Michael Ruppert at First Congregational Church

Well, let's see if we got the sound on, can you hear me? Yes, I hear me, that’s a good thing. I’d like to thank Brian of the Dischecktha [?] Gallery, I’d like to thank Kabu [?], I love the guys in the back, all the tables and we'll talk about them later but especially I want you to pay attention to the Healthcare for All initiative, something that’ll really put a damper on this trend of globalization and kind of remind us that we all have rights as people. And it's nice to see all of you, my fellow members of the Grassy Knoll Society [laughter] here tonight. I don't know how many of you saw or have watched television today, but the honorable Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, a friend, a subscriber to my newsletter "From the Wilderness", came out today, was interviewed in the Washington Post, and she says there is reason to believe that the Bush administration had complete foreknowledge of the attacks on September 11th and chose to do nothing about this. [Audience applause] In honor, I have here this story from the Washington Post page A16

which went out on the Associated Press, all the wires around the world, it's on CNN, Fox has picked it up. Foxis doing their usual job of unbiased (ha ha) reporting, basically portraying Cynthia McKinney as an uppity black woman who got out of her place. That will backfire on them. But the Washington Post story today says representative Cynthia McKinney (D, Georgia ) is calling for an investigation into whether President Bush and other government officials had advance notice of terrorist attacks on September 11th but did nothing to prevent them. She added that persons close to this administration, that's a quote, are poised to make huge profits off America’s new war. In a recent interview with the Berkeley, California radio station, that’s KPFA, McKinney said, quote, "we know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11th. What did this administration know and when did they know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew and why did they not warned the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered?"

Bravo [applause]. I kind of had a feeling that this was coming; it certainly is coming. Ari Fleischer, the president's press spokesman was on CNN all over today, laughing and saying she must be aiming to be a charter member of the Grassy Knoll Society, As if to say, ladies and gentlemen, that anyone who believes that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Francis Kennedy is a mental case. That’s a shame issue; that is a method of control that is used in dysfunctional families and it works not only, unfortunately, with the people we're fighting but it works within the progressive movement. We’ll talk about that later on tonight. What we're gonna do for you tonight started here in Portland and I’m so happy to be back in this city, I am so happy to be back among all these wonderful people, many who have become

really close friends. This is an awesome town, and we started this mess that we're going to continue tonight November twenty-eight of last year at Portland State University, perhaps some of you were there, when we delivered the first Truth and Lies of 9/11 lecture, thousand people came out to see that. New information at every stop, twice in Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, at Shriner University in West Texas. I have done it also on cable tv in Austin, Texas, and their cable tv they have twenty five to fifty thousand viewers on their cable access channels in Austin, Texas. After I leave two nights here in Portland we do Eugene and then I’m off to Georgia to do it at the University of Georgia, to address also the human rights conference down there and from there it's up to New YorkState to deliver it in Long Island right outside of New York City and we will come back for San Diego and then it's Australia

and Germany and a whole host of colleges starting in the fall. So we have started something and it all started here in Portland. It could not have happened without you, I mean that [applause]. People like to see other people doing something before they'll try it. I want to start in honor of what happened today with the same video clip that we started with on November twenty- eighth, and it has to do with the psychological issues behind— I don’t know where the remote went— it's done her for the video that address issues of proof, issues of how do we reach not us, most of us here are the choir and I’m hoping there's a few people here who don't rbelieve me tonight, that will give me a chance a chance to win you over. But how do we take a fundamental issue that needs to be addressed and not make a cottage industry out of it, not turn into something that we can make careers out of without solving the problem, how do we solve the fundamental problem? For thirty eight years

we've had a particular piece of video or a film actually, which is what was that what I hope will start. Alright, here it is; this is the Zapruder film. What you’re seeing is John Kennedy. You see his head move from the front to the back, from the front to the back. Laws of physics are pretty immutable; that is only caused by a shot from the front of the vehicle, period. Now, for all the books that have been written and for all the work that's been done we have a piece of evidence of this obvious that proves that the Warren Commission report was nonsense, and yet for thirty eight years it has been the official line of the American government. It was used just today to trash Cynthia McKinney. And yet, for a lot of people who will hear Ari Fleischer’s comments, that will be the ultimate mark of shame, beyond which you can’t support anybody

unless somebody turns the same shame on you. We can stop the tape; I’ll try to hit the stop button here to see if that works. If the FBIwas here they would know how to do this right away. There’s another way to address these problems which is a style, it is an editorial policy if you will of my newsletter, it is the investigative approach that I take, which stands separate and apart from any personality. My personality is irrelevant to this. It is a method which is, above all, effective and it involves the documentation using source material obtained from the government, from mainstream respectable news sources and I use the word respectable referring to the homogenized stuff, the New YorkTimes, Washington Post, ABC, CNN, so on and so forth, using witness statements and legal documents only,

and examining them as evidence in a trial or using them as a means of confrontation with the government or with the people who are perpetrating the crimes, and it is totally effective. Now we're gonna run a second clip here which will be a confrontation that I had with the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Deutsch, in 1996 at Locke High School using this approach, saying I am an eyeball witness but I have documents from three specific operations, Amadeus, Pegasus, and Watchtower, and him knowing that I had the documents. When we come to the end of the lecture we're gonna wrap up with the use of this technique yet again that has been extremely effective lately, but I want to show you how this works when you apply this directly at the people who are perpetrating crimes. Now, if we can run the second tape. [Ruppert, on tape]: I am a former Los Angeles Police narcotics detective and I worked South Central Los Angeles, and I will tell you, Director Deutsch emphatically and I’m—

I will tell you, Director Deutsch, former Los Angeles narcotics detective, that the agency has dealt drugs throughout this country for a long— [boisterous applause]. Director Deutsch, I will refer you to three specific agency operations known as Amadeus, Pegasus, and Watchtower. I have Watchtower documents heavily redacted by the agency I was personally exposed to CIA operations and recruited by CIA personnel who attempted to recruit me in the late seventies to become involved in protecting agency drug operations in this country. I have been trying to get this out for eighteen years and I have the evidence. My question for you is very specific sir. If in the course of the IG’s investigation, Fred Hitz’s work, you come across evidence of severely criminal activity and it’s classified,

will you use that classification to hide the criminal activity or will you tell the American people the truth? [applause, subsequent booing] [announcer attempting to restore calm] [Deutsch]: I will allow the director to speak first and then Congressman Julien Dixon. If you have information about CIA illegal activity in drugs you should immediately bring that information to wherever you want, but let me suggest three places: the Los Angeles Police Department [outraged protest from audience, announcer speaking] It is your choice

the Los Angeles Police Department, the Inspector General, or office of one of your congresspersons [outraged shouting from audience]. [Ruppert]: All right [applause from Portland audience] You know why I play this so much, ‘cause it’s just fun [laughter]. That was one of those great moments ya know? I always wanna, after I do that, say “I’m going to Disneyland!” Anyway [laughter]. Alright, now let’s serious, ‘cause we got some work to do tonight. I wanna start off just by planting an idea in your head. If you're walking down the street, and a crazy man comes up to you, obviously not right and says that a house is burning and women and children are trapped inside the house, and you smell smoke in the air,

and you decide not to check because the man is obviously crazy. Who’s really nuts? Who’s really crazy? That’s the fundamental issue that faces all of us here. I have, tonight, a much easier job than you do. I know where I stand. I am a hundred percent committed. It’s the old saying, in a ham and eggs breakfast the chicken’s involved but the pig is committed. I’m committed. You have a much harder task because you have to take the information, but the key to all of this is to take the information, separate it and make it stand alone from any personality, and hold everybody who comes into contact with that information responsible for it, and for addressing the information. Now my style here is that of a detective, and I work assignments as a detective, or as that of a prosecutor, if you will. When a lawyer takes evidence in a trial and gives it to a jury, he may have fifty, a hundred, two hundred

exhibits in a murder trial. All of these exhibits become pieces of evidence which a group of people, a jury, are then sequestered and they are compelled to discuss nothing but the evidence to render a verdict. That’s the way the legal system works; that's what we're doing tonight. I am presenting to you evidence, and you are responsible for taking the evidence, examining it, and drawing your own conclusions. But once you draw the conclusions,recognizing that it's your democracy or what used to be a democracy, it’s your country, it’s your planet that's involved and you must have a share of responsibility for whatever conclusions that you come to, so that it doesn't involve me. I give you the knowledge and you decide what to do with it. Now we're going to go with the presentation here; we can, actually, I think think probably turn the lights at just a little bit. Everybody has to agree, and I guess Marshall McLuhan was right; I’ve seen this in recent run-ins

with so called progressives and we'll talk about that before the evening's over, that the medium is the message and in this case I happen to be the medium. I am the person who was transmitting the information to you and I would rather not be, but you have a right to know who I am and why I’m here. Now the reason I got into this stuff was a freak accident of birth perhaps, some would call it karma, some would call it a lot of different spiritual issues but my mother was a cryptographer for the army's security agency during World War Two. She worked for Secretary of State Cordell Hull. She worked on the Japanese codes and the Russian codes. She had the highest clearances possible she knew of course that the Roosevelt administration knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor and a law that allowed to happen deliberately. There’s an abundance of information on that now, the Discovery Channel is running a series this year called The Secrets of World War Two, they have a special show on Pearl Harbor. there's a new book out using Freedom of Information Acr documents that show clearly that

the Japanese codes had been broken. My mother worked in that particular section; she moved to the Russian section in about 1944. Now, I also was with the LAPD. I interned for three years while I was in undergraduate at UCLA, became a sworn officer in 1973, quickly specialized in narcotics. This is one of my rating reports showing that I worked narcotics,I had an outstanding rating. There has recently been documents circulated in certain parts of the Pacifica Network saying that I was fired from LAPDas a mental case. Absolutely not true, but that's the length to which people will go. There are also people who would say that I never worked narcotics so here is my diploma from the Drug Enforcement Administration, which you don't get for writing parking tickets. Just parenthetically, I said this at Portland State; the senior command officer from LAPD in the room the day when I confronted John Deutsch was LAPD deputy chief Mark Kroeker, who promptly told Ted Koppel’s

producer because Nightline was shooting that that whole hearing that I had never worked narcotics, and that got me pulled from a one on one interview with Ted Koppel that night. So I always open this up, especially in Portland, with I worked narcotics, OK, so. Now, if there is nothing else I ask for you to understand I was at, last night, we were over at PSU; POCLAD was having a talk. Heard a lot of stuff for my website there, mentioned, talking about corporations and how evil they are and one thing that was missing, the one thing that I and one colleague, Catherine Austin Fitts, who is a former Assistant Secretary of Housing under the first Bush, she got fired by the first Bush, she also worked in the Clinton administration. She and I have been developing, she’s a former managing director of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read. If there's nothing else you get for this whole paradigm that I am painting for you, this whole picture, this map

of how the world works, you need to understand the interrelationship, it is inseparable, of the drug trade with oil and with covert operations, and with every American war, and what most people don't get, they don't get the connect between the financing that the drug trade provides for Wall Street, for expansion, for economic control of a particular region. Now I discovered, I saw with my own eyeballs in 1977 a CIA agent who happened to be, at the time, my fiance directly involved in bringing drugs into the country. I would not get involved, they were trying to recruit me. I said I can’t do that, I won’t cross the line, I won't deal drugs that ended the relationship, that eventually cost me my career. But people will say, I’ve heard people say, I heard Michael Parentin say, I’ve heard Noam Chomsky say that there's no evidence that the CIA deals drugs. That’s nonsense.

