"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." Orwell-- The US is probably moving toward becoming a heavily controlled Rightist state. This blog is an effort to document how that happened.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Victor Bout:and the Russian Mafia: America’s Business Associates

Some CIA officials have voiced concern about American involvement with illegal arms dealer Victor Bout,and Senator Russell Feingold has expressed deep frustration over continued ties to Bout. It took undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz eight months to answer Feingold’s May 18, 2004 questions about dealings with Bout. It is unclear whether the US really needs his services in Iraq. In the past the CIA has been a major mover of licit and illicit arms and has often worked with private contractors in doing this. Major political figures have been raked off large commissions from these deals. However, there is growing evidence of ties Bout and the Russian Mafia on the part of the US government people close to it in other parts of the world. It may relate to the scramble of western banks to get their share of the vast wealth that has been pillaged from the former Soviet Union. One important function of the intelligence community is assisting American business. The current black economy is so large that these banks believe they must compete for their share of the money laundering business by dealing with intelligence agencies and organized crime. .It was also important to national security that as much of the Russian loot as possible be in banks that supported the dollar rather than the euro. The Russian mob , known also for extortion and the trade, accommodated western bankers with prostitutes, and later produced embarrassing video tapes . The Russian mob has been good enough to deposit 80% of its drug profits in western banks and it has used these deposits to play on the greed of Western capitalists. In 1997-1998, Mobil Oil entered a deal with Atlas Oil, a Russian mob firm, for oil and advanced $45,000,000 before realizing it had been taken. It received not one barrel for its investment. Seymour Hersh covered the scam in a July 9, 2001 article, but Mobil induced other journalists to make the story go away. One internal memo advised doing nothing as Russian mobsters were far more ruthless than members of American organized crime.

Bout has worked with some American security consulting firms since 1994 and was instrumental in placing the Russian mafia in working relationships with some of them. In the Caucuses, , which has had a history of involvement in the drug traffic, has been working with Far West , Ltd. He added that Far West indirectly cooperates with the US government, and these ties to Far West, Ltd in recent years seem to have the apparent approval of the CIA.

Far West is a major Russian mafia operation that provides security consulting and transportation services. It also moves arms and drugs. From 1991 to 2003, Far West is said to have moved 300 tons of heroin into Western Europe. Vladimir Filin, head of Far West, told a Russian interviewer that his firm was co-founded by an important American corporation. He added that Far West indirectly cooperates with the US government.

We cooperate with the American side in the sphere of commercial transportation not on the basis of direct commercial contracts between our agency [Far West, Ltd.] and the U. S. government, but through the intermediary company co-founded by the agency and a private U.S. company, which in its turn also interacts with the U.S. government.

It is difficult to decipher what that means, but the name Halliburton comes to mind. In 2005, he and two other co-founders,Anton Surikov, and Alexei Likhvintsev, visited President Bush in the White House. Thereafter he and his partners relocated to Dubai and Europe to escape possible arrest. Surikov is considered a retired officer of the Russian GRU as well as a political scientist who opposes Boris Yeltsin and President Vladimir Putin. He admits a connection to CIA agent Fritz Ermarth, who served on the National Security Council twice and retired in 1998. At a 2003 conference in Geneva, Surikov was accused of being a CIA man. As late as 1999, Ermarth was arranging for guns and money to reach a Chechen group that also sold drugs in Europe. OneRuslan Saidov ( sometimes Yasenev) , also part of the Russian mafia, also works various sides of the street including Saudi Arabia, and was paid by the CIA in 2004 to eliminate an Arab leader in Chechnyua who was likely to move from Chehnya to Iraq. The Russian mafia often works through Alpha Bank, which is probably its subsidiary. That bank has business relationships with Halliburton. In 1995 a huge drug warehouse controlled by the bank was burglarized in Siberia and the burglary was investigated by Russian security police..

In the Middle East, Far West cooperates with Diligence ,LCC, a private military corporation founded by William Webster, former head of both the FBI and CIA. These firm also work with recently founded New Bridge Strategies, which is headed by Joseph Allbaugh. He was a campaign manager for Governor Bush as well as his chief-of-staff and he later became head of FEMA. Other partners are George H.W. Bush aids Ed Rogers and Lanny Griffith. The firm has close ties to Neil Bush.

