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The Yamashita gold would become the cornerstone of the Black Eagle Fund, from
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[Analytical & Intelligence Comments] "It suggests that certain key unknown figures in the Federal Reserve may have been in collusion..."Released on 2013-02-13 00:00 GMT
[Analytical & Intelligence Comments] "It suggests that certain key On the same day, (September 11) the Securities and Exchange Commission |
The Yamashita gold would become the cornerstone of the Black Eagle Fund, from which many covert operations of the U.S. intelligence would be funded. Under international law the gold should have been either returned to the countries from which it was stolen (as was done with the Nazi gold), or should have been incorporated into the U.S. Treasury. The U.S. Government’s continued efforts to stifle news on this matter provides prima facie evidence that the confiscation of this gold was illegal. The men responsible for initiating and executing the confiscation of Nazi and Japanese treasury gold represent the most senior Intelligence officers in the U.S. and Britain at the end of World War II, and the Cabinet of the President of the United States. The financial institutions represented by these individuals would become the major financial banks in the world, along with the Swiss-German banks where they hid their gold. Lansdale’s operation in the Philippines gave birth to most of the common features of modern covert operations for the U.S.Intelligence and initiated a bond between the US intelligence organizations and the Israeli intelligence. He also set precedents for the Intelligence community to retain the services of organized crime on U.S. soil and to use drug running as a way of financing activities, The covert operations funded by the Black Eagle Trust in the 1960s and 1970s became visible stains on the global image of the U.S. despite all efforts to keep them under cover. In an effort to clean house, President Jimmy Carter would order the retirement of over 800 covert operatives. Many of these operatives would move into private consulting and security firms and be employed as subcontractors for covert operations. Thus began a loose association of private operatives that would be referred to as “the Enterprise†in the years to come. George H.W. Bush, having been CIA Director, had many acquaintances in this group, and would work with them to restore their influence and control over U.S. foreign policy and the foreign investment opportunities it created for their benefit. Meantime Ferdinand Marcos, the pro-U.S. dictator of the Philippines, continued to discover even more of the buried treasure. and had started to sell it on the market during the 1970s with the assistance of Adnan Khashoggi. US Intelligence operations had been siphoning off the gold for three decades. However in 1986 Vice President George Bush took over the gold from Marcos and the gold was removed to a series of banks, notably Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, UBS and Banker’s Trust, and held in a depository in Kloten Switzerland. What happened to the Marcos gold after it was confiscated by U.S. agents in 1986 has never been reported, but throughout the early 1990s, the world gold market would be befuddled by the mysterious appearance of thousands of tonnes of gold which appeared to suppress the price of gold. In South east Asia operations were financed through Nugan Hand Bank in Australia which would be one of the many banks used for transferring the Marcos gold from the Philippines into covert operations. Frank Nugan’s family ran the primary supply shipping operation between the U.S. Navy base in the Philippines and Australia. Frank Nugan's business partner, Peter Abeles, and Henry Keswick, together with Canadian businessman Peter Munk, would link with Adnan Kashoggi, Sheikh Kamal and Edgar Bronfmann in a series of operations which ultimately would evolve into Barrick Gold. In 1992, George H.W. Bush served on the Advisory Board of Barrick Gold. The Barrick operation would create billions of dollars of paper gold by creating ‘gold derivatives’. A major distribution channel for the sale of Barrick’s gold futures would be Enron. Enron would also become the vehicle by which oil and gas contracts from the former Soviet Union (vehicles for Soviet money-laundering) were processed. Barrick, which has no mining operations in Europe, used two refineries in Switzerland: MKS Finance S.A. and Argor-Heraeus S.A. – both on the Italian border near Milan, a few hours away from the gold depository in Zurich. The question that Barrick and other banks needed to avoid answering is: what gold was Barrick refining in Switzerland, as they have no mines in that region? Barrick would become a quiet gold producing partner for a number of major banks, and its activities became subject to an FBI investigation into gold-price-fixing. The records on this investigation were kept in the FBI office on the 23rd floor of the North Tower which was destroyed by bomb blasts shortly before the Tower collapsed. The ultimate destination of the "Golden Lily Treasure", and the source of the ‘loaned’ gold that flooded the market for 10 years has never been officially explained. The records of many of those transactions disappeared when Enron collapsed and the trading operation and all its records were taken over by UBS, another major recipient of Marcos gold. The FBI was reportedly conducting an investigation into those transactions, and the investigation files were kept on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the WTC. A review of the personal accounts of September 11 now suggests that office was deliberately targeted with explosives prior to the collapse of the WTC. Another key player in the Marcos gold was Banker’s Trust, which was taken over by Alex Brown & Sons, after Banker’s Trust floundered financially on its Russian loans in the mid 1990s. These Russian loans were facilitated by Enron, starting in August of 1993, and very possibly were part of the Project Hammer takeover of Soviet industry. Amongst those brought into the picture by the involvement of Alex Brown was J. Carter Beese who was Executive Director of the CIA at the time of September 11. He was appointed by George H.W. Bush to the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in 1992. Since 1992, OPIC has provided more than $4.5 billion in finance and insurance to more than 140 projects in Russia. He was also Chairman of Riggs Bank and also President of Riggs Capital Partners. Riggs controlled the famous Riggs-Valmet consultants who set up the international financial apparatus for the Russian oligarchs and rogue KGB allowing them to steal the Soviet treasury and destroy the Russian economy. Carter Beese’s death was reported as a suicide in 2006. It appears that in September 1991, George H.W. Bush and Alan Greenspan did indeed finance $240 billion in bonds in a buy-out of the Soviet Union as part of a broader programme to attack the economy of the Soviet Union. In addition President George H.W. Bush had initiated a number of related covert operations to take over certain sectors of the Soviet economy, The covert business dealings with the Iranians and Israelis which originated with Kashoggi and Kimche in July 1980 in Hamburg under the October Surprise arrangement, would provide an opening to the Soviet KGB that would allow the U.S. to fund a coup against Gorbachev in 1991. It would grow into a larger covert operation over the years, and be overshadowed by the larger Iran-Contra operation. Members of Bush’s covert intelligence cadre sold weapons to Iran, an avowed enemy of the U.S., and illegally used the profits to continue funding anti-Communist rebels, the Contras, in Nicaragua. The entire Iran-Contra operation almost fell apart in 1986 and became public when the Nicaraguan government shot down a U.S. plane carrying weapons to the Contra rebels However the Iran-Contra team continued to violate the law even while being investigated by Congress. Emboldened by the lack of consequences for subverting the U.S. constitution and breaking international law during the Iran-Contra scandal, the Bush administration group known as “the Vulcans†planned a bigger drive to crush Soviet Russia. The programme also seems to have lined the pockets of the individuals that executed this policy, at US taxpayer expense. This was done to the tune of the $240 billion dollars in covert and allegedly illegal bonds, which appear to have been replaced with Treasury notes backed by U.S. taxpayers in the aftermath of September 11. The Vulcan’s Covert Economic War on the Soviet Union In 1988, Riggs Bank, under the direction of Jonathan Bush and J Carter Beese, would purchase controlling interest in a Swiss company named Valmet. In early 1989, the new subsidiary of Riggs called Riggs-Valmet would initiate contact with a group of KGB officers and their front-men to start setting up an international network for moving money out of the former Soviet block countries. In the first phase of the economic attack on the Soviet Union, George Bush authorized Leo Wanta and others to destabilize the ruble and facilitate the theft of the Soviet/Russian treasury. This would result in draining the Russian treasury of between 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes of gold bullion, ($35 billion at the time). This step would prevent a monetary defence of the ruble and thus destabilize the currency. The gold was ‘stolen’ in March of 1991, facilitated by Leo Wanta and signed off by Boris Yeltsin’s right hand man. The majority of the leaked