I’m gonna show you some of it. Because you have to understand aswe build to 9/11 how critical that is to what happened. As a result of that controversy, that started with the Gary Webb stories in 1996, there was, there were some investigations and the CIA’s inspector general's office did release some reports, but one particular document surfaced. Now, for those of us old enough to remember Ronald Reagan and the first Reagan administration which heralded the start of the Contra war. In 1979 the domestic U.S. cocaine consumption was roughly eighty metric tons. By 1987, at the peak of the Contra war, U.S. domestic consumption of cocaine was six hundred metric tons. The Agency knew that was gonna happen, that money was going directly through Wall Street, that money was being invested and laundered through the U.S. banking system. They knew it was going to happen, so at the start of the Reagan administration, in February of 1982, they concluded a series of negotiations between the CIA

and the U.S. Department of Justice. Now there is a law on the books, I believe it’s Title Eight, U.S. Code, that says that if this gentleman here in the Blazers sweatshirt runs a department a subdivision of the Department of Interior and you have an employee who breaks the law, you are required to report to the FBI. You can't cover up when your employee— that makes sense, doesn’t it? Well, these guys in their conspiratorial minds love to cover their paper butts [?]. So they started negotiations. Now at CIA, the highest rung on the food chain is case officer; you cannot be disavowed, that's the, that's the those are the men of the cloth. Below that you have career agents, career contract agents, foreign agents for contractors, employees of proprietary companies; there are all these technical terms under the CIA umbrella. And so they decided, first of all, that everybody who wasn’t a case officer at CIA, some had ID cards, some worked for CIA for thirty years, but if they were a case officer that they were for purposes

of the law of reporting, no longer to be considered employees. Then the second stage of the negotiation they came to this agreement, which this is a letter to Bill Casey, the CIA director, signed by William French Smith, who was Ronald Reagan’s first attorney general, and it says “In light of these provisions and in view of the fine cooperation, fine cooperation, the Drug Enforcement Administration has received from the CIA, no formal requirement regarding reporting of narcotics violations is included in these procedures.” There it is in black and white. The Department of Justice telling the CIA that when all of your career agent, contract agents, foreign agents, proprietary employees deal drugs you are no longer required to tell DOJ about it. That’s proof of a conspiracy; that’s a smoking gun, right there. I submit that to the jury. There’s more. There was, as a result of this controversy, volume

two of the CIA’s inspector general report released October the eighth of 1998, contains, it’s four hundred pages long if you read it and I have read it all extracted a whole bunch of pages, there’s page after page where it shows that CIA was radioing stations in Nicaragua and Costa Rica for people caught with two hundred kilos of cocaine saying don't question them, release them. I mean there’s admission after admission. The cover letter says no evidence and you read the report it says something completely different. One of my favorite statements of all time was made by Allen Dulles, who had been the CIA director under John Kennedy, who was running the Warren Commission, which if you read the Warren Commission report you know that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy, couldn't have, just based upon the evidence that’s in there and Allen Dulles said the American people don't read. Well, I read, and you can read. Anyway, volume two. One of the things that I sell, I have these extracts and commentary; if you want more you can go get

from us or from the Wilderness, it’s only about twelve bucks but that gives you the CIA documents that you can just wave in their face and say here, explain this, but they can’t. But this is one of my favorites. In the eighties and early nineties, the CIA never does things overtly so what the CIA does is they will use other agencies which they have infiltrated, and they took twenty eight C-130 Hercules, the big, high-wing four engine turboprop heavy lift cargo aircraft, and they transferred them from— the CIA actually owned them, transferred them through the Pentagon, Department of Defense to the U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Forest Service gave, if you will, for nominal, I mean five thousand dollars, whatever in some cases twenty eight C-130 Hercules to private contractors, T and G Airways, there are all these companies, most of whom are direct CIA proprietaries or contract companies. This was for the purpose of fighting forest fires; Smokey the Bear goin’ out in his C-130 dumpin’ retardant.

The problem was, was that the C-130s started turning up in Panama, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Angola, Libya, all over the Middle East. One of them, in 1996, as late as 1996, was caught with a billion dollars worth of cocaine on board in Mexico City. Now, these aircraft were flying into military bases all over the country, China Lake in Southern California, El Toro Marine Air Station. The chief of air operations, Col. Jim Sabow, became aware that these aircraft we’re flying two and three thousand kilos of cocaine on to his Marine base, he tried to raise a stink, they murdered him. They shoved a shotgun so far down his throat it sheared off his uvula. This was after they had knocked him unconscious, giving him a skull fracture. They blew his brains out and it was ruled a suicide. Now, who committing suicide with a shotgun is gonna ram it, you know what I’m sayin’? He had been unconscious and aspirated blood

for about ten minutes; you can’t aspirate blood after you're dead. There was blood in his lungs. At any rate, so this became a potential scandal in the government, so they called in the lawyers; lawyers, guns, and money, where’s Warren Zevon when you need him? Anyway, so this is a bunch of lawyers talking, this is to George Leonard, Associate Chief of the Forest Service from Kenneth Cohen, the Assistant General Counsel, the date’s December 6, 1989. Now you can barely read this, at least I can’t, it says “Apparently DOD (that’s the Pentagon) thinks that by having the Forest Service as the intermediary if any future aircraft are used in drug smuggling the Forest Service and not the DODwill suffer the adverse publicity.” They are not concerned about stoping the drug trade, they are not concerned about breaking the law, they're concerned about who's gonna look bad. Black and white. This is one of my favorites and we're going to be seeing a lot more about Colombia. You’re all aware I hope that as

of yesterday, President Hugo Chavez was ousted in a coup in Venezuela, which will augur full scale military conflict in Colombia because Chavez had denied U.S. military overflight for military operations, but I love this little thing that came up in 1999 “New York Stock Exchange chief meets top, Colombian top rebel commander.” Now, Richard Grasso is the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. So he hops on a airplane and he flies down to Bogota, gets an armor-plated limo, drives down south to meet with the FARC guerillas, and you know what he says, “Invest your money in Wall Street!” For those of you who don’t know, the FARC Guerilla group derives their money from taxing the cocaine trade. He didn’t go down there and say stop dealing drugs. He didn’t go down there and say we'd like to find alternative means to finance you so that don't have to make your money, he said no let me take you to New York and show you ways that we can make more money. That’s called a cold call. The head of the New York Stock Exchange going to

a major drug lord and saying come bring your money to Wall Street. OK, now everybody knows, or most of you know, probably, that if I walk into a bank with ten thousand and one dollars they have to fill out a a thing called the CTR, currency transaction report, because I might be a money launderer and that's, you know, really heavy duty stuff, ten thousand and one dollars. Well, there are a whole bunch of entities that are exempt from having to report large currency transactions and this is from the Banking Secrecy Act which created FINCEN, the Financial Criminal Enforcement Network, and these are all the exemptions, but just come down to this one right here. A listed entity other than a bank whose common stock or analogous equity interests are listed on the New York Stock Exchange or American Stock Exchange or are designated as a NASDAQ national market security. That means that if your stock is on the little ticker symbol that’s rolling right across the screen, you can move

all the cash you want to. It's legal, you don't have to report it to anybody, you’re exempt. Now, this gentleman down here with the red— What’s your name? Eric— Eric you are the Southern Hemispheric Vice President for General Motors. What’s your name sir? Don... This is Don Pablo Don, the largest drug dealer in all of South America. You have a problem. You’re sitting on two hundred million dollars in Yankee greenbacks made from selling drugs, and you can’t spend it because it has to be laundered, you just can't you know you have to— OK, so you call up the head of GM southern hemisphere operations and you say I would like to order one hundred Chevy Suburbans, custom built, armor plated with all of these extra goodies. I’ll pay you fifty thousand

dollars in cash for each one. What do you say? [audience member]: Alright. So there's an incentive, there's an opportunity, now we have to understand why drug money is so powerful but let's just look at some of the people who have their fingers in the drug pie. Lowell Bergman of PBS did a little thing; he uncovered a 2000 meeting with Janet Reno and Stu Eisenstadt at Treasury, about some companies that were called into DOJ not because they were laundering drug money they were wondering too much drug money. It was obvious. People were starting to notice these things, and the companies were Hewlett-Packard, Ford, Sony, General Motors, Whirlpool, General Electric, ‘we bring good things to life,’ and Philip Morris. And do you know by the way that Philip Morris is now being sued by twenty eight departments, that's a state in Colombia for smuggling Marlboroughs into the country

and taking the payment in drug cash and putting the drug cash not in their corporate accounts for sticking it directly onto their net profits. So we know that this is taking place, these companies are doing it and that we find out in a report that was released in January of last year from senator Carl Levin, it's a minority report on correspondent banking and basically all correspondent banking is their banks their license to do business in the U.S. and banks that are not, and banks that are not, in order to do business in the U.S. financial markets, all they have to do is establish a correspondent relationship with a bank that as and the pain of a certain fee and they move their money through the U.S. banking system and what did Carl Levin’s minority report disclose but that at least a trillion dollars a year in criminal money, trillion, is flowing through the U.S. banking system. J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, by the way John Deutsch, the CIA director who lost his job after

run-in, is now sitting on the board of directors of Citigroup, along with Robert Rubin, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, but it's moved also through the stock market and the amount in question was a trillion dollars and five hundred billion was probably drug money moving through. My friend Catherine Austin Fitts was just debating Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize economist, on the New York Times drug policy forum, and she says “Look, we know that there's probably six, seven hundred billion dollars a year,” this is from the UN, from Department of Justice, from Le Monde, we know there’s a trillion and a half of criminal money altogether every year and this is what's being used to keep the investment bubble on Wall Street inflated and Friedman says “Poppycock, the global gross product it is something like four hundred trillion dollars a year; this is a drop in the bucket” and Catherine

came back to him and made a very good point which is the same point that I make. The gross economic product that the whole planet is measured in real estate, bushels of wheat, it's measured in all kinds of things. When was the last time any of you tried to buy gasoline for your car with a bushel of wheat? When was the last time any of you tried to make your house payment with two hours of labor, you know or whatever? Cash is what makes the world go around. Cash flow, and Catherine was an investment banker on Wall Street is everything. Bear in mind that for every dollar a bank has on deposit can lend nine. Bear in mind that every dollar of loans on its books, if it creates nine dollars, becomes on its books an asset which helps to determine the bank’s stock value. Bear in mind also that the way liquid cash works is we all have credit cards and you know I’m tired of doing this because Ifeel like an idiot every time I do and I’m sure is like a beanie

different because, you know, when I open my credit card statements every month the first thing I look at is the minimum monthly payment due; I don't look at the total balance all in on the card I’d have a nightmare; I’d have a heart attack right there, you know, but what's necessary to keep that bubble afloat is the minimum monthly payment which can be made in only one way with: with cash. Cash money. Now we're going to see in just a minute here how important that cash money is when it gets into the economic system and we’re gonna use examples that a company that you may have heard of recently called Enron, which is just one of many companies that do the same thing, just one of many companies that do the same thing. But here we see this. This is Citibank buys Mexico's Banamex. Now, Banco National de Mexico is the second largest bank in Mexico. It was owned until the buyout last year by a guy named Roberto Hernandez, who was documented as

one of the largest drug smugglers and money launderers in Mexico. As a matter fact there's a picture of Hernandez, it’s a very bad picture, these are bales of cocaine that were on his property, these are runways on his land. He owns roughly twenty percent of the Yucatán Peninsula around Cancun. The locals call it the cocaine peninsula. There was a series of reports in the Mexican daily Poresto which totally outed Hernandez, exposed him, great photographs, everybody knew this guy's a major drug dealer, he owns the bank he can launder all the money he wants to. Hernandez sued Poresto and lost, which means that the journalists were right. He appealed and lost and my friend Alberto Giordano, Al Giordano, who was actually from Massachusetts, a wonderful journalist is a great website Narconews.com, and he and I talk frequently, expanded the story, wrote it in English, he got sued in New York, which was a historical precedent of a Mexican guy suing somebody in New York, and Al lives in Mexico by the way,

and Hernandez lost that suit. All internet journalists now have the same first amendment protection as the New York Times does thanks to that suit. Now, we have Citigroup, which has on its board Robert Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury, John Deutsch, the former CIA director. John Deutsch also took with him Nora Slatkin, who had been the executive director at the CIA and made her an executive at the company. They gave Roberto Hernandez a seat on Citibank’s board of directors; he's there today. Roberto Hernandez or Robert Hernandez if you want to talk American, OK? But that's the point and when I saw this happen I said wait a minute, we have crossed a line. We have entered a whole new dimension of criminality in this government. They don't care anymore, they are blatant, they’re out of the closet, OK? It’s a situation where