The killing of two American Special Forces soldiers and the kidnaping of Russian diplomats in 2006 was involved with a Bout-related black operation that seems to have gone rogue. Team 121 was comprised of Russian, Israeli, and British mercenaries and was supposed to be used combating private militias in Iraq and turning them against one another. The team was created through the combined efforts of Bout, the Olive Group ( a subsidiary of Blackwater in the United Kingdom, and the Bosnian Defense Fund, of Douglas Feith and Richard Perle. That entity works largely through the Riggs Bank and dates back to the days of the first President Bush. It has had clear links to Al Qasser and Bout .Both of these dealers were involved in the drug trade and moving arms to the Muslim rebels. It has been estimated that at one point, the Kosovo Liberation Front controlled almost 70% of the heroin moving into Europe.


Wayne Madsen, a usually reliable reporter, has been strongly hinting that Bout and the Russian-Ukranian-Israeli weapons-smuggling Mafia has ties to Richard Cheney and other people in the White House. Madsen states flatly that Richard Armitage, undersecretary of State, had been involved in shady dealings in Azerbaijan. The former NSA employee also notes that US Special Forces in Afghanistan are heavily involved in the opium trade and are moving shipments through Turkey and the Balkans with the help of the Russian Mafia and Greek criminals. Madsen notes elsewhere that the Turkish Army is also a major drug trader, so it can be assumed that they participate in this trade. Victor Bout is reportedly a major player in this trade. Two of Bout’s big planes have been spotted frrequently in Kabul and also at the US military base in Frankfurt.

It is not clear that the US moved into the Afghan drug trade immediately after its war there. Prior to the war, the US allied with Afghanistan’s chief narcobaron, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was an opponent of the Taliban. Another drug baron all was Haji Zaman, and the US persuaded the Pakistanis to release from prison his Pakistani partner Haji Ayub Afridi. These men were also tied to t he Russian mafia and some of their profits got to the Chechnyan rebels. It is possible that at that stage, the US entered into these unsavory alliances as a way of weakening the Russian state. However, by 2006, the US was so deeply involved in the Afghan poppy business that there were complaints about Special Forces hogging the trade and working with “Victor Bout. Some point out that Special Forces had provided the muscle to help the CIA move drugs elsewhere and simply assume this was a resumption of business as usual. A more benevolent interpretation from a conservative publication was that the US had to permit the resumption of the opium trade in order to support the dollar. While Madsen suggests that Cheney and others are running some sort of business on their own, it is much more likely that they have just piggy-backed onto a government operated drug trade that serves some national interests. It could just be a repeat and expansion of what happened under Reagan and the first Bush.

On October 22, 2006, the Iraqi government reported that $600 million had been siphoned off in arms deals. Bout and the Russian mafia were not mentioned. One cannot help wondering, if they were involved, and if any high American officials were participating in dividing the spoils.

The more one digs, the more apparent it is that intelligence agencies, sometimes arms of government, some politicians, and the international underworld all swin in the same muddy water and frequently do business with one another.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The US Government and Victor Bout

The Clinton Administration finally got around to blacklisting illegal arms dealer Victor Bout in 2000, but it took three years of investigating because most of his crimes were committed outside the United States. The George W. Bush government has officially put itself on record as wanting end Bout’s career as an arms trader, but it has unofficially used its influence to keep him in business and has even retained his services. Finally, in November, 2004, President Bush signed an executive order forbidding Americans from dealing with people like Bout. The Treasury missed at least three new US-based airlines he owned, and little progress was very slow in processing the paper work to coordinate Treasury’s work with the UN’s international sanctions. In 2006 the UN again put Bout on its embargo list and ordered the assets of the companies the US had named frozen. The UN report listed many of the weapons he moved, but particularly troubling were thousands of landmines. He was soon called the world’s largest arms dealer and Peter Hain, the current leader of the British House of Commons, called him a “merchant of death.” A Treasury document lists thirty of his companies and claims he has the largest private fleet f soviet aircraft in the world. It is said that he has several hundred shell companies to move assets to and out of. one another in an endless shell game.

After September 11, 2001, the State Department told law enforcement they could look at him but not touch. National Security Advisor Condoleessa Rice implored Sharjah (UAE) authorities not to arrest Bout. . Bout was soon flying troops in Afghanistan, and his planes also removed Taliban and Pakistani fighters to Pakistan. His aircraft have also been observed flying patterns consistent with working for the CIA’s rendition program. At one point the State Department asked other agencies not to use his services in Iraq, but it was clear that at least three of his front companies were being employed. At least one was subcontracted by Kellogg, Brown, and Root. Which paid him to refuel US military aircraft. L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer seemed to shower Bout with good contracts. In 2004, his companies made between 140 and 200 flights into Iraq and they were working for various Pentagon agencies as well as Kellogg, Brown, root. The extent of his employment by Great Britain is not known, but two of his planes took off from an RAF base in Oxfordshire between March 6 and 9, 2005. At the same time, two other planes left RAF Base Norton for Kosovo.