reports from the CIA and FBI suggest the theft of the Russian treasury was a KGB and Communist party operation, but what those reports omitted was the extensive involvement of Boris Yeltsin, the U.S. CIA and the U.S. banking industry. In November 1989 George H.W. Bush appears to have arranged for Alton G. Keel Jr, a minor player in the Iran-Contra scandal to go to work at Riggs Bank, which would become the controlling owner of a small Swiss bank operation known as Valmet. The Riggs-Valmet operation, would become the ‘consultants’ to the World Bank and to several KGB front operations run by future Russian oligarchs Khordokovsky, Konanykhine, Berezovsky and Abromovich. These soon-to-be Russian oligarchs had been set-up as front men by KGB Generals Aleksey (Alexei) Kondaurov; and Fillipp Bobkov, who previously reported to Victor Cherbrikov, who worked with Robert Maxwell, a British financial mogul, an Israeli secret service agent, and a representative of U.S. intelligence interests, who had been introduced to George Bush in 1976 by Senator Tower for the sole purpose of using Maxwell as an intermediary between Bush and the Soviet Intelligence. Maxwell assisted Cherbrikov in selling military weaponry to Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras during the course of the Iran Contra deals, and made hundreds of millions of dollars available to Cherbrikov’s Russian banks. These two would bring a previously unknown politician and construction foreman named Boris Yeltsin from the hinterlands of Russia to the forefront of Russian politics through providing 50% of Yeltsin’s campaign funding. In the second phase, there were two major operations: the largest was coordinated by Alan Greenspan, Oliver North, and implemented by Leo Wanta. George Soros and a group of Bush appointees who began to destabilize the ruble. They are accused of fronting $240 billion in covert securities to support the various aspects of this plan.These bonds were created (in part or in whole) from a secretive Durham Trust, managed by ex-OSS/CIA officer, Colonel Russell Hermann. This war chest had been created with the Marcos gold. Shortly before the attempted coup of 1991, Maxwell met Kruchkov on Maxwell’s private yacht. Shortly afterwards, Maxwell died mysteriously on his yacht while Senator Tower died in a plane crash under suspicious circumstances in April of 1991. In the meantime, Riggs Bank was quickly solidifying banking relations with two of the old Iran-Contra scandal participants: Swiss bankers Bruce Rappaport, and Alfred Hartmann. Through this group George Soros opened a second front assault on the ruble. It is at this stage of the operation that three more groups would be brought into the plan by Rappaport and Hartmann: The Russian Mafiya, the Israeli Mossad, and the Rothschild family interests represented by Jacob Rothschild. Soros and Rappaport would ensure that the Rothschild financial interests would be the silent backers for a number of the undisclosed deals. The Rothschild interests would also be seen on the board of directors of Barrick Gold. In the fourth phase of the secret war, the Enterprise worked on several fronts to take over key energy industries. On the Caspian front of this economic war, James Giffen was sent to Kazakhstan to work with President Nazarbayev in various legal and illegal efforts to gain control of what was estimated to be the world’s largest untapped oil reserves - Kazak oil in the Caspian. The illegal flow of money from the various oil companies would reach a number of banks. These same oil interests would engage March Rich and the Israeli Eisenberg Group, owned by one of the Mossad’s key operatives, Shaul Eisenberg, to move the oil. (The Eisenberg Group would at some point own almost 50% of Zim Shipping, which mysteriously and inexplicably moved out of the World Trade Center a few weeks before the September 11 attacks.) Like the other events linked with Project Hammer, the coup was all about the money. The coup began the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the reign of Boris Yeltsin and his ‘family’ of Russian Mafiya Oligarchs, and President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. In the final phase, a series of operatives assigned by President George H.W. Bush would begin the takeover of prized Russian and CIS industrial assets in oil, metals and defence. This was done by financing and managing the money-laundering for the Russian oligarchs through the Bank of New York, AEB and Riggs Bank. A closer look at other activities leading up to these phases makes it clear that is was a U.S. orchestrated intelligence effort from the beginning. The economic war involved Gerald Corrigan of the NY Federal Reserve Bank, George Soros, an international currency speculator who was responsible for crashing the British pound a few years earlier, former Ambassador to Germany R. Mark Palmer, and Ronald Lauder-financier and heir to the Estee Lauder estate. Palmer and Lauder would lead a group of American investors in an Operation called the Central European Development Corporation, and combine forces with George Soros and the NM Rothschild Continuation Trust. This group ending up controlling Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant, while the Riggs group ended up controlling Yukos, the oil giant. Ownership for both remains largely ‘hidden’ today, while its front men endure the hardships of the Russian wrath by spending time in prison. Meanwhile, across the Caspian Sea, Bush had assigned a wide array of former Iran-Contra operatives to take a role in Azerbaijan. Initially, he sent in the covert operatives Richard Armitage and Richard Secord who worked with their old colleague from the Mossad, David Kimche, and their old arms running colleagues Adnan Kashoggi and Farhad Azima to hire, transport, and train several thousand Al Qaeda mercenaries to fight on behalf of the Azeri freedom fighters! Osama Bin Laden was reported to have been part of this mercenary force. The September 11th Cover-up of the Black Eagle Trust and Project Hammer Ten years later in 2001, these programmes had finally come back to haunt the U.S. policy makers. Most, if not all of these programmes appear to have stepped outside of the boundaries of the law. As a result, investigative agencies from Britain, Switzerland, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Philippines were putting pressure on Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice to open up the accounts in the banks used to finance these covert activities. Pressure was being put on the Swiss banking cartel to open its bullion records to public scrutiny. Full disclosure by these banks during an investigation would have resulted in a major exposure of U.S. Government complicity in some of the greatest financial frauds of the 1980s and early 1990s as well as 50 years of gold bullion theft by numerous U.S. and British government agencies. Moreover, investigation into these accounts would disclose a National Security secret known as the Black Eagle fund, and virtually every covert operation since World War II. Bringing an end to these investigations and preventing this disclosure was the sole objective for the destruction of the WTC and Pentagon. These investigative and legal pressures began to accumulate in 1997, and in February 1998, Osama Bin Laden declared his fatwa, and Atta started planning the September 11 attacks. With the bonds out in the market, they had sat for ten years, like a ticking time bomb. At some point, they had to be settled - or cashed in, on September 12, 2001. The two firms in the U.S. most likely to be handling them would be Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers – the two largest government securities firms in the U.S. The federal agency mostly involved in investigating those transactions was the Office of Naval Intelligence. On September 11 those same three organizations: the two largest government securities brokers and the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US took near direct hits. What happened inside the buildings of the World Trade on September 11 is difficult, but not impossible to discern. The government has put a seal on the testimony gathered by the investigating 911 Commission, and instructed government employees to not speak on the matter or suffer severe penalties, but there are a number of personal testimonies posted on the internet as to what happened in those buildings that day. Careful reconstruction from those testimonies indicates the deliberate destruction of evidence not only by a targeted assault on the buildings, but also by targeted fires and explosions. In the event that either the hijacking failed, or the buildings were not brought down, the evidence would be destroyed by fires. Even more revealing would be the actions of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission on that day, and in the immediate aftermath. As one of many coincidences on September 11, the Federal Reserve Bank was operating its information system from its remote back-up site rather than it’s downtown headquarters. The SEC and Federal Reserve system remained unfazed by the attack on September 11. All of their systems continued to operate. The two major security trading firms had their trade data backed up on remote systems. Nevertheless, the Commission for the first time invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) and issued several orders to ease certain regulatory restrictions temporarily. On the first day of the crisis, the SEC lifted “Rule 15c3-3 -Customer Protection--Reserves and Custody of Securities,†which set trading rules for the certain processes. Simply