Al Capone isn't even making any bones anymore about being a respectable guy, he’s just saying “I’m a gangster, whatcha gonna do about it?” All you members of the Grassy Knoll Society. What are you going to do about it? Let’s see for a moment how important drug money is, but first of all, let’s take one more quick look at the relationship between CIA and Wall Street. The CIA was created in the National Security Act of 1947 which was written by Clark Clifford, big wig democratic party apparatchik, friend of Harry Truman who wrote the National Security Act of 1947. Who can tell me what his profession was? Probably a lot go you have seen the tape. Wall Street banker and attorney. He was a lawyer and a banker. He, as a matter of fact is the man who through lobbying

and legislation which he sponsored brought a bank called BCCI on to American shores. That’s the man who wrote the National Security Act that created the CIA. Now, the design for the CIA was given to him by one of my standing corny old jokes. Two brothers named John Foster and Allen Dulles, the Dulles brothers, dull, duller and dullest. John Foster had been Secretary of State for Ike and of course Alan was the legendary CIA director who John Kennedy fired and later ran the Warren Commission. Now when I say DCI that's Director of Central Intelligence; that's the official term, DCI. What was their profession? Wall Street lawyers from the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, the most powerful law firm on Wall Street today. By the way, who was Enron’s law firm? Sullivan and Cromwell. Now after John Foster and Alan Dulles we’ll move ahead to Bill Casey. Everybody remembers Bill Casey

from Iran/Contra, right? Bill Casey we know he was Ronald Reagan’s DCI from eighty one to eighty six. He died in early eighty seven. What did Bill Casey do for Richard Nixon? Nope Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now under Bill Casey, they had a guy whose name was Stanley. Boy am I having a brain, you know what? Stanley Sporkin. Stanley Sporkin just retired recently as a sitting U.S. District court judge, sitting on the bench in Washington DC. He was CIA general counsel, that’s the top lawyer,

in the eighties. What did he do before he became CIA general counsel? General counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now we come back to Stan Sporkin to a guy named dave doherty and dave carney was the general Counsel right after Sporkin. I'll just put JC. What does David Doherty do today, right this minute? Executive Vice president of the New York Stock Exchange for enforcement. For enforcement, that’s cool isn't it? He is watching after all of our welfare.

And then we'll take a guy, we'll put him down here named A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard, who is today the Executive Director, we'll call him ex deer That's the term of the CIA. That’s the number three position at CIA. What did he do before he became executive director of the CIA? He was an investment banker. He owned a firm called Alex, Brown which is today owned by Deutschebank. As a matter of fact six of the first seven DDIs, the number one position is DCI, the number two position is Deputy Director of Intelligence, DDI. Six of the first seven DDIs of the Central Intelligence Agency went directly to CIA from Wall Street. Now if you were the jury I would submit

that I have made the case there's a much deeper relationship between the agency and Wall Street than you knew. Now let's look at how some drug money works for a minute. Catherine Austin Fitts wrote a great series called Narco Dollars for Dummies; I have written heavily on it, lectured on it. I give a lecture at USC in December of 2000 at the School of International Relations called Wall Street’s war for drug money and she and I have very much developed the model; she explains it in even more detail but it's really not that difficult to grasp. How many people in the room, we’re in Portland now, how many people in a room owned stock? Alright, secret capitalists— Ok, now I’m just kidding. I'm just kidding. Well there's some Some people on the left have taken to calling me a right wing fascist so I’m just trying to to establish my progressive credentials. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Price to earnings; how many people know what a price-to-earnings ratio is?

Price-to-earnings very simply isis market cap over net profits. Now let's say that, the gentleman there with his head in his hand, yes what's your name sir? Ken owns a company that makes widgets and you trade, you have stocks and your stock trades for ten dollars a share and there are ten thousand shares of stock. Your market capitalization is a hundred thousand dollars. It’s the share price times the number of shares. It’s that simple. So that your market capitalization. your net profit for Wall Street terms or for investment terminology is the total sales less the cost of doing business, just less the cost of making those sales and you have net profits. Now if we reduce that two ratio, and let’s say we have a much larger company

that does three hundred billion, three hundred million dollars a year in gross revenue over net profits of ten million. You reduce that down to thirty to one and that's called price to earnings. On Wall Street they call it the pop. Now, if this relationship has to stay the same what happens if I make this number a two? What does that number become? Simple. Now it doesn't happen automatically, of course. What will happen is that the analyst will look at a stock can say its undervalued at a price to earnings of thirty, meaning there's more net profits or so it drives the price up and the buy recommendations go out and it stabilizes, but that's the ratio. It's one of the most commonly used tools on Wall Street, so if I were to add one dollar of drug money onto the bottom line, the net profit line, I’ve instantly created thirty

dollars in stock value. One dollar of drug money on the bottom line equals the thirty dollars in stock. How do all Wall Street executives get paid? in stock. Remember Enron. the Enron executives made a billion dollars insider trading their stock knowing the company was going to fail and Enron by the way started with the price to earnings, their price to earnings was sixty. Every dollar of net profits went on the bottom, created sixty dollars in stock value so you saw Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay, all those turkeys at Enron trading billions of dollars in stock. It, Enron Online was the key to the whole operation, operated what a hundred and some countries. They had a thousand subsidiaries and three hundred subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands. Doeseverybody here no there's no oil in the Cayman Islands, there's no natural gas in the Cayman Islands?

What was Enron doing operating three hundred subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands? Enron was the largest money laundry in world history and we will talk about that more later but this is a story we broke in my newsletter, "From the Wilderness", and we're now in thirty countries and read by a whole lot of people and Cynthia McKinney, God bless her. and bigger Bush administration conflicts of interest loom of that after Ashcroft recuses in the Enron investigation. and what I found out was two problems. First of all the head of the SEC, Mr. Harvey Pitt is, was a lawyer before he took over SEC and his law firm had as a client guess who? Arthur Anderson, Enron’s accounting firm. David Walker, the head of the GAO, the Comptroller General who was supposed to be congress's chief watchdog is a former managing director of Arthur Anderson. Hmm. Then we found out, I did a little digging on

Arthur Anderson I found that— it’s not there but I found out that Arthur Anderson by the way had contracts to audit all the intelligence files for the FBI. Arthur Anderson was keeping the books for the same companies that were investigating it. In the Enron matter.I published that story and the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice and CIA promptly and immediately— [baby cries]makes me sick to dropped Anderson from all their contracts. What Anderson does is a form of accounting which is called pro forma, which is how you can cook the books, which is how you sneak money onto the bottom line, which is how you inflate your net profits and hide debt. It is not ethical, it is not cool it's just done to create profits. The standard way to do it is by what's called generally accepted accounting principles. but Look at some of the other companies who use exactly the same accounting processes that Enron uses. General Electric, where we seen them before? Laundering too much drug money.

By the way, who owns NBC? General Electric. AOL Time Warner? Who owns CNN? Microsoft, Viacom. Disney, who owns ABC. Disney, IBM, Intel, Cisco Systems, Sun Micro, the Tribune Company who owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. The Washington Times, which owns Newsweek and the New York Times. Not much incentive to change the way things are done there, especially when your stock values are at stake. Now, in context with all of this, and one the other things that I’m going to try to argue as I present this case to you is that we are in the arms, the bear hug of a criminal enterprise. The Bush administration or government has become a franchise operation for organized

crime behavior and I’m not talking about the Sopranos. I’m talking about organized crime as a model, as a way of life, as as a system of looting that's out of control. It has nothing to do with political party. Let me backtrack for one second on Enron. One of the reasons why I knew that Enron was going nowhere was that Congress had the absolute ability to go to all the Enron executives who were insider trading knowing the stock was going to crash and take all their personal bank accounts. Did they do that? They let that money walk away. Congress also had the ability and so did Department of Justice, FBI, all those investigative arms had the ability to go to Enronbefore it was sold before its assets were sold off in bankruptcy and seize all of the computer records for Enron Online. Did they do that? No. It allowed The sale would take place to the Union Bank of Switzerland, which allowed the evidence to safely leave the country for the safety of a Swiss bank. Congress let that evidence walk

right away. Now, one of the reasons probably why they had to do it— this is, I need to update this; we haven’t had time because we had some other issues with "From he Wilderness" lately, we’ve been hacked few times and controversies but we're hanging in there, but this been updated. Kelly O’Meara at the Washington Times, who is a great journalist, wrote a story about a year and a half ago, whenever this was two, years ago and she found out that the Department of Justice had lost over a trillion dollars. Dan Rather just updated to CBS and I got it directly from the CBS web site about two months ago that that number is up to two point three trillion dollars that's missing, gone from the Department of Defense. Now those of you who were smart will know that the Pentagon budget only three hundred and eighty six billion dollars a year, so how can they lose two point three trillion? They don’t have that much money. Oh yes they do. You know how they do? They manage the pensions four some

two and a half million service personnel. They manage their pensions for about another million civilian personnel. They also manage the health insurance policies for all of those people, they manage real estate, they have long-term financing debt, so they have all kinds of money. They just lost it, and they don't even say it's a bookkeeping error, they say it's gone, period. Where did it go? You know who happened to do the data processing for the Pentagon. A company called Lockheed Martin, and Lockheed Martin of course had on its board Lynne Cheney, who was the vice president's wife until January of 2001 at a company called Dyncorp. If you're not familiar with that company you need to be. Created by a guy named Herbert “Pug” Winokur who was just thrown off the harvard advisory board because he's on big powerhouse

at Harvard University, which looted some three hundred billion dollars out of Russia in the decade of the nineties but Herbert “Pug” Winokur was also chairman of the Enron finance committee. He was the ultimate guy on the board of directors at Enron responsible for approving all of its financial activities so he does the data processing for the government which loses two point three billion. Enron’s the big money, are you smelling the money laundering operation here? Where’s that money going? Well I don't know but HUD, The Department of Housing and Urban Development, lost, lost fifty-nine billion dollars. When was the last time he lost fifty nine billion dollars? That would make me upset. You know what this is from testimony before Congress from the HUD IG Susan Gaffney on March twenty second, 2000, and she said we've lost all this money and a congressman finally had the chutzpah to say to her well what'd you do? and

you know what she said, she said we made an adjustment to our checkbook [laughter]. [background noise] Now I admit that I’ve done that, you know when it was fifteen bucks and couldn't find it I just said it's not cost effective for me to do that, but it seems to me that fifty nine billion dollars would require a little more work than that. That’s the power of drug money. Now before we go to oil, which is a very serious subject in the run up to September 11th. Just to give you a bigger idea about how drug money works, if we want to do a leveraged buyout you know what an LBO is that when one company by the other company but it's a big deal? Let’s say that Lisa makes orange juice. Lisa’s orange juice is the best orange juice on the planet. It’s terrific. She’s got a small company she started here in Portland, she's grossing a million dollars a year; she has net profits of a million dollars a year.