While the US continued to denounce him, it quietly persuaded Great Britain and others to lift sanctions on him in 2004., and the US resisted strong French efforts to put Bout out of business. On November 23 of that year, he met with Rice, Richard Armitage, and Porter Goss ostensibly to consider how Gambia’s image in the US could be improved. Through the right-wing ambassador to Gambia, Victor Bout has met many influential Americans. A good source speculates that he had ties to Jack Abramoff and the Italian mafia who killed Abramoff’s disgruntled partner in south Florida, Gus Boulis.

Bout’s brother. Serguei runs Air Bas, which is very active in Iraq. It could be a front company. His businesses seem to be operated out of Texas under the guidance of Richard Chichakli , a nephew of the late president of Syria. Chickakli is a US citizen, had a distinguished army record, and claimed that he was in intelligence work for 18 years. He also claims that the FBI recruited him to help the bin Laden family get out of the country after 9/11. He claims to only be Bout’s accountant. The FBI seized his records and shut down his practice. The UN has placed an embargo on doing business with him. He has moved to Moscow where he dwells in a five story house. The Russians claim he is not there, but he is seen on the streets and sometimes submits to radio interviews. Bout often flies to the UAE, where most of his companies are located. His brother dwells in Islamabad. Though Chickakli was obliged to flee, Le Monde reported in 2004 that his employer enjoys some sort of amnesty due to his services in Iraq and spreading around favors.

Victor Bout: The World’s Leading Dealer in Illegal Arms

Viktor Vasilevich Bout ( pronounced “butt” or” bott”) has become the world’s largest dealer in illegal arms , and he achieved this status in a short period of time. Today, the US and the UN officially try to prevent people and countries from dealing with him, yet US contractors in Iraq are still using his services.

Bout is a prominent member of the Russian mafia.. His record of fueling mayhem and murder in Africa and violating US embargoes has led the UN, the United States, and some other nations to join in blacklisting him and forbidding transactions with him Despite its own measures against him , the administration of George W. Bush continues to do business with him and with the Russian mafia.

KGB Major Bout was stati0oned at a Russian base in Angola in 1991.Vic tor was born in Tajikistan in 1967 of Russian parents who had tangential ties to important families, including the Andropovs. He was fluent in six languages. When the soviet empire collapsed in that year, he became an arms dealer, using old Soviet planes Bout started by purchasing three old Antonov planes and soon had 250 to 300 employees, mostly Russians, Ukranians, and Arminians. A Human Rights Watch official said that by 2000 Bout operated the “McDonalds of arms-trafficking.”

He soon became an important figure in the Russian-Ukranian mafia. These underworld people enjoyed the protection of the Russian military and Ministry of Defense. Bout entered business when it was characterized by Yeltsin-era, small, disorganized crime and he would make the transition to Putin- era organized crime ventures. His ties for what passed as the Russian mafia were very important, but he preferred to work as a lone wolf on specific operations .built around his air cargo business.

The Russian mafia had access to a $32 billion weapons stockpile in the Ukraine. It even included helicopters. Even Ukranian president Leonid Kuchma was caught dealing weapons in 1998-2000. Some went to Saddam Hussein. According to the Russian investigators, a worldview drug mega cartel has emerged in which the Russian mafia played a major role. They believe that Yeltsin crime family was an important player in the cartel, and they insist that the Bush family, centered in the current administration, is now a major player. Whether or not that is true, it is known that George H.W. Bush refused to cooperate in an international investigation of Russian mafia money laundering in Switzerland.

These elements participate in a international drug trade that could approach something between $500 million and $1.2 trillion a year. Representatives of its component elements met at the villa of Adnan Khashoggi at Beaulieu, near Nice, France in July 1999. He was once said to the “the richest man in the world.” There were also representatives of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, the Russian Mafia, and Venezuela. Also present were representativs of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a major drug dealing operation. This cartel deals with Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s deputy, FACA rebels in Columbia, the Kosovo Liberation Army, the CIA, and Russian Military Intelligence(GRU). . Dr. Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat, traces the predecessors of the meta group back to the CIA-sponsored bank BCCI, and before that to cooperative ventures centering in the agency and Myer Lansky. Scott writes that a second drug cartel operates the traffic from Burma into the enterprise zones of southern China, and he has little information on how the two networks might be connected.

