Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies, Vol. One (Book # 2 of 30 in Defrauding America series.)

by Rodney Stich

During its investigation, the Royal Commission found that drugs were flown into a landing strip by former Air America pilot K.L. “Bud” King and Michael Hand. The strip was on a real estate development promoted

U.S. singer Pat Boone

and financed by wealthy shipping magnat...

King, who also worked for the Boone-Ludwig project, whose testimony could have been very damaging to Nugan Hand and U.S. offi...

Ronald Rewald,

Milwaukee Institute of Technology. That CIA college project was called Operation MH Chaos,

consisted of spying on student groups during...

Operation Mother Goose and Operatio...

Casey was a founder,[217] major investor, and director in Capital Cities Corporation, which then took over the ABC television network a few months later, in March 1985.

Irwin M. Peach George Bush

Mr. Bramble George Bush

Mr. Branch Richard Armitage[220]

Mr. Denile William Casey[221]

Former senior editor of Forbes, James Norman, had been reporting[223] that a secret group in the intelligence community, outraged at what was going on, infiltrated bank money transfer systems and discovered large quantities of money sequestered in overseas bank accounts for government figures. One of these people was allegedly

Vincent Foster,

who made a number of one-day trips to Switzerland to condu...

Perot‘s Knowledge of the Bank Accounts

Warning of Missile Attacks on U.S. Airliners

Anyone familiar with the mentality of these two agencies would not have any problem believing that Justice Department and CIA officials wanted the missiles to fall into the hands of terrorists. The downing of one or more commercial aircraft would justify their existence and expansion, as well as “justifying” imposing draconian security measures upon the American people.

TWA Flight 800, Deja Vu

Meyer said in a clarifying Email sent to me (July 13, 2002): I saw a fast moving streak crossing the sky, my left center to my further left, in a gradually descending arc. I observed the streak for about 3-5 seconds. It then disappeared for about one second. Then I saw on the same trajectory and further to my left a high velocity ordinance explosion. It was yellow white in color with black smoke. Military ordinance. Two and a half seconds later, further to my left but lower, I saw a second high velocity explosion. This appeared to be brilliant white light, like an old fashion flash bulb. Very little smoke, but what there was, was white-grey. Two and a half to three seconds later, further to my left and still lower, I saw one, possibly two, nearly concentric, nearly coincidental high velocity explosions so close in location and time that I/m not sure if there were one or two. From that same point immediately came the low velocity fuel explosion. The fireball, trailing a column of thick black smoke, fell to the sea. I did not immediately determine that the streak was a missile. It looked too smooth for the missiles I had seen in Vietnam. I thought more of some sort of “Schallenwerfer,” (rocket propelled artillery shells) until I spoke with Richard Goss, an eyewitness who had been sitting on the porch of the Westhampton Yacht Squadron clubhouse having lunch. He heard a noise and looked up to see the missile climbing straight up in front of him. He told me he then saw it make ...

Casolaro

DEA agent] reassignment in 1990 to a DEA intelligence position in the State of Washington, prior to Michael Riconosciuto‘s March 1991 arrest there on drug charges, was more than coincidental....the agent was assigned to Riconosciuto’s home State to manufacture a case against him. Mr. Coleman stated he believes this was done to prevent Mr. Riconosciuto from becoming a credible witness concerning the U.S. government’s covert sale of PROMIS to foreign governments.

Every Republican Congressman[236] on the committee voted against the report, claiming there was no support for the findings by the two federal judges and the committee investigators. This cover-up tactic duplicated the obstruction of justice in the October Surprise scheme (and in every other scandal described within these pages). The Republican block stated in their dissenting report:

IBM furnished the vast network of computers needed to operate the program in 1985.

Robert Gates,

Attorney General Janet Reno then accepted the Bua report as the final word, and stated that she would not conduct any further investigation into the matter. That decision covered up for the criminality related to Inslaw and the criminal mindset in the Justice Department. She also acted to cover up for other criminal activities of federal officials, including BCCI, BNL, and others, as described elsewhere in these pages. The Clinton Administration, through its Attorney General, was continuing the pattern of criminal cover-up and related crimes that I had discovered in that department for the past thirty years.

Riconosciuto sought help from various people to gather supporting documents for this grand jury proceeding. Among those gathering documents were his wife, Bobbi, and CIA contacts, including Ian Spiro, who resided near San Diego with his wife and their three children. Spiro had reportedly worked with Riconosciuto and the CIA.

Spiro never provided Riconosciuto with the Inslaw data. Spiro’s wife and three children were found murdered in different rooms of their home near San Diego on November 1, 1992. Each of them had been shot in the head. Several days later, police found Ian Spiro’s body in a parked car on the Borrego Desert east of San Diego. Even though the murders were a state responsibility, the FBI did damage control by intruding into the investigations, stating that Spiro had killed his family and then committed suicide.

Danny Casolaro had evidence that would have assisted Riconosciuto, but he was killed. Earlier legal counsel and others who had worked with Riconosciuto were also killed, including lawyers Alan D. Standorf and Dennis Eisman. Earlier, an investigator hired by Riconosciuto, Larry Guerrin, was killed. The skeletal remains of Riconosciuto’s friend, Vali Delahanty, were found on April 12, 1993, in a nearby ravine.