Now, let's say that gentleman with his arms folded, what’s your name, sir? Rick? Red, I like that. Red, you are the chairman of Pepsico. You own a small orange juice company called Tropicana. Your price to earnings is thirty to one. You see little Lisa’s orange juice company over here, with a million net profit. How much are you willing to pay, with a price to earnings ratio of thirty to one, knowing that you're going to add a million dollars to your bottom line? Twentynine million dollars? Sure, ‘cause you make a million dollar profit and stock as soon as you acquire the company. Now, when it gets to be a really big buyout, when it's RJR Nabisco or RJR buying Nabisco, when it’s Exxon buying Chevron or Exxon buying Mobil, you have to go borrow the money to complete the purchase. You an do that in a number of ways. You can go to Wall Street, go to Banker’s Trust, you can go to the major financial houses and you can borrow the money at a fixed interest

rate. Eight, ten, whatever percent and I’m just using thenumbers for teaching purposes, or you can go to the Cayman Islandslet's say and borrow drug money laundered one time for about five percent. Now, how do you think Pablo, Don over here is going to feel if he put his money in the Cayman Islands, knows that he can finance a leveraged buy-out and have a leveraged hold on Pepsicola? Now we’re talking some serious influence here. Huh? No, you don’t need the Suburbans, ‘cause you’re buying airplanes now, battleships, you know, countries, you know, but that's the way. It’s the power of drug money; cash flow is everything. Anybody here ever financed a car? How many people have ever financed a car? How many people made the discovery that almost, probably more important than the price of the vehicle is the interest rate your making your monthly payment on? A guy with good credit walks in, says I can afford a four hundred a month, he says and you have perfect credit sir, I can give you this Lincoln Navigator.

I know we’re in Oregon, just, just, this big SUV for four hundred a month. Somebody walks in with bad credit, says I have to finance you at nineteen percent. I can get into this new Focus for four hundred a month. That’s the power of the interest rate, it’s called debt service again the cash remember the power of that cash. Alright, so that's one paradigm. We wrote, I’ve been writing for many years in "From the Wilderness", and we've been teaching it for as long as I’ve been teaching this, that drug money is key to keeping the investment bubble on Wall Street inflated. The Dow lost nine hundred points in the month before September the 11th. There are some twenty trillion dollars in derivatives bubbles that are threatening to implode on Wall Street. The Wall Street economy is extremely precarious; it needs the inflow of cash and we'll see a movement that that the Taliban made in January 2001, it's gonna play right into this. That was probably as significant an attack on the U.S. economy as anything else. That

drug money is essential to understand now, for the people who look back on the history of activism and we think back to Desert Storm. Well, you think there were no drugs and Desert Storm? Well actually, there were, but not a lot, but there was drug money involved in financing because some smuggling routes were taking through the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. That was also key [?] in the region. Also, Afghani opium and heroin was being smuggled out through the region. There were major Kurdish areas of interest in northern Iraq that were essential to that. If we go back to Iran/Contra we know that there were drugs all over Iran/Contra, I hope I don’t have to convince anybody of that. We go back to Vietnam, those of us are old enough to remember. Ted Shackley was running the CIA station in Laos, the largest CIA station in history at the time, that was controlling the Golden Triangle’s heroin trade, which stayed in place roughly through the nineteen eighties. Everywhere we have seen U.S. military operations we have seen the drug trade. It is no

different post nine eleven, in fact it's more obvious than it ever has been, but there's an old saying that God equals gold, oil, and drugs, or guns, oil, and drugs. We’re in your house but have a sense of humor anyway. So let's talk some about the oil. We started and I have hired at "From the Wilderness" post 911 the wonderful support that I am getting from around the country. We've tried in size in size and I’m still driving my ‘87 Honda but I now have four writers working for me and that's where the guys we hired is David Allan Pfeiffer, a geologist, a novelist who's an excellent writer, a good scientist, an expert on oil and we've been doing research and we're beginning to see the explanatory model for a lot of the insanity that's taking place around the world. This is a part of what's called the Hubbard curve, which is recognized, accepted science in the oil business, leaving aside the people who will tell you that oil is formed from magma and it you

know aliens beam it down and, you know, oil is not abiotic, it takes years, thousands and millions of years to make. All oil production in the history of the planet has always followed a bell curve in any field. If you, when you first, you have this big field of oil and you tap into to get to the oil, it's all under pressure; you get one well, you get the gushers like they had in Giant. You know and it's coming up and so you drill a few more wells, the pressure increases, but your production goes up and eventually you reach a peak where you’ve drilled so many wells that the oil is now dipping down, that your production falls off. It’s always a bell curve with oil. It is so for the entire planet, and now the technology exists to identify almost all the oil reserves on the planet, to know how much is there, and sciences has been saying, the good science has been saying that world oil production will peak roughly in the year 2006 from the Hubbard Curve, and I’m beginning to think it may have already peaked. I, we have found documentary evidence from the International Energy

Administration and from the U.S. Geological Survey a little tiny footnote that said we adjust our estimates of oil reserves based upon anticipated demand. What? That’s really good science. We adjust the amount of oil we think is in the plant based upon we think how much oil people are gonna want. We found that in a footnote. Now, assuming that hydrocarbons peak production, this is just moved a little out. We published this in a story fin From the Wilderness 2006. If you come up, the green line is the population line. You see that the population line will continue to increase, but you see down underneath where the hydrocarbon use per caitz peaks at 2006. Now, let me expand a little bit the way you look at oil. When I say oil all of you think SUVs. You think of those dirty rotten people in Southern California whodrive around who never

go offroad. Well, yes that's part of it, but oil is also ninety percent of all the plastics in use in the world today. Go to the supermarket, look at everything that's wrapped in plastic; look around your kitchen, your house. Look at your computer. Look at the chairs your kids sit on in school. That’s oil, it's all oil. Some people say well, we can just replace oil in cars. Well, how do you replace the plastics? But it gets worse. All fertilizers, ammonia based fertilizers, guess what they come from? Natural gas, the Siamese twin of oil, they exist together. Ammonia based fertilizers are all made from natural gas and all pesticides are made from petroleum. Now, is petroleum and natural gas, combined through the fertilizers and pesticides that enable an acre of land that will produce thirty bushels of corn to produce one hundred and thirty five

bushels of corn. Again, this is science. If the oil and gas goes away while the world population is continuing to increase that means the fertilizer and the pesticides go away and food production drops off exponentially. This is serious; they know it's coming and the science, the data we’re accumulating and more stories that we’re publishing in "From the Wilderness" shows that what we're witnessing is a sequential war. Remember Dick Cheney saying this is a war that will not in our lifetimes? Do you remember that when it started, we’re gonna hunt that turkey Osama bin Laden down wherever he is and we’re never gonna be the sheriff, we’re gonna drag him to court, we’re gonna you know, treat him real good? And recently you hear President Bush say he’s not important anymore? But it is important, I guess, to go to war in Iraq, which will peak later than most countries. It is important to go to war in Colombia which has huge large oil reserves. It is important to go to war in the Philippines which oversee an area called the Spratley Islands in the southwest Pacific

where there are known oil reserves. That makes a little more sense than the stuff we’re being fed, but this is the Hubbard curve, and it's scary and you can read more about it on the web site. Right now we have a two part series on that. Notice, after the world peak in 2006, different regions will peak at later dates. OPEC, the Middle Eastern nations of OPEC will peak later than the rest of the world nations. That makes OPEC dominant, if they have not reached production peaks, and the way it works in an oilfield is, you know, you expend so much energy to get a barrel of oil and when, ultimately you have to expend more energy to take out a barrel of oil than you get from brain the barrel of oil, that's when the field’s dry. OPEC will peak last which will make them more significant. That’s when Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran will become critical and very influential, and that's part of his grand chess game that's

being played right now. Now there’s been a lot of controversy about Israel. You hear a lot of people on the right talking about a huge Israeli spy ring. Yeah, it was here, yeah they were spying that's what they do. I mean I have been investigating covert operations for twenty five years. I’ve met many of the the biggest names in the business, uh the Israeli spy. That doesn't mean they had anything to do with the carrying out of the attacks on September eleventh but I’ll tell you they knew that they were going to take place and they tried to warn the Bush administration. Not only did the Israelis try to warn the Bush administration, the French government tried to warn the Bush administration, the German government, the Russia government and the Egyptian government said, and when I get to the timeline which is my summation of evidence you’re gonna see how much they tried to warn the U.S. government. This is just one particular piece of evidence about advanced warning, but this little bit more about Israel, which I thought was very interesting. Wed looked at the list of tenants at the World Trade Center and saw within days after the attacks and we noticed that the ZIM Israeli-American shipping

company had vacated its offices in the World Trade Center on September ninth. or excuse me, the fifth, and moved to Norfolk, Virginia. They broke their lease to do it. Isn’t that interesting? They knew it was gonna happen. They got their people out of town. They were trying to tell the U.S. government. They were smart enough to get their people out of town. Now, ZIM Israeli American shipping company. Now, it's kind of interesting in all of this that in this story from the Washington Post which I’m sorry, but you can’t read it; basically this is a story from 2001, November and it was asking a very good question. How come Afghanistan, this horrible nation of evil terrorists, had never been listed by the U.S. State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism? Well, if you read deeply enough in the story it finally says, and this is why one of the my techniques or my editorial strategy is to use mainstream sources but this is what you classically see in the mainstream sources, that you

gotta go way down deep in the story to find the aha, and the aha in this story is this state that Unical, which which was trying to build a pipeline across Afghanistan throughout the mid nineteen nineties to get oil out of Central Asia, and we’re gonna build up to that, had hired Henry Kissinger, who had been lobbying the U.S. State Department to keep Afghanistan off the list of state sponsors of terrorism because Unical was trying to negotiate with the Taliban and Henry Kissinger was serving as the UNICAL consultant. Also, a guy named special ambassador John J. Moresta, who was a special ambassador for the U.S. government. He was also a vice president of Unical. They succeeded in keeping Afghanistan from being listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. Then I look a little bit further after September the eleventh and we see this announcement from China. The Chinese Offshore Oil Company, this their own press release from November the fourth, announced that Henry Kissinger

had become head of its foreign advisory board. Now the Central Asian oil, which is key to understanding this war, is destined for markets in China and Japan. Japan’s economy is teetering, Chin’s economy is hugely expanding. They have a demand for consumer goods, they have a demand for oil to expand their industrial base, their markets and they need the oil desperately. So now you have Henry Kissinger on the Central Asian end of the oil in Afghanistan and you have him on the China end. of the oil. Of course, who really is the patron of Henry Kissinger. David Rockefeller. Now we come a little further, building up to this, and this is testimony before the U.S. House Committee on International Relations, February twelfth, ‘98, and this same John Moresta dude, who now is appearing in the guise of a vice president of Unical, makes the statement. He

says, I can probably read it better here, Unical cannot begin construction of the pipeline until an internationally recognized Afghanistan government is in place in ’98, talkin’ about the Taliban. Now the history, get this, this is really important. The largest basically remaining untapped oil fields in the world are in Central Asia. They’re in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan a little bit, Kyrgyzstan, all the stans. During the nineteen nineties, after the fall the Soviet Union, the oil companies rushed in there. Now there are two sitting grand juries now, and Sy Hersh, a damn good investigative journalist, wrote a story a year ago last July called "The price of oil", and he documented the history of the fact that the major oil companies, we’re talking Chevron, Texaco, Exxon Mobil, BP, Amoco, TotalFinElf, which bought an American oil company, all these companies

knew that they had to get into Central Asia to get that oil, and they've started investing cash. Now, this is a region that Russia wanted to exert control over. The CIA went to great lengths, and Harvard, and the U.S. treasury and IMF and the World Bank, Goldman Sachs went to great lengths to looot three hundred billion dollars out of the Russian economy in the decade of the 1990s. A journalist, Anne Williamson, has done incredible work on this devastating ruination of the Russian economy post 1991. I was in Russia in March of 2001 and I was surprised to learn that the population of Russia, not the Soviet Union just Russia, had dropped like a hundred and sixty million people at the fall the Soviet empire to a hundred and forty five million people. The life expectancy of the average male in Russia had dropped to forty eight years. In Moldova, a neighboring country, it was so poor that they were selling pieces of human cadavers as fresh meat in butcher shops.