With assistance of the Russian mafia, Bout has moved weapons out of the Ukraine and Bulgaria. He soon established a base in Ostend, Belgium and sold weapons to many parties in Africa, to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, and then to the Taliban. Bout denied working for the Taliban and The Belgians indicted him for money laundering and conspiracy and put out an international arrest warrant. Bouts planes were used for personal transportation before 9/11 according to Andrew Gilligan of the Evening Standard.

Bout moved to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates , where, he established close business ties to the former ambassador to the US, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Saqr al Nayhan, a member of the Dhabi ruling family. The UAE plays an important role in the Afghan drug trade as opium is shipped there, where it is heavily taxed, and some of that tax money has made itw way back to terrorists. The Village Voice speculated that the failed Dubai plan to purchase US ports would have made it much easier to get drugs into the U.S. He has found the UAE a convenient place to do business with Abdul Qayyum Shaikh, a major central Asian dealer in illegal arms.

Arms merchants like Bout make it possible by moving huge quantities of illegal weapons to illegal destinations. Bout has also established a major base in Gambia, where he has used his influence to mov e huge quantities of illegal blood diamonds. Later, the US ignored his actrivities in the illegal diamonds trade in return for flying arms to the Northen Alliance when it was fighting the Afghan Taliban. He was also involved in business arrangements with dictator Charles Taylor in Liberia. Again, they were moving diamonds. The diamond gangs are known for killing, , rape and murder. Taylor was a business partner of Pat Robertson, a major figure in the illegal diamond trade, and those diamonds were moved on the evangelist’s “Operation Blessing” aircraft. Bout, who owns about 50 Russian planes, has also supplied Philippine extremists Abu Sayyaf Group It estimated that he has supplied arms for every war and insurgency in Africa in the past decade and a half. Perhaps his greatest achievement was arming child soldiers in Sierra Leon. During the slaughter in Rwanda, he armed the Hutu and also flew in French peacekeepers. He operated many companies and many fronts. The first was Transavia Export Company, founded in 1991. He has been accused by a usually reliable correspondent of supplying Osama bin Laden, but he denies it.

Bout claims that all his ventures are legitimate cannot believed, but a majority might be. One of his businesses is flying frozen chickens to Africa. He has enough legitimacy to enable Vladimir Putin to befriend him. Twice Bout flew UN peace keepers to Somalia and East Timor and he was also active selling arms in Kosovo and neighboring areas. Two united Nations Commissions cited him for breaking embargoes, and the US Treasury in 2005 and 2006 froze his US assets. There is a strong nexus between people like Bout and terrorism.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

The Child Abduction-Child Sex Trail Goes Cold

So many gaps, contradictions, and disinformation color reports about government sponsored child abduction and abuse, that whatever the real story is, we will probably never know it. We are all conditioned to believe that these sorts of things simply could not happen. Even if there were twice as much partial information available, it would be hard to believe government could be involved, and the story would still be so incomplete that it would be consigned to speculation. According to Nobel laureate, many people–probably a majority– are wired emotionally in such a way that they cannot accept very much bad news about their leaders or society. These folks can rest easy, and the people he calls “realists” will continue to be uneasy because there is more than enough evidence to prompt worry.

A number of sources indicate that Roy Cohn operated a prostitution as early as the fifties and that CIA agent Edwin Wilson was connected with it so that mind control experiments could be carried out by permitting subjects to act out in real life their sexual fantasies. There is a little good information linking the 1950s operation to that of the seventies, which involved both these men. There is some information about a CIA sexual blackmail operation in the 1960s.


Former agent Frank Terpil wrote about agent Ed Wilson’s role in the blackmail operation of the seventies and added that photographs were taken by the agency’s Technical Services Division. The service was used to blackmail members of both parties as well as high government and military officials. Child sex was available, and prominent names were associated with the sex ring, including a future vice president and a very sanctimonious member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Some report that Wilson did not operate the ring in the eighties; it passed to a higher official at Langley. There is only a little information on where the children were obtained. One good source say some came from Covenant House, back in the days when it was operated by a priest who was later removed for sexual abuse.