Riconosciuto had relied upon Ian Spiro to obtain evidence needed for his defense, but Spiro and his family were killed. Almost simultaneously, a business and social acquaintance of Spiro was killed. Several months later, lawyer Paul Wilcher, who sought to expose the Inslaw and October Surprise scandals, who shared data with me, was found dead in his Washington, D.C. residence. These deaths, and dozens of others, protected key officials in the government of the United States, especially within the U.S. Department of Justice.

Justice Department officials sent Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Zipperstein to Los Angeles to either block the start of the trial or prevent exposure of information relating to the Inslaw affair. Zipperstein was put in charge of the Justice Department “investigation” into the death of Danny Casolaro, whose death was linked to Inslaw. Zipperstein was also the Justice Department official who intercepted Paul Wilcher when Wilcher sought to deliver his one-hundred-page declaration to Attorney General Janet Reno. Wilcher was found dead shortly after giving his information to Zipperstein.

According to a book authored by Coleman called Trail of the Octopus, the DEA was involved, or covered up for, a CIA-DEA-Lebanese-Syrian drug operation using Pan Am aircraft out of Frankfurt. This operation made possible the placement of the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.

This was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).

BCCI, Bush, and Clinton One of the men behind the founding of BCCI was Jackson Stephens who headed Stephens, Inc, located in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Stephens, Inc. was a large U.S. investment bank with numerous hidden connections, including one with Harken Energy, to obtain the oil drilling rights off Bahrain. George Bush, Jr., was a consultant and member of the board of directors of Harken, before the oil-drilling contract was signed. Stephen’s firm helped secure a loan from a BCCI affiliated Swiss bank for Harken Energy. Bill Clinton‘s involvement in the BCCI affair was shown in a February 1992 article[260] under the headline “Clinton and BCCI.” The article reported that the Clinton campaign had a $2 million credit line from a bank with connections to BCCI. The credit line was from Worthen National Bank in Little Rock, Arkansas, controlled by Little Rock billionaire Jackson Stephens and managed by Curt Bradbury. Stephens was involved in the 1970s deals in which BCCI unlawfully acquired Washington’s First American Bank.

Clark Clifford

BCCI wrote off a $160,000 loan to an Atlanta consulting firm operated by Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta.[263] The loan had been made by National Bank of Georgia, which had been acquired by BCCI front man Ghaith Pharaon. Young had served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Carter administration. Enlarging on his many trips to Africa, Young promoted BCCI to individuals and governments in Africa and Central America. Mayor Young received a retainer for introducing Third World leaders to BCCI. A former BCCI official provided about $11,000 in travel accommodations to Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Jeb Bush One of President Bush’s sons, Jeb Bush, had numerous dealings with BCCI and was frequently in BCCI’s Miami office. Jeb Bush’s company invested in real estate with a company controlled by a BCCI customer, who was later sent to prison for defrauding BCCI and other banks.

President Assisted in Cover-Up Clinton had already played a key role in obstruction of justice relating to the vast CIA drug trafficking near Mena, Arkansas, while Clinton was governor of that state. After Bill Clinton became president and appointed Janet Reno as U.S. Attorney General, the two of them carried out Barr’s previous plan to remove the Director of the FBI who constituted a threat to government corruption. Without allowing Sessions to defend against the obvious sham charges, Reno and Clinton removed the FBI Director. The lapdog press eulogized this removal and said nothing about its relationship with Sessions’ intent to investigate Justice Department corruption.

Vatican Bank Scandal Similar to the deaths of informants in other scandals such as Inslaw, Chapter 11 corruption, and October Surprise, witnesses and informants to the BCCI scandal were killed or mysteriously died. The 1988 death of a New York City lawyer, Cornelius Ahearn, is believed due to the fact that he knew too much about the links between the BCCI scandal and the Vatican Bank scandal[279] of the 1980s.

Lawyer Ed Rogers, the right-hand assistant to President Bush’s Chief of Staff, John Sununu, signed a lucrative employment agreement with a BCCI participant, Sheik Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi intelligence. Adham was at the heart of the BCCI bank swindle.

Drug Smuggling by CIA Personnel

The CIA’s role in drug trafficking into the United States has been the subject of many magazine and newspaper articles, books, Congressional testimony, and television presentations. I first became aware of it in the 1950s while an airline pilot flying into Japan and while flying in the Middle East, out of Teheran, Beirut and other places. During matter-of-fact conversations with other pilots they described the drug loads they were carrying for CIA-related airlines. At that time there was very little attention given to the drug trade and I was as naive and indifferent to the problem as the remainder of the population.

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia[289]

The Politics of Heroin—CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.[290]

Professor McCoy started investigating the drug trafficking in the 1950s, questioning people in all phases of the drug culture from the growers to the end users. He spent considerable time in Southeast Asia and throughout the world obtaining first-hand knowledge of the drug trade. His books describe how CIA helicopters, supposedly fighting communists in Vietnam, were hauling drugs from the fields to distribution points, and how this CIA operation included heavy sales to the American GIs. McCoy described the role of the PepsiCo bottling plant in the drug processing.

My CIA contacts stated the CIA was shipping arms to both sides, defending this practice in a tongue-in-cheek comment, “How else can the CIA keep the war going!”

Vatican Bank;

Operation Back Biter