I mean we destroyed that economy knowing full well that we were going to be moving militarily into the region and we needed to weaken Russia sufficiently so that they could not stand up to U.S. military intervention. Now with Exxon Mobil, as is documented by Sy Hersh and I just broke a major follow-up story, and I’ll talk to you about that in a second. They want to Kazakhstan, which is with Tengiz field is and there’s a president named Nazarbayev, and they paid a billion dollars in cash, cash money, to secure equity rights, a twenty five percent stake in the Tengiz field. Chevron was already there.by the way the national security advisor Condoleeza Rice, she was on the board of Chevron before joining the Bush administration. Now we know that as much as half of that billion dollars never made it to the Kazakh treasury; it went directly into Nazarbayev’s pocket and the pocket of his oil minister, a guy named Bulgumbayev,

who was just replaced recently. It is illegal to bribe foreign heads of state to do business; that’s the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it is a very serious offense and there's a guy who blew the whistle but Exxon Mobil had all its cash in there and desperate for oil. Oil works for oil companies the same way that it works for us. Oil companies cannot put the oil and gas in their cars with a barrel of oil. They have to convert to cash; you have to monetize the investment. So they had all this money tied up in Kazakhstan, they couldn't get it out so in 1997 they resorted to a desperate tactic. They got away with at least one that is known of illegal oil swap through Iran. We have the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, makes it illegal for American companies to do business with Iran, yet they did it. Mobil had a few cut-outs and they finagled it. Sy Hersh did a great job. It’s a dead story but a good read. Now what I have found out since, and this is probably the most important story we've ever broken in "From the Wilderness" is part of a two part I haven't finished yet

but what we have since found out was that Exxon Mobil was a larger campaign donor to John Ashcroft than Enron was, yet I have sources telling me now that John Ashcroft is interfering with both of these grand juries. Remember how quickly John Ashcroft stood up at Enron and said I have received money, I will promptly recuse myself writing from this investigation. Well I’ve looked at his campaign records. Exxon Mobil gave him more money than Enron did, and BP Amoco is also being investigated, a target of the grand juries, and BP Amoco gave Ashcroft a lot of money but guess what? Both Exxon Mobil and BP Amoco and got into Dick Cheney’s energy task force, remember that little body that was having all these secret meetings that President Bush still will not release the records on or he released them so redacted you couldn't tell what they were saying? Uu have, I’ve established that Exxon Mobil and BP Amoco got into the Vice President's energy task force when they were known targets of a grand jury investigation.

Legally, that is exactly the same as having had Manuel Noriega consulting on the war on drugs, but it gets worse. This is what part two is going to be about. During the period of time when the bribes and the oil swaps took place , both of which were facilitated by the Kazakh government and two Kazakh oil companies one called Guryempex one called Guryempex and one called Kazakh Oil. Guess who was sitting on the Kazakh government state oil advisory board? Dick Cheney. The vice president is also a target of the grand juries. You ain’t gonna know that, talk about that; it's secret, he's not indicted but if you follow the chain of evidence as a prosecutor he was a participant, and I will establish in part too that he was connected to these transactions. That makes him a legitimate target of the grand juries. So, we have all these oil companies investing

all this money to get all this oil in Central Asia, but they've got a problem. They can't build the pipeline north through Russia because the Russian mob is there. The Russian government wants to exert control over the region they want too much money, too many tariffs. “Oh God, we can’t get it out, by the time we get it out, we’ll have no money left.” They can’t build a pipeline to the west ‘cause they have to go through Chechnya, they have to go through Georgia, they have to go through Kosovo, they have to go through Iran, they have to one through all this bloody territory. They can't get the oil out to the west, they can’t go to the east, there’s China, even though that’s the market that's a six thousand mile pipelin take forever to build. The only way to get that oil out of Central Asia is to build a pipeline directly to the south, eleven hundred miles across Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea, where you can put on tankers and you can sail it to Japan and China, you can bring it home and you can sell it wherever you want to. The Bush administration and the Clinton administration been negotiating with the Taliban for years and the Taliban said no we want to take oil out of the pipeline, blah blah blah blah and they’re doin’ all these deals, and it resulted in ultimatums being

given to the Taliban July 2000, extremely well-documented, you'll see that the timeline where Tom Simmons and Karl Inderfurth of the State Department went to Berlin, met with Pakistani ISI, the Taliban was there; there’s a great book, La Verite antel dit [?], in French, which shows the Taliban was there and they said “we will either bury you in a carpet of gold or we will bury you in a carpet of bombs by October,” of last year. Desperate to get the oil out, desperate. Enron had a three billion dollar investment in a power generating station in Dabhol, India. They needed cheap natural gas from Turkmenistan which was another pipeline by the way. Enron had the feasibility studies for every one of the pipelines coming out of the region, and Enron needed the natural gas, they were deeply invested in cash; they we also needed the oil desperately. Who’s that? Zbig. I was at a talk last night and somebody

was quoting all my Zbig research. Every body know who he is? Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, professor of American foreign policy, trustee and founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission, international advisor major corporations, good buddy of Henry Kissinger. He was also an intelligence advisor to both Reagan and Bush. He wrote a book, and this is a book I’ve been waving around now and it's really been getting people mad please go buy it if you want to get a really good. Uh good, they have it for for sale in the back. This is called "Zbigniew Brzezinski’s the grand chess board American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives". I misspoke once and said geostrategic objectives and somebody said by research is not credible. This is a map, what you see here from the book. It’s upside down. Intellectuals have to do that,

you know they just have to make themselves cool because they think it’s easier to understand. I turned it right side up so that we can all figure it out, but what he's saying is that Eurasia, which is all the image that you see in here, is the key to controlling the whole planet and whoever wants to control Eurasia must control Uzbekistan. Where’s the first sent troops after September 11th, we were already there, we were already there. already there. This is the Middle East. It is included in there also. OK, Well gee I can see this fine. Russia, this is Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, this is really hard to see. Here's Afghanistan. All the stans are right in here, you come out; I’m not going to waste any time on this map, it’s kind of useless, but in that area that's the Central Asia but you can relate to Russia here,

China here, India here, Pakistan here and all the Central Asia republics here with the Middle East here, and then we come west across the Caspian into Georgia, Chechnya, and all, and Iran. We’re gonna look at some quotes from his book "The Grand Chessboard" This is where I guess they have fun. It’s become kind of a ritual for me. I have to a German accent with some of these, it’s the only way you get the meaning. But as we open the book, oh geez, alright, I’m gonna do it from here. The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations, but also was the world's paramount power. That’s us. The defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance of the western hemisphere power U.S. as the sole and indeed the first truly global superpower. But in the meantime it is imperative, this is all from the preface, that it is imperative that

no Eurasian challenger emerges, he's talking about Russia and China, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive an integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book. The attitude of the American public toward the external projection, this is from page twenty four and twenty five. The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America’s engagement in World War Two largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Har or. Can’t go there unless we have an attack like Pearl Harbor. There’ll be more. For America the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia. Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia and America’s global primacy is directly dependent upon how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained. Page thirty. America’s withdrawal from the world

(wouldn’t that be nice) or because of a sudden emergence of a successful rival, would produce massive international instability. (hmm, democracy, freedom) It would prompt global anarchy (might not be a bad thing). Page thirty. In that context, how America manages Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe's largest continent and is geopolitically axial; a power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map, a glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia what almost automatically entailed Africa’s subordination, rendering the western hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent. About seventy five percent of the world's people live in Eurasia and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well both in its enterprises and

underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for sixty percent of the world's gross national product and about three fourths of the world's known energy resources. In 1997 this book was written, four years before the World Trade Center attacks. It is also a fact— oh this is one of the German ones I need to do. It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America’s power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populous democracy attained international supremacy, but the pursuit of power is not a goal to commence popular passion except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public sense of domestic well-being. Sieg Heil! The economic self-denial that is defense spending and the human sacrifice, casualties even among professional soldiers (human sacrifice?),

casualties even among professional soldiers required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization. Two basic steps are thus required. First, to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites. Here he’s talking about Russia, Iran, Turkey, major power players in the region and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them. Second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and or control the above. Offset, co-opt, or control.

To put it in a terminology, that's what I think I’ve been doing this, you guys be the judge, I’ve been doing it with a British accent; kinda works good. To put it in a terminology that heartens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. I guess it kinda works both ways. Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia. I love that, the barbarians coming together, I mean that just rings with me for a long time. and thereby threatening America’s ,

Texas Texas with Ross Perot up [imitating Ross Perot]: Uzbekistan rationally, the most vital and most populous of the Central Asian states represents the major obstacle to any renewed Russian control over the region. It’s independence is critical to the survival of the other Central Asian states and it's the least vulnerable to Russian pressures, don’t ya get it? [normal voice]: Referring to an area he calls the Eurasian Balkans in a 1997 map, in which he has circled the exact location of the current conflict. You're going to love this one. In this 1997 book, Zbig draws a circle around where the next war is going to be. There it is. Where are we fighting? does not strike you as suspicious

Noam Chomsky says there's no evidence. What can I tell ya. Kinda looks like evidence to me. Part of exhibits that go into the jury. It’s also a fact— oh, we did this one already. I don’t want to have to go back to Ross Perot again, that always gives me the heebie-jeebies. I was his press spokesman in 1992 in Los Angeles County until I realized he was selling us all out too. I’m not the only one whose put my heart out for causes and I know there’s a couple people in this room who have, only to have your heart broken along the way but that's the price we pay for learning how the world really works. It’s painful sometimes, isn’t it? OK, Uzbekistan, did I do Uzbekistan? Yes I did, that was Ross Perot. OK, referring to a an area called the Eurasian Balkans in a map in which he has circled exact location of the current conflict describing it as the central region of the pending conflict for world dominance, Brzezinski writes Moreover, they, the Central Asian republics are of importance from the standpoint

of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate, more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey, and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest, but the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize, potential economic prize. An enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region in addition to important minerals, including gold. Gold, oil, and drugs. The world's energy consumption we're talking about— he's implying the Hubbard curve, they don't dare come out and say it. We just published a story saying that we're going to have a series of pride series of price spikes and fall-offs and we just saw it today. They’re trying to explain this and as we're hitting production which may have already peaked never to be exceeded again we're going to hit very sharp responses in the U.S. economy and the world economy until we go over, really, the edge into the abyss of the age of oil, which

will mean that prices go up, people buy, less demand falls, the economy goes into a mild recession so they lower prices after consumption’s fallen people by moritz gonna go like this. You watch. For the next six months to maybe a year a half, two years you’re gonna see gas prices goin’ like this all the time. We’ve already seen it happen three or four times since September the eleventh. But Brzezinski writes the world’s energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the next two or three decades. Estimates by the U.S. Department of Energy anticipated world of men will rise by more than fifty percent between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant increase in consumption occurring in the Far East. Increased fifty percent, that's a big increase; what happens when production’s fallen off? In the Far East, the momentum of Asia’s economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy in the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves, are known to contain reserves of

natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea, and those already at their peaks by the way, Uzbekistan he says next is in fact the prime candidate for regional leadership in Central Asia (page 130 ). Catch this, page 132, once pipelines to the area have been developed, Turkmenistan’s truly vast natural gas reserves augur a prosperous future for the country's people. Yeah, we’re just think about their welfare all the time, aren’t we? In fact an Islamic revival abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian and hence infidel control. For those of you were not subscribers to my newsletter you need to read the current issue very closely. My questions and answers with a guy named Delmart Mike Vreeland, who is a former Navy intelligence officer was now in a safe house in Canada, he’s been granted refugee status, wrote a warning of

the attacks a month before they happened. He’s been in jail up there, he's been released on bail, he's fighting extradition. He says clearly what I have always known, what, not always but what those who are have studied covert operations know, which is that the CIA runs terrorist groups without the terrorist groups knowing that the CIA is doing it. We fund them through the Pakistani intelligence service; many of these terrorist operations have been funded and controlled through cutouts, and that's the way the Agency likes to work, with their with their agents actually not even knowing who the boss is. But Brzezinski, there's a whole separate book that he was a part of and separate series of interviews saying very clearly if you listen carefully, you read carefully, that the United States created Islamic fundamentalism to keep Russia from getting control of Central Asia and the Middle East. Deliberately created it. Now there are some people would say it’s just blowback; we just created these bad guys and now the’ve run amok

and we can't control ‘em and aw shucks. Not true, because the evidence of foreknowledge of the attacks, evidence which are going to see in my timeline indicates clear that we had penetrated all these operations. They serve a purpose. There’s an old line from the Tao Te Ching and I love lots of Taoist philosophy, that says what is a bad man but a good man's job. If there were no enemies, if there were no terrorists where would all these hundreds of billions of dollars in defense funds go? Schools, yeah. Economy, yeah. Alright, so anyway, for Pakistan the primary interest, that’s the neighbor to the south, is to gain geostrategic depth through political influence in Afghanistan, right? Next he says Turkmenistan has been actively exploring the construction of a new pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Four years ago he’s tellin’ us the whole pipeline story which is extremely well documented It follows that America’s primary interest is to ensure that no single power comes to control the geopolitical

space. China’s growing economic presence in the region this is on page 149 nine and its political stake in the area's independence are also congruent with America’s interests. China is the largest market that American-based corporations need to go sell our consumer goods to. China didn’t do this; they’ve got all these peopleover there who can buy things. We can hook them on Big Macs. America’s now the only global superpower and Eurasia the globe’s central arena, hence what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent. It will be of decisive importance to America’s global primacy and to America’s historical legacy. Without sustained, directed and directed American involvement before long the forces of global disorder (ooh, how nasty) could come to dominate the world scene. (There’s that democracy concept) and the possibility of such a fragmentation is inherent in the geopolitical tensions not only of today's Eurasia but of the world more generally. Now we come

to the end of the book. I’m trying to think, British or German for this. German, OK. That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to challenge America’s primacy. Page 1989. The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role. I should do that like Kissinger actually. America's not only the first In the long run global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America’s not only the first as well as the only truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last. ‘Cause we’re all going to roll into a one world government. But at the end now we have had two specific

references in the book, one to Pearl Harbor, and one that the American people will not support this mobilization unless they feel threatened. At the very end of the book page 11 he says, moreover as America becomes increasingly and increasingly multicultural society it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. I’m still building the case but we're getting down to the nitty gritty and now let's talk about a little opium stuff here let's go back to drugs for minute this is just establishing for you with evidence that I have documented, it's all on the website, that we know something happened in January of 2001. You know what it was? The Taliban government destroyed the opium crop in Afghanistan. Afghanistan had been the largest producer of the opium poppy in the world supplying some seventy percent

of the world's opium that’s converted into heroin. You wipe that all out and what you do? You take two hundred billion dollars in liquid cash out of the world bank ing system. Wall Street doesn't like that; that's not nice to do. She said why do we pay them forty million dollars. You take the two hundred billion out and that's all the sales, that’s adding up the sales from the wholesale level in Afghanistan to the mid level guys who sell it again, cut it, double, adding in all the dollars that eventually occur from street sales. Two hundred billion dollars out of the world banking system. We know what happened . The UN, DEA, ABC News had people on the ground. They took that out. I was in Moscow in March and I’m going what the hell’s going on? I found out already Uzbekistan was awash in a sea of poppies; I said this is serious. Now, we have the Taliban saying no to the pipeline, suddenly—

I don’t like the Taliban, I don’t like the way they treated their people, we’re just seeing how politics works here. We’re seeing a map of the world. You know this is not systemic because I will argue that this artificially contrived progressive debate about analyzing systems versus conspiracy is totally an artificial construct, because guess what? If you have a system that does bad things you have to have people in the system who know that bad things are being done. Duh, you know, and yet I’ve all this stuff thrown at me. “Well, he thinks everything is a conspiracy of individuals and we think it's all system.” Don’t tell me how I think. There are bad individuals who create bad systems and bad systems can create bad people, you know? It ain’t about left right, it’s about right and wrong. Anyway, now we come to the timeline and I’ve had a standing offer no one is made a successful plan and I’ve had two very stupid ones. David Korn made one and boy, that didn't— that backfired on him. I think he got

something like two thousand critical emails after writing that column about me. We’ll talk about that later. A thousand dollar standing offer to anyone who can show that any of the sources that I’m about to cite to you are not authentic or that I have quoted them inaccurately. Very straightforward. Now, we're taking the case directly to the jury. We’ve laid the background, we've laid the foundation; let's look at the evidence which is not disputable. In 1991 through 1997 major U.S. oil companies including Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, they sink all this money into Central Asia. My sources for that: Seymour Hersh, the price of oil, the New Yorker magazine in July of 2001 to several other oil and gas journals; it’s very well documented. Two, December fourth, 1997, representatives of the Taliban are invited guests to the Texas headquarters of Unicaj to negotiate their support for the pipeline. They go to Texas. They get down and have some barbecue.

I’m sure they had a couple of barbecued sheep, too. And representatives of the Taliban are invited guests ro the Texas headquarters of Unical. Subsequent reports indicate that the negotiations fail because the Taliban wanted too much money. Source, the BBC, British Broadcasting, December fourth, 1997. February twelfth, 1998, Unical Vice President John Moresta, remember that guy, who was the ambassador for and the vice president and later to become a special ambassador testifies before the House that until a single unified government is in place the Trans-Afghani pipeline cannot be built. Source, testimony before the House International Relation Committee, 1998. The CIA ignores warnings from case officer Robert Baer; this book is kind of a whitewash book but basically this former CIAcase officer says that Saudi Arabia was harboring all these al Qaeda cells and that there was a list of known terrorists that was offered to Saudi intelligence to give to the U.S. in August of 2001; it was refused.

That’s the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer that just came out in February 2002. 1998 and 2000, former president George Herbert Walker Bush, whose nickname is Poppy, isn't that wonderful, you didn't know that? His nickname is Poppy travels, it's true, to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlisle Group. Cynthia McKinney was talking about Carlyle Group today. In 1998 and 2000 he meets with the Bin Laden family and the Saudi royal family. They’re doing business; the Saudi family and the Bin Laden family is heavily invested. Now, my point in making this bit of evidence to you is we will show you later that Osama is not necessarily the black sheep of the family but we know historically going back and I could have taken the timeline back to seventy six when a Texas investment banker named James Batt [?] was given control over all the Bin Ladin family’s investments in the United States by

Osama’s older brother Salim, and right away he makes a fifty thousand dollar investment in George W’s first energy company, Arbusto Energy. Documented. It’s known, Jim Batt [?] was a Texas air national guard pilot, got CIA connections. Documented. I got a story on it. So anyway, Poppy Bush is makin’ all these travels on behalf of Carlisle with John Major, the former British prime minister and they're meeting with the Bin Laden family in 1998: the source is the Wall Street Journal, September twenty seven of 2001. The Bush administration orders the FBI and intelligence agencies to back off investigations involving the Bin Laden family. Two of Osamas’cousins, Abdullah and Omar, are living in Falls Church, Virginia. Anybody been to Falls Church, Virginia? You know where it is? You can spit over the fence into the CIA’s property. I did more than spit but

I have a cousin who has a house there and over his back fence, literally, you're on CIA property. They’re living’ there, and Greg Palast, the great journalist from the BBC, he’s an American writerin’ for BBC, terrific guy, uh he broke the story November seventh, he did a TV thing, it was written up in the Guardian published everywhere and he has the FBI one ninety nine national security report, holding it up, saying the Bush administration ordered the FBI agents to stop investigating these two Bin Laden, relatives who were connected to the world assembly of muslim youth, a suspected terrorist organization. The FBI agents were really ticked off. Here’s the report, undisputed, the Bush administration has not denied it. February thirteen, this is critical 2001, UPI, United Press International, has a great terrorism correspondent named Richard Sale, breaks a story: he’s in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, there's a trial some of Osama bin Laden’s colleagues at the trial the U.S. attorney, or the assistant U.S. attorney trying the case

reveals, your honor we know this because the National Security Agencyhas broken all of Osama bin Laden’s secured encrypted communications, and here’s the results. Here are the products of the NSA breaking of all the communications. What? Now, the official line of the U.S. government on the attacks of September eleventh took years and years to plan and yet you have the NSA haven’t been revealed in open court that NSA had broken all the coded— I mean, wait a minute. What you do in covert ops is the moment you know your codes are broken, you change codes, but this was already January 2001. May 2001, some smart person down there who asked why we paid money, May 2001 Colin Powell gives $43,000,000 dollars to the Taliban as Robert Scheer said in the Los Angeles Times story of May twenty second, the ostensible purpose was to reward them for their destruction of their opium crop; there's some deb

over the motive but the point is this: you give the Taliban $43,000,000 for the hungry farmers, guess what, that's $43,000,000 from someplace else they don't have to spend it's not free are we giving them money? I don't know. Good question. Should be asked somewhere. May 2001, Deputy Secretary of StateDick Armitage, a guy I really don't like and I could do about two hours on Dick Armitage; I really don't like this guy, he used to go out on kill missions in Laos and Cambodia when he was a Navy Seal working for CIA, guy used toto bench press four hundred and forty pounds, power lifter, Ross Perot once backed the guy into a corner and you know how Ross Ross Perot is, because Ross Perot found out he was selling out POWs and was involved in the drug trade. Dick Armitage has been connected to drugs all throught Iran/Contra from Southeast Asia, he's been a covert operator, this guy is now our Deputy Secretary of State. Colin Powell has referred to him as my white son.