The names of the people allegedly operating government-tied sex rings are always the same and they are also associated with various Iran /Contra operations and various activities ast the Capizon Indian Reservation in Indo, California. This suggest that only a small minority of government agents are tied to the various illegal activities associated with the CIA, NSA, and FBI since the late seventies. This is comforting in a sense, but it also confirms the claim that a small network of right-wing intelligence people inside and outside the government called “The Enterprise” took shape in the late seventies and has been at work ever since. It emerged in opposition to Jimmy Carter but became an instrument of official policy in the Reagan-Bush,Srs. years. Its status now is unknown. When Bill Clinton said there was “ a government within a government” that he could not control, he may have had this in mind.

There are reports of children being moved through airstrips at Sheridan, Oregon, China Lake, California, and Santa Rosa, California. The latter airstrip sees the most traffic and is operated by FEMA. Of course, that airstrip is near Bohemian Grove, where child sex abuse is alleged to have occurred.

The name that crops up with greatest frequency is that of a man in Division Five of the FBI, who also worked for the CIA. He ran weapons in Iran Contra and did black bag jobs for J. Edgar Hoover. He admitted to Stewart Webb that he was involved in molesting children and said he could not leave black operations until George Herbert Walker Bush permitted it. Later in life in married a woman in the Church of Satan. Now he has infiltrated the ranks of people investigation child abuse and survivors organizations.

There are several survivors’ organizations that are obviously infiltrated by agents of the perpetrators and some people who probably never experienced child abuse. All the survivors claim they were snatched by government agents. They also say they were subjected to various experiments and became intelligence operatives and sex slaves. Some tell some unbelievable stories. Maybe they were preprogrammed to provide this disinformation to make all their claims seem ridiculous. On the other hand, their stories have many commonalities regarding techniques, people, places, and the like.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Incident Raises Questions About Child Abuse

Six dirty, ill-clad children were seen in a Tallahassee park on February 4, 1987. They were with two well dressed men who had an old Dodge van. Someone called the police and reported that something seemed amiss. The two men were arrested and charged with child abuse. They belonged to a Washington-based organization called Finders. The van had a mattress in back, and it seemed that all eight of these people slept there. One child showed signs of sexual abuse. All the children were seven or under ,, and only one would speak. Most of the children did not recognize toilets, telephones, staplers, typewriters, or telephones. They believed they were being taken to a school for very bright kids in Mexico and said they were fed as a reward for obedience. One said the men were their teachers.

Washington, DC and the Customs Service police raided a warehouse and apartment. The former agency was involved because it maintained a child pornography unit. belonging to the Finders. A police detective had previously acquired information that the warehouse had been used for orgies and blood rituals. A large quantity of toys was found. The search produced manuals on how to find children and photographs of nude children. One seemed to accent a child’s genitals. There was a large quantity of tapes, and the Finders had a capacity to produce and reproduce tapes. Telexes were found that showed that children had been moved to all parts of the world, and there was an album showing children and adults in white robes, participating in rituals centering in the slaughtering of goats.

The Washington Police Department quickly dropped the matter—“like a hot stone” in the words of the Tallahassee policy. A WPD official said the case “had become a CIA internal matter.”. The FBI advise the WPD not to forward any formation about the matter. The WPD files were sealed on the matter. However, the children were returned to their parents.

Today, Finders has facilities in Washington and in Culpeper, Va. It claims to be a communal organization that explores rational living and it provides intelligence studies, mostly foreign but some domestic. Its guru, Marion David Pettie, admits that his son and wife had worked for the CIA, but he insisted that he had spent his lifetime trying to keep tract of covert government activities. He insists he was never an employee. He died in 2003. Some speculate that he was a rogue former agent trying to duplicate the agent’s mind control experiments.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Mind Control and Sex/Blackmail Operations: Is There a Tie

An obvious reason for operating a sex ring in Washington is to gain influence over the rich and powerful. Some people insist that the government was involved in these rings and link the involvement in part to child abduction and the government’s psychological experiments.

Knowledge of government mind control experiments and operations is limited. They are together called MK-Ultra. Much is written about Project Monarch, which seems to be a disinformation effort intended to keep people away from studying MKUltra. People have been hurt by Monarch operations, but it is essentially a side show.

During World War II, the US carried out mind control experiments mainly at McGill University in Canada, but also at Cornell under the direction of Dr. D. Ewen Cameron. . After the war, it imported Nazi and Italian Fascist scientists through “Operation Paperclip.” The Nazi scientists believed mind control worked best when the subjects were conditioned as children. Experiments centered on enhancing memory, control of behavior , and developing enhanced interrogation techniques and preparing people to resist vigorous interrogation. Techniques included electronic shock, hypnosis, forms of torture, and drugs including the development of LSD. There was also a hope of creating “sleeper” assassins, who could be triggered by earing a certain word or phrase. The investigators seemed to believe that using occult symbolism and the like proved very useful in programming minds. There is some evidence, including testimony before Congress, about the use of radiation exposure to control behavior.