GSCC was allowed to substitute securities for the physical securities destroyed during the attack. Subsequent to that ruling, the GSCC issued another memo expanding blind broker settlements. A “blind broker†is a mechanism for inter-dealer transactions that maintains the anonymity of both parties to the trade. The broker serves as the agent to the principals' transactions. Thus the Federal Reserve and its GSCC had created a settlement environment totally void of controls and reporting – where it could substitute valid, new government securities for the mature, illegal securities, and not have to record where the bad securities came from, or where the new securities went – all because the paper for the primary brokers for US securities had been eliminated. This act alone, however was inadequate to resolve the problem, because the Federal Reserve did not have enough “takers†of the new 10 year notes. Rather than simply having to match buy and sell orders, which was the essence of resolving the “fail†problem, it appears the Fed was doing more than just matching and balancing – it was pushing new notes on the market with a special auction. If the Federal Reserve had to cover-up the clearance of $240 Billion in covert securities, they could not let the volume of capital shrink by that much in the time of a monetary crisis. They would have had to push excess liquidity into the market, and then phase it out for a soft landing, which is exactly what appears to have happened. In about two months, the money supply was back to where it was prior to 9/11. It was the rapid rotation of the securities settlement fails in the aftermath of September 11th that appears to have allowed the Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve to engage in a securities refinancing that resulted in the American taxpayer refinancing the $240 billion originally used for the Great Ruble Scam. The reports published by the Federal Reserve argue that the Federal Reserve’s actions increasing the monetary supply by over $300 billion were justified to overcome operational difficulties in the financial sector. What appears to be the case is that the Federal Reserve imbalances reported on three consecutive days in the aftermath were largely concentrated at the Bank of New York, which is reported to represent over 90% of the imbalance, suggesting the Bank had been the recipient of massive fund transfers, and unable to send out transfers.This supposedly was due to major communication and system failures.In fact, none of the Bank of New York's systems failed or went non-operational. The Wall Street Journal reported: "There is every reason to believe activities in the Bank of New York in the aftermath of September 11th are worthy of suspicion..... At one point during the week after September 11, the Bank of New York publicly reported to be overdue on $100 billion in payments.†It suggests that certain key unknown figures in the Federal Reserve may have been in collusion with key unknown figures at the Bank of New York to create a situation where $240 billion in off balance sheet securities created in 1991 as part of an official covert operation to overthrow the Soviet Union, could be cleared without publicly acknowledging their existence.These securities, originally managed by Cantor Fitzgerald, were cleared and settled in the aftermath of September 11th through the Bank of New York. The $100 billion account balance bubble reported by the Wall Street Journal as being experienced by the Bank of New York was the tip of a three-day operation, when these securities were moved from off-balance-sheet to the balance sheet. The above gives an idea of the intricate activities both to perpetrate and then to cover the crime, which was then used under its "terrorist attack" label as an excuse for the attack on Iraq. (The above answers the question "Why 9/11?". For how it was done. Source: https://www.stratfor.com/campaign/special_offer_mauldin_readers |
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German Engineers Help the USA http://home.debitel.net/user/andreas.bunkahle/defaulte.htmReleased on 2013-03-11 00:00 GMT German Engineers Help the USA http://home.debitel.net/user/andreas.bunkahle/defaulte.htm http://home.debitel.net/user/andreas.bunkahle/defaulte.htm Why did the US attack itself and destroy the world Trade Centers? The fleecing of America: http://truthaddictsanon.blogspot.com/2006/03/167-billion-in-gold-removed-from-world.html The gold was taken before the WTC were destroyed. The building destruction was only the cover up. Those that lost their lives were casualties of a crime instigated by the Bush Admin. In every crime there is a motive. The motive here was 166 BILLION 800 million dollars plus another 2.5 billion in insurance money that Mr. Silverstein collected from insurance on the WTC buildings themselves. http://truthaddictsanon.blogspot.com/2006/03/167-billion-in-gold-removed-from-world.html |
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Email-ID 1313332 Date 2011-09-06 18:14:04 From [email protected] To [email protected] In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How |
We can explain away contrary evidence as coincidences and mistakes and Let me be clear about my point. I am not saying that some black op group in |
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[Analytical & Intelligence Comments] 9/11 Some efforts have been made to explain away some of the evidence that is |
Scientists have even less incentive to express any doubts, which probably There is no doubt that 9/11 is the determinant event. It has led to a decade |
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FW: Whitley Strieber angry BBC knew WTC Building 7 would collapse 23 minutes in advance! Should this have been sent to us or The Onion??????? AA Aaric S. Eisenstein Stratfor VP Intelligence Services 700 Lavaca St., Suite 900 Austin, TX 78701 512-744-4308 512-744-4334 fax ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dick Fojut [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 5:29 AM To: Jim Lehrer Subject: Whitley Strieber angry BBC knew WTC Building 7 would collapse 23 minutes in advance! From Dick Fojut in Tucson, Arizona [email protected] ----------------------- For anyone unaware, Whitley Strieber is a famous American writer. Some of his novels have been made into feature films you may have seen in prior years. His following article is about the THIRD World Trade Center building that later in the afternoon of 9/11, also collapsed straight down into its "footprint" (just as the first two WTC buildings collapsed straight down early that morning). Incredibly, the Bush appointed 9/11 Investigation Commission totally ignored the collapse of Building 7 - as if it never happened!) ------------- Open below URL to access the UNDERLINED LINKS in the Web page version of Strieber's following article) From Whitley Strieber's Journal... http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/ THE 911 SCRIPT AND THE AGE OF TERROR 28-Feb-2007 I must admit that I have been deeply shocked by a story that appeared today on my website, to the effect that the BBC reported the collapse of WTC Building 7 23 minutes before it actually took place. Previously, the BBC claimed that it had lost all of its 9/11 coverage, but this video has now surfaced. I watched it myself, and sat there with my blood literally running cold as I saw their reporter saying that Building 7 had collapsed while it was still visible behind her, perfectly intact. Now, why wasn't this just a simple mistake? CNN was reporting rumors that Building 7 might be about to collapse an hour before it happened. But the BBC reporter is clearly seen reading from a teleprompter. Obviously, she was reading something written on it, and not making up what would have then seemed to be a wild tale. In other words, she was reading a script, and that script had been put up on her teleprompter early. Not only that, she was sitting in front of a live image of the still-intact Building 7. Somebody wrote that script and did so while Building 7 was still standing. How could they know that it would collapse, even if it was unstable, even if there was a fire in the cellars? No, the author of the script did not think the building had collapsed. He knew that it would, and the statement was read early as a miscue. If the BBC had not lost the video of that entire day, it would be easier to believe that this was some sort of a mistake. But the idea that an organization like the BBC, which prides itself on the record it keeps, would lose an entire day of some of the most historic footage it has ever shot is just very difficult to believe. It seems more likely that there was something on that footage that they wanted to bury. As, indeed, there was. I have long since abandoned the US media as a lost cause. Thank God we have the internet, because the American press are just a bunch of whores, frankly. I spent 45 minutes yesterday with CNN Headline News today, looking for news of Iran. 31 of those minutes were spent on Anna Nicole Smith, and the rest was fluff. Pravda did better during the height of the Soviet Union. At least it didn't insult the intelligence of its readers, but only bored them with its obvious lies. The American media goes it one better, by ignoring the real news and running the silly stuff. And the papers that should be doing better, such as the New York Times, have been singing the "no conspiracy here" song since the days of the Kennedy assassination. Because of what appears to be an almost surrealistic belief that people cannot do bad things in concert, they missed Watergate. And they