Now, I have the distinction of having had Dick Gregory on the radio refer to me as his whit son, and I’d much rather have Dick Gregory as my daddy than Colin Powell. [audience laughter] Anyway Dick Armitage goes to Pakistan at the same time that this— the DCI, CIA director George Tenet goes to Pakistan and has a very long meeting with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf. Now, you would assume that if the head of our intelligence goes to me with a foreign head of state, that the head of the others side intelligence service would be there. Right, that makes sense. One of my dear friends and colleagues, professor Michel Chodussovsky of the University of Ottawa has documented that the head of the Pakistani intelligence service must be approved by the head of the CIA, ‘kay. Must be approved. Anyway, we have these secret trips to Pakistan one was slightly publicized, of the DCI and Dick Armitage in May, and the source for

this is the Indian Sapra [?] news agency. Now that’s very interesting. We’re going to see why in a second but in June 2001, German intelligence, the BND, the Bundesnachtrichtensdienst, I like to say that, Bundesnachtrichtensdienst warns the, I'm German I'm sorry it happens, warns the CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture. Remember that other sources from Algemeine Zeitung, it’s a major paper in Germany, the warning is hijacked commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols, so we know now, commercial airliners crashed into important targets. German intelligence service warning confirmed by a major paper. The date was a September fourteen, 2001. July 2001, three American officials, Tom Simmons,

Karl Inderfurth and secretary Lee Cauldron [?] have these secret meetings in Berlin and they're saying we're either going to bury you in gold or bury you in bombs, get out of the way you give us the pipeline. Now, the Taliban refused. Source, the Guardian, September twenty second, BBC September the eighteenth, Interpress Service, November 16, 2001 sixteenth 2001, and the French book, La verite interdit, The forbidden truth. That’s a copy of the Guardian, this is just to show you Greg Pulaswork on the one ninety nine [?] ordering FBI to back off on the Bin Laden family Summer 2001, according to a September twenty six story in Britain’s the Guardian, correspondent David Lee reported that U.S.Department of Defence official Jeffrey Starr visited Tajikistan in January. The Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence established that U.S. Rangers were also training special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajiki and Uzbek special troops were being trained in Alaska and Montana

and we don't have time, I’ve got Department of Defense records from their own website showing that we were training Uzbek and Kazakh special forces for four and five years already. A nice company called Southern Air Transport, which refuses to die, opened up offices in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and guess who else is there, your friend and mine, Evergreen Airlines, which bought all of Air America’s assets. O.K. I’m a hair's breadth from saying that Evervreen is a full blown CIA proprietary through its holding company, Pacificorp. There’s some very clear evidence but I will say they’re about close to a CIA proprietary as you can get to without being one, and there's a good legal record and somebody please send me because I need money. Summer 2001, do you remember the secret meetings with the DCI in Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. Summer 2001, the Pakistani ISI chief general Achmad, General Mahmoud Am Achmad, orders an aide to wire

transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta. I'll let that sink in for a minute. The head of the Pakistani intelligence sends a $100,000 to the lead hijacker, who was according to the FBI the lead terrorist, Achmad reportedly recently resigned after the transfer was disclosed and confirmed by the FBI. Source, the Times of India, it was October 10, 11 and 12, the story ran for three days, there were minor changes in the story over that time period. The Times of India has stood by that story completely, the FBI has not challenged it, and the Bush administration has completely ignored it. And guess where, by the way, it may be in here but I’ll tell you now. Guess where General Mahmoud Ahmad was on September the eleventh? In Washington, DC. You know who he was meeting with? No? He was meeting with the heads of the Senate and

house select committees on intelligence, one of whom, Porter Goss, from the house is a retired CIA officer. Porter Goss os going to be one of the guys conducting the September eleventh investigation behind closed doors. OK, summer 2001, an Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week of September the ninth. Now wait a minute, let’s go the German report. German report said hijacked airliners crashed into symbols. Now we know it's the World Trade Center in the week of September the ninth. Germanpolice confirmed the calls, but state that the U.S. Secret Service would not reveal any further information. This is from the German news agency online.de. I got the translation, date September 14, 2001. I got the translation from online.ie in Ireland. The full story says that the German police were monitoring the calls from an Iranian man in jail in Germany, calling the United States saying look Bin Laden is going to attack the

World Trade Center in the week of September ninth. The German police say the tapes confirmed that the secret service took the information; the Secret Service clammed up. By Secret Service they mean CIA. Anyway, June twenty six 2001, the magazine India Reacts states that India and Iran will facilitate U.S. and Russian plans for limited military action against the Taliban. The story indicates that the fighting will be done by U.S. and Russian troops. Gee, everybody seemed to know this war was coming but us. Source, Indiareacts.com, June 26. six. August 2001, I love this one. The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to Bin Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm the man is a key member of Bin Laden’s network and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of technical information on Boeing aircraft and flight monitors— flight manuals. Source, Worker’s News Service,

September 13.. Now we know. Week of September 9, hijacked commercial airliners attack— crashed into the World Trade Center and one of them likely will happen from Boston. Huh. This is just what we know so far, this is open source. August 2001, the FBI arrested— August eleventh or twelfth, United States Navy lieutenant Delmart Mike Vreeland. and I have spent lots of time talking to this man. I have been to Toronto twice. Now David Korn in his critique of my work, chose to completely ignore the fact that I had written four stories, hired a correspondent, traveled to Toronto twice, obtained the court records, interviewed his lawyers gotten on the record statements and interviewed him. He says that my research was sloppy because I only cited one story in the timeline, he completely ignored all the other stories I’d written. That’s why I didn’t give him a thousand bucks. By the way do you know that David Corn of the Nation was the chosen biographer for Ted Shackley of the CIA. Ted Sha kley

picked that man to write his biography who deliberately wrote out all of Ted Shackley’s drug trafficking and didn't talk about it? Anyway, Delmart Mike Vreeland, jailed in Toronto on fraud charges, writes a note with two pens that are smuggled into his jail cell. This is from the Toronto Star story. This is what started me looking at Vreeland. Now, I’ll sow you the the note there is. Now, here's the backstory on Mike Vreeland. Definitely a spy. We know because the military has said jeez he was only in the service for four months and discharged for unsatisfactory performance in 1986 as a seaman recruit. Yet he has the service record they sent to court says there's only fifty six pages but the Pentagon forgot to remove the page numbers and so it says page sixty two of twelve hundred and six. How do you get to twelve hundred and six page service record in four months of service?

He had been trying to warn Canadian authorities for months; it's in the court record. His lawyers have sworn statements, he has sworn a statement. They have records of phone calls of him calling Canadian security and intelligence service and the CIA trying to get somebody to talk to him, calling the RCMP and they say these attacks are going to happen. Finally by August he's desperate, so he has two pens smuggled into his jail cell and he has a few moments and he writes down on a piece of paper. It’s kind of hard to see but I’ll start from the top. You can print out a copy of this from my website, copycia.com. Navy Pier, Sears Tower, World Trade Center, White House, Pentagon, World Bank, water supplies, Toronto something, that building Toronto, parliament building Ottowa, Royal Bank, Toronto. It says, right down there, Bin Laden, along with some very obscure names that as I’m starting to research these; I’ve got a researcher working on them,

we find them deeply buried. They’re all connected to terrorist organizations but the names are very hard to link and we're starting with— pulled two or three together; a couple are also tied to oil but in the center that one line the center it says “Let one happen, save the rest.” Let one happen, stop the rest. Now I have thirty five question and answer interviews and the most current issue of "From the Wilderness", which just mailed with Mike Vreeland, and I— there are some questions he can’t answer for national security or might compromise people still out in the field, but I said does this imply that the U.S. intelligence services had achieved complete penetration of all the terrorist organizations? He said absolutely. The date on the upper right there, and this is what Norman Solomon, excuse me, David Corn challenged me with on the air, October the seventh, 2001. He says well geez

he must've written it on October the seventh. The letter was opened as admitted by Canadian authorities on September the fourteenth and they turned green. Both the Canadian authorities and MikeVreeland’s lawyers moved for an immediate court hearing so that they could make the letter into evidence. October seventh was the first available court date after September the eleventh. That’s when this letter, acknowledged to have been in the custody of the jailers in Canada out of Vreeland’s reach. What happened was it was taken out of his cell and his lawyer said here put this in Vreeland’s property, which is not in his cell, it’s in the custody of the jailers and the jailers have not disputed any admission under oath that they had complete custody of this letter for one month prior to the attacks. So this letter got admitted into court, into evidence, and everybody in the world

is trying to discount this warning but it is exactly what it says it is. I know because I’ve read the entire court record, I’ve interviewed his lawyers, the Canadian government doesn't challenge the fact; not only the fact that he wrote this letter but that for months, almost a year prior to the attacks he had been trying to alert intelligence officials to pending attacks by Osama bin Laden that he knew were coming. Now the reason why he was in jail was because somehow an operation was compromised, there's certain things that are still vague, certain things we cannot discuss because he knows if he's brought back to the States he’ll be killed immediately. He gets back to Toronto in March, one of his Canadian contacts six days after he gets back to Canada, Vreeland does, Mark Bastien is murdered in Russia. They originally say it's a natural, Vreeland says no it was homicide I’ll tell you what they used, and finally almost a year later after, after December

of 200, they run an autopsy and they find the exact poison that Vreeland told them would be there. There’s a Michigan extradition warrant on credit card fraud charges for Vreeland using his own credit card, and the victim, American Express is on tape saying that was anauthorized charge. Now, some of his critics—has all these negative press stories, he has all these fraud charges in Michigan and Florida and he was a con man and yes, he was an undercover operative for the Office of Naval Intelligence, interfacing with organized crime who were trading weapons and drugs to terrorists and he had to have a cover. He's never been convicted of a felony. Now I don't have it in here yet but I went back to 1985 and found a Los Angeles Times story where he wasn't even a suspect, he just happened to be a witness living next door, golly gee, to a place where authorities seized four hundred and twenty six kilos of cocaine. Now this guy’s all over the country and in the LA Times story he was a good

guy witness. Doesn’t this guy have a pretty active, you know, that's the cover how do you get an undercover operative into jail to meet with his handlers without blowing his cover to the mafia or terrorists when they penetrated criminal records? You arrest him, you put him in jail which is a nice safe place week where he can meet with his handlers. But no, all the— attacks all the stories I’ve written have not dealt with any of the facts in this case, but I’ll sow you, remember the same model that 8I told you about with, with John Deutsch, where I confronted him with the hard evidence? Well, we used that on David Corn and Norman Solomon and I’ll show you what happened with that but I was blasted on this and nobody would talk about the facts, but he wrote this letter before the attacks. Now let's go back. So he writes this letter before the attacks. In the summer 2001, Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that twenty five terrorist pilots have been specifically training for suicide missions. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories are translated

for F.T.W. Breyer, a retired CIA officer, and I know many of them; some of them are not bad guys, that's why they quit, or retired. And Iater I was sandbagged on this; I had a couple of people say oh you can't produce the articles you owe me a thousand dollars or you gotta prove it. So I had the article, it was from Izvestia and it was translated into clearly said twenty five suicide pilots training for missions. Now we know, from three different intelligence sources, the Germans and you know— we have the three stories. Week of September ninth, hijacked commercial airliner, suicide pilots, possibly operating from Boston, crashing into the World Trade Center, attack tied to Osama bin Laden. The source— now we come down to June— July fourth through fourteenth, Osama bin Ladin receives treatment for kidney ailments at the American hospital in, in Dubai and meets with a CIA official source, Le Figaro, a major paper in France. Now I found out something good. This is just an honest mistake that

I made. I had told people that Le Figaro was owned by the Carlyle Group, ‘cause I had a story from the Guardian which was talking about all of Carlyle Group holdings and Carlyle Group buys corporations, defense contractors and it’s privately owned, and it listed all the companies that the Carlyle Group had bought. It said among its holdings it includes Le Figaro. Well, it's one of those hair-splitting things, semantics, I find out that all Carlyle owns of Le Figaro is four point nine percent. You can read the term holdings into different ways and I read it so, so what? But that makes the Le Figaro story stronger. Obama bin Laden went to the American hospital in Dubai and they said they had confirmed it or after “Il’y e affirmed” was what was the the way it wrote. I pushed the button, it translated confirmed, but a doctor had confirmed that bin Laden had been there— hospital under American control and he left an international airspace. Now I think if the guy’s in the American hospital and he's the most wanted guy in the world going back to the embassy bombings

of 1998. We know he’s at an American hospital, meets with a CIA guy; it stands to reason that they would have a reasonable chance of catching him, especially when he got that airplane to fly away. Remember Ollie North was going to shoot down airplanes full of hijackers all over the place? They could have taken him but they let him go. Yeah he was there for a week. Now, that story provoked vicious denials from the CIA but Le Figaro has not retracted and Radio France picked it up. Now there’s the Toronto Star story. By the way, Nick Prann [?], who wrote the original story for the Toronto Star is now as a result a From the Wilderness investigation, doing a new series based upon what we've uncovered in the case. August 2001. Vladimir Putin orders Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government in the strongest possible terms of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. It was an MSNBC interview with Putin on September fifteen. I watched it. August through September the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops

900 points. No drug cash floating around and everything is kind of weak, it’s gettin’ stretched there. September third through tenth, MSNBC reports that a caller to a Cayman Islands talk show gave several warnings of imminent attacks on the U.S. by bin Laden; these warnings were coming in everywhere. And I have spoken to Cynthia McKinney in the past; I traveled to Washington, I spoke with several members of Congress, I laid out the reports and Cynthia said you know I made some calls on these and they wouldn’t comment sothat means it’s right. So, if that much specific information was known before the attacks how much else did the governm know with its thirty billion dollar budget. This is kind of interesting. September first through tenth, two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups are stationed off the Pakistani coast before the first aircraft hits the World Trade Center. Also, twenty three thousand British troops, and the largest armada since the Falkland Islands war are on their way to Oman. Operation Swift Sword, it’s been planned for four years.