At one time or another, 44 colleges and universities experimented for the government. In addition a number of hospitals were used. The work was segmented among so many research providers to prevent anyone from getting an overall view of the project. At Tulane, Dr. John Lilly pioneered in the use of electric shock and had great success implanting electrodes in the heads of animals. As far as we know, he used electricity on humans without implanting electrodes in their brains. Another approach to programming subjects was through the use of sexual training and abuse. It was a way of stripping people of all moral structures. It was also desirable to create multiple personalities so that in one personality because this helped the subjects forget actions they had carried out under programming. Other experiments that were follow-ups on Dachau work succeeded in dissolving memory via electronic shock in the sixties. There was also programs designed to create very elite soldiers, which borrowed from Dr. Joseph Mengele’s efforts to create perfect men. Some received a programming that makes possible self-destruction. Some information on the early phases of the program can be found in Orlikow, et al. Vs the U.S. ( 1988)

CIA director William Colby said the agency stopped all the mind control experiments in the early seventies. Lt. Col. Michael Aquino of the Army’s Psychological Warfare division carried on these experiments through the eighties. He became obsessed with Nazi rituals and satanism and founded the Temple of Set , an adaptation of the Church of Satan. He also went to Wewelsburg, a castle used by Himmler, where he presided over black magic ceremonies with former SS people. Did he believe this nonsense? The practice of Nordic satanism is puzzling. Perhaps these rituals are useful at some level of consciousness in innoculating people against remorse and instilling the belief that superior people are are entitled to act as they wish and take what they want.

There were other important experimenters including Heinrich Mueller, alias Dr. Blue or Gog, and his two sons. The experiments were carried on at many military bases and civilian locations, always under cover of innocent-sounding projects. Important work was done at Englewood Arsenal, Maryland, where Friedrich Hoffman carried out psychochemical experiments. Also involved there was Dr. Hubertus Strunghold, who had done experiments on truth serums at Dachau, using mescaline and psychedelics. His work for us was appropriately called Project Chatter. There were Nazi directed experiments on American citizens here and at a mental hospital in New York City. .Other experiments that were follow-ups on Dacuau work succeeded in dissolving memory via electronic shock in the sixties.

An expanded article or series on MKUltra will appear here sometime in the future.

An Early Brownstone Operation–Sex and Blackmail Ring
“Brownstone Operation” is another name for a sex/blackmail ring. A number of sources indicate that Roy Cohn operated one in the 1970s. It was reported that Cohn services including providing boys for men of wealth and power. A escort service was used as a “cut-out” for the sex and blackmail operation. A extension of his work was carried on by CIA agent Edwin Wilson and a former Eisenhower administration official who probably was not a CIA agent. There are reports that Wilson and Cohen cooperated in sex/blackmail scams since the 1950s.

A club run by a South Korean intelligence agent was used by them in the 1970s. . The former Eisenhower official was active in the 1976 and 1980 Reagan campaigns and held a White House under the former California governor but reported to CIA Director Bill Casey. In the late seventies, CBS’s “Sixty Minutes” reported that it was the city’s unofficial shadow government. In the eighties, Wilson was jailed on charges illegal gun running, but he always insisted he was carrying out orders.

Former agent Frank Terpil wrote about agent Ed Wilson’s role in the blackmail operation and added that photographs were taken by the agency’s Technical Services Division. The service was used to blackmail members of both parties as well as high government and military officials. Child sex was available, and prominent names were associated with the sex ring, including a future vice president and a very sanctimonious member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Some report that Wilson did not operate the ring in the eighties; it passed to a higher official at Langley. There is only a little information on where the children were obtained.

One good source say some came from religiously operated home for runaway boys. The former Eisenhower official and one of his subordinates had close ties to the boys home. The home was affiliated with a similar home in Guatemala, which was favored by President Anastazio Samoza. The American boys home was lauded by the Reagan administration as an example of what privatization of these services could accomplish. It was also linked to Americacares, an organization that funneled money to the Nicaraguan contras.