are missing 9/11 as well. They all are, and, in the end, they will be abandoned by the public because their silence and refusal to investigate are, in effect, lies spoken without words on behalf of what is coming to seem a devastating and widespread conspiracy against the lives of thousands of people, against western civilization and against human freedom at the deepest level. At present, virtually every street in Britain is watched by video, and there is a bill on its way into parliament that will ban public photography. Can you imagine, not being able to take a picture outdoors? What madness is this, what evil insanity? But it's real, and it doesn't end in Britain. Last October, without debate and in the dead of the night, the president was given the power by language buried in the budget bill to use the military as a police force within the United States, and to nationalize the National Guard without consulting governors. In other words, the Posse Cometatus Act of 1878 and the Insurrection Act of 1807 were usurped without a single word of debate and without the least whisper from the American press. To its credit, the New York Times did pick up on this story recently, reporting the event on February 19, many months after it happened. But why wait? These two acts are cornerstones of American freedom, but they have gone the way of habeas corpus, sacrificed to what now appears to be a self-generated war on terror, the purpose of which could not be more clear: it is not to protect us, it is to take away our freedom and turn this country into a dictatorship, and its little sisters the United Kingdom and Australia into the bargain. |
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RE: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel SharingReleased on 2013-01-16 00:00 GMT
RE: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Sharing Yes, I think it was his multiple entry visa he used to enter the US in 2001= .=20 -----Original Message----- From: Sean Noonan [mailto:[email protected]]=20 Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 3:02 PM To: Scott Stewart; Fred Burton Subject: Re: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Sharing So does this mean he had recently applied for a visa in Doha?=20=20 If so, why didn't they get the Qataris to roll him? Or did he have a long-term work/student visa? -----Original Message----- From: "scott stewart" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:59:08=20 To: 'Sean Noonan'<[email protected]> Subject: FW: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Sharing -----Original Message----- From: Fred Burton [mailto:[email protected]]=20 Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:55 PM To: scott stewart Subject: Re: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Sharing ok scott stewart wrote: > They cancelled the mutt's visa at post based on the secret FBI informatio= n - probably delivered via legat channels - and after meeting they decided= to ask for him to be watch listed. In my estimation, they did not want to = be the next Nigeria sitting on the Abdulmutallab skinny -- look at the date= of this cable.=20 > > So they were informing State and the NCTC to add the dude to the list and= cover their butts. If he blows up a plane with a butt bomb, they can say, = "see, we told you to put him on the no fly list."=20 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Burton [mailto:[email protected]]=20 > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:38 PM > To: scott stewart > Subject: Re: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Shari= ng > > Dude I posted the cable.=20 > > Why would Doha say this? > > THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR WATCHLISTING PURPOSES AS THE DE= PARTMENT AND THE NATIONAL COUNTERTERORISM CENTER (NCTC) DEEM APPROPRIATE. > > > > > scott stewart wrote: >=20=20=20 >> Read the cable. The way I see it, the information in paragraphs 5-12 (th= s stuff classified secret) was all provided by the BU, which is investigati= ng the guy. >> >> I don't see anything that the Qataris provided. >>=20=20 >> >> 1. (U) VISAS VIPER >> >> 2. (U) POST: DOHA MEETING DATE: 08-FEB-2010 CHAIR: DCM NANTONGO COORIDIN= ATOR: GRANT GUTHRIE ATTENDEES: DCM, CONOFF, POL/ECON, RAO, DAO, LEGATT, OSC= , RSO MEETING NOTES: DCM CHAIRED AND OPENDED THE MEETING. >> >> 3. (SBU) THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR WATCHLISTING PURPOSES= AS THE DEPARTMENT AND THE NATIONAL COUNTERTERORISM CENTER (NCTC) DEEM APPR= OPRIATE. WE RECOMMEND THAT MOHAMED ALI MOHAMED AL DAHHAM AL MANSOORI (MOHAM= ED ALI MOHAMED AL MANSOORI) BE INCLUDED IN THE TSA SELECTEE SECURITY DIRECT= IVE FOR RELEASE TO U.S. AND FOREIGN CARRIERS AS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO MAY POSE = A THREAT TO CIVIL AVIATION IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD. A REVIEW OF CLASS INDICA= TED NO HITS FOR AL MANSOORI. POST WILL ENTER AL MANSOORI IN CLASS AFTER TRA= NSMITTING THIS CABLE. >> >> 4. (SBU) NAME: MOHAMED ALI MOHAMED AL DAHHAM AL MANSOORI ALIAS: MOHAMED = ALI MOHAMED AL MANSOORI DOB: xxxxxxxxxxxx POB: UAE GENDER: M NATIONALITY: U= AE LOCATION: UNK PPT NUMBER: xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx A0122037 (UAE) >> >> 5. (S) MR. AL MANSOORI IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FBI FOR H= IS POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN THE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 ATTACKS. HE IS SUSPECTED O= F AIDING PEOPLE WHO ENTERED THE U.S. BEFORE THE ATTACKS TO CONDUCT SURVEILL= ANCE OF POSSIBLE TARGETS AND PROVIDING OTHER SUPPORT TO THE HIJACKERS. >> >> 6. (S) THE THREE INDIVIDUALS BELOW ENTERED THE U.S. ON 15 AUGUST 2001 AB= OARD BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) FLIGHT #185 FROM LONDON, ENGLAND: NAME: MESHAL AL= HAJRI ALIAS: MESHAL AL HAJRI, MESCAL ABDULLA AL HAJRI DOB: xxxxxxxxxxxx POB= : QATAR GENDER: M NATIONALITY: QATAR LOCATION: UNK PPT NUMBER: xxxxxxxxxxxx= (QATAR) NAME: FAHAD ABDULLA ALIAS: FAHAD MUBARAK R ABDULLA DOB: xxxxxxxxxx= xx POB: QATAR GENDER: M NATIONALITY: QATAR LOCATION: UNK PPT NUMBER: xxxxxx= xxxxxx (QATAR) NAME: ALI ALFEHAID ALIAS: ALI HAMAD S M AL FEHAID DOB: xxxxx= xxxxxxx POB: QATAR GENDER: M NATIONALITY: QATAR LOCATION: UNK PPT NUMBER: x= xxxxxxxxxxx (QATAR) >> >> 7. (S) THE MEN FIRST VISITED NEW YORK, NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, D.C. THE= Y VISITED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, THE WHITE HOUSE, A= ND VARIOUS AREAS IN VIRGINA. >> >> 8. (S) THE MEN THEN FLEW TO LOS ANGELES, CA ON 24 AUGUST 2001 ABOARD AME= RICAN AIRLINES (AA) FLIGHT #143. THEY CHECKED INTO ONE ROOM IN A HOTEL NEAR= THE LOS ANGELES AIRPORT WITH A CHECKOUT DATE OF 10 SEPTEMBER 2001. THEY PA= ID FOR THE ROOM USING CASH AND, DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS OF THEIR STAY, REQ= UESTED THAT THEIR ROOM NOT BE CLEANED. HOTEL CLEANING STAFF GREW SUSPICIOUS= OF THE MEN BECAUSE THEY NOTICED PILOT TYPE UNIFORMS, SEVERAL LAPTOPS, AND = SEVERAL CARDBOARD BOXES ADDRESSED TO SYRIA, JERUSALEM, AFGHANISTAN, AND JOR= DAN IN THE ROOM ON PREVIOUS CLEANING VISITS. THE MEN HAD A SMASHED CELLULAR= PHONE IN THE ROOM AND A CELLULAR PHONE ATTACHED BY WIRE TO A COMPUTER. THE= ROOM ALSO CONTAINED PIN FEED COMPUTER PAPER PRINT OUTS WITH HEADERS LISTIN= G PILOT NAMES, AIRLINES, FLIGHT NUMBERS, AND FLIGHT TIMES. >> >> 9. (S) ACCORDING TO AA RECORDS, THE MEN SCHEDULED RETURN FLIGHTS FOR 10 = SEPTEMBER 2001 ABOARD AA FLIGHT #144 FROM LOS ANGELES, CA TO WASHINGTON, D.= C., BUT FAILED TO BOARD. THE SAME PLANE USED FOR AA FLIGHT #144 ON 10 SEPTE= MBER 2001 WAS USED FOR AA FLIGHT #77 ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2001. AA FLIGHT #77 WA= S HIJACKED ON ROUTE THE NEXT DAY AND CRASHED IN TO THE PENTAGON. >> >> 10. (S) BA RECORDS INDICATE THAT THE MEN BOARDED BA FLIGHT #268 ON 10 SE= PTEMBER 2001 FROM LOS ANGELES, CA TO LONDON, ENGLAND. THE MEN RETURNED TO Q= ATAR ON BA FLIGHT #125 FROM LONDON, ENGLAND TO DOHA, QATAR ON 13 SEPTEMBER = 2001. >> >> 12. (S) A SUBSEQUENT FBI INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE MEN,S PLANE TIC= KETS WERE PAID FOR AND THEIR HOTEL RESERVATIONS IN LOS ANGELES, CA WERE MAD= E BY A CONVICTED TERRORIST. THE INVESTIGATION ALSO REVEALED THAT THE MEN SP= ENT A WEEK WITH MR. AL MANSOORI TRAVELING TO DIFFERENT DESTINATIONS IN CALI= FORNIA. >> >> 13. (SBU) MR. AL MANSOORI,S VISA WAS REVOKED AFTER THIS INFORMATION CAME= TO LIGHT, BUT HIS NAME WAS NOT WATCHLISTED IN THE CLASS SYSTEM. POST RECOM= MENDS THAT MR. AL MANSOORI,S INFORMATION BE ENTERED INTO THE CLASS SYSTEM O= N THE BASIS OF THE ONGOING FBI INVESTIGATION AND HIS POSSIBLE TIES TO TERRO= RISM. >> >> 14. (SBU) DOHA,S VISAS VIPER COORDINATOR IS CONSULAR OFFICER GRANT GUTHR= IE. Lebaron >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Fred Burton [mailto:[email protected]]=20 >> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:30 PM >> To: scott stewart >> Subject: Re: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Shar= ing >> >> But it would make little sense for Doha to report info that originated >> from FBI Hqs? >> >> scott stewart wrote: >>> Yeah, but it was reporting FBI information.=20 >>> >>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/september-11-wikileaks/= 8297069/DEMARCHE-IN-SUPPORT-OF-U.S.CANDIDACY-FOR-IMO.html >>> |