Just by happenstance, they were sailing out of the port, there was a slight hiccup but they were ready to go, they deployed immediately after the attacks, but they'd been planning on it for four years. At the same time seventeen thousand U.S. troops are in Egypt with twenty plus thousand NATO troops locked and loaded for Operation Swift Sword. Is that coincidental to you? All that was in place before the first plane hit the World Trade Center and Stan Goff a former special forces master sergeant who taught military science at West Point has written clearly he said, hey these kinds of deployments take six months to plan for, they occurred in six weeks. It’s impossible that the government knew this was coming. The sources for that, the Guardian, CNN, Fox, the Observer, international law professor Frances Boyle from University of Illinois. September seventh, Florida governor Jeb Bush rewrites an executive order. He adds the word terrorism to his executive powers to move the national guard and run the state just four days before the

attacks. I got that off the state of Florida’s website. Now, September sixth through tenth, and I’ll encapsulate this. Massive, massive numbers of put options, which are bets that a stock price is going to fall, are placed on United Airlines and American Airlines. No other airlines. We’re talkin some 4,744 put options on United Airlines, 4,516 are put on American Airlines on the tenth. One put option can control a hundred shares for about a buck a share, but basically what it is it is— I have to simplify this for the purpose of explaining this, is an agreement. Somebody buys the other end of the put option that they will agree to purchase the stock at a price of like a hundred dollars. If the stock price suddenly falls to fifty you can buy the stock for fifty and the poor guy on the other end’s gotta buy for a hundred. That’s how you double your money. That’s really taking short selling and expanding it; it’s a more

complicated arrangement. But, the same levels of put options are placed on United and American, no other airlines. They’re also placed on Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and three reinsurance companies, all heavily hit. No other airlines. Now I have proven— and I just did an hour of mainstream television in Canada opposite Ron Atkee, the former Canadian Solicitor General, that's the equivalent of their Attorney General, who oversees all intelligence or law enforcement in the country. He is the former member of Parliament responsible for overseeing CSIS, and I got him to pretty much do— he didn't deny it and he kinda went umph. When I confronted him with cards from two RCMP national security investigators who had visited me among others in the U.S. in 2000 on Promise Software. Promise Software is a very special kind of software that can incorporate databases from, in many different languages and make them readable to each other but it's also been

equipped with artificial intelligence and intelligence agencies have installed a backdoor and they use this very special software, among other things, they use it in scientific work as well, to track all stock trading in real time. One of the reasons why we know this is because the source for the insider trading, if you look here it was the Hezleah Institute for Counterterrorism in Israel which published the report on the insider trading on the twenty first of September. Israel, they were tracking the stock trades with the same software. Now, what's interesting is to come back to this border, you don't have to turn on the lights but the United Airlines put options were placed through the firm Alex Brown Deutschebank, which had been headed up until 1998 by A.B “Buzzy” Krongard, the man who is today the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Alex Brown was sold by Krongard in ninety seven, ninety eight to Banker’s Trust and Banker’s Trust was gobbled up by Deutschebank but Alex Brown remained a separate trading unit. Now what's fascinating about this is that Deutschebank had its offices in the World Trade Center and Deutschebank executive Kevin Ingram was convicted, pled guilty just months before the attacks for laundering drug money and funding terrorist operations allied to Osama bin Laden, a former Deutschebank executive, and guess what they revealed in Ingram’s hearings? The Department of Justice revealed we have penetrated all of their financial networks; we know how the money's flowing. So now we know that the secure communications have been broken, the DOJ admits that we penetrated their financial networks; we have all of the warnings

coming on the attacks, and the U.S.government say we didn't know? When somebody’s putting’ all the put options? Gee, that's very strange. Billions may have been made on the insider trading, we don't know. We don't know who plays to put options. I get asked this all the time, I just to explain it so I’ll explain it now. Banking laws or trading laws for stock trades are as protected as medical records in this country. I can't go find out who bought stock. The Justice Department can, Security and Exchange Commission can, Congress can under certain conditions, FBI can, but nobody in the government has addressed this total obvious proof that a lot of people or somebody had serious foreknowledge of the attacks. The intelligence agencies certainly knew about it because if they pulled the plug they opened the CIA connections to Deutschebank. And guess where Osama bin Laden’s financial operations were located. Frankfurt, Germany.

General Mahmoud is here on September the eleventh, on September the eleventh employees of Otago [?], that's an Israeli instant messaging service, also with offices in the city of Herzleah, Israel, get a phone call two hours before the attack, “The World Trade Center is going to be attacked.” They immediately called, you know, the Mossad and and Israeli sources and they called the U.S. but everybody went stone silent about that, ‘cause Otago [?] also had offices in New York. Very interesting that it was specific the idea that the attack was coming on the World Trade Center two hours before the attacks took place. Source, CNN’s Daniel Sieberg, 9/28/01, News Bite’s Brian McWilliams, 9/27/01, and Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, 9/26/01. Now September the eleventh, right here, it’s the one that’ll rip your heart out when you think about it, and I’d still need to change this this; I keep uploading it with the wrong time it's fifty minutes. For fifty minutes

after it has been known that four aircraft have been simultaneously hijacked, we have two that have already crashed into the World Trade Center; the other two remaining aircraft have already diverted from course, broken off radio contact, and not responded to transponder requests, all of which are indices of hijackings. Four simultaneous hijackings for fifty minutes not a single the fighter is scrambled. Why? I’m gonna tell you that for twenty five years it's been standard operating procedure in the united states that any time an aircraft an airliner under FAA control goes off course, loses radio contact or fails to squawk when it's told to, fighters are automatically scrambled. Remember Payne Stewart, the golfer from Florida? F-16s were flying beside that airplane in minutes. Yet Dick Cheney would have you believe that I needed an order from the President to scramble fighters. That’s nonsense.

We also know That two fighters were scrambled from Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts. They— aw shucks, we just got to the World Trade Center and we’re too late so we went back home. Wait a minute. Two other airliners were hijacked. F-16s have a combat radius in excess of fifteen hundred miles. All they gotta do is hit their afterburner and they’re on both other airliners in minutes. Didn’t have to scramble from anywhere else. Yet they're called back. Then Cheney says well, we had to scramble fighters from Langley, we didn’t have any at Andrews. That’s nonsense. Jarrett Israel, fabulous researcher, copied, archived the whole Andrews Air Force Base website on the day of the attacks and other researchers did and it said we maintain combat scramble-ready fighters in the highest state of readiness. Four days later it's all rewritten. Gee we just we have National Guard units and reserve units and these were National Guardsmen scramble-ready but they rotate in there but now all the reference to scramble

ready fighters is taken out from the Andrews— that's an indication of guilty knowledge. No fighters were scrambled. Why? Now, the obvious question is well gee, if I’m a pilot and I know those planes were hijacked I’m gonna be raising holy heck. Remember all the folderol about Air For e One and maybe hopping from place to place, from city the city? All you gotta do is tell the Air Force wait a minute Air Force One is the highest priority. Oop, we gotta go here, don’t go there, don't scramble you keep ‘em them off guard. That way they can't respond to the attacks. September thirteenth, two days after the attacks, China, after years and years of trying, is suddenly admitted to the World Trade Organization. September fourteenth, Canadian jailers open Vreeland’s letter. September fifteen, the New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck, a good friend of Buzzy Krongard, on a thirty million dollar contract and Alex Brown Deutshcebank, suddenly resigns

without explanation. Gotta go! [laughter]. September twenty nine, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that two and a half million of the put options on American and United are unclaimed. Somebody decided not to show up to collect the prize. We don't know how long— we still don't know how much other money was collected. October tenth, the Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post reports that Wendy Chamberlain, the U.S. ambassadors met with the Pakistani oil minister and all of of a sudden guess what? The pipeline that we could not build was back on now. In light of developments we're going to build this pipeline. Finally, mid-October 2001, the Dow Jones kind of resurrects itself after a massive looting, I mean outpouring of cash from the Treasury. November twenty one the British paper the Independent runs a story headlined opium farmers rejoices that the defeat of the Taliban; I haven't had time to update this yet. Three weeks ago the Times of London reported that this summer there will be a world

record opium harvest of forty five hundred metric tons, the largest harvest in history out of Afghanistan. If all of that is converted that's four hundred and fifty tons of heroin. My sources or are already telling me there’s hash on the street in the Middle East that hasn't been here for years. Now bear in mind, this is as the drug war's is gonna start throwing casual drug users in prison at the drop of a hat. If you buy drugs, you’re supporting the terrorists, so they get the double-edged fringe benefit; the money back into Wall Street, the prison stocks go up. Hey, it's a party for everybody. Okay, all the drug stuff we know uh the CIA springs Ayoub Afridi, a guy in jail on a heroin charge to help govern the countryside because he has special skills [laughter]. December twenty fifth, newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is a, wait a minute, former Unical employee. What a surprise!

Don’t you just love it? January third, Bush appoints Zalmay Khalilzad as special envoy. Guess what? He’s a former Unical employee. Source, Pravda. January fourth, Florida drug trafficking explodes, I loved this story from the Miami Herald; it was headlined "Where are Crockett and Tubbs when we need them?" I’m sorry that was in the Christian Science Monitor, January fourth. A new surge of drugs, what a surprise, Jeb’s down there. January tenth, in a call from a speakerphone attorneys for Vreeland Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon switchboard; they’re in court and they promise saying the man is a liar he’s a petty fraudsman,, he served only four months out of his four hundred page service record and that. He’s got a great lawyer, the guy's name is Rocco Gallati, don’t you love the name. I love this. Rocco Gallati, he's a Canadian, I love this guy.

Says OK, your honor, may we have a speakerphone on the record in court? They don’t. The 411: Can I have the number for the Pentagon in Washington, DC? That number is 202 whatever it is. The court reporter’s there, the judge is there, Vreeland’s there, all the lawyers are there said Yes, um I seem to have lost it. Can you tell me if you have a listing for a U.S. Navy lieutenant named Delmart Joseph Edward Michael Vreeland, here's the spelling on his name and that was dubbed, on hold, Oh yeah, he’s in room such and such and so and so and here’s his extension. In open court; it’s on the court record. Now, what the Canadian— and I was in court when this happened, the Canadian authorities argue when I’m sitting there in court, I love this, they said well, your honor, what obviously this is a case of is this is a man who was discharged from the navy because he wasn’t very bright, he only had mechanical trading

he had no specific skills to be a spy or to evaluate top secret information and then about a minute later he says but obviously, it's obvious your honor that he's been in jail while he was in his jail cell in Canada here, he has hacked into the Department of Defense’s computer system and inserted his name into the Pentagon files. A serious, this guy is a horrible con man; the same argument, the same breath almost and the judge said OK.