An Early Brownstone Sex/Blackmail Operation

An Early Brownstone Operation–Sex and Blackmail Ring

“Brownstone Operation” is another name for a sex/blackmail ring. A number of sources indicate that Roy Cohn operated one in the 1970s. It was reported that Cohn services including providing boys for men of wealth and power. A escort service was used as a “cut-out” for the sex and blackmail operation. A extension of his work was carried on by CIA agent Edwin Wilson and a former Eisenhower administration official who probably was not a CIA agent. There are reports that Wilson and Cohen cooperated in sex/blackmail scams since the 1950s.

A club run by a South Korean intelligence agent was used by them in the 1970s. . The former Eisenhower official was active in the 1976 and 1980 Reagan campaigns and held a White House under the former California governor but reported to CIA Director Bill Casey. In the late seventies, CBS’s “Sixty Minutes” reported that it was the city’s unofficial shadow government. In the eighties, Wilson was jailed on charges illegal gun running, but he always insisted he was carrying out orders.

Former agent Frank Terpil wrote about agent Ed Wilson’s role in the blackmail operation and added that photographs were taken by the agency’s Technical Services Division. The service was used to blackmail members of both parties as well as high government and military officials. Child sex was available, and prominent names were associated with the sex ring, including a future vice president and a very sanctimonious member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Some report that Wilson did not operate the ring in the eighties; it passed to a higher official at Langley. There is only a little information on where the children were obtained.

One good source say some came from religiously operated home for runaway boys. The former Eisenhower official and one of his subordinates had close ties to the boys home. The home was affiliated with a similar home in Guatemala, which was favored by President Anastazio Samoza. The American boys home was lauded by the Reagan administration as an example of what privatization of these services could accomplish. It was also linked to Americacares, an organization that funneled money to the Nicaraguan contras.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

The Foley Case

The Foley Sex Scandal hit the headlines in September, 2006 when it was learned that Representative Mark Foley, number four man in the House leadership, had been sending sexually inappropriate e-mails to a 16 year old House page. The leadership and Ethics Committee Republicans had been aware of the harassment of this sixteen year old for eleven months and had not acted. Within two days of the breaking of the story, more evidence was produced that showed that the leadership knew about Foley sending sexually inappropriate e-mails to pages as early as 2001.There was even more evidence that there had been discussions about Foley’s problem within the leadership in the last year. Though knowing Foley could prove an embarrassment, Carl Rove asked him to run again in 2004.

Before ten days had passed, it was known that Rep. Jim Kolbe, then head of the Pages’ Board saw Foley’s messages in 2000. Kirt Fordham, Foley’s former chief of staff, said he alerted Hastert’s office of Foley’s troubling misconduct more than three years ago, Fordham went on to become chief of staff for Tom Reynolds, chair of the congressional Campaign Committee. Others in the leadership said they alerted Hastert a year ago. A former page told the Los Angeles Times that Foley stayed in contact with him after he left Washington and that they had sex when the young man was 21. Majority members of the Congressional Pages Board were aware of the problem but this information was withheld from the Democratic member.

The press covered the story in terms of whether the scan dal would lead conservative Christians to stay home on November 7 rather than show up and vote Republican as usual. These good people do not approve of sexual immorality, but they hate still more "liberals," whom they imagine are "elitists" who detest and somehow conspire against ordinary Americans. Perhaps regular conservative Christian voters will stay home because they have learned that the Bushies use them and otherwise make fun of them, but most will turn out to exorcise the demons clergy and clever Republican spinmasters have inserted into their streams of consciousness.

Who can forget the host of Republican Congressmen exposed as degenerates, adulterers, and home-wreckers in the Clinton days. The Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals did not punish them. More recently, fifteen godly House Republicans, mostly from the Appropriations committee, were found exchanging votes for adult sex. There was no conservative Christian outcry. One of the most pious Christian Congressmen in California was recently photographed with a prostitute, but apparently his Christian constitutents have ignored the infraction, perhaps thinking that he, like Gladstone, was trying to convert her.

Monday, October 16, 2006

The Elite's Interest in Sex with Children

,For some reason it appears that members of world elite has a preference for sex with children. In the last few years, the press has carried some stories about this in Latin America, Portugal, Belgium, and Bosnia.

On November 27, 2002, elements of the European press carried a story about diplomats, media people, and politicians having sex with children from a state-run orphanage, Casa Pia. Child pornography was also involved. Unlike the case in Belgium, this quickly disappeared from the headlines.

Not long after that, on January 28, 2003, the United Kingdom's press reported on Operation Ore. It indicated that a musical star and important overnment figures were having sex with children and relishing child pornography. Very soon, the Tony Blair government exercise its power to impose a news blackout on this story. It damaged national security!

