greatest concern of U.S. decisionmakers in upcoming years
is likely to be restricting the spread of advanced military
technologies--particularly nuclear, chemical, biological, and
ballistic missile technologies--and preventing the use of such
technologies as have been acquired. These tasks will require
monitoring the pursuit and application of those technologies by
a number of countries--including Israel, India, Pakistan, Iran,
Iraq, and North Korea. In addition to monitoring within-country
activities, attention will have to be directed toward the licit
and illicit international supply of various components of those
technologies" (Jeffrey T. Richelson, *The U.S. Intelligence
Community*, 3rd edition, Westview Press, 1995).
Moreover, the vast amounts of banking and financial data being sucked
in and stored for analysis by the NSA mandated a separate facility to analyze
and process the data. The volume of financial data was already taxing NSA
resources. (NSA's data processing capacity has been recently expanded
through installation of the world's third fastest supercomputering center
[according to rating criteria that may, or may not, be valid]. The center
is located at E-Systems of Dallas, Texas, a company that was purchased in
April 1995 by Raytheon for $2.3 billion.)
These concerns, and others, lead to the creation of FinCEN, located
in Vienna, Virginia. Because FinCEN was established as a unit of the U.S.
Treasury, NSA's COMINT and ELINT could be combined with domestic sources of
information, including information from the Federal Reserve and the
Treasury's own data bases, which included various types of financial, tax,
and customs information. It also meant the merger of foreign and domestic
intelligence. As one cypherpunk has noted, national borders are just speed
bumps on the information superhighway.
A November 1993 GAO report on FinCEN lists 84 positions (out of
207 staff members) referred to as "intelligence analysts", most of whom
come from the NSA. "FinCEN, planned as a hunter of tax-evaders, has become
a hunter of economic and financial secrets at home and abroad" (J. Michael
Springmann, "FinCEN--American Financial Intelligence Service,"
*Unclassified*, No. 33, Summer 1995.)
"And, it is clear from the March 29, 1995 draft of Clinton's
executive order on access to classified information, that
FinCEN's brief has been expanded. It will, in the future,
conduct security clearance investigations for all government
employees and contractors with access to classified infor-
mation, in the process examining their bank statements, credit
histories, and foreign travel records" (Springmann).
FinCEN now issues all regulations under the Banking Secrecy Act,
the basis of all U.S. money laundering legislation.
Section 5313 of the Banking Secrecy Act (BSA) requires a Currency
Transaction Report (CTR) of cash deposits or transactions of $10,000 and
above, which is IRS Form 4789, and a Currency Transaction Report by Casinos
(CTRC), which is IRS Form 8362. Section 5316 of BSA also requires a Currency
or Monetary Instrument Report (CMIR) for transport of $10,000 or more of
currency in or out of the U.S. This is Customs Form 4790. Section 5314(a)
of BSA requires reporting of foreign bank or financial accounts whose value
exceeds $10,000 at any time during the preceding year. This is called a
Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) and is Treasury form TDR 90-22-1.
Section 60501 of the IRS Code requires the reporting of business
transactions involving more than $10,000 cash. These are reported on IRS
Form 8300.
These and other forms are entered into the Treasury Financial Date
Base (TFDB) and become available on-line in the Treasury Enforcement
Communications System, TECS II. The TFDB data are processed through the
FinCEN Artificial Intelligence (AI) System, which is trained to identify
suspicious transaction patterns.
FinCEN's AI system has now been joined by thousands of
bio-i