>>> I don't see anything in the cable that came from the Qataris. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Fred Burton [mailto:[email protected]]=20 >>> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:12 PM >>> To: scott stewart >>> Subject: Re: FW: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Sha= ring >>> >>> Cable origin >>> >>> scott stewart wrote: >>>=20=20=20 >>>=20=20=20=20=20 >>>=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 >>>> What specific intel in this cable did you see that came from the Qatar= is? >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>> *From:* [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sean Noonan >>>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:43 PM >>>> *To:* Analyst List >>>> *Subject:* Re: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Shar= ing >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>> What specific information from the local service did the cable contain >>>> that could damage the relationship? >>>> >>>> This was my question earlier on the CT list. I didn't see any mention >>>> of Qataris actually being in this meeting or what the sources were for >>>> this information. The fact that Manoori was not on the watch list and >>>> it was people from Qatar that suggested it suggests to me that they >>>> got new information on him in Qatar. Other than that. I don't know >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The more closely I read this cable the less significant it seems. >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>> you might be right >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------= -- >>>> >>>> *From: *"scott stewart" <[email protected]> >>>> *To: *"Analyst List" <[email protected]> >>>> *Sent: *Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:24:13 PM >>>> *Subject: *RE: DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Shar= ing >>>> >>>> >>>> The more closely I read this cable the less significant it seems. >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>> *From:* [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sean Noonan >>>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:13 PM >>>> *To:* Analyst List >>>> *Subject:* DISCUSSION/COMMENT: Wikileaks, 9/11 plot and Intel Sharing >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>> *Stick has sort of pre-approved this, but the trigger is a bit dated >>>> and I have yet to see anythign new. I'm sending a full piece because >>>> I need to go do some travel prep and may not be back online for a bit.= =20 >>>> >>>> Summary >>>> >>>> The (Daily?) Telegraph published a cable from WikiLeaks Feb. 1 that >>>> details U.S. and Qatari investigations into a group of 3 Qataris and 1 >>>> Emirati believed to be involved in the 9/11 plot. The three Qataris >>>> left the U.S. before the attack and the Emirati's whereabouts are >>>> unknown. This is the only one of the few cables that we=E2=80=99ve se= en from >>>> Wikileaks stream that is truly revelatory, moreover it will lead to >>>> major consquences for US intelligence and security liasions worldwide. >>>> >>>> Analysis >>>> >>>> The (Daily?) Telegraph published a <cable from WikiLeaks> [LINK: >>>> http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20101128_wikileaks_and_state_departme= nt_documents] >>>> Feb. 1 that exposes U.S. and Qatari investigations into a previously >>>> unknown group of 3 Qataris and 1 Emirati believed to be involved in >>>> the 9/11 plot. The three Qataris left the U.S. on Sept. 10, 2001 and >>>> the Emirati's whereabouts are unknown. This is the one of the few >>>> cables from Wikileaks stream that seems to be truly revelatory, >>>> moreover it reinforces major consquences for US intelligence and >>>> security liasions worldwide. >>>> >>>> The U.S. Embassy in Doha, Qatar sent the cable to the *Secretary of >>>> State, CIA, FBI, National Counterterrorism Center and** *the >>>> Department of Homeland Security in Washington Feb 11, 2010. Written by >>>> the Deputy Chief of Mission it discussed a Feb. 8 meeting of US >>>> government officials in Doha, including intelligence and security >>>> officers. Actually it was probably written by the post Viper >>>> Coordinator (a consular officer) They discuss new intelligence on the >>>> four individuals and suggesting the fourth, Mohamed Ali Mohamed Al >>>> Mansoori from the UAE, be watchlisted by DHS and the NCTC. Since only >>>> Mansoori is recommended to add, we can assume that the other three >>>> Qataris are already on the various watch lists and the investigation >>>> into them lead to Mansoori >>>> >>>> According to the cable, the three Qataris, Meshal Alhajri, Fahad >>>> Abdulla and Ali Alfehaid, flew from London to New York on Aug. 15, >>>> 2001. In the greatest city in the world they conducted >>>> pre-operationalsurveillance of potential targets including the World >>>> Trade Center and Statue of Liberty. They then travelled to >>>> Washington, DC by unknown means, and also inspected the White House >>>> and =E2=80=9Cvarious areas in Virginia=E2=80=9D (where the Pentagon a= nd much of the >>>> US intelligence community is based). On Aug. 24 they flew from >>>> Washington to Los Angeles, where they stayed in a hotel near the >>>> airport. The cable notes an FBI investigation that discovered hotel >>>> employees became suspicious of their actvities, noting that they had >>>> pilot uniforms and a computer with print outs detailing pilot names, >>>> flight numbers and times. They also had packages addressed to Syria, >>>> Afghanistan, Jerusalem and Jordan. (It is unclear if this was >>>> reported by the hotel employees prior to Sept. 11, or if they gave >>>> this information upon the FBI=E2=80=99s investigation). All their pla= ne >>>> tickets and hotels were paid for by a =E2=80=9Cconvicted terrorist,=E2= =80=9D who the >>>> report does not name.=20 >>>> >>>> On September 10, the day before the attacks, the three Qataris were >>>> booked on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Washington, >>>> which they did not board. Instead the they boarded a British Airlines >>>> flight to London, and connected to a flight to Qatar.=20 >>>> >>>>=20=20 >>>> >>>> The fourth man, Mansoori, who lived in Long Beach, near Los Angeles, >>>> allegedly supported the three while they were on the West Coast. The >>>> three spent a week travelling to =E2=80=9Cdifferent destinations in >>>> California.=E2=80=9D It=E2=80=99s unclear why, but very well may have= been more >>>> pre-operation surveillance. Mansoori may have also provided support >>>> to some of the 9/11 hijackers while they were in Los Angeles. All of >>>> this information is new to the open source, though the 9/11 Commission >>>> Report stated that two of the hijackers [F/C who exactly that would >>>> have been =E2=80=9Cdumb and dumber=E2=80=9D Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid = al-Midhar check >>>> out:http://www.stratfor.com/beware_kramer_tradecraft_and_new_jihadists= =20 >>>> ] had a "brief stay in Los Angeles about which we know little". They >>>> hung out with al-Awlaki during that time. >>>> http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20091111_hasan_case_overt_clues_and_tac= tical_challenges >>>> >>>> At the time of this cable, US investigators did not know the final >>>> purpose of these four while they were in the United States. They may >>>> have only been sent to the United States for pre-operational >>>> surveillance, but their collection of uniforms could indicate they >>>> intended to also hijack a plane Sept. 11. There have been many rumors >>>> of a possible plot in the Western United States on or around Sept. 11, >>>> including the <Library Tower Plot> [LINK: >>>> http://www.stratfor.com/lessons_library_tower_plot]. These four may >>>> in fact be connected with the Library Plotters, but their scheduled >>>> flight to Washington a day before Sept. 11 suggest they may have >>>> planned to attack from there. Also, the details previously released >>>> on the Library Tower Plotters suggests they were to come from Jemaah >>>> Islamiyah, based in Southeast Asia [LINK:--] not the Middle East.=20 >>>> >>>> While this exposes information on an open investigation, more >>>> importantly for U.S. security, this leak is severely damaging to U.S. >>>> liaision work with foreign intelligence and security services (explain >>>> why this is so please). The United States has a large intelligence >>>> apparatus, but is often dependent on local, more culturally competent >>>> and sophisticated intelligence services in countries around the world >>>> [LINK: >>>> http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20101201_dispatch_wikileaks_and_impli= cations_intelligence_sharing].=20 >>>> While a lot of the previous wikileaks were not directly damaging, >>>> particularly the war reports [LINK], the State department cables are >>>> seen as a huge breach of trust by those foreign intelligence >>>> services. Seeing very specific information passed from Doha to the >>>> United States, revealing sources and methods, breaks the most >>>> important bonds by intelligence officers. (but I thought all the >>>> details above came from the FBI investigation and not the local servic= e?) >>>> >>>> What specific information from the local service did the cable contain >>>> that could damage the relationship? >>>> >>>> --=20 >>>> >>>> Sean Noonan >>>> >>>> Tactical Analyst >>>> >>>> Office: +1 512-279-9479 >>>> >>>> Mobile: +1 512-758-5967 >>>> >>>> Strategic Forecasting, Inc. >>>> >>>> www.stratfor.com <http://www.stratfor.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --=20 >>>> Sean Noonan >>>> Tactical Analyst >>>> Office: +1 512-279-9479 >>>> Mobile: +1 512-758-5967 >>>> Strategic Forecasting, Inc. >>>> www.stratfor.com |
