Chris Floyd nails the Kissinger connection…
Chris Floyd nails the Kissinger connection…
I love Chris Floyd for his amazing work in general. Here is Floyd tying the BCCI scandal to the current Bush administration, via Kissinger: (emph mine)
“As I have noted elsewhere, the Italian bank BNL was one of BCCI’s main tentacles. BNL’s Atlanta branch was the primary conduit used to send millions of secret dollars to Saddam for arms purchases, including deadly chemicals and other WMD materials supplied by the Chilean arms dealer Cardoen and various politically-connected operators in the United States like, weapons merchant Matrix Churchill.
When three BNL officials were indicted in 1991 for a fraud scam used to mask payments to Saddam, Bush I moved to throttle the investigation. He appointed lawyers from both Cardoen and Matrix to top Justice Department posts – where they supervised the officials investigating their old companies. The overall probe was directed by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller. Meanwhile, White House aides applied heavy pressure on other prosecutors to restrict the range of the probe – especially the fact that Bush cabinet officials Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger had served as consultants for BNL during their pre-White House days as partners in Henry Kissinger’s lobbying outfit, Kissinger Associates.
[In addition to these connections with the criminal network, another of Kissinger's partners, retired Brazilian diplomat Sergio da Costa "served as the front-man" for the BCCI takeover of a Brazilian bank, Senate investigators found. Tellingly, the Senate report's chapter on Kissinger Associates' contacts with BCCI was deleted from the final, published version – reportedly after pressure from Kissinger himself – although it can still be found in the FAS version noted above. Kissinger, of course, would later turn down an appointment from Bush II to direct the official investigation into the 9/11 attacks – in order to avoid public scrutiny of his business affairs.]“
And who would those business affairs include? Well, I just happen to have a little movie about our friends in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, who should be asked some interesting questions. The clip is posted online from a film I did some writing on about the Jersey Girls, but as the film does not come in clips, I had to look for this online - lucky for me, someone posted it. (Please note, I don’t know who posted this nor do I know their views). Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uPU4Vfef0
Now the next thing to ask is what happened to a one Conrad Black and how is he related to Kissinger and Perle both? How far back does their relationship go? What allegations were even during the Nixon administration floating around about Kissinger?
I think, as I have always believed, that BCCI is the story that everyone has missed while it happened and as it continues to happen. More importantly, who did BCCI fund and who profited from it? What countries? What types of groups (hint, Gray Wolves fits in here). That is where the research efforts should be focused, on trying to understand just what Kissinger’s role is in the current administration. We know he is advising Cheney, after all.
If BCCI still exists, then what does it look like now? That, I think, is the story of the century (any century).
(By the way, if there is some confusion, this is not an article, rather, it is a blog post in which I discuss my views, not report news.)