There is a Nebraska Department of Social Service Report ( March 25, 1986) report, verified by four polygraph tests, that 15-20 male and female children children were flown from Omaha to Chicago in the mid-eighties for sexual use at a Republican event. A June 29, 1989 Washington Times story by Paul M. Rodriguez and George Archibald referred to a political six ring–mainly tied to the GOP– which involved “abduction of minors for sexual perversion.” Yorkshire TV followed up on this and prepared “Conspiracy of Silence” for the Discovery Channel. It was to be broadcasted in 1994, someone bought up the rights to the program and it was never shown.

In 2005, stories appeared that military contractors Halliburton and Dyncorp ran child prostitution rings in the Balkans. Only Representative Cynthia Mc Kinney, considered an extremist due to her position on some other matters, asked many questions. However, she gathered some support for an amendment to a military appropriations bill forbidding US military contractors from running prostitution and forced labor operations. However, passage of the amendment was stalled due to pressure from the Pentagon.

It is speculated that John Mark Karr was hustled out of Thailand to prevent him from talking in a Thai court about diplomatic involvement in the child sex trade. One American diplomat keeps two children, one from Laos and the other from Cambodia.

In the United States of America, government has no power to impose news blackouts, but things work the same way as in Great Britain. Indeed, it sometimes eeems that the UK journalists show more vigor than America's corporate scribes. In October, 2006, the press spilled much ink about a Republican Congressman who sent suggestive e-mails to male House pages, but little was done to follow up on reports of more than a few members covering for him. Two members of the House Page Board tried to conceal they served on that committee. One of them as a state official covered her husband's backside from charges he had "inappropriaqte contact with a minor." Another Republican from Illinois was rumored to have had a sexual relationship with a 16 year-old page. Wayne Madsen, a reliable alternative journalist, explored rumors of a Pennsylvania Republican represntative's indiscretions. The corporate press failed to look into the matter. We recommend reading ://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ . His facts are accurate, but too often he thinks the cavalry will arrive in time when it is usually ambushed soon after its departure..

Sexual contact with minors by the elite is not a topic the mainstream press does much to explore.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Washington Sex Ring Stories Virtually Ignored

Alternative news reporter Tom Flocco writes that since 2000 Jack Abramoff has operated a sex ring in the Sheraton and Ritz Carlton hotels in Washington for influential Republicans. The sexual services of children, bisexuals, homosexuals, lesbians, and others were available for White House and Congressional Republicans as well as journalists. Ranking federal officials, military brass, and media hosts also used the service.

For some time, sex with children centered at Hilton because it had very secure areras to hide vehicles and move children--sometimes drugged--through hallways without the possibility of video surveillance. After employees became suspicious, the child sex operation was moved.

Some people who are incapable of mature sexual relationships prefer sex with children. But in other cases, it seems to be a mixture of sexual attraction and what has been called “libido dominandi.” People who are greatly attracted to accumulating power and wealth find sex with children particularly satisfying because it is easier to exercise complete power over children. To a degree it is a matter of “power tends to corrupt.”



Tom Hennigan, another investigator, claims that federal agents are leaking information about this ring that turned up in the Abramoff investigation and was suppressed. They claim there are photographs of prominent people in compromising positions. He adds that an important Senate leader and possible presidential candidate has visited these parties and is a friend of Victor Ashe, George W. Bush's college roomate. According to him, Jeff Gannon, introduced one leading Republican journalist as well as a ranking British politician to these sex parties.

There was little connection to the Mark Foley scandal except that what seemed to be Abramoff money was channelled to one of the ex-page's families. Another investigative reporter claims that Foley and Jeff Gannon recruited important people for the sex ring.

This information suggests that the Abramoff sex parties were separate from those sponsored by two San Diego Republicans at two other hotels. There was no evidence that those two men offered sex with children. That scandal-- a year old, called Hookergate" and now almost forgotten--involved about 15 Republicans from the House Appropriations Committee, who had access to sex in return for their votes. Two high-ranking figures from the CIA also attended these parties and have since resigned.

All this is reminescent of two sex rings in the 1980s that were mostly patronized by Republicans, intelligence people, and foreign dignitaries. Information about these rings is now appearing on numerous places on the internet. As in the case of the alleged Abramoff ring, children were involved as well as photographs.

Count on it. The alleged Abramoff sex ring will not become national news.

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