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1. THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS PROVIDE AN OBJECTIVE SAMPLING OF THE EMBASSY'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE VARIOUS TRADING AND INVESTMENT FIRMS ASSOCIATED WITH SAUL N. EISENBERG IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) OVER THE PERIOD 1953--1978. THE INFORMATION WAS DRAWN FROM VARIOUS MEMORANDA OF CONVERSATION, OFFICIAL CABLE AND AIRGRAM TRAFFIC AND COUNTRY TEAM SOFT FILES. IN COMPILING THIS OVERVIEW OF EISENBERG'S ACTIVITIES, WE HAVE FOCUSED MORE ON THE MODUS OPERANDI EMPLOYED THAN THE SPECIFIC SUCCESSES HE AND HIS GROUP HAVE ACHIEVED. 2. SAUL (OR SHOUL) NEHIEMIS EISENBERG WAS APPARENTLY BORN IN MUNICH, GERMANY, OF POLISH PARENTS ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1922 OR 1921. CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 SEOUL 02939 01 OF 04 110708Z IN HIS DEALINGS WITH ROK OFFICIALS, EISENBERG HAS USUALLY IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS AN ISRAELI CITIZEN BUT HAS IMPLIED THAT HE ALSO ENJOYS U.S. CITIZENSHIP OR U.S. ALIEN RESIDENT STATUS. WHILE LITTLE OF HIS EARLY LIFE IS KNOWN TO EMBASSY SEOUL, IT APPEARS THAT EISENBERG CAME TO THE ROK FROM JAPAN WHERE EISENBERG, WITH HIS FATHER, ESTABLISHED A TRADING AND/OR LOAN BUSINESS SUBSEQUENT TO JAPAN' SURRENDER IN 1945. PRIOR TO 1945, EISEN- Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 BERG IS BELIEVED TO HAVE RESIDED IN CHINA. EISENBERG APPARENTLY MAINTAINED OFFICIES OF EISENBERG AND COMPANY, INC., IN BOTH TOKYO AND SEOUL DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EARLY 1950'S WHILE BROADENING HIS EXPORT-IMPORT AND CAPITAL EQUIPMENT LOAN ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE, SOUTH AMERICA, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. AT SOME POINT EISENBERG BECAME THE HONORARY ISRAELI CONSUL IN PERU AND HE HAS CALIMED LOCALLY TO HAVE EXTENSIVE BUSINESS DEALINGS IN LIMA, PERU, SINCE AT LEAST 1965. 3. THE EISENBERG COMPANY LTD., WITH ALLEGED INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK CITY, REGISTERED ITS KOREA BRANCH IN SEOUL, ROK, IN AUGUST 1953 SHORTLY AFTER THE ROK GOVERNMENT TRANSFERRED FROM ITS TEMPORARY CAPITOL IN PUSAN TO SEOUL. AT THAT TIME THE EISENBERG FIRM CLAIMED TO BE UNDER THE TECHNICAL DIRECTION OF THE LISBONA COMPANY OF LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, AND IN REGISTERING AS A TRADING FIRM IN THE ROK, THE EISENBERG FIRM CLAIMED TO BE PRINCIPALLY INVOLVED IN IRON ORE SALES FROM INDIA AND AUSTRALIA TO JAPANESE STEEL FIRMS. DURING THIS EARLY PERIOD OF CONTROL OF THE ROK BY THE LIBERAL PARTY OF PRESIDENT YI SUNG-MAN, THE EISENBERG FIRM SERVED AS AN OFFER AGENT FOR SEVERAL WEST EUROPEAN AND U.S. MANUFACTURING FIRMS AND SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH ROKG BUREAUCRATS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCUREMENT. WHILE THE FIRM WAS REASONABLY SUCCESSFUL AS A COMMISSION OFFER AGENT, EISENBERG'S CONTINUED FOCUS ON LARGE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT SALES, COMPLETE WITH LOAN PACKAGE COMMITMENTS, DID NOT BEAR FRUIT UNTIL THE ADVENT OF CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 SEOUL 02939 01 OF 04 110708Z THE PAK CHONG-HUI GOVERNMENT OF 1962 WITH ITS EMPHASIS ON ACCELERATED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 4. AS OF 1974, THE EISENBERG ORGANIZATION OPERATED TWO FIRMS IN THE ROK, EISENBERG AND CO., INC., AND INDUSTRIAL TRADING CORPORATION, BOTH OF WHICH WERE LOCATED IN THE CORPORATE OFFICE BUILDING OF THE ROK PRIVATELY-OWNED BUSINESS CONGLOMERATE, SSANGYONG GROUP. A LISTING OF EISENBERG OWNED OR AFFILIATED BUSINESS ENTITIES AS OF EARLY 1975 IS AS FOLLOWS: A) UNITED DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED, SHALOM MAYER TOWER, 9 AHAD HAAM STREET, 29TH FLOOR, P.O. BOX 2084, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL, TEL: 52455, TELEX: 033511, CABLE: PANCONSUL TEL-AVIV. B) EISENBERG EXPORT CO. LTD., SHALOM MAYER TOWER, 8 AHAD HAAM STREET, 29TH FLOOR, P.O. BOX 2084, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL, TEL: 52455, TELEX: 033511, CABLE: PANCONSUL TEL-AVIV. C) BARGAD TRADING CO. LTD., SHALOM MAYER TOWER, 9 AHAD HAAM STREET, 29TH FLOOR, P.O. BOX 2084, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL, TEL: 52455, TELEX: 033511, CABLE: PANCONSUL TEL-AVIV. Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 D) A. LISBONA LTD., ROCHADALE HOUSE, 128 THEOBALDS ROAD, LONDON WCIX 8RR, ENGLAND, TEL: 242-4054, TELEX: 21396/8, CABLE: ANOBSIL LONDON. E) EISENBERG & CO., U.S.A. AGENCY INC., FOUR EAST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016, U.S.A. TEL: (212) MU 5-6210, TELEX: (RCA) 224700, (ITT) 421910, CABLE: GREBNESIE NEW YORK. F) SIPCO A.A.R.L., 7, PLACE SAINT-AUGUSTIN, PARIS 8 EME, FRANCE, TEL: 387 27-46 / 387 47-64, TELEX: 65.733,CABLE: SIPCOMEX PARIS. G) EISENBERG & CO., INC., P.O. BOX KWANGHWAMUN 237, SSANGYONG BLDG. 15-16 FLOORS, 24, 2-KA ZUH-DONG, CHOONG-KU, SEOUL, KOREA, CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 04 SEOUL 02939 01 OF 04 110708Z TEL: 26-7191/8, TELEX: EISENCO 2733S, CABLE: EISENBERG SEOUL. H) INDUSTRIAL TRADING CORPORATION, I.P.O. BOX 1904, SSANGYONG BLDG, ROOM 1606/8, 24, 2-KA ZUH-DONG, CHOONG-KU, SEOUL, KOREA, TEL: 26-7331/2, TELEX: EISENCO 2733S, CABLE: SEBER SEOUL. I) EISENBERG & CO., INC., CENTRAL P.O. BOX 323, CENTRAL BUILDING, 2 KYOBASHI 1-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN, TEL: 03-271-7731/5, TELEX: J22213 EISENBRG, CABLE: EISENBERG TOKYO. J) EISENBERG & CO., INC., EISENBERG BUILDING, 48-4 KYOBASHI 2-CHOME, HIGASHI-KU, OSAKA CITY, JAPAN, TEL: 06-941-0131/3, TELEX: J63803 EISEN, CABLE: EISENBERG OSAKA. () EISENBERG & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD., ST. GEORGE'S BLDG., 7TH FLOOR, 2 ICE HOUSE STREET, HONG KONG, TEL: 223128/9, CONFIDENTIAL NNN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 SEOUL 02939 02 OF 04 110744Z ACTION EA-12 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 NEA-10 ISO-00 EB-08 COME-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 /053 W ------------------079103 110748Z /13 R 110609Z APR 78 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 FM AMEMBASSY SEOUL TO SECSTATE WASHDC 389 INFO AMEMBASSY BANGKOK AMCONSUL HONG KONG AMEMBASSY MANILA AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY TAIPEI AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 2 OF 4 SEOUL 2939 DPET. ATTENTION EA/EP 223120, TELEX: HX 3273 EISENCO, CABLE: EISENBERG HONG KONG. L) U.D.I. (HONG KONG) LTD., ST. GEORGE'S BLDG., 7TH FLOOR, 2, ICE HOUSE STREET, HONG KONG, TEL: 230594-240511, TELEX: HX3273 EISENCO, CABLE: UDILIMITED HONGKONG. M) EISENBERG GROUP OF COMPANIES, TAIWAN LIAISON OFFICE, 1203 CHIA HSIN BUILDING, 96 CHUNG SHAN N. RD., SEC. 2, P.O. BOX 12082, TAIPEI, TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA, TEL: 579106/8, 555211 (EXT. 556/8), TELEX: TP 267, TAIPEI, CABLE: EISENBERG TAIPEI. N) U.D.I. LIMITD (PHILIPPINE BRANCH), 5TH FLOOR, BANK OF P.I. BLDG., AYALA AVENUE, P.O. BOX 858 MCC, MAKATI, RIZAL, D-708, PHILIPPINES, TEL: 88-09-42/44, 88-22-66, TELEX: EISENBERG PN 3552 (VIA EASTERN EXTENSION) 7222215 EGC PH (VIA RCA), CABLE: EISENBERG MANILA. CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 SEOUL 02939 02 OF 04 110744Z O) EISENBERG GROUP OF COMPANIES, BANGKOK LIAISON OFFICE, 404 KASEMKIJ BLDG., 120 SILOM ROAD, BANGKOK, THAILAND, TEL: 38991 EXT 43, 37830 (TO BE USED FOR OVERSEAS CALLS), TELEX: 222, CABLE: EISENBERG BANGKOK. P) U.D.I. (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD., C/O CHARTERED BANK BLDG., 7TH FL., 2, JALAN AMPANG, JUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, TEL: 27322-4, TELEX: KLTX 313, CABLE: UDILT KUALA LUMPUR. Q) DR. C.A. MEHTA, RAMPART HOUSE, 6TH FLOOR, RAMPART ROW, BOMBAY 1, INDIA, TEL: 253475, TELEX: HCARTERED BANK, 0112230 CHARTBK,- JEEVANYOT CHEMICALS, 0112082 JYOTI, CABLE: KIRANSAN, BOMBAY. R) LISBONA IM - & EXPRT GMBH, 2-8 MEISENGASSE, 6 FRANKFURT A/M, WESTERN GERMANY, TEL: 292083/5, TELEX: 413488, CABLE: LISBONA FRANKFURTHAIN. Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 S) EISENBERG GROUP OF COMPANIES, TEHRAN LIAISON OFFICE, TAVAKOK BLDG., 3RD FLOOR, 167 SHAH AVENUE, TEHRAN,-IRAN, TEL: 666563, TELEX: PARKHOTEL 2466 -2459, CABLE: EISENBERG 167 SHAH AVE., TEHRAN. T) U.D.I. LIMITED, 15, DJALAN SINGAMANGARADJA, KEBAJORAN BARU, P.O. BOX 2092, DJAKARTA, INDONESIA, TEL: 74912, 73048, TELEX: (011) 4388, (UDILT DKT 4388), CABLE: UDILIMITED DJAKARTA. U) EISENBERG GROUP OF COMPANIES, FLORIDA 142, 4 H, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, TEL: 46-8119 AND 46-8129, TELEX: 12145-SUTECO/ ROTHSCHILD, CABLE: EISENBERG BUENOS AIRES. V) EISENBERG & COMPANY, P.O. BOX 47197, NAIROBI, KENYA, TEL: 34060, CABLE: EISENBERG NAIROBI. CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 SEOUL 02939 02 OF 04 110744Z W) EISENBERG (ETHIOPIA) PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY, P.O. BOX 5595, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, TEL: 20847, TELEX: 21195, CABLE: EISENBERG ADDISABABA. X) DR. WALTER SVOBODA, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE EISENBERG GROUP OF COMPANIES, ELISABETHSTRASSE 4/V/3, A-1010 VIENNA, AUSTRIA, TEL: 573292, TLEX: 1117 VIENNA LYVIE (UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE C/O EL AL), CABLE: INDEVELOP VIENNA. Y) UNITED DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED, 213 TU DO STREET, 1ST FLOOR, SAIGON, VIETNAM, TEL: 93704/8, CABLE: CARAVELOTEL. 5. OVER THE PERIOD 1961-1974 EISENBERG AND HIS LOCAL ORGANIZATION WERE QUITE VOCAL IF REPETIVE IN THEIR CRITICISM OF THE PATTERN OF U.S. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO THE ROK. EISENBERG CHARACTERIZED THE U.S. ECONOMIC POLICY TOWARD THE ROK TO ANY KOREAN OR, FOR THAT MATTER, AMERICAN, WHO WAS WILLING TO LISTEN, AS HORT-SIGHTED AND COUNTERPODUCTIVE. THE THRUST OF THE EISENBERG SELF-PROMOTION CAMPAIGN WAS THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SYSTEMATICALLY RETARDED KOREAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BY FOCUSING ON THE CONTROL OF INFLATION AND BASIC INFRASTURCTURE PROJECTS RATHER THAN PROMOTING AN EXTENSIVE INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM WHICH HE CLAIMED WOULD SPUR BROADER GROWTH AND PROVIDE THE ROK WITH FULL EMPLOYMENT. EISENBERG ACKNOWLEDGED THAT LARGE CAPITAL LOANS FOR PLANT CONSTRUCTION WOULD PROBABLY BRING INFLATION AND LARGE BUDGET DEFICITS AND DRIVE UP THE DEBT SERVICE RATIO BUT HE EXPLAINED THAT THIS WAS A NECESSARY IF NOT DESIRABLE SITUATION FOR ANY DEVELOPING ECONOMY. HE CHARGED THAT CONSERVATIVE U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICIES DISCOURAGED THE INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS (PETROCHEMICAL, ETC.) WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE KORENS TO REDUCE THEIR DEPENDENCE ON EXPENSIVE FOREIGN-SOURCED Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 CHEMICAL AND INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS. THE EISENBERG LINE STRESSED THE REQUIREMENT TO MOVE AWAY FROM U.S. EQUIPMENT SOURCES, INCLUDING PROJECTS SUPPORTED AT LOWER FINANCING COSTS BY U.S. PUBLIC FUNDING, AND INTO A GREATER DEPENDENCE ON WEST CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 04 SEOUL 02939 02 OF 04 110744Z WUROPEAN PLANTS AND EQUIPMENT WHICH, THOUGH THEY MIGHT COME AT HIGHER COSTS, WOULD NOT INCLUDE FOREIGN GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE AND LOCAL SUPERVISION. EISENBERG WAS NOT ABOVE IMPLYING THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SYSTEMATICALLY EXPLOITED THE KOREAN ECONOMY BY LIMITING OVERALL INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION AND RESERVING THE FEW APPROVED INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS FOR U.S. EQUIPMENT. HE CLAIMED THAT U.SM CONCERNS OVER ROK FOREIGN INDEBTEDNESS WERE MISPLACED AND THUS TRIED TO DISCREDIT THE JOINT U.S. AND ROK SUCCESS IN LIMITING INFLATION. 6. EISENBERG'S STRONGEST CONTENTION - THAT THE U.S. EXERCISED A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRANGLEHOLD ON ROK ECONOMIC PLANNERS TO THE DETRIMENT OF KOREA AS WELL AS HIS OWN EUROPEAN MANUFACTURERS - FOUND FAVOR WITH MANY KOREANS AND ALLOWED EISENBERG IN THE LATE 1950'S TO DEVELOP STRONG FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY ROK ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POLICY MAKERS WHO LATER CAME TO DOMINATE THE POST 1961 MILITARY JUNTA DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. IN THE 1961-1966 PERIOD EISENBERG SUCCEEDED IN DRAMATICALLY EXPANDING HIS ACTIVITIES AND WAS ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SEVERAL LARGE INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS. HE REPIED PRINCIPALLY ON HIS LONG AND CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH THE THEN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC PLANNING) CHANG KI-YONG AND THROUGH CHANG'S GOOD OFFICES WAS ABLE TO STRIKE VALUABLE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SSANGYONG BUSINESS GROUP CHAIRMAN KIM SONGKUN AND PAK CHONG-HUI CONFIDANT YI HU-RAK. CHANG, YI AND KIM WERE THE CENTRAL OVERS AND MANAGERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN CONFIDENTIAL NNN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 SEOUL 02939 03 OF 04 111516Z ACTION EA-12 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 NEA-10 ISO-00 EB-08 COME-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 /053 W ------------------082303 111528Z /50/13 R 110609Z APR 78 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 FM AMEMBASSY SEOUL TO SECSTATE WASHDC 390 INFO AMEMBASSY BANGKOK AMCONSUL HONG KONG AMEMBASSY MANILA AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY TAIPEI AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 3 OF 4 SEOUL 2939 C O R R E C T E D C O P Y (TEXT) DEPT ATTENTION EA/EP PARTY (DRP) FINANCIAL COMMITTEE AND, IN ADDITION TO THEIR MANDATE TO ORGANIZE ALL POLITICAL FUNDING FOR THE DRP AND THE INCUMBENT ADMINISTRATION, THIS POWERFUL GROUP FOUND ITSELF IN DAY-TO-DAY CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ECONIC MACHINERY AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. EISENBERG WAS IN A POSITION TO OFFER THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL MANAGERS LARGE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT PROJECTS TAILORED TO DESIGNATED ROK PRIVATE BUSINESS INTERESTS. THE CENTRAL THEME OF THE EISENBERG APPROACH WAS TO EXPRESS SYMPATHY WITH THE ROK GOVERNMENT'S REQUIREMENT FOR LARGE CAPITAL LOANS WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING THE UNAVAILABILITY OF THESE FUNDS FROM NORMAL COMMERCIAL SOURCES. EISENBERG STRESSED THE REQUIREMENT FOR PRIVATELY-ORGANIZED LOANS WHICH THE ROK GOVERNMENT COULD INDEPENDENTLY ADMINISTER AND NOTED THAT THE ATTENDANT AUTONOMY OF ACTION ALLOWED THE GOVERNMENT TO ALLOCATE THE FUNDS AS IT (AND THE DRP FINANCE COMMITTEE) CHOSE IN SELECTING THE RECICONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 SEOUL 02939 03 OF 04 111516Z PIENT PRIVATE INDUSTRY FIRM. 7. THE COMMISSIONS ON THE EISENBERG CAPITAL EQUIPMENT SALES TENDED TO BE EXCESSIVE BY ANY YARDSTICK AND OFTEN THE EUROPEAN EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER WAS PRESENTED THE CHOICE OF EITHER PROVIDING REASONABLE QUALITY EQUIPMENT TO THE KOREANS AT A NET LOSS OR INSTALLING SUB-STANDARD EQUIPMENT IN ORDER T ASSURE THE MANUFACTURER A PROFIT ON THE SALE. DURING THIS PERIOD EISENBERG SUCCESSFULLY PROMOTED MAJOR LOANS FOR DOZENS OF POWER GENERATION, STEEL MANUFACTURING, AUTO AND TRUCH ASSEMBLY, CEMENT AND PETROCHEMICAL MANUFACTURING, RAILROAD EXPANSION, SHIPBUILDING, MINING AND INDUSTRIL MACHINERY PROJECTS. BY 1965 EISENBERG'S SEOUL OFFICE WAS PROMOTING A LOAN PROGRAM WHICH INVOLVED NO FEWER THAN 30 SEPARATE LOANS FROM WEST GERMAN, FRENCH, ITALIAN AND AUSTRIAN SOURCES WITH A TOTAL VALUE OF EXCESS OF $500 MILLION. THE EISENBERG 1965 PACKAGE WAS APPARENTLY BRIEFED DIRECTLY TO PRESIDENT PAK WITH THE ENDORSEMENT OF ECONOMIC Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 PLANNING MINISTER CHANG, BLUE HOUSE POLITICAL AFFAIRS SECRETARY MIN CHUNG-SIK, PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARY YI HU-RAK AND OTHER INTERESTED BUREAUCRATS. WHILE ONLY A FEW OF THE PROPOSED PROJECTS WERE APPROVED IN THAT YEAR, A PATTERN OF REGUAL EISENBERG INVOLVEMENT IN SEVERAL CAPITAL EQUIPMENT PROGRAMS EACH YEAR WAS ESTABLISHED WHICH WAS NOT ALTERED UNTIL THE EARLY 1970'S. EISENBERG LOANS INCLUDED THE ILL-FATED INCHON IRON AND STEEL CO EQUIPMENT PROGRAM WHICH WAS APPROVED BY THE ROK GOVERNMENT IN 1965 FOR $9.2 MILLION. THE INSTALLED WEST GERMAN EQUIPMENT WAS FOUND, SUBSEQUENT TO A 1966 EXPLOSION WHICH KILLED SEVERAL WORKERS, TO INCLUDE AS MAJOR COMPONENTS SECOND-HAND FACILITIES ORIGINALLY MANUFACTURED BETWEEN 1935 AND 1940. IN THE SAME YEAR, A $4.5 MILLION FERTILIZER PLANT LOAN AND A $2.2 MILLION MINE EQUIPMENT LOAN FROM ITALIAN SOURCES WAS APPROVED. THIS SAME YEAR ALSO SAW EISENBERG COMPLETE A $12.5 MILLION DEAL FOR THE PROVISION OF A "COMPLETE CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 SEOUL 02939 03 OF 04 111516Z AUTOMOBILE/TRUCK MANUFACTURING PLANT" INVOLVING THE ITALIAN FIAT FIRM AND ASIA MOTORS OF THE ROK. THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT APPARENTLY INCLUDED FRENCH AS WELL AS ITALIAN FINANCING AND REPORTEDLY INVOLVED A COMMISSION TO EISENBERG OF $3 - $6 MILLION, A MAJOR PORTION OF WHICH WAS REPORTEDLY DONATED TO THE DRP FINANCE COMMITTEE. EISENBERG INVESTED SOME OF HIS PROFITS IN THIS UNDERTAKING AND AS OF 1972 APPARENTLY STILL OWNED, ON PAPER, 12 PERCENT OF THE FIRM. THE AUTO MANUFACTURING COMPANY WAS ACTUALLY A KNOCK-DOWN ASSEMBLY OPERATION WHICH INCLUDED VERY LITTLE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT. ASIA MOTORS FINALLY DECLARED ITSELF INSOVLENT IN 1975 AND WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE ROK GOVERNMENT. THE PRIME MOVERS IN THE ASIA MOTORS/ FIAT VENTURE WER MIN CHUNG-SIK, ASIA MOTORS PRESIDENT YI MUN-HWAN AND EPB MINISTER CHANG. THE EISENBERG-YI MUN-HWAN RELATIONSHIP APPARENTLY PREDATED THE ASIA MOTORS VENTURE AS EISENBERG IS KNOWN TO HAVE ARRANGED AFERTILIZER PLANT LOAN FOR YI IN THE LATE 1950'S. 8. THE PATTERN OF EUROPEAN CAPITAL EQUIPMENT LOANS AS ARRANGED BY EISENBERG WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THEIR LOW EQUIPMENT QUALITY, RELATIVELY HIGH EQUIPMENT AND FINANCING COSTS AND THE WELLOILED RELATIONSHIP AMONG EISENBERG'S SUPPLIERS, THE ROKG BUREAUCRACY AND THE SELECTED ROK PRIVATE INDUSTRY CONCERNS WHICH BENEFITTED FROM EISENBERG'S INTEREST IN THE ROK. PERHAPS THE MOST UNFORTUNATE BENEFACTOR OF EISENBERG'S ACTIVITIES IS THE GOVERNMENT-OWNED NATIONAL ELECTRICAL UTILITY, KOREA ELECTRIC COMPANY (KECO). THIS FIRM WAS THE RECIPIENT OF TEN OR MORE EISENBEG ARRANGED THERMAL POWER PLANTS OVER THE PERIOD 1965-1975 WHICH WERE UNIFORMLY OVERPRICED AND MEDIOCRE IN QUALITY. THE PLANTS, PRINCIPALLY FRENCH AND GERMAN IN ORIGIN, CHRONICALLY SUFFER FROM LOWER THAN CONTRACTED POWER OUTPUT AND COLLECTIVELY HAVE ONE OF THE WORST ON-LINE RECORDS OF ANY Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 COLLECTION OF POWER PLANTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THE EXCEPTIONALLY POOR QUALITY OF THESE PLANTS HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF LOCAL PRESS COMMENTARY AND WITHIN THE ROK BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY THE KECO EXPERIENCE WITH EISENBERG CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 04 SEOUL 02939 03 OF 04 111516Z IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FLAGRANT EXAMPLE OF CORRUPTION'S FRUITS. SINCE ROUGHLY 1970 WEST EUROPEAN POWER PLANT SUPPLIERS APPEAR TO HAVE SHIED AWAY FROM THE EMPLOYMENT OF EISENBERG AS THEIR ACKNOWLEDGED OR COVERT COMMISSION AGENT. WHILE THIS DISASSOCIATION MAY BE DUE IN PART TO EISENBERG'S DECLINING POPULARITY AND HEIGHTENED PROFILE, THE MAJOR REASON FOR EISENBERG'S REDUCEC USEFULNESS IS THE STRENGTH OF THE ROK ECONOMY TO INCLUDE ITS ABILITY TO SECURE PRIVATE SOURCE CAPITAL FINANCING AND THE DECLINING REQUIREMENT FOR "HIGH COST, HIGH RISK" LOANS AS ARRANGED BY EISENBERG AND COMPANY. 9. RECENT EMBASSY EXPERIENCES WITH EISENBERG TEND TO CONFIRM THIS TREND OF REDUCED LOCAL ACCEPTABILITY AND INVOLVEMENT BUT HAVE DRIVEN HOME T US THE FACT THAT EISENBERG IS EVER THE OPPORTUNIST, CAPABLE OF REACTIVATING OLD RELATIONSHIPS AND APPLYING PRESSURE FOR CLIENTS NOT NECESSARILY COMMITTED TO FULLDISCLOSURE MARKETING TECHNIQUES. IN 1974-1975 EISENBERG REPRESENTED A FRENCH FIRM, L'AIR LIQUIDE, IN ITS BID T SELL ITS CONFIDENTIAL NNN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 SEOUL 02939 04 OF 04 110732Z ACTION EA-12 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 NEA-10 ISO-00 EB-08 COME-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 /053 W ------------------079005 110739Z /13 R 110609Z APR 78 FM AMEMBASSY SEOUL TO SECSTATE WASHDC 391 INFO AMEMBASSY BANGKOK AMCONSUL HONG KONG AMEMBASSY MANILA AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY TAIPEI AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 4 OF 4 SEOUL 2939 DEPT ATTENTION EA/EP LIQUID OXYGEN TECHNOLOGY AND ENTER INTO A LOCAL JOINT VENTURE. A US FIRM WITH EQUIVALENT TECHNOLOGY WAS ALSO IN THE RUNNING AND ENCOUNTERED NUMEROUS (EVEN BY KOREAN STANDARDS) BUREAUCRATIC DELAYS IN PROCESSING ITS JOINT VENTURE PROGRAM. THE EISENBERG ORGANIZATION PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS WITHIN THE ECONOMIC PLANNING BOARD AND PAID A PERSONAL CALL ON THE EMBASSY ECONMIC STAFF TO INFORM US THAT THEY HAD BROUGHT A US FIRM INTO THE EISENBERG-FRENCH PROPOSAL TO EFFECTIVELY PRECLUDE ANY FURTHER EMBASSY ASSISTANCE TO THE ORIGINAL US FIRM'S JOINT VENTURE. IN THE EVENT INVESTMENTS BY BOTH THE US FIRM AND THE EISENBERG SPONSORED FRENCH INTEREST WERE APPROVED. IN THE SAME PERIOD, EISENBERG OPERATED AS A COMMISSIONED OFFER AGENT FOR ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED (AECL) IN THE SALE OF THE $1 BILLION CANADA NUCLEAR POWER REACTOR TO KECO. THIS PROJECT WAS ORGANIZED IN 1973-1976 AND RESULTED IN A CONTRACT SIGNED IN JANUARY 1976 BETWEEN AECL AND THE THEN KECO PRESIDENT, MIN CHUNG-SIK. IN 1976-1977 THE OVERALL COST OF THIS PROJECT WAS CRITIZED IN THE ROK CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 SEOUL 02939 04 OF 04 110732Z NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND IN CANADA A STATE COMMISSION INVESTIGATION REPORTED A $14 MILLION COMMISSION PAID TO EISENBERG'S ISRAELI OFFICE ON THE PROJECT. EISENBERG APPARENTLY ALSO REPRESENTED AECL AS COMMISSIONED MIDDLE MAN IN THE SALE OF A CANADIAN REACTOR TO ARGENTINA IN 1974 AND THE COMBINATION OF EISENBERG'S QUESTIONABLE INVOLVEMENT IN THESE PROGRAMS RESULTED IN A WHOLESALE SHAKEUP IN THE AECL LEADERSHIP IN 1977. 10. OTHER EISENBERG MARKETING ACTIVITIES OVER THE YEARS HAVE INCLUDED THE ATTEMPTED SALE TO KOREAN AIR LINES OF BAC-111 AIRCRAFT (1965-1967), PLANT EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED TO HONAM FERTILIZER COMPANY, KOREA NATIONAL RAILROAD ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAMS, EQUIPMENT LOANS TO VARIOUS ROK SHIPBUILDERS, CEMENT PLANT LOANS, AND RESORT INDUSTRY EQUIPMENT LOANS TO INCLUDE HYDROFOIL FERRYBOATS AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES. WHILE WE HAVE NO COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF ALL OF EISENBERG'S PROJECTS, WE SUSPECT THAT ANY DEFINITIVE COMPILATION WOULD RUN INTO SEVERAL SCORE INDIVIDUAL LAONS TOTALLING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN VALUE WITH DIRECT COMMISSIONS TO THE EISENBERG ORGANINZATION RUNNING TO MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. EISENBERG'S INVESTMENTS IN THE ROK HAVE, HOWEVER, BEEN FEW AND HIGHLY SELECTIVE; THE SSANGYONG GROUP OF THE LATE KIM SONG-KUN WAS HIS MAJOR EQUITY PARTNER. APART FROM THE ASIA MOTORS INVESTMENT NOTED ABOVE, EISENBERG REPORTEDLY INVESTED SOME US $3.4 MILLION IN SSANGYONG CEMENT CO., LTD. IN 1968, ABOUT Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 $300,000 IN HANLYO DEVELOPMENT CO. (CHUNGMU RESORT HOTEL) IN 1970 AND ABOUT $150,000 IN THE TAIPYUNG SPECIAL FIBER CO. IN 1970. THE LATTER THREE INVESTMENTS WERE MADE IN THE NAME OF THE UNIVERSAL SUPPLY CO., INC. OF PANAMA WHILE THE ASIA MOTORS INVESTMENT OF $750,000 FOR ONE QUARTER OF THE FIRM'S EQUITY IN 1968 WAS APPARENTLY MADE IN THE NAME OF EISENBERG AND CO. (USA). THE EISENBERG INVESTMENT IN THE SSANGYONG CEMENT CO (ORIGINALLY 18 PERCENT OF EQUITY) AND ITS OWNERSHIP CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 SEOUL 02939 04 OF 04 110732Z OF TWO FLOORS OF SSANGYONG BUILDING HAVE MADE THE SSANGYONG ORGANIZATION A CONTACT POINT FOR ONGOING EISENBERG MARKETING ACTIVITIES. AS EISENBERG'S INFLUENCE DECLINED IN THE ROK IN THE EARLY 1970'S, THE SSANGYONG GROUP ATTEMPTED TO DISASSOCIATE ITSELF FROM EISENBERG AND WHILE IT WAS APPARENTLY ABLE TO REDUCE EISENBERG'S SHARE OF SSANGYONG CEMENT OWNERSHIP, IT HAS BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN ATTEMPTING TO BUY BACK TWO FLOORS OF ITS OWN CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS BUILDING. THE PRESENCE OF THE EISENBERG OFFICES IN THE GROUP'S OFFICE BUILDING IS NOW EMBARRASSMENT JUST AS THE CLOSE ASSOCIATION OF THE GROUP'S LATE PATRIARCH WITH EISENBERG IN THE 1960'S IS A SUBJECT NOT OPEN TO DISCUSSION BY THE GROUP'S SECOND GENERATION LEADERSHIP. SNEIDER CONFIDENTIAL NNN Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014 Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014
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Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq As violence in Iraq spiraled beginning in late 2003, Mr. Tenet writes, |
But Mr. Tenet largely endorses the view of administration critics that Mr. Cheney and a handful of Pentagon officials, including Paul D. Wolfowitz and Douglas J. Feith, were focused on Iraq as a threat in late 2001 and 2002 even as Mr. Tenet and the C.I.A. concentrated mostly on Al Qaeda. Mr. Tenet describes helping to kill a planned speech by Mr. Cheney on the eve of the invasion because its claims of links between Al Qaeda and Iraq went "way beyond what the intelligence shows." "Mr. President, we cannot support the speech and it should not be given," Mr. Tenet wrote that he told Mr. Bush. Mr. Cheney never delivered the remarks. Mr. Tenet hints at some score-settling in the book. He describes in particular the extraordinary tension between him and Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, in internal debate over how the president came to say erroneously in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa. He describes an episode in 2003, shortly after he issued a statement taking partial responsibility for that error. He said he was invited over for a Sunday afternoon, back-patio lemonade by Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state. Mr. Powell described what Mr. Tenet called "a lively debate" on Air Force One a few days before about whether the White House should continue to support Mr. Tenet as C.I.A. director. "In the end, the president said yes, and said so publicly," Mr. Tenet wrote. "But Colin let me know that other officials, particularly the vice president, had quite another view." He writes that the controversy over who was to blame for the State of the Union error was the beginning of the end of his tenure. After the finger-pointing between the White House and the C.I.A., he wrote, "My relationship with the administration was forever changed." Mr. Tenet also says in the book that he had been "not at all sure I wanted to accept" the Medal of Freedom. He agreed after he saw that the citation "was all about the C.I.A.'s work against terrorism, not Iraq." He also expresses skepticism about whether the increase in troops in Iraq will prove successful. "It may have worked more than three years ago," he wrote. "My fear is that sectarian violence in Iraq has taken on a life of its own and that U.S. forces are becoming more and more irrelevant to the management of that violence." Mr. Tenet says he decided to write the memoir in part because the infamous "slam dunk" episode had come to define his tenure at C.I.A. He gives a detailed account of the episode, which occurred during an Oval Office meeting in December 2002 when the administration was preparing to make public its case for war against Iraq. Walter Howerton Jr. VP of Publishing Operations Strategic Forecasting |
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That Cheney cartel is lying about Sept ElevenReleased on 2013-09-18 00:00 GMT
That Cheney cartel is lying about Sept Eleven These are facts, not opinions: o Hijacked airliners flew all around the eastern U.S. for hours without any military response??? How could Osama bin-Forgotten make our air force stand down, or did Cheney do that??? o The Pentagon was struck by a *hijacked* airliner 45 minutes after two other *hijacked* airliners struck the WTC, without the airliner being intercepted, approached, chased, or even seen by our air defenses? o The Gov't still refuses to release clear video of whatever happened at the Pentagon to this day, six years later??? Why??? o |
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